September 8, 2024 • 32 mins
SoCal Heatwave Round-Up: · Heat wave brings power outages, record-breaking temps to Southern California · California’s extreme heat is a ‘silent disaster’ · SoCal is baking. Here's how to know the (crucial) difference between heat exhaustion and heat stroke. SoCal Heatwave Round-Up Cont’d: · Local beach closures · They went fast! The city of LA says signups for free AC units are now at full capacity · Here are the cooling centers open across Los Angeles during this week's heat wave · Bring home a furry friend: L.A. Animal Services is waiving pet adoption fees for 3 days. Also In SoCal: · Officials cracking down on child sex trafficking along Figueroa Corridor in South L.A. · L.A. homicides down slightly so far in 2024: report · California lawmakers vote to ban all plastic grocery bags · California moves to crack down on snacks like Flamin' Hot Cheetos, Takis · Nearly undetectable card skimmer found at Southern California gas station. Reparations in SoCal: After key reparations bills stall, California lawmakers say they’ll try again next year.
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Los Angeles, Orange County, I E in the Valley. This
is Tawala Sharp and you're listening to KFI AM six
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and the Palm Desert. This is soul Cal Saturday, on
this extremely hot day. Yours truly Twalas Sharp in with
you for the next couple of hours. If we survive.
Now it is cooler here in the studio this afternoon
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than it was last night. And you know, while I
was in with a mo Kelly for Lady with mo Kelly,
and I thought today was going to be a complete
and utter but it turns out where we're okay, We
are actually surviving here in the studio, even though let
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me check the temperature right now in uh like, it's
ninety nine right here in Birdbank. And let's see what
we're looking at the rest of this weekend. Ooh hot, okay, hot,
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doesn't matter, It's just going to be hot. And this
is something that I look at all the time. Right
Like on Friday, where I work at in Chatsworth, it
was like one hundred and fifteen for most of the day,
and I think to myself, it's one hundred and fifteen. Now,
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just think about four years from now, if we continue
on this trend, in all likelihood, we could have it
maybe one hundred and twenty On a given It's going
to get to the point where we are going to
become mole people. All right, we are going to have
to live underground to escape the harshness of the sun.
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And really, and truly, I mean this sun it's doing
who knows what level of damage out here. I know, Look,
I'm connecting things that may not be connected. But when
I'm walking into the studio, role told me that there
was what two earthquakes, Oh yeah, there was definitely two
earthquakes in Ontario. Scared me. Two earthquakes in Ontario. Had
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to check my short So I was like, whoa, Nancy, Look,
I am blaming that on the heat. I'm blaming that
on the weather. And this seriously right now for us
in southern California, this is becoming really a silent disaster
for us because on a typical or typically in years past,
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the death toll ranging from when it's gotten hot here
like this and socw we have like, you know, one
hundred two hundred in a typical year, but this past
year we have reached at least nationally heat related illnesses
and deaths are estimated now to be closer to thirteen
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hundred to seventeen hundred lives lost just two heat. Between
twenty thirteen and twenty twenty two, we had what some
four hundred sixty deaths over five thousand hospitalizations. This heat
is nothing to mess with here in southern California. And
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one thing that is really important to note and to know, actually,
one of one of the individuals that I work with
at the school, he was out walking his dog in
the morning and he literally passed out. He passed out
from the heat. He had no idea what was going on.
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He was being woken up by paramedics who were asking
him if he knew where he was, if he knew
what was going on. His dog is yapping crazy, and
he had no idea. He was just walking out, you know,
thought he was fine, he had his jug of water
or whatever, but the heat just got to him. It
just got to him and he wasn't even aware was happening.
So it is important that you know the difference between
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heat exhaustion and heat strokes. Okay, heat related illnesses are
absolutely preventable, and it is important that you know the
difference because, like say heat exhaustion versus heat stroke, the
difference is actually your life could be in danger when
it comes to heat stroke. Heat stroke is one of
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the most serious heat related illnesses according to the CDC,
and it's what happens when, like say, your body gets
so hot, it's just so hot outside and moving around
and say you just said, you know what, let me
get up this morning. We're gonna move this couch and
we'll be fine. We'll come back in and get a drink.
But you're out there, you're moving around, and all of
a sudden gets to the point where your body cannot
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cool down, your inner temperature cannot cool down. And that
is what happens when you have heat stroke. With the
typical signs are you won't be sweating even though you're
really really hot. You're gonna get a massive throbbing headache,
your pulse is going to speed way way up, confusion, slurred, speech, nausea.
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You'll likely be hot to the touch, slightly different than
a fever, just more like like like you may touch
your arm and you may be hot to the touch.
And if you are feeling any of these symptoms, call
nine to one one immediately. Heat stroke can result in
you actually dying versus the symptoms of heat exhaustion, which
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are very very similar, which is where you can feel faint,
ors it, dizzy, excessive sweating, cool pel clammy skin, and
they're gonna be nausea and vomiting and muscle crapness. But
with that you can just simply move to a cool
little location, start drinking some water, take a cool shower
if you can. But again with heat stroke, that is
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when you need to be hospitalized. You need to get
to a hospital asap, and nine to one one should
be the very first call that you make. Now, I know,
here in so Cow, we may think that the ideal
thing for us to do when it's hot like this
would be to head out to the beaches, maybe get
into the water. And I know, I know, I'm hard
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on the beaches. I'm hard on the beaches because we
have so much fetid poop in the water. But I'm
here to tell you that there are actually some other
ways that you can stay cool here in SoCal to
beat the heat. So on the other side of this break,
we will get into that book.
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Point and Santon Bernardino. This is soul Cal Saturday taking
a look at some things we can possibly do to
cool off in this insane heat wave. No, you cannot
go to the beach. You absolutely cannot go to the
beach and cool off in the water unless unless you
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don't mind swimming in filth, swimming in absolute filth. Mother's
Beach and Marina del Rey. The entire swim area filled
with well they're calling it just high bacteria levels due
to sewage. I call that poop in the water, all right.
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Los Floris Creek at Los Flora State Beach, the entire
swim area, Coconut Creek and Paradise Cove. The entire swim
area enter Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro the entire swim area.
And guess what these beaches don't have. They do not
have borders, they do not have walls. There is no
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line of demarcation that keeps the poop from flowing upstream.
So guess what, it's everywhere. Okay, it's everywhere. And no,
I'm not hating on ocean water anymore. Yes, I did
go on a cruise and I absolutely loved it my
very first cruise last weekend, which is why Tiffany Hobbs
was in the seat last weekend. But no, I would
not get off the cruise line and get into the
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ocean now because the water is absolutely grow tesque Marie
Can Storm drained at Porko Beach one hundred yards up
and down the coast from the public access steps, Rabiaz
Creek in Paradise Cove one hundred yards up and down
the coast, to Pega Canyon Beach in Malibu one hundred
yards up and down the coast. Everything is up in
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one hundred yards up and down the coast, or it's
the entire swim area telling you to stay out of
the water now. At one point there was this program
here at least in Los Angeles County where older Angelinos
were able to get help beating the heat with being
able to sign up for free portable air condition and
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now the sign up list is absolutely full. Okay. The
goal of this program was to serve people who are
over sixty years old and have fixed incomes and also
don't have sufficient air conditioning. But at least the city
was trying to do something. And yeah, unfortunately it is
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filled up. And I think, if I'm not mistaken, there
might be a few options or few opportunities where you
can still get some or get access to a few places.
But I don't know. We'll see maybe a super producer
ky that can look and see if there are any
qualifying locations where you can't pick anything up, and we'll
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put it on the website if there are. But there
actually are some cooling centers here on the south Land
where you can go and cool off and beat the heat.
There are five cooling centers that will be open a
weekly Tuesday through Friday. One is at the Fred Roberts
Recreation Center that's at forty seven hundred Hondura Street in
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Los Angeles. There is another at the Mid Valley Senior
Center that's at eighty eight or one Kester Avenue in
Panorama City. In Sunland at the Sunland Center, Sunland Senior
Center eighty six forty Fine Street, at the Jim Gilliam
Recreation Center that is at four thousand South Librea in
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Los Angeles, and at the Lincoln Heights Senior Center twenty
three to twenty three Workman Street in Los Angeles. Those
are some places where you can go and cool off
and believe it or not, I mean, okay, look, if
you work with the un housed, if you work with
the homeless, you can advise them to check out some
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of the cooling centers because this heat is extremely deadly,
extremely dangerous for those who don't have a place to
shelter from the heat. And one is on Town Street
between fifth and sixth Street, across from the refreshed spot.
Another is on San Pedro Street, mid block between six
and seventh Street. There's one on fifth and Maple Streets.
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And there's a refresh spot at five four four Town
Avenue that's open twenty four hours a day, seven days
a week. And those are for individuals who may be
homeless or maybe living on skid row. So if you
work anywhere in that area with trying to help those
who are un house. You have that information where you
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can try to assist and help someone out. And we
cannot forget our furry friends. We cannot forget that there
are bunches and bunches of animals in shelters looking for
a home, looking to get out of that heat, looking
to just find a new home. And so this week
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in the LA Animal Service Department is waving pet adoption fees.
That is right, the LA Animal Service centers that can
be found at West Valley two zero six five to
five Plumber Street and Chatsworth in West Los Angeles at
one one three six one West Pico Street, Chesterfield Square
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in South La, eighteen fifty West sixtieth Street in North
Central three two oh one Lacy Street in Harbor nine
five seven North Gaffey Street, and in the East Valley
one four four to nine Van Owen Street in Van Eys.
These will be waived at all of these centers today
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tomorrow and also on Tuesday, September tenth. According to a
post from the LA Animal Services, they will be waving
pet adoption fees. So if you can help one of
our free friends, one of our friends who had an
owner who maybe didn't want them anymore. If you have
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a pet, I encourage you to spare New Year pet
if you already haven't, to help control the pet population,
because it's not these pets faults that they are now
risking possible termination in some of these overcrowded shelter If
you can, please go and adopt a pet this weekend
and help them get out the heat as well. All right,
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This is soul col Saturday. I'm your host Twala Sharp.
Taking a look at some things happening officially here in
the south Land. Thing number one and thing that I
think is quite possibly one of the most important and
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long overdue, is officials cracking down on sex trafficking and
in general prostitution along the four figaro A corridor in
south central Now. Growing up, it was almost just known.
It was common knowledge that on Figaroa, any woman you
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see walking up and down the street is not lost.
Any woman walking up and down the street on Figaroa
is not on her way to work, No, she is.
She is wearing this next to naked outfit and waving
you down saying, hey, daddy, you're looking for some fun.
She's not trying to give you directions to Disneyland. Okay.
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She is a lady of the night. She is someone who,
as as we become more and more aware of how
women end up in those situations, someone who is being
trafficked lots of times. You know, you have women who
find themselves in the clutches of be it sex traffickers
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or pemps. You know, individuals who you know come at
you with a smile and next you know it's, oh,
you know, baby, we need to do this so we
can make some money real quick. And next you know,
you're out there every day. And I'm when I say
that right there, that whole reframe rate there, that's from experience.
I've actually watched someone do that. I know personally know
a rap artist who is known for pimping in I
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watched him pimp. I watched it happen and I said,
oh my god, this is insanity. I'm gonna tell you
off here who it was, Kayler, but Lord have mercy.
I have seen it and it is a heart wrenching
thing to see, and be it Supolvida Supovita Boulevard in
the valley. Let us not forget Suppolvita because Supovida should
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absolutely be included in this official crackdown on human trafficking.
US Attorney Martin Estrada is rolling out this plan with
quote better insight into human trafficking. It has become apparent
that LAPD could not handle this issue alone, and we
knew that we couldno arrest our way out of this
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problem end quote, because many sex traffickers in this area
are allegedly tied to gangs, and a lot of the
victims are young girls, and that is part of the problem,
and it's like that was allowing for this to happen.
So look, I'm glad that it's not just LAPD or
l LA sheriffs or social services that is working on
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getting these young ladies off of the streets and out
of harm's way. I'm glad that there is actually a
concerted effort happening here in the south Land to bring
an in to or help to curb sex trafficking in
those areas, something that is good to note, I guess
here in the Southland, well at least in Los Angeles,
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a new report is indicating that homicides are down, actually
down thus far in twenty twenty four, down a whole
six point two percent from this last year. All right,
so that is something to celebrate. Less homicides. Now we
know there's the crime seems to be just up, because
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every time I turn around, we are reporting on some
level of crime. But I think we're taking crime more serious.
I don't know. Maybe it's because we have a new
mayor who's focused on the city and trying to clean
the city up. But look, whatever it is, we are
absolutely moving in the right direction. There is a concerted
effort to get individuals off the street. There is a
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concerted effort to get women of the night back out
into the day. I don't know, to protect it however
you want to say it. And now there is a
decrease in homicide here in the south Land, what else
could happen? I mean, what more can we celebrate here
in the south Land?
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Oh?
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Oh oh? A ban on all plastic grocery bags, Okay,
come on, what are we doing here? All right? But
look right now, send a bill ten to fifty three
and Assembly bills twenty two to thirty six have officially passed,
making it not that I mean, I don't know if
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we can call it illegal, but it will make it
so that you can no longer get plastic grocery bags
when you are checking out at a store. Now, these
are those thicker bags, primarily like the ones you get
at say, Target or rouse, the ones that we use
for trash can liners or in incidents where like say,
where I've been sick in recent months or years whatever,
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my kids are sick bags to throw up in. That's
what we use them for, cleaning up the car, all
those different things. I don't think these bags go to waste.
I think they're at least used for helping us clean
up other things. But now those bags are going to
be gone. You will still be able to get those
kind of thin, thin bags that you get to put
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your produce in. I think you can still get those,
even those those aren't necessarily biodegradable, but plastic bags, plastic
bags are no more in Southern California or California in general.
Really just really all across California and something I can
absolutely applaud and I'm cheering, and I just I hope
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that this moves to just the state period. But California
legislators are moving to crack down on the ability for
students to get a hold of flaming hot Cheetos and
takis in school. They're looking to get these things out
of the vending machines all together. You will not be
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able to go and just get a bag of stomach
lining eroding chips anymore. And I'm only saying that because
my son who had a fixation on these damn takies,
he was eating them all the time. Ulcers that was
the result. Ulcers were the result. So you know, flaming
hot cheelers and takis can defend it all they want,
but these things are doing no kid any good. And
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I'm glad that Assembly Bill twenty three sixteen has been
sent to Governor Newsom's office to get these things removed
from schools. Removed from schools period. Now again, we have
to look at the schools too. We have to look
at the schools and say, hey, why does a bill
need to be passed for you to get those ridiculous
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snacks out of your vending machines. But you know, I
don't know. I guess the money that they were getting
from from the Freedom Lay company for flaming hot cheetles.
It's just too much. But now these things will be gone,
absolutely gone. Oh and I don't know why this is
called my eye, but every time I go to a
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gas station, and I don't know if you do this
as well, but I check the card reader like I
check if the card reader is lose, I look and
see if it looks like it's been messed with or
anything like that. Because when I first became aware of
card skimmers here in southern California, I think it was
like two years ago, maybe even last year, we reported
on a growing number of card skimmers being found at
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gas stations. After that, every time I go to a
gas station, I'm like checking the machine, and sometimes if
I can't just you know, tap my card, I won't
get gas at that gas station. At the times when
you know, I really need to get some gas and
I gotta insert my card or I'll just go inside
the station. But there are some new, nearly undetectable card
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skimmers that have been found at gas stations in Orange County.
And these are next level card skimmers, all right, and
these things are ridiculous. They are racking up some billion
dollars a year scamming you, crooks, getting your information. So look,
when you go to a gas station, if you have
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to insert your card, make sure you give the card
reader a little tug. Look if it looks like it's
been recently installed, Like say, if the card reader looks
brand new but the pump old. Things like that should
be a dead giveaway. Do not let yourself fall victim
to card skimmers and scammers and the flim flammers. All right,
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favorite subject in yours reparations. I am six forty live
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This is soul Cal Saturday. And I know from all
of your many talkback messages that you have left how
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in tune you are with me and the subject of
reparations and the reparations bills here in Socao. I mean,
all your messages of love and of encouragement. I mean,
even though it's said lots of times with an angry, snide,
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foul mouth, sometimes racist tent. I know that you're just
expressing love in a different way when you criticize my
discussions of reparations or the reparations bills here in southern California.
But I know it is such a popular topic and
such a popular subject that I have to make sure
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I bring you the latest every single time something comes up.
And this thing that's come up, this bit of news
that's come up, it's not something that I'm actually surprised by.
I really can't say that I'm surprised that the reparations
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bill in its current iteration has actually stalled on the
Senate floor. Okay, And right now, I know African American
lawmakers and reparation advocates are saying that that they will
be fighting hard to reintroduce this bill next year, and
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I know I know for a fact that they will.
But it's the reasons why it failed. I think is
just something that those of us who have been looking
at the development of the bill, just you know, from
the comfort of our couches, so to speak, an armchair
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bill drafting thing, we could see. We could see that
this was not going to happen, just because this bill
on the surface, it's a bill that they are trying
to push uphill with roller skates on. And that's just
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how hard it is. And I'm not saying that something
should not be done to make those descendants of individuals
here in southern California that were absolutely and positively impacted
by slavery here and how that connected here in southern
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California by way of redlining, by way of denial of loans,
by way of unjust laws being drafted, and all types
of things that I'm not talking direct slavery, because many
people will say that was no slavery in California. The
effects of yeah, and that is what a lot of
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the bill was trying to correct here in southern California.
And I think initially the pushback on the reparations bill
had everything to do with the idea of financial reparations.
And then as you know, the reparations committees and those
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who were in charge of drafting the legislation, started pushing
it around and kind of looking at what to do.
A lot of what they came up with was ways
to even the playing field, even the playing field, and
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that is what the task force was studying. They were studying,
you know, ways to to I guess, yeah, I guess
that's just basically how you do it to atone for
the fallout of the systemic racism that was passed down
from slavery, all right, and you know, from making it
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easier to get home loans or getting away a lot
of the legislation and the writing and banking that makes
it so hard for individuals of African American descent to
get a home or college loans or business loans, things
like that, Changing changing zoning and changing different laws so
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that different schools and different areas can get more funding
to make it easier for individuals to get into school.
Things like that. That is when the Reparations Bill started
picking up steam again. And that is when it was like, hey,
you know what, we absolutely positively can make this happen.
And it's not to say that the bill is done.
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It's really not that the bill is not done. It's
not dead on the floor. It wasn't kicked back, and
the individuals we were drafting were told that nothing could
be done. No, no, no, no, absolutely not by taking
the bill back to ground one and readdressing the California legislature.
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I mean, from Assembly Member Lourie Wilson on down to
Senator Stephen Bradford, who were some of the key individuals
in charge of introducing this legislation. The fight's not over,
so to speak, The fight's not over. The fight has
only just begun in trying to make people whole here
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in southern California. And again, for the life of me,
I can never understand why there was so much pushback
for just the idea. I mean even before the bill
was passed, that there are individuals who were up in
arms about just the very idea of reparation. Just saying
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the word. It was almost like you were banning them,
you know, banning southern California to or dooming Southern California
to go into Hell in a handbasket. It's like, no,
how about California be one of the first states to
make recompense to uh, to the people of this country
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who were denied denied a fair shake, denied a fair shake,
And and that's what this is about. So hopefully, hopefully
next year they will come back to the drawing board,
hopefully sending bail. Fourteen oh three will will absolutely see
the light of day. And and you know, he at
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one point, I never thought that we would ever ever
ever see an African American president. But then comes Barack Obama.
You know, yes, Kala salutes yes. So things like this
can't happen to me. That taught me to never say never.
That taught me that absolutely positively, yes we can. We
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absolutely can. So I mean, hell, I'm on the radio
all right, coming up at the top of the next hour,
we are going to get into right. So if you
have a daughter, then you have spent a goodly amounts
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of money on clothing you have, okay, and this isn't
my son. Look, you damn amer can wear the same
thing every single day. He doesn't really care about my daughter.
She wears stuff. And then I'm like picking her up
in the morning and it's a I'm trying to hurry
even get ready. I'm like, well, just put something on.
I can't because this doesn't go with this. So that
doesn't look and then she says, has all these clothes
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that that you can no longer wear, that don't fit this, that,
and the other. Well, there is actually legislation here in
Southern California that may require the fashion industry to take
some of these clothing items back from you for free. Yes,
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we are going to get into that and so much
more so, don't you go nowhere, Keep it right here.
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and the Palm Desert. This is soul Cal Saturday, on
this extremely hot day. Yours truly Twalas Sharp in with
you for the next couple of hours. If we survive.
Now it is cooler here in the studio this afternoon
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than it was last night. And you know, while I
was in with a mo Kelly for Lady with mo Kelly,
and I thought today was going to be a complete
and utter but it turns out where we're okay, We
are actually surviving here in the studio, even though let
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me check the temperature right now in uh like, it's
ninety nine right here in Birdbank. And let's see what
we're looking at the rest of this weekend. Ooh hot, okay, hot,
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doesn't matter, It's just going to be hot. And this
is something that I look at all the time. Right
Like on Friday, where I work at in Chatsworth, it
was like one hundred and fifteen for most of the day,
and I think to myself, it's one hundred and fifteen. Now,
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just think about four years from now, if we continue
on this trend, in all likelihood, we could have it
maybe one hundred and twenty On a given It's going
to get to the point where we are going to
become mole people. All right, we are going to have
to live underground to escape the harshness of the sun.
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And really, and truly, I mean this sun it's doing
who knows what level of damage out here. I know, Look,
I'm connecting things that may not be connected. But when
I'm walking into the studio, role told me that there
was what two earthquakes, Oh yeah, there was definitely two
earthquakes in Ontario. Scared me. Two earthquakes in Ontario. Had
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to check my short So I was like, whoa, Nancy, Look,
I am blaming that on the heat. I'm blaming that
on the weather. And this seriously right now for us
in southern California, this is becoming really a silent disaster
for us because on a typical or typically in years past,
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the death toll ranging from when it's gotten hot here
like this and socw we have like, you know, one
hundred two hundred in a typical year, but this past
year we have reached at least nationally heat related illnesses
and deaths are estimated now to be closer to thirteen
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hundred to seventeen hundred lives lost just two heat. Between
twenty thirteen and twenty twenty two, we had what some
four hundred sixty deaths over five thousand hospitalizations. This heat
is nothing to mess with here in southern California. And
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one thing that is really important to note and to know, actually,
one of one of the individuals that I work with
at the school, he was out walking his dog in
the morning and he literally passed out. He passed out
from the heat. He had no idea what was going on.
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He was being woken up by paramedics who were asking
him if he knew where he was, if he knew
what was going on. His dog is yapping crazy, and
he had no idea. He was just walking out, you know,
thought he was fine, he had his jug of water
or whatever, but the heat just got to him. It
just got to him and he wasn't even aware was happening.
So it is important that you know the difference between
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heat exhaustion and heat strokes. Okay, heat related illnesses are
absolutely preventable, and it is important that you know the
difference because, like say heat exhaustion versus heat stroke, the
difference is actually your life could be in danger when
it comes to heat stroke. Heat stroke is one of
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the most serious heat related illnesses according to the CDC,
and it's what happens when, like say, your body gets
so hot, it's just so hot outside and moving around
and say you just said, you know what, let me
get up this morning. We're gonna move this couch and
we'll be fine. We'll come back in and get a drink.
But you're out there, you're moving around, and all of
a sudden gets to the point where your body cannot
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cool down, your inner temperature cannot cool down. And that
is what happens when you have heat stroke. With the
typical signs are you won't be sweating even though you're
really really hot. You're gonna get a massive throbbing headache,
your pulse is going to speed way way up, confusion, slurred, speech, nausea.
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You'll likely be hot to the touch, slightly different than
a fever, just more like like like you may touch
your arm and you may be hot to the touch.
And if you are feeling any of these symptoms, call
nine to one one immediately. Heat stroke can result in
you actually dying versus the symptoms of heat exhaustion, which
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are very very similar, which is where you can feel faint,
ors it, dizzy, excessive sweating, cool pel clammy skin, and
they're gonna be nausea and vomiting and muscle crapness. But
with that you can just simply move to a cool
little location, start drinking some water, take a cool shower
if you can. But again with heat stroke, that is
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when you need to be hospitalized. You need to get
to a hospital asap, and nine to one one should
be the very first call that you make. Now, I know,
here in so Cow, we may think that the ideal
thing for us to do when it's hot like this
would be to head out to the beaches, maybe get
into the water. And I know, I know, I'm hard
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on the beaches. I'm hard on the beaches because we
have so much fetid poop in the water. But I'm
here to tell you that there are actually some other
ways that you can stay cool here in SoCal to
beat the heat. So on the other side of this break,
we will get into that book.
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Point and Santon Bernardino. This is soul Cal Saturday taking
a look at some things we can possibly do to
cool off in this insane heat wave. No, you cannot
go to the beach. You absolutely cannot go to the
beach and cool off in the water unless unless you
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don't mind swimming in filth, swimming in absolute filth. Mother's
Beach and Marina del Rey. The entire swim area filled
with well they're calling it just high bacteria levels due
to sewage. I call that poop in the water, all right.
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Los Floris Creek at Los Flora State Beach, the entire
swim area, Coconut Creek and Paradise Cove. The entire swim
area enter Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro the entire swim area.
And guess what these beaches don't have. They do not
have borders, they do not have walls. There is no
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line of demarcation that keeps the poop from flowing upstream.
So guess what, it's everywhere. Okay, it's everywhere. And no,
I'm not hating on ocean water anymore. Yes, I did
go on a cruise and I absolutely loved it my
very first cruise last weekend, which is why Tiffany Hobbs
was in the seat last weekend. But no, I would
not get off the cruise line and get into the
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ocean now because the water is absolutely grow tesque Marie
Can Storm drained at Porko Beach one hundred yards up
and down the coast from the public access steps, Rabiaz
Creek in Paradise Cove one hundred yards up and down
the coast, to Pega Canyon Beach in Malibu one hundred
yards up and down the coast. Everything is up in
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one hundred yards up and down the coast, or it's
the entire swim area telling you to stay out of
the water now. At one point there was this program
here at least in Los Angeles County where older Angelinos
were able to get help beating the heat with being
able to sign up for free portable air condition and
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now the sign up list is absolutely full. Okay. The
goal of this program was to serve people who are
over sixty years old and have fixed incomes and also
don't have sufficient air conditioning. But at least the city
was trying to do something. And yeah, unfortunately it is
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filled up. And I think, if I'm not mistaken, there
might be a few options or few opportunities where you
can still get some or get access to a few places.
But I don't know. We'll see maybe a super producer
ky that can look and see if there are any
qualifying locations where you can't pick anything up, and we'll
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put it on the website if there are. But there
actually are some cooling centers here on the south Land
where you can go and cool off and beat the heat.
There are five cooling centers that will be open a
weekly Tuesday through Friday. One is at the Fred Roberts
Recreation Center that's at forty seven hundred Hondura Street in
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Los Angeles. There is another at the Mid Valley Senior
Center that's at eighty eight or one Kester Avenue in
Panorama City. In Sunland at the Sunland Center, Sunland Senior
Center eighty six forty Fine Street, at the Jim Gilliam
Recreation Center that is at four thousand South Librea in
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Los Angeles, and at the Lincoln Heights Senior Center twenty
three to twenty three Workman Street in Los Angeles. Those
are some places where you can go and cool off
and believe it or not, I mean, okay, look, if
you work with the un housed, if you work with
the homeless, you can advise them to check out some
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of the cooling centers because this heat is extremely deadly,
extremely dangerous for those who don't have a place to
shelter from the heat. And one is on Town Street
between fifth and sixth Street, across from the refreshed spot.
Another is on San Pedro Street, mid block between six
and seventh Street. There's one on fifth and Maple Streets.
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And there's a refresh spot at five four four Town
Avenue that's open twenty four hours a day, seven days
a week. And those are for individuals who may be
homeless or maybe living on skid row. So if you
work anywhere in that area with trying to help those
who are un house. You have that information where you
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can try to assist and help someone out. And we
cannot forget our furry friends. We cannot forget that there
are bunches and bunches of animals in shelters looking for
a home, looking to get out of that heat, looking
to just find a new home. And so this week
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in the LA Animal Service Department is waving pet adoption fees.
That is right, the LA Animal Service centers that can
be found at West Valley two zero six five to
five Plumber Street and Chatsworth in West Los Angeles at
one one three six one West Pico Street, Chesterfield Square
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in South La, eighteen fifty West sixtieth Street in North
Central three two oh one Lacy Street in Harbor nine
five seven North Gaffey Street, and in the East Valley
one four four to nine Van Owen Street in Van Eys.
These will be waived at all of these centers today
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tomorrow and also on Tuesday, September tenth. According to a
post from the LA Animal Services, they will be waving
pet adoption fees. So if you can help one of
our free friends, one of our friends who had an
owner who maybe didn't want them anymore. If you have
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a pet, I encourage you to spare New Year pet
if you already haven't, to help control the pet population,
because it's not these pets faults that they are now
risking possible termination in some of these overcrowded shelter If
you can, please go and adopt a pet this weekend
and help them get out the heat as well. All right,
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this is KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the
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This is soul col Saturday. I'm your host Twala Sharp.
Taking a look at some things happening officially here in
the south Land. Thing number one and thing that I
think is quite possibly one of the most important and
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long overdue, is officials cracking down on sex trafficking and
in general prostitution along the four figaro A corridor in
south central Now. Growing up, it was almost just known.
It was common knowledge that on Figaroa, any woman you
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see walking up and down the street is not lost.
Any woman walking up and down the street on Figaroa
is not on her way to work, No, she is.
She is wearing this next to naked outfit and waving
you down saying, hey, daddy, you're looking for some fun.
She's not trying to give you directions to Disneyland. Okay.
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She is a lady of the night. She is someone who,
as as we become more and more aware of how
women end up in those situations, someone who is being
trafficked lots of times. You know, you have women who
find themselves in the clutches of be it sex traffickers
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or pemps. You know, individuals who you know come at
you with a smile and next you know it's, oh,
you know, baby, we need to do this so we
can make some money real quick. And next you know,
you're out there every day. And I'm when I say
that right there, that whole reframe rate there, that's from experience.
I've actually watched someone do that. I know personally know
a rap artist who is known for pimping in I
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watched him pimp. I watched it happen and I said,
oh my god, this is insanity. I'm gonna tell you
off here who it was, Kayler, but Lord have mercy.
I have seen it and it is a heart wrenching
thing to see, and be it Supolvida Supovita Boulevard in
the valley. Let us not forget Suppolvita because Supovida should
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absolutely be included in this official crackdown on human trafficking.
US Attorney Martin Estrada is rolling out this plan with
quote better insight into human trafficking. It has become apparent
that LAPD could not handle this issue alone, and we
knew that we couldno arrest our way out of this
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problem end quote, because many sex traffickers in this area
are allegedly tied to gangs, and a lot of the
victims are young girls, and that is part of the problem,
and it's like that was allowing for this to happen.
So look, I'm glad that it's not just LAPD or
l LA sheriffs or social services that is working on
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getting these young ladies off of the streets and out
of harm's way. I'm glad that there is actually a
concerted effort happening here in the south Land to bring
an in to or help to curb sex trafficking in
those areas, something that is good to note, I guess
here in the Southland, well at least in Los Angeles,
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a new report is indicating that homicides are down, actually
down thus far in twenty twenty four, down a whole
six point two percent from this last year. All right,
so that is something to celebrate. Less homicides. Now we
know there's the crime seems to be just up, because
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every time I turn around, we are reporting on some
level of crime. But I think we're taking crime more serious.
I don't know. Maybe it's because we have a new
mayor who's focused on the city and trying to clean
the city up. But look, whatever it is, we are
absolutely moving in the right direction. There is a concerted
effort to get individuals off the street. There is a
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concerted effort to get women of the night back out
into the day. I don't know, to protect it however
you want to say it. And now there is a
decrease in homicide here in the south Land, what else
could happen? I mean, what more can we celebrate here
in the south Land?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Oh oh? A ban on all plastic grocery bags, Okay,
come on, what are we doing here? All right? But
look right now, send a bill ten to fifty three
and Assembly bills twenty two to thirty six have officially passed,
making it not that I mean, I don't know if
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we can call it illegal, but it will make it
so that you can no longer get plastic grocery bags
when you are checking out at a store. Now, these
are those thicker bags, primarily like the ones you get
at say, Target or rouse, the ones that we use
for trash can liners or in incidents where like say,
where I've been sick in recent months or years whatever,
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my kids are sick bags to throw up in. That's
what we use them for, cleaning up the car, all
those different things. I don't think these bags go to waste.
I think they're at least used for helping us clean
up other things. But now those bags are going to
be gone. You will still be able to get those
kind of thin, thin bags that you get to put
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your produce in. I think you can still get those,
even those those aren't necessarily biodegradable, but plastic bags, plastic
bags are no more in Southern California or California in general.
Really just really all across California and something I can
absolutely applaud and I'm cheering, and I just I hope
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that this moves to just the state period. But California
legislators are moving to crack down on the ability for
students to get a hold of flaming hot Cheetos and
takis in school. They're looking to get these things out
of the vending machines all together. You will not be
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able to go and just get a bag of stomach
lining eroding chips anymore. And I'm only saying that because
my son who had a fixation on these damn takies,
he was eating them all the time. Ulcers that was
the result. Ulcers were the result. So you know, flaming
hot cheelers and takis can defend it all they want,
but these things are doing no kid any good. And
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I'm glad that Assembly Bill twenty three sixteen has been
sent to Governor Newsom's office to get these things removed
from schools. Removed from schools period. Now again, we have
to look at the schools too. We have to look
at the schools and say, hey, why does a bill
need to be passed for you to get those ridiculous
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snacks out of your vending machines. But you know, I
don't know. I guess the money that they were getting
from from the Freedom Lay company for flaming hot cheetles.
It's just too much. But now these things will be gone,
absolutely gone. Oh and I don't know why this is
called my eye, but every time I go to a
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gas station, and I don't know if you do this
as well, but I check the card reader like I
check if the card reader is lose, I look and
see if it looks like it's been messed with or
anything like that. Because when I first became aware of
card skimmers here in southern California, I think it was
like two years ago, maybe even last year, we reported
on a growing number of card skimmers being found at
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gas stations. After that, every time I go to a
gas station, I'm like checking the machine, and sometimes if
I can't just you know, tap my card, I won't
get gas at that gas station. At the times when
you know, I really need to get some gas and
I gotta insert my card or I'll just go inside
the station. But there are some new, nearly undetectable card
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skimmers that have been found at gas stations in Orange County.
And these are next level card skimmers, all right, and
these things are ridiculous. They are racking up some billion
dollars a year scamming you, crooks, getting your information. So look,
when you go to a gas station, if you have
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to insert your card, make sure you give the card
reader a little tug. Look if it looks like it's
been recently installed, Like say, if the card reader looks
brand new but the pump old. Things like that should
be a dead giveaway. Do not let yourself fall victim
to card skimmers and scammers and the flim flammers. All right,
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favorite subject in yours reparations. I am six forty live
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This is soul Cal Saturday. And I know from all
of your many talkback messages that you have left how
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in tune you are with me and the subject of
reparations and the reparations bills here in Socao. I mean,
all your messages of love and of encouragement. I mean,
even though it's said lots of times with an angry, snide,
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foul mouth, sometimes racist tent. I know that you're just
expressing love in a different way when you criticize my
discussions of reparations or the reparations bills here in southern California.
But I know it is such a popular topic and
such a popular subject that I have to make sure
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I bring you the latest every single time something comes up.
And this thing that's come up, this bit of news
that's come up, it's not something that I'm actually surprised by.
I really can't say that I'm surprised that the reparations
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bill in its current iteration has actually stalled on the
Senate floor. Okay, And right now, I know African American
lawmakers and reparation advocates are saying that that they will
be fighting hard to reintroduce this bill next year, and
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I know I know for a fact that they will.
But it's the reasons why it failed. I think is
just something that those of us who have been looking
at the development of the bill, just you know, from
the comfort of our couches, so to speak, an armchair
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bill drafting thing, we could see. We could see that
this was not going to happen, just because this bill
on the surface, it's a bill that they are trying
to push uphill with roller skates on. And that's just
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how hard it is. And I'm not saying that something
should not be done to make those descendants of individuals
here in southern California that were absolutely and positively impacted
by slavery here and how that connected here in southern
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California by way of redlining, by way of denial of loans,
by way of unjust laws being drafted, and all types
of things that I'm not talking direct slavery, because many
people will say that was no slavery in California. The
effects of yeah, and that is what a lot of
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the bill was trying to correct here in southern California.
And I think initially the pushback on the reparations bill
had everything to do with the idea of financial reparations.
And then as you know, the reparations committees and those
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who were in charge of drafting the legislation, started pushing
it around and kind of looking at what to do.
A lot of what they came up with was ways
to even the playing field, even the playing field, and
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that is what the task force was studying. They were studying,
you know, ways to to I guess, yeah, I guess
that's just basically how you do it to atone for
the fallout of the systemic racism that was passed down
from slavery, all right, and you know, from making it
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easier to get home loans or getting away a lot
of the legislation and the writing and banking that makes
it so hard for individuals of African American descent to
get a home or college loans or business loans, things
like that, Changing changing zoning and changing different laws so
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that different schools and different areas can get more funding
to make it easier for individuals to get into school.
Things like that. That is when the Reparations Bill started
picking up steam again. And that is when it was like, hey,
you know what, we absolutely positively can make this happen.
And it's not to say that the bill is done.
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It's really not that the bill is not done. It's
not dead on the floor. It wasn't kicked back, and
the individuals we were drafting were told that nothing could
be done. No, no, no, no, absolutely not by taking
the bill back to ground one and readdressing the California legislature.
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I mean, from Assembly Member Lourie Wilson on down to
Senator Stephen Bradford, who were some of the key individuals
in charge of introducing this legislation. The fight's not over,
so to speak, The fight's not over. The fight has
only just begun in trying to make people whole here
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in southern California. And again, for the life of me,
I can never understand why there was so much pushback
for just the idea. I mean even before the bill
was passed, that there are individuals who were up in
arms about just the very idea of reparation. Just saying
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the word. It was almost like you were banning them,
you know, banning southern California to or dooming Southern California
to go into Hell in a handbasket. It's like, no,
how about California be one of the first states to
make recompense to uh, to the people of this country
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who were denied denied a fair shake, denied a fair shake,
And and that's what this is about. So hopefully, hopefully
next year they will come back to the drawing board,
hopefully sending bail. Fourteen oh three will will absolutely see
the light of day. And and you know, he at
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one point, I never thought that we would ever ever
ever see an African American president. But then comes Barack Obama.
You know, yes, Kala salutes yes. So things like this
can't happen to me. That taught me to never say never.
That taught me that absolutely positively, yes we can. We
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absolutely can. So I mean, hell, I'm on the radio
all right, coming up at the top of the next hour,
we are going to get into right. So if you
have a daughter, then you have spent a goodly amounts
(31:38):
of money on clothing you have, okay, and this isn't
my son. Look, you damn amer can wear the same
thing every single day. He doesn't really care about my daughter.
She wears stuff. And then I'm like picking her up
in the morning and it's a I'm trying to hurry
even get ready. I'm like, well, just put something on.
I can't because this doesn't go with this. So that
doesn't look and then she says, has all these clothes
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that that you can no longer wear, that don't fit this, that,
and the other. Well, there is actually legislation here in
Southern California that may require the fashion industry to take
some of these clothing items back from you for free. Yes,
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we are going to get into that and so much
more so, don't you go nowhere, Keep it right here.
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