Senate Passes Bill to End Shutdown, HBCU Reopens After 10 Years, Texas A&M Ideology Clash

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Leaving everyone.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Let me first welcome House Republicans back to the Congress
after their seven week taxpayer funded vacation. These people have
been missing in action, absent without official leave, running scared,
but they can.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
No longer hide.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
The Rules Committee is going to meet shortly and then
tomorrow there will be votes on the House floor, and
Democrats will continue to press the case to say, to
our Republican colleagues, you have another opportunity to extend the
Affordable Care Act tax credits and make sure that tens

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of millions of Americans all across the country, in communities
that Republicans represent along with us as Democrats, tens of
millions of Americans rural America, working class America, Urban America,
small town America, the heartland of America, and in black
and brown communities all across America, people at risk of

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experiencing dramatically increased premiums, copaids, and deductibles because of a
Republican refusal to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits
before the Rules Committee. This evening, House Democrats, led by
myself and Whip Catherine Clark, will give the Republicans another

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opportunity to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits by
introducing an amendment that will extend these tax credits for
a three rare year period of time, same period of
time that these tax credits will extend back in twenty
twenty two, Republicans have created a healthcare crisis all across America,

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largest cut to Medicaid in American history. Hospitals, nursing homes,
and community based health centers closing all throughout the country.
Because of what Republicans did in their one big ugly bill,
medicare still at risk of the largest cut it may

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confront in American history unless Congress acts by the end
of this year. And of course, because of the Republican
refusal to extend the Affordable Care Act task credits in
the midst of a cost of living crisis that already
exists that they failed to address, healthcare for people all
across this country is on the brink of becoming unaffordable.

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Working class Americans, every day Americans, middle class Americans.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
Unable to afford to go see a doctor.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
This is in America, the wealthiest country in the history
of the world. And so once again, House Republicans, welcome
back from your taxpayer funded seven week vacation, you now
have an opportunity to actually take some action in an

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area of this healthcare crisis by working with Democrats before
the Rules Committee this evening to extend the Affordable Care
Act tax credits. So now my honor to introduce with
Catherine Club.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
Thank you so much, mister leader, and we are indeed
looking forward to the return of the missing House GOP
fifty four days. I know the dust has settled on
their desks. I hope they can find their voting cards,
and I hope, as Speaker Johnson said, when they were
home on their vacation doing the most quote meaningful work

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of their careers, that that included talking to their neighbors,
talking to their constituents, Because I can tell you what
we are hearing from people across this country.

Speaker 6 (04:17):
It is fear.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
It is anxiety, the thought that they may lose their
ACA insurance, the thought that they may lose their Medicaid
or Medicare because of the agenda of the House GOP
take away healthcare and give permanent tax cuts to the

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very very wealthiest in this country.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
I hope that Mike Johnson.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
Talked to Morgan in Ruston, Louisiana morgan son needs an inhaler.

Speaker 6 (04:53):
That is paid for through her.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
Health insurance, and he needs frequent trips to the die
to be able to survive and have a childhood he deserves.
Morgan is so fearful that if she loses that coverage
that her son depends.

Speaker 6 (05:12):
On, there are no backup plans. There's no Plan B.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
And so we are saying, listen, listen to the American
people and what they are telling you. I hope that
you listen to them when you were home avoiding coming
to do your jobs here in the Capitol. And I hope,
as the leader has said, you will take this opportunity tonight.

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We can't undo all the damage they've done, but extend
the ACA tax credits for three years. Give small business owners,
farmers across this country. Moms and dads who depend on
the ACA in order to get their coverage. They don't

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have to have sleepless nights worrying that their cancer treatment
for their spouse might not be able to continue. They
may not be able to manage their own diabetes, and
they may not be able to find healthcare when they
have a sick child. These are the very real cries
of Americans. House Democrats are going to remain in this fight,

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and I hope that on their fifty four days they
heard the American people loudly and clearly and will come
back to their senses and do what's right and protect healthcare.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
In this country.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
And now it is my great pleasure to introduce our
ranking member and fellow based stater on the Rules Committee,
Jim McGovern.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Thank you. So.

Speaker 7 (06:55):
Eight weeks ago, Speaker Mike Johnson sent the Host of
Presentatives home. He basically abolished the Host of Representatives, and
he did so because he cares more about giving tax
breaks to billionaires than he cares about extending tax relief
to working families so they can afford their healthcare.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
I took the train.

Speaker 7 (07:15):
Down here today because I wanted to make sure I
got here for the Rules Committee meeting. I got an
air for for a lot of people. People are pissed.
People don't understand why this is so difficult that in
a Congress that again passes these huge benefits for corporations
and for the well off and the well connected, can't

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find it within their politics to be able to pass
relief to middle class families who are going to not
people to avoid their health insurance.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
I mean, this is not a talking point, this.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Is real life.

Speaker 7 (07:51):
I've had constituents come up to me and tell me that,
you know, they don't know what they're going to do.
I mean, they can't afford the skyrock can costs of
their health insurance.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
It's the life or death issue for people.

Speaker 7 (08:05):
I have people coming up to me and saying they're
going to go without health care for a year or two.
They're just going to roll the dice and maybe everything
will work out.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (08:12):
Healthcare ought to be a fundamental human right for everybody
in this country. That this is so difficult tells you
everything you need to know about the character of the
people who are running this House of Representative right now
and the man in the White House.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
This is disgusting.

Speaker 7 (08:28):
This is your moral We're going to go to the
Rules Committee and we're going to take the fight directly
to the Republicans up in the Rules committee. But this
should be a no brainer. This should be a no brainer.
And yet it is becoming this enormous mountain to try
to climb in order just to get some help so
that people don't lose their health insurance.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
What the hell is wrong with these people?

Speaker 8 (08:51):
Again.

Speaker 7 (08:52):
I mean, I wish Donald Trump could have been on
the train with me today and heard some of the
stories that I heard, you know, but I don't think
you have.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Has been on a train.

Speaker 9 (09:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (09:01):
I don't know he lives in a bubble. But I
wish some of my Republican colleagues were on that train.
How can you, how can you not extend these tax
benefits for people who were in such desperate need. You know, look,
we're going to continue to try. If you don't think
about politics is you don't lose. You never lose until

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you give up trying. And we're not going to give up,
and we're going to fight like hell until this gets done.
And with that, I'm happy to yield to my one
of my wonderful members of the Rules Committee, Congressman Mary
Kay Scandler of Pennsylvania.

Speaker 10 (09:38):
Thank you. So we've had this fight going all year,
and I've been trying to figure out a way to
break it down. But basically, there were two big tax
issues that were coming to at the end of this year.
One was the tax cuts for billionaires and the other
was the tax credits for folks who get the Affordable
Care Act. In July, Speaker Johnson called us back, dragged

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us back here fourth of July weekend so they could
ram through the tax cuts for billionaires. But when it
came time to extend the tax credits for everyday Americans,
they went on vacation. They went on vacation early. They said, oh,
we don't have to really deal with that. They were
unwilling to negotiate with Democrats, and they just left town. So,

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like my colleagues here, I've been hearing from my constituents
throughout this period of time when we have not been
here in d C, which we have regularly been in
DC trying to do the work. But just this morning,
I was at the largest Veterans Day parade in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in media, and I had veterans coming

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up to me saying, keep fighting. This is killing us.
This health insurance issue. My daughter can't get her insurance.
She's concerned about her family. I hear from the folks
I walk dogs with in the morning that they're thinking
about going without coverage because they've got a small business
and they can't afford the increases that they're seeing. Hearing
from a veteran whose social security just barely covers her rent,

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and she doesn't know what she's going to do for
health insurance for her family. It's hitting Americans, and they're
not stupid. They know who's fighting for them, and we're
going to keep fighting for them. So thank you for
paying attention.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
And this is not.

Speaker 10 (11:22):
Over with that. I would like to yield to my
classmate and colleague from the Rules Committee, Joan de Goose
from Colorado.

Speaker 11 (11:30):
Well, I think my colleagues articulated well, and of course
Leader Jeffares articulated well. The stakes for millions of Americans
whose premiums are skyrockety, including the many constituents that I
represent in Colorado. But I do just want to underscore
a point the Chairman with government, and in particular I
say this for the press that are gathered here, many
of you whom have covered the developments in this capital

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for a long time, who are here. When Speaker McCarthy
was speaker, with Speaker Pelosi was speaker, with Speaker.

Speaker 4 (11:59):
Ryan was presided.

Speaker 11 (12:02):
This is one of the most shameful episodes, in my view,
in the modern history of the Congress. The decision that
Speaker Johnson made to recess the House for fifty four days.
To send Republican members home on paid vacation for eight
weeks is disgraceful. It is a debasement of our constitution.

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It is unprecedented, and every Republican member, as they arrive
this evening and tomorrow morning, ought to be asked the
question why they endorsed this advocation of Congress's power for
the last eight weeks. Why they supported the Speaker's decision
to send the Congress on vacation for eight weeks as

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premiums are skyrocketing for millions of Americans. There's a reason,
as the Leader's articulated previously that Steve Bannon has compared
the Congress to the Duma. It's because that is the
way in which Speaker Johnson House Republicans are functioning, and
it is time for accountability as the Speaker, or excuse me,

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as the leader and as the whip reference. Republicans have
an opportunity, now that they finally ended their fifty four
day vacation to do the right thing. We're going to
give them that opportunity in the Rules Committee, which is
the first committee hearing in the House that will have
been held since September. Shameful, and I know my colleagues

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on the Rules Committee feel the same way, including my
colleague from the West, my neighbor in New Mexico Representive
letter Finandes.

Speaker 12 (13:36):
Brett asnachs. It has indeed been a file. But tonight
at the Rules Committee, as you've heard, we are going
to give the Republicans their last chance to show America
whether they are going to stand up for the working
families and the small businesses.

Speaker 13 (13:53):
In America who need those tax.

Speaker 12 (13:56):
Credits, or whether they're going to let them die because
they don't get health care because they have to drop
their health insurance because it's too expensive. You know, Madam
rip Clark, the issue of that Inhaler. One of the
stories that was told to me was a friend of

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mine said, I want you to take this story back.
My brother lost his health insurance. That Inhaler would cost
ten dollars or twenty dollars. With his insurance, he'd have
to go to the emergency room to get a ten
dollars in haaler because without insurance it costs four hundred dollars.

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He died gasping for breath because he couldn't afford Inhaler.
People will die with this decision that republic See, Republicans
seemed to want to make and they moved heaven and
earth to pass those ax credits for the billionaires before
July fourth, but can't get around to passing the tax

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credits for working families before they expire in December. So
we're going to be bringing these amendments and asking them
to vote, asking them to go on the record on
the extension of the health credits, on regards to what's
happening in rural America a district I represent, and what
about those snap benefits for states have stepped up like

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New Mexico to make sure there our people don't go hungry.

Speaker 14 (15:26):
And finally.

Speaker 12 (15:29):
Addressing the fact that the Senators are giving themselves a
five hundred thousand dollars to a million or more payment.
I call it the January sixth cash out payment. They
can't make health care affordable for a father and his children,

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but they're willing to pay themselves millions of dollars.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
And it is true, we.

Speaker 13 (15:59):
Only lose this fight if we give up the fight.
And Democrats have been.

Speaker 12 (16:03):
Fighting Republicans in a long struggle to provide healthcare to Americans.
We have been fighting Republicans when we created Medicare, when
we created Medicaid, when we created the affordable character, and
we're going to not give up that fight because we
want all.

Speaker 15 (16:20):
Americans to be able to have healthcare, including Marjorie Taylor's
Green's kids, right. We want everywhere, everybody, everywhere to have healthcare.
And with that, we're ready to go up to the
Rules Committee, but I'll pass it back.

Speaker 13 (16:33):
To our wonderful leader.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Thank you the distinguished members of the Rules Committee, as
well as my good friend Catherine Clark for their comments,
for their leadership. Democrats have been engaged in the struggle
on behalf of the healthcare of the American people for
a long time. FDR engaged in this struggle. Johnson engaged
in the struggle. Truman engaged in this struggle. Bill Clinton

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engaged in the struggle. Barack Obama engaged the struggle. House
Democrats are here to continue to engage in this struggle
to decisively address the Republican healthcare crisis. Standing on the
shoulders of Democrats who for decades have been fighting to
deliver affordable, high quality.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Healthcare for the American people. Questions self provisions.

Speaker 16 (17:24):
Into legislation in regard to potential referred to that Senators
to the essentially suit the US government for up five
hundred thousand dollars if they that the data was used investigations.

Speaker 17 (17:39):
What do you say to that?

Speaker 16 (17:40):
And is there any chance that that will be removed
from this year?

Speaker 2 (17:44):
House Democrats are going to offer an amendment before the
Rules Committee to get that self dealing sick provision out
of the spending agreement. The notion that eight Republican senators
signed off by John Thune and the Republicans apparently in
the Senate and in the House, would give themselves the

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ability essentially to rip millions of taxpayer dollars away from
the American people so they could line their pockets because
these people were insurrectionist sympathizers is insanity.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
And we're going to tattoo that provision, just like we're.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Going to tattoo the Republican healthcare crisis on the foreheads
of every single House Republican who dares vote for this bill.

Speaker 18 (18:34):
Final number of members of your own caucus called on
Schumer to be replaced as Democratic leader.

Speaker 17 (18:43):
Are you okay with those calls coming from within your
own caucus?

Speaker 2 (18:46):
As I've indicated, we're focused right now on pressing the
case in addressing the Republican healthcare crisis will be before
the Rules Committee and moments will have a family conversation
as House Democrats were strongly opposed as House Democrats to
this reckless Republican effort to continue to raise the high

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cost of living on everyday Americans, which is exactly what
they're doing by failing to extend the affordable.

Speaker 16 (19:12):
Care Democrats, you expect any Democrats to back tomorrow like
they did.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
I will have that conversation during our caucus meeting at noon,
but our strong expectation is that Democrats will be strongly opposed.
Many have issued statements. The new dem coalition came out today.
That's the largest caucus within the House Democratic Caucus opposed
to this Republican spending built because it fails to address

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the healthcare crisis that Republicans have created.

Speaker 19 (19:50):
To make it back in town.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
To get to pay.

Speaker 20 (19:54):
All Democrats will be here tomorrow in order to oppost
this failing the pressure of Peaker Johnson too Ley as
members legislation.

Speaker 16 (20:03):
Yes, Congresswoman Comsman left Calvin kerhoal by schedule to be
swarning tomorrow and then you expect she said she will
sign the discharge petition, Nakana Nassy discharge petition. Can you
tell us when you would expect that ode to actually
happen and explain to people we've kind of been waiting
for this for so long.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
Explain when you.

Speaker 6 (20:23):
Would expect that.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah, let me defer to Whip Clark and once in
future Chairman Jim mcgovernor on that ed issue.

Speaker 21 (20:33):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
It is long long overdue that the congresswoman elect take
her place, her rightful place, and be sworn in. So
we are being told by the Republicans that that will
happen now, they anticipate at four o'clock tomorrow before we
begin debate on the rule. And it is just another

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one of those breathtaking split screens that as they are
home and we are watching this suffering going on, that
they have also decided to put off swearing in Congresswoman
elect Grahova because they don't want her to sign a

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discharge petition that would force a vote on the Epstein files.
So they don't want to give Americans health care, and
they don't want to find justice for the survivors and
victims of Jeffrey Epstein. It is an amazingly arrogant and
dangerous statement that they are making to the American people

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about their own security.

Speaker 7 (21:42):
And it should write the if she signs it tomorrow,
it should write in early December, so we can expect
to vote. I mean that doesn't mean that the speaker
of those might I try to do some you know,
shenanigans with the discharge petition, but if all goes the
way we wanted to go early December.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
It's unbelievable that.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Seven plus weeks Representative elect out of Leader Grihalva was
elected in late September decisively has been denied the ability
to serve more than eight hundred thousand people in Arizona.

Speaker 4 (22:17):
And why is that the case.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
It's because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program. They
are intentionally hiding the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
But those days are over because as.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Soon as Representative Elect out of the Leader Garhova becomes
Congresswoman Grahova, her first act, as she's indicated, is going
to be to sign that discharge petition. It's going to
force a vote on the House floor, and the American
people are going to get the transparency that they deserve.

Speaker 22 (22:50):
Difference, you've not taken off the table a discharge petition on.

Speaker 10 (22:59):
On your side.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
So have you had any outlins yet to Republicans that.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
We haven't had any conversations with Republicans. We're going to
be before the Rules Committee shortly. We're going to introduce
an amendment that gives them an opportunity to extend the
Affordable Care AC tax credits, and we're going to continue
to make the point to our Republican colleges. Our position
is simple, cancel the cuts, lower the costs, save healthcare.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
Thank you everyone, folks.

Speaker 23 (23:43):
That was the House Democratic leadership speaking moments before the
House Rules Committee.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
We'll meet tonight.

Speaker 23 (23:51):
Okay, There'll be meeting tonight beginning at six thirty pm,
and the whole goal, of course, is to begin to
consider the package the Team resolution passed by the.

Speaker 4 (24:02):
Senate to reopen the government.

Speaker 23 (24:05):
This meeting is the first critical step before GEOP leadership
can schedule a floor vote that will take place on Wednesday.
Once the Committee approves the debate rules, the full House
must vote to adopt them before moving forward with the
final passage of this legislation. This development follows the Senate's
approval of the bill on Monday night, where eight moderate
Democrats join the Republicans, potentially bringing in into the longest

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government shut down in American history. The agreement promises to
restore the central services, including federal food aid and pay
for hundreds of thousands of federal workers, but it also
will call for a votes in the Senate with regards
to extending the affordable care subsidies. Now here's the problem.

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Republicans have already ended those subsidies when they passed that big,
ugly bill. So this promise of a vote next month
before the actual price hikes or subjecties go away, which
will lead to massive hikes in insurance for lots of folks.

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My pound of doctor Mustapha santag Got Lead former Senior
Advisor for Environmental Justice, the EPA Kilabathea Communication Strategies, Cameron Tremble,
CEO Hip Politics Media, and from a White House Senior Bosy.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
Glad to have all three of you here.

Speaker 23 (25:22):
The bottom line is this, here, Mustafa, the votes are
not there for Democrats in the House. Republicans control that
they'll have the votes to actually uh to pass whatever
they want to pass. And again, yeah, the continued resolution,
the government will reopen. So okay, this deal that Democrats

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cut they're going to vote in December to extend the subsidies.
Are these Democrats somehow thinking that Republicans are going to
get skittish and then they go into cave and vote
for this. They voted against the subsidy a couple of
months ago. I don't see them doing anything differently this time.

Speaker 17 (26:05):
Yeah, there's no reason for Republicans to do anything different.

Speaker 24 (26:08):
You know, Democrats had the opportunity to hold the line,
to continue to push to make sure that they got
something out of the deal that actually would help folks.

Speaker 17 (26:17):
You know, folks are still wondering.

Speaker 25 (26:20):
You know, is it insulent or groceries, is it lights,
or is it you know, other types of things that
need to be paid. And Democrats have the opportunity to
help folks to be able to answer that question by
making sure that folks, you know, their.

Speaker 17 (26:34):
Healthcare coverage wouldn't double a triple.

Speaker 24 (26:36):
And it's going to be happening in lots of places,
you know, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, and
I believe Tennessee are the top eight places.

Speaker 17 (26:45):
And then West Virginia of course that you know, we
know are going to be hit the hardest. So one,
it is.

Speaker 24 (26:51):
Still a matter of making sure that people understand who's
going to get hit first.

Speaker 26 (26:56):
But then we also understand, as always, there's still a
racial justice aspect of this.

Speaker 17 (27:01):
And an economic injustice aspect.

Speaker 24 (27:04):
So I don't understand what Democrats also ly didn't bring
forward the fact that it's estimated that about three hundred
and forty thousand jobs will also be lost if they don't,
you know, move forward or making sure that people have
this healthcare because rural clinics and others will unfortunately have
to lose people. So Democrats had the opportunity, they made
the choice that they did. I guess their plan is

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that they're going to, you know, try and make sure
that folks understand Republicans are actually the one that's taking
away you know, your healthcare coverage.

Speaker 17 (27:34):
But I don't know if that's enough for what they
gave up, but I guess time will tell.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
So Kelly.

Speaker 23 (27:47):
Use eight bottery Democrats. Okay, fine, they probably they Republicans
promise them a vote. They are still catching lots of
hell from lots of folks. But the problem is that,
like any of them are up for reelection in twenty
twenty six, so they're making a calculated guess that all right,
you know what, Hey, this is the best that we

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can get. Well, they're gonna have They're gonna have to
answer to a lot of people if this vote goes
the way we expected next month and those substites go
away and premiums jack up all across America.

Speaker 13 (28:21):
Absolutely, And I can't express how angry I am at
those eight because it is clear that this was a
safe move for them, right it almost feels as though
they didn't care one way or the other. And I
get what Petterman was talking about, like you can't basically,

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you can't govern in a hostage situation. I understand that.
But at the same time, you Democrats weren't the ones
holding the government hostage. It was the Republicans holding the
government hostage. They were holding people as ransom. This was
not an exchange, This was not anything positive. This was

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a shakedown on top of a shutdown.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
This was extortion.

Speaker 13 (29:09):
And the fact that eight Democrats, who people voted for,
who people trusted, don't understand that. It is infuriating because
we just spent forty two days being virtually penniless, forty
two days of miss paychecks, forty two days of grounded flights,
forty two days of hungry families, forty two days of

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hungry veterans right, Today's Veterans Day, and you're making them
line up for free groceries because your party shut down
their paychecks, right, Like, where's the judgment that the shutdown
hit people who hold America together, federal workers, service members,

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single parents, black and brown people, And for what.

Speaker 6 (29:58):
For you to do business as usual in the hopes.

Speaker 13 (30:00):
That business will return to a time where Republicans were
actually reasonable.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
This is absurd and it hurts.

Speaker 13 (30:11):
It feels like a betrayal because just last Tuesday, we
proved that not only can we hold the line, we
can actually turn the tide.

Speaker 6 (30:24):
And eight people just said.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
I don't want it.

Speaker 13 (30:29):
Against what their constituents want, against what their colleagues want,
against what this party wants.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
You just said screw it and for what?

Speaker 13 (30:42):
And we have to deal with you for another five
six years because you guys can't be primary come twenty six.

Speaker 6 (30:48):
Like it is infuriating, So Cameron, what do you see
what's next?

Speaker 4 (31:00):
There are some who say, you know what, guess what,
the base sty'll forget this.

Speaker 23 (31:06):
This is not gonna have any impact on the twenty
twenty six midterm elections.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
Your assessment.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
I think this is.

Speaker 22 (31:15):
The base, the base and all parts of Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party, they do fill the anger and they
do feel like, what did we just spend the last
forty plus days doing and standing up for? If they
were to cave, but I expect this to cause a
extreme reckoning within the Democratic Party. The fact that it

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was isolated to these these eight Democrats or an Angus
King who's an independent mostly Northeast States, but you're also
in New Mexico and other people I'm sorry Nevada represent it,
but they're not up on the election next year. I
expect every Democrat who's up for election. There's a reason
why i as Off didn't didn't put his name behind this,

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is the reason why Schumer and others didn't put their
names behind this. I expect every Democrat who is up
for re election in the Senate, in the entire House,
who's going to vote against this to find significant distance
between themselves. And then this sets up a do or
dive vote on healthcare, point blank and period. And I

(32:20):
think that is the calculation. Now that we are here,
we wanted to hold the line. But now that the
line has no longer been held, there is a do
or dive vote that Speaker Johnson first needs to bring
up in the House and then if he doesn't. That
is something that I hope Democrats are able to message properly,
message simply, and message widely and vorociously the entire year

(32:45):
that these are the people who want to keep your
health care prices going. They're going to need to bring
families of all races hues from every part of the country.
Every individual should be looking right now to families afore,
single families, businesusiness owners, people who are all going to
have their businesses, their homes wrecked, their budgets wrecked, people

(33:07):
who may not be able to get the kind of
health care they need there, people who may be be
pushed into poverty, people businesses who may have to close
because of the I would say, the gripping costs of
health care and the rise of health care, and they
must message on that for three hundred and sixty plus
or however many days until the next level. Make this

(33:27):
around a single issue around health care. So I do
expect that there will be significant distance placed between the
House dims and also this might be a chance, honestly
to pick up some seats and to try to hang
this around the neck of every Republican, whether it be

(33:50):
in the Senate House, hell even if even down ballot.
The fact that they supported folks not being able to
have health care, they supported more people down They supported
more people not being able to get there the necessary
drugs and medications they need. They supported the closing of
rule and urban hospitals and all the jobs lost. They

(34:12):
need to be very crystal clear on hanging this around
the neck of those of everybody who's on the ballot
next year.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
Here's the question, and many people have been calling for
this and stop. I'll start with you.

Speaker 23 (34:29):
Is it time for Democrats to replace Chuck Schumer? He
couldn't keep his caucus. He couldn't hold his caucus. Some
believe that privately he sort of gave them the nod,
saying I'll vote against.

Speaker 4 (34:40):
It, but you guys, go ahead and vote void.

Speaker 23 (34:42):
Is it time for Democrats to have new leadership in
the United States Senate?

Speaker 17 (34:48):
Truly answer that this way? You know, you have two
responsibilities in that position. One to be able to count
the votes. The second part is.

Speaker 24 (34:55):
To be able to hold your cottons together and he
has not been successful in being able to do that.
Understand that it's very challenged moment and challenging situations, but
you have you should have enough cachet to be able
to have those conversations with your folks to say this
is not the moment to do this. This is how
we are going to move forward together as a whole caucus.

(35:18):
And you know that's the responsibility of a leader. So
you know, many of us feel that new leadership would
help to revitalize and help to bring energy back and
hopefully I also bring some focus back. So I guess
we'll see what happens after this.

Speaker 4 (35:38):
Kelly, is it time to touch you to go?

Speaker 13 (35:41):
It's absolutely time for him to go, and we can
thank him for a service on his way out, because
at the end of the day, eight Senate Democrats crossed
the line that we were holding. Right, they crossed the line,
and they handed Republicans of victory that they didn't deserve,
they didn't earn.

Speaker 4 (35:59):
They didn't end.

Speaker 13 (36:00):
Shut down by doing this, They endorsed extortion by doing this.
And when Democrats vote for bills that gut health care,
slash worker protections, you know, shielding GLP senators from accountability.
That doesn't make you a moderate, it doesn't make you
a blue dog Democrat. It makes you a co conspirator.

(36:20):
It makes you a collaborator. And Chuck Schumer knows that.
And Chuck Schumer didn't do anything to stop it, whether
it was because he didn't have the power to stop
it or whether he did have the power to stop it,
he was like, oh, well, it's only eight Like that
rationale alone is enough for me to say, your time

(36:40):
has come, sir. We need new blood. And frankly, last
Tuesday proved that outside of all of this rigamarole, last
Tuesday proved that not only do we need new blood,
we are voting for new blood.

Speaker 6 (36:54):
And we want them in those seats.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
Cameron, stay, go Schumer.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
I'll say this about Schumer. I think the other thing
to Mustapha's point.

Speaker 22 (37:10):
The other thing that the head of the head of
the Senate and the House, whether it's the minority leader
or you Speaker of the House, is also significantly around fundraising,
and Schumer has proven to be a fundraising force. Unfortunately,
money is throughout our politics and there are many members
who struggle to raise the money that is needed to

(37:31):
compete in today's political landscape, and he has the ears
of the donors in New.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
York and around the country.

Speaker 4 (37:40):
So he still does that.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
But even that I don't think is as effective as
it once was. I think the people will decide if
he's going to if it's time for him to go.

Speaker 22 (37:51):
I'm not a New York resident. I don't know how
well he represents New York or not, or the current
New York Yeah.

Speaker 23 (37:57):
No, but Kip a Camerack, Cammick, cam Cameron, Cameron him
being and I say, Senator, that's the people voting. The
Democratic Caucus chooses their leader. So the question is is
it time for the Democratic Caucus to choose somebody else
to be their leader, to be the Democratic leader in
the United State Senate.

Speaker 22 (38:20):
I'll say this because of how I look at the
Democratic Party as a whole and what I think they
have the faith in the party to be able to
not handle.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
If it happens, it has to happen organically.

Speaker 22 (38:35):
While I made I definitely disagree with how Schumer held
this and then he wasn't able to hold the line.
I'm also not confident that coming for Chuck Schumer won't
embroil the Democrats and an infight that'll have the mess
around and lose their opportunity to win back the Senate
and win back the House. I think if it happens
and then there's all the rumblings that Congresswoman AOC is

(38:58):
asked to primary Chuck Schumer as has to come for.
You've seen she's been bringing out tens of thousands of
people all around the country. She all her followers online,
all the energy. She's one of easily one of the
most recognizable members of Congress, and so she has a
lot of energy around her. I think she still would
have an uphill battle primary and going after Schumer's seat.

(39:20):
But I think if it happens organically, because if he
if Schumer, if they.

Speaker 23 (39:25):
Will, I haven't Cameron, Cameron, Cameron, Cam, you gotta make
a decision.

Speaker 4 (39:31):
Cameron.

Speaker 23 (39:31):
You're saying, if it happens organically, Okay, if AOC runs.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
Bruh, they ain't got nothing to do with None of this.

Speaker 23 (39:41):
Is either should the Senator, should the Democratic Caucus? And
Cameron Cameron, I'm going to ask you right now here
we are in late twenty twenty five, should the Democratic
Caucus replace Chuck Schumer as their minority leader right now
through next year.

Speaker 8 (40:01):
Yes or no?

Speaker 4 (40:02):
No?

Speaker 1 (40:05):
Now, got it?

Speaker 27 (40:06):
And that's it?

Speaker 22 (40:07):
Yeah, no, And I think it's like I said, it's okay.
I don't think they can handle it.

Speaker 4 (40:14):
I got it all right, col all right, I don't
think we can handle I got it all right out. Well,
we'll see what happens. Well again, I.

Speaker 23 (40:31):
Don't know a lot of people to have any trust
in Chuck Human I'm just saying that right now, all right,
let me go to a break. We'll be right back
rolling my unfortured on the Black Sudden network.

Speaker 27 (40:43):
If in this country right now, you have people get
up in the morning and the only thing they can
think about is how many people they can hurt, and
they've got the power.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
That's the time for morning, for better or worse.

Speaker 28 (40:56):
What makes America special, it's that legal system that's supports
to protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority.

Speaker 19 (41:04):
We are at a point of a moral emergency.

Speaker 29 (41:08):
We must raise a voice of outrage, we must raise
a voice of compassion, and.

Speaker 27 (41:15):
We must raise a voice of unity. We are not
in a crisis of party versus party. We are in
a crisis of civilization, a human rights crisis. And a
crisis of democracy itself. And guess what, You've been chosen
to make sure that those that would destroy, those that

(41:37):
would hate, don't have the final say, and they don't
ultimately win.

Speaker 30 (41:43):
Hey, what's up, everybody?

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Is God be the funniest dude on the planet.

Speaker 6 (41:47):
And you're watching Roland Martin unfiltered.

Speaker 4 (42:26):
Folks.

Speaker 23 (42:27):
Today's Veterans Day, and on this day, Alabama wants to
honor its black heroes. A new bill in Congress aims
to pay lasting tribute to the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, the
black fighter pilots who shattered barriers.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
And flew with courage during World War II.

Speaker 23 (42:43):
Alabama Congressman Shamari Figures introduced the bipartisan bill to rename
the Tuskegee Post Office as the Tuskegee air Memorial Post Office,
with support from the entire Alabama Congress of Delegation. This
initiative aims to permanently recognize the brave band sacrifice of
America's first black military aviators. Figures released the statement saying,
designated Tuskegee Post Office as the Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Post Office,

(43:06):
It's a meaningful way to honor the legacy of these
trailblazing heroes, and I'm proud to do this on my
first Veterans Day with the full support of Alabama's corression
of the delegation. Tuskegee Airmen, whom I especially honored my
first Veterans Day, not only broke barriers in our armed forces,
but also inspired generations of Americans to serve with courage, integrity,
and pride. This recognition insures if their sacrifice, bravery, and

(43:30):
historic contributions to our nation will.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
Never be forgotten.

Speaker 23 (43:34):
Congressman Figures calls it a fitting tribute to honor greatness
and insure that Tuskege Airman's legacy continues to inspire others.
All right, folks, Let's talk about Utah, where a Utah
judge hands a big win to the state Democrats. Judge
Diana Gibson rejected a Republican past registioning plan that created
two more competitive districts in the state. Judge Gibson's denial

(43:57):
of the new bat will create a solidly Democratic district
that covers Salt Lake City.

Speaker 4 (44:01):
Given the party its second win in the.

Speaker 23 (44:04):
Redistricting wars that swept the nation ahead of the midterms,
and a ruling judge gifts to the Republican map quote
fails to abide by and conform with the requirements of
the twenty eighteen voter approved ballot measure that created non
partisan redigiac standards for the state legislature. Now in October,
Republican state legislators pass the map of the judge ulclue denied,

(44:26):
which created two competitive districts that still favorite Republicans. The
case centers on the voter approved measure against partisan jerry
mandering in the state, passed in twenty eighteen, which Republicans
are now collecting signatures to undo. It's amazing how often
that happens, Kelly, how Republicans they really don't like these

(44:49):
reditioning commissions. They didn't like to want in Ohio, in Michigan.
And what does it tell you that the voters approved
it and and they're like, yeah, we're going to come
back and undo what you guys approved.

Speaker 13 (45:05):
Don't like accountability and that their tricks aren't as sustainable
as they once were, you know, because this is what
democracy looks like, This is what accountability looks like. A
judge standing up to decades long hustle rigging maps silencing voters,

(45:26):
you know, And I feel like it is a micro
example of what's happening across the country and what can
happen across the country in terms of judges doing their
job fighting against this regime and you know, just making
sure that frankly, the law is working the way it's
supposed to be working. But I do want to give

(45:47):
credit where it to do, because this fair map came
from the League of Women Voters, specifically Mormon Women for
Ethical Government. And you know, I'm not a Mormon by
any stretch, but women were able to do what politicians
Republicans won't do, wouldn't do, refuse.

Speaker 4 (46:04):
To do, and that's fight for democracy.

Speaker 13 (46:06):
So kudos to them, because at the end of the day,
Republicans didn't accidentally draw those maps. It was absolutely on purpose.
They carved up communities with the precision of a scalpel
to make sure that they stayed in power, to make
sure that it's stayed white and manly. And that is
not fair, it's not right. And the judges saw that

(46:27):
and overturned it as it should have been.

Speaker 23 (46:38):
So we're seeing more of this Cameron because of the
action the Democrats. Now what happening here in Utah. Also
the move in California stopping the folks in Kansas or whatever.
It looks like Republicans are not going to come out
of this with a big majority that they thought. Now
we'll see what happens with this callous decision out of Louisiana.

Speaker 4 (47:02):
That could also change a whole lot.

Speaker 23 (47:04):
But you know, Republicans thought they were going to be
able to try to.

Speaker 4 (47:08):
Pick up ten to twelve twitter ten twelve fifteen seats
in jerry mandry. It does not look like to be
the case.

Speaker 22 (47:17):
Who would have thought? Who would have thought we would
be having a competitive Utah I think this this I
mean you just you don't think Democrats, you don't think
you don't think people playing in Utah and heavy spin
in Utah. I'm excited about this, even though this does
still in and around Salt Lake City. It's a wonderful city,

(47:39):
have been meant several times. I do think there is
energy and opportunity there to at least make it competitive,
if not win one or two of those seats, probably one, but.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
There has to be investment. They need to find the
right candidate that fits, that.

Speaker 22 (47:54):
Fits Utah, that fits the people there, that fits the
sensibilities there, and the Democratic Party needs to invest in
that because at the very least they can distract and
force the Republicans to play in the state, in the state,
in the area that they didn't expect. So I think
this just makes for a more competitive nationwide race. And

(48:18):
then it's also allows the country to understand what's really
at stake with this jerry mandering and redistricting all over
the country. I'm really hoping that that becomes jerrymandering becomes
a word and an understanding around all voters and non
voters around the country. And I think something like this

(48:39):
happening in Utah and picking up in a place where
where we just have it. I don't think we even
really think about Utah, Salt Lake City and stuff. When
it comes to election time. You just check it and
naturally put it into the Republican's box.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
I think this.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
Opens up the map around the country and changes the math.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
Well.

Speaker 23 (49:04):
I think the thing here mustafa that we have to
recognize is that, you know, those Mormons in Utah have
not been happy with Donald Trump. Uh, they have really
been you know, challenging him, calling him out in the
in the data. You see his numbers are not good
in that state, and so I think what Camera said

(49:24):
is certainly.

Speaker 4 (49:25):
A positive for Democrats.

Speaker 23 (49:27):
How Utah being able to have a second congressional district there, Yeah,
pretty big deal.

Speaker 4 (49:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (49:34):
I have family in Salt Lake, and you know, it's
interesting because.

Speaker 24 (49:39):
They feel like, you know, the values that are coming
out of the White House are not in alignment with
their values. You know, we see all these types of
egregious things that this administration does and it just goes
against the brain of many folks across our country, not
just in Salt Lake, in a number of locations.

Speaker 17 (49:56):
And that's why you got to have a fifty state strategy.

Speaker 24 (49:59):
I know that has not necessarily been the way that
the Democratic leadership has approached over a number of years,
but you know, you shouldn't just let anyone slip through
and not make sure that you have the resources and
the focus in their areas.

Speaker 17 (50:16):
So that's the first thing.

Speaker 4 (50:18):
You know.

Speaker 24 (50:18):
The other thing that we've got to make sure that
we stay mindful of is that you know, whether you're
in Salt Lake City, or you're in Sacramento, California, or
you're in Biloxi, Mississippi, a lot of folks are in
pain right now.

Speaker 17 (50:29):
They see the country moving in the wrong direction. And
because they see that, you know, folks want to have
fair maps.

Speaker 24 (50:36):
They want to make sure that when they cast their
ballot that they have the ability to actually change the
dynamics that are happening inside of their communities and therefore
happening inside of their families. So that's why you've got
to make sure you make those investments everywhere, because this
is the.

Speaker 17 (50:51):
Moment when you can actually show real leadership.

Speaker 24 (50:54):
This is the moment where you can actually help to
change people's what's going on in their lives in this moment. Sure,
and we'll see if the Democrats actually stand up to that,
or maybe it'll be some independent folks that will.

Speaker 17 (51:08):
But there is an opening and we'll see how folks proceed.

Speaker 23 (51:15):
Well, Listen, I keep saying this here. You can win
in the course. Don't mean nothing. The folks don't vote.
Uh and so over the next the next year is
going to be a really really vigorous battle in this country.
All right, folks going to a break. We come back
Barbara Scotia College. They're bouncing back after being the folks

(51:36):
are losing their accreditation. We'll talk to their President when
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Speaker 11 (52:07):
Violent white supremacy was quote the most persistent and lethal
threat in the homeland.

Speaker 23 (52:12):
The greatest terrorist threat because of the homeland is the
homegrown boundary strength, including hate crime committed on behalf of
some kind of white supremacist ideology.

Speaker 4 (52:22):
They have come in after everything in Black American.

Speaker 23 (52:25):
MAGA and Donald Trump are specifically targeting Black America. They
are going after the money attack, black lives attack, critical
racy attack Wei. MAGA wants to defund Black America.

Speaker 4 (52:38):
There's some perfect example of their desire.

Speaker 23 (52:43):
To completely degrade and de emphasize Black company. So, boy,
are you know given Roland Martin something to do, because
you know you don't know what to do.

Speaker 4 (53:03):
You're from Texas, and his fall.

Speaker 23 (53:33):
Barbara Scosta College there they were having some serious issues.
This fall, though, North Carolina's old as HBCU launched its
first ever football season, marketing a significant comeback for the institution.
Over one hundred and fifteen students have returned to campus,
resulting in the college's largest enrollment in nearly twenty years
after losing his accreditation, Barbara Scotia College is now gaining

(53:55):
momntum reintroducing football, basketball, and baseball as part of its
efforts to restore accreditation and revive the legacy of its
history of HBCU. Chris Ray, the president's CEO, Barber Scotia,
joins me right now, President Rake, let to have you here.
So how does restoring sports bring you back? Is that
not a costly venture for Barbara Scotia.

Speaker 20 (54:19):
First of all, I appreciate you for having this on tonight,
and it's a part of the strategy. It was a
part of the recruitment strategy that we thought was important
to get students back involved, to get students in the pipeline.
As you know or may not know that when you
are trying to get back accredited, it's critical that you
have students enroll that's a part of the accreditation formula,

(54:43):
and we realize that in order for us to position
ourselves for the best possible opportunity, we needed to make
sure that we had a pipeline of students that we
know that would be coming into the institution, and so
we thought sports would be the best way in and
it's worked.

Speaker 3 (54:59):
We've had over one hundred students who have enrolled.

Speaker 20 (55:02):
We've got another almost one hundred in the pipeline coming
in in the spring and in the fall of next year.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
So we're really excited.

Speaker 23 (55:11):
Are these focus on full scholarship parcels partial scholarship?

Speaker 4 (55:15):
How you made this happen?

Speaker 3 (55:17):
Sure?

Speaker 20 (55:17):
So let me first shout out the alumni of Barberscotia
College who has done a tremendous job of stepping up
to the plate to help solidify the financial backing of
the institution. And that's the only way that this was
going to work, is that we needed to make sure
that we had the alumni stepping up.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
And so what has happened is.

Speaker 20 (55:39):
We've been able to create our own internal financial aid
for our students.

Speaker 3 (55:43):
Our students are able, some of them are they're paying
out of pocket.

Speaker 20 (55:46):
We're able to help with partial scholarships, and many of
them are getting other aid from families and friends to
be able to help to cover the costs. And we've
made it affordable so to attend Barber Scotia College now
it's twenty five hundred dollars a semester five dollars a year.
Because I believe that affordable education is absolutely possible if.

Speaker 3 (56:06):
You create the right formula afford and so it has allowed.

Speaker 20 (56:10):
These parents to say, you know what, I can take
a chance on Barbara Scotia because it's affordable for me
and my family.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
That's an extremely low amount.

Speaker 23 (56:19):
How are you able to charge that low for tuition
in this climate where we normally have skyrocketing tuition costs?

Speaker 3 (56:28):
Sure? So you know, when I took the job as president,
I have to sit back and try to.

Speaker 20 (56:32):
Reimagine what the HBCU of the future should look like.
And I think what we have, what we've fallen on,
is thinking that we have to touch all of our
students now.

Speaker 3 (56:44):
I spent twenty two years in the Army. I was
a signal officer.

Speaker 20 (56:47):
I had a cybersecurity background, so it is a big
part of my professional training. And when I took the
job and I spoke to the Board of Trustees. I
shared with them that we have to reimagine a Barber
Scotia that can return the way that it left, and
so we have to look at a hybrid formula where
we have students who are in person. That's the traditional way,

(57:09):
that's what we're all used to, but we also have
to have a robust amount of students that are going
to be online for the future.

Speaker 3 (57:15):
And so my goal and vision for the institution is
that we'll have.

Speaker 20 (57:20):
Two to three thousand students that will live and commute
to Barbie Scotia, but we'll have thirty to forty thousand.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
Students that will be online.

Speaker 20 (57:27):
And so when you look at the formulas like a
Walden University or Southern New Hampshire University, their price point
is right within that five to six a seven thousand
dollars range that they're charging their students.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
And so gone of the days where I believe that an.

Speaker 20 (57:41):
HBCU can survive with twelve hundred students or fourteen hundred students.
We have to look at the next generation of what
HBCU should look like, and so we're charging a lower
tuition understanding and believing that if you build it right
that they will come. And we're seeing that now from
going from no students to now having over one hundred
plus students to having another one hundred plus that's getting

(58:03):
ready to come to the institution.

Speaker 23 (58:07):
And when we say get ready to come, do you
mean next fall.

Speaker 4 (58:10):
Or in the spring.

Speaker 20 (58:11):
Yeah, So we have we have students that already apply
for the spring, and we have our students that apply
for the fall of next year. So we're looking at
another one hundred plus students that we know will be
enrolling in the institution. You know, probably more, but we
know there'll be at least another one hundred that will
be coming by the fall of next year.

Speaker 4 (58:29):
Question from the panel, Kelly, First, first.

Speaker 13 (58:33):
And foremost congratulations on this feat. As a HBCU grab myself,
I'm always for the preservation of HBCUs and this is
fantastic work on your end. My question to you is
as far as specialties and what Barber Scotia will be
known for as far as academics, are there any programs

(58:55):
that you want to tout and advertise over others, Like
what will you guys be known for outside of your
athletic sure.

Speaker 3 (59:04):
So thank you for that question.

Speaker 20 (59:06):
So when you think about what the future of what
the institution is going to be, you know we are
we're looking at three three, three streams.

Speaker 27 (59:14):
You know.

Speaker 20 (59:14):
Number one, I want to have a robust certificates program
for our institution, and we've just partnered with an organization
that is going to allow us the opportunity to have
an array of certificate programs and on the healthcare.

Speaker 3 (59:29):
Side, and on the and on the IT side.

Speaker 20 (59:32):
And then you have our HC Workforce Solutions, which is
our next huge partnership around our workforce development and our
trade school that we're going to have because I believe
that Barbi Scotia needs to be the place where everyone
gets an opportunity. And then you have your traditional then
you have your traditional degrees. We are three miles away

(59:52):
from Eli.

Speaker 4 (59:53):
Lilly and this gives you a.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
Thought an idea of where we want to go. My
long term hope is that we'll have our.

Speaker 20 (01:00:00):
Own pharmacy school as an institution, because you can't be
three miles from from an Eli Lilly and there not
be a pharmacy school opportunity here at Barbara Scotia College.
So we're looking at the STEM programs, but we're also
looking at making sure that there is a strong skis
skills training opportunity here, trade school opportunities, and then the

(01:00:22):
traditional so our saying is you can come to Barbara
Scotia where you can get skilled up, trade up or
degreed up, because you can't. You have to be a
place for everybody, not just sure I want to get
a two year degree a four year degree, because everyone
doesn't need a four year degree.

Speaker 4 (01:00:41):
A camera.

Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
Again also as an HBCU grad.

Speaker 22 (01:00:47):
Congratulations, love to see more increasing the number of HBCUs
in these challenging times. I was really intrigued by your
focus on online learning. I think that is really the future.
It's the now and the future.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
Given we are.

Speaker 22 (01:01:04):
Also in a hybrid hybrid work environment, people are looking
for more convenience and people are looking to maybe attend
to HBCU that may not physically be close enough to campus,
but still want that education. Can you expand on how
you see that as an opportunity for Barber Scotia and
potentially HBCUs around the country.

Speaker 20 (01:01:26):
Yeah, you know, I think that that's one of the
areas that we have missed the market is HBCUs. And
there's a lot of reasons why you can say we
didn't have the formal investment in our IT infrastructure to
be able to do this. But there are over there
are over five hundred thousand African Americans that are enrolled
in online programs, in programs outside of HBCUs. Let that

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sit with you, five hundred thousand African Americans, and so
we know that there is a market of individuals who
are interested in online learning.

Speaker 3 (01:02:01):
They're not going to be the traditional I want to come.

Speaker 20 (01:02:04):
I need to sit in a classroom, I need to
hear from a professor, you know, a life and in
life in it. And I have an opportunity now to
finish my degree because I didn't go to school early
or whatever the case may be. So you know, we
as as HBCUs have to have a pipeline for our
online learners, our adult learners that clearly there is a

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market for that. And and I recognize that when I
took this job and I said, we because we the
way that we left, we might as well come back
a new way and come back in such a way
that embraces the online learning so that we can have
that as a segment that is going to be able
to fuel and fund the institution, while we also still

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have the traditional side, those students who want to come,
those students who want to be involved, those students who
want to touch and feel the HBCU experience. We will
be able to provide them with that in the in
the in the in person space, but then have this huge,
robust online infrastructure and now imagine then taking very smart
HBCU creatives and then being able to overlay that online experience.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
And I think that we can do it.

Speaker 20 (01:03:11):
There's no question in my mind that we cannot build
the right infrastructure to do that, because that is the future.
Because again I'm a firm believer that if you continue
to just have in person fifteen hundred thirteen hundred, nine
hundred students, you're going to continue to have the struggles
that you continue to have. And not only on the
HBCU side, but you see pwis that are small private

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schools that are closing all the time because they're having
the same challenges and issues because they have not invested
in their online infrastructure. So my goal two to three
thousand students that will be in person and commuting and
living on this campus, and we'll have another twenty to
thirty thousand that will be online, that will power the
internal business infrastructure of the college while still giving them

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a great HBCU experience. Just that it'll be online.

Speaker 24 (01:04:03):
With DAPPA, President ray As, everybody saying congratulations. I'd love
listening to anybody who's actually trying to create twenty first
century HBCUs. And you you're definitely moving in the right
direction to be able to achieve the goals that I
you know that, I know that you're moving forward on.
You've got to have partners and partnerships. What is that

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going to look like as you moved.

Speaker 17 (01:04:25):
Down the road.

Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
Yeah, so again another great question.

Speaker 20 (01:04:29):
You know, when I took the job, you know, we
were saddled with a lot of challenges as an institution,
and so you know, I remember the talk from you know,
some of the folks. You know, hey, you're just another president.
You know we've seen this before.

Speaker 12 (01:04:41):
Uh.

Speaker 20 (01:04:41):
You know, we owed the city, we we we had
you know, we had challenges with the county, we owed
the state of North Carolina, we owed the federal government.

Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
Uh.

Speaker 20 (01:04:48):
You fast forward two years later, we've paid off the
debt to the city. We've we've we've you know, paid
off the debt to the state of North Carolina. You're
working with our congressional leaders right now to address our
our our federal our federal debt that we have. We've
had some engagement. Uh we're going to be announcing soon
our our resolution with the county which we you know,

(01:05:12):
which we believe is gonna uh that is that's moved
in the right direction for Barbi Scotia College.

Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
And so now what's happening is is that we're now.

Speaker 20 (01:05:20):
Getting phone calls from other uh fortune five hundred, Fortune
one hundred companies that are saying, hey, we've been following
your story.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
You know, we're.

Speaker 20 (01:05:30):
Interested now in getting involved. We you know, we want
to be a part of your rise. You know, our
our our mantra is Barber Scotia Rising, and so they
want to be a part of that early piece to
us moving forward. But that's how we got the workforce
development piece right. Our HC solution said, you know, we
want to be there to be the trade school arm
uh for you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
Vision Quest is the organization that we're going to be
partnering with.

Speaker 20 (01:05:53):
That said, you know, we want to be a part
of making sure that we help you build the robust
certificates initiative, you know, for Barbisco your college. And then
we've had a bunch of community organizations. You know, I
first got a shout out the D nine.

Speaker 4 (01:06:06):
Uh.

Speaker 20 (01:06:06):
The D nine has truly stepped up in a huge way,
uh in in in helping to uh provide funding. And
I'm not just talking about my local D nine folks,
but the national D nine folks. I've had other HBCUs
who've written checks to Barber Scotia College to help support
what we were doing. But then we've had local businesses
uh that have said, you know what, you need your

(01:06:27):
dorms clean, We're going to clean your dorms for you.
We're gonna help you with your electrical work. We're gonna
and it's really just been amazing to watch the community
come together, uh to say, you know what, we're not
gonna allow on another HBCU to close on our watch.

Speaker 3 (01:06:41):
But I think that the reason why they got behind.

Speaker 20 (01:06:43):
Us is because they see that we have a plan,
uh and they can now get behind that plan and
be a part of what is going to be something
super special here in the Concord area.

Speaker 23 (01:06:57):
All right, then, well, President President Ray, we're certainly congratulations
on that and we'll see how things unfold over the
next few years.

Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
Thank you so very much. Thank you for the opportunity,
and thank you for telling our story.

Speaker 4 (01:07:14):
All right, appreciate it.

Speaker 23 (01:07:15):
Thank you so very much. All Right, folks, gonna go
tip break. We come back more to talk about Also, man,
it was a man.

Speaker 4 (01:07:23):
The weather was crazy today here in Bermuda, wins up to.

Speaker 23 (01:07:28):
Fifty five miles an hour. Wait, I show ya some
of the video of us out there playing all today.
They was the amateur amateur tournament. Tomorrow's the program. The
PGA Tour stop starts on Thursday and so, but still
had a ball out there. You're watching rollingd brck nonfiltered
right here in The Black Studdy Network.

Speaker 31 (01:07:49):
Said the quiet part out loud. Black votes are a threat,
so they erasedly. After the Supreme Court gout at the
Voting Rights Act in twenty thirteen, Republican legislatures moved fast
new voter id laws, polling place shutdowns, purges of black
voters from the rolls. Trump's Justice Department didn't stop it.

(01:08:09):
They joined in. In twenty eighteen, his DOJ backed Ohio's
voter purge system, a scheme that disproportionately erased Black voters.
Their goal erase black votes and political power. Yeah, that happened.
These are the kinds of stories that we cover every
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Speaker 32 (01:08:49):
Le Sherry sebre and you know what you watching Roland
Martin Unfiltering, Ald folks.

Speaker 23 (01:09:02):
These maga people are absolutely insane doing all they can,
of course, try to race us. Let's go to my
alma mater, Texas A and M University. Well, the Texan
University System regents, we're going to vote later this week
on a proposal to ban classes on race and gender
ideology unless these courses receive approval from the institution's president

(01:09:23):
or a designated representative. This is the latest step in
the conservative effort to eliminate what they perceive as liberal
leaning teaching from Texas universities. It passed Texas Andom System
with servi one hundred seventy five thousand students, and, as
the second largest university system in the state, will become
the first institution to explicitly prohibit teaching related to race ideology,

(01:09:47):
the first institution to bar teaching to raise ideologym explicitly.
According to these white folks, race ideologies defined as a
concept it seeks to shame in particular race or ethnicity,
accusing them of being a precious in a race, hierarchical conspiracy,
a sign of them less values contributed to society, imposing
intrinsic guilt, or promote activistiness instead of instruction. Okay, so

(01:10:07):
here's what's really at play here, Mustafa and people needn't
understand something right here. So in Texas, these white maga folk,
they believe that the University of Texas is just foregone
being a liberal institution. So what they've decided, They decided
to say, hey, Texas A and m texta in is
going to become their playground. It's going to become the

(01:10:29):
conservative institution of the state. That's really what's going on here.
And you've got these border regents who are doing the
bidding of that crazy nonsensical governor Greg Abbott who announced
he's running for reelection. And this is the reason why
I really hope people get out and vote in serious ways.

Speaker 4 (01:10:47):
Abage should be defeated.

Speaker 23 (01:10:49):
And these border regency to stop sitting here being some
scared punks, including the ones in Texas, A and M.
And it goes to show you how idiotic these people
are today. And m has significant issues when it comes
to attracting black and other minority students and this ain't
gonna help, but it goes to show you what MAGA

(01:11:11):
is doing in America.

Speaker 33 (01:11:15):
Yeah, well, you know, for some reason, they're afraid of truth, right,
because when you look at these classes, you know, it's
all it is is really history, folks, just laying it
out for folks about what it's transpired in the past,
who is impact, how has it limited opportunities?

Speaker 24 (01:11:31):
And instance is also about bringing forward, you know, the
excellence that exists in the black community, in the brown
community and other communities.

Speaker 17 (01:11:39):
And folks end up fearing that.

Speaker 25 (01:11:41):
So if you want to make sure that you're protecting truth,
if you want to make sure that you're protecting history.

Speaker 17 (01:11:46):
And of course we have to get engaged and we
have to vote, but we.

Speaker 24 (01:11:50):
Also got to hold people accountable and we talk about
that on the show all the time.

Speaker 26 (01:11:53):
So whether it's a board of regents or or other
individuals who are making choices in that space, then we've
got to make sure that they understand what the set
of expectations are.

Speaker 17 (01:12:04):
And if you don't do that, then folks will field one.
If they want to do the right thing, that they're
out there by themselves too. If they don't want to
do the right thing, that there won't be any repercussions.

Speaker 22 (01:12:16):
Cameron, I think Texas A and M is in a
unique and interesting place now. Texas A and M also
with this going on.

Speaker 3 (01:12:30):
This is also.

Speaker 22 (01:12:30):
Juxtaposition that they are in a major, major, major, one
hundred plus million dollar investment in their football and in
their sports system as another way to hopefully draw students,
and I think draw a lot of black students from
both in state and out of state. And it's interesting
to how they plan to look to erase our history.

Speaker 23 (01:12:50):
That ain't working, that that ain't working, that ain't never worked.
I'm letting you know that ain't never work.

Speaker 4 (01:12:57):
So no, it hasn't. I mean, bottom line is it hasn't.

Speaker 23 (01:13:01):
And and M has a Look, look, you get a
whole bunch of you got a whole bunch of us
black people with Graduroom and m our kids grew up,
they agguate and ain't going to the university. So it
ain't working. But again, they love DEI Saturdays, though they
love seeing black talent on that football field, but.

Speaker 1 (01:13:24):
They won't teach our history in the classroom.

Speaker 22 (01:13:26):
And that was the point I was making, is that
they want to continue to put all this money and
hopefully turn themselves into a larger football powerhouse in this
interesting nil world we're in, and they're looking to do
that on the back of black talent across their sports.
But then when those same students need to go into
the classroom and may want to deal with African American studies,

(01:13:50):
may want to learn something more than a whitewashed history
of our people, they won't be able to find it
in those history.

Speaker 1 (01:13:56):
Books, So it's discouraging.

Speaker 22 (01:14:00):
I'm hoping this is just another rallying cry to get
a lot of people, not just the folks who are
voting around the state, to really look at who look
at Governor Abbott, and look at who's their representatives. But
also hopefully this is another piece and something on the
board that gets people who are on the couch in Texas,
because I think this all feeds into a system in

(01:14:21):
Texas has been so egregious in so many different ways
that they're looking to utilize their power to erase our history,
and quite frankly, we just can't stand for it.

Speaker 4 (01:14:36):
Hey, Kelly, it's simple.

Speaker 23 (01:14:40):
What you're seeing is the attacks on black folks and
others all across this country. It's happened on the federal level,
state levels, going to the local level.

Speaker 4 (01:14:51):
And I keep telling people.

Speaker 23 (01:14:53):
The way you shut these people up is you throw
them out of office. Texas has the most eligible black
voters in the country, and Bettle ran against Greg Abby
seventy five percent of young people thirty undred to not vote.

Speaker 4 (01:15:05):
There's a way to defeat them, and that's the ballot box.

Speaker 23 (01:15:09):
Because the governor in Texas appoints the university border regions.

Speaker 4 (01:15:14):
You get a new governor, you get new regions.

Speaker 13 (01:15:19):
I mean, as far as I'm concerned, this is McCarthyism
with the Texas accent. And I'm not about to mimic
a text assassin because that's not my style. But that's
that's what it looks like to me. Because when a
state bands class is based on race and gender, that's
not policy, that's not in the best interest of the student.
That's political violence against black and brown people. That's political

(01:15:41):
violence against queer and women scholars. Right, this isn't about classrooms.
It's about control. It's not ideology. You're talking about black studies.
So when you're talking about these things and in these
veiled attempts to, you know, basically pull the wall over
people's eyes, like this is about black and brown people,

(01:16:04):
and you wanting to control the narrative of y'all being ancient.
Y'all don't want the world to know that y'all ain't shit.
That's really all it boils down to.

Speaker 4 (01:16:15):
So you can ban the.

Speaker 13 (01:16:16):
Course, but you can't ban reality when it comes to
these things. And to your point about the vote, I
mean that goes across the board, not just in Texas.

Speaker 4 (01:16:25):
We have to vote. We have to use the.

Speaker 13 (01:16:27):
Political power that we have while we still have it
to get this type of ideology out of main discourse.
We have to use what we have to push what
we want, and what we want is diversity. What we
want is inclusivity, what we want is equity. That's what
DEI stands for, and we need to start saying it

(01:16:51):
just like that. So for people who say they're anti DEI,
so you're anti diversity, that's what I'm hearing. You're anti inclusivity.
That's what I'm hearing, not your anti an acronym that
you don't want to spell out, because then we're actually
calling you out on your shit.

Speaker 4 (01:17:12):
Well, we'll see what they do.

Speaker 23 (01:17:15):
And I'm just letting them folks know right now, you
ain't doing yourself no favor with black folks when it
comes to the future of Texas A and M. But again,
they want in them to be the most conservative, whitest
university in the state. That's their goal, that's their strategy.
But again they sure don't mind a black ball players.

(01:17:36):
That's doctor Greg car always says. If black ball players
decide to say, you know what, we're not going to
reward these universities like Texas A and M. So don't
give a shit about black people. Trust me, they don't
go to those universities. They ain't got no sports programs.
All right, I'll be right back rolling unfiltered them. Black
still network.

Speaker 27 (01:17:59):
If in this country right now, you have people get
up in the morning and the only thing they can
think about is how many people they can hurt, and
they've got the power, that's the time for morning.

Speaker 4 (01:18:10):
For better or worse.

Speaker 28 (01:18:11):
What makes America special, It's that legal system that's supposed
to protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority.

Speaker 3 (01:18:19):
We are at a point of a moral emergency.

Speaker 29 (01:18:24):
We must raise a voice of outrag, We must raise
a voice of compassion, and.

Speaker 27 (01:18:31):
We must raise a voice of unity. We are not
in a crisis of party versus party. We are in
a crisis of civilization, a human rights crisis, and a
crisis of democracy itself. And guess what, You've been chosen
to make sure that those that would destroy, those that

(01:18:53):
would hate, don't have the final say, and they don't
ultimately win.

Speaker 15 (01:18:58):
Sweak On the other side of change, book fans, anti intellectualism,
and Trump's continued war on wisdom.

Speaker 18 (01:19:04):
This is a coordinated backlash to progress. At the end
of the day, conservatives realized that they couldn't win a
debate on facts. We started using our language against us. Right,
Remember when we were all woke and the woke movement
and all.

Speaker 3 (01:19:18):
That kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:19:18):
Now everything is anti woke.

Speaker 4 (01:19:20):
Right when we were talking about.

Speaker 18 (01:19:21):
Including diversity, equity, inclusion, and higher education, Now it's anti
d All this our efforts to suppress the truth, because
truth empowers people.

Speaker 17 (01:19:29):
You're watching the other side of change, only on the
Black Side Network.

Speaker 4 (01:19:35):
Next on the.

Speaker 34 (01:19:35):
Black Tape with Me Greg, the United States is the
most dangerous place for a woman to give birth among
all industrialized nations on the planet.

Speaker 3 (01:19:46):
Think about that for a second. That's not all.

Speaker 34 (01:19:49):
Black women are three times more likely to die in
this country during childbirth than white women.

Speaker 13 (01:19:55):
These healthcare systems are inherently racist. There are a a
lot of white supremacists, ideas and mythologies around Black women,
black women's bodies, even black people that we experience.

Speaker 34 (01:20:07):
Payless right activists, organizers and fearless freedom fighter Monifa I
Canwila Bandelay from Mom's Rising, joins us and tells us
this shocking phenomenon, like so much else, is rooted in
unadulterated races. And that's just one of her fights. Monifa
Bandelay on the Next Black Table Here on the Black Star.

Speaker 14 (01:20:30):
Now, Hi, I'm Joe Marie Payton, voice of Sugar Mama
on Disney's Louder and Prouder Disney Plush, And I'm with
Roland Martin on Unfiltered.

Speaker 4 (01:21:31):
Folks.

Speaker 23 (01:21:31):
Three time NBA Hall of Famer Lenny Wilkins has died.
Wilkins was one of the finest point guards of his era,
who later brought us calm and savage style to the sideline,
first as a player coach and then evolving into one
of the game's great coaches. Keep in mind he was
a player coach for several seasons. He coached two thousand
and four eighty seven games in the NBA, a record

(01:21:53):
that still stands. He became a Hall of Famer as
both a player and a coach, and again as an
assistant coach the nineteen ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:21:59):
Two US Olympics team.

Speaker 23 (01:22:00):
Wilkins also coached the Americans to goal the Atlanta Games
in nineteen ninety six.

Speaker 4 (01:22:05):
Wilkins was a nine time.

Speaker 23 (01:22:06):
All Star as a player, the first person to reach
a thousand wins, and as an NBA coach, the second
person inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as both
a player and a coach.

Speaker 4 (01:22:16):
Only five people have ever done that.

Speaker 23 (01:22:20):
He coached the Settle Superstionics to an NBA title nineteen
seventy nine. Wilkins the nineteen ninety four NBA Coach of
the Year, where the Atlanta Hawks retired with one thousand,
three thirty two wins, a one thought three of two
coaching wins, the lead record that Don Nelson and Greg Popovich.

Speaker 4 (01:22:37):
Later surpassed will Play.

Speaker 23 (01:22:39):
We'll Can played fifteen seasons with the Saint Louis Hawks,
Seattle Superstimons, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Portland Trail Blazers and all
start five times with Saint Louis, three times in Seattle
and once with Cleveland. In nineteen seventy three FUTUD thirty five,
the statue depicting his title the Superstimons was installed outside
Climate Playge Arena in June.

Speaker 4 (01:22:57):
Lenny attended that unveiling.

Speaker 17 (01:23:00):
This is what he said, thank you very much.

Speaker 9 (01:23:08):
Reminds me when I first came out here. You know,
we're a better community when we're supportive of one another,
when we help each other. We take time to recognize

(01:23:32):
one another. And early in my career one of the
things I did a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:23:45):
Was I used to read a lot.

Speaker 9 (01:23:48):
I read books all the time, and I read some
great books History of the USA. From nineteen thirty seven
to nineteen seventy something, I read a book I got

(01:24:09):
a buddy of mind to read call Haunter Yeo.

Speaker 17 (01:24:15):
It was about.

Speaker 9 (01:24:17):
A culture of the Native American and I was so
fascinated with it. It was unbelievable. I've been blessed. I'll

(01:24:38):
be the first to tell you I have a great wife,
a great family. They're very supportive of everything I do,
and that has allowed me to do so much, to
be able to go everywhere and speak to everybody. Young people,

(01:25:00):
I tell you you're important, you mean something. So the
young people are tomorrow's doctors, lawyers, politician.

Speaker 30 (01:25:15):
They're our future.

Speaker 9 (01:25:18):
And when we're supportive of each other, we make our
community better. So I just want to say, hey, thank you,
thank you so much.

Speaker 18 (01:25:35):
You don't know what you mean to me, but thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:25:39):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 27 (01:25:40):
Thank you.

Speaker 23 (01:25:43):
Lenny Wilkins was eighty eight years old. That's a good
alpha man right there. Also, folks at the NBA is
mourning the passing former All Star guard Michael Ray Richardson.

Speaker 4 (01:25:55):
He played eight years in the NBA.

Speaker 23 (01:25:57):
Was an unbelievable player, number four pick of the nineteen
seven eight Trap of the New York next three time
All Star with them, also with the New Jersey Nets,
led the league and still three times was a phenomenal scored.

Speaker 4 (01:26:09):
His career was literally cut short because of drugs.

Speaker 23 (01:26:12):
He was just an unbelievable player, and upon his passing,
the NBA said this on their Twitter feed. The NBA
mourns and passing a four time All Star, Michael Ray Ridgerson.
Michael dedicated his post NBA career to using his life
story to teach life skills young people. With extend our
heartfelt sympathies to his family, friends and fans. All right, y'all,

(01:26:33):
I'm here in Bermuda and we've been having got here
yesterday and I'm gonna be here all week.

Speaker 4 (01:26:40):
And they have the PGA tournament that's playing here this week.
Lots lots of.

Speaker 23 (01:26:47):
Different things that that have been happening here, the Butterfield
Bermuda Championship, of course, the Tourism Authority, they're the ones
who are sponsors of this. And so we had an
amateur at a tournament today at the mid Ocean Club
and boy, oh boy. So this morning when I woke up, man,

(01:27:08):
it was it was rainy, wind, gust and I was like, tell,
this is gonna be a interesting day.

Speaker 4 (01:27:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:27:16):
When we started, the sun came out. Then we didn't
see it again for the rest of the day. If
y'all want to see what it looks like playing golf
in crazy wind and rain, well check this out.

Speaker 19 (01:27:35):
It ain't gonna die down.

Speaker 35 (01:28:08):
Okay, this really is crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:28:10):
So I probably have not played where we gonna. I
probably have not played in.

Speaker 23 (01:28:17):
These conditions in really long time. Like I said that
the rain is not that big of a deal, crais
that been a bigger deal. I mean, I've played in
rain before, but.

Speaker 3 (01:28:32):
It's been a long time.

Speaker 4 (01:28:33):
So I played where the wind was howling this much.

Speaker 17 (01:28:38):
This is crazy, y'all.

Speaker 8 (01:28:41):
Crazy. H okay, h.

Speaker 27 (01:29:11):
H h.

Speaker 24 (01:29:27):
H h.

Speaker 4 (01:29:44):
There we go. Hell the winds died down. Like I said,
we can play his ring fifty mine out gustin wind
is a whole different conversation.

Speaker 35 (01:29:59):
So now let's see.

Speaker 4 (01:30:04):
See what happens.

Speaker 19 (01:30:39):
Oh you hear it?

Speaker 8 (01:30:40):
Rom I's good.

Speaker 3 (01:30:58):
I'm sorry, Mark.

Speaker 35 (01:31:11):
Coma cabinet, the three.

Speaker 19 (01:31:36):
Thats comer.

Speaker 30 (01:31:39):
F y.

Speaker 9 (01:31:45):
Let me grow.

Speaker 18 (01:32:07):
Let's see this a.

Speaker 4 (01:32:21):
Ah up hill.

Speaker 13 (01:32:26):
Yeah that's right.

Speaker 9 (01:32:31):
Day for.

Speaker 4 (01:32:36):
Hi. Some years ago, I had a great drive.

Speaker 19 (01:32:41):
I'm a hundred yards out.

Speaker 23 (01:32:45):
We're talking about we're getting dead into the wind. It
has to be at least minimum of four club win,
so that means a hundred and sixty one yard shot.

Speaker 4 (01:33:01):
You play it like it's two or one.

Speaker 19 (01:33:02):
How'm crazy?

Speaker 4 (01:33:03):
This is so.

Speaker 23 (01:33:06):
Uh I'm going to hit my uh four hybers about
around one ninety five club.

Speaker 4 (01:33:11):
I was gonna hit that club. Just tell you just
how crazy this wind is. Alright, let's let's see what happens.

(01:33:59):
Who oh.

Speaker 30 (01:34:07):
Wow, that's.

Speaker 4 (01:34:11):
That's not a breeze.

Speaker 21 (01:34:31):
Look at that.

Speaker 4 (01:34:32):
You know that now?

Speaker 13 (01:34:38):
I mean they can come right back in.

Speaker 4 (01:34:41):
The bunk.

Speaker 8 (01:34:43):
That gummy.

Speaker 4 (01:34:54):
Wow, that's crazy. That's crazy. I shure.

Speaker 21 (01:35:00):
I thought this wall was.

Speaker 8 (01:35:00):
Gonna be over all right.

Speaker 3 (01:35:06):
I got it out just bunker.

Speaker 36 (01:35:13):
You see the flag in the sixty degree love ledge?

(01:35:57):
Oh crap were in picked up snow choke chick the
bomb face?

Speaker 13 (01:36:47):
Wow, it's stop.

Speaker 21 (01:37:49):
You do love that?

Speaker 17 (01:37:52):
Okay, let's let's.

Speaker 19 (01:37:55):
Wan what right to get to it?

Speaker 8 (01:38:09):
Alright?

Speaker 19 (01:38:12):
You know, okay parts over here?

Speaker 36 (01:38:36):
Alright, y'all, it's a two hund people that I would
get into blue shaft alright, golf cat sing him a Thursday.

Speaker 21 (01:38:50):
Uh might would order that shaft. I'll be home Saturday, oh.

Speaker 4 (01:39:06):
Art fans shot.

Speaker 19 (01:39:11):
Alright, y'all, it's our last. It has been a wild day.
I just checked and had a screen in there.

Speaker 4 (01:39:25):
Use alright, fifty five miles an hour, fifty.

Speaker 23 (01:39:30):
Five miles an hour, so uh it's aboue to say
it's been tough.

Speaker 17 (01:39:37):
Look off today, but it's not gorgeous.

Speaker 23 (01:39:43):
You know, I love I just gonna close this day,
win this kill joke man a two hundred and forty

(01:40:08):
eight on the second shot.

Speaker 19 (01:40:12):
Yeah you think that joy, think your mind of want
any of the next man.

Speaker 4 (01:40:26):
Think kay.

Speaker 36 (01:40:49):
Okay likes getting hup but lies good oil.

Speaker 19 (01:41:07):
I felt like we went a boxing match.

Speaker 4 (01:41:10):
And of course in the wind won.

Speaker 23 (01:41:12):
So uh, that's the end of this amorate amateur we
played in the program on Wednesday.

Speaker 19 (01:41:21):
Man, I don't want to go throw out.

Speaker 4 (01:41:24):
Try out and soak.

Speaker 30 (01:41:28):
In a hot shower.

Speaker 4 (01:41:32):
This was this is a test of endurance.

Speaker 8 (01:41:39):
But hey, little left golf.

Speaker 4 (01:41:41):
So did it feel like like a heavyweight fight out there?

Speaker 13 (01:41:44):
I mean, and this is how I leave a heavyweight fight.

Speaker 4 (01:41:46):
You know who won? You came in here and camb
your hair. I saw when you walked in here. You
you trudged.

Speaker 17 (01:41:56):
Now struggle.

Speaker 21 (01:42:04):
Yeah that was.

Speaker 23 (01:42:05):
Golfing through this nikki blade shitto. Damn where we were
playing out there.

Speaker 4 (01:42:08):
It was crazy.

Speaker 23 (01:42:10):
I'm sitting to read these, uh these comments in the
chat and they're like, oh, hell no unless it most out.

Speaker 4 (01:42:17):
But I don't care about to say.

Speaker 23 (01:42:18):
If I got a choice between sitting inside and playing
outside in the rain and fifty five mile win, I'm
gonna pick the ladder.

Speaker 17 (01:42:28):
Yeah, you're a wild boy. That's all I can say.
Because that was intense. Let me put my science hat
on for a second.

Speaker 24 (01:42:34):
So you understand that tropical storm wind start at thirty
nine miles an hour and go up to about seventy three.

Speaker 30 (01:42:42):
I don't, I don't.

Speaker 17 (01:42:45):
That's wild.

Speaker 24 (01:42:46):
I was thinking about you might be in Caddy Shack
three or something like that, because that stuff was wild.

Speaker 17 (01:42:52):
I think what people probably want.

Speaker 19 (01:42:54):
To know is what did you shoot for the day.

Speaker 23 (01:42:58):
Well, actually, so the turn we weren't keeping any well,
we weren't keeping individual scores. So the tournament was it
was four players and whoever had the best score on
that whole that was the team's score.

Speaker 35 (01:43:13):
On that hole.

Speaker 23 (01:43:15):
Uh And so so I know I had I know
I had at least five. I had five parts. I
group didn't make a bird the all day. But man,
it was like it was like so that that first hole,
when that rain really came in. Oh man, that was
a part for I think I had a nine.

Speaker 4 (01:43:32):
That I mean when I said when that rain, and
I mean that was that was like the most the
hardest rain, the most win.

Speaker 27 (01:43:39):
Yo.

Speaker 4 (01:43:39):
That was just that was that that l was crazy.
But I mean look that that that's that's the game.

Speaker 30 (01:43:46):
Uh.

Speaker 23 (01:43:47):
Let's see Kelly, uh, which we see you out there
playing the fifty.

Speaker 13 (01:43:51):
Five miles our win absolutely not absolutely not know why
because I saw that footage and I was like, that
was my cue to take a nap, like you see
me outside, not at all like for me, like And

(01:44:13):
it's funny because as a kid, I did take golfing
lessons and stuff. So it's not that I don't appreciate
the game of golf. I'm just of the mindset that
when I hear winds, blowing clouds, grand rain going coming
down in sheets, it's time to go to bed. It's
time to go to bed. That is that is soup weather,
that is weighted blanket with my actick chick latte. Whether

(01:44:40):
that's not, Oh, let me test the elements, like I'm arolla,
you know storm from X men Like no, no, absolutely,
but kudos to you.

Speaker 21 (01:44:51):
It's a camera camerady, what camerady?

Speaker 4 (01:44:54):
Wasn't that bad.

Speaker 3 (01:44:57):
Man?

Speaker 22 (01:44:57):
It's the wind though. In rolling, we gotta hit we
gotta hit the green. I'm an avid golfer.

Speaker 4 (01:45:03):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:45:03):
I don't get to hit out I don't get to
get out there much. But you way more committed than me.

Speaker 23 (01:45:08):
Because hulla, holda stop right the whole stop stop stop stop.
You just said I'm an avid golfer. I don't get
out there as much, and you way more committed to me.

Speaker 4 (01:45:19):
That means you are not an avid golfer.

Speaker 1 (01:45:25):
I'm I'm a fair weather golfer. That's what we'll say.

Speaker 8 (01:45:27):
I'm a fair weather golfer.

Speaker 4 (01:45:29):
There we go, there we go. You a fair weather
inconsistent golfer.

Speaker 3 (01:45:37):
Fair weather inconsistently.

Speaker 1 (01:45:38):
I'll take that.

Speaker 8 (01:45:39):
I'll take that.

Speaker 22 (01:45:41):
I'll hit the range. But it's I've done the rain
several times. It's the wins. I'm not good enough to
overcome the win. And so kudos to you.

Speaker 4 (01:45:49):
Are that what that means? That means you ain't no
avid golfer. But we gotta go. We gott don't use
that phrase again. We gotta get out there, can you
You need to go, You need to go to that range. No,

(01:46:09):
we're gonna wait till the spring from listen, We're gonna
wait for rain. Listen listen.

Speaker 23 (01:46:18):
I have played in rain, harder rain than that when
I played in Ireland.

Speaker 35 (01:46:25):
Uh it was snowing.

Speaker 4 (01:46:27):
Uh so I mean I'm just cold.

Speaker 27 (01:46:33):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (01:46:35):
How do you see the ball in the easy color? Easy?
Yet a colored ball yellow, orange, yellow, green, orange, red,
just hit? You just hit? You just hit a color ball.
So you gotta do and see. That's how No, that's boring,

(01:46:59):
that's that's bored. What's a better story, y'oll? I'm in Bermuda.

Speaker 23 (01:47:04):
The wind was gusted a fifty five miles an hour.

Speaker 4 (01:47:07):
It was in the rain. We played eighteen as opposed
to all Zi Bermuda and the wind was blowing out
to come out, that's a boring story.

Speaker 23 (01:47:14):
Okay, gotta go to break come back marketplace right.

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Speaker 4 (01:50:05):
Folks, you're looking for that perfect fragrance, Well we have
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Speaker 23 (01:50:09):
Dojo Fragrances are handcrafted and Los Angeles inspired by the founder,
Antoine Jones's grandmother, Doris Jones Antwine birth the company during
the pandemic. He joins us now from La all right, Antoinem,
glad to have you here. So when you say that
I was inspired by, it was actually birth. The birth
coming to the pandemic was inspired by your grandmother, explained.

Speaker 13 (01:50:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 39 (01:50:33):
Yeah, So when I was nineteen, I was a doorman
in New York and I took a fragrance making class
from a late in the building. And I was making
fragrances and making canus for about ten years, and I
promised myself that if I ever had the time, I
created a fragrance company. And then COVID came and I
had nothing but time. So so Dojo is a promise
that I kept to myself. And when I was looking

(01:50:56):
for a name, you know, my grandmother passed away when
I was twelve, and I wanted to under her, and
that's why the company is called Dojo.

Speaker 8 (01:51:02):
And her name was Doris Jones.

Speaker 4 (01:51:07):
So, okay, what's a fragrance class?

Speaker 12 (01:51:10):
Like what what?

Speaker 4 (01:51:11):
What is that?

Speaker 24 (01:51:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:51:14):
So it was basically the lady in the building.

Speaker 39 (01:51:16):
She just kind of had a bunch of neighbors come
together and she like kind of taught people how to
mix fragrances.

Speaker 8 (01:51:22):
It was like her, you know, small.

Speaker 39 (01:51:24):
Rudimentary class just to kind of introduce, introduce you get
you used to you know, mixing different fragrances and things
like that.

Speaker 23 (01:51:34):
Okay, and so you took that class and then how
long was it before going from that class to actually
launching your own company?

Speaker 8 (01:51:44):
About ten years?

Speaker 39 (01:51:46):
Yeah, So after the class, I just you know, experiment
with kandos fragrances and just different things. But I never
really had the time to start the company or I
never had the funds. And you know, with COVID it
kind of gave me a break, you know, so that
I can start the company, gotcha.

Speaker 23 (01:52:04):
And so so so when you're creating a fragrance, what
are you looking for? What's smell? I mean it's with
some to some too strong, some too soft. What are
you actually looking for?

Speaker 4 (01:52:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 39 (01:52:17):
So with my fragrances, I work with a really good
uh fragrance maker, and so we work together and we
just kind of play around with things. Sometimes we get
inspired by things that are already out there. So one
of the fragrances that you actually have is very rich,
which is inspired by Bacarat Rouge. So I get inspired
by things that are already out there.

Speaker 23 (01:52:42):
So when you okay, so you get inspired by these
different things that are out there, and so your fragrances.

Speaker 4 (01:52:50):
Are they for men and women or only for women?

Speaker 3 (01:52:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:52:54):
Everything is uni sex. Yeah, everything is unisex.

Speaker 23 (01:52:59):
Okay, So so now I'll explain that because there are
some fragrances and perfumes that are targeted to men, others
target to women. And so how did you come up
with this? Come of this frankly neutral if you will,
that can be, that could be, that could be used
in warm.

Speaker 39 (01:53:18):
Yeah, so I just chose sense that, you know, men
and women will feel comfortable using, you know. So that's
kind of what I wanted to make sure when I
had all my fragrances.

Speaker 4 (01:53:30):
Okay, all right, questions from the panel. Let's see who.

Speaker 23 (01:53:35):
Probably wears the most cologne or perfume. It's probably gonna
be camera.

Speaker 27 (01:53:47):
I mean I do.

Speaker 1 (01:53:47):
I do wear a good cologne.

Speaker 22 (01:53:48):
I like to smell good. Congratulations on. I don't know
why that's funny.

Speaker 8 (01:54:00):
I don't know why that's Why.

Speaker 3 (01:54:02):
Can't a brother smell good? Why can't a brother smell good?
What's going on here? Please excuse the panel in our host?

Speaker 1 (01:54:11):
Uh, congratulations on your business, sir.

Speaker 23 (01:54:15):
Hey, I'm hey cat Kelly the one losing it?

Speaker 4 (01:54:19):
That ain't me? No all jokes aside, Come on camera.

Speaker 18 (01:54:27):
What's the question?

Speaker 4 (01:54:29):
Now?

Speaker 22 (01:54:29):
My question is if you're trying to make sure you
make a statement in the room, but you don't want
to be overbearing, which one of the fragrances would you suggest?

Speaker 8 (01:54:40):
I was Answerine thirty three. This is what the packaging
looks like here.

Speaker 39 (01:54:44):
This has rose clothes, senni man, black currant, peturely, a
little bit of a niece and it's a great evening
in daytime set.

Speaker 1 (01:54:55):
I'm gonna pick some of that up. I'm gonna pick some.

Speaker 24 (01:54:57):
Of that up.

Speaker 8 (01:54:58):
Yes, please do enjoy it. And I and I actually
came out.

Speaker 4 (01:55:05):
Okay, I'm sorry to say it again.

Speaker 39 (01:55:07):
Yeah, I said I came out with this particular sense
Antoine thirty three. I came out with it on my birthday.

Speaker 4 (01:55:15):
Okay, I all right, Cole Kelly.

Speaker 13 (01:55:19):
So when it comes to uh, similar to Roland's question,
but I want to be more specific on the type,
like the elements of your sense. So I know you
know a lot of people use I think it's called
pronounced ood or yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:55:34):
O U d.

Speaker 13 (01:55:36):
Throws lavender. So what are your favorite combinations of sense
like as far as like your your base like when
you when you create something, what do you typically start with?

Speaker 8 (01:55:50):
So again, like I get inspired by sense that are
already out there.

Speaker 39 (01:55:54):
So one of the sens that Roland has in the
studio is called her Sin, which is inspired by Delina,
which is part FULM Demorley and that's vanilla, it has rolls,
has a little bit of leechy some Bergamont. That's a
really fresh, great unisexcent. And then I also have like
you know, a sandal wood and cedar and leather and

(01:56:15):
violet and musk if you want, like a deeper, more
woody smell.

Speaker 8 (01:56:20):
Yeah, I have a wide variety of since I have
some I have things for everyone.

Speaker 36 (01:56:26):
Okay, all right, Mustafa, Yeah, and congratulations you know on
your success so far.

Speaker 17 (01:56:33):
Could you talk a.

Speaker 24 (01:56:34):
Little bit about because you started during COVID, can you
talk a little bit about what your greatest challenge has
been and then what has been your greatest success for
your business?

Speaker 8 (01:56:44):
Well, you know, COVID really gave me the time.

Speaker 39 (01:56:47):
So before COVID, I never had the time or the money,
you know, But with COVID we had nothing but time,
you know, so I really utilized that time, you know,
testing different fragmanceies in different sense. You know, sending things
to my friends and family and kind of say what
they liked. And what was the second part of the question.

Speaker 17 (01:57:05):
What was about challenges and success?

Speaker 8 (01:57:08):
Oh, challenges.

Speaker 39 (01:57:10):
Well, you know, this year particular has been a little
bit challenging, you know, like with everything going on, so
things have definitely slowed down a little bit. But you know,
it's definitely learning the pivot, learning you know, to kind
of add new lines.

Speaker 8 (01:57:24):
At new fragrances, at new sense and so yeah, thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:57:32):
All right.

Speaker 23 (01:57:33):
Then, well listen, folks, go to shop blackstartnetwork dot com.
Shop blackstartnetwork dot com. Uh to check out of the
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There are there multiple products there, so go to the
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Speaker 4 (01:57:51):
Antoine, Man, we appreciate it, man.

Speaker 8 (01:57:52):
Thanks a lot, Thank you very much. I appreciate you
having me.

Speaker 4 (01:57:57):
All right, Thank you so very much, folks. That is
for us.

Speaker 23 (01:58:01):
Let me thank my panel, let me thank Mustafa, let
me thank smooth smelling Cameron, and let.

Speaker 4 (01:58:11):
Me think yeah as well, thank you so very much.

Speaker 23 (01:58:16):
Folks that said for me, I appreciate tomorrow we got
the program here at the Butterfill Vermida Championship. We're gonna
be a partner with different pro players and so looking
forward to that.

Speaker 30 (01:58:27):
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Speaker 23 (01:58:28):
And again I'll be sharing some other stories talking to
some folks here about this tournament, what Bermida, what their
goal is by sponsoring this.

Speaker 4 (01:58:38):
And of course it's also that golf season is very interesting.
They see that golf season. It's September to May. I
was talking to one of the guys. He said it
was too hot, and I'm like, too hot, man, pease.

Speaker 23 (01:58:49):
He said, shoot, I'll get me to heat any day
of the week.

Speaker 4 (01:58:52):
But again, so look forward to that. So lots more
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