May 15, 2025 • 33 mins
Report Reveals Black Women Lost The Most Jobs In April And Changes In DEI Could Partially Be To Blame. Black women workers lost more jobs than other demographics in April, according to a report.
While the overall unemployment rate for April 2025 remained unchanged, stats released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic show that Black women lost 38,000 jobs and their unemployment went up by 106,000, according to Creative Investment Research. Bloomberg notes the unemployment rate for Black women was a full percentage point higher at 6.1% (compared to 5.1% in March), and this rate has been on the rise since February 2024.
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Let's get in today's content, guys. I want to talk
about the report that reveals black women and the loss
of jobs that they have had more than anybody else
in April. Now, if you follow my commentary, which you should,
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and I hope that you do. If you don't, why
don't you follow my commentary, I have been telling you
that up to three hundred thousand black people will be
losing their federal job. I've been saying it weekly. I
know y'all been resting. I know y'all been having boots
on the ground. I know y'all been saying we done,
we tapped out. I feel you. I get all of that.
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I know y'all say it ain't bothering me, it ain't
affecting me. I get all of that. But the reality
of it is, I've been telling y' all through the
three Things, Safe, stack and secure, that it is absolutely coming.
And so here we are, guys. So when we look
at the report that reveals that black women lost their
job more than anybody else, it says that DEI is
partial to blame. Turn to your neighbor and say partial.
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Because this is what I was arguing with my good
friend Charlemagne. You know, we got a group chat. We
argue every day. He was saying well, it ain't just
dei Charlemagne. It literally says partial. It means it's not all,
it's partial. How many of you understand that if a relationship,
if your relationship, if your marriage doesn't work, Attorney Shelby,
if your relationship with your man don't work, is it
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just one thing or is it multiple things? Is it
you don't tell me you love me anymore? Is that
the main reason why I'm breaking up with you? Or
is it partial? Is that the partial reason? Is it
if they cheated? That might be the main reason, but
it might be multiple reasons. So we must understand that
two things can always be true at the same time.
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So this is not saying it's alli, It is saying partial.
So let's deal with the facts. Black women workers lost
more jobs than any other demographic in April, according to
the report. Now y'all may say, well, what report are
you talking about? Well, I'm glad you asked that question.
While the overall unemployment rate for April twenty twenty five
remained unchanged, meaning overall unemployment for everybody else remained unchanged,
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the stats from the US Bureau of Labor statics to
show that black women lost thirty eight thousand jobs, and
their unemployment went up by one hundred and six thousand,
So it remained unchanged. But that doesn't mean that black
women were not affected. So they say so when you
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hear them say, oh, the unemployment rate is fined, it's unchanged. No,
let's dig into it and let's see what it really
looked like. You know, guys, I love doing relationships analogies
because it's the easiest way to understand. Oh, I'm the
same man I always was. Yeah, you look like the
same man. You sometimes act like the same man. But
let you say you unchanged. But let's really get into
it and see how you really treat me. Hey, man,
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put a five in a chat if you know what
I'm talking about. So we ain't gonna go with this. Well,
it's remained unchanged. No, let's kind of get down to
it and let's talk about how unemployment went up one
hundred and six thousand, it says. Bloomberg notes that the
unemployment rate for black women was a full percentage higher
at six point one percent compared to five point one percent.
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And this rate has been on the rise since February.
So if it's been on the rise since February, then
what is it doing. It's gonna continue to go up again.
Let's deal with the many factors that your girl told
you was coming, that they said wasn't coming. It wasn't
affecting nobody. But those of y'all have said, well, I
didn't vote for Trump, and I hope they get what
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they get and it is what it is, and all
of that. Well, at the end of the day, it
affects everybody. This is not just the people that just
voted for Trump. I didn't vote for Trump. It says
that the steady incline and this source is available on
afro tech. Let me put it in the chat, so
it says some of the stuffs, so you know this
is what afro tech that this is, you know, verify source.
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This story was also in multiple different places as well,
so it says some of the steady decline in their
unemployment is partially partially partially. Don't let them try to
switch it up, guys. I'm not saying it's all d
I I'm not saying it's all dodged. I'm not saying,
but we must note the partial nothing is absolute partially
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attributed to the decline in workforce as a result of
initiatives being pushed by the Trump administration DEI initiatives at
the federal level, and many corporations who have followed suit
to ensure their policies are in alignment. For example, Target,
let me say it again, corporations like Target, Walmart, all
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of those that said we're gonna follow DEI and we're
gonna make sure we're in alignment. That's a part of it.
And to sit up your act like it's not, it's
very irresponsible. Black women at the federal level have declined
by an estimated thirty three percent within the last year
in comparison to the three point seven drop across all
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workforce overall. It's that the unusual nature of this increase
in black women's unemployment is a testament to the direct
result of the anti DEI and anti black focus of
new administration policies. It says, this is doing damage to
the black community something we have not seen before. Stop
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sharing my screen so again, guys, Partial is the keyword.
Partial is the keyword. We know there's a number of
things DEI. We also know that Dodge that went in
and cleared up all the federal employees and the largest
employee for black people, is the federal government, and then
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there's just regular unemployment issues. So when we mix all
of those things together, and we mix people not being
able to find jobs because the economy and companies are
cutting back, all of that plays into the result. Don't
let nobody tell you anything different. Now. I want to
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address this because I see this all the time. I
want to talk a little bit about DII. And I've
said this before. I guess many of y'all think that
these are all affirmative action. We gotta employ black people
because they don't have the merit and so forth. One
sister says in the comments today, I don't know about
DEI I've never benefitted from it. I've always had to
work harder and be more qualified. Let me give you
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some breaking news. Black women are the most educated. We
always got to be more qualified and work the hardest.
That's not breaking news. That has nothing to do with
companies that have had to be forced somebody say force
to give people black or as y'all say, of color
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and opportunity. We are very well aware that I am
typically the best in the room, the over qualified in
the room. That's not what this is about. I also
want to remind you that just because you were not
hired under a DEI or an affirmative action program, I
want to remind you. For those of y'all to say, oh, yeah,
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it's just my merit, I want to remind you that
when you put these type of policies in place and
they feel like they don't have to do anything with
zero backlash with civil rights guests who might be losing
a job. See, this is what y'all getting confused about this.
This is not just oh, a program given is that
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I was having and I won't say, but I was
talking about, yeah, just because uh, you're supporting your You're saying, oh,
I'm supporting you because you're the best employee, or you
got the best numbers on your podcast or whatever it is.
If there's nothing conscious in policy that says do it
because it's the right thing. If there's nothing in Target
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in Walmart that say we strive for diversity and they
feel they don't have to do it, guess what they
gonna do. Time, Guess what they gonna do, Cassie, guess
what they're gonna do it, Turny Shelby not do it.
So those of y'all that think y'all above it and think, oh, yeah,
well it don't affect me. You gonna find out just
how much forcing their hand are making them even have
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to consider doing the moral, moral right thing to hire
that over qualified black man and black woman. When once
you removed that out of the equation, we gonna see
what it looked like. So stop this. I was thinking,
this is just about you. Another thing. Y'all love to
say the white women benefit from him more. Of course
they do. But what does it have to do with
me benefiting from it? Charlumay asked me. Yes, said, well
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have you ever benefited from it? Absolutely? With an actual
contract with the state, with the City of Orlando. I
got the contract without my certifications based upon merit because
I worked at the third and fourth largest staffing firm
in the world. So Spirian hired me because they knew
that I was able to staff. I was able to
keep the contract to be competitive. Somebody say competitive because
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I was minority owned, veteran owned, women own, and the
City of Orlando said they want to strive to have
diverse contractors. So I got it on merit. But I
was able to maintain it because if somebody else was
as qualified, more qualified, or maybe not as qualified, but
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they were able to say, hey, look we gave a
contract to a black woman veteran, and they're gonna go
with that person and government contractor. You can believe it
every time because they are looking to check the boxes
because when in politics and the cit of Orlando, they
want to be able to say, we're the city beautiful,
and we mean that because we offered diverse contracts so
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that all of our constituents benefit from city tax dollars
as they should. See a lot of these people that
you're listening to with di guys, they don't know what
the hell they're talking about. They never had a government contract,
so they literally don't know what the other they're talking about.
And yes, the white woman. There was also a subcontractor
with me. I employed three hundred employees, one hundred and
twenty five people that had to put to work every
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twenty four hours. When healthcare reform hit and Spirriann had
to raise their rates, they lost the contract. So they
merged me in with the other contractor that had the
white woman. I had to split it with her. I said,
I can't afford to only put five to six people
to work because I can't afford it, so I lost
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the contract. He was able to maintain the contract. It
wasn't that they didn't want to give it to me,
but she was able to maintain the contract. You know
why she had funding because we don't, as black women
don't have access to funding. I use what was called factoring,
which means my contract, I was able to show a
lender who robbed me blind gave me ninety five percent
of my money, and they said, well, we know based
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on your invoices you're gonna be able to pay it,
so we're gonna advance you the money. And because I
had a staff confirm, I had to pay that right
out immediately, that taxes and plooring taxes, all that kind
of stuff. So it was never any property. Though I
had one hundred thousand plus you know of payroll every month,
it didn't matter because it went right in and write out.
And I was never able to have funding that could
float me. So when when the contract split in half
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and they said, okay, instead of one hundred people, well
only you only can give you eighteen or seven, I'm like, yeah,
I can't do that anymore. I can't afford that. Now
if I had funding, I would have been able to
float that till I went and got other business to
compensate for that loss. So when I lost the contract,
guess who lost jobs? People like Aaron Clark who did
ten years in prison, young ladies who had jobs, who
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were in shelters that needed to be able to stick
in their program to say that we're getting work. People
are on probation that needed to be able to show
they had work. And then I still have regular folks,
people with PhDs that have just got laid off. Because
this was directly after a recession. So I hired from
across the board, a community business that hired that looked
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past records that Spurion or the city would not look past.
I did that, So it wasn't that it just hurt
me because I recovered, but not being an employer to
individuals that needed me, that needed a shot. This is
how it affected them. Put a five in thee chat
if it's making sense. So as you're listening to people
on these podcasts, as you're listening to people on these
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radio who may be doing very well, who may be wealthy,
asked a couple of things. Have they ever had a
government contract? Do they know anything about how this works.
Don Mooney, I've set on his board for years. He
owns down Mooney Enterprises and Nurses, et cetera forty million
dollar company, ultra conservative who has always said do for self. Well,
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mister Mooney, you came up under the eight A program
Meany of you may understand familiar with the A federal program.
It's a program that's basically like an apprenticeship that allows
you to partner with larger companies so that you can
scale up. One of the hardest things for black businesses,
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especially and small businesses is scale up. By the way,
that training is also available, guys, the ten things that
I learned in business business mistakes. That training is also
available on telimfergo dot com for twenty five bucks. It's
a video with me just about fifteen minutes. It's only
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Just an fy. I did that because the Chamber is
enrolling a lot of their folks in just as an
FI a lot of their folks in the push to line,
So I'm giving them a two for one. Why am
I doing that, Cassie, Well, remember on the Save the
Shack and the secure. Remember number three is securing our nonprofits.
So my nonprofits, I've been partnering with them to get
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their members in to offer two for one, or how
can we get more of them involved, how can we
do it as a fundraiser to split the fees so
that a kickback goes to them. I believe in doing
stuff by action, not by talk. So if you know
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or ten people and they want to do it as
a fundraiser, I'm also you know, offering them kickbacks on
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So they have a member and say, hey, we're it's
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it goes directly back to us, or fifteen of it
or whatever it is. You know that I negotiate with them,
at least it goes right back to the organization. That's
what I mean when I say secure the nonprofits. So
now not only am I giving your members' resources to
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hopefully grow your organization, but we're also giving the money
right back to them. And that's another reason why. God,
I know I'm getting off course, but I just want
you guys, to know the movement that you're a part
of and why it's so important that I have your support.
I can only do these things when I'm doing virtual.
A lot of y'all want me to come in person.
It's just not feasibly. I can't afford to do it. Literally,
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three days to go out of town, ninety days of
marketing to get the amount of people we need in
the room, and to charge one hundred and fifty dollars
two hundred dollars per person to cover expenses and all
of that, I'll never get this training off the ground.
So Virtual allows the resources to come in and me
to put those resources back out to the community, and
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for us to have more people in the class, and
for me to be able to do it often and longer.
So please know that your investment is to a bigger cause,
much bigger than you and I and I appreciate it.
So with that said, guys, I wanted to give you
that rundown. If you have any questions, please ask them now.
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This is how we're gonna do straight shot, no chaser.
Every week, only ten people can get in the room.
I'm gonna do just like I did in my news bureau, guys,
look for the link. I am trying to do this
every Sunday, guys, but I'm terrible at it because I
just be traveling all the time and so much is
going on. But I always drop content every Thursday. I
will always you know, you're gonna get content regardless, but
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just be make sure you're in my news borrow so
you can get that link so that you can join me.
And I'm always open to you guys joining me, you know,
being in the chat with me, joining the show and
giving a shout out. Are there any shoutouts of any
businesses that I need to mention before I get out
of it, because I do want to thank you for
your time, guys, of coming over and just being in
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the chat with me, because it does make a difference
to make sure you know that I'm I'm answering any question.
So if there's no questions, if there's nothing else that
you have or okay, Gus, you want to know when
are you gonna discuss the Trump promise about cutting funds?
Are you talking to out the the housing? If you're
(28:04):
talking about the housing, this is two thousand. His proposal
for that is twenty twenty six. I will do a
show just on that guys that did really, really well.
I did a twelve minute commentary on it. I think
I pretty much unpacked it, unless you have any additional questions,
but I pretty much unpacked it. But just in summary,
it is a proposal. It has not happened yet. They're
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talking about twenty twenty six. I'm letting people know because
right now I have two of my houses on Section
eight and they pay partial and I know and I've
seen how, you know, not showing up for inspections, not
being there, how they're doing anything to get people off
this program. And if you know anybody that's ever got
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any rental assistance, sometimes you have to wait for years
to get in the program. So I wanted to roll
that out now so that people can be making sure
that they are paying attention to rental assistance, sticking to
the guideline, sticking to you know, all the things that
you have to do, understanding this is not just about
lazy people. There's also disability. Is any program, any grant,
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any whatever, anything that supports anything they got to do
with rental that could possibly be on the line. Don't
listen to these people saying we're gonna be fine. Most
of the people to keep saying we'll be fine. These
content creators are rich guys. They're wealthy, and they sit
back and say, we're gonna be fine. Who is the
weed that the hell you're talking about? What way are
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you talking about if you don't know the answers to
give the people, I'd rather you just say that. But
stop just saying we're gonna be fine. Of course we're
gonna be fine. But this is not what this is about.
This is about giving you the information to make sure
that you're fine. This is about planning plan A, B, C, D.
So I'm giving people on that one a year heads
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up because as it's looking the current state of midterms,
I don't know about y'all, but it don't look like
Democrats is pushing online for me. So if they're not
pushing on line for men terms. And this is something
that Trump is proposing in twenty twenty six, it could
likely pass. And when people jump in the comments and
lie and say, oh, that's just giving it to the states,
(30:13):
what are you talking about the federal A good portion
that come that the federal The sectionary is a federal program.
Just because the local LA housing authority manages. It doesn't
mean the money don't come from the federal level. So
you're getting money from the federal level and you're getting
money from a state level. So don't let these misinform
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people tell you that this ain't no big deal. It's
absolutely a big deal, especially for our disabled and our elderly.
So that what you're gonna hear them say is, oh,
they just saying able body people just need to get
in and get off in two years. Well, first of all,
what the term is able body? So let's first deal
with that. Number two, if you had a set back
(30:55):
in your life, how many of you have turned it
around in two years with that a miracle? Let's really
talk about it, guys. When I left, I had a
business on top of my game. Health Care Forum knocked
us out the game in twenty thirteen of No. Twenty fourteen,
twenty fifteen, I went to go work on the campaign trail.
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My mother had cancer. She passed away in twenty sixteen.
I moved to Houston twenty seventeen. My old man got
paralyzed twenty seventeen, twenty eight. It took me all the
way back to twenty twenty to even be a little
bit profitable, and I'm probably with many of you consider
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her successful. That's being on national TV, that's happening shows
and connections and all of that. So I don't want
to hear this. And I got one child, ain't never
been on nobody's section, ain't nobody's federal or nothing. And
I have a great ex husband that is financially available, mentally, emotionally,
and physical. So I don't want to hear nothing about
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these people talking about two years turn around. They haven't
turned shit around in their life in two years. These
are a lot of people who are misery, y'all miserable,
and they feel like they since they had to go
through it, they want everybody else to go through it,
and their hearts have turned cold. That's the bottom line.
I don't want to mince no words around that. Or
because they didn't get the help, they don't want nobody
else to get the help. I don't want to mince
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no words around that. So that's about all I got
on it outside of the commentary. Go watch the twelve minutes.
If you got some additional questions, happy to answer, but
I laid it out pretty good in the twelve minutes.
All right, guys, that's been straight Shot No Chaser. I
hope you enjoy this new format. Put a five if
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me again while I do it, because it does make
a big, big, big difference. I want you to continue
to support if you can, and I'm gonna close this out.
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I just serve you guys so much better doing it
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Some has paid for the training, some say they're gonna
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and said, you know what, I want to be a
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Politics until something happens. It is a nonpartisan political training program.
I curated the program. I wrote the program not just
(03:40):
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critically important, guys, because when you're taking training from folks,
make sure that they actually have the ability to create
a course curriculum for you. That's very important. But the
most important thing is you are getting everything from my
experience from working on campaigns on the state level, on
the local level, on the federal level, pretty much whatever
you think can think of, I've done that job. Volunteer coordinator,
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So you're getting all of the experience that I've learned
from working on a campaign and being a candidate and
realizing the candidate was not for me. Also my crisis
calm experience. All the major cases that you've seen from
treyvon Martin on with the tourney Benjamin Crump, I have
done crisis calm for all of that, So you get
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a lot of that. You also get a lot of
media stuff that I do that you learn, So really, guys,
you are getting everything all in one. I want you
to look at this as a semester, not as a
one time course. You certainly can come to it one time,
but look at it as a semester. There are five courses.
The first one we're doing Course one Roles and responsibilities.
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If you want to be a candidate, If you don't know,
if you want to be a candidate, but you think
you might want to run, this course is for you.
If you want to be a campaign worker. We need
more campaign workers, guys. I did a survey a quiz
to see who we had in the training, and most
of the people want to be candidates or organizers. We
who're gonna work on the campaign. We need volunteer coordinators.
We need field directors. We need people who are gonna
(05:10):
be in charge of your phone banking, all of that.
We really really really need infrastructure, guys. And I'm gonna
go even a step further to say what I envision
for this training program. I wanted to be where I
have a databank of people who are ready to work
on campaigns. Paid somebody in the comments type pay, turn
to your neighbor and say paid. So I wanted to
(05:31):
be a referral source as well as we continue to grow.
So when people are saying, hey, I need a volunteer coordinator,
you don't have to live in their city. You can
absolutely work on somebody's campaign no matter where you live.
You can manage somebody's phone bank, you can manage somebody's schedule,
you can manage somebody's campaign. I've done it. Commissioner Regina
hill Or, I helped get elect in Orlando, Florida. I
(05:53):
did that from Oklahoma City Commissioner Tiffany Moore, who was
running for Clerk courtse. I did that from Oklahoma City.
Now Timmany Moore is run for mayor. So you can
absolutely do it virtual. If that's been one of your
hesitations of hey, I don't know anybody who's running, so
why would I be a campaign worker? No, still consider that,
because when we get done with the five core fundamental courses,
I'm going to roll out some individual courses that are
(06:14):
strictly for working on campaigns, like how to phone bank,
how to collect petitions, how to get your candidates to
listen to what they need to listen to, and shut
the ass up. You know that type of stuff, How
to force your candidate to get on the phone and
do phone bank in time, all of that stuff. We
are just this is just the beginning. Castide, This is
not the end. This is the beginning of a university
(06:37):
style of information. But the first five courses are critical
to just get the fund to get the fundamentals. You
don't have to commit like the all star Casey was saying, Hey,
she's already in two of the program, two or three
of them. You don't have to commit like her, but
go to the first one. See if you like it.
The first one will be in roles and responsibilities. Each course,
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I am giving instructions for candidates, campaign workers, or if
you want to be an organizer or an activist. Let
me just explain the difference of the two. An organizer
actually gets it done, and an organizer is saying, you
know what, I want to organize around getting an amendment
put on my local ballot, but I need to get
one hundred and fifty people to sign this petition. That
is actually organizing. An activist is, hey, I'm going to
(07:21):
talk about this. I'm going to make this an issue.
I'm going to go to the meetings. I'm gonna scream
about it. I'm a protest about it. I'm gonna be
in the comments. Whatever it is you're generat, you're basically
bringing awareness, but the organizer is taking the awareness and
doing a little bit more with it. Really, you should
be both an activist and an organizer. They go hand
in hand. But not everybody's an activist. Not everybody wants
(07:41):
to be on the microphone. Not everybody wants to be
a speaker. Just like we got folks in the room
now who says, hey, I'm shy, but they are still
in the room. So you still can be an organizer
by you jumping in the room. You don't have to
be the speaker, but you still be able to get three,
four or five people to do some type of call
to action. So I'm breaking down all of those things
in each course addresses each individual role in what you need.
(08:04):
I'm not gonna use all this time to go through
the courses, but I do want you to go to
Telimfigo dot com look at the courses, but just sign
up with course one. Let me also remind you if
you say I don't want to pay the fifty bucks,
what am I giving with the fifty bucks. Let me
just explain that you're getting a two hour interactive class
with me on June fourteenth. A two hour interactive class
with me in June fourteenth. Once you pay for the course,
(08:25):
you will see where the zoom link is. It is
in your dashboard. It is a very neat program that
I paid for that I absolutely love, is very easy
to understand, and you will see it says zoom link
for live class two pm June fourteenth. But guess what,
you will still have access to that pre recorded video.
So if you're hesitating to say I don't want to
pay for it because I don't know if I'm gonna
(08:45):
be available for the class, no worries. You'll be able
to watch the video. Some may find the video even
better because you can stop, start it, rewind it, watch
it in your own leisure. If once you pay for
the course, even if you're in the live class, you
still will have access to the video. So you are
paying for the video which will be two hours, and
the PDFs that are already available in there now to
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prepare you before the course. So look at it as
twenty five bucks an hour for a class. But in
addition to that all of the materials you need. Another
selling point that I love about this training platform is
the course dashboard, the course dashboard, the community dashboard. I
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love it. People are in there introducing themselves. At least
I think we got about eighty people in us already
that have put in saying hey, I'm tesling from such
and such and I'm here for XYZ. Right now, you're
not seeing a lot of people talking because the class
hasn't started. But that's gonna be a beautiful thing to
be able to network with the people who are in
(09:47):
the class, who are serious about working. You're gonna find
you might find your next campaign job, you may find
your next issue, you may find your next candidate. That
is what is beautiful. And you will always have access
to that dashboard when you perchon just the course, you
will always have access at least to communicate with folks
in a troll free environment. Now, the course, I can't
(10:08):
make that available for everybody forever, the first one I
am because even if you send it to your friend
like y'all do with Netflix and send the link, I
can't trip about that. Hopefully it can get them to
want to go to the other courses, but course two
through five, it will only be available sixty days after
the live class, just like you would in any college course.
You have access for about three months. But the community
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dashboard where you can post, connect talk to folks, you
will always have access to that. Okay, does that sound fair?
I hope it does because I'm literally given it all
more than enough for folks to be able to get
the information they need. With that said, so please sign
up ww dot tezemfiguo dot com. I have a tutorial
(10:50):
there where I'm breaking it down. When I just explained
to you, I have a video there. Don't let nobody
tell y'all, oh she explained it. No, no, no, I've
been explaining. This is what you're learning about organizing. You
repeat things over and over. Have a video, have a FAQ,
ask questions, have a tutorial. I have a highlight video
to show you what others have said who have trained
with me. And I'm constantly saying it on my podcast
(11:11):
Revolt and Instagram, so there'll be no excuses about people
saying I didn't know. You'll learn that as you start organizing.
Let's get in today's content, guys. I want to talk
about the report that reveals black women and the loss
of jobs that they have had more than anybody else
in April. Now, if you follow my commentary, which you should,
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and I hope that you do. If you don't, why
don't you follow my commentary, I have been telling you
that up to three hundred thousand black people will be
losing their federal job. I've been saying it weekly. I
know y'all been resting. I know y'all been having boots
on the ground. I know y'all been saying we done,
we tapped out. I feel you. I get all of that.
(11:54):
I know y'all say it ain't bothering me, it ain't
affecting me. I get all of that. But the reality
of it is, I've been telling y' all through the
three Things, Safe, stack and secure, that it is absolutely coming.
And so here we are, guys. So when we look
at the report that reveals that black women lost their
job more than anybody else, it says that DEI is
partial to blame. Turn to your neighbor and say partial.
(12:17):
Because this is what I was arguing with my good
friend Charlemagne. You know, we got a group chat. We
argue every day. He was saying well, it ain't just
dei Charlemagne. It literally says partial. It means it's not all,
it's partial. How many of you understand that if a relationship,
if your relationship, if your marriage doesn't work, Attorney Shelby,
if your relationship with your man don't work, is it
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just one thing or is it multiple things? Is it
you don't tell me you love me anymore? Is that
the main reason why I'm breaking up with you? Or
is it partial? Is that the partial reason? Is it
if they cheated? That might be the main reason, but
it might be multiple reasons. So we must understand that
two things can always be true at the same time.
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So this is not saying it's alli, It is saying partial.
So let's deal with the facts. Black women workers lost
more jobs than any other demographic in April, according to
the report. Now y'all may say, well, what report are
you talking about? Well, I'm glad you asked that question.
While the overall unemployment rate for April twenty twenty five
remained unchanged, meaning overall unemployment for everybody else remained unchanged,
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the stats from the US Bureau of Labor statics to
show that black women lost thirty eight thousand jobs, and
their unemployment went up by one hundred and six thousand,
So it remained unchanged. But that doesn't mean that black
women were not affected. So they say so when you
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hear them say, oh, the unemployment rate is fined, it's unchanged. No,
let's dig into it and let's see what it really
looked like. You know, guys, I love doing relationships analogies
because it's the easiest way to understand. Oh, I'm the
same man I always was. Yeah, you look like the
same man. You sometimes act like the same man. But
let you say you unchanged. But let's really get into
it and see how you really treat me. Hey, man,
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put a five in a chat if you know what
I'm talking about. So we ain't gonna go with this. Well,
it's remained unchanged. No, let's kind of get down to
it and let's talk about how unemployment went up one
hundred and six thousand, it says. Bloomberg notes that the
unemployment rate for black women was a full percentage higher
at six point one percent compared to five point one percent.
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And this rate has been on the rise since February.
So if it's been on the rise since February, then
what is it doing. It's gonna continue to go up again.
Let's deal with the many factors that your girl told
you was coming, that they said wasn't coming. It wasn't
affecting nobody. But those of y'all have said, well, I
didn't vote for Trump, and I hope they get what
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they get and it is what it is, and all
of that. Well, at the end of the day, it
affects everybody. This is not just the people that just
voted for Trump. I didn't vote for Trump. It says
that the steady incline and this source is available on
afro tech. Let me put it in the chat, so
it says some of the stuffs, so you know this
is what afro tech that this is, you know, verify source.
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This story was also in multiple different places as well,
so it says some of the steady decline in their
unemployment is partially partially partially. Don't let them try to
switch it up, guys. I'm not saying it's all d
I I'm not saying it's all dodged. I'm not saying,
but we must note the partial nothing is absolute partially
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attributed to the decline in workforce as a result of
initiatives being pushed by the Trump administration DEI initiatives at
the federal level, and many corporations who have followed suit
to ensure their policies are in alignment. For example, Target,
let me say it again, corporations like Target, Walmart, all
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of those that said we're gonna follow DEI and we're
gonna make sure we're in alignment. That's a part of it.
And to sit up your act like it's not, it's
very irresponsible. Black women at the federal level have declined
by an estimated thirty three percent within the last year
in comparison to the three point seven drop across all
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workforce overall. It's that the unusual nature of this increase
in black women's unemployment is a testament to the direct
result of the anti DEI and anti black focus of
new administration policies. It says, this is doing damage to
the black community something we have not seen before. Stop
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sharing my screen so again, guys, Partial is the keyword.
Partial is the keyword. We know there's a number of
things DEI. We also know that Dodge that went in
and cleared up all the federal employees and the largest
employee for black people, is the federal government, and then
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there's just regular unemployment issues. So when we mix all
of those things together, and we mix people not being
able to find jobs because the economy and companies are
cutting back, all of that plays into the result. Don't
let nobody tell you anything different. Now. I want to
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address this because I see this all the time. I
want to talk a little bit about DII. And I've
said this before. I guess many of y'all think that
these are all affirmative action. We gotta employ black people
because they don't have the merit and so forth. One
sister says in the comments today, I don't know about
DEI I've never benefitted from it. I've always had to
work harder and be more qualified. Let me give you
(17:54):
some breaking news. Black women are the most educated. We
always got to be more qualified and work the hardest.
That's not breaking news. That has nothing to do with
companies that have had to be forced somebody say force
to give people black or as y'all say, of color
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and opportunity. We are very well aware that I am
typically the best in the room, the over qualified in
the room. That's not what this is about. I also
want to remind you that just because you were not
hired under a DEI or an affirmative action program, I
want to remind you. For those of y'all to say, oh, yeah,
(18:37):
it's just my merit, I want to remind you that
when you put these type of policies in place and
they feel like they don't have to do anything with
zero backlash with civil rights guests who might be losing
a job. See, this is what y'all getting confused about this.
This is not just oh, a program given is that
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I was having and I won't say, but I was
talking about, yeah, just because uh, you're supporting your You're saying, oh,
I'm supporting you because you're the best employee, or you
got the best numbers on your podcast or whatever it is.
If there's nothing conscious in policy that says do it
because it's the right thing. If there's nothing in Target
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in Walmart that say we strive for diversity and they
feel they don't have to do it, guess what they
gonna do. Time, Guess what they gonna do, Cassie, guess
what they're gonna do it, Turny Shelby not do it.
So those of y'all that think y'all above it and think, oh, yeah,
well it don't affect me. You gonna find out just
how much forcing their hand are making them even have
(19:47):
to consider doing the moral, moral right thing to hire
that over qualified black man and black woman. When once
you removed that out of the equation, we gonna see
what it looked like. So stop this. I was thinking,
this is just about you. Another thing. Y'all love to
say the white women benefit from him more. Of course
they do. But what does it have to do with
me benefiting from it? Charlumay asked me. Yes, said, well
(20:10):
have you ever benefited from it? Absolutely? With an actual
contract with the state, with the City of Orlando. I
got the contract without my certifications based upon merit because
I worked at the third and fourth largest staffing firm
in the world. So Spirian hired me because they knew
that I was able to staff. I was able to
keep the contract to be competitive. Somebody say competitive because
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I was minority owned, veteran owned, women own, and the
City of Orlando said they want to strive to have
diverse contractors. So I got it on merit. But I
was able to maintain it because if somebody else was
as qualified, more qualified, or maybe not as qualified, but
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they were able to say, hey, look we gave a
contract to a black woman veteran, and they're gonna go
with that person and government contractor. You can believe it
every time because they are looking to check the boxes
because when in politics and the cit of Orlando, they
want to be able to say, we're the city beautiful,
and we mean that because we offered diverse contracts so
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that all of our constituents benefit from city tax dollars
as they should. See a lot of these people that
you're listening to with di guys, they don't know what
the hell they're talking about. They never had a government contract,
so they literally don't know what the other they're talking about.
And yes, the white woman. There was also a subcontractor
with me. I employed three hundred employees, one hundred and
twenty five people that had to put to work every
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twenty four hours. When healthcare reform hit and Spirriann had
to raise their rates, they lost the contract. So they
merged me in with the other contractor that had the
white woman. I had to split it with her. I said,
I can't afford to only put five to six people
to work because I can't afford it, so I lost
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the contract. He was able to maintain the contract. It
wasn't that they didn't want to give it to me,
but she was able to maintain the contract. You know
why she had funding because we don't, as black women
don't have access to funding. I use what was called factoring,
which means my contract, I was able to show a
lender who robbed me blind gave me ninety five percent
of my money, and they said, well, we know based
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on your invoices you're gonna be able to pay it,
so we're gonna advance you the money. And because I
had a staff confirm, I had to pay that right
out immediately, that taxes and plooring taxes, all that kind
of stuff. So it was never any property. Though I
had one hundred thousand plus you know of payroll every month,
it didn't matter because it went right in and write out.
And I was never able to have funding that could
float me. So when when the contract split in half
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and they said, okay, instead of one hundred people, well
only you only can give you eighteen or seven, I'm like, yeah,
I can't do that anymore. I can't afford that. Now
if I had funding, I would have been able to
float that till I went and got other business to
compensate for that loss. So when I lost the contract,
guess who lost jobs? People like Aaron Clark who did
ten years in prison, young ladies who had jobs, who
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were in shelters that needed to be able to stick
in their program to say that we're getting work. People
are on probation that needed to be able to show
they had work. And then I still have regular folks,
people with PhDs that have just got laid off. Because
this was directly after a recession. So I hired from
across the board, a community business that hired that looked
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past records that Spurion or the city would not look past.
I did that, So it wasn't that it just hurt
me because I recovered, but not being an employer to
individuals that needed me, that needed a shot. This is
how it affected them. Put a five in thee chat
if it's making sense. So as you're listening to people
on these podcasts, as you're listening to people on these
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radio who may be doing very well, who may be wealthy,
asked a couple of things. Have they ever had a
government contract? Do they know anything about how this works.
Don Mooney, I've set on his board for years. He
owns down Mooney Enterprises and Nurses, et cetera forty million
dollar company, ultra conservative who has always said do for self. Well,
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mister Mooney, you came up under the eight A program
Meany of you may understand familiar with the A federal program.
It's a program that's basically like an apprenticeship that allows
you to partner with larger companies so that you can
scale up. One of the hardest things for black businesses,
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especially and small businesses is scale up. By the way,
that training is also available, guys, the ten things that
I learned in business business mistakes. That training is also
available on telimfergo dot com for twenty five bucks. It's
a video with me just about fifteen minutes. It's only
twenty five bucks. It has some downloadable downloadable materials as well.
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Just an fy. I did that because the Chamber is
enrolling a lot of their folks in just as an
FI a lot of their folks in the push to line,
So I'm giving them a two for one. Why am
I doing that, Cassie, Well, remember on the Save the
Shack and the secure. Remember number three is securing our nonprofits.
So my nonprofits, I've been partnering with them to get
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their members in to offer two for one, or how
can we get more of them involved, how can we
do it as a fundraiser to split the fees so
that a kickback goes to them. I believe in doing
stuff by action, not by talk. So if you know
a nonprofit, if you know a group that has five
or ten people and they want to do it as
a fundraiser, I'm also you know, offering them kickbacks on
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all of the enrollments so it goes directly back to them.
So they have a member and say, hey, we're it's
fifty bucks for the course, guys, but twenty five of
it goes directly back to us, or fifteen of it
or whatever it is. You know that I negotiate with them,
at least it goes right back to the organization. That's
what I mean when I say secure the nonprofits. So
now not only am I giving your members' resources to
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hopefully grow your organization, but we're also giving the money
right back to them. And that's another reason why. God,
I know I'm getting off course, but I just want
you guys, to know the movement that you're a part
of and why it's so important that I have your support.
I can only do these things when I'm doing virtual.
A lot of y'all want me to come in person.
It's just not feasibly. I can't afford to do it. Literally,
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three days to go out of town, ninety days of
marketing to get the amount of people we need in
the room, and to charge one hundred and fifty dollars
two hundred dollars per person to cover expenses and all
of that, I'll never get this training off the ground.
So Virtual allows the resources to come in and me
to put those resources back out to the community, and
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for us to have more people in the class, and
for me to be able to do it often and longer.
So please know that your investment is to a bigger cause,
much bigger than you and I and I appreciate it.
So with that said, guys, I wanted to give you
that rundown. If you have any questions, please ask them now.
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This is how we're gonna do straight shot, no chaser.
Every week, only ten people can get in the room.
I'm gonna do just like I did in my news bureau, guys,
look for the link. I am trying to do this
every Sunday, guys, but I'm terrible at it because I
just be traveling all the time and so much is
going on. But I always drop content every Thursday. I
will always you know, you're gonna get content regardless, but
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just be make sure you're in my news borrow so
you can get that link so that you can join me.
And I'm always open to you guys joining me, you know,
being in the chat with me, joining the show and
giving a shout out. Are there any shoutouts of any
businesses that I need to mention before I get out
of it, because I do want to thank you for
your time, guys, of coming over and just being in
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the chat with me, because it does make a difference
to make sure you know that I'm I'm answering any question.
So if there's no questions, if there's nothing else that
you have or okay, Gus, you want to know when
are you gonna discuss the Trump promise about cutting funds?
Are you talking to out the the housing? If you're
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talking about the housing, this is two thousand. His proposal
for that is twenty twenty six. I will do a
show just on that guys that did really, really well.
I did a twelve minute commentary on it. I think
I pretty much unpacked it, unless you have any additional questions,
but I pretty much unpacked it. But just in summary,
it is a proposal. It has not happened yet. They're
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talking about twenty twenty six. I'm letting people know because
right now I have two of my houses on Section
eight and they pay partial and I know and I've
seen how, you know, not showing up for inspections, not
being there, how they're doing anything to get people off
this program. And if you know anybody that's ever got
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any rental assistance, sometimes you have to wait for years
to get in the program. So I wanted to roll
that out now so that people can be making sure
that they are paying attention to rental assistance, sticking to
the guideline, sticking to you know, all the things that
you have to do, understanding this is not just about
lazy people. There's also disability. Is any program, any grant,
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any whatever, anything that supports anything they got to do
with rental that could possibly be on the line. Don't
listen to these people saying we're gonna be fine. Most
of the people to keep saying we'll be fine. These
content creators are rich guys. They're wealthy, and they sit
back and say, we're gonna be fine. Who is the
weed that the hell you're talking about? What way are
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you talking about if you don't know the answers to
give the people, I'd rather you just say that. But
stop just saying we're gonna be fine. Of course we're
gonna be fine. But this is not what this is about.
This is about giving you the information to make sure
that you're fine. This is about planning plan A, B, C, D.
So I'm giving people on that one a year heads
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up because as it's looking the current state of midterms,
I don't know about y'all, but it don't look like
Democrats is pushing online for me. So if they're not
pushing on line for men terms. And this is something
that Trump is proposing in twenty twenty six, it could
likely pass. And when people jump in the comments and
lie and say, oh, that's just giving it to the states,
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what are you talking about the federal A good portion
that come that the federal The sectionary is a federal program.
Just because the local LA housing authority manages. It doesn't
mean the money don't come from the federal level. So
you're getting money from the federal level and you're getting
money from a state level. So don't let these misinform
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people tell you that this ain't no big deal. It's
absolutely a big deal, especially for our disabled and our elderly.
So that what you're gonna hear them say is, oh,
they just saying able body people just need to get
in and get off in two years. Well, first of all,
what the term is able body? So let's first deal
with that. Number two, if you had a set back
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in your life, how many of you have turned it
around in two years with that a miracle? Let's really
talk about it, guys. When I left, I had a
business on top of my game. Health Care Forum knocked
us out the game in twenty thirteen of No. Twenty fourteen,
twenty fifteen, I went to go work on the campaign trail.
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My mother had cancer. She passed away in twenty sixteen.
I moved to Houston twenty seventeen. My old man got
paralyzed twenty seventeen, twenty eight. It took me all the
way back to twenty twenty to even be a little
bit profitable, and I'm probably with many of you consider
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her successful. That's being on national TV, that's happening shows
and connections and all of that. So I don't want
to hear this. And I got one child, ain't never
been on nobody's section, ain't nobody's federal or nothing. And
I have a great ex husband that is financially available, mentally, emotionally,
and physical. So I don't want to hear nothing about
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these people talking about two years turn around. They haven't
turned shit around in their life in two years. These
are a lot of people who are misery, y'all miserable,
and they feel like they since they had to go
through it, they want everybody else to go through it,
and their hearts have turned cold. That's the bottom line.
I don't want to mince no words around that. Or
because they didn't get the help, they don't want nobody
else to get the help. I don't want to mince
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no words around that. So that's about all I got
on it outside of the commentary. Go watch the twelve minutes.
If you got some additional questions, happy to answer, but
I laid it out pretty good in the twelve minutes.
All right, guys, that's been straight Shot No Chaser. I
hope you enjoy this new format. Put a five if
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you like this new format again Black Effect. I'm not
breaking any rules. It's just ten of us here in
this private recording. I hope that you guys can join
me again while I do it, because it does make
a big, big, big difference. I want you to continue
to support if you can, and I'm gonna close this out.
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Thank you, guys. We will be here every week, each
and every week until they lay my body down. Guys, please,
if you like what you heard on straight Shot No Chaser,
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