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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's been another busy news week and we like to
review the major stories of the week here on the bin.
Today we are joined by bi in News anchors Alexandria,
Ikimoni and Ray Harris to discuss this week's major stories.
This is the QR Code and I am ramses job
all right, Alexandria and Ray, welcome back to the show.
(00:21):
H Ray, why don't we let you go?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
First? Man?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
What's the latest and the greatest?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Trying to stay out of trouble, trying to stay out
for but all is good. I heard that.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I am mad at you, Alexandria, talk to me.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Just another day in paradise, never a dull, boring day.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
But we are here and we keep moving forward.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I love it, I love it all right. First up,
during a recent press conference, House Minority Speaker ha Keen
Jeffries revealed how fellow Republican members of Congress responded to
news that his life had been threatened by someone pardoned
by the President. Unfortunately, his revelation paints a sad picture
on the current state of politics in our country. Alexandria,
let's start today's show off with you. Time was more
(01:00):
about the story, and then Ray we'll get your thoughts next.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
How's Minority Speaker Hakeem Jeffrey said that not one Republican
and leadership in Congress or the White House resounded him
after a man was pardoned by President Donald Trump. So
this man, his name is Christopher moyni Hun and he
said he was going to eliminate. That was the word
he used, Jeffries, and he was arrested for those threats.
(01:26):
But the backstory to this man is that he was
previously involved in the January sixth, twenty twenty Capitol riot.
He pled guilty and then was ordered to spend twenty
one months in prison. But that was all before he
was pardoned by President Trump. So after all, this of
course not a good situation. No matter who you are
or what position you are in, it's never a good feeling, obviously,
(01:50):
to get death threats from someone. I think with the news,
we see it more times than not, and it can
become a situation where I don't want to say normal,
but you are used to hearing those kind of stories.
But that is something serious and scary for the person.
So I can only imagine how he felt. And then
to have not one single Republican reach out to him
(02:12):
after that, just to say something was disheartening. Are we surprised.
I'll leave that up to you.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, Ray your thoughts. Elsa's long rems is Attorney General
Pam Bondi, President Trump, Democratic State Rep. Melissa Horton and
her husband were killed. State Senator John Hoffman and his
wife were shot in Minnesota. Two staff members from the
(02:39):
Israeli Embassy and DC were killed. As a lot of
political pundits indicate and have talked about in recent months,
the political temperature is too high and it needs to
be brought down on both sides of the aisle. And
it seems like some people or just you know, taking
(03:03):
this far, taking it too far, and claiming lives as
a result of it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I know there's a lot of people that are not
pleased with Hakim Jeffries right now, and to your point,
a lot of those people can be found on either
side of the aisle. But the failure to take something
like this seriously, the failure to heed the temperature, as
(03:33):
you put it, of our current political climate, the failure
to condemn these sorts of threats, because people make credible threats,
you know they were plotting or this person was plotting
to assassinate Hakim Jefferies at a speaking event, if I'm
not mistaken, So it would have been something on par
(03:53):
with what happened with Charlie Kirk or any other political
assassination that was widely platformed. I guess is the word
I'm looking for. I think that Republicans are so up,
you know, elected Republicans are so upright now, that it's
hard for them to see themselves in a moment like this.
(04:16):
They could easily see themselves in a moment like what
happened to Charlie Kirk. But yeah, it's a sad reality
that we're in. And despite people's you know, potential disappointment
and the performance of Hakim Jeffreys, I would imagine that
and it had this been a different time in our country,
had the political temperature not been so high, it would
(04:39):
have been a much bigger story because more people would
have stepped forward to condemn it, uncovering a political assassination
plot to you know, assassinate the House minority speaker. That
would have been a big deal once upon a time.
And we have to sort of just brush this off
and move. It's a sad time to live in, but
(05:03):
here we are. And this is not only on the
national level. This is also on a local level too,
And I'm sure Alexandria can bounce off on this because
state leaders, school board members, civic leaders, you know in cities.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
When you have police officers posted up at a school
board meeting, there's a problem in this country. Yeah, and
it definitely needs to be addressed.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I definitely agree. Yeah, I was going to make sure
that you had a chance to weigh in there, but yeah,
you're not wrong. I was covering a story recently about
Moms for Liberty, and the reason that police need to
be at the school board meetings is because Moms for
Liberty will often have proud boys at their meetings, intimidating
(05:57):
people from the community who need to show up vote
on these school board meetings, and the proud boys will
intimidate people so that they don't enter, so that they
don't cast their vote. And so we have a malitia
serving one facet of this country's political beliefs, the MAGA movement,
and police having to keep them from doing anything, you know,
(06:20):
because police are actually allowed to carry weapons into a
school zone. But yeah, the political temperature is just too high.
I think you put it best when you said it
that way, and you know it results in things like this,
and to be fair, things that happened to Charlie Kirk.
But I want to make sure that we understand I
have to be responsible here that it is well documented
(06:46):
that the right in this country, the political right in
this country, is the source of the vast majority of
political violence and the left is not. And so I
don't want to give undue weight to, you know, the
(07:08):
political left, because that's not the source of the bulk
of the violence. The vast majority comes from the right
in this country. They feel like it's their country, they
have the guns, they feel that in sense of entitlement,
as you could probably imagine the Conservative Party that wants
to go back to a time when they had it better,
you know, they that sense of entitlement, and yeah, we
(07:30):
know what that's about. So, and a related story, it's
been four years since the nation's capital was attacked and
the pardon leader of the organization involved with the January
sixth riots, recently spoke on the future of the Oathkeepers.
Right this time, that's start with you tell us more
about the comments made by Stuart Rhodes, and then Alexandria
will get your thoughts after Stuart Rhoades.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Was one of those gentlemen among the many hundreds who
stormed the Capitol on January sixth. He was sentenced an
American court system to eighteen years in prison for orchestrating
that event, but he's since been pardoned by guess who,
(08:10):
President Trump. Now, he is saying that the Oathkeepers, which
is a white supremacist group based out of the North
but has grown tremendously in recent years, is equal to
the KKK of the South, which a lot of people
(08:31):
can relate to because the KKK has been more widely
publicized in recent years compared to the oath Keepers as
of late. But Rose says the oath Keepers are organized
and ready, and he's once again talenting the point that
they're ready to serve under Trump's personal as Trump's personal
(08:54):
militia and whatever he needs them to do. They are
quote unquote and buy and ready.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Alexandrea, Yeah, I feel like Ray kind of hit this
on the head because it baffles me that, you know,
they say quote ready to Sarah, I just want to
emphasize those words one more time. But I mean, during
the trip of administration. These groups do feel like they
have more power and they are in bolden So this
(09:23):
is another example of that that empowerment that they feel
that they do have. So yeah, there's there's just so
much to impact here with this organization, and not just
this one. There are others out there with the same
sentiments and the same mindset that are becoming more and
more on the forefront, if you will, making themselves known.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Proud Boys and Nazis, the kuklus Land didn't go anywhere,
are still around. And then just far right radicalize white
men in general, religious leaders, you name it. So the
(10:08):
world is less safe for those of us who are
not straight Christian white males.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It's really sad, and.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I think the worst part is that this individual, I
don't want to say his name again, but he was
the first person that Donald Trump pardon. And I see
the strategy because the Oathkeepers and the Proud Boys and
now Ice all served as malicious personal malicious for the president. Normally,
(10:43):
when you have a force like this, an organized call
it a policing force, military adjacent force. Normally, these forces
are beholden to the Constitution of the United States of
America as interpreted by the Supreme Court. And now what
(11:09):
you have is a obviously biased Supreme Court as a
conservative bias Trump Maga biased Supreme Court. How we got here, Well,
I know how we got here, but that's a different conversation.
But we have groups that are loyal to the president,
not to the Constitution. And these people are they've been
(11:35):
indoctrinated with far right, all of them ICE agents too
far right and at best, far right leaning, indoctrination, talking points,
bullet points. They're not they're not facts, they're I was
(11:58):
talking to Amy Horwitz and he said something about you
can tease the or you can torture the data to
say whatever you wanted to say. And a lot of
what it is that these people base their ideologies, their
justification for failing to see not just their fellow countrymen,
(12:22):
but fellow human beings as such, is because of the
indoctrination that is found in the right, on the far right,
under the MAGA movement. Things that have been parroted by
Trump and his cronies, things reparroted by Charlie Kirk and
you know, Ben Shapiro and for a long time Tucker Carlson,
and still a lot of it by Tucker Carlson. This
(12:44):
the great replacement theory. Things like this, this notion that
this is supposed to be a white Christian country and
somehow the one hundred million Native Americans that lived here
prior to white people ever setting foot on the shore,
God wanted white people to exterminate the population in this
(13:06):
land already, the indigenous population population. We were always and
forever meant to be second class citizens. Slavery was not
this country's great sin. And while slavery is hard to implement,
at this point, the second class citizenship should be reinstated
(13:31):
for us, for women, certainly for Hispanic people.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
You know, they're.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
You know, yeah, we've been othered along with Muslims, and
I mean we've always been othered, but but yeah, and
it's people like this that Donald Trump is unleashed back
into the public because they make his idea, his version
of America safer.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
And I think.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
That that should tell everybody everything they need to know
about whether or not this president or is racist, because
he's he's always getting defended. What has he done that's racist?
This is racist? You know, I don't like using that
word when it when it clearly upsets people and causes
(14:22):
them to disengage from the conversation. But when you unleash
racist militias on the people of the country that are
bonafide white supremacist groups, that's not my understanding or interpretation
of it. You could look at any ADL, NAACP, anybody
else who you know tracks these sorts of things, and
(14:44):
they'll tell you exactly what this is. You look at
their own marketing materials, you can look at their own
social media, you can look at all the stuff that
they share, all the stuff that they believe. For Donald
Trump to use them as a personal militia, you know,
with the boys, stand back and stand by to release
them from prison and again unleash them on the American population.
(15:08):
They're not disproportionately affecting negatively at least affecting white Christian
strait men. It's affecting us and protecting their leader from
people that would question him. So yeah, sad State, Hey.
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Harris are here with us discussing this week's major stories.
During a recent stop on her book tour, former Vice
President Kamala Harris shared her thoughts about her perceived disconnect
(16:15):
between the Democratic Party and one of its strongest voter bases,
black women. Alexandria, let's go back to you tell us
more about this story, and then Ray will get.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Your thoughts next. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
So, former Vice President Kamala Harris said the Democratic Party
quote took black women for granted.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
End quote.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
She was talking in regards to the twenty twenty four election.
It's reported, actually that she wrote about this in her book.
The book is titled One hundred and seven Days, and
it suggested that the Democratic Party, her party, ignored issues
affecting black women, during the actual presidential campaign. An example
she gave of that was health needs like fireboys research,
(16:55):
postpartum care, and maternity support. There are a wide range
that matter to black women. But that's one of the
examples that she did give just to kind of own
it on what lacked, if you will, from her perspective.
And I will also say, in case people don't know,
the book one hundred and seven Days, it details her
time during her short presidential campaign, and she released that
(17:17):
book just a couple of months ago.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Keyword to Alexandria is short presidential campaign. And she has
always said since that campaign has ended that she would
do things totally differently if she had that opportunity to
do everything again. So and if you've noticed, as she's
making her runs on this book tour, she has not
(17:44):
ruled out a twenty twenty eight run, And a lot
of political pundits say, yes, she will target black women
and campaign to black women, but she's also would probably
reach out a lot harder to Latinos if she were
to wear on again in twenty twenty eight. So that's
going to be interesting a perspective to watch in reference
(18:07):
to the former vice president.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah, and I can see in the primary her and
Gavin Newsom, which is a little sad because I'd like
to see a presidency with her and I'd like to
see a presidency with Gavin Newsom. But I think that
(18:30):
kind of pitting those two against each other, at least
in my mind, creates a divide that we don't really
need right now. It's it feels like kind of a
repeat of you know, Bernie and.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Hillary Clinton, and you know.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
These two great figures in that party going pitted against
each other. I don't know, I don't love the idea
of that, but it feels like that's kind of what
we're pointing at. And as far as her saying the
Democratic Party has kind of overlooked black women, I think
(19:14):
that that sentiment is not reflected in the last election.
In terms of the exit polls, ninety two percent of
Black women voting for Kamala Harris. I think black women
were very much aligned in that regard Black men as well,
not to the extent of black women, but it was
(19:35):
eighty three percent black men voted for Kamala Harris, which again,
that's about as close to one hundred percent as you're
ever going to get from any population in this country.
But I think it's black women taking a step back
from politics in general, because it's black women that historically,
(19:57):
I've been doing the organizing, have been you know, doing
grassroots stuff, have been standing up and being consistent, all
that sort of stuff. And then when black women say,
you know what, y'all can have it, then we see
what the streets can become. And this is definitely, as
Q would say, the find out part of the story,
(20:20):
and the reason why the finding out is particularly painful
this go round, particularly harsh, unexpected. We're surprised every day.
My belief is that the reason for that is because
black women have collectively taken a step back and was like,
all right, there you go, you got it. Look And
(20:45):
on the one hand, I love that for black women,
and on the other I hope that people are able
to make the connection that it's not just Trump two
point zero, It's not just you know, Trump unleashed. It's well,
where's all the people that are supposed to be fighting back,
you know, the no Kings protest and all that sort
of stuff. It's more like a parade, people just getting
(21:06):
out and having a picnic.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I say famously on the show that I prefer protests
that agitate. They're more effective and it's more of a
show of strength and get some black women out there.
You know, in fact our next story that we're going
to get to, you know you kind of understand what
(21:30):
it means to be I want to say this right
because I love black women. You know, I come from
a black woman. I come from black women all the
way back. My sisters are black women. I believe a
(21:52):
protector of black women. My life is a testament to that.
And one thing that I know to be true is
that Black women have been strong when they deserve to
be soft, and them giving up their softness to be
strong to protect me and you, whoever you are listening
(22:15):
to this show is something that has been taken for
granted for far too long. And again, I don't think
anything embodies that truth better than this next story. So
let's end this week's show with some positive news about
two of the biggest voices.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
In our community.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Ray share with our audience some of the details on
our final story involving Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett and Charlemagne
the God, and then Alexandri will get your thoughts next
and round it out.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Ramses, I'm a company man, and this next story involves
a syndicated morning show, The Breakfast Club is based at
Power one oh five in New York and it is
broadcast on iHeart radio stations all over the nation and
on the Internet all over the world. Charlemagnea God is
(23:10):
one of those hosts on that show. He also has
a podcast called Hot and Bothered with Melissa Ford. In
recent weeks, he has made his voice known with hot
topics and politically charged comments, but he has recently praised
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Democratic state representative from Texas, African American Jasmine Crockett for
her outstanding leadership and he calls her the top messenger
for the Democratic Party. Missus. Crockett is very known for
standing up to President Trump and a lot of those
Republican state leaders in Texas and also in Washington. But
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Charlotte that God has faced criticism for talking about Donald Trump,
and Trump has called him a slee's bag and says
he has a low IQ. But Charlemagne the God has
stayed on the tracks and questioned a lot of things
(24:20):
that President Trump has done during his time in office,
and including he's questioning the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein
case and other promises that he's made to his base.
But he's holding people accountable and calling them out and
(24:41):
that's basically what this boils down to. And he's throwing
flowers out to state Representative Jasmine Crockett for her outstanding
leadership because she's speaking out as well on numerous issues
that's coming out of Washington, Exandia.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Yeah, just to focus on her for a quick second.
I mean, Jason Crockett is a woman who truly does
speak her mind, doesn't hold back, and I just want
to focus on really other people's response to typically what
she says as well. When you take a look, for example,
on social media on a platform like the Shade Room right,
and they post a little snippets of her standing her
(25:25):
ground and sing what she believes in. You just see
in the comments, so many people agree and support what
she's saying, and also agree and support her delivery as well,
because she is a very straightforward woman and make sure
you know the right is right from her perspective. So
it's just you know, seeing the amount of support and
(25:48):
the amount of love honestly from a lot of people
on social media who watch her and see what she's
doing is telling about how powerful her voice is and
how powerful her message is too as well.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yeah, well, you know, like I said, she's she's the
example of what black women look like when they're strong,
and she is a black woman that deserves to be soft.
(26:23):
I have the pleasure of knowing her. Whenever we're in
the same city, we usually will get together her along
with their chief of staff and you know, me and
Q and whoever it is that we're with, and she
always makes time for us. She talks to us, she's
been on the show, and her leadership, her fearlessness. You know,
(26:46):
this is kind of what is kind of missing from,
you know, the organizational layer of the political arena, because
black women really embody that spirit. And you know, Jasmine Crockett,
of course, as an elected official, can't take the same
(27:08):
step back that you know, black women who fought this
fight their whole lives have collectively taken.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I don't want to pay it too proud of a brush,
because I know some black women will never stop fighting.
But but I think Jasmine Crockett really embodies what the
strength looked like, what it can look like again. And
why not just Democrats, but everyone who believes in a
better America is missing from this moment, uh and why
(27:42):
things are sort of like off the rails. So yeah,
So that's my little, my little love story for black
women and for Jasmine crocket Man. You know, you can't
thank her enough for her bravery, and you know every
time we talk about her, it's a happy, happy, bright
(28:02):
moment for us. And as long as she keeps doing it,
we'll keep covering it. So with that in mind, I'd
like to thank you both, as always very much for
your time and your insight. Once again. Today's guest our
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our perspective, right here on the QR code
It's been another busy news week and we like to
review the major stories of the week here on the bin.
Today we are joined by bi in News anchors Alexandria,
Ikimoni and Ray Harris to discuss this week's major stories.
This is the QR Code and I am ramses job
all right, Alexandria and Ray, welcome back to the show.
(00:21):
H Ray, why don't we let you go?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
First? Man?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
What's the latest and the greatest?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Trying to stay out of trouble, trying to stay out
for but all is good. I heard that.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I am mad at you, Alexandria, talk to me.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Just another day in paradise, never a dull, boring day.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
But we are here and we keep moving forward.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I love it, I love it all right. First up,
during a recent press conference, House Minority Speaker ha Keen
Jeffries revealed how fellow Republican members of Congress responded to
news that his life had been threatened by someone pardoned
by the President. Unfortunately, his revelation paints a sad picture
on the current state of politics in our country. Alexandria,
let's start today's show off with you. Time was more
(01:00):
about the story, and then Ray we'll get your thoughts next.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
How's Minority Speaker Hakeem Jeffrey said that not one Republican
and leadership in Congress or the White House resounded him
after a man was pardoned by President Donald Trump. So
this man, his name is Christopher moyni Hun and he
said he was going to eliminate. That was the word
he used, Jeffries, and he was arrested for those threats.
(01:26):
But the backstory to this man is that he was
previously involved in the January sixth, twenty twenty Capitol riot.
He pled guilty and then was ordered to spend twenty
one months in prison. But that was all before he
was pardoned by President Trump. So after all, this of
course not a good situation. No matter who you are
or what position you are in, it's never a good feeling, obviously,
(01:50):
to get death threats from someone. I think with the news,
we see it more times than not, and it can
become a situation where I don't want to say normal,
but you are used to hearing those kind of stories.
But that is something serious and scary for the person.
So I can only imagine how he felt. And then
to have not one single Republican reach out to him
(02:12):
after that, just to say something was disheartening. Are we surprised.
I'll leave that up to you.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, Ray your thoughts. Elsa's long rems is Attorney General
Pam Bondi, President Trump, Democratic State Rep. Melissa Horton and
her husband were killed. State Senator John Hoffman and his
wife were shot in Minnesota. Two staff members from the
(02:39):
Israeli Embassy and DC were killed. As a lot of
political pundits indicate and have talked about in recent months,
the political temperature is too high and it needs to
be brought down on both sides of the aisle. And
it seems like some people or just you know, taking
(03:03):
this far, taking it too far, and claiming lives as
a result of it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I know there's a lot of people that are not
pleased with Hakim Jeffries right now, and to your point,
a lot of those people can be found on either
side of the aisle. But the failure to take something
like this seriously, the failure to heed the temperature, as
(03:33):
you put it, of our current political climate, the failure
to condemn these sorts of threats, because people make credible threats,
you know they were plotting or this person was plotting
to assassinate Hakim Jefferies at a speaking event, if I'm
not mistaken, So it would have been something on par
(03:53):
with what happened with Charlie Kirk or any other political
assassination that was widely platformed. I guess is the word
I'm looking for. I think that Republicans are so up,
you know, elected Republicans are so upright now, that it's
hard for them to see themselves in a moment like this.
(04:16):
They could easily see themselves in a moment like what
happened to Charlie Kirk. But yeah, it's a sad reality
that we're in. And despite people's you know, potential disappointment
and the performance of Hakim Jeffreys, I would imagine that
and it had this been a different time in our country,
had the political temperature not been so high, it would
(04:39):
have been a much bigger story because more people would
have stepped forward to condemn it, uncovering a political assassination
plot to you know, assassinate the House minority speaker. That
would have been a big deal once upon a time.
And we have to sort of just brush this off
and move. It's a sad time to live in, but
(05:03):
here we are. And this is not only on the
national level. This is also on a local level too,
And I'm sure Alexandria can bounce off on this because
state leaders, school board members, civic leaders, you know in cities.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
When you have police officers posted up at a school
board meeting, there's a problem in this country. Yeah, and
it definitely needs to be addressed.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I definitely agree. Yeah, I was going to make sure
that you had a chance to weigh in there, but yeah,
you're not wrong. I was covering a story recently about
Moms for Liberty, and the reason that police need to
be at the school board meetings is because Moms for
Liberty will often have proud boys at their meetings, intimidating
(05:57):
people from the community who need to show up vote
on these school board meetings, and the proud boys will
intimidate people so that they don't enter, so that they
don't cast their vote. And so we have a malitia
serving one facet of this country's political beliefs, the MAGA movement,
and police having to keep them from doing anything, you know,
(06:20):
because police are actually allowed to carry weapons into a
school zone. But yeah, the political temperature is just too high.
I think you put it best when you said it
that way, and you know it results in things like this,
and to be fair, things that happened to Charlie Kirk.
But I want to make sure that we understand I
have to be responsible here that it is well documented
(06:46):
that the right in this country, the political right in
this country, is the source of the vast majority of
political violence and the left is not. And so I
don't want to give undue weight to, you know, the
(07:08):
political left, because that's not the source of the bulk
of the violence. The vast majority comes from the right
in this country. They feel like it's their country, they
have the guns, they feel that in sense of entitlement,
as you could probably imagine the Conservative Party that wants
to go back to a time when they had it better,
you know, they that sense of entitlement, and yeah, we
(07:30):
know what that's about. So, and a related story, it's
been four years since the nation's capital was attacked and
the pardon leader of the organization involved with the January
sixth riots, recently spoke on the future of the Oathkeepers.
Right this time, that's start with you tell us more
about the comments made by Stuart Rhodes, and then Alexandria
will get your thoughts after Stuart Rhoades.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Was one of those gentlemen among the many hundreds who
stormed the Capitol on January sixth. He was sentenced an
American court system to eighteen years in prison for orchestrating
that event, but he's since been pardoned by guess who,
(08:10):
President Trump. Now, he is saying that the Oathkeepers, which
is a white supremacist group based out of the North
but has grown tremendously in recent years, is equal to
the KKK of the South, which a lot of people
(08:31):
can relate to because the KKK has been more widely
publicized in recent years compared to the oath Keepers as
of late. But Rose says the oath Keepers are organized
and ready, and he's once again talenting the point that
they're ready to serve under Trump's personal as Trump's personal
(08:54):
militia and whatever he needs them to do. They are
quote unquote and buy and ready.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Alexandrea, Yeah, I feel like Ray kind of hit this
on the head because it baffles me that, you know,
they say quote ready to Sarah, I just want to
emphasize those words one more time. But I mean, during
the trip of administration. These groups do feel like they
have more power and they are in bolden So this
(09:23):
is another example of that that empowerment that they feel
that they do have. So yeah, there's there's just so
much to impact here with this organization, and not just
this one. There are others out there with the same
sentiments and the same mindset that are becoming more and
more on the forefront, if you will, making themselves known.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Proud Boys and Nazis, the kuklus Land didn't go anywhere,
are still around. And then just far right radicalize white
men in general, religious leaders, you name it. So the
(10:08):
world is less safe for those of us who are
not straight Christian white males.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It's really sad, and.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I think the worst part is that this individual, I
don't want to say his name again, but he was
the first person that Donald Trump pardon. And I see
the strategy because the Oathkeepers and the Proud Boys and
now Ice all served as malicious personal malicious for the president. Normally,
(10:43):
when you have a force like this, an organized call
it a policing force, military adjacent force. Normally, these forces
are beholden to the Constitution of the United States of
America as interpreted by the Supreme Court. And now what
(11:09):
you have is a obviously biased Supreme Court as a
conservative bias Trump Maga biased Supreme Court. How we got here, Well,
I know how we got here, but that's a different conversation.
But we have groups that are loyal to the president,
not to the Constitution. And these people are they've been
(11:35):
indoctrinated with far right, all of them ICE agents too
far right and at best, far right leaning, indoctrination, talking points,
bullet points. They're not they're not facts, they're I was
(11:58):
talking to Amy Horwitz and he said something about you
can tease the or you can torture the data to
say whatever you wanted to say. And a lot of
what it is that these people base their ideologies, their
justification for failing to see not just their fellow countrymen,
(12:22):
but fellow human beings as such, is because of the
indoctrination that is found in the right, on the far right,
under the MAGA movement. Things that have been parroted by
Trump and his cronies, things reparroted by Charlie Kirk and
you know, Ben Shapiro and for a long time Tucker Carlson,
and still a lot of it by Tucker Carlson. This
(12:44):
the great replacement theory. Things like this, this notion that
this is supposed to be a white Christian country and
somehow the one hundred million Native Americans that lived here
prior to white people ever setting foot on the shore,
God wanted white people to exterminate the population in this
(13:06):
land already, the indigenous population population. We were always and
forever meant to be second class citizens. Slavery was not
this country's great sin. And while slavery is hard to implement,
at this point, the second class citizenship should be reinstated
(13:31):
for us, for women, certainly for Hispanic people.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
You know, they're.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
You know, yeah, we've been othered along with Muslims, and
I mean we've always been othered, but but yeah, and
it's people like this that Donald Trump is unleashed back
into the public because they make his idea, his version
of America safer.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
And I think.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
That that should tell everybody everything they need to know
about whether or not this president or is racist, because
he's he's always getting defended. What has he done that's racist?
This is racist? You know, I don't like using that
word when it when it clearly upsets people and causes
(14:22):
them to disengage from the conversation. But when you unleash
racist militias on the people of the country that are
bonafide white supremacist groups, that's not my understanding or interpretation
of it. You could look at any ADL, NAACP, anybody
else who you know tracks these sorts of things, and
(14:44):
they'll tell you exactly what this is. You look at
their own marketing materials, you can look at their own
social media, you can look at all the stuff that
they share, all the stuff that they believe. For Donald
Trump to use them as a personal militia, you know,
with the boys, stand back and stand by to release
them from prison and again unleash them on the American population.
(15:08):
They're not disproportionately affecting negatively at least affecting white Christian
strait men. It's affecting us and protecting their leader from
people that would question him. So yeah, sad State, Hey.
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Harris are here with us discussing this week's major stories.
During a recent stop on her book tour, former Vice
President Kamala Harris shared her thoughts about her perceived disconnect
(16:15):
between the Democratic Party and one of its strongest voter bases,
black women. Alexandria, let's go back to you tell us
more about this story, and then Ray will get.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Your thoughts next. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
So, former Vice President Kamala Harris said the Democratic Party
quote took black women for granted.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
End quote.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
She was talking in regards to the twenty twenty four election.
It's reported, actually that she wrote about this in her book.
The book is titled One hundred and seven Days, and
it suggested that the Democratic Party, her party, ignored issues
affecting black women, during the actual presidential campaign. An example
she gave of that was health needs like fireboys research,
(16:55):
postpartum care, and maternity support. There are a wide range
that matter to black women. But that's one of the
examples that she did give just to kind of own
it on what lacked, if you will, from her perspective.
And I will also say, in case people don't know,
the book one hundred and seven Days, it details her
time during her short presidential campaign, and she released that
(17:17):
book just a couple of months ago.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Keyword to Alexandria is short presidential campaign. And she has
always said since that campaign has ended that she would
do things totally differently if she had that opportunity to
do everything again. So and if you've noticed, as she's
making her runs on this book tour, she has not
(17:44):
ruled out a twenty twenty eight run, And a lot
of political pundits say, yes, she will target black women
and campaign to black women, but she's also would probably
reach out a lot harder to Latinos if she were
to wear on again in twenty twenty eight. So that's
going to be interesting a perspective to watch in reference
(18:07):
to the former vice president.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah, and I can see in the primary her and
Gavin Newsom, which is a little sad because I'd like
to see a presidency with her and I'd like to
see a presidency with Gavin Newsom. But I think that
(18:30):
kind of pitting those two against each other, at least
in my mind, creates a divide that we don't really
need right now. It's it feels like kind of a
repeat of you know, Bernie and.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Hillary Clinton, and you know.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
These two great figures in that party going pitted against
each other. I don't know, I don't love the idea
of that, but it feels like that's kind of what
we're pointing at. And as far as her saying the
Democratic Party has kind of overlooked black women, I think
(19:14):
that that sentiment is not reflected in the last election.
In terms of the exit polls, ninety two percent of
Black women voting for Kamala Harris. I think black women
were very much aligned in that regard Black men as well,
not to the extent of black women, but it was
(19:35):
eighty three percent black men voted for Kamala Harris, which again,
that's about as close to one hundred percent as you're
ever going to get from any population in this country.
But I think it's black women taking a step back
from politics in general, because it's black women that historically,
(19:57):
I've been doing the organizing, have been you know, doing
grassroots stuff, have been standing up and being consistent, all
that sort of stuff. And then when black women say,
you know what, y'all can have it, then we see
what the streets can become. And this is definitely, as
Q would say, the find out part of the story,
(20:20):
and the reason why the finding out is particularly painful
this go round, particularly harsh, unexpected. We're surprised every day.
My belief is that the reason for that is because
black women have collectively taken a step back and was like,
all right, there you go, you got it. Look And
(20:45):
on the one hand, I love that for black women,
and on the other I hope that people are able
to make the connection that it's not just Trump two
point zero, It's not just you know, Trump unleashed. It's well,
where's all the people that are supposed to be fighting back,
you know, the no Kings protest and all that sort
of stuff. It's more like a parade, people just getting
(21:06):
out and having a picnic.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I say famously on the show that I prefer protests
that agitate. They're more effective and it's more of a
show of strength and get some black women out there.
You know, in fact our next story that we're going
to get to, you know you kind of understand what
(21:30):
it means to be I want to say this right
because I love black women. You know, I come from
a black woman. I come from black women all the
way back. My sisters are black women. I believe a
(21:52):
protector of black women. My life is a testament to that.
And one thing that I know to be true is
that Black women have been strong when they deserve to
be soft, and them giving up their softness to be
strong to protect me and you, whoever you are listening
(22:15):
to this show is something that has been taken for
granted for far too long. And again, I don't think
anything embodies that truth better than this next story. So
let's end this week's show with some positive news about
two of the biggest voices.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
In our community.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Ray share with our audience some of the details on
our final story involving Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett and Charlemagne
the God, and then Alexandri will get your thoughts next
and round it out.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Ramses, I'm a company man, and this next story involves
a syndicated morning show, The Breakfast Club is based at
Power one oh five in New York and it is
broadcast on iHeart radio stations all over the nation and
on the Internet all over the world. Charlemagnea God is
(23:10):
one of those hosts on that show. He also has
a podcast called Hot and Bothered with Melissa Ford. In
recent weeks, he has made his voice known with hot
topics and politically charged comments, but he has recently praised
(23:34):
Democratic state representative from Texas, African American Jasmine Crockett for
her outstanding leadership and he calls her the top messenger
for the Democratic Party. Missus. Crockett is very known for
standing up to President Trump and a lot of those
Republican state leaders in Texas and also in Washington. But
(23:59):
Charlotte that God has faced criticism for talking about Donald Trump,
and Trump has called him a slee's bag and says
he has a low IQ. But Charlemagne the God has
stayed on the tracks and questioned a lot of things
(24:20):
that President Trump has done during his time in office,
and including he's questioning the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein
case and other promises that he's made to his base.
But he's holding people accountable and calling them out and
(24:41):
that's basically what this boils down to. And he's throwing
flowers out to state Representative Jasmine Crockett for her outstanding
leadership because she's speaking out as well on numerous issues
that's coming out of Washington, Exandia.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Yeah, just to focus on her for a quick second.
I mean, Jason Crockett is a woman who truly does
speak her mind, doesn't hold back, and I just want
to focus on really other people's response to typically what
she says as well. When you take a look, for example,
on social media on a platform like the Shade Room right,
and they post a little snippets of her standing her
(25:25):
ground and sing what she believes in. You just see
in the comments, so many people agree and support what
she's saying, and also agree and support her delivery as well,
because she is a very straightforward woman and make sure
you know the right is right from her perspective. So
it's just you know, seeing the amount of support and
(25:48):
the amount of love honestly from a lot of people
on social media who watch her and see what she's
doing is telling about how powerful her voice is and
how powerful her message is too as well.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yeah, well, you know, like I said, she's she's the
example of what black women look like when they're strong,
and she is a black woman that deserves to be soft.
(26:23):
I have the pleasure of knowing her. Whenever we're in
the same city, we usually will get together her along
with their chief of staff and you know, me and
Q and whoever it is that we're with, and she
always makes time for us. She talks to us, she's
been on the show, and her leadership, her fearlessness. You know,
(26:46):
this is kind of what is kind of missing from,
you know, the organizational layer of the political arena, because
black women really embody that spirit. And you know, Jasmine Crockett,
of course, as an elected official, can't take the same
(27:08):
step back that you know, black women who fought this
fight their whole lives have collectively taken.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I don't want to pay it too proud of a brush,
because I know some black women will never stop fighting.
But but I think Jasmine Crockett really embodies what the
strength looked like, what it can look like again. And
why not just Democrats, but everyone who believes in a
better America is missing from this moment, uh and why
(27:42):
things are sort of like off the rails. So yeah,
So that's my little, my little love story for black
women and for Jasmine crocket Man. You know, you can't
thank her enough for her bravery, and you know every
time we talk about her, it's a happy, happy, bright
(28:02):
moment for us. And as long as she keeps doing it,
we'll keep covering it. So with that in mind, I'd
like to thank you both, as always very much for
your time and your insight. Once again. Today's guest our
N News anchors Alexandria Acimoni and Ray Harris. This has
been a production of the bi In. Today's show is
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