Vote by mail begins in NC; Aug. jobs report: Black joblessness high; Bloomberg gives $100M to HBCUs

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and twenty. Here's here's what's coming up on the second
anniversary of Roland Martin. Unfiltered mail and voting had started
North Carolina, the first take to send out ballot. Some
five thousand would talk with congress Woman Alma Adam just
Well Charlotte, mayor of vy Lyles about that referendum on
the ballot in Florida could make it more difficult for
minority candidates to win. The former state attorneys Shan Sean

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Shaw is here to tell us why the jobs report
is out today doesn't tell the real story for African Americans.
Will talk to you an economist about that. Donald Trump
continues to disparage our troops. He says, it never happened.
I never called John mccanna loser. Um, Actually you did,
and it's on video. Michael Bloomberg is giving one hundred

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million dollars to four HBCUs for their medical school. Will
tell you about that. And the Portsmith, Virginia police chief
has been fired over the Confederate Monuments case. Will give
you that update. The California copp has been charged with
manslaughter for killing an unarmed black man in a Walmart.
Plus our hour long since its special. We gotta make
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She's filled the question though he's rolling Martell Martell fifty
nine days. Fifty nine days until November three, folks, when

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the election takes place. But that's really not the issue.
That is because mail in ballots are already being sent
out in North Carolina. They start today sending out more
than five thousand that we're requested by there is constituents,
go to buy iPad please, I told you fifty nine days.
And so what we want is we want you to folks,

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to get registered. Go to vote dot org or go
to I will vote dot com. Uh. And so this
is critically important, folks because the first thing we need
to make sure that you are on the rolls, that
you are registered. That's the first thing. So they will
check that. If you're not, then you can register as well. Now, again,

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a lot more people are gonna be voting by mail
during this election because of coronavirus. Now North Carolina, again,
as I said, they're gonna send out more than by
Hurding thousand closes the six hurn thousand. The voters who
are avoiding going to the polls amant the coronavirus panic
demming and historically Republicans have dominated mil in voting. With
this cycle, more than three and twenty six thousand and

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ballots were requested by Democratic voters and a hundred and
ninety two thousands were requested by Independence. Republicans only requested
ninety two thousand in North Carolina. Many folks believe because
Donald Trump has been so critical of mail in voting now,
voters in North Carolina can continue to request mail in
ballots up to October seven, but black black people don't

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do that. Officials are warning that may be too close
to the November third election. Joining us right now is
coming from all my Adams of North Carolina commres Woman
over Plat to have you on roller Barton infilter. Good
to be here vote rolling. Thank you so much for
the invocations. All right, So this so what was interesting
about what's going on in here? Again? Trump has been

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so critical of mail and voting, Republicans are falling right
in line, and in fact Republican officials are basically saying,
basically stop listening to him, We need you try to
request the bill in ballot because they're fearful Democrats are
gonna be turning out major way and we are gonna
be turning out. And I mean you can look at
the numbers now where seven times the requests that we've

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ever had. Actually it's over six hundred thousand, uh rolling
and in my district alone, we're looking at about fifty
five sixty thousand requests already. My my application is in
and I'm expecting to cast my vote next Thursday. But
the one thing that we have to warn people, uh,

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we had great palace on the show the other day.
Of ballots each election typically are thrown out because of errors.
So even though we're people are who want to request
the mail in ballot, we gotta make sure that we
tell our people, double check all of the rules, make
sure you bubble it in properly, make sure you're signing

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it properly, because that's part of the problem. If you
do the mail in ballot there and the people are
already planning to do this, Republicans are already planning to
contest as many male imbalances as possible. Well, you're absolutely right,
and we do have to remind people to not only
sign it, make sure that you have everything filled out,

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make sure you have your witness, everything that's required you
need to do it. And I would just say, you know,
if you need somebody to kind of look at all
and make sure you've done it right, because you have
to have a witness anyway. UM, just take your time,
get it filled out, and uh bring it. I'm going
to take mine. And I think that that's the safest

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way with all that's going on with the with the
postal service, and uh, with the scares that the President
is putting out there. Uh, people want to make sure
that their ballot is not only cast, but it's counting.
And you're right, first of all, make sure that you're
still on the road. They've purged over six hundred thousand
people in North Carolina. Actually it's a little bit un

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the six six hundred thousand. Uh. So if you think
you're registered, just double check and make sure so you
have a chance to to register a gain if if
your name doesn't show up. Uh, and and and first
of all, and you weak at that point. And again,
I think what people to understand is check your state,
because the rules in North Carolina, the law North Carolina

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is different than Alabama or Texas are somewhere else. And
so I think we just gotta be in a constant
state of educating our people to make sure they follow
the letter of the law because they're gonna be looking
to disqualify as many black ballots as possible. You're exactly right,
You are exactly right. We're going we are engaged in
a in an education process right here. I'm gonna be

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working with not only our churches and community organizations. But
this is the most important election of our lifetime, and
our lives depend on it. You know, you hear people
say that, But truly, we have a lot to lose
if we don't get uh, if we don't get our

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votes in UM when when you look at your state, uh,
Obama one North Carolina fourteen thousand, one hundred votes in
two thousand and eight. Republicans then went on a rampage,
putting up so many barriers it got to the point
where we're so bad a federal court rule. There was
a laser like focus where they were targeting black voters. Uh.

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And with what Reverend Dr Barbera and Moral Mondays and
the a c. P and others repairs of the breach,
they really really changed some things. They're in floor in
North Carolina when when it came of voting and so
this is where our vote could truly make a difference.
If African Americans turned out at the level they did

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in two thousand and eight, not only can that ensure
uh that Biden and Harris wins North Carolina over Trump
and Pence, and also change congressional seats state seats. Democrats
now control the state Supreme Court as a result of
the last couple of elections. That's right, You're you're absolutely right.

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I mean, everything depends on our turning out and turning
out in huge numbers. We don't want anyone, uh to
to have any doubts about who won this race. I
do believe a roling that we're going to turn out
like we turned out when o'ballo was on the ticket.
People are too afraid not to vote right now. I mean,

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we've seen what has happened over the almost these four
years with this president, and people are just too afraid,
uh this time. So that's why you see so many
people getting absentee balance. That's why so many people are
preparing to to vote early. We do have a couple
of weeks that we can vote early, uh, So we
have several opportunities to really get it right now, and

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I think people are just determined this time not to
stay home not to uh to sit down, but to
come out and make sure we get these ballots. Casts Absolutely, Congresswoman,
all my adults was really appreciated. Oh you know what, Hello,
before we do that, I gotta get you this here. Uh.
You know Donald Trump doing Republican National Convention. Uh, he
had all these people up there. You had a brother

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who was one participating in the city ends. Uh, they're
all to You had also Vernon, Vernon Jones or Georgia
out there talking about all this stuff that Donald Trump
has done for HBCUs. Donald Trump is trying to take
credit for a whole lot of stuff you did. Well,
you're exactly right. The only thing Donald Trump did was
to sign the bill, and he was required to do

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that once the bill passed uh the House and the Senate,
and it was a bipartisan bill. So yeah, he's trying
to take credit, but he knows very well, Uh that
was that's my bill, and uh, the only thing he
did to sign it, and that's what presidents to do.
So we appreciate his signature, but he didn't have anything
to do with the bill. Well, and that's where we
state that. So people also are very well aware of

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how it got done because you're the one out there
beating the Bush is trying to get those votes. And
then when sending Lamar Alexander uh put a block the
bill in the Senate. Uh you as well as you
and others. And his name escaped him, the Republican from
North Carolina. His wife, uh Walter Mark. Uh yeah, Mark Walker.

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I mean, look y'all were working to get that thing through.
Trump whatnot there fighting for HBC used to get that
deal through. Let's just be clear, that's right. He never
has been. So you know he likes photo ops. So
he gets our presidents and chancellors up to the White House,
he takes a picture and uh he's trying to use
that as a way to get back. But we know,

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we know exactly what he has done and has not done,
and we're gonna we're gonna show him November three, We're
gonna turn the mother out right here in North Carolina.
All right, then, commens all Adams were surely appreciateive, thanks
a lot, Thank you, then you take care. All right,
all glad to have you here. Let's go to our panel.
We have, of course Rob Richardson, the host of Disruption

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Now podcast, Derek Holleige President Reaching America and political analysts
Amicia Cross political analysts and Democratic strategies. I'll start with you,
Amsha again when we're talking about here, when we talk
about this election, North Carolina, the role that it could play,
the critical role that it could play UH in terms
of turnout. Democrats have turned the corner in North Carolina,

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beating back lots of Republican UH efforts UH in the
last several years. North Carolina is a state right now.
You look at the polling data, the Democratic Canada for
the United States Senate is up anywhere from UH five
to seven points against incumbent Tom Tillis. No, You're absolutely correct.
North Carolina has made so many strides towards progress over

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the past few years, specifically UM in in large part
gained by the amount of turnout, the sheer amount of
turnout from diverse voters that we've seen increase over the
past decade. I don't think that that's gonna stop going
into the presidential election. There's an excitement amongst diverse voters
in North Carolina. North Carolina is definitely up for grabs

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in many ways from the state on up. And I
think that what we're going to see is a lot
of these people, um really, you know, they're seeing that
their votes actually matter. They're seeing that the organizations that
have invested in them for years at this point, how
are now like They've built this bed of people who
not only are registered, but no their power, own their
power and are going to get to the polls. And
I think that you, um, what the congresswoman just said,

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We're definitely going to see more people show up. People
are getting informed, they know of the threats that Donald
Trump and the Trump administration have out for this election cycle,
and they're going to vote early. They are going to
make sure that they have all of their dubs in
a row, and they're going to make sure that their
voices are heard. So I think that North Carolina is
going to be it's gonna be a good year for Democrats,
but it's also going to be a good year for
um diverse voters across the state that historically hasn't necessarily

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had their voices as a priority. When we talk about
these states, these battleground states, we talk about, uh, the
various impact here. I mean, look, rob Um, if Trump
has to defend states that he won, you look at
where Biden is as well in terms of he's doing

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better among white voters, especially older white voters, which is
one of the reasons why we look at Poli right now.
In Florida and North Carolina and some of those western
states he's up. But but a state like North Carolina,
that's where the black vote it's gonna be so critical
because for African Americans that turnout. Again, when you look

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at the turnout there, um, you know he wanted in Um,
he but did not win by a lot. But things
have also changed because they've been able to beat back
Republican efforts. And this is the key here, because they
beat back because Republicans were operating in North Carolina and
I mean that legislature was so file, was so fil

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what they were doing. I mean they would just pass
and loss just like what the hell. And in fact,
Republicans talk about voter fraud. They had to have a
completely in new election in North Carolina because the Republicans
were a harvesting ballot. So the greatest example of voter
fraud in America, it's from North Carolina. Republicans. Oh, there's

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no question. You always know what Republicans are doing. Whatever
they're doing, they're accusing Democrats of doing it. There's voter fraud,
there's voter fraud. Their goal is to suppress voters and
create voter fraud, so that's what they're doing. So look, uh,
North Carolina pains me to say this, but it's true.
It is more of a swing state. It used to be.
Ohio used to be a swing state. Is starting to
look like it's not the case anymore. But North Carolina

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is for the reasons that the Misha and you have
talked about. The demographics keep growing and nearly every nearly
nearly every state that is that is becoming more diverse,
is becoming more democratic. So Republicans approach instead of actually
figuring out, well, how do I reach out to voters
of color, how do I reach out to young people,
their goal is how do I keep them from voting?
How do I create new technicality so maybe they won't vote?

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How do I make it harder for college students to vote? Like,
that's not how you create a good democracy, that's not
how you create good policy. That's how you create division,
and and that's really how you go backwards. So, uh,
you know, it can't work forever, but they are trying everything.
They can to hold on the power, and instead of
trying to expand their base to expand their ideas, they're
doubling down on some of the most extreme ideas, including

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just being an outright racist. You know that's just now.
You know it used to be a dog with so
it's just completely embraced now we can just go out
here and say it. And the Republicans are following what
I hope is they're following double Trump down a path
where they won't be able to come back for a while,
because they shouldn't be able to come back for a
while for all the things he stood for, for all
the toxicities put out there, for just the horrible climate

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he has put this country in. You don't even have
to be a Democrat. You don't have to believe in
all the philosophies. You just have to believe in. Can
we have a leader that's normal, that's calm and can
act like a normal person, a normal leader, not um Derek.
The Republicans are making a concerted effort to really appeal
to black men. If you look at Florida, but to
talk to we gotta talk to a guests in Florida.

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Up next, they are doing better among African Americans and
Latinos in Florida. Joe Biden is behind Hillary Clinton where
she was in two thousand and sixteen in Florida. Uh,
the Republicans really want to go after black men. They
think they can get as high as of a black
man voting for them. We roll. Uh. And I agree

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with that statement obviously, And I just think it goes
back to a lot of stuff that we have confrontations
about on your show. I think there's a lot more
people who believe in what this guy is doing than
what allude to what we allude to on this show.
And polls down in Florida speak to it. But I
don't pay I don't pay attention to a lot of
polls because if we did that, Hillary plant to be

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president right now. And so I think everything is gonna
come down and going the third election day, people getting
out to vote and black people, if you want change,
you have to get off the asses and go vote.
And that's the bottom line. Two thousand and sixteen, that
was the lowest turnout her other Pew Research Center for
African Americans in twenty years. So if that's the case,

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you're going to have to vote and I think at
the same time, I think there are a lot of
black men who are who see what's going on in
this country and and and see it for what it is,
and there are in agreement with with with the president,
and and there's a lot of things that I talked
about absolutely rightful. Let's talk about was happening in Florida

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where voters there, uh, and November definitely going to decide
whether to drastically change how folks pick their link to
leaders in the future. A new analysis concludes that black
representation in Tallahassee would plummet if a particular amendment passes.
This is a bit three a ballot referendum that would
turn to Florida's primary elections into a top two open

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primary system. Now jenerally right now to the discussed This
is form state representative and founder of People Over Province,
Sean Shaw, Sean, glad to have you. I'm rolling unfiltered now.
This is used right now in California where Hey, whoever
gets the top two? Uh, that's who is in the primary.

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Why do you say this is a bad idea for Florida.
California is overwhelmingly democratic. Florida is not as I'm sure
we're gonna get into where the swingiest of the swing
states in terms of partisan registration were very even Roland.
If this had been the law of the land in
two thousand and eighteen, the top two vote getters were Republicans.

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We would have decided our race for governor between two
Republicans and no one would have even had the ability
to vote for Andrew Gillham for governor in two thousand
and eighteen. This is not a good system from Florida.
Like you said, this would demolish the Black Caucus, demolished
the Hispanic Caucus, and prevent anyone progressive for being elected.
So we're working hard to beat it um you know,

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on that on a particular point. First of all, what
is it looking like? H of course, ballot initiatives are
very difficult. We saw what took place with an end
at four in two thousand and eighteen. What is it
looking like right now? Is it popularly? Do folks want
to do this or is it uh? Is it you?
Or is your side winning? Well? It sounds good and

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that's why it's polling well. It is polling well here
in Florida for a ballot initiative initiative to change our constitution.
It's got to be at six or more. Right now,
it's pulling very close or a little bit under that.
Because it sounds great. It's called all voters vote, and
people think, well, I want more people to vote. But
when you start talking to people a lot more, they
understand how insidious it is. And so the Black Hawcus

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here in Floridas has voted against. It's coming out soon.
We believe that a lot of other groups in double
A CP and other groups like that are gonna come
out against it. And uh, and we're gonna work hard
to knock that number down. I think we're gonna be
okay and get it under six, but it's gonna be close. Um.
And and exactly what is the campaign? How are you
doing that? How are you educating people? Because again, what

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you just describe when you hear it, okay, you know,
sounds great, sounds wonderful. It's sort of like when they
had the Affirmative Action initiative in the City of Houston. Uh,
and they often did these where it sounded, oh, it
sounded great, but the late Mayor bott Lanier forced them
to actually change it to show it's real intent. In
terms of what that would actually mean. Well, where you

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know it's it's sponsored. The other side is sponsored by
a South Florida billionaire, and I'm not a South Florida billionaire.
But we're working. We've been in front of editorial boards.
There's no group that is allied with UH, with with
us that I'm aware of, that is for it. It
is just being put on the ballot by a billionaire
down in South Florida. So we were able to reverse
the League of Women voters. They reverse their position here

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to be against it. As I said, the Black Caucus
then double a c p UH, the unions, almost everybody
is against it. We're getting the word out. I speak
multiple times a week on Zoom to groups, so we're
working very hard. The Democratic Party has come out against it.
All the local parties are kind of having me on
their in their meetings to talk about it. So we're
we're working as hard as we can to do that,

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and we'll have a you know, black newspapers and black
editorials and black media is going to be important to
get that word out rolling because it's interesting the group
that supports this the most is black men. And it's
strange until you kind of dig into it. You understand. Uh,
we are the ones who are the most skeptical of
how things are going on now and we want the
biggest change. But the polling also reveals there the group

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that is the quickest to change their mind once you
tell them how bad this is. So that's what we're
working on. UM. So that's that's interesting. That's interesting. Uh,
And what is the strategy there to reach them? Because
also because also people trying to reach black me when
it comes to president of election, Well, we gotta meet
on where they are. So we're going to any organizations.

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We're going to all the unions, were going to all
the black newspapers, all the regular newspapers, main stream media,
black radio. We're doing all the things we can, churches, pastors.
I speak to pastoral groups all the time, trying to
educate them on this. And you know, all the all
the connections that I have in Florida politics, we're trying
to use them to make sure we get the word
out like we can, because most people just aren't aware

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of this or they think it sounds good, and I
just gotta you just gotta, we gotta get our team
in front of them. And we're working hard, but it
is it is interesting how that Poland worked out. All right, then,
Sean Shaw, so appreciate it. Thanks a lot, Oh, thanks
for having me Ro. I appreciate Rob. Rob. This is
one of those things we talked about, this ballot initiative. Again,
it's one of those things that what happens that people

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you have to pay attention to these various things. Also,
what often happens is people don't focus what's happening down ballot.
So this is one of those things where you can't
skip over because if you skip over and the other
side is voting for it, it wins. Well, there's no question,
and you need to pay attention to the whole ballot.

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I can tell you here in Ohio the ram court
is up for is actually up for grabs, and from
from my understanding, the polling has it to where the
it's not Democrats technically, but people that are democratic leading
judges have a good chance of winning, and that means
a big difference for how the districts are going to
be drawn. So all these things matter. And of course
here with that, with that ballot initiative, I'll say this

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this is also the other side of this was we
have to understand how people are frustrated with the system.
So I do think there needs to be some thought
that maybe we need to put some some initiatives forward
to figure out how we're going to make sure more
people are have faith in the process too, because I
think people are getting frustrated. This is not the right
way to do it, but it tells you that how
how this is polling. People are tired of the current

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environment and they think that it's not productive and it
has to produce results. So I do think we shouldn't
ignore that either and figure out, let's be proactive and
that always have to react to what's what's being pushed
at us. Let's let's be proactive and actually put something
on the ballot that is beneficial to us in a
way that's more bid that that that's actually that that
does more for representation, versus having to always respond when

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somebody does something like this. Um on the reason I'm
making that point, uh, there again, a lot of people.
You know, you go from the top of the ballot
alway to the bottom. Folks, your skip over a whole
lot of stuff further you go down, especially these ballot initiatives.
But this is one of those things that is huge
because this changes the state constitution. Yeah, there needs to

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be a a educational outreach campaign just throwing down balloting
and how important it is because that's what that's what
really impacts people on the local level, on your daily lives,
is a down balloting. But for whatever reason, we have
not been educated on that process and we tend to
just dismiss it, if you will, But with this process.

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I was listening to what Seawan said. I thought it
was interesting because he noted that that process is working
fine in California because it's a Democratic lead state, but
the idea that it could be different for Florida because
it could be, you know, a Republican control of situation.
It's not good for the states. So I just kind

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of find that part interesting. But I do agree with
Rob and that a lot of people are disenfranchised with
the with the current process and it needs to be
changed on a whole just in terms of how we
vote and we just the whole election process takes place.
But so mishall me on that point. I mean, when
when California changed that, there are people who say, hey,

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the top two vote getters should get it, like for instance,
he looks at what's happening right now. Uh, in the
race against Kelly Loffler. Um in that now, there are
a number of people in that particular race. Um, the
top two vote getters are gonna dance to the runoff.
If you look at the polling data right now, Uh,
you have Kelly Loffler as well as the Collins Republican

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who are running one and two. Uh. And so what
Democrats are They're saying they're trying to get some of
these other Democrats and loluding Uh does a librans son
to drop out? Raphael Warnock can consolidate support and get
in one of those top two positions. Um is, But
but is this a good idea? Because again, California has it,

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and I think Washington State has it. Well, I hate
the they talked to um pick in general and you're right,
um and no, California has a Washington State. I think
I second you on that. At least they've had it
in the past. Um. It's frustrating. But on that same token,
this election, the election in Georgia, force in it is
a it's pure math. We know that when Democrats put

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up or Republicans put up, you know, way too many
candidates for anything, and they don't end up dropping out
along that campaign trail. That's how we got Donald Trump. UM,
you end up with the candidate that you don't want,
and in many times, the candidate who's not going to
be able to withstand what the Republicans are putting up
because whether it's Doug Collins or whether it is Lochler,
at the end of the day, conservatives are gonna come
out for their conservative candidate. We cannot necessarily say the

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same thing when we're seeing voter disenfranchisement and the thwarting
of voters across across the state of Georgia on a
regular basis. I think that what we need to invest in,
what Georgia needs to do is actually consolidated. I think
that's the only way that they are actually going to
have a candidate that um that is going to be
able to pull any votes come November. And what we're
seeing is that you have candidates who were dead set

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on being there no matter what and and all honestly,
they're just going to pull votes. It's one of the
things that I watched happened in my hometown of Chicago
during the last mayor's race. Um Lori Lightfoot would not
have gotten as far as she did and would not
have become mayor if we hadn't have had fifteen people
running at the same time and it going into a runoff,
and you know, you're seeing how that ended up. And
I just think that, you know, to a certain extent,

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there has to be a point at which we decide, Hey,
you know, Democrats need to align behind a candidate and
put that best candidate forward and make sure that that
candidate has all of their ducks in a row, has
all their talking points, and can really turn out in
terms of not only outreach, but getting people ready to
get out and vote November that we're not necessarily see
in Georgia. And that's going to be to the detriment
of Democrats. All Right, folks, gonna go to a break.

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We come back. We're gonna talk about the August jobs report. Uh,
did that really benefit African Americans? And are the numbers deceiving? Also,
we will focus on the census. Why it matters economically,
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and it shows at the unemployment rate for black workers
remains the highest among large racial groups attent now that
also decreased from the previous month. Jointed me to break
down the report is BENGA Senior Economists Center for the
American Progress. All right, let's let's get right into it now.
The Trump administration touting this report saying that it was

(32:56):
better and expected. But I was sitting here reading the
reading your Twitter feed and UH and also alle Vail
and others, and it was saying, hold your horses of
these jobs you're touting. We're since his jobs that will
go away next month, right. And so the other thing
you have to focus on is even though it went down,

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we always have to compare it to other groups. And
so you look at you know, this being Beyonce's birthday
of your miss not to talk about black women, and
so focusing on black women, their unemployment rate was for
Hispanic women it was ten point five percent, and for
white women it was seven. But going back to black
women's uneployment rate, their unemployment rate at twelve percent is

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close to what it was for white men at the
peak of this pandemic in April, which was twelve. So
it's one of the things where we're touting a good
unemployment rate, a good jobs number when there's these different
disparities among groups, and that's just not fair. Um. Also,
when you look at this particular report in terms of

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the numbers, UH, you said you had something about um
wages and how we need to study that to understand
the impact as well. Yeah, because when you talk about
getting jobs, we have to look at are the equality
jobs and so we have these disparities in terms of
the low wage labor market, and so Hispanic people, African

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Americans tend to be in low wage jobs, and so
a lot of the jobs that were gained were in
the leisure in hospitality, but these aren't jobs that pay well,
and they're also at the front lines of this pandemic.
So these people are being at risk of catching the coronavirus.
I was reading one story where one economist said that, um,

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we really are about to have a problem after once
we get in September in October, because uh, Congress has
not made any move when it comes to the bucks
were storing the unemployment benefits that if consumer spending drops,
you're going to see, uh, the unemployment number go up

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because businesses are not gonna be able to survive eviction.
We already seeing eviction rates are increasing as well. All
of that's going to have a direct impact of on
the economy. That people aren't spending, they're getting evicting. That
means that businesses are shutting down and not being able
to employ people. They also means that people are not
coming into store shopping, which also means they can't make money,

(35:26):
which means they can't employ people. And that's the frustrating
thing about the what's happening with Congress. We had that
the House pass the Heroes Act and made fifteenth that
was so long ago, but there hasn't been anything done since.
And what what was so frustrating is that providing relief
is what's keeping this economy somewhat afloat, and so for

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some people are doing well, but a lot of people
aren't doing well, and that's why we need to provide relief,
not just you know, to households, but as you mentioned
small businesses. Small businesses have been struggling for six months
and it's a lot to ask them to try to
keep up with that. And then you go to stay
local governments that they need money because they are losing jobs,
they're shedding jobs, and those are people that's money that
could be spent and nothing's happening. That's what the federal

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government needs to step in and provide significant, substantial leaf
And for folks who don't know, those local jobs impact
black people at a higher rate because we are disproportionately
likely to work for public sector, so cities, counties, school
districts in the state. So when they are cutting jobs,
then we are also impacted definitely. And government has always

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been the kind of best place for black middle class
and help do that because of you know, antiserogation laws
and things like that. And so you think about the
post office, you think about all these government jobs and education,
healthcare sector, that this has always been a way for
African Americans to move up and experience up with mobility.
And now we see all these cuts and jobs and
we don't see any relief to help out these state

(36:53):
local governments because they've been harmed. They have lower income
tax revenue from the loss of jobs and loss of businesses,
lower sales tax revenue because people aren't spending and hired
casts from try to tackle the COVID virus. And they
have to have a balanced budget, so they can't just
you know, borrow money or add to that. That's why
the federal government can step in and provide relief for them.
Being astually appreciate the ban. Thank you so very much,

(37:15):
Thank you very much. I'm gonna pan on here, Derek,
start with you again. Team Trump. They for them is
like number went down, number went down. It's all great,
but as always, you have to go behind the numbers.
Uh yeah, those census jobs are important because they provided
twenty of those jobs. If those jobs were not there,

(37:37):
this is not a good jobs report. Agreed. And I
can speak. I can speak to the census because in
two thousand and ten I had a Census contract and
we were tasked with recruiting enumerators are to reach ethnic
populations in thirty two states. In the Obama administration, I
can point to articles that boasted unemployment was down, you

(38:00):
to the hiring of over seven fifty thousand temporary census workers.
That was our world. So this report, like the Obama
administration's report, is inflated by h census numbers. The issue
also add if you do not fill out your senses
for him, they will come knocking on your door, as
they didn't mine a couple of weeks ago. Well, the

(38:21):
issue that that we're talking about here is is just
really how the economy is positioned. We saw we saw
the stock market go down, and let's be real clear,
roight rob. The stock market is not an indicator of
the American economy because more than half of Americans don't
aren't even in aren't even in uh in the stock market. Uh.

(38:41):
And so that's like a whole different fantasy land, all
unto itself. But again, Trump desperately wants to run on
the economy. You're you're talking about You got this report.
Sure you come back with that report that's gonna drop
the first week of October. That's gonna show you show
you those numbers, uh, from the month of September. If

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that report isn't good, the final month of that campaign
is going to be all about the economy. Oh wow,
that's true. But I can never really tell what with
with with with this current the president ocupant of the
White House. He doesn't even deserve to be called president
because he's just so unusual. So I actually think it's
all gonna be about him and if he figures out
a way to do something that moves voters in some way,

(39:26):
which he probably will. So I just think we're gonna
have to just focus, like you have to be lightning
focused on making sure we come out because I don't
think any of his voters are changing their mind. I
don't think anybody like I don't I don't think if
Jesus was running, Mohammed was running, Gandhi, you pick somebody whoever.
Nobody can convert people that are Trump voters and they
are loyal, and they are coming, and they are also

(39:47):
a danger to this democracy. Because he's a danger to
this democracy. So the only way to beat him is
by showing up. And really, I don't really care what
the employment numbers are. I know that if he is
president is going to be worse for us in the
long term, not only for black people, It's gonna be
worse for white people. It will be worse for everyone.
He is a horrible leader, so he needs that. We
need to change. We need to get him out of
that office, no matter what. I don't care what the

(40:08):
numbers are, Like, I know what damage he can do.
I've seen what he did in Charlotte's Ville. Like I
don't have to relive this. Just like myne Angelo said,
when somebody shows you who they are, believing the first
time he showed us ten thousand times. We know who
he is, but the numbers. But the numbers are important
because it's not just a question of flipping his voters.
It does speak to enthusiasm, It speaks to turn out.

(40:31):
We do know that. Look, his people are going to
turn out. I can remember telling Hillary Clinton to her
face sixty days out in two thousand sixteen, major major
enthusism on his side, not on your side. You're gonna
wrap that thing up. And it's the same and the
same thing. Uh, that it's gonna be happening. You know

(40:53):
as well. The reason the economy plays that role because
there are independent voters, there are swing vote there are
people out there who are Democrats, and it's l do
I want to vote maybe not, and so all of
those things. If it comes down to a close election,
several thousand votes will make a difference. And and to

(41:14):
your point, Rolling, I don't think it's an if. I
think it is when it will come down to a
close election, because we have to be fully recognizing and
acknowledging that not only are Donald Trump's voters and the
Trump voters people who are excited and figurated and will
come out no matter how many lives, he tells, we
also have to be extremely real about the fact that
there wasn't a lot of excitement around that Joe Biden
ticket until he announced Kamala Harris as his running mate,

(41:36):
and even with that, there are certain people within you know,
diverse demographics that Democrats need to turn out who are
still on the fence. That's not saying that they're gonna
jump ship and go and vote Republican. I still think
that they're gonna have a hard time getting but it
does mean that should they stay home, which is a
great threat that at the end of the day, this
race could still be won by Donald Trump. What Democrats

(41:58):
need to work on, a need to fully acknowledg it
is that there has to be an excitement around the ticket,
and without that excitement around the ticket, it's going to
be a long road a hold. But in addition to that,
there has to be a what is in it for me?
For these voters because it can't just be and we've
seen this time and time again. Voters knew exactly who
Donald Trump was in twenty sixteen. He's been the same
person his entire public life. They knew who he was

(42:19):
then and it is what it is that hasn't changed.
They know who he is, and at least now they
actually have a background when it comes to how he
will dictate, how he will rule policy wise. They know
who he is because they've seen him in office. That
does not change things for a lot of people. What
they want to hear from Democrats is what is it
that you're going to What have you done for me lately,
What is it you're going to bring to the table.

(42:40):
What are the policies that you have lined up that
are going to change the lives for black people? For
black men. Black men specifically want to know what are
those policies going to be to help me? And it
isn't a you know, we've designed the policy and it
lifts all votes, because there have been several Democratic policies
designed over decades that have not lifted the African American mail.
So I would argue that in order for Democrats to

(43:01):
win within these margins, there has to be attention paid
specifically to these segmented groups, and to ignore black men
and what black men are asking for right now would
be to the peril of the party and to the
peril of the Biden Hears team. One of the issues
that the Trump people are totally have been pushing back
for twenty four hours is this story in the Atlantic
that deals with uh negative things that he had to

(43:22):
say cause cause calling veterans losers, man, He's folks have
been pushing back hard. Donald Trump even tweeted, I never
called John mcannon loser. Yeah, actually you did. The folks
of the Lincoln Project and vote vets immediately dropped these
ads today. In Molnody. During the Second World War, the

(44:39):
Nazis executed prisoners of war by machine gun, leaving them
lying in the snow. In the Pacific are captured flyboys
were beheaded by Japanese soldiers, some of whom even practiced
cannibalism on their still warm bodies. In Korea along the
frozen Yalu, their fate was to die of starvation and

(44:59):
frost bite. In Vietnam, they were roughly bound arms behind
their backs until their shoulders dislocated. Again and again and again.
They've been dragged from the burning remnants of downed helicopters
and hum vys in a rock. And they fought their
last bullet on Afghanistan mountains before being murdered by radical jihadis.

(45:20):
And yet the war hero, presume was captured. I like
people that weren't captured. Okay, No, Donald, You're wrong. They
are heroes because they were captured. I thought we'd forgotten

(45:46):
My stepson was not a loser. My son is not
a loser. My son Matthew is not a loser. My
stepson was not a sucker. Lance Corporal Alexander Scott Aridondo
died in chopping Around in two thousand and four. My son,
Sergeant James Anthony A. You the Second, gave his life

(46:06):
in Canadahar, Afghanistan in two thousand at ten imo honorably
serve his country. That's something Donald Trump will never know.
That's something that Donald Trump will never understand. My message
to Donald Trump is this, you have no right being

(46:27):
a commander in chief. Derren. The White House has been
furious with the Atlantic for this report, calling the lie.
Donald Trump said that uh that he even though he
said he had disagreements with sinner John McCain, he approved

(46:50):
all of these different things for him to have uh
playing flow military funeral. You have the former chief of
staff of the Department holand Security say it that when
they when they order flags to be lord have have
uh have masked and have staff. Trump got piste off
and they called and said he didn't that he that
he didn't like it. He had to be browdbeaten to

(47:10):
lord the flag at the White House after Senator John
McCain died. Also, I'm reading the story here. Uh. A
Fox News correspondent has talked to two people who were
on the trip with Trump who confirmed key details of
the Atlantic story. A Fox News correspondent, this is one
of those stories that you know, again, uh, for a

(47:33):
segment of the people. A lot of people may say, oh,
there's no big deal, But for military families, this is
a huge story for some land Because while I do know,
and I think it's uh, I don't think it's any
news that the President had a little beef with John McCain,
I think that that's that's old news. But I got

(47:54):
a problem with this story. One that it took place
in two thousand eighteen. In addition to that, I did
deeper before I came on your show, just to look
at what happened with this thing. And so there's a
report that came out. Another article that came out per
John ambassaelor John Bolton's book, who talked about the reason
why that trip was canceled at the cemetery. This was

(48:17):
an excerpt from his book. The Marine one's crew was
saying that visibility could not would make it imprudent for
the chopper to land in the cemetery in quote. Bowlder
later wrote, it was straightforward decision to cancel the visit,
but it was very hard for marine, for marine like
Kelly to recommend, having originally suggested this trip. So the
weather was bad and that's the reason why it was canceled,

(48:39):
not because he called it was saying whatever he said
about the troop. The other world leaders happened to make
it there. Yeah. I mean, look, this is not hard.
We know who Donald Trump is. He said he said
this stuff before. Is anybody surprised that he's narcissistic, that
he doesn't care about anything else but himself. I do
think it. I don't know how much of an effect

(49:00):
it'll have, just because I just don't. I don't know
what what Donald Trump could do to show you, to
show you anything more, Like we know who he is.
And I think to some people's mind, they've just tuned
this out and they could just take the shortcut. In
their mind, well it's fake news. They did something too.
We know that's not true, but there are people, and
there is a good amount that believe that. That's why
we have to beat them at the polls. And again
it can't just in Democrats. We need the Democratic leadership

(49:22):
to also present a vision because it's not just about them.
We gotta make sure we get past this guy. But yeah,
I mean we know who he is. This story is
not surprising, is consistent with the character of Donald Trump,
which he has no character. He doesn't care about anything
other than himself. He would throw his own mother in
front of a bus if it could make him look better.
And and even his own sister said that, and not

(49:45):
just the one not as Mary Trump, but the other sister,
because she was recorded saying it. He said he had
She said he has no principles, no convictions, no morals.
I mean, it's just you watch him. He'll change at
any moment. I mean, I think Derek knows and I
know his position. But look, if you have to depend
on Donald Trump to do anything for you, you you wouldn't
want to do that. You know that he would switch

(50:07):
on you at any moment. Just look at everybody who's
been associated with Donald Trump. Most of them end up
in jail or on the outs. Just look at it.
Record speaks for itself, Derek, I mean, I'm not getting
into that. Translation hold on translation hand line, translation hand line. No,

(50:31):
that's not the translation. That's just that everything that you
said that, everything that you said, Rob is your opinion.
And again a couple of weeks ago, this is an
opinion show, and there are millions of Americans who don't
agree with you in your opinion, who actually agree with what. So, Derek,
does Donald Trump have any principles? Then the dot? Does

(50:57):
Donal Trump have any morals? He has his any values?
I think we're go and roll you in the Concussion
Protocol program because you lost your mind. Yeah, yeah, because
because you damn show need to be in it all. Yeah.
Michael Bloomberg announced here now now I am my opi
and has fact announcing his philanthropic organization is giving a
hundred million dollars the four historically black black medical schools.

(51:20):
The four black institutions receiving the donations are Charles R.
Drew University of Science and Medicine. Of course, that's uh.
Then we have Howard University College of Medicine, Harry Medical College,
and Morehouse School of Medicine. This is the biggest donation
by a single donor that universities have ever received. Michael
Bloomberg is a billionaire and the former Mayor of New
York City. Bloomberg's philanthropic effort is meant to address these

(51:44):
systemic economic inequality in equity that Black Americans face. Also, folks, um,
we want to talk about this story. This is weird
out of Portsmith, Virginia, Okay. A Portsmith police chief Angela
Green Assistant was recently removed from her position and placed
on paid administrative lead. This comes weeks after she had
announced fell any charges against State Senator Luis Lucas and

(52:07):
other prominent black community leaders in relation to their participation
in a Confederate monument protest. And it's not immediately clear
on whether Green's removal it's permanent. Uh. Rob, the thing
down there, I've never seen the nonsense you see was
down there where you have a cop who was critical

(52:29):
of these African Americans. This cop leads the charge this
file against them. Uh and and and these for attacking
a statue. I mean, it's this whole story has just
been strange and African. We've had in African American we've
had on the show. They said, this is what happens
when you have a city that is becoming more more

(52:49):
majority black, and the black folks they're are getting power,
but the police chief is black. It's it's the it's
the strangest thing I got. I don't know what to
tell you. I got nothing for it. I mean really
commonly said, I don't know what the hell is going
on there. They need to get it together because it
doesn't look good. So like, I don't, I'm not gonna
say has anything to do with black people getting power.
It is those people there. They need to figure out

(53:11):
how to work together better and not and not embarrass
themselves because this is this just looks silly. I don't
I don't really have anything else saying. I mean, I
don't know. Uh yeah, it's just it's it's just real crazy.
What's been happening there from Terpeake, from chesterpea next door
neighboring city to Portsmouth. And my sister is actually a
school teacher in Portsmouth right now. Um Portsmouth, man, it's

(53:32):
it's been oppressed for years. We call a p town,
and it's it's just sad for black people in that city.
But I was reading an article further into it, obviously
because where I'm from, and apparently the charges what happened
was when this protest happened back in in June. To
understand June, back in June, when they pulled one of

(53:52):
the statues over, it's seriously injured, almost killed a brother,
forty six year old Doe, And so that caused a
state investigation into what happened. And according to this article
I read this, now, it looks like those charges are
not coming from the police chief but from the state,
from the state police. Right. But but well, but the

(54:15):
problem is they went to a magistrate to actually get
the charges. And then what's crazy is they claimed that
the district attorney could be a potential witness when she
wasn't even there, and so they're trying to they're trying
to get her removed. And so now a special judge
from outside of Portsmouth is gonna be the one to

(54:35):
hear the case because of the issue of this belief
that the magistrate there. Virginia also has this weird rule
where anybody, any citizen could literally file charges against a
public officials. It's the it's the strangest thing that's happening
right there. So common there you go, folks. Uh one
of the original slave states. Uh. You got California police

(54:58):
officer who fairly shot black man inside of Walmart has
been charged with voluntary manslaughter. Stephen Taylor was thirty or
three years old. I mean the County distric Attorney Nancy
O'Malley's head if Taylor did not pose an immediate threat
to the officer or anyone in the story when he
was shot to death. The police were called to respond
to an alleged shotlifter holding a baseball bat inside of Walmart.

(55:21):
Taylor had been stopped by store security when he tried
to leave without paying for the bat and a tent.
The deadly encounter lasted forty seconds. Uh. The first of all,
the fact, Derek, that a cop is being actually charged
is actually shocking and stunning. Uh. And that that in
itselfish news. Yeah, it is um that he has been charged.

(55:43):
But I look at that video, man, And you know,
a couple of weeks ago, we were talking about your show,
on the show about defund the police versus police reform,
and we talked about how, you know, in certain cases,
perhaps a mental health officer could go out and could
diffuse the situation. But in this particular case, where there
was the need for a mental health officer, I don't

(56:03):
think that it would have played a role. In diffusing
the situation because this police officer, for whatever reason, roll
he had this dude had the bad out and you
can clearly see that this brother had some issues. I
mean you could just see it, and he was not
a threat to anyone in the story. Had him back
in the corner and for the pull the trigger like that,
and you heard people like you said in the video
saying no, put it down, put it down. It was

(56:24):
a senseless shooting, and he shouldn't be charged for it,
all right, he absolutely should be. It's similar to a
case we had here in Cincinnati, Lorenzo Tate I believe
was the brother's name, who had some mental issues. He
had a break in his hands, surrounded by police, and
some police officers shot him and killed him. Like we
have to, like police officers have, there has to be
a reform of the culture. Like defund the police is

(56:45):
not the right thing, but reform the culture is because
the problem is we have the bad officers are not
being penalized, and in fact, they're even being encouraged and
protected by the majority or the institution. So uh yeah,
knew that that the officer got charged, but it's unfortunately
not knew that another, another black man that was not

(57:06):
a threat was killed. Like, there are ways to do
to to to to to actually de escalate situations without
killing people. Like your first situation, your first response shouldn't
be to kill, as an officer, should be to figure
out how to de escalate and remove people peacefully. But
we have officers that are fearful of the people that
they are serving, and they shouldn't be police officers. It's

(57:26):
really that simple, absolutely, And so uh, folks, uh again,
interesting news story there, all right, folks, Uh, Rob tell
us about this disruption the summit you're hosting. Yeah, so
we have we're bringing really black and brown entrepreneurs all
across the country together. People can go to d N
Summit dot com. But no, we're gonna have people like

(57:48):
don Dixon on was the first black woman to raise
two point three million dollars in crowd investing enrolling. Why
that's important is because venture capital funding is not funding
black people. One percent of ventual capital funds goes towards
black people for black women is point zero zero six percent,
so about zero. So you know, Don Dixon had to

(58:08):
find other way. So she raised to two point three
million dollars kind of like you have had to democratize
your platform. You know, after you left CNN, people told
you this wouldn't work. Now we can find new ways
to fundraise and we don't have to be we don't
have to we don't have to go to bank institution.
So you're gonna learn people that have done that. You're
gonna learn from other folks like uh Travis Holloway who
started Solo funds another brother and then they've given out

(58:31):
about twenty million dollars in loans. And why this is
important rolling is because they are disrupting payday loans, which
which are really predatory towards our community. You know, if
you need a loan, you need to get that money
that that that percentage, that percentage rate is like two
three at this At this place, you have a peer
to peer lending, So you have lenders and borrowers. They
come together and they never have any terms that are

(58:52):
over ten percent. And it's allowing more investors. So there
are more African American investors that are making money and
borrowers are getting money that needed without having to give
up two three four. So we're gonna have like ten
or eleven speakers and people will be able to connect.
We'll have Google there and some mother of sponsors that
will and people will actually got a few jobs and
get hired. So we want people to come out and
learn about it. All right, I was trying to appreciate it.

(59:14):
Rob and Darry, thank you so very much. Alright FULCI
today the second anniversary of rolland Martin Unfiltered. And of course,
so we're gonna continue the show talking about the United
States Census, and but before we do that, I want
to play this video here, uh Keenan White Um of course,
HANDLD Digital for us put this video together, uh, to
celebrate the second anniversary of Roland Martin Unfiltered. And I

(59:38):
want you all to check it out. Got longevity, brother,
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being such a conscientious witness for so much of the
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That he requires a proper deconstruction. You're mongering that has
gone on around this virus have been used to shield
a lot of the kind of actions that you've been
talking about. Our entire political and personal existence. Something has
to be done there and their in their defense. Undea,
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the only one gonna save us is us and the
people are gonna have to look out for one another
and take care of one another. And this time of need,
Rolling been putting in work. You know, have you since
he even popping on TV telling us what it is.
The Republican Party today has a problem with Black people
and get into the vote for them, but even appealing
to them, Roland, this is one of those moments where

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the people deserve their government to work. What I'm saying
the vote, and what you're saying is have an agenda,
Push on that agenda, turn out and then let no.
You're making a commitment both at the post and beyond
the post. We are the ones that you need on
the inside and along your side as you're trying to
go and be the president. I mean, you can't win

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your company and and you and talk with you for
a long time that we got to do this, and
God blessed Listen. I'm a big fan, bro. I love
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feel that out because it has a direct impact on
the dollars that flow to our community. Data collections started
in April, uh, and of course it goes through the
end of September. Join me right now is Congresswoman Yvette
Clark uh CBC since his task force member, uh from
New York Congresswoman. Glad to have you back on the show.
Good to be back with you, and happy anniversary. Roll

(01:05:13):
and i'd have realized it's two years already two years today.
Well it's been Yeah, it's been absolutely great, and you know,
it's it's really interesting. A lot of people UH doubted
and they said, oh no, I don't know, why are
you doing this. Uh, this thing is not gonna succeed uh.
And of course I had to laugh at that because
a man, Keenan sent me this yere. In the first

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fifteen months of this show, UH, we did uh sixty
seven million views on YouTube, sixty five million on Facebook,
six million on Periscope as the first fifteen months. The
last eight months we've done eighty one million on YouTube,
eighty two million on the Facebook, a million on periscope,
and so we have done far more in the last

(01:05:55):
eight months in the first fifteen months. And so I
keep telling Black folks want to see news and information,
They want a place that speaks to them. That's what
we've grown and that's why we're focusing on the census,
because we're speaking to our audience to make sure that
we we get counted. What have you, uh, what are
you seeing? What are you hearing in terms of what's

(01:06:17):
happening our communities on this very issue. Yeah, I I
really believe that our folks don't realize the power of
the census and the power in the census, and it's
up to us to really get that word out. I
think the pandemic has really thrown our communities for a loop.
And of course, with all of the propaganda and the

(01:06:37):
aggressive tactics being utilized by Donald Trump to suppress uh
the response rate in our communities, we have got to
do everything we can to work over time to get
our people to fill out the twenty census. It's there's
so much power involved, and the idea is to render

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us powerless, render us resource list, render us representative represented
lists right, because at the end of the day, if
we don't fill out the senses, we are essentially saying
we're not here. And when we say we're not here,
then there's no need for you to have representation in
the United States House of Representatives, which is how the

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seats of the House of Representatives are drawing based on
the response rates uh to the centers, there's no need
to put a classroom seat in that classroom for your
child because you said you weren't here, and therefore there's
no need to have a classroom. See, there's no need
to have a bed in that hospital doing a pandemic

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because what you said, you weren't here. There is power,
and what our folks need to realize is that there
is a whole concerted effort out there to diminish power. Power,
whether it's the power of the vote or the power
of representation. And you don't have to be a US

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citizen in order to fill out the census. You just
have to be present in the United States of America
uh on on April back in April, in order for
our communities to get the resources we need that will
last us over this entire decade. So if we don't
write the census now by twenty thirty, we will have

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lost a lot of ground in our community. Let's stay
on that whole deal of money. Money, money, I mean, look,
at the end of the day, that's the census is
really about money that is flowing back to communities for
various needs. Uh. And so we kept even pushing that
so our folks can understand when you want to see
things change in your community, when you want to see improvements,

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when you want to see resources coming back. The federal
government the first thing they do is look at the
census track to determine media average income, to determine ed
occasional income, health, health outcomes. All of those things are
determined based upon our census tracks in America, absolutely, and
there's a formula that provides funding as of right that

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that that that gets distributed within the United States of America.
So when certain communities don't fill out the census yet
other communities do do, those resources get shifted to the
areas where the census was filled out, where the census
numbers indicate that people are resident and as of right

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get those resources. So I'm really encouraging our people that
we you know we talk about black lives matter, then
we've got to help ourselves and we gotta demonstrate that
our lives matter, and we do that by filling out
the cents. Our communities have happened to be targeted as
the hard to count communities, and this has been historically,

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so when you think about the challenges that we have
faced in twenty in we didn't do our job in
filling out the census. So what hospitals are closed, right,
Rural hospitals are closed. Our public health infrastructure was deconstructed.
Why because we said we weren't here and guess what,

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we were hit with a once in a century pandemic
and totally unprepared to take care of our people as
a result of that. Let's not make that mistake again.
Let's use our power. Let's get those resources into those classrooms,
into those hospitals, and paving that road and building out

(01:10:41):
the infrastructure. We're gonna need for broadband to be expanded,
whether it's in our urban communities or our rural communities.
If we do that. When we do that, now, we're
demanding the respect that we deserve as us, as residents
of the United States of America. We can't cry about
being disrespected when we don't use the tools at our

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disposal that demand that respect and filling out the cents is.
You can go to centses dot gov, answer ten questions
and you will be empowering our communities. You will be
empowering the movement that we have right now for dignity
and human respect. And you know, I heard the brother

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in the last segment talk about the debate around defund
the police. Well, you know what, if we get the
resources we need, then we can look at all of
the other strategies that need to be put in place,
not only to hold police accountable, but to make sure
we have those mental health professionals in our communities, make
sure that we have uh those first responders that are

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social workers in our community to help us navigate what
has been to neglect, the discrimination and the bias that
has left us in conditions where the police have been
asked to be the end all to be or for
all of the challenges we face in our communities. It's
horrible when you have someone respond to distress in our

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community and they harbor ill will and end up harming, killing,
maimie someone in our community. If we get the resources
we can make the difference. Last question for you as
a member, as a member of Congress, when you're going
back talking with your constituents and you're trying to share

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with them, uh, do you pull that census those sensus
tracks out and saying, Okay, you're saying this here, but uh,
this was a return rate in this particular area right
here had had this area turn feel that feel that
form out. This is really how this this this track,
this district could have been altered and changed as a

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result of that particular formula. Because again because because because
the average person just doesn't doesn't know, people don't understand
how all these pieces these things are sort of put
together absolutely rolling. What I use because I've living in
Brooklyn and we're seeing the same thing in d C. Gentrification.
And what I tell people is, don't cry to me

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about the fact that you can't afford these apartments in
the community, because ten years ago you said you weren't here,
and the people who didn't respond made more money than
you do. And so they are using that data to
develop within black communities. But because we under respond to uh,

(01:13:40):
to the census, our data, our income, what we uh
what what what how we live is not within the
calculations of developers. I mean, that's one element of it.
But we have to demonstrate our presence, and we do
that by filling out the twenties, any sense, all right?

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Comments on Clark, Well, will appreciate it. Thanks a lot,
Thank you, rolling and much continued success, my brother, many
more years for you. Appreciate it, Thank you very much.
I certainly appreciate it. Folks got to go to break.
We come back more on our focus on the senses
right here on Roland Martin unfiltered. Each of us is

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so precious to God that he takes the time to
count us every ten years. The Census counts everyone in
the United States. Being counted in the census will shape
your future and the future of every community across our
nation for years to come. Participation in the census is

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all right, and the CID responsibility for both citizen and
non citizen. I'm going to participate in the census because
we must be counted. We are fought for the right
to be counted, and we must still for the right

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to be count Listen, I have a strong conviction that
every one of us deserves to be counted, that we
have equal opportunities at roads, at hospitals, at financial reimbursement,
in the areas that will enhance our schools, develop our children,
and move forward our agenda. None of that can happen

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if you don't register for this year's twenty Census. I
want you to avoid the setup to not be counted,
and in order to do that, you must just take
a few minutes to be disciplined and fill out the Census.
It can be life changing. It's bigger than you. It's
about your children, it's about your neighbors, It's about us

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as a people. Do it and watch how things begin
to change. The Census is more than and just account
As a person created in the image of God, you matter.
Your participation in the Census will determine how nearly eight
hundred billion dollars in federal funds are used to help us,

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our family and neighbors during times of need. The Census
helps us hold our government accountable. Census information is used
to make sure we are equally represented in Congress and
in state and local elections. Completing the Census, you are
raising your hand and adding your voice to America's voice.

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Don't let fear or false information prevent you from completing
the Census. The Census is private and confidential and can
I be shared with any other person or government agency.
Faith leaders will partner with legal experts to ensure against

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any misuse of your data. There are three ways to
respond to the Census online, by phone, or by mail.
Completing your survey takes ten minutes. If you don't respond,
census takers will visit your home to ensure everyone is counted.
For more information, visit www dot Census dot gov. We

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know the power we have. Let's use that power by
being faithful agents to bring into being a society that
ensures a more prosperous, secured, and stable America that makes
room for all. So a for the first response and
be counted. Joining us right now is Kendall Johnson names

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that contractor or Census Integrated Communications at the United States
Census Bureau. Kindle, how you doing? I'm fine? Thank you?
How are you doing great? Uh? We of course we
talked last week. Where do we stand now? What are
we looking like? Where the areas that we need to
be focused on? So, first of all, I want to

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thank you for the opportunity um to be on the
show and to talk about the census. Uh, and I
want to congratulate you on two years um, great accomplishment. Uh.
We are currently as an as a nation, we are
a little over, but we recognize that even though that
is a national uh figure that there are areas of

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the country where we've got residents that are considered hard
to count or um resistant to participating in the census.
And because of that, we are just you know, in
spite of that, actually we are going out of our
way to make sure that we are in those communities
and that we are doing everything we can to make

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sure people in those communities count. So and what we're
all sort of seeing, I mean, so first of all,
what people have to understand, So the or government hires
these census workers to go out knocked duing the door.
And then what's happening on the digital side as well,
but the world the state's play. I was just go
to my iPad, folks, I was seeing this story here, Uh,
vote vote Latino had put this story out, uh, showing

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and again putting into effect with people. You understand where
they they said, if this was a quote from this
story in the Texas Tribune, if enough Texas are missed
in the count it would jeopardize the three additional seats
in Congress the state was expected to gain after this census.
And so now Texas is launching a fifteen million dollar

(01:19:38):
ad campaign to get folks to fill out and so
so again. So depending upoint where you live, your state
could pick up members of Congress uh as and then
uh and if there's a population drop, your state could
lose seats as well. But the citizens determines all of
these type of things. That speaks derecative representation in Congress.

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You are absolutely correct. Um. You know, my colleague was
on your show last week and and I'll reiterate what
he said. The census is about power, and it's about money.
It's about our representation. Um. It determines how over four
hundred and thirty five seats in the House of Representations
sentatives are allocated based on the census data. But it
also determines how money any any order, any program that

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relies on federal funds, those funds are allocated based upon
census data. And um, you know, we talk about how
you know, sometimes we say over six hundred and seventy billion,
others say one point five trillion. The average person can't
even fathom what those numbers mean. You know, some of
us are just happy to see a dollar, hundred dollars,

(01:20:45):
a thousand dollars. So you know, when we're talking about
that and we're talking to communities that just don't ever
understand or we'll never see that kind of money, we
have to change the narrative and we have to talk
about the services that this affects. Um. You know, we
we talk about how, oh, my my response won't matter. Yes,
your response does matter. Every single response matters. And we

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can't be apathetic, we can't be lazy. We can't sit
back on our heels and say it's not a big deal.
It is a big deal. It's a foundation for things
that will matter for the next ten years. Um. You
talk about that, but that that particular account. Obviously, we
know that there are hard uh to reach folks, and
so uh the cow ends exactly when it ends. Uh, Well,

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we will. We're hoping to be out of the field.
Our goal is to be out of the field at
the end of September. September, but we will continue to
do what we can to ensure that we've counted every
person once. And I do want to say that while
our enumerators are out in the field. Um, you know,
they're knocking on doors. Most people don't want you knocking
on the doors. I know, if I don't know you,
I don't let you in my house. I'm not even

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gonna open the door. I don't even look out the window. Um.
But if you don't respond, then they are enumerators within.
Go to your neighbor's houses and they'll ask your neighbors
about you. They just want to get the information on
the household. But if you think about it, most of
us don't really know our neighbors anymore. We don't we
don't communicate with them. We don't, um, we don't socialize

(01:22:13):
with them. So if you're relying on your neighbor to
tell the Census Bureau about your household, you already know
the likelihood of accuracy is significantly diminished. So this is
the opportunity for you to tell us who you are.
A self response is always the best response. And yes,

(01:22:33):
it's annoying when people knock on your door and they
ask you questions. They always catch you when you're getting
out the shower, when you can't sit down to eat.
We're trying to catch you when you're home, and it's difficult,
but it only takes about ten minutes. You know, if
you know, if you have you know, three or four
people in your house, it doesn't take long at all.
But you can also and if they if they don't
knock on your door, if you don't want to talk

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to them, just answer the door. The enumerator will give
you a form that has a code on it and
you can go online dot gov into that code and
complete your form. It's just that simple um And it's
critical that we count everybody. You know, Uh, Congress Moaney
Clark just made so many great points, and I want
to tell you it's difficult following her on the program.

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You know, it's pretty much stolen on my thunder. But
in the in the end, it's important that we count
because if we don't tell any if we don't tell
the census brow that we're here, they don't see us.
The government doesn't see us when they allocate those funds.
We our numbers are not included in those allocations. And
you know, it's not just about what we might gain

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in the future, it's about keeping what we already have.
Absolutely Canda, we certainly appreciate it. Thank us so very
much for joining us. Thank you, it's been my pleasure.
And again, congratulations on two years. Thank you so very much.
Are folks joining us right now? Dr WILLIAMS. Briggs is
the economist with the A f l C. I own
also Howard University, Doctor Spriggs. Always glad to have you here.

(01:23:57):
You the money guy, you study all this money stuff.
Break this thing down for us. Uh. Somebody watching us
right now going, oh man, y'all keep talking about this thing,
but I don't see it. I don't really think that
this is gonna matter whether I feel it out or not.
You say what? First off, congratulations, since I remember you're

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a struggle to make sure we were going to make
sure we still had a news program, and we're all
grateful that there's still a news program because otherwise we
couldn't get this word out. This is the only show
that's gonna be dedicated to telling black people to do this. Uh.
There are a couple of programs that we've talked about

(01:24:38):
UM that are targeted based on what the census knows
about a community. So there are small businesses that aren't
located in what are called hub zones, and that's designed
to encourage people to start businesses and underserved communities, and
they get certain preferences for federal a curement. But if

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you're not counted and they misrepresent your neighborhood, then your
neighborhood doesn't get that designation. We talked about opportunity zones,
there's new market initiatives, there are a number of ways
in which we try and target the recovery of areas.
But if you're not counted, then we don't have an

(01:25:22):
accurate picture. So it's necessary that people get counted. You
pulled out the map on the opportunity zones the last
time I was on and you said, what, how does
this area be an opportunity zone. It's based on census data,
and so that map didn't look like us. I mean,
you know, first blush when you look at the numbers.

(01:25:43):
But if we don't participate, we don't get counted. Was
really important for people to understand, though, especially in this
time of COVID and people being evicted and finding a
hard time to find a home. Is if your niece
got evicted and she's sleeping on your coach and her
baby is upstairs in your spare bedroom, she counts now.

(01:26:08):
I know you want to say where. She didn't live here,
she didn't live anywhere else. She got evicted, so you
have to account her. The reason we get undercounted is
because of our low income and the fact that we
often get evicted, and we're often going from place to place.
We don't always have a permanent address. We get missed.

(01:26:30):
If someone is staying with you, you must count them.
That's how we get undercounted. And remember what you were
told in a couple of these spots. It's confidential information.
It cannot be shared between any federal agency, especially any

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law force agency. So if you know somebody who's trying
to hide they still count, don't don't say they. I don't.
No one is asking if you fill out the form,
no one is asking you. Bill. Just put down the

(01:27:11):
name and count them. Bill. I covered. I covered city
hall and county government. Um. And I can't even tell
you how many times doing that. When something will come
up and I will hear it, sense it, since and
since since, and sense and sentence. In politics, in health,
in economics, anything that's dealing with the federal government and

(01:27:35):
the allocation of dollars money being requested, that's the data
they look at there's no other data you can you
can have, you know, independent studies done by this university
of that university. But for the most part, this is
considered the most established, trusted data on anything happening in

(01:27:58):
that particular census tract. Absolutely, it's the only one that's reliable.
The others are based on samples. They use telephones. Everybody
didn't have a telephone. They use the internet. Everybody doesn't
have the Internet. You can't rely on the corrections that
they try to do to mimic the census. The census

(01:28:21):
is the census. It is the accurate count as long
as we fill out the form and count everybody in
our household. And again it is so important. Don't say
that this person doesn't live here when you know they're
sleeping there. Put them down. That's how we get undercounted.
And most importantly, in the coming election, everybody argues about

(01:28:44):
the Electoral College. The Electoral College assigns the number of
votes per state based on how many members of the
House of Representatives they have. It's two votes, one for
each senator and one for each member in the House.
When you worry, why does Wyoming get all these roots?

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Why does Oklahoma if you don't get counted, they get
more members of the House of Representatives than they should
that multiplies their voice or who gets to be president.
You're giving up your leverage when you don't count all right,
Bill Spricks, Economist Howard University Man. I certuly appreciate it.

(01:29:28):
Thank us so very much, and thank you always for
being for being here for us on rolland Martin Unfilter
anytime we've gotta talk about economics and numbers and JOT reports.
It's always great to be able to call on you
and break this thing down. And thanks so much for
being here. Without this show again, no one would be
hearing why we need to be killing and we need
to be all right, Bill, thanks so much. I appreciate it.
All Right, folks, gotta go to a break. When we

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come back, we'll talk about with the Black Church, the
CP and efforts targeting black men are being undertaken. When
it comes to the US Census. We'll be back on
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at the barber. Skinner joins us right now. Of course
she is very much involved in what's happening with the
church community all across this country, specifically African Americans. That
the skin always glad to have you here, and so
the all congrats. Without your voice for us, they wouldn't

(01:31:20):
even know we existed on national television unless we get shot.
There's no Black community. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I appreciate it, really appreciate that we showed a video
a little bit earlier. Number of pastoral leaders UH focused
on telling folks the importance of this what is the
Black church doing UH to make sure that we are

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counted girl, and we are in so many pandemics. Please
COVID election systemic racism. It's just to get people to
focus on the census. We started almost a year ago
and they looked at us like we were crazy. It's
takes a while, but now the black urges that got

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the videos that showing through the virtual church there. We're
doing town halls within a CP Urban League natural Coalition
of Black Civic Participation to bind nine black men. So
we're doing this together. We're doing webinars black churches, for example,
that are in the rural area, and we were able
to get a grant from Verizon to get iPads out

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to the rural areas in Ohio and Alabama, in North
Carolina because they didn't even have internet. So we're able
to get that where black people, let's say, took their
went to pick up the school lunch for their kids
during COVID. That's when some of the of our people
took those census iPad, took those iPads out there and

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got those women to fill out the census with for
them and their family. Most a lot of black people
didn't even know why it was important. So the reason
the church was so important is because they have trusted voices.
That's why did the video. That's where we got T. D.
Jakes and so many others involved. Um Black Church is

(01:33:06):
still doing that before the service, after service, while they're
doing the announcements. We're still sticking at it. We're doing
social media, getting younger churches involved as well. I think
people do not realize what you just said earlier. Census
is about money and power, and if you aren't counted,
you do not count. And that's why the trusted voices

(01:33:27):
are so critical right now. The enumerators are not being
let in. Right right now, we are so far behind
where we were. We thought we were behind before with
Black undercount. It could double because of COVID, because of
people in so many crisis right now, so we have

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three weeks to go. I would say, anybody right now
who's listening, if they could just go online to the
Census dot gov. That takes seven eight minutes, less time
than to watch two commercials, but it would make all
the difference in the world. We're told by the Disaster
Aid people, the people at FEMA, when your city is

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in disaster, they send the amount of money they on
the senses you said it so wonderfully. If you don't
know why you're not getting school lunch, health programs, housing, whatever,
it's because you weren't counted. So getting black people to
realize this is in our hand, this is nobody else.

(01:34:36):
That's why we did the tool Kid, That's why we're
still sending out social media, and I think black churches
all over are going way beyond the Black church is
doing what the Black church has always done rolland that's
stepping in the gap. Even though they've gone virtual, they
still are doing the job to get that word out.
And we're trying to escalate over the next three weeks
to say, yes, we got a problem with the election,

(01:34:59):
Yes we got to get people out to vote, but
right now we've got three weeks. We got nine weeks
with for the election, we got three weeks to get counted.
So um, thank you for getting this message out to us.
Right now. We have churches all over now just sharing
information and we're doing more of doing a town hall

(01:35:19):
next week, We're doing a one week after that, and
doing a webinar after that and try to get this
word out. Of course, there are people who are listening
to this audio podcast, which is available on the I
Heart UM Radio, I Heart Media app, and folks, that
number is eight four four three three zero eight four
four three zero twenties. So you don't want to if

(01:35:41):
you don't want to wait for somebody to come by
your house, you don't want to feel out online, pick
the phone up. You can do it right now. Eight
four four three three zero two zero to zero. And
so there are multiple ways, Barbara, that people can be
connected to being sure that they are counted. And I
would also we talk about churches would also be encouraging people.

(01:36:01):
They should be checking with their family members, texting them
on the social media saying, hey, have you been have
you have you feel it out? It's simple. I sent
it to my family members and some of them hadn't
gotten counted. But you know, we also sent in the
two kid. People don't realize how much their state lost,
so we did this too, kid, and it showed like

(01:36:22):
Alabama loss what forty million dollars in Georgia, uh, seventy
million dollars. That's a school, that's a teacher, that's a
daycare center. So once they saw the relationship between what
their city lost and they're they're one count Everybody counts
babies are not being counted. That's the biggest Black men

(01:36:44):
eighteen to thirty five and children under six are the hardest.
People will count the family and miss the babies. They've
got to count. Anybody breathing in the house has got
to be counted. That's when we're telling people. If you're
in the house, you don't have another address, you have
to be counted. We have time to catch up, but
we we have very little time. Thank you so much,

(01:37:06):
Dan forgetting this word out. Is about money, it's about
power and though some the seats in Congress could be lost,
including from our congressional Black Pocus, if we don't step
it up. I will tell you the Black Church is
stepping it up. And I'm so proud to be part
of that campaign. All right then, uh, Dr Barbara Skinner

(01:37:26):
of course, uh the co convener of the National African
American Clergy Networking CEO of the Skinner Leadership Institute and
Soul appreciate it. Thanks a bunch, Thank you. All right, folks,
got gotta go to a break. We come back. We'll
talk with the a c P as well as Ed Reid,
who is working with to count men black men. That
is next on Roland Martin Unfiltered. All right, So a

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than two thousand branchets all across the country and they
are activating all of their branches when it comes to
the United States Census. Jamal Watkins as Vice president for
Civic Engagement for the n double a c P. Jamal,
there are obviously numerous UH civil rights groups who are
engaged in this. How are you directing your branches to

(01:40:20):
ensure that we are counted well? I would say, first
and foremost, brother Roland's good to see you. I like
your shirt. As a member of Alpha Phi, Alpha has
twenty one years in it um. In terms of the
n A c P, you know we are volunteer driven,
volunteer lad and in this moment of COVID nineteen, I

(01:40:41):
heard doctor William Skinner lift up the importance of the census.
Our members have been doubling down on literally driving the
message on social media through old school phone trees, through
old school lit drops, anyway that they can get the
message out about completing the census and filling it out.
They have been doing the irony in this moment, and

(01:41:04):
we've had these conversations over the last couple of years.
Is that when you think about the notion of not
wanting everyone to get counted, especially if you're a politician
and elected leader, that doesn't make sense because it's about
money and resources coming into your community. But we realize
that age old racism, discrimination and all types of foolishness

(01:41:25):
have kept the other side trying to keep us in
our communities from being fully counted. So our members on
the ground have been using every tool and tactic possible
that socially distanced and CDC compliant to make sure that
they're getting the word out. Uh and so um that's
being done. How I mean, obviously COVID impacts this thing

(01:41:47):
in a very different way. So the show people are
afraid to go door door, even open their doors. So
how y'all getting over that hurdle? So we actually did
a sort of right sizing around our digital program and
decided that we had to beef up our digital ads
are social media presence running ads, and our partners such

(01:42:09):
as BS and TLC and others actually gifted us free
p s A spaces to promote the census. So because
of that, we are able to actually magnify the message,
which then allows for our volunteers to take you know,
videos that we produce and share them with their network,
to take information from our webs website, share it with

(01:42:31):
their network, and really promote the narrative and notion that
the census matters that you have to be counted, that
all folks, whether you you know, living, breathing, you know, young, old, documented, undocumented,
have to be counted because it's necessary in terms of
the funding and the representation that comes along with it.
So we really had to put a lot of investment

(01:42:53):
into the digital space and the radio and and and
ads to make sure that our members were able to
then amplify that mess is through their own platforms. UM,
last question for you, uh, and that is, uh, you know,
ask we're moving down here. I mean, obviously in a
c P UH is nonpartisan, but I don't I don't
think a lot of people really understand how your districts

(01:43:16):
are drawn. UH impacts this how many members of Congress
you actually have as well. And so this goes direct
to representation uh in the halls of Congress uh being
so that that yeah, that but so beyond the money,
it's the representation part as well. Yes, And when you
think about the notion of representation, we know that every

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member in the House of Congress and every US Senator matters.
And when we think about black folks, we live in
the South, we live in the West, the North, the Midwest.
We want to make sure we're fully counted. So when
it comes to redrawing the lines and accurately accounting for
who needs to be represented in where they live, that
actually is a political side, right, And I'm glad you

(01:44:01):
lived it up that we're nonpartisan. But the reality is
we're not blind. And so we know that there are
forces out there who don't want us counted and who
don't want us fully represented. And so we're grateful to
have leaders in states like Texas and Georgia, Florida and
Michigan who are literally fighting to make sure that everyone
is counted so that when the lines are drawn, we
could actually counter the pack and crack strategy and make

(01:44:23):
sure that we have full representation. In many ways, that's
gonna be how we shape our future over the next
ten to twenty years. It's being fully counted. It's actually
getting the funding into the communities that's needed, and then
making sure that the lines when drawn are inclusive and
fair and really represent the communities our communities. All right, then,

(01:44:44):
Jamal Watchers, we surely appreciated. Thank you so very much
for joining us. All right, thank you sir. Alright, folks,
when we come back, we'll talk with how an organization
is targeting black men is specifically we talk a lot
a lot of times on this show how efforts are
there too reach black women. But this is about black
men and the census. You don't want to miss that.

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to do that, you must just take a few minutes
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it's about your neighbors, it's about us as a people.
Do it and watch how things begin to change. The
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in the image of God, you matter. Your participation in
the Census will determine how nearly eight hundred billion dollars
in federal funds are used to help us, our family
and neighbors during times of need. The Census helps us
hold our government accountable. Census information is used to make

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sure we are equally represented in Congress and in state
and local elections. By completing the Census, you are raising
your hand and adding your voice to America's voice. Don't
let fear or false information prevent you from completing the Census.
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be shared with any other person or government agency. Faith
leaders will partner with legal experts to ensure against any
misuse of your data. There are three ways to respond
to the Census, online, by phone, or by mail. Completing
your survey takes ten minutes. If you don't respond, census

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takers will visit your home to ensure everyone is counted.
For more information, visit www dot Census dot gov. We
know the power we have. Let's use that power by
being faithful agents to bring into being a society that
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room for all. So a for the first response and
be counted black Man, one of the hardest groups to
count ed. Reid is a program director for Fair Count Effort.
The efforts are targeted at black men. Uh glad to

(01:49:10):
have you. Why why black men so hard? Well, first
of all, thank you so much rolling for having me on.
Congratulations to you as well. We're so happy to be on. Uh.
So you you know, in Georgia, we started this initiative
last May nineteen. It was through Fair Account, which was
founded by leader Stacy abrams Um. But she had the
vision to see, you know that in Georgia alone, there

(01:49:32):
were sixty seven thousand black men that could go undercounted
in and so we wanted to figure out why, but
also figure out how we reached black men in in
this year, and so we set up this Complete Count Committee,
launched it statewide and subsequently launched it nationally, partnering with
Sigma Fi five Fraternity. I think you know a little
bit about them. Uh. And so we partnered with those

(01:49:53):
brothers to ensure that we were able to expand this
initiative nationally. And so we really started reaching men more
informal settings, very intimate conversations, uh, finding out what their
suspicions were about the process, right, and starting to unfold
some of the myths that exist, you know, the landlord
tenant issues and myths that the primacy concerns that some

(01:50:13):
of the people on this great panel have already talked about. UM.
And so through those conversations, first pre COVID in person
and then after the COVID virtually, we started to open
up some black men to to to feel like completing
the census will have a direct impact on those moneys,
on the political power in their community. And so I

(01:50:34):
think we're reaching a man um you know, stuff to
do virtually now. In person, we were going to the barbershops,
we were going to the men's ministries, we were going
to the lounges. We were just trying to reach black
men where they are because the effect of the matter is,
we're not going to go somewhere to be lectured to
on a Saturday morning, uh. And do those things. We
gotta go to where the men are and talk to

(01:50:54):
them where they are about what the importance of the
census is. Is there also this fee year that people
have that this is somehow the government tracking them? Uh
So folks don't want to fill anything out. Absolutely, we've
heard that, you know, I don't want the government knowing
where I am. We'll hear a lot about if I
got warrants out for me, you know, can I complete

(01:51:16):
the census? Should I? I don't want to complete it.
So those are real life you know, issues that are
out there and challenges. Then we recognize that and we
try to dispel a lot of that. Uh you know.
So it's one of the things that we have to
overcome unless we're living in those situations. It's really difficult
to tell people that are living in a situation, um,
you know, to complete the census. And so I think

(01:51:38):
what we have to do is we have to make
it relational. We have to show the direct impacts. It's
one thing to say one point five trillion, but another
to say, you know, your kids are going to school
and the trailer behind another school because the schools are
not funded to have the additional classroom sizes UM. What
if you know, everyone in that community was counted in
Georgia alone, for every person that's not counted, it's estimated

(01:51:59):
that's a thirty six hundred dollars per person over the
span of ten years. As thirty six thousand dollars. We
think about what you can do with thirty six thousand dollars,
and you think about sixty seven thousand black men, uh
going undercounted and doing that. Man, it's over two hundred
million dollars worth of resources on an annual basis that
we're losing in our communities. And you know, people like

(01:52:19):
to talk about, well, you know, is it because black
men are locked up? That's not it at all, you know.
And and the census beer obviously has a way to
count black you know, black men that are incarcerated through
a group quarters enumeration UM. And so we we just
really have to reach these men where they are and
we've we've seen great success with that. In fact, right

(01:52:40):
to this week, we launched a virtual bus tour in
partnership with e Plura Bus Unum across the Southeast. We're
going to be doing virtual events in Louisiana, South Carolina,
and Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, UM Alabama talking about the importance
of the census. We're tonight we have a blues concert
that we're doing virtually in the Mississippi Delta region. We

(01:53:02):
had a faith event last night. UM we're doing a
Black Men Count Teletown hall. You see my shirt here
Black Men Count. We can make sure you get one
of those rolling. But we really are trying to reach
you know, men where they are and text banking. We're
texting black men to tell them about the critical importance
of it UM and we're seeing some of our partners,

(01:53:23):
the Hunter Black Men UM. I mentioned the Boulet, the
Divine Nine organizations are all coming together to recognize the
importance in UM. Look, it is UH is a critical issue.
I think is important again that I always say this,
we have to connect the dots and we've got to
break things down and make it plain for people people
who don't people who are not living and breathing public policy,

(01:53:46):
who don't understand how all these things work UH, and
so when their communication is happening, I think that absolutely
helps people to get over their fear of these things.
That's absolutely right, and we see that on the daily basis.
Once we're able to dispel those myths and they're able
to see, oh well, that's where the funding come from.
You know, the only way that we're gonna be able
to recover from COVID nineteen. And we will recover um.

(01:54:08):
But you know, if you look at the overlay of
the maps that are typically hard to count UM, and
then the overlay of the maps where the response rates
are really low, really the same areas UM. So they're
being devastated by pandemic over here, but also devastated by
a loss of funding and resources over there. And so
in order to recover from COVID nineteen, will need the
resources in these communities to ensure that we're able to

(01:54:30):
fully recover. All right, then, UH certainly appreciate it. Uh,
everythinks a lot. Thank you so much, Roving, good one.
All right, thank you very much, sir. Again. Folks, as
I said to dot go, cents is dot gov to
feel the form out. You can also place that phone
call that number of courses eight four four three three
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The reason that is important is because again people said
black people in news. No, because y'all notice I do
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Cathi Hughes, of course, the profound, the radio one now
urban one, uh coin the phrase information is power. I
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at TV one when I did News one now before
years a TV one, I knew a digital show could work.
Others who were saying, just do a podcast, just do
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I lost the first black news source audio podcast in
two thousand five, the first black news source video podcasts
in two thousand and six, and of course I got it.

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Everybody else was doing podcasts, but I knew that we
needed something different than an audio podcast. Most podcasts also
are not daily their weekly podcast. I felt we needed
a daily show because I had a weekly show. I
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and then you're trying to cram all this stuff in
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and now you're trying to figure it all out. And
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It is about faith. I walked away from a six
figure deal that they put on the table from me
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I remember I remember in um Um they presented the
offered me in March I didn't accept it. My agent,
Mark Watt's my frand brother. He was like, look, he said,
easy money. I said no, because here's why. As one
and I need you to understand this. The reason I
turned TV one down because one that already canceled the

(01:58:43):
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a weekly show. There was no other plan for us
to do stuff. They came up with some stuff and say, hey,
we can do this here, but none of that stuff
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Film filter with some other stuff along those lines. And
so I knew that was gonna happened. So in August
thirty one, it was my last day, happily be the

(01:59:04):
same day. The Breatha Franklin funeral in the Verse was
on Monday. And I told my I told my agent,
Mark Watson, this is what I said. I said Mark.
At the time, I was forty nine. I said, Mark,
I'm forty now. I'll be fifty in November. If I
don't do this now, I won't ever do it. And
I said, Mark, I don't know of anybody else who
is a black journalist, who is of my stature who

(01:59:26):
could actually launch this and make it successful. Who actually
wanted to do it? I said, I have to do
this nown and that's exactly what we did. Now the
of the course of the last two years, we've had
every major Democratic president of candidate we have we have
not We've not had people say oh, no, no, no,

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you're not a real show, so therefore I'm not gonna do.
You know, we've taken our cameras, the Jeffrey Osborne Classic,
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When there was a rally on the mall for comers
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We've done many of their events as well. We appreciate

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long conference. We have live stream speeches and other events.
And that's the other thing as well. We have not
just done a show. We have provided this platform for

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our people in our voices and Tamika Mallory until Freedom,
they've had their events. We live stream those events. And
the York Justice League We've done things for them as well.
We've done things for a number of people. Why is
that important Because I'm let me be real clear, the
dumbing down of Black America has to stop. The dumbing

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down of Black America has to stop. We've got to
stop allowing people to force feed us old sitcoms, awards shows, comedies,
and things along those lines. The fact that matters is here,
White America can turn on the Fox News, they can
turn on there are multiple conservative networks as oh as

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own as O A n N. News Max sent Claire's
with the launch Launch one. I mean, it's all kinds
of I mean Fox, if you go on and on
and on, but do you understand that there are ten
networks that target African Americans. Ten there are ten networks
in America that are broadcast and cable networks that target

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African Americans. The BT, there's BT HER, there's TV one,
It's Clear TV, there's Own, just Bounce, this, Aspire, there's
uh Afro. I'm leaving out one. I know you're the
Black News Channel. Obviously they just launched as well. Uh

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and then you have revoked Okay, remove Black News Channel
out of the mix. Obviously they're twenty four cable news network.
But you know a lot of people still haven't even
they can't even get the network. So let's say those nine.
Let's just say those nine, those nine networks. If you
do the math, they're twenty four hours in a day,
twenty four times seven hundred sixty eight hundred sixty eight

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times nine. It's one thousand, five hundred and two. Out
of the one thousand, five hundred and two collective hours
of content on black targeted and black owned networks, one
hour is dedicated every week to news and that only

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started two months ago. When did he launched his show?
The weekly show was twice a week. Now they made
it once a week Black News. Let me say that again.
One thousand, five hundred and twelve hours of content are

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shown on nine black networks every single week. That's twenty
four hours times seven times nine, and there is just
one hour dedicated two Black News. If you're wondering why

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people don't know about the senses, if you're wondering why
they aren't aware of local activists on the ground, if
you don't know why they aren't aware of what's happening
with HBC US, it is because the information is not
being provided to our people. And you know what, many
of you are paying cable bills and money is going

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to those networks and there's no information other than entertainment
that's coming your way. That's why we created this show,
which is why we also and I've had people. I've
had people say, well, I don't understand. You know, why
do you ask for donations Because we're not gonna able
to survive? Simple as that I way to survive. Cameras

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lights here and give me a watch shot. I say
that cameras, lights, set staff, travel, all those things. None
of those things can happen if you don't have resources
until you have to build it. I knew the first
year we were not going to be able to get
the kind of advertising that we needed. I knew that.
I expected that, but we said we still got to

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build it. And the fact about it is we have
and there were haters, Oh, there were haters. There were haters,
and haters like, oh oh, no one's watching you and
no one. Oh really. I'm going to repeat these numbers
again because this is for all my haters, especially all
y'all folks who run your mouth will call yourseles new

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media because y'all say it all your old media. M hmm.
I'm gonna give you some old media numbers. When we
launched this show in September of two thousand eighteen, we
did nine point three million views our first month. We
did fourteen point one million views our second month. In

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the first fifteen months of this show on YouTube along
sixty seven not getting at sixty seven million, wandering to
fifty thousand, two hundred and forty six video views, Facebook
sixty five thousand, a hundred and thirty four thousand, one
hundred twenty video views Periscope six million, one hundred twenty

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eight thousand, six hundred and sixty nine views the last
eight months alone. Eighty one million, two hundred and sixty
eight thousand, two hundred thirty two views on YouTube eight
two thousand, eight hundred and fifteen thousand, eight hundred nine
three video views on Facebook, one million, seventy one thousand,

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six thirty four views on YouTube. We launched this show,
we had one hundred and fifty six thousand, two hundred
YouTube subscribers today. Right now, I can check the number live.
We have six hundred eighteen thousand, four hundred excuse me,
eighteen thousand, six hundred and six that's the live number

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right now, which means we've gained four hundred and sixty
two thousand subscribers. That's because our audience says there is
some place for us to go to get the information
that we deserve. And so we're gonna continue. We're gonna
continue building, We're gonna continue doing this show. We're gonna
be here five days a week. We stream our stuff

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seven days a week. We're gonna continue providing you content,
continue cover things live, continue building a news platform that's
going to go from one show to a network. That's
the vision. And so when you hear me say we
want you to join our Bring the Funk Fan Club,
your dollars make that possible. If you're on YouTube right now,
you can give directly on YouTube. You don't have to

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go to the website, but you can go to cash app.
You can cash us up cash app us. Right now,
we're simply asking fifty minimum fifty bucks each one of
our fans, which is four alls the nineteen cents a month,
thirteen cents a day, and then but if you want
to give more, that's fine. I've got some people who
actually give us money every single month. People have given
us as little as a dollar. We people have given
us as high as fifteen thousand dollars. But people are

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giving on average fifty bucks. That's what they're doing. And
so you can do that, folks and go to Roland
Martin unfiltered dot com, or you can do cash at
dollar sign r M unfiltered, PayPal dot m, e forward slash,
are Martin unfiltered, Venemo dot com is forward slash, r
M unfiltered. You consent the money order to New Vision
Media Street, Northwest sweet four hundred, Washington, d C. Two

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thousand and six. We also say this here and to
the people on YouTube. Six of the people who watch
our show and YouTube don't even subscribe to our channel.
That those of you who on Facebook and I understand
people that let people have economic issues right now. Totally
understand that. But if you can support us, who wants

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you to do so. This operates the same way as
a newspaper subscription, the magazine subscription, a subscription to a
music service. What we are committed to do is to
speak to the issues that cover our community every single day.
I'm an Alpha, my life member. I want to see
my alpha brothers gift. I saw one brother who gave
today nineteen dollars and six cents that told me he's

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an Alpha. But what this is about, what this is about,
it's us creating a place where we can have the
conversation that we know and deserve, and we don't have
to ask anybody to do it. James Brown said, don't

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hand me nothing, just open the door and get it myself.
I'll get it myself. Well, for us, that's our piece.
We want to be able to do the news that
we want to give our voice from our perspective and
not ask any matter for their opinion. So we thank
all of you who support us over the last two years,
and we certainly appreciate you supporting us in the future.

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We always in our show this way showing you the
people who have given to our fan club again. If
you want your name on that list, I do personal
shoutouts fifty bucks and more. You get a personal shout
out on the show. So if you give cash at PayPal,
Venmo or Meli check in, I will give a personal
shout out right here on Rollerbant Unfiltered. I hope you
all enjoys labor that weekend. We're not here on Monday.

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We will be streaming some other content on Monday. Enjoy
the weekend. I'll see you guys on Tuesday. How

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