Shutdown Day 30: Faith Leaders Blast MAGA Neglect, GA Power Fight, VA Redistricting, AfroTech 2025

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Today's Thursday, Actumber thirty of twenty twenty five coming up
on Rolling Bard the Unfield dis stryt mean live on
the Black Star Network. We're here at Afro Tech in
hugheson the George R. Brown Convention Center. We'll hear from
experts talking about how technology can help you with your budget,
also the issue of mental health. We'll also talk to
Ryan Wilson, of course with the gathering spot talking about

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how do we build and grow black owned businesses. Cybersecurity
is a huge issue. How to protect yourself from being scammed.
We have all of that. On today's show, plus, I
took a tour of the Expot Hall, got an opportunity
to check out these new software these glasses from Meta
as well as Snapchat.

Speaker 5 (03:42):
Will show you some of that as well.

Speaker 8 (03:43):
I'm gonna hop out into the plaza behind me and
chat with some folks.

Speaker 5 (03:47):
Also in about an hour or so plus.

Speaker 8 (03:50):
On today's show, the Donald Trump Maga federal government shut
down hits day thirty and we are just a couple
of days away from when Snap benefits will not go out.
And is it amazing how all these conservatives now despise
folks who are on Snap, which includes.

Speaker 5 (04:07):
A hell of a lot of their voters.

Speaker 8 (04:09):
Also, critical races happening in Georgia with the Public Service
Commission that impacts your utility rates. We'll talk with one
of the candidates on the show. Plus Virginia delegates also
looking at how do they change their districts in Jerry
manderin the House has already moved on that.

Speaker 5 (04:29):
Lots of bus to talk about.

Speaker 8 (04:30):
It's time to bring the funk right here on Roland
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Speaker 5 (04:35):
Let's go.

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Speaker 5 (05:35):
Folks.

Speaker 8 (05:35):
We're live in Houston for Afro Tech twenty twenty five.
It has been a great couple of days being here,
lots being talked about. More than fifteen thousand folks registered
for this conference, and so we've had some fascinating conversations.
We've got more to share with you today, so we'll
look forward to all of that coming up on the show. First,

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let's talk about Donald Trump and MCA federal government shut
down entering day thirty and now we're facing the prospects
of those folks who will not have their snap benefits
beginning on November.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
One, which is Saturday.

Speaker 8 (06:10):
Now, it's interesting when you listen to these Republicans look
on social media. They are attacking folks who simply rely
on food benefits, many of them the same white right
wing voters to support Republican Party. Bishop William barber cokeviner
of Repairs of the Breach, also with the Poor People's Campaign,
he talked about how this country, especially these white conservative evangelicals,

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are leaving the poor behind.

Speaker 12 (06:38):
We come here today because our faith demands Jeremiah twenty
two says that when we come to the places of
the power, we're the supposed to say to the leaders,
rescue the people from the oppressor's hand. We are supposed
to say, don't do any violence or past policies that
will kill and destroy people's lives. And we are supposed

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to have good news and welcome for the immigrant.

Speaker 13 (07:03):
Our text that Jews, Christian.

Speaker 12 (07:05):
Landmuslims honor tell us that we must care for the
least of these. And the question is not did we pray?
The question is where were we when people were hungry?
Where were we being able to thirsty? Where were we
when they were immigrants and strangers? Where were we when
they were sick? We are called to have good news,

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good news to the poor. Word literally means for tocos,
those who've been made poor by economic policies. We also
come here because we are saying America must.

Speaker 13 (07:39):
Be who she says she is, and who she says.

Speaker 12 (07:43):
She is is a place that is opposed to establish justice,
not established injustice, a place that is supposed to promote
the general wellfaed of all people, not the general hurt
of some people. That we are supposed to be a
place that provides for the common defense, not just the

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defense of the lobbyists and the defense of the greedy.

Speaker 13 (08:10):
We have named this bill.

Speaker 12 (08:12):
The big, bad, deadly, ugly destructive Bill because it does
not heal. It hurts, especially poor and lower wage people.

Speaker 13 (08:21):
We know that fifty one.

Speaker 12 (08:23):
Thousand people, according to the studies by Yell and pen
will die as a result of the impacts of this
bill in the first year, and in a moment, I'm
gonna have had to read you some real numbers.

Speaker 13 (08:36):
We declared as the leader that this bill and.

Speaker 12 (08:39):
The actions here are morally indefensible, constitutionally inconsistent, and economically insane.

Speaker 13 (08:49):
Because this bill.

Speaker 12 (08:50):
Hurts children, it hurts the disable, it hurts veterans, it
hurts the already sick, it hurts those with chronic disease.

Speaker 13 (09:00):
Some of the stories of.

Speaker 12 (09:01):
The millions that you will hear in just the moment,
and it is wrong.

Speaker 13 (09:06):
We believe for every House member, we don't care what
part of they is.

Speaker 12 (09:09):
If you voted for this bill to take from the
most vulnerable and transfer more money to the rich that
was transferred from the slave to slave masters, if that's
what happened, and you, as a congress person, get free
healthcare when you get elected. Just because you get elected,

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you get the top of the line healthcare with no.

Speaker 13 (09:33):
Pre existing condition, and you're.

Speaker 12 (09:35):
Able to pass that onto your family. How wrong tomorrow
is if you get it and then you don't want
the people who elected you to have the same thing.

Speaker 8 (09:49):
On Monday, sit a Chaplain berry Black actually prayed for
the federal government to shut down to actually ending.

Speaker 14 (09:58):
Let us pray, Eternal God, our King, when our children
and grandchildren want to know what we were doing in
the one hundred nineteenth Congress during the famous shutdown, may

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we not have to give these answers. I helped set
a new record for keeping the government closed. I failed
to appeal to the better angels of my nature. I
forgot Matthew seven twelve, which states, due to others whatever

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you would like them to do to you. This is
the essence of all that is taught in the law
and profits. Lord, remind our lawmakers that no gold medals
are given for breaking shutdown records, but a crown of

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righteousness is given to those who take care of the lost.
Last and least. We pray in your loving name, oh Man.

Speaker 8 (11:35):
House Democratic leader Kim Jeffries called out Speaker of Mike Johnson,
laying out the real reason why SNAP benefits will not
go out on November first, which is Saturday.

Speaker 15 (11:47):
Since day thirty of the Trump Republican shutdown and House
Republicans remain on vacation, it canceled votes for five consecutive weeks.
House Republicans are missing in action. Yet speaking of Mike
Johnson is saying the quiet part out loud. Extraordinary that

(12:10):
earlier today, Mike Johnson admitted that Republicans are willing to
starve hungry children in this country and take away SNAP
benefits starting on November first, so they can pressure Democrats

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into gutting the healthcare of the American people. That's what
Mike Johnson.

Speaker 13 (12:37):
Admitted to.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
Just a little while ago.

Speaker 15 (12:41):
That's extraordinary, but it's what we know to be the
case for Republicans from the very beginning of this presidency.
Cruelty has been the point and what has been driving
their policy agenda is to make life better for the wealthy,

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the well off, and the well connected. That's what the
One Big Ugly Bill was all about. Largest cut to
medicaid in American history, ripping food away from the mouths
of children, seniors, veterans, and families.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
And all of this.

Speaker 15 (13:22):
Was done to provide massive tax breaks to their billionaire donors.
And now as we approach November first, just two days
from now, the beginning of open enrollment, tens of millions
of Americans, including many in the state of Louisiana, are

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about to experience dramatically increase premiums, co pays and deductibles
that will bankrupt them.

Speaker 8 (13:51):
All right, folks, want to bring my panel right now,
doctor Greg car Department of aff for American Studies at
Howard University. Glad they have Greg here, doctor Nola Haynes,
Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service out of Washington, d C.
And we'll be joined shortly by Eugene Craig, CEO of
x Factor Media out of Baltimore, Maryland. It's been quite hilarious, Greg,
to sit here and listen to a lot of these Republicans.

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You take Senator Tummy Tuberville, truly the dumbest member of
the United States Senate. How they are they are so
critical all these people who want Snap benefits. Seven hundred
and fifty thousand people in Alabama receive SNAP benefits. Then
we talk about medicaid as well. So does Tommy Tuberville
not think a lot of the folk who get snapped

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he thinks that not a bunch of broke ass white people.

Speaker 7 (14:40):
You know, I thought about Dad Rowland. I think we all.
I think we all did thinking about a place like Leeds, Alabama,
for example. I think it's where Charles Barkley is from.
I was past Leads on the way back to atlant
I was in Montgomery, Birmingham actually earlier this some of that,

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And I think, what did Charles Bartley had decided to
have to go to Auburn from Leeds, Alabama, where folks
in that little community need assistance. Tommy Tuberville should ask
himself a question if he has the mental stastic because
he quite he is not only the dumbest member of the
Summer right now sentence, he might be the stupidest human

(15:24):
being to ever hold elective office in the United States
of Americas. But I wonder if he asked himself how
many of his players at Auburn University came from families
that needed food assistance. But more importantly, and I saw
Louke Campbell tweeted this out today with attached to this
video of him making these stupid remarks. He's saying that

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perhaps the players black and non black, who played for
Auburn and a lot of these schools should reconsider going
to these schools in states where the people who are
elected the office to represent them to help them are
treating them.

Speaker 6 (16:04):
As if they are somehow a cancer. I agree wholeheartedly.

Speaker 7 (16:09):
So all you young people out there considering going to
these slave economic concern schools, he's sec schools, you should
ask yourself if you want to go to a school
that still associates with a racist who is running for
governor of Vala Beta right now, who says that you're
sitting on your ass doing nothing, when in fact, in reality,
the people he is attacking are his own people. But

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he's not talking to them, he's talking to you. I
think it's time for that. And the other thing I
would say is that listening to judge and Dearrah Talwaney
who's on the District Court in Massachusetts questioning the government
and saying, y'all got more than enough money to carry
this through the shutdown, but somehow you're saying you can't

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spend the money in the reserve.

Speaker 6 (16:56):
Make it make sense? To me, I suspect that the
courts might be the.

Speaker 7 (16:59):
One that deliver a victory, and these and these Republicans
are scared as hell because the clock is ticking and
the courts might be then the ones who end up
saving us in terms of this food and security issue.

Speaker 8 (17:10):
Is perfect example when you talk about messaging and how
you must ulize effective messaging. So if I'm Ken Martin
and I'm a Democrats, I'm sitting here hammering on social
media everywhere how many people on staff benefits in every
single Republican congrescial district, especially in red states. We're talking

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South Carolina, We're talking North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Idaho, Missouri, Kansas,
North Dakota, South Dakota. And you run all those numbers
to be able to say, okay, while these people, while

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they are on all these all these maggots are on
social media trashing these folks. These are the very same
people Nebraska as well who vote for these folks, and
so that's how you throw it in their face. And
they should be messaging in those red states to those
voters saying they are calling y'all a bunch of lazy ingrates.

Speaker 16 (18:14):
Is that.

Speaker 9 (18:16):
Towards me?

Speaker 10 (18:16):
Roland here.

Speaker 5 (18:20):
I said, Nola, I didn't hear you.

Speaker 13 (18:26):
Said.

Speaker 5 (18:26):
That's no shock. Nola is no shot you to hear
me anyway.

Speaker 17 (18:31):
So yes, I completely agree with that strategy.

Speaker 18 (18:35):
Numbers, numbers are easy.

Speaker 17 (18:38):
Data is easy to keeat over and over again, how
many people in each state are dependent on benefits and
also to talk about what benefits are what they aren't,
because you know, AI has already dragged out clips black women.

(19:02):
You know, the old old trope is back again, you know,
the black women and welfare and all that stuff. So
in terms of being very clear about who's affected impacted
and defining me very clearly, very simply, what snap benefits are,

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what they aren't, I think that's an effective strategy.

Speaker 8 (19:29):
That's what they should be doing. Be far more aggressive
than what they're doing right now. Hold tight one second.
We got lots of women going to talk about, including
the crazy deranged governor Louisiana, who is he's so busy
he's focused on who's the next head coach at LSU
and trying to build a Charlie Kirk statue on campus.

(19:50):
Ryan Clark, you play the LSU had some tough words
about that on ESPN and the mag of people like
Klay Travis are going crazy, which I always enjoy. They
lose their death. So I'm gonna show y'all what he
had to say as well. Lots we're gonna be talking
about folks. We're live here at Afro Tech twenty twenty
five here in Houston, going to a break.

Speaker 5 (20:08):
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I shot with music. All right, folks, welcome back.

Speaker 8 (22:20):
We are here in Houston at AFRO Tech twenty twenty five.
We talked about technology. It's not just obviously technology companies,
it's really how all of our lives intersect with technology.
And there have been a number of folks we've been
talking with here, individuals of course, who are in for profits, nonprofits,
universities in here.

Speaker 5 (22:41):
How about social workers.

Speaker 8 (22:43):
And so that's what the conversation we're going to have
join us right now, there's the head of the National
Association of Social Workers, doctor Anthony E.

Speaker 5 (22:51):
Street.

Speaker 21 (22:51):
How you doing?

Speaker 5 (22:52):
How you doing? Roland? Thank you for having me?

Speaker 13 (22:53):
All right?

Speaker 5 (22:54):
So what the hell is the social workers doing in
that pro tech?

Speaker 22 (22:56):
So it's interesting, right, So as social workers, we are
the large providers or behavioral services in the United States.
So as we're thinking about mental health and the way
that people interact with technology, it makes it important for
us to be at this space to really think about
how we're how we're designing technology and making sure that
it maintains that human centered approach.

Speaker 8 (23:15):
So what type of things have y'all been involved here?
Discussions y'all been involved here at that protech.

Speaker 22 (23:20):
So we had a main stage conversation on the innovation
stage with myself, the CEO of NASW, the CEO of APA,
Arthur Evans, and the CEO of NAMI, the National alligne
some mental illness to really talk about the full spectrum
of mental illness and how technology should be incorporated as
a preventive method but also intervention.

Speaker 8 (23:41):
So take that, just take it from here to those
social workers. How are y'all working as sort of the
bridge as well for them to integrate technology into their work.

Speaker 22 (23:54):
So we look at it from a policy standpoint but
also a practical standpoint. So the more that we are
thinking about telehealth, the use of virtual reality, the use
of augmented GPTs, and how people are engaging with them,
it really does give an opportunity for us to be
on the front end of that design. So really in prevention,
making sure that people understand the risk of engaging with
technology and using gpt for like companionship in therapy, but

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also how can we use VR as a way to
help somebody with exposure therapy or PTSD.

Speaker 5 (24:25):
Where are they doing it? Well, that's a great question.

Speaker 22 (24:28):
So there are a lot of technologies out there that
do really well on prevention and teaching people around meditation
and yoga and those preventive kind of measures. We're also
looking at technologies that get into the treatment of intervention.
If there's an intervention out there or technology out there
that does CBT.

Speaker 5 (24:46):
Which is cognitive behavioral therapy.

Speaker 22 (24:48):
Not out of ten times it's going to have positive
effect on the mental health of anybody using it.

Speaker 8 (24:55):
For that social worker, they may be over burden, may
have lots of clients that they're actually dealing with, And
so in terms of a ratio, are people seeing folks
directly in the individually or or you see an increase
in virtual.

Speaker 22 (25:16):
So we've definitely seen an increase in the use of
virtual therapy and telehealth as a result of COVID, and
so more people are doing it and looking at ways
to have access. So that is one of the things
that we're trying to see is like when people do
do it, how do we do it well? And also
what are those policies that kind of govern it right
And so as they're rewriting the rules for Medicaid and
medicare right now there's a requirement that there has to

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be one in person session for every six months. That
doesn't take into account those individuals live in rural areas
where they have to travel far to obtain mental health
and so we're advocating constantly to try to increase access
to mental health care, but also making sure that mental
health care is accessible to everybody.

Speaker 8 (25:54):
You talked about Medicaid, and again that means that y'all
are impacted by these this government.

Speaker 21 (26:00):
Ut down.

Speaker 5 (26:02):
Absolutely so as social workers. One of our largest.

Speaker 22 (26:06):
Employers of social workers is the Department of Veterans Affairs,
and so social workers are impacted. But also those clients
that we see in veterans and the different communities are
impacted because they're not able to access their benefits, they're
not able to access healthcare in that space, and so
we have to really continue to advocate and create a
space for more conversation around these harmful policies for us.

Speaker 8 (26:28):
What that also does is that drives up stretch levels
and things along those lines for those folks. Absolutely last
question for you, and that is y'all also what role
you're also playing as folks are developing technology? How do
you want them to utilizing your expertise on the front

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end versus the back end.

Speaker 5 (26:52):
Yeah, so I think that's a great question.

Speaker 22 (26:53):
One of the things that we are looking to do
down here is partner and make sure that as we're
thinking about technology and that it has to remain human centered.
I think the second thing that I want to say
is that you know, equity and diversity have to be
at every stage of development. So the more that we're
thinking about how black people are interacting with technology, we

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also have to make sure that black people are on
the design and development of that technology on the front end,
not just on the application. And lastly, making sure that
the development of technology is cross sectional. Everybody in here
has experienced mental health on one part of the continuum
or the other, right, and so we have to think
about it from a workforce standpoint, but also a utilization standpoint.

Speaker 21 (27:32):
All right, what sounds good?

Speaker 8 (27:34):
Was certainly lad that y'all are here sharing valuable insight,
gaining knowledge as well. To bring it back, last question,
how many total members do you have?

Speaker 22 (27:44):
So we are the largest professional membership organization for social workers.
We have about one hundred and ten thousand members currently
and always looking for more.

Speaker 21 (27:51):
All right, then, I frat. We appreciate it. Thanks a lot.

Speaker 22 (27:53):
I appreciate you.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
All right, folks got to go to break.

Speaker 21 (27:57):
We come back.

Speaker 8 (27:57):
I'm gonna step out of here in the effortech plaza
a chat with some folks. We're also gonna hear from
a budget expert how technology can help people when it
comes to managing their money. In addition, we'll talk to
Ryan Wilson, co founder of the Gathering Spot about in
terms of how do we really build and grow and
sustain black owned businesses.

Speaker 5 (28:16):
Cybersecurity is also a critical issue.

Speaker 8 (28:18):
Something else we're gonna be hearing from expert in that area.
Plus Virginia's talking about redistriating.

Speaker 5 (28:23):
We'll talk about a little bit about that.

Speaker 8 (28:25):
And then of course this Charlie Kirk statue on the
campus of LSU. I keep telling y' all, these maga
people they believe in their own little gods and we're
sitting there play out right now, so lots for us
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I told you the other day that Louisiana Governor Greg
Landry Jeff Landers is an absolute idiot. He got involved
in the firing a Brian Keller, the LSU head coach
down He's like, oh, the ad Bob ad Scott Water
is not gonna have any role in it. Now he's
championing building a Charlie Kirk statue on the campus of LSU.

Speaker 5 (31:12):
L Ryan Clark, who.

Speaker 8 (31:13):
Was the star at Louisian State University, had a few
words to say about that on ESPN's First Take, First Off.

Speaker 25 (31:19):
It's the second most ridiculous thing he said this week.
The first was standing on campus is saying he wanted
to put a statue up with somebody that doesn't represent
the people of Louisiana, doesn't represent the players and the
students at LSU, doesn't represent the executives that worked there.
That was the first dumb thing he said this week.
This is the second dumbest, right amongst a lot of

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dumb things.

Speaker 13 (31:42):
That he says.

Speaker 25 (31:43):
Scott Woodard, for whatever he is, is a man who
got Jay Johnson right. Last I checked, the twenty twenty
five Louisiana State University Tiger baseball team was in the
White House getting the gap recently right. He was there
in twenty nineteen when it's one of the greatest college.

Speaker 5 (32:00):
Football teams of all time.

Speaker 25 (32:02):
He's also he also was there when he said, you
know what, We're gonna go out and get Kim Moki right.

Speaker 5 (32:05):
She brings a.

Speaker 25 (32:06):
Championship to the school with Angel Reese.

Speaker 5 (32:08):
And with FLAJEJ. Johnson, and so to me.

Speaker 25 (32:11):
This is another situation of politicians poking their nose into
things that they don't know about. And I honestly believe
it was so he can get in front of a
microphone and say, look at this connection I have to
the president, and he likes to pick winners, so he
could play kate to somebody he idolizes, you don't know
nothing about football. There's enough going on in the state

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of Louisiana that needs to be fixed for its constituents.

Speaker 5 (32:37):
Well, I don't need you tweeting on Saturday.

Speaker 25 (32:39):
Night about what's going on in Tiger Stadium. There is
too many issues happening right there under your nose that
ain't got nothing to do with sports.

Speaker 6 (32:49):
Scott Woodard is a good man.

Speaker 25 (32:51):
Scott Woodard is a man that cares about LSU and
the greatest times. Back in the day, he understood what
it was like to be a part of a winner,
and he's brought more winners back to the school. He
didn't miss because Brian Kelly wasn't capable. He missed because
Brian Kelly was no longer willing, Brian Kelly was no
longer tapped in.

Speaker 26 (33:12):
Brian Kelly didn't care if.

Speaker 25 (33:13):
The people of Louisiana cared about him, and he didn't
care if the players knew that he cared about them.
That's where it went wrong, not in picking a man
who was the winningest all time.

Speaker 26 (33:23):
Coach in Notre Dame history.

Speaker 25 (33:25):
So for me, it's emotional, clearly, and it pisses me off.
But Scott Woodard deserves to pick the next head coach.

Speaker 5 (33:34):
And the governor should stay out of it.

Speaker 21 (33:37):
Did you tell her?

Speaker 8 (33:39):
All right, folks, let's go back to our panel. We're
joined by Eugene Craig. Eugene, these mag of people really
are stupid. Eugene, I'm really a statue of Charlie Kirk.
Ain't from Louisiana, don't know nothing about Louisiana. And Ryan
Clark is absolutely right. And these fools like Clay Travis

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and the rest of these mag of people all upset
calling his comments racist and no, Clark is absolutely right.
We're talking about a broke ass state in Louisiana and
Jeff Landry should be spending more time on the issues
in Louisiana and stop focused on damn l s U
football and a dumb ass statue.

Speaker 13 (34:19):
Listen, Uh.

Speaker 27 (34:22):
Sorry, You're dealing with a couple of situations person chiefly
uh Republicans MAGA world.

Speaker 6 (34:29):
They're doing a lot around this whole around Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 27 (34:32):
You got the Santas pretty and the vot of General
simbily mandating that every college university dedicated some you got
you know, landing Governor Landry here, you know one of.

Speaker 6 (34:45):
I say what a time another.

Speaker 27 (34:46):
Platform most things some people get from God as being
a victim that question, and that's what they're doing. Charlie
Kirk right now, he's a victim that can't be questioned,
and so they're just trying to make him turn.

Speaker 6 (34:57):
And the thing is this what he did when he
was on.

Speaker 27 (34:59):
The first was the intent of a lot of a
lot of the communities, the conspiracies and the institutions that
they're trying to force to recognize and manwedge him. I
would also say the governor, yes, he has a lot
of issues to deal was well before against football. I
think L s U and l probably take care of himself,

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you know. And and the thing is it's also as
these folk are supposed to be small government folk, right,
small government conspervatives, I think this is about right that
you let ls U handle L s U's issue on
their own. For for a very long time in publicans
preach government closer to people its past. So let the
a D and let the university find their trying to

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market management.

Speaker 8 (35:44):
These crazy maga folk no love. They really think that
Charlie Kirk was on part of Reverend doctor Martin Uther
King Jr. That they think this dude is an actual saint.
They are outside as as Denzel said, uh uh, some
of the Titans.

Speaker 5 (36:00):
You are outside your.

Speaker 17 (36:02):
Mind absolutely, And the way that they are trying to
make actual.

Speaker 16 (36:14):
Racism a non thing.

Speaker 10 (36:18):
Is a part of this that really gets to me.

Speaker 17 (36:22):
And what I see this is the signaling, you know,
weighing in on what's happening in the LSU.

Speaker 18 (36:29):
I genuinely feel that the.

Speaker 17 (36:30):
Governor is doing this because first of all, he's trying
to get the president's decision, and he's also trying to
signal that, you know, he's connected. He's talking about this issue.
The President's going to chime in eventually, and then you know,
Daddy Trump will give him a both start. But this

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is what our politics is today.

Speaker 18 (36:54):
Get Trump's attention.

Speaker 16 (36:57):
So Daddy can give you.

Speaker 13 (36:58):
A goal start.

Speaker 10 (37:00):
And I agree with Ryan Park.

Speaker 17 (37:04):
Sports are too inundated with these sort of personalities, with
these people who own these clubs, who have legions to
the public party. And then that then filters into the
way that business is done, where actual black men, regarding football, basketball,

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are out there putting their bodies on the line for
their schools and their football clubs and all these things.

Speaker 10 (37:35):
What does that say to them? When you want to
erect a.

Speaker 17 (37:40):
Statue of someone who wasn't ostensibly racist, he was, and
to make that scene like that's free speech to demean
and dominic impact.

Speaker 9 (37:56):
Of some of the things that he said.

Speaker 17 (37:59):
Basically is well, just like just wants to let people.

Speaker 9 (38:05):
From South Africa, all of these.

Speaker 5 (38:07):
Actors the thing for me, the thief of me.

Speaker 8 (38:13):
Greg He literally said, let's erect this statue as a
symbol of free speech. Like I said before, how about
to just do a statue of the First Amendment. I
think that's probably the most prominent way to commemorate the
free speech.

Speaker 7 (38:31):
Yeah, I'll be very clear about what I'm about to say.
I embrace them putting a statue trans James kirkup in
Baton Rouge unless you I absolutely embrace it, and I'll
tell you why. The good brother Ryan Clark is an

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example of just how far we have regressed since the
day when Paul bear Bryant, late of Texas A and
M and then the University of Alabama, saw his team
defeated by a USC team that featured Sam Bam Cunningham,

(39:15):
the brother of Randall Cunningham, and after the game, Sam
Cunningham tells the story of how Bear Bryant took him
to the Alabama locker room, an all white locker room
at the time, stood him up in front of his
players that had just been defeated and said this is
what a football player looks like.

Speaker 6 (39:37):
Shortly thereafter.

Speaker 7 (39:40):
If you go to an Alabama football game, you would
think it was an HBCU.

Speaker 6 (39:44):
Donald Trump.

Speaker 7 (39:46):
Came to the Alabama LSU football game in twenty nineteen
with his picture wife. I don't know where she lives,
but I know for that moment she was in Tuscales
and got a standing ovation from the crowd. The following
year at the National Championship game when LSU played Clemson,
he came to the game and got an ovation from

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the fans. Please understand, brother Ryan, I'm with you as
far as it goes. When you start talking about ball
chasing as if it is not part of the fabric
of white supremacy in this country, you, my friend, have
become a useful tool in the advancement of white.

Speaker 6 (40:27):
Nativism and nationalists. Where am I going with this?

Speaker 7 (40:31):
Put the statue of baby and if you are a
basketball player, women's or men's basketball, if you are a
volleyball player women's volleyball, if you are a track athlete,
if you are a football player, black or non black,
you should then say I will not play.

Speaker 6 (40:49):
At Louisiana State University.

Speaker 7 (40:51):
How will not play at Alabama University or Auburn University,
or the University of Tennessee or the University of Georgia.

Speaker 6 (40:56):
You see, what you got to understand is.

Speaker 7 (40:58):
That sports is at the heart of white supremacy in
this country. Ever since they had two black men slapping
they held out of each other on a plantation at
the roots of boxing. I want to statue of Charlie
kirk Up because if you remember what happened the night
before James Meredith integrated the University of Mississippi, it was

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the Governor of Mississippi, Ross Barnett, who led the pep
rally for segregation as they waved the Confederate battle flag.
And if you know about Old Miss, you know that
while those black players continue to feed the mouth of Mississippi,
they have a statue of James Meredith on that campus

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that was found wearing a noose. And the young American
negroes continued to chase the ball up and down the
field for Old Miss until we revive our self respect.
Not only will they put up statues you with a
couple of negroes who will key key behind the racist

(42:03):
president of the United States and his ninety thousand seat
ballroom or whatever, ninety thousand square football room and say
show he's glad to be here. Boss y'all stop going
to LSU and watch how fast they.

Speaker 6 (42:16):
Changed their too.

Speaker 7 (42:17):
If that put together, finally a little checklist. We a
ten point checklist. And at the top of your checklist
is the bag. We know, y'all they buying football players. Okay,
No problem Number two is diversity. If this school that
I'm about to sign with for five hundred thousand dollars
or fifty thousand dollars one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
a year and nil deals doesn't have as number two

(42:40):
a percentage of black players.

Speaker 6 (42:42):
That I'm satisfied with, I'm not coming there.

Speaker 7 (42:45):
Watch out quickly, Ohio, State of Michigan, in USC Watch
how quickly the University of Kansas and now Indiana University.
Watch how quickly Nike you in Oregon make diversity a
priority and watch the Confederacy die until they do the same.
Let's get serious about this. I'm sorry, Ryan, you chase
ball for a white supremacist brother. Until you deal with that,

(43:07):
I don't want to hear anything you have to say.

Speaker 8 (43:13):
And on that note, we're going to break. When I
come back, I'm going to be live for the Plaza
out of here. We're going to have a lot more
about interviews here from Afrotech. Folks, you'll watch you roll
up my unfiltered right here on the black Star Network.

Speaker 17 (43:28):
This week on the other side of Change.

Speaker 28 (43:30):
Book bands, anti intellectualism, and Trump's continued war on wisdom.

Speaker 29 (43:34):
This is a coordinated backlash to progress. At the end
of the day, conservatives realized that they couldn't win a
debate on facts. They started using our language against us. Right,
remember when we were all woke and the woke movement
and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 5 (43:49):
Now everything is anti woke.

Speaker 29 (43:50):
Right when we were talking about 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 28 (44:00):
You're watching the Other side of Change only on the
Plastern Network.

Speaker 12 (44:04):
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 6 (44:14):
That's the time for morning, For better or worse.

Speaker 30 (44:16):
What makes America special, It's that legal system that's supposed
to protect.

Speaker 5 (44:21):
Minorities from the tyranny of the majority. We are at
a point of a moral emergency.

Speaker 31 (44:29):
We must raise a voice of outrag We must raise
a voice of compassion, and we must raise a voice
of unity.

Speaker 32 (44:40):
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 would hate, don't have the finals say, and

(45:01):
they don't ultimately win.

Speaker 26 (45:05):
Next on the Black Table with me Craig Calker.

Speaker 7 (45:08):
Now, the America we live in today is not what
the founders intended or what they outlined in the Declaration
of Independence and even the Constitution. Professor and author Cermit
Roosevelt will join us to talk.

Speaker 26 (45:19):
About his book The Nation That Never Was, How.

Speaker 7 (45:23):
History was misinterpreted the intended realities of America's beginnings and
missed a much better story in the process.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
So, if you have to pick some group to marginalize,
I think it should be the people who are against
the quality.

Speaker 7 (45:34):
That's next on the Black Table right here on the
Black Star Network.

Speaker 33 (45:42):
This week on a Balanced Life with Doctor Jackie. We're
continuing our series of putting in the works a chef's Journey.
Are you an aspiring chef someone who already has a business,
trying to figure out what your next steps will be,
who to talk to and how to get there well.
On this week's show, our great guests and wonderful chefs
will talk to you about what means to discover your purpose,

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your why of being in the kitchen and then knowing
how to put a business together.

Speaker 15 (46:07):
The menu controls everything, It determines The menu determines everything,
but the business plan is where you.

Speaker 34 (46:15):
Have to go back to when you get into the business.
At the end of the day. You know, social media
and TV, all of that stuff. It's cool, but you
still have to run a business, so you still have
to be in relationship with people.

Speaker 33 (46:25):
That's all next on A Balance Life with Doctor Jackie
Here on Black Star Network.

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They said the quiet part out loud. Black votes are
a threat, so they erased them. After the Supreme Court
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moved fast new voter id laws, polling place shutdowns, purges
of black voters from the Roles Trump's Justice Department didn't
stop it. They joined in. In twenty eighteen, his DOJ

(46:57):
backed Ohio's voter purge system, a scheme that disproportionately erased
black voters. Their goal erase black votes and political power. Yeah,
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Speaker 13 (47:32):
How you doing.

Speaker 29 (47:33):
My name is Luck Kert, and you're watching Roland Martin Unfiltered.

Speaker 4 (47:39):
Deep into it like pasteurized milk without the two percent.

Speaker 35 (47:42):
Were getting deep?

Speaker 1 (47:44):
You want to turn that shit out. We're going to interview.

Speaker 21 (47:45):
But Buda, it's been the center of activity.

Speaker 5 (48:21):
You see.

Speaker 8 (48:21):
You got all the couches out here. You see folks
out here just chilling, relaxing. You got the Tit, got
the Lexus tit over there, and then of course you've
had all the other different vendors out here. You got
all the food trucks that are down there as well,
and so there's been a whole lot of activity that's
been going on. So you know what, let's just talk

(48:42):
with some people who are here. Let's see what happens.

Speaker 5 (48:45):
How y'all doing. How's it going? You're good? Real Libel
TV right now, Soully mack shack.

Speaker 21 (48:52):
So, first of all, who are you? Where you're from?

Speaker 10 (48:55):
I'm Daijah, I'm from Charlotte, North Carolina.

Speaker 5 (48:58):
My name is Olivia.

Speaker 10 (48:59):
I'm from Alexandria.

Speaker 5 (49:00):
Cool.

Speaker 8 (49:01):
So tell me about this years afrotech your thoughts on it.

Speaker 36 (49:05):
I love the inclusivity in a space where we usually
don't have this type of representation.

Speaker 10 (49:11):
So that's been exciting.

Speaker 13 (49:12):
God.

Speaker 35 (49:13):
Yeah, and it was great.

Speaker 37 (49:14):
I got to meet with coworkers. I'm a fully remote employee,
so it was wonderful to just meet people in person
for the first time and connect and just be around.

Speaker 5 (49:21):
All the energy got you your biggest takeaway?

Speaker 8 (49:25):
Your number one thing that leaving here that would drive you,
I say over the next three hundred and sixty two days.

Speaker 10 (49:34):
Wow. Well, shout out to Sandra Crispo.

Speaker 36 (49:37):
She actually did a session here on neurodivergency as a leader,
and again that's also a very underrepresented sector in the
industry that we work in, and so I am taking
away that people who have diagnoses like ADHD. Those are
things that are not seen as determined from becoming a leader.

Speaker 10 (49:57):
Those are things that you can use to.

Speaker 36 (49:59):
Leverage yourself into a space that ideally people don't fit into.

Speaker 37 (50:04):
Yeah, and I think for me it's to question things,
stay curious, ask questions. I listened to a speaker this
year and last year who said, if you have a question,
it's probably because you have part of the answer too,
So stay curious and keep asking.

Speaker 8 (50:18):
So all right, I appreciate it, all right, y'all take care.
All right, then I enjoy that's going down here.

Speaker 5 (50:25):
Y'all.

Speaker 21 (50:25):
Let's check with what's up guys.

Speaker 5 (50:27):
How you doing. What's your name, Quentin? Where you're from Pittsburgh?
How about you? My name is the soan from Pittsburgh.

Speaker 8 (50:36):
All right, then just give me your thoughts on this
year's Affrotet.

Speaker 38 (50:40):
It's my first time as well as the songs, and honestly,
it's a very very good event for my first time too,
because I made a lot of connections and I'm in
college where University of Pittsburgh, and I'm very happy I
got to be here. It's a blessing because I'm a
lot of connections and learned a lot, So yeah, I

(51:03):
plan to go next year as well.

Speaker 5 (51:05):
It is here next year. Yes, there you go, Now
you go?

Speaker 21 (51:08):
How about you?

Speaker 5 (51:08):
He down playing it?

Speaker 39 (51:09):
Man?

Speaker 40 (51:09):
This is lit being with my people, being with all
my people here. I've never been to an event like
this with a whole bunch of black people who's interested
in the same things. You know, tech network with a
lot of people. Uh got a whole bunch of like
internships and job offers lined up. So yeah, it's without
this event, I don't know what I'll do. This is

(51:30):
a good opportunity for young black people.

Speaker 21 (51:32):
All right, I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (51:33):
Bro y'all take care. Thanks a bunch.

Speaker 8 (51:36):
All right, that's going over here on these folks they
standing in line for photos, y'all, so let's go ahead
and holler at them. All right, It is all y'all
is waiting on photos. Y'all have got nothing else to do?

Speaker 3 (51:46):
Uh?

Speaker 21 (51:47):
Ask you a couple of questions. What's your name? Where
you're from?

Speaker 41 (51:49):
Yolanda Collins and I'm from the Barrier?

Speaker 13 (51:52):
Cool?

Speaker 5 (51:52):
What how about you?

Speaker 10 (51:53):
Simon Austin from Durham, North Carolina?

Speaker 35 (51:56):
Cool?

Speaker 21 (51:56):
Are your thoughts of this years after tech?

Speaker 10 (52:00):
Absolutely amazing? Absolutely amazing. I love it.

Speaker 16 (52:04):
It grew from over the years.

Speaker 10 (52:06):
I've been following afrotech.

Speaker 35 (52:08):
For a long time.

Speaker 21 (52:09):
And how many times have you been to the other conference?

Speaker 5 (52:11):
Three?

Speaker 26 (52:12):
Three?

Speaker 41 (52:12):
Yes, this is my first time, so I was very
like blown away. It's a lot of people here, so
I'm looking for a job and it's been really good.
I met a lot of great recruiters, so spun time.

Speaker 13 (52:23):
All right, cool, sounds good.

Speaker 21 (52:24):
I appreciate it. Thanks a bunch.

Speaker 5 (52:26):
All right.

Speaker 21 (52:26):
How about y'all where you're from, bro.

Speaker 35 (52:28):
I'm from Seattle, Washington.

Speaker 5 (52:30):
Got you minaments?

Speaker 35 (52:31):
I do hall Keems on go, but I just go
by hall Keem.

Speaker 5 (52:34):
First time in the afrotech while you've been in before.

Speaker 35 (52:35):
It's my very first time out here.

Speaker 5 (52:37):
All right, so tell me about it.

Speaker 35 (52:39):
It's going great. It's a lot of networking opportunities, a
lot of businesses that you can connect with. I love it.
I'm gonna probably be here next year too.

Speaker 21 (52:46):
All right, this sounds good.

Speaker 5 (52:48):
All right? How about you?

Speaker 42 (52:49):
Oh my name Mante from Houston, Texas.

Speaker 5 (52:54):
Yeah, Texas?

Speaker 21 (52:55):
Been cool? Your first time?

Speaker 5 (52:57):
Yeah? First time?

Speaker 13 (52:58):
Okay? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (52:59):
What's stay is out? In terms of what you learned here?

Speaker 14 (53:03):
Uh?

Speaker 42 (53:03):
Probably just meeting different types of people from different types
of walks of life. You know, some people established, some
people trying to get to where they want to get
in life. And then yeah, different states too, so you know,
it's just not encapsulated in Texas or Houston specifically, but
just meeting all sorts of people.

Speaker 5 (53:18):
All right, how about you? I'm Jalen ho b now
we live on TV. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
I'm Jalen. I'm from Houston. It's my second time here.

Speaker 42 (53:30):
Fun time, always great networking with people.

Speaker 5 (53:33):
That's all I got for y'all.

Speaker 21 (53:35):
All you got? All right?

Speaker 13 (53:36):
Cool?

Speaker 30 (53:37):
How you doing, Isaiah? I'm originally from South Being Indiana,
so boilermakers stand up.

Speaker 5 (53:43):
One thing that stood out to me is.

Speaker 30 (53:44):
Just taking away unapolo, unapologetic nepotism. So just making sure
we lift as we climb and we're practicing black excellence.

Speaker 5 (53:53):
Okay, yeah, Ayebro, I appreciate it.

Speaker 21 (53:55):
All right?

Speaker 8 (53:56):
Then, all right you here, Afrotech. It's your first time
h dame where you're from?

Speaker 5 (54:00):
I saw my first song.

Speaker 35 (54:01):
It's like the third year.

Speaker 5 (54:03):
But my name is bo.

Speaker 43 (54:05):
I'm from Dallas, Texas. And uh, what's the other question?

Speaker 14 (54:09):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (54:09):
He says, your third year Afrotech. Just your thoughts on
this year's edition.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
Yeah, it's pretty cool.

Speaker 21 (54:14):
It's pretty cool, you know.

Speaker 5 (54:16):
I always love the expo, you.

Speaker 43 (54:18):
Know, time to get out there network meet new people.
For me, it wasn't even about you know, job hunting
or anything like that. It's just meeting a lot of
cool people in tech, you know, and things like that.
But I'll try to get you because I'm Pao man, but.

Speaker 5 (54:35):
I'm also livel TV Brouh. I feel you, but it's
like we I'm also working. I got you, all right?
Did Hey?

Speaker 21 (54:41):
How you doing?

Speaker 10 (54:43):
I'm good?

Speaker 5 (54:44):
What's you name?

Speaker 21 (54:44):
Where you're from?

Speaker 5 (54:45):
And I'm from Houston htown first afro.

Speaker 10 (54:48):
Tech, first afro Tech.

Speaker 21 (54:49):
All your thoughts on it?

Speaker 5 (54:51):
Amazing. We'll be back every year, gotcha? So what stood out?
What was it?

Speaker 44 (54:56):
The community, the information, the community more the main thing.
Just there's a sense of innovation, creativity and community.

Speaker 13 (55:07):
Okay, yeah, all right, sounds good.

Speaker 8 (55:09):
Yeah it's back here next year for the Tient Universitary.

Speaker 5 (55:11):
I heard I'll be here without a doubt.

Speaker 8 (55:14):
Yeah sounds good. I appreciate you. Let's see here, I'm
gonna chat with uh. Let's see here. I'm grabbing these
two right here? Hey, what's going on? How you doing?

Speaker 5 (55:24):
What's your name?

Speaker 45 (55:25):
Lawanza?

Speaker 5 (55:25):
Quinn's cool? What's your name?

Speaker 10 (55:27):
Akira Calico?

Speaker 5 (55:28):
All right then?

Speaker 8 (55:29):
So first, aftaker, you be here before before? How many
years you did last year?

Speaker 26 (55:34):
Yes, sir?

Speaker 13 (55:34):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (55:35):
How did you enjoy this year? Oh?

Speaker 45 (55:36):
I think it's phenomenal. It's a real good opportunity to
socially and professional network with the peers.

Speaker 5 (55:43):
How about you?

Speaker 46 (55:44):
This is my first year as a student here, and
I think it was very resourceful and very impactful for
us students to get opportunities to gain insight with all
of the companies here.

Speaker 21 (55:54):
So what's the one thing that stood out?

Speaker 8 (55:56):
Was it a speaker? Was it a session of form?
What was it for you?

Speaker 46 (56:00):
One thing that stood out to me was all of
the recruiters were not just being very informal and being
just very like strict business wise. They were actually giving
us opportunities how they came up in life, within college
or starting off. And I think that was pretty good
with giving us some tips.

Speaker 21 (56:18):
How about you?

Speaker 45 (56:19):
For me, it is corporation's dedication to providing job opportunities
in the face of the want of dei opportunities, and
so that show you how proactive and conscious the business
community has been with minorities in the greater Houston and
nationally throughout the country.

Speaker 21 (56:40):
All right, sounds good.

Speaker 5 (56:41):
I appreciate it. Thanks a lot.

Speaker 8 (56:43):
So again, you've had a lot of folks who've been
here and we've talked to me people with the last
few days and understand, as we said, what you've got
is you've got a lot of corporations that were here
last year that did not come back this year. This
whole anti DEI deal. We need to make sure if
the people who did not support this conference also not
supporting other Black conferences, other exposed and things along those lines.

(57:09):
We need to be calling those folks out because again
they want us continue to use our money to support them,
it should be supporting us as well. Also, what we
have to also learn to do. And a lot of
these conference and conventions, I've seen a lot of people
on social media essence, folks talking about invest fast and
other things. Here's the deal to understand one, there are

(57:31):
very few mass gatherings of African Americans events like this here.
The ability to be able to come to a place
to connect with peers, other professionals is hugely important, and
so I think we need to be mindful of that
when a lot of people are running their miles about
well it wasn't this, it wasn't that.

Speaker 5 (57:48):
The question always what have you put on? What have
you actually done?

Speaker 8 (57:52):
And so we've got some other great conversations we've have.
We're going to be showing those a little bit later.
And so we're going to be showing that because again,
expertise great knowledge, and as look as Kathy Hughes headed
Radio one, information is power and we've got to be
able to be able to take the information places like this,
bringing home shared with others, to expand the horizons of

(58:14):
so many African Americans. Going to go to a break,
we come back more from Afrotech here in Houston, the
Georgia Brown Convention Center, and I'll be right back rolling
unfilched on the Blackstar Network.

Speaker 19 (58:28):
In the military, I gave orders and they went a
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thing I've learned as a mom and foster pan a
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In their future isn't a choice enrichment.

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Future in order.

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They helped her become a small business owner, family financial planner, mother,
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Speaker 16 (59:15):
For delegate to meet the needs of all students.

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As our delegate, Nicole will fully fund our schools, raise
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Speaker 16 (59:25):
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Speaker 47 (59:29):
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That's why Josh is fighting to lower costs for families
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quality healthcare. But Sean Steinway has embraced his magabackers, who
support Trump's mass firing of federal workers and the MAGA
plan to ban abortion with no exceptions. We deserve better

(59:53):
than Shaan Steinway.

Speaker 20 (59:55):
I'm Josh Cole, candidate for Delegate, and I sponsored this ad.

Speaker 10 (59:58):
Hatred on the streets.

Speaker 18 (01:00:00):
A horrific scene white nationalists rally that descended into deadly violence.

Speaker 21 (01:00:06):
White people are losing their their minds.

Speaker 15 (01:00:11):
As an angry pro Trump monk storms the US capital ship.

Speaker 5 (01:00:15):
We're about to see.

Speaker 21 (01:00:16):
The lives where I call white minority resistance.

Speaker 8 (01:00:18):
We have seen white folks in this country who simply
cannot tolerate black folks voting.

Speaker 37 (01:00:25):
I think what we're seeing is the inevitable result of
violent denial.

Speaker 5 (01:00:30):
This is part of American history.

Speaker 15 (01:00:31):
Every time that people of color have made in progress,
whether real or symbolic, there has been but Carold Anderson
that every university calls white rage as a backlash.

Speaker 8 (01:00:41):
This is the wrath of the proud Boys and the
Boogaaloo boys America.

Speaker 21 (01:00:45):
There's going to.

Speaker 5 (01:00:45):
Be more of this, the provot of God.

Speaker 18 (01:00:48):
This country is getting increasingly racist in its behaviors and
its attitudes because of the fear of white.

Speaker 8 (01:00:56):
People, the feo that they're taking our job, they're taking
our resources, they're.

Speaker 5 (01:01:00):
Taking our women.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
This is white bead.

Speaker 5 (01:01:18):
Al Right.

Speaker 35 (01:01:18):
My name is Freddie Race. I'm from Houston, Texas.

Speaker 10 (01:01:21):
My name is Sharon Williams. I'm from Dallas, Texas.

Speaker 5 (01:01:24):
Right now, I'm rolling with Roland Martin, unfiltered, uncut, unbloved,
and undamned believable. Folks.

Speaker 8 (01:01:41):
We've told many of you elections are critically important, every
single election, and in Georgia they have a racist for
a Public Service Commission. This is going to be on Tuesday, okay.
And so these are not sexy races. They're not president,
it's not us Senate, it's not Congress, it's not the governor.
But it is really important for your everyday well being.

(01:02:02):
Alicia Johnson joins us right now. She's a candidate running
for the Public Service Commission. Glad to have you on
the show. For the folks who don't know, who don't understand,
what exactly does the Public Service Commission do in Georgia.

Speaker 18 (01:02:16):
Well, the Public Service Commission. First of all, thank you
Roland for having me. Let me start by saying that
I certainly appreciate you helping us get the word out.
But the Public Service Commission is an extremely important regulatory
authority that exists in Georgia and in many states, and
their primary job is to regulate utilities and to protect consumers.

Speaker 21 (01:02:43):
And this includes again and so you pay.

Speaker 18 (01:02:46):
For those utilities.

Speaker 8 (01:02:49):
And for the folks who don't understand when you're complaining
about your utility bills, then you're complaining to the Public
Service Commission.

Speaker 18 (01:02:57):
That is absolutely correct. Here in Georgia Roland, we have
an all Republican Public Service Commission who has raised our
rates six times in the last two years.

Speaker 13 (01:03:12):
You know.

Speaker 8 (01:03:12):
And that's so important because, as I said, it's not
a sexy race, it's not a big race, and turnout
is going to be critical. This is the perfect example
what I keep saying that the black folks in Georgia,
if we vote at seventy percent of our capacity, then
then we can put folks like you on the Public
Service Commission.

Speaker 18 (01:03:31):
Absolutely, absolutely to your point, it's not a sexy race,
and a lot of people don't even realize what the
Public Service Commission does. So this race is extremely important.
Here in Georgia. Forty seven percent of our population is
asset limited income constrained work and families. If we look

(01:03:53):
in rural communities, that goes up to fifty two percent,
and when you crisscross urban areas like the city I
live in Savannah, childhood poverty jumps up to eighty percent
in some of those cases. So every day families are
making choices between their power bill and prescriptions, their power

(01:04:15):
bill and food. And now with us with the issue
with a snap, it's going to be even more crucial
that we have people in elected offices and elected positions
who understand that good public policy is not red or
blue policy, but good public policy is people centered policy,

(01:04:37):
and we have to begin to put people over profits.

Speaker 5 (01:04:42):
Questions from our panel, Nola you first.

Speaker 18 (01:04:46):
I thank you so much.

Speaker 17 (01:04:49):
This time, and I can be stressed how important it
is out to vote. We talked so much on your
show out voter turnout.

Speaker 16 (01:05:00):
What is that looking for.

Speaker 17 (01:05:05):
As we are going into these special elections?

Speaker 18 (01:05:10):
What is voter turno? Yeah, we can do far more
with voter turnout. We have done an amazing job given
what the context usually looks like for some of these
smaller special elections. We're about at five to between five
and six percent overall in the state and with a

(01:05:33):
little over two hundred thousand folks having already voted. We
know that in portions of our state municipal elections are
going on, so we expect greater turnout in those areas.
But we need to get the word out. We need
to mobilize people as much as possible. We've been on

(01:05:54):
the phone, We've been texting, we've been mailing, We've been
of course doing UH media interviews. We've been out across
the state canvassing. We've been talking to communities and trying
to get the word out so that we can teach
people that they are literally advocating for themselves from self

(01:06:17):
to system every time they take a vote.

Speaker 21 (01:06:23):
Eugene, well, thanks for running.

Speaker 13 (01:06:30):
Thanks for running.

Speaker 27 (01:06:31):
You know we need, especially when it comes to public utilities,
come to one vote. I guess my question is, uh,
you know, are there any national or at UH organizations
coming in the helpful that gap? You know, it is
off the election, and the more importantly it's off your

(01:06:54):
election than a place where you know both aren' that's
used to off your elections?

Speaker 18 (01:07:00):
Right, So to answer that question, I would say yes,
the DNC has gotten involved in this race. For the
Democratic National Committee has committed itself to this race, but
also our local party, Democratic Party of Georgia. It has
been organizing and getting the word out about this election.

(01:07:23):
And then all across Georgia, grassroots organizers, volunteers have all
rallied together to stand behind this race and to push
it forward. And to make certain that people are aware
and that they understand that they have the power to

(01:07:46):
elect a commissioner who is a regulator and not a
rubber stamp for our utilities.

Speaker 8 (01:07:56):
All right, then, well Alicia, luck again. This is one
of the races people need to understand. It's a state
wide race. We can actually play a huge, huge role
in it. And so good luck on Tuesday.

Speaker 18 (01:08:11):
All right, Thank you, Roland, and thank you for having
me tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:08:17):
I appreciate it. Thank you so very much.

Speaker 8 (01:08:20):
Folks, I am looking over some give me one second,
I'm looking at so lots of changes happening at CBS
in this just THEE Variety is reporting that Gail King
will be departing the CBS Morning.

Speaker 5 (01:08:40):
Show next year.

Speaker 8 (01:08:42):
Of course, Barry Wise took over as editor in chief.
You have lots of changes going on there as well,
and so they are reporting again that Gail King is
going to be leaving CBS this morning next month. Also
some breaking news Associated Press is reporting that the Department
of Justice is investigating the.

Speaker 5 (01:09:02):
Black Lives Matter movement.

Speaker 8 (01:09:05):
They said that, give me one second, I'm pulling this
up here. First of all, subpoenas were issued and so
their claiming that donors were defrauded out of services based
upon those donations, and so we'll keep a tab on
that as well. When we come back. More from afro Tech,

(01:09:27):
including out of budget your money. The importance of black
owned businesses will also take you onto the walk and
talk and the exploy as well. So lies to share
with you right here, rolling Mark unfiltered on the Black
studd Network.

Speaker 5 (01:10:28):
What's good, Jon, This is Doug e Freshman watching my
brother rolling Martin underbuilty as we go a little something
like this hit it. It's real.

Speaker 8 (01:10:58):
Check in the hustand been having some great conversations. Want
to share more of those with you. At a great
conversation with Hier reaching exec at Google talking about their
pixel phones, and of course we had a little fun
consider y'all know I'm team Apple and she's team Android.
Check this out, all right, Adrian, let's talk Google Phone.

(01:11:23):
So y'all, we're sitting here getting ready to do the
interview and being crump calls me and she's like, you really,
you really should have a pixel phone.

Speaker 5 (01:11:34):
It really is the best phone.

Speaker 48 (01:11:36):
It is superior.

Speaker 21 (01:11:37):
She was being extremely shaded with that.

Speaker 10 (01:11:41):
Tell the truth.

Speaker 5 (01:11:42):
So on the table, I'll let it ride. So how
is the Pixel phone the best?

Speaker 48 (01:11:48):
The Google Pixel phone? So, first of all, I lead
marketing for the Google Pixel organization. And there are so
many ways. So you might want to just start by
saying the winner of the best phone, which is like
judged by technical experts, best phone two years in a row,
Google Pixel. Okay it is.

Speaker 5 (01:12:07):
How is the bit?

Speaker 21 (01:12:08):
What does it do?

Speaker 48 (01:12:09):
From a technology perspective? The camera is the best camera
in the business, and you can do and when you
start to add Gemini, if you start to integrate what
Gemini can do for your camera. So we've always been.

Speaker 35 (01:12:20):
The best camera.

Speaker 5 (01:12:21):
I think you know that as you've got Gemini, We've
got a Queries, We've got Leo's Scorpio.

Speaker 48 (01:12:26):
Our generative AI is called Gemini. Now what is true
is that we got the name AI.

Speaker 5 (01:12:32):
I call Scorpio, Yes.

Speaker 48 (01:12:34):
Scorpio, but the answer is Gemini. And so what Gemini
does for your camera is it makes it even better.

Speaker 5 (01:12:41):
Okay.

Speaker 48 (01:12:42):
We also have a tensor chip that allows your phone
to be faster, the battery life is stronger, the hardware
is differentiated. So our hardware and craftsmanship is incredible. Yeah,
air drop that first of all unacceptable that is an
Apple feature and Apple feed everything.

Speaker 10 (01:13:00):
I will tell you something about Apple.

Speaker 48 (01:13:02):
And normally, as a competitor, we don't like to say
each other's names, but I do.

Speaker 5 (01:13:06):
You have to.

Speaker 10 (01:13:07):
You must say their name.

Speaker 48 (01:13:08):
We are the challenger brand, which I personally as a marketer.

Speaker 10 (01:13:11):
Have always loved.

Speaker 48 (01:13:13):
But if you think about things like air drop or FaceTime,
there is interoperability challenges that Apple creates.

Speaker 10 (01:13:20):
So the whole.

Speaker 48 (01:13:21):
Green Bubble, blue bubble drama that is created by.

Speaker 5 (01:13:25):
Apple Green Bubble interorrect.

Speaker 48 (01:13:28):
That is not their fault. That is Apple's fault. So
that you have a poor communication experience. Our technology is
superior and and truly people on Android are being bullied
because of it. So if you have done that, and
by your face, I see that you have apologized.

Speaker 5 (01:13:44):
Oh I'm not apologized to your Android, Fred.

Speaker 48 (01:13:47):
It is Apple ruining the group chat. Okay, And if
you're at a party, what do they say, does anyone
have a pixel to take the pictures?

Speaker 8 (01:13:56):
Now, that's the first of that's people who do not
take photos. Okay, that's people don't take photos. Because my
man Steven Soderberg, he shot that movie High Flying Bird.

Speaker 5 (01:14:06):
It's a Netflix movie. Yes, And I'm a movie two iPhone.

Speaker 48 (01:14:08):
Seven advertising got no, yes, no, I know, but.

Speaker 8 (01:14:12):
But but but the filmmaking piece and that was pre
cinematic feature.

Speaker 18 (01:14:16):
Correct.

Speaker 8 (01:14:16):
So first of all, I'm always jacking with with my
Android friends, hcause I because I was actually YouTube black
at the conference and it gave us a Google Pixel phone.

Speaker 10 (01:14:26):
Yes, did you use it?

Speaker 1 (01:14:27):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:14:27):
Yeah, I use it for teleprompter.

Speaker 48 (01:14:30):
We are not making fast for us right now.

Speaker 8 (01:14:32):
I used I used it with my polo teleprompter with
the app. But but but the reason for me, okay,
do you understand? So for me how I use it,
I'm using I'm using technology way different. So we're sitting here, boom,
she goes and shoots something, boom, she can entertaine the
air dropper to me.

Speaker 21 (01:14:51):
I got it. I can immediately put it on the air.

Speaker 8 (01:14:53):
Yes, So, and how I'm transferring data or whatever. So
that's sort of how how I'm moving when I'm linked.

Speaker 5 (01:15:01):
There are other ways to house through.

Speaker 48 (01:15:04):
So you can use Google Drive. Everybody has Google Drive.

Speaker 21 (01:15:07):
Right, But that's like I got you know, you're.

Speaker 48 (01:15:09):
Dropping it into air drop You can drop it into
Google Drive and then it will You could share the
drive and everybody has the same files, and what's different about.

Speaker 5 (01:15:16):
How all kinds of steps you know, you were adding steps.
See sometimes I'm looking at.

Speaker 48 (01:15:24):
Speed, okay, but but what we like to look at
is speed efficiency, but quality. And I guarantee you the
content you're capturing on that phone. And I'm sad my
pixel is not on this table. The content it's right there.
The content that you're getting could be better. But you're
choosing to follow the crowd.

Speaker 10 (01:15:43):
And do what everybody else is doing. And that's not
how it strikes me with you, Roland.

Speaker 48 (01:15:47):
You strike me as a man that makes a scisions
on his own I do.

Speaker 5 (01:15:50):
I did not think this was going to be this interview.
Choosing to follow the crowd. What I'm saying is again,
could you use this? I okay, you go?

Speaker 48 (01:15:57):
And also aesthetically, it's better, okay, here we go, Here
we go. It's a slicker, it's smoother.

Speaker 10 (01:16:03):
The camera is better. Take Gemini a look at that.
Look at that I got it.

Speaker 5 (01:16:08):
I got a sleep phone.

Speaker 48 (01:16:10):
And from an AI perspective, it is integrated into our
device because of our stack, so it works faster, it
understands you better. And so when you're in Gmail, if
you're in photos wherever, you are. It knows where you
are what you need before you even know it.

Speaker 21 (01:16:24):
I need you. I don't really need AI because I
got I have R s M.

Speaker 5 (01:16:30):
So you know.

Speaker 8 (01:16:33):
Rolland Sebastian Martin, I don't need it right most like Boom,
I'm quicker than Google.

Speaker 21 (01:16:41):
So like we ain't got to search you see.

Speaker 8 (01:16:43):
When the information is already here, we got to search
for it. Adrian noted, See this speed is way faster
if we did it.

Speaker 48 (01:16:51):
If we did a six month test and we came
back to this stage and you gave me an ab
test recap, I guarantee you this is good.

Speaker 21 (01:17:01):
I'm telling you.

Speaker 8 (01:17:02):
I'm trying to how how I use I mean like literally,
if I'm talking about uh so, I could sit here
and take boomb shesues something. Give me an SD card,
pop it in here, pull it right into the phone.
I can go right to the air. I'm connected already,
I could do screenplay.

Speaker 5 (01:17:20):
I could sit here.

Speaker 48 (01:17:21):
I can I give you a example. So you know
complex media, Yes, okay, so we outfitted all of Complex
Media with the Pixel ten.

Speaker 8 (01:17:30):
Pro Complex media. Who wants to act like they black owned?
Were they not black owned? They're just black targeted?

Speaker 5 (01:17:35):
Go right ahead.

Speaker 48 (01:17:36):
That was to shady Equal Operats.

Speaker 21 (01:17:42):
My audience knows I'm king petty.

Speaker 48 (01:17:43):
Okay, all right, so we gave Complex our phone. Right,
they're doing exactly what you just said. But then it's
all an ecosystem. So to not switch just because you're
locked in, which is what they do, just because they've
locked you into an ecosystem, is not a reason the
Complex team's content is a higher grade. Now, they would
tell you that because they're using our devices.

Speaker 5 (01:18:06):
They just don't really know how to shoot. See that.

Speaker 8 (01:18:08):
I mean, you know, see I went to Jack Yay's
high school, Magnet Madness School of Communication, so you know
I've been doing this as I was fourteen, so they
late see if they were taught right at an early age,
they stuff would look better.

Speaker 5 (01:18:22):
Fair.

Speaker 48 (01:18:22):
I'll let the head publisher know it's them.

Speaker 10 (01:18:27):
Not the phone.

Speaker 5 (01:18:28):
Tell them.

Speaker 8 (01:18:28):
Look at Roland Martin unfiltered, the Black stud Network. See
how it's done.

Speaker 48 (01:18:31):
Okay, I will do, I will do.

Speaker 5 (01:18:36):
So what else?

Speaker 8 (01:18:36):
So in terms of marketing, what else are you driving?
And how are you how are you trying to Let's
talk about the phones though, how it shoots black people?

Speaker 48 (01:18:46):
Oh, I mean we have a feature I didn't even
I didn't even tee you up for this one.

Speaker 5 (01:18:51):
So what I told you, I don't need the Google stuff, Adrian.

Speaker 48 (01:18:55):
What is very special about pixel and it all seriousness Android?
So I am new to technology. I came from the
sport industry. I was at Nike for many years running
North America's under Armor target gap, so consumer led brands.
What brought me to Google when they recruited me was
the idea of their values and belief system, which is

(01:19:17):
all about equity and accessibility right. Google's about being helpful
to absolutely everyone. And so when you look at the
features that live within our device, we are making features
so that everyone can see themselves. That is something that
I have always been very passionate about in storytelling. We
need to see ourselves and it's something that does not
happen with a lot of the competitors in the space,
but it is something in our make that we deeply

(01:19:39):
believe in. So we have a feature on our device
called real Tone, and I wish I could show you
the ab on your phone versus ours, but it is
built to pick up deeper hues, basically black and brown
folks who when you go and you take a picture
with your white friends, and you see your eyes and
your teeth because your camera isn't picking up your beautiful

(01:20:00):
skin tone. Real tone, only found in Google Pixel and
in Android devices, is built to pick up our tone,
our color, and make us look as beautiful as we
are and feel as proud as we are.

Speaker 21 (01:20:13):
See I shoot them. All my friends are black, and
I shoot.

Speaker 48 (01:20:16):
If all your friends are black, you want this, but.

Speaker 21 (01:20:18):
I shoot some great photo. Oh lord, my lighting is amazing.

Speaker 48 (01:20:21):
Okay, But your friends who are not as good as you.

Speaker 5 (01:20:23):
Oh, they know, would feel the different, like let uncle
roro shoot.

Speaker 48 (01:20:27):
We know there is something in all seriousness about leading
with our values, and this is what Google is about
our entrepreneurial We are always looking for what problem needs
to be solved, okay, and I'm dead serious when it
comes to accessibility and equity. Everybody should look good, everybody
should feel good.

Speaker 10 (01:20:46):
And it is true that.

Speaker 48 (01:20:47):
A lot of camera technology is not built to pick
up our spin tones. And so you can rest assured
with our device you are going to look stunning.

Speaker 5 (01:20:54):
And that's not a line.

Speaker 8 (01:20:55):
So here's the whole deal. First of all, it ain't
like Apple is not a sponsor. Their CMO won't even
take a meeting with me and look at us, which
which I told Spike Lee that whole deal. Uh, Tim
Cook you know that too, uh and so oh, I
have no problem. I've got no problem calling names because
I don't have a boss.

Speaker 5 (01:21:16):
I own it.

Speaker 21 (01:21:17):
So uh So here's what we're gonna do.

Speaker 8 (01:21:19):
So we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna test a couple
of your phones. So I'm gonna give you my information.
Then then we'll we'll see what it looks like. Then
I'll let you know. We're always Anthony would be using
one of them as well. And so so you'll have.

Speaker 48 (01:21:33):
An ecosystem yet which you could share.

Speaker 5 (01:21:34):
Yeah, well we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll.

Speaker 48 (01:21:36):
We'll look call me and say thank you whenever you're ready,
because it is coming.

Speaker 8 (01:21:40):
She already had thank you, thank you. We'll see how
that goes well, Coole, I appreciate.

Speaker 10 (01:21:45):
Thank you. It was wonderful to meet you.

Speaker 8 (01:21:48):
Quest all right, all right, Adrian, I'm waiting for those
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Speaker 13 (01:23:04):
Right.

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Right when we were talking about including diversity, equity, inclusion,
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Speaker 49 (01:23:25):
Me Sheerri Sevre, and you know what you're watching. Roland Martin,
I'm Felsen, Folks.

Speaker 8 (01:23:38):
Welcome back to AFRO Tech twenty twenty five here at
the George R. Brown Convention Center. We'll joined now by a.

Speaker 5 (01:23:46):
Resident of Houston.

Speaker 8 (01:23:48):
He got out of Florida, attorney Ben Crump, coming here
dressed like are you going.

Speaker 5 (01:23:51):
To family game? Go ratless? What's up man?

Speaker 13 (01:23:56):
You man?

Speaker 5 (01:23:57):
Welcome home, brother.

Speaker 8 (01:23:58):
Absolutely absolute. We talked the other day. We got a
verdict in the Sonya Massy case. Should have been the
first to be murdered, but the jury show second degree murder.
Now the question is whether he gets sentenced four to
twenty years in prison with a judge deprobation or whatever.
And so when we talk about justice, justice is not

(01:24:20):
the indictment. Justice is not the conviction. Justice is also
the sentiency.

Speaker 50 (01:24:25):
Amen In Roland we have to remember this video told
the whole story.

Speaker 5 (01:24:31):
Yep.

Speaker 50 (01:24:32):
I mean oftentimes we talk about men'sraa, the's the mindset
of the person when they commit the crime. Well, we
don't have to speculate here, Roland Martin. You heard what
his intent was on the video. He said, I will
shoot you in your f and face. You see him
come around the counter, I believe rolland because she was

(01:24:53):
so short, right is she only weighed one hundred and
eleven pounds, So he said I was shoot you in
your face because there talking to shoot center mask, but
the counter was blocking center mask. He stepped around the counter,
shot her in her face. And then Roland Martin, he
said that he wasn't even going to use his medical
bag for the crazy bee. If that's not telling us

(01:25:18):
what his mindset was, I don't know what it is.

Speaker 5 (01:25:21):
Then he goes on the standing lines, I mean, says
she threw the pot at him. I mean, dude, we
have the video. Yeah, she doesn't throw the pot at you.
Come on, and Roland, what's so troubling about it?

Speaker 13 (01:25:32):
To me?

Speaker 5 (01:25:34):
Is even worse than George Floyd.

Speaker 50 (01:25:36):
That was a call saying there was a criminal act here.

Speaker 5 (01:25:41):
She called the police. They knew there was no criminal acts,
called all the police pler yeah, and she ends up dead.

Speaker 50 (01:25:49):
And it was so hard to sit in the courtroom
and watch the video, even though I saw the thousand
times sitting in that courtroom listening to his mother weep
and father his father talk under the breath while blood
is pulling from my head, and I'm looking at those
living white people and that brother, and I'm thinking, this

(01:26:10):
is Clear's day. This is straightforward. It doesn't get any
simpler than this. So when they started deliberating for the
second day, Roland, I said, oh my god, oh my god,
what were they deliberating between first and second degree murder?

Speaker 5 (01:26:25):
Or was it second degree? In an acquittal?

Speaker 50 (01:26:27):
I was reminded, Roland Martin, who the president is and
what they think.

Speaker 21 (01:26:33):
Listen.

Speaker 8 (01:26:33):
That was a I'll never forget it. It was I
think Connecticut or Delaware. This brother had his hands up,
He's going down to his knees, and the cop liarly
rears back and kicks him in his head and knocks
him unconscious. On dash can video, Clear is day. Hands up,

(01:26:53):
brother is not resisting go to court.

Speaker 5 (01:26:57):
He gotta quit it.

Speaker 8 (01:26:58):
I mean, that's the what we're still facing in this
country is that there are juries, especially white jurys, that
are going to give cops every benefit of the doubt.
And I still believe, and I've said this numerous times,
one of the reasons that these police keep doing this

(01:27:18):
because they know it is likely they can get away
with it.

Speaker 5 (01:27:22):
Exactly Roland.

Speaker 50 (01:27:23):
And when you think about Sonia Massing in particular, you
have to ask yourself what was it how they could
justify his actions. I mean, the judge kept out the
fact that he had been fired or transferred for six
jobs in three and a half years that didn't come

(01:27:44):
in And so you're saying, when that have made them
say this guy should be convicted the first degree murder.
I was asked a question and I said, a funny
lawyer joke, not to take away the seriousness of the issue.
They said, well, turn a croup. This is the first
time a cop has been convicted of second degree murder

(01:28:08):
for killing a black woman in American history. How do
you think we get that? I said, It's simple. You
have a first degree murder case, and then the predominant
white jerry would give you second degree murder. And we
don't take any of this for granted Roland, well, I
thank you man.

Speaker 5 (01:28:25):
You know, most people have forgot about Sonia Massy.

Speaker 50 (01:28:28):
And if we didn't have black media, black social media
saying her name, white mainstream media forgot about it.

Speaker 5 (01:28:35):
It wasn't until the conviction they started covering it.

Speaker 8 (01:28:38):
I had a woman come to me last year thanking
me for when I recite names for mentioning John Crawford.

Speaker 5 (01:28:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:28:47):
So, and that's the thing that what I keep also
telling our people, and I'll have people who tell me,
man that stuff is triggering, and I keep saying, listen,
I understand how you feel as being triggering.

Speaker 5 (01:29:01):
But the reality is, I go back to what.

Speaker 8 (01:29:06):
Emmitt Till's mother said when she said, no, no, no, I
want them to see what they did to my baby.

Speaker 5 (01:29:11):
The reality is, if we decide to.

Speaker 8 (01:29:15):
Stop showing it, then it becomes it never happened.

Speaker 5 (01:29:19):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (01:29:20):
And the reason the body cam footage is so important
Grayson didn't turn his camera on the only reason, the
only reason we know what happened because his partner turned
his camera.

Speaker 50 (01:29:32):
Officer Foley, And think about what his testimony was, Roland Martin.
Officer Farley said that I pulled my gun because he
pulled his gun. I never thought this small black woman
was a threat, he said.

Speaker 5 (01:29:48):
The person I feared.

Speaker 50 (01:29:51):
Was Grayson, right, And none of that seemed to compare
the jury to say, this is first degree murder.

Speaker 21 (01:29:59):
And that's why what has to happen. And we talk
about can.

Speaker 5 (01:30:02):
You can you imagine Roland? Can you imagine that was
a white woman? Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:30:06):
That first of all, we ain't even having the conversation. Yeah,
I mean, bottom line that that's first degree. But here's
the other thing. If that was a white woman, the
partner would have said, man, what are you doing? See
that's the other thing. That's the other thing that that
that is bothersome for me in those moments, where does
the cop would come and sense, go, man, host to

(01:30:27):
your weapon, put the gun down to me. That's what
has to happen. But you there's some cases videos out
there where the cop checks another cop.

Speaker 5 (01:30:38):
Well it's rare. They will they will stand back and
allow somebody to beat somebody knowing is not right.

Speaker 21 (01:30:44):
Well, I didn't want to intervene.

Speaker 8 (01:30:46):
That's you got the You got to intervene at the
at the moment.

Speaker 50 (01:30:50):
Yeah, you know, let's deep what you say. And we've
been covering these now for almost thirteen years. Treyvonands two
thousand and twelve. Yeah, you know, we covered a couple
before that. You remember Martinlee Anderson boot Camp case.

Speaker 5 (01:31:05):
Yep. The reason why I think so many cops.

Speaker 50 (01:31:10):
Hesitate from intervening because then they turn on them.

Speaker 5 (01:31:14):
Yes, I mean you remember the sister in Buffalo, New.

Speaker 50 (01:31:17):
York stop the cop for beating the black.

Speaker 5 (01:31:19):
Man, and then she got fired, lost her pension.

Speaker 50 (01:31:24):
I mean, it's as they often say in the neighborhood,
the baddest gang in town is the boys in blue yep.
And so it all goes down to this here rolling.
We gotta keep covering it because we got to show
up to that courtroom, show that judge that saw your
massive life matter, that she was loved, that her children

(01:31:47):
deserve justice, and look him in his eye and dare
him to do a down with departure, because that's what
they're asking for.

Speaker 8 (01:31:59):
We were here to takeology conference. And the reality is,
if it's not for technology, if it's not for citizen cameras,
if it's not for body cameras, we would have more cases.

Speaker 5 (01:32:12):
Of cops lying.

Speaker 8 (01:32:14):
Walter Scott, Yes, we were cops lying on the reports.

Speaker 5 (01:32:18):
George my life was in danger.

Speaker 8 (01:32:21):
They pulled the weapon out, but because of technology, it's
harder than the counter. In Chicago role Lakwa McDonald's, the
cops were breaking the dash cams, the antennas because they
did not want to record it.

Speaker 5 (01:32:34):
And so that's what we know. In New Orleans, I
remember the case where the turns the camera off. Turns
that came out before he gets it because he knew
what he was about to do.

Speaker 8 (01:32:45):
And so and I keep saying, the technology has to
protect numerous folks.

Speaker 50 (01:32:51):
Yeah, and Roland is deep because you go down a
rabbit hole. I think about technology, and I remember when
George Floyd said, what was the difference between Nick King
and George Floyd? It was that the iPhone camera got
a lot better and we got to see George Floyd
vivid graphically firsthand. But then I worry. I'm so happy

(01:33:14):
you brought up that where Afro tech. Uh we got
called and I don't know whether it's a case or not,
but I'm still gonna fight even if we don't make
a dime.

Speaker 5 (01:33:23):
The young brother who the AI.

Speaker 50 (01:33:28):
And they thought it was a good and then they
go a constant and throw him down. How many brothers
and sisters are gonna get wrongfully convicted because AI still
has the human fact that racism in racism out.

Speaker 5 (01:33:43):
So that's why we need afro tech. Yeah. So we
have to be I mean, we have to be absolutely
vigilant in this.

Speaker 3 (01:33:48):
Uh.

Speaker 21 (01:33:49):
Not only that with AI.

Speaker 8 (01:33:51):
It could it could claim you committed a crime when
you didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:33:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:33:55):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:33:55):
And so when we talk about criminal justice social justice reform,
it has to happened there.

Speaker 21 (01:34:01):
And so we can't afford a day off.

Speaker 5 (01:34:04):
We can't.

Speaker 8 (01:34:04):
We can't afford to say, man, let's hers step away
from it because in the case that brother could have
lost his life over back of the rideous.

Speaker 50 (01:34:12):
Yeah yeah, and Roland, that's why you're gonna be so busy, brother.

Speaker 5 (01:34:16):
And I love you man, you know that.

Speaker 50 (01:34:17):
I tell you every time how much I respect you
for having black OneD media that tell our stories unapologetically
because right now we're going through a wave of white
supremacy yep that I've never seen it. Just like they
have beliefs in their white supremacy, we have to be
unapologetic defenders of black life, black liberty, and black humanity.

(01:34:43):
And that's what you do every day, every show, every location.
So man, keep that roo machine moved. Yeah, you know
we're gonna do it. Sitting there thro out there right now.
And it's a perfect example. Last point. I saw this
the other day. I guess Jake Tapper.

Speaker 8 (01:34:55):
Was doing some interview claiming that, well, the reason gen
Z is more conservative, it's because they had BLM and
me too being shoved down their throats as well more conservative.
And I'm sitting there going, no, Jake, you got that wrong.
What you don't understand is that if you are gen Z,

(01:35:15):
that means you between thirteen and twenty five that your
parents did not like I keep reminding these people the
Black Lives Matter protests was the first time in American
history a black centered protest a majority of Americans approved.
And what happened was you had folks who didn't not
like that. Young white folk and Latinos and Asian Americans

(01:35:37):
were responding, and they attacked BLM in twenty twenty one,
it was CRT in twenty twenty two, it was Woke
in twenty twenty three, and it was DEI in twenty
twenty four. And so they've been inundated by saying how.

Speaker 21 (01:35:51):
Awful that was.

Speaker 8 (01:35:52):
So I was, like Jake Tapple you know what the
hell you talk about the reality is BLM woke a
lot of people up. Trey vonn woke, a lot of
people up, Jen six, a lot of people up. Further,
you have adults who do not want these young white
kids to be socially conscious about what's happening to black bodies.

Speaker 50 (01:36:12):
Now, you you speak truth to power on so many levels,
because right now it's just an outright declaration of war
on everything.

Speaker 21 (01:36:20):
I'm slick and brown in America.

Speaker 50 (01:36:22):
And what we have to remember is what Harriet Tubman said,
Roland Martin, I saved one hundred slaves and I would
have saved one hundred more if they knew they weren't slavery.

Speaker 5 (01:36:33):
Some people still don't understand.

Speaker 50 (01:36:35):
They have declared war on us, absolutely, and we better
be ready to fight. And if you're scared, say you're scared,
and that's fine, we get it.

Speaker 5 (01:36:42):
But get out in the way. That's for those of
us who ain't scared. They go ahead and fight five people,
get the hell out the way. Amen.

Speaker 8 (01:36:48):
But being you keep swinging, we're gonna be right here
doing the same, all right, Alpha man, I appreciate it, sir, alright,
all right, folks will be right back rolling out unfiltered
of the Black stud Network right here, afrotech you ty
two five here in Houston.

Speaker 21 (01:37:01):
Back in a moment.

Speaker 26 (01:37:10):
Next on the Black Table with me Craig Calker.

Speaker 7 (01:37:13):
Now, the America we live in today is not what
the founders intended or what they outlined in the Declaration
of Independence and even the Constitution. Professidor and author Cermit
Roosevelt will join us to talk about his book The
Nation That Never Was. How history was misinterpreted the intended
realities of America's beginnings and missed a much better story

(01:37:34):
in the process.

Speaker 2 (01:37:35):
So, if you have to pick some group to marginalize,
I think it should be the people who are against equality.

Speaker 7 (01:37:39):
That's next on the Black Table, right here on the
Black Star Network.

Speaker 31 (01:37:47):
Hey, I'm Mark moriyle president's CEO of the National Urban League,
and I'm watching Roland Martin unfeltered.

Speaker 8 (01:38:12):
Tick twenty twenty five. We're here at the George R.
Brown Convention Center in Houston. Glad to be here. Cybersecurity
is a real issue, y'all know some of y'all out there,
y'all have clicked on the wrong damn email. You're getting
these strange coin base text messages. You're getting messages saying
that you bought something then you or don't know what

(01:38:34):
this is and you call that number.

Speaker 5 (01:38:36):
Boom they got you.

Speaker 8 (01:38:38):
And so it's really important in today with technology that
we protect ourselves at all costs. And my next guest
is someone who knows a little bit about that.

Speaker 5 (01:38:47):
She is the founder of pecheet Geek. Dakota McDonald. How
you doing doing really well?

Speaker 39 (01:38:53):
Roland?

Speaker 5 (01:38:53):
How are you great?

Speaker 21 (01:38:54):
All right?

Speaker 8 (01:38:55):
So, first of all, how did you get involved in cybersecurity?
It just stumbling too or did you say you know
what you was six years old?

Speaker 5 (01:39:03):
I really want to do cybersecurity.

Speaker 35 (01:39:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 39 (01:39:06):
I don't come from a family that knows much about security,
but my family did know a lot about hard work,
and I got my start doing a lot of service
work as a firefighter AMT and that gave me that
pension for being, you know, of service to other people.
And I've always been interested in technology and so my
you know, paths sort of left led me to cybersecurity

(01:39:28):
being able to be of service. But I'm a creative
at heart as well, and so that's where that's kind
of where Peachageek came from.

Speaker 8 (01:39:35):
Well, there's So, first of all, it's crazy now, I
mean literally the scams everything. We were talking yesterday and
you know, I get this message saying of what app
account was created? I'm sitting there going, well, Hina Hill,
you created what's apcount with my phone number? And in
all these different ways and scammers. Technology has made gaming

(01:40:00):
so easy. We thought the phone calls scams and the
email scams were crazy. Now with with with phones, texts
and now all the social app talk about how really
wild it is and how the folks like you is
constantly trying to stay a step ahead of these folks.

Speaker 1 (01:40:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 39 (01:40:20):
Absolutely, With the rise of AI, it's really easy to
create different schemes to get people's credentials, get their name,
image and likeness, and more importantly too, get your time
and attention. And in a lot of ways, with the
rise of AI, it's getting harder and harder to spot,
you know, those different different phishing attacks as we call
them in the security world, a couple of different ways

(01:40:42):
that you can protect yourself, you know, but as that's
getting harder, you can utilize you know, AI to be
able to help you with that. Different things that you
can spot. For instance, the link itself does it look
like a reputable link. You know, the sender is that
somebody who you're familiar with.

Speaker 8 (01:41:01):
Yeah, I get I get those, especially the people who
invite on podcasts. And so again you looking at the markers,
it's like dear Roland Martin, okay, right there, And it's
always the same form. So what I do is I'll check,
I'll click the email, and I'm like, Chelsea Handler's show
is not sending me an email from some Gmail account.

(01:41:24):
And then a lot of these folks I know, So
I think one time I got an email from Joe
Button podcast, So I text Joe Breakfast Club, I text
NVA Charlotte made. So it's happened so many times, and
because it's now, it's a form now I laugh every
single time it. Then what gets me is that the
third email, you didn't respond, No, dumb ass, I didn't

(01:41:46):
respond because you're not real.

Speaker 39 (01:41:49):
Right, right, and you're not doing a really good job
at trying to convince me of it. Oh right, But
you bring up a good point of trust, but verifying
so reaching out to the people who you know and
saying did you send me this? A lot of ways,
that's the best way to protect yourself. Is tapping into
that verification.

Speaker 8 (01:42:06):
But also just just study the forms that they use.
And so wait a minute, this email looked the same
as four other emails I got nah that that that says.
And then of course anytime with the email when it's
dear Roland Martin, nobody says an email with the full
name no uh. And so so they're just things like

(01:42:27):
that I'm always looking at.

Speaker 5 (01:42:29):
And what I said to you yesterday was when.

Speaker 8 (01:42:32):
Something comes up, my first response is not to press
The first response is this look kind of fishy. So
now I'll check the email, I'll check all these different things,
and I will, but I still I will never click
anything in that email because that's gonna take you.

Speaker 39 (01:42:52):
Somewhere else, right, And it takes and like and like
we talked about, it takes your time, it takes your attention.
But you bring up another great point of being able
to look at those behavioral indicators of how people communicate.
Thread actors as we call them in the security world.
They tend to be a little bit more, a little
bit more formal in that way of addressing you because
they don't want to they don't want to set off
any alarm bells, you know, but you know, as humans,

(01:43:15):
we have that natural sniffer that we can identify whether
or not something is suspicious or malicious. But like you know,
like we said, it gets harder and harder with AI
to kind of keep on top of that and identify.
So it's an evolve it's an ever evolving process for
both sides. But I think as we see thread actors
get more and more sophisticated, get more and more creative,

(01:43:37):
because that's only natural, we'll see technology, you know, be
able to cushion that blow with humans ourselves being able
to be more educated on these different concepts of security
like phishing and getting links over social media, which is
a which is a really big breeding ground for cyber
based attacks because they want your credentials, they want to

(01:43:58):
take you know, assume identity, be able to speak on
your behalf, and you gotta be as strenched as possible.

Speaker 8 (01:44:05):
Tonight, Hey you get a DM Hey there's a security issue.

Speaker 21 (01:44:09):
Click this link and then.

Speaker 8 (01:44:10):
You then if you click it and you open it
up and it's usernaiment password. I say all the time,
the moment you see you click anything and is asking
for a us lament password, stop right there.

Speaker 39 (01:44:23):
Right right and also too, you know, being able to
look into you brought up another good point. All elements
of that email, So the sender of the email, the
domain of it. If I'm getting an email for Microsoft,
let's say, for instance, right, but this is coming from
a Gmail account, I know that's not legitimate. We right, right, right, right,
And also to I shouldn't be receiving an email at

(01:44:44):
two o'clock in the morning, you know, to give any
sensitive information, no banking details, nothing like that. I'm not
giving any of that government related information, right, yeah, to
somebody I don't know, especially on Manternet.

Speaker 8 (01:44:56):
And so share with folks. How you take Apple, you take?
You take other companies They have built in security features
a Google as well.

Speaker 5 (01:45:08):
I think I checked.

Speaker 8 (01:45:10):
I wanted to see who was trying to get into
my email, and I forgot what I went through. I
was talking about digital guy, and we went through and
it was the same thing. It was like at at
two thirty, at two forty eight, at three fifteen, at
three thirty, all these different and I'm looking at the
country of origin. All this sort of stuff is kind

(01:45:30):
of like, yeah, I see what the hell y'all were
trying to do?

Speaker 21 (01:45:33):
And that's one of the things you can take.

Speaker 8 (01:45:35):
So let's talk about two factor authentication authentication.

Speaker 5 (01:45:39):
Should folks do that?

Speaker 39 (01:45:41):
Absolutely? Yes, multi factor authentication. Two factor authentication is that
second layer added step of being able to say I
am who I see I am and a lot of
voice start actors are taking advantage of that with QR
code based attacks, where you know, for most individuals, most
businesses unfortunately don't yet have multi factor authentication set up.

(01:46:03):
So with that you have these threat actors send emails
on behalf of their IT or on behalf of Microsoft
let's say, for instance, or you know, just try to
get the individual to set up multi factor authentication as
a consumer when in reality, you know they're not duo
which duo Microsoft authenticator, They're not you know, Octa or Cisco.

(01:46:26):
And what they do from that is, you know, you
set up that spoofed multi factor authentication. You give them
the credentials, so now they have that one time pass
code boom to use and have your resources.

Speaker 8 (01:46:41):
Right, Absolutely, and okay, so you have that now. There's
been a ranging debate one group chats I'm in because
some people use their cell phone as the notification versus
their email, which one should folks actually use so so
when they okay, so when they okay, we need to

(01:47:02):
say it, alerk, is this you?

Speaker 5 (01:47:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:47:04):
Is it better to do with the email or the
or the cell phone?

Speaker 5 (01:47:07):
What thword?

Speaker 21 (01:47:07):
Text?

Speaker 39 (01:47:08):
I think it depends on the person whatever they're most
comfortable with, you know. So most individuals, you know, text
is the best way to reach us. Me personally, If
I'm going to get a multi factor authentication, I prefer
to have it from the app itself that I've set
up as my authenticator. Also, one thing to mention to
you brought up with Google the security checkup which they'll

(01:47:31):
take the users through to be able to see whether
or not they have those two factor authentications set up,
you know, best password policies, whether or not that's in place,
another good area for users to, you know, make sure
that they're all that they're hygienic if you will, with
their security on Google. But I like to use the
apps specifically, gotcha.

Speaker 8 (01:47:52):
Now what about the authentic authenticator apps. So let's say
you're able to put in and so again I'm gonna
say just Google Authenticator, so you can put in Dropbox, Twitter, whatever.
Then all of a sudden, when they ask you to authenticate,
you got to go to that number and then put
that in, right.

Speaker 39 (01:48:11):
Yeah, that's and that's exactly the process. That's what I
use myself. And it's a bit of a bear, it's
it's it's a bit annoying. But if it's going to
protect me in the long run of not having to
lose all of my data on Facebook or Google or Dropbox,
then I'd rather take, you know, the ten seconds to
to you know, put that password in that says who

(01:48:35):
I say I am.

Speaker 5 (01:48:36):
So let's talk about passwords.

Speaker 8 (01:48:40):
A lot of people have real simple passwords that's easy
to get into. What does it make Does it make
sense for someone to sit down and come up with
a twelve letter password that has exclamation points in it,
one in it and per saying in it that and

(01:49:01):
of course you need to save it so you know
what the hell it is?

Speaker 49 (01:49:04):
Right?

Speaker 8 (01:49:05):
That makes a hell of a lot more sense than
just real simple words belong those lines.

Speaker 39 (01:49:13):
Yeah. One thing I would recommend is using Google's password manager.
Google is the only one that has one. Apple has
it as well, where it'll create very complex special.

Speaker 5 (01:49:25):
Character do you care to use a strong password? Right? Right?

Speaker 39 (01:49:29):
And it'll save it automatically to your iCloud account. Personally,
that's something that I think is a great option if
someone can't think of something that a passphrase for instance,
that they want to use. But in other wise, you know,
I highly recommend people to get creative and you know,
think of passphrases to themselves that they like to use,
but be unique, because if you think like a threat actor,
you know, and you know, if you want to get

(01:49:51):
into somebody's account, you're going to think about the things
that they're most interested and you're going to think about
their pet names and you know what street they grew upon.
We all get those security questions for the verification. So personally,
for me, I'd rather just in the day and age
of the Internet, where I have social media and it's
easy for people to know what I'm mean.

Speaker 21 (01:50:11):
Yeah, that's easy.

Speaker 39 (01:50:11):
Yeah, I'd rather have something else create my password that's
going to be very hard to crack.

Speaker 8 (01:50:18):
Absolutely. A couple more questions. One VPN. Explain to folks
what that is. And for those of us who travel
a lot, you're in you're in airports, you're in hotels,
you're using Wi Fi networks. Now these folks are stealing
stuff up plug in the USB ports in airports. Whatever

(01:50:38):
does a VPN make sense? Or the person doesn't explain even.

Speaker 5 (01:50:41):
What that is.

Speaker 39 (01:50:42):
Yeah, So a VPN is a virtual private network and
it creates an encrypted tunnel for individuals to be able
to use the Internet, use their resources without the information
being easily encrypted by the device.

Speaker 5 (01:50:55):
Or is it on the computer?

Speaker 35 (01:50:58):
It can be both.

Speaker 39 (01:50:58):
It can be on a device or a can computer.
It it's a services wall that can be offered that's
available for any any any type of device.

Speaker 8 (01:51:05):
And so if you use a VPN, uh, you're using
that to be able to access the Internet.

Speaker 45 (01:51:10):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:51:10):
And and how's it protecting you?

Speaker 39 (01:51:12):
Yeah, so it masks your IP. So for instance, if
I'm in Chicago and I want to be able to
get on Netflix and watch something that's maybe based in
another country, I can utilize a VPN and select the
country that I want to, you know, mask that I'm
from and be able to say and be able to
watch whatever TV show.

Speaker 10 (01:51:32):
Or movie that I want to do.

Speaker 39 (01:51:34):
That's in a nutshow where VPNs are.

Speaker 8 (01:51:36):
Okay, any other basic principles that people need to be
utilized when to protect themselves.

Speaker 5 (01:51:45):
When it comes to cybersecurity, there's a couple of things.

Speaker 39 (01:51:50):
One I think cybersecurity falls back on, like I had
mentioned previously, having that trust, but the verification of the
form that you're reading, what you're taking in, is it legitimate?
Is it you know, is that integrole or does that information?

(01:52:10):
Is it authentic? Is the word that I'm looking for.
Cybersecurity starts with ourselves making sure we're doing the best
we can to be protected. And little things of setting
a multi factor authentication for your social media accounts, h
for having the default not to click on links no
matter where they're delivered to, right, you know, social media

(01:52:32):
or email, those are the likely the biggest things you
can do, and especially when it comes to the cell
phones as well. You see a phone call that you
don't know who it's from, donate for.

Speaker 8 (01:52:39):
It, Yeah, don't because they're hoping they want to record
your saying hello, and because now you know, we're operating
now with AI and they want to be able to
mimic your voice because sometimes folks use their voice to
be able to access their accounts. Stuff like that, right, absolutely,
all right, then what a cala. We certainly appreciated. Thanks
a bunch and great tips.

Speaker 39 (01:53:00):
Yeah, thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 8 (01:53:02):
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