Roland in TX; #MarchForDemocracy continues; Infrastructure deal; STL health dept. dir. under attack

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Today. It's Thursday, July twenty, night, two thousand one. Roland
Martin on the Filter, broadcasting live for the North Austin
Muslim Community Center here in Austin, Texas, day two of
the March for Democracy. We of course have been covering
this and so we're gonna give you a recap what
took place today. You're here from River Jesse Jackson Senior.

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Also from River, Dr William J. Barbara bettell Or Rourke
and some of the protesters. Whether the matters here as well.
In Washington, Congloman Jackson Lee was arrested today protesting of
the sent in the Heart Office building. Will show you
some of the photos from Capitol Hill. Also on today's show,
UH textures legislators were on Capitol Hill, UH speaking before

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Congress and also meeting with officials there. We'll talk to
resentis in Frownia, Thompson. UH since in Fronia, Johnson, I'm
sorry of Houston. Also, a bipolical infrastructure deal apparently is
now done two point one trillion dollars also was approved
by the Senate for Capitol police and others. Also in St. Louis,

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the interim healthy that was man was cussed out and
dall for people because of a mask mandate. What the
heck is going on? We'll hear from him also, Attorney
Gwynn Willcox. We mean the first black woman of a
natural labor relations board plus crazy ass white person in Mississippi.
What did you show you with this cop did folks

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he's Rolling Martin. Alright, folks, welcome back to Welcome to
Rolling Martin on the Filter with broadcasting again from the

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North Austin UH Community Muslim Center here UH in Austin, Texas.
This was the UH location for the UM for the
end of the second day of the March. We of
course UH live him the entire even if you want
to see all of it, just simply go to Roland
Martin our YouTube challenge YouTube dot com Force Last Lannis
Martin to see it. Guys, kill the music. Please. I'm

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still hearing music, so please kill the music, thank you
very much. Uh. And so, like I said, we were
actually uh, we were actually covering all of this today
uh and giving you a sense of what took place
uh here. Uh, folks were on the streets there. Uh,
give me one second, guy, So I actually have a
package that I put together. So let me know if
you guys are looking at seeing my iPad. Uh. And

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so I'm gonna actually show that in a second. Uh.
We of course had folks, We had folks who are
who are who were who were marching today? And like
we said, we told you about yesterday. They operated in
the multiple ships. They operated in multiple shifts. Uh. And
that's sort of how they were sort of what were
how they were coordinated. We started at Good Hope, We

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started that Good Hope Baptist Church in Round Rock, ended
up here at the North Austin Muslim Center. All right,
and so here's the recap of what took place today.
H Yo, there's audio. I'm seeing it. Uh. So I'm

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seeing the video. You should be getting audio. Uh. So
let me do this here, Let's get this all straightened out,
and then we'll handle. Let me want to bring my
panel right now. We have joining us on the show
recy Cobra Black Women's Views. Dr Greg Cards here, Department
of first of all with the Afri American Studies at
Howard University, Ferraji Mohammad, also radio and TV host. I

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want to start with you, Greg. What we are seeing, um,
is pressure. One of the things that Reverend Jesse One
thing that Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr. Has said is that
pressure bus pipes. Uh and Red Barbara said the exact
same thing, and all of a sudden, you're now hearing
Center Chuck Schumer said they're going to vote on a
voting deal before recess. That's not what they were saying before.

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This is what happens when you apply pressure, external public
pressure on politicians. That's absolutely right, Roland, UM, and watching
the coverage yesterday today, UM, one of my very dear friends,
I n Nellie was out there with the banners with
her two youngest children, her two boys, driving in from Kyleeen,

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Texas and marching and watching in between you know, my
other work obligations. Really, what really strikes me is that.
And echoing your conversation with Reverend BARBERA the other night.
This is the type of elevation of this issue that
requires people to pick a side. It's simple, which side
are you on? The White Nationals are terrified. Now. I

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know we all probably saw the story out of Georgia
the last couple of days. They're trying to take over
the Fulton County Board of Election and they have dropped
all pretenses. But what this does in in in the work,
he reminds us of the nineteen sixties. What this does
is put the choice of what side you're on very clear.
And just like you got on MSNBC and called out

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everybody in the damn country, why aren't you in the street.
You don't need everybody in the street at this point.
But what you do now have is a clear choice.
You are either for our common humanity or against it.
And so yeah, I'm not surprised at all this humor
is moving or anybody else for that matter, in elective office.
Uh So, I want to do this year. I want

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to play for you guys again, a compilation of what
took place today. Uh So, folks, if you can go
to my iPad, let's go muster people as the people

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never Today it was a lot longer mark than yesterday.

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Today was about nine miles. The guys stayed with the video.
Please thank you say it was about nine miles and
gets my conversation. Rip this Jackson has seen you out feeling.
Take the pull in the stage right and up the
ground restnews you love the dumpy Breason. We'll have the

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safe I think the chick fact. Keep the sleep. For
the people who say marching doesn't mean anything, what do
you tell them? It's bumer education through preus by my marching.
Keep the please here in time mark mush mushook king

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little just things, a little relatives all right, then, remen Jackson,
I was gonna see you. You're going? Did you as
I said? Folks? That was about nine miles going from
a good hope, uh to in Round Rock to North

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Austin Muslim Community Center where we are right now. It
was a lot warmer yesterday, thank goodness. We did have
some overcast uh in the beginning, but that that served
us well. Uh. Spirits were high, as we'll hear a
couple of marches getting started. Uh, we're just getting started.

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But we're real and I think that that fuels us
every time, every time the Reber the Livers gme news
on how we're making farmers in DC like our stuff. Scott,
you know, a little bit stronger. We're something her. Absolutely,
he stepped once sit closer to justice. We don't get there.
It could be worse, it could be hotter, it could

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be now, they could be tremulous horse season. Tomorrow's gonna
be the last day before we go into the state
capital grounds on Saturday. Uh. And the whole goal is
continuous to bring attention to the issue of voter suppression
and Texas and voter rights in the United States. Yeah,

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and alright, folks. A little bit later in the show,

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We're gonna I'm gonna show you uh better or rour
Reverend Dr William J. Barber and Reben Jesse Jackson Senior,
three of them, when they spoke together speaking to the
people assembled doing one of the brakes recy Uh, we
keep talking about why pressure matters. And you heard me,
asked Reverend Jackson, why does it matter the protest? It

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amazes me these people who go, oh, these Marxists don't
make any difference. Yet when you see five hundred thousand
people in Hong Kong, when you see millions of people
who were in Tunisia, who were in Egypt, who were
in Libya. So it's it's amazing when I hear some
black folks say that, like everybody else in the world

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got the memo and kept the memo and update the memo,
we got folks today who still go all these things
really don't make any difference. We have a complacency issue,
and so I definitely think that one of the one
of the things that the marches do, at a minimum
is it does shake some people out of their complacency.

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And I think at a minimum, if you look at
these folks to say, listen, I'm not will to get
out there in the heat. I'm not talking about myself,
We're talking about other people watching. If you're not willing
to get out there in the heat, if you're not
willing to march and and and and grab that megaphone,
the least that you can do is vote when it's
time to vote. But pressure absolutely does matter, because what
these politicians follow is they follow these stories that get

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the attention. If it's not getting an attention. If a
tree falls in the forest, nobody damn hears it. And
so the only way to keep this on the front
burner is to do these sorts of things and show
politicians that there isn't widespread complacency. So my hat goes
off to all these folks because this is grueling work
what they're doing, and they're really putting their mouth and

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behind their actions, and that is so critically important. And
one of the things I want to also emphasize is
even with federal legislation being past, there still needs to
be engagement from voters across the country at the local
level to make sure that their vote counts because Jerry
managering is going to happen at the state level. Who

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knows that voting legislation will pass at before that can
be taken into account. But if people stay engaged at
the local level, which people tend to check out at
the local level, they check out of the state level,
they check out during mid terms, if we can change
that that tide, we can change that habit, then maybe
we can start to see se raal change. If we
get complacent, if we say that it doesn't matter all

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these voting rights is a black issue, or it's a
fringe issue, it's a niche issue that isn't going to
impact us. We're going to see drastic repercussions for that
in twenty two when the Republicans have their way, and
they have shown in twenty ten and other years that
they can absolutely suppress their way into power. We can't

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just outvote them this time. If they do, if they're
successful at jerrymandering these these certain states of Texas being
one of them, Florida being another one of them, there's
nothing we can do at that point. And so now
is the time to act and prevent that from even happening.
Um Ferraji, I guess the state that we're broadcasting from

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the North Austin Muslim Community Center. One of the things
that the Poor People's Campaign in Black Voters Matter wanted
to do with this March for Democracy. They wanted people
to understand that it was an interfaith coalition of people.
Uh there were that there were a Catholic pre there
were Catholic precy with marching. There are being folks who

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are Lutheran, their people who are Muslim, There are folks
who are Baptists, There are people who are white, who
are black? Who Latino? Uh is, We've had different people
that that is intentional on the part of River, not
to Barber, because what he is trying to say is
this can't just be a Christian thing. It has to
be a broad based coalition of people from different backgrounds.

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Oh yeah, absolutely, Brother Roland. First and foremost, morality has
no religion. Justice has no religion. Treating people fairly and
equitably has no religion. What we're seeing right now is
the manifestation of a worldwide revolution. I want to share
with you very quickly with John Adams is one of
the founders of this country. He said, the revolution was

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affected before the war commence. The revolution was in the
hearts and the minds of the people. This radical change
in the principles, opinion, sentiments, and affections of the people
was the real American revolution. And so when you're talking
about bringing those folks of different faiths, in different socio
economic background and and really really having, you know, planting

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a seed in their minds and their hearts and their
spirit that they want to change this country fundamentally, that's
a revolution. You don't need to have one of the
big things, and I think one of the big fears
that the United States of America has an issue with
is the fact that when people become awakened to what
has been happening to poor and oppressed people in this country,

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and once they awaken and happening, once there is a
moral consciousness that has been pricked, then guess what's gonna happen.
You're going to start shaking people up. You're gonna make
people afraid, especially the leadership of this country. So then
this is a revolutionary movement. I want folks to know
this very quickly. I want folks to not be concerned
about the numbers, because we often get tied up in

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the numbers. You talked about some of the big numbers.
But you know what, Brother Roland, Dr car Reacy. We
all know the numbers start small and then they grow.
So so you see a few hundred people walking down
the road in Texas and you say, oh man, that's
not gonna create nothing. But look at what has happened
when you put this demonstration compared to the demonstrations that

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may be happening in other places around the country. It's
just like it's it's so reminiscent of what we saw
in the civil Rights movement. The civil rights movement wasn't
mass gatherings all the time. It was small demonstrations, grassroots
organizing on this level that created the culture and the
network for us to have what we now call the

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civil rights movement. But it really starts in the hearts
and the minds of the people. It starts with people
saying enough is enough. People are tired of right supremacy.
People are tired of him justice, people are tired of
are tired of just this political uh detention that we're
seeing in this country. And Dr Barber said, the best
you're fighting for the soul of America. Now, depending on

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where you staying on this fact room, you might say
America has no soul to be saved. But the reality
is that we live in this country in president we
have to say enough is enough and do something to
ensure that the generation coming behind us don't be become
burned the same nightness that we're fighting. There. The thing

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here this by making this a moral issue, that that
has always been something that black folks have done, uh.
Dr Carr, that was something that I always say this
common as a line in the song Glory where it
says freedom uh is like a religion to us. Freedom
is like a religion to us. Uh. And the fact

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it was interesting when we were when we were marching today.
UM at one point, UH that that that was a
song that was on a very popular song. I can't
remember who the artist was. A lot of people really
liked the song that the bomber said, Ah, I need
movement music. He said, I need movement music. Uh, And

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so I then I then went and grabbed I then Greg.
I then went and grabbed my phone, UM, and I
had UM. I had them uh connect my my phone
uh to UM to uh their bluetooth and just give
y'all a sense of just some of the stuff that
I I had. I played Greg. Uh, woke up this

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morning by John Legend, Glory by John Legend, and Common
also woke up this morning by Sweet Honey in the Rock,
Uh you will know Black Men United. We played wake
Up Everybody here, I'm Melvin the Blue Notes, Really Telly,
Really Teddy p. We marched by Prince one Day by
Morgan Heritage, Fight the Power by Public Enemy, and Fight
the Power by the Osley Brothers. Uh. We did uh

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keep marching by Raphael Sadiq had to hit the Marvin
Gaye or what's going on? Of course I had the
place with Curtis Mayfield, and the impressions keep on pushing
uh then and then uh and then drive and then
dropped uh the OJ's um, put your hands together, people,
get ready. The impressions had to go ahead and had

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to do that one uh and then that were a
couple of more uh that we played, and so m
Barbara said, see, he said, I knew you would have
some movement music. He said that, he said on your phone, Yes,
sir brother, Well, I mean, I'd be quite honest with you.
America doesn't have a so old brother for roji. Um.

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What America has is people who live in it. And
as you say, we are hostage in this set of
state unless we do something intervened. And as you know, Bob,
Bob Moses has been heavy on all our minds. I
heard uh, Reverend Theod Harris lead out with a remix
of which side are you on? And she dropped Ele
Baker's name and Bob Moses name, And that eclectic playlist
you just read off includes movement music that would get

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me going. Um, certainly I would love to hear Curtis
may feel if there's hell below, we're all going to go,
because I don't think that you can necessarily appeal or
to the soul of a place that has no soul.
But I think the larger point, and this is very important,
is to understand, as you say, when these numbers begin
to swell, they will reflect the fact that there's something

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that you took about during a black power movement called
operational unity. We all don't have to agree. You know.
One of my favorite groups and formations out of that
Black power movement, civil rights black power movement with those
young people and Snick were the Snick Singers who became
the Harambe Singers. And every time I'm around them, I've
I've got a four disc set of freedom songs from

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the Snick Singers and others. Uh. And that makes up
a significant part of my black power playlist. Oh yes,
sir brother, and so you have and that that's that
classics Massonian list. And so you heard many times a
song that I always asked them Chuck Neblett one of
my favorite Snick singers. I saw Chuck in Sema right
before the COVID thing hit the last the last song,

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do you believe? And I said, Chuck Man, do y'all
mind singing Governor Wallace and tell that story, brother to
These young people had like um, they had young people,
uh rose to Ray had them there. We went in
in Montgomery and she was there with a lot of
the young people and in Selma teenagers and so he
told that story. You see, the movement music is generated
often by the by the young people, and they're taking

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the music up their time. During that period, it was
de wall So they made this Governor Wallace song. He said.
It was kind of like you read in the paper,
shoot do do do? And then they get covering up
while this, oh yeah, you never can j let's all
Chuck said. When I looked out on the steps of
the Montgomery Capital and saw all them people, and I'm

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thinking now about Saturday and Austin, y'all, he said this
coming sarrityes. I looked out and I said, ship Wallace
can't put us home in jail. And that's when they
came up with the lyrics, the Governor Wallace segregations about
the fall. You can't put us all in jail. The
reason I read that Bob Moses said this. Uh An

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artically wrote in two thousand ten on the question of
constitutional property versus constitutional people is this country is set
up around property, and black people were brought into it
as property. He said, but what we saw in Mississippi
was real constitutional uh participation by people who didn't wait
on words to give them any notion of their humanity.
And he said, you go in the halls of of

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of Congress, you try to pass civil rights legislation. You
do the voting, he says, but while you're doing that,
there are three things that make this work. Outside of Congress.
You've got activism. You've got collaborative work between people who
might not agree on everything. And then you've got service
and sacrifice. And the thing about Bob Moses, it was
always clear with him and that whole generation finally, was

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that as they are participating in it, they're building the
type of society they want, we want to live in,
so that we can't lose sight of the fact that
that is what's going to transform this. And he said,
I should mention this. He said. People say, well, does
marching work. He says, let me be very clear. You
had a Martin Ruther King element in this movement, and

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you had an Ell Baker element he said, Ella Baker
elements where we were. That's organizers. You're building strength your organizing.
He said, think of Martin ru the king, perhaps as
the president of the civil rights movement. In other words,
when the president speaks, that is kind of like a
position where you're using a platform. And he said, when
s CLC decided to go into the demonstration protest direction

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in order to emphasize the contradictions in the country, that's
when they got rid of Ella Baker as the executive
director and went to y T. Walker. But Ella Baker
was very happy not to be in that position because
that wasn't her strength. Her strength was organizing and putting
people together. She didn't say so, but you have to
have his operational unity. What Barbera and Phil Harris in

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the Poor People's Campaign and and and Fueled by People
is doing there they are learning the lessons of the
past and understand that everybody plays a role. I'm never
going to walk with that American flag as a bannon.
You gonna have to find somebody else to carry that.
But I will walk behind a red, black and green,
or I will more and going to help organize and
together pressure bust pipe rather like rebend Jackson. See that's fact.

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Before I go to my representatives from Texas, I gotta
go back to the point that Reesy made, and I
do not want us to overlook this because Ari Burman
came out with a report today that really speaks to that.
It was some baseball, some data. The Democrats only have
a four seat majority in control in the House, but
because of partisan gerrymandery, the Republicans could literally pick up

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third teen House seats in Texas, Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina. Now,
folks understand this. Seventy five listen to me, clearly, seventy
five per cent. Hold on, let me dial that back

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so we can have a civics lesson when you have
a population shift. This is what the census comes in.
What happens is they then apportioned congressional seats house seats
based upon population. So if yours say, I think North
New York lost a seat, big bye because of forty

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nine or sixty nine votes something like that. Okay, we'st
why the census matters. So Ohio, North New York, Pennsylvania,
these Northeastern states, they have been losing population to the south.
So your population increases, you get more house seats. Listen
to me, clearly, folks, seventy five percent of the growth

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in Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida have been black
and brown people. Get that. Get the Republicans will could
potentially wipe out six congressional seats held by people of

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color and give those to white Republicans. Let me say
that before I go to recing. Seventy five percent of
the population growth has been black and brown people, but
the Republican Party is going to make sure that the
beneficiaries or white Republicans. Oh lord, First of all, everybody

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is making me feel smarter just being on his panels.
So shout out to you, because it's so much history
and knowledge being space. I had to say that first.
But second of all, we are playing a rigged game,
and we're playing defense because when we have a chance
to be on office, which we were begging and screaming
and crying about, please vote local, please vote down ballot,

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please please please vote. Now, we've got to play catch up.
Now I've got to be on defense. Now we've got
to hope that something very improbable like the Four the
People Act passes with all the provisions and if I
will protect against jerrymandering. Now we've got to hope that
the courts that are stacked with Trump judges, and I
will say that President Biden is getting them judges and

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at an incredible pace. But now we have to hope
that those courts will straight down some of this racial jerrymandering.
They've done it in the past. But but Mitch McConnell
and Trump have put two hundred right wing judges on
their plus they have a Supreme Court on their side
that are anti black and brown people voting. And so

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this is not to say that the situation is hopeless,
but what it's to say is is that we have
to be mindful of the way that the chips are
stacked against us. We have to be mindful about the
particulars of how things happen in this country. It's a
process thing. If you're explaining, you're losing, which is why
Democrats have a hard time of conveying there. It's so

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hard to get things passed because of the barriers that
are put in place, and the Republicans think of the
long game, and so we have to do something now.
It might not save us for two but we have
to think ten years in advance. And that's something that
we've been talking about, particularly you roll In I know
this Thursday, Pan has been talking about we have to

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think about the next couple of decades with every single election,
because that's how the Republicans operate. And so it's so
crazy that black and brown people moving to the South,
moving to areas like Houston are going to be shut
out even more and jerry mandrid even more because white
folks know how to play the game. And what I
can say is to the Democrats in places like Florida,

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I mean I'm not not Florida, but New York and
California and where we have the power, y'all need to
jerry mander the ship out of those places too, to
get some of those seats into Democratic hands. Because it's
I'm sick and tired of Democrats trying to put in
place these biopartisan commissions and stacking and and and not
taking advantage of what we have. And we have the

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power and me are Republicans. They don't give a damn
about the rules, they don't give a damn about democracy.
So we need to start fighting fire with fire our
damn selves. Absolutely, I want to bring in right now,
Representative Nicole call your she is the chair of Texas
Texas Legslay Black Caucus representative call you how you're doing right?
How are you ruling doing great? Also? Uh, joining us

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right now and stink rosenatives and Fronia Thompson also a
house remember the Texas Black Caucus. Uh. And of course
I know her quite so well because she was a
running buddy of my grandmother. Uh. Email the Lamans. So
wherever Representative Thompson was in Houston, my grandmother was right there.
And so until she passed a few years ago, that
was her running buddies. So uh, we officially called Representative Thompson,

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We call us said, Frownia, how you doing? I'm doing good?
At you? I'm doing great. First of all, y'all had
y'all testify on the Capital Hill today. Tell us how
that went? And what are you hearing from Senate Democrats?
Are they getting the message? Are they feeling the pressure?
Are they now understanding the gravity of this? We just

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talked about how they could how they could literally run
the table with partisan Jerry Mandarin with and that's that
that's totally separate from these votal suppression bills. Are these
syn Democrats getting the message? Representative call your first, Oh, well,
thank you. I often yield to Miss t who is
the dean of the Democratic delegation. UH, but I will

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respond and say that we believe the message is moving forward.
It's not where we wanted wanted to be before the
deadlines of the special session ends August seventh. We need action.
By then, It's unlikely that Congress will be able to
uh take up the measures that are needed to provide
the oversight and the protections for uh Texans freedom to vote.

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But they're moving forward board and they're still talking, so
that that's always a positive. Uh, you know, that's positive
for us, so that we can keep this message going
because this attack is not limited to Texas. This is
happening all across our nation. They don't want us to
vote because our numbers are growing, and the way that
they keep stay in power is that they change the rules.

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They keep moving the needle needle further and further when
we get closer and closer. So we've got to keep
moving forward ourselves. Now. One thing is we can't out
mobilize racist gerrymandering. That's something that Reverend Barber said, and
he is so right. We can't do that. We have
to deal with what we have, and we've got to

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take back our communities and take back our positions so
that way we can preserve and promote our communities represented Thompson,
you were there in the legislature when Uh Tom delayed,
when he was in Congress, when the Republicans, and not

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even in a census year in all senses year, chose
to invoke political jerrymandery. Uh. You had a Black House member,
h Ron Wilson, who went along with them because he
thought he was gonna get that congressional seat that now
held by Congressman Al Green. He got his butt kicked
by a former teacher, and a lot of black folks
have not forgotten how he's screwed over black folks as

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a result of that. So said, Democrats need to understand.
Republicans don't play by rules, especially Texas Republicans. They believe
in power. And so this no ship of Democrats. All
let's be fair, let's all get along. You just heard
Recly talking about, Hey, if you Democrat, you running the
state jerryman of the hell out of your state. Because

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the Supreme Court has already said you can do it.
Republicans do not care. This is about how much power
can we get. Well, they change the rules as they
need to change them. It's the real bottom line, and
you've been hitting it, uh and all all that. The
bottom line is that Texas is eighty three point five

(34:09):
percent people of color and sixteen point five percent ANGLOB
and the sixteen halfer said want to continue to dominate.
Hold hold on, hold on, hold on, hold hold on,
hold on, so I don't start No, no, no, no, no,
hold up. I need you to repeat that. For the
really slow people watching and listening, I need them they

(34:31):
hear that again. Give said again, go ahead. Texas is
eighty three and a half percent people of color and
sixteen and a half percent ANGLOB and the sixteen and
a half percent wants to continue to dominate eighty three
and a half percent. That's the real problem here. The

(34:53):
real problem is a shift in power, and they don't
want that shift to take place. But it's gonna have
to take place, and we're got we got to fight
in order for it for that to happen. Since we
have been in Washington, we have moved a needle from
from being dormant to being active. We have visited our senators,

(35:16):
all our senators. However, our Texas senators will not see us,
but other senators have been kind enough to see us,
and even Senator Mansion has been good with his time.
He has visited with us. We have been with Chuck Schumer,
We've been with Corey Booker, We've been with many many accomplishmen.
And of course you know today we went and we

(35:38):
testified on Capitol Hill for four and a half hours.
So we are doing everything that we can to plead
the case and to let them know that in nineteen
and sixty five, it took a man from texting by
the name of Leonard Van Johnson to be convinced by
Martin Ruther King and many members called Mr Wilkinson all

(35:58):
over the NCP that he had to act, if Congress
had to act and pass the Votings Right Act, and
he did it in nineteen and six or five fifty
six years ago. We are here now asking them to
move the needle again like Linda Johnson did, passed the
Act not only preclearance, but we want preclearance and look

(36:20):
back five years. That's what it's gonna be meaning for us.
Every state ought to be on the preclearance in the
United States because the population and every state of being
increasingly a minority. And if we're gonna be able to
assure that the minority of people in this country are
going to have a saying their democracy, that this is

(36:42):
what it's going to take. I know a lot of
people want to talk about having uh redistricting boards uh
non partisans. That's no such states as non partisans. What
they wanted to do is they want to empower a
group of unelectric buy cracks partisan to go there and
draw lines for people in their own party. The Congress,

(37:04):
the the Constitution gives this legislation that responsibility, and they
need to have their thief helps to the five done
and do it right, and do it right for all
people and make sure that that eighty three and a
half or set of people of color in Texas I'm
treated failing and those lines are drawn fairly. And the
way to do that is Congress has to move off

(37:26):
a dead center and get it done. Mhm. Well, first
of all, Republicans still don't care about that. In Michigan,
the voters actually passed a ballot measure to create a
nonpartisan redistrict Commission commission. Let's say you said, um, we're
gonna ignore that. I mean so that that that shows

(37:47):
you how they don't care about the voters. Think representative
call you have y'all. Have y'all met as a delegation
yet for President Joe Biden, has he met with all
of the Texas House members? No, he has not. In
fact he has. Uh. We have met with the Vice
President Kamala Harris, who has taken the charge of um

(38:09):
leading the voting rights for all of America. But we
have not met with President Biden. And you know, I'd
like to remind people were very resourceful. You know, people
can walk and chew gum at the same time. So
it's very uh, it's very fitting if the if the
President would be able to meet with us and also
apply that Johnson type pressure on Congress on the Senate

(38:33):
to to act and uh wave the filibuster and keep moving.
And I want to just make sure that people understand
why we're here, uh asking for this preclearance. Ms T
talked about the preclearance and the five year looked back.
Ever since the nineteen Voting Rights Act has passed, Texas
has been found in violation every single decade. That means

(38:57):
third creating laws and contraverdiction to what is protect the protection,
So they don't care. They still write laws that disenfranchise
and discriminate against people of color. And unless we have
oversight at the federal government with the preclearance, we're going
to continue to see these UH measures passed that are

(39:19):
going to reduce our voice at the ballot. But Thompson, look,
I know, y'all, y'all gotta say to right things, and
y'all gotta be real nice about this, Okay, I know,
I frankly, it piss it, piss it pisces me off

(39:44):
that here y'all walked out of Texas. Y'all left, y'all families,
y'all left for friends. Some folks of cancel weddings. They've
had other people who passed away, not going to funerals,
y'all to to avoid getting arrested by Governor Greg Abbott
to break the quorum. And President Biden hasn't on the
damn time to meet with y'all here y'all putting it
on the line, and he wants to give speeches, and

(40:06):
he hasn't even scheduled a meeting that to me, UH
is as wrong as hell. Oh that that that to
me is offensive reverse of tops to go ahead. Well,
I think I think UH at Latin media is going

(40:27):
to take place. Um. I think it's people that has
told him that what he needs? What what? What? What? Well?
What he needs to hurt the hell up? Because because
I thot y'all have been in DZ almost two weeks,
hell two weeks almost two weeks he and he found
time to he found time to go play nine holes

(40:47):
of golf in Delaway over that weekend. Well, listen, and
I love golf. Voting is very important to us, and
we welcome the opportunity to meet with the president to
plead out case. We're looking farther to it. We're not
gonna give up trying to meet with him. We want
him to know how important this is and how urgency

(41:08):
it is. This is the time that we have to
have some action, and we are doing everything that we
can to make sure or we contact all our friends
to make sure that it's happening. We've talked to the
Vice president two times, UH, and we let our know
that the urgency of this. We have left our jobs.
Our businesses, our families, our children. We have left everything, uh,

(41:30):
everything is on the line because we want to make
sure rolling that we don't have to keep repeating history
and keep fighting the same fights over and over again.
We want our children and our children child to be
able to have a boss and their democracy without somebody
trying to chip away at their right that they have.
This is the right guarantee us on the Constitute of

(41:52):
the United States. And damn it is time for us
to be treated like use of damn amraicle and not
like no damn slaves here in this country. H go ahead,
represent the college ahead. I was gonna say, we welcome
the opportunity to speak with President Biden to share his
vision on how he's going to help guide and provide

(42:16):
support to the Senate and Congress to take up these
very important elect voting bills so that the freedom to
vote is protected for all Americans. So, you know, we
want him to show us how he has made election
the protection uh and your freedom to vote a priority

(42:36):
for his administration. And I want to tell him all
right then and now I want to tell him how
imparty is well after now, well, we're looking forward to
that as well, so we're gonna keep the pressure up
as well. A representaive call you represent Thomson. We certaly
appreciate it. Thanks a lot for joining us. Indeed, folks

(43:01):
gotta go to a break. We come back. We're here
from Reverjency Jackon Senior again, Reverend William J. Barber and
better Or Rourke. We also talked with the active director
of Health in St. Louis County. Why these people cussing
this man out because he spoke in favor of a
mask mandate? Will show you that, And we got some

(43:21):
other craziest have to show you, include his white cop
who literally laid on top of a black woman to
arrest her. Y'all the videos unbelievable. All of that more,
as Rollobart on the filtering continues broadcasting live here from
the North Austin the Muslim Community Center will be back
in a moment. The same forces that um trying to

(43:47):
pass these bills across the country right here in tens Yes,
suppressed to stop, to demand to vote the same you
from having living rags are the same vote. They wouldn't
fix your utilities wrong in this time when our voting

(44:11):
rights are under attack and economic justice is being denied.
We're launching a season of non violent MAWL direct action
to demand four things by August the six, the fifty
six anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act.
Number one and the Filibuster Number two has all provisions

(44:33):
of the Four the People as fully restore the nineteen
sixty five Voting Rights Act, and number four raised the
federal minimum wage the fifteen dollars cast for the people.
That is the last best hope for voting rights, not
just in Texas, but Georgia, Florida, in about a dozen
other states. Path the John Lewis Voting Rights Bill and

(44:57):
the Four the People Act let our people vote. The
Latin X community is the rising electorate in Texas, and
our representatives are threatened by these shifting demographics. Our pathway
to citizenship to a living wage depend on our access
to the ballot. This is not just a black issue,

(45:19):
that's right. This is a model prostitutional and economic democracy issue.
Poverty is reinforced by public policy and what happens in
Texas as well as in America. We create policies that
perpetuate poverty, and then we criminalize the poverty that we
create there's only so much we can take, and it's

(45:41):
time for us to stand up and speak loudly against
what's happening here. I think that it is time for
a sit on my life. Yeah yeah, and come to Austin.
But we ain't coming to Austin just so Austen. We
come to Austin to save the Which shide are you on?

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And don't tell us you can't do all of this.
You must do all of this. Call the soul and
the heart of this democracy together together, together the people.
Our aides have lost the ability to focus the discipline
on the art of organizing the challenges. There's so many

(46:29):
of them, and they're complex and we need to be
moving to address them. But I'm able to say, watch
up to I know this road that is so freaking dope. Hi,

(46:52):
this is Essence Atkins, Damn Dian Coole from Blackest Everybody
that your man Fred Hammond, and you're watching Roland Martin
my man unfiltered All right, folks. Of course we're here

(47:13):
in the North Austin the Muslim Community Center. We told
you we had opportunity to live stream today's march UH
and at our second UH stopping point, well, they stopped
to get some rest during some water use the restroom.
Uh they were Uh. They heard from Reverened Jackson, senior
Rever not to William J. Barber, as well as a

(47:34):
better or Rourke uh All, who been work involving organizing
this particular market March. I wanted to show you what
they had to say. Here we go have an embodiment
of the fight before you know, may not notice, but
on the on Washington Jail in Greensborough, the history is

(47:59):
like connecting, y'all. It took a morrow, huge and movement.
Then go back and look at those pictures from Sealing
Amount Company. They look just like this marks they've never
ever black and lank, young and old Jews, Mogle Christians,
And as he said, it's making an impact. So I'm
honored that he would leave d C and coming John

(48:21):
out spots small or whatever side the want he designed
to walk and and Reverend there has some foker out
here to said when when some of us may I
walk to want to walk all the way, they'll take
their letts lint on the l A. So somebody out
he'll leave you l A. We been thankful. We're gonna
take a little bit of a break now. I don't
want y'all to get too busy, but they don't. I

(48:46):
gotta tell you, it is incredibly powerful to be with
Reverend Jackson here in Texas today. He is everywhere that
the fight needs to be fun. He's everywhere to encourage
those your marching right now who are standing up for
the most fundamental right that we can have as Americans,
the rights of vote. And I want to tell you

(49:07):
that this is not something new. As Bishop Barber just
said during the march on Washington, Reverend Jackson caared enough
about this country that he was willing, temporarily so to
lose his freedom and be behind bars because it was
that important, that urgent, and that necessary, and it was
that leadership. By nine it hits his country the Voting

(49:28):
Rights Act and pushes President Johnson to use his political
power to do it. All of us marching today are
marching in the tradition of Reverend Jackson. We are going
to push President Biden to use his power to pass
before the people at industry a way to vote for
every single American. And all are our heroes, And who
are my heroes, sir w It's so bad to be

(49:54):
I don't think you could be in the same capital
on that day, that captain, but keeping sentence that thing
that's right, Jim Foeman Movement that since that is right,
love us watching watch Capital some time right right on

(50:20):
Fight Change Center. When you think you get now to
y'all here that the reddam Jackson. What we're saying is
the Senate goes home. Now they're talking about staying and

(50:41):
now they're talking about doing something to revercausey watching. But
if things are not where they ought to be, Yes,
they ought to be some things in DC, but they
out to be stuff happening in state cap and we're
talking about that. We're gonna talking is denying Reord Jackson
about that. You know Poe might be a d C
on that, So David Poe, we might be in West Virginia,

(51:01):
but all all this country, but this our media that
the poor people campaign and the point of organizations that
are here real Jackson Sarvado that lives. We're saying that
there needs to be marches on everyge state capital, saying
in the villa um has every provision of the point

(51:24):
of people that started voting right back started past the
teen dollar living ways, and he's sure sure pretention of
our immigrant brothers in subjects. Everything happens from the bottom
up from Austin Hull, from Greensboro, up from Alt Birmingham,

(51:45):
up from Montgomery Hull, from Jackson Hull. That's how a
movement takes place. So that's why we're here to the
media be reminded because I don't have a question today.
We limited this part of the march to an hundred
twenty five people for safety. We're gonna have a whole
lot more on. All right, you may turn down people,

(52:06):
but everybody welcome to Austin Saturday. Everybody's got on Saturday.
And we just announced Brother beat O, myself, Brother lives
the campaign that William Nelson is gonna join us for
a special for your concert in Austin for me. Did

(52:28):
you got it here in Austin? And we're calling on
other artists intend to come. Everybody needs to stand up.
I gotta call him as Night for seven times rolling.
I told him we want Chris Paul's number so we
can set him and email. Hn't asked him to talk
to Sunner. We need Jerry West and made the support
Old Mansions to talk to him. But we need the president.

(52:52):
If the President will come to Texas, go down Arizona,
going west Virginia and then get the speaker. And the
Senate leader has called into the will of the count
and say, we gotta pretend the infrastructure of this tomblics.
We can do both at the same times. Are gonna
infrastructure and political to mind it don't really do it

(53:13):
can't be done. In fact, it's not done. You're gonna
have more than rich. This chromos been office a chromoles
Now before we get started, don't y'all do too much
of this because I wanted to beat your time. But
we learned a long time ago. And Liz always reminded
in the People's Podies campaign, you know how to dance.

(53:36):
You see it seem dim, but the remember one song,
it says, rob the power that wasn't it's a song
from the stage. Just give us, thready says and the
man out there as you see me, yea, you don
got to give the people one they want to. Really,
But like if you got gotta people getting people what

(53:57):
they want, the whole you got, Jake have in ya
the run old Jaya, I don't go well and get
the jam on. I can't put that on the resh
y'all have something Ti ti ti ti ti. Yeah, man,
that means the thomis coming on about. We're gonna have

(54:22):
talking to reach your press today and then we're gonna
be coffee, have a fresh Conway tomorrow, tomorrow one out here. Oh,
don't don't hurt yourself. Don't hurt yourself. You gotta have
a little bit in come on one of those plans,

(54:44):
a job on one of those times in the colle right, oh, world,

(55:13):
feel the same. He hasn't right to feel the same.
It's a you hanim aust The ships were ready more
takes really, so they well be happy to get the trooper.

(55:54):
Don't even look any calling. Yeah ah say, I told

(56:36):
Repert Jackson stopped throwing them a little mega hooks up there.
But it's all good. We always have a good time.
I figured you you will enjoy that one great card.
Uh So I had to mess with reference on that one.
I want what I had to do that. But first
of all, uh huh, I said, we let that Q

(56:59):
get away it either you see your Janni, you see
your Janni slick up with that. I should do it.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he tries it every time.
But I'm always gonna check them. So but as we're
certainly glad to see Reverend Jackson out here. Uh, folks,
let's talk about what took place in St. Louis County
where uh these folks uh lifted their mask mandate, they voted,

(57:22):
and these people just just beyond stupid. The delta baron
is going crazy, massive number of cases we're seeing in Florida,
in Mississippi, and these folks, largely white conservatives, are just
totally freaking out as a result of this. Uh. Dr
Faisal Khan is the intererid director for the St. Louis
County Department of Public Health, and folks, he wrote a

(57:43):
piece detailing the kind of names these people called him.
Uh everything other than a child of God, he joins
us right now, Dr Khan, welcome to Rolling Martin Filter.
Thank you rolling up. It's a pleasure to be here.
I read your piece and I just sat there. I said,

(58:04):
I mean they, I mean again for folks with language.
Someone called you a cunt. They called I mean, they
were calling you those type of names because you were speaking.
Because as the as the public health director, your job
is to save lives. It's the health of the public

(58:25):
that is correct rule. And it was a very disappointing
and disturbing turn of events. And you know, once you've
whipped up a crowd of people into a frenzy and
played on their worst fears to stoke hatred and anger
and then redirected them at government officials, um, things escalate

(58:48):
very quickly. So it was an experience that left me
shaken momentarily. And and so what was it? What now? Now?
Was it intent with it during testimony or afterwards? Or
have Pye been calling you and emailing you? Uh with this,
with this vial, with with these viol attacks. So basically,

(59:11):
as a public health official and as a public official,
it is my responsibility to go to the County Council,
the legislated body whenever I'm passed, and explain the rationale
and the data for public health policy. On Monday, this
this past Monday, St. Louis County imposed a mask order
on our recommendations, my recommendations based on the alarming data

(59:36):
that we were seeing related to the delta variant, And
so I was asked to go to council on Tuesday evening.
I was invited there by a member of the council
to present information and explain the rationale for imposing the
mass mandate. I went in prepared to do just that,
but what I walked into was a situation where hundreds
of people had been whipped into a frenzy at a

(01:00:00):
political rally outside the venue prior to the meeting, and
then brought in. So as I looked around, I saw
a sea of angry faces. People were clearly upset and
fired up. Hardly anyone was wearing a mask. That alarmed
me more than anything else, because I feared for that
event becoming a super spreader event. And so it just

(01:00:22):
went downhill from there. Clearly this was an orchestrated political theater.
It wasn't meant to be an exchange of knowledge or information.
We are seeing this all around the country, led by
Fox News, O N News Max, these conservative talk radio
host you have. You have this conservati talk radio hosts

(01:00:43):
the other day who's actually in the hospital right now
on a bit of later because he got COVID and
now it was setting. His tune has changed, and he
wasn't an anti vaxxer, but he was damned near close.
That's the kind of thing that we're seeing Unfortunately, Roland,
you know, the public discourse in the country over the

(01:01:04):
last eighteen months since the pandemic first hit US has
just gone from bad to worse. This public health emergency,
the worst that we have seen in one hundred years,
was unnecessarily politicized, and public health officials and scientists have
been victimized and identified as public enemy number one. I
don't count myself in that list. I'm not important enough,

(01:01:26):
We're significant enough. My idol, my role model, the man
I followed into public health was is the patron saint
of public health, doctor Anti Fauci, and he has been
subjected to ten thousand times, as you know, worst abuse. Um,
so we've really are not in a happy place or

(01:01:48):
a good place right now. People have formed strong opinions
based on their political ideologies, to the point that the
simple act of wearing a mask when you're indoors somewhere
around to people that may or may not pass or
transmit disease has become a political statement. That is a
sad reflection on where we are today. And from your position,

(01:02:12):
can you explain to people watching why cities and counties
are going to towards telling people, even if you've been vaccinated,
wear a mask there are some who believe that the
vaccination makes you full proof. It does it, No, sir,
it does not. That is a very good question. Role

(01:02:33):
and I explained this um with an analogy off you know,
a battlefield game um, which are popular with the youngsters
these days. The enemy that we're fighting is the virus.
The enemy keeps changing its battle strategy and its tactics.
It keeps introducing new weapons onto the theater of battle.

(01:02:56):
We as the defenders of health, have to adapt our
strategy and evolved it to match that. And so the
situation that we were in in November was not the
same as the situation we found ourselves in May. And
that's not the same as the situation we find ourselves
in July. So when people say, well, you told us

(01:03:18):
this back in March, and now you're telling us this
in April, so you don't have any confidence in the vaccines,
et cetera, No, that's not true. This is an enemy
that is a shape shifter, and it changes and adapts
and and reeks havoc in many new ways. And we
have to be nimble enough to respond to that. And

(01:03:39):
it's amazing that people don't understand that. Uh and and
then they still attack Boxy by saying were you You
told us no mask, and it's like, well, things change,
things evolved, and you and others y'all are trying to
keep up because people who don't understood, don't do this
for a living, don't realize how these how when it
goes from one person to the next, it changes in mutates,

(01:04:02):
it looks totally different down the road. And we actually
had scientists on this show in May of last year
saying this was going to happen, right, and I would
warn anybody watching this is not the end. We are
right in the middle of this battle. There are more
mutants on the way. They are already hitting parts of

(01:04:24):
South America. Let us familiarize ourselves with the word lambda
and pretty much every alphabet in the Greek you know,
every Greek letter after that, pretty much, because that's what
viruses do. They find susceptible hosts and communities, particularly amongst
unvaccinated or naive individuals who refused to take precautions, and
they cause disease and the mutate, as you said, and

(01:04:47):
throw off new variants all the time. Well, this is uh,
it's unfortunate that you were attacked the way that you
were attacked. I'm glad to see that they you're standing
strong because the reality is there are those of us
out here who appreciate folks like you, people who are
committed public servants who are trying to do their best

(01:05:09):
to keep more of us healthy and alive as opposed
to going to funerals. Thank you so much for Roland.
I really appreciate it. I appreciate it. Thanks like good luck.
Thank you. Sure you see these people are losing their
damn minds. I mean, these folks are and and look

(01:05:30):
every day I'm seeing nurses and doctors, uh, posting stuff
of individuals who are laying up in bed. One guy
twenty four years old, Oh, he was trash in the vaccine.
Now he needs a double lung transplant. At four, we

(01:05:51):
showed the thirty four year old brother who was tweeting,
He's like, I got nine I got nine nine problems. Uh,
the vaccine not one of Guess what he he dead? No, no, no,
he said the faccine wasn't one. He was dogging it trashy.
Guess what he did? He died. We told him to

(01:06:11):
the other day. I mean, we hit all these stories
and and but what against me is the folks who
are just now I'm not putting a mask on. I
wasn't you recy who tweeted, well, your ass put some
paints on when you go into a store. No, that
wasn't me. But that's good. No, No, I forgot, I forgot.
Somebody tweet I spore was you because yeah, there were

(01:06:33):
no f words with this and that wasn't you. Um,
but but somebody something. But but somebody tweeted they said,
your ass put paints on, you put shoes on? What
the hell right? Here's the thing, Roland. People think that
I'm some sort of paranoid weirdo when I talked about disinformation.

(01:06:53):
I have been saying this since the first of all,
since Kamala Harris, since I've been talking about Kama Harrison,
the disinformation campaign that hit her, and the way that
the Russians have exploited the racial divisions, particularly UM trying
to play on black people and a racism against black
people UM to sell division within this country. This disinformation
war is winning. I remember earlier when we were talking

(01:07:16):
about vaccine equity and access, and I said, yes, that
is an issue, but we have to address the vaccine
disinformation that is targeting our community. It's not just online thing.
I saw a doctor black stock Um. That might not
be her name, doctor, I forget exactly her name, but
one of the prominent doctors who talks about COVID on

(01:07:37):
Black Doctors Talk about COVID. She said that she was
at a festival, Black festival and the Robert Kennedy Foundation,
their foundation, they were handing out flyers to black people
with anti vaccination information. I know that that. I'm sure
the people that the expert that you had on just
a moment ago, that's the white community, and yeah, and

(01:07:57):
that that that's concerned over there too. But we also
have to realize the way that our communities are a
laser like targeted. They play on our mistrust of the system,
which is warranted, certainly, but there are ways in terms
of the vernacular and the way that we are targeted.
There are ways in which the memes target us the
images that they use. And so until we deal with

(01:08:18):
the anti science, anti information, disinformation, dissuasion, deterrence campaign, we're
going to continue to lose that battle because it's belligerent
ignorance and it's a badge of honor. These people are
the ones I think that they're the smart ones. They
think that they're on smarting the rest of us, and
that they're protected with their juices and berries and their

(01:08:40):
sea moss. And that's good. Keep your meals. That's some
uch strong baby, if that's what you want to do.
But you need the damn vaccine as well, because if
you don't have the vaccine, you're gonna be in deep
shit if you get it. If you don't get it,
hey good for you. But this delta there and they
got delta, plus they got lambed out of somebody said, uh,
COVID and all delta and are her licenses? Need to
sit down somewhere. This is not going anywhere. And the

(01:09:04):
heart is that the appetite for some of the deterrence
measures like mandatory masking, like social distancing, like uh, you know,
limits in terms of capacity, that's going away. So it's
a free for all. And what our government has decided
largely is that if you don't get the vaccine, you're

(01:09:25):
on your own. You can die for all we care.
Now I'm concerned particularly about children, because right now the
vaccine timeline is being pushed out for them. So we
cannot just throw on the talent say well, you're a
vaccine you didn't get the vaccine. You're dumb, You're asked out.
Because the children are the ones that are filling up hospitals.
They actually have run out of pediatric beds. I believe

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it's in Mississippi where the children that are getting COVID
are being shipped to other states. And so we cannot
just simply turn a blind eye to the fact that
people who are choosing to not get vaccinated or actually
doing a disservice and they are detrimental to our public health.
We need an all hands on deck approach, and that
means addressing those anti vectors in our communities that are

(01:10:10):
spreading it. I Teddy Riley and Eddie Griffin, which I
did tell off, we have to start tackling it. And
the administration I s lasting I say is I saw
that they have a disinformation approach to it, but it
was all white people in the room. Those white folks
don't understand the way that black people, black Twitter, black Instagram,
are black Facebook are being targeted and they don't know

(01:10:32):
the way that it's communicated in a way to appeal
to us. And so we really really need to start
talking about this disinformation because it's killing us. Black people
are life expectancy is going down. Our outcomes are far worse.
We have the highest hospitalization rates, the highest mortality rates.
This is not a game, people, and we're losing right now.

(01:10:52):
M frog. Yeah, I think was what would is so sad?
Are these many of these servants and who are working
in health who never get any shine and never get
any attention. Folksho ignore them. I mean, they're dealing with
death threats. They're dealing with people who are yelling and
screaming in their faces and attacking them. And their job

(01:11:15):
is I mean, within we played the commicy, we played
the clipper, that idiot white supremacist center Tom Cotton of Arkansas,
who who actually criticized public health directors for advocating for
public health. It's literally in their title. Yeah. And I

(01:11:37):
think that when we have this conversation about public he
we do have to keep in mind of the rolling
we seeing Dr Car that public health in this country
has failed the American people so many times. And it's
not just about black folks. This is talking about round folks,
were talking about white people, were talking about indigenous communities.
The public health in this country has become so core

(01:12:00):
pre ties to the point that people don't know what
to believe. It's hard to put trust when profits is
more valuable than people's lives. You know, I ran across
some information um saying that, uh, and I think he
was eide the Madernal Fighters, but they were talking about
the fact that their bottom line or Johnson and Johnson sorry, uh,

(01:12:21):
talking about the fact that their bottom line went up
two billion dollars. I mean. And and then you know,
Fighter puts out this data stating that you know, um,
that that they're gonna that folks may need, you know,
more another booster shot when it comes to this vaccine.
And then when you know, back on July of sixteen,

(01:12:42):
the CDC put it out there this was wrong when
CNN reported that the U s c DC warned people
who are immunocompromised, meaning if you have a weak immune system,
that the COVID nineteen vaccine may not have been effective
for them, and encourage them to take precautions as if
they were not accentated. So when you have this culture,

(01:13:03):
the culture of mistrust, the culture of disinformation is didn't
just fall out of a vacuum. It was created because
of the messages, but because of the long systemic issues
that public health and the health care system of this
country has. It's unfortunate, it's really unfortunate that we're still
having conversations about whether America should have universal health care

(01:13:26):
when you have quote unquote countries of lesser resources and
lesser people having these very simple human privileges, right and
these human rights. Excuse me, So when we're talking about that,
let's keep those things in mind. But then also, you know,
let's talk about the fact that there isn't a national
mass mandate. W is stopping this country from saying enough

(01:13:48):
is enough. Let's at least enforce a mass mandate. And
people say, all love us, imposting upon my freedom. I
can't breathe, like, please stop it. The reality is is
that this way is an outgrowth of what we're seeing
from a failed public health system in America. Well, the

(01:14:09):
point of Ferragi makes their dor grad car with regards
to um the booster. If people watch this show, they
would have known that in May we had experts from
North Carolina, A and T. And this is why we
did this. We purposely found black experts, We purposely found

(01:14:32):
black doctors, black scientists, black epidemiologists. Uh and I remember
the brother of North Carolina A and T. His name
escapes you right now. I'm sorry. He on this show
said there's going to have to be multiple shots. He said,
as the virus mutates, he said that the vaccine that

(01:14:54):
is created is created for that particular variant. He said,
when the vacts. We said when the when when the
we said when uh covid, when it shifts and it mutates,
he said, you're not going to have it the same
vaccine effective. No different when we've in the past when

(01:15:17):
there's a new flu variant and folks say the flu
shots from last year are not gonna work on the
flu shot this year. That's why we did that. Now,
to Reese's point, she's absolutely right. We were sitting here
yelling and screaming and kicking telling the White House. I
talked to them directly, telling the CDC. I talked to
them directly, telling people in these states. I personally talk

(01:15:40):
to them directly, saying, hey, y'all better don't just sending
that money. Don't don't let these White agency just sending
that money to these other folks who're just gonna just
be said, you got to have real conversations with people
at folks trust and guess what we dealt with Trump,
who was sitting here saying everything was a live throwing

(01:16:03):
who casting so much, sowing so many seeds of discontent,
continues to do that then Yester Roger's right what happened
in the past. But also what people have to understand
is that, as con said, if they tell you something
different today, people like, well you told me this two
months ago. Shit changed. That's like somebody said, that's like

(01:16:29):
I mean that that ain't no different that somebody saying, um,
this this is this is your card note in made
your ask. Don't pay your card note for three months.
Guess what that ship don't change late penalties, interest. It happens.

(01:16:51):
And that's the thing, man, that is so frustrating folks.
Just Greg, you deal with it. Dr called I don't
understand how am I getting felling grad because your lass
failed the last test? Well, how can I pass your class?
Don't fail the next test? Do some extra damn credit
that you might pass the class. Guess what ship changes?

(01:17:15):
Ship changes. Well, as we know as teachers, the first
two words word, first three words when you come in
December with a day left telling about what can that do?
So it's a little too late, but maybe go back
to the first day of class read the syllabus, so
you know, ignorance is a is perhaps the most powerful

(01:17:36):
thing in human social organization. Brother, they had what forty
some thousand people up in the Mercedes Benz don't to
hit this boy to watch this boy dance to his
own music down there? So no, no, no, no, no,
hold on unfinished album hand Well, I don't even know

(01:17:59):
what I know he lived down there, and the damn
don't he at the side? I mean, so ignorance at
the end of the day. I mean here, we are
not even fifty of the people in the United States
of America, and this is a country where you can
get the vaccine. Even as we just found out that
Joe Biden and I'm talking about paying people a hundred
dollars a piece to take the shot. I would saying

(01:18:20):
I would have waited two months if you're gonna start
giving out money. But the whole point is, you know
what I'm saying, We're not even at fift and and
two thirds of while as you say, two thirds of
her mindus fully vaccinated, been in Alabama and Mississippi, just
over a third of the people of vaccinated and k
I v down there throwing her own white nationalists ken

(01:18:43):
under the bus or I ain't tell them what to
do after all, And as you roasted her and said,
well you lifted the damn the masked mandate and told
the restaurant you can let anybody come in. What we
have to understand is that the biggest skyrocket are the
places where most of our people are. The per capitaive
great is going up sevent to seventy seven in Louisiana.

(01:19:04):
Next is the South and the whole thirty three. Next
is the West, thirteen, next is the Midwest, and then
northeast is the last where we are right now, what
does that tell us? That tell us that misinformation is real.
And with all due respect to our brother Dr Khan,
let's be clear. When that man snuck up behind you
and said that you're un American, that man was right

(01:19:26):
because his America, it's the same America where in Georgia,
as we've seen being reported, as they're gonna try to
take over Fulton County because they said we don't trust
the interity of the election process. The Georgia legislature. By integrity,
they mean quite power. You understand. So when he says
you're not American, a man who has worked in public

(01:19:46):
health and Vietnam and Pakistan, South Africa, Australia, People's Republican, China, Zimbabwe,
bar Slana and all over the United States, when somebody
steps up behind you says you're not American, what they're
saying is when I see somebody with a mask, that's
somebody each to take away my white power. And I
will defend white power with my life. I am one
hundred and fifty okay with that. You can die to

(01:20:09):
defend white power. But the problem is my mama's in Texas,
CE and even though she's been vaccinated my niece, and
my niece is just at the age where she can
get the shot. What I don't want you to do
is die and poison her. Now you die on your own,
I really have. I have no problems with that. I'm
I'm okay with that. I'm not only not only am

(01:20:31):
I not not only am I at peace with that?
In fact, I'm looking at balancing an out and thinking,
you know, this might just help us solve the problem.
Or perhaps whether there will be United States or not
because you, you people, have picked your whiteness over your life.
The problem comes in when COVID doesn't recognize race, and
so we are trapped with you. So now, whether the

(01:20:54):
federal government says you gotta have a shot to come
back to work, whether private industry and the schools say
you gotta have a shot to come back in the
hammer getting ready to get dropped now, and you're gonna
have you And in the words of our sister, you
about to lose your job. Get this dance and I'm okay,

(01:21:14):
fire these hillbillies or we're gonna have to make another
set of choices in this country because the fact of
the matter is this is not going away. And I
should say this about our people because rolling you had
your cameras there at Howard. You know, I was one
of the few place times I ventured forth to that
campus was to watch those Tuskegee folks whose ancestors, who

(01:21:35):
who were the brothers who you know, were suffered under
symphlist test. I have a real problem with the ad
Council and that whole campaign. The problem I had is
that y'all are tone deaf. This is the Tuskegee experiment.
In this regard, this isn't about the specifics of whether
that those men were infected with selfless They were not
by the government. It was left untreated. The problem is

(01:21:59):
we don't trust the government. And if you want to
know why we don't trust the government, it's because as
recent as you said, the misinformation campaign is flooding social
media where a lot of our people are. And then
you give money and prop up a class, top down
approach to talking to our people instead of putting the money,
as you say here in places where you can actually

(01:22:19):
have conversations and work through Dr Seby and see Moss
and everything else to get to the or what about
because we don't trust the government and you can't use
trusting the government as your appoint of entry to get
us to take the shot. But you gotta people, but
they're not gonna do that because they're so damn arrogant.
They think they can pay three or four or five
bourgeoide nigros some money, run a campaign and somehow a

(01:22:42):
light bulb gonna go off. Nah them people was at
the Mercedes bands, don't watching Kanye talk to them? Talk
to them and yeah, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
Here's the thing. What we're seeing right now is biological warfare, Okay,

(01:23:02):
and I'm not exaggerating with that. This disinformation campaign is
biological warfare, and those who are buying into it are
the foot soldiers of it. They are the ammunition for this.
This isn't a government thing and the I completely agree
with you Fagi and Dr Carr. There is warranted mistrust
in the government because we don't have a credible public

(01:23:23):
health approach to it. There are people who don't have
paid time off if they get sick, of people who
cannot afford to go to the emergency room. There are
people if they do get the shot and they get sick,
they won't have any way of getting treated for that sickness.
So there is warranted skepticism and cynicism and hesitancy with that.
But what people have to understand is that we have
other countries like Russia who are exploiting this disinformation and

(01:23:47):
our distrust to kill us, literally kill us. This is eugenics.
It's amazing to me that the same people that believe
that the COVID was hatched in a lab in Wuhan
to kill people somehow don't seem to understand that the
disinformation is doing exactly what you believe happened in that lab,

(01:24:09):
which didn't happen that way. But that's what y'all believe.
The same people that believe that Bill Gates created um
COVID for population control. That's not government mistress, and Bill
Gates ain't no government elected official. The same people that
believe that Bill Gates because he said something about a
pandemic could wipe out people, which is true. Every hundred
of years this happens. Y'all believe that Bill Gates created

(01:24:32):
COVID kill us. But you can't see the way that
this disinformation is indoctrinating our communities, is propagandizing and dissuading
us and deterring us from getting a life saving vaccine.
At nagel all paranoia to work at everybody, be skepticists,
Be skeptical at everything that you're seeing. Be critical at

(01:24:53):
everything that you're seeing, because you're you're swallowing it wholeheartedly,
and you're perpetuating it, and you're spread get and it's
disturbing as fuck. It's disturbing as fun, and we need
to have these conversations. And I try to have the conversations,
but I give up sometimes because I'm like, look, I'm
not breaking brand with you, so I don't really give
a damn what you do. Like Dr car I said,

(01:25:15):
if you want to go not take the vaccine and die,
more power to you. It's called natural selection. But where
I quibble with it is that children are not protected
and they don't have a choice. So once they get it,
then y'all can all sunk off. I don't give a damn,
But until they're protected, we all have a responsibility to
them because they don't have a choice in the matter.
And the one other thing I will say is that

(01:25:36):
I saw a Paul that said that sevent those who
have not gotten vaccinated will not get vaccinated. They have
no in teputs of doing so. So this is going
to be an issue that sticks around for a long time,
and it's going to be an issue that we have
to tack on. Some people might be reachable with enough
conversations with the right people going into these spaces, but
we have to recognize the problem before we can actually

(01:25:58):
do something about it. We are not too smart to
get duped by this disinformation because it's happening everywhere. We
look at Black vaccination rate is lower, but I believe
forty something states than the white and Asian vaccination. I
think on Latinos are right there neck and neck with
low vaccination rates. So we have to wise up, wake up.

(01:26:19):
Like I said, if you're gonna be critical, if you're
gonna be skeptical, be skeptical of everything, including the information
that's trying to kill you. Yes, yeah, look I tell
you right now. And look it is wild and crazy,
but I knew reach's gonna at least drop three f bombs.
At least three that's gonna happen. And I ain't even

(01:26:41):
and and and I've run into two kids who watch
our show, a five year old girl Eva. I met
a brother today. I got some video their parents make
them watch. So I did problem with one of my
one of my one of my one of my followers.
She said, roller, I give more money. You stopped cussing.
I said, but you, I said, but you know custom

(01:27:03):
is actually generated more money. But I told her, I said,
I'm gonna work on I said, pray for me, pray
for me. Uh. And then I'm sitting here. I'm sitting here,
I'm sitting here, and I'm sitting to our cousin and
Henry gonna send me a text, he go, hey man,
remember we own the we own a church parking lot.
We had to we had the Muslim Community Center. I

(01:27:24):
was like, yeah, okay, did I just custom out in
the text. But it's all right, it's all right, so
let me do this here. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna
go to break, we come back. We got some more
news we gotta show you, including and including a crazy
as by People segment and also the first black woman
on the National Labor Labor Relations Board and it's eighties,
six year history. We'll tell you who she is. That's

(01:27:46):
the next unrolling Mark don filtered broadcasting live the North
Austin Muslim Community Center back in the moment. The same
force that trying to pass these bills across them, but
here too, yes, suppressed to stop to undermine the vote.
The same you from having living rags are the same

(01:28:09):
folk they wouldn't fix your utilities wrong. In this time
when our voting rights are under attack and economic justice
is being denied, We're launching a season of non violent
MAWL direct action to demand four things. By August the six,
the fifty six anniversary of the signing of the Voting

(01:28:31):
Rights Act. Number one and the Filibuster Number two has
all provisions of the four the People as fully restore
the nineteen sixty five Voting Rights Act and number four
raised the federal minimum wage the fifteen dollars cast for
the people. That is the last best hope for voting rights,

(01:28:53):
not just in Texas, but Georgia, Florida, in about a
dozen other states path the John Lewis Voting Rights Bill
and the For the People Act. Let our People vote.
The Latin X community is the writing electorate in Texas,
and our representatives are threatened by these shifting demographics. Our

(01:29:14):
pathway to citizenship to a living wage depend on our
access to the balance. This is not just a black issue,
that's right. This is a model constitutional and economic democracy issue.
Poverty is reinforced by public policy and what happens in

(01:29:34):
Texas as well as in America. We create policies that
perpetuate poverty, and then we criminalize the poverty that we create.
There's only so much we can take, and it's time
for us to stand up and speak loudly against what's
happening here. I think that it is time for a life. Yeah,

(01:30:00):
Georgetown to and y'all come to Austin. But we ain't
come to the Austin just for Austin. We come to
Austin to save the Waston. Which shot are you on?
And don't tell us you can't do all of this.
You must do all of this. Call the soon and
the heart of this democracy. Egether, takegether together. Florida death.

(01:30:26):
Hopefully put another nail in the car. For the racism
you talk about awakening America is led to a historic
summer of protests. I hope younger generation don't ever forget
that non violence is sold for your peace. World was

(01:30:54):
going on st the love King of urb while he divived. Hey,
I'm Cubic and making the Cubid shuffle and the wham
dance going on. This is Tobias Trevillion And if you're ready,
you're listening to and you are watching Roland Martin Unfiltered Man.

(01:31:20):
The National Labor Relations Board welcomes uh Gwen Willcox. She's
the first black woman to serve with a board in
eighty six years. She was confirmed by vote of fifty
two to forty seven in the United States Senate. She
will feel a vacant seat, with the term expiring in
August of three. Wilcox has worked on a series of
high profile cases in her decades long career, including a

(01:31:41):
major recent National Labors Relations case accusingly McDonald's retaliating against
franchise workers participated in an organizing campaign the president. Uh.
President Biden's prioritized appointing members to the National Labor Relations Board.
Who will protect? Who will protect? Worker? Organizing, collective bargaining
and workers? Right? Uh so, congratulations, all right, folks. So

(01:32:02):
let's uh here in Texas, a barro video of the
arrest of an eighteen year old black woman is causing
outrage in forty Texas, about two hundred ten miles northeast
of Austin, where we are now twenty miles east of Dallas, folks.
So here's the deal. The police get a call about
someone darting into traffic. The officer, identified as Connor Martin

(01:32:26):
a riser of the scene, and the Kia Trick was
who he saw walking down the residential street. Then this happened.
Why you don't have to down kind of calm down, Kaya,

(01:33:01):
calm down, calm down, Okay, just hug it up. Just
kaya calm down him down, Okay, let kaya come please,
she's cloys her. Why are ya a hundred food degrees
out here? Okay? She cannot breathe care no, no, no, no,

(01:33:27):
will turn it over? Okay okay, but what are you
gonna turn over? Point? She has not done anything. She's
literally bro y'all stop. Okay, okay, her mother, her mouth, okay, okay, listen, okay,

(01:33:47):
I'm going straight up. Okay, don't pay mama. Okay, okay,
let us get her and her mouth, her mouth. Just
let her up. Why does she need a hand up?
She didn't go If she's running the front of she's

(01:34:09):
not gonna go anywhere. She cannot back. Why just why
I had on the bathroom handcuff her? Just hold on.
She has not done anything. And then you are I
need your fucking bats, not for in your name recording
your fucking sheep. Please do comb now call you everything.

(01:34:33):
It's easy for her. Sure you know that he didn't
give a place with your chips. It was never everybody
trying to play everything. That camera not on you, my god,
we couldn't record that was shy of that you had no,
please don't record all of that. You a why soup

(01:35:01):
do you at whatever from here? I'm not happy to
get that's what's going to stop. Stop don't stop, say stop,
get up, stop stop stop stop, please sorry, please I

(01:35:25):
got it. Okay, shirt, okay, stop please please please please
please please up rick it out. Tell me this is

(01:35:49):
it's all right, it's all right, it's all right. It's
gonna get handled. It's gonna get handled, for sure. Boy,
it's gonna get handled. A show my stay, come my mistake,
stake come idea at night, going to get back. That's

(01:36:15):
all right. I got a lot on video. I got
a lot on video. Please are not play another car
rus Please don't don't held ma'am, please get back fool
easy for her? Miss miss me back, miss come back,

(01:36:36):
come back, come back to you. You get my idea?
We asked you the listen I got so. Trick was
taken to the hospital. Trick will take to the hospital
for a mental evaluation. Her mother, Anthony Ray, was arrested
and charged with the salt of a public servant interference
with public duties. She has been released on bond. Coffin

(01:36:56):
County Shares Office is a whare o the video. In
investigating the incident, that that right there, for Raji is
a perfect example of what happens when an officer makes
the right call as to how you engage one. Clearly,
that was a that was a This is why you
need mental health professionals dealing with a lot of these

(01:37:20):
cases too. I have never seen a police officer lay
his entire body on a woman to restrain her. I
have never seen that in my life. Third point, you
have three other people there who clearly knew the woman.

(01:37:45):
That's where you, as the officer, pull them in to
assist you and keeping things calm. This woman has stuff
phone me out of her mouth. And I remember the
case after George Floyd when police were detaining someone and
he was sort of resisting, and three other black people
came along and said, hey, they helped the officer, called

(01:38:06):
the brother down, They talked to the brother to relax,
they helped him along. That's what happened. That's where cops
have to make better decisions. I'm gonna be honest with you,
Robert Roland. I couldn't. It's it's heartbreaking to watch that video.
It's absolutely heartbreaking. Um, I've never seen h a move

(01:38:32):
like that. The man was physically on top of the woman.
I'm this young girl and me and and I mean,
if you see phone coming out the mouth and you
and a hundred degree weather, what do you think maybe
I should just kind of change my my restraining practic.
I mean, you physically on top of the woman, you

(01:38:54):
got people around you. This is a dumb ass off,
you know. And it's like, we want to try to
politic our way out of certain things, we want to
try to rationalize our way out of things. But this
is just poor, poor, I mean, piss poor judgment. And
this is a terrible goal. It was a terrible goal.

(01:39:17):
And I mean thing you get, but the mother and
the family members and the whole thing. I mean, I'm
I'm just I'm just so, I'm so sick and tired
of simple calls that can be handled you and not
know that certain things can be handled in one way.
It can go it can go left to thirty seconds
or left yep, yeah, I already said three f words.

(01:39:45):
So I'm gonna try to restrain myself here. But what
we saw with sexual lest number one, number two, it's demonic, Okay,
it's savagery, and it's intentional. The point was not to
detain her for an kind of threat. The point was
to number one, get his rocks off, like I said,
sexual assault, and number two to dehumanize her. And this

(01:40:08):
is the problem. We can't appeal to white supremacists to
see our humanity because they don't see that. They why
was that necessary when her if she was the person
that was running through traffic, who gives a damn that
it was an aft word? Who gives a damn? What
difference does that really make? Does that warrant violating her,

(01:40:31):
does that warrant assaulting her? Does that warrant brutalizing her
and her completely vulnerable, traumatized state, adding to the trauma.
If you see a person who is dealing with something,
why did you exacerbate that trauma? But for the fact
that you are demonic that you get your rocks off
off of doing that, after off of violating that woman.

(01:40:54):
And then to your point, Roland, clearly these people around
um the young girl knew her clearly that we're trying
to calm her down. And Dr car I'm sure you'll
say this, but you make the point when we have
this discussion last year. I believe that it's unfortunate that
we have to essentially be accomplices to what the police

(01:41:15):
are doing when they're already violating your rights. They are
already breaking the law, but yet we have to help
them so that they don't further brutalize us. It's disgusting,
it's enraging. I hope that this woman and her mother
get the legal counsel that they need to beat these charges,
because they never ever ever admit they're wrong, or if

(01:41:36):
they do, that quietly dropped the charges. And she's in
real legal jeopardy now and she's out on bond, which
means that there was money involved in the situation. So
it's further harm done to this family. And like the
mother said, I don't know if you guys heard it,
why weren't you recording? And to the black man that
I walked up into that situation and helped those devils

(01:41:57):
brutalize these two black women, shame on you, because we
saw on January. On that January sex commission with the
Capitol Police is not the same, but we saw how
they testify to how they were attacked with racist abuse.
More than anything, they were fighting to wards. There's no
back the blue when you're black, And so what he

(01:42:18):
should have done in that moment is back these black
women and de escalate. And we need people to to
respect the humanity and the mental health state of people
instead of violating them and taking advantage of them, which
is what we saw. That's absolutely right. No, I agree
with everything that's been said. I think this can be

(01:42:38):
reduced to some very simple steps. The police are hunters,
that's what they That's what they are. So it is
now time for everyone who is not police to become
the police. So, and I'm sure that are the videos
out on YouTube and there's things, but these are some
very simple steps. Step number one, when you see something

(01:42:59):
like this it's her happening, not only begin to film
and record, but go live live stream it if you can.
That means setting up a Facebook Live or whatever, live
stream it, live streaming, and immediately indicate where you are,
what street, what city, what state? This needing that because
you know, so we don't see like what we saw

(01:43:20):
in Atlanta with those two black cops that kicked that
lady in the head the other night. Black or white.
If you back the blue, we back the black against you,
you are the police. Now it's time for the people
to become the police. Is one thing to record it
and then show it no live streaming. Number two, Uh, look, Connor,
look kind of Martin. All of a buck, maybe a

(01:43:42):
buck oh five. You couldn't choke the life out of
her because you're the mascot of the damn Kaufman County Sheriff.
Your hat's the biggest thing on you. We've seen the pictures,
little fella, Little fella, and you're right recy he's getting
his rocks off. Look at him. She can breathe because
he's a buck. His damn bell where more more than anything,
but the old cop is trying to save him. Number two.

(01:44:07):
Every cop engaged in something like this is no longer
whatever their name is, Their name is Derek Schovin. So
propaganda can work. So when you say, get off for
Derek Chauvin, get offer Derek Chauvin, get off for a
killer while you're live streaming, putting your plays, your location,
your stay out there to get this Number three, And finally,

(01:44:28):
after you've done that, please be clear that the next
step is to where is she going? Where are you
taking her? And we're all meeting up over there. Listen.
The only way we're gonna stop the police has become
the police. There's no reforming the police. They are doing
their job. They are hunters, they are protecting property in

(01:44:50):
the elite. Now we gotta become the police. And you
know rolling you can have some of those classes because
you don't talk me many times. Don't film like this,
go like this? Well now also live stream, yeah, you
know talking to the police as absolutely And folks, I
do want to tell you about this the story out
of Colorado where a cop actually is facing charges because

(01:45:13):
of his actions. This is in a rural Colorado, uh, folks.
John Harvard is facing attempted first degree assault, second degree assault, oppression,
felt the menacing, and first degree officials conduct for his
role in the brutal arrest of Kyle Vincent. His partner, officer,
Francine Martinez, is charged with failing to intervene and report
the use of force by a peace officer. Harvard and

(01:45:34):
Martinez were responding to a trespassing complaint when they saw
three men sitting on a curb. Officers identified each person
who had felt the warrants to have been ran away
before Vincent was yally taken into custody. Body camp foot
it shows Harvard choking Vincent for nearly forties seconds as
blood streams down his face. Vincent was taken to a

(01:45:55):
hospital for his injuries. The cut on his head required stitches.
Harvard and Tinas have been released on bail now. If
you remember, Aurora is the same city where twenty three
year old Elijah McClain was killed after being put in
a chokehold by police in twenty nineteen. Here's the rest
of that video. No, I don't have to stop fighting, bro.

(01:46:17):
I don't have no warrant. Who's on the wrong guy,
I don't have a warrant. Goal stop. I don't stop fighting. Hell, hell,
I don't. I don't know Lauran bro on your face,
so I don't put on your face. I don't face Okay, okay,

(01:46:39):
get on your face down, okay, okay, okay, you're you're
to kissing me. Bro on your face, hill on your face.
You're killing me. You're chilling, chilling me, killing on your face.

(01:47:05):
I don't on your face. You on your face, killing dude.
I've just been on your I don't have a word.
Get on your face. You have a word. I don't
have no worry. Get your folks that that that body

(01:47:33):
camp footage goes on for almost another eight minutes. Uh,
that's the kind. But this is this is why you
gotta change your law. This is why you have to
say that when in another officer that fails to intervene,
they can be charged. I hope each one of these
cops is convicted of their heinous actions because that's the
sheer stupidity that we see by officers. And the man

(01:47:56):
is yelling, I don't have any warrants that at folks is.
I'm telling you, this is why you gotta change those contracts.
This is why these mayors in the city councils should
have absolutely zero tolerance when it comes to this, and
they should say, if you are an officer and you
see another cop doing wrong, you're behind is gonna be
in trouble if you don't turn your body camera footage on.

(01:48:18):
As I've been saying for a long time, automatic firing.
If you lie on a police report automatic firing, You're
not going to change what happens unless you start sending
these thugs with badges and guns to prison and until
you hit their pocketbooks. And we also have retired l

(01:48:39):
APD starter Cheryl Dorsey, who has been on our show
many times, who said, there are no doubt clansmen who
are serving in police departments. Uh. And she said it's
point blank. And that's the thing that that we just
gotta just be honest about, uh and deal with. And
so we we were following that story, folks, to see
what happens next. All right, my last story, y'all know

(01:49:02):
what time it is? H m hm, I got water
on my property. Conference. So let's call her racist Rachel,

(01:49:29):
not Karen racist Rachel. Rachel decides to uh, folks, please,
Rachel decides to go after a black employee at Ross.

(01:49:50):
Let's just say a sister who were who was there
shopping that ross. She didn't take too kindly to race?
Is Rachel snapping on the sister. But then you could
talk to hunt crazy. But when you got somebody that's
some of your level, you better call security right now.

(01:50:11):
What's gonna hand? Get out of my face, what's gonna happen?
Get out of my face? And I can't just swing
you out. I know you, I know you got not
funk with a Normoto. You bet not funk with a
normal because get hi. When I came, I put my
ship down and I came back here for you ship
for you to mark that girl. Don't bother nobody, bitch releive,

(01:50:31):
but gets what. I can't back here funding what you
know what you need? I wanted to try, right, I
can't reason card of the police. You better call the police.
I didn't read the car poonie, bitch, I know. Now
call me by my name because you know my name. Girl,
fuck you, and I meant that I can't ever forgive

(01:50:52):
it to fuck you. Raise the bitch that she gonna
stop that, she gonna stop that shit. I'm gonna stock
only sick of you. Motherfuck I'm not gonna keep you go.
I don't you have a funk who you call you? No,
you didn't, that's what you did show well, uh, Reese,

(01:51:24):
I think she just totally topped you because she threw
in seven F bombs and the mL uh and and
that I mean and and she she called her at
least the B word at least half a dozen times,
and so recy she she she made she made you
look like a church deacon. Oh, now did you see

(01:51:45):
my parents market video? Because yes, I yeah, well I'm
just I'm just saying in that particular yeah, y'all, y'all,
y'all do yeah, y'all. Y'all are in bombs today. But
my my, my parents. Morgat video was one minute and
maybe thirty seconds of fury, f bombs and be words,

(01:52:09):
And I'm with the system. You know what, it's time
to violate these people. It's time to get disrespectful because
they're too comfortable going after I said, too comfortable disrespecting us.
And then when you talk around you and you swing
it back on all of a sudden, h, I didn't
even do nothing. Oh why are you talking to me
like that? I'm violating your ass the same way you

(01:52:31):
try to violate us. Because but guess what, you're gonna
run into the right one. Somebody's gonna cut your ass
out and the next step is going to be to
lay your ass out on the ground too. So I'm
with the system right there. And that's what I'm about, okay,
because people are getting too damn comfortable disrespecting us because
they think, okay, we go sit there here, we're gonna
bull up our camera and we don't want nobody to
see how we was acting ignorant. Oh I'll get ignorant,

(01:52:53):
I'll get ratchet, and I'll get gatta, I'll get whatever
it is that you want to call me. I'll be
a stereotype, but I'm getting your ass and you're gonna
learn not to keep besting with us. And so I
can't offer that energy. I'm off for that energy online,
them for that energy and person. Anybody that knows me
in person knows that's exactly how I get down when
it's time to get down. And that white lady that
Karen she showed was on you, she was showed keeping

(01:53:16):
the cute. And the funny thing to me about it
was how she said, I didn't even do anything to you.
And see, that's where they don't expect us to come
in and protect each other, but they don't know that
that's what we do. When we see another black woman
that's being abused and she's in a situation like where
she's at her job and she came, that's the re
step in. And so if that was to me, I
would have done the exact same thing. Kudos to her.

(01:53:37):
Let's stop being civil. Let's stop being the ones who
record every little incident because amount lay them out. They
don't have to go viral. But you let that person
know not this time. Ain't no. Oh, Twitter, do your
thing identifying them. No, check them right there on that
spot and let them know you ain't gonna play me
like that. All right, So so so Recy reci mentioned

(01:54:01):
her Pierce Morgan video. So let me do this here.
Let me give no no, no, no, no no no.
Let me give everybody. I'm giving y'all thirty seconds. If
y'all have kids in the room and y'all don't want
them to hear this, I'm giving y'all warning right now.
I appreciate y'all who wants to show with your kids.
Right now is the HBO Showtime version of Rolling Mark unfiltered.

(01:54:28):
Just so I gotta I gotta do this here. Uh
and then no, now I came to this so so
I'll give it y'all ample warning. So Pierce Morgan has
some words for some own bios and let's say Recy
was not feeling white supremacist Pierce Morgan and what he
had to say. So if y'all don't like cuss words,

(01:54:52):
mute the show right now, because y'all about to hear
way more than what you heard at that ross in Mississippi.
Everybody has been warned. Get just everybody has been worn.
Here comes the wrath of Recy Piers Morgan, check the

(01:55:12):
fuck up. I repeat shet your raggedy as men, uncre
shrimp dick and sell white supremacists, motherfucking blound face staring
man they spoiled and a motherfucking not a degree weather
looking ass up. We are fucking sick of your stupid
ass a pans. We don't want a motherfucking hell you, bitch.

(01:55:34):
Keep some own bow's name out your raggedy motherfucking mouth.
I don't know why you're so fucking triggered by black
woman that are far superior to you, far more accomplished
than you, but you need to take that up with
your motherfucking therapists and leave your funky asstofs off the
motherfucker's internet. Bitch. You should take some cues from these

(01:55:55):
black women on mental health and go seek motherfucking hell, bitch,
because clear to you fucking need it. We're tired of you.
We don't want to fucking hear you, bitch. Keep your
opinions to yourself, bitch. All you fucking do was cloud
taste off of more fucking accomplished black woman and the

(01:56:15):
only motherfucker's that agree with you are racist. Sorry, sack
of ship degenerate's just like your podcast. Bitch. I know
that this isn't gonna change your opinion, but what I
do want you to know is on behalf of Black America.
Fuck you, bitch. We don't respect you, We don't want
a motherfucking hear about you, and we're gonna call your
motherfucking ass out because you ain't ship. You ain't never

(01:56:37):
gonna beat ship. And if nobody told you today, you
are a worthless sack of shit. Chuck the funk up. Um.
I look at the local feraser face. Oh I I

(01:57:02):
I didn't know how to respond, so I had to
call somebody. Uh just just go ahead and bring him up, please,
j Anthony Brown, Uh, Jay, make sure you're not Jay.
Go ahead, Jane J. You are mute. Hit you take

(01:57:26):
y'all get off mute, Jake J. You are mute. Okay,
y'all make sure now we get here, guys, turn guy,

(01:58:02):
turn my audio. Don't turn my audio down. Damn Okay.
So so there you go, David Brown, David Brown, you
take take it away. Really? See can can she hear me?
I get yeah, yeah, yeah, she could hear you. She
can hear you. From one cusser to another cuss. You

(01:58:25):
use way too many bitches, way too many, you know.
I mean, I'm ashamed of how many bitches you put
in that sentence. You know, you didn't go with dickhead,
you didn't go and fish stage fucker. I mean, there's
so many, so many ways, And I want you to

(01:58:46):
do your homework on your cussing, okay, because I know
you're fired up. But the next time we you know,
bitch should not be used that much. No way I'm
gonna allow you to do. I'm gonna I'm gonna last
get you in the rent like that. I'm gonna give
you maybe six bitches, okay, six seven is your limit, Reese.

(01:59:10):
After that, we want to go with dick fas. Fuck
your faith, you know, go with the faith, dick faith.
Fuck faith. Uh if you didn't you wear enough assholes,
I mean way you were just you're just short, your
short on your assholes that you could have gone with. Yeah,

(01:59:34):
I got it, j J. You did. You did a show.
You did a show J where you said, you said,
but I don't know who this woman is. I think
it was Clay, Like, I don't woman is on I've
heard you on Clay Kane show. And I don't know
who I called Roland. I said, I don't know who

(01:59:57):
this woman is. But I've never heard anybody that that knowledgeable,
that can be us that much. You know you, you,
you are a person of my heart. I love you,
I really do. I've never met you in my life.
But like I said, from down, when you can't use

(02:00:22):
that many bitches, you just are not allowed in and
then annas a passing, you get six to seven bitches
and then we move on. Okay, any time that was
I will take that under advisement when I see I'm

(02:00:44):
more creative when I talk about women because I don't
use the B word for woman, but for peers. I
didn't have to. I wasn't tethered in personal man. You
can't call a man a bitch and then not be No. No, no,
you are you are absolutely right you no, no, don't apologize. No,

(02:01:05):
I'm just getting heavy. I was heavy one, that's what. Yeah. Yeah,
but the Stati way of saying it that people enjoy. Yeah,
I will call less bitches and more. And at first
I did not use assholes, so that I should have
used that one. I mean, but I did male face,

(02:01:32):
you know, yeah, I didn't do the remix video for
it appearance more again. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was great.
It was. Thank you. It's an I'm so honored. That's

(02:01:55):
the best compliment i can get. Well. I well, I
try to get Jay on Thursday. He's been real busy
the last three weeks and he text He texts me
said I can come on now. I said, man, y'all
gotta get him on. So reach that was. That was
my surprise for you. Recy uh, having Jason Brown give
you some some lessons on custom alright, Yeah, thank you.

(02:02:21):
I appreciating Jack. Later, man, love my brother Greg. Go ahead,
go ahead, I say, brother, Look, you know everybody out here,
y'all know that this is an art. I got a sister,
a good friend of mine. We wrote many years Mackay
to Kumassi out there in l A. She's a spoken

(02:02:41):
word artist and she gets something with poem sometimes. She said,
my heart is pumping poetry. What we just heard his poetry. Now,
if you're in a speech speech class of the HBCU,
if you, if you're professor worth your assault, you would
look at both those, both of those demonstrations of eloquence
and chart them out. When that sister walked into that cross.

(02:03:02):
You heard the first thing he said, I know you.
Paul's right there. Now that's the first line. So this
is not this is a this is not a speech
to persuade. This is not I know you. And then
I came here for you. And I'm like with that
Mississippi Louisiana, because she's sounding that little Wayne baby, I
came here for you. And then she keeps going and
just said, girl girl, fuck you. I came to get

(02:03:25):
it to you. Now let's switch to recy. You see
in both these examples what you have as a sexual undertone,
they are stripping. In the first case, she's Richie's taking
away this woman's power and her humanity in recy in
your case, you're stripping this man of his manhood. Hints
what I think was the appropriate use of the word
bitch and with the inflection. They took our languages, but

(02:03:48):
we kept the tones. So when you say bitch in
other words and rolling, you confirmed it because you said
and for ad you appreciate this Clay Davis, you didn't
say Clay came because that's how he you she in
other words that Finally, finally, now I can't say m

(02:04:10):
L because I'm thinking, for Roger, you appreciate this. Francis
christ Welson, whether the origins this, however you call somebody
a bit your ass, what you're really doing, you are
completely removing any ambiguity is the whether or not they're
a man. Recy That was a clinic in destroying any
notion of manhood. And this is what I'm saying, all

(02:04:31):
you young people. I'm too old for this, but what
I noticed is and what I expects gonna happen recy
and with desist their ross. Some of these young people
are gonna take nas is ether and put it under there.
So just let it when it goes viral with the
Ether soundtrack underneath it, just make sure they break y'all process.
I'm thinking that's what they're gonna do for I don't know,

(02:04:55):
Dr Car to tave us a class first chapton, Dr
Car have to break it, to break it down like that,
come come on only now look look now, y'all know, uh,
y'all know, I throw a I throw a couple of
cuss words on this show. But Henry and Anthony would
tell Henry Anthony would tell you when when we're in

(02:05:19):
a row role mobile, I would cuss y'all, y'all, don't, y'all,
don't y'all, don't y'all don't understand that that that that
there's a rhythm to cussing. That's a that's a that's
that that's a rhythm. I know. I'm a Hall of

(02:05:39):
Fame cusser. Yes, I know, the Late John I know.
I know. Y'all y'all think I don't don't even get
me sorry that because looking because oh y'all, don't let
me because he First of all, when you hit somebody
with the right cussing, you gotta have, especially if you're dude,

(02:06:00):
you gotta have a certain level of base. You gotta
have a level of what Dr Carton said, of complete disrespect,
yes for that person. And then you got to you
got and you got to go for the gut. I'm
gonna get. I'm gonna get. I'm I'm gonna give. I'm
gonna get y'all. I'm gonna get y'all one. I'm gonna

(02:06:21):
get y'all one. He ain't gonna like me telling this story.
We had our TV one show, we went out TV
one show, Uh, Harry and I would engage in this
thing that back and forth where he was like, what,
I'm running this. He was like, I'm running this and
I was like, but you ain't running a damn thing.

(02:06:41):
So we started going at it. We started going at it.
I said, let me tell you something. I see that
what I said, pretend this is a piece of chalk.
And I walked over to him and I did an
outline around his shoes. I said, you you the man
inside the chalk, outside the You don't run ship the chalk.

(02:07:04):
I'm the goddamn man. Not even here, he said. Henry said,
damn the chalk. Your ass pulled the chalk out on me.
I said, sure as hell did, and walk the hell off.
Even Henry had to laugh at that one. She ain't
cussed that much. That's the other deal. So when you

(02:07:25):
when you hit him, you can't. You got to add
some other stuff to it. That just to your point, doctor,
you gotta eat of them. And so every time so
that that that's those moments, that those moments we go
at it, I'll be like, let me get that damn
chalk out, Let me get you and see you got

(02:07:47):
you got you gotta throw a look and you got
you gotta you gotta throw a look in there. See
to y'alla, see the look, this is the look you
mean to pull that chalk out on your ass. See,
I'm just from role ain gotta be somebody parent. That's
a prayer. Well, actually, no, nothing wrong. That's what That's
what they say. That's what they said. I send you.

(02:08:09):
In other words, I made you my son. You say
that i'll send your dry made me feel like a
baby mother. She came across like a black baby mother.
Oh no, qualking to her talking to the dude, the
father of the th who was just not there when

(02:08:30):
he needs to be there. Oh no, right there. Hey,
I told y'all, I told y'all, A told y'all, ain't
no show like this. Let me go and say this
to to know. Also the Muslim Community Center, this was
this wasn't a plan to have all this cussing on
the show today. I appreciate y'all go to do the

(02:08:51):
show from here, but sometimes, but but cussing. We'll keep
your blood pressure down. I'm just letting you know you
ain't got me. Mine is like my mine is my
one fifteen, my one fifteen over seventy. I ain't like.
I don't think I don't think they might I don't
think they might, because in the corn in the coronain

(02:09:14):
and says God plans and human beings planning, but a
lot is the greatest of planners. So other words, this
is a defined order. Brother, it wasn't gonna be. No,
it was gonna have to be. But but you know,
only you and here we are friends, y'all. Rolled deep
in the case in ross. She said, oh, oh, what
she's saying is nuck. If you buck anybody staying there,

(02:09:35):
take that kind of customers. Don't fight, she said, I
know you and recy Piers don't want no part of you.
You gotta fight when you get cut to hell on
none and and and that's and and and that's what
and that's why. Piers he was winding when he got
blocked by Naomi, and I was like, yo, podcast, Actually
I think I tweeted, pierces you peer bitch ashes because

(02:09:56):
you blocked me, so shut the hell up. But that's
the hell, y'all, y'all. He he did said this. Followers
on me. I had a thousand white supremacists in my
comment calling me monkey chan everything. And you know what
I did some of my best work. I dragged the
hell out of them I had. If you go to

(02:10:16):
my tweets and replies, you will see a masterclass and
triggering white supremacists. I was on the ass like white
owned right, And so guess what, You're gonna have to
send two or three more armies for me, bitch, because
I don't care, and I'm gonna cut you out. I'm
gonna everybody down put you. I made it clear, and
I'm not backing down. Everybody who thought they was gonna

(02:10:37):
give me the back down that got told off, just
like that boy piss Morgan did. I told y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all.
I told y'all, ain't no show go ahead, y'all was
saying Facebook, Facebook watches for all of our Facebook watches

(02:10:57):
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I told y'all, ain't no show like this on linear TV, broadcast,

(02:11:18):
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keep it real, we keep it black. You know why,
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we do, please support us via cash h aft. Hey,
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(02:11:40):
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And so I just want y'all to know, Uh, this
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We're gonna be live streaming tomorrow. Don't forget on Saturday.
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(02:12:03):
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(02:12:23):
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(02:12:47):
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(02:13:12):
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Roland in TX; #MarchForDemocracy continues; Infrastructure deal; STL health dept. dir. under attack

Dateline NBC