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Texas Redistricting Puts Dem Lion Al Green Into 18th from 9th; Epstein Coverup Travels to Eagle Pass, TX With ICE Barbi - TPN 2/8/26 · The People's News

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  Speaker 1: It's the week of February the eighth, twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: and this is what's on the People's News. Congressman Al
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  Speaker 1: Green gives his inaugural State of Black History legislative Update Breakfast,
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  Speaker 1: the Homeland Security Director, also known as Fascist Barbie, heads
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  Speaker 1: to the border Trump directed gop led redistricting in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Black History Month concert celebrating Reverend Absalom Jones. The Houston
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  Speaker 1: Dynamo are ready with new blood. All that and more
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  Speaker 1: on the People's News. I'm Steve Gallington. This is the
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  Speaker 1: People's News, and the People's News starts now. What is
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  Speaker 1: obviously an increasingly desperate effort to distract away from the
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  Speaker 1: five thousand mentions that the convicted felon and adult seventy
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  Speaker 1: nine year old occupying the white house hold in the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein files made yet another racist post showing President Barack
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  Speaker 1: Obama and his wife Michelle as apes, which sparked outrage
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  Speaker 1: around the world. Blacks being portrayed as apes has been
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  Speaker 1: used for many years to shade black people as being
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  Speaker 1: less than human. This on top of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: it is now Black History Month. Many have called for
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  Speaker 1: Trump to apologize, but of course he will not. Local
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Al Green from the ninth district held his annual
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  Speaker 1: breakfast updating what he is doing and how racism is
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  Speaker 1: still something to fight.
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  Speaker 2: Politics are acceptable work.
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  Speaker 3: We have to do what has not been done and
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  Speaker 3: that is spent up to this racism and that everybody is.
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  Speaker 2: Known that he will not be You will not break,
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  Speaker 2: he will not how you will not allow listen to
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  Speaker 2: them in their way. Every mother, the man the NEWSPA
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  Speaker 2: would like to.
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  Speaker 4: Use the chronicle something us maniasmal something we will understand it.
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  Speaker 2: Why would we want to fight at simitism? And you look,
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  Speaker 2: any simitism is empro and we have to fight it.
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  Speaker 4: But we also have to fight racism in the same
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  Speaker 4: way we buy and the senitism.
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  Speaker 2: And it's taping.
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  Speaker 5: We have to know it.
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  Speaker 6: To this end, I have introduced a resolution in Congress
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  Speaker 6: style affirming that racism is real and present in the
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  Speaker 6: United States of America and condemning invidious discrimination which remains
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  Speaker 6: for basic in the country.
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  Speaker 2: Now, let me explain how racism impacts you in ways
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  Speaker 2: that you don't know. I served on the Financial Services Committee.
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  Speaker 2: I will see Chairperson of Oversight.
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  Speaker 3: And Investigation, and if ever we take the House back again,
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  Speaker 3: I hope you each your person again under the leadership
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  Speaker 3: of the allible mas memor us, and that is what
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  Speaker 3: we apply to imperial evidence to substantiate. We found that
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  Speaker 3: when a person.
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  Speaker 6: Of color goes into a bank to get a loan,
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  Speaker 6: that that person of color, many of you have suffered
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  Speaker 6: this baby, that person.
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  Speaker 2: Of color will have to pay more for the loan, will.
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  Speaker 4: Get terms that are not as favorable and get less
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  Speaker 4: money than a person who is not of color and
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  Speaker 4: less qualified.
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  Speaker 7: That impacts your ability to have a house note that
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  Speaker 7: is reasonable that you can afford. That impacts your ability
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  Speaker 7: to buy a car that you can afford and not
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  Speaker 7: have a note that you cannot pay it.
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  Speaker 4: That it will still racism and living in that's country,
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  Speaker 4: and as still as people of color.
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  Speaker 8: And when you go to buy that car, there is.
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  Speaker 4: Something called the front office deal. This is where you
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  Speaker 4: make a great deal on the car, but by the
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  Speaker 4: time you get to the rear office, there.
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  Speaker 2: Is something called a back office steal, where in all
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  Speaker 2: the games that you got in the front office are
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  Speaker 2: taken from you in the back office, and.
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  Speaker 4: You can't prove it because everybody can get a deal
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  Speaker 4: that's different from everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: What I mean what I mean. I mean this, You
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  Speaker 2: and another person of a different you can go into
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  Speaker 2: the office on.
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  Speaker 4: The same day by the same car, have the same credit,
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  Speaker 4: and you can pay more than that another person seting
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  Speaker 4: because of how you look.
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  Speaker 2: That has not to stop with the United States of America.
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  Speaker 2: And when I have the time of s I fight.
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  Speaker 4: I fight the up that causes you to be shirt changed,
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  Speaker 4: to not receive the same pay as other people received
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  Speaker 4: for the same work that you do it. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: fight to make sure that you don't pay more for
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  Speaker 4: your insurance because you have to live in an area
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  Speaker 4: of town that has a sift why the streets.
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  Speaker 2: That a lot of the man's everybody else and you
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  Speaker 2: let a n shut.
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  Speaker 4: I want to fight to make sure that you have
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  Speaker 4: the same opportunities as others and that we will no
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  Speaker 4: longer find ourselves living in a country where black unemployment
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  Speaker 4: is nearly always twice that of white unemployment.
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  Speaker 3: You cannot convince me that after all these years, black
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  Speaker 3: unemployment is going to be twice at a white unemployment.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, I'm not condemning all white people.
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  Speaker 3: There are white people of good will who on our
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  Speaker 3: side and working with us.
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  Speaker 4: But We've got to change this, because if we don't
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  Speaker 4: change this, that means that out of town.
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  Speaker 2: That incomes want to be less. That means if we
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  Speaker 2: can't afford some of the kind of things in life
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  Speaker 2: that other people can afford. Yes, there has been red blinding.
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  Speaker 2: There are people who don't want to sell you rooms.
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  Speaker 4: If you live in a certain part of the community
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  Speaker 4: and you want to upbraid your gun, your living stand
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  Speaker 4: and let us and look to another cause of the.
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  Speaker 2: Community where you can have a bigger home, have a
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  Speaker 2: different yard. That is your privilege of this wayever you
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  Speaker 2: choose to. But they're still doing of this country who
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  Speaker 2: don't want us to hell. You's at home, but if
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  Speaker 2: you're willing to take more than his work, they'll sell
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  Speaker 2: it to you. We've got to change that, and we've
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  Speaker 2: got to change something else in this country. I've got
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  Speaker 2: a resolution style entitled condemning President Donald John Trump.
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  Speaker 3: For orderings and unpresidented mid cycle racist registrictive intentions.
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  Speaker 2: There's never a record. We're going to partment the record
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  Speaker 2: of the commerce so that people will know that this massed.
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  Speaker 1: Many after the meeting agreed with the congressman and vowed
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  Speaker 1: to go to work yes and be lamb.
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  Speaker 9: And this is my second year coming to this event,
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  Speaker 9: and everybody in Houston appreciate what El Greens putting on
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  Speaker 9: each year and hoping that he continues to do it.
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  Speaker 9: So make sure you vote for him when it's time
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  Speaker 9: to thank you.
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  Speaker 8: What do you think?
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  Speaker 5: What do you think about what's going on in the
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  Speaker 5: community right now?
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  Speaker 10: I believe anybody were all together and we will move
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  Speaker 10: out and continue to move out.
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  Speaker 11: I think it was a wonderful event. I'm glad to
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  Speaker 11: see that the place was well attended.
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  Speaker 2: It was packed.
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  Speaker 11: I appreciate the tributes given to or the space for
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  Speaker 11: young people to express themselves as well as those of
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  Speaker 11: us who.
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  Speaker 2: Are have been around see a lot.
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  Speaker 11: I am grateful to Congressman Green for being authentic as
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  Speaker 11: he usually is and transparent with what he believes should
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  Speaker 11: be done and what he is promising to do. And
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  Speaker 11: I am definitely grateful for the people's response to the
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  Speaker 11: things that were done and said. Truly made me proud
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  Speaker 11: to be black, a black woman, and one who has
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  Speaker 11: seen a lot. I grew up in a civil rights era,
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  Speaker 11: so I'm happy to see that carried on throughout young people.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think what's talking about the event and
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  Speaker 5: what what reasons why you're here and how do you
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  Speaker 5: feel after?
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  Speaker 12: Well, the reason why I'm here I wanted to be
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  Speaker 12: more informed and what's going on politically and not only
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  Speaker 12: just in my community, but what's going.
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  Speaker 13: On at the White House.
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  Speaker 12: Representative Al Green has been just extremely Everyone here has
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  Speaker 12: been extremely inspiring. All those information that was presented can
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  Speaker 12: be a little bit frightening, However, it gives me motivation
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  Speaker 12: to speak out and fight and do something.
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  Speaker 11: You know, they were saying something about.
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  Speaker 12: You know, we can scream and holly to bam, but
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  Speaker 12: it's important to scream.
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  Speaker 13: And harllan in the fight and faith. I'm jataper and
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  Speaker 13: I'm ready.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Al Green is now running in the redistricted eighteenth
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  Speaker 1: Congressional district in Houston, competing with the new Congressman Christian Menefee,
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  Speaker 1: who is elected to fill the remaining term of the
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  Speaker 1: Lake Congressman Sylvester Turner, who died while in office. They
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  Speaker 1: will face each other in the Democratic primaries. The Director
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  Speaker 1: of Homeland Security and Donald Trump's plastic face of fascism,
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  Speaker 1: Christy Nome, visited Eagle Lake and the Border area. She
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  Speaker 1: congratulated everyone there, as she says, it was a success
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  Speaker 1: closing down a legal immigration in a spot where illegal
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  Speaker 1: immigration doesn't occur. It has become obvious that Eagle Lake
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  Speaker 1: has now become a stage for the military and border
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  Speaker 1: patrol to parade around with lots of concertina wire and
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  Speaker 1: show to stop immigration which is not really there. Lethal
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  Speaker 1: booy's in the river, and recent horses diverted from real
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  Speaker 1: security threats to enable Trump's cruelty and corruption at the border.
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  Speaker 1: We talked to Americilla Garcia Grule with the Fronterra Foundation
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  Speaker 1: in Eagle Pass, Texas.
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  Speaker 14: So this is a MEDICAYPCA Graywell at the Past, Texas
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  Speaker 14: and I'm with the Front Set of Federation. I think
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  Speaker 14: the last time we spoke. I don't know who I
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  Speaker 14: was with last time, but the Front Set of Federation
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  Speaker 14: kind of grew out of the Border Vigil. The Border
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  Speaker 14: Vigil was a shared community initiative between a number of
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  Speaker 14: churches here in town, as well as organizations like the
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  Speaker 14: Eagle Passport of Coalition, Mission, Border Hope and so on.
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  Speaker 14: And the focus for the Border of Visual is entirely
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  Speaker 14: on death. But what happened was there were so many
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  Speaker 14: other issues more than just you know, migrants who were
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  Speaker 14: drowning or drying of exposure in Maverick County. And also
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  Speaker 14: it was much more than just Maverick County. It was
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  Speaker 14: also pia the thing that it was going down to
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  Speaker 14: Webb County, going up to Roberty, going all the way
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  Speaker 14: to San Diego, going away to the Brownsville And with
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  Speaker 14: that I get kind of awareness that it was not
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  Speaker 14: like a localized issue. In early twenty twenty five, we
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  Speaker 14: founded the Front Detta Federation. We've got folks on the
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  Speaker 14: board of directors from all along the border and my
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  Speaker 14: co director is in Mexico City. And yeah, so anyway,
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  Speaker 14: I come to you today from the Front Data Federation,
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  Speaker 14: which is ancient a Nego Pass but has roots throughout
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  Speaker 14: the border and throughout the United States.
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  Speaker 8: Really, yeah, I would My first question would be how
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  Speaker 8: is it gone with the Troupe administration's heavy crackdown, because
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  Speaker 8: we know he uses the border as a success and
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  Speaker 8: he uses it as a as a scapegoat for a
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  Speaker 8: lot of things also, but he uses it as the
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  Speaker 8: border is secure, etc. How's it gone for what have
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  Speaker 8: you seen? Because that's when we talked the Governor of
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  Speaker 8: Texas still had troops down there.
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  Speaker 14: Well, the Governor of Texas still has troops down here.
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  Speaker 14: In February of twenty twenty four, O. O. Appot came
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  Speaker 14: to Eagle Pass and he announced that he was building
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  Speaker 14: forward operating based Camp Eagle, And in May of twenty
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  Speaker 14: twenty four he announced that it was open for business.
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  Speaker 14: And I was out there today with a candidate running
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  Speaker 14: for election who had no idea about the breadth and
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  Speaker 14: the scope and the cost of the Texas Military Department's
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  Speaker 14: Camp Eagle, and I went out there and showed them.
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  Speaker 14: It's all trailers that came in on eighteen wheelers, and
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  Speaker 14: as quickly as they set it up, they can dismantle it.
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  Speaker 14: And it is not owned by the State of Texas.
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  Speaker 14: It's owned by a group called Team Housing Solutions, And
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  Speaker 14: as soon as Texas stops paying rent on it, they're
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  Speaker 14: going to pack up and go away. So the fourteen
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  Speaker 14: million dollars a month that the State of Texas is
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  Speaker 14: paying is basically going from public pockets into private pockets,
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  Speaker 14: and there is nothing to show for it once all
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  Speaker 14: this is over. I believe there are about a thousand
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  Speaker 14: soldiers there. I didn't find out how many soldiers were here,
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  Speaker 14: but we still have all of them here and today
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  Speaker 14: is fried. Yesterday we had Christine Nome here and these
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  Speaker 14: Christie Eagle Pass we had a ton of and we
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  Speaker 14: had people from the Laredo sector as well who were
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  Speaker 14: here in Eagle Pass and at Customs and Border Patrol
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  Speaker 14: their airboats out and zooming down. There was a real
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  Speaker 14: show of force. And what I thought was brilliant. Well
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  Speaker 14: how the Border Patrol did not inform the State of
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  Speaker 14: Texas that Christie Nome was coming. It was when they
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  Speaker 14: saw the extra traffic on the road. So it's all
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  Speaker 14: the theater and the only thing that happens. When I
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  Speaker 14: get less for our schools, for our hospitals, instructure, you know,
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  Speaker 14: there's less for us and more.
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  Speaker 8: What's gonna happen with the UH. I know they put
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  Speaker 8: a lot of money in building all these different buildings
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  Speaker 8: that house the soldiers and the National Guards troops that
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  Speaker 8: were down there, And you say it's going to go
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  Speaker 8: to private hands. What are the private hands going to do?
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  Speaker 14: So the group was called Team Housing Solutions, and they
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  Speaker 14: provided how for military who are stationed abroad. They also
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  Speaker 14: provide housing band camps for things like oil fields and
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  Speaker 14: things of that. Sort the housing comes in on flatbed trailers,
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  Speaker 14: and when the State of Texas is done, it'll all
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  Speaker 14: head out again on flatbed trailers to be used in
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  Speaker 14: other places.
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  Speaker 8: So that that land is on, will it be will
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  Speaker 8: it come back to the community?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 14: That's a really good question, and that's actually something else
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  Speaker 14: that's definitely worth looking into. The land it's on was
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  Speaker 14: annexed by the City of Eagle Pass as far as
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  Speaker 14: something called the Empire Investment District, and they used some
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  Speaker 14: Texas laws to revitalize blighted communities. The thing is that
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  Speaker 14: was farmland that there had never been any industrial or
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  Speaker 14: residential anything on the land, and it wasn't even part
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  Speaker 14: of the City of Eagle Pass. The State of Texas
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  Speaker 14: representative for House District seventy four, man named Eddie Morales,
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  Speaker 14: at the time, was serving as the state representative to
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  Speaker 14: the Texas State Legislature. He was serving as the city
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  Speaker 14: attorney for the City of Eagle Pass, and he also
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  Speaker 14: served as the private attorney for the property owner that
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  Speaker 14: had that area converted into the Empire Industrial District.
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  Speaker 8: So it was a lot of money spent down there
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  Speaker 8: and has it is it less in the amount of
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  Speaker 8: people that are trying across the border.
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  Speaker 5: Because that's the that's the that's the success story.
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  Speaker 8: That the that the Trump administration is putting out is
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  Speaker 8: that it's it's a success story. Right.
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  Speaker 14: So they're looking at the city of Eagle Pass, they're
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  Speaker 14: looking at the United States side of the border, and
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  Speaker 14: they're saying, no people are coming in, therefore we are successful.
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  Speaker 14: And what they're doing is they're mixing up correlation and causation.
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  Speaker 14: So what they're not doing is looking in Mexico. If
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  Speaker 14: you look in Piatos Negatives, we went from having every
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  Speaker 14: shelter full and having folks. You know, in the city
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  Speaker 14: of Nagas, in Laredo, you have no rebela that there
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  Speaker 14: was a sister city. You have quadas Is the sister city,
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  Speaker 14: the El Paso. Those cities used to be full of
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  Speaker 14: people who were waiting for their chance, waiting to get
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  Speaker 14: enough money, all kinds of things to cross into the
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  Speaker 14: United States. And as you go down into the interior
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  Speaker 14: of Mexico. In early twenty twenty five, I visited a
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  Speaker 14: camp in Mexico City and there were folks there who
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  Speaker 14: were using the International Office for Migration and the UN's
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  Speaker 14: WI FI so there were un provided Wi Fi and
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  Speaker 14: people were using the CBP one app and they were
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  Speaker 14: waiting for their date to come up. Some of them
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  Speaker 14: were waiting seven months, eight months in order to get
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  Speaker 14: an appointment to ask for asylum. After that went away,
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  Speaker 14: and after conditions of the United States turned deadly, people said, okay,
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  Speaker 14: we need to go someplace else. So if you're measuring
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  Speaker 14: what's happening in Eagle Path and along the border, nobody's here.
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  Speaker 14: But if you take a look at South and Central America,
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  Speaker 14: people are not coming north at all because we're no
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  Speaker 14: longer a land of opportunity. And in fact, it's dangerous
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  Speaker 14: for folks to be here. But you know what, it's
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  Speaker 14: also dangerous for US citizens. It's dangerous for people who
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  Speaker 14: are legal residents. You know, we had two US citizens killed,
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  Speaker 14: you know, justince this year began.
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  Speaker 8: And that's that's something that's I even talked about. We
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  Speaker 8: talked about have you seen any legal passes is small
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  Speaker 8: comparsitive major cities, but have you seen the enforcements like
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  Speaker 8: ice and that type of thing going on there?
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  Speaker 14: You know, I met with the consul of Mexico and
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  Speaker 14: I asked that same question, and there was one I
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  Speaker 14: guess you'd say raid that happened in Legal Pass in
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  Speaker 14: mid twenty twenty five, and that was the only thing
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  Speaker 14: that happened. But across the state of Texas, what we're seeing,
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  Speaker 14: and you're pricing this in Houston as well, is that
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  Speaker 14: most deportations in Texas are triggered during traffic stops, and
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  Speaker 14: traffic stops are the most dangerous places. If you're a
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  Speaker 14: non citizen in the United States. And I say non citizen,
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  Speaker 14: I'm not saying non resident or you're somebody who's crossed
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  Speaker 14: you regularly, because we're seeing time and time again that
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  Speaker 14: people who have all their paperwork in order, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 14: They're now looking at the color of your skin. They're
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  Speaker 14: listening to your accent and saying, I pick on you.
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  Speaker 14: And even if you're ultimately successful and a lawyer is
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  Speaker 14: able to help you get free, it's still just a
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  Speaker 14: huge disruption and it's very expensive for families that are
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  Speaker 14: already having a hard time.
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  Speaker 8: So they're so basically they're originally profiling people absolutely, and
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  Speaker 8: it's something that's it's supposedly illegal.
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  Speaker 5: By the way.
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  Speaker 14: Unfortunately, the Robert Supreme Court said that you can be
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  Speaker 14: stopped for driving well brown.
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  Speaker 13: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 14: And that's actually something that I think we should all
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  Speaker 14: be afraid of, because whatever we allow to be done
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  Speaker 14: to others sooner or later, is going to be done
• 18:50
  Speaker 14: to us.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 18:52
  Speaker 14: For example, one of the things that uh, I guess,
• 18:56
  Speaker 14: Trumper is really because it's interesting. I talk to a
• 18:59
  Speaker 14: gentleman who used to work for ICE. He was there
• 19:01
  Speaker 14: where it was started, and he said that the people
• 19:03
  Speaker 14: who now wear that uniform their zero similarity to the
• 19:08
  Speaker 14: people who are there when it started. They don't have
• 19:10
  Speaker 14: the training, they don't have the education, and he thinks
• 19:13
  Speaker 14: that they're day sixers who are just wearing a different uniform.
• 19:15
  Speaker 14: But I digress. They're complaining because restaurants in Minneapolis are
• 19:20
  Speaker 14: refusing to serve them. Just a few years ago, we
• 19:24
  Speaker 14: heard about how, you know, conservatives were saying, you know,
• 19:27
  Speaker 14: I don't have to bake a cake for this couple
• 19:29
  Speaker 14: getting married. I don't want to provide these medical services
• 19:32
  Speaker 14: because I don't believe in it. And you know, a
• 19:35
  Speaker 14: number of lawsuits were fought and it said, you know,
• 19:38
  Speaker 14: if your conscience says you can't do it, then you
• 19:40
  Speaker 14: can legally not do it. And now what we're seeing
• 19:43
  Speaker 14: is folks are complaining because you know, people like me
• 19:47
  Speaker 14: are going, I don't want to be around you. I
• 19:49
  Speaker 14: don't want to associate with you. I definitely don't want
• 19:51
  Speaker 14: to provide, you know, business to you. And you know,
• 19:55
  Speaker 14: because we did not enforce equal access for everybody. Now
• 19:59
  Speaker 14: the folks that for the most are the ones who
• 20:01
  Speaker 14: are experiencing the rejection. Unfortunately, we have whistles they have done.
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: Yes, all right, can you give me the information on
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: how people can get in touch with an organization and
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: how can people get involved? Yes?
• 20:16
  Speaker 14: So we're on Facebook, like everybody is, from Data Federation,
• 20:20
  Speaker 14: from data As in Spanish, the Frontier Federation Association group
• 20:24
  Speaker 14: from Data Federation and also on Instagram. Do a search
• 20:27
  Speaker 14: for front deta Federation and the border Vigil which I
• 20:29
  Speaker 14: spoke of first is also on Facebook as Bordervigil fb
• 20:33
  Speaker 14: dot com slash border Vigil all right, on our website
• 20:38
  Speaker 14: www dot from Data Federation dot org.
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: Right, I'm just curious if Christy Nolmes came down and
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: anybody kind of it, was it just to pick the
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: show or anybody ask for any type of tough questions
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: on anything.
• 20:54
  Speaker 14: So I saw the mayor yesterday. There was a meetic
• 20:57
  Speaker 14: candidate's event, and he showed up, even though he did
• 21:00
  Speaker 14: have to run for another few years. And I spoke
• 21:03
  Speaker 14: to him about that and he said he knew nothing
• 21:05
  Speaker 14: about it until the day of her visit. Not only
• 21:08
  Speaker 14: did they not like even issue of courtesy, invitation or anything,
• 21:12
  Speaker 14: they completely bypassed everything having to do with the city.
• 21:15
  Speaker 14: It was completely handled by federal authorities, Department of Homeland Security,
• 21:19
  Speaker 14: and they did go to the city park, which is
• 21:21
  Speaker 14: Shelby Park, but otherwise they completely handled it within themselves.
• 21:26
  Speaker 14: They did not invite any of the local elected officials,
• 21:28
  Speaker 14: any the local authorities. So you know, meanwhile we're picking
• 21:32
  Speaker 14: up the bill for extra security, extra police officers on
• 21:35
  Speaker 14: the street, things like that, But our officials and our
• 21:39
  Speaker 14: community members had no chance whatsoever to interact with, you know,
• 21:42
  Speaker 14: the people who are representing us.
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: And did they come in. Did people from outside the
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: area come in.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: For that.
• 21:51
  Speaker 14: The protesters and supporters not that I'm aware of. My
• 21:55
  Speaker 14: understanding is that there were customs and Border patrol officers
• 21:58
  Speaker 14: that came in from other areas for the day of
• 22:00
  Speaker 14: the event. That they had more boats on the river
• 22:03
  Speaker 14: than what we have in the Eagle Pass sector.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 22:07
  Speaker 14: Yeah, but you know, she's not the first one. Governor Abbott.
• 22:10
  Speaker 14: You know, the governor of the state of Texas brought
• 22:13
  Speaker 14: a number of state representatives down to Eagle Pass last year,
• 22:17
  Speaker 14: and he did not invite the Texas state representative who's
• 22:20
  Speaker 14: from Eagle Pass. So over and over again, they talk
• 22:23
  Speaker 14: about rule of law and then they break the laws.
• 22:26
  Speaker 14: They talk about representing us and our interests, and then
• 22:29
  Speaker 14: they exclude the very people that they're saying that they're
• 22:31
  Speaker 14: you know, supporting, and so it's just really frustrating. And
• 22:35
  Speaker 14: what I'm finding day in day out is that every
• 22:38
  Speaker 14: accusation that conservative leaders are making is actually a concession.
• 22:43
  Speaker 14: And you know, yah basta, we have enough of that
• 22:46
  Speaker 14: the planets to vote them all out. And we're seeing
• 22:48
  Speaker 14: that happen across the United States that Republicans are losing
• 22:52
  Speaker 14: by landslides because not only are their policies illegal, they
• 22:55
  Speaker 14: are unpopular.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: That was Amerkilla Garcia Gruel with the Front Tara Foundation.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Their organization can be contacted at Fronterra Federation. That's fr
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: n t e R, a federation put together dot org.
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: Hi.
• 23:14
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• 23:18
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• 24:43
  Speaker 1: At the order of the convicted felon and head of
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the GOP Donnie Trump, the GOP Texas Governor Greg Abbott
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: is proceeding with his redistricting maps. One of those targets
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: of redistricting was District nine now has been folded into
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Houston District eighteen. District nine has now been relocated up
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: near Crosby, Texas, which is a Republican leaning district, but
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: with work could probably flip blue as well. We talked
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: to doctor Michael O. Adams, a professor of political science,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: a political consultant, and the founding director of the Barbara
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Jordan Policy Research and Survey Center, the executive Master of
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Public Administration Program and the Institute for Voter and Civic
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Engagement at Texas Southern University about his new study on redistricting.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, what I would like to do in this presentation
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: talk about redistricting. We will also look at the twenty
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: twenty sixth primary and how that changed and looking at
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: the thirty eight congressional districts in the state of Texas.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: If you go back and look at the mid decade
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: redistricting that occurred over the summer some of the districts
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: were severely I don't want to say impacted or changed,
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: and some of the others out of the thirty eighth,
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: we did not see that much change. And all of
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: that was based upon the two theories that were put
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: out there, and those theories were eventually challenged in court
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: in Texas and the past of Texas, and we see
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: a ruling coming out of their rules in favor of
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: the old mat and then in a little bit over
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: a month, the US Supreme Court rule that the State
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: of Texas were correct and they could go move ahead
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: with the mid decade redistricting match. So in a broad
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: kind of way, that's what we have to discuss or
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: focus on if we're going to talk about where we
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: are with redistricting and how we moved and how we
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: look at the twenty twenty six primarias.
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: Some people talk about what happened in North Texas where
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: Republicans lost Seas and Democrats are now saying that that's
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: a sign that they maybe changed in Texas.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: Now not lost sense in terms of rediscipting. I think
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: you're looking at a special election that occurred in Tarrn County,
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: specifically Senate District seven. What happened there was that Trump
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: had won I think the county about fourteen percentage points
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: or whatever, and the Democrat in that special election one
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: by thirteen percentage points. And so you're talking about a
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: movement of about twenty one percent in terms of voting
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: percentage in terms of favoring the Democrats. Then what had
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: occurred when Trump ran in that same area in twenty
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: twenty four? And so the question becomes is that a
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: vailed weather? What does it portend for the mid term elections?
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: And you can look at several ways. If they think
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: the Democrats, they will use that to tout that say,
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: well trumpets underwater if he doesn't have the magic or
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: the mago touch anymore. But that was a special election,
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: and I would caution people, just like the eighteen congressional districts,
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: special elections and even primary elections are generally low turned
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: out election. Can they be bail weathers? Yes, because in
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: the cycle you have to go back a couple of
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: months ago or last month where we had goubernilitorial races
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: in both Virginia and New Jersey and the Democrats won there.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: You know, it's just like you know trying to look
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: at the groundhof Shadow all right, in that sense, the
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: Democrats they may be in a good position to win
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: at least one chamber of the United States Congress that
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: been the House of Representative Now was that where your
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: question was going? Right?
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah, because the you know, all these new districts they
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: came up with is now getting now getting the green light,
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: especially when I'm looking at California. They gave a green
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: light to the.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: Redistrist We can talk about that. Now that's a little headed.
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: Let's get let's stay and I want to be clear
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: and I want your audience to be clear. The redistrict
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: and the mid district redistricting that occurred only affected the
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: thirty eight congrectal district. Had nothing to do with the
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: Texas the one hundred and fifty state House districts or
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: the thirty one Texas Senatorial districts. No districts didn't change.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: So that's what we had to focus on. And what
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: I'm telling you in terms of from a party standpoint,
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: looking at the upcoming March third primary, where early voting
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: will start on the seventeen, what the Democrats are saying
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: now that there may be some issues out there that
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: are impacting the Republican We can talk about immigration. I
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: don't know if that's thecasion not, all right, and what
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: they are trying to say, Look at what happened in
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: Term County. You have this Republican to win the state
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: attendant a special election. Now that the same two people
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: in that election they will square off again in November.
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: That was very similar to the eighteenth Congressional district. So
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: I just want to be clear there not state redistricin
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: but the only the thirty eighth congressional district. And I
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: can walk you through each of those when we get
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: to that point. I had the data in front of
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: me because we've just completed a companiensive study, and what
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: I looked at in particular, were the ten congressional district
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: in the state of in the Houston Harris County area,
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: all right, and out of those ten, we can look
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: at about three or four that would be extremely competitive
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: in the primary elections, all right, extremely competitives. And something
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: else your audience need to know. It's important to vote
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: in the primary election because in some of these districts,
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: like the eighteenth Congressional district, it's a safe Democratic district.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: What do. I mean by state, you can put how
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: they do me in that as a candidate, he put
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: the Democrat lab on. He's gonna get elected to Congress
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: if he makes it out of the primary election. You
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: can say the same thing. Many of the Republican districts
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: in the Harrison County, their Republican district are their competitive. Yeah,
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: we have to name people. We can walk through those.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: You have Caane Briscoe in the ninth district, you have
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: a Miller who made a failed run for a county judge.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: That's gonna be an interesting race to watch. Is it
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: guaranteed to elect a Republican, Well, that district can be
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: a little iffy. It's just like the twenty ninth district,
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: which I think is a state Democratic district. But the
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: way the district was carved up, it took a large
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: shaft of the east end and it put it in
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: the ninth district. They and back to the twenty ninth district.
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: They took large active voting segments of the black population
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: on the north side, and Jarvis Johnson indeed has a
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: good chance of winning that election because it's evinly split
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: in terms of the Blacks, in terms of the percentage.
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: I have that for you. I can give you that data.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: All right, Black people tend to vote and higher numbers
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: than Hispanics. And you know the history of the ninth
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: of the district in and of itself, the twenty ninth district.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: That district was created almost twenty years ago as a
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: Hispanic opportunity district. What do we mean by an opportunity district. Well,
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: you can carve the numbers up in such a way
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: if you get a majority of close to the majority
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: of a voting population of a particular group. And we
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: like to say that sixty percentage points is a safe district. Well,
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: they created it for a Hispanic and you may remember,
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: or your audience may recall, Jean Green won that district
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: for almost ten terms, right and then finally to the
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: city of guard seated. It was able to become the
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: first Hispanic elected from that district. Now may be a
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: situation if Jobs is able to win, it may not
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: be a Hispanic congress person from the Harristown area. So
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: I'll land there and we can collect and we can
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: move on.
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: My thoughts on what you just said was black from
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: out high numbers and something that our Green kind of
• 32:59
  Speaker 8: stuck would mean counsy Igree said that, yeah, uh minefie
• 33:06
  Speaker 8: might have the young votes might come out, but they
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: don't usually come out to vote.
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: So you know, when you say we have a.
• 33:13
  Speaker 8: Black I have a black percent percentage of Black people
• 33:17
  Speaker 8: that come out and vote. That's usually the older Black
• 33:21
  Speaker 8: residents that come out to vote. It's not the younger voters.
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: And kind of the students are kind of iffy. They
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: might come out, they might not, all depending on on
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: on on who's running in all depending on if it's
• 33:34
  Speaker 8: a presidential election or not.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: And that that's the factors that.
• 33:37
  Speaker 8: Come into play.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: I don't know if you've tracted that in there also.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: Now I speak with that, but first of all, I
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: could consider myself. I went to school for a long
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: time about how to do political research and get a degree.
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: And it doesn't make me smart. But I have to
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: look at things scientifically that can depend It can depend
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: on the type of election, all right, it can I
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: tell them a special election, find their elections have low
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: voting turnout? Maybe right, Older black women tend to vote
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: in higher numbers if you look at the blacket like
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: in many places across the United States. All right, and
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: the reason for that, I would say they are part
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: of the attentive public. Historically, they went to a civil
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: rights movement where basically these people basically they've witnessed the
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: civil rights movement, you know, up and with the assassination
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: of Martin ter King and others, and they understood the
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: importance of casting about it based on people losing their
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: lives and dying and where the vote was taken away
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: and they had to struggle to get the nineteen sixty
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: five Voting Rights Act, which looks like that. The principles
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: of the nineteen sixty five Voting Rights Act, you know,
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: the sex sex and five has been taken out. Doctor
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: was now Section two, which was the only safeguard where
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: you can argue that you can say the maps or discriminatory,
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: and Section two prohibits using race based maps a lot.
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: But the Republicans are smart. They thought of like using
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: in the reserve, in the reserve. Because we have to
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: remember when they were arguing in l Passo was about
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: poor Listen district and Abbot. You know he won't he
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: won't say today that top Pinkle the phone the college
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: they fined me five seats. He was just saying that
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: it was response to a twenty twenty four case called
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: Petaway and that started in Galveston, cant right, And that
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: case went to the Fifth Circuit of Appeal, which is
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: the most conservative of Pellic court in the federal system
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: that they've involved. And they will say that you can't
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: have poor listen district. You can't pack black and brown
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: people together in a district to create a majority of
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: a particular voting population, whether they're Democrats or whether they
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: are Hispanic and black people. So they use that and
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: if you look at the hearings, if you followed the
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: hearings and the decade redistricting that the state that's the
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: were holding, they hold it in Houston. They were looking
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: at total lusistics. They were saying, hey, the Tediweight decision
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: now said that you can't have these cool listenistic So
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: we're here living at these districts to make sure that
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: we don't have these people packed into this district in
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: coolist district. And so that was the basis of about
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: the reportion the reapportion that occurred over the summer. Now
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: I mentioned the federalak case. The other element we have
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: to look at. Donald Trump made the requests, but had
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: five Republican seats, and you mentioned a minute ago that
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: California gaven Newsom. Then they said, well, okay, y'all gonna
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: play this game. We can do it. We're going to
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: go back and we go out mat so that we
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: would have five democratic opportunity districts, and the Supreme Court, yes,
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: you on Monday or tuesdays, they upheld California's rights to proceed,
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: so they both have their new five seats. So that's
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: sort of like an offset. Now, whether or not this
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: mid decades will benefit Donald Trump or to maintain control
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: of the House of Represented, that remains to be seen.
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: But I will have an impact. We need to come back.
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: We're going to focus on Texas because what they did
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: in these districts, it will it will. I don't want
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: to say it, but I'm non partisan in terms of
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: my It's going to impact the makeup of the Congress.
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: And some people who were in Congress may not be
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: in Congress. And you had a lot of dogged in
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: some of the other shows, not the run because they
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: were placed in districts with other Democrats. All Right, you
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: had a situation up in uh in Dallas. Yet Julie
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: Johnson there. Now she's finding against Colin already, all right.
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: And then they had in Karen County, they took the
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: portion of Martin Visas District and put it over and
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: I think in thirty which is Jason Crocket Districts and uh,
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: now that district is going to be represented probably about
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: by Princeship West pastor I can't think of it. Now,
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: what's the guy's name, the pastor President, Princeship West. Yeah, yeah,
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: he's gonna win that win that race. Uh, that's a
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: that's the corective districts Crocket Poles. All right, all of
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: we've seen we've seen some shakeout already. So Mark Veeve
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: won't be in the Congress. In the county, that county
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: became more Republicans. And what they did they took the
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: black portions of the county and moved it into District thirty.
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: It was rasp me the ninety his name is I
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: think West, uh the celest it. So after calls a
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: special session, we get the core them breaks the Democrats.
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: They finally they came back and we've seen them playbook before,
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: all right. So half they call all the second special sessions.
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: He gets the match to it and then we have
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: a three judge panel out of el pass Obey's been
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: the decision said that, hey, this this is in violation
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: of Section two of the Voting Rights Act and you
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: can't do it. And the Democrats are very legs. They
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: thought they had toket the Republicans and have it and
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: then reverses that decision and saying that the mass of
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: the created during the mid deck redistrictant session, those matters
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: are going to be the ones that we're going to
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: use for the mark primaries and Texas. So that's where
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: we are. Now. There's another case your audience may want
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: to look at. It's called Louiana versus Callous and I
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: think this case in Louiana will determine whether or not
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: the Supreme Court will follow this perspect two of the
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: nineteen sixty found voter reactions.
• 39:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm gonna have to wrap it up too. But
• 39:25
  Speaker 8: how can people find out about the study that you
• 39:28
  Speaker 8: just you came out with.
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: Okay, you can go to the Barbara Jordan Research Center
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: dot org. You can find all of the research there,
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: or you can through you. They can if they checked
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: me with an email or whatever it is, I'll take
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: it through you I'll send them the report.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: That was doctor Michael Oadams. He's a professor of political science,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: a political consultant, and the founding director of the Barbara
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Jordan Policy Research and Survey Center, the executive Master of
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Public Administration Programs and the Institute for Voter and Civic
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Engagement at Texas Southern University. The Houston Dynamo are relying
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: on new blood to bring new energy to the team.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: The Houston Dynamo just signed Polish international attacker Mat Two's Bogus.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: He talked about what becoming a member of the club brings.
• 40:17
  Speaker 16: You know, I just arrived like one week ago, so
• 40:19
  Speaker 16: it's hard to say, but I feel pretty good. You know,
• 40:21
  Speaker 16: the team and the group is very special. They helped
• 40:23
  Speaker 16: me from the first day, so I feel great at
• 40:25
  Speaker 16: the moment.
• 40:26
  Speaker 15: What's the biggest challenge when you come to a new team,
• 40:29
  Speaker 15: building the chemistry.
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: And the pond.
• 40:31
  Speaker 16: I think it's it's just about the time. You know,
• 40:32
  Speaker 16: It's like outside the field, we already has very good relationship.
• 40:36
  Speaker 16: It's just more than now about understanding understand each other
• 40:39
  Speaker 16: in the field. But we have still like two weeks
• 40:41
  Speaker 16: for the preseason, so I think we should be good
• 40:43
  Speaker 16: for the first for this game.
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: From the short time that you had now with the guys,
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: what have you seen from the skill set that you
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: have surrounding you and what.
• 40:51
  Speaker 13: Do you like about it?
• 40:53
  Speaker 16: No, I play already a couple of times as system.
• 40:55
  Speaker 16: I think the team is pretty the same. You know,
• 40:57
  Speaker 16: we have we have very good quality with the ball
• 40:59
  Speaker 16: and with the possession, just missing some deep run. I
• 41:01
  Speaker 16: think I can add that. So I I feel I
• 41:04
  Speaker 16: feel very excited, you know, for the season, and I
• 41:06
  Speaker 16: think we can do very very good job.
• 41:08
  Speaker 13: So what happened? Uh with CRUs What do you think
• 41:10
  Speaker 13: that that last year maybe your best year?
• 41:12
  Speaker 16: What happened? I don't know the answer, you know, you
• 41:14
  Speaker 16: have to maybe ask some people inside because I don't understand.
• 41:17
  Speaker 16: I don't really want to talk about that because I
• 41:19
  Speaker 16: have still lots of questions, but I don't have answer enough,
• 41:21
  Speaker 16: so it's hard to say.
• 41:23
  Speaker 11: How do you feel to be back in.
• 41:24
  Speaker 16: LS Yeah, I feel great. You know, I have my
• 41:25
  Speaker 16: best time in my career in the United States in hell,
• 41:28
  Speaker 16: so I feel Uh, how I say, very excited. You know,
• 41:30
  Speaker 16: my family love the United States. We feel here very good.
• 41:33
  Speaker 16: So I just can't wait.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: You're coming to an organization that wants to get back
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: on top or been in the past.
• 41:38
  Speaker 16: How important is that for you to be a a
• 41:40
  Speaker 16: a board of organization that sets that far high, you know,
• 41:44
  Speaker 16: Like I think we have clear going on for this season,
• 41:46
  Speaker 16: so we'll just go step by step. But the goal
• 41:50
  Speaker 16: is obvious. We want to be in the playoffs and
• 41:51
  Speaker 16: then we're gonna think. You know, so I want. I
• 41:54
  Speaker 16: came here, you know, to compete, to to to give
• 41:56
  Speaker 16: my best, and I believe in this group we can
• 41:58
  Speaker 16: we can reach our goal in season.
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: You know what made this.
• 42:01
  Speaker 13: Challenge different for you? Compaign when you first came to
• 42:04
  Speaker 13: the AMLAS.
• 42:05
  Speaker 16: What is that different?
• 42:06
  Speaker 13: Yes, made different from what your fast camp to the Amalus.
• 42:10
  Speaker 16: I don't think it's I don't think it's different. I
• 42:11
  Speaker 16: would say it's even easier, you know, because when I
• 42:13
  Speaker 16: came here this time, I didn't know what I can expect. Now,
• 42:16
  Speaker 16: if I already know the league I was playing here
• 42:18
  Speaker 16: at TOWRS, I know the organization, so I would say
• 42:21
  Speaker 16: it's even easier for him, you know, to came here
• 42:22
  Speaker 16: and adapt quicker with the signing.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Dynamo President of Soccer pat Onstad thinks this is an
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: important piece to the puzzle.
• 42:30
  Speaker 15: About a week ago, so it feels like but it's
• 42:32
  Speaker 15: been an exciting camp so far. We're down to Tampa
• 42:35
  Speaker 15: last week and started getting some games going. Played a
• 42:38
  Speaker 15: couple of USL teams and a couple of them most
• 42:39
  Speaker 15: teams so far, and we're excited. We have a Tornado
• 42:43
  Speaker 15: de Dejas that we're excited about that. We have a
• 42:45
  Speaker 15: tournament that we're having here. We play Saturday against Atlanta
• 42:49
  Speaker 15: and then the fourteenth we play against New York, both
• 42:52
  Speaker 15: at Chill Energy Stadium. The Atlanta games at seven on
• 42:55
  Speaker 15: the fourteenth, I think with the line was spread some
• 42:57
  Speaker 15: love fourteenth righton noon kickoff for that one, so you
• 43:01
  Speaker 15: can bring your your sweethearts a little bit early you
• 43:03
  Speaker 15: can watch that game. And then we're playing midweek in
• 43:04
  Speaker 15: dall So we're excited to see. It's a it's a
• 43:07
  Speaker 15: good group and we're excited to see what this group
• 43:09
  Speaker 15: who takes this season. Archer, Yeah, Archer unfortunately suffered an
• 43:14
  Speaker 15: injury yesterday in our game against San Antonio. Right now,
• 43:19
  Speaker 15: we're still evaluating whether it's like weeks or maybe months.
• 43:22
  Speaker 15: But I can't say it's not an a c L,
• 43:25
  Speaker 15: but it is in the injury so he'll be out
• 43:26
  Speaker 15: for a little bit of time.
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: Maddie out here, just get a good look at him.
• 43:31
  Speaker 15: What is he for those that don't know his backstory
• 43:33
  Speaker 15: and what does he bring? Yeah, he's a Polish international,
• 43:36
  Speaker 15: but he's a vertical player, like a guy that likes
• 43:38
  Speaker 15: to go into the opposing box. He can he's got
• 43:41
  Speaker 15: a good shot from outside the box, can play a
• 43:42
  Speaker 15: final pass. Uh. We call him a vertical ten. He's
• 43:46
  Speaker 15: not the playmaker that you'd see maybe from Argentina like that,
• 43:48
  Speaker 15: that messy guy that plays this game. But he's the
• 43:51
  Speaker 15: typic guy that arrived in the box. Last season he
• 43:53
  Speaker 15: had in our league scored twenty goals and I think
• 43:54
  Speaker 15: it's pretty good education what we expect him.
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: Sorry on that note, I mean him being a ten.
• 44:01
  Speaker 15: I know you call him a vertical team.
• 44:02
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 44:02
  Speaker 8: Is his role more of an attacker score goals or
• 44:05
  Speaker 8: to a distributed back.
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: Now, he'll do both.
• 44:07
  Speaker 15: He'll do both for us, but we expect him to
• 44:08
  Speaker 15: get in the box, especially depending on what sy he
• 44:11
  Speaker 15: plays especial twenty plays on the left, he's assuming the
• 44:13
  Speaker 15: box more from Jack service on from the right. When
• 44:16
  Speaker 15: he's on the right, he'll be one that gets put
• 44:17
  Speaker 15: in behind from Griffin or from Garamet coming insider Jack
• 44:20
  Speaker 15: from behind. So it'll be interesting to see how it adapts,
• 44:23
  Speaker 15: and I think that's what we're trying to figure out
• 44:25
  Speaker 15: here with Ben. That's his job, but he's an attacking player,
• 44:28
  Speaker 15: which is a really nice piece.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: The Dynamo kick off their twenty twenty six regular season
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: on Saturday, February twenty first, hosting Chicago Fire FC at
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Shell Energy Stadium. A concert next week, kicking off Black
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: History Month, celebrates the Reverend Absalom Jones, the first African
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: American priest in the Episcopal Church. The Community Music Center
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: of Houston's Scott Joplin Chamber Orchestra honors him playing at
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: the ordination of Reverend Marcia Sadbury to the priestthood. On
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: February eleventh, we talked a longtime friend of the show,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: doctor Ann Lundy, music director at the Community Music Center
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: of Houston, to tell us more.
• 45:07
  Speaker 13: And Lundy a N N E l U N d Y.
• 45:11
  Speaker 13: I'm the music director for the Community Music Center of
• 45:16
  Speaker 13: Houston and under that umbrella are some of our performing groups,
• 45:23
  Speaker 13: one of whom that we may be talking more about
• 45:26
  Speaker 13: that is the orchestra. It's called the Scott Joplin Chamber Orchestra,
• 45:31
  Speaker 13: and it's an African American community orchestra here in Houston.
• 45:35
  Speaker 13: I've been conducting the orchestra I organized, and I think
• 45:39
  Speaker 13: in nineteen eighty three. Let can check my dates exactly.
• 45:44
  Speaker 13: I know it's mid eighties, post mid eighties, and so
• 45:48
  Speaker 13: we have performed a number of interesting pieces. I have
• 45:55
  Speaker 13: both particular well, I have a particular I'm an African
• 45:59
  Speaker 13: American woman, and I grew up in the world of
• 46:01
  Speaker 13: orchestra playing the violin most of the time and then
• 46:04
  Speaker 13: its cousin called a viola, and most of the time,
• 46:07
  Speaker 13: especially growing up here in Houston, I was the one
• 46:10
  Speaker 13: black kid in the orchestra, and I was always, you know,
• 46:14
  Speaker 13: you kind of may do you know how it is
• 46:16
  Speaker 13: when you're the one, you know, the one person. But
• 46:18
  Speaker 13: I was always, I don't know, kind of curious about
• 46:24
  Speaker 13: getting more black folks participating in orchestra. And I just
• 46:26
  Speaker 13: did not the audience and clapping. So I wanted to
• 46:30
  Speaker 13: see what could be done in terms of getting more
• 46:34
  Speaker 13: starting with black kids, of course, and getting them to
• 46:38
  Speaker 13: go in the orchestra and then stay in the orchestra.
• 46:40
  Speaker 13: And both of those are challenging because you know, our
• 46:43
  Speaker 13: culture doesn't really support orchestra the way it does other
• 46:47
  Speaker 13: kinds of music.
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: But I love all.
• 46:48
  Speaker 13: I love all kinds of music. My my husband, he's
• 46:52
  Speaker 13: deceased now, but he was a jazz bassist and I
• 46:54
  Speaker 13: loved him, and I love jazz and got people that do.
• 46:58
  Speaker 13: I grew up in the Black Shirt, so the old
• 47:00
  Speaker 13: spirituals and even the recent gospel music, I love that too,
• 47:04
  Speaker 13: and I love I'm going to show my age when
• 47:06
  Speaker 13: say I grew up doing the Motown sound, so I
• 47:09
  Speaker 13: love those sounds as well as the Philadelphia soul. I
• 47:12
  Speaker 13: love that Philadelphia which streams sounds. I grew up, you know,
• 47:16
  Speaker 13: loving a lot of different kinds of music.
• 47:19
  Speaker 8: But I was always.
• 47:21
  Speaker 13: Wanting to see what we could do about getting more
• 47:24
  Speaker 13: black folks participating in the orchestruct So that's why I
• 47:27
  Speaker 13: formed got Japam Chamber Orchestra, and.
• 47:31
  Speaker 8: Its for people that don't know just because you're in
• 47:34
  Speaker 8: an orchestra doesn't mean that that goes into all forms
• 47:37
  Speaker 8: of music. Because we have some of my most talented
• 47:40
  Speaker 8: artists come out of the church, and that can come
• 47:43
  Speaker 8: out and from that playing in the band in the church.
• 47:46
  Speaker 13: That is right, That is absolutely right. The music, like
• 47:50
  Speaker 13: they always say, music is the international language, so you
• 47:53
  Speaker 13: can play music wherever you are on the beautiful planet.
• 47:56
  Speaker 13: I mean, whether you're in this country or in South America,
• 47:59
  Speaker 13: or you're on the African continent, wherever you where are,
• 48:02
  Speaker 13: wherever you are, people are making music.
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: So this is just.
• 48:08
  Speaker 13: I love the combination because the orchestra, like like I said,
• 48:11
  Speaker 13: we do different kinds of music. We do classical music,
• 48:14
  Speaker 13: but then we do like some of the I grew
• 48:16
  Speaker 13: up in the church, so we'll do like some of
• 48:18
  Speaker 13: the old spirituals and maybe some more recent gospel music.
• 48:22
  Speaker 13: And then of course I love some of those pop
• 48:24
  Speaker 13: songs because I just really loved just different kinds of
• 48:29
  Speaker 13: I don't know, I just love different.
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: Kinds of music.
• 48:31
  Speaker 13: So I guess I'm just saying that music is for everybody.
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 48:37
  Speaker 13: It's one of those things that we've always done music,
• 48:39
  Speaker 13: and I think we always will no matter how crazy
• 48:42
  Speaker 13: life is.
• 48:44
  Speaker 8: So it's like history. But I tell us about the
• 48:45
  Speaker 8: concerts you got coming up?
• 48:47
  Speaker 13: Okay, Well, on Sunday, February the fifteenth. Sunday, February the fifteenth,
• 48:54
  Speaker 13: at five pm, We're going to be celebrating like History
• 48:58
  Speaker 13: months with a music of a series that we call
• 49:02
  Speaker 13: Discover Treasures, music by Black composers. And I love that
• 49:06
  Speaker 13: Discover Treasures because a lot of times people don't associate
• 49:10
  Speaker 13: the different kinds of music that that black folk has
• 49:13
  Speaker 13: been involved in. So it's gonna be let me, let
• 49:16
  Speaker 13: me make sure you give the date and everything, Sunday,
• 49:18
  Speaker 13: Fabruy of fifteenth at five pm. It's gonna be here
• 49:20
  Speaker 13: in town at Trinity Episcopal Church on Holman Street ten
• 49:25
  Speaker 13: fifteen Holman Street, five pm. And it's free, there's no
• 49:29
  Speaker 13: there's no charge. We always have a love offering if
• 49:31
  Speaker 13: if you feel inclined, but you know, you can get
• 49:33
  Speaker 13: in no matter what. And we're gonna be celebrating different
• 49:37
  Speaker 13: kinds of music. So can I go ahead and talk
• 49:40
  Speaker 13: about some of the pieces will be performing. Yes, okay, great,
• 49:44
  Speaker 13: as we do as I said, different kinds of music.
• 49:47
  Speaker 13: So one of the first pieces we're gonna do is
• 49:49
  Speaker 13: that we always start, we always start all our pieces,
• 49:51
  Speaker 13: our songs, our concerts with the Great Black National Anthem List,
• 49:55
  Speaker 13: Different Voice, and at the audience with us on that
• 49:57
  Speaker 13: one with Bostley that some of our people do not
• 50:00
  Speaker 13: know that song.
• 50:03
  Speaker 8: Because they're not exposed to.
• 50:04
  Speaker 13: It, I know, And I was like, it was just
• 50:07
  Speaker 13: when I was growing up, you know, you just knew
• 50:10
  Speaker 13: that song. Everybody knew the song, you know. But anyway,
• 50:14
  Speaker 13: then we're gonna perform one of our quote classical pieces.
• 50:17
  Speaker 13: It's a piece by Samuel Colerid's Taylor. He was a
• 50:22
  Speaker 13: Black African English composer a long time ago of late
• 50:26
  Speaker 13: eighteen hundreds, early nineteen hundreds, and I know that it
• 50:32
  Speaker 13: will probably be a new piece for people. He wrote
• 50:34
  Speaker 13: a piece called Bamboola. The Bamboola as a rhapsatic dance,
• 50:39
  Speaker 13: and it's based on I believe, an old African and
• 50:43
  Speaker 13: then went to the Caribbean dance. For I just looked
• 50:47
  Speaker 13: online and I saw these these women in these beautiful
• 50:51
  Speaker 13: big dresses and they were dancing around in a circle
• 50:54
  Speaker 13: and they were the dresses were going in it out
• 50:58
  Speaker 13: and so for it was quite a beautiful dance. So
• 51:01
  Speaker 13: again it's it's a quote classical piece, but it's based
• 51:05
  Speaker 13: on an African African uh uh Caribbean inspired rap started dance.
• 51:11
  Speaker 13: But I still enjoyed it. We we've played it a
• 51:13
  Speaker 13: couple of times in the audience even though they said,
• 51:15
  Speaker 13: you know, and I've never heard this before, They're like,
• 51:17
  Speaker 13: what really a lovely piece? And that's part of what
• 51:20
  Speaker 13: I like to do is find pieces that you may
• 51:23
  Speaker 13: not be familiar with, but you're saying, wow, that's a
• 51:25
  Speaker 13: nice piece. I'll go go on YouTube check it out,
• 51:27
  Speaker 13: or I'm gonna ask my orchestra to see if they
• 51:30
  Speaker 13: can perform it or whatever. So that's one of the pieces.
• 51:33
  Speaker 13: Then we're playing go ahead, Oh okay, I was.
• 51:36
  Speaker 8: Gonna say, what about you're doing a musical tribute to
• 51:39
  Speaker 8: Reverend Albatun Jones and start breaking out orientation of Reverend
• 51:44
  Speaker 8: Marcia Sadbury.
• 51:46
  Speaker 5: Appreciate it.
• 51:47
  Speaker 8: Talk to me about that. That is so good. I'm glad.
• 51:50
  Speaker 13: I'm glad you brought that up, because, uh, Reverend Marcia
• 51:54
  Speaker 13: Sadbury is one of those wonderful people grew up here
• 51:56
  Speaker 13: in town. She is uh, she's a former Violence of
• 52:00
  Speaker 13: Mind and when she finished his issue, she was and
• 52:04
  Speaker 13: then uh finished her bachelor's in music, and then she
• 52:07
  Speaker 13: went into the ministry, which is great. She's a terristic
• 52:10
  Speaker 13: minister also, but she's going to be I'm gonna be
• 52:12
  Speaker 13: conducting some but then Marcia is gonna be conducting a
• 52:15
  Speaker 13: lot too. She's gonna she's gonna be performing pieces that
• 52:19
  Speaker 13: you may have heard of, may.
• 52:20
  Speaker 8: Not have heard of.
• 52:21
  Speaker 13: Again a minister, So she's gonna grow up, get to
• 52:24
  Speaker 13: some of the old spiritual way in the water allowed
• 52:28
  Speaker 13: the drinking gord again, I'm hoping that some of us
• 52:31
  Speaker 13: remember from our enslaved ancestors that were.
• 52:34
  Speaker 8: In the water.
• 52:35
  Speaker 5: God's gonna trouble the water.
• 52:37
  Speaker 13: That was one of those songs that some of Ourn's
• 52:39
  Speaker 13: slave ancestors used to, you know, find find a way
• 52:43
  Speaker 13: of escaping, you know.
• 52:44
  Speaker 8: And I gave them the plantation when we're picking cotton
• 52:48
  Speaker 8: acutely m.
• 52:50
  Speaker 13: And then the other one follows the drinking gourd and
• 52:52
  Speaker 13: again that's a uh a constellation of the stars. And
• 52:56
  Speaker 13: some of the some of the people that were trying
• 52:58
  Speaker 13: to escape would use that as a way of, you know,
• 53:01
  Speaker 13: of going north to get to get away from the
• 53:04
  Speaker 13: horrors of enslavement. Which he's conducting those to those spirituals,
• 53:08
  Speaker 13: and he's gonna be premiering some.
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: Some you pieces.
• 53:11
  Speaker 13: It's a piece that again what he's heard of. A
• 53:14
  Speaker 13: gentle reminder by a local composer, Jericho Journey and Hello, Goodbye,
• 53:19
  Speaker 13: and again I'm I'm running through the peaces kind of
• 53:22
  Speaker 13: fast because these pieces, these will being you pieces. Part
• 53:25
  Speaker 13: of what we do is perform music that is kind
• 53:29
  Speaker 13: of familiar, like some of the spirituals, but it's new.
• 53:33
  Speaker 13: They you haven't heard of this, you never heard that
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  Speaker 13: song before, whatever, you don't know that piece. But these
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  Speaker 13: are like living, breathing composers. And I always love to
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  Speaker 13: tell people that even though I grew up in the
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  Speaker 13: world of music listening to, you know, mostly European composers,
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  Speaker 13: and I still love Bacime, I still love DRAMs, you know,
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  Speaker 13: I still love those guys, But nothing like having new, breathing,
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  Speaker 13: living and breathing composers and performing some of their pieces.
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  Speaker 13: Don't mixture pieces that you know on he says that
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  Speaker 13: you're just hearing, but there will be also something that
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  Speaker 13: will have will be really nice. One of the D'Angelo
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  Speaker 13: I'm hoping that you remember him, uh, he asked recently,
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  Speaker 13: and yes, And so we're performing one of his big tunes, cruising,
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  Speaker 13: which is actually William Smokey Robinson's tune. So we're gonna, yeah,
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  Speaker 13: we're gonna perform that too, and that's gonna be a
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  Speaker 13: fun tune, so it'll be a mixture, and so I
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  Speaker 13: think a lot of people will know bad and we
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  Speaker 13: did it. I feel very strongly a I'm a retired
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  Speaker 13: music teacher, semi retired when your music teacher always teaching somebody,
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  Speaker 13: and I just feel so strongly that our kids, especially
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  Speaker 13: in this crazy time, they need artistic outlets. You know,
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  Speaker 13: they can't just take tests. I know they have to
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  Speaker 13: take tests, but they can't just think that tests. They
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  Speaker 13: gotta have some freedom, some artistic outlets. So for me,
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  Speaker 13: it's it's music, and I think that them being able
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  Speaker 13: to actually play it and make themselves instead of just
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  Speaker 13: turning on their phones. I mean, I know we use
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  Speaker 13: our phones for so many things these days. But I
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  Speaker 13: was just going with with with one of my youngsters
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  Speaker 13: because I still teach to violins, yo, and they were
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  Speaker 13: they were just kind of messing around. They would make
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  Speaker 13: it up their own little tunes. I thought, that's great,
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  Speaker 13: make their own music. You know, because we as human beings,
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  Speaker 13: I think we need our creative outlets. We don't want
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  Speaker 13: to just have AI and various other things, you know,
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  Speaker 13: create things. We should be creating things. So I definitely
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  Speaker 13: encourage our kids to actually have an instrument in their hand.
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  Speaker 13: They're sitting down at the piano the keyboard, and they're playing. Dudes,
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  Speaker 13: they have the violin in their hands, or are they're
• 55:40
  Speaker 13: learning more about singing? You know, I watched some of
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  Speaker 13: those shows on TV, and it's nice that you know
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  Speaker 13: the voice and things like that. But somebody worked with
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  Speaker 13: those adults when they were kids on how to how
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  Speaker 13: to sing well, how to project, how to you know
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  Speaker 13: bread correctly, or those kinds of things. So obviously I'm
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  Speaker 13: one of those persons. I see, like our kids are,
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  Speaker 13: even the adults. We have some adults too, that participating
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  Speaker 13: in music is a good thing. It's nice to listen
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  Speaker 13: to music, it really really is. I know this sounds
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  Speaker 13: like a contradiction, but listening to music, of course, is
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  Speaker 13: part of our human expanse. When I'm driving in my call,
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  Speaker 13: I'm listening to my favorite jams and you know, all
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  Speaker 13: those great things. But when you can actually sit down
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  Speaker 13: at the piano, pick up an instrument, fastophone or whatever,
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  Speaker 13: and you can just play something, you don't have to
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  Speaker 13: be the best of the best. You can just play
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  Speaker 13: something of your own. Son't make up your own music.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 1: That was doctor Ann Lundy, music director at the Community
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  Speaker 1: Music Center of Houston. The event again is February eleventh
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  Speaker 1: at four pm at Saint Luke the Evangelist Episcopal Church,
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  Speaker 1: thirty five thirty Wheeler Street, Houston, Texas, and on February
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  Speaker 1: fifteenth at Trinity Episcopal Church at ten fifteen Holman Street
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  Speaker 1: at five pm. You can go to CMC Houston Put
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  Speaker 1: Together dot org to learn about the event and how
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  Speaker 1: to get your kids involved. Also, you can call seven
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