Jacob Blake update; Blacks targeted in Portsmouth, Va.; GOP convention begins with drama

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mm so that's Tuesday, August twenty coming up a roller

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Martin on the filter, we'll talk the latest regarding Jacob Blake,
attorney being a crump, says his spine was severed. Also,
the governor of Wisconsin, uh, he is bringing in more
National Guard after unrest continues in Kenosha, Wisconsin and NBA
players because they will boycott a playoff game as a

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result of this issue. Republican National Prevision kicked off last
night and tokenism among African Americans was trotted out. Really,
y'all think that's what's gonna give black folks support Donald Trump?
Also the White House when he's report on opportunity zones
claiming some seventy five billion dollars has have flowed or

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flowed into within eight thousand zip codes economistic bills, Briggs
breaks down the numbers. Civil rights organizations are lining up,
and support of Southern Southern Party Law Center out through
the RNC refuted the legitimacy. The vice mayor of Portsmouth,
Virginia is under attack after she urged the firing of
the police chief. A white resident actually went to a

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magistrate to get charges filed against the Vice mayor. Will
show you a new batch of anti Donald Trump ads
and a black owned business that is teaching people how
to trade and best folks, it is time to bring
the funk on Roland Martin on filter. Let's go whatever
the he's on it, whatever it is he's got, he's

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right on time and is rolling. Best believe he's selling.
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he's stole roll. It's strolling with rolling. He's funky spect

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She's led the question though he's rolling Martell a more.
Another surgery today for Jacob Blake, the black man shot
seven times by Kenosha, Wisconsin police officer on Sunday today.

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It was a news conference that took place where his family,
an attorney being Crump spoke. Attorney Crump laid out how
severe the injuries are against uh, that Jacob Blake actually suffered.
You're very faithful and they believe in miracles, but the
medical diagnosis right now is that he is paralyzed. And

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because those bullets several his final card and shouted some
his furtebrade that Attorney Savy would get to in more detail.
It is gonna take a miracle. It is gonna take
a miracle for Jacob Blake Jr. To ever walk again.

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He is currently in surgery as we speak, still struggling
to sustain his life and too hopefully become some resemblance
of the man he wants. Was Uh, folks, are it
is just shocking shocking? Uh to hear that the father

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of Jake Blake said, uh that his son has a
number of holes in his body. Also, what took place
at that news conference being Crump talked about how portions
of his colon and intestines had to be removed because
of the injuries that he suffered. The sister of Jacob

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Blake gave a raw and emotional um news conference. My
brother's keeper and when you say the name Jacob Blake,
make sure you say father, make sure you say cousin,
make sure you say son, make sure you say uncle.

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But most importantly, make sure you say human. Human life.
Let it marinate in your mouth, in your minds, A
human life, just like every single one of y'all and
everywhere myself. We're human. His life matters. So many people

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have reached out to me telling me they're sorry that
this happened to my family. Well, don't be sorry, because
this has been happening to my family for a long time,
longer than I can account for. It happened to Emmett Till,
Mattill Is my family, Philando, Mike Brown, Sandra, this has

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been happening to my family, and I shared cheers for
every single one of these people that has happened to MH.
This is nothing new. I'm not sad, I'm not sorry.
I'm angry, and I'm tired. I haven't cried one time.
I stopped crying years ago. I am numb. I have

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been watching police murder people that look like me for years.
I'm also a black history miner m hm. So not
only have I been watching it in the thirty years
that I've been on this planet, but I've been watching
it for years before we were even alive. I'm not sad.

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I don't want your pity. I want to change. And
that was a sister of Jacob Blake who was speaking um.
Jacob Blake's mother, Julia Jackson, also quite emotional, but she
also says she's praying for the police officers watched this massa.

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That's the fighting for this fight a little round. Yeah, Tom,
we really just need prayers. As I was writing through here,

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through the city, I noticed a lot of damage. It
doesn't reflect my son or my family. If Jacob you

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know what what's going on as far as that goes
the violence and the destruction, he would be very unpleased.
So I really asking and encouraging everyone in Wisconsin and

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abroad to take a moment and examine your hearts. Citizens,
police officers, fireman, clergy, politicians, do Jacob justice on this

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level and examine your hearts. M Yes, we need healing.
As I pray for my son's healing physically, emotionally, as spiritually,

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I also have them praying even before this, for the
healing of our country. Yes, God has placed each into
every one of the us in this country because He
wanted us to be eat here. Clearly, you can see

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by now that I have beautiful brown skin. But take
a look at your hand and whatever shade it is,
it is beautiful as well. Amen. Yes, how dare we
hate what we are? We are humans. God did not

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make one type of tree or flower, or fish, or
her horse or grass or rock. How dare you ask
him to make one type of human that looks just
like you. Yeah, I'm not talking to just Caucasian people.

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I am talking to everyone, white, Black, Japanese, Chinese, red, brown.
No one is superior to the other. The only supreme
being is God himself. Please, let's begin to pray for

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healing for our nation. We are the United States? Have
we been united? Do you understand what's gonna happen when
we fall? Because a house that is against each other
cannot stand. To all of the police officers, I'm praying

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for you and your family. Release to all of the citizens,
my black and brown sisters and brothers, I'm praying for you.
I believe that you are an intelligent being just like
the rest of us. Everybody, Let's use our hearts, our love,

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and our intelligence to work together to show the rest
of the world how humans are supposed to treat each other.
America is great when we behave greatly. Yeah, thank you.

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And that was Julia Jackson, that is the mother of
uh Jacob Blake. It was quite an emotional news conference
when the Blake family spoke, Um, it was it was
the very difficult. This is Jacob Blake's father. I like
to say everyone for coming out. This is part of

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my son. With the sense this acistic murder that's coming along,
gay you shot my son so the time like he

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didn't matter, but my son mattered. He's a human being,
hadn't battered. Wisconsin Governor Tony Ever just declared that state
of emergency after some protesters vandalized businesses and said dozens

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of building on fire. That also was a particular uh
Department of Corrections there in Wisconsin that will set on fire.
Uh and uh they actually at building crumble and actually
raised that building. I think we have the video, folks,
if you have to go ahead, uh and pull that
video up please that shows this was some video that
was actually shot by a reporter. Uh. This was the

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video before they actually uh took it down. Uh do
you have the video? Thank you very much. All right,
there you go. So that's the video right there. Uh.
This was shot by h Vay when the Wisconsin Department
of Corrections building. This is her tweet. Uh. The Wisconsin
Department Corrections building was set on fire during the second
night of unrest and Kenosha reduced to rubble and ashes.

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The video was recorded before bull those were brought in.
So CB in Chicago, you see spray painted outside. Are
you listening yet? This thory of course that attracted so
much attention to The Detroit Lions are among those showing
their support. They canceled their practice today after safety Deron
Harris said football it's not important today. Uh please show

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those Uh this is them speaking about the very issue.
Football is not important to do. We have a platform
that we're able to use to not only raise awareness,
but to create change. And we decided today that we

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were gonna step forward and we're just gonna create change.
We can't be sign we can't stay signing. It cannot
be what was going on throughout our regular day. So today, unified,
we stand here and we came up with this, these words,
these slogans, and we here to spread of miss spread

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the word. We've been able to have some really real
conversations as a team, and I've been fortunate to be
in a locker room with white, black, brown, different social
and economic backgrounds, guys from all over the country, and
the guys that care about I'll go to battle against
Tray every single day. Hell of a guy, stand up
guy him, and just to hear the pain and the

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fear the people that I care about, people that I love,
are going through. It's not okay, and I know it's
not my reality. But they shouldn't have to go through that.
They shouldn't have to have that fear. Le Bron Gang
of the Los Angeles Lakers, also speaking out of the
shooting of Jacob Blake, m Um, I don't have any

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reaction to the Georgia has coming. Everyone has their opinion to,
you know, the reaction to what happened. What I can't
say is that if you're sitting here and telling me
that there was no way two to do that gentleman,

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or detain him, or to just before the firing of
the guns, then you're sitting here your lines not only me,
you wing to every African American, every black person in
the community, because we see it over and over and over.

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There was multiply. If you watched the video, there was
multiple moments where if they wanted to, they could have
could have out with him. They could have grabbed him.
You know that they could have done that. And why
why does it always have to get to a point
where we see the guns fire and his family is there,

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the kids are there, It's it's it's a broad daylight
and um, and who knows, I mean, if that video
is not being taken by that person across the street.
Do we even know if we didn't see that video.
It's like talks about that the cops didn't even have
your body cams on. That's a possibility. Um, it's just

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it's just uh quite frankly, it's just sucked up in
our community. And I said, you know, people get tired
of here and you say it, but we are scared
as black people in America, black men, black women, black kids,
we are We are terrified because you don't know, you

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have no idea you have folks. Uh. Again, tremendous amount
of reaction taking place all across the country. Jacob Blake
had surgery today. Again, when you listen to what the
family had to say about the wounds he has suffered,
having his intestines and colon removed as a result. Um.

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One of the attorneys also stood there, talked about what
he is going to have to endure, the kind of
resources that are going to be needed to care for
his help twentine years old. One attorney said, look, he's
got he's got a whole lot a life ahead of him,
but he is going to have a very very long

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road or recovery. Uh, he is not out of the woods.
Yet the family made that perfectly clear that he has
a number of surgeries that he is going to have
to endure um in order to to get beyond this,
in order to heal. Uh. They are asking for prayers.
That go fund me account that was set up for

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Jacob Blake. Uh surpassed a million dollars, past surpast a
million dollars in just one day. But again, you can
expect a significant civil lawsuit against this police department without
a doubt. I want to bring in my panel today
to join me right now. Joining me is uh Malik Abdual,
Republican strategist Brianna Cartwright, political strategist Michael Brown, former vice

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chair of the d n C Finance Committee. Uh. Brianna, Uh.
First of all, you a newbie, first time on the show,
so welcome. I'll start with you. When you when you
look at this, you know again you have You saw
the Republican convention last night. Folks are talking about looting
and burning and buildings things along those lines. This is
what black people keep saying, all right, when the hell

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do you give a damn about the actual life versus
a building that's being burned down. This man is shot
seven times a close range in his back, spine, severed, back, shattered,
removed his intestines in colon. Um. He is the dad
described holes in his son's body. Yeah, it's very tragic. Um.

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I don't think that we should ever uh think about
replacement of buildings, because you can't replace the life. Um.
It's very disappointing that people are even caring at all
about the buildings. Um. You know, I think that we

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might need to go step further, and it might be
radical enough to say, but you know, I think if enough,
I was there on the after math of Ferguson and
saw you know, a lot of the destruction there. And
you know, it's been years since Ferguson and we're still
doing this fight, um, and we're caring about, you know,
building the buildings, but what about building our nation? Right? Um?

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And so I find it very interesting that that dialogue
keeps going and going. But I mean, on the radical side,
people can say that maybe we need to uh fight
harder in that in the sense of every single time
may decide that you want to wrongfully kill human being
and and black lives don't matter to you, that they

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might matter because there's gonna be economic backlash, UM, and
that you're gonna have to deal with it. Um. I
think that uh, concentrating on the buildings misses the mark
and just allows them to not talk and focus on
the real issue that where you've been having for America,
having in America for years, Mike Ground, When you see

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this again, UM, when you look at the anger and
the frustration that's coming from people. The folks are there, UM,
what they're saying is it's wait a minute, and and
to Lebrons point, if that name, if that neighbor across
the street does not shoot this video. All we have
is a police officer's interpretation and witnesses. Because they voted

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a couple of years ago to get body cameras in Commosha, Wisconsin,
they won't be added until next year. Correct, And the
need to thank goodness for um technology. But rowing you
and I have had I don't know how many countants conversations. Obviously,
our hearts go out to the family and to the community,

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but you know, it's it's becoming more than that. As
as a former legislator, it was nineteen seconds from at
least what we saw on the video from when he
was chased chasing the gentleman to his car, to his vehicle,
whether he could have tasted him, whether he could have
tackled him, whether there are a variety of of of

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ways to subdue this particular gentleman besides obviously shooting him
seven times in the back when he was unarmed. But
until you deal with the legislation and the laws about
what protect police officers, these shootings are going to continue.
Because in those nineteen seconds, if the laws were different,

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and his pension was on the line, if he was
gonna have to pay for his own legal fees, if
he or she, because obviously could be a woman police
officer too, did not have immunity. In those nineteen seconds,
he may have said, wait a minute, maybe I should
chase this guy, or maybe I should get my uniform

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dirty and tackle him. But I'm not going to shoot
him because I'm not protected anymore. This wasn't a bang
bang situation. It was nineteen seconds. He had a chance
to think about it, and he still chose to shoot
seven times into an unarmed black man's back. But this

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is uh uh some more of that news conference. Uh,
And I just want you to listen again to one
of the other attorneys before we go uh to me
like as he talks about the long road that Jacob
Blake has to now face. Here from Attorney Prevory Lamar
Derek here, Pop Day, thank you vis. My name is

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Patrick Salvy Jr. Promonia at the office of Salva Shottick,
Shotick and Pritchard in Chicago. As you've heard, and as
you can imagine, when at least seven as many as
eight bullets from point blank range enter the human body
and tread through the tissue of the human body, that

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that can cause and did in this case severe and
likely permanent injury. But raculously, because I imagine you've all
seen the video, Jacob is alive. And I cannot tell
you how pleased we were, how full our hearts were

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when Julia came back from visiting with him and actually
told us that he he told her a joke, and
so that was tremendous news. But let me go through
some of the injuries that Jacob setting. Mr Crump is correct.

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He had a bullet go through some or all of
his final cord, at least one bullet. He has holes
in his stomach, He had to have nearly his entire
colon and small intestines were ruled he suffered damnag to

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his kidney and liver and was also shot in the arm.
And so Jacob has a long road ahead of him,
a lot of rehabilitation. You heard, he's in surgery right
now and it's is not going to be his last birdlay.

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So he has a long road to recovery. We are
going to hope and pray for as good of a
recovery as we can possibly get. Jacob is going to
fight hard, no doubt about it, with the support of
his wonderful family that us behind me. But that type

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of rehabilitation and recovery it's not free. And so part
of what we need to do on Jacob's behalf in
light of the travesty that happened on Sunday is we
have to bring a civil lawsuit, and we're going to
be doing that, among other things, to accomplish several goals.

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One is, of course, to hold the Wrongdoors accountable for
this injustice. The second is to get Jacob the resources
that he will need. He's a young man, he's got
decades of life ahead of him, and what he needs
now and what the civil justice system provides for under

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these circumstances is the best possible medical care to absolutely
maximize his recoveries, and we're gonna fight for him for that.
And then, of course, finally the fact that due process
under the law, something that Jacob was not afforded in

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that situation clearly, and that dignity and humanity and compassionate
which is how policing ought to be practiced in this country,
that it be applied to Jacob no different than it
is applied to me, because we can all wonder that

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if all else being equal, but I have been treated
that way. So those are the things we're going to
fight for. Now. I'll pass it back to Mr Crumpton
and Mr them all mell your thoughts and this is
another tragic situation that we've seen for far too many

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years now. The mother herself, I thought her comments were beautiful,
reminded me of the family down was that mother Emmanuel
Church in Charleston, Um after Dylan Ruth shot up that church. Um,
that's just it's a it's just talk of forgiveness and
really prayer, and I think that's really a lot of
what we need. Also in addition to finding out what happened.

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Is so unfortunate that this is one of those situations
and I talked about We talked about it all the
time as far as things happening at the local level.
As you said, there was a the mayor that the
city decided to postpone this. They wasn't fully funding the
idea of body cams until two You know, that's tragic
inting of itself. If we had body cams then and

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it doesn't matter, Yes, the mayor is a Democrat, but
it doesn't matter if it's a Democrat or a Republican.
The fact is is that if we had a body cam,
we would have at least if and if they were
on I should say that too, if they were the
body cams were in use, then we would have known
what happened. What was that scuffle that happened prior to
him walking around to the car. Why did he decide

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to walk around to the car, even even after the
scuffle and what we saw, and then because it was
two videos, even after the scuffle, and I totally agree
with Lebron, they had plenty of opportunities to subdue him.
You can't tell me that you scuffle with someone, then
you allowed and then you saw they essentially just kind

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of walked calmly with their guns pulled, following him to
the other side of the car. They could have subdued him,
they for taysed aside, they could have tackled him. There's
so many things that they could have done that they
chose not to do. And you see the guy grabbing
his T shirt and all of that type of nonsense,
and then you still shoot him. So obviously they had

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um the opportunity to subdue him and they chose not to.
And I expect that this is something that's definitely going
to be un fully investigated. I don't agree. And now
push back just a little. The people who did the burning,
those were rioters. Those weren't protesters. And I think we
do ourselves a disservice if we conflict the two. Those
people were rioters, they were not protesters. Are peaceful protesters

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that are always out in these type of events, and
then you have rioters who come and then they just
tear the whole thing up, and then you have what
this discussion about whether or not we should be able
to criticize people who riot or whatever. First of all,
I first of all know what no one said here
they can't be criticized. But what I will say is
when people immediately jumped to as uh as Cartwright said,

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they jumped to the issue of the building and completely
overlook what what caused that reaction. Folks weren't setting anything
on fire on Saturday. It warn't said anything anything on
fire at noon on Sunday. It was a reaction to
what took place shooting of Jacob Blake. Uh brandan go ahead, Yeah,
So I think that you know, it's it's unfair to I.

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There is truth, right, there's a difference between a protest
and riot. But you know, just as Roland said, let's
talk about how protests turns into a riot, right, just
like the same thing as an arrest turns into a murder.
Like it should be different. There shouldn't be murders when
you're being arrested because in the in the fact of

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how we have our law set up, you know, you
get arrested, the officer writes down what they think you're
arrested for, and then we go through prosecution whether or
not there's gonna be charges or not, and you have
your arrangement and then you have a jury and so
like having an officer to be the judge jury and
executioner is wrong. And so I mean, you know, to
to talk about the buildings and everything else and not

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talk about the issue in itself is very problematic. Also, Michael, look,
here's the deal, and I think you, the sister of
Jacob Blake said it best. Black people, we have to
constantly have a public display of grief, and we have
to call for calm um. We have to respond a

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certain way. Something happened in white folks. They get to
be piste off. White folks are still mad after Downey
Levin and and I got uh uh Melik's point about
mother manual, but no, I'm perfectly fine, Michael. If Black
people say I'm not forgiving a damn thing, then I'm

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so piste off that we're having to be at this
particular point and going to express that. And I just
think White America too often want they desire Black folks
to instantly forgive, as opposed to no, no, no, fix
the damn problem. And it goes back clearly four hundred

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and twenty some five years when uh families were being
broken up and the mother kept things calm and kept
the families together, no matter how tragic, no matter how awful,
no matter how despicable, um, the white folks in that case,
the master's slave owners treated us. And it's still coming

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up with what she would Miss black Blake, I'm assuming
her last name is Blake. Well, miss Blake did today
is showing what God and love and peace and calm
means when it comes from a victory's family. But rolling
you're exactly right, where are the ones that always have
to do that? Why is it? Why aren't the police

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unions coming out and saying, you know what, this is
giving us a bad name. I'm tired of hearing, Oh,
there are a couple of bad apples. No, it's a
system issue. Until you correct the system, it's going to continue.
So yes, other good police officers, of course there are,
they're more good than bad. But there's a system in

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place which protects them. And until the police union sounded
like Mrs Blake did again, these terrible, terrible, terrible things
are going to continue to happen. Well and again we are, Um,
we'll see what the next step is. Again, a lot
of leeway given to these officers. There are an administrative

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leave and so we'll see what what the next step is.
Our folks. Last night was the first other Republican National Convention.
Uh and uh. There are a number of folks who
were speaking here some of the highlights. My name is
Kim Klasik, and I'm running for Congress in Maryland seventh
District and lec surely chisholm. I'm unbought and unbossed. Let
me remind you the Democrats have controlled this part of

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Baltimore City for over fifty years, and they have run
this beautiful place right into the ground, abandoned buildings, liquor
stores in every corner, drug addicts, guns on the street.
That's now the norm of many neighborhoods. Do you think
Maryland taxpayers would be getting a whole lot since our
taxes are out of control. Instead, we're paying for decades
of incompetence and corruption Salally, the same cycle of decay

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exists and many of America's Democrat runs cities. And yet
the Democrats still assume that black people will vote for
them no matter how much they let us down and
take us for granted. We're sick of it. We're not
gonna take it anymore. The days of blindly supporting the
Democrats are coming to an end. Hello America, my name
is Vernon Jones, and I'm a state representative from the

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great state of Georgia. As you can see, I'm a
man of color, and I'm a lifelong Democrat too. You
may be wondering why is a lifelong Democrat speaking and
the Republican National Convention. And that's a fair question, and
here's your answer. The Democratic Party does not want Black

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people to leave their mental plantation. We've been forced to
be there for decades and generations. But I have news
for Joe Biden. We are free. We are free people
with free minds. And I'm part of a large and
growing segment of the black community who are independent thinkers,

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and we believe that Donald Trump is the president that
America needs to lead us forward. We don't give in
to cancel culture or the radical and factually baseless belief
that things are worse today than in the eighteen sixties
or the nineteenth sixties. We have work to do, but
I believe in the goodness of America, the promise that

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all men and all women are created equal. And if
you're watching tonight, I'm betting you do too. Over the
past four years, we have made tremendous progress towards that promise.
In much of the Democratic Party, it's now fashionable to
say that America is racist. That is a lie. America

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is not a racist country. This is personal for me.
I am the proud daughter of Indian immigrants. They came
to America and settled in a small southern town. My
father wore a turban, my mother wore sorry. I was
a brown girl in a black and white world. We

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faced discrimination and hardship, but my parents never gave in
to grievance and hate. My mom built a successful business,
my dad taught thirty years at a historically black college,
and the people of South Carolina chose me as their
first minority and first female governor. America is a story

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that's a work in progress. Now is the time to
build on that progress and make America even freer, fairer,
and better for everyone. That's why it's so tragic to
see so much of the Democratic Party turning a blind
eye towards riots and rage. The American people know we
can do better, and of course we value and respect

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every black life. The black cops who have been shot
in the line of duty, they matter. The black small
business owners who have watched their life's work go up
in flames. They matter. The black kids who have been
gunned down on the playground, their lives matter too. All right,
let me, I'm just figure out where do I want

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to start? Um, So mother, we'll start here. Let's do
with center. Tim Scott, he said we don't give in
to cancel culture. Donald Trump last week was saying cancel
Goodyear because somebody they wouldn't let somebody wear a MAGA hat.
That's canceled culture. The Dixie Chicks. Whole bunch of conservative

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and Republicans canceled the Dixie Chicks after uh they made
their comments about George W. Bush when he was president.
Donald Trump and Republicans have called for boycotts of a
lot of people. Hell, conservatives at boycott did initially boycotted
Dignity years ago over the issue of LGBT rights. So

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isn't that a lie the Republicans don't believe in cancel culture. Well,
I don't think that it's a line that I think
we should have kind of break this conversation out of you.
Sure there are many people in the in the Republican Party, independent,
libertarian or whatever who endorsed this notion of Well, let's
um cancel you in the sense that we're removing all

(40:09):
of your livelihood away from you because you may have
said something that we disagree with or something. Yeah, of
course that happened. So there is no such thing as
an absolute at all. But I don't want to be
clear Tall Scott said, we duck quote, we don't give
into council culture. That's just not true. Well, we're rolling.
First of all, it's a convention, and so no, no, no, no,

(40:30):
I'm I'm on asking is it true yes or no? Well,
sure there are Republicans who engage in council course that's true.
But again there's no such thing as an absolute on anything,
whether that's on the Democrat or the Democrat or Republican side.
So yeah, But as far as the night itself, I
thought it was a great night in production wise, definitely.

(40:51):
It was leaps and bounds ahead of where the d
NC convention was. So I think that that's one of
the great things. But there was but but but but
but it but it wasn't as good ratings wise. In fact,
they had three million. A few people who watched the
RNC convention they watched the DNC first time. Well, that
doesn't surprise me. I mean, we're divided. We're pretty we're
a pretty divided country. So I doubt that very many

(41:12):
people tuned in who are not, um, you know, Donald
Trump supporters or whatever, So that doesn't bother me. Or
there could be the three million people who bought up
Hillary Clinton, who got female more votes than Donald Trump.
But go ahead, for sure they could all be in California,
which is where she got those three billion votes, but
as some as as some other states, but go ahead. Yeah.
But the point is is that it was I thought

(41:33):
it was a great night. We had a lot of
great speakers, Maximal Alvarez, Tim Scott, Nicki Haley. I think
that there was something that the party was really focused on,
as far as um the diversity of the party itself.
There were very messages. Yes, there were some people that
I could have rather not. I could have rather done
without being at the convention at all, or even speaking overall, well,

(41:56):
I could I could have done without Charlie kirk Um.
He opened it here, He opened up for y'all charge
of that. So I mean, I don't have to agree.
I'm not wanting I think maybe you think that you know,
you're accustomed to talk into a lot of partisans. Actually,
I know, I'm just I just asking you what she
was saying. I mean, well, he opened it. I don't
have to agree with every single aspect of my convention.

(42:19):
When I was a Democrat, I did not agree with
every single aspect of the convention. So I'm not gonna
go on air and just praise everything that my party did.
I could have done without Charlie Kirk. I could have
done without Kimberly. Um, I can't pronounce it, give give,
I can't pronounce the last night you mean you mean
you mean you mean you mean Donald Trump Junior's girlfriend?

(42:43):
Who we can who we can hear her speech with
a volume turn all the way down. Hey, remember this
type of stuff happens. But again, overall, I thought it
was a great night. I loved I got it, I
got it. You said that three times already. But let
me ask you, let me ask you this year. I
did find this to be quite interesting. Brianna Nicki Haley,

(43:05):
America isn't a racist nation. And then she goes on
to talk about the discrimination her parents faced when she
was growing up. Nikki really and then, of course what
really bothered me is and I keep saying this the
pimping of what took place with the manual nine. Uh.
She called this divisive symbol. She could not even call
it the Confederate flag, wouldn't actually name it, but the

(43:28):
thing about it in which I and I've I have
objected to Nicki Haley her description of this or how
we came together in a bipartisan way. No, it took
black blood being spilled for that flag to come down.
I'm not gonna listen to Nicki Haley trying to portray this.
Ask how there was a bipartisan deal where we came

(43:50):
together and brought that flag down. If black blood had
not been spilled in a church, that flag would still
be flying about the state capital in South Caro Line. Yeah.
I mean, honestly, you know, Nicki Haley said America is
not racist. Um, But just because Nikki Haley has an
experience racism doesn't mean that others haven't. Um. Even Don

(44:12):
Junior made mention of George Floyd. Donald Trump Junior even
called for an end to racism. So unlike Nikki, even
Donna grees that we need to end racism. The difference
is that we have different ideas on how to do so.
And you know, really, we know she's full of it
because Haley doesn't even use her correct name. She changed
it right before she ran for office. So the statement

(44:33):
that there's no racism in America and itself is so
disingenuous and it essentially denies any constructive dialogue that can
aid racial heally. I mean, we just talked about the
issues of and she brought up like, Okay, we know
black lives are being murdered in the street. Is that
not racism in itself? I mean, in Florida, there was

(44:53):
a state representative, Donnie Joseph who had to make a
bill to give an unarmed black name and who's now
paralyzed for life. Uh in a world chair his full
conversation because there wasn't a law already put in place.
And so to even have the dacity say, you know,

(45:15):
America has no racism, it's just it's it's he is.
I also, Michael, I you, I gotta have you comment
on this one. To have Vernon Jones stand there, he said, quote,
We've been forced to be there. No one forced Vernon
Jones to be a Democrat. No one forced him to

(45:38):
run as a Democrat. No, no one forced it. This
is what to me, it's idiotic. And it's amazing how
Republicans love this plantation language, which I think is stupid. Okay,
I don't use words like, oh, you're on the Republican plantations,
you're on the Democratic plantation. They only seem to use

(46:00):
that phrase that applies to black people, saying you're on
a plantation. But Vernon Jones, who the hell is making
you stay there? Vernon Jones could have left the party
years ago, or even joined the party or run as
an independent, but no, he ran as a Democrat for
a reason. Michael, and then that's why. Frankly, I think

(46:23):
it was a ms Clack the Clay Church and running
in Baltimore. She's a Republican. You know, she's saying what
she needs to say. She but she's the you know
this guy, if he doesn't like the party, you're right
leave no one's you know, you're right being independent. You
said everything I was, you know, could say relative to him,
hate you even waste breath on him. But we've been

(46:47):
forced to be there. I mean I didn't get that.
Just then leave. I mean, then then don't be a
Democrat anymore. If you don't like with Democrats, stand for
but um, you know last night was it was interesting.
You know, they're doing the best they can. I think
there's an argument that can be made on how well
they did technology wise. They had, you know, they had

(47:11):
a few days, almost a week to see what the
Democrats did relative to obviously the limitations of COVID and
correct whatever. They didn't like, so they did what they
needed to do. I thought it was I didn't watch.
I watched some of the highlights today. It looked like
a typical Republican convention, although I did find it interesting

(47:31):
to listen to Kim first of all, who has no
shot at hell uh of beating Quasy and Foome in Baltimore.
She went through this, she went through all this sort
of stuff. And my next guest that confirmed this, Bill Spriggs,
the realities is here, the the the the medium income
of that congressional district in Baltimore is higher than the

(47:53):
national average. Uh. And here the other pieces that Kim
didn't offer a single policy, the initiative at all. All
it was was it was this, this, this, this. If
you're trying to get elected, you may want to offer
what you're going to do, what you want to achieve,
but the reason I want to bring up Bill Spriggs
this here because we heard it last night. The White

(48:15):
House released the Council of Economic Advisors Report on the
Impact of Opportunity Zones this week. I've been waiting for
this for quite some time because they kept tidying it,
and they kept bringing up last night, and they said
that seventy five billion has been invested in more than
eight thousand zip code So I said, let's call Dr WILLIAMS. Briggs,

(48:36):
economists at Howard University also economists for the a f
l C I OH, to give us an understanding of this.
So Bill, you looked at the report. Is it true
this seventy five billion has been infused in opportunity zones,
which Trump really means two black people. Um to be

(49:00):
clear about what's going on. Your favoring certain zip codes
over other zip codes, So you've got to figure out
what's the net. So how much am I diverting from
what might have happened somewhere else? So yes, they got
seventy five billion dollars and investment that took place in
these zones that didn't take place, and the zones that

(49:24):
didn't get the funds, but the zones that didn't get
the funds. Weren't that similar. Actually they were a little
better off. To begin with, a lot of the money
pumped up housing prices. We don't know how much of
this was gentrification. And you've got credit for this for
carrying out gentrification. So they're claimed that housing prices went up.

(49:48):
Doesn't tell me the whole story of what's going on.
And it's wrong to make the parallel judgment between the
comparison that they do between a very targeted pro Graham
and universal programs that help people in all zones to
try and argue, well, this was a more effective way
of helping people who are poor. First off, again, we

(50:13):
are only looking at what happened in the zip code.
We don't know what happened to the people. So if
if a zip code gentrified, they're gonna show investment, they're
gonna show higher housing prices, they're gonna show higher income.
But that doesn't mean that the people who are there
before are the people who benefited, So we don't know
what that really means. And again, if you look at

(50:36):
his opposition to raising the minimum wage, which would have
helped all of the people and all of the zones
get out of poverty. This is probably not the most
cost effective way. The tax right off in the opportunity
zone that they're touting, you get to keep even if
your investment wasn't permanent, So that allows for a lot

(51:01):
of gamesmanship to take place. It's probably a positive, it
may not be that big of a positive, but again
you've got to think about it. Is it a positive
on net across those who did and did not benefit so,
because because that's what matters. So Bill, here here's what
their their claim again from the accounts of Economic advisors,

(51:24):
Opportunity zones of attracted seventy five billion in capital investments
at the end of nineteen. They say fifty two billion
of that would not have entered opportunity zones without the incentive.
That's one. The opportunity z own investments created at least
five hundred thousand new jobs in designated opportunities zone tracks,
but they don't actually say what those jobs are. Uh.

(51:47):
Then it says from the second quarter of eight to
the fourth quarter of nineteen, private equity investments into opportunities
own businesses grew twenty nine percent relative to a comparable
set of business is not an opportunity zones Again, who
are those businesses? Who are they? Are they black owned businesses?
The Latino owned businesses? Exactly? Who what are they? We

(52:08):
don't have that breakdown? Uh. And then they say investments
and opportunity zones will lift approximately one million Americans from poverty.
How I mean so you have these I mean as
they they're not tracking the people, so we don't know.
Like I said, you don't know if this is just gentrification.
Is this just somebody moving uh heavy investment into Shaw

(52:32):
here in d C, moving out black people? And then yes,
the incomes will go up and there'll be investments, and
there'll be new businesses and they'll be higher, they'll be
higher home prices. But the people who are there are
the ones who benefited. This isn't what they have in
the report. But more importantly, did you divert money that
went to Shaw and then and the equivalent neighborhood they

(52:54):
are saying that didn't get the investment? So as I
stealing from award over an in a costa that matters
if if the incentive just shifts something away and then
doesn't help some other neighborhood that is very similar on
net you haven't done anything. Um again, looking through this report,

(53:19):
because again, every time Donald Trump touts opportunity zones, he's
doing it specific to black people. He's always said, oh,
I'm helping the blacks with opportunity zones, and then of
course he named checks Senator Tim Scott. Is there anything
in this report that actually speaks to black people benefiting

(53:41):
from these opportunity zones? Because I'm looking and I have
after you go to my iPad. Uh, this right here
shows you the geography of opportunity zones. This is the
map right here. Uh. And you see the green areas
is what's called selected tracks opportunities are Uh, the gray

(54:01):
area is eligible but not selected tracks. Have I mean,
have you seen anything that says black people are benefiting
from this? No, because that wasn't their unit of analysis.
Their unit of analysis where the zip codes that were
the zones themselves, So they're not doing it from a
racial equity perspective. But in fairness, when you look at

(54:24):
the zones, a lot of them out there in the
in the in the west, a lot of them were
very close to novel Owed Nation and some other native lands,
so potentially some of the county's near tribal land might
have benefited so so let me show this here that
this is the graphic. They showed UH share of opportunities

(54:45):
own population share of non opportunities own. So according to
their chart, African Americans represented twenty four point three of
opportunity zones. UH share of non is a living point
for Latino Hispanics t point four people living in poverty
UH is twenty eight point nine. But okay, so let's

(55:06):
just let's just but that's that was the criteria upon
which the zone was chosen, right, But don't report They
don't report the rising income by race or ethnicity. So
the lowering of the poverty rate, I don't know whether
that's someone who's lifted out of poverty or whether you gentrified,

(55:28):
you just moved in some people with money and moved
out to people who didn't. And and that's again, those
are important distinctions because what it puts points to is
how does it actually benefit anybody? So you can sit
here and say, oh my god, these things are wonderful,
but it's still what is the net effect on black

(55:49):
people and Latino slash Hispanics. That's the real deal, And
the reality is this port this report does not make
that clear. It's just hey, seven A five billion is
being spent. We don't know on what you can You
can spend it. You can spend it in a census,
you can spend it in a census tract. And it

(56:10):
can be white developers. It could be white developers gentrifiing
that neighborhood. But it wasn't done properly to answer the
question it sets out to answer. I mean, this is
part of the problem he had when the leadership of
his Council of Economic Advisors left him. But but more

(56:33):
to the point, a lot of people like place based
initiatives like this. They compare this to other place based
initiatives that have been backed by Democrats. So unfairness, this
is an idea that people favor. We have to remember that,
uh Um, Congressman Wrangel was the one who initiated the

(56:55):
whole idea of place based in legislation. But this report
doesn't do what they say it does. Um, Bill Sprigs.
We sortly appreciate it, said, thanks a lot. It was
a quick conversation with my panel here. And so I mean,
isn't that isn't that fair to ask? Like in terms

(57:18):
of if Trump every time he talks about opportunity zones.
He's talking about how he's always in reference to black people. Well,
shouldn't black people be saying, okay, fire, how did black
people benefit? Please please show me the data that shows
how black people are benefiting from opportunity zones, since anytime

(57:38):
he brings them up, it's in relation to what he's
done for the blacks. Well, I'm sure that's a valid question,
and I think it's one that definitely should be asked
whether or not they should have that data at this point,
I think that they should. But just to just to
clarify a couple of things. Um, So I'll use DC

(57:59):
as an example. In d C, and I'm I'm imagining
this is the case elsewhere. It's not according to zip code,
it's according to census track and and in in d C,
seventy nine percent of the actual opportunity zones the zones
that were approved are located east of the River, which
is in seven Ward, seven and eight majority black, and
there are different There are criteria that the track tracked

(58:23):
had to have in order for it to get approved
in the first place. So it dealt with the unemployment
numbers and dealt with a lot of factors that I
think the the Trump administration could probably use from d C,
because DC has done a very good job at explaining
how they decided where those are. So the numbers, it
seems like they maybe they really did do the seventy
five billion. But I do know that in places like

(58:46):
here in d C, that we do have data to
show where why they were allocated in a certain place,
the criteria that they used, and I imagine at some
point that the district will be able to give some
sort of information on the racial impact. But the idea
of opportunity zones itself. To answer your question as far
as why it's linked to black people, well, part of

(59:08):
that is because we linked these types of developments to
black people. So there are certain when I when I
talk about their criteria, the fact that it had to
be located in certain parts, there are all these different
guidelines that you have to fall back when you're dealing
in the inner city. Most of us obviously live in
inner cities, and so that's how black people are impacted

(59:29):
by it. But but but but when you still think
that go ahead, go ahead, Yeah, I still think that
it's a great thing. We should continue to um build
upon it and add to it. But there is the
responsibility on who gets these contracts. That's on local government.
That's not on federal government. Local governments are responsible for
So if we want to know, just like when t

(59:50):
I was talking about not being able to get our
you know, black people not being part of this Opportunity
Zone initiative down in Atlanta, what he should use his
wealth to get people together to make sure that we
have a seat at the table. Yeah, government are responsible
for that. No, No, they're actually not responsible, Michael, I'm
reading this here. This is the actual White House report. Uh,

(01:00:10):
the Couns of Economic Advisors. Go to my iPad. Anthony
finds that o Z s Opportunities owns, which are census
tracts nominated by state governors and certified by the U. S.
Department of the Treasury to be eligible for the Investment
tax cuts, are among the poorest communities in the United States.
These communities have an average poverty rate more than double

(01:00:32):
that of all other communities, and our home to a
higher share of African Americans, Hispanics, and high school dropouts.
Even among all the communities eligible to be an o
Z under federal law, every state selected communities that on
average had a median household income less than that of
communities that were not selected. So now the states are

(01:00:53):
selecting that, but they are certified by the Department of Treasury.
But here here's the thing that I'm still uh look
at here, um Michael, and that is this here when
I say how are black people benefited? When you say
money is coming in, okay, what is that money going to?
Is it going to business owners? Is it going to retail?

(01:01:16):
Because if you look at really the people who are
greatly benefiting from opportunity zones is folks who are in
real estate because they're coming in their only land. That's
really what you're speaking about and different from and I'm
glad Professor Spriggs mentioned the historical context of these opportunity zones.
The empowerment zones were the first to do that. Charlie

(01:01:38):
Wrangle absolutely as well as secretaries to scenarios in the
Clinton administration. That's when it moved forward and how they
evaluated whether it was working was was not to gentrify neighborhoods.
It was to help empower the people that are there
and want to stay. Now give an example, a lot

(01:01:59):
of folks down this in this kind of gentrifying world
we all live in, no matter what city you're in.
Clearly also here in our city, here in in d C.
And we're trying to put obviously guardrails so there's not
too much gentrification. And I don't mean to pick on Starbucks,
but when neighbors used to see a Starbucks pop up,
they knew they were in trouble. They didn't think, oh

(01:02:21):
my goodness, services are coming to our neighborhood when oh
my god, five coffee is coming correct, correct, which meant
a different kind of person, which meant different kind of condos,
which meant people have to move out. And oh then
the Oki dough they play the Oki does don't worry.
After we rebuild your public housing complex, you can come back.

(01:02:46):
Of course you can come back, but we need to
check for ten dollars uh, and here's your new rent.
So that's how they obviously get people out. So these
opportunity zones are exactly what you said. Rolands are different
than the empowerment zones of the nineties. These dollars are
going to developers to move people out and move a

(01:03:07):
certain person and must impact. By seven and eight in
d C were targeted because obviously obviously the land values
were much lower, and it was a great opportunity to
move people in and get people out. And that's that.
And the thing Irihana is real simple, and that is
are the people living there benefiting or are they uh

(01:03:29):
living there with a big as bulls eye on their
back and systematically being taken out and then shuffle elsewhere
as those places are turned over into mixed use development,
bringing in shopping centers, bringing high priced condos that people
simply cannot afford to actually live there. Yes, I agree
with the bulls I. UM. You know, unfortunately, opportunity zones

(01:03:54):
have produced very little impact from the simple fact that
targets small businesses, and you know, especially black small businesses
typically fail to qualify for the credit requirements of mainstream banks.
So if anything, they have offered creative financing to gentrify
poor neighborhoods and drive out residents. UM. They create jobs
for others who move in when indigenous residents can't be

(01:04:17):
there anymore. And so it's really not helping UM as
much as it needs to. UM. I I understand the
concept of it, but it's hurting our people. UM. And
I we need more financial literacy. UM. We need more
opportunity for black businesses. Um. And you know, I'm originally

(01:04:38):
from Detroit, Michigan, and we've seen this in Detroit for years.
Most urban areas have districts where this is the case.
Um And so uh, I think that we need to
you know, I understand that Trump wants to make this
like how he's helped the black community, but I think
that we need to figure out a different way. All Right,

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adopted by the Republican National Committee refuting the legitimacy of
the Southern Poverty lawsuit or to identify hate groups and
saying that the federal government should not view SPLC as
a legitimate foundation equipped to provide actual information, twenty civil
rights groups issued the following statement. Hate crimes and incidents
terrorized entire communities, and we are seeing an unprecedented increase

(01:07:54):
in them. These acts of hate caused people devastating harm
and undermine our democracy as people fear for their lives. Yet,
during this ongoing crisis, the RNC is condemning an organization
for doing work that it helps community leaders, law enforcement,
and state and local governments combat hate. A Southern Poverty
Law Center's research and analysis on hate groups has long

(01:08:18):
provided critical data to help local leaders protect people targeted
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This resolution seeks to undermine the truth and enable white

(01:09:00):
nationalists in hate groups like Conan to continue targeting hate
against the communities we represent and serve alongside. We condemn
this resolution. It only seeks to hide evidence of a
damage this administration and its supporters have wrought on our
communities and our country. Until we reckon with the many

(01:09:20):
ways that white nationalism and hate groups continue to devastate
our country, we cannot keep people safe nor come closer
to realizing a country as good as its ideals. Uh, Michael,
the RNC, they're ticked off because there are groups that
a conservative they say, oh, they shouldn't be call a

(01:09:44):
hate group. So now they're trying to go after the
trying to go after SBLC for designations. They gave more
time and ink to that than they did. D having
actually a platform, just decided to adopt whatever forty five
says is what he's going to support, which I found interesting.

(01:10:06):
So that means if he says, uh, I want all
black and brown people out of the United States, then
their platform doesn't speak to it. So it's okay that
they would follow. So you know, it's just ridiculous anything
related to race. They figure out what the wedges because
they obviously don't want to piss off the base of
their party. There's a reason David Duke is comfortable being

(01:10:28):
a Republican. There's a reason those people that marks in
Charlottesville are comfortable being Republicans because their leader of their
party says, I welcome you, rather than saying, you know what,
I don't want your support. So that's uh, that's that's
where I'm tired. I'm tired of. Also last night people
saying that's not the country who we are. It is

(01:10:50):
the country we are, It's the country we've been for
the less four and twenty some five years, So why
is it any different today. So until that my said changes,
the RNC is going to continue our problems attracting black
and brown people. Melock the RNC, they they're really upset
with the SBLC because they have since two thousand twelve

(01:11:11):
they included the Family Research Council on their list as
a hate group as a result of what they call,
uh their violent, virulent anti gay messaging. This I'm not
really concerned about SPLC designations. I don't think that this
is something that the RNC probably should have spent much

(01:11:33):
time on it at all, But the fact that they did,
I'm really not bothered by. People have had people have
actually had issues with the s PLC designations for a while.
It's the same organization that designated Lewis Fair count in
the Nation of Islam as anti Semites and I hate group.
So there are people are people have disagree with that designation.

(01:11:54):
They disagree with it today. I imagine that on the
panel today that people with that you disagree with that designation.
But this is not something that I think move moves
any voters at all. I don't think that this is
something that drives people to the polls. It's something that
the RNC did. Probably by next week we would have
forgotten about it, if not by the end of the week,

(01:12:17):
um rihanna. Again, they claim the s s p l
C is a far left organization with an obvious bias uh.
Quote the SBLC is a radical organization and that the
federal government should not view this organization as a legitimate
foundation equipped to provide actionable information to DHS or any

(01:12:39):
other government agency. But the reality is they have. Yes.
So I mean, let's concentrate on why they were formed
in the first place. There they were formed to apply
the fourteenth Amendment, uh and make sure that there's equal protections.
So what they do is they apply out of fourteenth

(01:12:59):
Amendment to states that systematically discriminate. And so that's important.
We're making them the victims now, but they're there to
protect people underneath the Fourteenth a moment, as an attorney
and someone who decided to go into law, that is very,
very very important to me. So I find it preposterous
to say, oh, you know, they shouldn't be legitimate they

(01:13:20):
follow the law and make sure that we're protected under
the law. Um. And it's obvious that racist you know,
must attack SLPC because they bring legal advice. They wouldn't
you know, hit dog wall holler kind of thing. Um.
And so I do think it's very important to follow
the legal experts. They're really trying to protect us. Um

(01:13:42):
and and hopefully those states instead of you know, saying
they're legitimate, they figure out ways to make sure that
they're not racist folks. More drama in Portsmith, Virginia. Okay
this time, Okay, this is real. Strange. Yesterday we told
you about this friction that exists between Africana because in
there now a white city resident. This is strange. I know,

(01:14:05):
follow me here. A white city resident has brought criminal
charges against the city's black vice mayor, Lisa Lucas Burke.
Tommy du Bois alleged that Vice Mayor Lisa Lucas Burke's
public call for the firing of the city's police chief
constituted a misdemeanor crime under an obscure city statute. Du

(01:14:31):
Bois appears to have gotten the idea to press the
charts from a Facebook group. Sheriff's deputies delivered a summons
to Lucas Burn on Monday morning, after Dubois filed the
criminal case against her with a magistrate judge. Now, in
Virginia's magistrate system, citizens can bring criminal charters against other

(01:14:51):
individuals by simply making their case to a judge. Now,
the vice mayor, who happens to be the daughter of
the highest ranked African American in Virginia, who herself has
been talking about police for supposedly attacking a Confederate monument
in June, What the hell is going on here? Michael?

(01:15:19):
I don't know. I mean, I didn't even you know
that last name might be due boas budd he ain't
a brother, No, I mean I don't understand clearly. Uh.
I hate saying this all the time, but we're just
in such a different place, like when you have your
your crazy white people videos, where folks just think that

(01:15:43):
they can do whatever they want, the rules are for them,
and in this environment, they think they're gonna be backed up,
so they do what they do in parking lots as
you're obviously people as your viewers show on on those
crazy videos. So this what was crazy here, uh, Meliica,
is that um again which we cover yesterday. You have

(01:16:08):
African Americans who are moving into power. They're in Portsmouth,
black seay manager, black police chief, three black cent the
city council, black shaff They represent a majority of the
people in that particular city. Whites represent about But it's
got to be crazy that and the statute this person

(01:16:30):
uses that by the vice mayor calling for the firing
of the police chief, the vice mayor is interviewing, interfering
in the duties of the police chief. So therefore that's
why she's being charged. Of course, this is something that
sounds pretty nonsensical. Whether or not this is actually race related,

(01:16:52):
it really doesn't matter. They do have as you said,
this is something that they're legally allowed to do as
citizens up Smith. But I don't think that this is
something that deserves much attention um in Portsmith at all,
despite what we've been seeing over the past. I think
whenever she was initially what the other person was initially

(01:17:12):
charged or with trying to this whole Confederate statute issue,
it's nonsensical. I don't think that this is it's not
gonna go anywhere. I don't think that you really gen
up a lot of excitement about this type of issue
right here, whether or not they she's not gonna be arrested,
she's not gonna be um probably not even going to

(01:17:35):
be removed. But this kind of sounds like a similar situation.
I'm not an attorney, but the word maybe for reform
where people are just able to bring all sorts of
cases and what does that come on? Tort reform is
actually targeting lawyers. This the law there allowed for residents

(01:17:55):
and that's what and that's what you have here. This
whole battle that we covered yesterday deal was with when
you have what you have police officers UH filing charges
against a CP leaders, a state senator and others claiming
that Stephany Morales, who was the d A she could
be a possible witness even though she wasn't even there

(01:18:16):
when they so called uh defaced or hurt this monument
and they're trying to get a her throne off the case.
And it's also a drama there. Black folks are they're saying, Yo,
this is clear, you have an attack on African Americans
who were in positions of power. Yeah, well this is
this just sounds like a jump lawsuit. I don't think
that this is no no, no, no, no, no no,

(01:18:37):
this this is not a lawsuit. This person literally went
to a magistrate, magistrate heard it, issued issued charges. Uh
shares office, then goes to her office to say, boom,
you're being charged with the crime. Yeah, I mean it's foolishness.
The fact that they're even able to do it under

(01:18:57):
the law anyway and appear before a magistrate just ridiculous.
Sounds like something that really needs to be the statute
that really needs to be amended or just be eliminated altogether.
But it's it's silly. It sounds like it's silly, and
it sounds like something that any citizen would do to
whether it's black or white or whatever. It's a silly

(01:19:18):
it's just silly. But but that's what this, Brianna is.
Why what you're heating from there? This is what happens
when a city is transitioning from white control to black control,
right right? I mean, I don't know enough about the situation, um,
but I will say that twenty miles from Portsmouth is

(01:19:38):
when the first slaves landed, right And so um, I'm
going to say that this mayor has faced more charges
than Brianna Taylor's killers. And that's enough of disgrace for
me right there. Um I I I don't think that
elected officials should be wrong for doing what they think is.

(01:20:01):
That's all I'll say on that. Well, it's certainly um
is absolutely crazy. Here All y'all gotta go to a break.
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(01:24:28):
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(01:26:45):
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(01:30:18):
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(01:30:40):
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(01:31:08):
all right, gott admit. Out of all of those that ads, uh,
it was interesting looking at all these different ass the
one melick I found most entertaining was the one of
Nicki Haley and Ted Crews and Lindsey Graham saying, don't
believe nothing. Donald Trump says that he's a liar as well,
But then boy, you flip it. Oh my god, he's

(01:31:30):
the greatest thing since Jesus. Uh So which one do
you believe? The truth, the true feelings, or the one
after he won? Well, the idea will be. Kamala Harrison
was Kamala Harrison was just chosen as Joe Biden's VP,
and she thought that he was a racist. So now

(01:31:51):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Stop stop. Where does she where
does she say that. Sorry, she didn't. She didn't say
that he was a racist in fact, fact, in fact,
in fact, in fact, what in fact what she say?
She said she supported No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
you said you said, you said, Karma Harris, I thought
that Joe Biden was a racist? Did she wait one second?
One second? Did she specifically say during the debate, Joe,

(01:32:14):
I don't think that you're a racist. Well, I don't
think that. I don't think that most people. No, no, no,
no no, I'm a I'm asked hold no wait wait
wait wait wait wait no, no, I asked the question.
I asked. I asked. I asked a questions. I asked
a question. Can you answer the question? Did? Did come?
Did calm? No? No no? But did she say, did

(01:32:34):
Karma Harris say to him Joe, I don't think you're racist?
Yes or no? No? She did not say that. Actually
she did. What she said? What? What? What she actually
alluded to was the fact that he was a segregationist.
That's what she said. Okay, First of all, first of all,
again again again, hold on one second. No no no

(01:32:55):
no no no no no no no no no no
you no one second, one second, one second. One second,
you stated something that was false. She's she's specifically, she
specifically stated. So here, so here's a deal. Don't state
don't state something false. And I think you're you're gonna

(01:33:19):
loud just say it. You say something that was false,
but go ahead. We know no no no I no, no, no, no,
no no no Meli Melick. Meli's real simple. Melick is
real simple. Melick is real simple. It's real simple. No no,
not actually, no, Melleck, this is very simple. If somebody

(01:33:39):
makes up something and it's false on this show, no no, no,
on this show, they get corrected. And I know that
it doesn't work that way in Fox News. But if
you make, if you make well, if you make a
false statement, if you make if you make a false statement,
if you make a false statement, you're gonna get corrected.

(01:34:00):
Not go ahead. Yeah, well I've been on your show
since two thousand and eighteen, so I do know how
it works. And you correct things that don't fit your narrative.
So we actually not correct moll Harris. Harris did not
use the word racist. What she said was that she
was that little girl and because of policies that the
chief cause of policies that Joe Biden supported. That everyone.

(01:34:24):
I won't say everyone. Most people will connect to being
an actual racist, that segregationists means something else. But the
thing is that what Tomla Harris said, despite what Kamala
Harris may have said, we have Joe Biden's forty plus
years in the Senate to actually talk about, and we

(01:34:44):
know whether it was his crime deal, whether there were
many things that he said that's come out of his mouth.
Joe Biden's will have to answer for that. So it
doesn't matter how many ads great or bad, the Lincoln
Project or other groups push, Joe Biden, is that candidate
and thin. But Brianna, here's a deal. When you play
those videos and when you hear Lindsey Graham calling Donald

(01:35:04):
Trump a cook a cook, when you hear uh Ted
Crew saying nearly everything that Donald Trump says is a lie,
when you hear NICKI Haley are selling him as well,
these are people who are being really honest about Donald
Trump until they decided to sell their souls. Your thoughts
about that ad. I have a lot to say about

(01:35:26):
the ads, but I have to specifically talk about what
Malik just said. So um Trump's position that the Central
Park five should have been executed. So Biden has evolved
in Trump still stands by his position. Yes, and by
the way, he doubled down on that in the election,

(01:35:49):
even when presented with the facts of them being e generated.
Go ahead, yeah, and and and they were children. So
you know, Trump thought black children and should be put
to death. So you know, if if he has people
in the party who thinks that's okay to argue for
black children to be executed by the government, then he doesn't.

(01:36:10):
They don't have the moral ground to stand out when
it comes to talking about Biden. So you could say
that Kamala tried to infer, even though, as Rollin stated,
she literally said, and I was in the audience as
a d n C member, she literally stated, I don't
think that you're a racist, Joe, and then she went
on to say other things that she felt disagreement with. However,

(01:36:34):
we now have Kama Harris as r VP and there
to protect us and try to push a lot more
of our agenda and make him a better person. And
so to see that or to say that about the contrast,
I just I don't think you have a valid point,
uh for for the RNC. But to focus back on

(01:36:55):
the ads, I mean, most of those ads are common
sense and very factual, and I'm fortunately that also means
Trump's base is less likely to listen to it, as
we just heard a comment of you know, Will Biden
and Kamala so like, I think that one thing that
it does show is that Joe Biden clearly has a
coalition of people of all across different political spectrums. He

(01:37:18):
has moderate conservatives, Democratic socialists, um, and they're all working
together to defeat Trump. So it's a good show of unity.
I gotta say this here, Michael, out of all the people,
there's nobody worse than me than Ted Cruise. The man
called your wife ugly, the man accused your daddy of assassination,

(01:37:44):
and you're still kissing his ass. Say, man, look, party
unity only goes so far with me. You know, I
think it's a great and clearly it always happens in politics.
You're able to find something that somebody says it was

(01:38:06):
an ally or an enemy enemy at one time, and
then it was an ally. But I really enjoyed because
I had not seen it. I heard about the Michael
Cohen Um commercial and that was that was an interesting too.
I don't know that sways anybody either, because clearly all
of Trump's based folks hate him, and I don't know
if if our folks are gonna like them. But it's

(01:38:29):
just an interesting, interesting commercial um to lay out kind
of what he saw in his last decade with forty five,
before he was forty five and when he was a candidate.
But these commercials on online have impacts. They just they
just do. Um. Clearly, the paid media has impacts on
commercials during the conventions. They just do if trust me,

(01:38:54):
if and you're rolling you and I've talked about this before.
If politicians didn't think commercials would work, they wouldn't spend
pretty much almost of their money on them. So it works,
and so we'll see what happens on November three. I
clearly think that Biden Harrits have a good shot. And
I know that folks like to look at the national

(01:39:16):
poll numbers, but it's really just a group of five
states that folks need to focus on. And when you
focus on those poll numbers, clearly the race is gonna tighten.
But we'll see what happens over the next coming weeks.
Ask y'all this here, there's a Daily Beast has this
story go to my iPad? Please uh this this story

(01:39:37):
right here. RNC speaker boost uh conan conspiracy theory about
Jewish plot to enslave the world. Mary Ann Mendoza she
Um is supposed to speak tonight at the Republican National Convention.
She went to Twitter to encourage followers to read a
threat about the rothschilds Um and uh in here. Uh

(01:40:00):
she lays out me like that, uh that this is
a Jewish plot to enslave the world. I think she
still a space tonight. I hope that she doesn't, but
she probably will. The the idea that Jews are being
involved in the conspiracy, it's not something that really should
be foreign to any of us. I supported a candidate

(01:40:21):
here in d C, tray On White, who talked about
this Jewish weather conspiracy. So this these type of things,
whether it's a white person or even a black person,
many of these same conspiracies about Jews, about wealth, many
things that the Jewish community considered anti semitic. These things
happen all the time, including the comments by Louis Faricon

(01:40:42):
when he talked about that Holly Um the Jews being
responsible for the amount of homosexuality in Hollywood. You can
fact check that because that's one of the things that
the Southern Poverty Lost in her cited as one of
those instances where he was being not anti not just
anti Semitic, but homophobic. So no, she shouldn't be speaking.
I don't think that she should be speaking at all.

(01:41:03):
But the idea that people are using these types of
anti semitic tropes is pretty bipartisan. Uh. This is uh
just again quite interesting to me when you when you
look at uh, some of these folks who are slated,
uh to speak, the fact of marriage is Herebriana Republicans.
They've got two candidates, one of them who won her

(01:41:24):
primary in Georgia, who is an absolute believer in these
conspiracy theories, who is a racist, who touted her invitation
to hear Donald Trump speak Thursday night at the White House. Uh.
And so Republican Party. Look that Steve King lost in Iowa. Uh.
They finally got to the point where his racism was

(01:41:45):
even too much for them to bear. But they've got
one coming after him who's just as nutty. Brianna there,
Uh you're you're on mute. Sorry, sorry about that. Yeah. So, um,
I I think it's a problem. I think GOP know

(01:42:08):
that they're in the struggle right now for Synen seats.
You've seen that Susan has taken Trump all of all
the ads and so forth, and so they're trying to
work another way. Um. You can see that's why some
people have lost. And I think that's really important. And um,
when you show the other ads of showing you know,
Jamie Harrison and how we're going really hard against Lindsey Graham,

(01:42:29):
They're like, it's um, it shows that they are nervous.
And I wonder, I wonder how affect you know, it
will actually be if they speak other than just speaking
to their base, which honestly those people aren't who listen
to that are going to vote for the Democratic Party anyway.

(01:42:52):
I do want to ask y'all this here because this
came out this morning. Michael, I want to start with you.
So this woman go to my iPad please. This woman
dion are Herstian raider Geisler. She posted this on her
Facebook page today. Uh thugs sports slash rioters are in

(01:43:13):
town and officers shared with a friend that rioters have
arrived in Louisville by the bus load. And are planning
action on Tuesday, and more are coming. These aren't kids,
but thugs with connections to organized crime and have uh
A HX and other cities of looting, Cardjackie and a

(01:43:33):
costing women. Homeland Security is planning to be here this week.
They're staying along Hurst Born Lane in the hotels. Please
be careful for yourselves and do not let your kids
around St. Matthew's or go out in Louisville alone. Be
well and be saved. Rioters have arrived and are staying
along the Hearst. Born Parkway tomorrow. They planned to shut

(01:43:57):
down the highways and are estimated to be roughly two
thousand people plus seven hundred vehicles. Stay safe and protect
yourself if necessary. Michael, no, go back to my pad. Michael.
The cop saw this a Black Voters Matter bus and

(01:44:25):
sent out this hysterical message about how they're coming to
destroy our city. They're there to register black people to vote. Yeah,
but that's not obviously what they what they see, just
like the coupling in Missouri, that the protesters were walking

(01:44:49):
through the neighborhoods, weren't bothering anybody's, weren't attacking anybody's homes
or property. And a couple that came out with guns
because they vision black protesters writers or as bad people.
They don't see them as you know what, This is
great for America. This is what America was built on.

(01:45:10):
I don't That doesn't mean I have to come outside
and march with them, but I certainly not have to
come outside with a gun. So it's just how the
two different Americas are looking at where we are, and
that's what happened. That's what happens all over the country.
So you see that, but with red, black and green coloring,
and all they saw was black. Didn't see voters have

(01:45:34):
to say voter registration, didn't have to say any of that.
All they saw it was black. And she got on
her Twitter machines no no, no, no. But here's the deal.
This was a cop who sent this out and this
white woman posted it. Folks went off on her this
morning and she deleted from her Facebook page when they said,
did you even bother to Google? And this is again,

(01:45:55):
this is what freaks some of these white folks out.
Meleg just black people all of a sudden standing up
for rights and this cop their thugs and actually he
jeopardized their safety by saying where they're going to be staying.
Thankfully they were not staying at those hotels. They could
have been harmed if somebody saw this message and then responded.

(01:46:21):
This isn't surprising to me. This is something very irresponsible
for the officer to actually make that post. As someone
who lives in an area where over the years we
have complained about the fact that when things are published
local publications, local blogs. Michael should not this himself since
he lives in d C where they where they carve

(01:46:42):
out every other place in the city except wards at
seven and eight, which is east of the river, which
is where most of the black people live. So this
doesn't surprise me that when it comes to people's perception
of black people, whether that is in wealth or not,
that these type of things have and so I mean,
I'm not it doesn't surprise me at all. I've dealt

(01:47:03):
with it for years for me, if my neighbors have
as well. But Brianna, the realities here if you if
you listen to the last Night Republican asked me invention,
you know I had to. I had to call my
relatives who live in major cities and say, are y'all. Okay,
are y'all hiding under the bed or in the closet?
Do you have you installed a panic room because I
swore listening last night. Oh my god, every major American

(01:47:27):
city is on fire and things are burning and they're
looting in their rioting and stuff is being destroyed. Yeah.
I mean, honestly, clearly, what this shows is that black
people voting is a horror movie. Horror movie to them,
And so that's why it emphasizes how important it is

(01:47:47):
for us to vote. And we can all fight each
other after Trump is out. Um, But right now, people
who have never been united on anything have been united
around getting rid of Trump. Because it's honestly ridiculous that
they go on and on on about the bus. Um,
I've seen the bus, the buses, you know, has people

(01:48:09):
come out there. Actually it's protests. It's a wrapped bus. Yeah,
and you know there's not really in protest goes to churches.
You know, make sure that we are voting. And the
fact of that all the panic, and that's what they
like to do was put fear into their voter base. Um,

(01:48:30):
and you know, make sure that they um depress our base.
And so I think It's very important this um to
realize that this frantic nous is because they don't want
to see black people vote. And we've been fighting for
that since reconstruction. And so yeah, all right than Brianna,
like Michael, we full appreciate it. Thank you so very much, folks.

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The Profit Room as a black owned day trading company
that teaches courses on how to profit from the stock market.
The company specifically focuses on educating African Americans on how

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to find success in the financial markets. Watch this have
it find The co finals are Ernest Curry and LaToya Smith.
They join us right now. Ernest, LaToya, how you doing
doing great? Guys? Videos too late. Let's go to the guests. Uh,

(01:49:58):
let's go to Ernest and LaToya all right, and to
see them. Thank you very much, LaToya LaToya. I'll start
with you. Um, every time we've had the conversation about look,
people say, I don't know jack by the stock market.
It's confusing, I have no idea what to buy and
the raalities is here. Well, the fifty percent Americans have
nothing in the stock market. They're not even paying any
attention to it. And so, um, what uh what are

(01:50:21):
you hearing from people? And how have you gotten them
over their fears? Um, basically just explaining things to them
in such an elementary fashion and really just breaking it
down so they can understand the concepts, because I think
most of the times within the financial markets is the
jargon that is used perhaps that scare many people away
from investing or even learning about the stock market. Um earnest.

(01:50:46):
When people think about it, they just think it's gambling. Yeah, see,
and that's the perception because that's why we are education companies.
See the bottom line, when you look at anything like
trading or any type of push question, you need to
have education. So what happens people they just jump into
like say, the stock market as a sports car and

(01:51:07):
don't even understand how the car works right, and that's
where you get a history of people continually talking about
how much money they lost is gambling, But in reality,
there is structure behind trading and investing, and we try
to show people how to do that while keeping risk
management as a priority. So once they figure that out

(01:51:30):
and say wow, there's actually a strategic plan and they're
not blinded by you know, the smoke and the mirrors
and the flashing lights, they're realized that they can actually
invest in trade in the market and pull out money
on a consistent basis. So so what is it? Is
this a class? Is this a series of classes? Exactly?

(01:51:50):
What are you taking folks through? Well, basically, we have
longline structured courses. So we created all the content through
a live trading environment where we're showing people step by
step how to profit in the markets, all while defining
the risk. And we also do mentorships so they can
get ahold of us on zoom webinar. We like to
do one on ones and really show people and walking

(01:52:14):
them through the actual process. We found that to have
huge success with our students. Are these classes earners? Are
are they free? Are they paid? Um? What about that?
So what happens. We do a lot of free content
for people to see, like on our YouTube channel, then
they come to us we have paid content, so you're

(01:52:36):
it's just like any other professional education. You're paying for
our time, experience, and knowledge. So just like any other profession,
you need a mentor to walk you through. A lot
of people can just watch videos all day long, but
each individual is different the way they received the way
they digest the information. Since Latoy and I've been doing

(01:52:58):
this for a long period of time, we can adjust
our trading style to your personality so you can get
the goals that you want financially. So that's what we
do personally, and also we're traders first before educators, so
people come to us because we still actively trade every

(01:53:19):
single day, so that's what we try to help people
to see. Markets change all the time. Sometimes you have
bullish variosh sideways markets. So by having that mentorship, because
we've been through a lot of markets, we can help
you be able to consistently keep risk management as a priority,
but at the same time still generate income from the market.

(01:53:42):
How many folks have you taught? How many folks have
y'all have gone through your classes and you've been able
to reach Oh, I can't even keep count hundreds hundreds,
hundreds of people so far. And what happens with our people,
which is great, are we've We've taught people that were

(01:54:02):
twenty years old. Our oldest client from scratch, he's seventy
one years old. So we're finding that people want to
learn about the market and they want to have that
connection like LaToya mentioned earlier, and a simplified approach, but consistency.
You know, some days some people are getting the trade

(01:54:23):
and like wow, I brought this stock and the shot
up a d in two or three weeks. That's great, right,
And they talk about that trade or investment every time
you see them. We teach people it's not all about
that big trade. You want to be able to be
consistent and actually stay in the game of trading and investing.

(01:54:44):
And that's how we are. We have a very diverse
group from all ages that we're able to customize programs
to their personality. All right, then, so how can people
get more information about the Prophet Room? He could sign
us all of a social media You can find us
on Facebook. We have a great Facebook page called the

(01:55:04):
prophet Room. Um you can find us on Instagram as well.
You can find us on YouTube. We drop a lot
of free educational content on our YouTube channel as well
as you can look us up as well on uh
We're also on Interest as well. Yeah, all little view
Google Black Day Traders, we pop up. We're number one

(01:55:26):
because we are active traders in the market. So as
soon as you Google, you'll see the prophitt room or
picture of Littya and Usty and I and we're right
there to help you. Alright, then we'll, folks really appreciate it.
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(01:57:35):
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(01:57:56):
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In terms of watching watching her Yale, so y'all watch
this selection is a battle for the soul of America.

(01:58:19):
Your choice is clear. Do you support the cancel culture,
the cosmopolitan elites of Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Joe
Biden who blame America first? Do you think America is
to blame or do you believe in American greatness? Believe

(01:58:41):
in yourself, in President Trump, in individual and personal responsibility.
They want to destroy this country and everything that we
have fought for and whole dear. They want to steal
your liberty, your freedom. They want to control what you
see and think and believe so that they can control

(01:59:04):
how you live. They want to enslave you to the weak,
dependent liberal victim I theology to the point that you
will not recognize this country or yourself. Stand for an
American president who is fearless, who believes in you, and
who loves this country and will fight for her. President

(01:59:27):
Trump is the leader who will rebuild the promise of
America and ensure that every citizen can realize they're American dream.
Ladies and gentlemen, leaders and fighters for freedom and liberty
and the American dream. The best is yet to calm.

(01:59:49):
Did anybody tell her it was an empty as room,
like she wasn't in the middle of an auditorium with
thirty thousand in people screaming? The hell was she yelling for?
Then again, she is dating Donald Trump JUNR. Who's fraid though?

(02:00:11):
Oh my goodness, the best is yet to come and
the best is yet to come. Kimberly, when We're going
to hashtag fire Trump in November, which means we're going
to fire you. Fire Donald Trump Junior, fire, Ebanka fire,

(02:00:35):
garreted five that birth of Milania. All of y'all are
going to go, go go, But it will only happen
if you register and your vote. Go to vote dot org.
Go to my iPad plays vote. Six days before election day,
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(02:00:57):
you can register to vote right there on the website.
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your polling place locator. And if you have not felt
out your census form, folks, time is running out. Go
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(02:01:17):
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or go to twenty censes dot g o V. But
you can fill out your senses right there. Your information
is protected. That's all you gotta do. Volks. Let's do
our part. And again Kimberly said, the best is yet
to come. Let's send these crazy nuts back the Florida.

(02:01:42):
I'm gonna see you all tomorrow. How

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