Black Man EXPOSES Dems and Solutions for Republican Party! | Ft. Candidate Reginald Blount | Ep. 41 - The Quisha King Show

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What's up everybody, and welcome toThe Keisha King Show, where we'll be
discussing culture, faith and politics,all geared towards the next generation. When
you leave this show, you'll beready to get up, get out,
and go do something. Let's getstarted. Donald Trump came in and here's
where black people got it wrong.He came in and said he came in

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and said, I'm gonna do morefor Black Americans than any other president has
done. Bam. That's a vettingtoo, ladies. While you're ready to
get it to get down. Hello, everyone, welcome to another episode of
The Keisha King Show, where wediscuss faith, culture, and politics,

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all geared towards the next generation.Well, we have another in studio guest
for you today. I am sohonored to welcome candidate for City Council Reginald
Blunt. Hi. Hi everyone,Thank you Reginald for joining me today,
Thank you for having Okay, So, I wanted to talk about local politics.

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I know we do a lot ofnational politics on this show. We
talk about state politics also because ofour great governor, Governor Ron Descantis.
But I want to bring it downeven just to the lower level of local
politics, which is where your voteis going to count the most. This
is a place where your everyday lifeis going to be affected the most.

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Although considering Biden, it seems likenational politics is right inside of our home.
But we'll talk about that for anotherday. Reginald, why don't you
tell everybody a little bit about yourself? Okay, Well, I'm a native
of Jacksonville, Florida. Grew upin brand Park, still in that area,

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which in local schools. I alsograduated from at Ward's College and then
went into the military back in eightyseven. Served in the military four combat
tours Iraq, Desert Storm, twotours in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo,
and when I retired from the military, I got picked up by Florida State

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College in Jacksonville, where I'm anadjunct. There I worked in adult continuing
education and now I'm back here inJacksonville to serve. Okay, so four
tours. Well, first of all, thank you for your service. Thank
you. And you also used tolike jump out of planes and stuff,
right, Yes, I was inspecial operations. Yeah, I was in

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special operations for bragging North Carolina forall those military people. I was also
air assault. That's repellent from helicopters. We did a lot of training.
What happened is back during the nineeleven when we started deploying, they had
a lot of I mean, I'mmuch most called c A Civil Affairs,

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and a lot of Civil Affairs teamsget killed. I mean they were insider
attacks. I mean they were losingthem left and right. So they actually
forced me in the special uh NOover in Afghanistan in Iraq ok a lot
of the civil Civil Governors teams,so they were being they were being killed
at an alarming rate. So theystarted having to train people out of the
regular force to go special operations andI ended up going. And I didn't

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want to go. I was goingto retire. I said no. The
Army said yes. So the Armywon Reggie zero. Yeah, so I
actually got pulled into special operations underthe US Army Special Operations Command. Next
thing you know, I was atI got deployed. Then they sent me
to Fort Bragg under the Directorate ofCivil Affairs and Psychological Operations. The next

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thing you know, I was anairborne school. I was already aerosol qualified.
They were pushing seer training at alot of stuff. You really got
to be in shape for it.And then and then when they weren't sending
me the war, they were pushingme out of airplane. So when I'm
fifty five years old going out ofairplane, I said, something's wrong with
this, and yeah, they were, Oh my gosh, that's pretty cool.

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Yeah. So, um, youknow you said psychological affairs, Um,
psychological operations, right, yes,psychological operations. Um. Can you
see some of the tactics of psychologicaloperations that are going on now in the
country? Can? Oh, yes, yes, pyop is something I've seen.

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I didn't work. You know,we kind of work side by side,
but we're two separate entities. ButI know about it. And psychological
operations is simply this, I'm goingto influence you to do what I want
you to do, whether it's leaflesscoming out of an airplane, whether it's
radio and what's happening in here,especially and I might get in trouble with
the press on this one for blackAmericans I have. I'm seeing the greatest

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display of psychological operations on a populationwith military precision. Because we you can
put out information about a candidate orabout a narrative and they just hid it
over and over and over again,and next thing, you know, you're
actually believing what they're saying instead oflooking at it for yourself. And I'm
seeing it widespread, especially in theDemocratic Party. We are black people are

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conservatives. Black people are conservative,church, god, family, or what
in the news media puts out isthat like when they said that the Republicans
and the Conservatives under Trump, wellI don't think Trump was conservative like we
think, but yet yeah, yetthey put it out. So instead of
conservative being something that we are,they made it something that they think we're

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not. That's saya, yes,because they actually make us believe preachers in
everybody, that we're not conservative.They've been able to convince us that because
if we were, Black people wouldn'tbe voting like they vote. They wouldn't
be voting for trans stuff, theywouldn't be voting to you know, just
allowing everybody in the country because itaffects everybody, affects the tax base.
But when they put out that stuffover and over and over and over again,

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next thing, the one thing theycouldn't do is black people aren't jumping
around about the border. They're like, that's really not our issue. Black
people didn't buy that They're like,well, we're catching hell almost, we're
catching hell down here. So theydidn't buy that, so they moved on
to something else. And remember too, um, when they were trying to

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say that they were whipping the Haitians, Yeah, who were coming over illegally?
Are those I think they were fromhaiti Ya. They were trying to
say that the horse rains. Imean this, but this is the extent
to which they will go to pushthis narrative or further psychologically damage Black Americans,

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um to to you know, tocreate this narrative that you know,
anything that the Democrat Party hasn't sanctioned, that that's racism. Yeah, and
they kept doing it. Notice howthey were showing it over and over.
And I think that's something that BlackAmericans really didn't jump on. They try
to push it, some people saying, oh, they're whipping these black people.
Yeah. I don't think it caughton very well, but they tried

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to push it knowing and these peopleknew that those were the rings for the
for the horses. Guys, theyknew it, but they wanted to make
it a racial thing. You know, you know, it's terrible, it's
terrible. Little Yeah, you know, it's funny. It's a kind of
side note. You know, wehave laws in marketing, like there are
laws that you cannot mislead people.You can't have deceptive marketing, you can't

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market to children a certain way.I wish there were laws when people ran
for office that you couldn't like lie, that would be great. You had
to m that you couldn't just sayanything or do any Actually, I think
there are some laws, but mostpeople don't even they don't even enforce those
things. But anyway, just alittle but well, why don't you tell

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us why you are running for citycouncil. I'm running because and this is
just to put it on a baseline. When you can be gone for thirty
years now, I never lost myFlorida residency. I kept my residency.
I always voted as a Floridian,so I kept that. And you can
do that in the military. Butwhen you can come back after thirty years
or service and go to certain areasin town, especially where I live,

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over the Grand Park and the oldestareas, and it almost hasn't even changed,
something is terribly wrong, which meanswe have black American council people.
We had a black mayor and nothingstill has changed, or the narrative that
all the Republicans aren't doing anything,the white man's not doing anything. But

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wait a minute, aren't we runningthese places? We've been running in for
the last forty years and nothing hashappened. And when I said plus,
I worked and governed at civil militaryand that's what civil pairs is. And
my thing is that if they aren'tgoing to do anything about it, because
I've been all over the world,I've seen all kinds of situation, not
always all bad, some of themwere good. I just want to come

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back and throw my piece in thereto try to provide some leadership in moving
these agendas, to get these areas, um get the infrastructure built up to
where you know, people are proudto live there. Too many times it's
just not happening, and there hasbeen some improvement, but nothing. I
mean they you go across the ward, they got cranes everywhere, just building

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up. And these places are dark. There's you know, they happen,
and we don't like people, youknow, you ever here, like those
stories that they say, like whoras is people that are walk into it.
There's like a lot of black people, you know, it's dark in
here anyway. Good. Yeah,I think that the last major project,

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especially in the now at large seatis citywide, and we can talk about
that. But one of the areasthat needs improvement is the last major project
in the historically black areas was theLegend Center, and there has been none
thing beyond that, no improvement.No, you know, they pay the
roles, they've put lights up,but nothing that changes the appearance of that

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area in particular. So what aresome of your ideas that you have to
do just that to change the area, what it looks like, making people
proud to live there, where it'snot just look it looks dark and desolate,
desolate. Well, the one thingfirst they have to do is I
would like to see autists done,real autists, because you got to chase

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the money. Too much money.Yeah, money is coming, I mean
there. Listen. When you haveprojects such as its true Tail road Diet
where they were going to turn afour lane into a two lane for all
kinds of reason, safety, beautificationor whatever. You have a price tag
attached to that project, let's justsay five million. It's gonna take five
million do this road project. Well, actually it only costs two point three

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million. Where's the overage going,where's that access going? Only goes back
into the coffers. Some people inthe neighborhood have asked, well, why
can't they move the money to adifferent project. They could, but that's
not how the laws work. Soit goes back into the city coffers and
it doesn't get attached to the nextphysical year. That money has to be
spent some kind of way, soyou have to ask what where is the
money? So they have to spendthat money right, And it seems like

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historically they always over budget projects inthese communities and there's always a certain amount
of money that does not get spent. Why is that? Why is that?
So that's a really good question.Why is that? And so my
theory and I'm gonna say a theorybecause I don't have all the facts in

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the paperwork, But when you dothat, you always have this excess money
left over. And is it historicallya way to just get money to funnel
other projects that aren't in that area. I'd be interested in that. That's
why you need audits. The nextthing is you need to respect the community
creas and these are these action committeesbecause the people have to be a part
of developing their own community. Youjust don't. You don't just throw up

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a five G tower put stuff ina neighborhood community and people don't know anything
about it. And that's one havebeen one of the biggest complaints. One
of the ideas that we have isyou have to put something in a community
economically that's going to serve as ananchor. Like when you look at Gateway
Shopping Center that was I think itcame out in the late forties fifties.

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What was the anchors? J C. Penney, Montgomery Ward that held it
down and things built up around it. And that's what these guys, that's
what they do in any other partof the city, right, and you
build around that. That's what createsthe economics. Well, those communities in
that particular area don't have any anchor. I think they have with Dollar Generals,
a bunch of liquor stores, abunch of crab shops, but nothing

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that would want people to move thatit. So people have been talking about
at Bob Hayes Sports conflict for decadesnow. Bob hays we can't use the
name because it's a family name,So you don't want to get into that.
So we came up with with aproject that's called the Northwest Stadium and
Business Center Complex. And what itis is that when you build something that

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big as an anchor in the community, then you want to Most of the
time they'll say, well, who'sgoing to occupy this stadium? How is
it going to make money? Youknow, if it's a big sixty five
million dollar project, how are yougoing to pay for this? Well,
you can get teams like the JacksonvilleArmada, which is a soccer team,
to make it their home stadium.You can have in this project, we
have attached to a police substation,fire station on one side of stag Stadium.

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We actually have a business center complexwith office spaces and large conference rooms.
Because people in that area shouldn't justhave to go to the prime Osbourne.
It's expensive. Why can't they havesomething on that town, on that
side of town that Galvanizer's community indoorpool, locker rooms. The stadium also
has an Olympic tized track and it'scan served as a concert stadium, so

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it's it's it's really a multiplex stage. And then you said, also there's
business states there, Yeah, businessoffices for you know, entrepreneurs or businesses.
It's close proximity to the airport isat least my vision, rather than
deeply embedded in the community. Becauseyou have nine five going to Orange Park

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and to the airport that catch usa lot. And then I heard they
were talking about moving the fairgrounds fromthe stadium Tia bank Field to somewhere I
think their Questioning center. But thatmight not go through. All of those
kind of things you can build offof. But the reason why it can
be difficult because you got to getthe city to buy into it, developers,

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you know, um city business partnerships. But it can happen. I've
been told, oh, they won'tdo that, Nobody, Well why is
it When we want to do somethingfor these communities, it's always you can.
But when Sean, which is abusinessman, wants to tear down the
off raps to the heart Bridge,Oh done, how much? Eight million

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whatever, and they just make ithappen. So um, it's not impossible,
right, It's just difficult, andpeople have to You have to have
leadership to come in and say whywhy can't we have this, what's the
future plan? For get the cityplanners to say this area is developing before
factories like Amazon and all to buyup all the land. Why don't we

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look at this as a as ananchor piece for the community to spur economic
growth because right now I don't seeanything happening that would kind of and and
it would be something because I guesspeople could say, well, isn't an
Amazon, you know, if theydo buy, wouldn't that bring economic growth
because they would create jobs. Butthat's not a Jacksonville, right, It's

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not something that comes from Jacksonville forjackson Yet. Yes, people could work
there, but this project sounds likeit gives people more of a not that
Amazon would not be able to bringin jobs. Jobs are good, obviously
we want people to work, butthis is something that the community could actually

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have a you know, a stakein. It sounds like where it's it's
kind of like for from Jacksonville,buy Jacksonville to have to benefit Jacksonville.
Yes, yeah, And it seemslike a lot of times we have these
bigger companies that are coming in,which is great. You know, we

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want business. We want to spurbusiness growth. We want that economic development,
but we also need some staples thatyou know, like a good classic
you know, something that can lasta long time, that people can say
that they had some you know,buy into yes, and that's just that's

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just one project. It's something aslong term. It's not going to happen
the next day. One of myconcerns about that particular part of town,
which falls in the at large fiveis that they're buying up land all along
to ninety five and they're putting factoriesthere. Well, guess what's on the
other side. You have these sixseven, eight hundred thousand dollars homes.

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And when you get zoning involved andthey zone this property, who wants to
have a nice, beautiful house Andnext thing, you know, instead of
seeing a forest or a pond,you're looking at a factory in a forklift
going by your backyard, you knowwho. And that all has to do
with zoning. Now, you can'tstop progress, but you can get in
and say we're going to create alaw that if these mega factories come in,

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you have to be able a bufferbetween a person's backyard and the factory.
Whether it's the increase of the landtrees, but it needs to be
wide enough to where nobody's walking outof their backyard to drink their coffee and
see a forklift and pallets right righton the fence right after you just pay,
you know, eight hundred thousand dollarsfor your house. And you know

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even with cars, like even withcars you can have, Um, you
go and you pay all this moneyfor a car, and then when you
drive around your neighborhood, you gottalike bump along because the roads are so
freaking torn up and stuff. Andmany these are in um, predominantly Democrat

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led cities. Parts of town.Um, what do you think about that?
Like? Why do I guess thatgoes into what you're saying about parts
of town have It seems as thoughthere's you know, parts of town where
um that are mostly Republican ran.They look better, the roads are better,

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they're doing all this. And thenyou have you know, the other
sides of towns where they are theyare predominantly ran by Democrats and it's nothing
but people keep voting for these people. Right when you look at the city.
When we talk about you know,the consolidation from nineteen sixty eight,
a lot of things were supposed tohappen. You know a lot of promises

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made during the mayor hands Tancelent yearsthat we're going to get rid of all
the sceptic thanks. We're going todo this. We're gonna be even when
the Jaguars came. Oh, thisis going to galvanize, and you know,
the black community is going to getso much lies, lies, all
lies and deceptions. Now, somebodywill be mad at me because I'm saying
that, but there was no excusefor that when they first started. And

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I'm gonna stay on the Jaguars fornow. That stadium, when they built
it, it came out of theold gate Ball stadium. The only thing
from the gate Ball Stadium was thenew part that they put up, made
a concrete. The rest of itwas torn down. It was pretty much
steal. Instead of getting those menin the community, especially the East Side,
who wanted to work, they wantedto be a part of history,

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they brought in a lot of Mexicanworkers. This is a fact. And
those none of those men got employed. And people still remember that. So
if you start out with the deception, what do you think you're going to
continue to have could have employed thosemen and say you're going to be a
part of history. And they builtand you know, the Jaguars came and
just the money that was supposed toflow and for the whole city, it

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just didn't happen. Yeah, butit's not merely the Jaguars responsibility. That's
just one of the things that happened. And it's about priority. They just
don't find those areas as a priorityfor development and we don't know why.
But that's a council person's issue.They need to come together and say,
hey, these things need to bedone. There's Jacksonville is not a poor

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city, it's not cash trapped.But the priority of what they want to
do is what their problem is.You got to work between the mayor's office
and the city council to get thingsdone. People talk about it, they
go to the meetings. They justthey're a verse of voices that aren't hurt.
Well, you know what's speaking ofthe mayor. You know, considering
that you know he was marching withBLM. Our Republican mayor was marching with

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BLM, you would think that theseblack neighborhoods will be a priority. Right.
I'm just I'm just saying. I'mjust saying, you know, I
just I would if you're gonna marchwith BOM and you know you got all
this to say about you know,this destructive group, about you know,
how you're you've evolved. I'm justcurious, you know, I don't know.

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I'm just asking questions. I thinkwe can still ask questions in America.
I don't know, but I'm justsaying, you know, it seems
really suspect for a Republican mayor's tobe marching with such as destructive group,
but there's no action behind you know, those words and those you know,
those marches. So anyway, that'sa part of say, you know,

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why would you want to come out? You know, this is from what
I understand, this is clearly agroup that has nothing to do specifically with
black lives But hey, let's destroythe nuclear family. Um let us get
all of this money and we'll gobuy our ten mansions and none of this
money goes to where it's supposed togo. Let's do the research, right.
Yeah. But for the mayor tosay that what his reasoning was and

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why he said it, I can't. I can't get in his head.
But it really bothers me that youwould do that and then specifically say,
oh, I changed my narrative blacklives matter, And it's like okay,
but do black neighborhoods matter, doinfrastructure matter? Where are we going that?
You can see it out of yourmouth, But the most important things

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that are needed, those issues aren'tbeing addressed, right, They aren't being
addressed. And this is you know, we had a black mayor. You've
had a lot of Republican mayors,and we have predominantly black district seven,
eight, nine, and ten.Yeah, and the progress, like I
said, there's been some progress made, but not nearly enough. I mean
thirty years, I've been going backand forth and I'm not seeing any real

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change except factories, truck stops.Your cameras are not deceiving you. Reginald
is black, and he is aRepublican. He is a Republican. And
you know, I always say,typically if you're a black and Republican,
there's a story. So were youalways a Republican? No? I was

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Democrat for a number of years.Then I was independent. You know,
I still have my card NPA forBrobally almost fifteen sixteen years. When Donald
Trump came in the office of thepresidency, I really didn't think much,
never thought nothing much about Hiller.Yeah, I kind of, like everybody,

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kind of like Bill, come on, let's just be real. Let's
just be real about it. Youknow, Bill was cool, but when
he came into office, he wasactually talking in a way that people weren't
used to. He was really brashabout it. But the thing about President
Trump is he is who he was. He didn't change and establishment hated that.
But what we didn't do, wedidn't really have a full understanding that

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he's actually saying what we're thinking.We just wanted him to be presidentially and
said, you know, this needsto be done. And he didn't say
that. He said, your guysare garbage and used to be fixed.
Yeah, yeah, on both sides. In his inauguration he said, while
you guys, and he was talkingabout everybody black, white, Hispanic Asians,
while you guys were struggling and doingbad. These guys who were prospering.

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And he didn't say the Republicans,he did say the democ He said
all of them, the entire establishment. So they didn't like that. In
fact, I think it was somethinglike ninety five percent of Washington DC voted
did not vote for Trump, meaningthe Republicans and Democrats the establishment period did
not like him. But there wasa lot of things. He said,
the whole value system with the RepublicanParty at the time really made me change

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because there's some things that I justcould not get with with the Democratic Party.
I'm wondering why for decades and decadesand decades they were in power,
but this community seemed to continue tocrumble. So I like the conservative values.
I'm conservative. I've always been,even when I was Democrat, and
when I came back to Jacksonville onthe side of the city Council, I

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did not want to run specifically asa Democrat, and I was because I
wasn't a Democrat. I was anMPAM, and I thought it would be
better to just go with the partythat had the same values that I had.
And that made me change from beinga mind party affiliation to Republican.
So m speaking of you know,Democrat Republican and elections and things like that.

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In Jacksonville, our system is alittle bit different. So most people
think, you know, you havethe primary and then you have you can
vote for the every you vote foreither the Democrat or the Republican out of
that primary. But in Jacksonville it'sa little bit different. So it's not

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why don't you explain. Yeah,we have what's called a unitarian system most
people are accustomed to. All ofthe Republicans will run against each other,
and whoever wins will go against allthe Democrats who ran against each other,
and then the Independent and Libertarian partyin all these would come in. Once
the general election happens. In aunitarian election, everybody is put in the

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race, whether you're a Republican,Democrat, Unitarian, Team Party, Green
Party, whatever party you are,you have the election and the two if
one person does not get fifty oneof the vote, then the two highest
vote getters, whether it's two Republicans, two Democrats, a Republican and independent,
they go against each other and everybody'sout and that's a unitarian election.

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Then they go into the general election, and whoever wins after that is the
council person. Someone wins out right, they don't have to have a general
election, and that only happens andyou in consolidated cities like ours, whether
the city and the county are one. Yeah, so that's how how that
runs. So that's why you seeeverybody on the ballot when you're voting in

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a unitarian election. Okay, Soand that, like you said, so
our system changed to this new systemback in what the sixties, in nineteen
sixty eight when the city consolidation.Yeah, so we used to be the
city and the county used to beseparate. Right. In fact, I
have some old maps Jacksonville. Ithink it stopped at It might have went

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up to Sherwood, I don't know, but Jacksonville stopped somewhere in that area.
Yeah, it wasn't very big,and then the rest was the county.
Yeah, it's really pretty fascinating.I'll put some pictures up here so
you can see what it used tolook like and then what it became.
And that's why we are the biggestcity in the nation square square foot wise
or mileage wise or whatever, notby population, but by you know,

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the square footage or mileage or whatever, because of that consolidation. And with
that is like what you were sayingearlier, was when the sewage systems were
to put all of these promises thatwere made, promises made, promises were
not capped, probably because we didn'thave Donald Truant. But yeah, and

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so there are a lot of communitieswho bought into this this idea or what
or did everybody was everybody on boardwith that or was there like pushback or
take us back to like what washappening right. I'm not sure if everybody
was into it. I think thecity was having some financial problems and they

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had talked about it for years,so the decision was just made, Okay,
we are going to merge, andI think that's where the promises came
at. You know, this isgoing to be a good thing for everyone,
and that's why everybody bought into it. Because there was a lot of
initiatives put in place that swayed people'sopinion about either keeping a city separate,
are merging with the county and thatinformation split out and the sewage was one

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of them that they were supposed toclean up all the septic tanks. And
that brings me to one problem.They're still building housing in certain areas with
septic tanks, even though they're modernseptic tanks. Why would you do that?
Why the developers, especially these largehousing developers, should have to either
find a way to tap into citysystems or that should be a part of

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their their property when they're when they'rebuilding these these large neighborhoods, it should
be a part of it. Soyou're not having to deal with that issue.
But they're building these individual houses andthey have septic tanks, and I'm
looking at it and saying, well, isn't that going to be a problem
fifteen twenty years from now? Yeah, now you have the same thing going
on, right, and that's justgoing to cost the city more money.
But it's still a selling point becauseever you know, these candidates they get

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up there, they're like, we'regonna fix the septic tank systems, and
it's like it's almost like they wantthe problem to continue to exist so they
can have a platform to run itto promise you something that they ain't.
They're really not going to do.It's really annoying. But anyway, U,
so what else do you What aresome of the other things that you

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would like to see? I knowyou said infrastructure. Being a part of
the Republican Party now and seeing what'sgoing on inside of our Republican Party,
what do you think? Well,Um, there's a lot of politicians,

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a lot of non politicians, peoplewho have been around here. While who
says currently the Republican art it's unlikelyanything they've seen, they've never seen it
this bad. And I'm just relayingwhat people say. There are a small
group of people who have come intothis town from where of a California,
California, and they have actually cameinto the government under whatever tents you know,

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and they are actually having a largesay so in the entire political structure,
and their thing is to infiltrate.Excuse me, the city council handpicked
candidates that would do their bidding.And I don't have any problem with you
wanting to push your good candidate forward. But here's where the problem comes in.
There when you say we have aformula to promote our candidate and demonize

(31:11):
everybody else, even if it's withinour party. So basically the word is
we don't eat our young, wedon't eat our members our own. But
you don't eat them, you killthem and you burn them. And that's
been the process. You're you're takingpeople who you don't desire, and you're
really creating you're creating discord because ifyou're demonizing half your candidates because they may

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support somebody, and you say we'regoing to push this person and we're gonna
just level everybody else. The problemcomes in with this is when you're mailers
and things, they send out,whether they're packs that have nothing to do
with the city, but they're connectedto high officials in the party, put
out lies deception, and that's whathappens when you doctor photos making a person

(31:57):
look like they don't even look whenyou're taking a picture where somebody's doing this
and you're saying, look, he'she's making a racial slur with this,
you know, just crazy stuff likethat. Yeah, and you're sending this
city. Why that is, Um, that's not good. Yeah, that's
not good at all. It Hurstthe city, especially Hurst the party.
Yeah, and you know, it'sit's it's another type of psychological operation if

(32:21):
you ask me, because you're it'sbasically propaganda. You're putting out a message
that's just not true, and you'redeceiving the people. Right, So you're
taking their money because they're donating,you're taking their vote because they're believing all.
You know, their mailbox is gettingflooded, their phone is getting flooded
with messages, their TV is gettingflooded. Because these people have a lot

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of money and so they can putout, you know, widespread campaigns on
all these different platforms and many timesit's just not the truth, right,
And it's uh, it's it's beena winning formula form um. They brought
it here. It's almost like it'salmost like particular locusts coming in the city

(33:04):
and ravaging everything, and once theyget all the money they get, then
they move on to another place ifthey can't make what they're doing permanent.
But what's most disturbing is the peoplewho have been here who buy into it.
Siy up again. If we cancontinue to demonize over and over and
over again, people begin to believeit. So now it's not about who's
the best candidate. Like, letthose two Republicans or those two Democrats,

(33:28):
and the Democratic Party is a partof the two. Let them run against
each other and see who's the bestone, and let the championship fight.
They don't want that. They wanttheir guy. They don't care who is
as long as it's their guy andwhat people and they're gonna get me for
this one. The Republican Party willsupport a Democrat if that Democrat can be
controlled. When you get to acertain level, it's not about your party

(33:50):
affiliation. It's about who you wantand how you need to push the narrative
to control the entire city to theway you want it to go, and
a lot of people a party,yes, yes, they don't. They
don't care about party affiliations. Theywant power and control, and it's disturbing
because it's not good for the citylong term. This is this is only

(34:12):
good for individuals in their power structure. Yeah. And you know what bothers
me about those types of things.It's like, you know, everybody knows
the Republican Party is mostly older people. Yes, And it's like you've raised
your kids, some of them have, even you know, the grandkids are
adults, and you have no.You don't care about this next generation that's

(34:38):
coming up. You don't care aboutyou know, the city or the state
or the country that you are leavingbehind. Like you said, it's just
only about their individual personal goals thatthey want to push. They could give
a flip about the next generation thatis coming up that has to live with

(35:00):
these bad decisions because most of thetime the people that they are pushing have
no they are they're not They don'tvote for things that are actually good for
the city or good for the statethere they vote many times along with the
Democrats, I mean quite honestly.And so it's like we're paying for our
own demise and destruction. We voteand we donate for us for our taxes

(35:23):
to be raised, for men tobe in women's bathrooms. Because here in
Jacksonville we have a majority, wehave a Republican mayor, and we have
a majority Republican city council. Butthis city council voted to put men and
women's bathrooms. We've had our taxesraised multiple times, while you know,

(35:45):
inflation is going on, and youknow all of these things. So it
just becomes very it doesn't seem likethese people are really Republicans. It just
doesn't seem like, you know,we're supposed to be the party of having
a standard, We're supposed to bethe party of the people that care about

(36:06):
the citizens. But when we getthese people in office, um, they
just don't. They do not seemto care about the next generation that's coming
up. And it's very it's veryhard to remain silent. It's very hard
to for me. For me,it's hard to remain silent. It's hard
to remain committed to something that yousee is just tearing your city down.

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It's really it's really quite sad.And then here's the kicker, but wait,
there's more. That's not it.That's not it. When you speak
out people even in your party,who are not not we're not talking about
the leadership sometimes sometimes leadership too.But the people are more upset with you

(36:52):
about speaking out than they are aboutthe person who's actually doing the corruption.
What in the world, how areyou going to be more upset with the
person that's actually trying to tell you? Hey, look everybody, these people
are using you, they're playing you. Your vote is not you know,
you're voting for your own destruction.How are you going to be more upset

(37:14):
with them than you are about thosewho are actually doing the crimes, the
corruption. It's called the art ofpersonality. Remember that song no I dount
oh you can say, meaning thatthat's a part of saya. A person
can be so charismatic and be thelying and sheep in the flock. But

(37:37):
because well he's so he's so charismatic, he's so good looking. Well,
for what I understand, Satan wasgood looking. And they can be so
persuasive with their personality that you willbuy a lie just because of the person.
Yeah, and the person that's tellingyou the truth, you push him

(37:57):
back, and that's a part ofthat's a part of the charisma of some
leaders. Yeah, and we don't. And that's why I tell a lot
of people across the board. Mostof my friends vote Democrat. I mean,
I come from the black community's whereI live. Yeah, And I
always tell them pay attention and researchbecause we don't do that enough. Pay
attention and research and look at whatthey're doing and then you can make a

(38:19):
better decision. But it seems likepeople are more loyal to the party than
the actual idea of a person who'sactually going to do something right. And
you know, they get manipulated,and I think that's what happens. It's
it's very cult like now. Ithink that the Democrat Party itself has is
a cult. But we do havethese blind followers of other leaders in the

(38:44):
Republican Party as well. You know, I'll talk to certain people, I'll
talk to different people and theyn't say, I say, what do you think
about this? Kennet Oh, I'veknown them since they were twelve. You
know, their daughter used to babysitfor me. And I'm like, well,
I don't think that they're thinking aboutyou as much as you're thinking about
them. Because when they go andvote, they're voting against your best interests.

(39:08):
So because you knew them when whenyou were when they were twelve,
and you know, little Johnny wasjust so cute Little Johnny, that's he's
not the same anymore. You know, he's made a backdoor deal that you
were not in on. And youthink that you're voting for, you know,
an upstanding guy and I know hisfamily, but um, little Johnny

(39:31):
was like, you know, I'mI'm I'm taking a different direction and I'm
not going to think about you whenwhen legislation comes on my desk, I'm
thinking about myself. That's just myopinion, you know, and that's important
to legislation. Um, I knowthat. You know, as a city
council member, you don't just getelected and you just walk in office and

(39:53):
everybody's gonna kiss the ring and bowdown to your objectives. It just doesn't
work like that. In Jack's inparticular, you got to rely on the
majority of vote of nineteen or eighteen. You're the nineteen so the council members
to get legislation passed. But sinceyou were talking about the HR the bathroom
bill, that's major. Yeah,because a majority predominantly republic conservative legislative body

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with men and women, husbands andwives, to say yes to a bill
that, as far as I'm concerned, endangers your daughter, your spouse,
your mother, anybody female to havesome man to just walk in the restroom
and basically to look at and youwould say, well, there's nothing you
can do, and I want todo. Those law lawmakers really believe that
it can't happen to them because alot of them have there in these country

(40:39):
clubs and they think it's not goingto happen to me. My kids go
to these pretustigious schools, but itcan't happen, and it will happen.
Yeah, we have a you know, there was a story couple maybe like
a month ago where this woman wholet her daughter go to the bathroom at
Michael's and there was a man comingout of the bathroom whether twelve you know,

(41:04):
I think it was our daughters liketwelve And can you imagine? Can
I mean you can't even go tolike a restaurant and you know twelve thirteen.
Most most families, you're not like, okay, yeah you need to
go to the bathroom. You're notfollowing your kid in there. You know
when they're at that age. Butnow you have to you have to change
your entire life because now our cityhas voted for men to be able to

(41:27):
go in women's bathrooms, and ittotally dismisses the protection of biological women.
And you have Republicans who have votedfor that, and I find that particularly
really disgusting considering all of the thingsthat we have going on in our schools
with things like this. Just yesterdayI saw a story where um, oh

(41:54):
my gosh, Scott Smith, whowas the father of the he was arrested
in Virgin loungecount in Virginia where hisdaughter was sexually assaulted in a bathroom at
school with a boy who came intheir way dress on. That boy just
got convicted, he did, hegot convicted, but that father was arrested

(42:19):
because the school board was not doinganything to protect They covered it up,
and the police are the one tosay, oh, yeah, there was
a report done. There was yes, And they were trying to say,
oh, we had never heard astory. We don't know what he's talking
about. He's crazy, you know. But I just, you know,
for fathers having to I mean,I'm not obviously I'm not father. But

(42:40):
you know when you fathers are naturalprotectors, providers, and when you hear
stories like that, you know,it's hard to think about that because it's
it's it's a little girl. Youknow, that's your maybe that's your daughter.
Like over the decades, our societyhas been so dumbed down until we
still believe in the deity of peopleand you know, elected in political officer

(43:04):
that we just have that side.Okay, there, wow, they're an
official. And then when things likethis happen, the people are so numb.
Like I sit in a room andactually chastise the men. Why are
you all not down at the schoolboard meeting? Why is myself and just
a couple of other people there?I say, these the women are in
their masks, but where are themen. I tell you what happened.
There is a certain group of mendearborn Michigan. Oh yes, those Muslim

(43:29):
men everybody, because they stood upand shut that school board down, and
they had to be a hundred ofthem. Yeah, and they said,
you will not push this stuff onour kids. You will not have men
going in restroom on our daughters.But here I'm noticing the men are just
and some of them, our fathers. They're like numb to the fact that
somebody's even challenging that, almost like, well they said it, so I

(43:51):
guess we got to go by it. I don't want to be called,
you know, some phobico, yeah, transphobic or whatever. It's like,
that is so not the point.The point is we have to protect children.
I mean, you have to protectchildren in your society. Otherwise,
like what are we doing? Whatare you even bothering to run for office

(44:12):
for if you're not that's a societynorm when we do that. Men over
your women over there. We respectedthat. But you have some people with
bad intentions who want to skew theline between children was right and wrong.
This was acceptable and they want tojust be able to railroad everybody. Yeah,
and that's what's happening, and nobody'sreally doing anything about it. Yeah,
well, you got people fighting forit. But the fact that you

(44:35):
have these men who who are onthe council who actually said, oh yeah,
that's okay, it's what Yeah,yeah, it was. It was
a small few that voted against it. Yeah yeah. And you know,
you expect Democrats to vote for stufflike that, but you don't expect for
Republicans to vote for stuff like that. It's like when I hear um,

(44:58):
you know certain officials you know,talk about the Democrats. You know they
will tell all the Democrats are there'sin the Democrats or Dad and you know
where I got our crush? Aremean this And it's like, yeah,
but you just literally voted for peopleto go and women's bathrooms or you are
silent, right, because silence,in my mind is being complicit, especially

(45:22):
when you hold when you have aleadership position, silences being complicit. Don't
you guys have like something y'all sayor something like that in the military,
Like I don't know, don't y'allhave some kind of like um, you
know, if you see something,you have to say something when you see
things going wrong. I don't know, is it like a yeah, the

(45:43):
military is the military as long asyou have good leadership is structured in a
way to where I mean just thinklike this, and I'm gonna give you
some some combat situations. If youunleashed American soldier, they will decimate.
That's why you have to have strongorder and supply UCMJ. You have to
really come down because if you havea lax army with the kind of weaponry

(46:06):
and power we have. You getthese young boys out here there, they'll
they'll destroy an entire city in amatter of hours. That's why you have
to hold those rings, because theywill tear up some stuff the US Army,
So you have to have disciplinary measuresin charge. I don't know if
you remember the Melon massacre back inVietnam, but that's where you know,
soldier was killed and you know theytook revenge and ended up almost destroying the

(46:30):
whole village. Bad leadership. That'swhat happens when you don't have good leadership
or things in place. But therewas somebody who told, you know,
there was somebody who told. Andusually during that ear it was just it
was just a rough time. It'shard to do that now without somebody speaking
up and said, wait a minute, whole up, we're not doing this.

(46:50):
I was in that position, um, and I'll share this which is
not top secret. In Afghanistan,we you know, we had what's called
a file forward operating well. Wehire locals to man some of the gates,
you know, and to do differentthings to clean up. And there
was there was this soldier who wascalling this guy come here, Haigi,
come here doing this necessarive, derogatoryname. It's like you're just you're an

(47:13):
entity. Come here, Hoigi.And you know I wasn't even a sergeant
of the guard, but I cameout. I was a ranking person.
So I said, wait a minute, stop. I said, what's your
name? He said, my nameis Honking Minn. So I said,
okay, hot Men, I said, looked at my soldier. His name
it's Hokman. Are we clear?And that's how you're addressing? Gave the
head nod. He said, yes, sergeant, problem solved. But just

(47:36):
think about it. Yeah, justlike that, think about it. There
was no order and discipline, theywould have abused it. Eventually, it
can get physical if you don't controlthem. You know, the sold American
soldier isn't bad. It's just inthose environments, just like a Republican Party.
Yeah, Democratic party. If youdon't control these people, they will
run absolutely wild. Yes, that'shuman names, that's human nager. Absolute

(48:00):
power corrupts absolutely So we're not.I understand exactly what you said. I
totally love and respect our military.I totally love or respect our country.
I love and respect the Republican Partyplatform the platform, what what we say,
we believe. But I want tobe able to love and respect the

(48:22):
leaders, right, I want tobe able to respect the leaders and you
it's hard to do that because yousee so much nonsense and it's like,
we don't have time for these gameswhen our country is literally about to fall
up a freaking cliff. We don'thave time for people to come in and
you know, just be in thisthing for themselves, like you know,

(48:44):
yeah, like what kind of leadership? What kind of legacy are you leaving?
Um, you're just gonna get anoffice and you know, be a
do nothing and just go in thereand do whatever all these policies that are
gonna but if it you and yourown self and leave everybody else behind.

(49:04):
And I think that's kind of likewhat you were doing. You were saying,
no, Okay, we're gonna respectthis person because I don't know in
my mind that person can turn intolike a you know, somebody that can
help the military, Like oh,that's exactly what it is. This guy
is helping guard us and you're disrespectingthem like that. This guy can easily
turn on you, and you knowhe Fortunately these people don't have weaponry but

(49:25):
just think I said, you don'tdisrespect him just because we're in charge,
right, That's not what you do. And since we're talking about accountability and
stuff, I do want to Ido want to talk about leadership when it
comes accountable. Let's look at itfrom military's a presidential perspective. Obama,
Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Ioften say, we as a people really

(49:47):
failed when I'm talking about black peoplea Barack Obama, because we didn't want
to hold them accountable for anything.We were excited, we were at the
first min president and everything, butyou never held them accountable to anything.
In other words, he had anagenda presidents half their top five or top
ten. We didn't ask for anything. We ask for nothing as people,
and people use this well, he'sa president of all the people. I

(50:09):
understand that. But even he saidin his last two years, what can
I do to help you all?But we were stilled at the party two
thousand and nine, celebrating the jumpingup and down. And when he left
office, Trump comes in and says, you all are asking me for things?
What happened to last presidency? DonaldTrump came in and here's where black

(50:30):
people got it wrong. He camein and said, he came in and
said, I'm gonna do more forblack Americans than any other president has done.
Bam. That's a vetting tool.Yes, good leaders could have said,
okay, mister president, this iswhat we mean. Boom boom,
boom boom, and you can holdhim accountable to that. Nobody held Barack
Obama accountable to anything. He's ourfirst black and we're good. That is

(50:54):
a very low bar. It isa low bar. All you gotta do
is be black and smooth and cool. You know that is I can't stand
the idea we diminish ourselves. Wehave a condition, yes, to just
celebrate that. And that was it. And and the one thing I wanted

(51:15):
to hit as far is President Trump. He even said, you might not
like me, but look at whatI'm doing. I'm holding I'm holding myself
accountable to what you want. Inother words, let's look at fifty cent
an ice cube. When we talkabout the platinum plant, which the Democrats
just put put off. We will't, we don't want to have anything to

(51:37):
do. So they go over toTrump and he says, I'm a business
man. That looks good. Let'sgo forward with it. And these two
very popular rappers got demonized because whileyou're working with the Trump administration, so
we're not supposed to get anything asa community as a nation because you don't
like the guy, right that Thatmakes no sense, that makes and they

(51:58):
got leveled for that. Even TavisSmiley said, at the end of Barack
Obama's presidency, black Americans would havefallen economically and business wise in every area.
He wasn't saying I'm bashing Trump.He was just I mean, I'm
bashing Obama. He was just saying, unfortunately, this is where we are,
whether it's his father or not.And they really leveled Tavis Smiley for
that. It's just that's a partof holding leadership accountable. Mister President Barack,

(52:24):
we're hurting in these areas. Whatare you gonna do? Nobody would
do that. Trump laid it outand said I'm gonna do this. Black
leaders should have said, Okay,you laid it out, We're going to
make sure that you meet those goalsand objectives. But because of psychological operations,
we just we're not going to doanything. Yeah, we don't like
them, you're racist. And Isaid, oh my gosh, and I

(52:45):
was just gonna say that because anytimeanybody tried to hold him accountable, they
were deemed a racist. Now itwould make sense if the person that they
were criticize him, Barack Obama,was actually doing things, you know,
for if he was actually doing things, and then they said, okay,

(53:07):
well, you know right, buthe wasn't even doing anything to aid and
to help the people who got himelected. He wasn't doing anything. And
I mean Biden too, Biden hasnot. You got crack pipes from Biden.
That's what he That's what he did. He gave me some crack pipes.

(53:27):
He had the I think it wasthe CBC, the Congressional Black Caucuss.
I forget exactly what group in thereare in the NAACP. And he
told them, he said, youbetter go over to thinks the gold team
up with the Hispanics, because weain't got nothing for y'all. Okay.
And if you try to bring thisup to black people, what's the first
thing that you near when you whenyou quit, when you are showing them

(53:50):
what the Democrats have done or aredoing. What's the first thing they say?
Biden's failures Trump, They always bringit back to Donald Trump. The
president what I thought black leaders weregoing to do. When Donald Trump and
his president, he asked, whywas the the UM what UM? What

(54:14):
is that organization? United Negro CollegeFund? They came to certify. They
have to certify every year for funding, and he said, why are you
why you have to come back everyyear? Yeah, Donald Trump made it
permanent. Biden comes into office andsays, screw that. And from what
I understand, he cut almost fiftybillion over a period of years. Not

(54:34):
one black leader still up and saidwait a minute, Not one at least
that I know of, said anythingabout it. And that to me,
that was an atrocity. Yea.Also, you know we're talking when we
talk about prison reform, when wetalk about the first step at Alice Johnson,
the lady that was in prison forone drug charge at nineteen or twenty

(54:55):
and they had life in prison andall of those presidents passed her and all
of us. Donald Trump comes inand said this is not right now.
One thing I will credit Bill Clintonfor he said that I made a mistake
with the three strikes. You're outof policy. I didn't know what was
going to be used like it wasused. And I really apologize because a
lot of people with the prison thatshouldn't have went. Trump kind of piggybacks

(55:15):
on that got Alice Johnson out ofprison. And when he did his State
of the Union address and talked aboutthat, there was a lot of the
squad and all of those women andtheir white wouldn't even clap. He said,
even when it benefits black people,they still just sitting there looking like
this. Nancy Pelosi tears up,and these were about black people, which

(55:36):
showed me they cared nothing about uswhen there was something that benefit us.
They're so mad at him that y'alldon't matter. Y'all are trashed to us
too, and she tears it upin front of the entire world. Yeah,
and you know what, what I'vecome to learn because you know,
it's a lot of times we thinkit's you know, because you're black,

(55:57):
or you know that you're Democrat,right and all this stuff, and it's
like, well, when I movedover to what, Okay, I am
black, everybody knows that, um. And when you when you are a
Democrat, you know, everything isfine, Like it doesn't matter what the
president or what your local leaders aredoing or the whoever. If you're a

(56:17):
black a Democrat. You're good.You can literally you can do anything you
want to know what it's gonna holdaccount I will know where it's gonna question
you the moment you're black. Nowyou're still black, and you go over
to the Republicans. Now you arethe C word. Now you are you
know, you're a sellout. Nowyou you know you hate yourself? You

(56:39):
are you know all the names thatthey want to call you. What I
have learned, it's not about beingblack, because my blackness ain't go nowhere.
It's about being a Democrat. Andthat's why I say the Democrat Party
is a cult because they will alwaysthey It's like they own you're a black

(56:59):
name, and they belongs to Democratsand you can't. You can't they own
your vote and you cannot make anyother decisions but to stick with this party.
Otherwise you are you're shunned, right, you know, I just I
really don't understand, you know,overall the black volder because when Biden says,

(57:22):
if you don't vote for me,you're not black black leader should have
leveled him. In other words,accountability. If we as a as a
group collectively held everyone accountable, wewould be in a lot better position,
because what, there's more black millionairesin America than anywhere in the world,
but as collectively as a group,we don't do very well. And when
Biden said back, our black leadersshould have leveled him for that, because

(57:45):
he's basically saying, you know you'regonna vote for me, period and if
you're not, no matter what.Yeah, that really that one really bothered
me because our leaders didn't say anythingabout it. Al Sharpton, none of
these people said they won't have holdBiden accountable for anything and the stuff that
he says out of his mouth aboutblack people. And and to me,

(58:07):
what you were saying about the party, it's because of the party mentalent where
your Democrat don't say anything. Whois who? I asked a couple of
young ladies the other day, historicallywho is the who? Who is a
lieutenant governor of Virginia? Say doyou know who she is? They said
no, they were having a Trumpfit. Then no, and I said,

(58:28):
went some shears Okay, I thoughtshe was from Haiti, but she's
actually from Jamaica. And I said, you don't know, you haven't heard
of her? No? I said, well why they? I said,
oh, you watch CNN MS.Okay, that's why they're not going to
talk about this is a black womansex second generation. I think they came
over Lieutenant Governor of Virginia the firstand the only reason why. And she's

(58:53):
she's when I say real black womanme and she's not, you know,
yeah, she's not. Yeah,she's real. And they only they do
not talk about her only because she'sRepublican. That's it. But she is
a straight up black woman, andthey won't even clap and say that's a

(59:14):
good for joy read in all ofthese television personalities that were tabloid yes,
tabloid, yeah, tabloid news peoplewould not even have anything positive to say
about her only because of party affiliation. And that's a shame. It is
a shame because it's it says thatwe don't require anything. It says that

(59:37):
doesn't you can I read in umJason Riley's book, he wrote it's called
don't just leave us alone. Basicallyit's like, just leave black people alone,
like we don't need the Democrats,don't don't help because your health is
trash. And he doctor h CarolSwain was quoted in the book and she

(01:00:01):
wouldn't say what black congressional democrats saidthis, and she said that. They
said, quote, you can bea baby r a pr and black people
will still vote for you. Yeah, a black congressional elected officials said this,

(01:00:28):
And I don't even I can't evensay that he's wrong. I mean,
look at Warnock. He's a pastorwho believes in abortion up until the
moment of birth. Nobody has anythingto say about that. Nobody, and
he's supposed to be a man offaith. And it's like you can literally

(01:00:49):
say or do anything as long asyou are a Democrat, doesn't matter.
There is no accountability. Yeah.They all I would keep hearing is what
do you feel about herschel And itjust really bothered me because I said,
well, first of all, Inever like you, Georgia, I don't
really know herschel Arfer's platform. Butfor the things that my black brother and
sister were saying, he's stupid,he's dumb, he's ignorant, just horrible

(01:01:13):
things. I said, you knowwhat, I don't agree with most of
everything that Warnock does because I doknow a little bit more about him.
You know, the abortion, thetrans that he's in sportive and he's a
pastor but I don't call him stupidand ignorant and dumb and all these just
derogatory words. He had some problemswith his wife, but nobody ever talks
about that ran her over Yeah,and she talked about it, yes,

(01:01:36):
And you know, black people didn'tsay. It's almost like it doesn't exist.
Why he's a Democrat and that's it, and it's it's a cult.
I'm telling you. It's that shouldn'tmake you question something, that should make
you think like, okay, whyam I not questioning this person over here?

(01:01:57):
Even if you are a Republican,if you are seeing people constantly vote
against the things that you want,you should question why you keep voting for
this? You should get involved.You should actually, you know, don't
be swayed by you know, everypiece of mail, and don't be pressured
by every commercial life. Actually,I mean we literally have technology and a

(01:02:22):
computer like at the palm of ourhand. You can go and look up
how these people vote. You cango and look up statements that they've made
in the past. And you know, as we wrap this up, tell
us a little bit more about whatyou plan on doing and what you where
do you want to see the partygoing well, as far as the Republican

(01:02:44):
Party, I really don't like theword diverse because they mess it up so
much with all kinds of stuff.But for the sake of this iView,
it needs to be more diverse,because people need to see that they have
a place. Because if we're goingto say, well, the Democrats don't
do anything for you, guess thatwe're a great party. Were American,
what are they come into When theysee pictures of people that don't even look

(01:03:06):
like them, their perception is that, well, that's not a place for
me. In other words, I'mnot saying just create something just because you're
black or Asian, but show theparty for what it really is. Talk
about your platform and talk about whywhy you should either. Because black people
come out of the Republican Party,a lot of them don't even know that,
yeah they come that's where we comefrom. The Republican Party started changing
around the late forties, fifties,sixties, and Johnson pushed it over the

(01:03:29):
top by saying I'm gonna put everybodyon welfare, the great you know,
yeah, the great society, andthere we go. But the Republican Party
can Their marketing really needs to berevived its it's it's horrible, especially at
here at the local level. Theyhave probably about point one percent pie equals

(01:03:50):
mc square percent of knowledge about whatis needed, and the people who come
to them that leadership, they putit down, Oh, we're good,
our marketing is good. Really,I said, oh, I know,
it's you. It's good for yourcandidates. How I got you? Now
I understand? Yes, okay,for your candidates. Yeah, it's precision
perfection. Yeah. Yeah. Theyneed to Yeah, they need to get

(01:04:13):
people who really have an understanding ofthe Democrats, the demographics of this city,
especially in Jacksonville. They need tojust need to be reformed all the
way across the board because right now, what I'm seeing is a party that's
been I can't even say politicized,but personalized, with a bunch of people
who have only their gen that theyhave nothing that they stand on other than

(01:04:36):
everything needs to be read, right. They have nothing that they're pushing other
than we're doing good because we won. We flipped the school board. Did
you really Okay, you might havetwo conservatives over there, but you have
some purple reds and if you gotyeah, because we just had a vote
last night for comprehensive sex said,which is furthering you know, trends in

(01:05:00):
your kids and pouring in the booksand all of that. And guess what,
we had a five to vote,So you tell me if we flipped
the Duval County school Board. Butlet them tell it we did, right.
The local party really does not standfor much in the way of who
we are as a party. Everythingis about we want to just have a

(01:05:21):
bunch of Republicans, but we're standingon nothing, and nationally that that I'll
end up having some real bad implicationsbecause what you're saying is I just want
Republicans, but there's nothing we standon right, and that's not going to
work long term. It's so Iwant to see a better party. I
want to see a more diverse partythat has better outreach. Um, we're

(01:05:43):
getting older. All our kids areliberal? Well I have, I have
four. Two of them are Republicans, the other two are Democrat, and
one is on the fence. SoI got a little to work to do.
It's true. You know, theysent their kids, y'all, sit
y'all to these universities and they cameout do do do do? They need

(01:06:05):
to be d programmed and so youknow, your kids aren't even Republican.
You can't even convince your children tostay with you know, your value.
So it's like, yeah, whatwhat good is it to get somebody who's
has the arm by their name,but they're not going to vote for conservative

(01:06:26):
Republican values. Right? The partyneeds to be more than just we're all
Republican and we're winning the seats.No, I want to see a party
that's actually bringing up the best candidateswho stand on these values and be concrete
about it. You know, whenI did a speech to other night running
for vice chair, I said,when right and wrong is involved, there
is no neutral. You're either rightor wrong. When you have people in

(01:06:47):
office and their integrity and honesty hasbeen compromised and you still vote them,
then what you're saying is we don'tcare what bad they're doing long as they
bring Republicans in, right, andthat makes for a bad add that party.
Yeah, and I want to seethat straightened out. And in the
city we have to hold these wehave to hold these so called conservative candidates

(01:07:09):
accountable. Yes, you know ifthat means primarying them out, and that's
what we do. I don't thinkthe narrative of if they're you know,
we have this unwritten rule that ifthey are in office and they only have
one term, we can do anotherone. We have to vote for them.
No we don't, that's right,No we don't. That's why everything
is happening, because I don't evenknow why they're in office because they're not

(01:07:29):
voting based on the principles of theparty. Yeah, I totally agree.
So why don't you let everybody knowwhere they can get to your website and
donate to you, and please everybodyplease donate so because it is tough when
you have a grassroots candidate, whenyou have somebody who is not a part
of that establishment machine, but theyare competing against that machine. So we

(01:07:57):
desperately there, you know, youdesperately need that help to to beat it.
It's true. If you want goodgovernance, you're gonna have to help
these grassroots candidates. So why don'tyou tell everyone where they can go for
that? Okay, well you canlook me up. It's www. Vote
RK Blunt dot com. Vote RKBlunt dot com and you can go to

(01:08:20):
the donation page. It is veryimportant that we win this seat because if
at large five there's only five atlarge seats. If at large five falls
to the establishment, they control everythingwithout any resistance because most of them,
and I don't want to call names, but most of them vote not based
on what the people want, butwhat a small group of powerful elites want.

(01:08:44):
So we have to win this seatagain. Go to vote RK Blunt
dot com. I am Reginald Blunt. I'm running for City Council at large
Group five. I am a nativeof Jacksonville. Okay, so this is
home for me. I'm not goinganywhere the I don't want to say the
enemy, but the other opponents,they're paying for their candidate to win,
whether it's thousands of dollars and mailers. So we have to keep our donations

(01:09:05):
going and we have to keep themup in order to be competitive in this
race. That is true. Asalways, Thank you so much for watching,
and don't forget to like this video. Share this video, share this
with your friends, and please smashthat subscribe button so you can get more
great content like this. Thank youguys for watching. I will see you

(01:09:26):
next time. Byebye,

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