August 28, 2025 • 40 mins
This week marks twenty years since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans leaving hundreds of people dead. What are the takeaways in the recovery and response? How can we apply those lessons in today's disaster-prone climate emergency era? Does it change if President Trump eliminates FEMA? How do we put humans over buildings? What does real transparency look like?
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. I guess you had to be there. Wooh,
that was a great show. I mean, I'm talking about hits,
hits hit. I didn't even realize that Babyface wrote sitting
Up in My Room one of those songs I love
by Brandy I'm your Baby Tonight, dial my Heart to Occasions,
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my My, my Mam. Every time I close my eyes
rock Steady, I'm exhale from waiting to exhale, of course,
another sad love song, I'll make love to you, baby,
baby Baby. These are all so many different artists. The
insight of that man's brain must be just hit songs.
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I don't know how there would be room for anything
else anyway, big fun and it's just it's got. I'll
be listening to Charlie, Uncle Charlie and baby Face all
day to day. So think tank Thursday is a thing now.
Thank you very much Quamell for setting it off, and
also to Jacqueline Anderson, who won our knowledge pack for
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coming up with a name think tank Thursday with our contest.
We will develop this and there may be more and
more features to it, but right now it's kind of
like a version of Talking Point Thursday, where you know,
whether it's in the chat at KBLA fifteen eighty on YouTube,
or whether it's on the phone at eight hundred and
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nine to oh fifteen eighty, or in the comments somewhere
that you share your thoughts, your brain power on how
to address this issue. And today, the question that I
posed is what are the lessons of the disaster of
Hurricane Katrina and the recovery that we can learn from today,
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whether it's the fire recovery in Altadena, HU or what's
to come right. We have ratcheted up the level of
this climate emergency now to where every single major city
and little towns across the country are in a position
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today where we could be looking at this level of disaster.
It doesn't have to be a flood, could be a fire,
could be a tornado, an earthquake, you name it. What
does that look like? What have we learned? And where
are we going with that? And I was citing doctor
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Mabel John, the late and great doctor Mabel John, because
she always said we are the safety net. Now. My
other point is we're not going to scrape our pennies
together and come up with one hundred and forty billion,
which is what was pledged to rebuild New Orleans, in
which a lot of that money is unaccounted for or
was not transparently used, was gobbled up by corporations who
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used it to privatize industry or do whatever they did
with it, and there was little accountability oversight. I have
a feeling that Taco Trump's, Oh, Trump's always chickens out.
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That's what Taco stands for. Trump always chickens out. Taco Trump,
who has back down on some tariffs, but he's so erratic,
you don't know. Because some tariffs, like the India one,
he's holding the line on that that he'll probably change
his mind about dismantling FEMA because I don't think it's
going to be popular with his base, especially since they're
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gonna be in big trouble in those red states if
FEMA goes away, because they're using money that comes from California,
in New York, the high earning states to rebuild Mississippi, Texas.
Places up don't make the kind of money we make,
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so if you just leave it to cities and states,
it's going to be more of a problem for his
Republican constituents than others. That said, you never know what
this dude. He does a lot of things that don't
make sense for his the people he claims to be
representing and helping. And so I think we're going to
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have to look at Yes, you do what you can
in terms of raising money, the issue of how that
money is spent not just on buildings, but on people. Humans.
People are what makeup places. Altadena without the people is
not Altadena. New Orleans without the people is not New Orleans.
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And a lot of those folks never came back thirty
seven percent few you were black people then they had before.
That's not real recovery if the people don't get to
recover and infrastructures get. Infrastructure means not just buildings, It
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means things that serve people, like clinics and libraries and
parks and bus systems. Those have to be invested in,
not just handing checks to corporations, which is what did
end up happening quite a bit from what I can
gather in New Orleans, there is a major energy company
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that got a whole bunch of money to recover, and
yet the electricity it's called energy. They were supposed to
rebuild and rebuild better, and apparently the company took that
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money two hundred million, and we don't know what they
did with it. They're the main electricity provider in New Orleans,
so the government gave them two hundred billion, but there
was no strings attached, like you got to use this
to rebuild the energy grid, and you got to build
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it in a way so that it's smarter and more
resilient for future storms. They didn't do that. They didn't
do that, and now we don't know what happened what
they did with that money. In fact, there was a
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hurricane called Ida about four years ago and people in
New Orleans, a lot of the areas that were hit
by Katrina didn't have any electricity for weeks, which means
that Entergy company did not build that infrastructure back better.
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They don't know who knows what they did with it.
Now they're trying to find Now they're trying to get money,
I guess on a state wide level to fix the
energy infrastructure. But how is that not part of the
one hundred and forty billion that you spent after Katrina.
That's so even a FEMA Underdoze or a FEMA under Trump,
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because I I don't see him actually getting rid of that,
but we'll see, we shall see eight hundred and nine
two oh fifteen eighty. Morris says, I released the Epstein files.
I agree with that. Yeah, truth Speak was insulted that
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I called him a Republican. I'm just going by the
talking points that you put in the chat room. They
tend to be maybe you're an independent like Fred, because
there's lots of independence that say they're not Republicans and
they have Republican talking points. Though forgive me if I
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mistook you based on your policy positions eight hundred nine
to fifteen eighty, eight hundred nine to fifteen eighty. Meanwhile,
we have some issues, lots of issues going on worldwide
and you know, nationally that are unique to this era,
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this second Trump administration, and one of them is the
dismantling of the government infrastructure in the name of saving
money or in the name of making making cuts to
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the budget. But meanwhile, we're spending outrageous amounts of money
giving tax cuts to billionaires in the Big Ugly Bill,
and we are not actually cutting the budget. We are
adding trillions to the deficit while cutting important things like oh,
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I don't know, the Department of Education. I'm not gonna
lie when I heard when I read that in Project
twenty twenty five, I didn't think they would really do it.
I didn't think they would really First of all, I
didn't think they had the authority to do it, which
they probably don't. But by the time the courts rule that,
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it'll be really hard to put that genie back in
the bottle. And so, for all intents and purposes, it
has been. It has been dismantled. And that it's the
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same thing we're seeing with the Consumer Protection Agency. It
is the same thing we are seeing with the CDC, right,
Center for Disease Control, the RFK, the Health and Human
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Services Secretary is saying he is trying to fire the
head of the Center for Disease Control. This is someone
who's confirmed by the Senate. And Bernie Sanders is saying
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she would need to be impeached. She couldn't just be
removed by rf case. You would have to be removed
by the president or by an impeachment. But this is just,
you know, another example of the dismantling of agencies, services programs.
And let me tell you something. I was having a
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conversation with a black business person yesterday. We believe when
we when we started believing this hype about DEI is
only helping white people, white women, you know which white
women need help to. But that also is an untrue
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talking point. It's not the truth. Maybe a lot of
white women got jobs through diversity, equity and inclusion and
those jobs are cut. But we know now something that
I told you from the minute he started this DEI stuff,
that most of those jobs are held by black people,
and specifically black women. I had one of those jobs
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one time, when I was community action director for a
large radio station. I would put that under DEI. They
need they needed help with their relations and their charitable
ventures inside the black communities, not a black owned station.
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That was a DEI job. And I met a lot
of people in other corporations they're DEI people. They were
mostly black women. And we see that with who's gotten
laid off here. And but I said at the time,
it's not just black women in jobs. It's programs, business
support programs, pots of money that were set aside for
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say education in various areas home ownership for example, or
financial literacy, various kinds of financial literacy outreach. That's corporate
outreach that is done through monies that are now being
cut because they're seen as DEI. So those are dollars
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that would flow to black community, to black owned businesses, consultants, educators.
All that money is gone because corporations are preemptively surrendering.
They're taking the money back. They're not hiring black companies,
black consultants, black people because they don't want to be
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accused of DEI. We saw this with the major educational institutions,
places like UCLA, which are public institutions, but they don't
want to admit too many black students now because they're
saying they'll they're worried they'll be accused of DEI. So
it's actually the opposite of affirmative action. It's causing people
to not hire black people and not admit black folks
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to school because they don't want to be accused of DEI,
even if that admission had nothing to do with a
person's race. That's where we are right now, and this
is hurting black individuals in terms of jobs, and it's
hurting black businesses. And let me tell you this is
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going to become clearer and clearer in the next three
hundred and sixty five days. Eight hundred nine two oh
fifteen eighty. That's the number few want to jump in.
I'm Dominique de prima for KBLA talk fifteen eighty A
whole new world. I think that's what's coming to my mind,
and not in a good way. The Foreign Minister of
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Denmark has called in the top US diplomat in Denmark
because apparently some investigative reportings showed that at least three
people connected to our president President Trump have been trying
to do covert influence operations in Greenland. So he got
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the Trump got these little diplomats over there trying to
steal Greenland, and Denmark's not having it. They are telling
the US government has said they do not control the
direct actions of private citizens, and they're basically telling Denmark
to calm down. But if you think about it, think
about that. Okay, this is in Denmark. They're calling calling
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the fore the diplomats in saying hey, stop trying to
do covert operations in Greenland. In other words, stop trying
to steal Greenland for Trump, right because he wants it.
France has summoned the American ambassador to Paris. This this
is Charles Kushner, which is the father of Jared Kushner,
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who's married to Trump's daughter. They summoned him to Paris
because he wrote a letter to Mancron saying that the
country is too anti Semitic and they're not doing enough
to stop anti Semitism. Of course, that's the playbook of
the Trump administration. It's what they're doing with the universities
and other institutions, trying to defund them based on these
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allegations of anti Semitism. But US diplomats, no diplomat, not
just US diplomats, ambassadors are not supposed to meddle in
the affairs of the countries that they serve. They're just
supposed to be there for diplomacy. They're not supposed to
be trying to meddle in the governance of those states.
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France says that they have violated international law by trying
to interfere with the operations of their government, and that
it falls short of the quality of the transatlantic partnership
between France and the United States. So again, these are
these are Trump diplomats, and you've got to you know,
we've been having conversations about this. You've got to put
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it in the context of history. These are things that
are not normal. It's not considered normal. And so what
we're talking about is the US now getting a reputation
where we're not gonna have any trust, Like, how can
you even operate in the international stage if you're just
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going to have your diplomats acting as spies or trying
to unfurl the Steve Miller Donald Trump playbook on other
countries governance. It's just like the way he's using the
tariffs to try and say, oh, you can't prosecute Bolsonario.
We don't want you to do this policy South Africa.
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So we're gonna punish you with tariffs, and by doing that,
we're going to try to control the way you govern.
That's not what diplomats are meant to do. We're talking
about that with John Feeley last week, who was the
former US ambassador to Panama, and how outside the norm
diplomatic relations are right now. If you miss that show,
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just like any other show, you can find the podcast
wherever you get your pods for free, or watch it
on YouTube at KBLA fifteen to eighty. Going to Willy
from Palmdale, Good morning, Willie.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Goodmrning, Dominique Goomar in front page. I mean, come on,
KBLA family, I want to ask you, do you think
a Project twenty twenty five is a result of them
being going to be the minority in twenty fifty? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I think I see what you're saying. A project. You're
saying the Republican Party in this extreme conservative, white supremacist
portfolio becoming a smaller and smaller slice of the electorate,
so they're trying to rig the game. I do think
that's true, not just a Project twenty five, but a
lot of the things that they do, the gerrymandering, the
gas lighting, the changes in voting policy right to try
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to make it harder for black people, young people, women
to vote. Yeah, I think a lot of those are
reactions to the fact that they know because we don't
have to wait till twenty fifty. If you look at
the number of actual votes, as if there were no lines,
there were no districts, it was just one big pool
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of votes. There are more Democrats, There are more people
voting for progressive candidates than there are or even so
called centris candidates. Then there are conservatives. The only thing
that keeps them in power is the way they have
the maps carved up, and the fact that we only
get two senators per state, no matter what the size
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of the state is, and that we still have this
archaic electoral college which means you can lose the popular
vote and still win the White House. And so those
aspects of our government need to change. And I do
agree with you. Project twenty twenty five is to some
degree a means to maintain control even as they are losing,
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and they really have already lost the majority. Willie, welcome
to stay with me. We've got news, traffic and sports
right now. Then we continue this conversation on KBLA Talk
fifteen eighty. You do belong here, and I'm glad that
you are here. Willy from Palmdale called me talking about
Project twenty twenty five. We had to go to news,
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Traffic and sports. But Willy, you're back on.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Oh yes, I'll I'll just say like like like you
was mentioned in God. I don't know how I forget
that name, the one that say spent Christmas in summer time.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I don't know what you're talking about right now, but
I might a bit tired because I was out partying
the babyface in it. Charlie Wilson last night. So you
you're not gonna get I'm not gonna be able to
give you a lifeline today. But uh yeah, you're you're
just really what you were focusing on, Oh, doc, doctor
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mambel John. Okay, yeah, doctor mambel John.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah. Yeah, like you know, like you said, we just
saying that, and uh, I believe you know. It's uh,
people make the world go out. Money. Money is just
a tool to be used and not abused. That's what
I think.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah. Well, and but when you're talking about billions like that,
you have to have I guess, strong oversight. But what
I was saying in reference to Katrina, which applies to
Alta Dina, is that it's it's also what you fund.
We shouldn't just give billions to Edison and say go
fix the infrastructure. We got to subsidize people. We have
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to help people to get back there and stay back there,
and subsidize the things that serve people like libraries and
transit systems and that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
That's true, I believe. But remember when when Katrina hit,
they called them refugees, Yeah, which was I don't know,
I don't know which, I don't know what the status is.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I mean, but that's highly racist too, because you know,
refugees come from other countries. We were all Americans. I mean,
I sound like Jay French right now, but it's true.
All of those folks from Katrina all were just they
called us refugees because we were black. I don't I
don't think they would have called them refugees if they
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were you know, white people in bel air standard on
stranded on rooftops, they would call them, you know, Americans
in need of the services they pay their government for. Yeah,
you know that refugee situation. That was. That's why I
say we have to be so media literate and we
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have to watch, you know, what we accept into our
brains because the language that they use. And that's why
I say, people aren't objective. You can do your best
to be fair, but you can only see the world
through your eyes. What makes you think that black woman
is a refugee? She is, you know what I mean,
She's a victim of a natural disaster. She's a citizen
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of this country. Just because she don't look like you,
I don't know. I appreciate the call. Willie on a
think Tank Thursday, somebody in the chat try and saying
it's a stink tank. Whatever it is, we are, we're
working together here to solve problems and come up with solutions.
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Jeanette from Inglewood, you have the mic.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Good morning, Dominique, thank you for taking my call. I
I'm so very excited about the think tank Tank Thursday,
Think Tank Thursday. Okay, So here's my thoughts for today.
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I just want to focus on two people really quickly
and how they received by speaking, seeing and doing. And
unfortunately one of them is Donald Trump because in nineteen
ninety nine I heard the recording of him talking with
Larry King and how he said that he's considered running
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for president under the Reform Party. And you know, as
the years went on, he kept on speaking and speaking
and look at where he is today. And then the second,
which is my favorite, is Kobe Bryant. His discipline, He
spoke what he wanted, he sought it, and he did
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the work to beat it. He's my inspiration. Second to
the Bible, which the Bible does say that you will
have what you say, and I really do believe that,
and so what I do is I also speak it.
I speak it in the atmosphere by recording it because
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I believe things changes, it's spoken out loud, and some
things you have to keep on saying and recording so
we can catch up. And so my think tank today
is to stand behind Gavin Newsome with the redistricting because
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I believe it should be done because we see what's
going on in Texas and I speak it in I
recording that we the people vote, And my doing, because
I know faith with our works is dead, is to
speak to the people on my job to ask them
to vote, you know, do the mailli in uh. Because
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I have a person that I work with who's Hispanic
and is afraid to go out and vote, I say
million in. So I that's that's my part of being
part of the think tank Thursday, and I was just
thinking maybe people in the chat chat can give some
you know, different ideas or things like that. And then finally, Dominique,
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I want to say this to you. You told us
last year when we were voting. You told us on
many issues that if we don't do this, this is
going to happen. And the biggest thing that you said
is the people that they're going to start deporting is homegrown.
And so let's not forget it looks like we're heading
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in that direction. So thank you, Dominique.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah, thank you, Jeanette. And I want to remind you
because you're always the solutions, right. Jeanette always got an
idea of a plan. And I love that that we
are pledging every single day on this show to be courageous, right,
to be courageous in the face of authoritarianism, fascism, discouragement,
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to be courageous because courage is contagious. It can be
more contagious than COVID, and we need to spread it
around because that's what's required. And we're the only ones
that are going to fix this, right, we are the
ones that are going to fix this. It's not the politicians,
it's not the corporations, it's we, the people. And I
don't even like saying I told you so, because it sucks.
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I want to be wrong, Like I have a friend
that's still holding on to hope that Trump will do
something good or that somehow Trump Trump will turn out
to be right. Look, let me be wrong. I would
be happy. I would be thrilled to be wrong. If
Trump's tariffs turn out to be the best thing ever
for America and business and black business. I will say
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you know what, mister Trump, I'm sorry you were right.
I was wrong, But so far it's not looking like that.
So far. Prices are going up. So far, people are
being deported. Some are illegal so called illegal undocumented. Many
their only crime was coming across the border to try
to get asylum. Some are US citizens, some or just
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people with green cars, or they're here legally on a visa,
and then Trump overturns it because they're trying to meet
quotas about how many people they send out of the country.
And who are these masked men? Like are they even
We don't even know who they are, Like, we don't
know what agency they are, They don't have badge numbers,
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are they even trained? Who are these people kidnapping people
off the streets? We do know that people are faking
being ICE agents, which is really easy. All you have
to do is go get a mask and a vest
and act obnoxious and abridge people's rights. So I mean,
like I said, I don't want to say I told
you so. I would rather say I was wrong. And
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Paul is in the chat saying those are January sixth
people who are pardoned, And I believe that. I believe
that now they're giving fifty thousand dollars signing bonuses and
student loan forgiveness. If you'll be an ice agent. Yeah,
sell your soul for fifty thousand dollars bonus. And I
do think Molly Bell was in a chat talking about
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a moral decision that we have to make, you know,
when whether they're deporting citizens or not. When the slave
catchers were coming for us, some people said, well, that's
not me, that's the n words. And some people said,
I'm going to be a stop on the underground where
a railroad. I'm going to be an abolitionist and speak
out against slavery. I'm going to do something to your
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point about faith without works. And I think we have
to do this. And you know, I've been taking heat online,
especially on Twitter, because when James Farr was in here
on Monday, he's kind of shrugging his shoulders saying, well,
no one cared when the black man was getting harassed
by the police, so why should we prioritize I. And
I'm not critiquing him. That's his position. I understand it.
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And as a black man, he's entitled to his opinion,
just like every man and woman is entitled to their opinion,
but I'm gonna stand on business on this. I think
we have to go with what's right and wrong. Right
is right and wrong is wrong. And I won't be
that person who stood by while the slave catchers took
us and stand by and do nothing. I won't be
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that person because that's not right. And to say, well,
you know, other people are wrong, so I'm going to
be wrong too. I just that's not what we're doing.
That's not what I'm doing, So carry on I can reach.
I've gotten more mean tweets in the past month than
I've ever had in my life, and it's because of
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in all cases, with Jay French and with James Farr,
their positions on race. It shows you where we are
right now in terms of the white lash. Eight hundred
and nine to fifteen eighty. That's the number if you
want to call great to hear from you, Jeannette as
always or keeping it pushing on this think tank Thursday
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on KBLA Talk fifteen eighty and welcome back. In the
the school shooter situation, I almost don't want to talk
about them because I feel like, what do we say?
You know, what do we say? It's another week, another shooting.
You know, the kids were praying. It was a Catholic school.
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The shooter fired through the windows of a church, killed
two kids, seventeen other people wounded, most of them were
kids marking their first week of class. It's an Annunciation
Catholic school. The shooter is dead was a three year
old who went to that school, who shared a manifesto.
The right is saying the person was trans and trying
to make it about being a transgender but you know,
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keep in mind that that's just part of their agenda.
They're talking points, right, they're analyzing what this person wrote online.
But the fact of the matter is that trans people
do not commit more violence. In fact, one tenth of
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one percent of known suspects and mass shootings have been transgender,
less than one tenth of one percent, which means if
we're if we're going by sheer numbers, it's cisgender people
who are killing people in schools, and it's just so disgusting.
It reminds me of the little naz X thing that
I was talking about earlier. You have an anti trans
or an anti gay whatever agenda, so you take a
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tragedy and you use it to further your agenda. That's gross, ghostly, ghastly.
Let's go to Johnny from Long Beach.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Good morning, good money, don't it welcome?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I'm blessed. What's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (33:14):
You said something about we had a guest and he
doesn't feel as though we should, you know, be supportive
of of these people being you know, picked up in everything.
Yees have a different perspective.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, I want to hear perspective. I just want to clarify.
It was James far So. He has his own show
on Saturdays. He's a regular kbl A contributor.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Well, you know, I feel as though this is our
fight too, and and you know, and I know some
people don't feel that way. But you know, if you
go back, if you go back and back in the
day there the civil rights movement, it's like Fred Hampton, okay,
the Black Panthers, they had a coalition with with UH
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with Hispanics. Okay. And I don't understand, you know, I
know there's been tension between us, but you know, right now,
and be a good good thing that if we got
you know, if we showed them support that we got
you know that that we care. You know, I say
the thing about Neli Fuller Junior about him saying about
guaranteeing that no one's mistreated.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
You know, yeah, that's true. That's a good point. The
thing is, Johnny two, I'm not trying to force other
people to think how I think. But I'm just saying
there's right and there's wrong. And the fact is, it
isn't just Latinos either. I mean, there's plenty of Haitians, Africans, uh,
you know, a couple white people are getting deported. And
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so it's the question I think we have to ask ourselves.
Are you okay with masked men being able to kidnap
people off of our streets, not telling anyone where those
people are going and we don't even know what age
and see the folks the kidnappers are with. Are you
okay with that? And do is there any world? Is
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there any American world where this doesn't have a negative
impact on black people in the long run? More cops,
more feds, more people having their rights taken away in
what world does not does that not negatively impact us?
Speaker 4 (35:27):
And you know what a lot of people don't see
it that way, you know, I mean the man, you know,
just look at look at the thing. He's trying the
things he's trying to do. That's all you gotta do.
What's he trying to do? And it doesn't the things
that he's trying to do, does it? Does it affect
us in any way? And I would say yes it
(35:49):
does because you know, it's just a matter of time,
you know, because he brings in martial law, okay, and see,
people don't understand living on the martial law, they can
shoot you on sighte.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Well, and I mean, and we don't have to wait
and see because it's already happening. Look at what's going
on in DC right now with the federal occupation of DC.
Who are they arresting? They are arresting black men. They
are arresting black men. And that's what they're doing. That's
what you look at, not just the postings on social media,
(36:27):
but the numbers so far, it's mostly black men for
whatever the reason is. And we know what that reason is.
That's the real reason they're sending people to black cities,
black lead cities.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Tavas made a great point yesterday two children were murdered
and seventeen injured in Minneapolis. But we're not hearing Trump
talking about sending the National Guarden there. He's sending it
where you are, where your cousins are, where your loved
ones live. That's who's getting in DC. They're not even
saying it's about immigration, although they are arresting some so
(37:06):
called They do have ice there and they are arresting
some so called migrants, but a lot of it is crime.
That's the excuse they're using now. Crime. Crime is rampant.
That's why they say they're going to occupy Oakland and Chicago,
and that's why they're doing DC. And crime is nothing
more than a euphemism, a code word for black people.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
When you put people in that situation, it's the powder keg. Okay,
it's just a matter of time. It's good, something happens.
It's going to happen. You know. It's shout the law
arrogance you bring you if you hit all these cities. Okay.
You know. Good thing I fear is those Tobacca tours okay,
and those are the ones that concerned me. Okay. You know,
(37:54):
you know, and I think that right now we need
to go to these junngsters and tell him, look, you know,
we got you back, but you know what they're coming
after you and you have to make the adjustment. I mean,
you know, we're here for you, but you got you
have to make that adjustment because, to be honest about it,
I feel as though we let we let we let
our youngsters down back in the day, back when we
(38:18):
cracked and cracked and you know, came into our community.
You know, gangster, you know music, music, and people are
killing one another. It's like, I think that we have
some responsibility in this and right now we need to
get to our youth and say, look, the you know
here's goal is to come after you. But when he
(38:39):
when he does, it's like all of us are going
to be affected by it.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Yeah, you're right. Not only that, I mean I feel
like we let young people down during COVID, to be
honest with you, and we're still letting them down because
all of the said stuff we said we were going
to do, as far as mental health support and counselors
and helping them get into college is in supporting their
long term recovery has been nothing more than lip service.
(39:05):
Now you've got a generation of people with multiple traumas,
right George Floyd COVID. Now this presidency fascism, and I
think you're right, it's our job to fix it or
do what we can to fix it.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
You know, you know what that they don't they don't
they don't care about life. When you go back to
Sandy Hooks, Okay, I thought that after Stanley Hooks that
they would do something about guns. This cuts you as belt.
I mean, if you think about the people who they
sent over here, they they emptied the jails. So if
you think about the element that came here, they came
(39:50):
here and they're buying people, you know, and I think
I think they get travels down, you know, the different
you know, uh, decades of people in that you know,
it's it's the violence.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
And I mean, yeah, we're gonna have to leave it there, Johnny,
because I'm up against news, traffic, and sports right here.
But we continue the conversation on another day because it's
an important topic. Attorney Carl Douglas is here and we're
talking so called less lethal you'll be less dead weaponry
next on KBLA Talk fifteen to eighty
KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. I guess you had to be there. Wooh,
that was a great show. I mean, I'm talking about hits,
hits hit. I didn't even realize that Babyface wrote sitting
Up in My Room one of those songs I love
by Brandy I'm your Baby Tonight, dial my Heart to Occasions,
(00:25):
my My, my Mam. Every time I close my eyes
rock Steady, I'm exhale from waiting to exhale, of course,
another sad love song, I'll make love to you, baby,
baby Baby. These are all so many different artists. The
insight of that man's brain must be just hit songs.
(00:46):
I don't know how there would be room for anything
else anyway, big fun and it's just it's got. I'll
be listening to Charlie, Uncle Charlie and baby Face all
day to day. So think tank Thursday is a thing now.
Thank you very much Quamell for setting it off, and
also to Jacqueline Anderson, who won our knowledge pack for
(01:11):
coming up with a name think tank Thursday with our contest.
We will develop this and there may be more and
more features to it, but right now it's kind of
like a version of Talking Point Thursday, where you know,
whether it's in the chat at KBLA fifteen eighty on YouTube,
or whether it's on the phone at eight hundred and
(01:32):
nine to oh fifteen eighty, or in the comments somewhere
that you share your thoughts, your brain power on how
to address this issue. And today, the question that I
posed is what are the lessons of the disaster of
Hurricane Katrina and the recovery that we can learn from today,
(01:57):
whether it's the fire recovery in Altadena, HU or what's
to come right. We have ratcheted up the level of
this climate emergency now to where every single major city
and little towns across the country are in a position
(02:18):
today where we could be looking at this level of disaster.
It doesn't have to be a flood, could be a fire,
could be a tornado, an earthquake, you name it. What
does that look like? What have we learned? And where
are we going with that? And I was citing doctor
(02:39):
Mabel John, the late and great doctor Mabel John, because
she always said we are the safety net. Now. My
other point is we're not going to scrape our pennies
together and come up with one hundred and forty billion,
which is what was pledged to rebuild New Orleans, in
which a lot of that money is unaccounted for or
was not transparently used, was gobbled up by corporations who
(03:02):
used it to privatize industry or do whatever they did
with it, and there was little accountability oversight. I have
a feeling that Taco Trump's, Oh, Trump's always chickens out.
(03:23):
That's what Taco stands for. Trump always chickens out. Taco Trump,
who has back down on some tariffs, but he's so erratic,
you don't know. Because some tariffs, like the India one,
he's holding the line on that that he'll probably change
his mind about dismantling FEMA because I don't think it's
going to be popular with his base, especially since they're
(03:48):
gonna be in big trouble in those red states if
FEMA goes away, because they're using money that comes from California,
in New York, the high earning states to rebuild Mississippi, Texas.
Places up don't make the kind of money we make,
(04:11):
so if you just leave it to cities and states,
it's going to be more of a problem for his
Republican constituents than others. That said, you never know what
this dude. He does a lot of things that don't
make sense for his the people he claims to be
representing and helping. And so I think we're going to
(04:33):
have to look at Yes, you do what you can
in terms of raising money, the issue of how that
money is spent not just on buildings, but on people. Humans.
People are what makeup places. Altadena without the people is
not Altadena. New Orleans without the people is not New Orleans.
(04:55):
And a lot of those folks never came back thirty
seven percent few you were black people then they had before.
That's not real recovery if the people don't get to
recover and infrastructures get. Infrastructure means not just buildings, It
(05:17):
means things that serve people, like clinics and libraries and
parks and bus systems. Those have to be invested in,
not just handing checks to corporations, which is what did
end up happening quite a bit from what I can
gather in New Orleans, there is a major energy company
(05:43):
that got a whole bunch of money to recover, and
yet the electricity it's called energy. They were supposed to
rebuild and rebuild better, and apparently the company took that
(06:07):
money two hundred million, and we don't know what they
did with it. They're the main electricity provider in New Orleans,
so the government gave them two hundred billion, but there
was no strings attached, like you got to use this
to rebuild the energy grid, and you got to build
(06:27):
it in a way so that it's smarter and more
resilient for future storms. They didn't do that. They didn't
do that, and now we don't know what happened what
they did with that money. In fact, there was a
(06:48):
hurricane called Ida about four years ago and people in
New Orleans, a lot of the areas that were hit
by Katrina didn't have any electricity for weeks, which means
that Entergy company did not build that infrastructure back better.
(07:08):
They don't know who knows what they did with it.
Now they're trying to find Now they're trying to get money,
I guess on a state wide level to fix the
energy infrastructure. But how is that not part of the
one hundred and forty billion that you spent after Katrina.
That's so even a FEMA Underdoze or a FEMA under Trump,
(07:35):
because I I don't see him actually getting rid of that,
but we'll see, we shall see eight hundred and nine
two oh fifteen eighty. Morris says, I released the Epstein files.
I agree with that. Yeah, truth Speak was insulted that
(07:59):
I called him a Republican. I'm just going by the
talking points that you put in the chat room. They
tend to be maybe you're an independent like Fred, because
there's lots of independence that say they're not Republicans and
they have Republican talking points. Though forgive me if I
(08:20):
mistook you based on your policy positions eight hundred nine
to fifteen eighty, eight hundred nine to fifteen eighty. Meanwhile,
we have some issues, lots of issues going on worldwide
and you know, nationally that are unique to this era,
(08:42):
this second Trump administration, and one of them is the
dismantling of the government infrastructure in the name of saving
money or in the name of making making cuts to
(09:06):
the budget. But meanwhile, we're spending outrageous amounts of money
giving tax cuts to billionaires in the Big Ugly Bill,
and we are not actually cutting the budget. We are
adding trillions to the deficit while cutting important things like oh,
(09:28):
I don't know, the Department of Education. I'm not gonna
lie when I heard when I read that in Project
twenty twenty five, I didn't think they would really do it.
I didn't think they would really First of all, I
didn't think they had the authority to do it, which
they probably don't. But by the time the courts rule that,
(09:53):
it'll be really hard to put that genie back in
the bottle. And so, for all intents and purposes, it
has been. It has been dismantled. And that it's the
(10:15):
same thing we're seeing with the Consumer Protection Agency. It
is the same thing we are seeing with the CDC, right,
Center for Disease Control, the RFK, the Health and Human
(10:35):
Services Secretary is saying he is trying to fire the
head of the Center for Disease Control. This is someone
who's confirmed by the Senate. And Bernie Sanders is saying
(10:57):
she would need to be impeached. She couldn't just be
removed by rf case. You would have to be removed
by the president or by an impeachment. But this is just,
you know, another example of the dismantling of agencies, services programs.
And let me tell you something. I was having a
(11:19):
conversation with a black business person yesterday. We believe when
we when we started believing this hype about DEI is
only helping white people, white women, you know which white
women need help to. But that also is an untrue
(11:41):
talking point. It's not the truth. Maybe a lot of
white women got jobs through diversity, equity and inclusion and
those jobs are cut. But we know now something that
I told you from the minute he started this DEI stuff,
that most of those jobs are held by black people,
and specifically black women. I had one of those jobs
(12:02):
one time, when I was community action director for a
large radio station. I would put that under DEI. They
need they needed help with their relations and their charitable
ventures inside the black communities, not a black owned station.
(12:25):
That was a DEI job. And I met a lot
of people in other corporations they're DEI people. They were
mostly black women. And we see that with who's gotten
laid off here. And but I said at the time,
it's not just black women in jobs. It's programs, business
support programs, pots of money that were set aside for
(12:49):
say education in various areas home ownership for example, or
financial literacy, various kinds of financial literacy outreach. That's corporate
outreach that is done through monies that are now being
cut because they're seen as DEI. So those are dollars
(13:12):
that would flow to black community, to black owned businesses, consultants, educators.
All that money is gone because corporations are preemptively surrendering.
They're taking the money back. They're not hiring black companies,
black consultants, black people because they don't want to be
(13:34):
accused of DEI. We saw this with the major educational institutions,
places like UCLA, which are public institutions, but they don't
want to admit too many black students now because they're
saying they'll they're worried they'll be accused of DEI. So
it's actually the opposite of affirmative action. It's causing people
to not hire black people and not admit black folks
(13:58):
to school because they don't want to be accused of DEI,
even if that admission had nothing to do with a
person's race. That's where we are right now, and this
is hurting black individuals in terms of jobs, and it's
hurting black businesses. And let me tell you this is
(14:21):
going to become clearer and clearer in the next three
hundred and sixty five days. Eight hundred nine two oh
fifteen eighty. That's the number few want to jump in.
I'm Dominique de prima for KBLA talk fifteen eighty A
whole new world. I think that's what's coming to my mind,
and not in a good way. The Foreign Minister of
(14:43):
Denmark has called in the top US diplomat in Denmark
because apparently some investigative reportings showed that at least three
people connected to our president President Trump have been trying
to do covert influence operations in Greenland. So he got
(15:08):
the Trump got these little diplomats over there trying to
steal Greenland, and Denmark's not having it. They are telling
the US government has said they do not control the
direct actions of private citizens, and they're basically telling Denmark
to calm down. But if you think about it, think
about that. Okay, this is in Denmark. They're calling calling
(15:31):
the fore the diplomats in saying hey, stop trying to
do covert operations in Greenland. In other words, stop trying
to steal Greenland for Trump, right because he wants it.
France has summoned the American ambassador to Paris. This this
is Charles Kushner, which is the father of Jared Kushner,
(15:56):
who's married to Trump's daughter. They summoned him to Paris
because he wrote a letter to Mancron saying that the
country is too anti Semitic and they're not doing enough
to stop anti Semitism. Of course, that's the playbook of
the Trump administration. It's what they're doing with the universities
and other institutions, trying to defund them based on these
(16:19):
allegations of anti Semitism. But US diplomats, no diplomat, not
just US diplomats, ambassadors are not supposed to meddle in
the affairs of the countries that they serve. They're just
supposed to be there for diplomacy. They're not supposed to
be trying to meddle in the governance of those states.
(16:43):
France says that they have violated international law by trying
to interfere with the operations of their government, and that
it falls short of the quality of the transatlantic partnership
between France and the United States. So again, these are
these are Trump diplomats, and you've got to you know,
we've been having conversations about this. You've got to put
(17:08):
it in the context of history. These are things that
are not normal. It's not considered normal. And so what
we're talking about is the US now getting a reputation
where we're not gonna have any trust, Like, how can
you even operate in the international stage if you're just
(17:31):
going to have your diplomats acting as spies or trying
to unfurl the Steve Miller Donald Trump playbook on other
countries governance. It's just like the way he's using the
tariffs to try and say, oh, you can't prosecute Bolsonario.
We don't want you to do this policy South Africa.
(17:53):
So we're gonna punish you with tariffs, and by doing that,
we're going to try to control the way you govern.
That's not what diplomats are meant to do. We're talking
about that with John Feeley last week, who was the
former US ambassador to Panama, and how outside the norm
diplomatic relations are right now. If you miss that show,
(18:15):
just like any other show, you can find the podcast
wherever you get your pods for free, or watch it
on YouTube at KBLA fifteen to eighty. Going to Willy
from Palmdale, Good morning, Willie.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Goodmrning, Dominique Goomar in front page. I mean, come on,
KBLA family, I want to ask you, do you think
a Project twenty twenty five is a result of them
being going to be the minority in twenty fifty? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I think I see what you're saying. A project. You're
saying the Republican Party in this extreme conservative, white supremacist
portfolio becoming a smaller and smaller slice of the electorate,
so they're trying to rig the game. I do think
that's true, not just a Project twenty five, but a
lot of the things that they do, the gerrymandering, the
gas lighting, the changes in voting policy right to try
(19:10):
to make it harder for black people, young people, women
to vote. Yeah, I think a lot of those are
reactions to the fact that they know because we don't
have to wait till twenty fifty. If you look at
the number of actual votes, as if there were no lines,
there were no districts, it was just one big pool
(19:31):
of votes. There are more Democrats, There are more people
voting for progressive candidates than there are or even so
called centris candidates. Then there are conservatives. The only thing
that keeps them in power is the way they have
the maps carved up, and the fact that we only
get two senators per state, no matter what the size
(19:52):
of the state is, and that we still have this
archaic electoral college which means you can lose the popular
vote and still win the White House. And so those
aspects of our government need to change. And I do
agree with you. Project twenty twenty five is to some
degree a means to maintain control even as they are losing,
(20:15):
and they really have already lost the majority. Willie, welcome
to stay with me. We've got news, traffic and sports
right now. Then we continue this conversation on KBLA Talk
fifteen eighty. You do belong here, and I'm glad that
you are here. Willy from Palmdale called me talking about
Project twenty twenty five. We had to go to news,
(20:37):
Traffic and sports. But Willy, you're back on.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Oh yes, I'll I'll just say like like like you
was mentioned in God. I don't know how I forget
that name, the one that say spent Christmas in summer time.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I don't know what you're talking about right now, but
I might a bit tired because I was out partying
the babyface in it. Charlie Wilson last night. So you
you're not gonna get I'm not gonna be able to
give you a lifeline today. But uh yeah, you're you're
just really what you were focusing on, Oh, doc, doctor
(21:18):
mambel John. Okay, yeah, doctor mambel John.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah. Yeah, like you know, like you said, we just
saying that, and uh, I believe you know. It's uh,
people make the world go out. Money. Money is just
a tool to be used and not abused. That's what
I think.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah. Well, and but when you're talking about billions like that,
you have to have I guess, strong oversight. But what
I was saying in reference to Katrina, which applies to
Alta Dina, is that it's it's also what you fund.
We shouldn't just give billions to Edison and say go
fix the infrastructure. We got to subsidize people. We have
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to help people to get back there and stay back there,
and subsidize the things that serve people like libraries and
transit systems and that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
That's true, I believe. But remember when when Katrina hit,
they called them refugees, Yeah, which was I don't know,
I don't know which, I don't know what the status is.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I mean, but that's highly racist too, because you know,
refugees come from other countries. We were all Americans. I mean,
I sound like Jay French right now, but it's true.
All of those folks from Katrina all were just they
called us refugees because we were black. I don't I
don't think they would have called them refugees if they
(22:45):
were you know, white people in bel air standard on
stranded on rooftops, they would call them, you know, Americans
in need of the services they pay their government for. Yeah,
you know that refugee situation. That was. That's why I
say we have to be so media literate and we
(23:06):
have to watch, you know, what we accept into our
brains because the language that they use. And that's why
I say, people aren't objective. You can do your best
to be fair, but you can only see the world
through your eyes. What makes you think that black woman
is a refugee? She is, you know what I mean,
She's a victim of a natural disaster. She's a citizen
(23:29):
of this country. Just because she don't look like you,
I don't know. I appreciate the call. Willie on a
think Tank Thursday, somebody in the chat try and saying
it's a stink tank. Whatever it is, we are, we're
working together here to solve problems and come up with solutions.
(23:51):
Jeanette from Inglewood, you have the mic.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Good morning, Dominique, thank you for taking my call. I
I'm so very excited about the think tank Tank Thursday,
Think Tank Thursday. Okay, So here's my thoughts for today.
(24:16):
I just want to focus on two people really quickly
and how they received by speaking, seeing and doing. And
unfortunately one of them is Donald Trump because in nineteen
ninety nine I heard the recording of him talking with
Larry King and how he said that he's considered running
(24:37):
for president under the Reform Party. And you know, as
the years went on, he kept on speaking and speaking
and look at where he is today. And then the second,
which is my favorite, is Kobe Bryant. His discipline, He
spoke what he wanted, he sought it, and he did
(24:58):
the work to beat it. He's my inspiration. Second to
the Bible, which the Bible does say that you will
have what you say, and I really do believe that,
and so what I do is I also speak it.
I speak it in the atmosphere by recording it because
(25:21):
I believe things changes, it's spoken out loud, and some
things you have to keep on saying and recording so
we can catch up. And so my think tank today
is to stand behind Gavin Newsome with the redistricting because
(25:42):
I believe it should be done because we see what's
going on in Texas and I speak it in I
recording that we the people vote, And my doing, because
I know faith with our works is dead, is to
speak to the people on my job to ask them
to vote, you know, do the mailli in uh. Because
(26:06):
I have a person that I work with who's Hispanic
and is afraid to go out and vote, I say
million in. So I that's that's my part of being
part of the think tank Thursday, and I was just
thinking maybe people in the chat chat can give some
you know, different ideas or things like that. And then finally, Dominique,
(26:28):
I want to say this to you. You told us
last year when we were voting. You told us on
many issues that if we don't do this, this is
going to happen. And the biggest thing that you said
is the people that they're going to start deporting is homegrown.
And so let's not forget it looks like we're heading
(26:51):
in that direction. So thank you, Dominique.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah, thank you, Jeanette. And I want to remind you
because you're always the solutions, right. Jeanette always got an
idea of a plan. And I love that that we
are pledging every single day on this show to be courageous, right,
to be courageous in the face of authoritarianism, fascism, discouragement,
(27:18):
to be courageous because courage is contagious. It can be
more contagious than COVID, and we need to spread it
around because that's what's required. And we're the only ones
that are going to fix this, right, we are the
ones that are going to fix this. It's not the politicians,
it's not the corporations, it's we, the people. And I
don't even like saying I told you so, because it sucks.
(27:40):
I want to be wrong, Like I have a friend
that's still holding on to hope that Trump will do
something good or that somehow Trump Trump will turn out
to be right. Look, let me be wrong. I would
be happy. I would be thrilled to be wrong. If
Trump's tariffs turn out to be the best thing ever
for America and business and black business. I will say
(28:00):
you know what, mister Trump, I'm sorry you were right.
I was wrong, But so far it's not looking like that.
So far. Prices are going up. So far, people are
being deported. Some are illegal so called illegal undocumented. Many
their only crime was coming across the border to try
to get asylum. Some are US citizens, some or just
(28:24):
people with green cars, or they're here legally on a visa,
and then Trump overturns it because they're trying to meet
quotas about how many people they send out of the country.
And who are these masked men? Like are they even
We don't even know who they are, Like, we don't
know what agency they are, They don't have badge numbers,
(28:45):
are they even trained? Who are these people kidnapping people
off the streets? We do know that people are faking
being ICE agents, which is really easy. All you have
to do is go get a mask and a vest
and act obnoxious and abridge people's rights. So I mean,
like I said, I don't want to say I told
you so. I would rather say I was wrong. And
(29:10):
Paul is in the chat saying those are January sixth
people who are pardoned, And I believe that. I believe
that now they're giving fifty thousand dollars signing bonuses and
student loan forgiveness. If you'll be an ice agent. Yeah,
sell your soul for fifty thousand dollars bonus. And I
do think Molly Bell was in a chat talking about
(29:33):
a moral decision that we have to make, you know,
when whether they're deporting citizens or not. When the slave
catchers were coming for us, some people said, well, that's
not me, that's the n words. And some people said,
I'm going to be a stop on the underground where
a railroad. I'm going to be an abolitionist and speak
out against slavery. I'm going to do something to your
(29:57):
point about faith without works. And I think we have
to do this. And you know, I've been taking heat online,
especially on Twitter, because when James Farr was in here
on Monday, he's kind of shrugging his shoulders saying, well,
no one cared when the black man was getting harassed
by the police, so why should we prioritize I. And
I'm not critiquing him. That's his position. I understand it.
(30:20):
And as a black man, he's entitled to his opinion,
just like every man and woman is entitled to their opinion,
but I'm gonna stand on business on this. I think
we have to go with what's right and wrong. Right
is right and wrong is wrong. And I won't be
that person who stood by while the slave catchers took
us and stand by and do nothing. I won't be
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that person because that's not right. And to say, well,
you know, other people are wrong, so I'm going to
be wrong too. I just that's not what we're doing.
That's not what I'm doing, So carry on I can reach.
I've gotten more mean tweets in the past month than
I've ever had in my life, and it's because of
(31:03):
in all cases, with Jay French and with James Farr,
their positions on race. It shows you where we are
right now in terms of the white lash. Eight hundred
and nine to fifteen eighty. That's the number if you
want to call great to hear from you, Jeannette as
always or keeping it pushing on this think tank Thursday
(31:26):
on KBLA Talk fifteen eighty and welcome back. In the
the school shooter situation, I almost don't want to talk
about them because I feel like, what do we say?
You know, what do we say? It's another week, another shooting.
You know, the kids were praying. It was a Catholic school.
(31:46):
The shooter fired through the windows of a church, killed
two kids, seventeen other people wounded, most of them were
kids marking their first week of class. It's an Annunciation
Catholic school. The shooter is dead was a three year
old who went to that school, who shared a manifesto.
The right is saying the person was trans and trying
to make it about being a transgender but you know,
(32:11):
keep in mind that that's just part of their agenda.
They're talking points, right, they're analyzing what this person wrote online.
But the fact of the matter is that trans people
do not commit more violence. In fact, one tenth of
(32:33):
one percent of known suspects and mass shootings have been transgender,
less than one tenth of one percent, which means if
we're if we're going by sheer numbers, it's cisgender people
who are killing people in schools, and it's just so disgusting.
It reminds me of the little naz X thing that
I was talking about earlier. You have an anti trans
or an anti gay whatever agenda, so you take a
(32:55):
tragedy and you use it to further your agenda. That's gross, ghostly, ghastly.
Let's go to Johnny from Long Beach.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Good morning, good money, don't it welcome?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I'm blessed. What's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (33:14):
You said something about we had a guest and he
doesn't feel as though we should, you know, be supportive
of of these people being you know, picked up in everything.
Yees have a different perspective.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, I want to hear perspective. I just want to clarify.
It was James far So. He has his own show
on Saturdays. He's a regular kbl A contributor.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Well, you know, I feel as though this is our
fight too, and and you know, and I know some
people don't feel that way. But you know, if you
go back, if you go back and back in the
day there the civil rights movement, it's like Fred Hampton, okay,
the Black Panthers, they had a coalition with with UH
(33:58):
with Hispanics. Okay. And I don't understand, you know, I
know there's been tension between us, but you know, right now,
and be a good good thing that if we got
you know, if we showed them support that we got
you know that that we care. You know, I say
the thing about Neli Fuller Junior about him saying about
guaranteeing that no one's mistreated.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
You know, yeah, that's true. That's a good point. The
thing is, Johnny two, I'm not trying to force other
people to think how I think. But I'm just saying
there's right and there's wrong. And the fact is, it
isn't just Latinos either. I mean, there's plenty of Haitians, Africans, uh,
you know, a couple white people are getting deported. And
(34:45):
so it's the question I think we have to ask ourselves.
Are you okay with masked men being able to kidnap
people off of our streets, not telling anyone where those
people are going and we don't even know what age
and see the folks the kidnappers are with. Are you
okay with that? And do is there any world? Is
(35:07):
there any American world where this doesn't have a negative
impact on black people in the long run? More cops,
more feds, more people having their rights taken away in
what world does not does that not negatively impact us?
Speaker 4 (35:27):
And you know what a lot of people don't see
it that way, you know, I mean the man, you know,
just look at look at the thing. He's trying the
things he's trying to do. That's all you gotta do.
What's he trying to do? And it doesn't the things
that he's trying to do, does it? Does it affect
us in any way? And I would say yes it
(35:49):
does because you know, it's just a matter of time,
you know, because he brings in martial law, okay, and see,
people don't understand living on the martial law, they can
shoot you on sighte.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Well, and I mean, and we don't have to wait
and see because it's already happening. Look at what's going
on in DC right now with the federal occupation of DC.
Who are they arresting? They are arresting black men. They
are arresting black men. And that's what they're doing. That's
what you look at, not just the postings on social media,
(36:27):
but the numbers so far, it's mostly black men for
whatever the reason is. And we know what that reason is.
That's the real reason they're sending people to black cities,
black lead cities.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Tavas made a great point yesterday two children were murdered
and seventeen injured in Minneapolis. But we're not hearing Trump
talking about sending the National Guarden there. He's sending it
where you are, where your cousins are, where your loved
ones live. That's who's getting in DC. They're not even
saying it's about immigration, although they are arresting some so
(37:06):
called They do have ice there and they are arresting
some so called migrants, but a lot of it is crime.
That's the excuse they're using now. Crime. Crime is rampant.
That's why they say they're going to occupy Oakland and Chicago,
and that's why they're doing DC. And crime is nothing
more than a euphemism, a code word for black people.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
When you put people in that situation, it's the powder keg. Okay,
it's just a matter of time. It's good, something happens.
It's going to happen. You know. It's shout the law
arrogance you bring you if you hit all these cities. Okay.
You know. Good thing I fear is those Tobacca tours okay,
and those are the ones that concerned me. Okay. You know,
(37:54):
you know, and I think that right now we need
to go to these junngsters and tell him, look, you know,
we got you back, but you know what they're coming
after you and you have to make the adjustment. I mean,
you know, we're here for you, but you got you
have to make that adjustment because, to be honest about it,
I feel as though we let we let we let
our youngsters down back in the day, back when we
(38:18):
cracked and cracked and you know, came into our community.
You know, gangster, you know music, music, and people are
killing one another. It's like, I think that we have
some responsibility in this and right now we need to
get to our youth and say, look, the you know
here's goal is to come after you. But when he
(38:39):
when he does, it's like all of us are going
to be affected by it.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Yeah, you're right. Not only that, I mean I feel
like we let young people down during COVID, to be
honest with you, and we're still letting them down because
all of the said stuff we said we were going
to do, as far as mental health support and counselors
and helping them get into college is in supporting their
long term recovery has been nothing more than lip service.
(39:05):
Now you've got a generation of people with multiple traumas,
right George Floyd COVID. Now this presidency fascism, and I
think you're right, it's our job to fix it or
do what we can to fix it.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
You know, you know what that they don't they don't
they don't care about life. When you go back to
Sandy Hooks, Okay, I thought that after Stanley Hooks that
they would do something about guns. This cuts you as belt.
I mean, if you think about the people who they
sent over here, they they emptied the jails. So if
you think about the element that came here, they came
(39:50):
here and they're buying people, you know, and I think
I think they get travels down, you know, the different
you know, uh, decades of people in that you know,
it's it's the violence.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
And I mean, yeah, we're gonna have to leave it there, Johnny,
because I'm up against news, traffic, and sports right here.
But we continue the conversation on another day because it's
an important topic. Attorney Carl Douglas is here and we're
talking so called less lethal you'll be less dead weaponry
next on KBLA Talk fifteen to eighty
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