TN TSU Management Hearing, LSU's First Black Bass Fishing Teammate, Thomas W. Dortch Jr Funeral

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today's Monday, February twenty seven, twenty twenty three, coming up
on Roland Martin Unfilter streaming live on the Black Start Network.
I'm live here in Austin, Texas. In Nashville, Tennessee lawmakers
question the management and financial practices at Tennessee State University.
What is going on with all of a sudden Tennessee
officials jamming up TSU? Are they trying their best to

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take over that HBCU. We will show you what took
place at today's hearing. Also, a black Louisiana student become
the first point in history to get a scholarship for
bass fishing. We will talk with him on the show. Also,
Nigeria's in the midst the humanitarian crisis. We'll talk with
the founder and CEO of the Nigerian Center about how

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people can help and explain what's going on in that
African nation. And also on Saturday of the funerals in
Atlanta for a Tommy Junior, the Atlanta businessman Major quessin
the Champion, we will have a look back and what
took place in his homegoing service and New Birth Missionary
Baptist Church. It is time to bring the fun on
rolling Mark on filter on the Black Start network. Let's go.

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Today in a Tennessee lawmakers they held up public hearing
to discuss if they're going to vacate and restructure Tennessee
State University's board of trustees and hiring new administrators. This
after a scathing report from the state Controller complaining about
various issues at the university. Now the State Senate at
High Committee. They met last Thursday with two hundred tissue

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alum students and parents providing pushback to an audit by
the Tennessee Controller Jason Munpower. Munpower accusing university of being
unprepared to handle the sudden influx of students, causing a
housing crisis. Lawmakers task the Control's office with examining the
spite in enrollment after several students and parents file complaints
with the state. Turning us now is Tennessee State Representative

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Vincent Dixie. He joined us right now representing they glad
to have you here. So okay, today's hearing was that
an open form? Was it broadcast where people able to
actually see it and what took place? Yes, it was.
It was an open form. So it's a regular committee
meeting that we had. People were able to sign up

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and we had six speakers from the community that spoke,
and they spoke very well and very highly and very
supportive of Tennessee State University. So basically at the end
of the day, what happened. They recommended to the full
committee that the Sunset Hearing be set out for a year.
They laid out some parameters which tissue agreed to make.
The majority agree to the majority of them. What was

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going on. So we have some issues that we can
work out. We have some goals to move toward, but
I think the heavy lifting is just about done. We
have one more meeting to go through and then we
should be able to fulfill the mission of educating black
students going forward. All right, so then complained they were

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not ready for the influx. Let's also be honest. The
issue is that Tennessee State was old five hundred million
dollars from the state. They only got in hundred and
fifty million, when a lawmakers going to give the other
twound fifty million for they can do their job. First,
I want to back up. I want to just be clear.
The first two hundred and fifty million have not been

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received yet. It has not been received yet. So this
is kind of where it kind of gets interesting for me.
Is that tissue received an audit and last year, and
it came through just regular mundane findings that you would
find any any university audit, and it was fine. They
had the recommendations, it was it was okay. It really

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didn't become an issue until doctor Glover started requesting this
money and they had some prerequisites in order for us
to hold to get this money. Doctor Glover balked a
little bit because she didn't think that was fair. And
then that's when this review came into play. And I
find that suspicious. I find a suspect that we did

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at this time. But I hope that what this community
learned and I hope people across the nation learned then
when you step up and advocate and people show up,
this is what this is the outcome. The way that
you get you can impact the outcome. And that's what
we did, and we did in that positive manner. Well
you can, you can impact the outcome. But the reality

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is it shouldn't have to have come to that. And
not only that, lawmakers previously questioned Tennessee State for why
all of a sudden these black students are going there
and not other state universities. It is if all of
a sudden, by asking for the money and have a dramatic,
you know, increasing enrollment, that tis Shue has a bullseye

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on its back. Well, anytime you excel, you know this
better than I do. Anytime you excel, you put a
target on your back. And that's exactly what happened. When
you start to is if it excellent, you become a
target for other people. And you know, we have to
cross outs and die our eyes and do everything twice
as twice as better than anybody else in this in
this world. Um, this is just we shouldn't have never

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been here to begin with. This was egregious, It was
heavy handed at best, and we should have never been here.
That Actually, when you look at the optics of it,
it appears that now that you increase the scholarship money,
which the state didn't increase in the add one penny
to it, that it was all accumulated by doctor Glover
and tissues efforts. Now it went from six million to

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twenty eight million. The optics says, oh, it's a problem.
Now we want to educate more black students. That's the
problem there. So that's it. Just it looks suspect and
at best. Okay, So what you know, what is next?
Because I'm getting getting calls from different people who who

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are saying that, look that they still are concerned that
these white official, these white Republicans in Tennessee are going
to try to make a move against Tennessee State. So
the next step in the in the in this procedure
is next Monday, I think at one thirty they have
what's called the Government Operations Committee. It beats and this
committee that meant today made the recommendation and hopefully that

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Government Opts Committee Operations Committee will follow that recommendation and
it'll still give Tennessee State a year in order to
input what they said they would input in order to
make that in the university run a little bit smoother
going forward for this next year and then we'll that
should be the end of it for at least one
more year. Yeah, but I mean, I get that. But

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what this does is it sort of puts a Tennessee
state on this sort of like shot clock, if you will.
And again, they're trying to make do with little and
I guarantee you the University of Tennessee they're not having
these funding problems, ah, not at all. And again, when

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you look at the five hundred and forty four million
that was old to Tennessee State University over these years,
imagine where we could where we would be right now.
Imagine all the research that could have been done. We
have already went from a research to level two to
research one and that's the highest level that you can
get in the research research facility, and it comes with

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millions of dollars of grants. We did that with no
really no support from the state. And this is amazing
what tissue has done so far. So you're right, it's
time for Tennessee to pay up and not put strings
attached to this money and let us govern ourselves. The
way that we know how to govern ourselves and know

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how to make how to achieve excellence, because that's what
we do. Tennessee is about excellence. All I represented Dixie.
We appreciate it. Thanks a lot, all right, thank you
for having me. All right, my pound, doctor Julia Malvo,
Dean and College of Ethnic Studies, California State University, LA. President.

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You married up being in college Amakongo to being Goat's
senior Professorial Lecturer, School of International Service, American University, Ernie Shannon,
Georgia SIT Representative. Let me have all three of you here,
so Julian and I'll start with you. As the representative said,
there quite mysterious all of a sudden. Let's now examine
the administration in the financial and Texas Tennessee state when

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they decide to say where's our five hundred million? Exactly?
I mean, this is just nonsense. Glenda Glover, Doctor Glover,
the president has been doing an excellent job as president
of TSU. And as the young man said, the representatives said,
taken from a research two to a research one qualifies

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you for all kinds of federal funds that you might
not ordinarily get. So she's been successful. What it is
is that we know what it is. Let's go back
to reconstruction. As soon as black people become successful, people
become envious, nasty and snatching, snatching away. So what's going
to happen, unfortunately, rolling is that imposing all these audit

(10:10):
conditions is going to take effort away from the real
work that needs to be done at TSU and at
any other college. And you know what cracked me up.
I glanced at the report. I didn't read the whole thing,
but cracked me up. So people are upset because there's
not enough dormitory space. Hey, that's a victory. If there's
not enough dormspace, that means that enrollment has exceeded expectations.

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But beyond that, I tell me another university that hasn't
had dormspace issues in the past decade. Even some of
our elites PWI elites have had to put students in
hotels and do things like that. So it's just a
double standard and it's nonsensical. And I hope that the
brother who spoke the representative says strong for TSU because

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it's worth saving. Black colleges have been attacked this way,
that way, and the other way, and it's got to stop.
You know, I think that this is indicative of a
representative of a greater problem. And we're seeing with this
cultural backlash or anything relating to black studies. We talk

(11:13):
about it with Rhonda Santis in Florida. These politicians and
these leaders and these boards, they're looking at every single
way possible to try to target what we're doing. Because
they also noticed that more and more students are enrolling
in HBC's than ever or ever before than in a
very long time. Because of the way the racial climate
is going in this country. Parents are seeing the backlash

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that's happening towards their kids education. Kids are seeing what's
happening as well, and they are retreating to spaces that
they see are safe and to be quite honest, Roland
and you know, it's better than anybody. The way the
stories are painted out there about what's happening there, they're
painting it as a story primarily of mismanagement. At the
bottom of one article I was reading, it mentioned the

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fact that TSC never got the money that it was
promised after talking about all of these other issues that
are happening at the university and making it look like
it's the fault of the leadership, and so the average
person will see that and just be like, Oh, another
black university. They don't know how to handle their students.
And so it's really important that we got the Black
Start Network here to really point out what's actually going on.
We're seeing this on the university level. We're seeing it

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with the places like Jackson, Mississippi. They're looking for ways
to come into black spaces and black leadership and just
take over. And we have to continue to fight and
continue to expose this for the stake of our students
and for the stake of all of the places that
we are tempting to create to be safe for black people,
especially black children. You always got to follow the money

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with data, absolutely, and I agree with doctor Malvo. Other
PWY universities have had issues with dorm problems and this
has gone back for a really long time. I remember
being at the University of Florida in around the year
two thousand and there were dorm issues. So that is
not something that is unique to HBCUs. But I really
hope that the Black representative in Tennessee know what time

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it is because I don't think that this HBCUs being
targeted just because it is excellent. There is a history,
especially in states that are under that are under Republican control,
conservative control, of them going after things that are very
profitable that black people have built, things that they just

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want to take control of. There is a history of
them doing this. So you look right here in Georgia,
we have had attempts for the Republicans to try to
take over our Atlanta Airport, which has produced more black
millionaires and has been really a big source for black
people to grow wealth here in the state. They have
consistently tried to take over the airport. We've seen attempts
from Republicans to trying to take over the voting efforts

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in Fulton County, the election boards. So anyway you slice it,
when black people are having full control of something, it
is often that we see that these legislatures that are
Republican control essentially being controlled by almost all white men.
You see that they want to come in and take
over what is black and controlling. So I hope they're

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being smart about what is really happening. All right, folks,
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White Fear trying to explain to people what has been
going on with this whole notion of white minority resistance,
and folcial like, well, I'm not quite sure, but I've
been Tansins two thousand and what we're saying in We
keep saying this even when it comes to mainstream and
social media. So you take former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbert. This

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is this idiot. It was a no a Fox News contributor.
If you want to know how she is absolutely a
right wing extremist. Listen to this nonsense judging people, hiring
people selecting people based on race, which is really, let's
be clear, how serious of a problem this is. It's
based on genetics, race based on your blood, your genes,

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And where do we see that connection. Well, these are
the very same geneticist core principles embodied by Nazism and
Adolf Hitler. And this should be something that is sickening
and alarming to every single Democrat and every single American.
We have seen where this philosophy can lead. The American

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people deserve so much more. I'm confused what the hell
she's even talking about, But let me go ahead and
walk this thing through. Pucker Carlson previously complained about President

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Biden's judicial nominees and he felt they were too black.
So what you have is you have folks like Tulsi
who don't like to see black people hired. So what
they do is they complain by saying, oh, oh, look,
they're hiring all these black people. We've seen Bill Maher

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complain about old people being chosen because of their race
or their gender. See, when you start choosing educated, honest,
accomplished non white people, namely non white men, white people

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pole have a problem because they've had this for years.
It literally is the thesis of my book White Fear.
They cannot handle scene people of color get opportunities because
they actually think all jobs are the heirs, all opportunities

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are theirs. Then, of course you got the nut Scott
Adams of Dilbert Cartoon. He decides to post an absolutely
strange video and says white people stawing from black people,
listen to this nonsense. Us Beenson Pole had a provocative

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little pool today. They said, do you agree or disagree
with a statement it's okay to be white? That was
an actual question. Rasmussen asked, you know, white and black
voters and probably others, do you disagree or agree with

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a statement it's okay to be white? Twenty six percent
of blacks said no, it's not okay to be white.
Twenty one percent weren't sure. Adam together, that is forty
seven percent of black respondents, we're not willing to say

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it's okay to be white. That that actually, that's like
a real poll. This just happened. Did you have any
idea would you have imagined that that could have happened?
So I realized, as you know, I've been identifying as

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black for a while years now, because I like, you know,
I like to be on the winning team, and I
like to help. And I always thought, well, if you
helped the black community, that's sort of the biggest lever,
you know, could you can find the biggest benefit. So
I thought, well, that's the hardest thing and the biggest benefit.

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So I'd like to focus a lot of my life
resources in helping black Americas, so much so that I
started identifying as black to just be on the team
I was helping. But it turns out that nearly half
of that team doesn't think I'm okay to be white,

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which is of course why identified as black, because so
I could be on the winning team for a while.
But I have to say, this is the first political
poll that ever changed my activities. I don't know that
that's ever happened before. Normally, you see a poll, you
just look at it, you go at whatever. Yeah, oh
this is interesting what other people think. But as of today,

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I'm going to identify as white because I don't want
to be a member of a hate group. I had
accidentally joined a hate group. So, if you know, nearly
half of all blacks are not okay with white people,
according to this poll, not according to me according to
this poll, that's a hate group. That's a hate group,

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and I don't want to have anything to do with them.
And I would say, you know, based on the current
way things are going, the best advice I would give
to white people is to get the hell away from
black people. Just get the fuck away wherever you have
to go, Just get away because there's no fixing this.

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This can't be fixed, right, this can't be fixed. You
just have to escape. So that's what I did. I
went to a neighborhood where, you know, I have a
very low black population because unfortunately that you know, there's
a high correlation between the density. And this is according
to Don Lemon, by the way, So you're unjust quoting
Don Lemon when when he notes that the when he

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lived in a mostly black neighborhood, there were a bunch
of problems that they didn't see in white neighborhoods. So
even Don Lemon s is a big difference in your
own quality of living based on where you live and
who is there. Well, things did not go well for

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the racist Scott Adams first and foremost, his Syndicatorum Andrews
becmeill universal. They have separate their relationship with him. Hundreds
of newspapers nation nationwide have dropped his comic strip Dilbert,
including The La Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post,
The Cleveland Plain Dealard Sant Santoni Express News, all USA

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Today Network newspapers. He has tried to defend um defend
the comments, and according to this story here, by Monday morning,
Adams no longer appeared in searchers on Gold comics and
Bilbert Comics were gone from the website. And then let's
see here so and he's complaining, oh, I'm as goodness,

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I've been canceled and again again just just then. Of course,
of course no shock that Elon Musk, who's from South Africa,
white members South Africa basically the supports of Adams saying
what's wrong with what he said? Now? His was interesting.

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He was commenting on a rast Mussing pole. Now rast
Mussen has pretty much been a right wing pole for
quite some time. And so this is a piece that's
in the Washington Post here that I find to be interesting.
And this is what they said of a congo. It
said that um, if rast Mussen polled a thousand people,

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they likely only polled one hundred and thirty six black people,
which means the poet is a marginal era of eight percent.
We see the thing that I love about what's going
on right now. And I'll say this again, what happened
in January sixth I appreciate the racist of twenty twenty

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three showing us exactly who they are. And that's what
Scott Adams has done. Absolutely, And I'm seeing people say,
oh my gosh, what happened to Dial Bird, And I mean,
what happened to Scott Adams. I can't believe this? And
my response was, nothing happened to him. He just showed
us who he was. And as doctor my Angelou said,
someone shows you who they are believing the first time.

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And so he got into issues last week last year
when he or a year or two ago when he
was making comments about reparations as well, and so he
wants to talk about cancel culture. This, as Dino Madia said,
it's not cancel culture, it's consequence culture. This is a
different time period. And when he tie it into what
Talasa Galbert was saying as well, with her ignorance and
self hate, given that she's part Samoan as well, and

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we see that these people feel for some reason emboldened
to get out there and say whatever they want and
basically target anything of relating to a diversity. And for
him to say, oh, I wanted to be on the
winning side, so I said I was black for a while.
I mean, how ignorant and disgraceful and despicable is that
we see with this man that really, at the end
of the day he says, old people are gonna call

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me racist. But let's see Roland, what network or what
organizations are going to pick him up, because I guarantee
you the only ones that will are gonna be ones
that have some type of racist been So if you're
not a racist, why are you gonna go inside with them?
Because I'm pretty sure that's what's going to happen. And
regardless of this pole, right, if I saw a pole
this at fifty percent of white people hated black people,

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I would focus on the fifty percent of black people
who of white people who like black people and respect
black people, and I would work to build with them.
So for him to sit there and say all black
people are a hate group because of this ridiculous survey
from the first place, and then target those ones who
say they're uncomfortable with with whiteness and the like. He
is looking for any excuse to just justify his racism.

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That's why he also brought Don Lemon in there, because
he says, see, I'm even quoting a black guy here
to kind of justify what I'm saying. And even that
was a mis quotation as well. And so what we
need to do Rolling is make sure that every network,
every newspaper, every outlet that had him is making sure
that they no longer have him if they haven't cut
him already, Because there are gonna be something that A're
gonna try to get by Rolling. There are gonna be

(27:27):
something they're gonna try to let this blow over because
the thing. Let them hold on one second, I gotta
go to a break. We come back. We're gonna pick
it up again. But I need people to understand what
does that play here? It is no shock you're seeing.
This is a recurring theme. We need to understand why

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Trump mob storms to the US capital. We're about to
see the lives of what I call white minority resistance.
We have seen white folks in this country who simply
cannot tolerate black folks voting. I think what we're seeing
is the inevitable result of violent denials. This is part
of American history. Every time that people of color and

(28:31):
media progress, whether real or symbolic, there has been. But
Carol Anderson at every university calls white rage as a
backlashes as the life of the proud boys in the
Boogaloo Boys America. There's going to be more of this
proudoy gone. This country is getting increasingly racist in its
behaviors and its attitudes because of the fear of white people,

(28:54):
the fear that you're taking our job, they're taking our resources,
they're taking our women. This is white We're all impacted

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by the culture, whether we know it or not, from
politics to music and entertainment. It's a huge part of
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What's going on as to love King of Robi Bahi divine?
And you're watching Roland Martin unfiltered. All right, folks, welcome
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So the thing I want people to understand year And
this is why I played all of that, what he

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had to say, and I played the Toci Gabbert comment.
It's why I wrote the book White Fear. How the
brownie you Americans, making white folks lose their minds. You
now look at what's happening, whether the University of North
Carolina system they not want to get rid of the
ei A diversity equity inclusion we talked to last week
about what was happening in Oklahoma, was happening in Texas.
In Florida, the Supreme Court hearing a case dealing with

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the issue of affirmative action in Ivy League schools. Also
the Supreme Court today hearing oral arguments dealing with President
Biden's student loan forgiveness. And you had individuals who actually
sued the president on the grounds that these that the
loan forgiveness will benefit black students more than anybody else.

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So the reason this stuff matters, Julian is because I
need people to see that this is not just fail
or one off. What we are seeing is a wholesale
attack on black and minority progress over the past fifty

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plus years. What we are seeing are white conservatives, white
conservative Republicans using their power controlling state legislatures, which means
that you're controlling state university systems. We're seeing the lawsuits.

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They do not want to see advancement, any further advancement
from African Americans, from Latinos, from Asian Americans, Native Americans,
anybody non white. That is the assault that we are seeing,
and too many people are not paying attention to this.
I told everybody what the critical race theory attack was about.

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That was a small piece. It is way bigger. You're
absolutely right, And what I'm most asserted about is the
lack of critical thinking or critical reporting on the part
of the mainstream media. I mean, so, as you said,
if they have served a thousand people, probably one hundred

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and thirty six and then were black. But you can
lie with statistics. So the question is, how is it
okay to be white? Well, no, it's not okay for
me to be white because I don't want to be
so how you phrase the question perhaps predicts your answer,
and basically, you know, he's a one off. We're not
even thinking about him, but we are thinking about the
systematic ways that black people, brown people, people of color

(32:45):
have been sidelined systematically. I mean, we started out talking
about TSU Sideline, talking about what's happening there, critical race theory, attacks,
attacks on ethnic studies. People do not want to know
the truth. I mean, just yesterday I was in section
fourteen here in LA. It's in Palm Springs where they

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burned black people out. They literally burned people out of
their homes. That's the story that they don't want to tell.
And you know, Reva Martin has been leading the effort
for these folks to get some reparations. And the old
white people are like, well, but you know, we didn't
do it on purpose. Oh no, the fire department sat
and watched black homes burn, but they didn't do it

(33:26):
on purpose. But there's so many incidents like this, so
many stories, and they're not stories, so much reality that
they don't want to hear because when they confront it,
what they do, but it's like they have to deny it.
But they don't have to deny it. What they have
to do is say this happened, let's own it, and
let's fix it. They're fixing it, you know, is too

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much for something. That's what student loan. You know, the majority,
not the majority, About half of those loans are held
by people of color. Biden did a good thing by
targeting those loans forgiveness to people have pels. That means
that people have lower income. What's the resistance there? Why
are you fighting filing lawsuits about young people having some

(34:10):
relief so that they can put money into the economy
that everybody says they're worried about. Come on, now, really,
you're you're absolutely right, and you're your book is so
important when you talk about white fear because we've been
living it daily in terms of the pushback, the og
we have freedom of speech, you know that kind of thing.

(34:30):
It literally is the reality that we're living in. And
we have to last day before last of Black History
Month theme black resistance. We must resist, you know, m
Rnada Again, I hope our people are understanding what is
going on here and what we are seeing. This is

(34:53):
not going to end, This is going to intensify. They're
going to use the courts, the le the suave shirt,
every way possible, and what they really want to go
after because you keep in these elite institutions. They don't
like the fact that black women are being educated to
hire with anybody else. They don't like the fact that

(35:16):
we are advancing. And so oh, if we were able
to attack the institutions, we can slow down black folks
from graduated from college, we can slow down on what's
going on, and we can hold onto this as long
as we can. With is why I wrote in White Fear,
black folks of the minoritiests must be fortifying ourselves in

(35:37):
the present for the attacks that are about to happen. Absolutely,
and you know what, actually don't care how many people
Rasmus and pulled to get their opinion of whiteness, because
whiteness has not been good for black people in this country.
It has led to white supremacy. And so for Scott
Adams to complain about this, has he ever thought about
how often black people get told in this country that

(35:58):
white people don't really care that anything good happens for us.
It happens every election cycle we continue to see the
majority of white folks vote for people who are running
openly anti black campaigns and open campaigns that are against
any person of color. So to me, his rant really
just seemed like a continuation of Miss Mellie from Colored
Purple when she was hugging the tree saying I've been

(36:20):
good to you people. Furthermore, if he has been identifying
as black, that doesn't help black people. And if he
actually identified as black on any government form, I hope
he is. I hope he gets investigated for it. Last,
or not least, UNC deciding to remove DEI requirements from
its medical school is very problematic. It's, as you said, Roland,
this stuff actually cost us our lives. And I'll give

(36:40):
you one example. When you look at maternal mortality rates,
which is women dying just trying to give birth and
up to a year after giving birth, what you find
the research shows over and over again is that black
women who are college educated are still more likely to
die than white women who have just a high school diploma.
And you know why that is. That is because medical

(37:02):
bias and medical racism is still a thing. So when
you are removing these d I requirements that basically flag
for that basically flag for up and coming medical professionals
that they need to be aware of implicit bias because
that can make the difference in a person's life. It's
particularly a person of colors life. These things are very important,

(37:23):
and so I'm really disheartened that this campaign was led
by an Asian organizer. I hate to see that once
again white supremacy is able to pull some folks over
to its side, and it's really for the detriment of us.
All well, I just want again for the people who
are watching, I'm a Congo. We need to be as

(37:48):
vigorous in fighting this. I had somebody hit me. A
journalist hit me, and he asked me I recently went
on this podcast with this guy, Patrick Bitt David. First
of all, let me be real clear, I never heard
of a dude. Apparently he's got a popular podcast. Never
heard of him, and apparently they did some Twitter poll
and they asked the followers who they like to have

(38:08):
on their show, and my name was one of the
top ones that came up. So they hit me up
and they offered to fly me down, pay for the trip,
pay for housing whatever. I happened to go to Fort
when I was being honored by the Trayvon Martin Foundation
in Miami. I went down and first of all, I
wasn't about to sit here and adjust my schedule for them.
So I said, look, I'm supposed to be there. I'll

(38:30):
leave on that Monday anyway, so um, let's do it like, oh,
we only do it Tuesday. Well, I'm sorry, I ain't
waiting around for y'all. So I went on and and
and he's our manyan immigrant. Um you know, right winger
try to claim he was independent. If you listen to him,
he wasn't. And as somebody hit me, they said, man,

(38:54):
why would you go on the show? I said, because
here's why you have to. You counter the level of ignorance.
You cannot allow their audience befare the exact same thing,
and people might find it wasteful, But not me. I'm

(39:17):
not one of these people who will say, oh I
will run away from Fox News. No no, no, no,
I want to run to them. I want their people
to listen to somebody who is smarter than them. I
want to introduce him to new, different things we make.
I think back to the birth of a nation, and

(39:38):
it was William Monroe Trotter, the black newspaper owner who
used his voice to campaign against that movie. So it's
very easy for us to say, man, I'm not engaging
those people, but we have to remember every single one
of those people. They've got people who are watching and

(39:59):
who are listening, and we are in an information war.
And the reason we cannot succumb and not be willing
to engage and fight these people because when you are
in an information war, you were in a battle and
you have to fight and resist that nonsense everywhere possible.

(40:20):
Toci Gabbert must be cut down and condemned every single time,
Scott Adams as well, because if we don't, we are
allowing these people, these impressionable minds, to be shaped. The
reality is when I've pushed back when that when Philip
Calon here from Indianapolis really a playing field here for Indianapolis.

(40:43):
I'm pushing back on that. That thing went viral, millions
saw me going against him. That means other people were
impacted by what they saw. That's why we have to
do battle and every single turn when it comes to
what is happening with these people. Oh absolutely, If we
don't fight the lies, the lies persist. And we're sitting

(41:05):
here talking about many of the well known figures who
are out there. But we all also knew that A
and radio controlled primarily by conservatives people who are out
in these rural areas. These hosts are getting their information
from the Hannitys and the Turkercrossroms of the world. And
if we stay silent on the we're basically saying that
it's okay to lie about us in our culture and
our community, and some of us have this mentality all

(41:26):
just ignore them, just don't pay attention. When you ignore them,
you end up with situations where they're putting laws on
the books saying that our culture can't be studied. When
you ignore them, we end up with situations like unc
Chapel Hill saying we don't got to focus on diversity
anymore after what they already did to the Cale Hannah
Jones right. When we ignore them, we put them in
situations where they don't have to watch their hiring priss business,
where they don't have to watch how they teach in

(41:47):
our classroom. They don't end they clearly as we see,
don't have to watch how they police our communities. And
so really, at the end of the day, if we
don't challenge them every single day, role and if we
don't put ourselves we were on these videos like said,
going viral and speaking truth to their ignorance, then we
are basically complicit. And I believe that our silence is compliance.

(42:08):
And we can't wait for the next shooting. We can't
wait for the next law to come down from another
racist governor. We can't wait for the We have to
be proactive. We have to react. Money sweet us got
attitudes of the world, but in our own space, in
the black star networks, we have to continue to fight.
All of us got platforms. I don't care if we
have two followers or twenty million followers. If we do
not speak up, we are just as bad as them,

(42:31):
if not worse. Because we have seen this happening meant
in birth of a nation, going back to the early
nineteen hundreds, we have seen this happen and we have
seen the consequences of our science. Now we have more money,
but are we using it to be more influential? Now
we have more money, but are using it to build
more black networks. We have more money, are we using
it to build information structures that counter this ignorance? If not,

(42:52):
we have no one else to blame for it. Persisting
than ourselves. We know how to target sponsors, we know
how to target politicians. We know how to do all
of that. We can't be silent because it is our
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to see my dad hooking up to the boot leaving
out and I was like, I want to be with
him too. I want to be a part of fishing.
Me and a friend of mine, See, let's start our team.
And just got better over time. For my senior year,
I started doing awesome LSU Streetport recruited in I signed
with them. I was the first African American in Louisiana

(45:05):
to get a scholarship for bass fishing and it fields awesome.
Hey I'm Dianco from Blackness. What's up? I'm Lance Gross
and you're watching Roland Martin unfilter all right, folks. Ay

(45:28):
black Louisiana student athlete has made history to become the
first to receive a scholarship for bass fishing. That's right,
bass fishing. Christian Russef. Hopefully I'll pronounced that correct, y'all
please do fornetic spelling. Was accepting to LSU Louisiana State
University in twenty twenty one, and it's been making ways
since joining the LSU bass Fishing team. Now, he serves

(45:51):
an ambassador for Discovery Boating, powered by the NMMA and
Marine Retailers Association of the Americas Cover Boating campaign see
you out here now. The campaign features stories of passionate
voters turned brandon bachelors around the country, honest people who
reflect the next generation of voters. The new campaign launched

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across the US and Canada in April. Christian joins us
now this segment of course, presented by Discover Boating from
He's from Edgard, Louisiana. So Christian, glad to have you here.
First of all, probably pronounced your last name's Russell Russef. Okay, gotcha,
all right, glad, we got that straight. So so here's

(46:33):
what's interesting the regions. I finally this would be hilarious
because the greatest bass fisherman ever is actually named Roland Martin. Yeah,
and so I remember I remember reading about him. I
was in the seventh grade and back in the newspaper
that he won like seventy thousand dollars at the bass
fishing tournament, and I was like, who the hell is

(46:53):
this person named same name as me? Who's fishing? Now?
I don't fish. I've never liked fishing. I do golf,
that's my thing. But it is it is interesting that
again in your in your space, Roland Martin is the
greatest bass fisherman ever. Yeah, absolutely, he is. Man. And
I told people about being on the show and they
were like, wait, You're talking about Roland Martin the fisherman,

(47:15):
And I'm like, no, doctor, Roland Martin, you know. So yeah,
I had a lot of that. So I still get
some of his emails for his lures and other stuff
along those lines. So why didn't you first start fishing? Oh?
I was started as a kid man my dad and grandpa.
You know. I started off young, since I was in diapers,

(47:36):
you know, and I took a liking with my dad
going out on the water, and I was like Hey,
I want to go. So he wanted me to do it.
So I was like, man, I love this, you know,
and especially catching my first fish, you know, it just
blew my mind. And I was like, this is all
I want to do. I mean, I love being on
the water. It's my thing, you know, absolutely. Now that

(47:58):
are different types of fishing. So you got fly fishing.
So where did bass fishing come from? And why didn't
you realize that? Wait a minute, they have scholarships for
this stuff. Oh well, it started with bass fishing. I
mean we used like bay casting rills and stuff like
that in casting rods. And it all started a while back,

(48:20):
right when I got all the middle school getting ready
to go to high school, I heard about high school fishing,
so I went to When I got in high school,
I told my high school teacher, was like, hey, they
have bass teams, you know, and I think we can
start a fishing team over here. And we looked into
it and she was like, yeah, they're doing sure enough.
We started in my eight grade year and things kind
of started off rough, but hey, practice makes perfect. So

(48:42):
I started practicing a lot and going fishing every chance
that I had, and drew my ninth through tenth grade year,
I got out there and I started making a name
for myself, getting top twenty finishes, which it wasn't top
five or first place, not yet. But when my junior
year and senior year came, that's when I excelled through
my season. Then I had top five finishes back to

(49:02):
back and even had two first place finishes. And then
after that that's when school started looking at me. And
then LSU Shreeport came and the coach gave me a
call and he recruited me. Was like, hey, I would
love to have you on our team, and we have
a good team and we're going to excel and short
enough we are, so I can't ask for better, you know.
So you're at LSU Shreeport, not LSU in Baton Rouge,

(49:26):
yes street part correct, got it? Okay? Cool? So um
I for people don't understand, I mean, look bad fishing
you got, you got television shows, you've got competitions. I
mean there are people who have made a lot of
money and become millionaires. Bad fishing, oh yeah, he especially

(49:48):
Fishing Circuit the at least series. Yeah, it's a lot
of money out there and a lot of people. So
how many of African Americans. Do you see out there
when you're doing tournaments. The most high probacy is about
maybe two or three And those guys go to school

(50:09):
on the East coast, especially in Alabama. Just two or three. Yeah,
that's it. It's not that many of us. So are
you hoping by being an ambassador you're gonna connect with
a lot of those young black kids out there who
love the fish and let them know, hey, if you're

(50:33):
not you have to play football or basketball. You can
actually got us get a fishing scholarship. Yes, absolutely, I
do it an old time. I reach out to younger
kids that are in high school and I'm like, hey,
let's go fishing. Fishing. Fishing tournaments is a big thing
in high school right now, and it's going worldwide, and
I tell kids every day, man, let's get out and
let's get a diverse in this sport, you know, because

(50:55):
it's not that many of us, and kids are getting
into it, and I'm glad to do what I'm doing. You, oh,
totally understand questions from my panel. I'm a congo you first,
congratulations on everything that you're doing and this success. Well,
one of the questions that I have is have you

(51:16):
seen in your experience backlash from white people who are
in the sport who are saying that you don't belong
here as you get, you know, different kind of looks
or things like that. Has that been an experience for
you or not so much? Oh, not so much. I
mean we get looked at us a people like. You know,
expressions can tell you know when you say you know

(51:39):
that we don't belong here, you know, so I get
that pretty often. But I just show up and fish
and win. That's what I'm here to do, you know,
make a name for myself. All right, RNDA, congratulations Christian
breaking barriers. Um. I wanted to ask you. You know

(51:59):
a lot of time time sports can be cost prohibitive
for black kids to play or black kids to enter.
So maybe it's the cost of the uniforms. It could
be the cost of competitions. Talk to us about what
about what it's like and what it takes to enter
to start fishing like you've been doing, oh well, basically

(52:20):
through the high school circuit, you have to get with
a tournament director and they have no reason to turn
you around. It'd be more than glad to have you
and you just get like a colt or whatever, like
you have to get a bull captain in high school,
a fishing coaching. He has to take you out and
that's just about it. And once you get on, you're
good to go, all right, Julian, Congratulations Christian, this is

(52:48):
really wonderful to have you blazing trails in a sport
that I don't really associate with black folks. You're a
college student, so tell me how much time are you
spending with a fishing team. How much does this take
away from your studies, which should of course be your
primary focus. Well, I'm fortunate enough at LSU. You see

(53:10):
how much money they make fishing. Well, I'm fortunate to
have a good professors at Louisiana State University in shreport
and our professors know about our fishing team on Howard
excelling throughout the tournaments and most of the time with
in person classes, you know, we let our professors knowing
the week or two advance, like, hey, look we have
this tournament coming up, and most of the time NIA

(53:31):
just post like the videos on our moodo and that's
just about it, you know. So they are very lenear
with us, and I can't ask for better because I
know some guys at other schools, the professors are pretty
hard up and like, hey, he needs to be in class,
and they don't get that much time. You know, they
don't get a brick basically. So you talked about your

(53:53):
success in high school. What success have you actually had
down while in college US as Now, I've been getting
some top farta finishes. You know, I'm just kind of
getting my feet in the water. You know. I just
started as a boater this year, in my sophomore season,
so this is just the beginning. So far, I had
three tournaments. One was in Russellville, Arkansas, on Lake dart

(54:15):
Now and we came in a hundred out of two
hundred and fifty boats. And then I had another one
on Pickwek Lake and that one had two hundred and
thirty four boats and we came in top eighty. And
my last one recently was on Harris Chain the Lakes
and Leesburg, Florida, and we came in eighty fifth out
of two hundred and thirty four boats. So I mean
it's just a start, you know. I mean I have

(54:37):
two more years remaining, and let's just get out on
the water and prank. Just makes perfect, you know. So
I just keep fishing every day, you know, That's all
I can do. Oh, well, absolutely, and it's it's always
great to see folks. You're doing some new and interesting
things and so this is absolutely awesome. And so Christian,

(55:00):
heap it up. And uh, maybe in a few years again,
I'll be reading somewhere and we'll be seeing your name. Uh,
taking first places like I did years ago, seeing Roland
Martin's name. And in fact, first of all, have you
ever met him? Because I've never met him. Now. We
used to jockey in for the top positions on you
type in rolland Martin in Google, but about a few

(55:20):
years ago I put beat him, So you're not talking
to the type in rolland Martin. I come back the
first four or five different times. But I've never met him. No,
I haven't either. I knew he has a son or
Scott Mortiness on the Bast Master of Least series, and
uh I met him one time at a high school
national championship in Anderson, South Carolina, fishing at League Hallwell,
so I met his son, but I never met him.

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All right, then, with Christian luck, good luck as a
bass fisherman, Congratulations of the scholarship, and we certainly hope
other young folks are excited about what's uh what by
this and see the opportunities that exist when it comes
to getting a fish scholarship. Okay, thank you so much
to Martin. It was a pleasure of being with you.
And one more thing, you guys can follow me on

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Instagram at the real Chris t h e R e
e L Chris k h R I S. And that's it.
And also I'm currently looking for sponsors this year for
my team, so if anyone's interested, be feel free to ask,
you know, all right then, and so we appreciate it.

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We surely one of the things Discover Boating for sponsor
this segment. Christian, thanks a lot, absolutely, thank you. It
was a pleasure of being on the show. Yes, sir,
appreciate it all right, folks, We'll be back rolland Mark
I'm filtered on the Black Side that work. Next on
the Black Table with me Greg Carl, we featured the

(56:50):
brand new work A Professor and g Porter, which simply
put is a revolutionary reframing of the African experience in
this country. It's the one legal article everyone you know
what I mean, everyone shooting Professor Porter and doctor Felipa.
Watkins are legal Roundtable team join us to explore the

(57:10):
paper that I guarantee is going to prompt a major
aha mood in our culture. You crystallize it by saying,
who are we to other? People? Who are African people
to others? Governance is oward thing? Who are we to
each other? The structures we create for ourselves, how we

(57:31):
order the universes and for the people. That's next on
the Black table here on the Black Start game. Most
people think that these television shows that tell stories about
who we are as black men, and then they paint
these monolithic portraits of us. They think that they're being

(57:55):
painted by white people. And I got to tell you
there are a whole bunch of black folk right that
that are the creators, right, the head writers, right, the
directors of all of these shows, and that are still
painting us as monoliths. The people don't really want to
have this conversation. Hi, I'm Kim Berrell. Hi I'm Carl

(58:29):
painting everybody is a Sherry Shepherd. You're watching Roland Martin Unfiltered,

(58:59):
and a thing's Kirkland left her Lima, Ohio, Lima, Ohio
home in December twenty seven. The seventeen year old is
five feet five inches tallways one hundred and fifteen pounds,
with brown eyes and black hair. When she was last
seeing her head was dyed a faded red. Both of
Anastasia's nostrils are pierced, and she has the word blessed
tattooed on her right whist risk. Anyone with information about

(59:20):
Annastasia Kirkland is urged to call the Lima, Ohio Police
Department at four one nine two two seven four four
four four four one nine two two seven four four
four four The racist Kentucky student of course, who went
after who assaulted a black student? She has been well
called on camera. She has been indicted. A Fayette County,

(59:42):
Kentucky grand jury indicted Sofia Rosing on one count a
third degree assault of a police officer, three counts of
fourth degriscult, one count of second degree disordly conduct, and
one count of alcohol intoxication. Rosing was kicking, punching, and
biting student work Kyla spring Or, repeatedly calling her the
N word. Rosing could be heard saying things like do

(01:00:05):
my chores. It's not my fault that you're black, and
it's not my fault that you're ugly. The University of
Kentucky permanently banned Rosing from campus following her the racist
attack in November. Her raiment is set for March seventeenth.
As I said earlier, the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill plans to drop diversity, equity and inclusion requirements
from hiring criteria following a Board of governors meeting. The

(01:00:28):
college will no longer, first of all, the system it's
not just a college. The system will no longer solicit
to require an employee or applicant for academic admission or
employment to firmly ascribe to opine about beliefs, affiliations, ideals,
or principles regarding matters of contemporary political debate, or social
action as a condition to admission, employment, or professional advancement.

(01:00:50):
The Board of Trustees also proved the creation of unc
Chapel Hill School of Civic Life and Leadership, which reinforces
free speech and debate on campus. Following the decision to
eliminate diversity and equity hiring requirements. Well, we see that's
all about. That's how Florida Family, a Greece to a
two million dollars settlement with the city of Palm Beach Gardens.
The family of Corey Jones, a black motorists fairly shot

(01:01:14):
by police officer after his vehicle broke down on an
interstate off ramped in twenty fifteen, settled for the total
amount sided for the city's insurance policy. Palm Beach Gardens
officer numant Raja was convicted of manslaughter and attempted murder
in twenty nineteen and sentenced to twenty five years in
prison for the October twenty fifteen killing of Jones. Roger

(01:01:34):
was the first Florida law enforcement our officer nearly thirty
years to be convicted and sentenced for an on duty killing.
All right, folks, let's talk about what's happening in Nigeria.
Whether they recently have had a contested election where the
people they are looking for stability but also safety. There's
been a lot of things happening there would course be

(01:01:56):
covered in years past, bocal harm with the kid nathing
of children and other issues that have taken place. Many
Nigerians have been looking for the United States for temporary asylum.
For Temporary protected status a TPS is a program that
allows migrates whose home countries are considered unsafe the right
to live and work in the US for a brief
but extendable period of time. Joining us right now is

(01:02:19):
Benga Orgon Jimmy Orgoon Jibby, the founder and CEO of
the Nigerian Center of talking about the TPS program and
how the recent changes dealing with migrants in the United
States could impact Nigerians. Glad to have you here at Benga.
So take us through. First of all, give people a
sense how many Nigerians are there in the United States. Look,
I'm from Houston was a huge Nigerian population because the

(01:02:42):
texts of the university. But give us a sense about
how many Nigerians are here in the US. Oh, thank
you so much for the opportunity to be here. Nigerians
on all the largest immigrant groups in the country. We
also know that beyond the numbers of Nigerians will give
me great tech care. The vast majority of Africans in
the Aspera also have their ancestry from Nigeria. And also

(01:03:04):
the White House recent report redefine the definition of African
diaspora to encompass both African immigrants are also African Americans,
so significantly, we're looking at the greater majority of the
African desper So what impact will the recent trades by

(01:03:25):
the Biden administration have on Nigerian immigrants? So over one
hundred organization the exact number is one to eight one
twenty eight Civil Society Himmigrant Rights, humanitarian rights, human rights
organization recently wrote to the Biding administration to immediately designate

(01:03:46):
Nigeria's TPS. While Nigerian American community is one of the
very successful community in the United States, they are significant number.
The last estimate estimate around sixty thousand Nigeria that are undocumented.
The impact of this will make them not to be
deported back to Nigeria. If they're currently in detention immigration detention,

(01:04:11):
they will have the opportunity to be released and if
they are going through any form of immigration proceedings remove
from the country, that would be stopped because the Department
of Homeland Security did Nigeria unsafe at this moment for
people to get deported back into Also, those who are
currently here out of status would have the opportunity to

(01:04:33):
have walk authorization and may even get some travel documents.
We want to state that we recognize that immigrating to
the United States is an opportunity, It's a privilege. We're
not demanding this, we are asking for this. We are
asking biding the administration to issue our community this protection
so it can save lives. So the TPS program, how

(01:05:00):
will this benefit Nigeria's A lot of people also have
understand Nigeria because of oil is one of the favorite
nations by the United States. Yes now during the significant
allies in the United States and as this new administration
redefines this engagement with the African continent, and Nigerian plays

(01:05:23):
a significant role as one of the allies and partners
and actors of Nigeria on the continent, so they're making
significant financial investments into that country. We are the Nigeriant
Center and the coalition believes this is an opportunity to
directly invest in Nigerians that are currently living in the

(01:05:43):
United States. So the way this is going to benefit
them ultimately is going to give those who one documented
an opportunity not just to be protected, but also the
opportunity to contribute, the opportunity to pay taxes, the opportunity
to leave us. Any other person leaving in the United
States of America, and this is not an exclusive request

(01:06:04):
for Nigeria. We know what happened in Ukraine. Do afford
the TPS. We know ad what's afford the TPS. Countries
around the world has been afforded tps and for a
decade long. There's the book wal around insurgency. There's terrorism
in the country. It's on the rising sophistication, it's on
their rising in intensity. A game is an opportunity to

(01:06:28):
save lives and offer the people opportunity to contribute by
paying their taxes in the United States. Let's have some
questions for our panel. Arena your first, well, thank you
for coming on and talking to us about what's going
on in Nigeria. I'm seeing a lot of information around
people contesting election results. Can you kind of crack open

(01:06:49):
for us and explain a little more what is going on,
what happened with the election, and how it is going
with verifying the election results. Well, currently, the presidential election
happened over the weekend and they've been pockets of irregularities
in some parts of the country. But to my understanding,

(01:07:10):
I don't think it has a reason to a point
where you can conclusively say that the election is not
successful or marred by violence. I think it's did in progress.
The election result are still being counted. Ultimately, I think
we're seeing a lot of surprises. I think for the
very first time in this election, we saw the emergence
of the taught force and really the voice of the

(01:07:33):
people is being heard in such a way that has
never been heard before. And a lot of surprises coming
up in this particular election. So I would say I
think it's going for the most part peaceful. The transition
is in motion. I think we have a couple of
days to completely see how the election completely pans out well.

(01:07:53):
My goal STPs. I want to also say that in
the past subsequent change of administration, I think about four
administrations for every administration that comes in that significant help
that the security issues of the country will completely turn around.
But that has not been the case. So this new

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administration comes in, we really want TPS to immediately go
into effect, so to give them some time to demonstrate
owners leadership on the security issues on the country while
saving lives in the meantime. I'm a Congo. Thank you
so much for the knowledge and information that you're providing.

(01:08:38):
My question regards is regarding the redesign of the nira
and the problem that has caused economically as it relates
to people not being able to get access to their
money in parts of Nigeria. Do you feel like this
could exacerbate the problem more and lead to an increase
of more Nigerians having to flee the country and seeking tps. Absolutely,

(01:09:01):
without a doubt. I believe that timing. There's nothing wrong
in going into a cash lest society. There's nothing wrong
in redesigning your financial policy as a country, but timing
is critical. That policy has been met with a lot
of pushback and we just believe the timing, particularly going

(01:09:24):
into an election. We're talking about a season of the
country where it is one of the most challenging chapters
of the country history economically, and now there's this redesign initiative.
I think the problem is even the scarcity of money
in itself. I think this really intensified the situation of

(01:09:45):
security of life's kidnappings. There's always been a challenge the
country continue to deal with, and I think there's time
around with this redesign and also the shortage of cash
in an elections period. Frankly, I think it's a bad idea. Yeah, okay,

(01:10:10):
thank you for being with us and thank you for
bringing us up to date, especially on the election. I
want to jump back and as Nigeria has well beeny
African countries, but Nigeria has frequently been painted in the
media as unstable. You mention of the kidnappings and other
things is a root cause the way that independence happened

(01:10:31):
with the enduring influence of the UK or is there
another reason why we continually see the instability in Nigeria
some Nigerian country as a country, we've always we have
always attempted to renegotiate and also re examining the basis

(01:10:53):
in which various independent ethnic groups from this independent new nation,
and we have some legacies of unialism from the United
Kingdom that was to wrestle with Obviously, that goes into
the fabric and the foundations of the country. Even our
political system is one of the challenges a lot of
people think holds progress back because the way the country

(01:11:18):
system is designed right now, it concentrate powers to a
certain part of the country. You know. So I think
the challenge of this new administration which I'm hoping for
a system leadership, it's really examining that system and make
it more fair and easy for everyone to participate in

(01:11:39):
our experience as a nation. So we were wrestling with
external legacy issues, international issues, but hey, ultimately Nigerians have
always been leaders. We have an unbreakable spirit, we have
a tremendous potential. There's a lot of forecasts about our country,
a lot of even prograstificated that would not be existing

(01:12:02):
at this particular time. We have defied all those odds.
So Nigeria continue to really defy the odds and this
kind of expression of what it means to be an
African world, it means to be a Nigerian, to be
able to be a black person. So I think the
challenges is not so much that we can overcome them,

(01:12:23):
and I think we're in the progress in the motion
of the process of doing so. If you look at
our country, our diasporate communities around the country, around the world,
even in this United States of America, we continue to
exam So I think that's going to be the challenge
for this new incoming administration to create that kind of

(01:12:43):
playing field for the country in itself to rise to
its true potential domestically, not just internationally. We strongly believe
that is possible. What we are saying, while the country
take ons that challenge of manifesting its true potential, let
us save lives in the process, and those who are
in the United States, let's also give them the opportunity

(01:13:06):
to rise to their own potential. By what I can
walk authorization, have this protection not to be deported back
at this particular time, and just contribute like any other Americans.
All right then, Vega, I appreciate it, Thank you so
very much. How can if people want to reach out
to help your organization, how do they do so? Thank

(01:13:28):
you so much. Our website is Nigerian Center dot org,
follow us on social media and sent us an email.
If you go to a media page, you can read
our press release regarding TPS. We ask that you call
your congressmen and representative help them support our congressional campaign
going on right now to designate Nigeria STPs. Thank you

(01:13:49):
very much for this opportunity. Thank you so very much.
Ronada Julia Mcaango, I appreciate you joining us on our
panel today. Thank you so very much. When I go
to a break, we come back. Tylly Dortch Junior was
laid to rest on Saturday, will show you what was
what took place at his homegoing in Atlanta. You're watching
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is sure Lee rep. And you are watching Roland Martin unsilted.
All right, folks, I'm here in Austin, Texas. I'm gonna

(01:16:15):
be moderating or hosting the Black Fund Awards taking place
at the Paramount Theater. Tomorrow. I'm gonna be speaking in
Houston Tillison College for the du Bois Lecture, and so
looking forward to that. And so what we're gonna do is,
the first of all, I'm gonna be a guest host
tomorrow because I'm gonna be speaking. But then right now,
I gotta go host to do this right here, That's
what we're gonna do is we're gonna share with you

(01:16:36):
some of the homegoing service of Tommy Dorsch Junior, the
Atlanta businessman XBC advocate known all across the country for
his great work. It was late to rest On Sarady
died the age of seventy two. Do the pink created
cancer and remind again, I need to folks on YouTube, y'all.
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(01:16:56):
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every single show. So I gotta go do these duties.
Here and so here he is again some of the
homegoing service. We live stream this on Saturday. If you
want to watch the entire service, go to our Blackstart

(01:17:17):
Network app. Go to our YouTube channel. You can see
the whole thing. So here's an abbreviated version the homegoing
Service of businessman. My good friend despite have been Omega.
He's a good's a good brother, Tommy dortsch Junior. I'm

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here to read two scriptures Galatians five thirteen and fourteen
and Hebrews ten and twenty four. And Galatians five thirteen
and fourteen says, for you recalled to freedom, brothers, only,
do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh,
but through love serve one another, for the whole law

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is fulfilled in one word. You shall love your neighbor
as yourself and he Brus ten and twenty four. And
let us consider how to stir up one another to
love and good works. And if there was any one
on the face of the earth that used their freedom
to stir all of us up to good works, it

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was Tommy. He was a master chess player of service,
and all of us were to pieces on the board.
He had you serving when you didn't want to serve.
If you wanted to do a deal, you would have
to serve here. If you wanted something, he would make
sure you gave here. But he didn't do it transactionally

(01:19:02):
because he knew there was a crack in the night,
and he didn't allow that crack to be a reason
that that night couldn't be used. That there was a
flaw with the bishop. But he still understood how to
put that bishop in place for the greater good. And
if there's anything that we learn as we celebrate his
life in legacy, it's our job to use our freedom

(01:19:26):
to stir up the world and to use the pieces
around us for the greater good. And he would be
telling us even in this moment, go and do the
work for I've already given you the example. So that's
first and foremost. Thank you. So everybody who came out

(01:19:49):
today to memorialize my father. YEA, yeah, it's been tough.

(01:20:15):
It's been really tough. But we can't throw it. Um,
it's nothing you really could have done to get prepared
for this. I mean, I want my brothers and sister

(01:20:44):
to introduced as It's Mark Bridget Angel Mulu Jannis. This
may have been as kids, but he created a huge family.

(01:21:07):
You know, I gained so many uncles and aunties and
cousins and so mental more. He was a country boy,
so you know how we do with our family. Um,
we had a big family. But you know a lot
of people have poured into us and give their prayers
and their condolences. But we also thank you all because

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you know, everybody in here made him who he was.
He was so motivated and so driven by the idea
of a better community, a closer community. He was driven
by us working together and really being a family. So
you know, we owe a lot of things to you all.

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I remember a lot of things my father used to do.
One of my well, two of the things I remember most.
The most one was his his his love for travel
and his love to be on the road. I kid
you not. He probably traveled twenty days out of every month,

(01:22:13):
and that's even up until this last few months. Where
he shouldn't have been on any plane or in any car.
He should have been sitting still, but he never did.
But he was always on the road, trying to do
for somebody else's community, trying to do for our students,
for for every child who had a dream of being

(01:22:35):
in the position he's in or was in, and even bigger.
He was always there for him and it was hard
to give him up on days because I wanted to
spend time with him, and I know him. A lot
of people can say the same, but I understood as
I got older, I understood his need to be on
the road because he changed so many lives. Another thing

(01:22:59):
was I as I got older, I got to sit
around and see as he signed a lot of checks too,
and I and I'm not gonna lie, even to this day,
I wondered sometimes why that five hundred and hundred thousand
wasn't going intire pocket. But as I got older, I
got to understand that too, that you know we were
only strong as our weakest link, and it was no

(01:23:22):
good for us to have all the money and and
everything afforded to us when it was always somebody struggling
behind us. He always felt he had to bring up
the next man, and I respected to that about him,
even though I still miss some of that money, but
I respected that about him. But he was so selfless,

(01:23:45):
even until his last days. He was worried about everybody
else but himself. That's just the man he was, and
I'm so a pretestent for that. I could never replace him.
I don't want to. I never want to do the
work that he did did but it was necessary. And

(01:24:05):
all I know that we can ask on behalf of
his families that you all keep that work going, keep
doing everything we can for our communities and our students
and our kids, because they need our help. And I
know they put me up here on purpose because I
am a cry baby. I am the baby, and you

(01:24:28):
probably didn't notice about him. He was the baby too,
and he was a big cry baby. He wore his
emotions on his sleeve at all times. So I'm not apologizing,
but this is me, this is him too, a big,
a big cry baby. But he loved everybody, no matter
if he agreed with you or not. He loves you all,

(01:24:49):
and we love you all the same. Thank you. You know,
the spirit never leaves us. We may not see him
in the flesh, but we see him in his children.
We see him and his wife, We see him and

(01:25:10):
his friends. We see him in the United Needroal College
Fund and all of the HBCUs. We see Tommy Dortch
in a hundred Black men. We see things that he touched,
that he had a little hand in. And I don't

(01:25:32):
know remember when it started. It just seemed like he
was always there. He was always showing up, telling me
what I needed to do, and it didn't ever have
to be the same thing. There were people like Thomas
Dortsch who encouraged us and who looked like he really

(01:25:55):
wanted to run against us, but stood that there was
more power in running everything than in just trying to
run the city hall. And so whenever you needed something done,

(01:26:16):
whenever you needed to rally people around an idea, regardless
of what that idea was, there was Tommy. Where he
got all the energy. It was probably from Carol, but
I don't need to explain that because she was a
little girl from Princeton, and I don't know how she

(01:26:38):
got from Princeton down to Atlanta, but it really used
to worry me because my brother went to high school
in Princeton and we knew everybody in Princeton and knew
her family. And then when I started running for something,
that was my opponent's signs all over front yard, and

(01:27:02):
I said, you know why she supporting him? And I
never asked until one day comic came and said, I
wish you would marry us, And I said, okay, when
where He said now soon, And so we got together

(01:27:28):
in my living room and we said a blessing on
a wonderful couple. And they have continued to share those
blessings for almost forty years now, and it may be
more than forty years because they were probably sneaking around

(01:27:52):
a little bit before we knew about it. But that's
what makes us such a great city. You are great people.
Tavas W. Dertsch is a representative of you. He's a

(01:28:14):
representative of the spirit that you brought here from many
many places in the world. He's a representative of the dreams.
He's a representative of the courage of the data. He's
a representative of the best that is in us. And

(01:28:35):
so when we look around and we say, how did
Atlanta get to be a four hundred billion dollar economy,
you know that's about the same size as Norway, Atlanta,
little old country Atlanta now rising city shining out all

(01:29:04):
over the world because of the men and women and
children that came out of our academic institutions, that came
out of our churches, the spirit that came from some
of the greatest preachers you've ever heard anywhere in the world.
You can preach good when you're full of sin and

(01:29:27):
you know you've got to get out of it, and
you can preach your way out. And so when we preachers, preachers,
we're not preaching to save you. Only we preach and
trying to save ourselves. And Tommy Dortche was always in

(01:29:48):
church saying Amen, helping to raise funds to feed the hungry,
working with scholarships in our colleges, to getting more of
our young people in school, and paying off student loan debt,
and doing all of the wonderful things that we should

(01:30:12):
never forget because we are the product of the work,
the love, the dreams, the sacrifices of the entire George family,
and really he made all of us his family. And

(01:30:33):
I thank you for following him, for listening to him,
for loving him, for believing in his dreams even when
they seemed impossible. God has blessed you for your humility
and your service, and the fact that, in your busy lives,

(01:30:54):
you took the time to come not to bless Tommy,
but to thank God for sending him my way. Thank
you for this opportunity to say a few words about
You'll love one and one of my best friends in life,
Thomas W. Dortsche I called him t D for short.

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Our friendship expanded fifty four years. He always had my
back and I he is. We fought together and worked
together and graduated from Fort Valor State University. He lead
the groundwork for me to follow him as national president

(01:31:42):
of the National Alumni Association and into the Four Valor
State University Foundation, where I served his chair. Kitty and
I were inseparable. In fact, in the city of Fort Valley,
the Fourth Valley News a the Fort Valor Herald dubbed
us as Butch Cassidy and the sun Dance Kid, a

(01:32:07):
character study of remarkable friendship in service through our ups
and downs. We both have a passion and love for
Valley State, our lives to thee we dedicate and part
of our friendship and relationship was centered around FV issue

(01:32:27):
and HBCUs. While we had our differences, time and I
never fell out. We had quarrels over political candidates and
political matters, but we never ever separated from one another's friendship.
As Fort Valor State University's Student of Government president, the

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political bug hit him well before it hit me. When
he called me to tell me that he was going
to be the state director for United States Senator Sam Nunn,
the first African American to do so. I was so
proud and excited for him. What an honor and responsibility
of doing those times. It was a game changer. Over

(01:33:11):
the years we would he changed calls and text on
many life changing opportunities. He always told me that there's
a beauty in how HBC mold us into being productive citizen.
He described it as perfecting the diamonds and the rough.
He went on talked to me about the National Black
College of Hall of Fame, which is his legacy, something

(01:33:35):
that we must keep going. Can I get an amen
on that this is Black History Month, this is Black
History money. Today we mourn and celebrated history and makeup
and a man of all season. And Thomas Dertsch, for
all the times that we've been friends, he never hesitated
in saying and believing in You can obviously TV believed

(01:33:59):
in John. And for as long as this is day,
we must do the works of him who's set me.
Night is coming and then no one can work. Carol,
on our last conversation as your house and we had
talked about Tommy's life and our friendship. You talked about
the fact that he has normal pain, normal pain. I

(01:34:23):
can hear him saying, now, don't grieve for me. Now
I'm free. I'm following the path God laid for me.
I took his hand. When I heard him call, I
turned my back and left it all. Perhaps my time
seems all too brief. Don't strengthen now was undue grief.

(01:34:45):
Lift up your heart and share with me. God want
to be now He set me free. It's often stated
that in life, you make your living by what you get,
what you make your life by what you give. Tommy
Dertche made his life by giving and for that we
all to thank God. We all to thank God that

(01:35:06):
Thomas Dorts past our weak will, John Will job done,
faithful servant, job Will done away through the coalition in

(01:36:25):
the institute. And I'd like to close as I began
these reflections, I thank you God for the life and
legacy of Thomas W. Dortshe Junior, my rider, died, leader,
partner and friend. Thank you, Tommy, take your rest and

(01:36:48):
we will see you on the other side. We know
that earth had no sorrow, that Heaven cannot heal because
we serve a God who sits high, but he looks low.
And so let us go to the God we serve

(01:37:11):
in prayer. God, bless you my sister and family. Grade
and Mighty God, our creator, sustainer, our protector, our provider.

(01:37:33):
We know in this moment and in this hour that
Tommy is in a good place, because your word reminds
us that to be absent from the body is to
be present with the Lord. But God, we call you
our by father in this hour because if we might

(01:37:56):
be frank, death is hard and they're just some people,
Oh Lord, that we believe will never leave us in
this earthly plane. But we thank you God that although
Tommy is not physically with us today, he is with

(01:38:18):
us because of the many memories we have created with him.
We thank you for that infectious smile that he often
shared and shone forth. We will hold on to that.
We thank you, Lord God, that he was a man
who didn't waste a moment or a minute or an encounter,

(01:38:42):
but he showed us how to make the best of
every part of life and even showing us that you
can live every day to the very end. Thank you
God for this wonderful servant of God. And now God,
we pray to you are by Father, because you know us.

(01:39:05):
You know how this moment caught us. For many of
us that we may have been expecting it, but we
still did not believe it. There are those of us
who it caught us by surprise. And Lord, frankly, in
the last several years, and especially in the last few months,

(01:39:26):
we have gone through tremendous losses and it just seems
to catch us off God and takes away a little
bit of our breath. And so, Father God, we welcome
you into this place. Holy Spirit. We welcome you into
every heart, especially the heart of this family. Your word

(01:39:51):
teaches us that you are our comforter, and so God,
I pray for comfort for each and every family member,
for his wife Carol, for all of his children, for
his sisters, and for all of the loved ones, and
all of us who had a special and unique relationship

(01:40:12):
with him. Take every grief, take every sorrow, take every tear,
Lord God, and give us the prescription that we will
need just to make it through those moments, because grieving
is a process. But we know that you will be

(01:40:32):
with us every step of the way. There's no person,
there's no food, there's no substance that can do what
you will do. It's a father. Because I know what
you've done for me and the many losses that I've experienced.
I pray even now that you do it for my
sisters and my brothers in this family. Lord God, be

(01:40:53):
with them in those hours and surround them with your
love when people step out, because after today the crowds
russ in. But then we left with all of these emotions,
and so God, just be God, show up in a
mighty way, and we honor you in your sovereignty because
you determine when it's time for us to come home.

(01:41:16):
And so God, we bless you that you took Tommy home.
We may not fully understand the moment in the hour,
but we honor you nonetheless. And so God, we just
say thank you. Thank you for this life that we
were allowed to intersect with to know. Thank you for

(01:41:38):
the deposits that he made in our lives that we
will forever hold. And now, Lord God, thank you for
giving him a rest that he deserves from all of
his labors. He will continue to live because he lives
in our hearts. He will continue to live because his

(01:41:59):
light shone right. And so God, thank you once again.
For Thomas W. Dorts Jr. We say to you, our brother,
well done by good and faithful servant. You served so well.

(01:42:19):
Now we thank the Lord thy God for giving you
the crown that you deserve. We asked this and many
others prayers in the name of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ, who is touched even in this hour by
our grief and our affirmities. In Jesus name, I pray,

(01:42:42):
and the people of God said, Amen, prays Lord everybody.
Oh y'all kind of mute in here, Praise Lord everybody.

(01:43:03):
I am to the Deutsch family, Um, thank you for
letting me in your home on several occasions. Thank you
for loaning me the best father, figure, mentor brother a

(01:43:24):
man could ever have. I thought, I knew I was
I knew I was gonna cry. I knew it. You
know I'm from New York. You alcohol tough, yo. What's up? Sudden?
The old? What's up? And here I am with tears

(01:43:45):
in my eyes because as a man whose father died
at eight years old, and when you're in life and
you reach out for mentorship and something comes back that's
so valid and necessary for a young man's life, I
just have to tell Tommy Dertche, thank you for that.

(01:44:08):
Thank you for that, thank you for the divine timing,
because I was right there. I walked in the house
and I asked Carol, I said, can I take out
my horn and play to him? And she said yes.

(01:44:30):
I played amazing grace and he started moving. Because, as
they say, the last thing, the goal are your ears.
You're hearing and watching him be enjoyed because his man,
Tommy Dertch's pipe piper, had to come to the house
to make sure that I sent him off with a song.

(01:44:53):
And if you watch movies, if he watched television shows,
the music in the tra transition that sets up the
next phase. You watch a different world, the music that
goes from one part to another. I am blessed because
the soundtrack to him leaving us and being in a

(01:45:15):
better place was done through the music. So thank you,
Carol again, I love you. Thank you for having let
me have that moment with Tommy. And this is exactly
what I played to him. Ha ha m. Thank you.

(01:48:26):
Thank you so much. So now that we got that
out the way, hanging with mister Dertche song that I
wrote a year and a half ago, and I remember
your trey. I remember when I played it to him
and he said, man, that's my song. I love this piece,

(01:48:47):
I love it, I love it. And I remember the
first time Tommy heard the song. And first of all,
I just like to say, this song, I will make
sure that it is transferred to the estate because this
is Tommy's song. So the ownership of the songs and

(01:49:07):
the masters will be to you, Carol. This is his song,
and I want everybody to to to be like what
Tommy was when he heard the song. So I need
you guys to stand up right now. Please please, let's
get up, and let's get out Tommy on right now, man,

(01:49:30):
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