August 30, 2025 • 37 mins
Reparations activist Friday Jones rides shotgun with Dominique for open phones and closing arguments. Topics include: reparations, capitalism, immigration, labor and Michael Jackson's heavenly birthday.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson. The phone lines
are open for MJ's b day. You can weigh in
on reparations because every Friday as a Friedman Friday and
Friday is in the studio with me for another few minutes,
Miss Friday Jones a ka khan Za Mohammed. Also because
it's Labor Day weekend. I hope you guys are getting
some time off. I hope you're getting some time off.
(00:21):
I know I am. Yes. In fact, I think Miles
are we playing? Are we gonna play Doctor Darty again
on Monday for people who missed it? I think we
are do it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I think it was that Howard University. Welcome to the
Bison Family, Doctor Darity.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, yes, he's Yes, he is. He's joining Howard, which
is great news. Anyway, we'll play that one. We got
some other great a lot of music and fun stuff.
But I will be probably sleeping. I hope you will
be too. So right now on Friday's a lot of time.
The final hour, we open up the phone lines, we
talk about whatever. Sometimes we have a guess. It's kind
of a grab bag. It's like anything goes. So you
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had a few more recommendations from the City Reparations Advisory Commission,
which theoretically has been sunseted. But you are still, you know,
serving as an ambassador, you are still spreading the word,
and we will not get the final report open to
the public until the end of the year.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Probably that is corerect And you know, I don't there
are only a couple more things that I didn't go
I haven't gone into any of this with any great
detail because again I'm not sure what's going to come
out of the final report. But I think there's within
the Youth Academy. You know, we don't have our own language,
but enslaved people created a language in order for them
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to learn to read without being implicated and you know,
potentially killed as they were learning how to read. And
so that language is it should be brought back to us.
I'm not going to say what it is on air
because we have people who want to they want to know,
like they want to say the N word, like, no,
knock it off. Let us have something, you know, but
that langue, which is something that could be taught in
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the youth Academy genealogists, should be brought forward to help
families actually do the research. You know, we also should
think about historical markers being put throughout the city. You know,
if you've ever gone to see Mason, what is her
first name, Biddy Mason, you know she's kind of downtown,
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tucked around. You got to go around the right corner
to find the spot. But there's so much rich history
here and I think the city could invest in historical
city markers that really commemorate and show that, almost like
Jewish memorials, Like you know, we will not let this
happen in our city again. We will not take these
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steps backwards. And I think it's important, you know, under
a Trump administration, as much as we want to hate
hate hate Trump, we also have to walk in the walk.
We can't say the words and not apply the meanings.
And I think, you know, having historical markers is absolutely
you know, a way to bring it forward. I know
there were some trolls and who who asserted in the
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YouTube that we think that somehow we are more important
to our first nation people. I have Shnnakok heritage. Shnakok
nation is out there on Long Island in New York City.
I know Los Angeles is on Tongva Land and so
I'm even calling on our indigenous leadership within the state
of California, you know, to come forward and sit talk
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to me, work with me. Let's see how we could
pull this reparation's necessary work forward. One of the things
we were also talking about off air is the fact
that this is spiritual warfare. Like that's what we say
in black culture when something is your family's cursed, their
spiritual warfare. We are a spiritual people, and you know,
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one of the things that was prominent with the civil
rights movement is that it came through the church. And
we know how much music came out of the church.
We had the Negro spirituals our gospel music, then we
had the what do you call that, the rock and
roll kind of era of the R and B. All
of that came out of the church. And how we
express ourselves as creatives is really steeped in frequency and sound,
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and we during this process have to be open enough
to embrace that. There are some artists. There's an artist Kirby,
you know, who came out with a reparation song. We've
had Sounds of Blackness come out with this reparation song.
There are some young brothers from northern Cali. They roll
with double R. Reggie Romain knows who he is, and
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the young brother Tyreek. Tyreek is a strong passionate young man,
but his mixes on reparations Like, I feel like the
movement is finally hid in the streets, in the way
where we can have that sort of spiritual conversation. And
if you got the praying grandmother, if you have the
folks who have prayer circles, if you have the folks
that do that kind of work, this is the time
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to call them in. We don't say that often enough.
We want to fight with our might and our will,
but I believe that God is mighty. I was raised
in the Baptist Church and in the Muslim faith, and
those are two different theologies. And if I, as someone
coming from two very different theologies, can tell you that,
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you know, God is real kind of thing like we
need to infuse our Godness, our goodness into this work
in a spiritual way so that the things that we
don't see happening, the deals, the conversations, all the things
that we know are kind of happening behind the scenes,
we can change those timelines, you know, with our intention,
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with our heart, energy, with our love, with our caring
for our people. And though that's the work that no
one can compare, you know, whether or not you sitting
with self and source. You know, So let's spend some
time doing that part of the work so we can
deal with some of this unseen stuff, because they got
checker floors and they got folks trying to do if
you read about some of the things the federal government
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itself has done, I don't want to go down conspiracy theories,
but it's documented some of the things that the federal
government has done well.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I mean, I'm not a big follower of conspiracy theories,
but I do know that when you talk about certain
conservative circles, they have their rituals, they have their skull
and crossbone societies. They're weird illuminati stuff that I don't
necessarily track. But I also know, without even going down
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that path, that on the justice side of the Ledger,
successful movements have always called on spirit, you know, whether
it be doctor Martin Luther King being an actual pastor
and praying every step of the way, whether it be
the Haitian you know revolution, the first successful Black revolution
in the Western hemisphere, which is under you know, Sussaint Lovture.
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They were very much tapped in with their ancestors and
very prayerful. And so I think when we get tricked
out of that, yes, when we say, oh, well I'm logical,
I'm Western, I'm only going by what I can see,
then that has consequences. And those consequences, in my opinion,
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do not favor us.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
One hundred and ten percent. And if anyone watched the
Super Bowl, y'all, remember the lady with the quarterback, the
black quarterback. I don't even watch the Super Bowl, but
that's about as much of it as I saw. But
the lady who was had the little doll of the
quarterback and she was just sticking pins in him the
whole time. And I thought, what an evil and warped person,
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because in her doing that, taking the doll away her spirit,
her energy was so just negative and dark and nasty.
And it's a game. And so you think there aren't
people that are doing that in spaces so that we
won't get these reparations. Yeah, I'm sculland bones people they
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got their rituals. I don't know what they do, but
I know where my grandmother and grandfather are from, down
in Scotland Neck North Carolina with some of those historical
Black churches, the Kayuki Church, Mary's Chapel. If you were
into any sort of Mason order, you could not be
a member of the church. So when I say they
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understood it back then, our ancestors knew what it was.
We cannot be afraid to call them forward to help
us to do this work because we stand on their
shoulders and their blood runs through our veins. So we
have to bring them into the work and into the process.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, I mean Molly Bell straight out of Compton has
been knowing this forever. She has been a reparationist for
as long as I've known her, which goes back White sometime,
and it's always about what does she say? Prayer warriors,
here's what.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You've got to do.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yes, thing, You've got to keep praying because the struggle continues,
but always to God be the glory. And so you know,
somebody is clowning us in the chap but that's what
to me, that's what tricks us into this idea that
we have to choose between logical Western strategic positions and
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spiritual ancestral greater traditions. You can have both. You don't
have to choose. Malcolm X was a Muslim, you know,
Martin Luther King was a pastor. You know it. You
don't have to choose more. As Phillips points out, Abraham
Troy in Bekina Fossil is a Muslim. Like people have
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their faith so faith systems.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
But if you think about like during slavery times, right,
there's the picture, and I should know the brother's name
who had all the scars on his back. Right, we
know that picture. We know that it was a real
human being. His will to live through that beating is spirit.
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And when you're stripped down, people are not feeding you well,
people are working you to the point where we have
historical documentation where your flesh, your muscles are separating from
your skeletal bones. All you have left in moments and
times like that and you are living and surviving is spirit.
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And so I don't know who's clowning us. I don't
have the YouTube open. It doesn't matter to me because
you are born alone and you die alone, and all
you are connected to is source in those moments.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, I mean I don't go by that either. We've
got a whole bunch of people listening all around the
world on the app. Please get our app. If you
don't have it, it's free you can put on your phone.
We have folks listening on YouTube, on the old fashioned
radio in the podcast, and we love and appreciate all
of you. It's only when I see a point that
resonates with a conversation that I know is going ongoing.
(11:02):
I used to have this conversation with my own father,
A Mary Baraka, the late a Mere Baraka aka Lebroy Jones,
because later in life he became an atheist. As a communist,
he you know, believed that religion was the opiate of
the people. I think it was Mousey Tongue who said that,
and so and I and I understood that because sometimes
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we can use religion to obscure oh and for war,
so oh yeah, to justify our enslavement, to obscure the truth,
to get people into a church instead of into the stries.
But we also have to recognize the theology of liberation,
which is not just an African American tradition, but is
big throughout Latin America indigenous traditions. And so that's part
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of our toolbox. And I'm I'm a very spiritual person.
I won't say religious. I'm very spiritual, and so me
and my dad we didn't know we see eye to
eye on that. But I know that when my sister
was murdered, you know, part of what we we we
had to have a reckoning as far as you know,
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just leaning on the wisdom of the ancestors to get
through that. And I just my observation is that political
movements among melanated people do better when we're tapped into
our spiritual reservoir because it is deep, and it is wide,
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and it is powerful.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Agreed, we have any callers questions, I'm open to take
some questions. How long you're gonna let me stay in here?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Dominique? Well, you know what, we don't have questions that
what they're doing is they're having a they're having their
own conversation parallel to our conversation, and and so. But
we do have some folks on the phone. J W
was calling from La Hi, JW.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Good morning, Good morning. Are you guys good good?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Well, you know, I'm just listening. I'm enjoying every word
that's coming out of both of you, guys, Mile, because
I'm in one agreement. You know this is all about
our spiritual warfare, and it's all about faith and confidence
and distrusting. We can use all aspects from logic to spiritual,
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to religion or whatever you want to frame it as.
And I wouldn't care what nationality or race or you know,
sexual uh, you know, paturity or hiding out the world
or all the above. We got to come together, ask
and manage one human race. And once we get together,
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we can't have reperations. We can overcome down Trump and
and we change this government and all this up because
I wrapped up too much time now speak. But like
the Constitution says, read for people, and I don't have
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to us out there a boot and brow and I
can crudely with that. I have more to stay, but
I will.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
You have more to say, But there's always another day.
J W. Appreciate the support, Appreciate the cost. Yeah, okay,
well that's that's a whole other path we could go down,
because right now we I feel like we are very
divided in not just in this country, worldwide.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
We talk about.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Race, nationality, ethnicity, right, and it's true if you want
to get technical, Oh, yes, one race that's human and
they all descend from a black woman's womb. So but
right now and we're circling it right back to reparations,
there's so much division where it's like, even if I
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make the point, which I did on Monday with James Farr,
that we as black or melanated or freedman, have always
been the moral conscience of this plan. Absolutely, And so
to say, well, we're not going to stand with immigrants
because they don't stand with us, or we're not gonna
stand with Latinos because they don't stand with us, even
though in some cases they have. To me, that's I
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don't know. Even when you start talking about white people,
what you're talking about is cultural national differences, because when
you are looking at the biology, we are one.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Uh yeah, and you know, look, let me choose my
words thoughtfully. The what I will call the slave program
in America, right, let's imagine it as a computer program.
So the slave program in America, there is a certain
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mentality that is required, and it was required of children,
like children were groomed to be owners, to be the
owning class. To girls in particular, were taught how to
be vicious so that they could be the mistress of
the house or the mists of the house or whatever
the language was during this slave program. And so when
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you understand that what we weren't we were we were affected, right, yes,
but the person who also was doing the harm also
is affected. And I think that reconciliation is the harder
part for those families and their legacy and their offspring.
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There are some of them, and there are some uh
I think it's called the reparations. What is it called.
I will look it up during the next commercial break.
But there are people who have that history and they
have said, Okay, me and my family members are gonna
get together, we're gonna start a foundation and we're gonna
give out housing grants to black families so that they
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can be first time homeowners.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Right.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
And then they are the other ones that are like,
you know, Southern pride and Confederate pride, and I'm a you.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Know, and they can be the same with Okay, I'm
way behind schedule, so we're gonna we'll let you look
that up and then i'll keep you. I'm gonna make
you late for work. Well, at least we'll round out
to the bottom of the hour. I will say this though,
I think that a lot of us those battles are
not just going on and so called designated white families.
I'm gonna say a lot of you us. I'll put
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myself in there, even though I know where my white
people are from me to having these battles inside our
own physical bodies. The DNA of both is inside of you,
and that's another reason why we have to do the
spiritual work. Ah KBLA talk fifteen to eighty, Happy Heavenly
b Day, Michael Jackson, you feel in that. What's your
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favorite Michael Jackson song? That's an easy question. What's your
favorite Michael Jackson's song? It's actually kind of a hard question.
I have a lot of them. I don't know. I
don't know the answer to that. I know we probably
psyched you out. You thought doctor Jerol Horn was going
to be going to be on as soon as you
heard Michael Jackson, but no, we are celebrating his B day.
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Eric was calling and asking about capitalism, and I've pondered
that question. I wanted to hand the mic to Friday
Jones because she was on the way out the door.
I've pondered that question. For me, the answer is my
personal political outlook, which is that I feel For me,
the perfect society is something I saw in the original
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Nicaraguan constitution, not that they're living it, but in theory
on paper was to have a system where you can
have social meaning you nobody's starving, everybody has, you know,
universal health care, a basic house, you know, an apartment, whatever,
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a roof over your head, food education, healthcare, okay, and
that in that mixed economy, you also have the possibility
if you want to be an entrepreneur, if you want
to be a capitalist, you can do so. It's not
a strict communist state, it's not a predatory capitalist state.
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It's a balanced situation, which, if you think about it,
is kind of the model of the United States. It's
just that we've never leaned into it. There's always some
liar talking about how they pull themselves up from their
bootstraps knowing they got generational wealth handed to them or
privilege handed to them for any number of reasons. The
fact is, we do have a socialized education system. Anyone
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can go to school through high school for free in
this country. We do have a socialized department. Anybody can
call the fire department even if your bills aren't paid.
They will come and put the fire out at your home,
or rescue you if you need rescuing. Same with the police.
Even though we can talk about the problematic ways in
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which law enforcement moves, the fact is if you call
the cops, they're supposed to come. Those are socialized systems.
We the people, the tax payers, the common folks, pay
into the pot, and then those resources are available for everyone,
even though we are in a capitalist system. So I
think the answer to your fear of hypocrisy is, don't
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support predatory capitalism. Don't support what I think Friday, you know,
brilliantly described as the extreme version of capitalism, which is
slavery and wage slavery is its cousin right. So to me,
the non hypocrisy lies in I believe in the idea
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that no one should sleep on the streets, nobody should
be denied education or healthcare right or food. Those are
the basics the basement. Now, if you want to build
a rocket ship, maybe a bad example because it conjures
up Elon Muskovit. If you want to build a rocket ship,
or you want to build a better mouse trap or
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whatever that thing is, then you should have the ability
to do that. I think it's also predicated on the
fact that you have got to have a strict taxation
system so that when people make more than a billion dollars,
they don't have the option of not paying taxes and
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pointing the fingers at the poor for the problems of
the country. You've got to have a strict and strong
taxation on the very wealthy. It's more similar to what
we had in the Clinton era in prior. Okay, that's
my answer to that. Now back to the other questions
you were bringing up, which I started to go into
because I was concerned, you know, I was just trying
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to catch you up while we were waiting to start
our Freedman Friday segment this week. So, yeah, Eric is right.
President Donald Trump has canceled the Secret Service protection for
Vice President Kamala Harris. And to be clear, this was
an extra level of security. She had an extra year
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extended on to vice presidents. You usually only get six months.
Presidents get Secret Service protection for life. And I believe
it's you know, Biden didn't say it, but I believe
it's because like Barack Obama, she had more threats against
your life than any vice president, just as he did
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more than any president. The current President of the United
States wrote a letter on yesterday directing the Secret Service
to discontinue any security related procedures previously authorized by executive
and memorandum beyond those required by law starting September first.
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And to me the fact that your priority with you know,
I guess egg prices still through the roof, and multiple wars,
people starving to death in Gaza, a war in Ukraine,
and problems at home, your priority is to make the
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former vice president less safe. Wow. Really foul, really really foul.
But I'm a person who does believe in karma, and
I wouldn't want this dude's karma. I heard him speculating
about whether or not he'll get into heaven. Yeah. Wow,
I'm not gonna I'm not going to comment on that,
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but I'm I'm thinking about what's between here and heaven,
hell or whatever the afterlife is for you, and that
karma is going to be nastiest can be. In fact,
I believe he's living it now, which one of the
reasons why he gets nastier and nastier with each passing day.
And I don't have derangement syndrome. If this dude suddenly
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woke up tomorrow and said, you know what, I feel
like we should do the child tax credits so we
can get four million American children out of poverty and hunger,
like we did during COVID under Biden, but which was
shut down by the Dinos, the Democrats in name only,
the Joe Manchin and Kristen Cinemas. If he woke up
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tomorrow and do that, I'd applaud it. I want to
be wrong. I want to be wrong. I want to
wake up and say, Wow, you know what. Dj T
was right? These tariffs have really worked wonders for the
American people. I'm going by what I see, what I know,
what I read. So far, it hasn't been working out
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for us. If that suddenly changed, trust in and believe,
I have no problem acknowledging that. It's not about ego,
it's not about a person. It's always about a policy.
It's always about a policy. More, as Philip says, if
if the top ten billionaires in America paid two percent
in taxes, college could be free for all, so with
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health care services, yeah we can, and we can cut
that pie in all different directions. If we stopped spend
sending money uh for war in Israel. You know, imagine
what we could do with that money. They have health
care for all. Why don't we tell them to cut
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their budget to pay for their wars so we can
keep our money to pay for our health care. I mean,
just one example, right, there's the whole doze far We
quickly see as a farce as we look at the
bills that we have to pay to cover the police
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overtime for these military deployments. When the President sent the
National Guard into Los Angeles and the Marines and Homeland
Security and ICE, I stopped counting. But last time I looked,
the police overtime LAPD to support ICE, Homeland Security FBI
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was in the double digits of millions of dollars, right,
And so where's the budget savings. It's not for us,
it's not budget savings. It's slashing to match an agenda.
It's cutting to match an agenda. And that agenda's money
for the rich and no services or money for the
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poor or the working class or the middle class, which
Republican democrats and Republicans love to talk about the middle class,
but they don't want to talk about the working class,
the under resource, the poor. Yeah, and you can see
the intention and the reason you know that I report
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on something like these cuts to Secret Service protection, which
it's been a long list. It's not just Kamala Harris.
Kamala Harris is just the most vindictive and the latest
one is because it reveals the true intention, the true
thought process. That's the heart of this Republican Party of today,
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this Republican MAGA Party of today. It is rooted in cruelty.
As as the online folks say, the cruelty is the point?
Is it time for our pledge of courage? I don't
know if we need one today because it's a Freedman Friday,
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and we know that those of us who are fighting
for reparations, talking about it, normalizing it, education, educating around
the issue of reparations. Those of us who are doing
that started out courageous because back you don't have to
go that far. Maybe five years it will seen us
a fringe issue. And still today a lot of people
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don't want to hear it. But we have to keep
talking about it until it becomes inevitable. It's not too
late to call me eight hundred nine to oh fifteen
eighty eight hundred nine to oh fifteen eighty I'm Dominique
Uprima for KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. Yeah. So it's a
Labor Day Eve and some folks going to be outside
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this weekend. In fact, there are more than a thousand
protests planned over the Labor Day weekend all over the
United States. It's mostly they're being organized by the a
f l CIO, which makes sense because they are a
labor union affiliation association. They're calling it Worker over Billionaire
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protest worker over Billionaires, and there's at least one in
all fifty states they're going to do rallies. There's one
or two here in Los Angeles, New York, Alaska, Palmer, Alaska,
wherever that is, Freeport Maine, Honolulu, Hawaii, Chicago. It's about
protesting the policies of this administration, not the persons, but
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the policies. And it's ironic to me because for many
in labor, or let me say some in labor, this
should be an FAFO weekend because there are some in
labor who supported this administration. And what are we protesting against?
Aside from you know, workers over billionaires means pay worker
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fair wages, but it's things like the fact that this
administration is trying to end collective bargaining rights for federal workers,
so start right there. Taking away the right to organize
workers is part of the push of this administration. And
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it's not a mystery. We knew that this is one
of the things that they were going to do. It's
in Project twenty twenty five. It's in their history, meaning
they're look at the way that the president has dealt
with his own businesses. They want to cut minimum wage
requirements for federal contractors from seventeen dollars and seventy five
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cents an hour to thirteen dollars and thirty cents an hour.
They want to eliminate the federal minimum wage, eliminate overtime
protections for childcare and home care workers. These are the
policy points of this administration. I don't give a rats
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tail feather who the president is, what the party is.
If that's the agenda, I'm not for it. And that
is what they are enacting. And that's why I find
it's so hard to understand folks who still doggedly defend
this administration. You'll see what they're doing. Grocery prices have
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not come down, and the impact of the tariffs hasn't
even started to kick in yet. Family not even yet barely,
and prices are up. Look six months from now, it's
going to be more apparent. The dismantling of the Department
of Education one of the things they said they do
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that even I didn't believe it. Nah, they're not gonna
be able to do it, They're not going to go
that far. But yet they have. And now this idea
that we don't need a minimum wage, that is is
that is one of the planks of predatory capitalism. You
don't need a minimum wage? Really, why don't you need
a minimum wage? Is it because you're gonna have all
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these migrant workers detained in centers where you can force
them to work for free? Is it because you think
that tax cuts for billionaires are not enough and you
want to make sure they don't have to pay the workers.
This is short sighted in the sense that who's gonna
buy your product? If nobody can pay their rent, who's
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gonna buy your product. It's like the proposed they're talking
about creating time limits on public housing. So if you
get HUD subsidized housing, a housing voucher, it will have
a time limit. And they say it's because these these
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support systems were not meant to be permanent. Fine, get
rid of it, but you can't get rid of it
until you have housing that the average worker can afford
making the average wage, and we do not have that
in this country at all. Until you have groceries that
the average worker can afford making the average wage, and
(33:18):
we don't have that. We're not there. So the pullback
of minimum wage, the pullback of worker protections, the aggressive
union busting against those folks who are trying to organize,
like Starbucks, like Amazon, shows you the heart of this administration.
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They are it's Marie Antoinette season, let them eat cake.
They are all about feathering the nests of the very rich.
And I don't understand why that's a Republican Democrat issue,
a race issue. I don't understand what it has to
(34:02):
do with trans people. I don't get why I have
to be called woke as if it's an insult. I
don't understand why it means you've got to attack black women,
fire black women. But that's what it is, and let's
not be let's not be silly in pretending that we
don't see it. And that's why I'm happy to see
(34:25):
huh people doing. Yeah, have a barbecue, get some sleep,
rest up, but also maybe march a little bit worker
over billionaire stones. Sounds like a great place to start
in what is It's been an oligarchy, but now it's
unvarnished predatory capitalism. Now it's now it's worth giving military
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honors to the woman who tried to break into the
capital and murder Pelosi. Now it's it's we don't need
a minimum wage because we can pay you next to nothing.
Now it's unvarnished, unmasked white supremacy, anti worker, anti woman,
anti labor, anti LGBTQ, anti trands. And so I'm glad
(35:16):
to see we're marching, we're pushing back. I'm glad to
see organized labor doing what organized labor is meant to do,
which is what organize. You can go to if you
want to find out where you can, you know, sign up,
show up, suit up for march near you. The afl
(35:37):
CIO under the leadership of Liz Schuler. Go to their website,
find out tap in with a local labor union near you.
They'll have information tap in find out Even if you're
not in a union, you are benefiting from the work
of unions. If it wasn't for unions, we wouldn't have weekends,
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over time, time and a half. Those things came about
because people organized in unions, and in the big picture,
they end up affecting all workers, unionized or not. And
that's the beauty of workers' rights and a working class agenda.
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It benefits the middle class, it benefits the very poor,
it even benefits the unemployed. And so I'm glad to
see labor flexing. I hope it's not too little, too late.
But you know, I don't believe that, because I believe
we win. Okay, So look, yes I'm having a three
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One Love
Today, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson. The phone lines
are open for MJ's b day. You can weigh in
on reparations because every Friday as a Friedman Friday and
Friday is in the studio with me for another few minutes,
Miss Friday Jones a ka khan Za Mohammed. Also because
it's Labor Day weekend. I hope you guys are getting
some time off. I hope you're getting some time off.
(00:21):
I know I am. Yes. In fact, I think Miles
are we playing? Are we gonna play Doctor Darty again
on Monday for people who missed it? I think we
are do it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I think it was that Howard University. Welcome to the
Bison Family, Doctor Darity.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, yes, he's Yes, he is. He's joining Howard, which
is great news. Anyway, we'll play that one. We got
some other great a lot of music and fun stuff.
But I will be probably sleeping. I hope you will
be too. So right now on Friday's a lot of time.
The final hour, we open up the phone lines, we
talk about whatever. Sometimes we have a guess. It's kind
of a grab bag. It's like anything goes. So you
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had a few more recommendations from the City Reparations Advisory Commission,
which theoretically has been sunseted. But you are still, you know,
serving as an ambassador, you are still spreading the word,
and we will not get the final report open to
the public until the end of the year.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Probably that is corerect And you know, I don't there
are only a couple more things that I didn't go
I haven't gone into any of this with any great
detail because again I'm not sure what's going to come
out of the final report. But I think there's within
the Youth Academy. You know, we don't have our own language,
but enslaved people created a language in order for them
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to learn to read without being implicated and you know,
potentially killed as they were learning how to read. And
so that language is it should be brought back to us.
I'm not going to say what it is on air
because we have people who want to they want to know,
like they want to say the N word, like, no,
knock it off. Let us have something, you know, but
that langue, which is something that could be taught in
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the youth Academy genealogists, should be brought forward to help
families actually do the research. You know, we also should
think about historical markers being put throughout the city. You know,
if you've ever gone to see Mason, what is her
first name, Biddy Mason, you know she's kind of downtown,
(02:22):
tucked around. You got to go around the right corner
to find the spot. But there's so much rich history
here and I think the city could invest in historical
city markers that really commemorate and show that, almost like
Jewish memorials, Like you know, we will not let this
happen in our city again. We will not take these
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steps backwards. And I think it's important, you know, under
a Trump administration, as much as we want to hate
hate hate Trump, we also have to walk in the walk.
We can't say the words and not apply the meanings.
And I think, you know, having historical markers is absolutely
you know, a way to bring it forward. I know
there were some trolls and who who asserted in the
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YouTube that we think that somehow we are more important
to our first nation people. I have Shnnakok heritage. Shnakok
nation is out there on Long Island in New York City.
I know Los Angeles is on Tongva Land and so
I'm even calling on our indigenous leadership within the state
of California, you know, to come forward and sit talk
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to me, work with me. Let's see how we could
pull this reparation's necessary work forward. One of the things
we were also talking about off air is the fact
that this is spiritual warfare. Like that's what we say
in black culture when something is your family's cursed, their
spiritual warfare. We are a spiritual people, and you know,
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one of the things that was prominent with the civil
rights movement is that it came through the church. And
we know how much music came out of the church.
We had the Negro spirituals our gospel music, then we
had the what do you call that, the rock and
roll kind of era of the R and B. All
of that came out of the church. And how we
express ourselves as creatives is really steeped in frequency and sound,
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and we during this process have to be open enough
to embrace that. There are some artists. There's an artist Kirby,
you know, who came out with a reparation song. We've
had Sounds of Blackness come out with this reparation song.
There are some young brothers from northern Cali. They roll
with double R. Reggie Romain knows who he is, and
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the young brother Tyreek. Tyreek is a strong passionate young man,
but his mixes on reparations Like, I feel like the
movement is finally hid in the streets, in the way
where we can have that sort of spiritual conversation. And
if you got the praying grandmother, if you have the
folks who have prayer circles, if you have the folks
that do that kind of work, this is the time
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to call them in. We don't say that often enough.
We want to fight with our might and our will,
but I believe that God is mighty. I was raised
in the Baptist Church and in the Muslim faith, and
those are two different theologies. And if I, as someone
coming from two very different theologies, can tell you that,
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you know, God is real kind of thing like we
need to infuse our Godness, our goodness into this work
in a spiritual way so that the things that we
don't see happening, the deals, the conversations, all the things
that we know are kind of happening behind the scenes,
we can change those timelines, you know, with our intention,
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with our heart, energy, with our love, with our caring
for our people. And though that's the work that no
one can compare, you know, whether or not you sitting
with self and source. You know, So let's spend some
time doing that part of the work so we can
deal with some of this unseen stuff, because they got
checker floors and they got folks trying to do if
you read about some of the things the federal government
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itself has done, I don't want to go down conspiracy theories,
but it's documented some of the things that the federal
government has done well.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I mean, I'm not a big follower of conspiracy theories,
but I do know that when you talk about certain
conservative circles, they have their rituals, they have their skull
and crossbone societies. They're weird illuminati stuff that I don't
necessarily track. But I also know, without even going down
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that path, that on the justice side of the Ledger,
successful movements have always called on spirit, you know, whether
it be doctor Martin Luther King being an actual pastor
and praying every step of the way, whether it be
the Haitian you know revolution, the first successful Black revolution
in the Western hemisphere, which is under you know, Sussaint Lovture.
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They were very much tapped in with their ancestors and
very prayerful. And so I think when we get tricked
out of that, yes, when we say, oh, well I'm logical,
I'm Western, I'm only going by what I can see,
then that has consequences. And those consequences, in my opinion,
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do not favor us.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
One hundred and ten percent. And if anyone watched the
Super Bowl, y'all, remember the lady with the quarterback, the
black quarterback. I don't even watch the Super Bowl, but
that's about as much of it as I saw. But
the lady who was had the little doll of the
quarterback and she was just sticking pins in him the
whole time. And I thought, what an evil and warped person,
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because in her doing that, taking the doll away her spirit,
her energy was so just negative and dark and nasty.
And it's a game. And so you think there aren't
people that are doing that in spaces so that we
won't get these reparations. Yeah, I'm sculland bones people they
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got their rituals. I don't know what they do, but
I know where my grandmother and grandfather are from, down
in Scotland Neck North Carolina with some of those historical
Black churches, the Kayuki Church, Mary's Chapel. If you were
into any sort of Mason order, you could not be
a member of the church. So when I say they
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understood it back then, our ancestors knew what it was.
We cannot be afraid to call them forward to help
us to do this work because we stand on their
shoulders and their blood runs through our veins. So we
have to bring them into the work and into the process.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, I mean Molly Bell straight out of Compton has
been knowing this forever. She has been a reparationist for
as long as I've known her, which goes back White sometime,
and it's always about what does she say? Prayer warriors,
here's what.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You've got to do.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yes, thing, You've got to keep praying because the struggle continues,
but always to God be the glory. And so you know,
somebody is clowning us in the chap but that's what
to me, that's what tricks us into this idea that
we have to choose between logical Western strategic positions and
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spiritual ancestral greater traditions. You can have both. You don't
have to choose. Malcolm X was a Muslim, you know,
Martin Luther King was a pastor. You know it. You
don't have to choose more. As Phillips points out, Abraham
Troy in Bekina Fossil is a Muslim. Like people have
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their faith so faith systems.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
But if you think about like during slavery times, right,
there's the picture, and I should know the brother's name
who had all the scars on his back. Right, we
know that picture. We know that it was a real
human being. His will to live through that beating is spirit.
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And when you're stripped down, people are not feeding you well,
people are working you to the point where we have
historical documentation where your flesh, your muscles are separating from
your skeletal bones. All you have left in moments and
times like that and you are living and surviving is spirit.
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And so I don't know who's clowning us. I don't
have the YouTube open. It doesn't matter to me because
you are born alone and you die alone, and all
you are connected to is source in those moments.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, I mean I don't go by that either. We've
got a whole bunch of people listening all around the
world on the app. Please get our app. If you
don't have it, it's free you can put on your phone.
We have folks listening on YouTube, on the old fashioned
radio in the podcast, and we love and appreciate all
of you. It's only when I see a point that
resonates with a conversation that I know is going ongoing.
(11:02):
I used to have this conversation with my own father,
A Mary Baraka, the late a Mere Baraka aka Lebroy Jones,
because later in life he became an atheist. As a communist,
he you know, believed that religion was the opiate of
the people. I think it was Mousey Tongue who said that,
and so and I and I understood that because sometimes
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we can use religion to obscure oh and for war,
so oh yeah, to justify our enslavement, to obscure the truth,
to get people into a church instead of into the stries.
But we also have to recognize the theology of liberation,
which is not just an African American tradition, but is
big throughout Latin America indigenous traditions. And so that's part
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of our toolbox. And I'm I'm a very spiritual person.
I won't say religious. I'm very spiritual, and so me
and my dad we didn't know we see eye to
eye on that. But I know that when my sister
was murdered, you know, part of what we we we
had to have a reckoning as far as you know,
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just leaning on the wisdom of the ancestors to get
through that. And I just my observation is that political
movements among melanated people do better when we're tapped into
our spiritual reservoir because it is deep, and it is wide,
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and it is powerful.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Agreed, we have any callers questions, I'm open to take
some questions. How long you're gonna let me stay in here?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Dominique? Well, you know what, we don't have questions that
what they're doing is they're having a they're having their
own conversation parallel to our conversation, and and so. But
we do have some folks on the phone. J W
was calling from La Hi, JW.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Good morning, Good morning. Are you guys good good?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Well, you know, I'm just listening. I'm enjoying every word
that's coming out of both of you, guys, Mile, because
I'm in one agreement. You know this is all about
our spiritual warfare, and it's all about faith and confidence
and distrusting. We can use all aspects from logic to spiritual,
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to religion or whatever you want to frame it as.
And I wouldn't care what nationality or race or you know,
sexual uh, you know, paturity or hiding out the world
or all the above. We got to come together, ask
and manage one human race. And once we get together,
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we can't have reperations. We can overcome down Trump and
and we change this government and all this up because
I wrapped up too much time now speak. But like
the Constitution says, read for people, and I don't have
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to us out there a boot and brow and I
can crudely with that. I have more to stay, but
I will.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
You have more to say, But there's always another day.
J W. Appreciate the support, Appreciate the cost. Yeah, okay,
well that's that's a whole other path we could go down,
because right now we I feel like we are very
divided in not just in this country, worldwide.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
We talk about.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Race, nationality, ethnicity, right, and it's true if you want
to get technical, Oh, yes, one race that's human and
they all descend from a black woman's womb. So but
right now and we're circling it right back to reparations,
there's so much division where it's like, even if I
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make the point, which I did on Monday with James Farr,
that we as black or melanated or freedman, have always
been the moral conscience of this plan. Absolutely, And so
to say, well, we're not going to stand with immigrants
because they don't stand with us, or we're not gonna
stand with Latinos because they don't stand with us, even
though in some cases they have. To me, that's I
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don't know. Even when you start talking about white people,
what you're talking about is cultural national differences, because when
you are looking at the biology, we are one.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Uh yeah, and you know, look, let me choose my
words thoughtfully. The what I will call the slave program
in America, right, let's imagine it as a computer program.
So the slave program in America, there is a certain
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mentality that is required, and it was required of children,
like children were groomed to be owners, to be the
owning class. To girls in particular, were taught how to
be vicious so that they could be the mistress of
the house or the mists of the house or whatever
the language was during this slave program. And so when
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you understand that what we weren't we were we were affected, right, yes,
but the person who also was doing the harm also
is affected. And I think that reconciliation is the harder
part for those families and their legacy and their offspring.
(16:43):
There are some of them, and there are some uh
I think it's called the reparations. What is it called.
I will look it up during the next commercial break.
But there are people who have that history and they
have said, Okay, me and my family members are gonna
get together, we're gonna start a foundation and we're gonna
give out housing grants to black families so that they
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can be first time homeowners.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Right.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
And then they are the other ones that are like,
you know, Southern pride and Confederate pride, and I'm a you.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Know, and they can be the same with Okay, I'm
way behind schedule, so we're gonna we'll let you look
that up and then i'll keep you. I'm gonna make
you late for work. Well, at least we'll round out
to the bottom of the hour. I will say this though,
I think that a lot of us those battles are
not just going on and so called designated white families.
I'm gonna say a lot of you us. I'll put
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myself in there, even though I know where my white
people are from me to having these battles inside our
own physical bodies. The DNA of both is inside of you,
and that's another reason why we have to do the
spiritual work. Ah KBLA talk fifteen to eighty, Happy Heavenly
b Day, Michael Jackson, you feel in that. What's your
(18:01):
favorite Michael Jackson song? That's an easy question. What's your
favorite Michael Jackson's song? It's actually kind of a hard question.
I have a lot of them. I don't know. I
don't know the answer to that. I know we probably
psyched you out. You thought doctor Jerol Horn was going
to be going to be on as soon as you
heard Michael Jackson, but no, we are celebrating his B day.
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Eric was calling and asking about capitalism, and I've pondered
that question. I wanted to hand the mic to Friday
Jones because she was on the way out the door.
I've pondered that question. For me, the answer is my
personal political outlook, which is that I feel For me,
the perfect society is something I saw in the original
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Nicaraguan constitution, not that they're living it, but in theory
on paper was to have a system where you can
have social meaning you nobody's starving, everybody has, you know,
universal health care, a basic house, you know, an apartment, whatever,
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a roof over your head, food education, healthcare, okay, and
that in that mixed economy, you also have the possibility
if you want to be an entrepreneur, if you want
to be a capitalist, you can do so. It's not
a strict communist state, it's not a predatory capitalist state.
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It's a balanced situation, which, if you think about it,
is kind of the model of the United States. It's
just that we've never leaned into it. There's always some
liar talking about how they pull themselves up from their
bootstraps knowing they got generational wealth handed to them or
privilege handed to them for any number of reasons. The
fact is, we do have a socialized education system. Anyone
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can go to school through high school for free in
this country. We do have a socialized department. Anybody can
call the fire department even if your bills aren't paid.
They will come and put the fire out at your home,
or rescue you if you need rescuing. Same with the police.
Even though we can talk about the problematic ways in
(20:16):
which law enforcement moves, the fact is if you call
the cops, they're supposed to come. Those are socialized systems.
We the people, the tax payers, the common folks, pay
into the pot, and then those resources are available for everyone,
even though we are in a capitalist system. So I
think the answer to your fear of hypocrisy is, don't
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support predatory capitalism. Don't support what I think Friday, you know,
brilliantly described as the extreme version of capitalism, which is
slavery and wage slavery is its cousin right. So to me,
the non hypocrisy lies in I believe in the idea
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that no one should sleep on the streets, nobody should
be denied education or healthcare right or food. Those are
the basics the basement. Now, if you want to build
a rocket ship, maybe a bad example because it conjures
up Elon Muskovit. If you want to build a rocket ship,
or you want to build a better mouse trap or
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whatever that thing is, then you should have the ability
to do that. I think it's also predicated on the
fact that you have got to have a strict taxation
system so that when people make more than a billion dollars,
they don't have the option of not paying taxes and
(21:46):
pointing the fingers at the poor for the problems of
the country. You've got to have a strict and strong
taxation on the very wealthy. It's more similar to what
we had in the Clinton era in prior. Okay, that's
my answer to that. Now back to the other questions
you were bringing up, which I started to go into
because I was concerned, you know, I was just trying
(22:11):
to catch you up while we were waiting to start
our Freedman Friday segment this week. So, yeah, Eric is right.
President Donald Trump has canceled the Secret Service protection for
Vice President Kamala Harris. And to be clear, this was
an extra level of security. She had an extra year
(22:33):
extended on to vice presidents. You usually only get six months.
Presidents get Secret Service protection for life. And I believe
it's you know, Biden didn't say it, but I believe
it's because like Barack Obama, she had more threats against
your life than any vice president, just as he did
(22:55):
more than any president. The current President of the United
States wrote a letter on yesterday directing the Secret Service
to discontinue any security related procedures previously authorized by executive
and memorandum beyond those required by law starting September first.
(23:16):
And to me the fact that your priority with you know,
I guess egg prices still through the roof, and multiple wars,
people starving to death in Gaza, a war in Ukraine,
and problems at home, your priority is to make the
(23:39):
former vice president less safe. Wow. Really foul, really really foul.
But I'm a person who does believe in karma, and
I wouldn't want this dude's karma. I heard him speculating
about whether or not he'll get into heaven. Yeah. Wow,
I'm not gonna I'm not going to comment on that,
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but I'm I'm thinking about what's between here and heaven,
hell or whatever the afterlife is for you, and that
karma is going to be nastiest can be. In fact,
I believe he's living it now, which one of the
reasons why he gets nastier and nastier with each passing day.
And I don't have derangement syndrome. If this dude suddenly
(24:22):
woke up tomorrow and said, you know what, I feel
like we should do the child tax credits so we
can get four million American children out of poverty and hunger,
like we did during COVID under Biden, but which was
shut down by the Dinos, the Democrats in name only,
the Joe Manchin and Kristen Cinemas. If he woke up
(24:45):
tomorrow and do that, I'd applaud it. I want to
be wrong. I want to be wrong. I want to
wake up and say, Wow, you know what. Dj T
was right? These tariffs have really worked wonders for the
American people. I'm going by what I see, what I know,
what I read. So far, it hasn't been working out
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for us. If that suddenly changed, trust in and believe,
I have no problem acknowledging that. It's not about ego,
it's not about a person. It's always about a policy.
It's always about a policy. More, as Philip says, if
if the top ten billionaires in America paid two percent
in taxes, college could be free for all, so with
(25:28):
health care services, yeah we can, and we can cut
that pie in all different directions. If we stopped spend
sending money uh for war in Israel. You know, imagine
what we could do with that money. They have health
care for all. Why don't we tell them to cut
(25:49):
their budget to pay for their wars so we can
keep our money to pay for our health care. I mean,
just one example, right, there's the whole doze far We
quickly see as a farce as we look at the
bills that we have to pay to cover the police
(26:11):
overtime for these military deployments. When the President sent the
National Guard into Los Angeles and the Marines and Homeland
Security and ICE, I stopped counting. But last time I looked,
the police overtime LAPD to support ICE, Homeland Security FBI
(26:34):
was in the double digits of millions of dollars, right,
And so where's the budget savings. It's not for us,
it's not budget savings. It's slashing to match an agenda.
It's cutting to match an agenda. And that agenda's money
for the rich and no services or money for the
(26:57):
poor or the working class or the middle class, which
Republican democrats and Republicans love to talk about the middle class,
but they don't want to talk about the working class,
the under resource, the poor. Yeah, and you can see
the intention and the reason you know that I report
(27:19):
on something like these cuts to Secret Service protection, which
it's been a long list. It's not just Kamala Harris.
Kamala Harris is just the most vindictive and the latest
one is because it reveals the true intention, the true
thought process. That's the heart of this Republican Party of today,
(27:43):
this Republican MAGA Party of today. It is rooted in cruelty.
As as the online folks say, the cruelty is the point?
Is it time for our pledge of courage? I don't
know if we need one today because it's a Freedman Friday,
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and we know that those of us who are fighting
for reparations, talking about it, normalizing it, education, educating around
the issue of reparations. Those of us who are doing
that started out courageous because back you don't have to
go that far. Maybe five years it will seen us
a fringe issue. And still today a lot of people
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don't want to hear it. But we have to keep
talking about it until it becomes inevitable. It's not too
late to call me eight hundred nine to oh fifteen
eighty eight hundred nine to oh fifteen eighty I'm Dominique
Uprima for KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. Yeah. So it's a
Labor Day Eve and some folks going to be outside
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this weekend. In fact, there are more than a thousand
protests planned over the Labor Day weekend all over the
United States. It's mostly they're being organized by the a
f l CIO, which makes sense because they are a
labor union affiliation association. They're calling it Worker over Billionaire
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protest worker over Billionaires, and there's at least one in
all fifty states they're going to do rallies. There's one
or two here in Los Angeles, New York, Alaska, Palmer, Alaska,
wherever that is, Freeport Maine, Honolulu, Hawaii, Chicago. It's about
protesting the policies of this administration, not the persons, but
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the policies. And it's ironic to me because for many
in labor, or let me say some in labor, this
should be an FAFO weekend because there are some in
labor who supported this administration. And what are we protesting against?
Aside from you know, workers over billionaires means pay worker
(30:00):
fair wages, but it's things like the fact that this
administration is trying to end collective bargaining rights for federal workers,
so start right there. Taking away the right to organize
workers is part of the push of this administration. And
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it's not a mystery. We knew that this is one
of the things that they were going to do. It's
in Project twenty twenty five. It's in their history, meaning
they're look at the way that the president has dealt
with his own businesses. They want to cut minimum wage
requirements for federal contractors from seventeen dollars and seventy five
(30:45):
cents an hour to thirteen dollars and thirty cents an hour.
They want to eliminate the federal minimum wage, eliminate overtime
protections for childcare and home care workers. These are the
policy points of this administration. I don't give a rats
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tail feather who the president is, what the party is.
If that's the agenda, I'm not for it. And that
is what they are enacting. And that's why I find
it's so hard to understand folks who still doggedly defend
this administration. You'll see what they're doing. Grocery prices have
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not come down, and the impact of the tariffs hasn't
even started to kick in yet. Family not even yet barely,
and prices are up. Look six months from now, it's
going to be more apparent. The dismantling of the Department
of Education one of the things they said they do
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that even I didn't believe it. Nah, they're not gonna
be able to do it, They're not going to go
that far. But yet they have. And now this idea
that we don't need a minimum wage, that is is
that is one of the planks of predatory capitalism. You
don't need a minimum wage? Really, why don't you need
a minimum wage? Is it because you're gonna have all
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these migrant workers detained in centers where you can force
them to work for free? Is it because you think
that tax cuts for billionaires are not enough and you
want to make sure they don't have to pay the workers.
This is short sighted in the sense that who's gonna
buy your product? If nobody can pay their rent, who's
(32:33):
gonna buy your product. It's like the proposed they're talking
about creating time limits on public housing. So if you
get HUD subsidized housing, a housing voucher, it will have
a time limit. And they say it's because these these
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support systems were not meant to be permanent. Fine, get
rid of it, but you can't get rid of it
until you have housing that the average worker can afford
making the average wage, and we do not have that
in this country at all. Until you have groceries that
the average worker can afford making the average wage, and
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we don't have that. We're not there. So the pullback
of minimum wage, the pullback of worker protections, the aggressive
union busting against those folks who are trying to organize,
like Starbucks, like Amazon, shows you the heart of this administration.
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They are it's Marie Antoinette season, let them eat cake.
They are all about feathering the nests of the very rich.
And I don't understand why that's a Republican Democrat issue,
a race issue. I don't understand what it has to
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do with trans people. I don't get why I have
to be called woke as if it's an insult. I
don't understand why it means you've got to attack black women,
fire black women. But that's what it is, and let's
not be let's not be silly in pretending that we
don't see it. And that's why I'm happy to see
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huh people doing. Yeah, have a barbecue, get some sleep,
rest up, but also maybe march a little bit worker
over billionaire stones. Sounds like a great place to start
in what is It's been an oligarchy, but now it's
unvarnished predatory capitalism. Now it's now it's worth giving military
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honors to the woman who tried to break into the
capital and murder Pelosi. Now it's it's we don't need
a minimum wage because we can pay you next to nothing.
Now it's unvarnished, unmasked white supremacy, anti worker, anti woman,
anti labor, anti LGBTQ, anti trands. And so I'm glad
(35:16):
to see we're marching, we're pushing back. I'm glad to
see organized labor doing what organized labor is meant to do,
which is what organize. You can go to if you
want to find out where you can, you know, sign up,
show up, suit up for march near you. The afl
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CIO under the leadership of Liz Schuler. Go to their website,
find out tap in with a local labor union near you.
They'll have information tap in find out Even if you're
not in a union, you are benefiting from the work
of unions. If it wasn't for unions, we wouldn't have weekends,
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over time, time and a half. Those things came about
because people organized in unions, and in the big picture,
they end up affecting all workers, unionized or not. And
that's the beauty of workers' rights and a working class agenda.
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It benefits the middle class, it benefits the very poor,
it even benefits the unemployed. And so I'm glad to
see labor flexing. I hope it's not too little, too late.
But you know, I don't believe that, because I believe
we win. Okay, So look, yes I'm having a three
(36:42):
day weekend, but you can still find me on social media.
I'm at du Premia Radio dpri im A then Radio.
Please like, follow, subscribe, even if you're talking smack or
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free wherever you get your podcasts. Like my dad, the
late and Great Amari Baraka, used to say, a man
is either free or he is not free. There could
be no apprenticeship for freedom until next time. KBLA delegation
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