Trump Eyes National Guard For Chicago, Epstein Files Chaos, Baptist Power Play, Clarke vs. Mills

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The twice impeach criminally convicted Fella in Chief Donald Trump
is saying, oh, he's going to see a National Guard
of Chicago or a city with the governor who he says,
we welcome them like New Orleans. Really, that's what we're doing.
Jeffrey Epstein, survivors and several lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans gathered

(03:03):
on Capitol Hill demanding the full release of his case files.
Now Republicans then released thirty three thousand documents, what ninety
seven percent of what the release had already been made public.
And the Trump White House they're threatening Republicans saying, if
you dare sign on to this discharge, they will consider
this to be a hostile act. The leadership of the

(03:25):
Southern Baptist Convention overwhelmingly white male, and they say they
want to focus on making God great again. Texas pastor
the White Machistics says, I'm sorry, y'all want to make
Baptists great again, but y'all include no black people. Let
me know how that works. Cons momany Back Clark calls

(03:48):
out Republican Congressman Corey Mills over allegations of harassment. Oh
wait too, I tell y'all what happened y'all? This man
they wanted to charge him for beating a woman and
the Trump his attorney said, nah, we're not gonna do that. Well, yeah,
Jeene b Road.

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Speaker 4 (04:24):
Let's go peace gott whatever, he's it, whatever it is, He's.

Speaker 8 (04:30):
Got the school, the fact, the fine.

Speaker 9 (04:33):
And wen it believes he's right on top and it's
rolling best belief. He's going putting it out trumps Boston
News to politics with entertainment.

Speaker 8 (04:43):
Just Buck keeps.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
He's going.

Speaker 9 (04:47):
It's strolling, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (04:57):
Rolling with.

Speaker 9 (05:01):
He's bunks built the question, No, he's.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Bull Well, Captain bonesburs you know the twice in pach
criminally committed fellow in the chief. Donald Trump, the same

(05:24):
man who would lie to get out of serving in Vietnam.
He's never worn the uniform except when he played like
a military person in high school. He has this fetish
with seeing American troops on the streets in America. Well,
today he was meeting with Polish President Carol Narrock and

(05:48):
what did he say? He was like, Oh, you know what,
I could send troops to New Orleans next Why because
they've got a Republican MAGA governor.

Speaker 10 (06:00):
We're making a determination, now, do we go to Chicago
or do we go to a place like New Orleans
where we have a great governor Jeff Landry, who wants
us to come in and straighten out a very nice
section of this country that's become quite you know.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Quite tough, quite bad.

Speaker 10 (06:21):
So we're going to be going to maybe Louisiana, and
you have New Orleans which has a crime problem. Will
straighten that out about two weeks. It'll take us two weeks,
easier than DC. But we could straighten out Chicago. All
they have to do is ask us.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Oh, you see how he's changing his tune. All Chicago
has to do is ask us because he knows he
just can't do it because the way the process works,
the governor has to make the request for the National Guard.
Now what's interesting here is Donald Trump's oh we'll have Chicago,

(06:59):
We'll have orders solved in two weeks. Really, but why
not shreport? Why not go to the place where speaker
Mike Johnson represents. Remember when we played that clip the

(07:19):
other day, y'all please pull it. When Mike Johnson was
on CNN and he was specifically asked by John Berman, well,
wait a minute, you keep talking about Los Angeles and
the crime in California, and John Berman literally hit him
with the facts about crime in Shreport, and then Mike

(07:44):
Johnson oh, you know, well, he starts dancing around, he
starts trying to give some other answer. Oh, you know,
there are things that we have to do. It's not
as simple as that. See I love it. See when
it's somebody else, you know, oh, send them in, take
it over. But when you start changing the conversation, it's

(08:07):
amazing how they start talking a little bit different. And
so what do you have here? You have Mike Johnson,
who's really it really doesn't want to answer that question
because see, whether they want to own it or not,
they don't want to see these people. They don't want
to see these troops in their cities. All right, So

(08:31):
control room play it.

Speaker 11 (08:34):
Sometimes local governance does not do the job. And the
oversight in DC is long overdue.

Speaker 12 (08:39):
Was gonna ask when you might be calling for the
National Guard in Shreveport, which is you have part of
your district is Shreveport. The FBI statistics actually violent crime
for one hundred thousand residents higher in Shreveport last year
than Washington, DC.

Speaker 11 (08:55):
There's a lot of good work that's been done. There's
a lot of reasons for that. But we have a
Democrat da there who has not been prosecuting crime as
some other more aggressive das have around the country. Soros
funded that individual to be elected. But I'll say, that's
an urban area that has a lot of problems that
are happening around the country and we have to address it.

Speaker 12 (09:17):
So with the guard help, if that the Guard can
help in DC, President has said he wants to send
the guard to Chicago and other places.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Why not report I don't know, that's not my call.
May be necessary.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 11 (09:28):
Let's take one city at a time and see. We
have to address the crime problem in any city where
it's a problem like that, and in large cities like
in Chicago, as you mentioned, that would be a big
help there. I was there just two days ago, and
it's a serious, serious problem. They don't even report murders
on the evening news in Chicago anymore because it's so
common and Democrat runs cities typically have that problem because

(09:49):
they have not been tough on crime. President Trump is
one who believes in that, and we do as well,
and we've got to take every measure to make sure
we're keeping American city safe.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
It's common sense.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
I want to ask you. See now I'm connfuse because
first of all, you talked about all of these things
that you know happen, and this is why there's crime.
And now all of a sudden you're saying, oh, but
a big sea les Chicago or how they could really
help them, So why wouldn't you want them in your
city where crime is significant? Report Rebecca Carruthers. She is
president CEO Fair Election Center out of DC. Tyler macmillan,

(10:20):
social justice leader and movement strategists also also our DC
as well. See, this is just what I finally be,
just fast fascinating, Rebecca. They never really want to talk
about their places because that's not what they want to
talk about. So, oh, let's let's let's go to Yay. Yeah,
let's let's go to Let's go to New Orleans. Okay,

(10:42):
since you're gonna go to New Orleans, let's go about
Baton Rouge. You got that white Republican mayor in Baton Rouge. Oh,
I guess we don't want to include that because it's
too close how.

Speaker 8 (10:59):
Roland.

Speaker 5 (10:59):
I can think of a lot of sundown towns in
this country that could really use some federal intervention. Those
are towns where I don't feel safe. Those are towns
where a lot of Black Americans don't feel safe. So
what I find very interesting is that they're targeting cities
that have higher or above average black populations when we
look at crime as a whole. And it's also unfortunate

(11:23):
that we're seeing our congressional leaders attach crime to urban
areas when we know crime happens everywhere. And so if
there is a need for bringing in federal intervention, then
talk to some of these mayors, actually have a conversation,
and many was telling them that they need resources, and
the resources aren't just packaged in additional monies for more

(11:45):
local law enforcement or federal law enforcement.

Speaker 13 (11:48):
In this case, but actually programs for.

Speaker 5 (11:51):
Crime intervention, such as increasing the quality of education, increasing
job skills, and after school programs for young people in
this country. So if the federal government wants to intervene,
that either need to do it in the areas that
could really use some federal intervention like the sundown towns
that I spoke of, or provide and loosen up resources

(12:13):
that mayors are actually asking for.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Tyler, It's it's just so hilarious. And again now all
of a sudden, because he's beginning pushback. Oh well, you know,
if they ask if they seek my help and ask
my permission. No, I thought you you're the big bad
bully about you were like, no, I'm singing them in regardless.
I don't care. I'm doing it. Hm. He knows he's
gonna lose.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
In court, right, And I echoed the same words.

Speaker 14 (12:38):
And I think it echoes the long history of federal
violence against black cities as we see, and it's not
and it's really about control and the criminalization of black
communities because as you know has said, safety comes from
the investment in people. It comes from not not tanks
and tear gas, but it comes from the investment in
public schools and after school programs and teacher support. It

(13:00):
comes from, you know, when we invest in housing and
Section eight and not leaving families vulnerable to displacement and homelessness.
It comes from when we don't cut programs such as
mental health and substitute treatment in the closing of community clinics.
And so we see all these different cups from SNAP
to WICK and other safety net programs, and that is true.

(13:23):
That's where the true safety comes from. And it's crazy
to me that this administration keeps talking about public safety,
but all the the Terrence that that help, you know,
create safety in our communities is being cut left and
right from this, from the from the budget, and I
think it's just it's crazy to me that they're so
focused on that but continue to cut these necessary programs
that promote public safety.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, because they don't actually want to confront crime. What
they want is Rebecca. They want the show. They want
the television show. They want the show of force. They
want the folks of their uniforms and that's right in
the tanks rolling down the streets and it's the show
of force. Donald Trump wants everything to be a television
show in this country.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
And the people surrounding Donald Trump need to wake up
because at the end of the day, I don't care
what that man says, he will not be president forever.

Speaker 13 (14:15):
There's going to be a tomorrow. There's going to be
a next day. And all of these people are single
fans of a president.

Speaker 5 (14:22):
That has held been on destroying our democracy instead of
trying to actually reform and improve our democracy. There's going
to be hell and high water the pay like people
aren't going to forget who supported this madness and who
just went alone to get along.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Absolutely, and we know how these people operating, Tyley, and
what they're trying to do that they're trying to set
up this whole deal. Oh, you're defending crime. No, what
we're saying is that's why you have local law enforcement.
That's what you can actually do. Now if you want
to send the Feds in to help people clear cases.

(15:00):
Different conversation. They don't want to deal with that. They
in Chicago, they don't want to deal with the fact
that the guns are coming across the border from Indianapolis,
from Indiana, from that red state. They don't they don't
want to touch that one. Tyler.

Speaker 7 (15:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (15:18):
Absolutely, And as you said before, people should have the
autonomy of their of their own city. You know, you know,
if you think about here in Washington, d C. And
the facts that residents do not vote uh federally for
them to be for their local law enforcement to be
taken over, I think that is that is the job
of when you elect your local city councilmans and your

(15:39):
state representatives, that's who should deal with public safety, not
the federal government. And what we see here is a
total overrun of folks with local autonomy and what they
what they you know, pay there and and elect their
local officials for and yet we are seeing the federal
government trying to do an overhaul.

Speaker 5 (15:56):
Uh.

Speaker 14 (15:56):
And we see a fastest regiment regime trying to take
over local communities. And I think now is the time
for communities to stand up and as organizers are out
on the ground to say no, we're not taking this
because we keep our community safe. And it's not the
federal government or military military, the military that will come
into our cities and do that for us.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Well, and look right here, look look at this article
right here, Rebecca. This is from pro Publicly just a
couple of years ago, inside the notorious Indiana gun shop
linked to hundreds of Chicago guns. And this story laid
out right here. It says, over fifty years west fourth

(16:36):
west Forth Sports has helped grow the Indiana business into
one of the state's most successful gun retailers. And guess
what what they what they showed is that how many
of these guns, many of them end up there in Chicago. So, yeah,
Donald Trump, you want to do look at this here

(16:57):
one notable example darryl Ivory Junior, an Indiana rest who
in twenty twenty purchased nineteen firearms from west Forth, spending
over ten thousand dollars in just six months. He pleaded
guilty later played guilty to making false statements on federal
background check forms in relation to the two twenty twenty purchases.
Took most of those firearms about twelve miles west of

(17:19):
west Ford Shop across the state line to Chicago, selling
them legally for profit.

Speaker 13 (17:29):
That it's amazing how they pick and choose like Growland.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
As your audience know, I used to work for every
town for gun safety and the issues with guns crossing
Indiana through straw cells, through ghost guns, and other ways
to subvert the rightful laws that Illinois has put together
in an attempt to reduce gun violence, not just in
Chicago but all across the state. Like people look, look,

(17:55):
I am sick and tired. People need to quit being
hypocritical and call the thing to things. If there are
gonna be any type of federal agents that are going
to be in the Chicago Land area, to your point,
it should be on the border of Indiana, and it
should be atf it should be DA, it should be.

Speaker 13 (18:11):
The Alphabet boys there to make.

Speaker 5 (18:13):
Sure that these straw seals aren't crossing state lines. And
for your audience, the straw sales, when someone purchases a
gun for someone else, When someone purchases a firearm for
someone else, whether they are lying on their application or
they're just outright being paid to make a lawful purchase
somewhere else to someone who otherwise wouldn't be able to

(18:34):
lawfully obtain that particular firearm.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yep and so. But they're quite silent on that stuff.
All right, Speaking of silent, we come back. We're gonna
talk about the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein calling out challenging Republicans,
and the Trump White House is like, Yo, I'm gonna
chill with that, telling Republicans, don't you they're sign up
for this. Are we're gonna fill this act? Yes, well,

(19:02):
busy Dawn, Capitol Hill, lots of drama. We got it
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This week on the other side of change, three hundred
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Speaker 1 (20:51):
Well, it was a busy day on Capitol Hill where
a number of survivors of a sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein,
along with Democrats and Republican lawmad makers gathered to urge
Congress to release all files related to the Epstein case. Now,
lawmakers return to the DC facing a busy legislative agenda

(21:12):
and the threat of a government shut down. But Kentucky
Republican Thomas Massey, Democratic California Commoss from Roe Connor, they
were like, nah, we ain't forgetting what happened to Epstein
victims join a group of state representatives to support a
discharge petition. Actually, I'm starting to join a group of
Congressional members to support dischargeition petition, a procedural move intended

(21:36):
to compel the release of sealed files related to the
late sex offenders. So far, only for Republicans have assigned
the petition, while GOP leadership is advising members not to
support it. House Oversight Committee did release some files for
the Justice Department. Most of the documents, including video, audio,
and court filings, will already be public. Ninety seven percent
of that was made public. So here's some of what

(21:59):
was said today on Capitol Hill. It was like, I say,
a quite the busy day, folks. And one of the
folks who was really vocal was Thomas Bassey, and he
was saying point blank, Hey, I'm not going to sit

(22:21):
here and back down. Uh. And he just made it
perfectly clear this year is this is one of the
survivors who was putting pressure on Republicans on along and.

Speaker 19 (22:32):
Speak up so that we can be more of a
stronger voice and louder.

Speaker 7 (22:36):
And so, what is your message for President's Trump this morn.

Speaker 19 (22:40):
I listen. I don't like to. I don't want to
send a direct message to him. I'm already scared enough. Yeah,
just passed the vote.

Speaker 8 (22:50):
Listen to us.

Speaker 19 (22:51):
This is not a hoax. Like it's not gonna go away.
And like I said on my speech earlier, we are
not going to be We're not going to be silenced anymore.
We will be speaking moving forward. Wherever we need to be,
we will be and we need to pass thisth go
ahead today, he come along, Thank you through.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
So let me find it. So y'all know all the
networks were covering. Oh so he's a perfect example. So
watch this here. All the networks were covering the news conference.
Oh except one, c SPAN, CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, Lives,
Script's News. Oh down there on the right. Fox News

(23:32):
happened not to be covering this. I wonder why Fox
didn't want to cover a news conference of sexual assault
survivors talking about released the Epstein fix. Oh, because that
could somehow hurt Donald Trump. Oh I now, I see, Now,

(23:53):
I see. I keep telling y'all, they're not. They are
not a news network. They are the communication arm of
the Republican Party. And so whatever Donald Trump wants, Fox
News is going to kiss that behind and give to them. Now,

(24:14):
you know. One of the folks again, Thomas Massey, And
this is the actual discharge petition. This is what it says,
motion to discharge a committee from the consideration of resolution.
This is how you bypass Speaker Mike Johnson. So it's
to the Clerk of the House Representatives. Pursuing to the
Clause two of Ruse fifteen one, Thomas Bassy moved to
discharge the Committee on Rules for the consideration of the

(24:35):
resolution HR five to eighty one entitled a Resolution providing
for the Consideration of the Bill HR one eighty five
to Advance Reasonable Responsible Policies, which was referred to say
a Committee on July fifteenth, twenty twenty five, in support
of which the undersigned members of the House Representatives affix
their signatures to wit Thomas Bassey, so as what we
said for Republicans have actually signed it. And Trump has

(24:57):
been calling around saying Nope, don't talk, don't talk, don't talk,
don't talk, be quiet, do not talk. And what's interesting
is you've got people again Thomas masks Republican go to
my iPad. Thomas Massey's Republican from Kentucky. You got crazy
demented Maudreie Taylor Green of Georgia who sucks up the
Trump as much as she can, literally saying herself, we

(25:20):
should release all of these documents. So all this has
been going on, you've got Tim Burchett, who has been
out here speaking as well, talking about what needs to
happen and saying that hey, it's a lot needs to
go on. Uh. And then you've got again at least

(25:40):
survivors who came who came to Capitol Hill who were
sharing their thoughts. This is Commerson Rocanna today and.

Speaker 20 (25:49):
Brad Edwards for their tireless work in the pursuit of justice.
And I want to thank Sarah Drury on my team
for working with them. Above all, I want to thank
this vivers who are here today, whose courage and strength
have brought us to this moment. I want to thank
my co lead, Congressman Thomas Massey and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor

(26:13):
Green for standing with survivors here today Today, as you
can see, we're united in restoring trust in government. We're
here not as partisans, We're here as patriots.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
We begin the work.

Speaker 20 (26:30):
Of bringing this country together Progressives, independence, moderates, and Yes
MAGA supporters to demand truth and justice. A nation that
allows rich and powerful men to traffic and abuse young
girls without consequence is a nation that has lost its

(26:55):
moral and spiritual core. Americans are asking a very simple question.
How is it possible that in the richest, most powerful
country in the world, there are corrupt special interest forces,
both foreign or domestic, that hour preventing the release, that

(27:20):
have a stranglehold on our government, that are preventing the
release of the full Epstein files. There is something that
is rotten in Washington. Less than one percent of these
files have been released. We are demanding today on the
Discharge petition that all of the files be released. We

(27:40):
know we have two hundred and twelve Democrats and we
have four Republicans, courageous Republicans like Thomas Massey, Nancy Mace,
who was so emotional yesterday after talking to the survivors,
Congresswoman Baubert and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green. We need just
two more signature to force the release. So we gather

(28:02):
here on the steps of the Capitol to confront these
corrupt forces today. We stand with survivors, We stand against
big money. We stand to protect America's children. That is
really what this is about. I now want to bring
up my Republican colleague Thomas Massey. He has shown so

(28:25):
much courage, so much leadership, and I saw some people.
I say the same thing about Marjorie Taylorgreen. She has
shown so much courage on this issue. I saw some
people when I was coming here calling her names. We've
got to stop that. We've got to stop the partisanship
on this issue. This is an issue where they both
have shown real courage and leadership, and I appreciate them

(28:47):
joining us today. Congressman Massey, I.

Speaker 21 (28:52):
Want to thank my colleague Rocanna for co leading this
effort to bring transparency and justice for these victims. I
hope my colleagues are watching this press conference, I want
them to think, what if this was your sister, what
if this was your daughter. When these survivors speak, the
Washington establishment is asking the American public to believe something

(29:14):
that is not believable. They're asking you to believe that
two individuals created hundreds of victims and they acted alone,
and that.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
The DOJ has no idea of who else might.

Speaker 21 (29:27):
Have been involved, that nobody else did anything that rose
to a criminal enterprise. The American people know that's not true. Now,
the Speaker of the House just offered.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
A fig leaf to my colleagues.

Speaker 21 (29:40):
They're going to vote on a non binding resolution today
that does absolutely nothing. I appreciate the efforts of my
colleague James Comer, who's leading the oversight committee. They may
find some information, but they're allowing the DOJ to curate
all of the information that the DOJ is giving them.

(30:00):
If you've looked at the pages they've released so far,
they're heavily redacted, some pages are entirely redacted, and ninety
seven percent of this is already in.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
The public domain.

Speaker 21 (30:12):
So I'm calling on my colleagues be one of the
next two who sponsors this discharge petition.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
I think it's shameful that this has been called a hoax.

Speaker 21 (30:24):
Hopefully today we can clear that up.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
This is not a hoax. This is real.

Speaker 21 (30:29):
There are real survivors, there are real victims to this
criminal enterprise, and the perpetrators are being protected because they're
rich and powerful and political donors to the establishment here
in Washington, DC.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
So today we're standing with.

Speaker 21 (30:48):
These survivors and we're giving them a voice, and I
want to close by thanking them.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
They are brave.

Speaker 21 (30:55):
I hope they encourage other survivors to come forward and
to tell their stories, not just of Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell,
but anywhere.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
In the country.

Speaker 21 (31:06):
This is a this is a message that we are sending.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
This is a litmus test. Can we drain the swamp?

Speaker 22 (31:13):
Can't?

Speaker 21 (31:14):
Are there people who are outside of the reach of
the law.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
I don't think there should be. So hopefully today we'll get.

Speaker 21 (31:23):
Two more signatures on the discharge petition.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
That's all we need.

Speaker 21 (31:27):
And with that, I want to introduce the bravest woman
in Congress, Marjorie Taylor Green here.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
So what was crazy here? So when you heard Massy
say that, look, this is not a hoax, he was
talking about that idiot Trump, like literally he was talking
about Trump Trump. Trump is so desperate for this to
go away. Uh, he's so go away. He was like, oh,

(31:54):
oh this, this is this is a hoax. It's a hoax.
It's a hoax. And again what he does is every
time when something happens, what he does is he he
he he doesn't want to address the issue. So what
he wants to do is he wants to call it
a hoax. He wants to because he wants to deflect it.

(32:16):
He wants to say, oh, this is not real. So
we did today. He's literally in he's literally in the
Oval office and he's like, yeah, yeah, this, yeah, this,
this thing, that's it's it's it's a hoax. It's it's
it's it's it's no, it's made up. It's made up.
It's made up. And so that is his that is
literally his go to. That's his go to right here,

(32:39):
uh here it is. Watch this.

Speaker 10 (32:41):
So this is a Democrat hoax that never ends.

Speaker 13 (32:46):
You know.

Speaker 10 (32:46):
It reminds me a little of the Kennedy situation. We
gave him everything over and over again, more and more
and more, and nobody's ever satisfied. From what I understand.
I could check, but from what I understand, thousands of
pages of documents have been given. But it's really a
Democrat hoax because they're trying to get people to talk

(33:07):
about something that's totally irrelevant to the success that we've
had as.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
A nation since calling it a democratic hoax, Tyler, But
the discharge is led by Republican from Kentucky and back
by Major Taylor Green and Lauren Bobertt. I don't get
those two, those three confused as being Democrats.

Speaker 7 (33:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (33:33):
Absolutely, And we see here that he's trying to really
switch to the narrative from away from his own party,
who's calling for also the release of these files, and
folks who have been very, very loyal to his camp.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
But I will even just just say this one thing.

Speaker 14 (33:47):
It's like this administration seems very determined to distract the
public from these Epstein files, but it was so willing
to release the files with MK and I Matil and
other historical moments. See, I think that there's literally no
reason to shield these documents from being released. And I
think it's just a clear sign that how wealth and influence,

(34:09):
uh and systemic failure allow abuse from from from these powerful.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Men to be unchecked, and I think it.

Speaker 14 (34:15):
I think it's powerful that you know that Margie Telly
Green is choosing selective courage because on any other issue
she had, she you know, is far away from it.
But I think it speaks volume that his uh, that
his own party is calling for it, he's really trying
to shy away from it.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Absolutely so I love it blaming the Democrats, Rebecca, even
though your own party is leading it.

Speaker 5 (34:40):
Roland's so sophomoric and child like. Oh it's a hoax.
It's a hoax. I absolutely need the reporters in our
room to ask the follow up, the secondary question. Okay,
mister President, if it is indeed a hoax, tell.

Speaker 13 (34:53):
Us why is a hoax?

Speaker 5 (34:54):
Explain U explain it and walk us through the elements
of why is a Why is a hoax? And explain
how it's a hoax. But instead he's just throwing out
words in a very childlike and childish fashion and there's
no analysis behind it. And so it's like, you can
make whatever claim you want, but you still need to
be able to back it up, and this president has

(35:15):
not been able to back up most of the things
that he's saying from the White House.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yeah, absolutely, so it's be unlaughable. All right, y'all, I
gotta go to a break. We come back. We're going
to talk about the to the Baptist Convention. Pretty interesting
thing they want to announce, but how to do that
without black people. We're gonna talk about it with a

(35:41):
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Speaker 1 (37:36):
Folks telling Baptist convention and Wants sixteen million members strong
now down to thirteen million, and they continue to shrink.
The SBC is facing criticism over whether it is overwhelmingly
white male leadership can lead them into the future. Some
leaders like William wolf are rallying around the idea of
making Baptists great again. The loudest voices pushing that mission

(38:01):
nearly all white guys. They're literally driving efforts to denounce
critical race theory, rollback diversity initiatives, and pass a so
called law amendment that bans women from being pastors. Reverend
doctor William Dwight mckisson, senior pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church, Arlington, Texas.
He posted this response to Wolfe's comments on social media.

(38:21):
He said, you can't have a group who adopt as
their mission to make Baptists great again, and it's only
represented by white males. Their true goal is to make
the SBC white again so that they can denounce CRT
DEI and past the law amendment that thus far they've
been unsuccessful in doing well. Pastor mckissi Georges right now

(38:41):
lead to have you back on the show. It is
interesting make Baptists great again, and to your point, that's
a little bit hard to do, as if black folks
don't exist, because if you look at the growth of
the Southern Baptist Convention or actually what's actually been keeping
them going? Has it been white churches? Been black people?

Speaker 7 (39:07):
Good to see your Roland, Thanks for inviting me.

Speaker 25 (39:12):
I want to say the group that William Wolf heads,
it's a center for Baptist leadership. He named that he
was used to work for the Trump administration. I think
that making Baptists Great Again is a spinoff of you know,
maca making America great Again. He worked as an intern

(39:32):
for doctor al Mohler, who would probably represent the probably
the only one of the few cabinet members who would
be so vocal on some of the things regarding DEEI.
He was adamly opposed to passing the CRT resolution that

(39:54):
was passed.

Speaker 7 (39:54):
Much of the dismay of that whole.

Speaker 25 (39:58):
Making Baptists Great Again crowd, they're mad, Going back to
the resolution was passed that myself and love of the
black pastors to affirm the election of President Obama in
two thousand and eight.

Speaker 7 (40:13):
The vote took place two thousand and nine.

Speaker 25 (40:15):
As a matter of historic event, not to say you
embrace all of his ideology of political belief systems, but
just to acknowledge the fact that it was quite a
historic feat for this country. The hands that used to
pick cotton had now picked presidents. And so they the majority,

(40:35):
voted to affirm the historic election of Obama, but that
the group that William would represent was angry, angry about CRT,
angry about the Southern Baptist Convention has not succeeded. They
denounced the curse of Ham, which was that theological position
for years that blacks descended from Ham Ham was cursed.

(40:57):
There for all blacks were cursed, so that justified their
slavery policies and practices, segregation, on and on, so in
actuality when it comes to vote, and even try to
exclude women from even serving as associate pastor of women,
associate pastor children. They don't want the word pastor, which
the Bible does not back in any way associated with

(41:20):
the woman. So this group is sort of feeling defeated,
and therefore Wolfe has created this I think based on
votes there are somewhat in the minority, but there's a
growing sentiment and a maga element that was support. They
want to go now and legislate again the issues we've

(41:45):
talked about, and so that's what brings us here today.
And I just hate to see what worst was an organization.
A lot of black campuses, Southern University, Badrouge University, Part
Bluff probably Texas Southern and Praiview where Baptists had that
outreaches to college students that were quite impactful. I could

(42:06):
just name a lot of positive stuff that has taken
place through the Southern Baptist Convention, some directly connected to
black people. But with the advent of Trump, and it
was my projection that they would morphet to be in
the Trump Baptist Convention, and we're seeing a movement for that.
No longer have any shame in that game to gain
that moving in the direction to take on just about

(42:30):
all the policies of Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
Yeah, they absolutely have sold out to Donald Trump. In fact,
this was a tweet post of last year by William Wolf.
A key pillar of any truly Christian biblical justice reform
would be an increased use of capital punishment, both in
increasing offenses punishable by death and more swiftly executing those

(42:53):
sentenced to death. Would serve as a major deterrent and
help protect the vulnerable bishop because his reality, that's a lie.
The death penalty is not served as a deterrent. It
is not. We have not seen a dramatic drop in
capital murders in this country because of the death penalty.

(43:15):
And again, and but what you have is you have
your folks. And again they love the Catholic Church position
on abortion, but they don't want to talk with the
Catholic Church's position on the death penalty, which they are'ly.

Speaker 25 (43:29):
Opposed since the law in order crowd that you don't
want to keep the Epstein files concealed, Wolf and al Molas,
several of them have gone on a record they don't
believe you can be a genuine, authentic born again believer
go to heaven if you'll vote for a Democrat, which
I find a very ludicrous position to take, even if

(43:50):
people think independent, vote independent and vote on either side.
But the tie how you vote to salvation, the contradicts
the very belief system of the Southern Baptists convention. We'll
saved by grace, do faith and not of works. It's
a gift of God. So for them to say your
vote has an impact on whether or not you've saved

(44:12):
it can go to heaven, that's hearsay of the highest order.
But that's what the William wolf crowd represents and if
they get totally in charge of the SBC, lights out,
particularly for most of us in the National African American Fellowship.
The Chinese Baptists have even gone on record disagreeing with
them wanting to pass a law amendment because they recognize

(44:36):
women being gifted and can be have the spiritual gift
of pastoring. And the Hispanic groups, the minority groups don't
feel as the others, and that's why they have not
And you said, we were twenty percent minariti as a convention,
and that's why they have not been successful in passing
the votes to turn us back to another era.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
And this guy, he wants Christian nationalism. This is him
on a right wing podcast, and and this is what
he says. And I'm trying to figure out what's so
Christian about what he had to say. Listen to this.

Speaker 22 (45:10):
So I've said it like this before, right, the Democrats
hate God, they hate family, they hate marriage, they hate children,
they hate our nation. So, like, figure out what it
looks like to pursue a policy agenda that you know
that displays a hatred for all those things which are
you know, fundamentally a part of what we would call
the true, the good, and the beautiful, and that's come on.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
See and again, this is the game they play. I
know a lot of people, I know a lot of pastors,
okay who vote Democrat, say they hate God, they hate family,
they hate children. I mean, that's just sheer stupidity. But
this is what the right, This is what the right loves.

Speaker 25 (45:54):
Yeah, William Woolf and I need to get better at
my screenshop game.

Speaker 7 (45:59):
But he wouldn't deny it.

Speaker 25 (46:00):
He put out a tweet those two to three years
ago on this Christian nationalism that the Anglo Protestantism work
ethic is what made America great. And when he what
he means by nationalism is the white Protestants being the

(46:21):
standard by which we judge greatness. And he specifically said Anglo.
I mean, he didn't hide that back. And so you're
not just talking about and again, if we talk about
Christian and nationalism, what Christians were talking about not no
turnal brand of Christian and being a Baptist or we
talk about William Wolf's and our Moler's brand of being

(46:43):
a Christian, and that so much is fundamentally flawed by
the whole Christian nationalism way of thinking that he wants
to not only pose on the nation that want to
again by imposing it on the Southern Convention, want to
bind the consciousness of the convention to that right wing
ideology that I find the testable and deployed.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
See, they want theocracy that they believe in Christian No,
they don't believe in Christian nationalism. They believe in white
right wing Christian nationalism. Absolutely, that is what they believe in.

Speaker 25 (47:23):
And I am sort of surprised with some of the
voting going against them in so many ways.

Speaker 7 (47:32):
They are relentless to keep raising these issues.

Speaker 25 (47:36):
And I just pray that a convention that should be
in the business about the Kingdom of God Jesus said,
My Kingdom is not of this.

Speaker 7 (47:44):
World, will not.

Speaker 25 (47:48):
Turn the clock back in such a way it becomes
only appealing and a compelling convention to.

Speaker 7 (47:56):
The nationalistic movement.

Speaker 25 (47:58):
Again, he said, the Anglo Protestant is that is the
standard back which he wants the UH policies, the philosophy, UH,
the vision of America to be not just all believers,
not all Oh no, the Anglo Protestants.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
In fact, this is this is not tied to this story,
but I saw this clip earlier. This is a Missouri
Republican United States Senator Eric Schmidt, and and he's speaking
at a national Conservative conference. And see these these these

(48:41):
two things go together. Okay, they go together. Okay. And
listen to what he says, and listen to who he says.
This country is supposed to be.

Speaker 26 (48:54):
For the Conninal Army soldiers dying frostbite at Valley Forge,
the Pilgrims struggling to survive in the hard winter soil
of Plymouth, the Pioneers striking out from Missouri for the
wild and dangerous Frontier, the outnumbered Kentucky settlers repelling wave
after wave of Indian war Band attacks from beyond the

(49:17):
stockade walls.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
All of them will be.

Speaker 26 (49:19):
Astonished to hear that they were only fighting for a proposition.
They believed they were fighting for a nation, a homeland
for themselves in their descendants. They fought, they bled, they struggled,
they died for us. They built this country for us.
America in all its glory, is their gift to us,

(49:41):
handed down across the generations. It belongs to us. It's
our birthright, it's our heritage, our destiny. If America is
everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one
at all. When they tear down our statues and monument
and mock our history and insult our traditions, they're attacking

(50:04):
our future as well as our past by changing the
stories we tell about ourselves. They believe they can build
a new America with the new myths, new people. But
America doesn't belong to them. It belongs to us. It's
our home, it's a heritage and trusted to us by

(50:25):
our ancestors. It's a way of life that is ours
and only ours. If we disappear, then America too will
cease to exist.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
Pass because who's us?

Speaker 4 (50:41):
Who's our?

Speaker 1 (50:42):
The way I see that he ain't talking about me, and.

Speaker 25 (50:45):
You absolutely I asked that question several years ago in
Louisiana when they wanted to say the convention was against
Russell Moore, which is also at the root of this,
and they say we're against it, Who who is we?
Who was certainly not the black components or the more
progressive Russell Moore came spoke out against police brutality, uh,

(51:11):
and that brought about the anger of people like William Wolf,
Paul Presler before he passed, stood it before the all
White artists a Southern seminary and said the wrong side
won the Civil War, and they burst out with laughter
and applause. Russell Moore got up and walked out of

(51:32):
the room because he recognized that Paul Pressell should not
have even felt comfortable to make such a statement. But
when you say the wrong side won the Civil War,
and al Moler at the time was on record as
believing in the lost Cause. So when they say us
are we, they're they're talking about people who adhere to

(51:52):
the philosophy of a Paul Pressell, a al Mola, a
a William Wolf. And they're not talking by the Fred
Luda who was the first president of the history of
Southern Baptic Convention to go on NBC and denounced police brutality.
So the Great Commission includes everybody, That involves everybody. But

(52:14):
we soon discover when in twenty twelve they nominated a
Great Conservative Resurgence Committee, and when I looked at it,
they had one or two Hispanics, but twenty five people
to a committee to bring make the Southern Baptist Convention
great again, evangelism, missions, revival baptisms, and they left any

(52:37):
black female or black mail completely off the committee.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
And of course you know Presser plus Pressler makes that
particular comment. But I wonder what that same Bible says
about sexual assault of men.

Speaker 25 (53:02):
Well, yeah, we've there have been some discoveries about him,
the credible accusations, which means and.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
And the specs settled many of those lawsuits when several
men accused him. But again it shows you that, it
shows you the hypocrisy where a Paul Presser and come on,
my I pad, this is the photo of him. This
is the New York Times, oh bit when he died
at ninety four. And also he was a former judge.
He's a former judge.

Speaker 7 (53:30):
It's amazing.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
It's amazing how they they are so so morally superior,
but not at all things.

Speaker 25 (53:40):
The fact that they will they've never publicly acknowledged his
ills or that his practices were totally counter culture and
what they say our belief systems, uh is pure him
practicy to me. And they are upset with Russell Moore

(54:02):
because he put on the MLK fifteen Memphis, what seven
or eight years ago in a very successful, very powerful
brought Southern Baptists together across racial lines and college students
in powerful way.

Speaker 7 (54:15):
But the William Woop crowd totally opposed it.

Speaker 25 (54:20):
Behind that belief that there's a missteps, imperfections and immdel
acts on behalf of Martinus the King. The bobsa all
have said followed short of the glory of God. That's
not the excuse anybody. But I have a difficult time
how they can be so compassionate that or ignore the

(54:42):
sins the failures of the Paul Pressler. While at the
same time, if you bring up Moderus the King in
any context, you'll have twenty five thirty percent of Southern
Baptists going to talk about an FBI report. And while
they that same group with both to close the Epstein files,

(55:03):
hypocrisy on steroids.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
Absolutely, and this is Christian today. Their story died. Disgraced
Southern Baptist leader Paul Presler, the Texas judge behind the
political strategy for the Conservative resurgence, molested and assaulted teenage boys.
According to allegations eight men made in the court. The
thing that we have to and the basis of my

(55:25):
book White Fear, Pastor McKissick the base and I said
that White Fear, how the browning of Americas making white
folks lose their minds, and I made it perfectly clear
that what we are seeing the attacks on undocumented folks,
h the effort to defund Black America. Now, all of

(55:46):
a sudden, you see these same so called these same
so called right wing Christians. Now they're complaining about the
immigration in Europe. They're complaining about birth rates. They're either
following Elon Musk there, and what they're complaining about are
white birth rates. What this is all about, and I

(56:08):
saw it coming. They they do. They are scared to
death of America becoming a nation majority people of color.
And that's why that speech by a sitting United States senator.
And you know what's amazing, not a single one of
these national television shows has talked about that. Where this
man is a United States senator and he is preaching

(56:29):
a white nationalist, white supremacist ideology. And what these folks
are advocating for they want whiteness to be to maintain power.
You've got people Donald Trump has hired who have actually
said we're better off if we have more white men
who are in power. That's what's driving this whole agenda.

(56:52):
Whiteness is what's driving.

Speaker 25 (56:55):
And that's what's meant by make a Baptist great again,
the agenda you're we're referring to, and in the whole
history of the SBC, that was one black nominated to
be an entity head and we had to fight real
hard for that to happen. Unfortunately, he had misrepresented his

(57:15):
resume and was disqualified. But that's still if you go
on the Southern Baptist WEEPSHC today, everybody who makes five
hundred thousand or more dollars huge salaries, the most powerful
people in the convention, every last one of them is
a white male in twenty and twenty five, after having
been integrated since nineteen fifty four. So to see this

(57:41):
backpedaling from previous years when I was growing up, in
terms of camps, terms of missions, outreach, many ways. I
was shocked to discover as a twenty some year old
that the Southern Baptor has such a racist history and
advocates of slavery. I didn't know their origin and development

(58:04):
because growing up in a Black Baptist context that was
had friendly relationship with Southern Baptists. I was just appalled
and shop at their history. And there were concerted efforts
to change this and major steps being made, but the
group they labeled a group that believed in racial healing

(58:24):
and reconciliation as moderates, and they've since dis lodged many
of them from the convention, and the people in charge
today preferred not to deal with those kinds of matters
and take us back to another area. It's really disturbing,
and I appreciate you even given that you find this
subject matter interested enough to know it's not in the

(58:46):
best interests of the country, let alone not in the
best interests of Southern Baptists.

Speaker 1 (58:50):
Well, they have been more Southern than Baptists in their history.
And we're going to close with this here. This is
this is a look at the exactecutive committee members of
the Southern Baptist Convention. And you see what it looks like.

(59:11):
You got this one sister who's a principal.

Speaker 25 (59:14):
Actually that is not the exact This is the which
had non entity heads. They are executive committee members, but
they are not the executive entity heads.

Speaker 7 (59:24):
Those are volunteer people, gotcha.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
So that's the executive committee. So they have on their
website here they have executive committee members, executive committee staff.
And but if you click SBC and then lays out
their executive said, executive committee is comprised of eighty six representatives.
So but then when.

Speaker 25 (59:46):
We talk about executive inentity heads, that would be six seminaries,
the North American Mission Board, the International Mission Board, and
I and LifeWay. Who has those particular nine entities they
could They are salerate people. None of those are a

(01:00:08):
minority or female. And that's what I mean by gotcha.

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
So so you're said, they may have an executive committee,
but the but the but the power of the SPC
resides in the hands of the other folk.

Speaker 7 (01:00:23):
Exactly. I did a seventh floor interview.

Speaker 25 (01:00:29):
When I say interview, I asked in a meeting I
was in, I want to meet the highest ranking black
in this building seven floors. They took him on an
elevator view elevator too, and I said, who is that?
Who might that person be? Introduced me to that person
and discovered that the highest ranking black in that building,

(01:00:50):
this was ten plus years ago, was the head janitor.
And later a lower level black employee told me he
was not even the head janitor. He was a level custodians.
So at the entire facility steven floors. Wow, that was
not one black.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
Like I said more southern than Baptists, Pasor McKissick. I
appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (01:01:17):
Thanks a lot, God bless you appreciate your rol.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Thank you very much, Rebecca. Rebecca. The point that I keep, Rebecca,
the point that I keep making that people have to
understand here is that we cannot walk away from the
reality of whiteness, of white nationalism. It's in our faces.
These people have made these comments and they're serving in

(01:01:43):
They're serving in Trump's administration. The Proud Boy said, we
don't need to march anymore. We're now on the inside.
This is what we're dealing with. That speech by Schmidt
that was pure white supremacy, and when he was saying us,
this is ours, and he said it, he said it.

(01:02:03):
It wasn't meant for anybody else.

Speaker 13 (01:02:08):
Roland. This is the particular disturbing thing about it.

Speaker 5 (01:02:11):
Like I think a month month and a half ago,
I was talking to your audience about what the three
percenters belief is. There's only three categories of people who
are deserving and being in this country. Those who are veterans,
black folks who are descended of American slavery only so
we can continue to serve, and then the Anglo Saxons,

(01:02:33):
the wasp.

Speaker 13 (01:02:34):
The thing about Eric Smith, like I was doing.

Speaker 5 (01:02:36):
Some googling during this segment just to make sure I
could verify.

Speaker 13 (01:02:41):
First of all, Eric Smith.

Speaker 5 (01:02:44):
Is not even white by the standards of the ideology
that he is trying to propagate.

Speaker 13 (01:02:49):
First of all, if.

Speaker 5 (01:02:50):
You go to his official bio, it shows that his
family has been in this country for about six generations.
If you are a white person in this country in
twenty twenty five and your family did not get here
before eighteen forty, you're not even a part of this,
of this the founders or the US or you're not
even a part of this. Your family became whitewashed and

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was allowed legally to then practice and become white. Even
his family's surname that's not an Anglo Saxon surname, that's
more of a German, that's he's more of a descent
from the Germany region. And so it's amazing that he's
taking on the world the whiteness of which he doesn't
even qualify for according to the ideology that he's trying

(01:03:33):
to expouse. The Other thing about these evangelicals, and these
white evangelicals that're so troubling to me. For the last
few decades, they've been warning us that the anti.

Speaker 13 (01:03:42):
Christis is coming.

Speaker 5 (01:03:43):
But then the white supremacists in chief gets selected, and
all of a sudden, we no longer hear any of
those churches talking about how the Anti Christ is coming.

Speaker 13 (01:03:52):
Like, wake up.

Speaker 5 (01:03:53):
They are preaching and promoting a white nationalism. They're not
promoting ideology these this is all so the ideology that
said that slavery of black folks in this country was okay.
And this is the same ideology that told black folks
that you're not even a full human.

Speaker 13 (01:04:10):
So that's what we're dealing with here.

Speaker 5 (01:04:12):
And they actually are hell bent on trying to create
a theocracy in this country because they want to retain power,
especially as we see the white population eventually become a
racial minority in this country. They want to entrench themselves
into power. And that's what this thing is about.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
Again, what we're dealing with is pure, pure, pure racism.
And check this out. This is his tweet right here, Tyler,
We're not sorry. Why would we be sorry. America is

(01:04:55):
the most magnificent heritage ever known to man. We can
know wont to apologize for who we are. Now, this
took place at what's called nat Coon. Whose conference is
this Peter Thiel, the billionaire white South African who financed

(01:05:15):
JD Vance's US Senate campaign. I want you to play
again what Schmidt had to say, and do we have
the whole speech by Schmid or do we just have
this clip here? Okay? I want us to get his
whole speech so everybody can hear the racism. And I
want you to understand this racist is representing the state

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of Missouri. Play it.

Speaker 26 (01:05:46):
The Continental Army soldiers dying of frostbite at Valley Forge,
the Pilgrims struggling to survive in the hard winter soil
of Plymouth. The Pioneers striking out from Missouri for the
wild and dangerous Frontier. The outnumbered Kentucky settlers repelling wave
after wave of Indian war Band attacks from beyond the
stockade walls. All of them will be astonished to hear

(01:06:09):
that they were only fighting for a proposition. They believed
they were fighting for a nation, a homeland for themselves
and their descendants.

Speaker 7 (01:06:19):
They fought, they.

Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
Bledd They thought that they were fighting for a nation
that would be only for themselves and their descendants, meaning
only white people from Europe. Brush play.

Speaker 26 (01:06:40):
Led, they struggled, They died for us. They built this
country for us. America in all its glory, is their
gift to us, handed down across the generations. It belongs
to us. It's our birthright, it's our heritage, our destiny.
If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing
and no one at all.

Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
If America is everything and everyone, so give me you're tired,
give me your poor, give y'all. They ain't. Never believe
that it's about whiteness. Press play.

Speaker 26 (01:07:21):
When they tear down our statues and monuments, mock our
history and insult our traditions, they're attacking our future as
well as our past by changing the stories we tell
about ourselves. They believe they can build a new America
with the new myths, new people. But America doesn't belong

(01:07:43):
to them. It belongs to us. It's our home. It's
a heritage and trusted to us by our ancestors. It's
a way of life that is ours and only ours.
If we disappear, then America too will cease to exist.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
Doesn't belong to him, It belongs to us. Can't be
more racist than that.

Speaker 14 (01:08:04):
Dial Yeah, that's very, very blatant racism, and the fact
that it's coming from a sitting US senator, I think
is very disgraceful. Uh my question to him, did he
forget that this nation was built on stolen labor and
enslaved Africans in the stolen lan Oh no.

Speaker 1 (01:08:22):
Tyler, stop it. That's you rewriting history that didn't happen.

Speaker 14 (01:08:25):
Stop it, absolutely, And he forgot all these basic principles.
As you as even mentioned before, he is already outside
of the club. So how's he even talking about what's
his and the statutes that's his. But yet we are
fighting every single day to even teach our history in
our schools, in our classrooms, and they're taking artifacts out

(01:08:48):
of our out of our museums and sending it back.

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
So I mean, it's very very disgraceful.

Speaker 14 (01:08:53):
And it's like America belongs to to us, you know,
the generation who generation after generation continue to fight for
this freedom even when this nation denies denies it to
us at every turn.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
That is who America belongs to.

Speaker 14 (01:09:08):
And they said it is very disgraceful and is very
blatant in white supremacy, in the suppression of black, brown,
and indigenous voices here in this nation.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
Something tells me, Rebecca, that little Eric Schmidt he never
actually heard this from the first black woman elected from
the South to Congress. This is Barbara Jordan at the

(01:09:41):
Watergate hearings of Richard Nixon in nineteen seventy four.

Speaker 27 (01:09:46):
Is the general lady from Texas?

Speaker 4 (01:09:49):
Is Jordan?

Speaker 28 (01:09:50):
The purpose of general debate not to acceed a period
of fifteen minutes.

Speaker 29 (01:09:55):
Thank you, mister chairman. Mister Chairman, I joined my colleague
in thanking you for giving the junior members of this
committee the glorious opportunity of sharing the pain of this inquiry.
Mister Chairman, you are a strong man, and it has
not been easy, but we have tried as best we

(01:10:16):
can to give you as much assistance as possible. Earlier
today we heard the beginning of the preamble to the
Constitution of the United States.

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
We the People.

Speaker 29 (01:10:31):
It's a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was
completed on the seventeenth of September in seventeen eighty seven,
I was not included in that We the People. I felt,
somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton
just left me out by mistake. But through the process

(01:10:52):
of Amendment interpretation and court decision. I have finally been
included in We the People.

Speaker 1 (01:11:03):
Schmidt. He's saying, no, you're not, and I keep I
don't know how many times I've said this. I don't
know how many times I played this. And listen this scene.
It says everything you need to know and understand about

(01:11:27):
how these racists view this country and for Eric Schmidt,
for Center Eric Schmidt, this scene in The Good Shepherd
says everything that needs to be said to understand how
these people feel and they really feel. And I'm telling

(01:11:50):
y'all this is why I wrote the book White Fear.
They absolutely believe that America is for white people. Eight
Anglo Saxon Protestants and the rest of y'all can go
to hell. This is that great scene from The Good Shepherd.
It's really a forty eight second scene. I'll leave the

(01:12:11):
front on.

Speaker 7 (01:12:13):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
I hate that Joe Pesci how they wrote it. In
referencing black people, they use the N word. But what
Matt Damon's character said playing a wasp secret service of
a CIA agent, This scene speaks to what Schmick was
talking about and what the Southern Baptist Convention leaders are

(01:12:34):
talking about, and what these people standing up with Trump
are talking about. They do not want anyone in this
country except white people in power. Listen, talk to me
about the government's about to deport you for certain activities.

Speaker 27 (01:12:50):
I'm in his country since some two months old. Does
that make me Italian? I'm American? Are they trying to
send me back?

Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
Have the deportation order reviewed?

Speaker 1 (01:13:03):
Have you classified as highly sensitive for national security? I
can take the government off your back if you can
help us.

Speaker 27 (01:13:10):
Usually the guys that scare me, you're the people that
make big wars.

Speaker 3 (01:13:15):
No, we make sure the wars are small ones.

Speaker 1 (01:13:17):
Mister Palmer, let me ask you something.

Speaker 27 (01:13:22):
We Italians we got our families, and we got the church,
the Irish, I have the homeland, the Jews their tradition,
even the Niggas they got their music. What about you people,
mister Carson, what do you have?

Speaker 3 (01:13:42):
The United States of America? The rest of you are
just visiting.

Speaker 1 (01:13:58):
That look right there, Rebecca. From Joe Petch to the end,
it says all you need to know. Damon's character was
speaking for the millions of people like Missouri Republican United
States Senator Eric Schmidt, who's a piece of.

Speaker 5 (01:14:18):
Shit, try to talk about how it's his heritage, and
he started to quote about things that happened at Valley Forge, and.

Speaker 13 (01:14:29):
It's so disingenuous.

Speaker 5 (01:14:30):
According to his own bio, his family didn't get here
until one hundred and twenty five years at least after
Valley Forge. So what do you mean by heritage? You know,
that's the first thing. The next thing is, this is
not about theology, because he's talking to the Southern Baptist
Convention and once again, according to his.

Speaker 13 (01:14:49):
Bio, he is Roman Catholic. So what are we talking about.

Speaker 5 (01:14:52):
It's not about his heritage because that will be factually incorrect.
It's not about his theology because that will be fact
actually and correct according to his own information that he
has put out into the public. So at that point,
this thing is about white nationalism. That's what he supports,
that's what he promulgates, and people have to be very

(01:15:13):
clear about what it is that we're seeing, what we're
experiencing now. For people who aren't comfortable with calling out
white nationalism, you better get really comfortable because that's where
we're at in the that's where we're at in the
historical timeline.

Speaker 7 (01:15:26):
Of this country.

Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
Kyler, Yeah, I couldn't agree more. You know, even it's
very dangerous towards liberation.

Speaker 14 (01:15:34):
As we're talking about evangelical Christians and weaponizing scripture to
defend slavery and segregation, as you said today, water suppression
and tax and reproductive freedom and all this aligns with,
as you said, white nationalism. And I think when we
talk about this host, we touched on the slogan, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:15:53):
Make Baptists great again.

Speaker 14 (01:15:55):
We must break back, break back into that radical love
of the.

Speaker 3 (01:15:59):
Church being a radical force of freedom.

Speaker 14 (01:16:01):
Racial equity is centered in love, and I think we must,
as black folks, determine what that looks like for us,
because we know that these evangelical Christians do not represent
the interests or the true liberation that we know we
deserve as black people.

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
Absolutely, all right, folks, gonna go to a break we
come back. What happens when you are a maga Republican
you allegedly beat a woman. The cops in DC want
to file charges against you, but the Trump your attorney says, nah,

(01:16:39):
we're good, We're gonna excuse that. Con tromany bit. Clark
chere of the direction of Black Caucus wants this Republican
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Speaker 6 (01:16:58):
Next on the Black Tape with Me Greg Carr, we
welcome the Black Star Network's very own Roland Martin, who
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How the Briding of America is making white folks lose
their minds. The book explains so much about what we're
going through in this country right now and how as

(01:17:20):
white people head toward becoming a racial minority, it's going
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We're going to see more violence, We're going to see
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The one and only Roland Martin on the Next Black
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M hm hm hm hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:19:16):
Some I'm gonna play you one more bite from this
absolutely racist speech by Missouri center Aer Schmidt. Remember earlier
I talked about what he said. We're not apologizing. This
is actually what he had to say.

Speaker 26 (01:19:34):
America is not a universal nation, and it's something distinctive,
unique and real, unlike any other place or people in
the history of mankind. We're a nation of settlers, explores pioneers,
born on the ocean waters that carry the first ship
to our shores and forged in the crucible of a

(01:19:58):
wild frontier. Our people tamed a continent, built a civilization
from the wilderness, and wrote our nation's name into history.
All nations die, most are quickly forgotten, confined to the
footnotes of ages. But thousands of years from now, when
we and our country are long dawn, people will still

(01:20:19):
know the name America because of what these Americans achieved.
The people who built our country were not villains, They're heroes.

Speaker 7 (01:20:29):
We can no longer.

Speaker 26 (01:20:30):
Apologize for the New York We're not sorry. Why would
we be sorry. America is the proudest and most magnificent
heritage ever known.

Speaker 1 (01:20:42):
In command, he's proud of that. Oh and first of all,
to his team, you are idiots. You don't have your
music lower than your audio. That's just basic editing there.
But this need people to understand the language here. Oh,

(01:21:02):
we're not apologizing. And you notice that fictitious. Oh, they
forged a nation out of the wilderness. So we're just
gonna skip over what funded the country. That's just look
pesky details. See what this is right here is in

(01:21:25):
preparation for next year, the two hundred and fifty, the
anniversary of the country. See what's gonna happen next year?
You're gonna hear speeches like this here the attack of
Trump on the Smithsonian. This is why they're doing that.
Why an't the US Holocaust Museum typorarily remove a display

(01:21:51):
that said that Jews were being denied entry into the
United States in World War Two? Why would you take
that down? See there is a desire to present his
story and not history. And so when this Eric Schmidt

(01:22:11):
stands up and proudly discusses the white heritage of America. Oh,
he didn't say white, but we knew what he meant.
We knew exactly what he meant. And what they are
saying right now, Oh no, we're gonna apologizing for any

(01:22:32):
of that. Oh we're not going to turn our backs
on that. Remember the earlier clip they took down our status.
They really when you say our statues and monuments do
tell which ones the ones of robberty Lee, Nathan bet

(01:22:55):
for Forrest and all of the Confederate white domestic terrorists,
is that who you're talking about. I need people to
understand what we're dealing with, y'all. He is one of
one hundred United States senators he represents. He's the junior
center from the state of Missouri. That means that every

(01:23:18):
black person in Kansas City, Saint Louis, all the other states,
all the other cities in there, un necessary the United
State senator and what he is saying to them, I
don't see y'all as American if you're Latino in a
Missouri he's saying, I don't see you as an American.
The only people I see as an American are the

(01:23:39):
white folks who are descendants from the white folks who
came here. As Rebecca's already pointed out that actually, in fact,
it doesn't include his dumbass, but he surely has adopted
their white nationalist language. This is why we keep telling

(01:24:01):
y'all when you don't vote that two wins, when you
set elections out, that to have power, the best way
to get back at an Eric Schmidt is to sit
his ass packing and show him what real power looks like.

(01:24:23):
Black power, brown power, non white power, and then we
can say, how about them apples? Eric, you said it
wasn't for us, but we sure send your ass packing.
Let see if we actually do that. Clad. Let's talk

(01:24:45):
about another Republican. This Republican living in an upscale residential
high rise in DC, oh lots of money, stop paying
his bill, They evicted his ass. I'm talking about Florida Congressman.
Florida Republican Congressman Corey Mills accused of harassment, assault, stolen valor,

(01:25:09):
invoking procedure. So all is going on. So congress Woman
Evin Clark was like, hey, man, hope what's going on here? Now? Now,
let me help you all out. Let me help you
all out. What's crazy with this here? Okay? The Washington
d C mixpol And Police Department won defiled charges against him.
The US attorney said, Nah, we're not gonna do that,

(01:25:31):
so that was something case closed. Really, what what's going
on I'm not understanding what's going on now? Republicans they
want to censure New Jersey congress woman and Lamonica MacIver
who faces chart as resulting from a class with officials

(01:25:52):
in Ice, the digit city in New Jersey. But why
are they so quiet about one of their own? So
congress w Levette Clark was like, how got a few
things to say?

Speaker 12 (01:26:07):
For what purpose does the general lady from New York
seek recognition?

Speaker 31 (01:26:11):
The Speaker, pursuing to clause to a one of Rule nine,
I rise to give notice of my intention to raise
a question of the privileges of the House. The form
in the form of a resolution as it follows. Whereas
Representative Corey Mills has on several occasions conducted himself in

(01:26:33):
a manner that reflects discredit upon the House of Representatives.
Whereas on February nineteenth of twenty twenty five, Washington DC
Metropolitan Police Department officers were called to resolve a private
matter at the at Representative Corey mills residence, where officers

(01:26:53):
were called to the thirteen hundredth block of Maryland Avenue
Southwest around one fifteen pm for the report of an assault,
Whereas the police reports obtained by NBC four Washington confirmed
that the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department was investigating Representative

(01:27:16):
Corey Mills for an alleged assault of a twenty seven
year old woman that took place on February nineteenth, twenty
twenty five, at the residence of Representative Corey Mills. And
whereas the first police report provided to NBC for Washington
by a source and confirmed by a second source familiar

(01:27:38):
with the investigation, said that the twenty seven year old
woman accused her significant other for over a year of
having grabbed her, shoved her, and pushed her out the door,
and also said the woman involved showed the officers bruises
on her arm, which appeared fresh, and Whereas NBC four

(01:28:03):
Washington also reported that the Metropolitan Police Department identified Representative
Corey Mills as the significant other of the alleged victim
of assaults, which alleged victim was a twenty seven year
old woman who was not the wife of Representative Corey Mills,

(01:28:23):
and that the alleged victim let officers here subject one,
now identified by MPD as Mills, instruct her to lie
about the origin of her bruises. Eventually, Subject one made
contact with police and admitted that the situation escalated from

(01:28:44):
verbal to physical, but it was severe enough to create bruising. Whereas,
on February twenty first, twenty twenty five, The Washington Post
also confirmed two DC police officers. Officials said that the
alleged victim of assault initially told a nine to one
to one operator and police that she had been assaulted,

(01:29:07):
and that officers said she also had what seemed to
be visible injuries, and that while a supervisor initially classified
the offense internally as a family disturbance, police commanders later
learned of the incident, reviewed the reports and bodycam footage

(01:29:28):
from the responding officers, and classified the case as domestic
violence assault and Whereas, on February twenty first, twenty twenty five,
NBC four Washington also reported that the Metropolitan Police Department
determined that probable cause to arrest Representative Corey Mills for

(01:29:49):
misdemeanor assault existed and sent an arrest warrant for Representative
Corey Mills to the United States Attorney's Office for the
District of Columbia. However, then Acting United States Attorney for
the District of Columbia, Ed Martin, refused to sign the

(01:30:09):
arrest warrant for Representative Corey Mills and instead returned the
case to the Metropolitan Police Department for further investigation. Whereas,
on July fourteenth, twenty twenty five, a different former romantic
partner of Representative Corey Mills, who was apparently in a

(01:30:30):
relationship with Representative Mills from November twenty twenty one to
February of twenty twenty five, reported to authorities in Florida
that Representative Mills threatened to release nude images and other
intimate videos of her and threatened to harm her future
romantic partners in retaliation for her decision to end a

(01:30:54):
relationship with Representative Mills after seeing the public records described
above concerning the alleged February twenty twenty five physical assaults. Whereas,
in August of twenty twenty four, the Office of Congressional
Conduct adopted and transmitted to the Committee on Ethics of

(01:31:15):
the House of Representatives a report indicating that there was
substantial reason to believe that Representative Corey Mills may have
omitted or misrepresented required information in his financial disclosure statements,
accepted excessive contributions to his campaign committee in the form

(01:31:39):
of personal loans, and contributions may not have been made
excuse me, may not have derived from Representative Corey Mills
personal funds entered into, held, or enjoyed contracts with federal
agencies while he was a member of Congress, and may
have accepted through his campaign committee in kind contributions or

(01:32:02):
other contributions not lawfully made. Whereas individuals who served with
Representative Corey Mills have called into question the veracity of
the accounts of events which formed the basis of a
recommendation that Representative Corey Mills receive an award of a
Bronze Star bestowed in twenty twenty one for his service

(01:32:26):
under enemy fire in a rock.

Speaker 1 (01:32:29):
In twenty twenty three excuse me in twenty.

Speaker 31 (01:32:32):
Three, Whereas in August of twenty twenty four, Representative Corey
Mills provided the Daytona Beach News with documents purporting to
prove that he earned a Bronze Star with heroism, including
a Department of Army Form six point thirty eight recommending

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Representative Corey Mills for a Bronze Star, which includes a
signature from then Army Brigade Command and Arnold N. Gordon Bray. However,
Brigadier General retired Brigadier General Bray told the Daytona Beach
News Journal in August of twenty twenty four that he

(01:33:15):
did not sign a Bronze Store recommendation for Representative Corey Mills,
and whereas five people who served with Representative Corey Mills,
including two men who were reported as having been personally
saved by Representative Corey Mills at great risk to his
own life as a basis for the recommendation for his

(01:33:38):
Bronze Star in the Department of the Army Form six
thirty eight disputed that Representative Corey Mills was involved in
their rescue or providing life saving care, Whereas one private
first class cited as having been involved in one of
the listed achievements on Representative Corey Mills Army Form six

(01:34:01):
thirty eight recommending him for a Bronze Star, denied that
Representative Corey Mills provided him any aid and also denied
his injuries were life threatening. Whereas one sergeant cited as
having been involved in one of the listed achievements on
Representative Corey Mills Army Form six thirty eight recommending him

(01:34:23):
for a Bronze Star called into account, called the account
excuse me a fabrication, and claimed that he was not
involved in any claims that Corey Mills makes about me.
And Whereas, despite the numerous available contradictions of the accounts

(01:34:44):
forming the basis of the recommendation for his Bronze Star,
Representative Corey Mills described the legitimate factual disputes raised by
individuals he purportedly served with and rescued as quote and
defamation end quote in a statement to the Dytona Beach News. Now,

(01:35:07):
therefore be it resolved that Representative Corey Mills be censured.
Representative Corey Mills forthwith presents himself in the Well of
the House of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure. And
whereas Representative Corey Mills be censured with the public reading

(01:35:28):
of the resolution by the Speaker. Mister Speaker, I rise
to a question of the privileges of the House and
offer the resolution that was previously noticed.

Speaker 1 (01:35:45):
Now we're waiting to actually see what they move on that.
We will say this here that seven Republicans, five voted no,
two voted present. So they table. They knocked down the Republicans'
effort to actually censure Congresswoman Machivre. This is actually how
c spent had the news.

Speaker 3 (01:36:05):
The banks did not protect us. So low seven President
are two. The motion is adopted.

Speaker 11 (01:36:11):
While the projection the record consider is late on the table.

Speaker 1 (01:36:17):
So all Democrats voted to table the censure again. Five
several Republicans crossed, five voted no to voted President. It
was interesting here, uh tylick is that here you have
Republicans doing all they can to protect Florida Congressman. Uh
this Florida Congressman Corey Mills. I mean, what does it say?
I thought this is the party of law and order.

(01:36:38):
Old Trump is talking about how he's made uh DC safe,
clearing out if you're a woman and you're near Corey Mills.

Speaker 14 (01:36:47):
Yeah, also and if you are if you are connected
to power. I think you know, censoring is the first step,
but we also know that the costs of unchecked hate
because we we we live it every day. But I
think it also so as a part of affirming the
ongoing work to dismantle this this this idea that if

(01:37:07):
you are connected to power, that you are somehow above
the law. And I think it's often it often goes
that justice is selective and it's influenced by by the
folks who are in power. But we must do the
work to ensure that justice is not selective and those
connected to connected to power are still held accountable.

Speaker 15 (01:37:31):
Rebecca, Look, this is also a non partisan issue as well,
or at least it should be, because thinking about what
the Democrats.

Speaker 5 (01:37:42):
Done with folks within their ranks that have become publicly
known about various sexual abuse or other issues, especially within
like the last five or ten years. Bottom line is,
predators do not belong in the comfress like period, full stop,

(01:38:03):
Like this is it this, This shouldn't even be a
thing that we have to go back and forth and
debate and discuss and the nerve to try to censure
her for actually coming with receipts. It's not like she
made this up, you know. So what exactly were they
censuring or attempting to censure her for.

Speaker 1 (01:38:23):
Yeah, this is how they all rolled. But I mean,
this is what what happens, all right, y'all. I got
to go to break actually before I do that. Republican
lawmakers are refusing to honor again Capitol Hill police officers
who defended lawmakers during the January sixth attack. Y'all his
what's crazy? The law was passed to erect this plaque.

(01:38:43):
The Republicans won't do it. The House Rules Committee last
night voted down at amendment that would have required Speaker
of Mike Johnson to hang the plaque commemorating their bravery again,
a plaque already met at by law the bron Memorial
approve in twenty twenty two, remains locked away in the
Capitol basement, never to be installed. The Republican leadership stall ay.

(01:39:04):
The officers who risk their lives that day are still
waiting for the recognition they deserve. Here are Republicans voting
again to deny that honor.

Speaker 10 (01:39:16):
Is there any further discussion on the amendment? Hearing none
the questions on the amendment, All those in favor signified
as saying I I those A posts say no no.

Speaker 5 (01:39:26):
In the opinion Chair of the.

Speaker 7 (01:39:27):
Nose as for reair, the clerk will call the roll.

Speaker 32 (01:39:31):
Missus Fishbock, mister Fishbok, no, mis Norman, mister Norman, no,
mister Roy, mister Roy no, Missus Halchin, Missus Halchin no,
mister Langworthy ster Langworthy, no, mister Scott, mister Scott, no,
mister Griffith, mister Griffith, no, mister Jack, no, mister Jack
no sterre mcgovernor, I s McGovern I am a Skellen,
Miss Scalen, I am mister News, mister News, I am

(01:39:52):
Sleger frenandos Sledger Fernandus im Madame chair no, madame chair,
no clerk total fourier's nay name.

Speaker 10 (01:40:00):
Those have a The members don't agree too, So.

Speaker 1 (01:40:05):
Y'all know the Capitol police officers are still protecting those
comebacks today. These people did not support cops, Rebecca. They're trash.

Speaker 4 (01:40:23):
Roland.

Speaker 5 (01:40:24):
I'm imagining every single police union across the country. Have
they had their press conference? Have they issued No, they're
pressed condemning them.

Speaker 1 (01:40:32):
Nope, Oh wait wait they have it.

Speaker 21 (01:40:35):
No.

Speaker 5 (01:40:35):
I mean, after all, there were police officers who have
died as a result of January sixth, and the police
unions are nowhere to be found Nope, Like, can they
be reached for comment?

Speaker 13 (01:40:47):
It's just silence.

Speaker 1 (01:40:48):
Yep, huh. That's how they rolled Tyler.

Speaker 14 (01:40:55):
Absolutely, they reward trees in and punished loyalty. We simply
expose the system that values power over people. And this
is really no surprise. And it's crazy to me that
the folks who risk their lives to protect these lawmakers
that and still protect them to this day, while they're

(01:41:16):
simultaneously pardoning insurrectionists who carried out the violence and as
we know, awarding folks in families millions of dollars who
were insurrections.

Speaker 3 (01:41:27):
Just it's just crazy to me.

Speaker 1 (01:41:29):
Speaking of crazy, let's go to Florida. Florida's poised to
become the first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates.
Why Well, because Republican go to Rondo Sanders appointed an
idiot to be the state surgeon general. Now, the Santas
is framing this as a win for quote medical freedom.

(01:41:50):
His surgeon general, the incompetent doctor Joseph Dapo, literally condemned
vaccine requirements in schools and childcare as a moral intrusion
on printal rights, actually liking it to slavery.

Speaker 18 (01:42:17):
The Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governors,
is going to be working to end all vaccine mandates
in Florida law, all of them, every last one of them.
Every last one of them is wrong and drips with
disdain and slavery. Okay, who am I, as a government

(01:42:43):
or anyone else, or who am I as a man
standing here now.

Speaker 33 (01:42:46):
To tell you what you should put in your body?
Who am I to tell you what your child should
put in your body?

Speaker 1 (01:42:58):
I don't have that right.

Speaker 33 (01:43:01):
Your body, your body is a gift from God.

Speaker 1 (01:43:06):
What you put into your.

Speaker 33 (01:43:07):
Body, what you put into your body is because of
your relationship with your body and your God.

Speaker 3 (01:43:15):
I don't have that right.

Speaker 1 (01:43:17):
Government does not have that rights.

Speaker 33 (01:43:21):
They want you to believe they have that right, and unfortunately,
you know, they've been successful. They've been successful.

Speaker 1 (01:43:37):
Rebecca. I've never served in the military, but if I'm correct,
the military mandates vaccines for soldiers. Isn't that the government
mandating and telling you what to do?

Speaker 5 (01:44:00):
You know, Roland, respectfully, This is why people like Yvette
Carnell has the positions that she has the positions on
because we literally have someone who people and especially those
conservatives in that state under DeSantis with you as look
at this black man when in reality, even his family's story,

(01:44:21):
he's he I believe he.

Speaker 13 (01:44:23):
Is recently from Nigeria.

Speaker 5 (01:44:27):
He's now placed in a position of power, and he's
doing harm to many black folks in Florida by backing
this bs that we're seeing from these crazy folks who
are trying to pass laws.

Speaker 13 (01:44:39):
And do things in the name of white supremacy. The
reason why I want to point that out is because
I think.

Speaker 5 (01:44:44):
It's important because we're starting to see a where how
different black folks. So we usually say all kinfolk, all
skin folks at kinfolk. And what's unfortunate is he had
the nerve to put together his lips to talk about
vaccines in a way and say it's just like slavery
and and the slavery that my ancestors are descendants.

Speaker 4 (01:45:05):
Of and had dealt with.

Speaker 5 (01:45:06):
Like I would never say anything like that because it's
so it's ahistorical, it's not even correct. But to even
put together my lips to say something like that to
push this authoritarian regime that we're seeing that's happening in Florida,
like it's diabolical and intentionally putting someone who is who
is black race, who has brown skin as to have

(01:45:29):
them propagating their particular agenda. It's hateful and that's somebody
that I think we're going to have to start to
explore more and understand what's happening and how blackfaces can
also be used to propagate white supremacy in this country.

Speaker 13 (01:45:45):
This is horrible what's happening in Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:45:48):
This is a so called doctor tyler.

Speaker 7 (01:45:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:45:53):
Absolutely, It's deeply ironic and dangerous to me that many
Republicans who champion, uh, you know, who say that your
body your choice when it comes to vaccine, are the
same ones who attack abortion access and reproductive freedom. The
selective defunct, uh, the selective opportunity to defend body autonomy

(01:46:16):
only when it suits them is a little, you know,
wild to me, and it's really dangerous. And to compare,
as said before, this mandate to slavery is really an
insult to our ancestors who lived through the brutality of enslavement,
because slavery wasn't you know, it wasn't not this public
health policy issue. It was the humanization, it was violence,

(01:46:37):
it was generational trauma. And to use this black face
to talk about this. It is dangerous and to minimize
the black suffering and really distorts our history with which
they tried to revamp every single day. But it's really
wild to me that they want to talk about body autonomy.
Well on the same end, the same ones who are
heavy on the attack of abortion access.

Speaker 1 (01:47:00):
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santists and blame this idiot. Can I go to a break,
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Across cutting Bore, families are turning to homes schooling, especially
African Americans. That's right, It is the Black people who
represent the largest expanse of homeschooling. But finding the right
support and curriculum can be a real challenge, especially for
parents who want their child's education to reflect their culture
and identity. That's where Coco Classroom steps in. Founded in

(01:50:18):
Las Vegas by Michael and Regina Roebuck, Coco Classroom is
a black owned AI powered platform built by parents for parents.
It lets families design custom standards, align lessons in seconds.
Supports multiple languages and puts power tools in progress tracking.
Write your fingertips. Michael Regina join us right now. I'm
glad to have both of you. How you doing, Oh,

(01:50:39):
we're doing good. How are you great? So how did
this idea start?

Speaker 3 (01:50:44):
So?

Speaker 4 (01:50:45):
This was my broad idea. This is a very personal
journey over here.

Speaker 28 (01:50:50):
So to give you some contexts, I'm originally from Charleston,
West Virginia, just Outsiuth Charleston, small town called Cabin Creek.
I was the only black child in my ownmentary school,
so needless to say, early childho was a nightmare. But
then they found out that I was athletically gifted, and
then my education turned into football. So fast forward to

(01:51:14):
twenty twenty, we're living in Utah. Now we have a daughter.
She was becoming a school age I'm giving you the
long version in like a few minutes or whatever, and
the demographics was similar, and I made a conscious decision
There's no way I'm sending my child to school in
this type of environment. Fast forward to three years after that,

(01:51:36):
and several virtual academies we had signed up. I wasn't
too happy for what I was seeing, and I realized
I did not like the software that I was using
even more and that's what drove me to build Coco Classroom.

Speaker 1 (01:51:53):
All right, so walkers through exactly what is it? What
is Cocoa Classroom? Is it an app? Is is it?
Is it a software? Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:52:01):
What is it?

Speaker 21 (01:52:03):
So?

Speaker 28 (01:52:03):
Toco Classroom is an a I would say it as
an AI driven parent led, student centered educational platform that
allows parents like us to actually create our own courses,
create our own curriculums. We use AI as an assistant
to help guide us through that process every step.

Speaker 4 (01:52:26):
Of the way.

Speaker 1 (01:52:29):
Okay, and how long it takes you to put this together?

Speaker 21 (01:52:34):
Me?

Speaker 4 (01:52:35):
Well, discloser. I'm a software engineer by trade.

Speaker 28 (01:52:39):
Most of my career has been spent building actually in
the mobile development realm iOS and Android. This wasn't my
first time in the rodeo, but this time around, I
decided when I built it, let's build a website first,
because there was some lessons learned from the first time around.
I figured one hour a day every day for maybe

(01:53:00):
six months, that was it. It didn't take me too
long because I've been doing this for about twenty years.

Speaker 35 (01:53:06):
So initially we had another app that it was previously
and then we moved on to this one to improve
on that app because my daughter was learning way too
fast and we were trying to keep up with her.

Speaker 1 (01:53:21):
Gotcha questions from the panel, Tyler, your.

Speaker 3 (01:53:23):
First, Yeah, thank you so much for joining.

Speaker 14 (01:53:29):
My question for you would be measuring impact, like how
do you assess whether students using your platform is not
only academically successful but developing the critical thinking skills and
cultural pride and social emotional learning that you all are pushing.

Speaker 28 (01:53:45):
That's an excellent question. We will use our own story
to answer your question. So one of the things that
drove us to building our own platform, our daughter was
actually phone behind as we were going.

Speaker 4 (01:53:58):
Through these virtual academies.

Speaker 28 (01:54:01):
While I liked the live video classes that we were
participating in, I couldn't stand the software. And then on
top of that, the materiality just wasn't grasping, just wasn't grasping.
And I decided to take matters into our own hands.
So we took a step back. In the example of

(01:54:22):
language arts, we took.

Speaker 4 (01:54:24):
A step back.

Speaker 28 (01:54:25):
We used AI as a guide, we came up with
a plan of action, and we sought mastery level with
language Arts. We took the leap of faith around this
time last year to homeschool full time. Really didn't know
what I was doing at the time, but we had

(01:54:46):
AI as our guide, and that combination talking to parents
locally in here in Las Vegas amongst the homeschooling community,
we came up with a pretty solid plan of action
to not only to wear our own hell caught up,
she's now thriving.

Speaker 3 (01:55:04):
Rebecca, thank you all so much for.

Speaker 13 (01:55:08):
Joining us tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:55:09):
I've seen an uptick in Black families making the choice
to do homeschooling for their children. How what has the
reception been for you all as you're trying to encourage
more families to consider it homeschooling.

Speaker 28 (01:55:28):
But our responses has been over randily supportive, much more positive.
I didn't expect the type of traffic to be coming
in my direction as it has all the time. I'm
on several social media groups, particularly on Facebook, Black Homeschools United.

Speaker 4 (01:55:48):
We'll give a shout out to y'all and a lot
of parents.

Speaker 28 (01:55:52):
I'm seeing more and more parents to begin to pull
their children out schools for various reasons, and they're looking
for an alternative where I just have and to have
an option. We actually assisted in helping a few parents
actually set up their own curriculums together. We have to
watch out because the state guidelines and standards, it varies

(01:56:16):
from state to state, so we have to keep that
in mind. Go if you're for those homeschooling families, who's
interested in this type of educational experience makes I cannot
stress enough check the states guidelines and standards because they vary.
Here in Nevada, it's a little it's pretty much the

(01:56:36):
world wide West. You can do whatever you want here.
They have some standards and guidelines and I'm made sure
in our case to greatly exceed whatever they have on
the books.

Speaker 1 (01:56:48):
So what in terms of so with this, how many
parents are using this? How many folks have you actually
signed up? And the subscription is it a month? How
does that work?

Speaker 22 (01:57:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 28 (01:57:03):
So right now there's a thirty day free trial period
available to parents. We signed them up more or less
as self learners, so that they can evaluate the platform
and make a decision whether or not Coco classrooms are
good fit for them if they make the decisional When
they make the decision, yeah, we want to give you

(01:57:24):
some money. The pricing is based on groups, So the
larger your group, the bigger your discount. Families eighty nine
nine nine a month gives you access to everything, you
can do whatever you want. You're entitled to add up
to two additional adults up to five children.

Speaker 4 (01:57:46):
I lost my train of thought. Help me out.

Speaker 7 (01:57:50):
It is based on oh yes.

Speaker 28 (01:57:52):
Pay through twelve since last week, my gosh, I checked
the stats this morning.

Speaker 4 (01:58:00):
We're pushing.

Speaker 28 (01:58:01):
I'd say probably one sixty families have signed up within
the last week.

Speaker 4 (01:58:07):
Much more yes than what we expect.

Speaker 28 (01:58:09):
I was expecting a slow, steady pace to where we
could just take our time.

Speaker 4 (01:58:14):
No, didn't happen at all. It pretty much exploded.

Speaker 35 (01:58:18):
Yes and shout out to them. Appreciate you guys going
on this journey with us.

Speaker 7 (01:58:22):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:58:23):
Okay, So if folks want to get more information, where
do they go?

Speaker 28 (01:58:29):
Coco Classroom dot com, c O c O A, Yeah,
our shirts, Coco Classroom dot com.

Speaker 1 (01:58:34):
So here all of your social and put it back up.
Guys are too quick, come on, put it back up.
Thank you. So this time you can reach them on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube,
Pinterest And what the hell was that last one?

Speaker 8 (01:58:48):
That was that?

Speaker 1 (01:58:49):
That's TikTok gotcha? All right, that's the last one. So
that's a Coco classroom, dot com, all the social media
and Michael Regina, I appreciate it, good luck.

Speaker 13 (01:58:59):
Thank you, thank you so much for having us.

Speaker 1 (01:59:01):
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