August 12, 2024 • 32 mins
Part Two with Memphis City Councilwoman Yolanda Sutton-Cooper and Deputy Treasurer Shelandra Y. Ford on The Bev Johnson Show on WDIA Radio.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome to the
WDIA The Rev. Johnson Show. It is indeed a pleasure
to have you with us once again on this Monday,
August twelfth, twenty twenty four. Enjoyed this fabulous day today,
get ready to put your ears on as we welcome
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in a special guest.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
She makes it.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
We'll talk to for the first time city council woman. Yeah,
she'll be in here, New City Council. We've never talked
with her before. We'll be talking with her. Councilwoman Yolanda
Coopler Sutton will be in to talk with us. Our
second hour, we'll ask the expert with our chiropractor, doctor
Bobby Martin. Martin Well Mayas will be in to talk
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with us this day. Get it together beb Johnson. Yeah,
we'll be talking with him. And as all ways, we
invite you to call nine zero one five three five,
nine three four two eight hundred five zero three nine
three four two eight three three five three five nine
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three four to two will get you in to us.
And if of this day, this Monday, August twelfth, twenty
twenty four, is your birthday, like my jive ass friend
Ronald Kent, senior us up run Kent. Happy birthday to
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my jive ass friend Renald kit It's also his anniversary
Ronald and Karen Kent forty five years. What you all, brother,
you old not me? Yeah, Happy birthday Ron Kent and
all of you all out there who may be celebrating
a birthday on this day. You know what we say.
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We say, go out and celebrate your life. You better,
you better, You better do that. You can hear me talking.
You better do that. My jive there is free and
I love Ryn Knt.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
We getting ready for the Southern Heritage Classic.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Get ready.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Coming up next we will talk to city council Woman
Yalanda Cooper Sutton will be with me Bev Johnson on
the Bev Johnson Show on w DIA.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yes, it is. That is the way of the world.
My guys, Avenue Blue, welcome into WDIA the Bev Johnson Show.
It is indeed a pleasure and a privilege to be
with you once again on this Monday, August twelfth, twenty
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twenty four. Enjoy this fabulous day to day. Hope you
had a fabulous weekend. Yeah, they had a fabulous week
in I'll tell you about it. But First, I'm excited
to have this sister in the house with me today,
the first time me meeting her, and what I've seen
so far far, I like it. I like it.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Want you to welcome in to WDA M the BEB
Johnson Show. City Councilwoman Yolanda Cooper Sutton, Good morning to you, sister.
How are you.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
I'm absolutely amazing.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
I tell the Lord, thank you and greetings greetings to
the entire WDA listeners.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Love, thank you for being here. Counselwoman Sounton, thank you,
thank you, thank you. I want to start off it's
a pleasure meeting you. I've been hearing you. I like
what you have to say. But for our listeners who
may not know, Counselwoman Yolanda Cooper Sutton, tell us a
little bit about yourself.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Well.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
First, I have been here in Memphis for twenty nine years.
I have been an activist, an advocate, quietly serving this city.
For the years that I've been in this city, I've
had many, many amazing job opportunities.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I've met many, many people.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
But what was so amazing was I guess I didn't
meet the cliques, as they may say here in Memphis.
I was not in the encircle, so I didn't have
a name that was known to them. But my name
was known to the Master, who was very important and
the only one who needed to know who I was
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for such a time as this.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
So this is why I'm here now.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I love it. Why, Councilwoman Suddon, you decided? Well, first,
before I asked that what is the district that you serve?
Speaker 6 (04:52):
I served Martavius Jones O Seed, which is Super District
eight three, which is half of Memphis.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
And I can go on.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
I serve over three hundred and fifteen thousand people, Okaven, Castelia, Parkway, Village,
Smoky City, a little of Binghampton, Hickory Hill, White Haven, Westwood,
Coral Lake, you name it, Downtown, Uptown, you name it.
That is part of super District eight district and whom
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we serve.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Oh wow wow. Why did you decide to run for
Memphis City council seat?
Speaker 6 (05:32):
It was not my decision, it was the creator's decision.
I had no interest in politics. I had no interest
in this position. It was a very small, still voice
that said you are over overgrown and now it's time
for you to step in. For all the times that
I've groomed you, all the experiences you've had so far,
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it is time. And so I'm here on a kingdom
assigned meant it's strictly kingdom business, nothing personal.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Oh wow, wow, I love that.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Since you've been on the city Council, I know you've
seen some lot of stuff that just ain't right, and
I'm curious to know to talk to me about what
are some of the things. I know, the biggest thing, councilwoman,
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that you all have been looking and trying to deal
with is this crime. I know that's about the biggest
thing that you all have been working on. How are
we coming with that?
Speaker 5 (06:40):
But I don't think the biggest thing is crime.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
I think the biggest thing is the disapportionation of how
this city has been ran over the last twenty years.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
So this is just not a crime issue.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
It's the way that prior administrations, past administrations have allowed
this to be ran. And so what has happened is,
as the old people say, where I come from, the
chicken has just come to roost. And so when you
take equality and fairness out of a place of a
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predominantly black city, this has been going on since King's
assassination and his mother, and so we are here now.
It's time to pay the piper for the things that
we have misused, manipulated, been dishonest, unfair and totally greedy
in so many different areas and aspect of this city.
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So this is why we are here now.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
So crime is.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
At it's all time high because of poverty, the neglect
of the black community, a city that is predominantly black.
So what do you expect when you have erased literally
try to erase us out of the equation. What do
you expect when you look at our children, when you
look at our education system, when you look at the
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wealth gap, when you look at growth, economic growth, what
do you expect to see to happen? And you see
the same group of people, the same.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
White people, growing and none of us, not any of us.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
We only just just get a little piece of the
pie and then we get satisfied and we sell out.
Black balling Black people are over. It's too much black balling.
It's been going on for years. I'm not saying anything
that's foreign to Memphis, Tennessee. I to be wells Fanny
lou Hamo, you understand me. So I'm not saying anything
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that's foreign.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
What happened.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
What has happened is this city and the black people
have been baboozled. We've been bamboozled over and over and
over and over.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
I have nothing to lose.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
I will not compromise my integrity, my morals, and what
I stand for. I am here on the Kingdom assignment
and I'm going to.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Tell the truth.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Bring truth with power, whether you like it or not.
I said it back in January the ninth. It's time
out for the stealing exposure.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Time is here.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
We're not asking for a Tesla or a Cadillac, but
we sure want something better than a flintstone.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Your sister, you know what. And councilwoman Son, I like
your spirit because you are quite right. I've seen in
my years living in Memphis those council people who were
afraid to speak up or like you said, we've had
some sellouts. We know, we know who they are. And
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I always get angry because we continue to vote those
same people in office who have been doing us wrong.
And you're absolutely right.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
So you're here.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I'm glad you're there to speak up and tell the truth.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
And so when you see the same behavior over and
over and over.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
What it has said to some of us here in
Memphis and across the world, because eyes are all on Memphis.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
We are psychotic.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
We keep putting the same people in the same positions,
and you keep getting the same results. I know his mama,
his mama was so and so, but he ain't his mother.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
I know his daddy and I went to school with
his dad is daddy. The first thing.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Memphians at, you native Memphians, is what school right? That
doesn't that's that's not important. Just like this last election,
we just went over it's it's it's it's an embarrassment.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
It was absolutely totally. Sometimes I just don't even have.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
The words to describe the actions and the behavior that
I see that is displayed in Memphis and over and
over and over again and again. But you expect different results,
and I keep hearing the same thing over and over
and over again.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
BEV.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
When I decided to run and I was able to
get out, I was told, in my face, nobody knows you.
You don't have enough name recognition, and I doubt it
very seriously if you win. And so my remark to
them those and they were you do what you.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Do, and I'm gonna do what I know to do.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
And it's all Hayes has worked me obeying God, the
Creator ya way, y'all, shoe of the Christ the best
of my ability, and I have not saw him yet
lose a case. And so that's why I am here,
and I'm here for the next four years. I'm not
preparing for the next four eight years. That's not my worry.
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My concern is living in the now. Governor Lee came
here and spoke to the Church of God in Christ,
all those black brothers sitting on that seat of power
and authority, and he said something that was so key,
and I think it went over their head because no
one had a rebuttal, no one made a remark. He
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told them, hope wasn't enough. You need strategy, You need
to strategize. There is no strategy. I haven't seen one
person with a strategy to come in with a strategy.
What they didn't see me coming, See I wasn't on
their radar. See he didn't allow them to see me coming.
He hid me for such a time as this. And
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so if you keep and if we keep allowing I'm
in the city Hall and I'm going through the offices
and I see people that's been there for twenty five
in thirty years, and you are not preparing to pass
the torture to someone younger, innovated.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
And then when they do come.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
With new innovated ideas and want to try something new,
the old regime mindset.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Is still there, and so we can't move forward. So
what do we do?
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Bath?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
What do we do?
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Memphis? What do we do Memphis? What do we do?
What changes? What are you going to do to make
it happen? So what are we're going to do? We
have the power.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
And what's so amazing is black folks ken in Memphis
have nailed down how to win an election, but they
ain't nailed down how to use their power and authority exactly.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
You are so correct.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
They nailed it down how to get out of here
and bamboozle us poor people and light of us constantly
on a regular basis. They have nailed it down how
to win elections, but they have not nailed down on
how to appropriate and how to use their power and authority, and.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Especially Councilwoman Sudden to help those people they represent.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
We go vote for him, You go vote for him
I ride around this city.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I work for it City of Memphis full time.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
The Father, the Creator allowed me to quit my full
time job, he said, because if you're gonna do it,
I need you to understand the full the fullness of it,
not half of it, but the fullness of it.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
When I see that Hickory.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Hill Parkway, Village, white Haven, Westwood, Oak Haven, Castelia, all
these communities, all these black communities, don't let me forget
about Orange Mound. Don't let me forget about the mound.
Forgive me if I didn't mention you out earlier the mound.
But you all know these communities, and they all look alike.
That was systemically and deliberately done. The other day, I
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wrote down Central, he said, rite down Central. I wrote
down Central, just writing, just observing. Their houses are beautiful,
their yards a manicud. I was able to look through
one house and I can see the mother loaves sweet
all the way through the backyard.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Did you hear what I say?
Speaker 7 (15:21):
I heard?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Did you hear me, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
But about time I got ready to turn and come
up airways to Lamar.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Huh, despair, hopelessness.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
We still trying to survive the eight to five and
nine to five, the can the cank trying to work.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
So you tell me, I want to know what they
doing different.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Give us the secret sauce that you got over there,
so we can bring it over here in our communities,
so our children canna have a good education. Make me
understand it. Make it make sense. You've made it made
sense to you. Make it make sense to us and
to me so we can prosper.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
So we can just have a little bit. We ain't
asking for much, just a little bit. Make it make sense.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
All your high players, your big ballers, your powers to be,
You're still everything that come your way, our way. They
have raped this city constantly, over and over for the
twenty nine years that I've watched, and I've set back,
and the more he gives me, the more I see
people here are so greedy. They're greedy so they keep
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the money in one part. And then our black politicians
that halfway make it just halfway halfway, sell us out
every time. Don't have the balls to stand up and
speak the truth and say enough is enough.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Bev yes, enough is enough. If y'all listening this morning
in house with me, is city Councilwoman Yolanda Cooper Sutton.
We are going to open up our phone lines. You
may have a question or two for her. Five three
five nine three four two is our number eight hundred
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five zero three nine three four two eight three three
five three five nine three four two will.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Get you in to us.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You're listening to double you d I A good morning
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and welcome back to w d I A. I'm BEV.
We are talking with this morning. City Councilwoman Yolanda Cooper Sutton, Councilwoman.
We're going to our phone lines to talk to some
of our listeners. Good morning to you, Steve.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Hello, my most beautiful lady African Radio Tennessee Radio Hall
of Fame Queens Beverley Elaine Johnson. This you bill.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Thank you Steve.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Oh real quick, let me say you shout out my
beautiful wife Angela Sidney had a ball with and real quick,
Happy be lady, birthday to Kimoja. This body's wife ball.
Excuse my friends book. Damn I like that, lady mission
Lord Bell know I ain't saying nothing, I never did it,
but you know, then of a sudden I can't vote
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due to me when I was younger. But I heard
Tooshall on Bell Show say, if you can't vote, take
seven people to the vote to the poll. I took kings.
You are fiery. I'm talking about Bell. That's the count
of politician we need right there. You know, I've never
never been a follower. She sounded like a leader. You know,
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name recognition, like you said, you got folks been in
there for years and years, and I ain't doing nothing.
They promise you everything in the world when they run it,
but once they get in office, you can't find them.
You can't see them. You see them out of their
parties and events and join they life. Miss Sutten, I
can tell you right now, if you well, when you
win re election next time you run, my whole family
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would be if I have to rent a bus and
post up somewhere and take people to.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
The ma'am I like you.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
You are fiery the if that is the politician we
need in this office, right and I ain't recognition. Don't
go along to get along. Do what you're supposed to do.
Bab Look, I know your line lit up like a
Christmas shoot. Everybody want to talk to this lady man. Look, Bell,
I pull, I'm on the way to get some game.
I pulled over the listening to this lady.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
She got me.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
You should Yeah, I wish you. I wish you the
longest leadership you can have. You are humble, You sound
like you're gonna get.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
The job done.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
You're not going along to get along. Bell. I just
had a call to say that to that lady.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Man.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
She an inspiration to me. And I know people listening
cause shem inspired. She inspired people. Hey Bill, that's my thing. Hey, sure,
I got you lot, Hey Bell. If I see you
had a ball that we get at the rocket ships
with their truck all day, I would have been up
there with you. Man, Lady, your sister got you a lot.
Thank you, Steve, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Bye bye, w D I a blantastic what's up? Norman?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
You already know what to say. I do, Norman, and Beb?
I tell you what how are you doing?
Speaker 7 (21:02):
First?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I'm doing well today. I'm doing well now.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I saw you all in your white looking all good
like you always do. Cut yourself up here. You better
watch out now, you better watch out. Now I'm married.
You better watch out, Beb. I know you do long
all right, Hey, Beb? You know when I say black tastic.
I mean what I say. I think you know that
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about now right right? I do, well, BEB, when I
tell you a picture an action of what black Black
Tastic ears, he said, right there, right there with you,
right there with you. I met that sister the first
time before she ran the office. I met her at
a Quansa celebration and she was up there talking. My
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first mind was she ain't gonna talk, and she's gonna
talk the rest of them. That was my first ugly mind.
But BEB, when I started listening to that sister, watching
when she won, and I started listening to her and
watching her on UH and to be going to the
meeting and watching her online, BEB. Everything she said she
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was gonna do bell she stepped right into it. She
didn't hesitate, she didn't bow down, She stepped into it.
And every time I watch her at DOTLE meeting, BEB,
I'm telling you, I'm on fire that girl. I'm sorry.
That sister is something else. When I tell you, and BEB,
not only that, not only that, she comes to every
community meeting we have at the Avenue, guess to show
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up that sister right just in front of you. Yes,
she does, she does and she means what she say
and she does exactly what she say. The only problem
that I have, and I said this to my sister,
How you doing, my sister?
Speaker 5 (22:41):
How you doing?
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Knowam?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
How are you you know?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I'm black? Jesse. You already know I do. I do, sir,
so so when I well, when I tell you and
so so this this is the only issue I have,
and not with you. But I'm just saying overall, you
and I've had this conversation before. When we know the truth,
and I know you believe that we speak the truth.
And here's the issue with us as a people. Here's
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why we keep voting in the same people over and
over again, Sinceni. I do know y'all understand. It's because
we trust, we believe, with seeking our hope and faith,
we're believing in trusting that our people are gonna do
what they say they're gonna do, only to find out
that they don't, and then we give them another chance,
and sadly enough, when they bring us a bag of
grosses or something foolish, they'll turn around and tell us
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they gonna do it again, and we vote for them again.
The truth is, here's what we need to really know
and understand who are the sellouts.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Who are the ones.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
That's lying to us and hurting us as politicians. We
need to know them by name so we can stop
this Buddhists keep voting them over and over and over again.
I know it's difficult to do that to your colleagues publicly,
but at some point we need to know because otherwise
we're gonna have faith and believe it and they gonna
lie to us and tell us they're doing all the
work when the truth is, is you doing the work.
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They just take credit for us us. They take credit
for the work that you do, and they're gonna build
on what they see you do, but they ain't doing
the damn thing. Come home, just lying to us. Now,
we got some good people up there. Don't misunderstand me.
I know we do without a self it out, but
they are those there who are white and black, and
then there are those who are Democrat and Republican who
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are selling us out. And it's time for it to end.
I'm so happy, sister, that you're finally here on this
bad Jeffer Show, because a lot of people all around
this country, not only in Memphis, is listening to you
and we can learn from you like we do with
doctor Harper, like we do with doctor Jeffers, and what
like we do with bebbists sharing with us about our
issues in our community. We will learn from you, whether
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it's in Memphis or not. So anyway, I just want
you to know I love your sister, and we need
to follow up on a couple of things that we
talked about, some community things. But listen, I love you girl,
a sister, and you keep that, keep that in your
heart and mind and keep us in prayer because we
need it. And bab I love you girl. I thank
you so much for all you do.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Thank you knowing I appreciate you. Bye bye, wda Hi cheese.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Woo.
Speaker 8 (25:07):
Beverly Elaine riding down the street, minding my own business,
and I've turned on your channel. Just haven't turned on
your channel, and I'm listening to this young lady say
things that gave me goosebumps. One of the things she
said that that absolutely blew my mind is that we
are the We are the majority in this city as
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far as African Americans are concerned, but we have yet
to grasp that concept that we can control with what
we need to control you're talking about over sixty five
percent of us are black, twenty percent are white, and
then there's others and all the foul things that are
going on in this city we turn the blind eye to.
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So you may or may not be aware of counsel woman,
but there's a manifesto that went out about this fire
chief that we have. This woman has turned this fire
department into her own business. She does what she wants
when she wants. And they're any African American to say anything,
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she'll fire, She'll disrupt your whole life. And they're an outcry.
And these brothers and sisters that are own a job
are looking for a safe haven like yourself, to say
what's going on, to tell you, guys, this ain't right.
You got that many African Americans in this city, but
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they don't have all those promotable spots. You got sixty
percent of the promotable spots, all of them if it's
fire department occupied by Caucasians, and the vast majority of
them that's done through favoritism, through sexual orientation, is out
of control to where the guys they're giving up. They
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don't have somebody who will listen to all the discrepancies
that are so painfully obvious. First things, First, you know,
how did this woman end up back? You know, you know,
you know at the five Chief again she served under
she served under strictly two times. There's no other you know,
I mean, there's no other director that has ever served
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more than two, you know, And so she ended again
like okay, they need a faithfully if everybody up top
needs to go and it needs to be hit, you know,
hitting on like a reset. You're taking care of people
and you're daring people just say something so you know,
like the counsel woman said, it is, it is absolutely
asinine that these boys and girls are going through that
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type of hell. But you want them to perform, You
want them to be worked. Don't call off sick, you know,
I mean, I want you to do what I tell
you do. Don't you worry about what I'm doing up here.
But uh yeah, you know, I hearried about this thing,
and I'm trying to get a copy of it myself
because what I heard that is it is absolutely a
blockbuster and it needs to be reported, you know, uh,
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you know city why so these boys and girls can
get some answers. That woman needs to go. That woman
absolutely needs to go.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
All right, chief, thank you, Chief counsel woman.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
You want to see anything, Thank you, Chief.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
I want to have it.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Yes, I want to have some coffee with you.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
Woman, I really do, thank you. I mean, I'm one person.
I'm one person. But if these boys and girls could
talk to you, they tell you what I'm hearing that
in that whatever it is, they would tell you it's true.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Well, the.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Bad they needed to send it.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
They have a thirteen member council members and so that
manifesto need to be sent to us.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
We represent the people. The people don't work for us.
We work for the people.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
But he has the thing though, the councilwoman, that don't
mean to cut you off. Yes, you know. So all
the eyes were on MPD with all the issues that
they were happy. No one looked at this fire department
like it could be a problem. It's been a problem when.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
You got achieved that that is blatant, you, you know, blatantly.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
Promoting white men and white women to positions that they
don't deserve. And the African Americans don't have a voice
now that with not with their union, not with their
black organizations, not amongst themselves because everybody is afraid to talk.
When you get rid of certain black men and certain
black women off the job, you know, you set the tone.
You scared everybody else.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
When you're totally correct your incut, I totally.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Concur and that's the atmosphere.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
I mean, it is totally concur. My goodness, because there's
there was a scare tactic, and you're exactly right. I
totally concur with you, sir.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
And I know we were limited because we have other
people on the line, but there there was a scare
tactic that set the presidents in this city. When they
were able to kill M. L. K. That was the
scare tactic for the for the whole entire Memphis, Tennessee.
They under that, so that that's the initial scare tactic.
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Did you hear what I say? For this man to
travel all over the world to be who he was,
but he was able to come to this place, Memphis, Tennessee,
and they were able to pull it off.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Speaks volumes, don't ever forget it.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
So that tactic, you know, if you ever got it,
you will get it. And please, please, please y'all do
some of those boys and girl they're working too hard.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
You thank you bye bye w D I a high Clyde.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Was little Bell Johnson.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
You got it, Clyde.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
I was listening to the show and when I heard
this young lady on the talking, I said, nah, And
we had more people in offense that spoke up Blacker
and thought Blacker from Memphis to be ran by the
majority of black.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
And you look how this city is being ran.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
I mean it's just the crme same.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
You know you and they know who.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
They keep voting the same people back in off of
thell You ain't got at You ain't got to sit
there and realize what that person's doing for your neighborhood
or for your shit. All you got to do is
just look when they get in an office, and they
need to and they need to keep the churches out
of the politics. You know what they preacher, if he
invite that person to the church, that's who they gonna
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vothe us so and and like I said, Bell, it's
a crime.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Shame Bell Johnson.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
But like she said, when she ride through certain neighborhoods
and she.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
See how good it looks, then you can you can,
you can, you can go a little further and see
how it started getting tore up on the floor up.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
I bought my.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
Cousin down there to see the Sash Museum Bell and
once we once we pasd Stash Museum Bell, it was
a crime shine.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
And when my auntie stayed over there back in the day,
that was a beautiful neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
When I stayed over there, my folks stayed over there
back in the day, it was a beautiful neighborhood. I
stayed run the corner.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
My auntie stayed at Oo to Loosen, right across from
Areta Franklin Old House, And there was a beautiful neighbor
And you look, I went through that last time, took
my family through that. I was really ashamed to take
them down there.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, you're right. Well, thank you, Clyde. You're right, Clyde.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Yeah, take care, take care of you too.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
W D I a Prince of the jos. Let me
get prince of the jo.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I love the way you say my name, Say my name,
say my name.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Why are you doing love?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I'm doing
Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome to the
WDIA The Rev. Johnson Show. It is indeed a pleasure
to have you with us once again on this Monday,
August twelfth, twenty twenty four. Enjoyed this fabulous day today,
get ready to put your ears on as we welcome
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in a special guest.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
She makes it.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
We'll talk to for the first time city council woman. Yeah,
she'll be in here, New City Council. We've never talked
with her before. We'll be talking with her. Councilwoman Yolanda
Coopler Sutton will be in to talk with us. Our
second hour, we'll ask the expert with our chiropractor, doctor
Bobby Martin. Martin Well Mayas will be in to talk
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with us this day. Get it together beb Johnson. Yeah,
we'll be talking with him. And as all ways, we
invite you to call nine zero one five three five,
nine three four two eight hundred five zero three nine
three four two eight three three five three five nine
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three four to two will get you in to us.
And if of this day, this Monday, August twelfth, twenty
twenty four, is your birthday, like my jive ass friend
Ronald Kent, senior us up run Kent. Happy birthday to
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my jive ass friend Renald kit It's also his anniversary
Ronald and Karen Kent forty five years. What you all, brother,
you old not me? Yeah, Happy birthday Ron Kent and
all of you all out there who may be celebrating
a birthday on this day. You know what we say.
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We say, go out and celebrate your life. You better,
you better, You better do that. You can hear me talking.
You better do that. My jive there is free and
I love Ryn Knt.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
We getting ready for the Southern Heritage Classic.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Get ready.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Coming up next we will talk to city council Woman
Yalanda Cooper Sutton will be with me Bev Johnson on
the Bev Johnson Show on w DIA.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yes, it is. That is the way of the world.
My guys, Avenue Blue, welcome into WDIA the Bev Johnson Show.
It is indeed a pleasure and a privilege to be
with you once again on this Monday, August twelfth, twenty
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twenty four. Enjoy this fabulous day to day. Hope you
had a fabulous weekend. Yeah, they had a fabulous week
in I'll tell you about it. But First, I'm excited
to have this sister in the house with me today,
the first time me meeting her, and what I've seen
so far far, I like it. I like it.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Want you to welcome in to WDA M the BEB
Johnson Show. City Councilwoman Yolanda Cooper Sutton, Good morning to you, sister.
How are you.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
I'm absolutely amazing.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
I tell the Lord, thank you and greetings greetings to
the entire WDA listeners.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Love, thank you for being here. Counselwoman Sounton, thank you,
thank you, thank you. I want to start off it's
a pleasure meeting you. I've been hearing you. I like
what you have to say. But for our listeners who
may not know, Counselwoman Yolanda Cooper Sutton, tell us a
little bit about yourself.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Well.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
First, I have been here in Memphis for twenty nine years.
I have been an activist, an advocate, quietly serving this city.
For the years that I've been in this city, I've
had many, many amazing job opportunities.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I've met many, many people.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
But what was so amazing was I guess I didn't
meet the cliques, as they may say here in Memphis.
I was not in the encircle, so I didn't have
a name that was known to them. But my name
was known to the Master, who was very important and
the only one who needed to know who I was
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for such a time as this.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
So this is why I'm here now.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I love it. Why, Councilwoman Suddon, you decided? Well, first,
before I asked that what is the district that you serve?
Speaker 6 (04:52):
I served Martavius Jones O Seed, which is Super District
eight three, which is half of Memphis.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
And I can go on.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
I serve over three hundred and fifteen thousand people, Okaven, Castelia, Parkway, Village,
Smoky City, a little of Binghampton, Hickory Hill, White Haven, Westwood,
Coral Lake, you name it, Downtown, Uptown, you name it.
That is part of super District eight district and whom
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we serve.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Oh wow wow. Why did you decide to run for
Memphis City council seat?
Speaker 6 (05:32):
It was not my decision, it was the creator's decision.
I had no interest in politics. I had no interest
in this position. It was a very small, still voice
that said you are over overgrown and now it's time
for you to step in. For all the times that
I've groomed you, all the experiences you've had so far,
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it is time. And so I'm here on a kingdom
assigned meant it's strictly kingdom business, nothing personal.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Oh wow, wow, I love that.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Since you've been on the city Council, I know you've
seen some lot of stuff that just ain't right, and
I'm curious to know to talk to me about what
are some of the things. I know, the biggest thing, councilwoman,
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that you all have been looking and trying to deal
with is this crime. I know that's about the biggest
thing that you all have been working on. How are
we coming with that?
Speaker 5 (06:40):
But I don't think the biggest thing is crime.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
I think the biggest thing is the disapportionation of how
this city has been ran over the last twenty years.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
So this is just not a crime issue.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
It's the way that prior administrations, past administrations have allowed
this to be ran. And so what has happened is,
as the old people say, where I come from, the
chicken has just come to roost. And so when you
take equality and fairness out of a place of a
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predominantly black city, this has been going on since King's
assassination and his mother, and so we are here now.
It's time to pay the piper for the things that
we have misused, manipulated, been dishonest, unfair and totally greedy
in so many different areas and aspect of this city.
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So this is why we are here now.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
So crime is.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
At it's all time high because of poverty, the neglect
of the black community, a city that is predominantly black.
So what do you expect when you have erased literally
try to erase us out of the equation. What do
you expect when you look at our children, when you
look at our education system, when you look at the
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wealth gap, when you look at growth, economic growth, what
do you expect to see to happen? And you see
the same group of people, the same.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
White people, growing and none of us, not any of us.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
We only just just get a little piece of the
pie and then we get satisfied and we sell out.
Black balling Black people are over. It's too much black balling.
It's been going on for years. I'm not saying anything
that's foreign to Memphis, Tennessee. I to be wells Fanny
lou Hamo, you understand me. So I'm not saying anything
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that's foreign.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
What happened.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
What has happened is this city and the black people
have been baboozled. We've been bamboozled over and over and
over and over.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
I have nothing to lose.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
I will not compromise my integrity, my morals, and what
I stand for. I am here on the Kingdom assignment
and I'm going to.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Tell the truth.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Bring truth with power, whether you like it or not.
I said it back in January the ninth. It's time
out for the stealing exposure.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Time is here.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
We're not asking for a Tesla or a Cadillac, but
we sure want something better than a flintstone.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Your sister, you know what. And councilwoman Son, I like
your spirit because you are quite right. I've seen in
my years living in Memphis those council people who were
afraid to speak up or like you said, we've had
some sellouts. We know, we know who they are. And
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I always get angry because we continue to vote those
same people in office who have been doing us wrong.
And you're absolutely right.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
So you're here.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I'm glad you're there to speak up and tell the truth.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
And so when you see the same behavior over and
over and over.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
What it has said to some of us here in
Memphis and across the world, because eyes are all on Memphis.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
We are psychotic.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
We keep putting the same people in the same positions,
and you keep getting the same results. I know his mama,
his mama was so and so, but he ain't his mother.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
I know his daddy and I went to school with
his dad is daddy. The first thing.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Memphians at, you native Memphians, is what school right? That
doesn't that's that's not important. Just like this last election,
we just went over it's it's it's it's an embarrassment.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
It was absolutely totally. Sometimes I just don't even have.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
The words to describe the actions and the behavior that
I see that is displayed in Memphis and over and
over and over again and again. But you expect different results,
and I keep hearing the same thing over and over
and over again.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
BEV.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
When I decided to run and I was able to
get out, I was told, in my face, nobody knows you.
You don't have enough name recognition, and I doubt it
very seriously if you win. And so my remark to
them those and they were you do what you.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Do, and I'm gonna do what I know to do.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
And it's all Hayes has worked me obeying God, the
Creator ya way, y'all, shoe of the Christ the best
of my ability, and I have not saw him yet
lose a case. And so that's why I am here,
and I'm here for the next four years. I'm not
preparing for the next four eight years. That's not my worry.
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My concern is living in the now. Governor Lee came
here and spoke to the Church of God in Christ,
all those black brothers sitting on that seat of power
and authority, and he said something that was so key,
and I think it went over their head because no
one had a rebuttal, no one made a remark. He
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told them, hope wasn't enough. You need strategy, You need
to strategize. There is no strategy. I haven't seen one
person with a strategy to come in with a strategy.
What they didn't see me coming, See I wasn't on
their radar. See he didn't allow them to see me coming.
He hid me for such a time as this. And
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so if you keep and if we keep allowing I'm
in the city Hall and I'm going through the offices
and I see people that's been there for twenty five
in thirty years, and you are not preparing to pass
the torture to someone younger, innovated.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
And then when they do come.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
With new innovated ideas and want to try something new,
the old regime mindset.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Is still there, and so we can't move forward. So
what do we do?
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Bath?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
What do we do?
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Memphis? What do we do Memphis? What do we do?
What changes? What are you going to do to make
it happen? So what are we're going to do? We
have the power.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
And what's so amazing is black folks ken in Memphis
have nailed down how to win an election, but they
ain't nailed down how to use their power and authority exactly.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
You are so correct.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
They nailed it down how to get out of here
and bamboozle us poor people and light of us constantly
on a regular basis. They have nailed it down how
to win elections, but they have not nailed down on
how to appropriate and how to use their power and authority, and.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Especially Councilwoman Sudden to help those people they represent.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
We go vote for him, You go vote for him
I ride around this city.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I work for it City of Memphis full time.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
The Father, the Creator allowed me to quit my full
time job, he said, because if you're gonna do it,
I need you to understand the full the fullness of it,
not half of it, but the fullness of it.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
When I see that Hickory.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Hill Parkway, Village, white Haven, Westwood, Oak Haven, Castelia, all
these communities, all these black communities, don't let me forget
about Orange Mound. Don't let me forget about the mound.
Forgive me if I didn't mention you out earlier the mound.
But you all know these communities, and they all look alike.
That was systemically and deliberately done. The other day, I
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wrote down Central, he said, rite down Central. I wrote
down Central, just writing, just observing. Their houses are beautiful,
their yards a manicud. I was able to look through
one house and I can see the mother loaves sweet
all the way through the backyard.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Did you hear what I say?
Speaker 7 (15:21):
I heard?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Did you hear me, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
But about time I got ready to turn and come
up airways to Lamar.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Huh, despair, hopelessness.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
We still trying to survive the eight to five and
nine to five, the can the cank trying to work.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
So you tell me, I want to know what they
doing different.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Give us the secret sauce that you got over there,
so we can bring it over here in our communities,
so our children canna have a good education. Make me
understand it. Make it make sense. You've made it made
sense to you. Make it make sense to us and
to me so we can prosper.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
So we can just have a little bit. We ain't
asking for much, just a little bit. Make it make sense.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
All your high players, your big ballers, your powers to be,
You're still everything that come your way, our way. They
have raped this city constantly, over and over for the
twenty nine years that I've watched, and I've set back,
and the more he gives me, the more I see
people here are so greedy. They're greedy so they keep
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the money in one part. And then our black politicians
that halfway make it just halfway halfway, sell us out
every time. Don't have the balls to stand up and
speak the truth and say enough is enough.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Bev yes, enough is enough. If y'all listening this morning
in house with me, is city Councilwoman Yolanda Cooper Sutton.
We are going to open up our phone lines. You
may have a question or two for her. Five three
five nine three four two is our number eight hundred
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five zero three nine three four two eight three three
five three five nine three four two will.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Get you in to us.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You're listening to double you d I A good morning
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and welcome back to w d I A. I'm BEV.
We are talking with this morning. City Councilwoman Yolanda Cooper Sutton, Councilwoman.
We're going to our phone lines to talk to some
of our listeners. Good morning to you, Steve.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Hello, my most beautiful lady African Radio Tennessee Radio Hall
of Fame Queens Beverley Elaine Johnson. This you bill.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Thank you Steve.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Oh real quick, let me say you shout out my
beautiful wife Angela Sidney had a ball with and real quick,
Happy be lady, birthday to Kimoja. This body's wife ball.
Excuse my friends book. Damn I like that, lady mission
Lord Bell know I ain't saying nothing, I never did it,
but you know, then of a sudden I can't vote
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due to me when I was younger. But I heard
Tooshall on Bell Show say, if you can't vote, take
seven people to the vote to the poll. I took kings.
You are fiery. I'm talking about Bell. That's the count
of politician we need right there. You know, I've never
never been a follower. She sounded like a leader. You know,
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name recognition, like you said, you got folks been in
there for years and years, and I ain't doing nothing.
They promise you everything in the world when they run it,
but once they get in office, you can't find them.
You can't see them. You see them out of their
parties and events and join they life. Miss Sutten, I
can tell you right now, if you well, when you
win re election next time you run, my whole family
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would be if I have to rent a bus and
post up somewhere and take people to.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
The ma'am I like you.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
You are fiery the if that is the politician we
need in this office, right and I ain't recognition. Don't
go along to get along. Do what you're supposed to do.
Bab Look, I know your line lit up like a
Christmas shoot. Everybody want to talk to this lady man. Look, Bell,
I pull, I'm on the way to get some game.
I pulled over the listening to this lady.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
She got me.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
You should Yeah, I wish you. I wish you the
longest leadership you can have. You are humble, You sound
like you're gonna get.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
The job done.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
You're not going along to get along. Bell. I just
had a call to say that to that lady.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Man.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
She an inspiration to me. And I know people listening
cause shem inspired. She inspired people. Hey Bill, that's my thing. Hey, sure,
I got you lot, Hey Bell. If I see you
had a ball that we get at the rocket ships
with their truck all day, I would have been up
there with you. Man, Lady, your sister got you a lot.
Thank you, Steve, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Bye bye, w D I a blantastic what's up? Norman?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
You already know what to say. I do, Norman, and Beb?
I tell you what how are you doing?
Speaker 7 (21:02):
First?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I'm doing well today. I'm doing well now.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I saw you all in your white looking all good
like you always do. Cut yourself up here. You better
watch out now, you better watch out. Now I'm married.
You better watch out, Beb. I know you do long
all right, Hey, Beb? You know when I say black tastic.
I mean what I say. I think you know that
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about now right right? I do, well, BEB, when I
tell you a picture an action of what black Black
Tastic ears, he said, right there, right there with you,
right there with you. I met that sister the first
time before she ran the office. I met her at
a Quansa celebration and she was up there talking. My
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first mind was she ain't gonna talk, and she's gonna
talk the rest of them. That was my first ugly mind.
But BEB, when I started listening to that sister, watching
when she won, and I started listening to her and
watching her on UH and to be going to the
meeting and watching her online, BEB. Everything she said she
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was gonna do bell she stepped right into it. She
didn't hesitate, she didn't bow down, She stepped into it.
And every time I watch her at DOTLE meeting, BEB,
I'm telling you, I'm on fire that girl. I'm sorry.
That sister is something else. When I tell you, and BEB,
not only that, not only that, she comes to every
community meeting we have at the Avenue, guess to show
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up that sister right just in front of you. Yes,
she does, she does and she means what she say
and she does exactly what she say. The only problem
that I have, and I said this to my sister,
How you doing, my sister?
Speaker 5 (22:41):
How you doing?
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Knowam?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
How are you you know?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I'm black? Jesse. You already know I do. I do, sir,
so so when I well, when I tell you and
so so this this is the only issue I have,
and not with you. But I'm just saying overall, you
and I've had this conversation before. When we know the truth,
and I know you believe that we speak the truth.
And here's the issue with us as a people. Here's
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why we keep voting in the same people over and
over again, Sinceni. I do know y'all understand. It's because
we trust, we believe, with seeking our hope and faith,
we're believing in trusting that our people are gonna do
what they say they're gonna do, only to find out
that they don't, and then we give them another chance,
and sadly enough, when they bring us a bag of
grosses or something foolish, they'll turn around and tell us
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they gonna do it again, and we vote for them again.
The truth is, here's what we need to really know
and understand who are the sellouts.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Who are the ones.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
That's lying to us and hurting us as politicians. We
need to know them by name so we can stop
this Buddhists keep voting them over and over and over again.
I know it's difficult to do that to your colleagues publicly,
but at some point we need to know because otherwise
we're gonna have faith and believe it and they gonna
lie to us and tell us they're doing all the
work when the truth is, is you doing the work.
(23:58):
They just take credit for us us. They take credit
for the work that you do, and they're gonna build
on what they see you do, but they ain't doing
the damn thing. Come home, just lying to us. Now,
we got some good people up there. Don't misunderstand me.
I know we do without a self it out, but
they are those there who are white and black, and
then there are those who are Democrat and Republican who
(24:19):
are selling us out. And it's time for it to end.
I'm so happy, sister, that you're finally here on this
bad Jeffer Show, because a lot of people all around
this country, not only in Memphis, is listening to you
and we can learn from you like we do with
doctor Harper, like we do with doctor Jeffers, and what
like we do with bebbists sharing with us about our
issues in our community. We will learn from you, whether
(24:40):
it's in Memphis or not. So anyway, I just want
you to know I love your sister, and we need
to follow up on a couple of things that we
talked about, some community things. But listen, I love you girl,
a sister, and you keep that, keep that in your
heart and mind and keep us in prayer because we
need it. And bab I love you girl. I thank
you so much for all you do.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Thank you knowing I appreciate you. Bye bye, wda Hi cheese.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Woo.
Speaker 8 (25:07):
Beverly Elaine riding down the street, minding my own business,
and I've turned on your channel. Just haven't turned on
your channel, and I'm listening to this young lady say
things that gave me goosebumps. One of the things she
said that that absolutely blew my mind is that we
are the We are the majority in this city as
(25:30):
far as African Americans are concerned, but we have yet
to grasp that concept that we can control with what
we need to control you're talking about over sixty five
percent of us are black, twenty percent are white, and
then there's others and all the foul things that are
going on in this city we turn the blind eye to.
(25:52):
So you may or may not be aware of counsel woman,
but there's a manifesto that went out about this fire
chief that we have. This woman has turned this fire
department into her own business. She does what she wants
when she wants. And they're any African American to say anything,
(26:12):
she'll fire, She'll disrupt your whole life. And they're an outcry.
And these brothers and sisters that are own a job
are looking for a safe haven like yourself, to say
what's going on, to tell you, guys, this ain't right.
You got that many African Americans in this city, but
(26:32):
they don't have all those promotable spots. You got sixty
percent of the promotable spots, all of them if it's
fire department occupied by Caucasians, and the vast majority of
them that's done through favoritism, through sexual orientation, is out
of control to where the guys they're giving up. They
(26:54):
don't have somebody who will listen to all the discrepancies
that are so painfully obvious. First things, First, you know,
how did this woman end up back? You know, you know,
you know at the five Chief again she served under
she served under strictly two times. There's no other you know,
I mean, there's no other director that has ever served
(27:16):
more than two, you know, And so she ended again
like okay, they need a faithfully if everybody up top
needs to go and it needs to be hit, you know,
hitting on like a reset. You're taking care of people
and you're daring people just say something so you know,
like the counsel woman said, it is, it is absolutely
asinine that these boys and girls are going through that
(27:39):
type of hell. But you want them to perform, You
want them to be worked. Don't call off sick, you know,
I mean, I want you to do what I tell
you do. Don't you worry about what I'm doing up here.
But uh yeah, you know, I hearried about this thing,
and I'm trying to get a copy of it myself
because what I heard that is it is absolutely a
blockbuster and it needs to be reported, you know, uh,
(27:59):
you know city why so these boys and girls can
get some answers. That woman needs to go. That woman
absolutely needs to go.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
All right, chief, thank you, Chief counsel woman.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
You want to see anything, Thank you, Chief.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
I want to have it.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Yes, I want to have some coffee with you.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
Woman, I really do, thank you. I mean, I'm one person.
I'm one person. But if these boys and girls could
talk to you, they tell you what I'm hearing that
in that whatever it is, they would tell you it's true.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Well, the.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Bad they needed to send it.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
They have a thirteen member council members and so that
manifesto need to be sent to us.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
We represent the people. The people don't work for us.
We work for the people.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
But he has the thing though, the councilwoman, that don't
mean to cut you off. Yes, you know. So all
the eyes were on MPD with all the issues that
they were happy. No one looked at this fire department
like it could be a problem. It's been a problem when.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
You got achieved that that is blatant, you, you know, blatantly.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
Promoting white men and white women to positions that they
don't deserve. And the African Americans don't have a voice
now that with not with their union, not with their
black organizations, not amongst themselves because everybody is afraid to talk.
When you get rid of certain black men and certain
black women off the job, you know, you set the tone.
You scared everybody else.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
When you're totally correct your incut, I totally.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Concur and that's the atmosphere.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
I mean, it is totally concur. My goodness, because there's
there was a scare tactic, and you're exactly right. I
totally concur with you, sir.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
And I know we were limited because we have other
people on the line, but there there was a scare
tactic that set the presidents in this city. When they
were able to kill M. L. K. That was the
scare tactic for the for the whole entire Memphis, Tennessee.
They under that, so that that's the initial scare tactic.
(30:01):
Did you hear what I say? For this man to
travel all over the world to be who he was,
but he was able to come to this place, Memphis, Tennessee,
and they were able to pull it off.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Speaks volumes, don't ever forget it.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
So that tactic, you know, if you ever got it,
you will get it. And please, please, please y'all do
some of those boys and girl they're working too hard.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
You thank you bye bye w D I a high Clyde.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Was little Bell Johnson.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
You got it, Clyde.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
I was listening to the show and when I heard
this young lady on the talking, I said, nah, And
we had more people in offense that spoke up Blacker
and thought Blacker from Memphis to be ran by the
majority of black.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
And you look how this city is being ran.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
I mean it's just the crme same.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
You know you and they know who.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
They keep voting the same people back in off of
thell You ain't got at You ain't got to sit
there and realize what that person's doing for your neighborhood
or for your shit. All you got to do is
just look when they get in an office, and they
need to and they need to keep the churches out
of the politics. You know what they preacher, if he
invite that person to the church, that's who they gonna
(31:17):
vothe us so and and like I said, Bell, it's
a crime.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Shame Bell Johnson.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
But like she said, when she ride through certain neighborhoods
and she.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
See how good it looks, then you can you can,
you can, you can go a little further and see
how it started getting tore up on the floor up.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
I bought my.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
Cousin down there to see the Sash Museum Bell and
once we once we pasd Stash Museum Bell, it was
a crime shine.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
And when my auntie stayed over there back in the day,
that was a beautiful neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
When I stayed over there, my folks stayed over there
back in the day, it was a beautiful neighborhood. I
stayed run the corner.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
My auntie stayed at Oo to Loosen, right across from
Areta Franklin Old House, And there was a beautiful neighbor
And you look, I went through that last time, took
my family through that. I was really ashamed to take
them down there.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, you're right. Well, thank you, Clyde. You're right, Clyde.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Yeah, take care, take care of you too.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
W D I a Prince of the jos. Let me
get prince of the jo.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I love the way you say my name, Say my name,
say my name.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Why are you doing love?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I'm doing
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