February 9, 2025 • 50 mins
The podcast episode provides a compelling narrative surrounding the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the most significant figures in American civil rights history. It opens with a powerful acknowledgment of individual worth and the distressing reality of suicide statistics, creating a somber atmosphere. The dialogue then transitions to an exploration of King's impactful presence and the events leading to his assassination on April 4, 1968. The host recounts King's journey to Memphis, where he stood in solidarity with sanitation workers, highlighting the socio-political climate of the era and the sacrifices made in the pursuit of justice.
A central theme of the episode revolves around King’s last speech, 'I've Been to the Mountaintop,' delivered on the eve of his assassination. The host reflects on the profound nature of this address, suggesting that King possessed an eerie awareness of his mortality, which imbued his words with a sense of urgency and prophetic insight. This analysis not only pays homage to King's legacy but also invites listeners to contemplate the implications of his message in today's context, particularly regarding the ongoing struggles for equality and justice.
The episode further investigates the aftermath of King’s assassination, particularly focusing on James Earl Ray's conviction. The host presents various conspiracy theories, questioning the official narrative and exploring the potential involvement of governmental forces in the assassination. This critical inquiry serves to engage listeners in a broader discussion about accountability, the intersections of race and power, and the lasting impact of King's work on contemporary movements for social justice. Through this thoughtful exploration, the episode challenges us to reflect on the significance of King's legacy and the continued fight for civil rights.
Takeaways:
- The podcast highlights the importance of recognizing one's worth and the assurance that one is not alone in their struggles.
- It underscores the staggering statistic that a life is lost to suicide every 40 seconds, urging listeners to take action in combatting this crisis.
- Listeners are encouraged to participate actively in changing societal statistics surrounding mental health and suicide prevention efforts.
- The episode delves into the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., emphasizing its historical significance and ongoing impact on civil rights movements.
- The podcast discusses various conspiracy theories surrounding Dr. King's assassination, including government involvement and the role of James Earl Ray as a potential scapegoat.
- It concludes with a call to unity and action, urging individuals to stand together against political oppression and to honor the legacy of Dr. King.
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You are seen.
You are worthy.
You are not alone.
The world loses one person tosuicide every 40 seconds.
Let's change the stats together.
We can say not suicide.
Not today.
Welcome to True Crime Authorsand Extraordinary People, the podcast
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where we bring two passions together.
The show that gives newmeaning to the old adage truth is
stranger than fiction.
And reminding you that thereis an extraordinary person in all
of us.
Here is your host, David M.
What's going on, everybody?
Welcome to another episode ofTrue Crime Authors and Extraordinary
People.
Of course, I'm your man, David M.
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If you guys haven't already,make sure you follow us on all of
our social media.
One link to a link tree willget you every place you need to go
pertaining to the show.
All right, as you heard comingin, if you are someone or you know
someone who feel like you wantto hurt yourself or someone else,
please dial 988-it-S a suicideprevention hotline.
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They will get you the helpthat you need.
You can reach them by call orby text.
If no one else has told youthis today, let me be the first to
tell you.
We do need you here.
And.
And there is nothing worthyour life.
All right, from the top, letme say Happy Black History Month.
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No matter what anybody'stelling you, it is exactly Black
History Month.
Black history is a part ofAmerican history.
Regardless of what some feels.
The case I'm bringing youtoday, I bring with a heavy heart,
especially dealing with what'sgoing on in the world today.
I will give you fair warningin case that this is a trigger warning
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for you or you just don't wantto hear my opinion of it.
But there is no way to do thiscase without talking about politics
and what's going on in theworld right now.
Because what is happening inthe White House greatly affects the
man that we're going to talkabout who gave his life to make sure
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people of color especially butall people escaped what we're dealing
with at this moment.
So towards the end of this, Iwill talk a little bit about politics,
my thoughts, my opinions, andwhat I think that we need to do now
to survive what we are dealingwith at this moment.
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So that is your warning.
If you don't like politics, ifyou don't want to hear my opinion,
you just want to hear the caseI'm going to do.
You're free to tune off, but Ifeel like on my platform, especially
being an African Americancreator, it is also my job to keep
all people informed of what ishappening and what I think will happen
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in the future.
I am not a political channel,but I will be giving you a lot of
political places that you cango if you do want to keep abreast
of what's happening in the world.
All right, so we are going todeal with a historical crime, and
it deals with a remarkable individual.
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And it did shape not only ourunderstanding of what civil rights
was, but it shook the world asa whole.
So today we are going to diveinto one of the most significant
assassinations in Americanhistory, and that is the murder of
Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It was April 4, 1968.
The civil rights movement wasat its peak, and Dr.
King had arrived in Memphis,Tennessee, in support of the striking
sanitation workers.
He was staying at the LorraineMotel, a frequent lodging for black
activists and leaders.
But at 6:01pm everything changed.
A single gunshot rang out,striking Dr.
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King on the balcony outsideroom 306.
At 7:05pm he was pronounceddead at St.
Joseph Hospital.
His assassination shook thenation, triggering riots, mourning
in a search for answers thatstill continues to this day.
So you don't know anythingabout the 1968 Memphis sanitation
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workers strike.
Dr.
King went down there to givethem some hope, to talk them through
this, and to stand in solidarity.
So that gave way to what wenow know as the famous I've been
to the mountaintop speech.
Now, the I've been to themountaintop speech was a speech that
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almost did not happen.
Dr.
King was sick that night.
He was exhausted and he had asore throat.
A thunderstorm was coming in,and that was anticipated to hold
down the turnout.
So he decided to say, hey,Reverend Ralph Abernathy, my best
friend and chief Lieutenant,won't you go out there and speak
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to the people instead?
But when Reverend Abernathywent out and saw the crowd that I
turned out to hear, Dr.
King, they said they didn'tcare if a thunderstorm was coming.
They didn't care what was happening.
They knew Dr.
King was in town and theywanted to hear him speak.
Dr.
Abernathy went back to him andsaid, look, bro, you need to come
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out here because this crowdcame to see you.
We don't want to disappoint them.
They don't want to come herefor me.
They came to hear from you, Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
So he convinced him to go outand give the I've been to the mountaintop
speech, which he had gave insolidarity in the support of the
striking sanitation workers.
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They say it's one of hisshorter speeches.
I've always referenced it asthe I Believe Martin knew he was
going to go speech becausewhat he said at the end of that speech,
I'll leave a link so you cansee his whole speech.
But I want to give you this,that last part of his speech of why
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many people believe thatMartin Luther King knew that his
days were not long upon this earth.
He said, like anybody, I wouldlike to live a long life.
Longevity has its place, butI'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And he's allowed me to go tothe mountain and I've looked over
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and I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you,but I want you to know tonight that
we as a people will get to thepromised land.
And I'm so happy tonight.
I'm not worried about anything.
I'm not fearing any man.
Mine eyes have seen the gloryof the coming of the Lord.
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That's why I believe, likemany other people believe that Martin
Luther King Jr.
Knew that he didn't have longto live.
But it was still almost aspeech that was never given.
Now the man that they didarrest and convicted him for Dr.
King's murder was James Earl Ray.
James O'Rey was a small timecriminal with a history of robbery
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and prison escapes.
And Ray became the primesuspect after his fingerprints were
found on a Remington 3006rifle which is abandoned near the
crime scene.
After an internationalmanhunt, Ray was arrested at Heathrow
Airport in London on June 8, 1968.
Facing overwhelming evidenceand fearing the death penalty, he
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pled guilty to avoid a trial.
So he was sentenced to 99years in prison.
However, just days later, herecanted his confession, claiming
he was set up.
Now there are some theoriesand narratives about this, so I'll
tell you what those are andthen I'll kind of fill in some gaps
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and give you my $0.02 andopinions on that.
Now, the doubts surroundingJames Earl Ray's guilt have few conspiracy
theories for decades.
Let's explore a few.
So the first one is thegovernment's involvement.
Many believe the US governmentplayed a role in King's assassination.
The FBI under J.
Edgar Hoover saw King as athreat, labeling him the most dangerous
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man in America.
Declassified COINTELPROdocuments reveal the FBI's effort
to discredit and surveil King,including sending him a threatening
letter urging him to commit suicide.
In 1999, the King family fileda civil suit against Lloyd Jowers,
a Memphis businessman whoclaimed he was involved in a conspiracy
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to kill King.
The jury ruled in favor of theKing family, concluding that government
agencies were involved.
However, the U.S.
department of justice laterdismissed these findings citing a
lack of solid evidence.
Now this is to that little bitwe what J.
Edgar Hoover actually said wasthat Dr.
King was the most dangerousnegro in America.
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Not dangerous man.
He said he was the mostdangerous negro in America.
It is true.
J.
Edgar Hoover hated MartinLuther King Jr.
Because of the work in whichhe was doing on behalf of civil rights.
Even though Martin Luther King Jr.
Fought for everyone.
Yes, black people, pro black,top of the list.
But a lot of the bills that hefought for, a lot of the civil rights
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whites have today came fromthe work that Martin Luther King
Jr.
Did.
And black ancestors from longago did this work.
Yes, the cointelpro did show,right that yes, I mean they bugged
his house, they was followinghim around.
Trump right now justdeclassified the rest of that because
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he wants to discredit Dr.
King.
The little bitty things hewants to bring out.
We already knew about Dr.
King and that's been coveredseveral times.
But I don't know why the justprobably cited there was lack of
evidence because all of theintel was set up by the FBI.
So it is true that it is verywidely believed that J.
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Edgar Hoover has something todo with that.
And I'll give you a little bitmore on that at the end.
The second theory is the patsytheory, which is some believe that
Ray was merely a scapegoatmanipulated by a mysterious figure
named Raul.
Ray himself maintained that hewas drawn into a gun smuggle operation
and unknowingly set up.
There is little concreteevidence of Raul's existence, but
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Rey's sudden plea deal hasfueled speculation that he was silenced.
So Ray has always said thatRaul exists.
He was a gun smuggler and thenext thing he knew he was being set
up for a murder.
Theory number three is theMafia connection.
Another theory suggests theMafia orchestrated King's murder.
King's increasing support forlabor movements and his opposition
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in the Vietnam war allegedlyput him in the crosshairs of powerful
figures.
Some believe the Mafia workedwith the FBI and Memphis police to
eliminate him.
In my opinion, if the Mafiawas involved, it was only at the
behest of FBI.
I don't think Dr.
King was doing enough to havea Mafia want to come after him.
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If that was the case, Dr.
King would have been done awaywith a long time before the time
that he actually died.
And if you know how the Mafiawork, they work in the shadows.
So somebody would have came upon him probably killed him.
Boom, that's it.
Next thing you know, Dr.
King is just there.
No orchestration, no setup, no nothing.
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The mob hits and run.
So despite all of thosetheories, here is what we actually
do know about Martin LutherKing's murder.
These are the indisputablefacts that are.
Remington 3006 rifle was foundnear the crime scene with Ray's fingerprints
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raised.
Movements in and out ofMemphis align with key moments in
the assassination timeline.
The king family hasconsistently believed in a broader
conspiracy Rather than reyacting alone.
The U.
S.
House Select Committee onAssassinations in 1979 found that
there was likely a conspiracybut lacked definitive proof.
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Let's touch on that full for afew minutes.
Just think about this with me.
So James earl ray was directlyacross the street from the Lorraine
motel and from the room that Dr.
King occupied that day.
Now, from all reports, it saysthat James array was about 207ft
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away across you, like I said,from Martin Luther king's balcony.
Now, here is the part thatlooks real funny.
James earl ray supposedlykilled Martin Luther King Jr.
But he only shot him once.
Not twice, not three times.
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One time.
One time from 207ft away.
Now, you may say that's notimpossible with the scope.
From what I understand, whatI've seen, James earl ray was not
necessarily good with a gun.
Even with a scope.
You got to be somewhat goodwith the gun to hit somebody 207ft
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away.
Now, if you look it up, theysay that that's an easy shot for
even an average marksman.
But I'm not sure because thatshot one time has been scrutinized
for years.
Now, the reason I say thatthis shot is not that easy is because
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if it was, then why wouldn'the have shot Dr.
King directly in the head?
And I don't know if this riflehad a scope on it.
I don't think that it did.
But if they're saying thatthis is a shot that an average marksman
can make, why didn't he shoothim in the head?
Because that would be theabsolute kill shot at that point.
Right.
But Dr.
King ended up being hit in theright cheek.
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It smashed his jaw.
Then the bullet traveled downhis spinal cord, and then it lost
in his shoulder.
So if you're that good of anartsman, I think you're gonna do
the takeout shot.
And then that would be it.
Yes.
My opinion on that.
So what is being floatedaround is if you look at the Lorraine
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hotel, there is across thestreet from there.
I think there was like somebrush of some trees that they're
saying that maybe somebodythat couldn't be seen was hidden
there.
And then they actually didactually do the shooting and they
framed James Earl Ray for it.
All I know is, is he's passedaway now.
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But before he died, the Kingfamily went to try to get him released
from prison.
They have stated on manydifferent occasions that they don't
believe that James alreadykilled Dr.
King at all and that he shouldbe released.
I am with them.
I do not believe that Dr.
King was killed by James or Ray.
I believe James Earl Ray wasindeed a patsy.
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I believe that he was set upby the federal government, being
J.
Edgar Hoover.
Don't know if they hadanything on him, being he did have
a little bit of a crimebackground, but for whatever reason
they picked this guy.
Dirty work was done.
He goes to jail to serve 99 years.
If you just go and search upMartin Luther King Jr.
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Assassination, all of thatstuff will come out.
More time than I have todaybecause it is long.
If you're ever curious about J.
Edgar Hoover and how hedisliked Martin Luther King Jr.
And how he said several timesthat Dr.
King must go, I think maybeyou can conclude some of this as
well now with all that beingsaid in the life of Dr.
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King.
I believe that Dr.
King is probably rolling hisgrave right now because of what is
happening.
I also believe that LadyLiberty is shaking her stone fist
because of what Lady Libertystands for.
America is a land of immigrants.
There is nobody on this land,nobody in America.
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That is what I would consideror you would consider to be purebred.
There's not a purebred white person.
If you do DNA, everybody'smixed with something.
I know some white people thatactually has 3, 4, 5, 6% black in
them.
Let's not forget back inslavery times, the white man raped
African American women andkids was born.
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The part I'm going to touch onfor you today, and this is what my
heart is heavy, is the partthat I think Dr.
King would hone in on.
And I'm going to try to makesome sense out of this.
And I'm trying to unify peopleat the same time.
But we warned everybody aboutthis mess that we are now in.
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The one thing to know aboutblack people is we've been through
this before.
Well over 400 years now.
We see things coming.
We've tried to warn people ofthis is what's going to happen.
But people said, oh, wecouldn't vote for Kamala Harris because
my eggs is Too high, gas isgoing to raise, and inflation is
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horrible.
And, well, let's face thisfact, people.
And it's written, we had thebest economy that we ever had.
The economy is stronger thanever, has been up under Biden.
Now Trump is admitting that hecan't lower prices.
How do you guys feel about that?
But let's talk about dei,because here is the tactic in which
he is using.
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If you make everything aboutthe enemy and the enemy in his eyes,
whether anybody agrees or not,I think that it's been proven that.
I think from the executiveorders that he's written, I think
from some of the things thathe said, I think from his proclamation
he made about Black HistoryMonth, he is racist.
And if you put everything onhis enemy, which is black Americans,
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then you can get white peopleto believe that and to spin his narrative
and to say everything is for them.
So I'm gonna break down DEIfor you guys, and then I'm gonna
try to unify us, because nowwe're all in this mess.
You know, we're getting people deported.
I live in California.
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It's citrus season, if youguys didn't notice.
You get avocados from us.
No one's picking avocados.
We have a whole bunch of wine vineyards.
No one's picking grapes.
I watch my news and I see allthese grapes that's hanging, that's
riding, because nobody's outthere to pick them.
Because the immigrants inwhich he sent back, who was minding
their own business, who did nothing.
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Whether you want to have theargument that they're legal or illegal,
these people pay more than, Ithink, what, a billion dollars in
taxes a year.
They paid a lot of money intoSocial Security that they're never
going to be able to use, butthey're paying that for the right
to stay here in America.
So what Trump basically did ishe used di.
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He flipped it and he said, oh,DEI is reverse discrimination.
DI was designed for the whiteman to be held down and for the black
man to be held up.
Let me read to you whatdiversity, equity and inclusion means.
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Then I'm going to give yousome statistics behind it that will
probably blow your mind.
So diversity, equity,inclusion is.
Organizational frameworkswould seek to promote the fair treatment
and full participation of allpeople, particularly groups who have
historically beenunderrepresented or subject to discrimination
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on the basis of identity or disability.
These three notions,diversity, equity, and inclusion,
together represent threeclosely linked values which organizations
seek to institutionalizethrough DEI frameworks.
The concepts precede thisterminology and other Variations
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sometimes include terms suchas belonging, justice, accessibility.
As such, frameworks such asinclusion and diversity, diversity,
equity, inclusion andbelonging, justice, equity, diversity
and inclusion or diversity,equity, inclusion and accessibility
exists.
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Diversity refers to presenceof variety within the organizational
workforce, such as identityand identity politics.
It includes gender, ethnicity,sexual orientation, disability, age,
culture, class, religion or opinion.
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Somebody tell me where thatsaid black.
Somebody tell me where thatwhole definition said.
This is the better blackpeople because of where I'm sitting,
if it's the better black people.
Now Trump's got y'allbelieving all the blacks get better
jobs than whites.
And with DEI practices, we gotto kill those because the blacks
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is making out better than us.
Where's my mansion?
Where's my millions?
The last time I looked in thebank account, I didn't have millions.
So if DEI is benefiting me andI'm taking everything from the white
person, then I should be richright now.
No, let me tell you what DEI controls.
DEI controls exactly what it said.
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So if you are 60 years old andyou are trying to go get a job, if
you voted for Trump, you justvoted your job out the window because
DEI protected you because of agerism.
So somebody couldn't look atyou and say, sorry, ma'am, you 62
years old, you too old, youcan't have this job.
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If you voted for Trump and youhave a disability, whether you have
no legs or one leg, no arms,you walk on a crutch, you had a stroke
and now the right side of yourbody don't work, but you need a job,
you just voted it out thewindow for yourself.
Cuz DEI protected you as adisabled person to get that job.
So if you go to Walmart, whichI haven't been in a while because
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I've boycotted them due totheir non DEI practices.
If you go to Walmart, though,you sometimes you see a disabled
young man or young woman or anolder person that's sitting in the
front that's supposed to bechecking receipts.
I've always disagreed becauseof the fact that I don't think somebody
who has a disability or oldershould be in that position because
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of the harm they can get.
But there's other positionsthat disabled and older people hold
within Walmart, but now thosepeople can be gone because since
DEI is dead, it doesn'tprotect anybody anymore.
What about sexual orientation?
So if you are gay ortransgendered, you just booted that
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out the window because nowsomebody can say, hey, we ain't hiring
you because you are gay or transgender.
What about culture Religion.
All of that was under dei.
Again, where does that say black?
It was something that was putin for all, all people.
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Yes, it benefited black peoplebecause we were in that class that
historically was discriminated against.
But let me give you these statistics.
According to the U.S.
department of labor, who doyou think the largest groups of people
is who benefit from dei?
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Let me shock you.
This is an order ofimportance, meaning who gets the
most out of dei?
And top of the list is whitewomen and male CEOs.
Number two, Latino andHispanic Americans.
Number three, Asian Americans.
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Number four, Native Americans.
Number five, disabled Americans.
Number six, veterans.
Number seven, LGBTQ plus.
And who's at number eight?
The very last on the list,Black people.
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Just for everybody'sknowledge, black people is only 4%
of the DI picture.
Now how that raps into Dr.
King?
Because we don't need DEIbecause we've done everything for
ourselves.
We've had to do everything for ourselves.
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Let me give you case in pointand prove it using something that
deals with Dr.
King.
I guess everybody just thinksthat Dr.
King Day and Dr.
King's memorial was, I guess,given to us that there was no work
that was done that Congressjust said, hey, we gonna give Martin
Luther King his day.
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It happened like that.
First of all, black peoplefought for years to get Dr.
King's birth date recognizedand could give him a day on the calendar
that was fitting for any otherhistorical figure or, and, or a president.
To Prove that point, Dr.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Would have been 96 years oldif he would have lived this year.
This past January, we justcelebrated the 42nd Martin Luther
King Day.
So that tells you that.
But when it came to hismonument, you know that fabulous
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good looking monument thatsits down from the Lincoln Memorial,
there was a problem.
When I say black people workfor their own, here's what happened.
The government didn't want togive no money.
There to be negotiations.
There was problems all overthe place.
So the monument was costing$120 million to build.
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Oh, but Congress and everybodycame and said, oh, but wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait.
We'll help you out after youraise the first $100 million.
You only got until 2003 to do that.
The year that this took placewas 1996.
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And it was the United StatesCongress who authorized the Secretary
of Interior to permit theAlpha Phi Alpha to establish a memorial.
But we had to get the first100 million.
Now there were some othercompanies that kind of helped out.
So we give them their dude,General Motors, Tommy Hilfiger, the
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building and the GatesFoundation, Walt Disney company,
NBA, NFL Players Association,national association, from Realtors
George Lucas and StevenSpielberg and Aflac, they gave some
money, but black people stillhad to raise the majority of that.
I believe I gave money to itbecause on every channel that black
people own at that time, Betand any place that let them run that
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ad, they were asking you ifyou could please donate money so
that Dr.
King could have the memorialin which he deserved.
And I'll be dang if we didn'tdo it.
So Alpha Phi Alpha set out toraise this money, and they actually
raised $112 million over six years.
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They also led a publiccampaign to justify King's place
on the Mall.
Listen to what it said.
Justify his place.
Out of all the stuff that Dr.
King did, out of all the civilrights that he fought, that he fought
for all people.
Because just don't, don't.
Just don't think that theright for women to vote was just
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about black people that gavethe right for women to vote, no matter
what color you are.
Out of all of the good thingsthat Martin Luther King Jr.
Did, it still had to be justified.
While this black man had tohave or could have a spot on the
wall, they also battled thegovernment and the commissioners
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over the memorial's locationand the design of it.
And to make all this happen,the Alpha Alpha fraternity put aside
rivalries with other blackfraternities and sororities.
Now, I'm hoping that these arefriendly, but, you know, other black
sororities, you know, andfraternities, they compete against
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each other and their rivalsand all that stuff, you know, mascots
get stolen, all that kind of stuff.
They said, this thing isbigger than any rival we have.
We're going to set this all aside.
We going to come together asone, and we going to raise this money.
After the money was raised,the memorial was officially open
to the public in August of 2011.
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They started this in 1996.
Took six years to raise $112million before Congress even moved
to put the rest of the moneywith it.
Now let's see how that compares.
In contrast, since you all cansay, well, you just born this up,
let's see how that compares.
In contrast to the man whosememorial sits on top of a Martin
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Luther King.
Is that.
Is the Lincoln Memorial?
Do you think Lincoln had that.
That much of a problem?
No, because the LincolnMemorial was funded by Congress and
private donations.
In 1911, President WilliamHoward Taft signed a bill that created
the Lincoln Memorialcommission and allotted $2 million
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of the project.
Let me repeat that.
President William Howard Taftsigned a bill.
They created a whole bill togive Lincoln his own memorial.
And in that bill, he allocated$2 million for the project.
The final cost for thememorial was 3 million, but they
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gave them 2 million of it, andthe rest came from private donations.
Now, did you hear me say whitepeople or people any color had to
go out and do campaigns?
No.
Did you hear me say that theywas met with challenges?
Nope, there was none.
That's your difference betweenthose two monuments.
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Everything that black peoplehave, we built for ourselves.
We don't need dei.
I bust my butt for my job.
I had to go through severalinterviews to get the job that I
have.
And the company which I workfor feels like that they only hire
the best of the best.
So there was no color, therewas no dei, There was no pat on the
back.
But I just told you what DEI covered.
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I just told you who benefitsthe most from DEI.
And it definitely ain'tusually is white people.
White CEOs, you know, the MarkZuckerbergs of the world, the Elon
Musk of the world.
It's even come out that J.D.
vance even took part of DEIhimself, who's trying to fight it
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now because he has a dude onYouTube telling you the whole story
that him and JD Vance bothwent to school together, law school
that is off of the GI Bill.
And that many of the practiceshe wants to sit down, he took advantage
of.
I gave you a whole breakdownof who is included in that.
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And you didn't hear blackpeople anywhere.
Now, the other thing in whichhe's trying to do before we close
out is now he's trying toweaponize the 14amendment.
He's trying to say that the14th amendment was only created for
black children.
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Now, I don't mean to offendanybody, but this is why we're in
the mess that we're in,because people that call themselves
MAGA Republicans don't readTrump banks on that.
They he wants you to be dumbbecause half of the people I talked
to, the voter for Trump, don'teven know what a tariff is.
They've argued me down thatI'm wrong on how a tariff works,
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and I'm exactly right.
You would have felt that whenit came to Canada if he wouldn't
have backed down.
Believe me, what you read onthe news is fake.
He backed down from Mexico and Canada.
Canada, Mexico went back anddown from Trump.
They said, we'll just go fullboard this however you want to do
it.
But they was going to attackthe red states first.
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See, nobody ever cares aboutanything until it directly affects
them.
But then he turned around andsaid, oh, but the 14th Amendment
was only made for black children.
Let me give you just an extrawhat the 14th amendment is.
14th amendment to the UnitedStates Constitution guarantees citizenship,
equal protection and dueprocess to all people born or naturalized
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in the United States.
It was ratified in 1868.
Tell me, what did I say?
Black people.
What did I say?
Black children.
Let me tell you what the 14thAmendment actually does do to Trump,
though.
See, this is why he wants toget rid of the Constitution.
Because what he's trying to dowith birthright citizenship, if you
read into the 14th amendment,the 14th amendment protects that,
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so he cannot send anybody back.
That's an anchor baby up underthe birthright protections.
That's in the 14th Amendment.
So if you go a little bitdeeper into that, here's what protects
birthright.
All people born or naturalizedin the United States are citizens
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of the United States.
This includes formerlyenslaved people.
See, the reason the 14thAmendment had to be written was,
I think it was the 13thamendment did not tell you exactly
what I guess a free person was.
The slaves was free, but theydidn't know how to handle that.
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You know, because remember,black people was not looked at as
a human.
We was looked at as like apercentage of a human, like half
a human.
We weren't human according tothe racist white people that enslaved
us.
So when Lincoln freed theslaves, which is a whole nother thing,
because everybody, if you justthink Lincoln freed the slaves to
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be freeing them and he washappy and he would be an abolitionist,
that is not the truth, butthat's another time.
But when Lincoln freed theslaves, they didn't know what a free
person was.
So the 14th amendment had tobe written that instructed exactly
what that meant.
So when they mean the term allpeople born and naturalized United
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States are citizens of theUnited States, this includes formerly
enslaved people is becauseback then all people meant white
people before the 14thConstitution was made.
So they had to put in the safe.
Includes formerly enslaved people.
So that means if you're bornhere according to the 14th amendment
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and you're or you'renaturalized here.
So if your parents is born inGuam and you here on this soil and
your parents gave birth toyou, According to the 14th amendment,
you are an American citizen bybirth right.
It also says no state can denyequal protection of the laws to anyone
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within its jurisdiction.
All people.
So he wants you to believethat the 14th Amendment is only given
to black children because thenyou, his MAGA crowd, or whoever voted
for him, or Republican,whatever you are, will say, hey,
that's not fair.
That's about as bad as dei.
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Let's see.
We can help Donald Trump getrid of the Constitution.
So if you feel that islopsided and that it only pertains
to one group of people, you'remore likely to get rid of it.
That's what he wants becausethat will kill my rights as an African
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American.
He would feel like he canenslave us again because it would
kill that citizenship.
Even though I'm born here,100%, never been to Africa, my ancestors
did.
But it gets rid of that.
It gets rid of anchor babies.
I'll tell you one celebritythat he would have to send back,
and this will let.
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This celebrity is beloved.
He's no longer with us, buthe's beloved.
If he had his way and BruceLee was still alive and he wanted
to send people back, then hewould have to send Bruce Lee back
to Hong Kong.
See, Bruce Lee was born LeeJun Fawn.
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His name translates into Iwill return, which means his dad
always had a vision that BruceLee would return to America someday.
His dad was a famous travelingopera singer, I believe it was, and
he was in San Francisco withhis wife at the time that Bruce Lee
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had to be born.
So when Bruce Lee was born, hewas born in San Francisco.
He has an American birthcertificate, but he was raised in
Hong Kong.
How did he get back here?
Well, in his youth, Bruce gotinto some problems, had to come out
of there.
And his dad says, take thisand this money and go to America.
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And he's like, I can't go to America.
I'm not a citizen.
He says, they will accept youbecause you are one of them.
So if Trump had his way andBruce Lee was living, that means
he would be declaring thatBruce Lee is not a citizen, because
his mom and his dad was fromHong Kong in China and was not born
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here.
That's what all that means.
People, I'm trying to let youguys know what you're running into.
Look at all the bills that'sbeen written now.
So you tell me one policy thathe's written right now about food,
one policy that he's writtenabout lowering gas prices, one policy
that he's written about inflation.
From what I'm seeing, he'sbeen spending his time writing all
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of these bills on deportation,trying to strip every one of their
civil rights, trying to getrid of the LGBTQ in prisons and in
schools, trying to killanything that is black at this point.
Now, what I meant about.
And then I'll be getting outof here.
What I meant about when I saidthe proclamation in which he made.
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If you don't know kkk,written, written rhetoric, I'm gonna
give you some.
So he made this bigproclamation that February 2025 would
be known as Black HistoryMonth, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But what you're reading is howhe wrote it so many times.
He capitalized Black HistoryMonth, but when he talked about black
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people, he did not capitalizeon the B, which should be.
He lowercase that.
Now, I don't know.
I haven't seen this.
He's written so many of them.
But somebody said he actuallywrote an order that says that every
script and textbook and allthat will now lowercase the letter
B in black and will uppercasethe letter W in white.
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That was her.
That was KKK stuff.
Because the uppercase W andwhite meant that they were superior
to black people.
Everybody caught that.
Now, if you really want tolook at it, his whole cabinet is
dei.
If you're going to deportsomebody, you should be deporting
his wife at least, what, twoof his kids?
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Three of his kids are anchor babies.
So why is the rule good forsome but not for all?
You put a felon in office over34 different felony counts.
You put a white supremacist inoffice, and now all of the people,
the Latinos for Trump, iscrying to black people to help them.
They changed their tune.
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Well, we ain't voting for Kamala.
Do everything you can not tovote for her.
She's bad.
Now they're saying stuff like,can you help us?
We need to unify all together.
We tried to tell you we arethe most hated race yet.
We are the one race that geteverything done.
We're the ones that's outthere marching.
We're the ones that startedsome of these protests that's happening
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right now.
There's protests all over the Capitol.
There's a protest againstTarget in Minnesota.
It was started by a black group.
We're the group that getsstuff done.
But now what we need to do iswe need to all unify.
Because if we don't unify,that's what Trump wants.
If we don't fight the fascismthat's going on, this is basically
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Hitler's playbook.
And everybody laughed,including the people that we know
that voted for Trump.
Oh, you guys will say that.
It ain't Healer.
This is exactly Hitler Go readMein Kampf.
Go read any of Hitler's policies.
The only difference betweenHitler and Trump is that Hitler had
no kind of breaks.
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There was no constitution for him.
He just took over and did whathe wanted to do.
Here we still have the federalcourts, we still have the Democrats
in office, which needs to growa big old spine and jump up and say,
forget all this.
Nice.
This takes the gloves off.
And.
And yes, before anybody says,we know Republicans has the majority,
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but they are the majority byone seat.
That ain't a big majority.
So I think we need to do.
We need to band together, nomatter what color, what race, what
creed you are.
I wanted to give you thisbecause it went along with Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
We don't.
We're not DEI.
I want to tell you what DEI means.
That means all of us at somepoint in time is dei.
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All of us are going to get old.
Some of us is going to have disabilities.
Maybe we're going to havesomething mental happen to us.
You want those DEI policies in place?
Because that's what's going togive you a job at 62.
That's what's going to giveyou a job when you only have one
arm.
That's what's going to giveyou a job if you're a bbw, because
they can look at you and say, up.
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Don't want you too fat.
Goodbye.
And abundantly, these new rules.
You have no course to sue.
Why?
Because that would go ontoyour civil rights, which, by the
way, Trump got rid of civil rights.
Scrubbed it from the WhiteHouse website.
Said it was done.
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All of this is an attempt tomake the world white again, to send
it back where it was in the40s and the 50s, to make black people
lower than them, to make Asianpeople, Hispanic people lower than
them, to try to get rid of whohe can.
He can't get rid of us, though.
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There's 40 million of us blackpeople here in this U.
S.
He can't get rid of us becausewe're all American citizens.
But he can do things to try tomake our life a living hell.
So I say this to you.
You may be scared.
I'm not scared.
I give everything to God.
And speaking of that, what yousee from them, that's not Christianity.
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That is white, Christiannationalist and people should be
happy.
I'm not God because I wouldalready instruct people down all
that stuff they're preaching.
That is not what God believes.
God is a God of peace, not war.
God is a God for everyone.
God is a God that wants tobring good, not destruction.
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God will never take away yourcivil rights.
This is why people have such aproblem with Christianity.
Because what you see on thatstage and what you see somebody else
portray may not be exactlywhat God is.
I don't have one picture ofJesus in my house.
You know why?
Because he's not the brownhair, blue eyed dude that you keep
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seeing.
By the way, how can you draw apicture of someone you've never seen?
Now if you go and readRevelation, they kind of give you
kind of an outline of whatChrist looks like.
It didn't say blonde hair orblue eyed.
It said that he had hair likewool and eyes like fire.
If you look at the place whereJesus was born, you have more brown
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skinned people there.
But we don't know, we've neverseen him.
But I guarantee you he ain'tblonde hair, blue eye.
So if you're buying into therhetoric that that's what Christianity
is, that is not the God that Iserve, that is not Christianity.
Yeah, I'm all for putting theTen Commandments back in school,
but if you're going to dothat, do that from somebody that's
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really following the Lord.
Donald Trump ain't.
And before you say I'm not,I'm not supposed to judge.
I ain't judging them.
I'm telling you by what hisown actions are.
He did not put his hand on theBible when he got sworn in.
He was asked point blank, havehe ever asked for forgiveness?
And he says no, he's neverasked God for forgiveness.
Now how do you know God neverasked him for forgiveness?
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So let's band together, people.
We have a long four years orat least a long year and a half.
The primaries is coming.
The smartest thing thatanybody can do in the primary is
flip the House and the Senateand Congress.
You need to give it all backto the Democrats, put them in majority
control.
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They can put the rest of thebrakes on Donald Trump at that point
because everything that heneeds to do except for these executive
orders, they have to gothrough them.
Do you know that the budgetruns out for America in March?
So they got to go through theDemocrats in order to get a budget
plan.
They don't have enough majority.
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So I was going, thatConstitution piece is this.
And this is why I felt thatwe're in no danger of him ratifying
it.
So let me give you this andthen we're done.
The amendment process is verydifficult and time consuming.
A proposed amendment must bepassed by 2/3 of both houses of Congress
then ratified by thelegislatures of 3/4 of the states.
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He don't have that.
Even if every Republican,every maga, and him having the House
and the Senate, Donald Trumpstill does not have 2/3 of both houses.
Now, let's say that he does.
He definitely don't have threefourths of all states because the
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blue states is going to oppose that.
So therefore he cannot changethe Constitution.
He cannot change the 14th Amendment.
And it's not about black children.
I read you exactly what it is.
It guarantees citizenship andequal protection in due process to
all people born or naturalizedin the United States.
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All right, guys, thank you fortuning in with me.
I hope what I've said to youguys has resonated.
We need to stand together,need to band together to fight the
evilness that's coming out ofthe White House right now.
If Dr.
Martin Luther King was here,even at 96 years old, I bet money
that he would still be findinga way to give these speeches and
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to try to tear down what ishappening right now.
So let's honor Dr.
King.
Let us fight.
Let us do what is right.
Let us make a America, theAmerica that we want to be again.
Let us not have to beembarrassed to be from America because
people's booing us no matterwhere we go.
We can do it if we all stick together.
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Roland Martin, Martin, theMidas Network.
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They do a far better job thanI do and they're always on it every
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All right, from the top, letme say Happy Black History Month.
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No matter what anybody'stelling you, it is exactly Black
History Month.
Black history is a part ofAmerican history.
Regardless of what some feels.
The case I'm bringing youtoday, I bring with a heavy heart,
especially dealing with what'sgoing on in the world today.
I will give you fair warningin case that this is a trigger warning
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for you or you just don't wantto hear my opinion of it.
But there is no way to do thiscase without talking about politics
and what's going on in theworld right now.
Because what is happening inthe White House greatly affects the
man that we're going to talkabout who gave his life to make sure
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people of color especially butall people escaped what we're dealing
with at this moment.
So towards the end of this, Iwill talk a little bit about politics,
my thoughts, my opinions, andwhat I think that we need to do now
to survive what we are dealingwith at this moment.
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So that is your warning.
If you don't like politics, ifyou don't want to hear my opinion,
you just want to hear the caseI'm going to do.
You're free to tune off, but Ifeel like on my platform, especially
being an African Americancreator, it is also my job to keep
all people informed of what ishappening and what I think will happen
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in the future.
I am not a political channel,but I will be giving you a lot of
political places that you cango if you do want to keep abreast
of what's happening in the world.
All right, so we are going todeal with a historical crime, and
it deals with a remarkable individual.
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And it did shape not only ourunderstanding of what civil rights
was, but it shook the world asa whole.
So today we are going to diveinto one of the most significant
assassinations in Americanhistory, and that is the murder of
Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It was April 4, 1968.
The civil rights movement wasat its peak, and Dr.
King had arrived in Memphis,Tennessee, in support of the striking
sanitation workers.
He was staying at the LorraineMotel, a frequent lodging for black
activists and leaders.
But at 6:01pm everything changed.
A single gunshot rang out,striking Dr.
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King on the balcony outsideroom 306.
At 7:05pm he was pronounceddead at St.
Joseph Hospital.
His assassination shook thenation, triggering riots, mourning
in a search for answers thatstill continues to this day.
So you don't know anythingabout the 1968 Memphis sanitation
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workers strike.
Dr.
King went down there to givethem some hope, to talk them through
this, and to stand in solidarity.
So that gave way to what wenow know as the famous I've been
to the mountaintop speech.
Now, the I've been to themountaintop speech was a speech that
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almost did not happen.
Dr.
King was sick that night.
He was exhausted and he had asore throat.
A thunderstorm was coming in,and that was anticipated to hold
down the turnout.
So he decided to say, hey,Reverend Ralph Abernathy, my best
friend and chief Lieutenant,won't you go out there and speak
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to the people instead?
But when Reverend Abernathywent out and saw the crowd that I
turned out to hear, Dr.
King, they said they didn'tcare if a thunderstorm was coming.
They didn't care what was happening.
They knew Dr.
King was in town and theywanted to hear him speak.
Dr.
Abernathy went back to him andsaid, look, bro, you need to come
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out here because this crowdcame to see you.
We don't want to disappoint them.
They don't want to come herefor me.
They came to hear from you, Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
So he convinced him to go outand give the I've been to the mountaintop
speech, which he had gave insolidarity in the support of the
striking sanitation workers.
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They say it's one of hisshorter speeches.
I've always referenced it asthe I Believe Martin knew he was
going to go speech becausewhat he said at the end of that speech,
I'll leave a link so you cansee his whole speech.
But I want to give you this,that last part of his speech of why
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many people believe thatMartin Luther King knew that his
days were not long upon this earth.
He said, like anybody, I wouldlike to live a long life.
Longevity has its place, butI'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And he's allowed me to go tothe mountain and I've looked over
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and I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you,but I want you to know tonight that
we as a people will get to thepromised land.
And I'm so happy tonight.
I'm not worried about anything.
I'm not fearing any man.
Mine eyes have seen the gloryof the coming of the Lord.
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That's why I believe, likemany other people believe that Martin
Luther King Jr.
Knew that he didn't have longto live.
But it was still almost aspeech that was never given.
Now the man that they didarrest and convicted him for Dr.
King's murder was James Earl Ray.
James O'Rey was a small timecriminal with a history of robbery
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and prison escapes.
And Ray became the primesuspect after his fingerprints were
found on a Remington 3006rifle which is abandoned near the
crime scene.
After an internationalmanhunt, Ray was arrested at Heathrow
Airport in London on June 8, 1968.
Facing overwhelming evidenceand fearing the death penalty, he
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pled guilty to avoid a trial.
So he was sentenced to 99years in prison.
However, just days later, herecanted his confession, claiming
he was set up.
Now there are some theoriesand narratives about this, so I'll
tell you what those are andthen I'll kind of fill in some gaps
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and give you my $0.02 andopinions on that.
Now, the doubts surroundingJames Earl Ray's guilt have few conspiracy
theories for decades.
Let's explore a few.
So the first one is thegovernment's involvement.
Many believe the US governmentplayed a role in King's assassination.
The FBI under J.
Edgar Hoover saw King as athreat, labeling him the most dangerous
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man in America.
Declassified COINTELPROdocuments reveal the FBI's effort
to discredit and surveil King,including sending him a threatening
letter urging him to commit suicide.
In 1999, the King family fileda civil suit against Lloyd Jowers,
a Memphis businessman whoclaimed he was involved in a conspiracy
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to kill King.
The jury ruled in favor of theKing family, concluding that government
agencies were involved.
However, the U.S.
department of justice laterdismissed these findings citing a
lack of solid evidence.
Now this is to that little bitwe what J.
Edgar Hoover actually said wasthat Dr.
King was the most dangerousnegro in America.
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Not dangerous man.
He said he was the mostdangerous negro in America.
It is true.
J.
Edgar Hoover hated MartinLuther King Jr.
Because of the work in whichhe was doing on behalf of civil rights.
Even though Martin Luther King Jr.
Fought for everyone.
Yes, black people, pro black,top of the list.
But a lot of the bills that hefought for, a lot of the civil rights
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whites have today came fromthe work that Martin Luther King
Jr.
Did.
And black ancestors from longago did this work.
Yes, the cointelpro did show,right that yes, I mean they bugged
his house, they was followinghim around.
Trump right now justdeclassified the rest of that because
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he wants to discredit Dr.
King.
The little bitty things hewants to bring out.
We already knew about Dr.
King and that's been coveredseveral times.
But I don't know why the justprobably cited there was lack of
evidence because all of theintel was set up by the FBI.
So it is true that it is verywidely believed that J.
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Edgar Hoover has something todo with that.
And I'll give you a little bitmore on that at the end.
The second theory is the patsytheory, which is some believe that
Ray was merely a scapegoatmanipulated by a mysterious figure
named Raul.
Ray himself maintained that hewas drawn into a gun smuggle operation
and unknowingly set up.
There is little concreteevidence of Raul's existence, but
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Rey's sudden plea deal hasfueled speculation that he was silenced.
So Ray has always said thatRaul exists.
He was a gun smuggler and thenext thing he knew he was being set
up for a murder.
Theory number three is theMafia connection.
Another theory suggests theMafia orchestrated King's murder.
King's increasing support forlabor movements and his opposition
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in the Vietnam war allegedlyput him in the crosshairs of powerful
figures.
Some believe the Mafia workedwith the FBI and Memphis police to
eliminate him.
In my opinion, if the Mafiawas involved, it was only at the
behest of FBI.
I don't think Dr.
King was doing enough to havea Mafia want to come after him.
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If that was the case, Dr.
King would have been done awaywith a long time before the time
that he actually died.
And if you know how the Mafiawork, they work in the shadows.
So somebody would have came upon him probably killed him.
Boom, that's it.
Next thing you know, Dr.
King is just there.
No orchestration, no setup, no nothing.
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The mob hits and run.
So despite all of thosetheories, here is what we actually
do know about Martin LutherKing's murder.
These are the indisputablefacts that are.
Remington 3006 rifle was foundnear the crime scene with Ray's fingerprints
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raised.
Movements in and out ofMemphis align with key moments in
the assassination timeline.
The king family hasconsistently believed in a broader
conspiracy Rather than reyacting alone.
The U.
S.
House Select Committee onAssassinations in 1979 found that
there was likely a conspiracybut lacked definitive proof.
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Let's touch on that full for afew minutes.
Just think about this with me.
So James earl ray was directlyacross the street from the Lorraine
motel and from the room that Dr.
King occupied that day.
Now, from all reports, it saysthat James array was about 207ft
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away across you, like I said,from Martin Luther king's balcony.
Now, here is the part thatlooks real funny.
James earl ray supposedlykilled Martin Luther King Jr.
But he only shot him once.
Not twice, not three times.
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One time.
One time from 207ft away.
Now, you may say that's notimpossible with the scope.
From what I understand, whatI've seen, James earl ray was not
necessarily good with a gun.
Even with a scope.
You got to be somewhat goodwith the gun to hit somebody 207ft
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away.
Now, if you look it up, theysay that that's an easy shot for
even an average marksman.
But I'm not sure because thatshot one time has been scrutinized
for years.
Now, the reason I say thatthis shot is not that easy is because
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if it was, then why wouldn'the have shot Dr.
King directly in the head?
And I don't know if this riflehad a scope on it.
I don't think that it did.
But if they're saying thatthis is a shot that an average marksman
can make, why didn't he shoothim in the head?
Because that would be theabsolute kill shot at that point.
Right.
But Dr.
King ended up being hit in theright cheek.
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It smashed his jaw.
Then the bullet traveled downhis spinal cord, and then it lost
in his shoulder.
So if you're that good of anartsman, I think you're gonna do
the takeout shot.
And then that would be it.
Yes.
My opinion on that.
So what is being floatedaround is if you look at the Lorraine
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hotel, there is across thestreet from there.
I think there was like somebrush of some trees that they're
saying that maybe somebodythat couldn't be seen was hidden
there.
And then they actually didactually do the shooting and they
framed James Earl Ray for it.
All I know is, is he's passedaway now.
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But before he died, the Kingfamily went to try to get him released
from prison.
They have stated on manydifferent occasions that they don't
believe that James alreadykilled Dr.
King at all and that he shouldbe released.
I am with them.
I do not believe that Dr.
King was killed by James or Ray.
I believe James Earl Ray wasindeed a patsy.
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I believe that he was set upby the federal government, being
J.
Edgar Hoover.
Don't know if they hadanything on him, being he did have
a little bit of a crimebackground, but for whatever reason
they picked this guy.
Dirty work was done.
He goes to jail to serve 99 years.
If you just go and search upMartin Luther King Jr.
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Assassination, all of thatstuff will come out.
More time than I have todaybecause it is long.
If you're ever curious about J.
Edgar Hoover and how hedisliked Martin Luther King Jr.
And how he said several timesthat Dr.
King must go, I think maybeyou can conclude some of this as
well now with all that beingsaid in the life of Dr.
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King.
I believe that Dr.
King is probably rolling hisgrave right now because of what is
happening.
I also believe that LadyLiberty is shaking her stone fist
because of what Lady Libertystands for.
America is a land of immigrants.
There is nobody on this land,nobody in America.
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That is what I would consideror you would consider to be purebred.
There's not a purebred white person.
If you do DNA, everybody'smixed with something.
I know some white people thatactually has 3, 4, 5, 6% black in
them.
Let's not forget back inslavery times, the white man raped
African American women andkids was born.
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The part I'm going to touch onfor you today, and this is what my
heart is heavy, is the partthat I think Dr.
King would hone in on.
And I'm going to try to makesome sense out of this.
And I'm trying to unify peopleat the same time.
But we warned everybody aboutthis mess that we are now in.
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The one thing to know aboutblack people is we've been through
this before.
Well over 400 years now.
We see things coming.
We've tried to warn people ofthis is what's going to happen.
But people said, oh, wecouldn't vote for Kamala Harris because
my eggs is Too high, gas isgoing to raise, and inflation is
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horrible.
And, well, let's face thisfact, people.
And it's written, we had thebest economy that we ever had.
The economy is stronger thanever, has been up under Biden.
Now Trump is admitting that hecan't lower prices.
How do you guys feel about that?
But let's talk about dei,because here is the tactic in which
he is using.
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If you make everything aboutthe enemy and the enemy in his eyes,
whether anybody agrees or not,I think that it's been proven that.
I think from the executiveorders that he's written, I think
from some of the things thathe said, I think from his proclamation
he made about Black HistoryMonth, he is racist.
And if you put everything onhis enemy, which is black Americans,
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then you can get white peopleto believe that and to spin his narrative
and to say everything is for them.
So I'm gonna break down DEIfor you guys, and then I'm gonna
try to unify us, because nowwe're all in this mess.
You know, we're getting people deported.
I live in California.
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It's citrus season, if youguys didn't notice.
You get avocados from us.
No one's picking avocados.
We have a whole bunch of wine vineyards.
No one's picking grapes.
I watch my news and I see allthese grapes that's hanging, that's
riding, because nobody's outthere to pick them.
Because the immigrants inwhich he sent back, who was minding
their own business, who did nothing.
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Whether you want to have theargument that they're legal or illegal,
these people pay more than, Ithink, what, a billion dollars in
taxes a year.
They paid a lot of money intoSocial Security that they're never
going to be able to use, butthey're paying that for the right
to stay here in America.
So what Trump basically did ishe used di.
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He flipped it and he said, oh,DEI is reverse discrimination.
DI was designed for the whiteman to be held down and for the black
man to be held up.
Let me read to you whatdiversity, equity and inclusion means.
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Then I'm going to give yousome statistics behind it that will
probably blow your mind.
So diversity, equity,inclusion is.
Organizational frameworkswould seek to promote the fair treatment
and full participation of allpeople, particularly groups who have
historically beenunderrepresented or subject to discrimination
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on the basis of identity or disability.
These three notions,diversity, equity, and inclusion,
together represent threeclosely linked values which organizations
seek to institutionalizethrough DEI frameworks.
The concepts precede thisterminology and other Variations
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sometimes include terms suchas belonging, justice, accessibility.
As such, frameworks such asinclusion and diversity, diversity,
equity, inclusion andbelonging, justice, equity, diversity
and inclusion or diversity,equity, inclusion and accessibility
exists.
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Diversity refers to presenceof variety within the organizational
workforce, such as identityand identity politics.
It includes gender, ethnicity,sexual orientation, disability, age,
culture, class, religion or opinion.
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Somebody tell me where thatsaid black.
Somebody tell me where thatwhole definition said.
This is the better blackpeople because of where I'm sitting,
if it's the better black people.
Now Trump's got y'allbelieving all the blacks get better
jobs than whites.
And with DEI practices, we gotto kill those because the blacks
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is making out better than us.
Where's my mansion?
Where's my millions?
The last time I looked in thebank account, I didn't have millions.
So if DEI is benefiting me andI'm taking everything from the white
person, then I should be richright now.
No, let me tell you what DEI controls.
DEI controls exactly what it said.
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So if you are 60 years old andyou are trying to go get a job, if
you voted for Trump, you justvoted your job out the window because
DEI protected you because of agerism.
So somebody couldn't look atyou and say, sorry, ma'am, you 62
years old, you too old, youcan't have this job.
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If you voted for Trump and youhave a disability, whether you have
no legs or one leg, no arms,you walk on a crutch, you had a stroke
and now the right side of yourbody don't work, but you need a job,
you just voted it out thewindow for yourself.
Cuz DEI protected you as adisabled person to get that job.
So if you go to Walmart, whichI haven't been in a while because
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I've boycotted them due totheir non DEI practices.
If you go to Walmart, though,you sometimes you see a disabled
young man or young woman or anolder person that's sitting in the
front that's supposed to bechecking receipts.
I've always disagreed becauseof the fact that I don't think somebody
who has a disability or oldershould be in that position because
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of the harm they can get.
But there's other positionsthat disabled and older people hold
within Walmart, but now thosepeople can be gone because since
DEI is dead, it doesn'tprotect anybody anymore.
What about sexual orientation?
So if you are gay ortransgendered, you just booted that
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out the window because nowsomebody can say, hey, we ain't hiring
you because you are gay or transgender.
What about culture Religion.
All of that was under dei.
Again, where does that say black?
It was something that was putin for all, all people.
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Yes, it benefited black peoplebecause we were in that class that
historically was discriminated against.
But let me give you these statistics.
According to the U.S.
department of labor, who doyou think the largest groups of people
is who benefit from dei?
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Let me shock you.
This is an order ofimportance, meaning who gets the
most out of dei?
And top of the list is whitewomen and male CEOs.
Number two, Latino andHispanic Americans.
Number three, Asian Americans.
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Number four, Native Americans.
Number five, disabled Americans.
Number six, veterans.
Number seven, LGBTQ plus.
And who's at number eight?
The very last on the list,Black people.
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Just for everybody'sknowledge, black people is only 4%
of the DI picture.
Now how that raps into Dr.
King?
Because we don't need DEIbecause we've done everything for
ourselves.
We've had to do everything for ourselves.
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Let me give you case in pointand prove it using something that
deals with Dr.
King.
I guess everybody just thinksthat Dr.
King Day and Dr.
King's memorial was, I guess,given to us that there was no work
that was done that Congressjust said, hey, we gonna give Martin
Luther King his day.
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It happened like that.
First of all, black peoplefought for years to get Dr.
King's birth date recognizedand could give him a day on the calendar
that was fitting for any otherhistorical figure or, and, or a president.
To Prove that point, Dr.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Would have been 96 years oldif he would have lived this year.
This past January, we justcelebrated the 42nd Martin Luther
King Day.
So that tells you that.
But when it came to hismonument, you know that fabulous
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good looking monument thatsits down from the Lincoln Memorial,
there was a problem.
When I say black people workfor their own, here's what happened.
The government didn't want togive no money.
There to be negotiations.
There was problems all overthe place.
So the monument was costing$120 million to build.
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Oh, but Congress and everybodycame and said, oh, but wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait.
We'll help you out after youraise the first $100 million.
You only got until 2003 to do that.
The year that this took placewas 1996.
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And it was the United StatesCongress who authorized the Secretary
of Interior to permit theAlpha Phi Alpha to establish a memorial.
But we had to get the first100 million.
Now there were some othercompanies that kind of helped out.
So we give them their dude,General Motors, Tommy Hilfiger, the
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building and the GatesFoundation, Walt Disney company,
NBA, NFL Players Association,national association, from Realtors
George Lucas and StevenSpielberg and Aflac, they gave some
money, but black people stillhad to raise the majority of that.
I believe I gave money to itbecause on every channel that black
people own at that time, Betand any place that let them run that
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ad, they were asking you ifyou could please donate money so
that Dr.
King could have the memorialin which he deserved.
And I'll be dang if we didn'tdo it.
So Alpha Phi Alpha set out toraise this money, and they actually
raised $112 million over six years.
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They also led a publiccampaign to justify King's place
on the Mall.
Listen to what it said.
Justify his place.
Out of all the stuff that Dr.
King did, out of all the civilrights that he fought, that he fought
for all people.
Because just don't, don't.
Just don't think that theright for women to vote was just
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about black people that gavethe right for women to vote, no matter
what color you are.
Out of all of the good thingsthat Martin Luther King Jr.
Did, it still had to be justified.
While this black man had tohave or could have a spot on the
wall, they also battled thegovernment and the commissioners
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over the memorial's locationand the design of it.
And to make all this happen,the Alpha Alpha fraternity put aside
rivalries with other blackfraternities and sororities.
Now, I'm hoping that these arefriendly, but, you know, other black
sororities, you know, andfraternities, they compete against
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each other and their rivalsand all that stuff, you know, mascots
get stolen, all that kind of stuff.
They said, this thing isbigger than any rival we have.
We're going to set this all aside.
We going to come together asone, and we going to raise this money.
After the money was raised,the memorial was officially open
to the public in August of 2011.
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They started this in 1996.
Took six years to raise $112million before Congress even moved
to put the rest of the moneywith it.
Now let's see how that compares.
In contrast, since you all cansay, well, you just born this up,
let's see how that compares.
In contrast to the man whosememorial sits on top of a Martin
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Luther King.
Is that.
Is the Lincoln Memorial?
Do you think Lincoln had that.
That much of a problem?
No, because the LincolnMemorial was funded by Congress and
private donations.
In 1911, President WilliamHoward Taft signed a bill that created
the Lincoln Memorialcommission and allotted $2 million
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of the project.
Let me repeat that.
President William Howard Taftsigned a bill.
They created a whole bill togive Lincoln his own memorial.
And in that bill, he allocated$2 million for the project.
The final cost for thememorial was 3 million, but they
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gave them 2 million of it, andthe rest came from private donations.
Now, did you hear me say whitepeople or people any color had to
go out and do campaigns?
No.
Did you hear me say that theywas met with challenges?
Nope, there was none.
That's your difference betweenthose two monuments.
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Everything that black peoplehave, we built for ourselves.
We don't need dei.
I bust my butt for my job.
I had to go through severalinterviews to get the job that I
have.
And the company which I workfor feels like that they only hire
the best of the best.
So there was no color, therewas no dei, There was no pat on the
back.
But I just told you what DEI covered.
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I just told you who benefitsthe most from DEI.
And it definitely ain'tusually is white people.
White CEOs, you know, the MarkZuckerbergs of the world, the Elon
Musk of the world.
It's even come out that J.D.
vance even took part of DEIhimself, who's trying to fight it
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now because he has a dude onYouTube telling you the whole story
that him and JD Vance bothwent to school together, law school
that is off of the GI Bill.
And that many of the practiceshe wants to sit down, he took advantage
of.
I gave you a whole breakdownof who is included in that.
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And you didn't hear blackpeople anywhere.
Now, the other thing in whichhe's trying to do before we close
out is now he's trying toweaponize the 14amendment.
He's trying to say that the14th amendment was only created for
black children.
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Now, I don't mean to offendanybody, but this is why we're in
the mess that we're in,because people that call themselves
MAGA Republicans don't readTrump banks on that.
They he wants you to be dumbbecause half of the people I talked
to, the voter for Trump, don'teven know what a tariff is.
They've argued me down thatI'm wrong on how a tariff works,
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and I'm exactly right.
You would have felt that whenit came to Canada if he wouldn't
have backed down.
Believe me, what you read onthe news is fake.
He backed down from Mexico and Canada.
Canada, Mexico went back anddown from Trump.
They said, we'll just go fullboard this however you want to do
it.
But they was going to attackthe red states first.
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See, nobody ever cares aboutanything until it directly affects
them.
But then he turned around andsaid, oh, but the 14th Amendment
was only made for black children.
Let me give you just an extrawhat the 14th amendment is.
14th amendment to the UnitedStates Constitution guarantees citizenship,
equal protection and dueprocess to all people born or naturalized
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in the United States.
It was ratified in 1868.
Tell me, what did I say?
Black people.
What did I say?
Black children.
Let me tell you what the 14thAmendment actually does do to Trump,
though.
See, this is why he wants toget rid of the Constitution.
Because what he's trying to dowith birthright citizenship, if you
read into the 14th amendment,the 14th amendment protects that,
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so he cannot send anybody back.
That's an anchor baby up underthe birthright protections.
That's in the 14th Amendment.
So if you go a little bitdeeper into that, here's what protects
birthright.
All people born or naturalizedin the United States are citizens
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of the United States.
This includes formerlyenslaved people.
See, the reason the 14thAmendment had to be written was,
I think it was the 13thamendment did not tell you exactly
what I guess a free person was.
The slaves was free, but theydidn't know how to handle that.
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You know, because remember,black people was not looked at as
a human.
We was looked at as like apercentage of a human, like half
a human.
We weren't human according tothe racist white people that enslaved
us.
So when Lincoln freed theslaves, which is a whole nother thing,
because everybody, if you justthink Lincoln freed the slaves to
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be freeing them and he washappy and he would be an abolitionist,
that is not the truth, butthat's another time.
But when Lincoln freed theslaves, they didn't know what a free
person was.
So the 14th amendment had tobe written that instructed exactly
what that meant.
So when they mean the term allpeople born and naturalized United
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States are citizens of theUnited States, this includes formerly
enslaved people is becauseback then all people meant white
people before the 14thConstitution was made.
So they had to put in the safe.
Includes formerly enslaved people.
So that means if you're bornhere according to the 14th amendment
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and you're or you'renaturalized here.
So if your parents is born inGuam and you here on this soil and
your parents gave birth toyou, According to the 14th amendment,
you are an American citizen bybirth right.
It also says no state can denyequal protection of the laws to anyone
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within its jurisdiction.
All people.
So he wants you to believethat the 14th Amendment is only given
to black children because thenyou, his MAGA crowd, or whoever voted
for him, or Republican,whatever you are, will say, hey,
that's not fair.
That's about as bad as dei.
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Let's see.
We can help Donald Trump getrid of the Constitution.
So if you feel that islopsided and that it only pertains
to one group of people, you'remore likely to get rid of it.
That's what he wants becausethat will kill my rights as an African
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American.
He would feel like he canenslave us again because it would
kill that citizenship.
Even though I'm born here,100%, never been to Africa, my ancestors
did.
But it gets rid of that.
It gets rid of anchor babies.
I'll tell you one celebritythat he would have to send back,
and this will let.
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This celebrity is beloved.
He's no longer with us, buthe's beloved.
If he had his way and BruceLee was still alive and he wanted
to send people back, then hewould have to send Bruce Lee back
to Hong Kong.
See, Bruce Lee was born LeeJun Fawn.
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His name translates into Iwill return, which means his dad
always had a vision that BruceLee would return to America someday.
His dad was a famous travelingopera singer, I believe it was, and
he was in San Francisco withhis wife at the time that Bruce Lee
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had to be born.
So when Bruce Lee was born, hewas born in San Francisco.
He has an American birthcertificate, but he was raised in
Hong Kong.
How did he get back here?
Well, in his youth, Bruce gotinto some problems, had to come out
of there.
And his dad says, take thisand this money and go to America.
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And he's like, I can't go to America.
I'm not a citizen.
He says, they will accept youbecause you are one of them.
So if Trump had his way andBruce Lee was living, that means
he would be declaring thatBruce Lee is not a citizen, because
his mom and his dad was fromHong Kong in China and was not born
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here.
That's what all that means.
People, I'm trying to let youguys know what you're running into.
Look at all the bills that'sbeen written now.
So you tell me one policy thathe's written right now about food,
one policy that he's writtenabout lowering gas prices, one policy
that he's written about inflation.
From what I'm seeing, he'sbeen spending his time writing all
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of these bills on deportation,trying to strip every one of their
civil rights, trying to getrid of the LGBTQ in prisons and in
schools, trying to killanything that is black at this point.
Now, what I meant about.
And then I'll be getting outof here.
What I meant about when I saidthe proclamation in which he made.
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If you don't know kkk,written, written rhetoric, I'm gonna
give you some.
So he made this bigproclamation that February 2025 would
be known as Black HistoryMonth, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But what you're reading is howhe wrote it so many times.
He capitalized Black HistoryMonth, but when he talked about black
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people, he did not capitalizeon the B, which should be.
He lowercase that.
Now, I don't know.
I haven't seen this.
He's written so many of them.
But somebody said he actuallywrote an order that says that every
script and textbook and allthat will now lowercase the letter
B in black and will uppercasethe letter W in white.
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That was her.
That was KKK stuff.
Because the uppercase W andwhite meant that they were superior
to black people.
Everybody caught that.
Now, if you really want tolook at it, his whole cabinet is
dei.
If you're going to deportsomebody, you should be deporting
his wife at least, what, twoof his kids?
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Three of his kids are anchor babies.
So why is the rule good forsome but not for all?
You put a felon in office over34 different felony counts.
You put a white supremacist inoffice, and now all of the people,
the Latinos for Trump, iscrying to black people to help them.
They changed their tune.
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Well, we ain't voting for Kamala.
Do everything you can not tovote for her.
She's bad.
Now they're saying stuff like,can you help us?
We need to unify all together.
We tried to tell you we arethe most hated race yet.
We are the one race that geteverything done.
We're the ones that's outthere marching.
We're the ones that startedsome of these protests that's happening
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right now.
There's protests all over the Capitol.
There's a protest againstTarget in Minnesota.
It was started by a black group.
We're the group that getsstuff done.
But now what we need to do iswe need to all unify.
Because if we don't unify,that's what Trump wants.
If we don't fight the fascismthat's going on, this is basically
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Hitler's playbook.
And everybody laughed,including the people that we know
that voted for Trump.
Oh, you guys will say that.
It ain't Healer.
This is exactly Hitler Go readMein Kampf.
Go read any of Hitler's policies.
The only difference betweenHitler and Trump is that Hitler had
no kind of breaks.
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There was no constitution for him.
He just took over and did whathe wanted to do.
Here we still have the federalcourts, we still have the Democrats
in office, which needs to growa big old spine and jump up and say,
forget all this.
Nice.
This takes the gloves off.
And.
And yes, before anybody says,we know Republicans has the majority,
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but they are the majority byone seat.
That ain't a big majority.
So I think we need to do.
We need to band together, nomatter what color, what race, what
creed you are.
I wanted to give you thisbecause it went along with Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
We don't.
We're not DEI.
I want to tell you what DEI means.
That means all of us at somepoint in time is dei.
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All of us are going to get old.
Some of us is going to have disabilities.
Maybe we're going to havesomething mental happen to us.
You want those DEI policies in place?
Because that's what's going togive you a job at 62.
That's what's going to giveyou a job when you only have one
arm.
That's what's going to giveyou a job if you're a bbw, because
they can look at you and say, up.
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Don't want you too fat.
Goodbye.
And abundantly, these new rules.
You have no course to sue.
Why?
Because that would go ontoyour civil rights, which, by the
way, Trump got rid of civil rights.
Scrubbed it from the WhiteHouse website.
Said it was done.
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All of this is an attempt tomake the world white again, to send
it back where it was in the40s and the 50s, to make black people
lower than them, to make Asianpeople, Hispanic people lower than
them, to try to get rid of whohe can.
He can't get rid of us, though.
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There's 40 million of us blackpeople here in this U.
S.
He can't get rid of us becausewe're all American citizens.
But he can do things to try tomake our life a living hell.
So I say this to you.
You may be scared.
I'm not scared.
I give everything to God.
And speaking of that, what yousee from them, that's not Christianity.
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That is white, Christiannationalist and people should be
happy.
I'm not God because I wouldalready instruct people down all
that stuff they're preaching.
That is not what God believes.
God is a God of peace, not war.
God is a God for everyone.
God is a God that wants tobring good, not destruction.
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God will never take away yourcivil rights.
This is why people have such aproblem with Christianity.
Because what you see on thatstage and what you see somebody else
portray may not be exactlywhat God is.
I don't have one picture ofJesus in my house.
You know why?
Because he's not the brownhair, blue eyed dude that you keep
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seeing.
By the way, how can you draw apicture of someone you've never seen?
Now if you go and readRevelation, they kind of give you
kind of an outline of whatChrist looks like.
It didn't say blonde hair orblue eyed.
It said that he had hair likewool and eyes like fire.
If you look at the place whereJesus was born, you have more brown
(44:59):
skinned people there.
But we don't know, we've neverseen him.
But I guarantee you he ain'tblonde hair, blue eye.
So if you're buying into therhetoric that that's what Christianity
is, that is not the God that Iserve, that is not Christianity.
Yeah, I'm all for putting theTen Commandments back in school,
but if you're going to dothat, do that from somebody that's
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really following the Lord.
Donald Trump ain't.
And before you say I'm not,I'm not supposed to judge.
I ain't judging them.
I'm telling you by what hisown actions are.
He did not put his hand on theBible when he got sworn in.
He was asked point blank, havehe ever asked for forgiveness?
And he says no, he's neverasked God for forgiveness.
Now how do you know God neverasked him for forgiveness?
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So let's band together, people.
We have a long four years orat least a long year and a half.
The primaries is coming.
The smartest thing thatanybody can do in the primary is
flip the House and the Senateand Congress.
You need to give it all backto the Democrats, put them in majority
control.
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They can put the rest of thebrakes on Donald Trump at that point
because everything that heneeds to do except for these executive
orders, they have to gothrough them.
Do you know that the budgetruns out for America in March?
So they got to go through theDemocrats in order to get a budget
plan.
They don't have enough majority.
(46:26):
So I was going, thatConstitution piece is this.
And this is why I felt thatwe're in no danger of him ratifying
it.
So let me give you this andthen we're done.
The amendment process is verydifficult and time consuming.
A proposed amendment must bepassed by 2/3 of both houses of Congress
then ratified by thelegislatures of 3/4 of the states.
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He don't have that.
Even if every Republican,every maga, and him having the House
and the Senate, Donald Trumpstill does not have 2/3 of both houses.
Now, let's say that he does.
He definitely don't have threefourths of all states because the
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blue states is going to oppose that.
So therefore he cannot changethe Constitution.
He cannot change the 14th Amendment.
And it's not about black children.
I read you exactly what it is.
It guarantees citizenship andequal protection in due process to
all people born or naturalizedin the United States.
(47:38):
All right, guys, thank you fortuning in with me.
I hope what I've said to youguys has resonated.
We need to stand together,need to band together to fight the
evilness that's coming out ofthe White House right now.
If Dr.
Martin Luther King was here,even at 96 years old, I bet money
that he would still be findinga way to give these speeches and
(47:59):
to try to tear down what ishappening right now.
So let's honor Dr.
King.
Let us fight.
Let us do what is right.
Let us make a America, theAmerica that we want to be again.
Let us not have to beembarrassed to be from America because
people's booing us no matterwhere we go.
We can do it if we all stick together.
(48:24):
All right, guys, once again,thank you for tuning in.
I just gave you my littlespill on the politics, my political
channel.
I'm gonna give you some peopleto go listen to.
Reese Waters tabular speech.
Roland Martin, Martin, theMidas Network.
I mean, I got a whole bunch ofthem I'll leave down here for you
if you want to go check them out.
They do a far better job thanI do and they're always on it every
(48:45):
day.
You cannot listen to legacy media.
You need to listen to theindependence because they're going
to be the ones who are goingto tell you the truth.
So thank you for joining me today.
I know you have many choicesin true crime Interview podcast.
I'm grateful for the lastalmost three years, years you have
chose me.
And remember, you have beenlistening to the only three faceted
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podcast of its kind.
So be good to yourself andeach other.
And always remember, alwaysstay humble.
An act of kindness can makesomeone's day.
A love and compassion can go along way.
And remember that there is anextraordinary person, all of us.
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