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Speaker 1 (00:15):
He is my king, he is my one.
Yes, he's my father.
Yes, he's my son.
I can talk to him cause heeverything I go through and
everything I am.
He's my support system.
I can't live without him.
The best thing since slicedbread is his kiss, his hugs, his
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lips, his touch.
And I just want the whole worldto know about my black brother.
I love you and I'll never tryto hurt you.
I want you to know that I'mhere for you forever, true,
cause you're my black brother,strong brother, and there is no
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one above you.
I want you to know that I'mhere for you for who ever, true,
he's misunderstood.
Some say that he's up to no goodaround the neighborhood.
Well, for your information, alot of my brothers got education
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.
Now check it.
You got your Wall Streetbrother, your blue collar
brother.
You're down for whatever.
Chilling on the corner brother,you're a talented brother.
And to every one of y'allbehind bars, you know that Angie
loves you.
My black brother, brother, Ilove you, I'll never try to.
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No, no, no.
I want you to know that I'mhere for you.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Peace, peace, and welcome back to the Freedmen's
Affairs Radio, the Freedmen'sNetwork.
There is no one Peace toeveryone.
I want you to know that.
March 4th 2025 Peace toeveryone.
Today, march 4th 2025, cultureor culture?
Freedom Is the math for the daythat we're gonna deal with.
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And what is culture, culture?
Culture is one's way of life Inevery aspect.
And what is culture?
Culture is one's way of life inevery aspect and of people,
activities in that life.
Everyone has a right to expresstheir own culture and the way
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they live.
Not saying that's not withoutconsequence for the choices you
make, but still in all, you havethe freedom to express your
culture.
So we open up with that andhopefully we can understand that
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.
And you hear the music playing.
You hear the music playingabout their angel, angie Stone,
and it's so heartbreaking tocome up here and do this.
As you heard, on Saturday welost sister angie stone and, um,
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it's a, it's a very, it wasvery sombering and and also on
the heels you know the heels ofthat on the heels of that, we
lost also the great, great,roberta Flock, and we're going
to be talking about those thingsup here today.
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I'm going to see.
Can I pull in the report andfamily.
She was 63 years old.
First, let's go into the holdon.
Let's just get a little bitabout our sister here.
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Let me turn the music back downand let me turn this mic down a
little bit so you can hear and,uh, you won't get no distortion
.
But uh, yeah, family, yeah,unfortunately, unfortunately
born angie laverne stone ondecember 18th 1961 was an
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american singer, songwriter,actress and record producer.
She rose to fame in the late1970s as a member of the hip-hop
trio the sequence.
In the early 1990s she became amember of the r&b trio vertical
hold.
Stone, then signed with artistarecords to release her debut
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solo album, black Diamond, in1999, which received gold
certification by the RecordingIndustry Association of America
and spawned the single no MoreRain in this cloud.
Yeah, beautiful song that was.
I might even play that up hereduring today's podcast.
I might even play that up heredoing doing today's podcast.
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And she was born in Columbia,south Carolina, and that is,
that is the home of my ancestralhome, as I've mentioned various
times up here on on the program.
I've mentioned that and this isvery touching as a result of a
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car vehicle collision on her wayfrom doing a show.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Let's see, can we get the report in for that.
We start now with some breakingnews.
Grammy-nominatedsinger-songwriter Angie Stone
has died in a car accident inMontgomery County.
A spokesperson with her teamhas confirmed this with WSFA 12
News.
Joining us live now is ourreporter, simon Schuster.
And Simon, you spoke withStone's publicist.
What can you tell us?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Yeah, Monet Stone's publicist, Deborah Champagne,
tells me the singer was leavinga performance when the crash
happened.
According to the Alabama LawEnforcement Agency, it was on
I-65 around 7 am.
This is a look at the sceneabout two miles south of Hope
Hall.
According to Champagne, thesinger was supposed to meet her
in Maryland today for aperformance at the CIAA
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basketball tournament.
She had just performed lastnight at the 2025 Grand
Marshalls Ball in Mobile.
That's according to the Mobilearea Mardi Gras Association.
Stone's publicist remembers heras an honest, talented person
that left a big impact on themusic industry.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Her songwriting skills were second to none.
Literally, she wrote a lot ofsongs for the Sugarhill Gang
label that she never got creditfor, but she was just an
incredible talent.
I mean when I say very smart,she was just a very, very smart
woman.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
And the crash did block the left northbound lane
and the left southbound lanes,but Aaliyah Troopers declared
all lanes open and the sceneclear at 11 am today.
I'm told that multiple peoplewere also in the van you saw in
those pictures, but the singerwas the only person to have died
.
Nothing further is available atthis time and Aaliyah Troopers
continue to investigate theincident.
Monet.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Simon, thank you.
Stone rose to fame as a memberof the Sequence, a pioneering
female rap group.
She was only 63 years old.
Wsfa has reached out to AlabamaLaw Enforcement Agency for more
information.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, so you heard it reached out to Alabama Law
Enforcement Agency for moreinformation.
Yeah, so you heard it 63 yearsold, there were nine people
total.
In the vehicle that Miss Stonewas traveling in.
There were nine people and shewas the only fatality, according
to reports.
So it was another story Iwanted to bring up here with her
(08:04):
.
Hold on, let me see, can I findit.
Of course I'm doing thisprogram so I'm not going to be
able to find it, but anyway.
But anyway, yeah, family, therewas nine people in the total
coming from a show she justperformed then in Alabama I
think it was Montgomery, Ibelieve, and this her, her, the
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van she was in rolled over.
It was a Mercedes Sprinter.
It rolled over and was thenstruck by a semi-truck and this
is what caused her death.
Now people are saying thatthere's some conspiracy
theorists out there.
You know, we can't really haveanything without people.
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You know the conspiracytheorists.
And people are saying, oh, shewas killed because recently she
had spoke out about her notgetting paid for different
projects that she had done, haddone, and music that she had
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written that the industrycheated her out of, or whatever
label she was signed to.
They didn't pay her money andthis is why she was still
performing.
Now, what some people aresaying is she was performing
because she had to make themoney she was supposed.
She said it herself that shewas supposed to retire 20 years
ago and wasn't able to becauseher not getting her money, the
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money that was owed to her.
They beat her out of a lot ofmoney.
And I believe that the childrenshe has two children, I think, a
son and a daughter, and twograndchildren, and two
grandchildren, according toreports, and this is so ironic
because the day she died, theday she passed away, was on
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Saturday the 1st, and that wasthe birthday of her son.
Yeah, ain't that something?
So yeah, but I suspect that thefamily will go after those
royalties and whatever moniesthat the industry owes her,
because she has children andgrandchildren.
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That's going to inherit herestate.
And, yeah, family, it's been arough ride, rough ride Been a
rough ride this last week.
It's been a rough ride, roughride Been a rough ride this last
week.
And also, as I stated, losingour other songstress, roberta
Flack, and that was crazy.
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That was crazy also.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
Hold on, let me see, can I get that in here and fans
around the world are mourningthe loss of Grammy-winning
songstress Roberta Flack.
Flack was one of the mostfamous voices to come out of our
area.
She reached international famewith her string of hits,
including Killing Me Softly withhis song, and the First Time
Ever I Saw your Face.
Flack got her start here in DC,first as a student at Howard
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University and then as a DCpublic school teacher and then a
musician.
News 4's Mark Seagraves joinsus now.
Mark, I had to stop myself.
I wanted to start singing.
The first time ever I saw yourface.
I know that you, andspecifically your father, had a
special connection to RobertaFlack.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Yeah, that's right.
As I've noted over the years insome reports, my dad was the
music critic for the WashingtonStar in the 60s and 70s and he's
one of the first critics towrite about Roberta Flack back
in 1967, predicting she wouldbecome a star Today.
I went back to the club thatlaunched her career and sat down
with one of her former students, who went on to be an
international musician himselfHer tightly controlled, lilting
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contralto voice is how onecritic described her in 1967.
Roberta Flack grew up inArlington, Virginia, studied at
Howard University, then wentfrom being a DC public school
teacher to performing innightclubs around the DC area,
most famously here at Mr Henry'son Capitol Hill, where the
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owner of the club built thisroom to hold the crowds who
would come to hear her playpiano and sing.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
And her music was so intentional you know what I mean
.
And the dynamics that she usedwas so intentional, I remember,
with Bernard Sweetney playingdrums and Marshall Hawkins
playing bass.
It was intentional.
I mean the focus.
When they walked up on thatbandstand it was all in, you
know, and she commanded thatfrom musicians that were around
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her.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
One of those who was often in the audience was Keith
Kilgo.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
Well, she was my piano teacher, but she was
classically trained and I usedto take the bus over to
Southeastern every Saturdaymorning.
She meant discipline.
Speaker 8 (12:47):
Kilgo would go on to help form the famed group the
Blackbirds and performed withFlack.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
She was a mentor to many, many musicians.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
Flack achieved international fame with a string
of hits in the 1970s, includingFirst Time Ever and Killing Me
Softly.
She would continue to recordand tour the world with her
music until 2018, when a strokeleft her unable to perform.
She was also noted for hercontinued work in supporting
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education, and through it all,flack never forgot where she
started.
Kathy Nagy, general manager ofMr Henry's, remembers how Flack
would always make a point ofstopping by the club she made
famous.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
You know it was incredibly personal.
I mean it was such a nicepersonal touch because you know,
a lot of times as people getmore famous, they, you know,
they don't really touch theirroots as much.
But she was so down to earthand so very gracious, it meant a
lot, it really did.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
As for what Kilgo will miss most about his teacher
and friend, just thatinfectious smile that she had
and she always, like, looked mein the eye.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
you know she was like , okay, because we just had that
connection.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I'm going down.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
So you know a lot of that video that we saw on this
piece was filmed inside MrHenry's almost 50 years ago.
It's some treasured video thatwe have.
One of my earliest memories asa kid was my parents take me to
brunch at Mr Henry's in themorning and Roberta Flack
letting me sit on top of herpiano as she would play.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
Really.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
And you know she did that for a lot of kids not just
me I am, you know, but still butit was just a real special
memory for us.
You know her voice was whatmade her so famous, but she was
a notable piano player as welland my dad, in that 1967 article
that I quote, compared her toNina Simone and said she was one
of the best piano players hehad ever seen come through DC.
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And so you know she really lefther impression on the world,
but she was ours and she neverforgot DC and we will never
forget her.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
She had an incredible voice and an incredible
presence.
I'm jealous when you say youactually got to go and see her
play.
I grew up in the Midwest, inIndianapolis, indiana.
The closest I got was my dad'seight tracks or his vinyls
listening to Roberta Flack.
But we certainly got to hearthem and appreciate them because
I mean, I'm still singing thosesongs today.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
And not bad too.
We heard you.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, yeah.
So family, that song reportthere from both both of our
songstress, angie stone, androberta flack.
And the thing about robertaflack I was looking at something
the other day and there was auh interview she was doing and
it was pretty sad.
And the reason why I say thatis because she broke down her
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family background in in thatinterview where she went into a
little bit of it and she startedto cry a little bit as the lady
that was interviewing her.
And one of the things that shesaid that struck me that she
said, no matter what kind ofsuccess or fame she achieved,
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her own family never appreciatedher.
They never, even her mothernever acknowledged her accolades
.
Her accolades, I should say, isthe proper way to pronounce
that word and she started whenshe started speaking about her
mother, she started to to cry alittle bit and, you know, wipe
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her tears and it was verytouching.
She said that no matter whatkind of success or fame that she
achieved, her mother wouldn'teven acknowledge it.
I don't know what that wasabout.
She didn't put it as it waslike a mean-spirited thing.
She just never gave it a like.
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Okay, you know, dear, you knowsweetheart, this is great, I'm
so proud of you, you're doingthis.
It was like, yeah, that's niceand you know.
On to the next thing it wasn'teven acknowledged and she said
that throughout her career.
That really hurt her.
Coming from her own family, notjust her mother but I guess,
siblings and the rest of thefamily they were never really
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glad for her.
And if you recall, if you recallthat I don't know if it was
last week or week before last Iwas talking about, oh, ok, I
remember now it was when I didthe piece on ASAP Rocky.
That was last week, with himbeing acquitted of those charges
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and the guy that had testifiedagainst him, his friend, the
ASAP Rel dude, and they were allclose but ASAP Rocky had
started achieving more notorietyand success and even though
they started out together, theguy that testified against him
was his one-time close buddy andthey ended up.
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They ended up beefing aboutwhatever was going on and the
guy ended up testifying againsthim and it was a jealousy thing
from all accounts, what we couldsurmise from all accounts that
was reported and that when Ilooked at the Roberta Flack
interview she was doing I forgetthe particular woman who was
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interviewing.
I forget her name I can'trecall her name as I'm speaking.
It reminded me of that, andsometimes you have people around
you that you think would behappy for you and I said this
last week but there's really anunderlying envy, or hate, in
some cases a hate for yourachievements, and that struck me
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when I heard our songstress,roberta Flack, talking about her
, her experiences with her, hermom and and her family.
Hold on, let me turn that down.
Yeah, I'm gonna keep it rightthere, but yeah, that that that
struck me as soon as I heard hersay that and I was like, wow,
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this is from her own family andI say that, all of that to say
this.
Sometimes we look at thesepeople, these singers and
entertainers, and we envy thelife they have because of the,
you know, the material thingsthey have the cars, the big
homes, the jewelry, the clothes,what we perceive as a life of
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leisure.
Sometimes that's not even thecase.
We don't know what these peoplego through.
We don't know the inside story.
A lot of times, as much fameand fortune and notoriety and
celebrity that this womanattained, she didn't have it
where it really counted and thatwas with her own family, her
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mother in particular.
That had to be pretty hard todeal with and I wouldn't want to
deal with that.
She actually broke down andcried on that interview.
So, yeah, well, I had somethingon my mind that I was about to
say yeah, we sit back and wedon't know the sacrifices or the
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internal things.
Now, speaking of Roberta, that'swhat I was thinking about
talking about Miss Roberta Flack.
Talking about Miss RobertaFlack she did a song that was
very popular in my growing up inthe 80s and that was a duet she
did with Donny Hathaway.
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Back Together Again and I'mgoing to play that up here
before we depart today.
I'm going to play that song.
And Donny Hathaway his storywas so sad Another successful,
celebrated songwriter and singerand producer.
But Donny Hathaway killedhimself.
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I forget what year that was.
It was 1980, 82, 83, somewherearound in there 82, 83.
Donnie Hathaway killed himself,jumped out of the window in a
place I think that was nearExit's house or in Exit's house
there in Manhattan, not too farfrom where I was going to high
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school at, and I remember theday it happened.
I remember I can't remember theyear, but I remember that day
Because when we went down thereto where the incident was they
had roped everything off and thenews was out there and
everything like that.
But this man was fightingdepression.
He was fighting depression,donny Hathaway, and she did a
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very famous duet with him, backtogether again, that that was
the name of the uh, of the uh,single and um.
He was fighting depression toto the point and they say I got,
if, if I can recall, they saidhe was uh battling.
Also schizophrenia, if I if, ifI'm correct.
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I may be wrong, but I think Ithink in the stories that I read
about him, I think he had somekind of split personality.
He would be up one time and thenext time you see him he would
be down or he'd shut himself upand he would be going through a
depression scenario or whateverand he killed himself, jumped
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out of a window to his death.
Also, phyllis Hyman, right, andboth incidents happened right
here in New York.
I think Phyllis Hyman overdosedor took some pills or something
like that, and they found herin some penthouse over there
near Columbus Circle.
I believe it was Upper WestSide.
Same with Donny Hathaway, upperWest Side.
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That happened and she killedher.
She checked herself out.
So, yeah, yeah, family, it's um,but you know, this thing with
Angie Stone, it was uh, this oneit rocked everybody.
I mean losing Roberta Fly shewas in her 80s, I believe, and
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she had been ill in her lateryears but the thing with Angie
Stone, only 63 years old and todie in a automobile accident
like that, it just rocked thewhole nation, it just rocked us
and, yeah, family.
So we're gonna take a shortintermission Let me see Can I
find a bed and we're going tocome right back and get into
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some more discussions.
We got some more stuff todiscuss.
I'm not going to stay too longtoday.
We're going to talk about whenwe come back from break.
We're going to talk about theboycott and all of that stuff,
and then we're going to get outof here because I don't want to
keep you too long, okay, so hangon you got it, you got it.
Speaker 11 (23:56):
You got it, you got it.
I know you got soul.
Hey, if you didn't want to bein here, I know you got soul.
If you didn't, you wouldn't bein here.
I know you got gold.
If you didn't, you wouldn'tshake that thing.
(24:20):
Hit me with the beat, hey,cause it makes me sing.
I know you got the flow.
Hey, if you did, you wouldn'tbe here.
I know you got the feeling theway you move over there.
(24:45):
Don't let the green grass foolyou.
I know you don't like a faker.
Tighten up your game and shakeyour mind and make a Say yeah,
say yeah, say yeah, say yeah.
I know you got no, because wecan't focus, I know you got soul
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Because we can.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
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and comfort With respect toindividual culture and style and
to bring about a mastery ofyour passions.
Speaker 12 (25:26):
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Speaker 2 (26:04):
Okay, we back in, we back in.
We just had to hear from oursponsors, some of our sponsors,
real quick, uh, people overthere because we can, and uh,
yeah, family.
So yeah, the thing with angiestone and roberta flag.
But, man, angie stone thingreally, really hit, hit.
It hit heavy, heavy, I guessbecause of the way the incident
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happened in such a tragic,tragic death.
But we never know the day orthe hour.
As my mother used to say, younever know the day or the hour
you're going to be caught andit'll be your time.
We all got to walk that walk.
So let's live life to thefullest.
Let's live life to the fullest.
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And yeah, so, but anyway, butanyway, anyway, family moving
forward.
We got these calls from some ofthese pastors and so-called
activists to boycott certaincompanies because of I'm
guessing, because of dei,because I was on on my, my
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Facebook page just recently, theother day, and let me let me
see, can I go to it and find it?
Find it, let me see.
Yeah, wait, where is it?
Ok, here it is All right.
Yeah, here it is, I got it.
So, anyway, yeah, I'm on, I'mscrolling through my.
I posted a story on my page andthen I went and checked some of
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my notifications and then inthere is a brother I don't want
to say his name up here, buthe's cool.
I don't know him personally,but I know he's in my friend's
thing or whatever the case isand he posted something.
Him and I correspond sometimesand he posted something.
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He said 22825,.
If anybody is out, please videothe crowds in grocery stores.
Some people just don't give a F.
And he put 100 percent rightthere.
And then some of the people,some of the people were
responding and one person said Idid all my shopping today, got
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gas too.
And another person wrote all myshopping was done on the 27th.
So I wrote, I responded andhere's what I wrote.
If any, if everyone did all theshopping today and gassed up,
what's the point?
Because they got your moneyalready.
I just don't understand how webecome so gullible with question
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marks.
I put question marks there, butlisten y'all, I'm selling the
Brooklyn Bridge, if any y'allare interested, and I'll put
some laughing emojis up there.
And I got a few likes, quite afew likes for that.
And, um, another person wroteuh, they like the way things are
, but they really don't know.
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We can have so much more.
And there was a sister whowrote yeah, she, this sister,
crystal Neal.
She wrote so because I'm seeingthis, which I'm really on
Facebook.
I have to share what I wasschooled on yesterday Blacks not
being consumers for one day isnot going to be impactful.
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Why?
Mainly because of what Erinsaid.
That was me, she was talkingabout me.
Wow, said above, if we spendthe money on Tuesday or Saturday
that we would have spent onFriday, we still have
contributed the same amount tothe economy.
Change requires progress overtime.
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The Montgomery bus boycottwasn't just one day, it was 381
days and it was a laser focusedboycott.
Yesterday's impact was notlaser focused, it was just for
one day.
So for the people who didn'tparticipate, it's not that they
don't care, it's that theyprobably already understood this
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concept.
That was just schooled onyesterday at 7 pm, after I spent
the whole day not spendingmoney and I complimented her on
the thing and I said well, said,sis.
The question is, why should webe boycotting?
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Because if it is due to DEI theDEI issue that some companies
have discontinued the program,well, what does that have to do?
What does that have to do withwith us as black consumers.
For example, target is acompany that discontinued their
DEI program.
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However, when we look up thedata, only four percent of black
employees benefited from theprogram.
White women were mostly thebeneficiaries of the program.
People talk, right, people talk,but math screams.
It was the same thing withaffirmative action.
We have to stop being soemotional and triggered by these
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charlatans and frauds likeReverend Al Sharpton and these
hoghead cheese-eating preachersMisuse our intelligence and our
energy all the while they arebeing caked off under the table
and out the back door and thefamily is out here marching and
protesting and being made tolook like total idiots.
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That was my response and therewere some people who didn't like
that.
And, uh, there was.
You know, it was some back andforth.
It was some back and forth, butit was some back and forth.
But you get the picture right.
You get the picture of what wasgoing on.
Now, very interesting, thatsister brought up the Montgomery
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bus boycotts and everythinglike that, because it was
something that Dana from thesister has the podcast the Real
Dana.
She does a program every weekwith Judge Joe Brown, dana, you
know who I'm talking about,right, and she made a very good
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point that the Montgomery busboycotts.
Back in the days right, that wasin the in the days Right, that
was on the heels of legislation.
There was legislation behindthat.
There is no legislation behindthis.
Now you have Al Sharpton thatcall for this.
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Him and him and another pastorout of out of Atlanta, georgia,
just Jamal Bryant.
Don't know much about him, Ihaven't heard any good things
about him, but I want to playsomething for you here.
Hold on, let me go to it.
Let me go to it.
I want to play something foryou here.
Yeah, here it is, here it is.
(33:03):
I'm going to play this.
I'm going to play this and Iwant to come back to you.
Speaker 13 (33:07):
February 28th was the quote unquote, blackout,
fair use.
Jamal Bryan and Al Sharpton wastrying to put on getting people
to not shop at a plethora ofbusinesses that decided to do
away with their DEI policy.
Let's get into it.
Like, share, subscribe, let go.
Speaker 12 (33:33):
Hey, hope and pray that you're doing well.
I am at McDonald's Now,according to Reverend Al
Sharpton and Jamal Bryant, twocultural eunuchs.
All right, we're not supposedto shop at, you know, mcdonald's
and Best Buy and Target andWalmart and Amazon today, but I
don't get my marching ordersfrom wolves.
(33:53):
All right, we just pulled up toMcDonald's, all right, and, as
you can see, we're at McDonald's.
However, I've seen a few blackpeople go into McDonald's.
We're getting ready to go checkit out.
I support McDonald's.
Speaker 11 (34:10):
I's I support.
Mcdonald's I support mcdonald's.
Speaker 14 (34:13):
Hey guys, come to mcdonald's on capitol boulevard.
Speaker 12 (34:16):
We love it here hey, I'm here at mcdonald's and I
just wanted to do something kind.
You know, I wanted to purchasethe food of americans, people
who live in this country, notjust for black people or for
white people, for Hispanicpeople, all people and I have
several receipts of, you knowbills that I paid for.
(34:37):
You know, I don't think that weshould support Reverend Al
Sharpton and Reverend Jamal,non-bible compliant Bryant.
I don't follow them.
I support McDonald's and I alsosupport their decision in
getting rid of DEI, and soshould you.
Speaker 13 (34:58):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
I didn't even really have toneed anything on Friday, but
just to not be in accordance orin line with these people, I
went ahead and bought a coupleof things on Amazon, you know,
and had it shipped to the crib.
I did Because this wholesituation, it was ridiculous.
(35:18):
Let me pull this up for youguys.
This is the letter or memo thatwas going out last week.
It was on all on Facebook.
There's a multitude of people Ikind of, you know, said some
things and I normally don't getinto this type was all on
Facebook.
There was a multitude of people.
I kind of said some things andI normally don't get into this
type of stuff on Facebook.
But there was a couple where Iwas just like man, what are
y'all doing?
Don't fall a victim to this,don't fall a victim to this.
(35:41):
But there's one phrase herethat really stuck out to me and
I was like this whole thing isjust dumb, and it's this phrase
right here where it says try tobuy all you need before Friday,
February 28th, but, if necessary, only buy essentials Of
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absolutely necessary items suchas food, medicine and emergency
supplies.
If you're going to boycott, yougot to boycott.
If you're going to do it.
See us conservatives, we knowhow to stand on business.
When Bud Light decided thatthey were going to do what they
do, you know, and really jump inand support the alphabet
community and the transcommunity, the way they did, and
(36:24):
folks was like nah, I'm cool onBud Light and I ain't bought a
Bud product since, since don'thave any interest in doing so
either.
No, thank you, not interested.
But this whole situation wasridiculous and absurd anyway and
, to be honest with you, anybodythat's still following al
(36:47):
sharpton anywhere is hustlingbackwards in 2025.
This dude has shown you timeand time again that he is a
grifter and he is about to bread.
Simple as that.
When they were at Costco's upin New York, grandstanding, they
walked through there ain't pickup an item, ain't buy a thing,
(37:08):
and sorry that you know I kindof got a little country, but it
needed to be said that waybecause they went there with the
video cameras and they all gotthese $25 gift cards but didn't
buy a thing.
Not one person had an item intheir hand and not one person
got in line to purchase anything.
These people are suckers, man.
They're grifters, they're liars, and Al Sharpton is one of the
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biggest hustlers out there,biggest race hustler out there.
Dude ain't started any business.
Dude ain't created a product,doesn't provide a service worth
millions of dollars keepingblack folks riled up and
agitated because there's a bunchof money in this race hustling
industry.
Let's keep going and check outCousin T.
Speaker 11 (37:51):
If you respect Al Sharpton as a pastor, as a
reverend, you might not want towatch this video, okay, because
he ain't nothing but a dollarstore pastor.
He faked it in a $3 bill.
Al Sharpton, listen up here.
You bobblehead ambulance chaser.
You all you've been doing sinceyou have been running around
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town is lying to the blackcommunity, fear-mongering,
ambulance chasing.
You don't show up unless moneyis involved.
You, you pretend like you careabout black people, but the only
time you show up, the only timeyou show up and speak about
black people, is when it's awhite person involved, but you
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don't speak about black issueswhen white people are not
involved, because you're fakeand you don't care about black
people.
Now you're putting on thiswhole stupid boycott.
This is about the dumbest boy.
Boy.
Martin Luther King Jr would beashamed of you.
This is the dumbest boycottever.
So y'all.
(38:59):
I'm a business owner and Ithink this boycott is straight
up stupid.
Al Sharpton don't want youbuying from businesses like mine
that don't support DEI.
He don't want people shoppingat these stores and these
grocery stores because theydon't support DEI.
Boy, buy, al Sharpton.
(39:20):
Do you not understand this?
You told everybody to buy allthe things they need before the
boycott, things they need beforethe boycott.
Do you what?
Do you know how, boy my kid,this jar of jelly, this of this
(39:42):
jam, is smarter than you?
You, you ain't.
You're not even smarter thanthe jam in this jar.
Do you know how dumb you are,al sharpton?
So this is your way of tryingto hurt the economy.
This is your way of trying toget back at Donald Trump and get
back at people who don'tsupport DEI.
You don't even care about blackpeople.
(40:04):
You don't care about peoplemaking money.
All you care about is yourpockets.
Speaker 13 (40:09):
He's absolutely right.
He is absolutely right.
And if you have not tried anyof Cousin T's pancakes and syrup
and other products, go check itout.
I bought some and they're goodand I'm not getting paid to say
this.
I bought and I went in becauseI wanted to support him and what
(40:31):
he's doing and I bought it andwe enjoyed the pancakes.
We still actually got some andI believe we still got some of
the syrup as well.
It's delicious, I enjoyed it.
But he's absolutely right andthis dude is a grifter like no
other man and been grifting foryears.
Speaker 15 (40:50):
Making no impact.
What are they protesting?
I mean they're mad at companiesthat they're not hiring people,
that don't drive any revenuefor the company.
I mean nobody's payingattention.
It's one giant virtue signal,like all of woke capitalism.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Well, when it comes to the legal jeopardy part of
things, it seems they're kind ofa day late and a dollar short.
There are multiple cases thatare being pressed forward that
are holding these companies andCEOs accountable for taking
their eyes off the bottom lineand instead focusing on social
issues and ramming them down thethroat of a public that did not
(41:25):
have an appetite for it.
Speaker 13 (41:28):
Yep, and the thing is is people got to understand
that these companies, if they'republicly traded, they have a
fiduciary responsibility to doeverything that they can to turn
a profit, to make money fortheir shareholders.
So when you get out here andyou start trying to check boxes
and hire people that can'taffect the bottom line in a
(41:50):
positive way, that's a problem.
And any of you all that own anybusiness would you hire
somebody to check a box?
People got to understand thenumber one expense for every
company out there is their labor, the human capital expense.
That's the number one expenseright there.
(42:12):
And y'all want people to behired that can't necessarily do
the job, but they got to check abox.
Equity is dumb.
Equality is what we all want.
We just all want theopportunity to go and earn a
position, but you can't sitthere and say we got to have a
(42:33):
certain quota of this person,this person, this person and
this type of person.
That's just dumb and it's notgood business.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
And I want to stop it right there.
I want to stop it right there,family.
You know why I want to stop itright there.
I want to stop it right there,family.
You know why I want to stop itthere?
Because the brother made a veryimportant point, and that is
these people that are doing thisand carrying on about this DEI.
Like the brother said, give methe opportunity I don't want you
to give me because of a quota.
Give me the opportunity to goin there, do a job and show you
(43:03):
that I'm qualified to do it.
Just the opportunity to go inthere, do a job and show you
that I'm qualified to do it.
Just the opportunity I want youto give me the job and put me
in a position, because somequota and because you got to
fill out a line in order for youto get some money from the
government, so you have to haveme there as a black person or as
a female, as a whatever thecase might be right, but these
(43:26):
are the same people that arefighting to push this DEI thing.
The same people that aretelling us hear me, hear me that
are telling us that we'rebegging for reparations.
Stop begging for reparations.
Y'all begging.
Y'all ain't doing nothing butbegging.
You're begging the government.
Well, what are y'all doing?
See?
Reparations Y'all begging.
Y'all ain't doing nothing butbegging.
You're begging the government.
Well, what are y'all doing?
(43:47):
See, reparations is a debtthat's owed.
That's a debt that's owed fromtheir mouths.
They owe it from their mouths,not ours, from them.
But what are y'all doing?
Right, and like the dude.
Back to what he said.
You can't be smarter than a jarof jam.
You telling people to hurry upand spend all your money on
(44:10):
Thursday and Friday so you canboycott on Saturday.
They still got the money.
They still got the money.
So what did you do?
You hurt.
See, what this whole thingboils down to is you got these
people emotional over theelection.
You're still angry about theelection.
The dude won, the Trump dude.
(44:31):
He won, and these people can't.
They can't all of the moneythat they raised in the DNC for
that chick, the Kamala Harrischick.
All of the money that theyraised and they still lost.
They out-fundraised Trump two toone and they can't account for
(44:53):
the money.
Billions of dollars are gone.
The donors have left them.
The donors have abandoned thembecause you can't account for
their money.
So this is the only recourseyou have You're getting out here
, getting behind these sillyarguments, these silly things.
Now, I went into Target onSaturday.
(45:13):
I went in there.
Let me go, Let me take you toit.
Let me take you to it.
March 1st, Saturday, 2025.
Headed to Target.
Man see there Marching right inhere.
I'm going in and get me a fewitems.
I ain't studying about AlSharpton or any of the rest of
(45:36):
them.
Bozos with that DEI, garbage,Garbage.
I don't see much people in here.
(46:01):
There's a few black folks inhere, but it don't matter
because black folks in here.
Well, it don't matter cause I'min here.
I care nothing about thatstupid boycott.
Here you go.
(46:44):
I did this purposely.
Where is it at?
Where is it at here?
It is okay, got it.
I'm good, going to checkoutpeace.
Yeah, family, that was metalking on Saturday.
I just went in there basicallyto see if people were in there.
(47:06):
There was a few people in there, not as much as would be on a
Saturday.
That was early Saturday morning, so, but I did go in.
I did go in.
So, yeah, but back to it.
Back to it, what we were talkingabout here as I said when they
did with Dr king and rosa parksand all, and were doing the, the
(47:27):
montgomery bus boycott, thatwas on the heels of legislation
that was already put forward tothe congress.
That was, that was it was, itwas a solid plan and it was
backed up and it was, uh, theydid like 300, uh, 300 and
something days of the boycott,almost a year.
They boycotted the, the, andthat's how legislation got
(47:52):
changed and, um, things happenedand moved the needle.
This is nothing behind this,nothing but emotion.
And this is, they know, guyslike al sharp the limit.
Let me pull up something, holdon.
Let me pull up something, holdon.
Let me pull up something Hold onfamily.
Here we go.
Let's get this in here, let'sget this in here.
I want you to hear thisfoolishness with this dude.
(48:12):
And this is what we blackpeople are so emotional and
crazy about.
Speaker 16 (48:19):
Hold on as a church.
You may be seated, but in theseason of Lent, which is the 40
days leading up to Easter, ourchurch is going to be in a fast
of 40 days of consistent prayer.
Come on, I can't hear nobody.
(48:39):
I said 40 days of consistentprayer.
Lent starts on Wednesday, marchthe 5th, and for 40 consecutive
days our church will be inprayer.
Some of those days will be herein person, other days will be
(49:02):
virtually, other days will be onthe phone, but 40 consistent
days of prayer.
Secondly, ladies and gentlemen,I am calling us listen to me
because we have to operate inthe spiritual.
I am calling the conscientiousChristian community all over
this country, the conscientiousChristian community all over
(49:23):
this country.
I am calling for a 40-day fastfrom Target, beginning on March
the 5th.
100,000 conscientiousChristians you don't have to be
(49:46):
black, latino, asian, white100,000.
You're going to sign thiscommitment to be a part of this
40-day fast.
100,000 of you, bare minimal.
I'm asking you that afterservice, you'll go to
TargetFastorg, targetfastorg,targetfastorg.
(50:06):
I want you to share witheverybody on your job.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
I'm going to speed it up a little bit.
I'm going to fast forward alittle bit.
Every person in your home,every person in your.
I'm going to fast forward alittle bit and show you the
foolishness.
This is because we love to beentertained, so I'm going to.
We're going to be entertainedfor a second Hold on.
Speaker 16 (50:21):
I'm not just prayer, but fasting from Target.
You to fast for 40 days fromTarget.
I am telling you to sell all ofyour Target stock Black
businesses.
I'm glad you asked you atNewberth.
You not at there, brother Busby, would you please stand?
Thank you so very much forbeing with us Saying anything to
me.
(50:41):
You can buy black on paper,towels and toilet paper and soap
and dishwashing detergent.
Do you know what it's going tobe for America when we start
shifting our own economicecosystem and start investing in
ourselves?
Let me further say to all ofthe black vendors who presently
(51:02):
have products in Target we arenot starting for 30 days because
I want you to have enough timeto shift all of your product
digitally so that the communitywill be able to support you.
Your business will not fail andyour family will not suffer
Additionally.
Every black business that isnot in the black chamber of
(51:24):
commerce in decency and in order.
I'm gonna say it again weoperating in decency and in
order.
I'm saying this before.
They got a new fbi chief thatcalls us a terrorist
organization.
We doing it in decency and inorder.
Speaker 2 (51:41):
target, you got 40 now you hear all that
foolishness, you hear that, youhear that family, you hear it
and we going, you know, like asound, like a hog on the line,
like a big old hog on the lineabout to get his head chopped.
Speaker 16 (51:58):
Commitment in January.
You are reneging to thefinancial commitment you made to
our people.
Y'all ain't saying nothing.
You got 40 days before we shutall of it down.
We are calling all of thestockholders to be accountable
to the commitment that you madeto black people.
(52:19):
Y'all ain't saying nothing.
And I got naysayers sayingwon't you just preach the gospel
?
I'm preaching the gospel.
Jesus kicked over tables andused a whip to drive people out
when they were out of order.
In handling God's people.
Maybe see that.
(52:39):
You see family, that's what welike we like that.
Speaker 2 (52:43):
That's entertaining, that foolishness, pure
foolishness.
Family pure foolishness, purefoolishness.
But that's what we, we, we'reentertained by that.
I want to play a little bitfrom here, from dana, and then
we're gonna get ready to wrap itup.
Hold on just a.
Speaker 14 (53:04):
Why is this man calling on a boycott?
Yes, he is.
First of all, any black personthat participate in this buyout
boycott thing.
You are a damn fool.
So I Sharpton DEI boycott plan.
24-hour blackout on Friday,february 28th, from 12 am to 12
(53:27):
59 pm.
This is the first step tocounter the attack on DEI,
diversity, equity and inclusion.
Black people or, I guess, allAmericans right do not make any
purchases.
Do not shop online or in store.
No Amazon, no Walmart, no BestBuy, no McDonald's and other
(53:50):
fast food stores, no gas, nomajor retailers.
Do not use credit or debitcards for non-essential spending
.
Try to buy all you need beforeFriday February 28th but, if
necessary, only buy essentialsof absolutely necessary items
such as food, medicine,emergency supplies.
If you must spend, only supportsmall, local businesses.
(54:13):
Why this matters?
Corporations and banks onlycare about their bottom line,
disrupting the economy for evenone day since a powerful message
.
If they don't listen, we makethe next blackout longer.
Our numbers are powerful.
This is how we make history.
Spread the message.
Please share with all yourcontacts, talk about it, post it
(54:33):
, document your actions that daywe must use power we do have
and send an economy message withour numbers, as did Dr King.
February 28th, 24-hour economicblackout begins.
So this is Chicken GeorgeNational Action Network
organization scamming you people.
(54:55):
First of all, I am notboycotting.
And if you're telling people tobuy all of the things they need
the day before, dummy, thatjust doubles the corporation
businesses.
So even if they don't shop onFriday, which majority of people
are still going to do they'renot going to lose any money, you
idiot.
But why are people not shopping?
(55:16):
Why do you want people toboycott?
Because they got rid of a DEIprogram that did not benefit
black people or people of coloror white will benefit of white
women or illegals.
So it's dumb.
Speaker 2 (55:28):
But that is what chicken george do he dances
prances and he scams the blackcommunity yeah, so you heard
dana it ain't just me, it ain'tjust me found out that she's an
influencer big time, big time,with a lot of followers.
But back to what I was sayingabout legislation there's no
legislation behind this.
(55:49):
They have, and I'm reallysurprised, that revenue now.
Now, the only good thing that Iwill say that may come out of
this is that black people startsupporting more black businesses
, online businesses and whatnot.
Supporting more blackbusinesses, online businesses
and whatnot.
(56:09):
There is a site I saw a sisterthe other day where she was um,
giving links to sites where youcan get your products, whatever
household products, clothing,whatever you need, food items
and everything from a list, along list, of black owned
businesses.
Now, if those things can, if wecan boost those businesses and
(56:33):
spend our money, like I do a lotof times, a lot of my products
that I buy, I buy online fromblack owned businesses.
Now, some things you have torun out and get real quick and
you need businesses.
Now, some things you have torun out and get real quick and
you need, you need right thenand there and whatever and their
necessity, of necessity, andyou go out and you're buying.
But the thing is, I try my bestto support black businesses.
(56:55):
Now, that may be the good thingthat come out of it is because
anything that's bad, you canalways draw something positive
out of it, even though it's anegative.
I would never take a cue frompeople like Al Sharpton.
I could never take a social cuefrom someone like him.
(57:17):
However, there could be somegood that we can draw out of
this and that's where I'm atwith it.
That's the positive that Icould see coming out of this.
Now, I did go in Walmart theother day I think it was Sunday.
I went in Walmart and it wasempty.
The store was empty and thereweren't any.
(57:39):
That's when the store firstopened up.
I think I got there reallyearly.
So people mine and I had beenout.
There were a couple of peoplein there, one or two black
people in there doing theirshopping, and there were no.
There was, the store was justempty, wasn't black nor white in
there.
So I maybe it's a, it's a thing.
So who knows, it's like I said,I'm not taking any social cues
(58:04):
from a guy like a Sharpton orthis.
I don't know this Jamal Bryantguy, I don't know.
He has a big church in Atlanta,georgia.
I don't know anything about himother than what I see online
and it's nothing good, but yeah,so, but anyway, family, we're
going to get ready to blow outof here.
We're going to get ready toblow out of here because time,
(58:27):
you know, you got, you gotthings to do and a day to get
get on, and we're going to getready to blow out of here.
But yeah, but we're going tostay on these stories.
We're going to stay on thesestories and, as always, as
always, y'all go in peace, keeppeace and remember, respect life
, love, justice, cherish freedomand treasure the peace.
This is Vaughn Black.
(58:49):
We're gonna catch you next timeand we're gonna talk again.
Speaker 6 (59:22):
Thank you.
Same with weather, our timeswe've been through In silence.
(01:00:02):
I've waited, I've missed you,missed you, but you, you and I,
back together again.
The world can spin, but you,you and I, back together again.
(01:00:25):
The world is fair, it's allcome together.
Problems we defeated.
I'm here, I'm out of here.
(01:00:48):
You take all that I've got.
You need it, baby, cause you,you and I, back together again.
Like the world is spinning.
You, you and I, back togetheragain.
(01:01:08):
The world will stay.
Love will last forever, foreverwe can make it real.
Back to Mary.
When you leave.
Never we can truly feel whatyou feel.
Feel like we're back together.
(01:01:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're youngerand wiser.
Time has shown the way.
We've come full circle To stay.
Speaker 1 (01:01:57):
Cause you you and I.
Speaker 6 (01:02:02):
Back together again, like the world in a spin.
You, you and I Back togetheragain, like the world in a spin.
Truth is a lie.
It's the joy that people share.
Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
Make love day and night so easy to do.
When you get Love will lastforever.
Forever we can make it real.
That's a very low Say.
You'll leave forever.
(01:02:44):
Forever we can truly feel.
Watch me, feel like we're backtogether.
(01:03:39):
Thank you, oh yeah, oh yeah, ohyeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
(01:04:16):
, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, ohyeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah,
oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, ohyeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
No-transcript.
He is my king, he is my one.
Yes, he's my father.
Yes, he's my son.
I can talk to him cause heeverything I go through and
everything I am.
He's my support system.
I can't live without him.
The best thing since slicedbread is his kiss, his hugs, his
(00:39):
lips, his touch.
And I just want the whole worldto know about my black brother.
I love you and I'll never tryto hurt you.
I want you to know that I'mhere for you forever, true,
cause you're my black brother,strong brother, and there is no
(01:04):
one above you.
I want you to know that I'mhere for you for who ever, true,
he's misunderstood.
Some say that he's up to no goodaround the neighborhood.
Well, for your information, alot of my brothers got education
(01:26):
.
Now check it.
You got your Wall Streetbrother, your blue collar
brother.
You're down for whatever.
Chilling on the corner brother,you're a talented brother.
And to every one of y'allbehind bars, you know that Angie
loves you.
My black brother, brother, Ilove you, I'll never try to.
(01:49):
No, no, no.
I want you to know that I'mhere for you.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Peace, peace, and welcome back to the Freedmen's
Affairs Radio, the Freedmen'sNetwork.
There is no one Peace toeveryone.
I want you to know that.
March 4th 2025 Peace toeveryone.
Today, march 4th 2025, cultureor culture?
Freedom Is the math for the daythat we're gonna deal with.
(02:19):
And what is culture, culture?
Culture is one's way of life Inevery aspect.
And what is culture?
Culture is one's way of life inevery aspect and of people,
activities in that life.
Everyone has a right to expresstheir own culture and the way
(02:42):
they live.
Not saying that's not withoutconsequence for the choices you
make, but still in all, you havethe freedom to express your
culture.
So we open up with that andhopefully we can understand that
(03:03):
.
And you hear the music playing.
You hear the music playingabout their angel, angie Stone,
and it's so heartbreaking tocome up here and do this.
As you heard, on Saturday welost sister angie stone and, um,
(03:33):
it's a, it's a very, it wasvery sombering and and also on
the heels you know the heels ofthat on the heels of that, we
lost also the great, great,roberta Flock, and we're going
to be talking about those thingsup here today.
(03:53):
I'm going to see.
Can I pull in the report andfamily.
She was 63 years old.
First, let's go into the holdon.
Let's just get a little bitabout our sister here.
(04:20):
Let me turn the music back downand let me turn this mic down a
little bit so you can hear and,uh, you won't get no distortion
.
But uh, yeah, family, yeah,unfortunately, unfortunately
born angie laverne stone ondecember 18th 1961 was an
(04:42):
american singer, songwriter,actress and record producer.
She rose to fame in the late1970s as a member of the hip-hop
trio the sequence.
In the early 1990s she became amember of the r&b trio vertical
hold.
Stone, then signed with artistarecords to release her debut
(05:03):
solo album, black Diamond, in1999, which received gold
certification by the RecordingIndustry Association of America
and spawned the single no MoreRain in this cloud.
Yeah, beautiful song that was.
I might even play that up hereduring today's podcast.
I might even play that up heredoing doing today's podcast.
(05:24):
And she was born in Columbia,south Carolina, and that is,
that is the home of my ancestralhome, as I've mentioned various
times up here on on the program.
I've mentioned that and this isvery touching as a result of a
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car vehicle collision on her wayfrom doing a show.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Let's see, can we get the report in for that.
We start now with some breakingnews.
Grammy-nominatedsinger-songwriter Angie Stone
has died in a car accident inMontgomery County.
A spokesperson with her teamhas confirmed this with WSFA 12
News.
Joining us live now is ourreporter, simon Schuster.
And Simon, you spoke withStone's publicist.
What can you tell us?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Yeah, Monet Stone's publicist, Deborah Champagne,
tells me the singer was leavinga performance when the crash
happened.
According to the Alabama LawEnforcement Agency, it was on
I-65 around 7 am.
This is a look at the sceneabout two miles south of Hope
Hall.
According to Champagne, thesinger was supposed to meet her
in Maryland today for aperformance at the CIAA
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basketball tournament.
She had just performed lastnight at the 2025 Grand
Marshalls Ball in Mobile.
That's according to the Mobilearea Mardi Gras Association.
Stone's publicist remembers heras an honest, talented person
that left a big impact on themusic industry.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Her songwriting skills were second to none.
Literally, she wrote a lot ofsongs for the Sugarhill Gang
label that she never got creditfor, but she was just an
incredible talent.
I mean when I say very smart,she was just a very, very smart
woman.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
And the crash did block the left northbound lane
and the left southbound lanes,but Aaliyah Troopers declared
all lanes open and the sceneclear at 11 am today.
I'm told that multiple peoplewere also in the van you saw in
those pictures, but the singerwas the only person to have died
.
Nothing further is available atthis time and Aaliyah Troopers
continue to investigate theincident.
Monet.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Simon, thank you.
Stone rose to fame as a memberof the Sequence, a pioneering
female rap group.
She was only 63 years old.
Wsfa has reached out to AlabamaLaw Enforcement Agency for more
information.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, so you heard it reached out to Alabama Law
Enforcement Agency for moreinformation.
Yeah, so you heard it 63 yearsold, there were nine people
total.
In the vehicle that Miss Stonewas traveling in.
There were nine people and shewas the only fatality, according
to reports.
So it was another story Iwanted to bring up here with her
(08:04):
.
Hold on, let me see, can I findit.
Of course I'm doing thisprogram so I'm not going to be
able to find it, but anyway.
But anyway, yeah, family, therewas nine people in the total
coming from a show she justperformed then in Alabama I
think it was Montgomery, Ibelieve, and this her, her, the
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van she was in rolled over.
It was a Mercedes Sprinter.
It rolled over and was thenstruck by a semi-truck and this
is what caused her death.
Now people are saying thatthere's some conspiracy
theorists out there.
You know, we can't really haveanything without people.
(08:47):
You know the conspiracytheorists.
And people are saying, oh, shewas killed because recently she
had spoke out about her notgetting paid for different
projects that she had done, haddone, and music that she had
(09:08):
written that the industrycheated her out of, or whatever
label she was signed to.
They didn't pay her money andthis is why she was still
performing.
Now, what some people aresaying is she was performing
because she had to make themoney she was supposed.
She said it herself that shewas supposed to retire 20 years
ago and wasn't able to becauseher not getting her money, the
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money that was owed to her.
They beat her out of a lot ofmoney.
And I believe that the childrenshe has two children, I think, a
son and a daughter, and twograndchildren, and two
grandchildren, according toreports, and this is so ironic
because the day she died, theday she passed away, was on
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Saturday the 1st, and that wasthe birthday of her son.
Yeah, ain't that something?
So yeah, but I suspect that thefamily will go after those
royalties and whatever moniesthat the industry owes her,
because she has children andgrandchildren.
(10:12):
That's going to inherit herestate.
And, yeah, family, it's been arough ride, rough ride Been a
rough ride this last week.
It's been a rough ride, roughride Been a rough ride this last
week.
And also, as I stated, losingour other songstress, roberta
Flack, and that was crazy.
(10:35):
That was crazy also.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
Hold on, let me see, can I get that in here and fans
around the world are mourningthe loss of Grammy-winning
songstress Roberta Flack.
Flack was one of the mostfamous voices to come out of our
area.
She reached international famewith her string of hits,
including Killing Me Softly withhis song, and the First Time
Ever I Saw your Face.
Flack got her start here in DC,first as a student at Howard
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University and then as a DCpublic school teacher and then a
musician.
News 4's Mark Seagraves joinsus now.
Mark, I had to stop myself.
I wanted to start singing.
The first time ever I saw yourface.
I know that you, andspecifically your father, had a
special connection to RobertaFlack.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Yeah, that's right.
As I've noted over the years insome reports, my dad was the
music critic for the WashingtonStar in the 60s and 70s and he's
one of the first critics towrite about Roberta Flack back
in 1967, predicting she wouldbecome a star Today.
I went back to the club thatlaunched her career and sat down
with one of her former students, who went on to be an
international musician himselfHer tightly controlled, lilting
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contralto voice is how onecritic described her in 1967.
Roberta Flack grew up inArlington, Virginia, studied at
Howard University, then wentfrom being a DC public school
teacher to performing innightclubs around the DC area,
most famously here at Mr Henry'son Capitol Hill, where the
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owner of the club built thisroom to hold the crowds who
would come to hear her playpiano and sing.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
And her music was so intentional you know what I mean
.
And the dynamics that she usedwas so intentional, I remember,
with Bernard Sweetney playingdrums and Marshall Hawkins
playing bass.
It was intentional.
I mean the focus.
When they walked up on thatbandstand it was all in, you
know, and she commanded thatfrom musicians that were around
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her.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
One of those who was often in the audience was Keith
Kilgo.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
Well, she was my piano teacher, but she was
classically trained and I usedto take the bus over to
Southeastern every Saturdaymorning.
She meant discipline.
Speaker 8 (12:47):
Kilgo would go on to help form the famed group the
Blackbirds and performed withFlack.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
She was a mentor to many, many musicians.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
Flack achieved international fame with a string
of hits in the 1970s, includingFirst Time Ever and Killing Me
Softly.
She would continue to recordand tour the world with her
music until 2018, when a strokeleft her unable to perform.
She was also noted for hercontinued work in supporting
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education, and through it all,flack never forgot where she
started.
Kathy Nagy, general manager ofMr Henry's, remembers how Flack
would always make a point ofstopping by the club she made
famous.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
You know it was incredibly personal.
I mean it was such a nicepersonal touch because you know,
a lot of times as people getmore famous, they, you know,
they don't really touch theirroots as much.
But she was so down to earthand so very gracious, it meant a
lot, it really did.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
As for what Kilgo will miss most about his teacher
and friend, just thatinfectious smile that she had
and she always, like, looked mein the eye.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
you know she was like , okay, because we just had that
connection.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I'm going down.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
So you know a lot of that video that we saw on this
piece was filmed inside MrHenry's almost 50 years ago.
It's some treasured video thatwe have.
One of my earliest memories asa kid was my parents take me to
brunch at Mr Henry's in themorning and Roberta Flack
letting me sit on top of herpiano as she would play.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
Really.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
And you know she did that for a lot of kids not just
me I am, you know, but still butit was just a real special
memory for us.
You know her voice was whatmade her so famous, but she was
a notable piano player as welland my dad, in that 1967 article
that I quote, compared her toNina Simone and said she was one
of the best piano players hehad ever seen come through DC.
(14:50):
And so you know she really lefther impression on the world,
but she was ours and she neverforgot DC and we will never
forget her.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
She had an incredible voice and an incredible
presence.
I'm jealous when you say youactually got to go and see her
play.
I grew up in the Midwest, inIndianapolis, indiana.
The closest I got was my dad'seight tracks or his vinyls
listening to Roberta Flack.
But we certainly got to hearthem and appreciate them because
I mean, I'm still singing thosesongs today.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
And not bad too.
We heard you.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, yeah.
So family, that song reportthere from both both of our
songstress, angie stone, androberta flack.
And the thing about robertaflack I was looking at something
the other day and there was auh interview she was doing and
it was pretty sad.
And the reason why I say thatis because she broke down her
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family background in in thatinterview where she went into a
little bit of it and she startedto cry a little bit as the lady
that was interviewing her.
And one of the things that shesaid that struck me that she
said, no matter what kind ofsuccess or fame she achieved,
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her own family never appreciatedher.
They never, even her mothernever acknowledged her accolades
.
Her accolades, I should say, isthe proper way to pronounce
that word and she started whenshe started speaking about her
mother, she started to to cry alittle bit and, you know, wipe
(16:32):
her tears and it was verytouching.
She said that no matter whatkind of success or fame that she
achieved, her mother wouldn'teven acknowledge it.
I don't know what that wasabout.
She didn't put it as it waslike a mean-spirited thing.
She just never gave it a like.
(16:54):
Okay, you know, dear, you knowsweetheart, this is great, I'm
so proud of you, you're doingthis.
It was like, yeah, that's niceand you know.
On to the next thing it wasn'teven acknowledged and she said
that throughout her career.
That really hurt her.
Coming from her own family, notjust her mother but I guess,
siblings and the rest of thefamily they were never really
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glad for her.
And if you recall, if you recallthat I don't know if it was
last week or week before last Iwas talking about, oh, ok, I
remember now it was when I didthe piece on ASAP Rocky.
That was last week, with himbeing acquitted of those charges
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and the guy that had testifiedagainst him, his friend, the
ASAP Rel dude, and they were allclose but ASAP Rocky had
started achieving more notorietyand success and even though
they started out together, theguy that testified against him
was his one-time close buddy andthey ended up.
(18:02):
They ended up beefing aboutwhatever was going on and the
guy ended up testifying againsthim and it was a jealousy thing
from all accounts, what we couldsurmise from all accounts that
was reported and that when Ilooked at the Roberta Flack
interview she was doing I forgetthe particular woman who was
(18:25):
interviewing.
I forget her name I can'trecall her name as I'm speaking.
It reminded me of that, andsometimes you have people around
you that you think would behappy for you and I said this
last week but there's really anunderlying envy, or hate, in
some cases a hate for yourachievements, and that struck me
(18:47):
when I heard our songstress,roberta Flack, talking about her
, her experiences with her, hermom and and her family.
Hold on, let me turn that down.
Yeah, I'm gonna keep it rightthere, but yeah, that that that
struck me as soon as I heard hersay that and I was like, wow,
(19:07):
this is from her own family andI say that, all of that to say
this.
Sometimes we look at thesepeople, these singers and
entertainers, and we envy thelife they have because of the,
you know, the material thingsthey have the cars, the big
homes, the jewelry, the clothes,what we perceive as a life of
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leisure.
Sometimes that's not even thecase.
We don't know what these peoplego through.
We don't know the inside story.
A lot of times, as much fameand fortune and notoriety and
celebrity that this womanattained, she didn't have it
where it really counted and thatwas with her own family, her
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mother in particular.
That had to be pretty hard todeal with and I wouldn't want to
deal with that.
She actually broke down andcried on that interview.
So, yeah, well, I had somethingon my mind that I was about to
say yeah, we sit back and wedon't know the sacrifices or the
(20:15):
internal things.
Now, speaking of Roberta, that'swhat I was thinking about
talking about Miss Roberta Flack.
Talking about Miss RobertaFlack she did a song that was
very popular in my growing up inthe 80s and that was a duet she
did with Donny Hathaway.
(20:36):
Back Together Again and I'mgoing to play that up here
before we depart today.
I'm going to play that song.
And Donny Hathaway his storywas so sad Another successful,
celebrated songwriter and singerand producer.
But Donny Hathaway killedhimself.
(20:57):
I forget what year that was.
It was 1980, 82, 83, somewherearound in there 82, 83.
Donnie Hathaway killed himself,jumped out of the window in a
place I think that was nearExit's house or in Exit's house
there in Manhattan, not too farfrom where I was going to high
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school at, and I remember theday it happened.
I remember I can't remember theyear, but I remember that day
Because when we went down thereto where the incident was they
had roped everything off and thenews was out there and
everything like that.
But this man was fightingdepression.
He was fighting depression,donny Hathaway, and she did a
(21:42):
very famous duet with him, backtogether again, that that was
the name of the uh, of the uh,single and um.
He was fighting depression toto the point and they say I got,
if, if I can recall, they saidhe was uh battling.
Also schizophrenia, if I if, ifI'm correct.
(22:04):
I may be wrong, but I think Ithink in the stories that I read
about him, I think he had somekind of split personality.
He would be up one time and thenext time you see him he would
be down or he'd shut himself upand he would be going through a
depression scenario or whateverand he killed himself, jumped
(22:26):
out of a window to his death.
Also, phyllis Hyman, right, andboth incidents happened right
here in New York.
I think Phyllis Hyman overdosedor took some pills or something
like that, and they found herin some penthouse over there
near Columbus Circle.
I believe it was Upper WestSide.
Same with Donny Hathaway, upperWest Side.
(22:49):
That happened and she killedher.
She checked herself out.
So, yeah, yeah, family, it's um,but you know, this thing with
Angie Stone, it was uh, this oneit rocked everybody.
I mean losing Roberta Fly shewas in her 80s, I believe, and
(23:09):
she had been ill in her lateryears but the thing with Angie
Stone, only 63 years old and todie in a automobile accident
like that, it just rocked thewhole nation, it just rocked us
and, yeah, family.
So we're gonna take a shortintermission Let me see Can I
find a bed and we're going tocome right back and get into
(23:35):
some more discussions.
We got some more stuff todiscuss.
I'm not going to stay too longtoday.
We're going to talk about whenwe come back from break.
We're going to talk about theboycott and all of that stuff,
and then we're going to get outof here because I don't want to
keep you too long, okay, so hangon you got it, you got it.
Speaker 11 (23:56):
You got it, you got it.
I know you got soul.
Hey, if you didn't want to bein here, I know you got soul.
If you didn't, you wouldn't bein here.
I know you got gold.
If you didn't, you wouldn'tshake that thing.
(24:20):
Hit me with the beat, hey,cause it makes me sing.
I know you got the flow.
Hey, if you did, you wouldn'tbe here.
I know you got the feeling theway you move over there.
(24:45):
Don't let the green grass foolyou.
I know you don't like a faker.
Tighten up your game and shakeyour mind and make a Say yeah,
say yeah, say yeah, say yeah.
I know you got no, because wecan't focus, I know you got soul
(25:11):
Because we can.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
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and comfort With respect toindividual culture and style and
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Speaker 12 (25:26):
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Speaker 2 (26:04):
Okay, we back in, we back in.
We just had to hear from oursponsors, some of our sponsors,
real quick, uh, people overthere because we can, and uh,
yeah, family.
So yeah, the thing with angiestone and roberta flag.
But, man, angie stone thingreally, really hit, hit.
It hit heavy, heavy, I guessbecause of the way the incident
(26:27):
happened in such a tragic,tragic death.
But we never know the day orthe hour.
As my mother used to say, younever know the day or the hour
you're going to be caught andit'll be your time.
We all got to walk that walk.
So let's live life to thefullest.
Let's live life to the fullest.
(26:49):
And yeah, so, but anyway, butanyway, anyway, family moving
forward.
We got these calls from some ofthese pastors and so-called
activists to boycott certaincompanies because of I'm
guessing, because of dei,because I was on on my, my
(27:11):
Facebook page just recently, theother day, and let me let me
see, can I go to it and find it?
Find it, let me see.
Yeah, wait, where is it?
Ok, here it is All right.
Yeah, here it is, I got it.
So, anyway, yeah, I'm on, I'mscrolling through my.
I posted a story on my page andthen I went and checked some of
(27:36):
my notifications and then inthere is a brother I don't want
to say his name up here, buthe's cool.
I don't know him personally,but I know he's in my friend's
thing or whatever the case isand he posted something.
Him and I correspond sometimesand he posted something.
(27:59):
He said 22825,.
If anybody is out, please videothe crowds in grocery stores.
Some people just don't give a F.
And he put 100 percent rightthere.
And then some of the people,some of the people were
responding and one person said Idid all my shopping today, got
(28:22):
gas too.
And another person wrote all myshopping was done on the 27th.
So I wrote, I responded andhere's what I wrote.
If any, if everyone did all theshopping today and gassed up,
what's the point?
Because they got your moneyalready.
I just don't understand how webecome so gullible with question
(28:47):
marks.
I put question marks there, butlisten y'all, I'm selling the
Brooklyn Bridge, if any y'allare interested, and I'll put
some laughing emojis up there.
And I got a few likes, quite afew likes for that.
And, um, another person wroteuh, they like the way things are
, but they really don't know.
(29:08):
We can have so much more.
And there was a sister whowrote yeah, she, this sister,
crystal Neal.
She wrote so because I'm seeingthis, which I'm really on
Facebook.
I have to share what I wasschooled on yesterday Blacks not
being consumers for one day isnot going to be impactful.
(29:31):
Why?
Mainly because of what Erinsaid.
That was me, she was talkingabout me.
Wow, said above, if we spendthe money on Tuesday or Saturday
that we would have spent onFriday, we still have
contributed the same amount tothe economy.
Change requires progress overtime.
(29:52):
The Montgomery bus boycottwasn't just one day, it was 381
days and it was a laser focusedboycott.
Yesterday's impact was notlaser focused, it was just for
one day.
So for the people who didn'tparticipate, it's not that they
don't care, it's that theyprobably already understood this
(30:16):
concept.
That was just schooled onyesterday at 7 pm, after I spent
the whole day not spendingmoney and I complimented her on
the thing and I said well, said,sis.
The question is, why should webe boycotting?
(30:36):
Because if it is due to DEI theDEI issue that some companies
have discontinued the program,well, what does that have to do?
What does that have to do withwith us as black consumers.
For example, target is acompany that discontinued their
DEI program.
(30:56):
However, when we look up thedata, only four percent of black
employees benefited from theprogram.
White women were mostly thebeneficiaries of the program.
People talk, right, people talk,but math screams.
It was the same thing withaffirmative action.
We have to stop being soemotional and triggered by these
(31:17):
charlatans and frauds likeReverend Al Sharpton and these
hoghead cheese-eating preachersMisuse our intelligence and our
energy all the while they arebeing caked off under the table
and out the back door and thefamily is out here marching and
protesting and being made tolook like total idiots.
(31:38):
That was my response and therewere some people who didn't like
that.
And, uh, there was.
You know, it was some back andforth.
It was some back and forth, butit was some back and forth.
But you get the picture right.
You get the picture of what wasgoing on.
Now, very interesting, thatsister brought up the Montgomery
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bus boycotts and everythinglike that, because it was
something that Dana from thesister has the podcast the Real
Dana.
She does a program every weekwith Judge Joe Brown, dana, you
know who I'm talking about,right, and she made a very good
(32:22):
point that the Montgomery busboycotts.
Back in the days right, that wasin the in the days Right, that
was on the heels of legislation.
There was legislation behindthat.
There is no legislation behindthis.
Now you have Al Sharpton thatcall for this.
(32:42):
Him and him and another pastorout of out of Atlanta, georgia,
just Jamal Bryant.
Don't know much about him, Ihaven't heard any good things
about him, but I want to playsomething for you here.
Hold on, let me go to it.
Let me go to it.
I want to play something foryou here.
Yeah, here it is, here it is.
(33:03):
I'm going to play this.
I'm going to play this and Iwant to come back to you.
Speaker 13 (33:07):
February 28th was the quote unquote, blackout,
fair use.
Jamal Bryan and Al Sharpton wastrying to put on getting people
to not shop at a plethora ofbusinesses that decided to do
away with their DEI policy.
Let's get into it.
Like, share, subscribe, let go.
Speaker 12 (33:33):
Hey, hope and pray that you're doing well.
I am at McDonald's Now,according to Reverend Al
Sharpton and Jamal Bryant, twocultural eunuchs.
All right, we're not supposedto shop at, you know, mcdonald's
and Best Buy and Target andWalmart and Amazon today, but I
don't get my marching ordersfrom wolves.
(33:53):
All right, we just pulled up toMcDonald's, all right, and, as
you can see, we're at McDonald's.
However, I've seen a few blackpeople go into McDonald's.
We're getting ready to go checkit out.
I support McDonald's.
Speaker 11 (34:10):
I's I support.
Mcdonald's I support mcdonald's.
Speaker 14 (34:13):
Hey guys, come to mcdonald's on capitol boulevard.
Speaker 12 (34:16):
We love it here hey, I'm here at mcdonald's and I
just wanted to do something kind.
You know, I wanted to purchasethe food of americans, people
who live in this country, notjust for black people or for
white people, for Hispanicpeople, all people and I have
several receipts of, you knowbills that I paid for.
(34:37):
You know, I don't think that weshould support Reverend Al
Sharpton and Reverend Jamal,non-bible compliant Bryant.
I don't follow them.
I support McDonald's and I alsosupport their decision in
getting rid of DEI, and soshould you.
Speaker 13 (34:58):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
I didn't even really have toneed anything on Friday, but
just to not be in accordance orin line with these people, I
went ahead and bought a coupleof things on Amazon, you know,
and had it shipped to the crib.
I did Because this wholesituation, it was ridiculous.
(35:18):
Let me pull this up for youguys.
This is the letter or memo thatwas going out last week.
It was on all on Facebook.
There's a multitude of people Ikind of, you know, said some
things and I normally don't getinto this type was all on
Facebook.
There was a multitude of people.
I kind of said some things andI normally don't get into this
type of stuff on Facebook.
But there was a couple where Iwas just like man, what are
y'all doing?
Don't fall a victim to this,don't fall a victim to this.
(35:41):
But there's one phrase herethat really stuck out to me and
I was like this whole thing isjust dumb, and it's this phrase
right here where it says try tobuy all you need before Friday,
February 28th, but, if necessary, only buy essentials Of
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absolutely necessary items suchas food, medicine and emergency
supplies.
If you're going to boycott, yougot to boycott.
If you're going to do it.
See us conservatives, we knowhow to stand on business.
When Bud Light decided thatthey were going to do what they
do, you know, and really jump inand support the alphabet
community and the transcommunity, the way they did, and
(36:24):
folks was like nah, I'm cool onBud Light and I ain't bought a
Bud product since, since don'thave any interest in doing so
either.
No, thank you, not interested.
But this whole situation wasridiculous and absurd anyway and
, to be honest with you, anybodythat's still following al
(36:47):
sharpton anywhere is hustlingbackwards in 2025.
This dude has shown you timeand time again that he is a
grifter and he is about to bread.
Simple as that.
When they were at Costco's upin New York, grandstanding, they
walked through there ain't pickup an item, ain't buy a thing,
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and sorry that you know I kindof got a little country, but it
needed to be said that waybecause they went there with the
video cameras and they all gotthese $25 gift cards but didn't
buy a thing.
Not one person had an item intheir hand and not one person
got in line to purchase anything.
These people are suckers, man.
They're grifters, they're liars, and Al Sharpton is one of the
(37:30):
biggest hustlers out there,biggest race hustler out there.
Dude ain't started any business.
Dude ain't created a product,doesn't provide a service worth
millions of dollars keepingblack folks riled up and
agitated because there's a bunchof money in this race hustling
industry.
Let's keep going and check outCousin T.
Speaker 11 (37:51):
If you respect Al Sharpton as a pastor, as a
reverend, you might not want towatch this video, okay, because
he ain't nothing but a dollarstore pastor.
He faked it in a $3 bill.
Al Sharpton, listen up here.
You bobblehead ambulance chaser.
You all you've been doing sinceyou have been running around
(38:16):
town is lying to the blackcommunity, fear-mongering,
ambulance chasing.
You don't show up unless moneyis involved.
You, you pretend like you careabout black people, but the only
time you show up, the only timeyou show up and speak about
black people, is when it's awhite person involved, but you
(38:37):
don't speak about black issueswhen white people are not
involved, because you're fakeand you don't care about black
people.
Now you're putting on thiswhole stupid boycott.
This is about the dumbest boy.
Boy.
Martin Luther King Jr would beashamed of you.
This is the dumbest boycottever.
So y'all.
(38:59):
I'm a business owner and Ithink this boycott is straight
up stupid.
Al Sharpton don't want youbuying from businesses like mine
that don't support DEI.
He don't want people shoppingat these stores and these
grocery stores because theydon't support DEI.
Boy, buy, al Sharpton.
(39:20):
Do you not understand this?
You told everybody to buy allthe things they need before the
boycott, things they need beforethe boycott.
Do you what?
Do you know how, boy my kid,this jar of jelly, this of this
(39:42):
jam, is smarter than you?
You, you ain't.
You're not even smarter thanthe jam in this jar.
Do you know how dumb you are,al sharpton?
So this is your way of tryingto hurt the economy.
This is your way of trying toget back at Donald Trump and get
back at people who don'tsupport DEI.
You don't even care about blackpeople.
(40:04):
You don't care about peoplemaking money.
All you care about is yourpockets.
Speaker 13 (40:09):
He's absolutely right.
He is absolutely right.
And if you have not tried anyof Cousin T's pancakes and syrup
and other products, go check itout.
I bought some and they're goodand I'm not getting paid to say
this.
I bought and I went in becauseI wanted to support him and what
(40:31):
he's doing and I bought it andwe enjoyed the pancakes.
We still actually got some andI believe we still got some of
the syrup as well.
It's delicious, I enjoyed it.
But he's absolutely right andthis dude is a grifter like no
other man and been grifting foryears.
Speaker 15 (40:50):
Making no impact.
What are they protesting?
I mean they're mad at companiesthat they're not hiring people,
that don't drive any revenuefor the company.
I mean nobody's payingattention.
It's one giant virtue signal,like all of woke capitalism.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Well, when it comes to the legal jeopardy part of
things, it seems they're kind ofa day late and a dollar short.
There are multiple cases thatare being pressed forward that
are holding these companies andCEOs accountable for taking
their eyes off the bottom lineand instead focusing on social
issues and ramming them down thethroat of a public that did not
(41:25):
have an appetite for it.
Speaker 13 (41:28):
Yep, and the thing is is people got to understand
that these companies, if they'republicly traded, they have a
fiduciary responsibility to doeverything that they can to turn
a profit, to make money fortheir shareholders.
So when you get out here andyou start trying to check boxes
and hire people that can'taffect the bottom line in a
(41:50):
positive way, that's a problem.
And any of you all that own anybusiness would you hire
somebody to check a box?
People got to understand thenumber one expense for every
company out there is their labor, the human capital expense.
That's the number one expenseright there.
(42:12):
And y'all want people to behired that can't necessarily do
the job, but they got to check abox.
Equity is dumb.
Equality is what we all want.
We just all want theopportunity to go and earn a
position, but you can't sitthere and say we got to have a
(42:33):
certain quota of this person,this person, this person and
this type of person.
That's just dumb and it's notgood business.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
And I want to stop it right there.
I want to stop it right there,family.
You know why I want to stop itright there.
I want to stop it right there,family.
You know why I want to stop itthere?
Because the brother made a veryimportant point, and that is
these people that are doing thisand carrying on about this DEI.
Like the brother said, give methe opportunity I don't want you
to give me because of a quota.
Give me the opportunity to goin there, do a job and show you
(43:03):
that I'm qualified to do it.
Just the opportunity to go inthere, do a job and show you
that I'm qualified to do it.
Just the opportunity I want youto give me the job and put me
in a position, because somequota and because you got to
fill out a line in order for youto get some money from the
government, so you have to haveme there as a black person or as
a female, as a whatever thecase might be right, but these
(43:26):
are the same people that arefighting to push this DEI thing.
The same people that aretelling us hear me, hear me that
are telling us that we'rebegging for reparations.
Stop begging for reparations.
Y'all begging.
Y'all ain't doing nothing butbegging.
You're begging the government.
Well, what are y'all doing?
See?
Reparations Y'all begging.
Y'all ain't doing nothing butbegging.
You're begging the government.
Well, what are y'all doing?
(43:47):
See, reparations is a debtthat's owed.
That's a debt that's owed fromtheir mouths.
They owe it from their mouths,not ours, from them.
But what are y'all doing?
Right, and like the dude.
Back to what he said.
You can't be smarter than a jarof jam.
You telling people to hurry upand spend all your money on
(44:10):
Thursday and Friday so you canboycott on Saturday.
They still got the money.
They still got the money.
So what did you do?
You hurt.
See, what this whole thingboils down to is you got these
people emotional over theelection.
You're still angry about theelection.
The dude won, the Trump dude.
(44:31):
He won, and these people can't.
They can't all of the moneythat they raised in the DNC for
that chick, the Kamala Harrischick.
All of the money that theyraised and they still lost.
They out-fundraised Trump two toone and they can't account for
(44:53):
the money.
Billions of dollars are gone.
The donors have left them.
The donors have abandoned thembecause you can't account for
their money.
So this is the only recourseyou have You're getting out here
, getting behind these sillyarguments, these silly things.
Now, I went into Target onSaturday.
(45:13):
I went in there.
Let me go, Let me take you toit.
Let me take you to it.
March 1st, Saturday, 2025.
Headed to Target.
Man see there Marching right inhere.
I'm going in and get me a fewitems.
I ain't studying about AlSharpton or any of the rest of
(45:36):
them.
Bozos with that DEI, garbage,Garbage.
I don't see much people in here.
(46:01):
There's a few black folks inhere, but it don't matter
because black folks in here.
Well, it don't matter cause I'min here.
I care nothing about thatstupid boycott.
Here you go.
(46:44):
I did this purposely.
Where is it at?
Where is it at here?
It is okay, got it.
I'm good, going to checkoutpeace.
Yeah, family, that was metalking on Saturday.
I just went in there basicallyto see if people were in there.
(47:06):
There was a few people in there, not as much as would be on a
Saturday.
That was early Saturday morning, so, but I did go in.
I did go in.
So, yeah, but back to it.
Back to it, what we were talkingabout here as I said when they
did with Dr king and rosa parksand all, and were doing the, the
(47:27):
montgomery bus boycott, thatwas on the heels of legislation
that was already put forward tothe congress.
That was, that was it was, itwas a solid plan and it was
backed up and it was, uh, theydid like 300, uh, 300 and
something days of the boycott,almost a year.
They boycotted the, the, andthat's how legislation got
(47:52):
changed and, um, things happenedand moved the needle.
This is nothing behind this,nothing but emotion.
And this is, they know, guyslike al sharp the limit.
Let me pull up something, holdon.
Let me pull up something, holdon.
Let me pull up something Hold onfamily.
Here we go.
Let's get this in here, let'sget this in here.
I want you to hear thisfoolishness with this dude.
(48:12):
And this is what we blackpeople are so emotional and
crazy about.
Speaker 16 (48:19):
Hold on as a church.
You may be seated, but in theseason of Lent, which is the 40
days leading up to Easter, ourchurch is going to be in a fast
of 40 days of consistent prayer.
Come on, I can't hear nobody.
(48:39):
I said 40 days of consistentprayer.
Lent starts on Wednesday, marchthe 5th, and for 40 consecutive
days our church will be inprayer.
Some of those days will be herein person, other days will be
(49:02):
virtually, other days will be onthe phone, but 40 consistent
days of prayer.
Secondly, ladies and gentlemen,I am calling us listen to me
because we have to operate inthe spiritual.
I am calling the conscientiousChristian community all over
this country, the conscientiousChristian community all over
(49:23):
this country.
I am calling for a 40-day fastfrom Target, beginning on March
the 5th.
100,000 conscientiousChristians you don't have to be
(49:46):
black, latino, asian, white100,000.
You're going to sign thiscommitment to be a part of this
40-day fast.
100,000 of you, bare minimal.
I'm asking you that afterservice, you'll go to
TargetFastorg, targetfastorg,targetfastorg.
(50:06):
I want you to share witheverybody on your job.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
I'm going to speed it up a little bit.
I'm going to fast forward alittle bit.
Every person in your home,every person in your.
I'm going to fast forward alittle bit and show you the
foolishness.
This is because we love to beentertained, so I'm going to.
We're going to be entertainedfor a second Hold on.
Speaker 16 (50:21):
I'm not just prayer, but fasting from Target.
You to fast for 40 days fromTarget.
I am telling you to sell all ofyour Target stock Black
businesses.
I'm glad you asked you atNewberth.
You not at there, brother Busby, would you please stand?
Thank you so very much forbeing with us Saying anything to
me.
(50:41):
You can buy black on paper,towels and toilet paper and soap
and dishwashing detergent.
Do you know what it's going tobe for America when we start
shifting our own economicecosystem and start investing in
ourselves?
Let me further say to all ofthe black vendors who presently
(51:02):
have products in Target we arenot starting for 30 days because
I want you to have enough timeto shift all of your product
digitally so that the communitywill be able to support you.
Your business will not fail andyour family will not suffer
Additionally.
Every black business that isnot in the black chamber of
(51:24):
commerce in decency and in order.
I'm gonna say it again weoperating in decency and in
order.
I'm saying this before.
They got a new fbi chief thatcalls us a terrorist
organization.
We doing it in decency and inorder.
Speaker 2 (51:41):
target, you got 40 now you hear all that
foolishness, you hear that, youhear that family, you hear it
and we going, you know, like asound, like a hog on the line,
like a big old hog on the lineabout to get his head chopped.
Speaker 16 (51:58):
Commitment in January.
You are reneging to thefinancial commitment you made to
our people.
Y'all ain't saying nothing.
You got 40 days before we shutall of it down.
We are calling all of thestockholders to be accountable
to the commitment that you madeto black people.
(52:19):
Y'all ain't saying nothing.
And I got naysayers sayingwon't you just preach the gospel
?
I'm preaching the gospel.
Jesus kicked over tables andused a whip to drive people out
when they were out of order.
In handling God's people.
Maybe see that.
(52:39):
You see family, that's what welike we like that.
Speaker 2 (52:43):
That's entertaining, that foolishness, pure
foolishness.
Family pure foolishness, purefoolishness.
But that's what we, we, we'reentertained by that.
I want to play a little bitfrom here, from dana, and then
we're gonna get ready to wrap itup.
Hold on just a.
Speaker 14 (53:04):
Why is this man calling on a boycott?
Yes, he is.
First of all, any black personthat participate in this buyout
boycott thing.
You are a damn fool.
So I Sharpton DEI boycott plan.
24-hour blackout on Friday,february 28th, from 12 am to 12
(53:27):
59 pm.
This is the first step tocounter the attack on DEI,
diversity, equity and inclusion.
Black people or, I guess, allAmericans right do not make any
purchases.
Do not shop online or in store.
No Amazon, no Walmart, no BestBuy, no McDonald's and other
(53:50):
fast food stores, no gas, nomajor retailers.
Do not use credit or debitcards for non-essential spending
.
Try to buy all you need beforeFriday February 28th but, if
necessary, only buy essentialsof absolutely necessary items
such as food, medicine,emergency supplies.
If you must spend, only supportsmall, local businesses.
(54:13):
Why this matters?
Corporations and banks onlycare about their bottom line,
disrupting the economy for evenone day since a powerful message
.
If they don't listen, we makethe next blackout longer.
Our numbers are powerful.
This is how we make history.
Spread the message.
Please share with all yourcontacts, talk about it, post it
(54:33):
, document your actions that daywe must use power we do have
and send an economy message withour numbers, as did Dr King.
February 28th, 24-hour economicblackout begins.
So this is Chicken GeorgeNational Action Network
organization scamming you people.
(54:55):
First of all, I am notboycotting.
And if you're telling people tobuy all of the things they need
the day before, dummy, thatjust doubles the corporation
businesses.
So even if they don't shop onFriday, which majority of people
are still going to do they'renot going to lose any money, you
idiot.
But why are people not shopping?
(55:16):
Why do you want people toboycott?
Because they got rid of a DEIprogram that did not benefit
black people or people of coloror white will benefit of white
women or illegals.
So it's dumb.
Speaker 2 (55:28):
But that is what chicken george do he dances
prances and he scams the blackcommunity yeah, so you heard
dana it ain't just me, it ain'tjust me found out that she's an
influencer big time, big time,with a lot of followers.
But back to what I was sayingabout legislation there's no
legislation behind this.
(55:49):
They have, and I'm reallysurprised, that revenue now.
Now, the only good thing that Iwill say that may come out of
this is that black people startsupporting more black businesses
, online businesses and whatnot.
Supporting more blackbusinesses, online businesses
and whatnot.
(56:09):
There is a site I saw a sisterthe other day where she was um,
giving links to sites where youcan get your products, whatever
household products, clothing,whatever you need, food items
and everything from a list, along list, of black owned
businesses.
Now, if those things can, if wecan boost those businesses and
(56:33):
spend our money, like I do a lotof times, a lot of my products
that I buy, I buy online fromblack owned businesses.
Now, some things you have torun out and get real quick and
you need businesses.
Now, some things you have torun out and get real quick and
you need, you need right thenand there and whatever and their
necessity, of necessity, andyou go out and you're buying.
But the thing is, I try my bestto support black businesses.
(56:55):
Now, that may be the good thingthat come out of it is because
anything that's bad, you canalways draw something positive
out of it, even though it's anegative.
I would never take a cue frompeople like Al Sharpton.
I could never take a social cuefrom someone like him.
(57:17):
However, there could be somegood that we can draw out of
this and that's where I'm atwith it.
That's the positive that Icould see coming out of this.
Now, I did go in Walmart theother day I think it was Sunday.
I went in Walmart and it wasempty.
The store was empty and thereweren't any.
(57:39):
That's when the store firstopened up.
I think I got there reallyearly.
So people mine and I had beenout.
There were a couple of peoplein there, one or two black
people in there doing theirshopping, and there were no.
There was, the store was justempty, wasn't black nor white in
there.
So I maybe it's a, it's a thing.
So who knows, it's like I said,I'm not taking any social cues
(58:04):
from a guy like a Sharpton orthis.
I don't know this Jamal Bryantguy, I don't know.
He has a big church in Atlanta,georgia.
I don't know anything about himother than what I see online
and it's nothing good, but yeah,so, but anyway, family, we're
going to get ready to blow outof here.
We're going to get ready toblow out of here because time,
(58:27):
you know, you got, you gotthings to do and a day to get
get on, and we're going to getready to blow out of here.
But yeah, but we're going tostay on these stories.
We're going to stay on thesestories and, as always, as
always, y'all go in peace, keeppeace and remember, respect life
, love, justice, cherish freedomand treasure the peace.
This is Vaughn Black.
(58:49):
We're gonna catch you next timeand we're gonna talk again.
Speaker 6 (59:22):
Thank you.
Same with weather, our timeswe've been through In silence.
(01:00:02):
I've waited, I've missed you,missed you, but you, you and I,
back together again.
The world can spin, but you,you and I, back together again.
(01:00:25):
The world is fair, it's allcome together.
Problems we defeated.
I'm here, I'm out of here.
(01:00:48):
You take all that I've got.
You need it, baby, cause you,you and I, back together again.
Like the world is spinning.
You, you and I, back togetheragain.
(01:01:08):
The world will stay.
Love will last forever, foreverwe can make it real.
Back to Mary.
When you leave.
Never we can truly feel whatyou feel.
Feel like we're back together.
(01:01:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're youngerand wiser.
Time has shown the way.
We've come full circle To stay.
Speaker 1 (01:01:57):
Cause you you and I.
Speaker 6 (01:02:02):
Back together again, like the world in a spin.
You, you and I Back togetheragain, like the world in a spin.
Truth is a lie.
It's the joy that people share.
Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
Make love day and night so easy to do.
When you get Love will lastforever.
Forever we can make it real.
That's a very low Say.
You'll leave forever.
(01:02:44):
Forever we can truly feel.
Watch me, feel like we're backtogether.
(01:03:39):
Thank you, oh yeah, oh yeah, ohyeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
(01:04:16):
, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, ohyeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah,
oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, ohyeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
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