August 27, 2025 • 41 mins
Chris Rowles owner of Chili World Convenience Store 99Cents, dubbed the Crenshaw Black Bodega is in our Wealth Building Wednesday spotlight. We look at the urgency of saving Black owned businesses (like Dulan's) in Los Angeles and across the nation. We also track the labeling of Black people as terrorists, criminals and cartel collaborators during the military occupation of Black-led U.S. cities.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sure is, and I'm happy to welcome into the space
a business owner who's right around the corner from the station.
He's the owner and CEO of Chilei World convenience Store.
It's between Stocker and forty third on Crenshaw. For those
of you who are in Los Angeles. Chris Rolls, welcome, Hey,
(00:25):
good morning, how you doing? Good morning. I'm blessed. How
are you?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm blessed? Same here.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
So you how long have you been doing Chili World?
It feels like it's been there for.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
A minute, going on three years right there on forty
thirty Crenshaw, but are relocated off King and Westreet.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Okay, so you've been in business for a minute.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I'm going on four years, right, like four or five years?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
This okay, Well that's good. Most businesses, I unders stand,
especially anything that has to do with food, they tank
in about two years and max out at five. So
it sounds like you're on track to thrive. What made
you decide to go into this business, because from what
(01:16):
I understand, I've never been in the convenience store food business.
It seems like hard, you know, it seems like you
got to be there day in, day out, long hours
and demanding customers.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yes, you got to be dedicated. You know, I'm open
from pen at ten Monday to Sunday.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Ten am to ten pm. Okay, so you stay open
pretty late. Yes, So what made you want to do that?
It seems like a grind. I mean even you know,
I know, we see like a lot of families that
own these convenience stores, liquor stores, community neighborhood shops, and
(02:00):
it's the mom and then the dad and then the
kids working, and you know it's around the clock kind of.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Thing, right right saying here, you know, my mom come
to the store and help out. And sisters and brothers,
you know, they come through and help when I need help.
Write down the store ain't doing as good it should
be doing, you know inside the black community. So you know,
I appreciate you putting me on the air so we can,
(02:27):
you know, get the customers down there to the store.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So you need just you need more traffic, more people
coming in, more people patronizing the store. That's what we're
looking for right now.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yes, that's what we're looking for. You know, we got greateful,
great customer service. You know, we got ice cream home
Ate ice Cream freepie ice cream. You know, we just
meet the people in the community to stop buy, you know,
come through.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
It's funny because exactly well, we complain a lot about
how there's not enough black owned businesses, especially these small
stores like yours, small and medium stores. You're not a chain,
you're not you know, food for less, you're not target
a small black owned family business. But then I think
(03:21):
we either walk by or maybe we just don't know
people perhaps don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You know, And that's how I feel somedays. You know,
That's why I got to put more effort into to
building the platforms where we can work with each other.
You know, people don't know if we recycle the black dollars,
we'll be we'll be more wealthy, you know, than going
to other communities, spending the money inside a community. What
(03:49):
they do is recycle the day dollars, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yep, not only that, I mean we we don't even
recycle dollar inside of our community because many times in
our own neighborhoods, we're shopping at stores that are not
owned by black people, which is fine to a degree,
but also not hiring us and not reinvesting in our community. Right,
(04:20):
So it sounds like if you got mom and you
know mom and the whole family working there.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah. And for the record, you know we have a
My sister owned a restaurant next door to my store too,
so you know it's a store in a restaurant. And
like I said, I cook in front of the store.
So we're just trying to get the block going where
we can have more traffic where everybody, you know, happy,
(04:46):
even if people in the neighborhood you're going to Target
Walmart getting overcharged, or you can come to the neighborhood
convenience store and you know, make sure everything's right.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Okay, So let's talk about that cooking. What are you
cooking up over there?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I got turkey smash burgers. I got some tacos that
I call bus down tacos, come with chili, chicken, sour
cream and all the different topping.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
That right there sounds like a blackety black taco.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, and it's is bomb. You know. Everybody that come
try it, they said, Man, while you're lying, ain't down
the street. I said, man, they haven't came yet.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You know, yeah, we probably don't. Turkey smash burgers, the
blackety black taco, that's not what it's called. You have
a different.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
The bus down taco.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Bus down to bus down taco.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Okay, I need to know in case I have to
come get one. And then what else you got over there?
Are you cooking turkey smash burgers? Not the chili cheese fries?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yes, chili and rice. We got a whole lot going on.
You just got to stop by, and.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You know Andy's getting hungry. You want to know do
you have for.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Oh? Yes, I do have for SwMI, but the place
where I get it from they've been down stock. So
I'm gonna have to because I like the right for
STROMI not too thick, slint, slim cut, that's the best
for Andy.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
You can talk. Andy's over here, nod in his head
like he's about to go over there. As soon as
he gets.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Off, I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna have to stop
by and bring y'all something. You know, let y'all see
with the with the community is missing, and then y'all
can go on air and y'all do the talk.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I think you're selling us, so I think you're doing
pretty good at doing the talking. Chris. Uh. But yeah, okay,
you know we're here for turkey Smashburger's and bust down tacos.
And now you tell me about this ice cream because
it's definitely been ice streame season lately.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Okay, so the best folk, if I'm saying, they're right,
this folk, the cookie that they give you on the airplane.
I made ice cream homemade, lactose free. I try to
make difference.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Is that black ice cream? I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I want to make sure everybody could be able to
enjoy the ice cream. So I made it laptoas free
homemade ice cream delicious like delicious. It's no cap anything
I make, it's made with love.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Jeez. Now I'm gonna have to get ice cream after
work today. Wow, Chris, promise you.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I'm trying to go to the next level. You know,
people come in my store, they be like whoa, They
be like me, never been here. It's like a target
slash swap me. There's just a lot going on, you know.
I try to have a one stop shop where you
come in here, you might see one thing, you're gonna
pick up some other things. You know. That's I'm trying
to have it.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So it's like a it's more than a convenience store.
Because you got a whole restaurant situation and household wares
and things. It sounds like a unique business model. Folks
just need to get become aware of it. Tell me
the exact address.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
The address is forty two eighty five Crenshaw Boulevard. It's
a blue and black store. You cannot miss it. Blue
and black, all.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Right, and you open a ten, you close a ten.
What hours are you serving this delicious food? Chris?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
All right, so we served a fool from three to seven, Okay,
three to seven.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
So the restaurant part is three pm to seven pm,
but all of the items that you can purchase is
from ten am to ten pm. Yes, what else do
we need to know about? I have a feeling you
got some other stuff going on. I don't know if
it's lottery tickets or you know some buddies.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
That right now, you know everything? Like how they say
you have to wait, You know you feel the contract
out or do you know the paperwork and you gotta wait?
Everything is the time matter?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You know so special with small stores. You know, we're
not corporate like seventy eleven Walmart. You know, Moms and
Pops store where we're trying to We're trying to get
other stores, but like I said, we need the people
in the community to come help.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Okay, so right now we've got housewares, chili, cheese, fries, turkey, smashburgers,
bus up some.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Buzz down, Tagos down.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Tacos and uh and anything else we should know about
that it's just unique to your store because I know
I can tell from talking to you, Chris, that you
probably had a vision from your own experience at different
stores and you say my store is going to be different.
Because this.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Right right right, I've really had like more like you
know the stores that be in New York and know
how I have a store in the front end, they
have it like a sandwich spot in your back selling
sables and stuff like that. Yeah, so that's what type
of thing I was on.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Okay, you know what, I I love that. I've always
wondered why we don't have stores like the ones in
New York. In New York they have that, and then
they have fruit and stuff like here, it feels like
you got you gotta Yeah, maybe it's boogie, it's corporate.
You either got this or you got that. It doesn't
feel like just neighborhood based like, oh, here's our burgerun
(10:38):
here's yo. Yeah, we do have that gum that you're
looking for or whatever. So, you know, props to you
for having a different vision. Yeah, Chris, it's nice to
meet you. Let folks know how they can support you.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Just stop buy. I don't care if you came by
and spent a dollar. Everything count you know, And and
I appreciate being on the air so I can let
everybody know what y'all missing. You know, it's a nice
store in the community. Is three thousand square feet. It's
not a small store. It's a big store. We got shoes, clothes,
(11:15):
just different, different shoes.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
See, that's what I'm saying. I knew there was something
we hadn't got to yet. Shoes. You have shoes, Okay, Chris,
Andy got a question for.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
You, brother, Chris. Yes, So I just googled the address
and you're like, literally down the street.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, that's what I say, is around the corner.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Yeah, and so you've been having challenges with people coming
to the store. I'm just I'm looking at the area.
That area is pretty popping. It's a lot of people
over there.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yes, I'm gonna be honest, you know, And it's really
the community we en. You know. You got these young
kids where I try to mentor them every day and
tell them to go do something with their life. You know.
You want to stand in front of the store, and
it's a lot going on in this world where you
could be taking that precious time turning into a gold mine,
(12:06):
you know. And and all I could do is basically
give them the game that I didn't get. You know,
it's more than game banging out here where you can
turn that into treasury, you know. And people don't understand
that you got to pick the time in. I'm working
eighty four hours a week. I bet I'm not complaint.
(12:28):
I'm not complainting in anything because guess what, I'm the owner.
I'm working for myself, you know, So I got to
get to the next level. But like I said, I
need the community to come support. And y'all gonna see
what you've been listening.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, I'm finna go try a turkey smashburger. I'm not even.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Gonna lie them. Gentlemen, you stop hanging out over there
a by seven to eleven. They need to be hanging out
right in front of youth supporting.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
The bus right or at least spread the word. I mean,
shoot their their job is that first.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Flowers all r Right.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
My thing is I want to hire people in the
community and everything. But guess what, the funding is not
coming in for me to hire them. You feel me?
If I can hire all the youngsters in the neighborhood,
I would because then it takes them off the streets
where they're doing something with their time.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, well that's coming soon. Chris Merl's owner and CEO
of Chili World convenience store. You're on Instagram too, at
Chili World on forty third, right, Yes, at Chili World
on forty third. Just follow them so you don't forget, Okay, Chris,
thank you for letting us know, putting us up on
(13:40):
the bus down Tacos. We needed that in life. We
needed that at our lives. All right, stay blessed. It's
a perfect time to call me right now. Eight hundred
and nine two oh fifteen eighty eight hundred nine two
oh fifteen eighty. I'm Dominique de Prima for k BLA
Talk fifteen eighty. Okay, So Andy found it on Google Earth.
(14:01):
I was looking for it. I couldn't find it, and
I have walked past it, it says Chile's World Convenience Store,
and then it says ninety nine cents what you wouldn't
necessarily think would have all the stuff he just described.
But I'm definitely going there. Attorney Dionde text me it's
a Crenshaw bodega. She said, I am so going there. Yes,
(14:24):
that's exactly what it is. It sounds like the Bodega,
Black owned bodega by the way, and yeah, it sounds
like a shout out to Asha because that's a community
jewel and Ushah, you know who is booking a producer
on this show found that Jim so shout out to
(14:46):
Asha for that. We will definitely be going to check
it out. But it's right across the street from McDonald's,
right down the street, a few doors north from the
seven to eleven right there. Now I'm talking real La. Okay,
if you're not from La, just bear with me on
this because we need to find this and a bunch
(15:06):
of folks Paul and others in our in our YouTube
say they're going to fall through. So hopefully this brother
will get a business boost from this, because it's one
of the reasons why we do wealth building. Wednesday, and
if you're trying to get on you want to be
on Wealth Building Wednesday with your enterprise. You can hit
me up on social media either at KBLA fifteen eighty.
(15:27):
Don't DM me on Facebook because I'm locked out of those.
I don't know, I got thousands of If you want
to DM me, either go to Twitter or go to Instagram. Yeah,
I know it's called X. I call it Twitter on purpose.
Either dm me on Twitter or dm me on ig
That's those are the ones I actually be checking. Uh
(15:49):
TikTok too. Now, I never thought I'd be saying that,
but I actually like TikTok anyway. Yeah, we definitely, we
definitely need to pull up, roll up, stop through, fall through.
It's so convenient. And U support this brother and what
he's doing because one of the things that stresses me
out a little bit. I'm not gonna lie, Andy, is
(16:10):
that a lot of my favorite black owned everybody owned,
but especially black owned everybody owned. Look, if it's letting
known whatever it is, I'll still patronize it, but particularly
black owned, because I feel like we gotta sweep around
our own front door. They go out of business and
as soon as I get on my routine. It's gone.
(16:33):
You know, Post and Beam the dog one Veggie Soul.
I'm still crying about Veggie Soul on Normandy. Remember the
drive drive through Vegan spot that was in Balbleing Hill's Crenshaw,
the Hot Chicken, all these places. Boom boom. I love it.
It's gone. I love it, It's gone. I hate that so much.
I'm swift on Crenshaw. That was one of my faves.
(16:55):
Her Beisenberger two cents Mike, Oh God, don't don't even
bring that up. That hurts my heart. That was one
of my favorite restaurants ever. Anywhere those Bison Tacos.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Come on and even get a chance.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Oh lord, well just ask me, because I'll tell you
about it. I was one of their biggest customers. And
you know, I haven't even tried this place, but I
don't want it to go out of business. We and
now they're talking about Duolans. Now there's a video going
around on Instagram about where Greg Dulan is saying that
(17:30):
he got in over his head on this real estate
deal and now his restaurant is in danger because he
was tried to buy a parking lot because you know,
they don't have one and it's a popular spot. And
somehow that that real estate business became a drain on
the restaurant business proper. And now Dulan's is in trouble.
(17:50):
And I'm not gonna lie. I knew that already before
the video because I had seen a letter that was
going around, and I've been doing everything that I can
behind the scenes to try to drive business over there
because it's another one that we just needed to stay there.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
What about a food truck.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I think I might go on a on a fried
chicken fast or something. It's the meat loaf for me. Actually,
I really love his meat low Yeah, I mean, I
don't know if he I think he had a food
truck with a hotvilled chicken. I'm not sure what the
status of that is. He's got to drive up window.
It's renovated, the food is he's He's upgraded his recipes
(18:32):
so they're super bomb. I mean, I've always loved his
corn bread, but it's just everything is even yummier than
it was before. And it's a family business. It's a
multi generational family business. You know, we could say disclosure.
Greg Doolan traveled with us on one of our Africa trips,
but it's not really a disclosure. He just out of
(18:52):
the blue decided to come. I didn't know him, and
I got to know him on that trip and he
But what I will say is that he always gives
back to the community. He's very grounded in you know,
South LA, and he gives people opportunities. And I will
say that there's another restaurant on Crenshaw that copied him
(19:14):
and then is not black owned. And Okay, we're not
going to go into that today because I don't know
if I have permission to talk about it. But let's
focus on what we want, not what we don't want.
What we want is our businesses to thrive and do
well and be available. I want to be able to
go get my turkey smash burger, you know, and you
(19:36):
know for dinner and go get my you know, Duolans
baked chicken. Okay, I'll get the baked chicken. I like
his fried chicken, but the baked chicken is healthier. For lunch.
He has great string beans. I like his meat loaf.
I love his smothered chicken is really delish. I hate Okra,
(19:58):
but I still it's still like his second tash. I
don't take my black card. I don't like Oh Gran,
I don't like hot sauce. Okay, I just don't. I
don't know. Anyway, we do need to save Dulan. So
if you're thinking about having a party that needs catering
for thousands, go go to Doolan. If you're thinking about needing,
(20:22):
if you have a party that needs, you know, bust
down tacos for thousands, go see Chris.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Folks calling in.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Okay, as you should, because this sounds like a hidden
community treasure and we all need more spots where we
can just stop in and get something. Let me this,
I will. Don't go get you a seven to eleven
hot dog that probably got salmonella in all twenty six
thousand forms of bacteria, probably comes with COVID inside it.
(20:57):
Go get you something homemade. And this is another unpopular opinion.
I do not buy food off people that are cooking
on baking sheets on the street. To me, that's just
like a sickness waiting to happen. Anyway, it's time for
news traffick in the sports, not my eating advice, although
(21:18):
I be knowing, trust me, i'd be knowing. I am
a foodie all day long perfect time to call me
eight hundred and nine two oh, fifteen eighty. I'm Dominie
Taprima for KBLA Talk, fifteen eighty. And love is winning
when we are choosing to focus on what we want,
not what we don't want. And I'm not gonna lie Andy.
Oooh right now I'm starving all of a sudden, I went.
(21:40):
It's like the tacco and the burger and the ice cream.
It is like I know it's only you know it's morning,
but dang, Chris got me hungry.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
I gotta have my fruit first though, But I'm definitely
gonna have me a little smash burger.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
You always got it. Yeah, fruit, Veggie's first thing, that's right,
escorts everything else through the that's a must. Good job, Andy. Okay,
so we've got on the phone calling from Long Beach.
Where you've been, brother, I haven't heard from you in
a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Hey, yeah, I've been I've been watching.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Okay, I take it.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I've been listening. I've been listening and watching.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I'll take it. Thank you for listening and watching.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Oh. What what I wanted to call in today about
is that we better. We need to go on high alert.
When I when I'm sitting there watching Stephen Miller in
the cabinet meeting, ranting and raving about how quote black
people basically you know they whenever they say in the city,
that's co word for for for for the N word, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
They got a lot of code words. Yeah, public sector,
inner city crime.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah, yeah, we know what they say, inner city They
talking about us. Right. So when I'm this guy shit
there and he's on this granting this reve about how
you know, these inner cities are rife with gang violence
and drug distribution, and they and they conspiracy co hoops
with with the with the with the cartels to bring
(23:15):
in drugs. So basically what and and that's and that's
tantamount to to domestic terrorists. Right, So when I'm listening,
and then you got then you got Trump saying, okay,
well we're gonna send in the military to these inner cities.
Then you got Stephen Miller with this insane ran about
(23:36):
we bringing in drugs and we hooked up with the
cartels and were terrorists. What they're saying to to to
make it clear is that they want to come in
and try to wipe us out. No different than then
the military and Palestine is really military and Palestine and
godlins because every under every rock is a i'm A terrorists.
(23:59):
So when they start using that word terrorists and and
putting it on us, that they talking about something bigger
and more more devious, and we need to be aware
of that. I watched the Sister Show. Let me say
this really quick, then I'll get off the Sisters show
Abby Phillips last night, and you know, God bless her heart,
but they give her the racist Scott Jennings on their.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Nerves. Yeah, I think she's I think she's killing it.
But it's a tough show.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah, because CNN gave her, gave her a racist show.
And and but with that being said, I just didn't like.
I turned her show off last night because I just
didn't like the way that they had no no heart
pushback on that show. And they spread and you know,
(24:53):
allowing Scott Jenny them to spread this narrative that black
people and in these inner cities are quote terrorists and
LinkedIn with with the corner Lot, with whatever the Mexican
cartel to bring in drugs and terrorists. That's a different thing.
We need to talk about that, and we know we
need to you know, start making our people aware so
(25:13):
we don't get caught off guard.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I mean, you just said a whole bunch of important things,
shay On. One of them is Stephen Miller is a
white supremacist. He has got Trump's ear. Trump we already
know comes from a white supremacist KKK dad, and it's
got a long line of racist actions. But Stephen Miller
is a diet in the world white supremacist. And when
(25:37):
and you're right, you know, when they say, especially DC,
where they're not even pretending it's about immigrants. Right in DC,
they're really just saying it's crime. And they're really pretty
much arresting black men mostly what they're doing. And so
I don't I don't understand how we are not seeing
(25:59):
the writing on the wall here. I feel like some
folks are still in this delusion that it's it's gonna
hit immigrants, not you, and and such an interesting point.
I hadn't contemplated that they're now conflating us. They're trying
to merge us with drug cartels so that there're and terrorists,
(26:19):
so that there's no line whatsoever between you know, the
detention and of a so called illegal and the detention
of a black man, you could just as easily go
to South Sudan or Uganda. I mean even if you
look at Kilmar and Brigo Garcia, the guy is not illegal.
You know, the judge had told him, you know, he
(26:41):
can stay because he had a credible reason not to
go back to El Salvador. Now if they can send
him to Uganda, it's all to me. It's all like
follow the dots. It's a path towards a thing, and
I think you lay it out really clearly where black
people fall in that. And to your point, terrorism is
an excuse for everything. That's why when Karen Bass was
(27:02):
in Congress, she pushed back so hard against this Black
Identity extremist BS, which was a category they were making
up to call us terrorists.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Watch this, watch this dominate. You know, you know, my
status is that of Moore, but they threw they threw
the status of us that that that played my nationality
as more in that same being as black identity extremists.
And that was pretty much put together by the Southern
Poverty Law Center down and down in South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
That's when I stopped supporting them, by the way, to me,
when they decided that the nation of Islam, you know,
and and and and people that identify as Moorish or
call themselves that are the same as the KKK you
lost me goodbye. That's that's your You're you're living in
some kind of weird, delusional white world that I'm not
(28:00):
interested in supporting. What No matter what you've done.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
They always looking for well, you know, we we we've
always been to target ever since you know that the
time of quote slavery. We I mean ever.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Since we stopped being property. Right when we were property,
they were trying to protect us because that that was
their asset. When we stopped being assets and started being humans,
then we've became targets. Yeah, instant switches.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yeah mm and so yeah, Dominique, we need to start,
you know, talking about this. You need to get some
of our politicians on because I haven't seen them, say
a people, I don't know where they're at. I don't know.
I thought we had a congressional Black caucus, but.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Some of them. Have you been tracking Congressmen Sydney komlock
Or she's been going hard. I didn't know she was that.
I guess I forgot she was from South l A.
She's been going hard. But you're right, a lot of
have been rather timid and centrist in this moment. You know,
I'm going to write a letter. I'm gonna, you know,
(29:09):
add emotion to emotion while the place is literally burning down.
And by the place, I mean your rights, your democracy,
your constitution. But I think it's a such an observant point, Sean,
that as soon as they can start calling you a terrorist,
(29:32):
you know, then you have no rights.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Exactly my point. That's exactly the main point. Once they
label you a terrorist, and they can sell it to
the to the to the overall general public, all bloods
is off. There is no glove, there's no rules. And
and we we we we we saw that we lived
through ab what they did in our right when they
(30:00):
terrorists Apple Grade and they they've been always itching and
what they're.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Doing right now in El Salvador, right now, that prison
is a torture facility and they're sending people there. And
you can say, oh, they're migrants, Please believe your next
because Trump said the worst of the worst criminals, which
is another code word for black people, criminals, crime, inner city.
You know, public sector workers, those are all DEI those
(30:32):
are all euphemistic synonyms for black Americans.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
And exactly we need to we need to wake up.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
And smell that coffee. And that's so ironic to me.
You don't even want to be called black, and they
try to label you a black identity extremist.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Yeah yeah, but you know, we we we bring out
we bring out the we bring out the facts, the history,
the court cases, the documentation from going all the way
back to the eighth century, and we and we show
one thing about those of us that that that declare
out Morris Morris nationality. That we got the history books
(31:16):
and we go back to the year seven eleven AD
in the Iberian Peninsula, and there's tons and tons of
scholarship that's been written and documented about this, Like right now,
my car probably got thirty books in my car by
a variety of different authors that practiced that same history.
So they know and so they know that when they
(31:37):
place that that label negro negro on us, which is black,
that came from the Spanish and the Portuguese back in
the year fourteen ninety two. Yes, and so they used
the law against us. Yeah. Yeah, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll
talk about that. But the main focus now is we
need to talk about the hearing now and with Stephen
(31:57):
Miller and the Trump administration, they trying to target us
and label us as innsidered in a city terrorist.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
They notice, you noticed they said they were going to
deport all these so called migrant criminals. But you don't
see drug cartel people being deported. You don't see the
the you know, crime bosses behind these illegal marijuana cannabis
grows being deported. You see car wash workers and guys
(32:27):
that hang out at the home depot looking for work,
and housekeepers. That's who they're deporting. There are plenty of
crime people, criminal enterprises, people that they probably are too
scared to touch, so they rather go get the guy
at the car wash. If they can label the guy
at the car wash a criminal because he doesn't have
his paperwork straight, you don't think they can take a
(32:48):
black man and call him a criminal or a terrorist
for some ridiculous reasons. Look what they're doing to the
woman from the Federal Reserve. Do you know what her
mortgage fraud was? La Times had a great article yesterday.
Somewhere there's two like errors in the paperwork. Somewhere it
says that she had three houses when she really had four,
(33:11):
even though it says four on the rest of the paper.
I mean, we're talking about minor, minor, minor errors on
mortgage applications for houses that are already paid off, and
they're trying to make her a criminal. You don't. She's
a woman in a position of power that you don't
get too easily. Imagine what they'll do to you on
(33:32):
the stoop with no degree and no backup plan. You're right,
it's we need to we need to be on high alert.
And I appreciate the call shay On.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Thank you, have a good day. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Shayon called me at eight hundred and nine two oh
fifteen eighty. Invite you to do the same. We are
unapologetically outspoken, unapologetically progressive KBLA talk fifteen eighty. Right. So
this is This is from the La Times article by
Michael Hiltzick business columnists on yesterday, where he talks about
(34:09):
how Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and several other folks
that the Trump administration is going after Senator Adam Schiff,
Attorney New York Attorney Leatsia James, and Federal Reserve Governor
Lisa Cook they're all black, except for Adam Schiff, of course,
who's Jewish American. They're all Democrats, and how flimsy these
(34:31):
accusations are. And then they're using them to try to
discredit these folks and in the case of Governor Cook,
to fire her. And I must admit, I mean, even
if you look at Marilyn Moseby and what they jailed
her for, it's so targeted and so weak. The accusations.
(34:53):
They say they're occupancy misrepresentatation or occupancy fraud, but really
they look like simple simple errors on mortgage applications. And
the reason I say that is because the wrong information
is stayed at once and then five other times on
the application it has the correct information. And this is
(35:17):
just not even. I mean, this is not even. This
is them targeting people and saying fine something, That's what
it is. What one expert says, this guy who is
the head of hf HFA hf FA Fanny and Freddie
(35:37):
Lou that for them to pull these loan applications on
loans that are performing well, that are being paid in
a timely manner, and especially those that are paid already
paid off, is unheard of. So clearly that means that
they targeted these folks, and all of these loans in
(35:59):
question Cook, Schiff, all of them were already paid off,
so that means somebody was really digging for some something.
And it's crazy to me. You think about Letitia James,
It's obviously why he wants to go after her. She's
the one that got the conviction against him for real
(36:21):
mortgage fraud with that almost half a billion dollar judgment.
And of course Schiff was on the impeachment, he was
an impeachment leader, and then this woman Cook. He feels
like if he can get her off the federal reserve,
he can control what they do about interest rates. So
(36:43):
it's really clear that these are fishing expeditions. And then
you've got news outlets who just pair these claims. And
that's why I love this article so much, because he
really breaks down what they're actually accused of, and it's
(37:04):
so stupid. I guess. In Letitia James's case, when she
bought her home in Queen's her father identified her as
his spouse instead of his daughter on one form, even
though in all the other forms she said daughter. So
clearly he wasn't trying to pull anything off. He made
an error, and with shift, they he had two different houses,
(37:30):
one was in Burbank, the other in Washington, d C.
Like almost all lawmakers do who work in Washington, you
gotta have one. Gotta have a place to live while
you're in d C. And a place to live when
you're home. But he only took property exemptions on the
Burbank property, so they're again fishing expedition. And then with
with Governor Cook, apparently she had three different mortgages and
(37:59):
that apparently she said. They're saying that she was trying
to get some better interest rate by saying that she
lived in one that she didn't live in, but one
of them that they were all her primary residence. But
the thing about it is, first of all, she didn't
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get a better interest rate, so there was no material gain,
so that doesn't even make sense. And secondly, again it's
one of those situations where on some forms it says
that in another forms it doesn't so in fact, and
at least one of the properties she's paying more than average,
(38:40):
So if she did that on purpose, it didn't help her.
But since what this David H. Stevens, a former housing official,
is quoted in The Times is saying that the standard
mortgage is now two hundred to five hundred page documents
and that about ninety percent of them have errors of
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that nature. So the likelihood that this is a small
error that was not fraud at all is very high.
And the thing about that is it means any of
us that are homeowners, if they want to get you,
get you fired and go on the you know, black
(39:26):
jobs crusade that Trump is on right now, which by
which we mean eliminating black jobs. They all they have
to do is look through your paperwork and find and
find the errors. So here it is apparently.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Oh, for Letitia James. The other accusation is that she
financed a down payment for her niece to buy a home.
And they're saying that she said you would live in
the house, because it says that on one form, but
on and every other form it says her niece would
live in it. So clearly it's an error. Clearly they
are combing, combing through documents trying to find ways to
(40:08):
fire these democrats. And I think we the reason I'm
talking about it so much is because we need to
be really more media literate than usual. Right now, Oh,
she did fraud. You see accused of fraud. Who is
accusing her? The man who was got a half a
(40:32):
billion dollar fine overturn for doing actual mortgage fraud. We
need to be really mindful that just because it's on
a newspaper headline, we got to read a little deeper
and see what they're actually talking about. Whoops, you made
one or two small errors on your mortgage form and
now you committed fraud. It's just a takedown, that's all
(40:54):
it is. Okay, so we're gonna switch gears here and
I'm ready for that. Are you ready for that? We're
gonna go. Well, we've kind of been on this arts
and music vibe all day today, starting out with you know,
Bernard Brown, but Amita Froz joining us. She is a
jazz artist extraordinaire with a debut album to share. You're
(41:16):
going to want to keep it locked right here. A
big palette refresher KPLA Talk fifteen eighty
Sure is, and I'm happy to welcome into the space
a business owner who's right around the corner from the station.
He's the owner and CEO of Chilei World convenience Store.
It's between Stocker and forty third on Crenshaw. For those
of you who are in Los Angeles. Chris Rolls, welcome, Hey,
(00:25):
good morning, how you doing? Good morning. I'm blessed. How
are you?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm blessed? Same here.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
So you how long have you been doing Chili World?
It feels like it's been there for.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
A minute, going on three years right there on forty
thirty Crenshaw, but are relocated off King and Westreet.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Okay, so you've been in business for a minute.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I'm going on four years, right, like four or five years?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
This okay, Well that's good. Most businesses, I unders stand,
especially anything that has to do with food, they tank
in about two years and max out at five. So
it sounds like you're on track to thrive. What made
you decide to go into this business, because from what
(01:16):
I understand, I've never been in the convenience store food business.
It seems like hard, you know, it seems like you
got to be there day in, day out, long hours
and demanding customers.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yes, you got to be dedicated. You know, I'm open
from pen at ten Monday to Sunday.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Ten am to ten pm. Okay, so you stay open
pretty late. Yes, So what made you want to do that?
It seems like a grind. I mean even you know,
I know, we see like a lot of families that
own these convenience stores, liquor stores, community neighborhood shops, and
(02:00):
it's the mom and then the dad and then the
kids working, and you know it's around the clock kind of.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Thing, right right saying here, you know, my mom come
to the store and help out. And sisters and brothers,
you know, they come through and help when I need help.
Write down the store ain't doing as good it should
be doing, you know inside the black community. So you know,
I appreciate you putting me on the air so we can,
(02:27):
you know, get the customers down there to the store.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So you need just you need more traffic, more people
coming in, more people patronizing the store. That's what we're
looking for right now.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yes, that's what we're looking for. You know, we got greateful,
great customer service. You know, we got ice cream home
Ate ice Cream freepie ice cream. You know, we just
meet the people in the community to stop buy, you know,
come through.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
It's funny because exactly well, we complain a lot about
how there's not enough black owned businesses, especially these small
stores like yours, small and medium stores. You're not a chain,
you're not you know, food for less, you're not target
a small black owned family business. But then I think
(03:21):
we either walk by or maybe we just don't know
people perhaps don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You know, And that's how I feel somedays. You know,
That's why I got to put more effort into to
building the platforms where we can work with each other.
You know, people don't know if we recycle the black dollars,
we'll be we'll be more wealthy, you know, than going
to other communities, spending the money inside a community. What
(03:49):
they do is recycle the day dollars, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yep, not only that, I mean we we don't even
recycle dollar inside of our community because many times in
our own neighborhoods, we're shopping at stores that are not
owned by black people, which is fine to a degree,
but also not hiring us and not reinvesting in our community. Right,
(04:20):
So it sounds like if you got mom and you
know mom and the whole family working there.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah. And for the record, you know we have a
My sister owned a restaurant next door to my store too,
so you know it's a store in a restaurant. And
like I said, I cook in front of the store.
So we're just trying to get the block going where
we can have more traffic where everybody, you know, happy,
(04:46):
even if people in the neighborhood you're going to Target
Walmart getting overcharged, or you can come to the neighborhood
convenience store and you know, make sure everything's right.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Okay, So let's talk about that cooking. What are you
cooking up over there?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I got turkey smash burgers. I got some tacos that
I call bus down tacos, come with chili, chicken, sour
cream and all the different topping.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
That right there sounds like a blackety black taco.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, and it's is bomb. You know. Everybody that come
try it, they said, Man, while you're lying, ain't down
the street. I said, man, they haven't came yet.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You know, yeah, we probably don't. Turkey smash burgers, the
blackety black taco, that's not what it's called. You have
a different.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
The bus down taco.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Bus down to bus down taco.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Okay, I need to know in case I have to
come get one. And then what else you got over there?
Are you cooking turkey smash burgers? Not the chili cheese fries?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yes, chili and rice. We got a whole lot going on.
You just got to stop by, and.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You know Andy's getting hungry. You want to know do
you have for.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Oh? Yes, I do have for SwMI, but the place
where I get it from they've been down stock. So
I'm gonna have to because I like the right for
STROMI not too thick, slint, slim cut, that's the best
for Andy.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
You can talk. Andy's over here, nod in his head
like he's about to go over there. As soon as
he gets.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Off, I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna have to stop
by and bring y'all something. You know, let y'all see
with the with the community is missing, and then y'all
can go on air and y'all do the talk.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I think you're selling us, so I think you're doing
pretty good at doing the talking. Chris. Uh. But yeah, okay,
you know we're here for turkey Smashburger's and bust down tacos.
And now you tell me about this ice cream because
it's definitely been ice streame season lately.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Okay, so the best folk, if I'm saying, they're right,
this folk, the cookie that they give you on the airplane.
I made ice cream homemade, lactose free. I try to
make difference.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Is that black ice cream? I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I want to make sure everybody could be able to
enjoy the ice cream. So I made it laptoas free
homemade ice cream delicious like delicious. It's no cap anything
I make, it's made with love.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Jeez. Now I'm gonna have to get ice cream after
work today. Wow, Chris, promise you.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I'm trying to go to the next level. You know,
people come in my store, they be like whoa, They
be like me, never been here. It's like a target
slash swap me. There's just a lot going on, you know.
I try to have a one stop shop where you
come in here, you might see one thing, you're gonna
pick up some other things. You know. That's I'm trying
to have it.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So it's like a it's more than a convenience store.
Because you got a whole restaurant situation and household wares
and things. It sounds like a unique business model. Folks
just need to get become aware of it. Tell me
the exact address.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
The address is forty two eighty five Crenshaw Boulevard. It's
a blue and black store. You cannot miss it. Blue
and black, all.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Right, and you open a ten, you close a ten.
What hours are you serving this delicious food? Chris?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
All right, so we served a fool from three to seven, Okay,
three to seven.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
So the restaurant part is three pm to seven pm,
but all of the items that you can purchase is
from ten am to ten pm. Yes, what else do
we need to know about? I have a feeling you
got some other stuff going on. I don't know if
it's lottery tickets or you know some buddies.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
That right now, you know everything? Like how they say
you have to wait, You know you feel the contract
out or do you know the paperwork and you gotta wait?
Everything is the time matter?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You know so special with small stores. You know, we're
not corporate like seventy eleven Walmart. You know, Moms and
Pops store where we're trying to We're trying to get
other stores, but like I said, we need the people
in the community to come help.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Okay, so right now we've got housewares, chili, cheese, fries, turkey, smashburgers,
bus up some.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Buzz down, Tagos down.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Tacos and uh and anything else we should know about
that it's just unique to your store because I know
I can tell from talking to you, Chris, that you
probably had a vision from your own experience at different
stores and you say my store is going to be different.
Because this.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Right right right, I've really had like more like you
know the stores that be in New York and know
how I have a store in the front end, they
have it like a sandwich spot in your back selling
sables and stuff like that. Yeah, so that's what type
of thing I was on.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Okay, you know what, I I love that. I've always
wondered why we don't have stores like the ones in
New York. In New York they have that, and then
they have fruit and stuff like here, it feels like
you got you gotta Yeah, maybe it's boogie, it's corporate.
You either got this or you got that. It doesn't
feel like just neighborhood based like, oh, here's our burgerun
(10:38):
here's yo. Yeah, we do have that gum that you're
looking for or whatever. So, you know, props to you
for having a different vision. Yeah, Chris, it's nice to
meet you. Let folks know how they can support you.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Just stop buy. I don't care if you came by
and spent a dollar. Everything count you know, And and
I appreciate being on the air so I can let
everybody know what y'all missing. You know, it's a nice
store in the community. Is three thousand square feet. It's
not a small store. It's a big store. We got shoes, clothes,
(11:15):
just different, different shoes.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
See, that's what I'm saying. I knew there was something
we hadn't got to yet. Shoes. You have shoes, Okay, Chris,
Andy got a question for.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
You, brother, Chris. Yes, So I just googled the address
and you're like, literally down the street.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, that's what I say, is around the corner.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Yeah, and so you've been having challenges with people coming
to the store. I'm just I'm looking at the area.
That area is pretty popping. It's a lot of people
over there.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yes, I'm gonna be honest, you know, And it's really
the community we en. You know. You got these young
kids where I try to mentor them every day and
tell them to go do something with their life. You know.
You want to stand in front of the store, and
it's a lot going on in this world where you
could be taking that precious time turning into a gold mine,
(12:06):
you know. And and all I could do is basically
give them the game that I didn't get. You know,
it's more than game banging out here where you can
turn that into treasury, you know. And people don't understand
that you got to pick the time in. I'm working
eighty four hours a week. I bet I'm not complaint.
(12:28):
I'm not complainting in anything because guess what, I'm the owner.
I'm working for myself, you know, So I got to
get to the next level. But like I said, I
need the community to come support. And y'all gonna see
what you've been listening.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, I'm finna go try a turkey smashburger. I'm not even.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Gonna lie them. Gentlemen, you stop hanging out over there
a by seven to eleven. They need to be hanging out
right in front of youth supporting.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
The bus right or at least spread the word. I mean,
shoot their their job is that first.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Flowers all r Right.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
My thing is I want to hire people in the
community and everything. But guess what, the funding is not
coming in for me to hire them. You feel me?
If I can hire all the youngsters in the neighborhood,
I would because then it takes them off the streets
where they're doing something with their time.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, well that's coming soon. Chris Merl's owner and CEO
of Chili World convenience store. You're on Instagram too, at
Chili World on forty third, right, Yes, at Chili World
on forty third. Just follow them so you don't forget, Okay, Chris,
thank you for letting us know, putting us up on
(13:40):
the bus down Tacos. We needed that in life. We
needed that at our lives. All right, stay blessed. It's
a perfect time to call me right now. Eight hundred
and nine two oh fifteen eighty eight hundred nine two
oh fifteen eighty. I'm Dominique de Prima for k BLA
Talk fifteen eighty. Okay, So Andy found it on Google Earth.
(14:01):
I was looking for it. I couldn't find it, and
I have walked past it, it says Chile's World Convenience Store,
and then it says ninety nine cents what you wouldn't
necessarily think would have all the stuff he just described.
But I'm definitely going there. Attorney Dionde text me it's
a Crenshaw bodega. She said, I am so going there. Yes,
(14:24):
that's exactly what it is. It sounds like the Bodega,
Black owned bodega by the way, and yeah, it sounds
like a shout out to Asha because that's a community
jewel and Ushah, you know who is booking a producer
on this show found that Jim so shout out to
(14:46):
Asha for that. We will definitely be going to check
it out. But it's right across the street from McDonald's,
right down the street, a few doors north from the
seven to eleven right there. Now I'm talking real La. Okay,
if you're not from La, just bear with me on
this because we need to find this and a bunch
(15:06):
of folks Paul and others in our in our YouTube
say they're going to fall through. So hopefully this brother
will get a business boost from this, because it's one
of the reasons why we do wealth building. Wednesday, and
if you're trying to get on you want to be
on Wealth Building Wednesday with your enterprise. You can hit
me up on social media either at KBLA fifteen eighty.
(15:27):
Don't DM me on Facebook because I'm locked out of those.
I don't know, I got thousands of If you want
to DM me, either go to Twitter or go to Instagram. Yeah,
I know it's called X. I call it Twitter on purpose.
Either dm me on Twitter or dm me on ig
That's those are the ones I actually be checking. Uh
(15:49):
TikTok too. Now, I never thought I'd be saying that,
but I actually like TikTok anyway. Yeah, we definitely, we
definitely need to pull up, roll up, stop through, fall through.
It's so convenient. And U support this brother and what
he's doing because one of the things that stresses me
out a little bit. I'm not gonna lie, Andy, is
(16:10):
that a lot of my favorite black owned everybody owned,
but especially black owned everybody owned. Look, if it's letting
known whatever it is, I'll still patronize it, but particularly
black owned, because I feel like we gotta sweep around
our own front door. They go out of business and
as soon as I get on my routine. It's gone.
(16:33):
You know, Post and Beam the dog one Veggie Soul.
I'm still crying about Veggie Soul on Normandy. Remember the
drive drive through Vegan spot that was in Balbleing Hill's Crenshaw,
the Hot Chicken, all these places. Boom boom. I love it.
It's gone. I love it, It's gone. I hate that so much.
I'm swift on Crenshaw. That was one of my faves.
(16:55):
Her Beisenberger two cents Mike, Oh God, don't don't even
bring that up. That hurts my heart. That was one
of my favorite restaurants ever. Anywhere those Bison Tacos.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Come on and even get a chance.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Oh lord, well just ask me, because I'll tell you
about it. I was one of their biggest customers. And
you know, I haven't even tried this place, but I
don't want it to go out of business. We and
now they're talking about Duolans. Now there's a video going
around on Instagram about where Greg Dulan is saying that
(17:30):
he got in over his head on this real estate
deal and now his restaurant is in danger because he
was tried to buy a parking lot because you know,
they don't have one and it's a popular spot. And
somehow that that real estate business became a drain on
the restaurant business proper. And now Dulan's is in trouble.
(17:50):
And I'm not gonna lie. I knew that already before
the video because I had seen a letter that was
going around, and I've been doing everything that I can
behind the scenes to try to drive business over there
because it's another one that we just needed to stay there.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
What about a food truck.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I think I might go on a on a fried
chicken fast or something. It's the meat loaf for me. Actually,
I really love his meat low Yeah, I mean, I
don't know if he I think he had a food
truck with a hotvilled chicken. I'm not sure what the
status of that is. He's got to drive up window.
It's renovated, the food is he's He's upgraded his recipes
(18:32):
so they're super bomb. I mean, I've always loved his
corn bread, but it's just everything is even yummier than
it was before. And it's a family business. It's a
multi generational family business. You know, we could say disclosure.
Greg Doolan traveled with us on one of our Africa trips,
but it's not really a disclosure. He just out of
(18:52):
the blue decided to come. I didn't know him, and
I got to know him on that trip and he
But what I will say is that he always gives
back to the community. He's very grounded in you know,
South LA, and he gives people opportunities. And I will
say that there's another restaurant on Crenshaw that copied him
(19:14):
and then is not black owned. And Okay, we're not
going to go into that today because I don't know
if I have permission to talk about it. But let's
focus on what we want, not what we don't want.
What we want is our businesses to thrive and do
well and be available. I want to be able to
go get my turkey smash burger, you know, and you
(19:36):
know for dinner and go get my you know, Duolans
baked chicken. Okay, I'll get the baked chicken. I like
his fried chicken, but the baked chicken is healthier. For lunch.
He has great string beans. I like his meat loaf.
I love his smothered chicken is really delish. I hate Okra,
(19:58):
but I still it's still like his second tash. I
don't take my black card. I don't like Oh Gran,
I don't like hot sauce. Okay, I just don't. I
don't know. Anyway, we do need to save Dulan. So
if you're thinking about having a party that needs catering
for thousands, go go to Doolan. If you're thinking about needing,
(20:22):
if you have a party that needs, you know, bust
down tacos for thousands, go see Chris.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Folks calling in.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Okay, as you should, because this sounds like a hidden
community treasure and we all need more spots where we
can just stop in and get something. Let me this,
I will. Don't go get you a seven to eleven
hot dog that probably got salmonella in all twenty six
thousand forms of bacteria, probably comes with COVID inside it.
(20:57):
Go get you something homemade. And this is another unpopular opinion.
I do not buy food off people that are cooking
on baking sheets on the street. To me, that's just
like a sickness waiting to happen. Anyway, it's time for
news traffick in the sports, not my eating advice, although
(21:18):
I be knowing, trust me, i'd be knowing. I am
a foodie all day long perfect time to call me
eight hundred and nine two oh, fifteen eighty. I'm Dominie
Taprima for KBLA Talk, fifteen eighty. And love is winning
when we are choosing to focus on what we want,
not what we don't want. And I'm not gonna lie Andy.
Oooh right now I'm starving all of a sudden, I went.
(21:40):
It's like the tacco and the burger and the ice cream.
It is like I know it's only you know it's morning,
but dang, Chris got me hungry.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
I gotta have my fruit first though, But I'm definitely
gonna have me a little smash burger.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
You always got it. Yeah, fruit, Veggie's first thing, that's right,
escorts everything else through the that's a must. Good job, Andy. Okay,
so we've got on the phone calling from Long Beach.
Where you've been, brother, I haven't heard from you in
a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Hey, yeah, I've been I've been watching.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Okay, I take it.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I've been listening. I've been listening and watching.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I'll take it. Thank you for listening and watching.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Oh. What what I wanted to call in today about
is that we better. We need to go on high alert.
When I when I'm sitting there watching Stephen Miller in
the cabinet meeting, ranting and raving about how quote black
people basically you know they whenever they say in the city,
that's co word for for for for the N word, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
They got a lot of code words. Yeah, public sector,
inner city crime.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah, yeah, we know what they say, inner city They
talking about us. Right. So when I'm this guy shit
there and he's on this granting this reve about how
you know, these inner cities are rife with gang violence
and drug distribution, and they and they conspiracy co hoops
with with the with the with the cartels to bring
(23:15):
in drugs. So basically what and and that's and that's
tantamount to to domestic terrorists. Right, So when I'm listening,
and then you got then you got Trump saying, okay,
well we're gonna send in the military to these inner cities.
Then you got Stephen Miller with this insane ran about
(23:36):
we bringing in drugs and we hooked up with the
cartels and were terrorists. What they're saying to to to
make it clear is that they want to come in
and try to wipe us out. No different than then
the military and Palestine is really military and Palestine and
godlins because every under every rock is a i'm A terrorists.
(23:59):
So when they start using that word terrorists and and
putting it on us, that they talking about something bigger
and more more devious, and we need to be aware
of that. I watched the Sister Show. Let me say
this really quick, then I'll get off the Sisters show
Abby Phillips last night, and you know, God bless her heart,
but they give her the racist Scott Jennings on their.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Nerves. Yeah, I think she's I think she's killing it.
But it's a tough show.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah, because CNN gave her, gave her a racist show.
And and but with that being said, I just didn't like.
I turned her show off last night because I just
didn't like the way that they had no no heart
pushback on that show. And they spread and you know,
(24:53):
allowing Scott Jenny them to spread this narrative that black
people and in these inner cities are quote terrorists and
LinkedIn with with the corner Lot, with whatever the Mexican
cartel to bring in drugs and terrorists. That's a different thing.
We need to talk about that, and we know we
need to you know, start making our people aware so
(25:13):
we don't get caught off guard.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I mean, you just said a whole bunch of important things,
shay On. One of them is Stephen Miller is a
white supremacist. He has got Trump's ear. Trump we already
know comes from a white supremacist KKK dad, and it's
got a long line of racist actions. But Stephen Miller
is a diet in the world white supremacist. And when
(25:37):
and you're right, you know, when they say, especially DC,
where they're not even pretending it's about immigrants. Right in DC,
they're really just saying it's crime. And they're really pretty
much arresting black men mostly what they're doing. And so
I don't I don't understand how we are not seeing
(25:59):
the writing on the wall here. I feel like some
folks are still in this delusion that it's it's gonna
hit immigrants, not you, and and such an interesting point.
I hadn't contemplated that they're now conflating us. They're trying
to merge us with drug cartels so that there're and terrorists,
(26:19):
so that there's no line whatsoever between you know, the
detention and of a so called illegal and the detention
of a black man, you could just as easily go
to South Sudan or Uganda. I mean even if you
look at Kilmar and Brigo Garcia, the guy is not illegal.
You know, the judge had told him, you know, he
(26:41):
can stay because he had a credible reason not to
go back to El Salvador. Now if they can send
him to Uganda, it's all to me. It's all like
follow the dots. It's a path towards a thing, and
I think you lay it out really clearly where black
people fall in that. And to your point, terrorism is
an excuse for everything. That's why when Karen Bass was
(27:02):
in Congress, she pushed back so hard against this Black
Identity extremist BS, which was a category they were making
up to call us terrorists.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Watch this, watch this dominate. You know, you know, my
status is that of Moore, but they threw they threw
the status of us that that that played my nationality
as more in that same being as black identity extremists.
And that was pretty much put together by the Southern
Poverty Law Center down and down in South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
That's when I stopped supporting them, by the way, to me,
when they decided that the nation of Islam, you know,
and and and and people that identify as Moorish or
call themselves that are the same as the KKK you
lost me goodbye. That's that's your You're you're living in
some kind of weird, delusional white world that I'm not
(28:00):
interested in supporting. What No matter what you've done.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
They always looking for well, you know, we we we've
always been to target ever since you know that the
time of quote slavery. We I mean ever.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Since we stopped being property. Right when we were property,
they were trying to protect us because that that was
their asset. When we stopped being assets and started being humans,
then we've became targets. Yeah, instant switches.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yeah mm and so yeah, Dominique, we need to start,
you know, talking about this. You need to get some
of our politicians on because I haven't seen them, say
a people, I don't know where they're at. I don't know.
I thought we had a congressional Black caucus, but.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Some of them. Have you been tracking Congressmen Sydney komlock
Or she's been going hard. I didn't know she was that.
I guess I forgot she was from South l A.
She's been going hard. But you're right, a lot of
have been rather timid and centrist in this moment. You know,
I'm going to write a letter. I'm gonna, you know,
(29:09):
add emotion to emotion while the place is literally burning down.
And by the place, I mean your rights, your democracy,
your constitution. But I think it's a such an observant point, Sean,
that as soon as they can start calling you a terrorist,
(29:32):
you know, then you have no rights.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Exactly my point. That's exactly the main point. Once they
label you a terrorist, and they can sell it to
the to the to the overall general public, all bloods
is off. There is no glove, there's no rules. And
and we we we we we saw that we lived
through ab what they did in our right when they
(30:00):
terrorists Apple Grade and they they've been always itching and
what they're.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Doing right now in El Salvador, right now, that prison
is a torture facility and they're sending people there. And
you can say, oh, they're migrants, Please believe your next
because Trump said the worst of the worst criminals, which
is another code word for black people, criminals, crime, inner city.
You know, public sector workers, those are all DEI those
(30:32):
are all euphemistic synonyms for black Americans.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
And exactly we need to we need to wake up.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
And smell that coffee. And that's so ironic to me.
You don't even want to be called black, and they
try to label you a black identity extremist.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Yeah yeah, but you know, we we we bring out
we bring out the we bring out the facts, the history,
the court cases, the documentation from going all the way
back to the eighth century, and we and we show
one thing about those of us that that that declare
out Morris Morris nationality. That we got the history books
(31:16):
and we go back to the year seven eleven AD
in the Iberian Peninsula, and there's tons and tons of
scholarship that's been written and documented about this, Like right now,
my car probably got thirty books in my car by
a variety of different authors that practiced that same history.
So they know and so they know that when they
(31:37):
place that that label negro negro on us, which is black,
that came from the Spanish and the Portuguese back in
the year fourteen ninety two. Yes, and so they used
the law against us. Yeah. Yeah, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll
talk about that. But the main focus now is we
need to talk about the hearing now and with Stephen
(31:57):
Miller and the Trump administration, they trying to target us
and label us as innsidered in a city terrorist.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
They notice, you noticed they said they were going to
deport all these so called migrant criminals. But you don't
see drug cartel people being deported. You don't see the
the you know, crime bosses behind these illegal marijuana cannabis
grows being deported. You see car wash workers and guys
(32:27):
that hang out at the home depot looking for work,
and housekeepers. That's who they're deporting. There are plenty of
crime people, criminal enterprises, people that they probably are too
scared to touch, so they rather go get the guy
at the car wash. If they can label the guy
at the car wash a criminal because he doesn't have
his paperwork straight, you don't think they can take a
(32:48):
black man and call him a criminal or a terrorist
for some ridiculous reasons. Look what they're doing to the
woman from the Federal Reserve. Do you know what her
mortgage fraud was? La Times had a great article yesterday.
Somewhere there's two like errors in the paperwork. Somewhere it
says that she had three houses when she really had four,
(33:11):
even though it says four on the rest of the paper.
I mean, we're talking about minor, minor, minor errors on
mortgage applications for houses that are already paid off, and
they're trying to make her a criminal. You don't. She's
a woman in a position of power that you don't
get too easily. Imagine what they'll do to you on
(33:32):
the stoop with no degree and no backup plan. You're right,
it's we need to we need to be on high alert.
And I appreciate the call shay On.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Thank you, have a good day. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Shayon called me at eight hundred and nine two oh
fifteen eighty. Invite you to do the same. We are
unapologetically outspoken, unapologetically progressive KBLA talk fifteen eighty. Right. So
this is This is from the La Times article by
Michael Hiltzick business columnists on yesterday, where he talks about
(34:09):
how Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and several other folks
that the Trump administration is going after Senator Adam Schiff,
Attorney New York Attorney Leatsia James, and Federal Reserve Governor
Lisa Cook they're all black, except for Adam Schiff, of course,
who's Jewish American. They're all Democrats, and how flimsy these
(34:31):
accusations are. And then they're using them to try to
discredit these folks and in the case of Governor Cook,
to fire her. And I must admit, I mean, even
if you look at Marilyn Moseby and what they jailed
her for, it's so targeted and so weak. The accusations.
(34:53):
They say they're occupancy misrepresentatation or occupancy fraud, but really
they look like simple simple errors on mortgage applications. And
the reason I say that is because the wrong information
is stayed at once and then five other times on
the application it has the correct information. And this is
(35:17):
just not even. I mean, this is not even. This
is them targeting people and saying fine something, That's what
it is. What one expert says, this guy who is
the head of hf HFA hf FA Fanny and Freddie
(35:37):
Lou that for them to pull these loan applications on
loans that are performing well, that are being paid in
a timely manner, and especially those that are paid already
paid off, is unheard of. So clearly that means that
they targeted these folks, and all of these loans in
(35:59):
question Cook, Schiff, all of them were already paid off,
so that means somebody was really digging for some something.
And it's crazy to me. You think about Letitia James,
It's obviously why he wants to go after her. She's
the one that got the conviction against him for real
(36:21):
mortgage fraud with that almost half a billion dollar judgment.
And of course Schiff was on the impeachment, he was
an impeachment leader, and then this woman Cook. He feels
like if he can get her off the federal reserve,
he can control what they do about interest rates. So
(36:43):
it's really clear that these are fishing expeditions. And then
you've got news outlets who just pair these claims. And
that's why I love this article so much, because he
really breaks down what they're actually accused of, and it's
(37:04):
so stupid. I guess. In Letitia James's case, when she
bought her home in Queen's her father identified her as
his spouse instead of his daughter on one form, even
though in all the other forms she said daughter. So
clearly he wasn't trying to pull anything off. He made
an error, and with shift, they he had two different houses,
(37:30):
one was in Burbank, the other in Washington, d C.
Like almost all lawmakers do who work in Washington, you
gotta have one. Gotta have a place to live while
you're in d C. And a place to live when
you're home. But he only took property exemptions on the
Burbank property, so they're again fishing expedition. And then with
with Governor Cook, apparently she had three different mortgages and
(37:59):
that apparently she said. They're saying that she was trying
to get some better interest rate by saying that she
lived in one that she didn't live in, but one
of them that they were all her primary residence. But
the thing about it is, first of all, she didn't
(38:20):
get a better interest rate, so there was no material gain,
so that doesn't even make sense. And secondly, again it's
one of those situations where on some forms it says
that in another forms it doesn't so in fact, and
at least one of the properties she's paying more than average,
(38:40):
So if she did that on purpose, it didn't help her.
But since what this David H. Stevens, a former housing official,
is quoted in The Times is saying that the standard
mortgage is now two hundred to five hundred page documents
and that about ninety percent of them have errors of
(39:03):
that nature. So the likelihood that this is a small
error that was not fraud at all is very high.
And the thing about that is it means any of
us that are homeowners, if they want to get you,
get you fired and go on the you know, black
(39:26):
jobs crusade that Trump is on right now, which by
which we mean eliminating black jobs. They all they have
to do is look through your paperwork and find and
find the errors. So here it is apparently.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Oh, for Letitia James. The other accusation is that she
financed a down payment for her niece to buy a home.
And they're saying that she said you would live in
the house, because it says that on one form, but
on and every other form it says her niece would
live in it. So clearly it's an error. Clearly they
are combing, combing through documents trying to find ways to
(40:08):
fire these democrats. And I think we the reason I'm
talking about it so much is because we need to
be really more media literate than usual. Right now, Oh,
she did fraud. You see accused of fraud. Who is
accusing her? The man who was got a half a
(40:32):
billion dollar fine overturn for doing actual mortgage fraud. We
need to be really mindful that just because it's on
a newspaper headline, we got to read a little deeper
and see what they're actually talking about. Whoops, you made
one or two small errors on your mortgage form and
now you committed fraud. It's just a takedown, that's all
(40:54):
it is. Okay, so we're gonna switch gears here and
I'm ready for that. Are you ready for that? We're
gonna go. Well, we've kind of been on this arts
and music vibe all day today, starting out with you know,
Bernard Brown, but Amita Froz joining us. She is a
jazz artist extraordinaire with a debut album to share. You're
(41:16):
going to want to keep it locked right here. A
big palette refresher KPLA Talk fifteen eighty
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