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DLHS Hour 3 | Talking All That Jazz with activist Nekima Levy Armstrong · The D.L. Hughley Show

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  Speaker 1: It is the deal. You can show your twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six edition.
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  Speaker 2: Remember, if you're going to be in Boston starting on Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: excuse me Friday, I'll be then on the April seventeenth
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  Speaker 2: at the Shuper Theater. The following day Tyson's Virginia at
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  Speaker 2: the Capitol One Theater.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what d L and d L. So hopefully
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  Speaker 1: you guys will come check us out.
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  Speaker 2: If you think Maga's mad at Donald Trump for depicting
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  Speaker 2: hisself as Jesus, what if he depicted himself as the
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  Speaker 2: actual Jesus that brown dude boy day to call ice
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  Speaker 2: on him.
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  Speaker 3: Trump would have had to do blackface to do that. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 3: one thinks for sure.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how bad he felt about it, because
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  Speaker 4: he turned around and posted another picture of him laying
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  Speaker 4: in Jesus' shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I don't Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: They've been telling him he's Jesus, like there was a
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  Speaker 2: preacher that blessed him and told him he was Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: so wouldn't believe he was, And then then he said
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  Speaker 2: it was he was a doctor. Come to find out
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  Speaker 2: that they told him to tell him to tell everybody
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  Speaker 2: that the picture was doctored, not doctor.
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  Speaker 1: This idiot did it wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Like like like you ain't you ain't seen the doctor
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  Speaker 2: unless it was Kaiser Kuwait what an idiot?
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's.
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  Speaker 2: And I just uh, when you when you when you start,
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  Speaker 2: when you start a beef with both the country of
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  Speaker 2: Iran and the pope, you're probably on the wrong side history.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, probably be wrong. I came out, How are you?
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  Speaker 5: I'm doing great? Thank you? How are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: I am doing pretty good, hanging in there, but clearly,
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  Speaker 4: I mean I wish I were as busy as you are.
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  Speaker 3: You're the founder of Moms for Liberation.
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  Speaker 4: But I was reading up on you and I see
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  Speaker 4: that you have been quite busy everything from you know,
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  Speaker 4: civil rights issues, education and you know, of course you know,
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  Speaker 4: writing your own book and things like that. I know
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot going on. You know, you were very
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  Speaker 4: instrumental in what you had to say about the Derek
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  Speaker 4: Chavan verdict, obviously, George Floyd and Lord Knows reproductive rights
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  Speaker 4: for women, and now we're talking about all of these
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  Speaker 4: bands on books. My first question to you is, how
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  Speaker 4: did you even come to a place where you.
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  Speaker 3: Felt this was your calling to fight?
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  Speaker 5: Well, a part of my decision to get involved in
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  Speaker 5: this fight is seeing this issue as a civil rights issue,
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  Speaker 5: and it's one that has flown under the radar screen
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  Speaker 5: within the black community for a very long time. I
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  Speaker 5: think many of us tune out if we don't feel
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  Speaker 5: that there is an actual physical threat and it is
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  Speaker 5: a threat that impacts our children for generations to come.
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  Speaker 5: So now we're in a place in time where we
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  Speaker 5: have folks and positions of authority for making the decision
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  Speaker 5: for black children that they can't even study black history.
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  Speaker 3: So it largely depends on who's writing the history.
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  Speaker 4: So you just said, you know, talking about our children
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  Speaker 4: learning and knowing the importance of our history and our contribution.
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  Speaker 4: If all of that is stripped away and the victor,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the winner, is writing the history, then what
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  Speaker 4: does that say about what we're learning about ourselves exactly?
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  Speaker 5: And that has been one of the problems that we
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  Speaker 5: have faced the entire time, having to contend with revisionist history.
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  Speaker 5: So our history being written by folks who are sadly
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  Speaker 5: largely on the side of the oppressor. So we have
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  Speaker 5: to pay attention to who is writing our history and
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  Speaker 5: also find ways to fight back against what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: What is the first step?
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  Speaker 4: What can you do if you know you're trying to
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  Speaker 4: teach your children something that is probably in direct conflict
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  Speaker 4: with what the education system is teaching.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think that one of the first things that
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  Speaker 5: we can and do it to educate ourselves about what's happening.
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  Speaker 5: We launched an Instagram page called Mom's for Liberations, and
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  Speaker 5: we have been in people about educating folks around the
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  Speaker 5: country on what's happening with regard to book bands and
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  Speaker 5: how people are organizing and fighting back. We've seen people
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  Speaker 5: hold demonstrations, hold conversations within their community, and even all
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  Speaker 5: offers books that have been banned for free, you know,
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  Speaker 5: to people in their various communities as a way to
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  Speaker 5: counter what's been happening.
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  Speaker 4: You're absolutely right, and I think when you connect the
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  Speaker 4: dots of there was a time that we could be
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  Speaker 4: killed for reading and learning, because I think they understood
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  Speaker 4: the power and knowledge.
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  Speaker 3: Of us reading right, And then.
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  Speaker 4: You have this time, this era where we really were
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  Speaker 4: educating ourselves and we were sharing that information.
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  Speaker 3: And you can see what happened during that time.
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  Speaker 4: And so now it is of no no surprise to
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  Speaker 4: that they're doing everything they can to prevent us from
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  Speaker 4: reading the books that continue to educate us and empower us.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's the most important thing.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely. I'm so glad that you reference that because there
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  Speaker 5: are so many incredible books by black authors that have
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  Speaker 5: been banned. So I think that it's important for us
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  Speaker 5: as members of the community, as parents to understand what's happening,
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  Speaker 5: to see the political connections, and to use our voices.
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  Speaker 3: I love it, Nickimah Leevy Armstrong. Listen.
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  Speaker 4: I don't feel no ways tired anytime you need some
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  Speaker 4: assistance and what you're doing because it's so important to us.
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing what I can, but I would love to
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  Speaker 4: be able to join forces with you because I think
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  Speaker 4: this matter is so important when it comes to all
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  Speaker 4: of the things that you are are promoting in terms of,
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  Speaker 4: you know, trying to drive a change for black and
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  Speaker 4: brown women across this country. I absolutely love it, and
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  Speaker 4: thank you so much for taking time to talk to
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  Speaker 4: me on all that jazz.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 3: Take care, Mama.
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  Speaker 1: It's now time to give a deserving I won the
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  Speaker 6: Week Award. Lesanda Chili Thomas is an American singer, dancer,
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  Speaker 6: this week's recipient of the shoe Booty of the Week Award?
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  Speaker 1: How clickers have happened?
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  Speaker 6: Chili con Carney gets the shoe Booty because the hit
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  Speaker 6: record maker says she's sorry and she's not Mega turn
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  Speaker 6: on Santa Fi, but her record suggests otherwise. First, she
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  Speaker 6: made a scrub move. She got dragged after her Instagram
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  Speaker 6: account shared a post promoting a long debunk transphobic conspiracy
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  Speaker 6: theory that former First Lady Michelle Obama is a man. No.
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  Speaker 6: The post claim Michelle Obama had registered to vote as
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  Speaker 6: a male, a narrative often pushed by right wing groups,
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  Speaker 6: just saying if Michelle Obama is a man, then Barack
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  Speaker 6: has the best beard in presidential history.
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  Speaker 5: Michelle, and I couldn't be prouder.
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  Speaker 6: Things got worse when she proved she ain't too proud
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  Speaker 6: to beg Roe. Roe released a heartfelt statement claiming she
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  Speaker 6: is not Maga. She said she thought the donations were
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  Speaker 6: for veterans determined that was a lot. Yeah, that's nice,
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  Speaker 6: but it's all cap cause we ain't chasing waterfalls. It's
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  Speaker 6: been proven she is donated to Trump several times and
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  Speaker 6: follows a bunch of right wing accounts. That's why she's
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  Speaker 6: getting dragged like a bad weave on a roller coaster,
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  Speaker 6: dragged her like her last album sales.
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 6: Here's the sad part. She didn't make these apologies until
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  Speaker 6: she found out it was affecting ticket sales for her
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  Speaker 6: upcoming tour with Salt and Pepper and in Vogue. People
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  Speaker 6: are forgiving girl. Maybe you should tour with Nicki Minaj
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  Speaker 6: and walk a flock instead. Y'all can be the new TLC,
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  Speaker 6: swift kick in the ass.
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  Speaker 1: You know, skip this gotta be the ease.
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  Speaker 2: But because she wooties a plenty, oh man, you see
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  Speaker 2: these darkies trying to still be Trump supporters. Being a
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  Speaker 2: trusupporter now was like being on crack right in full
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  Speaker 2: opinion in full pounds.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, it is man.
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  Speaker 2: You just started to fight with the pope and I
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  Speaker 2: ran a man, thank god, instead of would I rant
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  Speaker 2: and not Lego.
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  Speaker 1: But we'd be getting my ask.
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