August 26, 2025 • 40 mins
We start the hour with a call for courage, purpose and emotional management. Meditation instructor, astrologer and yoga teacher Saharah Ali starts our week off with Mindful Mondays. For the second half of the hour Dominique looks at ICE raids and detention of citizens and legal residents and James returns to the mic to clap back on Dominique's characterization of his remarks about ICE raids and his response as a Black man.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What an honor it is to start our week with
a meditation instructor, astrologer, or numerologist, life coach. She's a
sound pathologist, a sound healer, and a meditation teacher. Sahara Ali, good.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Morning, Good morning, Dominique, And I'm Dominique's friend, and.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
She's Dominique's friend. That's not much of a credential, but
it's my blessing.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Good morning, KBLA family, and welcome to mindful Monday, where
we get our minds right for the week by setting
positive intentions to honor our mind and body, do meditation,
affirmation and prayer as we step unapologetically into our week,
being on purpose, with faith, with some truth and power.
This week, we're under the celestial influence of Venus shifting
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into Leo. It's in Leo until September twentieth. Venus is
a planet of love, values, money, and relationships, making this
a powerful time to heal, reflect and reassess our values.
It's aiding us to recalibrate our heart's desires, fostering strength
and harmony in all relationships. Venus and fiery Leo, sign
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of divine consciousness and unapologetic visibility, opens the space for
authentic expression of self, Stepping fully into our power, reflecting
our true self, inviting moments of creativity and joy in
our daily life. Is asking us to invest in experiences
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and connections that enrich our lives, holding grace and appreciation,
fostering a strong sense of spiritual liberation. Is also aiding
us to move beyond what's familiar, releasing limited archaic programs,
opening our hearts to trust inner guidance. The call to
action is to be bold, focusing on the long game,
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standing in our power as agents of change, to live
our divine purpose, trusting the process of God's wil to
be done, not ours. Our mindful Monday intention is to
let go of self judgment, trust the power of our
core self as spirits having a human experience, but going
forward with today's mindful Monday's meditation. Let's listen with our hearts.
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Let us open our minds, letting go of judgment of
self and allowing divine wisdom to transform the lies who
tell ourselves about who we're not. So get calm for
a moment, and they'll take a big breath and pause
and be right here, right now. As you slowly excel
ground yourself center yourself. Throw yourself anchored and grounded. Close
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your eyes, giving yourself permission to be here right now, centered,
listening to your breath and slowly breathe in and out
through your nose, three or four times as you feel
centered and fill your heartbeat on each in hell. Center
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yourself in each excel ground yourself, find stillness, find inner peace,
allow yourself to open to divine guidance. Breathe, opening to
your wholeness. Relax, release your fears in judgment. Be right here,
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right now, in this moment. Find stillness. Breathe in self love,
allow empowerment, opening yourself to receive your highest good with grace. Relax,
quiet your mind, quiet your body, and surrender. Surrender here
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and now, calling forward new beginnings, calling forward empowerment and truth. Breathe, Relax,
release and let go. Let go of fears, let go
of doubts, the goal of self judgment. Relax and lean
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into opening your heart, opening your heart, tell lying your mind,
your body, and spirit to your greatness. Ready and open
to live infinite possibilities. Relax, connect to your breath and
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embrace bride. Embrace self, love and open to change. Ready
to elevate your life relax and surrender, both centered and grounded,
willing and ready to live a life of purpose, honoring self, love,
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honoring your wholeness. Take a breath, a deep, big breath,
and as you exhale, allow yourself to open and release
and let go. And I'll take the biggest breath you've
had all morning. And as you excel, open your heart
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and mind to receive our mindful Monday affirmation.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
For the week.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Relax and listen with your heart and your mind, our
mindful Monday affirmation for the week. Today, with grace and ease,
I step boldly forward to truly live on purpose, a
life of fulfillment. Today, with grace and ease, I step
bowly forward to truly live on purpose, on purpose, a
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life of fulfillment. With great diease, I step boldly forward
to truly live on purpose a life of fulfillment.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Sounds good reading.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
And relaxing in yourself. Yet it is with this Leo
transit it's important for us to understand that we can
be bold, we can be unapologetic, and the Leo planets
because it's conjunct mercury. Also, it's okay to speak your truth,
It's okay to live your truth. But mindfully be in
your power as you do this, don't make it superficial
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and allow yourself to create something that you've never thought
that you can manifest in your life. Because it is
the season of healing, it's the season of transformation. It's
the season of understanding your purpose and living it unapologetically
so that you can receive things you've never believed that
your soul could experience. You know, like we say, when
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there's chaos in the world, there's harmony in peace that
we have to find within. Our ancestors can align us
that we can be on purpose and we can be safe.
So thank you Dominique to have a smiley miles in
the fifteen eighty KBLA family, have an unapologetic, mindfully blessed
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week step being boldly forward, truly living on purpose, a
lifefe of fulfillment with grace and ease.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I love that, a life of fulfillment. Yes, thank you
for that, Sahara. I think when we get stressed, whether
it's over the news or the heat or whatever it
might be, it becomes more difficult to stay present, you know,
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just stay present in this moment. How do you do that? Well?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
One to stay present is to have emotional management and
discernment and to think about and go within what are
you really feeling because a lot of stress sometimes is
unexpressed repressed emotions. And yes, we witnessed all of this transformation,
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this madness with transformation happening before us. And the call
to action is to pray, to pray and to celebrate
the gifts that we have and to be the agent
of change by being on purpose with who we are
and what we believe in, and to stand to stand
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for what's right and to stand for what's true and
the dynamic. It looks like we're helpless, but prayers are
never helpless. The power of the unseeing world is never helpless.
You know, if you think about King in the March, everybody,
Malcolm X, everybody they prayed before they went out there
to stand for the people. We need to pray to
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stand not only for the people, but to stand for ourselves.
So we have clarity to know that we are not
a victim of all of this transformation that is happening.
We are rebirthing the whole dynamic of how we do life.
We are being subjected to archaic mental disturbances in archaic
beliefs that don't serve where we're going. And it's part
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of purification. And so if we've witness it as purification
and remember not to forget that there's something bigger than this.
There's something greater than this in the soul and God
and who we are as a people. It's greater than
a pin and a bill or whatever archaic dynamics that
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they're trying to create. They're going backwards, not forward. And
life always goes forward, but sometimes you go backwards to
see where you need to go forward and what you
need to let go up and how you're willing to
show up and be on purpose with truth. Truth will
always win. And so we have to stop feeding the
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narrative with fear and judgment. Take a stance and what's
right and what's true. And if we come together as
a collective and bring forth a life force energy to
bring a different perspective of change. Because it's like I
said before, we talked about what we didn't want. We
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may have took an action of what we wanted, but
we kept talking.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
We focused too much on what we didn't want. Yeah, well, okay,
so Mollie Bell says you are our friend to Sahara
not just dominate.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Expression, powerful, expected, but she also says, she says, Sister
Sahara Ali, she says, what can we do about trump Ism?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I love God, but it hurts stepping boldly forward, I
cry and pray a lot. I hurt for us. Dominique
brings a great positive and then prayer. But she's asking
what can she do about it? And it sounds like
that's what you were talking about, I mean, partly in
whatever other negativity was crying first, stop crying. Crying for you?
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Isn't it a release?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Crying is very healing. But are you crying out of pity?
Are you crying of empowerment? I cry of empowerment in
the glory of the multime manifesting in my life and
putting me on purpose every single day. Is the feeling
of elation that my life is God's life. And if
we stand with that and we say that and know
that our lives is god lives, God will move through
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you and make a miracle and it'll change this narrative.
People are being helpless because that's what they want. Is control,
is propaganda. It's all of this putting fear like I'm
gonna sweep us up. It's like, okay, well, what's your truth?
This is just one man in his snantikus okay, And yeah,
he sits in the highest seed of this world, but
he don't sit in the highest seed of my life
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or the world's life.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah. E. C. Courtney says, sister Ali, you're on fire
this morning in the spirit of the ancestors of Sante Sana,
peace and power. Focusing on what we want, not what
we don't want. I added that. Molly Bell says, I
cry not to cuss.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Well, I mean, you can write it down on a
piece of paper that I have to pass her lifters
that write these people them, I mean, and the essays
and whatever. Write it out, so get it out so
doesn't turn to disease in your body. Free form writing.
And you know, I call them. I won't even say
what it is, but it's the m F letter. And
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then you write the letters and you throw it, put
it in the trash. You have to get it out
so that it can be replaced with the wholeness and
the truth and the life. What is we as a
collective people and the journeys that our soul has taken,
and all the indigenous people and all the ancestors that's
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lined up right now. Put blinders on to your fear
and pick up courage, pick up power, and be used
in the right place at the right time at Stevie State.
God knows exactly where you should replaced. And don't you
guys know God is watching it and that we will
see the reckoning We always do. It's just we cannot
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be blind by the illusion that they're giving us is
that we are helpless. We are not helpless. We are
more powerful than we allow ourselves to be. And so
that power starts with the acknowledgment of self and the
power that you carry. Stop lying to yourself about who
you're not, and pick up your power and understand your purpose,
because that's what this is about.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Sahara Ali, as usual, thank you very much. As more
than usual. Think now I don't have to do the
courage pledge because Sahara already did it, y'all. Sahara Ali.
If you want to find out what she's up to,
go to Sahara Ali dot com. It's s a h
r ah. You can find out about the latest yoga classes,
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sound baths or what have you. If you want a
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You can call her assistant at least A two one three, six,
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twenty eight ninety seven eighty three. Sahara Ali, thanks.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
So much, thank you and thank you KBLA family have
a blessed, beautiful on purpose week, steps them boldly on
purpose and building a life of fulfillment.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Asante Sana perfect time to call me next. On KBLA
Talk fifteen eighty I think I understand what James was saying,
that he doesn't have sympathy for people, because you know,
he said he feels for them, but he but because
black men have been dealing with fear of police and
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injustices at the hands of law enforcement his whole adult
life and child life, he doesn't have the same kind
of reaction that others maybe have. I think I understand
that I don't mean to say his point wrong, and
he's still here, so he'll probably text me or tell
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me if I sait it wrong. But I guess my
reaction and I do have some empathy there because you
wonder why, you know, people don't why they didn't stay
steady with the twenty twenty protests Why people our allies
who stepped up then stepped back. Why people are retreating
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from pledges. Why DEI they're now acting like it's illegal
after corporations pledged billions of dollars to level the playing
field and then never made good on those pledges. They
were just cheap marketing employees and all of that. There's
plenty of reasons for that, but I have to look
at it in terms of right and wrong in the
big picture of the world, the universe. And it's wrong
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to arrest people and obtain detain them with no crime
committed when they are citizens or when they are seeking
asylum through the system that we've had in place for
many years. You're changing the rules. You're terrorizing a community.
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Racial profiling is wrong for everybody. It's wrong for black people,
for Asians, for Latinos. It's just wrong. And so while
I maybe I don't completely understand because I'm not a
black man, I'm the mother of one, but I think
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I don't know. I feel like we have to hold
on to our position as Black Americans. We have been
the moral compass of the world, right from Malcolm X
to doctor Martin Luther King Junior, all the way down
the line. There's so many more I could name. We
have set the tone. We have helped other people get
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their rights, from white women in this country to workers
around the world, and I feel like, no matter how
hard the condition is and what the pressures are, we
need to maintain that because it's the right thing to do.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Just like people criticize Black Lives Matter for standing with Palestine,
the alliance between Palestinians and Black American activists goes way back,
way back to the Black Panther Party. And if you
were there in twenty twenty, in those marches, you saw
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Latinos marching with US, Asians marching with us, you saw
white folks marching with us, and yes, Latinos, lots of
Latinos it. I guess you had to be there to
know it. Like Pap says, but that's real, that's not
made up. We have real allies. But even if we didn't,
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even if everyone else in the world was wrong, we
still could be right. We still could be correct, we
still could be just. And I've always stood on that.
I've taken a lot of criticism for it myself, but
I've always stood on that. Yes, I'm pro blacks, sweep
around your own front door. I love my people, I
love black people. I'm always stand for my community. And yes,
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if I have two equally qualified persons for a job,
one is black and one is something else, I'm hiring
the black person. That's just love. Though love of my
community does not add up to hate of anyone else's community,
and it doesn't change the fact that right is right,
correct is correct, ethical is ethical, moral is moral. Human
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beings deserve human rights, and they do deserve respect, and
they don't deserve to be terrorized. Kilmar Abrego Garcia got
to be with his family last week after he was
the Trump administration admitted they took him into custody by accident.
Supposedly it was a mistake. He's been away from his
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family for one hundred and sixty days. He's got a
little under a week with them. Then he had what
should have been a routine check in with immigration this morning,
and they took him back into custody and they won't
say why. And they're going to send him somewhere and
they won't say where. They've been threatening to deport him
to Uganda, which is hilarious to me. This is the
threat is we're going to send you to be with
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those black African people. Oh what worse boogeyman than that
they tried to get. They told him if he would
admit to a crime of human trafficking, which he doesn't.
He vehemently denies doing. It's because they found him in
a car with nine people and they said he was
human trafficking. They let him go at the time, but
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apparently now they're trying to dredge that back up to
cover their mistake and justify deporting them. So they're saying
if he would admit to the made up crime, they
will send him to Costa Rica and he won't go
to jail. Costa Rica sent a letter saying they would
welcome him as a citizen or eagle resident or something
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like that and he wouldn't have to go to jail.
But if he won't admit that he's a criminal, a
fake MS thirteen member, then they're gonna send him to Uganda,
where he'll go to jail prison. I don't I've never
been to Uganda. It's not one of the countries I've
been to yet, but I'm pretty sure you don't want
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to go to a Uganda in prison I'm just guessing
that's foul. That's wrong, and I'm sorry, but I know
James about to school me. I'm sorry, but I got
to stand with Abrego and his family. He should be
free right now. This is wrong eight hundred nine two
oh fifteen eight. If you want a weigh in on
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this or something else, right after news, traffic and sports
only right here. See Miles leaves, got Andy on the
boards and he's starting stuff already. Day one. Andy is
starting stuff already. Andy, I go back in there, you know,
saying Hi, you know what. James is back there hanging
out with Andy. Andy's like, you gotta let James clap back.
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That's not fair. You got you over there talking about
so guess who's back James farr. Okay, So James and
I were talking. It's all Andy's fault, thank you, any it?
So you said I was talking about legal legal US
citizens and legal residents and folks following what has been
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the legal asylum process for decades, being detained by masked
men and put in nice custody and you know, roughed
up and stuff. And you said that you don't have
that much sympathy because as a black man, you've been
dealing with authorities, police and such, and how problematic their
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treatment of black men is your whole life? Is that fair?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
That's that's fair, I overstand, And what they are experiencing
I overstand.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And so thus you don't have that much sympathy.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I don't. Again, I think when you say sympathy in
that content, it makes me like sound like a callous
and a cruel and inhumane person, almost like that's almost
putting me in the same space as those who are
actually perpetrating these accents people.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So let's get some clarity here. You said keep that
same energy when it comes to black people. I got you,
and I asked you, do we have allies? But I
should have asked you this. What about right and wrong?
It is wrong to detain people without their rights. It
is wrong to be a masked person and kidnap someone
off the streets. It is wrong to discriminate against people
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or racially profile of them, whether they're black, Latino, Asian,
trans whatever it is. So what about the moral high ground?
What about that part? What about not just well you
you know, tit for tat. You didn't take care of me,
So I'm not going to take care of you. What
about the.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Moral that's you saying that, I'm not arguing what's right
or wrong. It is wrong, right, it is it, and
it may prove to be against the law of what's happened.
The law, well, the courts will decide that. But this,
this this characterization that I'm not sympathetic because someone is
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experiencing something that I have, my father has, and many
other black men have for centuries, as not being sympathetic.
We're just aware of what it is.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
What are you saying? So what are you saying?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I'm saying I'm disinterested in being lectured by you or
white folks who are saying that this is so horrible,
when I'm saying, not you in this instance, because you're
front line you you've been an allied more than an ally,
you're a co conspirator. So I don't want allies. I
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want people who are really actually out there doing the work. Right.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Okay, well I wasn't trying to lecture you, but nobody
wants to be lectured by anybody. But what's your bottom line? Like,
what are you asking? What's your position? You know, not
being lectured is not a policy position.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
No, it is illegal. I believe right. The courts will determine.
But again, you're talking about the Fourth Amendment being violated, right,
And I'm saying, perhaps we wouldn't have been here if
white folks hadn't sat on the sideline for so many years,
and now that they feel a certain kind of way.
When when Ray Ray Dade and Bebe was curved by
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the police, they rolled right by. They never stopped and
said what did they do?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Some did? I mean, were you You were there in
twenty twenty. You were marching in twenty twenties. You know
about white people in March, so when you were.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I'm March September, I'm Mars South Toloom.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
But the point is, I mean, I know al.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
They were there, they left Dominique. They were not there
for black people. They were there because of the pandemic.
They were there because of Trump. And as soon as
Joe Biden got elected, I watched the Black Lives Matter
signs come out of my white neighborhood. I saw it.
I watched their attention ship, I watched all of their
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problems be solved. And people like you, I watched them
the minute Joe Biden got and then people like you
who are lifelong Democrats sat there and allowed this.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Okay, so this is this is where we get into
the Kamala hate because you guys, you guys were having
little Kamal hate sessions. There you go, editorializing, edizing I
was hustling, and I don't when I hear it. What
does that happen?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Is everything fairness?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
The fact that white white peops fault.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
You know whoever earlier in the last hour said I
look more conservative than I do progressive. Well, Andy wrongfully assumed.
And I don't fault the brother. He doesn't know me
that well, but he thought I was team Kamala, and
I'm like, no, that's not.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
And that's a badge of honor, not being team Kamala.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
I don't see it as a badge of honor being
team Kamla.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
No.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
And I mean I am an independent issue there.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
You are a West Abdulah voters. Absolutely, And I say
that because a lot of black men that hate Kamala
went team Trump. So I just want to be clear
on that.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And that's an assumption that most people make. It's like, no,
I didn't vote for Harris, No, you voted for Trump. No, Well,
if you didn't vote for Harris, then you voted for Trump, right.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
We don't need to relitigate that right now. But I
think it's really interesting, how y'all go all the way there.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Were talking about? Point?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Is I really talking about racism and what is happening
right now with the racial profiling of Latino people under ice.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
It's wrong. There I said it. It's wrong. It's im moral,
it's evil, it's draconian, it's fascist, it's authoritarian. I mean,
do you want me to keep pulling, pulling, pulling, pull.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Okay, you want to do well? Jerry Anderson says, I'm
trying to shame you for wearing your truth. No, I'm not.
This is talk radio. We argue, that's what we do.
I think that if you know, if you have issues,
I don't have a problem with that. I'm trying to
understand it though, because I know you to be a progressive,
contrary to what the chat room says, and to me,
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that means we have to respect or my understanding, my
authentic understanding of progressivism is we respect human rights.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
We do. I mean, that's not what's in question. What
I'm saying is I am healing from twenty twenty right,
I'm inactive, and I need to heal to be better
for the fight later on. I'm not sitting it out.
I understand what.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I know. You're not sitting it out. I see you
out there.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
You know I'm I'm working, but I am you know
I'm not as active on this issue. I'm not fighting
or pushing against what people are doing. I'm just simply
stating I'm disinterested in you, not you. But there's telling
me how bad life is currently when I'm not seeing
much of a difference administration to administration. So I'm hoping
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when you put your political hat on, they need some
real help, that the Dems call Dominique Toprima and say
help us figure our You know, I'm waiting on the
next great white hope, right.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Oh that's me.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
No, not, You're gonna help figure it out, because if
they don't want to hear from me, well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I mean, I think that that's part of the problem,
is that they don't want to hear from you or me.
To me, that is the major problem with the Democratic
They flee from the progressive wing, no matter how successful
you know, Zorn mont Domi or Summer Lee or whoever.
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They run from us, and they want to go into
this centrist problem BS and I think that's the problem.
I hope that's the major problematic.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Those who have been wrongfully detained get justice whatever that
means to them. I hope they sue win. But again, Dominique,
I've been in too many situations and known too many
stories where you know, people throw out antidotally justice.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Right.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
You know, I've actually seen a check and seen a
life commoditized. I happen to be with an attorney when
they received the settlement from the county, right, and what
that actually means in that moment. So justice is not
money justice? Justice is it not? It never happening?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah, that's it doesn't bring your loved one back. Okay,
real quick, we're gonna go to Fred. We're behind schedule,
but we'll bounce back Andy, Okay.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Hi Fred, Hello, Dominique. Yeah, two things and I'll be
fast a breako'. That's the gentleman they want. They want
to deport the Ugando or wherever he can go home
voluntarily to his El Salvador if he wants to. I mean,
we had difference.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
He's from the United States, He's not from Elsaldor.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Well, they say he came here illegally from Ol Salvador,
and he's under fining orders to send him anywhere in
the world, just not back to Actually.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
That's not the truth. But okay, what's your second point?
Speaker 5 (30:43):
The TC James, you know I'm gonna call you about that.
Then now the New York Appeals Court, she ruled that
she was on a witch hunt. I see they need
captor and she won't be flying on her broom this holloway.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Okay, thanks for calling, Fred, have a nice day. Anything
to say to what Fred? The ridiculous things Fred said.
They did not needcapped her. What they did was they
gave Trump get out of fee jail, you know, jail
fee card, meaning he doesn't have to pay the five
hundred million. But he's still guilty of fraud. So she
was still not kneecapped. She was still correct. She just
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that they uh let this guy off again.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Sounds like he's a Trumper, Yeah he is. Okay, Well,
I think nothing to say to it.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I just leave very just leave it. What is I mean?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
You know, I mean, we don't need to dispair I see,
not even me. I don't disparage. Vice President Kamala Harris,
I just don't like her politics. That whole broom reference
to our sister Letitia knock it off?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yeah, well, who hurts you? I mean, but here's the thing,
Like I had a friend tell me over the weekend,
you hate Trump. I don't hate Trump. I don't know him.
I don't I hate listening to him. I am forced
to listen to him because he's the president. But I
don't hate him. I hate his policy. It is different.
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I care zero about Trump. If he wasn't the president,
I would be paying no attention to him. I don't
like him or not like him. I've never met him,
I don't know him. I hate his policy.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
I mean, I'm so filled with love, like I really know,
I have no space in my heart for love, I
mean for hate.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Right.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
It just yeah, so it doesn't. I don't have that
visceral effect by Trump. He's actually comical to me.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I don't have Trump derangement. I don't think I do either.
I just don't like his policy. You think I have.
True you're sounding like a conservative again, is it? Oh? Wait,
you're married to one? Yes?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Okay, well very much good.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
You're staying for black marriage?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
No, no, no, no, y'all got that I don't want nothing
to do with that. No, you live that every day
all twenty six anyway. But I think you are on.
I mean sometimes you get there, dominic, and we got
to pull you back.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Whatever Ronald says in all caps, I won't yell, but
he's yelling at you. Tell you, boy that there will
be no Kamala Harris hate. She grew up in the
city of Berkeley, and that's where I'm from, Thank.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
You, ron Ron. Then you know I grew up in Richmond,
going to.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Uh Yet there's no hate in your heart.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Absolutely aware city of city except for com and purpose. Right,
ron you if you know the area where she went
to elementary school, don't don't conflate that into Oakland. That
is almost Albany and Kensington folks. For locally, let's call it.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I'm over here gang banging.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
I'm just saying, don't I didn't buy that.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Listen, all right, yeah, because you have no hate in
your heart, but you seem to have a lot of
I just know, non love for several black women, including
one that you're sitting in a room with. Right, Oh yeah,
all right, who hurts you, guys? Fat He's gonna be all.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Right, North Oakland is not East. I am absolutely absolutely,
but I'm I'm I'm hoping Dominique, that you have the
solution for this country.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Me all by myself, I do. I don't worry. I
got this.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
You believe, you believe Kamala was a solution, So I'm Forgure.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I said that I believed that she would be a
better president than the one we have now.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
That's not saying a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Let's keep it.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Let's keep it a buck that's not the one we have.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Now and better the one that's the one we had
at the time. It's saying a lot. If you're starving
in Gaza, if you're being bombed in Yemen, it's saying
a lot. If you're being detained by a masked person,
kidnapped off the street, it's saying a lot. If you're
a member of Black Lives Matter who has now been
designated a terrorist organization, it's saying a lot, depending on
your circumstances. James Andy, thank you for your clap back
(35:06):
and thank you for your work. Find him at James
far Live or listen to him Saturday at ten. After
This is not a drill with Black Lives Matter, you're
listening to KBLA talk fifteen eighty. Oh, I guess we're
letting this man stay on the mic until seven. Is
that what we're doing? Hey? Andy? Hey, why you start stuff?
Why you a stuff starter? Andy?
Speaker 5 (35:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Now you're quiet?
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Game.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
I ain't no drama, would you say? Andy? Oh, that's
what it is. You like a little drama. Paul's hopped
in the chat and he's saying, yeah, I keep saying,
this story is that Kamala hasn't done anything for California.
Not true, my friend dm us doctor Abdullah said, the
doctor that Kamala, Harrison, Joe Biden warn't the only options.
We know that. We just covered the fact that even
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though he looks like a Trump voter to some, James
Farr is actually a Wes.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
And not stop saying that, Dominique, you play that seed
that I didn't plant the seed.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
That was me, That was who wasn't somebody in the chat.
But the point that the point is that well sometimes
you do.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Know, I am a free thinking black man that has
an opinion.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
The point is, but yeah, and if it's wrong, it's wrong.
And the point is you were you were more than
an Abdullah West voter. You were a real supporter, you absolutely,
you know, you did fundraisers for them at all.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
That kind of stuffed election result parties, I.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Think it's I think it's pretty pathetic that certain people
are still re litigating that election and using this as
an opportunity to bash Kamala Harris. You could say that's
a low bar, but you know it's she. She was
the victim of a lot of bad talking Republican talking points,
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for sure, and that's why people probably see it that way.
But we started off talking about these ice aids, and
to Homeboy's point, Fred he says he's an independent, but
he always brings a nice, big helping of MAGA talking points.
To his point, kilmar Abrego Garcia had been granted by
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a judge the opportunity to stay in this country because
there was a credible threat that if he went back
to Al Salvador he would be murdered by MS thirteen.
Not that he was a gang member, but the reason
he supposedly left Al Salvador in the first place was
because of whatever it's recruitment or some kind of situation
(37:37):
around MS thirteen. Now, the Trump administration first said they
deported him by mistake. Then they later claimed they later
renegged on their admission of a mistake and said, oh,
really he's an MS thirteen member and now they're trying
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to get him to admit to that. But if they
really think he's a gang member, why would they send
him to Costa Rica and give him a get out
of jail free card. But if he turns out that
he had that, he doesn't admit it, they're going to
send him to Uganda and put him in an African prison.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
So is your point that the border needs to be
fixed or is your point that.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
That's not what I was talking about. I don't think
I think I don't think the border needs to be fixed.
I think our immigration policy needs to be fixed. But
that's something that the Republicans and Democrats have been too scared.
Not not really not a consistent one. We not a
non right. I mean the process is the same immigration policies. No,
(38:40):
it's not. Our immigration policies have been been a big
mish mash since day one. Mm hm, that's not what
I was talking about. What I was talking about is
the fact I was refuting Fred's point that Abrego Garcia
has been had been given in order to leave. That
was actually not true. That's all I was refuting. What
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was your point about the border.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
No, I was wondering because you mentioned that, you know,
he is applying for asylum or that he is in
fear of his life if he.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Goes back to Well, I know, I said that a
judge said there was credible evidence that he would be
in danger, and so they granted him permission to stay.
That's what I said.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
I don't have a problem with that.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Well, he's either going to Costa Rica or probably You've
got so I mean right to bridge that they can
change the rules every five minutes. But that's not what
the rule of law was when he was detained. That
was my point.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Yeah, but you're asking an immoral president to have a
moral compass, So of course they're going to change the rules.
Of course they're going to do whatever it is that
fits with what his agenda is. That I mean, well, I.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Mean lying and moving the goalposts at will is so
blatantly is fair? You know, it's not that they so
blatantly yes, No, No, that.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
This country has a hit is woven together by white
domination and white supremacy.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
So wife, they've been lying and manipulating, but so blatantly. No,
not like this, not like oh we we deported him
by mistake. Oh wait, no, he's a criminal, he's a
gang member. We you know, it's your head spins. They
change the rules.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
It's an experiment.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Yeah, and that's what mind control experience.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Absolutely, people are scared, right, And that's what I'm saying.
I'm not afraid because I have, for my own survival,
had to move a certain way as a black man
in America.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
I'm glad you're not scared. I'm not finding at James Farlive.
Find me at the Premier Radio.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
We gotta go.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
It's Black Marriage Monday. I'm surprised you're still here. I
might make you talk.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Nope, you stick around.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
See talking Relationships next after News, Traffic and Sports on
KBLA Talk fifteen eighty
What an honor it is to start our week with
a meditation instructor, astrologer, or numerologist, life coach. She's a
sound pathologist, a sound healer, and a meditation teacher. Sahara Ali, good.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Morning, Good morning, Dominique, And I'm Dominique's friend, and.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
She's Dominique's friend. That's not much of a credential, but
it's my blessing.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Good morning, KBLA family, and welcome to mindful Monday, where
we get our minds right for the week by setting
positive intentions to honor our mind and body, do meditation,
affirmation and prayer as we step unapologetically into our week,
being on purpose, with faith, with some truth and power.
This week, we're under the celestial influence of Venus shifting
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into Leo. It's in Leo until September twentieth. Venus is
a planet of love, values, money, and relationships, making this
a powerful time to heal, reflect and reassess our values.
It's aiding us to recalibrate our heart's desires, fostering strength
and harmony in all relationships. Venus and fiery Leo, sign
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of divine consciousness and unapologetic visibility, opens the space for
authentic expression of self, Stepping fully into our power, reflecting
our true self, inviting moments of creativity and joy in
our daily life. Is asking us to invest in experiences
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and connections that enrich our lives, holding grace and appreciation,
fostering a strong sense of spiritual liberation. Is also aiding
us to move beyond what's familiar, releasing limited archaic programs,
opening our hearts to trust inner guidance. The call to
action is to be bold, focusing on the long game,
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standing in our power as agents of change, to live
our divine purpose, trusting the process of God's wil to
be done, not ours. Our mindful Monday intention is to
let go of self judgment, trust the power of our
core self as spirits having a human experience, but going
forward with today's mindful Monday's meditation. Let's listen with our hearts.
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Let us open our minds, letting go of judgment of
self and allowing divine wisdom to transform the lies who
tell ourselves about who we're not. So get calm for
a moment, and they'll take a big breath and pause
and be right here, right now. As you slowly excel
ground yourself center yourself. Throw yourself anchored and grounded. Close
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your eyes, giving yourself permission to be here right now, centered,
listening to your breath and slowly breathe in and out
through your nose, three or four times as you feel
centered and fill your heartbeat on each in hell. Center
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yourself in each excel ground yourself, find stillness, find inner peace,
allow yourself to open to divine guidance. Breathe, opening to
your wholeness. Relax, release your fears in judgment. Be right here,
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right now, in this moment. Find stillness. Breathe in self love,
allow empowerment, opening yourself to receive your highest good with grace. Relax,
quiet your mind, quiet your body, and surrender. Surrender here
(03:58):
and now, calling forward new beginnings, calling forward empowerment and truth. Breathe, Relax,
release and let go. Let go of fears, let go
of doubts, the goal of self judgment. Relax and lean
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into opening your heart, opening your heart, tell lying your mind,
your body, and spirit to your greatness. Ready and open
to live infinite possibilities. Relax, connect to your breath and
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embrace bride. Embrace self, love and open to change. Ready
to elevate your life relax and surrender, both centered and grounded,
willing and ready to live a life of purpose, honoring self, love,
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honoring your wholeness. Take a breath, a deep, big breath,
and as you exhale, allow yourself to open and release
and let go. And I'll take the biggest breath you've
had all morning. And as you excel, open your heart
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and mind to receive our mindful Monday affirmation.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
For the week.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Relax and listen with your heart and your mind, our
mindful Monday affirmation for the week. Today, with grace and ease,
I step boldly forward to truly live on purpose, a
life of fulfillment. Today, with grace and ease, I step
bowly forward to truly live on purpose, on purpose, a
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life of fulfillment. With great diease, I step boldly forward
to truly live on purpose a life of fulfillment.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Sounds good reading.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
And relaxing in yourself. Yet it is with this Leo
transit it's important for us to understand that we can
be bold, we can be unapologetic, and the Leo planets
because it's conjunct mercury. Also, it's okay to speak your truth,
It's okay to live your truth. But mindfully be in
your power as you do this, don't make it superficial
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and allow yourself to create something that you've never thought
that you can manifest in your life. Because it is
the season of healing, it's the season of transformation. It's
the season of understanding your purpose and living it unapologetically
so that you can receive things you've never believed that
your soul could experience. You know, like we say, when
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there's chaos in the world, there's harmony in peace that
we have to find within. Our ancestors can align us
that we can be on purpose and we can be safe.
So thank you Dominique to have a smiley miles in
the fifteen eighty KBLA family, have an unapologetic, mindfully blessed
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week step being boldly forward, truly living on purpose, a
lifefe of fulfillment with grace and ease.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I love that, a life of fulfillment. Yes, thank you
for that, Sahara. I think when we get stressed, whether
it's over the news or the heat or whatever it
might be, it becomes more difficult to stay present, you know,
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just stay present in this moment. How do you do that? Well?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
One to stay present is to have emotional management and
discernment and to think about and go within what are
you really feeling because a lot of stress sometimes is
unexpressed repressed emotions. And yes, we witnessed all of this transformation,
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this madness with transformation happening before us. And the call
to action is to pray, to pray and to celebrate
the gifts that we have and to be the agent
of change by being on purpose with who we are
and what we believe in, and to stand to stand
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for what's right and to stand for what's true and
the dynamic. It looks like we're helpless, but prayers are
never helpless. The power of the unseeing world is never helpless.
You know, if you think about King in the March, everybody,
Malcolm X, everybody they prayed before they went out there
to stand for the people. We need to pray to
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stand not only for the people, but to stand for ourselves.
So we have clarity to know that we are not
a victim of all of this transformation that is happening.
We are rebirthing the whole dynamic of how we do life.
We are being subjected to archaic mental disturbances in archaic
beliefs that don't serve where we're going. And it's part
(09:16):
of purification. And so if we've witness it as purification
and remember not to forget that there's something bigger than this.
There's something greater than this in the soul and God
and who we are as a people. It's greater than
a pin and a bill or whatever archaic dynamics that
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they're trying to create. They're going backwards, not forward. And
life always goes forward, but sometimes you go backwards to
see where you need to go forward and what you
need to let go up and how you're willing to
show up and be on purpose with truth. Truth will
always win. And so we have to stop feeding the
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narrative with fear and judgment. Take a stance and what's
right and what's true. And if we come together as
a collective and bring forth a life force energy to
bring a different perspective of change. Because it's like I
said before, we talked about what we didn't want. We
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may have took an action of what we wanted, but
we kept talking.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
We focused too much on what we didn't want. Yeah, well, okay,
so Mollie Bell says you are our friend to Sahara
not just dominate.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Expression, powerful, expected, but she also says, she says, Sister
Sahara Ali, she says, what can we do about trump Ism?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I love God, but it hurts stepping boldly forward, I
cry and pray a lot. I hurt for us. Dominique
brings a great positive and then prayer. But she's asking
what can she do about it? And it sounds like
that's what you were talking about, I mean, partly in
whatever other negativity was crying first, stop crying. Crying for you?
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Isn't it a release?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Crying is very healing. But are you crying out of pity?
Are you crying of empowerment? I cry of empowerment in
the glory of the multime manifesting in my life and
putting me on purpose every single day. Is the feeling
of elation that my life is God's life. And if
we stand with that and we say that and know
that our lives is god lives, God will move through
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you and make a miracle and it'll change this narrative.
People are being helpless because that's what they want. Is control,
is propaganda. It's all of this putting fear like I'm
gonna sweep us up. It's like, okay, well, what's your truth?
This is just one man in his snantikus okay, And yeah,
he sits in the highest seed of this world, but
he don't sit in the highest seed of my life
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or the world's life.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah. E. C. Courtney says, sister Ali, you're on fire
this morning in the spirit of the ancestors of Sante Sana,
peace and power. Focusing on what we want, not what
we don't want. I added that. Molly Bell says, I
cry not to cuss.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Well, I mean, you can write it down on a
piece of paper that I have to pass her lifters
that write these people them, I mean, and the essays
and whatever. Write it out, so get it out so
doesn't turn to disease in your body. Free form writing.
And you know, I call them. I won't even say
what it is, but it's the m F letter. And
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then you write the letters and you throw it, put
it in the trash. You have to get it out
so that it can be replaced with the wholeness and
the truth and the life. What is we as a
collective people and the journeys that our soul has taken,
and all the indigenous people and all the ancestors that's
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lined up right now. Put blinders on to your fear
and pick up courage, pick up power, and be used
in the right place at the right time at Stevie State.
God knows exactly where you should replaced. And don't you
guys know God is watching it and that we will
see the reckoning We always do. It's just we cannot
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be blind by the illusion that they're giving us is
that we are helpless. We are not helpless. We are
more powerful than we allow ourselves to be. And so
that power starts with the acknowledgment of self and the
power that you carry. Stop lying to yourself about who
you're not, and pick up your power and understand your purpose,
because that's what this is about.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Sahara Ali, as usual, thank you very much. As more
than usual. Think now I don't have to do the
courage pledge because Sahara already did it, y'all. Sahara Ali.
If you want to find out what she's up to,
go to Sahara Ali dot com. It's s a h
r ah. You can find out about the latest yoga classes,
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sound baths or what have you. If you want a
reading or a private yoga lesson or a sound bath.
You can call her assistant at least A two one three, six,
two eight nine seven eight three two one three six
twenty eight ninety seven eighty three. Sahara Ali, thanks.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
So much, thank you and thank you KBLA family have
a blessed, beautiful on purpose week, steps them boldly on
purpose and building a life of fulfillment.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Asante Sana perfect time to call me next. On KBLA
Talk fifteen eighty I think I understand what James was saying,
that he doesn't have sympathy for people, because you know,
he said he feels for them, but he but because
black men have been dealing with fear of police and
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injustices at the hands of law enforcement his whole adult
life and child life, he doesn't have the same kind
of reaction that others maybe have. I think I understand
that I don't mean to say his point wrong, and
he's still here, so he'll probably text me or tell
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me if I sait it wrong. But I guess my
reaction and I do have some empathy there because you
wonder why, you know, people don't why they didn't stay
steady with the twenty twenty protests Why people our allies
who stepped up then stepped back. Why people are retreating
(15:21):
from pledges. Why DEI they're now acting like it's illegal
after corporations pledged billions of dollars to level the playing
field and then never made good on those pledges. They
were just cheap marketing employees and all of that. There's
plenty of reasons for that, but I have to look
at it in terms of right and wrong in the
big picture of the world, the universe. And it's wrong
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to arrest people and obtain detain them with no crime
committed when they are citizens or when they are seeking
asylum through the system that we've had in place for
many years. You're changing the rules. You're terrorizing a community.
(16:06):
Racial profiling is wrong for everybody. It's wrong for black people,
for Asians, for Latinos. It's just wrong. And so while
I maybe I don't completely understand because I'm not a
black man, I'm the mother of one, but I think
(16:30):
I don't know. I feel like we have to hold
on to our position as Black Americans. We have been
the moral compass of the world, right from Malcolm X
to doctor Martin Luther King Junior, all the way down
the line. There's so many more I could name. We
have set the tone. We have helped other people get
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their rights, from white women in this country to workers
around the world, and I feel like, no matter how
hard the condition is and what the pressures are, we
need to maintain that because it's the right thing to do.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Just like people criticize Black Lives Matter for standing with Palestine,
the alliance between Palestinians and Black American activists goes way back,
way back to the Black Panther Party. And if you
were there in twenty twenty, in those marches, you saw
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Latinos marching with US, Asians marching with us, you saw
white folks marching with us, and yes, Latinos, lots of
Latinos it. I guess you had to be there to
know it. Like Pap says, but that's real, that's not
made up. We have real allies. But even if we didn't,
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even if everyone else in the world was wrong, we
still could be right. We still could be correct, we
still could be just. And I've always stood on that.
I've taken a lot of criticism for it myself, but
I've always stood on that. Yes, I'm pro blacks, sweep
around your own front door. I love my people, I
love black people. I'm always stand for my community. And yes,
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if I have two equally qualified persons for a job,
one is black and one is something else, I'm hiring
the black person. That's just love. Though love of my
community does not add up to hate of anyone else's community,
and it doesn't change the fact that right is right,
correct is correct, ethical is ethical, moral is moral. Human
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beings deserve human rights, and they do deserve respect, and
they don't deserve to be terrorized. Kilmar Abrego Garcia got
to be with his family last week after he was
the Trump administration admitted they took him into custody by accident.
Supposedly it was a mistake. He's been away from his
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family for one hundred and sixty days. He's got a
little under a week with them. Then he had what
should have been a routine check in with immigration this morning,
and they took him back into custody and they won't
say why. And they're going to send him somewhere and
they won't say where. They've been threatening to deport him
to Uganda, which is hilarious to me. This is the
threat is we're going to send you to be with
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those black African people. Oh what worse boogeyman than that
they tried to get. They told him if he would
admit to a crime of human trafficking, which he doesn't.
He vehemently denies doing. It's because they found him in
a car with nine people and they said he was
human trafficking. They let him go at the time, but
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apparently now they're trying to dredge that back up to
cover their mistake and justify deporting them. So they're saying
if he would admit to the made up crime, they
will send him to Costa Rica and he won't go
to jail. Costa Rica sent a letter saying they would
welcome him as a citizen or eagle resident or something
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like that and he wouldn't have to go to jail.
But if he won't admit that he's a criminal, a
fake MS thirteen member, then they're gonna send him to Uganda,
where he'll go to jail prison. I don't I've never
been to Uganda. It's not one of the countries I've
been to yet, but I'm pretty sure you don't want
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to go to a Uganda in prison I'm just guessing
that's foul. That's wrong, and I'm sorry, but I know
James about to school me. I'm sorry, but I got
to stand with Abrego and his family. He should be
free right now. This is wrong eight hundred nine two
oh fifteen eight. If you want a weigh in on
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this or something else, right after news, traffic and sports
only right here. See Miles leaves, got Andy on the
boards and he's starting stuff already. Day one. Andy is
starting stuff already. Andy, I go back in there, you know,
saying Hi, you know what. James is back there hanging
out with Andy. Andy's like, you gotta let James clap back.
(21:04):
That's not fair. You got you over there talking about
so guess who's back James farr. Okay, So James and
I were talking. It's all Andy's fault, thank you, any it?
So you said I was talking about legal legal US
citizens and legal residents and folks following what has been
(21:30):
the legal asylum process for decades, being detained by masked
men and put in nice custody and you know, roughed
up and stuff. And you said that you don't have
that much sympathy because as a black man, you've been
dealing with authorities, police and such, and how problematic their
(21:54):
treatment of black men is your whole life? Is that fair?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
That's that's fair, I overstand, And what they are experiencing
I overstand.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And so thus you don't have that much sympathy.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I don't. Again, I think when you say sympathy in
that content, it makes me like sound like a callous
and a cruel and inhumane person, almost like that's almost
putting me in the same space as those who are
actually perpetrating these accents people.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So let's get some clarity here. You said keep that
same energy when it comes to black people. I got you,
and I asked you, do we have allies? But I
should have asked you this. What about right and wrong?
It is wrong to detain people without their rights. It
is wrong to be a masked person and kidnap someone
off the streets. It is wrong to discriminate against people
(22:43):
or racially profile of them, whether they're black, Latino, Asian,
trans whatever it is. So what about the moral high ground?
What about that part? What about not just well you
you know, tit for tat. You didn't take care of me,
So I'm not going to take care of you. What
about the.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Moral that's you saying that, I'm not arguing what's right
or wrong. It is wrong, right, it is it, and
it may prove to be against the law of what's happened.
The law, well, the courts will decide that. But this,
this this characterization that I'm not sympathetic because someone is
(23:21):
experiencing something that I have, my father has, and many
other black men have for centuries, as not being sympathetic.
We're just aware of what it is.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
What are you saying? So what are you saying?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I'm saying I'm disinterested in being lectured by you or
white folks who are saying that this is so horrible,
when I'm saying, not you in this instance, because you're
front line you you've been an allied more than an ally,
you're a co conspirator. So I don't want allies. I
(23:54):
want people who are really actually out there doing the work. Right.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Okay, well I wasn't trying to lecture you, but nobody
wants to be lectured by anybody. But what's your bottom line? Like,
what are you asking? What's your position? You know, not
being lectured is not a policy position.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
No, it is illegal. I believe right. The courts will determine.
But again, you're talking about the Fourth Amendment being violated, right,
And I'm saying, perhaps we wouldn't have been here if
white folks hadn't sat on the sideline for so many years,
and now that they feel a certain kind of way.
When when Ray Ray Dade and Bebe was curved by
(24:33):
the police, they rolled right by. They never stopped and
said what did they do?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Some did? I mean, were you You were there in
twenty twenty. You were marching in twenty twenties. You know
about white people in March, so when you were.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I'm March September, I'm Mars South Toloom.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
But the point is, I mean, I know al.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
They were there, they left Dominique. They were not there
for black people. They were there because of the pandemic.
They were there because of Trump. And as soon as
Joe Biden got elected, I watched the Black Lives Matter
signs come out of my white neighborhood. I saw it.
I watched their attention ship, I watched all of their
(25:23):
problems be solved. And people like you, I watched them
the minute Joe Biden got and then people like you
who are lifelong Democrats sat there and allowed this.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Okay, so this is this is where we get into
the Kamala hate because you guys, you guys were having
little Kamal hate sessions. There you go, editorializing, edizing I
was hustling, and I don't when I hear it. What
does that happen?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Is everything fairness?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
The fact that white white peops fault.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
You know whoever earlier in the last hour said I
look more conservative than I do progressive. Well, Andy wrongfully assumed.
And I don't fault the brother. He doesn't know me
that well, but he thought I was team Kamala, and
I'm like, no, that's not.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
And that's a badge of honor, not being team Kamala.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
I don't see it as a badge of honor being
team Kamla.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
No.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
And I mean I am an independent issue there.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
You are a West Abdulah voters. Absolutely, And I say
that because a lot of black men that hate Kamala
went team Trump. So I just want to be clear
on that.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And that's an assumption that most people make. It's like, no,
I didn't vote for Harris, No, you voted for Trump. No, Well,
if you didn't vote for Harris, then you voted for Trump, right.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
We don't need to relitigate that right now. But I
think it's really interesting, how y'all go all the way there.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Were talking about? Point?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Is I really talking about racism and what is happening
right now with the racial profiling of Latino people under ice.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
It's wrong. There I said it. It's wrong. It's im moral,
it's evil, it's draconian, it's fascist, it's authoritarian. I mean,
do you want me to keep pulling, pulling, pulling, pull.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Okay, you want to do well? Jerry Anderson says, I'm
trying to shame you for wearing your truth. No, I'm not.
This is talk radio. We argue, that's what we do.
I think that if you know, if you have issues,
I don't have a problem with that. I'm trying to
understand it though, because I know you to be a progressive,
contrary to what the chat room says, and to me,
(27:39):
that means we have to respect or my understanding, my
authentic understanding of progressivism is we respect human rights.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
We do. I mean, that's not what's in question. What
I'm saying is I am healing from twenty twenty right,
I'm inactive, and I need to heal to be better
for the fight later on. I'm not sitting it out.
I understand what.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I know. You're not sitting it out. I see you
out there.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
You know I'm I'm working, but I am you know
I'm not as active on this issue. I'm not fighting
or pushing against what people are doing. I'm just simply
stating I'm disinterested in you, not you. But there's telling
me how bad life is currently when I'm not seeing
much of a difference administration to administration. So I'm hoping
(28:29):
when you put your political hat on, they need some
real help, that the Dems call Dominique Toprima and say
help us figure our You know, I'm waiting on the
next great white hope, right.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Oh that's me.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
No, not, You're gonna help figure it out, because if
they don't want to hear from me, well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I mean, I think that that's part of the problem,
is that they don't want to hear from you or me.
To me, that is the major problem with the Democratic
They flee from the progressive wing, no matter how successful
you know, Zorn mont Domi or Summer Lee or whoever.
(29:12):
They run from us, and they want to go into
this centrist problem BS and I think that's the problem.
I hope that's the major problematic.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Those who have been wrongfully detained get justice whatever that
means to them. I hope they sue win. But again, Dominique,
I've been in too many situations and known too many
stories where you know, people throw out antidotally justice.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Right.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
You know, I've actually seen a check and seen a
life commoditized. I happen to be with an attorney when
they received the settlement from the county, right, and what
that actually means in that moment. So justice is not
money justice? Justice is it not? It never happening?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah, that's it doesn't bring your loved one back. Okay,
real quick, we're gonna go to Fred. We're behind schedule,
but we'll bounce back Andy, Okay.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Hi Fred, Hello, Dominique. Yeah, two things and I'll be
fast a breako'. That's the gentleman they want. They want
to deport the Ugando or wherever he can go home
voluntarily to his El Salvador if he wants to. I mean,
we had difference.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
He's from the United States, He's not from Elsaldor.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Well, they say he came here illegally from Ol Salvador,
and he's under fining orders to send him anywhere in
the world, just not back to Actually.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
That's not the truth. But okay, what's your second point?
Speaker 5 (30:43):
The TC James, you know I'm gonna call you about that.
Then now the New York Appeals Court, she ruled that
she was on a witch hunt. I see they need
captor and she won't be flying on her broom this holloway.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Okay, thanks for calling, Fred, have a nice day. Anything
to say to what Fred? The ridiculous things Fred said.
They did not needcapped her. What they did was they
gave Trump get out of fee jail, you know, jail
fee card, meaning he doesn't have to pay the five
hundred million. But he's still guilty of fraud. So she
was still not kneecapped. She was still correct. She just
(31:17):
that they uh let this guy off again.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Sounds like he's a Trumper, Yeah he is. Okay, Well,
I think nothing to say to it.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I just leave very just leave it. What is I mean?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
You know, I mean, we don't need to dispair I see,
not even me. I don't disparage. Vice President Kamala Harris,
I just don't like her politics. That whole broom reference
to our sister Letitia knock it off?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yeah, well, who hurts you? I mean, but here's the thing,
Like I had a friend tell me over the weekend,
you hate Trump. I don't hate Trump. I don't know him.
I don't I hate listening to him. I am forced
to listen to him because he's the president. But I
don't hate him. I hate his policy. It is different.
(32:03):
I care zero about Trump. If he wasn't the president,
I would be paying no attention to him. I don't
like him or not like him. I've never met him,
I don't know him. I hate his policy.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
I mean, I'm so filled with love, like I really know,
I have no space in my heart for love, I
mean for hate.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Right.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
It just yeah, so it doesn't. I don't have that
visceral effect by Trump. He's actually comical to me.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I don't have Trump derangement. I don't think I do either.
I just don't like his policy. You think I have.
True you're sounding like a conservative again, is it? Oh? Wait,
you're married to one? Yes?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Okay, well very much good.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
You're staying for black marriage?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
No, no, no, no, y'all got that I don't want nothing
to do with that. No, you live that every day
all twenty six anyway. But I think you are on.
I mean sometimes you get there, dominic, and we got
to pull you back.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Whatever Ronald says in all caps, I won't yell, but
he's yelling at you. Tell you, boy that there will
be no Kamala Harris hate. She grew up in the
city of Berkeley, and that's where I'm from, Thank.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
You, ron Ron. Then you know I grew up in Richmond,
going to.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Uh Yet there's no hate in your heart.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Absolutely aware city of city except for com and purpose. Right,
ron you if you know the area where she went
to elementary school, don't don't conflate that into Oakland. That
is almost Albany and Kensington folks. For locally, let's call it.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I'm over here gang banging.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
I'm just saying, don't I didn't buy that.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Listen, all right, yeah, because you have no hate in
your heart, but you seem to have a lot of
I just know, non love for several black women, including
one that you're sitting in a room with. Right, Oh yeah,
all right, who hurts you, guys? Fat He's gonna be all.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Right, North Oakland is not East. I am absolutely absolutely,
but I'm I'm I'm hoping Dominique, that you have the
solution for this country.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Me all by myself, I do. I don't worry. I
got this.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
You believe, you believe Kamala was a solution, So I'm Forgure.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I said that I believed that she would be a
better president than the one we have now.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
That's not saying a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Let's keep it.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Let's keep it a buck that's not the one we have.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Now and better the one that's the one we had
at the time. It's saying a lot. If you're starving
in Gaza, if you're being bombed in Yemen, it's saying
a lot. If you're being detained by a masked person,
kidnapped off the street, it's saying a lot. If you're
a member of Black Lives Matter who has now been
designated a terrorist organization, it's saying a lot, depending on
your circumstances. James Andy, thank you for your clap back
(35:06):
and thank you for your work. Find him at James
far Live or listen to him Saturday at ten. After
This is not a drill with Black Lives Matter, you're
listening to KBLA talk fifteen eighty. Oh, I guess we're
letting this man stay on the mic until seven. Is
that what we're doing? Hey? Andy? Hey, why you start stuff?
Why you a stuff starter? Andy?
Speaker 5 (35:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Now you're quiet?
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Game.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
I ain't no drama, would you say? Andy? Oh, that's
what it is. You like a little drama. Paul's hopped
in the chat and he's saying, yeah, I keep saying,
this story is that Kamala hasn't done anything for California.
Not true, my friend dm us doctor Abdullah said, the
doctor that Kamala, Harrison, Joe Biden warn't the only options.
We know that. We just covered the fact that even
(35:50):
though he looks like a Trump voter to some, James
Farr is actually a Wes.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
And not stop saying that, Dominique, you play that seed
that I didn't plant the seed.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
That was me, That was who wasn't somebody in the chat.
But the point that the point is that well sometimes
you do.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Know, I am a free thinking black man that has
an opinion.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
The point is, but yeah, and if it's wrong, it's wrong.
And the point is you were you were more than
an Abdullah West voter. You were a real supporter, you absolutely,
you know, you did fundraisers for them at all.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
That kind of stuffed election result parties, I.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Think it's I think it's pretty pathetic that certain people
are still re litigating that election and using this as
an opportunity to bash Kamala Harris. You could say that's
a low bar, but you know it's she. She was
the victim of a lot of bad talking Republican talking points,
(36:52):
for sure, and that's why people probably see it that way.
But we started off talking about these ice aids, and
to Homeboy's point, Fred he says he's an independent, but
he always brings a nice, big helping of MAGA talking points.
To his point, kilmar Abrego Garcia had been granted by
(37:17):
a judge the opportunity to stay in this country because
there was a credible threat that if he went back
to Al Salvador he would be murdered by MS thirteen.
Not that he was a gang member, but the reason
he supposedly left Al Salvador in the first place was
because of whatever it's recruitment or some kind of situation
(37:37):
around MS thirteen. Now, the Trump administration first said they
deported him by mistake. Then they later claimed they later
renegged on their admission of a mistake and said, oh,
really he's an MS thirteen member and now they're trying
(37:59):
to get him to admit to that. But if they
really think he's a gang member, why would they send
him to Costa Rica and give him a get out
of jail free card. But if he turns out that
he had that, he doesn't admit it, they're going to
send him to Uganda and put him in an African prison.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
So is your point that the border needs to be
fixed or is your point that.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
That's not what I was talking about. I don't think
I think I don't think the border needs to be fixed.
I think our immigration policy needs to be fixed. But
that's something that the Republicans and Democrats have been too scared.
Not not really not a consistent one. We not a
non right. I mean the process is the same immigration policies. No,
(38:40):
it's not. Our immigration policies have been been a big
mish mash since day one. Mm hm, that's not what
I was talking about. What I was talking about is
the fact I was refuting Fred's point that Abrego Garcia
has been had been given in order to leave. That
was actually not true. That's all I was refuting. What
(39:00):
was your point about the border.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
No, I was wondering because you mentioned that, you know,
he is applying for asylum or that he is in
fear of his life if he.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Goes back to Well, I know, I said that a
judge said there was credible evidence that he would be
in danger, and so they granted him permission to stay.
That's what I said.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
I don't have a problem with that.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Well, he's either going to Costa Rica or probably You've
got so I mean right to bridge that they can
change the rules every five minutes. But that's not what
the rule of law was when he was detained. That
was my point.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Yeah, but you're asking an immoral president to have a
moral compass, So of course they're going to change the rules.
Of course they're going to do whatever it is that
fits with what his agenda is. That I mean, well, I.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Mean lying and moving the goalposts at will is so
blatantly is fair? You know, it's not that they so
blatantly yes, No, No, that.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
This country has a hit is woven together by white
domination and white supremacy.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
So wife, they've been lying and manipulating, but so blatantly. No,
not like this, not like oh we we deported him
by mistake. Oh wait, no, he's a criminal, he's a
gang member. We you know, it's your head spins. They
change the rules.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
It's an experiment.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Yeah, and that's what mind control experience.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Absolutely, people are scared, right, And that's what I'm saying.
I'm not afraid because I have, for my own survival,
had to move a certain way as a black man
in America.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
I'm glad you're not scared. I'm not finding at James Farlive.
Find me at the Premier Radio.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
We gotta go.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
It's Black Marriage Monday. I'm surprised you're still here. I
might make you talk.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Nope, you stick around.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
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