Shanquella Robinson Update, GOP Interference in DC Crime Laws,Disappearing DEI Jobs, MOH Paris Davis

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Today's Friday, March third, twenty twenty three, coming up on
Roland Martin Filter streaming live on the black Star Network.
Shuan Quilla Robinson's family in the Daytion's Capital today meeting
with the Department of Justice, wanting the fans to intervene
in the case. She is the Charlotte woman who was
killed in Mexico. The Cobos six are now talking Mexico.

(00:21):
Mexican authorities say the US could take over the case
and will lob them do so. You will hear from
attorney being Crump, Tomica Mallory, shun Quila's mother, her sister,
as well as Sue and Robinson another attorney with being
a Crump about the battle that they have been engaged
in for more than one hundred and forty days trying
to have justice for shun Quilla. Robinson and I also

(00:42):
talk to them as well. Also on today's show, Folks,
President Joe Biden is not going up to will do
v too a Republican bill blocking the DC City Council
from changing their laws deal with various crimes. Really, I

(01:03):
thought Biden believed in Republicans, believed in self governance, self rule.
We'll talk to a DC cent of councilmember about that
why they believe President Biden is in the wrong. Dams
in the House also are not happy at all with
the president. One of the first black Army officers in
the Special Forces honor today with a medal of Honor

(01:26):
from President Joe Biden. He's also an alpha brother of mine,
so we will pay tribute to him today and show
you that ceremony at the White House. Also, the death
of George Floyd sparked a corporate movement where numerous folks
were hired for diversity, equity and inclusion jobs. So why
are many of them just three years later being laid off.

(01:46):
We'll talk with d EI disruptor Randy Bryant about that
very issue. Also, we lost Wayne Shorter Saxophonists. Will have
that Immemorial plus Education Matter segment. We'll talk to a
man who is doing his best to get kids excited
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who says that slavery was good for black people. I

(02:31):
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Martel Martell All right, folks, um me. Democrats are kind
of confused with President Joe Biden. Now, Biden has said

(03:57):
that he believes in home rule for Democrats. Now you
remember DC is not a city, so therefore they are
also governed by Congress. Yes, they have a mayor is
they have a city council, but Congress can actually override
decisions by the Washington DC government. Well, the DC government,
they decided to overripe the objections of Muriel Muriel Bowser

(04:21):
and make changes to their criminal code. Now, you know,
Democrats all across the country are freaking all out about
this whole issue of crime. You've got their critics who
are saying they're a soft n the crime. They're attaching
woke to everything. They say that a bill reformed Cash Baill.
This is causing massive problems all across the country. And
we know most of these people are aligned. So what

(04:43):
the Republicans after taking control of the House. One of
the first things they want to do was override the
DC City Council when it came to their decision to
lessen the penalties for several different crimes. Now, this has
gotten lots of attention, and so what Biden has a
now is that he if it passes, he's not going

(05:03):
to veto the bill. Now or Democrats in the Senate
bigger pretty much voted against it. But Senator Joe Matchen, Democrat,
has aligned with the Republicans because he say this is
wrong and it is grossly unfair. Okay, but again, if
you're President Biden, how does that jive with you saying

(05:25):
that you believe in self governance, you believe in home rule.
Republicans also love talking about they don't like big government.
They always saying that they believe in small government. We
don't like big brother mettleig and I are affair. So
why do they insist on continuing to want to tell Washington,
d C. What to do. Normally, when Democrats control the

(05:47):
House and the Senate, then they pretty much leave DC alone.
A lot of them do what they do. But now
you have this, and so you had you had divided government.
So again, by them picking up a couple of Democrats,
then they're able to say, okay, we can now change this. Now.
Biden's decision that's ticked off a lot of House Democrats
and senators by saying, wait a minute, how dare you

(06:09):
align with them and not veto this bill? All of
this is politics because he doesn't want to be perceived
as being soft on crime. Yeah, this is the same
president they got. Let's see if I recall who's the
highest group who votes for Democrats, black women, who's the
highest group who votes for black men? Who five votes

(06:31):
with Democrats black men? And then of course you largely
the majority of black city in Washington, DC. So this
is not playing well in among African Americans. And so
we're gonna talk about this. We're a dcit AC council
woman on who voted for these changes. Different want to
get her thoughts on this. Plus our Friday panel as well.

(06:51):
What we're dealing with here again are Democrats being scared
to death of being painted as being soft on crime.
Of course they complain about defund the police, claiming that
old this was what led to various election losses. Now
I would actually say it's actually being weak with your
message and led to various election losses. And so we'll

(07:12):
deal with that when we come back on the show.
Plus will also show you the Medal of Honor winner
who was on today at the White House. We'll talk
about Shankola Robinson, the black woman who was killed in Mexico, Yes,
killed by one of us, everyone friends, Why are they
still walking free? Mexican? Mexican authorities say the Department of
Justice or the United States can take over the case.

(07:34):
Turning Ben Crump. They met the DJ trying to push
them to do so. So they're beginning their campaign to
put pressure on the White House, to put pressure on
the City Department as well. Folks, we'll do that. We
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you're watching Roland Martin My man unfiltered. M Martel. All right, folks,

(11:26):
welcome back. Join us. Right now is Christina Henderson. She's
an at large council member in Washington, d C. Christin
ain't glad to have you on Roland Martin Unfiltered. So
explain to the people exactly why the city council overall
the objections of the mayor, what what do they actually pass?
Because your critics are saying, oh my god, you're gonna
be letting violent people free roaming, roaming the streets of Washington, DC. Yeah,

(11:50):
so thanks for having me, Roland. The bill that we're
talking about here is a revised Criminal Code bill. So
the District of Columbia has not taken a comprehensive look
of its criminal codes since the nineteen hundreds. This legislation
was more than a decade in the making. There was
a separate Criminal Code Revision Commission that was set up
to not only look at what was happening in other

(12:10):
jurisdictions and best practices, but to also look at what
has been happening in terms of the charging decisions here
in the District of Columbia and to make some changes
to align to that. So this legislation does everything from
clean up old language. If you look in our criminal
code now we still have references to horses and buggies,
to everything going forward to more progressive legislations such as

(12:33):
getting rid of mandatory minimums, which is a tenet of
criminal justice reform that advocates ofcrostination have been calling for.
So again, you hear all these stories, Oh my god,
people who who are violent criminals, they are going to
be releasing them, and they're making this out. The sound
is like, y'all are this is just won't run amok

(12:58):
And that's furthest for them. True. I think a lot
of people have misunderstandings of what the criminal justice system
or the public safety system here in the District of
Columbia looks like. So, for instance, we don't have a
parole system in DC as in other jurisdictions. When someone
is convicted of a local law here in the District
of Columbia, you serve in federal prison our crimes here

(13:21):
in district. For adult crimes, they're prosecuted by the US
Attorney's Office and the Department of Justice. We didn't pick
that person. The President did, and he was confirmed by
the Senate. The judges in our criminal justice system are
not judges we picked. They are picked by the President
and confirmed by the Senate. So there's a portion of
the public safety piece that is not available to us

(13:43):
in terms of control. Something that was an element that
was included in this bill was something called a second
chance look, which was law, which is just the ability
for someone after a certain period of time for serving
serving your time, you have an opportunity petition for early release. Again,
it's just the opportunity to petition for early release, which
is exactly the same that other inmates and other jurisdictions

(14:06):
would have if they go before their parole board. So
what are the councils saying about Biden's decision to align
with Republicans and not vetoed this bill. Are y'all do
y'all want to meet with him? You have y'all have
y'all meet with him, do you plan to do so?
We haven't met with him. I would say that it
definitely felt like incredible betrayal. The District of Columbia has

(14:27):
always been used as a petree dish for conservative ideals.
Anytime they want to try out something, they usually use
the District of Columbia first. For instance, we are the
only place in the nation that has a federally funded
school voucher program that came from Congressional Republicans, and that
was imposed on the District of Columbia. Our charter school
program here in the District of Columbia was something imposed

(14:49):
on the district from Congressional Republicans. But there has always
been an agreement that there is a belief for Democrats,
both in the Senate and the House, that they support
DC statehood and right of DC home rule and self determination.
So the announcement by President Biden to align with Congressional
Republicans and their misinformed talking points about what's happening here

(15:11):
in the district and what this law actually does just
felt like an incredible betrayal. All right, then, so well,
we'll see what happens again. He says that he is
not going to veto it, and so we'll see what
happens next. We certainly appreciate it. Thank you so very much,
council Member Innocent, thank you so much for having me Roland.

(15:31):
Have a good night. All right, let's bring our panel in,
glad to have them here. Michael m Hotep hosts the
African History Network show. Also Matt Manning, civil rights attorney,
and Brianna Cartwright Political Strategies. All right, Brianna, I'll start
with you. Is this politics that Biden is playing by
aligning Republicans on this not wanting to v to it,

(15:52):
so therefore they can't call him being soft on crime
for the election next year. I do not fully know
Biden's strategy. However, there has been a lot of pushback
in regards to crime, especially as more and more Republicans
speak about California losing it and allowing for petty thefts

(16:16):
and so forth. I don't think that it's ever a
good strategy for going more on the Republican side, because
as we can see over and over and over again,
they're not coming to our side. There is no middle ground,
and we need to get as much done as we can.
It's very unfortunate that their council has decided what they

(16:39):
want for their city, and now this is Congress who's
deciding in itself. And it goes into the bigger bite
of DC needing their own territory. They're as a state
and receive, you know, represation without taxation. So it's been
a problem in DC for a while, and they're fighting

(17:01):
to get emancipated and be able to have their city
the way that they want to have their city. And
I hope that that happens. Matt. Should Democrats be pissed
off at President Biden and put pressure on him to say,
what the hell are you doing if you believe in
self rule home governance, believe in it even when you

(17:22):
disagree with it. Yes, I think they should. I think
that this is a betrayal of the idea of self governance.
I mean, it's very honest in it, I think, masterfully,
and I think that's really the issue here. The issue
is less the prudence of the criminal measures that they're
intending to reform and more the question of autonomy versus electability.

(17:44):
I mean, I understand that Democrats are concerned about how
this will appear as it relates to going into the
twenty twenty four elections and looking soft on crime. But
that's immaterial if you know there are people there who
are duly elected by their constituents who have decided to
put forth certain reforms. I mean, you don't get to
undo that because you're concerned about how that looks for

(18:06):
your electability. So I'm glad that their progressives calling him out.
I think they should be calling him out. And I
think Joe Biden is a known quantity with disrespect in disrespect,
excuse me. I think there are a number of people
who have long had issues with Joe Biden's opinions and
positions on crime, particularly when he was a senator in
the nineties. So you know, this is not a new thing.
It doesn't surprise me. But I think the bigger issue

(18:28):
is the people of DC should have the right to
govern themselves, and they're duly elected representatives in particular, should
have the force of law when they decide what's going
to govern in the district. This is an example, Michael,
where Biden should not get a pass. He should be
taking the task for this and made perfectly clear that
this is problematic. And I mean, look, voting for so

(18:52):
one doesn't mean that you agree with everything that they do.
This is where I would hope Democrats in the House
and Senate are going to be very vocal against him
on this very point. Yeah, voting for someone doesn't mean
that you agree with everything that they do. And the
comment on your comment from a minute ago, is this political?
From my studying of history and politics, politics is always political. Um.

(19:15):
When Mayor Mariel Baluser was on Meet the Press Now
today on MSNBC and she talked about how she vetoed
the criminal code from city from city Council, and I
want I looked at some of her statements. I saw
the interview. I look at some of her statements. Also,
I want to find out more. Okay, what was your

(19:36):
objection to the changes that were being made as well?
So I think Biden should be I should be. I
think Biden should be pressed to explain his position. Come
out and explain what's behind this, what's your position? Why
did you? Why is there and about face on this?
Now some people suspect and now I read the article
from the Washington Post today dealing with this, or actually

(19:57):
Washington Post from March second. Some people say, so there
were thirty one, Democrats that have aligned with Republicans in
v twin this as well, and these are basically Democrats
from moderate districts. Some people are suspecting maybe he's trying
to align with modern Democrats to protect them when it
comes to re election in twenty twenty four, what have you.
But I think he should be pressed to really explain

(20:21):
why you're doing this and why you're changing your position
on this as well. Again, I would hope that he
offers a much better explanation other than the one he'd
gotten Brianna, There's no doubt my mind, this is political again.
You look at what's happening all across the country where
you have Republicans who who they believe they can make
crime a major issue in two twenty four like that

(20:43):
happened twenty twenty two. But Democrats can't run away from
the issues that we're still facing. One, so many lies
being told about cash bail. We've seen them in New York,
we've seen them take place in Houston, all the different places,
whether they are assigning blame to all of them. And
also folks want to be in denial about the reality

(21:04):
of what drives crime in this country. And I keep saying,
as long as you ignore the other issues that drive crime.
Obviously illiteracy, obviously education, lack of economic opportunities, all of
that stuff is what leads to crime. Unfortunately, folks don't
want to deal with that. We simply have mentality of yo,
just lock everybody up. That's going to solve the problem.

(21:26):
Give the counts more money will be good. Absolutely, there's
several things in regards to that. First is economic issue.
We don't address the economic issue, which is tied to education.
We can see that with student loans, and we can
go on and on and on about how they make
elitist class in order to make sure that some stay down,

(21:49):
and we're not really trying to make sure that everybody's
prospering at the right level. Going back to cash fail,
I think the issue also is people standing the concept
behind it on both sides. To say that because you're
poor you should stay in jail does not make the
streets safer. If someone who has the money is able

(22:11):
to now say here's my bail, now I go, it
doesn't change anything. And so it's literally just saying because
you have the money, you're able to go. And there's
more and more laws that are set up that make
it more expensive to be poor, and these need to
be changed. And unfortunately, the way her country is, people

(22:34):
are scared of change and do not understand change, and
it takes a lot more back to again education and
so a lot of it starts at education, which takes
a lot of time and money. And so the lazy
way is to blame crime, to go straight to not
the root of it, but at the tip. And so

(22:54):
it's hard for the actual change that we need to
because people don't want to uproot everything and help our nation.
All right, hold tip one second. When we come back,
I'm gonna talk about Sean Cola Robinson's case. Her family
was in DC today putting pressure on the Department Justice
and the White House in the Safe Department saying do
something to bring the killers to justice who started her

(23:15):
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practicing the wobble. Justice pusson Quila Robinson. Justusion Quila justice

(26:07):
all right, folks said that was today in the Nation's
Capital where attorney been Crump to Mika Mallory, co founder
until Freedom Stupid the family on Sean Quella Robinson. She
of course is the black woman out of North Carolina
who last year went to Cabo with friends. They were
supposed to be there on their vacation. Uh, six of

(26:28):
them came home live. She came home in a body bag.
Remember the video was released where one of the women
was viciously beating her and other folks was literally standing
around filming it as it happened. And you might remember
they told Mexican authorities that she actually had alcohol poisoning,

(26:50):
when in fact that was not the case. When when
they actually had an autopsy, it showed exactly what happened
and how she was just viciously beaten, how her spine
had been um severely injured, neck broken, and just devastating,

(27:11):
devastating facts about this case. And remember one of the
one of the guys brought her luggage back to her family.
She came home in the body back, brought her luggage back.
But then once the authorities begin to investigate, those same
people stopped coming around to her family. We live stream
the entire news conference. You want to see the whole
U ninety minute news conference amply, go to our Black

(27:33):
Start network Apple go to our YouTube page YouTube dot
com for slash ruling as Martin, here is some of
what was said today outside of the officers the National
Council of Negro Women here in the nation's capital. I
want the first as publicly which I do every day,
thank missus Robinson and Sorry for putting their shoulder to

(27:56):
the plow to seek justice on Behalflow and killer Robinson.
I'm thanking them for doing something that so often only
black and brown families have to do. They have to
grieve their loved one, they have to adjust to normalize
their life with the loss of their loved ones. And
at the same time, they have to become part of

(28:19):
a movement, part of a club that no one has
to be it. They have to beg for dignity and
respect in debt. They have to seek justice on behalf
of their loved ones. They don't have the privacy to
grieve and do those things in private. So I want

(28:40):
to thank them publicly for turning their pain into purpose.
There's been one hundred twenty six days since she died,
that's eighteen weeks. Video footage of her being beaten literally
to them was released on nothing but sixteen twenty twenty two,

(29:03):
one hundred and eight days ago, fifteen weeks in three days.
And still with all this visual evidence, nobody has been arrested.
That's right, that's right. Nobody has been arrested. And as
my side, the General always talks about black lives matter,

(29:27):
our black children lives matter, and people always try to say, well,
you all don't show up when black people get killed
by other black people. You only show up if a
white police officers get killing a black person. No, that's
not hitting. Oftentimes we can't get the media in the

(29:48):
covering bad my sign until out our firm, we have
been showing up when black people get killed unjustly, whether
it is a white person will kill him, what the
black personal Quilla Robinson life matter Mexico has advised that
their investigation is complete. They have identified a suspect. That

(30:13):
suspect is currently out free in the United States of Americas.
And that is not right that the suspects and the
people involved are sleeping comfortably in their own bands at night.
If they are guilty of a crime, then the United

(30:34):
States government should do one or two things. One they
should either estradite the person who murdered Chaquilla Robinson to
Mexico to face the charges in the crimes that have

(30:55):
been alleged against her. Or two they should take jurisdiction.
Mexico is willing to give jurisdiction to the United States
to bring a case for those responsible for killing Chanquila

(31:16):
Robinson to justice. And the only question is State Department,
President Biden, what are you gonna do to bring justice
for this broken hearted family, especially this mother of Chaquila Robinson.
It's not a hard x. The extradite the killer on

(31:43):
katejuristiction so you can prosecute the kill. This right. We've
had the opportunity to review some of the packet and
it has been sent. The ball is clearly in the
United States court. The State Department, the Department of justice.
The ball is in your court. Do what you have
to do. In Mexico, we went to the US Consulate,

(32:09):
who is supposed to be the liaison and the protection
for American citizens abroad. We got no such warm, greedy
We got no such constitutional rights, We got no such
assistance liaison information. In fact, we were almost impeded and
advised that if the family needed more information they should

(32:30):
talk to the six travel made that went Chicago. Well,
this is not a difficult thing to understand, as Attorney
Crump has said, it is not complicated. There was a woman.
Forget about being a black woman. A woman was beaten
to death on camera, and she returned from a vacation

(32:54):
with her neck and back, her spine broken. It's very simple.
We saw an attack. If it one thing, if you
did not see a video, and perhaps we could come
up with some other explanation for what happened to her.
But in this case, what we see is very clear.

(33:15):
She was beaten to death, and if she wasn't beaten
to death, somebody needs to tell us exactly what happened.
And there are six people who were there who know
the answers, and they need to be present somewhere or
they are being asked and demanded of the truth, particularly
the person who we saw, and I want to correct

(33:37):
something that has been said, and I am asking every
single person from the media to be careful about the narrative.
I know that my brother Roland Martin will be careful
about this, and I'm asking all of you. There was
not a fight. There was no fight that took place
in that house. There was an attack again one person.

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They did not see a fight. In fact, we year
the other individuals on the video asking her whether or
not she was willing to fight back for herself as
they joked while she was naked, and she tells them
clearly no, she does not want to fight, and they
continue to allow her to be beaten and then her

(34:20):
neck and spied was broken as she returned home to
her family in a box. That is what happened. It
is not complicated. So as my sister, a Sunshine Anderson
from Charlotte, North Carolina, who couldn't be here but has
been a great support of of this family, would say,
when you tell us it's complicated and there's issues, we've

(34:41):
heard it all before and we don't want to hear
it anymore. We want to see that there is movement action,
that something happens for shan't Kuala Robinson. Forget about her
being a black woman. She is a woman, and she
is a United States citisen. And we know what you
can do. We know what you can do. Let me

(35:02):
tell you why we know what you do more because
we've seen you do it before. When Natalie Holloway, we
America stop it stood still, even I stood still. Yeah,
we share the information at the at the when the
when the White House had press conferences, they would ask
questions about her. The media would not let it go on.

(35:25):
Natalie Holloway was in our homes every day, and she
should have been so should chan Matt Manning, you want
to go to you. The fact that Mexican authorities have
said that the Fans can have jurisdiction, My goodness. Uh,
that's that's like manna from heaven. Uh. And so Crump

(35:48):
Robin said and others they went to DJ saying, step up,
take the mantle, prosecute these folks, the Cobbles six, who
were involving the death of Uncle Robinson. Yeah. I think
the US law enforcement absolutely should do that is it's
rare I think, like miss Mallory was saying, I mean,

(36:09):
it's rare that you have any crime on video, more
so now than before. But it's rare that you have
a crime of this magnitude and of this severity and
of this brutality on video. So I don't know how
the US authorities have not jumped at the chance to
do this. I mean, the obvious answer is, Schanquila Robinson
doesn't play in the media the same way Natalie Holloway does,

(36:31):
which is why they haven't jumped to her family's defense
essentially in prosecuting this case. But from a legal standpoint,
this is a slam dunk case. It's not like they're
you know, should have any real trepidation about that. We
have to investigate this and see if this is actually
a bona fide case. You got it all video. So
I don't know why the State Department isn't moving quickly.
I don't know why d J and President Biden frankly

(36:53):
isn't taking this as an opportunity to show that Schanquila
Robinson and a Shanquila Robinson is just as important as
in Natalie Holloway, and that the United States government is
going to come and protect that family when a citizen
is lost abroad, particularly in a heinous and brutal way.
I don't know why they wouldn't take this. It seems
to me like a simple case for them, the prosecute

(37:14):
in one where, especially with Mexico being so close to us,
that they can investigate a lot more robustly than they
might be able to in some other places. I hope
that they he'd been crump and sue Sue and Robinson's
call and get on this case as quickly as possible
for Miss Robinson's family. All type one second. We're going
to pick up this on the other side after this break,

(37:35):
we folks, and we're discussion the chacole of Robinson the case.
Coming up next, we'll talk about the call for other
organizations or to step up, other female groups, black groups
as well, that calling upon them to join them in
this effort to put the pressure on the DJ and
the White House of the State Department to step up.
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Black owned media and something like CNN. You can't be
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the culture, whether we know it or not, from politics,
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(41:42):
going on. It's the Love King of r B by
He Divide and you're watching Rollo Martin Unfeltered and look,

(42:07):
we cannot deny the reality that if a white woman
in America had been beaten and killed by her friends
in Mexico, there's Fox News, CNN, MSNBC will be all
over this We've covered this story frankly more than any

(42:28):
of these other national outlets. And this is the reality
of being black in America. This is also why black
owned media matters. Yeah, you had some other news outlets
that were out there that showed up, but they ain't
been on this case from the beginning like we have been.
And this is the problem why we have to have
our own because we're gonna be on this story constantly,

(42:50):
keep talking about it, trying to get justice. National media whatever,
they'll focus on some other stuff. Yeah, was that for me?
Rolling you with me for a couple of seconds? Okay, Yeah,
I agree. You know, we have to be able to
tell our own story. We have to be able to
finance black owned media to be able to tell our
own story. So many people say build our own, but

(43:12):
they don't say we need to finance our own because
there's a there's a complete difference between the two of them,
and a lot of people who say we need to
build our own as well don't really understand what goes
into being able to sustain a black owned media network
likes it like this. Okay, So you know there's been

(43:33):
We've gone like maybe two months or soul without maybe
a little longer without hearing real updates in this case,
I saw a couple of articles in the past couple
of days dealing with this. I'm glad black Star Media
Network was there to broadcast live the press conference, but
I think pressure should be put on the federal government

(43:55):
to and to also explain to us what they have
been doing. I know the investigation is on going, but
explain to us what has happened what they have been doing.
Because I hear some conflicting information. Then we know one,
we know there was an arrest warrant. We know the
name of the person. At least one person in the
rest warrant has not been released. Has that person actually

(44:16):
been arrested yet or not? What actually is going on?
But you know, this is why we have to support
Roland Martin and the black Star Media Network folks. At
today's news conference, I did ask them a question with
regards to women's organizations, SORITIS and others stepping up and

(44:39):
helping them in this case. Here's what they had to
say was like, of course, she h look at this
gland where she was killed in Technans, when she died
in Texas, have y'all worked to mobilize Soriti's latest other
black female organizations to also put pressure home the State

(45:00):
Department in the White House to bring all that pressure
to bear as well those but five to eight hundred
ten million black women. I'll say this and then I'll
help Tamika Malan's been ruling is not low stoles, and
hopefully on anybody else that we're standing in front of
the national accounts of Negro women, the oldest organization of
black women civil rights leaders, and so Tamika Mallory, who

(45:24):
is a great woman leader of this day, will speak
to that issue. But we understand that question completely. Yeah,
so we you know, up until this point, this family
has been very respectful of the federal government. I'm sorry
up until this point that you know, the family and
still at this point, the family has been very respectful

(45:45):
of the federal government. They were told that something was
going to be done, and so for the last several
months they have waited to leaving that there was no way,
no way with the video that this would be stalls.
At this point, after attorneys to Robinson return with the
documents and the information and the research that she did

(46:05):
there in Mexico, we can clearly state and begin to
organize people around the idea that this is not a
Mexico problem, this is now a United States problem. So yes,
we will begin that process that today begins the uh,
you know, is the beginning of a campaign that should
include all about organizations, whether they be from the women,

(46:26):
to the men, to whomever it is, and not just
black folks, but everybody in this country. Standing for shanqua attorney. Well,
to answer your question, rolling, I'm standing next to an AKA,
and I'm a very proud Delta. Were very much in
the building, and you know, will take help everywhere we

(46:48):
can get it, because pressure is what is going to
cause this case to be moved forward. So we welcome
all the Divine nine and every organization that Willison's and
I think what mister Martin has said, maybe we should
be formal about it. We ain't got gonna write letters
to the leadership of not just black women organizations, but

(47:11):
all black organizations and all people good character. Any other questions, Brianna.
This is where and I spoke to the akas the
Southeast Regional in Huntsville last week. This is where I
keep saying, our black organizations have got to get outside

(47:32):
of our internal stuff and use our power externally to
speak to issues even when it ain't involving a member.
And so this is where again Aka's Deltas, Zada's Sigma Gamma,
Roll the Links, and numerous other black organizations, national organizations

(47:56):
for women, all these different groups and yes, uh fraternities
as well and others should be using their power, putting
pressure saying this woman deserves justice. Absolutely. As we've stayed
over and over again as we talked about the Greek
power and numbers and power, it's just not about sororities.

(48:16):
It's also you know, the fraternities can help. Your great
chapter Alpha can help, and Deltas do the work. And
this is a call for action. I can only talk
about this delta and going to step forward and try
to help legally, and you know, unite, write letters, really

(48:38):
push the envelope. But it does need to be a
collective process because it's numbers and powers. You know, we
could do one thing, another one does another thing, and
unless we all do it together, it doesn't really show
the impact. And so I do think that it's a
wonderful idea to call us to unite and see what

(49:02):
we can do together. Matt again, it just sort of
drives me crazy that we have to we got to
apply pressure just to get something basic done. That's right
who you do, and it's unfortunate, and the same story

(49:23):
happens every time the pretty little white girl, Gabby Petito
or Natty Natie Hollywell Hollowell, or whoever it is. The
media takes and the mainstream media takes and runs with it.
And for us to have to apply pressure, particularly though
in such a simple, straightforward case, I mean, that's the
thing that doesn't make any sense about this case is
that she was on vacation. You've got six people there

(49:46):
that you know, traveled with her who recorded it, which
I've never gotten any clarity on that, but I think
that's really important as well, because the fact that somebody
you know privately recorded it on a device and it
was disseminated, it stands to reason that the FBI should
be able to at least credibly potentially make an arrest
here on the basis of that having been recorded and

(50:07):
disseminated in some kind of aiding in a betting type theory. Right,
they're sitting and watching this happen and they're not intervening,
So the fact that there hasn't also been some push
by the United States authorities to find ways to exercise
the United States jurisdiction on United States soil. For these
people who you know, are suspected to have been involved
or otherwise involved in the video doesn't make any sense

(50:28):
to me. And I don't understand why they haven't jumped
at the opportunity to take a chance to show that
they are in fact strong on crime, and not only
strong on crime, strong on crime that happens to non
lily white people. This seems to me like a good
opportunity for the Biden administration in the DJ to flex
that power. Indeed, and so again there's all too often

(50:50):
we have to well, we have to do this, and
these folks still are roaming free. Michael there, I mean,
they've been roaming free for months down and here's a deal.
You start arresting folks, somebody's gonna crack now. First, I

(51:10):
remember the video. The videos does not show her being murdered,
because when I talked to when I talked to Sue Anne,
she talked about how the doctor, the doctor in the case,
how she had to it was like also to a
drama there where they stopped her for an hour from

(51:31):
actually calling an ambulance to get treatment for schun quoth.
They kept insisting, h all she need was an IV.
You start arresting these people, somebody's gonna crack, somebody's gonna
start spilling the beans. But you gotta arrest somebody. Yeah,
you have to wrest, arrest someone if and arrest is
not already happened. But at first and foremost, I want

(51:54):
an account of I want a timeline coming from the
Department of Justice. I'm on a timeline of what happened,
what transpired. And then, for instance, you know the article
from the Independent that came out of either yesterday or
the day actually today. From the Independent, it talks about
how a copy of Shanquala Robinson's autopsy report, which has

(52:15):
since been contradicted by Mexican authorities. It talks about that.
So I wanted to account of what's going on. What
does the automics report say? Why do Mexican authorities contradicted?
But then also there was a there was an arrest
warrant for at least one person. Has that arrest warrant
been served? Has that person been arrested? Okay, why hasn't

(52:36):
that name been given of the person in the arrest warrant.
What is going on in the case? So? Um, you know,
but I think the pressure needs to be put to
this administration. But I would rather have the Biden Inherents
administration in charge when this case happens, as opposed to
the Trump Pence administration. Let me leave. I'd rather do

(52:57):
with this Department of Justice than that Department of Justice. Oh,
absolutely need to be held accountable. All right, folks, whole
type one second, we come back. So many d EI
jobs open up across America after the death of George Lloyd.
Now those people are getting fired, losing their jobs. Was
d EI real or was it bullshit? We'll talk to

(53:18):
Randy Bryant. She calls herself a d EI. Um, what
would you say, Randy call herself a d EI dis
roughtor so we'll chat with her next. You're watching Roland
Martin un Filtered right here on the Black Star Network.
A lot of these corporations or people that are running

(53:39):
stuff push black people if they're doing a certain thing.
What that does is it creates a butterfly effect of
any young kid who you know, wants to leave any
situation they're in and the only people they see your
people that are doing this, or I gotta be a gangster,
I gotta shoot, I gotta sell, I gotta do this
in order to do it, and it becomes a cyclable
when someone comes around is making another Oh, we don't

(53:59):
get they don't want to push them to put money
into it. So that's definitely something I'm trying to fix. Twos,
you show those other avenues. You don't gotta be a
rapping I'm gonna be a ball player, can be a
the country scene, canna be an oppers, or you can
be a m whatever you know. I'm showing the different
avenues not as possible, and it's hard for people to
realize it's possible to someone done well. I'm the next

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All right, fan, Welcome back to Roland Martin Unfiltered on
the Black Start Network. George Floyd gets killed in May
twenty five, twenty The result of that was all of
a sudden, and all of these companies who were talking
about all the importance of diversity equity include some fifty
sixty billion dollars in commitments was made by companies to

(58:06):
give the social organizations. We begin to hear phrases like
social impact in social chains, black economic social justice, and
on and on and on, and who really benefited. A
lot of people got jobs as d EI jobs. Three
years later, that fifty sixty billion, nearly all of it

(58:29):
not spent, a lot of those d EI people getting
laid off right now. I told y'all those d EI
jibs were bullshit. I told y'all that. Turn up my
next guest, Randy Bryant, She of course d EI expert.
She calls herself a d EI disruptor. You've been pissing

(58:54):
your d EI people off on social media, on your
Instagram page, talking about this stuff, and again we're now
seeing it born out in the fault losing their jobs. Right.
Didn't lay it off right because before it was a
pr effort. Companies knew they had to do something, particularly

(59:16):
after the murder of George Floyd, and they had made announcements.
They made announcements like we are hiring a d EI professional,
and it was a joke, to be quite frank with you.
They hired some people that were as long as they

(59:37):
were part of a underrepresented group but had no d
EI experience, they gave them the jobs. And don't get
me wrong, this is not the professional's fault. The people
who do this care and so I hope I'm not
upsetting my people because they are my people. To do
this work is hard work. But they definitely it was

(59:58):
a PR move and they were you and they were used.
They provided these DI experts with absolutely no power, absolutely
no voice, no budgets, no staff, no nothing. So it
was just a marketing effort. And so when we talk
about the number of jobs that are being lost, along

(01:00:19):
with that number, we also must consider the number of
people who have been burnt out in two years and
have left their jobs because people who get into d
EI care it's personal for them. They have been that
person who has been mistreated and no longer want to
be mistreated. They have been that person who was unable

(01:00:39):
to move up in a company that they were overqualified
to do. So they leave because they got into it
because they cared, but they were not given the resources
to really make any change. And the thing I kept
saying the people over and over and over again, I
use this phrase all the time, P and L responsibility,
meaning that in any company you ain't got PNA responsibility,

(01:01:01):
you don't have proper and laws responsibility, You are not
a valued person. And I've spoken many conferences, given speeches,
and I said the same thing about these jobs and stuff.
Even the audience got mad, and I'm like, I'm sorry,
I said they ain't real jobs. Because to the d

(01:01:23):
EI job today is the equivalent of the global diversity
officer job in the past ten fifteen years, and before that,
in the seventies and eighties, it was the vice president
for community affairs in many places, that was the negro

(01:01:43):
executive job. Well, let me say this. First of all.
We do talk about how it is the negro executive job,
but one thing I don't think people realize is that
the vast majority of d EI positions go to white
people seventy five seventy six percent of all d EI
positions the top. But see, that's what changed, because what

(01:02:04):
happened was again the VP Community affairs job with negroes
then all of a sudden, and then when it became
about diversity, then it was like, oh, so we're gonna
include black and Latino and Asian Native American gay women,
and so all of a sudden, you start seeing all
these folks who are chief diversity officers or heads of

(01:02:28):
d EI don't look like us, and then you start saying, well,
what the hell is this diversity? Equity inclusion. I remember
when I was I spoke at Coca Cola. I gave
a keynote dress. This was just several years ago, and
somebody they asked me and they said, they said, how
would you if you were talking about diversity? How do
you see it? I said, black first, I said, then

(01:02:52):
then everybody else, and they kind of looked at me.
I said, let me be real clear. These programs were
created coming out of the Civil Rights movement. Oh yes,
I said, so it was black first. And I said, so,
I'm gonna say black, Latino, Native American, Asian. I said,
that's it. I ain't including nobody else. I said, because

(01:03:16):
if you gay, if you white and gay, you still white? Right?
And I had to I had to explain it to people.
I said, because this is this was part of my
problem when it came to a lot of these jobs,
because they just started trying to throw it. Then became
all the diversity of thought, the diversity of ideology. I'm like, yo, no,
I ain't trying to hit that bullshit. But they like

(01:03:37):
that because it makes them more comfortable. I mean the
problem with d EI is that it has become. It
probably started that way, if we're honest, white centered, right,
and so first of all, mainly white people were hired
to do the job. Of course, white women, the same
people who have benefited the most from all civil rights movement,
because if people are feeling uncomfortable with differentness, they are

(01:04:02):
going to bring people in who are more most like them.
So a white executive and still most executives, most management,
most directors, and vice presidents are white heterocysts, males. They
feel most comfortable with white women, so they can bring
in white women and say, oh, look at our diversity,
look how great we are. But those same white women

(01:04:25):
are the closest to to white men. They are not
suffering the same way that, for instance, black people are,
so they don't advocate the same way. And those same
women who would get angry at me saying that are
the same women who would say it's not fair that
we have all men making decisions with row versus weight.

(01:04:48):
D I at this point the reason why I call
myself a disruptor, To be honest, after being in this
field through all the name changes you talk about for
such a long time, I'm really just quite gusted and
what it has turned into. It's a it's a joke.
Not very many people take d EI seriously whatsoever, because

(01:05:08):
we have been ineffective, not because we don't care, but
because we have not been armed with the resources to
do anything. Because the companies don't care. Companies care about diversity,
equity and inclusion as far as it affects their reputations
as far bottom line reputations, period. They do not see

(01:05:32):
it as a business imperiod. Absolutely not. And I tell people,
and this is quite different. I don't believe d EI
belongs in human resources. You know, I say, d EI
in human resources is like a person who is not
kind but goes to church every Sunday. It doesn't fix everything, right,

(01:05:53):
I mean, yes, you go to church every Sunday. If
you are a person who is committed to having a diverse, equitable,
an inclusive company, that means you are looking at your product.
For instance, these tech companies are the main ones who
are letting people go. Is my product accessible to people
with disabilities? Are there people at all price points who

(01:06:15):
could access this product? It means supplier diversity. Are we
working with Are we buying our products from all sorts
of people are we just everyone feel as if they
have room to be promoted and be successful. But so
it is not just a do our facilities. Do our

(01:06:36):
facilities accommodate all people if someone has some sort of disability,
or do we have all gender bathrooms? It is something
if you care about diversity, equity and inclusion, it is
something that must be done throughout the entire organization. And
it cannot be this add on at the end of

(01:06:57):
everything else to make things right. Just like that going
to church on Sundays is not gonna make everything right
if you've acted a fool the rest of the whole
week before. Absolutely, we're gonna go to a break. We're
gonna bring pale in. I also want to talk about
University of North Carolina, Texas and Universe System today. Now
all of a sudden they're removing the EI language out

(01:07:19):
of these job applications. I want to talk to you
about that as well. You've watching Rolling Unfiltered on the
Black Start network. Folks will be right back Hatred on
the streets, a horrific scene white nationalist rally that descended

(01:07:40):
into deadly violent white people are losing theirs as a
name were approach Trump Mark storms to the US Capital.
We're about to see the rise of what I call
white minority resistance. We have seen white folks in this
country who simply cannot all rate black post voting. I

(01:08:02):
think what we're seeing is the inevitable result of violent denials.
This is part of American history. Every time the people
of color and media progress, whether real or symbolic, there
has been the Carol Anderson at every university calls white
rage as a backlash. Is the right of the proud
boys and the boogaboo boys America. There's going to be

(01:08:22):
more of this. God, this country is getting increasingly racist
in its behaviors and its attitudes because of the fear
of white people, the fee that you're taking our job,
they're taking our resources, they're taking our women. This is
white field. We're all impacted by the culture, whether we

(01:08:55):
know it or not, from politics to music and entertainment.
It's a huge part of our lives. I said, we're
gonna talk about it every day right here on the
culture with me for Raji Muhammad only on the Black
Star Network. Hey, I'm Dean Cole from Black What's up
from lands Gross and you're watching Roland Martin unfiltered. Sorry, y'all,

(01:10:00):
I had to give Randys and damn selfie lessons on
how to take a selfie. She's sitting over here, got
her phone on time. I'm like, what are we doing.
I'm like, yeah, so yeah, you un to take a
selfie now I do. Thank you so much. Oh my god.
All right, y'all, we're talking about d EI and how
much of a joking is. Let me bring in Brianna,
Mattuh and Michael as well. Brianna, I'll start with you, uh,

(01:10:25):
you know, your take on again on this whole d
EI explosion. People are all excited and I can tell
people then I'm like, don't get excited to y'all. They
say number one person and the secretary of getting the
job absolutely. Randy has been saying that for for years
on end Uh. They wanted to play kadus. They thought,

(01:10:46):
you know, we'll give them something and they'll forget to
look at the deliverables. Um. The fact that most um
disum did not report directly to the CEO, as Randy
has told us over and over and over again, to
make that I make them accountable in doing that. They
reported to HR and so there wasn't enough riggle room.

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They gave these jobs just for show, and they didn't
give them power. Right. They gave them a lot of
money to say, hey, we're giving you money, be quiet
your show. Let's just you know, play along for a
certain amount of time. And the real effects of what
it needed to be was not done. And it's apparent

(01:11:27):
that they did not care about it actually getting done,
and they thought enough time passed where we would have
forgotten that we still want things done in the workplace.
And now, Randy, now you have these universities now Republican legislatures,
they change it now. They want to remove any d
EI language from job applications. Right, they don't see they

(01:11:51):
see d EI as a social justice piece. They see
it as a nice to have. They see it as
honestly cowtowing to the demands of black and brown and
gay people in the lgbtq I a community. I don't
even think that they can relate what it feels like

(01:12:11):
to be in a place, because we spend a lot
of time at work now, right, to be in a
place where you feel unwelcomed. They don't seem to care
what it feels like to sense that you have no
way of advancement. Why should you work hard if you
don't feel as if you can excel, if you could

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be promoted because you don't see anyone that who looks
like you at those same rinks. They don't seem to
think it's important to not be able to sit at
your desk because it's not a design correctly for a
person who may have a disability. They don't care about
the stereotypes. They don't care about the microaggressions that people

(01:12:54):
face every day. It's not important to them because they
haven't had to face it. If they were intelligent, though,
they would recognize that those issues affect their bottom line
the way that people are losing employees because ultimately people
want to feel safe and a sense of belonging. They
say it's the number one need at work. They want

(01:13:17):
to feel a sense of belonging where they go to work.
So this is this is what the Texas should be in.
Right here, Texas in the university system bans diversity statements
from job applications. This was because so John Sharp, who
is the chancellor right there, this is his photo. It
was Governor Greg Abbott who made these decisions. And so

(01:13:41):
Greg Abbott and people are saying that for the legal
experts said the Governor's office mischaracterized and legal practices employers
use when considering diversity in their hiring. But bottom line here,
Matt is, look these people. They hate diversity, they hate multiculturalism,
they hated quotas, they hated any of this. What they

(01:14:01):
really want to continue to seeing is white domination and
all fasts of American society. I think that's correct, And
I think Randy was spot on with the dog whistling
that we're seeing in terms of them tying everything into
social justice and trying to, you know, kind of get
in part of that zeitgeist that we see now, which
is where they're attacking everything quote woke. But I actually

(01:14:23):
want to kind of take, you know, a little different
position on something that Brianna said. I don't think this
was a matter of them trying to capitulate to black
and brown people. I think this was a matter of
white people trying to make themselves feel better about their
response to the systemic issues that people were calling about.
With George Floyd, I think what you see is with
this is companies seeing an opportunity to capitalize upon their

(01:14:47):
social you know, outward facing attempts to be more diverse
and what have you, and I think that is something
that they thought would connect to a greater bottom line,
particularly at a time where we were all, you know,
a different kind of consumer right buying things online, looking
at companies differently, and I think it was an opportunity
for them, at least in their eyes, to capitalize upon that.

(01:15:08):
So I had no illusions whatsoever that this was going
to continue, and I had no illusions that this is
going to be robust, because as Randy said, you know,
this is a lot of people who had d ei
jobs and had no real authority, couldn't really systemically change
anything in the corporations, and I knew this was going
to happen. So none of it is a surprise, and
I think that's correct. I think this is about white

(01:15:31):
people in power wanting to keep that power, particularly as
it relates to Greg Abbott and Ron De Santis, who
I say on this show every single week are both
trying to run for president and doing everything they can
to show that they are the true conservative. So this
doesn't surprise me. And I was just I agree with you,
And what's interesting to me is that they always try

(01:15:52):
to say we want to hire the best person for
the job. We don't need d EI DI, just like
most things were put in place to counter at people's bigotry.
If you really believe that they're hiring the best person
for the job, that means you are assuming that white

(01:16:13):
sis head males are superior to everyone else because the
majority of power positions are held by that group of people.
So what they're saying, what they actually have convinced themselves,
is that we have these jobs because we rightfully deserve them,

(01:16:34):
because we are superior than any other candidate that exists,
because those are the people who get these jobs over
and over again. And so we put these DI programs
in place to say, no, you should look at and
consider other people, to force people to stop being so bigoted,

(01:16:56):
to force people to make decisions outside of themselves because
they can only see themselves. But they don't like that.
They don't like that whatsoever, as we see. So, yes,
they are getting rid of all the EI language and
putting themselves in positions that they don't even have to
pretend anymore that they're considering other folks for jobs. Michael, Yeah,

(01:17:19):
you know, I was skeptical of this there was it
seemed like there were corporations tripping over themselves to show
that they weren't racists or weren't biggoted or things like this.
And you know, I was like, okay, So it took
George Floyd being killed and it being recorded and it

(01:17:42):
going viral for you to realize that your business practices
are wrong now and then other thing that and Randy
hit on this and it's good to see you again, Randy.
Seventy six. When we look at the article from NBC
news dot com, seventy six percent of the chief diversity
offer positions went to white people. So right there, it's

(01:18:04):
like the game inside of the game, it's like okay,
it's like three karamante or something. It's like, okay, so
we're gonna we're gonna do the diversity, equity and inclusion,
and most of the job's gonna go to white people.
I mean, talk about pimping ain't easy. I mean, so
my question would be, okay, where do we go from here? Randy?

(01:18:27):
What what? What should we be forcing these corporations that
get billions of our dollars each year to do first
book white fear because this ain't going anywhere anytime soon.
It's not going anywhere anytime soon. The reason why I
call myself a disruptor is that I refuse to represent
d I as it stands today. Um, they're going to

(01:18:49):
pay the price. Indeed, came out with the survey just
recently that said forty nine percent of all black employees
are thinking about leaving their jobs because as they're unhappy
forty nine percent. So they need us, right, we know
the world needs us. So if they don't get it together.
You know, we are starting businesses, are on our own

(01:19:11):
and saying you know what, you don't accept me, I'll
find another way. You know, we are the kings and
queens of finding another way, right, So it's going to
hurt them in the long run. I believe that you need,
we need to push people to be held accountable. Where
is the money, Like you asked yesterday, Roland, how much
money are you putting in? How many employees do you

(01:19:32):
have of these certain identity groups? Who sits on your board?
And to keep out because I'm actually starting, I'm starting
to do my own DEI report cards cursory looking at
companies and saying I don't care about what your mission
statement says, I'm looking at your board, I'm looking at
your employees, and you get an F. And also as

(01:19:55):
individuals go out there and do those glassdoor reviews, let
people know how you are feeling as a black person
within your companies, because like I said, bottom line is
that they care about reputation. So don't allow them to
get away with just these broad announcements. Individually, we can

(01:20:15):
make a difference when you put them on blasts on
social trust me, they respond yes before I go to break,
I gotta get this in. So I saw all this,
all these people commenting on social media because a lot
of brothers were upset that this happened. When Michael B.
Jordan got his start with Hollywood Walker fame, this embraced

(01:20:40):
by his fellow actor from a Creed. All these people
were upset some of the interviews that they've seen them
hugging each other, and folks have had attitude. And I
really think that this is really some of the dumbest
shit I've ever seen in my life. This whole idea
that one black man who hug who embraced somehow it's

(01:21:03):
feminine or gay. It really is stupid. Now I'm gonna
show you something here that was a tribute in the
NBA to Kobe Bryant. This is when he was he
died in the helicopter crash. And this video here viral. Uh,
and this is what happened. So you watch this. Said
Dwayne Wade walked up to Alan Irison. He looks at
him and the camera goes back and you see this

(01:21:25):
embrace between Alan Iris and h and Dwayne Wade. And
obviously a lot of these brothers were quite emotional with
the death of Kobe Bryant. Uh. And stick with the video.
And I'll tell you when I saw Ai at the
All Star Game. Uh, there was a photo that we
took and he actually, uh, he thanked me. We shook

(01:21:47):
hands and he also he also put his head hand
behind the back of my head and put me close
to his head. Man. I love you, love the work
that you do. Uh. You matter and it's important. And
I got to remind people, Um, those a lot of
these brothers who out here on social media, who are
who are talking a lot of crap. Clearly they weren't

(01:22:10):
at the million man march that took place, because you
know what you saw, You actually saw black men who
were hugging each other who were who were saying, brother,
I love you, and and so I don't know what's
up with some of these in and as folk U Matt.
But but but it needs to be said that there's

(01:22:33):
nothing wrong with black men who actually show appreciation for
one another. No, absolutely nothing wrong. And in fact, you know,
it's interesting we have this conversation today because I just
had a conversation about how there's so many people dying
and I'm a lot more attuned now with my mortality

(01:22:53):
than I ever have been in the reality of that.
And we lose an opportunity every time we see a brother,
especially a brother we love, and we don't we don't
tell him, man, I love you, brother, I'm proud of
what you're doing. Keep your head of people, you know,
doing what you're doing. And we should do that, man.
I mean, whether it's your brothers, whether it's your friends,
whomever it is. And it's just ridiculous that people are
trying to make this an ugly thing. And I don't

(01:23:15):
have anything to say beyond all the brothers out there,
I love you, Keep doing what you're doing. All the
people out there, we need to share the love because
we don't have we live on borrow time. We don't
know when it ends, and we got to show that
love while we have the chance. You know, Roland, that
was the first time I saw that video. And you know,
it's good to see two African American men being able

(01:23:38):
to appreciate one another and show love between one another.
They show love and hip hop, they show love in
the sports world, things like that some of us black
social media grifters. They may have been trying to tag
onto the back last that Jonathan Majors is getting from

(01:23:58):
his photo shoot on the Governor Ebony magazine or Digital Ebony,
what have you. I saw it when a fan of
it didn't comment on it, wasn't gonna waste time commenting
on it. But this right here, we need to see
more of that. We need to see more brothers embracing
each other and showing love and admiration one another supposed

(01:24:19):
to speaking negatively about each other and killing each other.
Real It's sad that we have to have this conversation.
I'm not quite sure why it's even an issue. Emotions
are human and they should be able to be exerted.
And I saw nothing wrong with the videos, and I'm

(01:24:42):
not sure why I am sure, but it's sad why
people on social media are saying that the embrace shouldn't
have happened. Randy, I think that some people need to heal.
Quite frankly, I think people we need healing within our
community because the way that some people are defining masculinity

(01:25:03):
is quite frightening. So healing needs to be done. The
same thing happened with the cover with Asap Rocky and Rihanna,
and because she was walking in front, people wanted to
call him a simp and call out the magazine. And
I believe that we need to let some of this
go and focus on healing because it scares me that

(01:25:26):
people would think that there's something wrong with two men
showing genuine love and affection for one another. It's sad,
and it shouldn't have to be when somebody dies. No
one should not be. I mean, you can actually do
with someone someone is alive. All right, folks, Randy, we
appreciate it. Thanks so much. I gotta go to a break.
We come back our education matter of segment. Getting young

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All right, I'm Gavin you. Hey, what's up you Audish
your boy Jacob Bladimore and you're not watching Roland Martin
right now? I would say math is probably the one

(01:29:20):
subject most people hated in school. I know I did.
I did not give a flip about no algebra, geometry, triggeronometry.
In fact, I remember telling my t look, I don't
need this damn stuff. Look, I account, I count money,
I know how to negotiate. But there's a Georgia based
acute mathematics firm. It's called Matthew Morbe. They're changing again

(01:29:45):
how kids access math, making it a lot more fun
and exciting. In the offer K through twelve post secondary
math tutorials coaching, as well as i EP five before Solutions.
Christopher Roeblais is the founder and CEO of Math and Moore.
He joins us right now. So okay, so what was
math easy for you in school? Yes? How so I

(01:30:07):
don't know how. I had a brother at jack ye Zhihscuel,
John Williams played football and John was a jeez at math.
Like John, you keep this, I don't know what the
hell they're talking about. So math was actually the easiest
subject for me. I had um a hard time with
English Language Yards. English Language Yards was like the worst
thing that I could have ever did. And I know
we speak English and all that stuff, but Mathew was

(01:30:27):
a language and another self and most men, like statistically
enjoyed math more because there's an answer to the solution.
I ain't one of them, brothers. I could have said, yeah,
I would kill I would destroy you in the English class.
I mean, and you can have it because I'm not.
It wasn't me. It was not for me, matthe was
one of the easiest subjects. And I think it had
a lot to do with the teachers that were in
place for me. And that would well, that's that's what

(01:30:50):
the Freemoobrowski Rowski said, he said, rolland he said you
had the right teachers. He said, if I don't teaching
you math, he said, you would have he would have
been awesome. I was like, yeah, Doc, well you should
have been that. Yes, And I'm honestly like the way
I teach math and the way I get kids excited
about it, Like my kids actually will say, oh, mister
Reblas and your math class. It allowed for me to

(01:31:13):
explore math in a different way. I broke it down
and I keep it simple, like I do things that
get kids to say I love math. At the end
of the day, I don't know how so okay, how
but we're like, well, what do you do. So one
of my major things that I do inside my math
class is that I always break down a problem to
something that is so simple for them and also make

(01:31:34):
it relatable to them. So the curriculum, like we use
different curriculums like Eureka Math and things like that, right like,
that's the buzz curriculum right now, But then I take
that and put it in the terms of something that
is relatable to our students so that way they can
access it at the level that they are. Because most
of the students that I have taught honestly come in
on if I'm teaching algebra one, which is the subject

(01:31:55):
that I love to teach the most, which is which
you hate. But if I'm teaching algebra one, I'm making
it something that's accessible to them. Like one apple plus
one apple is two apples. So if you cut that
apple in this different many ways, you still have one
whole apple. And it's all about a language. So also,
when you're an English class, what did you use if
you didn't know how to look up a word? So

(01:32:18):
we had THEMN dictionary right an English class, So why
don't we have that same resource in the math class.
I brought that math you asked the wrong one. I
brought that resource to my math class. If you don't
know a word of math, look it up in the
math dictionary. I look, look, I'm telling you right now.
Just understand. I talked my way into a passing raid
in college. Yes, I use my English skills to communicate

(01:32:43):
my way into I was like, listen, y'all, y'all have
no idea a silver tongue. Yes, oh, I talked my
way by up by thirty points. But it's just it's again, No,
it's just one of those things that that we go
through it and even what kills me now with your
parents and be gone, like Nan Dan the math I

(01:33:03):
have when I was at school. It's the same, man.
Math is literally a language. The language don't change. I
can go to China right now and teach the same
algebra that I would be teaching here the United States
of America. It's all about the delivery and like what
you are trying to get from that math class and
like how you access it. So like one of the
things that the reason why we're here that I get
kids excited about mathist pie day, Right, you get to

(01:33:25):
eat pie, you get to throw pies and teach your faces,
but you also are learning about the irrational number that's there. Like,
it's so much fun to actually explore math. And mathis
all around us everywhere we are. Let's see here between Brianna,
Matt and Michael. Let me see who probably enjoyed math.
I don't Brianna laughing. I know it ain't her. I

(01:33:46):
get that. Get to the look of her face. She
struggled with math. I did not struggle with math. I
had a great math tutor that I had to go
to online. No, hold on, start right. Yeah, you said
I had a great math tutor I went to. Absolutely
that mean your ass truggle with math because you're gonna
go to a math tutor, not necessarily. Just because you

(01:34:08):
go to a math tutor, don't mean that you're always struggling.
She did. I have a student right now who is
excelling in math class. Right now, he is, He does amazing,
He has great graves in math. However, having that extra
support doesn't help. Math is the only exposed to students
and scholars in one subject. The reason why people do
well in English is because they have it in social studies,

(01:34:30):
they have it in science, they have it in English.
They have it in every other class there's an isolated
subject for forty five minutes to ninety minutes depending on
what school district. You're right, that's it. So yeah, you're
gonna need a tutor because you're only exposed to it
one time a day. But Brianna's truggle. What's up? Question?
Real quick? Go? I passed AP calculus. Just want to
let you know I got a four, so I didn't
struggle too hard. You cheated, But I will say I

(01:34:53):
love high and I love everything that you're doing because
definitely it's needed. U was something that wasn't as fun
as other classes. But thank you so much. Question for you?
Do you see so from Florida? You said there's different

(01:35:15):
types of learning and certain states decide to teach it
a certain way. And do you see any conflicts with
other states where they decide to not do to the
traditional work traditional teaching and when students sometimes get marked
down even though they had the right answer, they did

(01:35:37):
not show the work the same way that they were taught.
What are your thoughts on that? First of all you
struggle with ingis that long ask questions? All right? Come on? Damn?
So honestly, when students. When I have students that I'm
teaching and tutoring and things like that, they always say that, oh,
my teacher taught it to me this way, and oh
this is the answer and things like that, and I
always tell them it's always more than one way. It's

(01:35:58):
gonna catch. Like you said it earlier in the show,
we are the kings and queens of finding out a way, right.
So when I teach math, I'm going back to the routes.
I'm going back to the carry, the one multiplication, the
original algorithm, because that's what students understand. This new fangle
um conceptual understanding and getting kids to do that that

(01:36:19):
was only introduced, honestly in the black communities because students
struggle with it so much. But now we're trying to
like break it, break it down in a way that
is accessible to them. But then we're not really teaching
them how to actually solve a problem. Uh, Matt, Matt,
what's your question? Matt? I see I see you with that,
crying laughing back, because Matt, when were you good at math?

(01:36:42):
I'm good at arithmetic, but not high level math, so no, no, yeah,
you ain't good at math. So I'm good at arithmetic. Hey,
we know five plus five plus five is teen. Come on,
see got on like ugly that's why he can't get
the joke out. No, get out, I get out. But
you know, dog on, well you were not good at math,
I said, I was good at arithmetic and not beyond

(01:37:03):
that thing. You need to know how to do calcula
saying nothing about adding stuff up together. Thank you. Nonetheless,
here are my two questions. Now you got one questions, well,
I have to, so we'll have to subtract one. You
can answer whichever one you'd like. The first question is
how do your scholarships work? And the second question is

(01:37:24):
what have you found as alternative vehicles to teach students math?
For instance, you know as a musician, math is very
prevalent in music, right, so a lot of people who
are good at music are very good at math. What
do you use like that to make the students acclimated
to it. I was great at music. I know what
the hill was happening in math? Go ahead. So one
of the thing, actually, one of my capstone projects that

(01:37:44):
I had in an algebra class was for students to
create a music video. They did that the year that
I taught in Florida, which contributed to the success of
their grades and passing and all of that other good things.
But they created a music video. I bring in the
I bring in tools and resources into the classroom that
meet students where they are and not just academically. So

(01:38:07):
if you want to create a music video, all right,
let's go, let's do it. Vocabulary has all of these
different music videos from math and gets out of my
pias and gets kids excited about math. Now they've got
an opportunity to create their own music video that was
all about algebra one. So and that was their capstone
project their final grade, and then what led them going
on to like geometry that year? And then I did

(01:38:27):
not catch that first question. I just heard that second
one scholarships about scholarships regarding he's asking the scholarships, so
I don't. What we do is when students want to
enroll in Math and More, we meet parents where they are.
So if they say that, hey, I can't really afford
the going rate that's on the website, then that's where
Math and More foundation comes in and we say, like, listen,

(01:38:49):
just tell me where you are. Like we look at
things so it's not an official scholarship. It's one of
those like just I'll meet you where you at and
it will support you. There ais limits for scholarships because
Matt might need one. No, as long as you're enrolled
in K twelveth school or in a college level math class.
Just reached out and we got you, Matt. Matt one scholarship, Michael,

(01:39:12):
go all right, Chris um, So I did pretty well
in math. My mother was a math teacher for about
almost fifty years. He public school. First one, we say,
pretty well, Yeah, well, Algebrook kicked my behind. I did
better in geometry. But your mama was a math teacher. Well,

(01:39:32):
she taught elementary school math. She taught elementary So that's
so you killed it in elementary school. But from junior
out of high school, y'all ass were struggling. Well, I
was in Detroit Area pre college engineering program in middle school,
as technical high school boy. When you talk about Algebrook, um,

(01:39:55):
and you talked about the music video things like this,
give us some examples of how you show your students
how they will use algebra in real life, because that's
one of the problems. When I was in school over
thirty years ago, it was just something abstract, but it
didn't teach us how you're going to use this in
real life sustained go ahead, So honestly, algebra and like

(01:40:17):
in real life, one of the easiest things that I
use is like the coordinate plane in real life. Right,
Like kids want to plug into the GPS and how
to get from A to B, but the coordinate plane
was one of the most easiest things to like create
this real life example of what how algebra is used
so slow, the pythagram theorem, all of those things is

(01:40:40):
a direct relation to like when you plug into your
GPS and Google maps, that's how all of that is calculated. Yeah,
but I ain't doing all that. I'm pulling my math up,
I'm pulling my map up right and addressing. But that's
all I'm doing. But I'm teaching them that this is
how it works or even when right, But I ain't
using that stuff, Like you're not gonna use it every day,

(01:41:02):
But how you think about it, and like using those
critical thinking skills is what's going to be important and
how you solve your life problem. So you may not
be you're not going to be walking around umatre and
see right here, I was in la, I've going to
the go to my phone. I went to the Grammy museum.
You see right here boom, I just click the museum, uh,

(01:41:24):
and it calculates the route. So I'm saying that, just
saying that's how I normally went, but just making those
things real life, letting them know that this is a
distance formula, this is the coordinate plane, this is how
it actually all works, and you'd be surprised. Kids are
really excited to say, oh my god, this is like
what it means when you're plugging something into a GPS,

(01:41:44):
especially when one of the most famous activities that I
did also is just having kids run up and down
the stairs. Right that slope in and of itself. Kids
was all over the building. One year we were doing slope,
and then after that we apply it inside the classroom.
So what does that mean? Elevation, moving up, moving around
the school, like moving up and down elevators and things
like that, below sea level, above sea level, but getting

(01:42:07):
them up, getting them excited, getting them moving around, getting
them to make those music videos, getting them to just relate.
This is how I relate the ths to what they're doing.
I mean, look, I mean that all that all applies. Look,
I play golf, and so when you're talking about slope,
when you're talking about right there, who parabolas? Who the hell?
Who the hell is that? It's the it's the function

(01:42:30):
that makes for you, oh real, yes, what they gotta
do golf because when you hit the ball, what direction
does it go in? It goes up, it hits a peak,
and then it comes back down. But if I'm hitting
the if I'm hitting the draw or fade or see
now now, I'm not going to play with you left
right there. I don't know too much about golf. I
just know that it makes a parabola, there's a vertex,

(01:42:52):
it goes up, it meets a peak, and that's it.
And then I can crude see right there. See, we
don't need all of them next day we need to
know that. But then what's happen. That's a lot of
extra ass words. That's what that's exactly what's happening, though,
I promise you that's what's happening. You may not know,
and that's but that's how you get kids excited about
it though, by being able to make those things on
the fly and like letting them know, like hey, if

(01:43:12):
you do play golf. This is what's happening right now
with the golf, and like so when I'm putting the slope,
I got you. I got you? All right? How if,
first of all, are you only in Atlanta or are
people able to access you across? Mattimore is a virtual
learning center, so we are able to support students wherever
they are as on as they have a wifile connection. Cool,
Matt if you increase your Wi Fi connection, UM, get

(01:43:39):
your wi fuck you better man, We'll give you a scholarship. Well,
we'll give you a scholarship, Matt to get to get
up your mass game. Folks, how to find you? So
matthe Moore is online. It's um w ww dot mathemore

(01:44:00):
dot com. You're able to find all the different accesses
through all social media platforms because they're at the top
right of our corner. Um and just real quick, obviously
the reason why we're here, Pida is happening on March fourteenth. However,
Pie Day, Oh pie Day. Yes, it's the irrational. So
what we're doing, We're doing cherry pie, We're doing apple pie,

(01:44:23):
sweet petato pie. I make the meanest sweet potato pie
you But ask my students bring that to say pumping pie. No,
no play pumpkin pie. But PI Day happens every years
a day. It's on March fourteenth with mathemagicians all over
the world celebrate man and next week and pete my
part on March eleven, Saturday at one fifty nine, because
it's the next couple digits of pie. We're gonna be

(01:44:45):
mpee my part, eating pie, throwing pies and kids faces, parents, faces,
my face. If you have enough tickets to cash in
to throw pie my face, you're more than welcome to
do so. Um. We'll be giving away raffles, t shirts,
all types of stuff, and it's just all in an
effort to get kids excited about math. All things circular,
all things circumference related, radius, diam all the things that

(01:45:08):
you use every day but you don't necessarily think about.
Don't think about none of that, absolutely at all. Nothing.
Just don't again. I tell I had no idea what
the hell they were doing in math class. I mean,
but that's okay. You didn't necessarily always needed to know
what was happening. You need to know how to apply it. No,

(01:45:28):
I know, I need to know how to get out
that class. I need to know what is required to
get that d That's all I need. The ain't passing
no more. Damn, it's not no see it's passing there.
I mean, that's a conversation for a different day. I'm
just letting you. I'm letting y'all know. All I wanted
to know was what was that bottom numbers? I would

(01:45:52):
I would not try. It was like, I think it
was sixty. Oh wow, you ain't lying? Oh wow? You know?
And that was seventies passing it out. Shit, I wouldn't
have had no shot. Hell, I was so far below sixty.
I'm telling you, it just did. It didn't connect at all.
But I did communicate my ass to a passing great

(01:46:14):
I mean my kids, which is why I keep telling
people learn how to communicate. Uh well, math is again
a language, So as long as you teach the language
the appropriate way, kids will know how to solve it.
And honestly, like not to toot my own horn, but
the last year that I was in the classroom sports
on the showy But like the last year that I
was in the classroom and directly teaching students on a

(01:46:37):
large scale, we outperformed the state, the district, and the
surrounding school districts because the way I delivered the instruction
that allow students to like display their own mathemagicians ways. Yes,
so basically what you're seeing becomes to Matthew the ship.
Say it again, becomes a Matthew the ship. Correct, absolutely
now that I can do. Don't don't be scared to

(01:46:57):
say it. Yes, I mean in me yea, I knew
I was a ship, and I said it. The challenged me.
All Right, we gotta go to a break. Carol in
the control room getting my damn nerds. Time about were
six and a half minutes over. First of all, no,
we're not, Carol, Okay, We're gonna do a two minute
commercial break. Okay, so calm down. See see what First

(01:47:19):
of all, Carell, I don't even start. Yeah, So tell
me what the matth equation of you seven minutes over
U when a second when seven minutes over? So tell
give Carroll that equation during a break, or give Carol,
give Carell the equation of getting custed out by the
boss over the next two minutes. All y'all, we'll be
back rolling bout on the filter on the Black Start

(01:47:40):
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A lot of these corporations are people that are running

(01:48:45):
stuff push black people if they're doing a certain thing.
What that does is it creates a butterfly effect of
any young kid who you know, wants to leave any
situation they're in and only people they see your people
that are doing this, or I gotta be a gangster,
I gotta shoot, I gotta sell, I gotta do this
in order to do it, and it becomes a cyclable
when someone comes around is making another Oh we don't

(01:49:06):
you know, they don't want to push it. They put
money into it. So that's definitely something I'm trying to fix. Two,
it's your show. Those other avenues. You don't gotta be rapping.
I'm gonna be a ball player. It could be from
the country scene, can be an operation, or you can
be a dam whatever. You know, don't showing the different
avenues not as possible, and it's hard for people to
realize as possible to someone done. Hi, everybody, this is

(01:49:35):
Jonathan Nelson. Hi, this is sir Lee Ralph, and you
are watching Roland Martin Unfiltered. M all right, y'all. So

(01:50:09):
I'm just trying to understand, Uh, Michael, how your mama
was a math teacher and your ass struggled in math? Um?
I didn't well. What happened was holda when he started stuttering. Well,
what happened was how your mama a math did I
did well, and I did well in elementary school. I

(01:50:32):
did well in middle school and math. Uh algebra ninth
grade kicked my behind. And now the second semester algebra
I did better than the first semester algebra. Uh freshman teacher. Yeah,
but she, but she taught elementary school math. She wasn't
teaching me algebra. Okay, So hold elementary okay, all right,

(01:50:53):
elementary school math different from algebra. Yeah, I ain't talking
to you. I'm asking the gas. Will you ask me
the question I'm asking that, guest, Go ahead, Elementary school
math is very different than um middle school on high
school math what happens a lot of times, and parents
are just like one apple plus one apple is two apples.
They think that that's going to just be the trajectory

(01:51:14):
of how math classes go. Absolutely not. They Once you
get to middle school, it starts to get real different, right,
and eighth grade years the year that sets you up
for success for high school. And then so yes to
short answer is yes, elementary school math is way different
than middle school on high school secondary math, okay, okay.

(01:51:39):
And then when I went to geometry, I was doing
well in geometry two weeks. You can run your hands
up proof. So I'm gonna go ahead to tell y'all
and be honest with y'all. Yeah, don't lie math and
more if you want me to two to you that
it ain't I'm not teaching you geometry. There are tutors
in place, there's other people there in place, because that's
a different brain. I'm i'm calculations, I'm i'm equations, quadratics,

(01:52:04):
I'm numbers. Geometry is numbers as well, with some algebra
fused into it. But it's more, there's a different there's
a different love for geometry that you gotta have. In fact,
you would probably enjoy a geometry class more than you
would know uh algebra class. No more, bro, let me
help you. I hated algebra. I hated geometry. I hated

(01:52:27):
all of them. Damn, I'm trying to look that the
only thing men Matt Matt will agree on. When he's
like he was down to arithmetic, I told him straight
up and like, yo, I can count money, I can negotiate,
I can, I can I can calculate prices and stuff
in my head when I go shopping. I was real
quick with that. That's that's all fractions since ratio. Well

(01:52:51):
I had, Hey, well, I lit that shit up. I'm
letting you know that up. When you signing contracts and
you're working on your job, and your job is giving
you a three per sent raising, you get a typo
on that paycheck and you are looking at these different
line items that's on your pay stuff. You need to
know what all of this stuff is and how it
all calculates, and add you got that right, so ask
what's up? All right, y'all. That's it for us. We

(01:53:13):
did not get to our crazy people's stories. My dad
would add to my dad, gonna send me a text
tell about come on, son is getting late. I've been
waiting to see these crazy white folks. I've been waiting
for two weeks. A. Yeah, you gotta wait till Monday,
so I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do them on Monday.
Blame Matt with his simple arithmetic. All right, that's it,
Well appreciate it. We're gonna we normally roll our fans

(01:53:36):
who give us on Fridays. I go ahead and roll
it on Monday. Carrol, calm down, I'm calling the audible. Omaha,
damn it, omaha. That's what I do. All right, y'all,
And I'll shout out to track baby. Uh, y'all, you'll
following on Instagram we had on the show, uh saying
Tia this, I'm rocking her tronas uh, these are her?
These the shoes she also does as well, you know

(01:53:57):
her unisex shoes she sent me to sweat suit, so
I wouldn't want to go ahead and rocket. Brianna, Thanks
a bunch, you know, Brianna line she wasn't good and mad.
Uh and uh thanks a bunch. Uh, Matt, thanks a bunch.
That's what you braying? He like braying. I get his
math chalon ship Uh and Michael another embassament. Your mama
math teacher used was screwing up. That makes no sense.
That's like having a mama who's an English teacher. You

(01:54:19):
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