August 25, 2025 • 41 mins
On this podcast Dominique unpacks points from our earlier reparations conversation and poses the question: do we end the boycott of Target now that the CEO is stepping down? Or do we hold the line and push for our demands to be met? This and other trending topics are in the convo.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Okay, b LA talk fifteen eighty Happy Friday. Happy Friday
from your friends in the Bay Area to your friends
here in LA. It's perfect time to call me. The
phone lines are open if you've got something to say.
And a lot of people love saying things in the
conversation in the comments, but you're welcome to say them
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live on the air at eight hundred and nine to
fifteen eighty, eight hundred nine to fifteen eighty on a
Freedman Friday, we can talk reparations. I think it's remarkable
that it continues to move forward at all in the
climate that we're in nationally, and I'm in great admiration
of those activists who are ten toes down right now
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at this moment and keeping it moving in the city, state, county,
and yes, even the federal level. And to be honest
with you, I was very happy to see the forty
Bill get reintroduced, even though we know that it won't
pass because Republicans control both chambers of Congress, but also
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that we are keeping and moving on the local level.
By Hoker, by Krook, and what doctor William Derrity said,
excuse me on this show a couple of weeks ago
really made me think. His argument was that if we
give all these little piecemeal reparations here, they're a county
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estate of an educational institution, a specific business that the
federal government will be able to say, well, we are
you guys already did reparations, so we're not going to
do it. And he made the point that only the
Feds have that kind of money where we're talking about
closing the racial wealth gap. That said, I continue to
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celebrate the victories and the changes that we're seeing around
this issue. Chicago has a reparations task Force now and
they are in their study phase, and I understand people
like jan Williams and the Chat saying we don't need
another study. But nevertheless, more and more cities taking this
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up in whatever format they're taking it up, it normalizes it.
It keeps the conversation going, and I think it makes
people begin to understand it, which hopefully will change public opinion.
And I'm not just talking about people who aren't black,
because I can't tell you how many people freedman, how
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many black people have told me it ain't never going
to happen. It's a waste of time. Why are you
talking about that it's a pipe dream, it's a handout,
and no, it's a debt. It's a debt that is
owed to us, and we will continue to push for it.
In part of pushing for it is talking about it.
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The Reparations Task Force in Chicago is forty members deep,
twenty five of them nominated by the current mayor and
the Chicago Aldermanic Black Caucus, and the other fifteen came
in through public applications and they are doing a study.
That's where they're starting, starting with a study, even though,
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like I said, I know many of y'all are tired
of studies, including apparently the governor of Maryland, but it
is important. They just had their first meeting in July
end of July, and they are going to be having
community engagement public hearings. It's meant to take the city
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a step closer to reparations. And the mayor, Mayor Johnson
allegated half a million dollars from last year's budget in
order to create this task force. So that actually represents
the substantive commitment and it's another example of progress. Progress
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is important matter what format it takes. Human Rights Watch
has released a statement in support of reparations. Human Rights
Watch I'm quoting right now, documents the continuing impacts of
this history, advocates for the United States to recognize the
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human dignity of black people in the US, repair the
enduring harms of slavery, and adopt measures to directly address
racial inequality. So boom, this is a recent statement. I
believe it came out this month. So more recognition, more conversation,
more momentum in this space, and it's important, folks. Activists
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in Baltimore are still pushing forward with trying to get
that state Reparation's bill that the governor refused to sign,
trying to get it through another way. They haven't given up.
Here in Los Angeles, City of Los Angeles, we're still
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in the process of waiting for the final final reparations
report from the city that will then go to the
Board of Supervisors along with the recommendations of that committee commission.
Excuse me, and the LA City Council will look at
how to implement those recommendations in terms of policy, in
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terms of budgeting. So, albeit not as fast as you
would like, it is still moving forward. Lansing, Michigan, the
Justice League of Greater Lancing has raised six hundred thousand
dollars in reparations funding. Privately, this is something they're calling reparations.
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They're putting it into education, the reparation scholarships. You know,
I'm not one hundred percent sure I would call that reparation,
but the fact that this reparation's movement is inspiring people
to make efforts to close the racial wealth gap is important.
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It's good. These are winds, and I want us to
continue to make note of our wins and continue to
do everything we can to hold the line and push
the line. Even in a time when it seems like
it would be nearly impossible. It can't be impossible because
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it is moving right, even with opposition, it continues to move.
And while it is true that we've got this anti DEI,
anti blackness as policy and the fake outlawing of DEI
and anything that helps black people, it's also true that
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there are some windows of opportunity in thought. Because reparations
is not affirmative action. It's a debt that's owed, and
so by making it, whether you call it lineage based
or harm based, you force those folks to try to
make the argument that we're using harm or lineage as
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a proxy for race, and if we win, we create
the legal basis for all kinds of reparations programs, policies, payments,
in all kinds of different contexts. So the wins are
winning and it's important. Eight hundred nine two oh fifteen eighty.
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That's the number if you want to call in. Doesn't
have to be about reparations. There's a lot of other
stuff going on. I want to let's unpack some of
these crazy headlines of the past twenty four hours, including
the fact that an appeals court has thrown out that
five hundred million dollar fine against the president. The Teflon
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Dawn appears to win again, that and more when we
come forward on KBLA talk fifteen eighty. Yeah, I appreciate you.
I actually really really do. Eight hundred nine to two
oh fifteen eighty. That's the number. So an appeals court
in New York throughout the financial penalty that Donald Trump
was facing, the president with five hundred million dollars half
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a billion. They called it excessive. The President called it
a total victory. The judges were not in agreement on this.
There was a lot of i'll call it fighting, whatever
you want to call. It is a five panel judge
group at the mid level appellate decision. They didn't agree
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on a lot of stuff, but what they did agree
on was throwing out that five hundred and fifteen million
dollar penalty, calling it excessive. They're saying he's still responsible
for fraud, but you know, that's like saying, yeah, you
were speeding, but you get no penalty, Like, oh, I'm sorry,
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I'm a speeder. Like how is that going to affect
his life. We're saying you're responsible for fraud, but you're
not going to have a fine, and you get to
dance on down the road with your other all of
your felonies and all of your sexual assaults and all
of your ripoffs of contractors and people at Trump University,
and all of your grifting of foreign governments and all
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of that no consequences. That's really really sad. Of course
they're going to appeal this, Letitia James will appeal it.
But it just doesn't look good. It's like the law,
the rule of law does not apply to this guy
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at all. So yeah, he walks pretty much. There were
some other punishments. They can't do business as a charitable
organization and things like that. Though all of those other
punishments are on pause because of have been on pause
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because of the Trump appeal. I'm not sure if they
go back on stay on pause as the state appeals,
But you know, I don't how do we teach our
kids that cheating and lying has consequences if you're just
gonna let the president do anything, lie fifty times a
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day and then oh yeah, you're guilty of fraud, but
no problem, no actual consequence.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Target, speaking of consequences, has dumped their CEO and he
will be replaced by their chief operating officer, Mike fiddle Key,
but that doesn't happen until February. I guess it's a
slow goodbye. Why because their revenue is down and I
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love the way they're trying to spin it as well.
We've been having these problems for years and now we
finally Yeah, okay, maybe you've been having the problems for years,
but we know it got a whole bunch worse when
you decided to drop kick DEI take the black folks
businesses out of your stores, and we decided to boycott
man down that man being a CEO of a major retailer,
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and I think It's important for us to know this
because our dollars have clout, whether it's on a wealth
Building Wednesday or whether or not a boycott tip. Our
dollars have clout, and we need to use them intentionally
more often. Eight hundred nine two oh fifteen eighty. That's
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the number. Let's go to Ron calling us from Richmond.
Good morning, Ron.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Good morning, my baby or your friend. How are you?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I'm blessed? What's on your mind?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Oh man, I'm listening to you. Your agent range just
he just keep on getting away with stuff. Huh.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, they gotta get him. I mean, they finally brought
down al Capone. There's gotta be a way. And I'm
not talking about a personal grievance because I don't care.
I'm talking about all the crimes.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Exactly. I just keep I just keep thinking about that
day he was on National TV when he said Friday
and so be you know, the whole college cappin Nick thing.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I'm like, wow, really really like this dude. Yeah, I
tell you, Like I said a while back, whenever he
show up on TV, my mama can't stand it. She
changed the channel, ay sap, like I can't. I don't
want to hear what he talking about that we don't her.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
It's one of the reasons why I like to read
my news rather than watching it, because I just I
don't have to hear his.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Voice exactly exactly. And he's talking about trying to UH
to bring the National Guards to Oakland. Yeah, good luck
with dead.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Let's see where that goes. That's gonna be a hot mess.
But it's a little harder. I mean, I guess he
can do it. He did it here in LA. It's
a little harder because California is a state and the
governors can you know, tell him to get out that
DC doesn't have their own statehood. It will you know,
be able to sue. So we'll see. It's not just Oakland.
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It seems to be anywhere where there's a whole bunch
of black people.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, I've been noticing that, man. Yeah,
like you said, Yeah, we got a lot going on. Man.
I'm just praying to the most high day by day,
just trying to keep it moving and trying to stay
away from the manners as much as I can. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And meanwhile, all these shenanigans that the president is doing,
including yesterday he said he was going to go out
on a ride along, which actually turned out to be
not a ride along but a little photo op with
some National Guard folks at a park. It's all meant
to distract us from what the Epstein files, but no
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one is being distracted. We still want to see what's
in them files.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yep, exactly, exactly. Well, I'm quite sure more people want
to get through. It's been a minute since I call her.
You know, I always got love for you, Dominique. I'm
watching you on my TV right now, so keep up
the good word. Big shout out to minds. Oh yeah,
real quick, I want to acknowledge doctor Danielle Spencer. I
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saw the program from her service. Who's at Holly Robinson PTE.
I guess she was there at her funeral service and
Kim Fields they put some posts on their Instagram pages.
So I just loved her as an actress. She played
that role on What's Happening Man, Just taking me back
to my childhood, you know, growing up watching that show.
So just wanted to recognize her real quick.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, and definitely gone. She was gone too soon. I
appreciate the way you always uh, you always find you
know a way to honor, honor the dead, particularly those
who have served us in entertainment, you know, whether it's
hip hop or as an actor or whatever it might be.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yep, I tried to. I try to all. I thank
you once again dominate the Premium. You know, I always
got love for you know, the bag always hold you
down no matter what. Shout out to San Francisco. It's
been a minute since I've been over there. I got
to take me a little barte ride, go over there
and walk up and down on a market street or something.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Did you see the crazy post on my Instagram. I
came from this account called Retro bay Area. They posted
this video of me doing on my show Home Turf
doing a segment at eighteen Club in San Jose, and
the thing is gone crazy. It's got like six hundred
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thousand views. It's gone completely viral and it's just a throwback.
You definitely want to check it out. I know I
collapsed on it. It's on my page too, but Retro
Bay Area shout out to them. They're taking us way
back to as it's on my Instagram page. At the
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Premia Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Okay, okay, I gotta ya, gotta peep that out of viral.
I heard that. Yeah, anything retro coming out to Bay.
I gotta peep that out. So I'm yeah, I'm gonna
definitely be be looking check that out for sure.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
All right, Ron from Richmond, good to hear from you.
Take care tell your mama, I said, high, let's see,
thank you. Yeah, who's that? On my phone? Eight hundred
and nine to fifteen eighty we got JW calling from
l A. Good morning, j W.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Hey, toping one down? How are you?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I'm blessed top of the morning to you.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
You know, talking a monk you, I'm blessing how your
favorite in spite of myself, even though I'm going through
a loud challenges. But anyway, on the point, on to
make it the point always made, which is we always
to realize in the constitutions the first treat words are
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we the people, applying that we are the real government,
and that all the politicians, no matter what title they
hold at in either House of a Congress, at Santa
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or whatever title they hold, they are servants and they
work for us. And I really hope that we wake
up and we realize that we are literally, not figuratively,
but literally are in state of war that they have
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formed against us. This is actually a war against copy
and the last guests that was speaking about recreations as
soon he was an attorney because I was multi tasking.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
No, no, he's over the county equity efforts. He's not
an attorney, no, correct.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
But what I really admired about that brother, he wants
to ticknously make sure he gets all the laws right
and frame his worrying and be correct and get evidence
in facts and history and have his data into nation correct.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah. I mean that's that's that's been the battle. I
mean from doctor Ogletree probably going all the way back
to Kelly House is the battle is how can we
which is crazy because it's a debt that's owed to us,
right and it's correct. But the battle has been all along,
how do we prove that this is not that it
that we have standing, that it's not discriminatory, that it
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can pass the legal scrutiny, you know, the various legal standards.
That's always been the battle, and the battle continues. It's
just that I think we're closer than we've ever been.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Right, And please allow me to continue to interject that
we were founded on a nation of laws. So if
we have legal attornem with the experise of constitutional law,
and they all join the fight, articulate the frame word,
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and fabricate and create their nerdive that's based on the truth,
and we will win in the halls of the legal institutions.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yep. But there's more to it than that, because doctor
Ogletree and others have tested this in the courts and
they have not had wins. And look at what happened
in Oklahoma City, which should seem like an obvious case
of restitution and there's living victims. They've had no luck
in the courts. It's one of the reasons why they've
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gone to the legislative branch to making laws. The California
Reparations Task Force came about through a law put in
place by then Assemblywoman Shirley Weber. So, yes, we've got
to be able to pass muster in the courts once
these laws passed. But these brilliant constitutional lawyers like doctor
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Charles Ogletree were actually stifled by the courts, and that's
why they went to the judicial branch. And that's why
we have got to make sure that whatever comes out
of the judicial branch laws and the policies that come
out of the studies created by these laws can pass
muster in the courts. So at this point, I think
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it's a dual effort JW. And I know I appreciate
your insights on that. Jerry Anderson says, maybe it's time
to back off of the boycott of Target because we
have a new CEO. So we could say, well, okay,
let's see what they're going to do. I wouldn't be
opposed to that. Take it as a W and say,
all right, see what boycott ends in February. When your
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new CEO comes in. We'll give you a few months
to see what changes you make, and if the changes
don't happen, boycott back on news traffic in sports right now.
Then you can call me just like JW did at
eight hundred and nine two oh fifteen eighty Dominic DEPREMIUA
for KBLA talk fifteen eighty nine to fifteen eighty that's
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the number to call. I'm laughing because I shouldn't have
been scrolling, but I was. Let me not get started
on that conversation. So Jerry was saying, pause the boycott
of Target and give them time to comply. As of
right now, Paul is saying the boycott is still on,
and that's true. But the thing about it is, I
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understand what you're saying. Jerry says, if you lift a
boycott temporarily, the new CEO has the opportunity to lose
instead of simply inheriting a bad situation, Continuing the boycott
gives a new CEO a pass. I don't I don't
know if I agree with that, but I can see
the logic there. The thing is, since there were demands
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that were made and those demands haven't been met, the
demand was not get a new CEO. Although I can
see your point. Okay, you've got a fresh start, what
are you gonna do? The demand had to do with
reinstating the commitment to black businesses, which they backed off
of Target backed off of because of the Trump administration.
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It was two billion dollars that they pledged to the
black businesses, and the demands included they were supposed to
deposit millions of dollars into black owned banks, in other words,
doing business with black owned banks. They were talking about
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community retail centers at HBCUs and I think the other
thing was to reinstate those black brands that they pulled
out of their stores because it was DEI. So I'm
not sure I would like to see the demands met
I do think that there's merit in both, because if
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you say, okay, starting February, we can shop at Target
for whatever it is, and then if this new CEO
doesn't immediately make moves to implement these the things we're
asking for, then we go right back to boycotting, and
that can show even more starkly what the impact of
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the boycotts are. Conservatives are angry. The MAGA people are
angry because Cracker Barrel changed its logo and it's verbiage,
it's signage. Donald Trump Junior was tweeting about this. That's
hilarious to me. I've never been to Cracker Barrel. I
know it's a popular restaurant, but apparently they've taken off
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the barrel and the cracker. The man and the barrel
are off the logo. It's just sort of a like
a suggestion of a barrel. I don't know. It's just
funny to me, the fights these folks pick. You're mad
about the Epstein files, you're mad about Cracker Barrel. You're
not mad about billions of dollars being spent on weapons
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of war to killed children in Palestine. You're not mad
about Trump coming back from a meeting with Putin, echoing
every one of his talking points like a little puppet.
You're fine with that, but you're mad about cracker barrel.
Make it make sense. It is what it is. They
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are up in arms about that. I mean, I guess
they could say our version of that was the American
Eagle and the little you know, my white supremacist jeans.
But it's different because this nobody was targeting you. They
just took away the barrel and the man. I don't know.
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It's funny to me what makes these folks mad? And
I'm here for But the Epstein thing not going away
because the House panels are going to continue to have hearings.
We've got all these actions happening within the next few months.
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So no matter how many ride alongs the President does
or claims he's going to do, and whatever other song
and dances the raids of former high ranking government officials homes,
it's not going to make it go away. It'll be
Epstein and John Bolton, Epstein and the President talking to
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the National Guard trying to do a photo op. Meanwhile,
the ice raids and drama of Washington, DC are creating
real life hardship for actual American citizens and actual people
who live and work in that area. Apparently, there is
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a huge drop in restaurant reservations. No one wants to
go out and do fine dining while people are being
roughed up and harassed and thrown in jail by masked
federal agents who knew that this would dampen our party spirit,
our tourism, and entertainment seriously down. According to the DC
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Restaurant Association, ever since the Feds showed up, they've seen
a huge drop in the number of restaurant reservations. The
establishments are almost empty, and folks are just staying off
the streets. Who wants to get jacked up by the
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Feds over a hanging dice in your window or the
wrong tint in your car. They are doing the work,
doing the work that's supposed to be done by cops
and the stuff we're already trying to get cops out
of cops out of stops, etc. They're having the actual
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National Guard do that. That's crazy and so expensive, so expensive.
I was happy to see that the City of Los
Angeles was touting the results they have gotten from a
pilot program to send to take cops out of stops.
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And we'll see how that plays out, because I'm sure
they'll have plenty of fine print. But so far, what
we're seeing is that this works well. Taking unarmed, using unarmed,
well trained civilians who are not cops for certain situations,
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responding for people who are in a mental health crisis.
It's working well. This is according to a report that
was released by the City of Los Angeles, and this
is exactly what we're fighting for. And it's so crazy
that that report comes out at the same time that
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we see measured J and jeopardy on the county level,
because measured J was us the voters saying care, not cops.
Let's find alternatives to incarceration, Let's get cops out of stops.
And this pilot program that clinicians, social workers, therapists, all
kinds of trained civilians who were responding around the clock
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twenty four to seven to calls. Now, I grant you,
it's a small program. It was a pilot, but so
far it is successful. And they're saying, according to the
city report, they've already saved cops seven thousand hours of
patrol time, which makes sense. They're always complaining about how
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they don't have enough officers. Well, if you had officers
doing things that cops are supposed to do, and let
experts do things that experts are supposed to do, it
would seem like you had more cops because you wouldn't
be wasting taxpayer dollars having them do things that they
have no business doing, just like we're wasting taxpayer dollars
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right now having National Guard, having homeland security, and having
the FBI do things that they're not supposed to be doing.
Just reading. Now that the FBI is lowering its standards,
they're trying to hire more people so they can do
more petty law enforcement instead of investigating national security threats.
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So the new rules say, you don't have to have
a college degree to be ano f agent anymore. You
can just get They can just get random oh, I
don't know, July January six folks if they want to,
and just sign them up. Instead of sixteen weeks of training,
I think they now will have seven or eight weeks
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of training between that and the hardcore recruitment of these
ice agents. It's going to be really interesting to see
how this actually plays out in these streets. It's not
too late to call me eight hundred and nine to
oh fifteen eighty eight hundred nine two oh fifteen eighty.
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We are unapologetically outspoken. KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. The conversation
on the YouTube chat around the boycott, the Target boycott
attorney Dion Raymond, my colleague who has her own show
here on Sundays, makes the great point that a change
in CEO doesn't mean a change in policy. She says,
keep the boycott on, And Fahima was pointing out out
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what I already said, which is that you know, they've
replaced this guy with a long term His name is
Michael Fiddlekey. He's been a Target for I don't know
thirty years or something twenty five years, so he probably is,
you know, a company man in that sense. So I
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can see the logic for keeping the boycott going for
Shore until the demands are met. But we shall see
that doesn't even happen until February. That change over, it
doesn't even happen until February. They're saying we're going to
get rid of this dude, so promise I update you
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on this. Tory Lanes is serving a ten year sentence
for shooting Megan A Stallion in the foot. I would
say allegedly, except he was convicted and then he had
an appeal hearing this week on Wednesday, and his family
and his lawyers say they're waiting to see what will happen.
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They're asking for early release or a new trial, claiming
that they have new evidence and so we shall see.
Tory Lanez's uncle said he had a good feeling about it.
He says he thinks that the judge was really listening
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and that they're going to get get some progress. He says,
you know, his nephew got the short end of the stick.
We shall see. We know that one of the bodyguards
came out after the trial and said he saw someone
other than Lane's shoot the gun. But again we'll see.
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Why didn't that guy, why didn't he testify at the trial?
Why now? And will the judge actually consider this new evidence?
I guess we'll find out as soon as that decision
is made. So that is actually pending, and it sounds
like they're pretty serious. They're not going to give up.
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Ed Sanders mentioned it in passing. But I think this
is a really big deal. In La jury awarded three
point five million dollars to a man who sued La
County because he was hit in the face by a
rubber bullet fired by a sheriff's deputy. Now this is
during a protest about George Floyd back in twenty twenty.
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His daughter was there with him, and he says both
him and his daughter suffered from life changing injuries. The
so called less lethal weaponry is you can die from it.
It's not called not lethal, it's called less lethal. And
apparently they were protesting. Then they were walking away from
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the protest, stopped to get some food. They were on
their way to their car, and the daughter saw another
protester who had been hit in the face with the
bean bag. They were trying to help that person and boom.
This is their account. They said, Sellen Gluck was hit
in the face by a sheriff's projectile, the daughter watching
while her dad's face was covered with blood, and they sued.
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They both ended up with injuries. So that's a big win.
And I wonder, because we've had this ongoing debate about
the way that the so called less lethal weaponry is used.
And also the way that our cops here in La
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deal with protesters, right, they keep getting sued. We talk
about being out of money in the city and out
of money in the county. Well, a lot of it
is these settlements. And every time we hear that the
policies are changing because of these lawsuits about use of
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force by the sheriffs and the LAPD, we hear it.
We hear it's gonna change. We hear the lip service.
You know, whether it's after the Mayday protests or the
twenty twenty protests, and then next protests Palestinian, same thing
happens again. And so when is it gonna stop? When
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is it going to get reeled in? I mean, you know,
you look at the way journalists have been treated. The
La Times had a great article about how the judge
put forth a restraining order because of the way the
LAPD was handling journalists, not protesters, journalists during protests of
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the ice rates, and how journalists holding up their press
badges are being shot with rubber bullets, jobbed with batons
and seriously injured. And yet this was just July tenth,
the federal judge granted a restraining order a temporary restraining
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order to stop cops from using rubber projectiles and what
they call less lethal. Does that mean you'll be less
dead or from intentionally assaulting journalists? The fact that a
judge has to put a restraining order on the cops
to make them stop assaulting journalists gives you a sense
of where we are right now. Will this judgment this
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win for you know, a regular family who are not journalists.
Will this change the way the cops are dealing with
protesters and or journalists? I don't know. I can't call it,
but I think it's more likely that it does if
we keep talking about it again this week? Was it
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this week or last? I think it was this week again?
Another motion filed by journalists saying stop no was last week,
stop beating us up, stop pepper spring, rubber bulleting US,
arresting us, detaining us. It was last Wednesday. They filed
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a contempt motion some journalists asking a federal judge to
restrict police use of force against journalists. If they'll do
it to a journalist, h, what do you think they'll
do to a teenager, an undocumented person, a black person
with a record as usual? LAPD says they don't comment
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on ongoing litigation, but will. The question is, at what
point do these ls, these l's in court add up
to a change in policy and a change in behavior,
And what are we willing to do to protect the
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rights of our press. It seems very urgent right now,
given the way that this White House is hams hamstringing
hog time, whatever you want to call it journalists by
going to their bosses and demanding bribery, bribes, payoffs, suing them,
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threatening lawsuits. We have to push back. We have to
push back on the use of so called less lethal
force to curtail our rights. Whether it's the right of
the press to report, that's our job, not to say
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and do what you like and follow your directives, but
to report on what's actually happening, the right of protesters
to be in these streets and exercise our constitutional rights
obligations to make a difference. We shall see. We the people,
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we are the wind here. We've got the best of
Tavis Smiley coming up next, and he'll be back Monday
live in the studio. But he's got some great highlights
for you today. Please please please stay hydrated. I know
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realize how your body is depleted, brain stops working, want
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to punch someone in the throat. Drink some water, Eat
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history is now, like I always say, we're making it
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together until next time. One love,
Okay, b LA talk fifteen eighty Happy Friday. Happy Friday
from your friends in the Bay Area to your friends
here in LA. It's perfect time to call me. The
phone lines are open if you've got something to say.
And a lot of people love saying things in the
conversation in the comments, but you're welcome to say them
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live on the air at eight hundred and nine to
fifteen eighty, eight hundred nine to fifteen eighty on a
Freedman Friday, we can talk reparations. I think it's remarkable
that it continues to move forward at all in the
climate that we're in nationally, and I'm in great admiration
of those activists who are ten toes down right now
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at this moment and keeping it moving in the city, state, county,
and yes, even the federal level. And to be honest
with you, I was very happy to see the forty
Bill get reintroduced, even though we know that it won't
pass because Republicans control both chambers of Congress, but also
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that we are keeping and moving on the local level.
By Hoker, by Krook, and what doctor William Derrity said,
excuse me on this show a couple of weeks ago
really made me think. His argument was that if we
give all these little piecemeal reparations here, they're a county
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estate of an educational institution, a specific business that the
federal government will be able to say, well, we are
you guys already did reparations, so we're not going to
do it. And he made the point that only the
Feds have that kind of money where we're talking about
closing the racial wealth gap. That said, I continue to
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celebrate the victories and the changes that we're seeing around
this issue. Chicago has a reparations task Force now and
they are in their study phase, and I understand people
like jan Williams and the Chat saying we don't need
another study. But nevertheless, more and more cities taking this
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up in whatever format they're taking it up, it normalizes it.
It keeps the conversation going, and I think it makes
people begin to understand it, which hopefully will change public opinion.
And I'm not just talking about people who aren't black,
because I can't tell you how many people freedman, how
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many black people have told me it ain't never going
to happen. It's a waste of time. Why are you
talking about that it's a pipe dream, it's a handout,
and no, it's a debt. It's a debt that is
owed to us, and we will continue to push for it.
In part of pushing for it is talking about it.
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The Reparations Task Force in Chicago is forty members deep,
twenty five of them nominated by the current mayor and
the Chicago Aldermanic Black Caucus, and the other fifteen came
in through public applications and they are doing a study.
That's where they're starting, starting with a study, even though,
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like I said, I know many of y'all are tired
of studies, including apparently the governor of Maryland, but it
is important. They just had their first meeting in July
end of July, and they are going to be having
community engagement public hearings. It's meant to take the city
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a step closer to reparations. And the mayor, Mayor Johnson
allegated half a million dollars from last year's budget in
order to create this task force. So that actually represents
the substantive commitment and it's another example of progress. Progress
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is important matter what format it takes. Human Rights Watch
has released a statement in support of reparations. Human Rights
Watch I'm quoting right now, documents the continuing impacts of
this history, advocates for the United States to recognize the
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human dignity of black people in the US, repair the
enduring harms of slavery, and adopt measures to directly address
racial inequality. So boom, this is a recent statement. I
believe it came out this month. So more recognition, more conversation,
more momentum in this space, and it's important, folks. Activists
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in Baltimore are still pushing forward with trying to get
that state Reparation's bill that the governor refused to sign,
trying to get it through another way. They haven't given up.
Here in Los Angeles, City of Los Angeles, we're still
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in the process of waiting for the final final reparations
report from the city that will then go to the
Board of Supervisors along with the recommendations of that committee commission.
Excuse me, and the LA City Council will look at
how to implement those recommendations in terms of policy, in
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terms of budgeting. So, albeit not as fast as you
would like, it is still moving forward. Lansing, Michigan, the
Justice League of Greater Lancing has raised six hundred thousand
dollars in reparations funding. Privately, this is something they're calling reparations.
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They're putting it into education, the reparation scholarships. You know,
I'm not one hundred percent sure I would call that reparation,
but the fact that this reparation's movement is inspiring people
to make efforts to close the racial wealth gap is important.
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It's good. These are winds, and I want us to
continue to make note of our wins and continue to
do everything we can to hold the line and push
the line. Even in a time when it seems like
it would be nearly impossible. It can't be impossible because
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it is moving right, even with opposition, it continues to move.
And while it is true that we've got this anti DEI,
anti blackness as policy and the fake outlawing of DEI
and anything that helps black people, it's also true that
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there are some windows of opportunity in thought. Because reparations
is not affirmative action. It's a debt that's owed, and
so by making it, whether you call it lineage based
or harm based, you force those folks to try to
make the argument that we're using harm or lineage as
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a proxy for race, and if we win, we create
the legal basis for all kinds of reparations programs, policies, payments,
in all kinds of different contexts. So the wins are
winning and it's important. Eight hundred nine two oh fifteen eighty.
(07:38):
That's the number if you want to call in. Doesn't
have to be about reparations. There's a lot of other
stuff going on. I want to let's unpack some of
these crazy headlines of the past twenty four hours, including
the fact that an appeals court has thrown out that
five hundred million dollar fine against the president. The Teflon
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Dawn appears to win again, that and more when we
come forward on KBLA talk fifteen eighty. Yeah, I appreciate you.
I actually really really do. Eight hundred nine to two
oh fifteen eighty. That's the number. So an appeals court
in New York throughout the financial penalty that Donald Trump
was facing, the president with five hundred million dollars half
(08:25):
a billion. They called it excessive. The President called it
a total victory. The judges were not in agreement on this.
There was a lot of i'll call it fighting, whatever
you want to call. It is a five panel judge
group at the mid level appellate decision. They didn't agree
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on a lot of stuff, but what they did agree
on was throwing out that five hundred and fifteen million
dollar penalty, calling it excessive. They're saying he's still responsible
for fraud, but you know, that's like saying, yeah, you
were speeding, but you get no penalty, Like, oh, I'm sorry,
(09:08):
I'm a speeder. Like how is that going to affect
his life. We're saying you're responsible for fraud, but you're
not going to have a fine, and you get to
dance on down the road with your other all of
your felonies and all of your sexual assaults and all
of your ripoffs of contractors and people at Trump University,
and all of your grifting of foreign governments and all
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of that no consequences. That's really really sad. Of course
they're going to appeal this, Letitia James will appeal it.
But it just doesn't look good. It's like the law,
the rule of law does not apply to this guy
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at all. So yeah, he walks pretty much. There were
some other punishments. They can't do business as a charitable
organization and things like that. Though all of those other
punishments are on pause because of have been on pause
(10:13):
because of the Trump appeal. I'm not sure if they
go back on stay on pause as the state appeals,
But you know, I don't how do we teach our
kids that cheating and lying has consequences if you're just
gonna let the president do anything, lie fifty times a
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day and then oh yeah, you're guilty of fraud, but
no problem, no actual consequence.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Target, speaking of consequences, has dumped their CEO and he
will be replaced by their chief operating officer, Mike fiddle Key,
but that doesn't happen until February. I guess it's a
slow goodbye. Why because their revenue is down and I
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love the way they're trying to spin it as well.
We've been having these problems for years and now we
finally Yeah, okay, maybe you've been having the problems for years,
but we know it got a whole bunch worse when
you decided to drop kick DEI take the black folks
businesses out of your stores, and we decided to boycott
man down that man being a CEO of a major retailer,
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and I think It's important for us to know this
because our dollars have clout, whether it's on a wealth
Building Wednesday or whether or not a boycott tip. Our
dollars have clout, and we need to use them intentionally
more often. Eight hundred nine two oh fifteen eighty. That's
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the number. Let's go to Ron calling us from Richmond.
Good morning, Ron.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Good morning, my baby or your friend. How are you?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I'm blessed? What's on your mind?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Oh man, I'm listening to you. Your agent range just
he just keep on getting away with stuff. Huh.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, they gotta get him. I mean, they finally brought
down al Capone. There's gotta be a way. And I'm
not talking about a personal grievance because I don't care.
I'm talking about all the crimes.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Exactly. I just keep I just keep thinking about that
day he was on National TV when he said Friday
and so be you know, the whole college cappin Nick thing.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I'm like, wow, really really like this dude. Yeah, I
tell you, Like I said a while back, whenever he
show up on TV, my mama can't stand it. She
changed the channel, ay sap, like I can't. I don't
want to hear what he talking about that we don't her.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
It's one of the reasons why I like to read
my news rather than watching it, because I just I
don't have to hear his.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Voice exactly exactly. And he's talking about trying to UH
to bring the National Guards to Oakland. Yeah, good luck
with dead.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Let's see where that goes. That's gonna be a hot mess.
But it's a little harder. I mean, I guess he
can do it. He did it here in LA. It's
a little harder because California is a state and the
governors can you know, tell him to get out that
DC doesn't have their own statehood. It will you know,
be able to sue. So we'll see. It's not just Oakland.
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It seems to be anywhere where there's a whole bunch
of black people.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, I've been noticing that, man. Yeah,
like you said, Yeah, we got a lot going on. Man.
I'm just praying to the most high day by day,
just trying to keep it moving and trying to stay
away from the manners as much as I can. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And meanwhile, all these shenanigans that the president is doing,
including yesterday he said he was going to go out
on a ride along, which actually turned out to be
not a ride along but a little photo op with
some National Guard folks at a park. It's all meant
to distract us from what the Epstein files, but no
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one is being distracted. We still want to see what's
in them files.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yep, exactly, exactly. Well, I'm quite sure more people want
to get through. It's been a minute since I call her.
You know, I always got love for you, Dominique. I'm
watching you on my TV right now, so keep up
the good word. Big shout out to minds. Oh yeah,
real quick, I want to acknowledge doctor Danielle Spencer. I
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saw the program from her service. Who's at Holly Robinson PTE.
I guess she was there at her funeral service and
Kim Fields they put some posts on their Instagram pages.
So I just loved her as an actress. She played
that role on What's Happening Man, Just taking me back
to my childhood, you know, growing up watching that show.
So just wanted to recognize her real quick.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, and definitely gone. She was gone too soon. I
appreciate the way you always uh, you always find you
know a way to honor, honor the dead, particularly those
who have served us in entertainment, you know, whether it's
hip hop or as an actor or whatever it might be.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yep, I tried to. I try to all. I thank
you once again dominate the Premium. You know, I always
got love for you know, the bag always hold you
down no matter what. Shout out to San Francisco. It's
been a minute since I've been over there. I got
to take me a little barte ride, go over there
and walk up and down on a market street or something.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Did you see the crazy post on my Instagram. I
came from this account called Retro bay Area. They posted
this video of me doing on my show Home Turf
doing a segment at eighteen Club in San Jose, and
the thing is gone crazy. It's got like six hundred
(16:01):
thousand views. It's gone completely viral and it's just a throwback.
You definitely want to check it out. I know I
collapsed on it. It's on my page too, but Retro
Bay Area shout out to them. They're taking us way
back to as it's on my Instagram page. At the
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Premia Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Okay, okay, I gotta ya, gotta peep that out of viral.
I heard that. Yeah, anything retro coming out to Bay.
I gotta peep that out. So I'm yeah, I'm gonna
definitely be be looking check that out for sure.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
All right, Ron from Richmond, good to hear from you.
Take care tell your mama, I said, high, let's see,
thank you. Yeah, who's that? On my phone? Eight hundred
and nine to fifteen eighty we got JW calling from
l A. Good morning, j W.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Hey, toping one down? How are you?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I'm blessed top of the morning to you.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
You know, talking a monk you, I'm blessing how your
favorite in spite of myself, even though I'm going through
a loud challenges. But anyway, on the point, on to
make it the point always made, which is we always
to realize in the constitutions the first treat words are
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we the people, applying that we are the real government,
and that all the politicians, no matter what title they
hold at in either House of a Congress, at Santa
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or whatever title they hold, they are servants and they
work for us. And I really hope that we wake
up and we realize that we are literally, not figuratively,
but literally are in state of war that they have
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formed against us. This is actually a war against copy
and the last guests that was speaking about recreations as
soon he was an attorney because I was multi tasking.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
No, no, he's over the county equity efforts. He's not
an attorney, no, correct.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
But what I really admired about that brother, he wants
to ticknously make sure he gets all the laws right
and frame his worrying and be correct and get evidence
in facts and history and have his data into nation correct.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah. I mean that's that's that's been the battle. I
mean from doctor Ogletree probably going all the way back
to Kelly House is the battle is how can we
which is crazy because it's a debt that's owed to us,
right and it's correct. But the battle has been all along,
how do we prove that this is not that it
that we have standing, that it's not discriminatory, that it
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can pass the legal scrutiny, you know, the various legal standards.
That's always been the battle, and the battle continues. It's
just that I think we're closer than we've ever been.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Right, And please allow me to continue to interject that
we were founded on a nation of laws. So if
we have legal attornem with the experise of constitutional law,
and they all join the fight, articulate the frame word,
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and fabricate and create their nerdive that's based on the truth,
and we will win in the halls of the legal institutions.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yep. But there's more to it than that, because doctor
Ogletree and others have tested this in the courts and
they have not had wins. And look at what happened
in Oklahoma City, which should seem like an obvious case
of restitution and there's living victims. They've had no luck
in the courts. It's one of the reasons why they've
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gone to the legislative branch to making laws. The California
Reparations Task Force came about through a law put in
place by then Assemblywoman Shirley Weber. So, yes, we've got
to be able to pass muster in the courts once
these laws passed. But these brilliant constitutional lawyers like doctor
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Charles Ogletree were actually stifled by the courts, and that's
why they went to the judicial branch. And that's why
we have got to make sure that whatever comes out
of the judicial branch laws and the policies that come
out of the studies created by these laws can pass
muster in the courts. So at this point, I think
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it's a dual effort JW. And I know I appreciate
your insights on that. Jerry Anderson says, maybe it's time
to back off of the boycott of Target because we
have a new CEO. So we could say, well, okay,
let's see what they're going to do. I wouldn't be
opposed to that. Take it as a W and say,
all right, see what boycott ends in February. When your
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new CEO comes in. We'll give you a few months
to see what changes you make, and if the changes
don't happen, boycott back on news traffic in sports right now.
Then you can call me just like JW did at
eight hundred and nine two oh fifteen eighty Dominic DEPREMIUA
for KBLA talk fifteen eighty nine to fifteen eighty that's
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the number to call. I'm laughing because I shouldn't have
been scrolling, but I was. Let me not get started
on that conversation. So Jerry was saying, pause the boycott
of Target and give them time to comply. As of
right now, Paul is saying the boycott is still on,
and that's true. But the thing about it is, I
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understand what you're saying. Jerry says, if you lift a
boycott temporarily, the new CEO has the opportunity to lose
instead of simply inheriting a bad situation, Continuing the boycott
gives a new CEO a pass. I don't I don't
know if I agree with that, but I can see
the logic there. The thing is, since there were demands
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that were made and those demands haven't been met, the
demand was not get a new CEO. Although I can
see your point. Okay, you've got a fresh start, what
are you gonna do? The demand had to do with
reinstating the commitment to black businesses, which they backed off
of Target backed off of because of the Trump administration.
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It was two billion dollars that they pledged to the
black businesses, and the demands included they were supposed to
deposit millions of dollars into black owned banks, in other words,
doing business with black owned banks. They were talking about
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community retail centers at HBCUs and I think the other
thing was to reinstate those black brands that they pulled
out of their stores because it was DEI. So I'm
not sure I would like to see the demands met
I do think that there's merit in both, because if
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you say, okay, starting February, we can shop at Target
for whatever it is, and then if this new CEO
doesn't immediately make moves to implement these the things we're
asking for, then we go right back to boycotting, and
that can show even more starkly what the impact of
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the boycotts are. Conservatives are angry. The MAGA people are
angry because Cracker Barrel changed its logo and it's verbiage,
it's signage. Donald Trump Junior was tweeting about this. That's
hilarious to me. I've never been to Cracker Barrel. I
know it's a popular restaurant, but apparently they've taken off
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the barrel and the cracker. The man and the barrel
are off the logo. It's just sort of a like
a suggestion of a barrel. I don't know. It's just
funny to me, the fights these folks pick. You're mad
about the Epstein files, you're mad about Cracker Barrel. You're
not mad about billions of dollars being spent on weapons
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of war to killed children in Palestine. You're not mad
about Trump coming back from a meeting with Putin, echoing
every one of his talking points like a little puppet.
You're fine with that, but you're mad about cracker barrel.
Make it make sense. It is what it is. They
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are up in arms about that. I mean, I guess
they could say our version of that was the American
Eagle and the little you know, my white supremacist jeans.
But it's different because this nobody was targeting you. They
just took away the barrel and the man. I don't know.
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It's funny to me what makes these folks mad? And
I'm here for But the Epstein thing not going away
because the House panels are going to continue to have hearings.
We've got all these actions happening within the next few months.
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So no matter how many ride alongs the President does
or claims he's going to do, and whatever other song
and dances the raids of former high ranking government officials homes,
it's not going to make it go away. It'll be
Epstein and John Bolton, Epstein and the President talking to
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the National Guard trying to do a photo op. Meanwhile,
the ice raids and drama of Washington, DC are creating
real life hardship for actual American citizens and actual people
who live and work in that area. Apparently, there is
(27:01):
a huge drop in restaurant reservations. No one wants to
go out and do fine dining while people are being
roughed up and harassed and thrown in jail by masked
federal agents who knew that this would dampen our party spirit,
our tourism, and entertainment seriously down. According to the DC
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Restaurant Association, ever since the Feds showed up, they've seen
a huge drop in the number of restaurant reservations. The
establishments are almost empty, and folks are just staying off
the streets. Who wants to get jacked up by the
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Feds over a hanging dice in your window or the
wrong tint in your car. They are doing the work,
doing the work that's supposed to be done by cops
and the stuff we're already trying to get cops out
of cops out of stops, etc. They're having the actual
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National Guard do that. That's crazy and so expensive, so expensive.
I was happy to see that the City of Los
Angeles was touting the results they have gotten from a
pilot program to send to take cops out of stops.
(28:40):
And we'll see how that plays out, because I'm sure
they'll have plenty of fine print. But so far, what
we're seeing is that this works well. Taking unarmed, using unarmed,
well trained civilians who are not cops for certain situations,
(29:01):
responding for people who are in a mental health crisis.
It's working well. This is according to a report that
was released by the City of Los Angeles, and this
is exactly what we're fighting for. And it's so crazy
that that report comes out at the same time that
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we see measured J and jeopardy on the county level,
because measured J was us the voters saying care, not cops.
Let's find alternatives to incarceration, Let's get cops out of stops.
And this pilot program that clinicians, social workers, therapists, all
kinds of trained civilians who were responding around the clock
(29:45):
twenty four to seven to calls. Now, I grant you,
it's a small program. It was a pilot, but so
far it is successful. And they're saying, according to the
city report, they've already saved cops seven thousand hours of
patrol time, which makes sense. They're always complaining about how
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they don't have enough officers. Well, if you had officers
doing things that cops are supposed to do, and let
experts do things that experts are supposed to do, it
would seem like you had more cops because you wouldn't
be wasting taxpayer dollars having them do things that they
have no business doing, just like we're wasting taxpayer dollars
(30:30):
right now having National Guard, having homeland security, and having
the FBI do things that they're not supposed to be doing.
Just reading. Now that the FBI is lowering its standards,
they're trying to hire more people so they can do
more petty law enforcement instead of investigating national security threats.
(30:53):
So the new rules say, you don't have to have
a college degree to be ano f agent anymore. You
can just get They can just get random oh, I
don't know, July January six folks if they want to,
and just sign them up. Instead of sixteen weeks of training,
I think they now will have seven or eight weeks
(31:15):
of training between that and the hardcore recruitment of these
ice agents. It's going to be really interesting to see
how this actually plays out in these streets. It's not
too late to call me eight hundred and nine to
oh fifteen eighty eight hundred nine two oh fifteen eighty.
(31:37):
We are unapologetically outspoken. KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. The conversation
on the YouTube chat around the boycott, the Target boycott
attorney Dion Raymond, my colleague who has her own show
here on Sundays, makes the great point that a change
in CEO doesn't mean a change in policy. She says,
keep the boycott on, And Fahima was pointing out out
(32:00):
what I already said, which is that you know, they've
replaced this guy with a long term His name is
Michael Fiddlekey. He's been a Target for I don't know
thirty years or something twenty five years, so he probably is,
you know, a company man in that sense. So I
(32:21):
can see the logic for keeping the boycott going for
Shore until the demands are met. But we shall see
that doesn't even happen until February. That change over, it
doesn't even happen until February. They're saying we're going to
get rid of this dude, so promise I update you
(32:43):
on this. Tory Lanes is serving a ten year sentence
for shooting Megan A Stallion in the foot. I would
say allegedly, except he was convicted and then he had
an appeal hearing this week on Wednesday, and his family
and his lawyers say they're waiting to see what will happen.
(33:04):
They're asking for early release or a new trial, claiming
that they have new evidence and so we shall see.
Tory Lanez's uncle said he had a good feeling about it.
He says he thinks that the judge was really listening
(33:24):
and that they're going to get get some progress. He says,
you know, his nephew got the short end of the stick.
We shall see. We know that one of the bodyguards
came out after the trial and said he saw someone
other than Lane's shoot the gun. But again we'll see.
(33:47):
Why didn't that guy, why didn't he testify at the trial?
Why now? And will the judge actually consider this new evidence?
I guess we'll find out as soon as that decision
is made. So that is actually pending, and it sounds
like they're pretty serious. They're not going to give up.
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Ed Sanders mentioned it in passing. But I think this
is a really big deal. In La jury awarded three
point five million dollars to a man who sued La
County because he was hit in the face by a
rubber bullet fired by a sheriff's deputy. Now this is
during a protest about George Floyd back in twenty twenty.
(34:32):
His daughter was there with him, and he says both
him and his daughter suffered from life changing injuries. The
so called less lethal weaponry is you can die from it.
It's not called not lethal, it's called less lethal. And
apparently they were protesting. Then they were walking away from
(34:53):
the protest, stopped to get some food. They were on
their way to their car, and the daughter saw another
protester who had been hit in the face with the
bean bag. They were trying to help that person and boom.
This is their account. They said, Sellen Gluck was hit
in the face by a sheriff's projectile, the daughter watching
while her dad's face was covered with blood, and they sued.
(35:22):
They both ended up with injuries. So that's a big win.
And I wonder, because we've had this ongoing debate about
the way that the so called less lethal weaponry is used.
And also the way that our cops here in La
(35:45):
deal with protesters, right, they keep getting sued. We talk
about being out of money in the city and out
of money in the county. Well, a lot of it
is these settlements. And every time we hear that the
policies are changing because of these lawsuits about use of
(36:08):
force by the sheriffs and the LAPD, we hear it.
We hear it's gonna change. We hear the lip service.
You know, whether it's after the Mayday protests or the
twenty twenty protests, and then next protests Palestinian, same thing
happens again. And so when is it gonna stop? When
(36:33):
is it going to get reeled in? I mean, you know,
you look at the way journalists have been treated. The
La Times had a great article about how the judge
put forth a restraining order because of the way the
LAPD was handling journalists, not protesters, journalists during protests of
(36:54):
the ice rates, and how journalists holding up their press
badges are being shot with rubber bullets, jobbed with batons
and seriously injured. And yet this was just July tenth,
the federal judge granted a restraining order a temporary restraining
(37:17):
order to stop cops from using rubber projectiles and what
they call less lethal. Does that mean you'll be less
dead or from intentionally assaulting journalists? The fact that a
judge has to put a restraining order on the cops
to make them stop assaulting journalists gives you a sense
of where we are right now. Will this judgment this
(37:42):
win for you know, a regular family who are not journalists.
Will this change the way the cops are dealing with
protesters and or journalists? I don't know. I can't call it,
but I think it's more likely that it does if
we keep talking about it again this week? Was it
(38:07):
this week or last? I think it was this week again?
Another motion filed by journalists saying stop no was last week,
stop beating us up, stop pepper spring, rubber bulleting US,
arresting us, detaining us. It was last Wednesday. They filed
(38:28):
a contempt motion some journalists asking a federal judge to
restrict police use of force against journalists. If they'll do
it to a journalist, h, what do you think they'll
do to a teenager, an undocumented person, a black person
with a record as usual? LAPD says they don't comment
(38:52):
on ongoing litigation, but will. The question is, at what
point do these ls, these l's in court add up
to a change in policy and a change in behavior,
And what are we willing to do to protect the
(39:14):
rights of our press. It seems very urgent right now,
given the way that this White House is hams hamstringing
hog time, whatever you want to call it journalists by
going to their bosses and demanding bribery, bribes, payoffs, suing them,
(39:38):
threatening lawsuits. We have to push back. We have to
push back on the use of so called less lethal
force to curtail our rights. Whether it's the right of
the press to report, that's our job, not to say
(40:00):
and do what you like and follow your directives, but
to report on what's actually happening, the right of protesters
to be in these streets and exercise our constitutional rights
obligations to make a difference. We shall see. We the people,
(40:22):
we are the wind here. We've got the best of
Tavis Smiley coming up next, and he'll be back Monday
live in the studio. But he's got some great highlights
for you today. Please please please stay hydrated. I know
it's hard to do. It's so hot you don't even
realize how your body is depleted, brain stops working, want
(40:43):
to punch someone in the throat. Drink some water, Eat
some watermelon, Have some cucumber, some juicy grapes or cherries,
the things that hydrate your body along with the minerals
that you need. And I'll see you on social media.
I'm at Dupremia Radio. Like my mamma used to say,
history is now, like I always say, we're making it
(41:05):
together until next time. One love,
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