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From Uncle Luke to Congressman? Celebrity, Community, and Political Power Guest Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell · TMI

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Speaker 4: What's going on, my son, Lennon, I'm feeling good okay
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Speaker 4: whatever that means. I mean okay good, it means I'm lytty,
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Speaker 4: flap flat flat whatever? That too funny, too funny.
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Speaker 1: Let's see. So we have a guest, a big guest
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Speaker 1: this week, yes, sir, and.
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Speaker 4: I want to make sure we go fast, because you know,
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Speaker 4: I get long winded and get to talking about things
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Speaker 4: that I get so passionate about. So I don't want
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Speaker 4: us to stay too long talking about other things when
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Speaker 4: lots of people are running for office, and I want
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Speaker 4: to give the proper time to our guest that is coming.
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Speaker 4: But I did want to say that I am currently
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Speaker 4: watching So I'm at home trying to not travel, which
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Speaker 4: never works out because as soon as I'm like laying
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Speaker 4: there with my I slept for two days.
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Speaker 1: I needed it is so bad.
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Speaker 4: My physical body needed to rest so bad.
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Speaker 1: And I slept for two days.
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Speaker 4: And on the end of the second day, when I
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Speaker 4: just knew that you know what, I'm just going to
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Speaker 4: stay home all the way until it's time to go
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Speaker 4: to Martha's Vineyard for you know, for the two weeks.
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Speaker 1: That most of us go up there for.
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Speaker 4: I guess I get a call from a family member
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Speaker 4: telling me another family member is very sick and somebody
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Speaker 4: that I need to go visit. So here I go,
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Speaker 4: packing up my things, and you know, I'll be out
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Speaker 4: of here going to visit that family member. So there's
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Speaker 4: always so much that's going on. But when I am home,
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Speaker 4: I try to catch up on my Netflix, and I
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Speaker 4: am I've just I just finished watching something.
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Speaker 1: Called Dark Winds.
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Speaker 4: Stick with me, so Dark Winds it is a series
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Speaker 4: about a police department that is operating on the Navajo reservation.
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Speaker 4: So they're Indians and the or I don't know, do
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Speaker 4: they what they prefer Native Americans?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 4: So I'm just not sure what I'm supposed to say,
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Speaker 4: and I'm going to find out because I want to
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Speaker 4: be appropriate.
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Speaker 1: So please excuse me if I'm wrong.
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Speaker 4: But it is an Indian reservation and they this chief
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Speaker 4: or yeah, he's the chief of police and his deputies
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Speaker 4: who work for him, who are also Indians, who most
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Speaker 4: of them are, particularly the woman is very very deep,
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Speaker 4: and so is his wife, and his grandmother and other
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Speaker 4: family members very much into the culture of the Indian
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Speaker 4: culture and their rituals and how it has protected them. Now,
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Speaker 4: there are some people who believe that this stuff is
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Speaker 4: just folk tale, that's not real, right, But if you
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Speaker 4: know anything about the Indian culture and African culture, there's
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Speaker 4: a lot of alignment in terms of the things that
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Speaker 4: we believe about being able to protect ourselves with spiritual walls,
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Speaker 4: praying and sweating and ceremony, right, And so I know
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Speaker 4: that it's true because I know that so many of
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Speaker 4: our ancestors had to lean on those protections in order
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Speaker 4: for them to be able to survive through everything. It's
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Speaker 4: no way we made it, but we've had to have
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Speaker 4: cultural expression, you know, whether it be our spirituality or
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Speaker 4: our knowledge of self, there's always been and something that
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Speaker 4: we could lean on. And the more that you teach
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Speaker 4: it to your children, that you teach.
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Speaker 2: Culture.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm still looking for the right word.
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Speaker 4: But when you lean into that to your own level
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Speaker 4: of spirituality and what your ancestors, your parents, grandparents and
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Speaker 4: others have been able to teach you, I believe it
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Speaker 4: lengthens your life and it helps you to fight battles.
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Speaker 4: And in this particular show, one of the things that
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Speaker 4: I I was just thinking a lot about Nolan Wells
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Speaker 4: while watching the show, because there comes a point where
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Speaker 4: and this is a spoiler for anybody who hasn't watched
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Speaker 4: Dark Winds. And by the way, it is a amazing
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Speaker 4: it's slower than some of the shoot them up, Bang
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Speaker 4: bang shows that we like that move real fast. You
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Speaker 4: got to be a person who watches series, watches shows,
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Speaker 4: and that you can and that you are a person
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Speaker 4: that appreciates slowing down the mind. Because of course there
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Speaker 4: are moments when it's wild shit going on, because they
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Speaker 4: got they got want for prostitution, drug dealing, stealing, killing
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Speaker 4: family back by in line, anything you could fornication. I mean,
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Speaker 4: it's all up in there, drug doing, not just dealing,
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Speaker 4: drug doing, everything you could think of, people using those
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Speaker 4: spiritual tools for the wrong reasons. It's all in their
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Speaker 4: witches and positive and negative.
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Speaker 1: All everything's in there.
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Speaker 4: So it does speed up, but it's a slower show.
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Speaker 4: It really takes you through there if you will. And
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Speaker 4: when I was thinking about the Nolan Wells situation, as
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Speaker 4: I'm watching it. There is a point in the show
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Speaker 4: where you learn that a big part of what the
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Speaker 4: chief has been going through is that these people came
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Speaker 4: in to do a thing and ended up killing his
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Speaker 4: son in the midst of it. And he finds out
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Speaker 4: who the killer is and now he's face to face
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Speaker 4: with this person and has the ability to kill them.
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Speaker 1: And he doesn't kill.
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Speaker 4: Him the way that you know, like shoot him or
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Speaker 4: stab him or kill him like that, but there is
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Speaker 4: another way that the man dies, and it's on his
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Speaker 4: hands and he walks around having to deal with the
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Speaker 4: weight that even though he did do X Y Z thing,
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Speaker 4: this person and this person is responsible for the depth
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Speaker 4: of his son. But still because an elder tells him
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Speaker 4: in the show that you see the if you kill,
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Speaker 4: you see the person or the people. The memory of
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Speaker 4: it is in your mind every day. You never get
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Speaker 4: to divorce yourself from pulling that trigger or doing whatever
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Speaker 4: you do to kill someone.
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Speaker 1: And he went through it.
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Speaker 4: And I listen to toab At the Brown say something
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Speaker 4: that I promise you until the day I die, I
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Speaker 4: will scream it to the mountaintops from Breonna Taylor to
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Speaker 4: Nolan Wells and all the people in between that have
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Speaker 4: never had to face a real accountability for whatever their
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Speaker 4: role may have been in the death of people who
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Speaker 4: didn't do anything at all, even yeah, didn't do anything
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Speaker 4: to deserve their lives to be taken or an injustice
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Speaker 4: to be done to them. I'm with tab At the
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Speaker 4: Brown that I hope you never rest in your life.
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Speaker 4: I hope that when you go to sleep at night,
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Speaker 4: that the demon that you are comes to haunt you
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Speaker 4: and toys with you in your dreams for the rest
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Speaker 4: of your life. I don't know for sure that anybody
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Speaker 4: killed Nolan Wells. I don't know, none of us know
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Speaker 4: yet for sure. But what I do know is now
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Speaker 4: I'm listening to my sister Tesling Figaros speak on the
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Speaker 4: different shows that she's doing where they have listened to
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Speaker 4: this audio that this black woman has put out where
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Speaker 4: she's authenticated the audio. Now it is being reconfirmed, but
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Speaker 4: nevertheless the audio, it appears to be real. There's some
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Speaker 4: real serious shit that happened to Nolan Wells, and people
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Speaker 4: are really covering it up, like really Incohutes. And I've
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Speaker 4: been careful because I see now they're trying to sue
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Speaker 4: Ben Crump. I see their game that when they know
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Speaker 4: that you are somebody who has who's influential, and you
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Speaker 4: have a voice, they like to try to distract the
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Speaker 4: people by coming after you versus just tell the truth
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Speaker 4: about what the hell went down. And so I've been
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Speaker 4: real careful and sitting back and waiting to really let
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Speaker 4: things come because I believe God is going to reveal
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Speaker 4: the full story here. But I'm with Tabitha Brown. I pray,
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Speaker 4: I prayed A and Daddy's and their grandparents and their
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Speaker 4: children and their grandchildren and their great grandchildren will never
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Speaker 4: have peace a.
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Speaker 1: Day in their life.
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Speaker 4: I pray that Nolan Wells, that Nolan Wells spirit will
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Speaker 4: come into their family occasions in the middle of the
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Speaker 4: night when people are trying to sleep and shake every pot,
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Speaker 4: every door, every bed, that they will run out of
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Speaker 4: their skin, and that they will end up being in
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Speaker 4: mental institutions because they can't get no peace.
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Speaker 1: In their lives.
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Speaker 4: For those who know what happened, have and have not
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Speaker 4: to this point, it's too it's already too late. So
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Speaker 4: even if they tell the truth now, it's too late.
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Speaker 4: They've traumatized the family. A young boy is dead. So
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Speaker 4: whatever it is, I pray that their great great great
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Speaker 4: grandchildren have to say that their family has been cursed
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Speaker 4: with the spirit of a demon that has has come
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Speaker 4: to haunt them for generations, and that everybody in the neighborhood,
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Speaker 4: everybody knows, don't live around them because they lights and
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Speaker 4: shit flick off and on at night when they trying
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Speaker 4: to sleep.
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Speaker 1: That's what I pray happens to me.
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Speaker 3: Hey man, I mean, when I think about the Nolan world,
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Speaker 3: situation is very it's very disconfused. And I think the
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Speaker 3: confusion part for me is that there are so many
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Speaker 3: people mad at a mother and a father who just
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Speaker 3: want to know what happened to the child. Like I've
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Speaker 3: never seen people so confused or so angry because the
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Speaker 3: mother wants to know what happened to a child and
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Speaker 3: what you is telling me having to my child just
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Speaker 3: doesn't make it just doesn't add up. And I've never
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Speaker 3: seen and the way they're using black people to be
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Speaker 3: on the front line and advocate and talk about it
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Speaker 3: like something's wrong, and they're trying to attack Ben Crump
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Speaker 3: and the lives about Ben Crump, and Ben Crumb just
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Speaker 3: does this and he's just that, and it's so crazy
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Speaker 3: to me like the fact that you're mad at a
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Speaker 3: lawyer because he's doing his job. The lawyer's job is
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Speaker 3: to bring awareness to the case, right, make people aware
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Speaker 3: of what's going on, and then go and get the
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Speaker 3: best possible outcome for his client.
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Speaker 2: So why you mad because that's what he does. Oh,
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Speaker 2: Ben Crump just comes.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 2: Ben Crump knows exactly what he's doing.
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Speaker 3: He knows that if you cover it up and he's
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Speaker 3: quiet about it, then you walk into these courtrooms and
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Speaker 3: nobody knows what's going on, then y'all can silently and
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Speaker 3: have a kangaroo court and just tell us anything. He
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Speaker 3: knows that if the world knows and sees everything that's
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Speaker 3: going on, then the world advocates, and you can't just
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Speaker 3: continue to lie and cheat the world.
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Speaker 2: And he's the best at doing what he does.
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Speaker 4: Ben Crump says, there's two courts. There's the court of
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Speaker 4: the actual courthouse of public opinion, and he makes sure
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Speaker 4: that God forbid we lose in the building court. We're
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Speaker 4: going to win over the truth by the people. Right,
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Speaker 4: And that's important because you can't be rocked asleep if
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Speaker 4: you've got somebody and you could choose to be but
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Speaker 4: if you've got somebody that has the resources. Because you
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Speaker 4: think about Ben for they said, oh, he makes so
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Speaker 4: much money. Yeah, but you know how much it costs
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Speaker 4: to put money into investigations and how many of the
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Speaker 4: people if you think about I don't know what Nolan
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Speaker 4: Wells family's financial situation is, but when I think of
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Speaker 4: when I look at these other cases, a lot of
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Speaker 4: cases that Ben is on for the most part, the
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Speaker 4: people who are killed by the police and or you know,
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Speaker 4: people who are living in vulnerable populations, which is where
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Speaker 4: most of these injustices take place. Generally, they are people
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Speaker 4: who don't have a lot of means, and Crump's office
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Speaker 4: takes on the responsibility of paying out to get investigations
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Speaker 4: done if they feel like the case is viable. They
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Speaker 4: cannot do it for everybody, and no sense. And you
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Speaker 4: trying to take Pooky case over there where you know,
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Speaker 4: Pookie done shot the man. You already know that, and
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Speaker 4: you down there trying or even that that Pooky was
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Speaker 4: in some mess and got killed. And then you over
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Speaker 4: here talking about yo, you know they did him wrong
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Speaker 4: and we want investigation.
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Speaker 1: Pooky was down there robbing and stealing them.
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Speaker 4: People done shot Pooky down there in that mess that
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Speaker 4: he created. If he he has he takes on cases
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Speaker 4: that he believes that I can do something. I've listened
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Speaker 4: and you and you got to have intuition to be
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Speaker 4: a being crump your stomach.
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Speaker 3: Why would you Why would you take cases where you
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Speaker 3: don't see that is viable, where you can't even prove
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Speaker 3: anything to anyone. Like people say, oh, you only take
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Speaker 3: the cases that's high profile. Well, mainly the times, most
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Speaker 3: of the times that a case is high profile is
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Speaker 3: because there's a clear there's there's something clear. People are
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Speaker 3: advocating like whoa, this doesn't make sense. So when you
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Speaker 3: when when that comes to your attention, you look and say, wow,
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Speaker 3: out there really is something here, like you know, and
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Speaker 3: that's what a real lawyer should do. Most lawyers just
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Speaker 3: take your money and they say, oh yeah, we're just
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Speaker 3: gonna handle you and we're gonna take this and we're
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Speaker 3: gonna just get a set. No, I'm only taking cases
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Speaker 3: that I believe that we actually are on the right
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Speaker 3: side of the law. And that's what he's supposed to do. So,
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Speaker 3: you know, shout out to Ben crump Man, I say,
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Speaker 3: he's amazing. He's a not only fearless. But he's a
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Speaker 3: good person.
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Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: He's a very good person man, And I know that
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Speaker 3: in his line of work, the tax day gets I
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Speaker 3: know just how good of a person. I know it
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Speaker 3: bothers him sometimes, but he knows he's on the right
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Speaker 3: side of history and he's on the right side of
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Speaker 3: the law. So I just want to shout out to Ben,
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Speaker 3: we love you man, keep doing what you do.
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Speaker 1: You know, justice for Nolan Wells.
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Speaker 4: And on August nineteenth, which is Nolan Well's birthday, there
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Speaker 4: are some of us who will gather in Martha's vineyard
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Speaker 4: because we will not be able to go down to Mississippi.
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Speaker 4: It's not it's not easy to go back and forth.
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Speaker 4: By the way, we need to talk about how the
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Speaker 4: airlines have lost their damn minds because the price of
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Speaker 4: a ticket is unreal to get around in this country
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Speaker 4: right now. But we're going to hold space for Nolan Wells,
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Speaker 4: allow the community to come together so that we can
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Speaker 4: have a prayer, visual for his family, for Crump and
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Speaker 4: the entire legal team, and just for the truth to
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Speaker 4: be told. But also I by myself, I'm not nobody
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Speaker 4: else because other people will say, I ain't praying nothing
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Speaker 4: bad over nobody, because that ain't good because it comes
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Speaker 4: back to you behind me.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be praying that.
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Speaker 4: The spirit of a demon will show up for generations
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Speaker 4: of their family. Because it's different if one person decides
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Speaker 4: that they're gonna lie or they're going to conceal information, and.
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Speaker 1: We don't know which ones no versus which one don't.
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Speaker 4: Because the little white girls say, I wasn't over there
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Speaker 4: at the time, and when we left.
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Speaker 1: He won with us, and she done put pitches.
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Speaker 4: And screenshots out to make it clear that she ain't involved.
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Speaker 4: Now I don't know if that's true or not, but
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Speaker 4: that's what she's trying to do. So somebody might know
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Speaker 4: and somebody else might not. But when everybody comes together
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Speaker 4: and nobody remembers anything, when the boys cell phone was
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Speaker 4: with them and data on the phone has been removed,
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Speaker 4: I mean, we gotta stop it.
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Speaker 1: We gotta stop it. That is collusion.
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Speaker 4: It is the same thing that those officers did to
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Speaker 4: Brianna Taylor. When they went to that garage. They knew
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Speaker 4: their asses were in trouble because the movement was strong.
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Speaker 4: The whole nation was tuned into Brianna Taylor, right. Ben
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Speaker 4: Crump was on the case, and Laanita and what's our
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Speaker 4: other brother's name, our white brother.
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Speaker 1: God sam Agyarll. Thank you for reminding me.
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Speaker 4: They and we had that case as high as we
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Speaker 4: could get it in turn terms of visibility, fighting to
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Speaker 4: make sure that Breonna Taylor had a do not just
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Speaker 4: do justice, but that there would be people who would
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Speaker 4: say her name all over the world, and that when
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Speaker 4: they saw that, they said, we got to do something
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Speaker 4: because these and it was coupled. It was not a standalone.
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Speaker 4: It was coupled with the fact that Kristin Clark was
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Speaker 4: the Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Civil
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Speaker 4: Rights Division. So you had a black woman who comes
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Speaker 4: out the movement, who can see this bull crap. She
17:38
Speaker 4: knows racism, and she knows injustice, and she also knows
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Speaker 4: police violence.
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Speaker 1: She was in her position in government.
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Speaker 4: If you put the same facts around Breonna Taylor right,
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Speaker 4: that we ended up finding out the truth because I
17:53
Speaker 4: remember when we used to be I'm not even doing
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Speaker 4: a Thought of the Day today because we got to
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Speaker 4: get to our guest. But if you remember, we was
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Speaker 4: on Clubhouse. I had to make you delete Clubhouse off
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Speaker 4: your phone. Do you remember that, Janie, When I had
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Speaker 4: to I had to literally do because this is what
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Speaker 4: I do to some of the guys around me. I
18:17
Speaker 4: have to spaz out and act like a complete Tasmanian
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Speaker 4: devil so that people will listen to me. Sometimes because
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Speaker 4: I can say over and over, hey, guys, stop talking
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Speaker 4: to these people. Stop doing this thing. It's not good.
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Speaker 4: Listen to me. Nobody listens. Nobody listens, and then I
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Speaker 4: turn into a crazy person and I have to say
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Speaker 4: things like you say I'm your leader, then God damn it,
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Speaker 4: I'm leading you and I'm telling you to come aboard
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Speaker 4: for you. Because my son was on that goddamn clubhouse
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Speaker 4: arguing with people who are completely brainless like there, and
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Speaker 4: not only are they brainless, they are plants. They are
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Speaker 4: freaking plants. They are co and tell pro plants. That's
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Speaker 4: where these people were, and he's up there arguing with
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Speaker 4: them day like her boyfriend was a drug deal, she
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Speaker 4: was hustling, she was whatever. None of those people came
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Speaker 4: back to acknowledge that after all that that we'd been through,
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Speaker 4: all that that we went through, the truth came out.
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Speaker 1: Because the woman was pregnant.
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Speaker 4: She didn't want to have her baby in jail, so
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Speaker 4: she went and got her a deal and told the
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Speaker 4: truth that all of those officers got together in the
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Speaker 4: garage and came up with the story of lies that
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Speaker 4: they were going to tell on Breonna Taylor, and that's
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Speaker 4: what they put out into the world.
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Speaker 1: And when they did when they did that, when.
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Speaker 4: They came forward with that information, that's where the house
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Speaker 4: of cards fell apart and we began to see indictments
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Speaker 4: and people having to go to court to stand up
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Speaker 4: to what Daniel Cameron never had the balls to be
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Speaker 4: able to do on his own. So, you know, I
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Speaker 4: just I know what we being next to Mika and
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Speaker 4: knowing what it's like. It's different like Sabrina Fulton is
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Speaker 4: another person who we're close to, and I know that
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Speaker 4: Sabrina is hurt that there's nothing. Sabrina and Tracy and Javares,
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Speaker 4: they son brother killed, and you don't you know they
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Speaker 4: we know the story, we know the truth. They know
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Speaker 4: who was screaming help in the video. They know their
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Speaker 4: child's voice, right. But it's only two people that were
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Speaker 4: there to tell that story. There's two people, so you
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Speaker 4: could say, you know, one person could say it was
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Speaker 4: this and another person is dead, so there's no way
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Speaker 4: to verify what this person says. But you've got all
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Speaker 4: these individuals, including their parents, okay, that know about what
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Speaker 4: happened to Nolan Wells, and for them to just stand
20:54
Speaker 4: together on hiding the truth or hiding the facts. Mm hmmm, Nah,
21:03
Speaker 4: it's not it's not cool.
21:06
Speaker 2: Well, the truth is since you're free, man, so.
21:08
Speaker 1: I don't know. Truth set them in jail.
21:11
Speaker 3: Oh no, it's gonna set it's gonna set it's family
21:13
Speaker 3: free and it's gonna you know, and it's gonna set
21:16
Speaker 3: them free, and it's gonna set the rest of them
21:18
Speaker 3: on fire.
21:20
Speaker 4: To the hell fire is not the hell fire?
21:24
Speaker 3: That hell fire is enough demons. Oh, the demons is.
21:27
Speaker 3: That's right, where the hell fires with the demons, that's.
21:30
Speaker 1: What they need. I love that.
21:31
Speaker 4: When the Brown said what she said, I said to myself, now,
21:34
Speaker 4: that's then what I'm talking about. I couldn't get what
21:37
Speaker 4: I wanted to say right. And then when she said,
21:40
Speaker 4: I said, thank you for freeing my belly. Make them
21:44
Speaker 4: not sleep a night in their life. I want them down.
21:48
Speaker 4: I want them to distrac to beds.
21:50
Speaker 2: Because I was gonna talk about with my show.
21:51
Speaker 3: I was watching but you you got too deep with
21:54
Speaker 3: it because I was watching Power. You know what I'm
21:56
Speaker 3: saying this is this is almost the last episode of Power. Man,
22:00
Speaker 3: I done got rid of my man, Uncle Marv Man,
22:03
Speaker 3: Uncle Marv. Shout out to my man ef Vera was
22:05
Speaker 3: one that he directed this episode and it was it
22:08
Speaker 3: was a dope.
22:09
Speaker 2: It was good.
22:10
Speaker 3: It was because Marv was probably my favorite. Shout out
22:13
Speaker 3: to my man London brown Man. He played amazing part
22:17
Speaker 3: as Uncle Marv and he you know, he and Canan
22:20
Speaker 3: killed him.
22:21
Speaker 2: You know. It's it's a lot of.
22:24
Speaker 3: Crazy stuff that goes on in Power, but it's one
22:26
Speaker 3: of my guilty pleasures that I actually watched and I enjoyed.
22:30
Speaker 3: Fifty did an amazing job with the show and his
22:33
Speaker 3: next episode is the last episode of the whole.
22:36
Speaker 2: Series, so they're not coming back on again.
22:38
Speaker 3: But I loved I loved the cast of it, and
22:40
Speaker 3: I love just the way the storyline because it's realistic.
22:44
Speaker 3: You know, it's like he really took you to an
22:46
Speaker 3: era in Queens that people can identify with.
22:49
Speaker 2: But you know, so that's what I've been watching. I
22:51
Speaker 2: ain't been watching the Indians and.
22:53
Speaker 1: All that Darklands is good.
22:55
Speaker 4: I'm telling you so many that you know what, another
22:57
Speaker 4: thing about darklands, and I'll be done after this.
22:59
Speaker 1: I'll say nothing about dark winds.
23:02
Speaker 4: The old lady because you know, in Indian culture, very
23:06
Speaker 4: much like African culture, is always an old lady who's
23:10
Speaker 4: the queen bee right, And the old lady is blind, but.
23:16
Speaker 1: She can think everybody that came through. One time, somebody
23:21
Speaker 1: was there who.
23:22
Speaker 4: Was an FBI agent and and and.
23:25
Speaker 1: He she didn't see him.
23:26
Speaker 4: He was just talking. He just came to visit because
23:30
Speaker 4: he was, you know whatever. He was just talking. And
23:32
Speaker 4: she pulled her grandson over and told him, say, everybody
23:35
Speaker 4: who say they one thing, ain't who they are who
23:37
Speaker 4: they say they are. She knew something was wrong with
23:40
Speaker 4: that man.
23:41
Speaker 1: Wasn't right.
23:42
Speaker 4: And but the son walked away and told her told
23:45
Speaker 4: and said out louds into the air.
23:47
Speaker 1: If you think I don't know, I ain't no fool,
23:50
Speaker 1: like he knew too. And then another thing the father.
23:54
Speaker 4: The son asked the father an immediate question, like how
23:58
Speaker 4: long you been standing outside his door listening to my conversation?
24:02
Speaker 4: And the father tells the son all your life, I've
24:05
Speaker 4: been standing right here. It's amazing. I was gonna say
24:08
Speaker 4: the grandmother. She said, she tells the story of how
24:13
Speaker 4: did things get like this. Somebody's asking, like, what the
24:16
Speaker 4: hell is going on around here, and she said, you
24:19
Speaker 4: know what happened. They let the white people come up
24:22
Speaker 4: in here and start moving around, and they start being
24:26
Speaker 4: friends with white people. And as soon as the white
24:29
Speaker 4: folk came, our rituals and everything that we do.
24:33
Speaker 3: But that's the history of the Native America or the
24:35
Speaker 3: Indian that's their history.
24:36
Speaker 1: So well, it's not just them, it's us too.
24:39
Speaker 2: But I'm saying, but exactly what it dates calling us,
24:43
Speaker 2: that's what they do.
24:44
Speaker 4: They do and create confusion unless they are people who
24:49
Speaker 4: are anti racist and also self aware.
24:56
Speaker 3: Listen, we have the legendary uncle Luke Luther Campbell coming
24:59
Speaker 3: up and he is running for Congress in Florida in
25:02
Speaker 3: the twentieth Congressional district and early voting is August eighth
25:07
Speaker 3: to the fifteenth, and the primary voting is eighteenth of August.
25:11
Speaker 2: Make sure you tune in. It's going to be a
25:13
Speaker 2: dope interview.
25:14
Speaker 3: He's gonna tell us why you should vote him if
25:16
Speaker 3: you live in Florida.
25:18
Speaker 2: Let's go.
25:19
Speaker 1: It is election season.
25:22
Speaker 4: A lot of folks running for all types of positions.
25:25
Speaker 4: It's a changing time in America. You know.
25:28
Speaker 1: I think there's.
25:28
Speaker 4: Always these moments in history that we can recall where
25:33
Speaker 4: things shifted. Different types of people and ideas are starting
25:37
Speaker 4: to you know, become more of the norm, if you will,
25:43
Speaker 4: in this country. And I think, you know, there's been others.
25:48
Speaker 4: We were talking about socialism last week, and there have
25:51
Speaker 4: been others certainly before Mam Donnie, but mayor Mam Donnie
25:55
Speaker 4: has absolutely ushered in for a lot of people this
26:00
Speaker 4: new idea that we don't have to just vote for
26:02
Speaker 4: a status quo people that all look the same and
26:05
Speaker 4: they speak the same, the same talking points, and you know,
26:08
Speaker 4: and they only their only value to us is what
26:13
Speaker 4: we were told by some other person who said this
26:16
Speaker 4: is who you have to vote for. People are starting
26:18
Speaker 4: to depart from that, and I think there is no
26:22
Speaker 4: one at all that represents a change in the dynamics
26:27
Speaker 4: of the country and the political you know, the political
26:32
Speaker 4: landscape of where we currently stand in our guests that
26:35
Speaker 4: we have with us today, that's right, and that is
26:39
Speaker 4: Luther Uncle Luke Campbell. All right, Look, we got Uncle
26:44
Speaker 4: Luke with us today, isn't that?
26:46
Speaker 2: And we don't just have him with us today. We
26:49
Speaker 2: have him here running for.
26:51
Speaker 1: Cons that's right, running for office.
26:54
Speaker 4: So Luke, as y'all know, is the pioneering founder of
26:57
Speaker 4: Two Live Crew, a music executive. Before people got into
27:02
Speaker 4: calling themselves music executives, there was Uncle Luke.
27:05
Speaker 1: The First Amendment advocate.
27:07
Speaker 4: Certainly he had to be that because there was a
27:09
Speaker 4: lot of First Amendment going on in his music, and
27:13
Speaker 4: you know, in surrounding his career, a entrepreneur, a long
27:18
Speaker 4: time youth football coach.
27:19
Speaker 1: People don't know that I actually did that.
27:22
Speaker 4: Luke for a long time has been a youth advocate
27:26
Speaker 4: and a football coach, and as you said, now a
27:29
Speaker 4: Democratic candidate for Congress. He is running in Broward County,
27:35
Speaker 4: which is the twentieth congressional district. This is the Democratic primary.
27:40
Speaker 4: So for those we've talked about this already that you
27:42
Speaker 4: can say, oh I heard about Luke running, Let me
27:45
Speaker 4: go out and vote for him. It's not you don't
27:47
Speaker 4: do it just once. If he wins the first time,
27:51
Speaker 4: you got.
27:51
Speaker 1: To do it again.
27:52
Speaker 4: You got to go back again and make sure that
27:56
Speaker 4: you help him to win. You know, the final election
27:59
Speaker 4: where he would be running against some other person or
28:02
Speaker 4: Republican obviously. And you know, we know lucas being a
28:06
Speaker 4: controversial figure but also an influential figure in hip hop,
28:11
Speaker 4: and now he is taking his influence in the world.
28:16
Speaker 1: People know him everywhere.
28:18
Speaker 4: There's no place that you can go in this entire
28:20
Speaker 4: nation that you don't either know him directly or know
28:23
Speaker 4: some music that he was involved in, some artists that
28:26
Speaker 4: he helped to raise and help them to become successful.
28:31
Speaker 4: And now taking that influence. And I'm sure all that
28:34
Speaker 4: he's learned, all that he has seen and bringing it
28:37
Speaker 4: to politics to hopefully enhance the lives of people in
28:41
Speaker 4: our community. So I'm excited that we've got Uncle Luke
28:44
Speaker 4: on here today with us. Were about to get into
28:46
Speaker 4: a good conversation. Thanks for coming. Thanks for you, Timashaw.
28:51
Speaker 2: How you feeling today, Uncle Louke.
28:53
Speaker 5: I feel good, man.
28:54
Speaker 6: It's another wide world day in the political land here
28:59
Speaker 6: in this landscape, So I feel great.
29:01
Speaker 2: I love the T shirt, man, let me see. I
29:03
Speaker 2: like that T shirt.
29:04
Speaker 5: Thanks man. Thanks, Yeah, you had got the whole thing right. Yeah.
29:11
Speaker 3: So I just I want to know, like the transition,
29:14
Speaker 3: like what made you decide like I really need to
29:16
Speaker 3: run for office? Like I know you ran for mayor
29:19
Speaker 3: before in Miami. What made you decide that you because
29:23
Speaker 3: I know, as a hip hop artist you don't have
29:25
Speaker 3: a lot of political views up there on the front
29:27
Speaker 3: line of this movement for a while, but taking that
29:30
Speaker 3: step into be in the political realm and being elected
29:34
Speaker 3: official is different.
29:35
Speaker 2: So what made you decide to do that?
29:37
Speaker 6: Well, you know, once again, thank you all for having
29:40
Speaker 6: me on your show today. I really appreciate it. The
29:44
Speaker 6: question is, you know, whether you're gonna sit on the
29:47
Speaker 6: sideline and just talk about it.
29:49
Speaker 5: Are you going to be a part of the solution.
29:51
Speaker 6: Are you just gonna talk about it not necessarily be
29:54
Speaker 6: a part of the problem. Like I said, I ran
29:56
Speaker 6: for mayor in the special election probably twelve years ago,
30:00
Speaker 6: and I at that time, I know it was a
30:03
Speaker 6: special election, short period of time, and I was I
30:06
Speaker 6: knew I was going to win, but I knew I
30:09
Speaker 6: could build a base of people that would help me
30:15
Speaker 6: move the needle as far as getting things done in
30:18
Speaker 6: our community. And after running, I was able to, you know,
30:22
Speaker 6: get a park rebuilt with twenty six million dollars of
30:27
Speaker 6: governmental funds, in another park rebuilt with sixteen million dollars.
30:31
Speaker 6: I was able to get a football stadium redid with
30:35
Speaker 6: three point five million dollars. And this is with our
30:38
Speaker 6: tax billion dollars. In the fact that the people who
30:41
Speaker 6: I endorsed, because of the people who I support, we
30:45
Speaker 6: were able to get those things done a lot more
30:47
Speaker 6: things that we were able to get done. And so
30:49
Speaker 6: which brings me to today today. I'm just you know,
30:54
Speaker 6: I look at the political climate as for what it is.
30:57
Speaker 5: We're going backwards and we're getting set back on so
31:01
Speaker 5: many other ways.
31:02
Speaker 6: I mean, they're taking away our history when it comes
31:05
Speaker 6: to Florida and books and you know, and the government
31:08
Speaker 6: is falling suit to what you got Donald Trump and
31:11
Speaker 6: then he's doing what he has to do for his people,
31:14
Speaker 6: which I respect. But when you start attacking us as
31:18
Speaker 6: a people, then I have a problem with that. And
31:20
Speaker 6: then you know, it comes down to what resources are
31:24
Speaker 6: really coming back to my congressional district. You know, people
31:28
Speaker 6: are facing you know, seniors are facing high costs of Medicare,
31:34
Speaker 6: they're getting Medicare and Medicaid cut, they're getting They're got
31:38
Speaker 6: to deal with the high costs of insurance, you know.
31:41
Speaker 5: And here in Florida, you got you.
31:44
Speaker 6: Have insurance, you got homeowners insurance and then you got
31:47
Speaker 6: taxes and so all those things the top skyrocketing. Meanwhile,
31:52
Speaker 6: you know, the cost of living is going up, in
31:56
Speaker 6: what you're making in your bank account is not going up,
31:59
Speaker 6: and so betweeny seniors and for the housing issues with that,
32:05
Speaker 6: and then you have no pathway for a lot of
32:07
Speaker 6: these young people, you know, to get a trade. And
32:11
Speaker 6: there are ways that we could do some things to
32:13
Speaker 6: better the quality of life. And I have a great plan.
32:18
Speaker 6: You know, by being in the political realm on a
32:21
Speaker 6: regular basis, I can get some of those things done.
32:23
Speaker 5: I understand the process.
32:26
Speaker 4: And so running for mayor helped you to educate yourself
32:30
Speaker 4: on the ins and outs of politics, because it's a
32:32
Speaker 4: difference between being a staffer being you know, a person
32:39
Speaker 4: who may be very much so politically engaged in actually
32:42
Speaker 4: being the candidate.
32:43
Speaker 1: You really learn that it is not easy. It's no joke.
32:46
Speaker 4: So if you came back for a second time to
32:49
Speaker 4: run for office again, there must have been some inspiration
32:54
Speaker 4: or something that happened that you said, you know what,
32:56
Speaker 4: we didn't win this time, but we can go back
32:57
Speaker 4: and do it again.
32:59
Speaker 1: Yeah.
33:00
Speaker 6: I got sick and tied of being second tied, you
33:02
Speaker 6: know again, my first run was Everything about Two Life
33:09
Speaker 6: Crew was politics.
33:10
Speaker 5: It was all political driven.
33:12
Speaker 6: Whether or not African Americans had the same right to
33:16
Speaker 6: say the same thing on the record that Anglo has,
33:19
Speaker 6: whether or not you know, the First Amendment applies to us,
33:23
Speaker 6: you know, those things. I was fighting all the way
33:27
Speaker 6: to the Supreme Court, the United States Supreme Court, and
33:29
Speaker 6: getting cases overturned that was against me.
33:32
Speaker 5: And they're literally going to jail for free speech.
33:36
Speaker 6: And so when I look at my career, I look
33:38
Speaker 6: at my political side of my career started then before
33:42
Speaker 6: it started running.
33:44
Speaker 5: And how I was raised. I was raised by my
33:46
Speaker 5: Jamaican dad and my Bahamian uncle. You know. You know,
33:51
Speaker 5: if you know anything.
33:52
Speaker 6: About Islanders, politics plays a major role in our life.
33:56
Speaker 5: We vote one hundred percent, you know.
33:59
Speaker 6: And they taught me, you know, I couldn't look at
34:02
Speaker 6: cartoons on the weekend.
34:03
Speaker 5: I had to read up.
34:05
Speaker 6: On h Rap Brown and and I had to uh
34:10
Speaker 6: look at uh look at videos and read books on
34:14
Speaker 6: the struggle and civil rights and understand where we were at.
34:18
Speaker 6: And they always told me, hey, look, you need to
34:21
Speaker 6: you need to understand these things. They taught me what
34:24
Speaker 6: propaganda is and how propaganda is and the narratives and
34:27
Speaker 6: all those things. And so I was the perfect person
34:31
Speaker 6: for the government to come after when they came after me,
34:34
Speaker 6: and which was a real attack on hip hop more
34:37
Speaker 6: so than anything, because they didn't understand it. They just
34:40
Speaker 6: used me as a part of the game. And so
34:42
Speaker 6: I was a perfect person to fight. And you know,
34:44
Speaker 6: we took that fight all the way to the Supreme
34:46
Speaker 6: Court and we won. You know, we uh when they
34:49
Speaker 6: deemed my record I've seen, we got that overturn in
34:51
Speaker 6: the Federal court.
34:52
Speaker 5: You know. Uh, some you know more.
34:55
Speaker 6: Important, some very important cases that allow people to do
34:58
Speaker 6: what they're doing right now todays. So I've been thrown
35:02
Speaker 6: into politics, you know, from that standpoint, and I do
35:07
Speaker 6: understand the political landscape how important it is to get
35:10
Speaker 6: a group of people to go out and vote and
35:11
Speaker 6: there and support a candidate. And when you support that candidate,
35:15
Speaker 6: you get things done in your community.
35:16
Speaker 5: And so you know, I.
35:18
Speaker 6: Always been a king maker, you know, and I figure
35:21
Speaker 6: come from behind the curtains and go and do the job.
35:24
Speaker 5: And that's why I'm running.
35:26
Speaker 3: You know what was important for me when you said
35:29
Speaker 3: that as a result of your first campaign, you were
35:33
Speaker 3: able to get park changed, right, you people you endorsed.
35:36
Speaker 3: You're able to get millions of dollars to get parks rebuilt,
35:40
Speaker 3: to get football stadiums, and a lot of people don't
35:42
Speaker 3: understand that. You know, a lot of people act like
35:45
Speaker 3: there's nothing your vote doesn't count. And that just shows
35:47
Speaker 3: you that when you're doing the right thing and you're
35:49
Speaker 3: connecting yourself to people who have the best interests of
35:52
Speaker 3: your community in hand, then you can get investments in
35:55
Speaker 3: your community, you can get things back for your community.
35:57
Speaker 3: So that was really important for me. I was sitting
36:00
Speaker 3: here thinking, you know, you're the second. You're actually gonna
36:04
Speaker 3: be the second person. Shout out to my brother Dupray
36:07
Speaker 3: Kelly from He's in Newark. He's one of the Lords
36:10
Speaker 3: of the Underground and he's actually a councilman out in
36:13
Speaker 3: New York right now and I just was with him
36:15
Speaker 3: the other day. So if you win, you'll be the second,
36:18
Speaker 3: actually second hip hop artist that's been involved in the government.
36:23
Speaker 3: So how would that feel for you? But how would
36:26
Speaker 3: that feel to you?
36:28
Speaker 6: It will feel good, It will feel really really good
36:31
Speaker 6: because I would be part of changing the status quote
36:34
Speaker 6: in Washington, because when you look at a majority of
36:37
Speaker 6: our African American political leaders. They come from a different
36:43
Speaker 6: part of our community, and more of the elite part
36:48
Speaker 6: of our community is not necessarily too many people in
36:51
Speaker 6: my opinion, that are part of the that could really
36:54
Speaker 6: say they are part of the culture. It would be
36:57
Speaker 6: it would be tremendous because for me, it'll be full
36:59
Speaker 6: of sar. Here are laws that was created to stop
37:05
Speaker 6: what I was doing, that put me in the court
37:09
Speaker 6: of law.
37:10
Speaker 5: And now I'm a lawmaker. I can go in and.
37:16
Speaker 6: I can pass bills to protect artists. The last time
37:19
Speaker 6: I went to Congress lobby and I went on be
37:22
Speaker 6: Afanaris to help kids, you know, get instruments, you know,
37:29
Speaker 6: lobby to get money for the Grammys to be able
37:33
Speaker 6: to help kids around the country purchase us purchase interestments
37:37
Speaker 6: for them. And unfortunately, one of the guys who I
37:40
Speaker 6: got to talk to was a guy who see them
37:42
Speaker 6: running for right now, which is l se hasty. And
37:46
Speaker 6: so when you get to go to Congress, because you know,
37:49
Speaker 6: Congress runs all the money, you get to create policies
37:53
Speaker 6: that directly affect us as a people. All my programs
37:57
Speaker 6: that I created, my youth program, I know it reads
38:01
Speaker 6: I'm a coach, but now more so a little bit
38:04
Speaker 6: more than that, we created a youth program Live the
38:07
Speaker 6: City Optimist over we've been at. Our program has been
38:11
Speaker 6: around for over forty years, almost forty years now.
38:15
Speaker 5: Is probably one of the top programs in the nation when.
38:18
Speaker 6: It comes to development of youth education wise as well
38:22
Speaker 6: as sports. And through our program, we're able to educate
38:27
Speaker 6: those kids. And through our program and through my political activism,
38:33
Speaker 6: I can go get those federal grant dollars.
38:36
Speaker 5: And when you look at the program, everybody wants to
38:38
Speaker 5: be like the program.
38:39
Speaker 6: They look at us as the as the shining star,
38:43
Speaker 6: and as the gold standards of program. So when I
38:46
Speaker 6: look at me running I win this race, I would
38:50
Speaker 6: create a district as the gold star and the standards
38:54
Speaker 6: of how every other black congressional district should look like
38:59
Speaker 6: and be. You know, my whole platform is about bringing
39:03
Speaker 6: back Black Wall Street to this district. You know, circulating
39:08
Speaker 6: the dollar, you know, bringing real jobs, not the fifteen
39:12
Speaker 6: dollars hour jobs. You know, Yes, I got to protect
39:15
Speaker 6: SNAP benefits in Medicare and Medicaid, but I don't expect
39:21
Speaker 6: with me as the congressman, to continue halving my people
39:25
Speaker 6: on SNAP after my.
39:28
Speaker 5: Six years because I'm only going to stay there six years.
39:30
Speaker 2: You just like that.
39:31
Speaker 1: They always say that, they always say that, but.
39:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not you got you would you would have
39:38
Speaker 4: to raise somebody or they would have to be somebody there.
39:43
Speaker 4: And let me not use the word raise, nurture and
39:46
Speaker 4: help the next person so that they can be ready,
39:49
Speaker 4: because there's not always a person who's right there at
39:52
Speaker 4: the time, and you don't want to just leave it.
39:55
Speaker 4: The work that you have, you know, have built and
39:58
Speaker 4: put your blood, sweat and tears too. So you know,
40:01
Speaker 4: you say six years, but I don't know.
40:04
Speaker 6: You know, there is a young man in this race,
40:08
Speaker 6: a candidate that's running in this race, and I say it.
40:12
Speaker 6: You know, I'll say things that normal candidates don't say,
40:15
Speaker 6: because I don't think I'm a normal candidate. You know
40:18
Speaker 6: that young man, I think, you know, I would take
40:20
Speaker 6: him and hire him and get him prepared to take
40:24
Speaker 6: over this job. Because again, when we look at this job,
40:28
Speaker 6: I'm losing money. You know, I'm taking a real l
40:31
Speaker 6: to go and do this job. This job only page
40:34
Speaker 6: one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. I know some people
40:37
Speaker 6: that's a lot of money, but you know, I'm willing
40:40
Speaker 6: to take the sacrifice to actually lose money to do
40:43
Speaker 6: this job. But my job would be to bring somebody
40:47
Speaker 6: else up, you know, within And if you look at
40:50
Speaker 6: my history, you look at my history, I mean the
40:53
Speaker 6: guys who worked for me, was it was Jeff Sanchez,
40:55
Speaker 6: now I work for the NBA Entertainment, a big teacher
40:58
Speaker 6: who owns House of Mac. Whether it was Pitt Buller
41:02
Speaker 6: where I found off the street trick Daddy Why who
41:05
Speaker 6: came out of prison and stayed with me and put
41:09
Speaker 6: him on the record and helped him with his career.
41:11
Speaker 6: More so just being an artist, being entrepreneurs. And so
41:14
Speaker 6: when you look at my history, I'm always bringing the
41:18
Speaker 6: next person up. I'm always teaching or reaching one teaching whatever.
41:22
Speaker 6: I've always said, hey, look, this is not a place
41:25
Speaker 6: where you're gonna retire. At this place where you're gonna
41:28
Speaker 6: get the knowledge and you're gonna go on and run
41:30
Speaker 6: your own business. And all of the guys who work
41:34
Speaker 6: for me, and all of the guys who came up
41:36
Speaker 6: under me, you know, they are doing very well.
41:39
Speaker 5: You know. That's why I laugh.
41:41
Speaker 6: At the record when Jay Z said, oh day made million,
41:44
Speaker 6: this made millions, I was like, Okay, well I got
41:46
Speaker 6: you by a long shot because I got a whole
41:48
Speaker 6: bunch of dudes on my list, on my list of
41:53
Speaker 6: guys who are very, very successful entrepreneurs and businessmen today.
41:58
Speaker 5: And so when I look at my congression district, I
42:01
Speaker 5: can do that.
42:01
Speaker 6: I can you know, bring I'm always going to bring
42:04
Speaker 6: another young guy up our lady and let them take over.
42:09
Speaker 5: You.
42:09
Speaker 6: Don't let them have it, because no, I'm not. I
42:12
Speaker 6: will not be there after six years. Trust me. I
42:15
Speaker 6: want to go on vacation right now. I'm in the
42:19
Speaker 6: third quarter of my life and I'm not gonna no.
42:22
Speaker 1: Way, You're not. You're not gonna stay forever.
42:25
Speaker 4: Like some of these guys where they can't even find
42:28
Speaker 4: Mitchell McConnell right now, they don't even know whether he's
42:30
Speaker 4: actually tomorrow is the deadline for them.
42:33
Speaker 2: You got to show proof for life, but.
42:35
Speaker 1: By tomorrow it's for real.
42:41
Speaker 4: I want to ask you then I'll kick it back
42:43
Speaker 4: to you. You because you were on the track of
42:45
Speaker 4: talking about the cases of your case, the case you
42:50
Speaker 4: fought where you won all the way at the Supreme
42:52
Speaker 4: Court level, and I just want to kind of circle
42:54
Speaker 4: back to that. I don't know if Johnny Cochran was
42:56
Speaker 4: your lawyer at the time. But he has defended you.
42:59
Speaker 4: He did while he was alive, right at one point,
43:02
Speaker 4: defend you on your First Amendment rights. Is that something
43:04
Speaker 4: that he just said publicly, because I know that he
43:07
Speaker 4: advocated for you, but I wondered if you actually worked
43:10
Speaker 4: with him.
43:11
Speaker 5: No, he advocated. He advocated for me. Uh uh.
43:15
Speaker 6: There was a lot of people involved that we called
43:18
Speaker 6: as as witnesses, you know, and and Johnny always advocated
43:22
Speaker 6: for me. Even even the guy will see them running
43:25
Speaker 6: for right now if they asked him questions when he
43:27
Speaker 6: was a federal judge at the time. Alsie asen and
43:31
Speaker 6: they have the right to sing and do and say
43:33
Speaker 6: the things that they want to say on the record.
43:35
Speaker 6: If we were obviously we were able to prevail, you know,
43:39
Speaker 6: and then you know, see we had what we had.
43:41
Speaker 6: We had two cases. Well a lot of people don't
43:43
Speaker 6: realize we have one case where the parody was protected
43:46
Speaker 6: by the First Amendment.
43:47
Speaker 5: And that's the case that was more saving comedy.
43:51
Speaker 6: What he is where you can do satar you know,
43:54
Speaker 6: Saturday Night Live file the brief on our behalf. Michael
43:57
Speaker 6: Jackson filed a brief against US yeah, yeah, most people
44:02
Speaker 6: don't know that because a lot of people were imitating
44:05
Speaker 6: him and Dolly Parton and they thought they were copyrighting
44:09
Speaker 6: and fringing. You know, you had to wear Alcovich and
44:12
Speaker 6: all that, Bobby Jimmy and all them back in the days,
44:14
Speaker 6: so you know, and there Saturday Night Live imitating people.
44:18
Speaker 5: So they didn't too much like that.
44:20
Speaker 6: But it was our free speech and it was our
44:23
Speaker 6: First Amendment right to be able to do those things.
44:26
Speaker 6: And so then the other case was, you know, nasay
44:29
Speaker 6: is going to be well, federal judge deemed it. I've seen,
44:32
Speaker 6: and I got the case overturned in the federal court.
44:35
Speaker 6: And now, mind you, if I don't get it overturned,
44:38
Speaker 6: then it would be case law no different than the
44:42
Speaker 6: Man Act, you know what I mean, that's one of
44:47
Speaker 6: the books, and a undred years ago nobody got it overturned,
44:51
Speaker 6: and at some point they can use that case law
44:54
Speaker 6: against you. And so I understood the importance. I could
44:58
Speaker 6: have left the record. Yeah, I mean, the first record
45:01
Speaker 6: to be deemed I've seen first record taken off the shelf.
45:04
Speaker 6: It had been a hell of a collective's on them.
45:06
Speaker 6: But I looked at it as more it was more
45:09
Speaker 6: important for everybody behind me, So I didn't know it
45:12
Speaker 6: was gonna be sexy Red Lotto and Lil Wayne and
45:15
Speaker 6: all the rest of these people coming behind me saying
45:18
Speaker 6: what they're saying on record, are me going on stage
45:21
Speaker 6: and doing what you see Ausha and Chris Brown is doing.
45:24
Speaker 6: You know, I fought for the right for these people
45:27
Speaker 6: to be able to express themselves in the way that
45:30
Speaker 6: they want to express themselves, because I know it was
45:32
Speaker 6: much more of a bigger issue than it was just me,
45:35
Speaker 6: and so you know, that's why it was very important
45:38
Speaker 6: that we got that case overturned. So they're gonna be
45:41
Speaker 6: using a mad act against us, you know, that's a
45:43
Speaker 6: whole enough story, But I just used that therefore for
45:47
Speaker 6: people to understand that if you leave these these laws
45:51
Speaker 6: on the book, then they can use them against you
45:54
Speaker 6: whenever they want to.
45:56
Speaker 4: So it could be eventually it could be on black
45:59
Speaker 4: and I'm proud is illegal as well as your point, like,
46:02
Speaker 4: because they started to they have put many of us
46:05
Speaker 4: on a list.
46:06
Speaker 1: This was under William Barr, who was the head of
46:10
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice under Trump in his first term.
46:13
Speaker 1: They had a list that they established called the Black
46:16
Speaker 1: identity extremist, right, and so if you make it, you
46:20
Speaker 1: could make it to that list by doing anything that
46:23
Speaker 1: they deem being an extremist. So if you just too
46:26
Speaker 1: love blackness too much and you out there protesting and fighting,
46:29
Speaker 1: who knows, they could make your voice and your your
46:32
Speaker 1: commentary illegal. So that's why I do support.
46:35
Speaker 4: I also understand the issue around lyrics and the words
46:42
Speaker 4: we say have in power, right, And I understand that,
46:46
Speaker 4: and you know, had some moments in my career where
46:49
Speaker 4: I challenged us as black folks to be more thoughtful
46:53
Speaker 4: about what we're putting into our children's ears, minds and
46:57
Speaker 4: all of that. At the same time, however, I support
47:02
Speaker 4: Kevin Lows and others who are fighting to ensure that
47:05
Speaker 4: we separate music from people's cases, their legal cases, because
47:11
Speaker 4: I don't think that one just because you created a
47:14
Speaker 4: song that should automatically deem you a criminal in any
47:17
Speaker 4: kind of legal matter. So I see the difference. I
47:21
Speaker 4: see both sides of it. I think there's always going
47:23
Speaker 4: to be two side songs to every conversation when it
47:26
Speaker 4: comes to black folks because we are disenfranchised so much,
47:29
Speaker 4: we have to be careful to the point that you
47:31
Speaker 4: made yeah.
47:33
Speaker 5: Yeah, I understand. I always look at both sides of
47:37
Speaker 5: the argument myself too.
47:38
Speaker 6: But you know what, I do a little tests all
47:40
Speaker 6: the time when I see people because it I'm a
47:44
Speaker 6: og artist. And there are people who came up on
47:47
Speaker 6: the music and say, my mom beat me. You know,
47:50
Speaker 6: they took my takeaway when they heard it. They saw
47:53
Speaker 6: the album cover on the wall and they took it
47:56
Speaker 6: down and I got punished or whatever it is. And
47:59
Speaker 6: then I would say to them, did you come out
48:02
Speaker 6: all right? And then they says, yeah, I'm okay. Well,
48:07
Speaker 6: they say I was corrupting the minds of young people.
48:10
Speaker 6: That's what see who the Norris Tucker said in typical
48:13
Speaker 6: and I'll go wife, And they said I was corrupting
48:17
Speaker 6: the minds of young people by putting out a record
48:20
Speaker 6: saying hey, we want some. And I said, and that's
48:23
Speaker 6: why I asked them all that, did you come out okay?
48:26
Speaker 5: Yeah? So what's your professor.
48:28
Speaker 6: I'm a doctor, I'm a lawyer, I'm a a congressman,
48:33
Speaker 6: I'm a cog, I'm this, I'm that, I'm yeah, I
48:36
Speaker 6: came out already.
48:37
Speaker 5: So they be baffled by when I asked them that.
48:39
Speaker 6: And so I say that to say this, that is
48:42
Speaker 6: my little test that at the end of the day,
48:46
Speaker 6: you know, music is no different than it's a form
48:49
Speaker 6: of entertainment, and it's really not taking that serious like
48:54
Speaker 6: most people would take it like, you know, because of
48:59
Speaker 6: me being a product of it, being the probably the
49:02
Speaker 6: first to put explicit lyrics on a record, and having
49:06
Speaker 6: a whole generation of people listen to it, engage in it,
49:10
Speaker 6: purchase it, dance to it, become a fan of it,
49:14
Speaker 6: and they all came out right.
49:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's I think it is.
49:18
Speaker 4: I think music is taken very seriously because you know,
49:23
Speaker 4: we've had music be.
49:24
Speaker 1: A big part of our freedom struggles.
49:26
Speaker 4: It has also been a big part of our spiritual connection,
49:30
Speaker 4: if you will, and so music is important. But I
49:34
Speaker 4: do think that there are genres right, and there is
49:37
Speaker 4: there is a such thing as entertainment. It always has been,
49:40
Speaker 4: which is why I refuse to.
49:41
Speaker 1: Condemn Young Miami. I know that spend that. I get it.
49:46
Speaker 4: The scammers and the boosters are going to jail, getting killed,
49:50
Speaker 4: all the things. I understand it. I don't disagree with it,
49:53
Speaker 4: and I think people should be allowed to speak to
49:57
Speaker 4: how it makes them feel and how how they want
49:59
Speaker 4: to protect their children. So I don't condemn see the
50:01
Speaker 4: lords Tucker. I think there are some things that she
50:04
Speaker 4: said that were one hundred percent right and that we
50:06
Speaker 4: have retro when we think back and sit down with
50:10
Speaker 4: our you know, with our history, we can look at
50:13
Speaker 4: how some of these things have been used against us. However,
50:17
Speaker 4: there are genres of everything. There's genres of music.
50:20
Speaker 1: Some of it.
50:21
Speaker 4: Nothing is going to be all clean and straight line
50:26
Speaker 4: all the time. And guess what, I don't want to
50:27
Speaker 4: live in that kind of world. I like spind that
50:30
Speaker 4: and that's just it.
50:31
Speaker 1: I like this song.
50:32
Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot of there's a lot of
50:35
Speaker 3: music for different people and for different times, you know,
50:37
Speaker 3: like you said, there's a lot of people. I grew
50:39
Speaker 3: up on some of the worst music in the world.
50:41
Speaker 3: And a lot of my friends who's college graduates and
50:44
Speaker 3: this and that. We was listening to Mob Deep and
50:46
Speaker 3: we listening to Mop We listening to you know, everybody,
50:51
Speaker 3: everybody that was the most gangster people in the world.
50:53
Speaker 3: And they none of them do nothing that was gangs,
50:56
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. So music is just we
50:58
Speaker 3: just enjoy a lot of people just like to enjoy
51:00
Speaker 3: it because it gives them a glance into something that
51:03
Speaker 3: they've actually never been involved in. So you know, it's
51:06
Speaker 3: just like a movie. And I tell people all the time,
51:08
Speaker 3: we like jay Z said, man scar Faced the actor,
51:13
Speaker 3: that more than Scarface the Rapid did for me, you know,
51:16
Speaker 3: it made me more criminal minded than Scarface the Rapid did.
51:19
Speaker 3: So that's just my perspective on that. But since we're
51:23
Speaker 3: talking about you being controversial and always saying called truck,
51:25
Speaker 3: I've seen this week that you was very angry on
51:28
Speaker 3: the internet about you said that you you were so
51:31
Speaker 3: mad that you agreed with Trump.
51:32
Speaker 2: So I knew that this You was pissed off.
51:36
Speaker 3: When I said when Luke said he agreed with Trump,
51:39
Speaker 3: and he said, I never thought out of you were Trump,
51:42
Speaker 3: you know, and he was talking you were talking about
51:44
Speaker 3: voting and ballots and people taking back. So explain to
51:48
Speaker 3: me what happened, because I want to understand what made
51:50
Speaker 3: you agree with Trump.
51:52
Speaker 5: So a large part of my anger is in my election.
51:56
Speaker 6: Right in my election, you have, you know, one of
52:02
Speaker 6: the candidates and I said, it's one of these two
52:05
Speaker 6: women candidates.
52:06
Speaker 5: In my election.
52:07
Speaker 6: So I didn't want to narrow it down to one individual,
52:10
Speaker 6: one person actually one of the women candidates told a
52:15
Speaker 6: friend of mine that told me about what the other
52:18
Speaker 6: woman candidate was doing, which was what they call ballot harvesty.
52:23
Speaker 6: You know, something that Trump has been talking about, but
52:28
Speaker 6: he didn't He don't talk about it in that manner.
52:31
Speaker 6: He doesn't put a name on what it actually is
52:35
Speaker 6: because Republicans do it too. And so I'm here in
52:39
Speaker 6: this race and get reports of people doing ballot harvesting.
52:45
Speaker 6: People going to a senior's house and they can look
52:48
Speaker 6: on an app and the app tells you that this
52:51
Speaker 6: person received a male in ballot, and this person received
52:55
Speaker 6: a male in ballot, but they did not turn the
52:58
Speaker 6: ballot in. And so you can identify those individuals. Look
53:03
Speaker 6: at the address, call them phone. That number is on
53:07
Speaker 6: on all of the data reports. You can call them up,
53:12
Speaker 6: or you can go to the house and actually go
53:15
Speaker 6: in and say, hey, look, Ms Martha. I know you're
53:16
Speaker 6: eighty five years old and you don't want to go
53:19
Speaker 6: to the uh.
53:21
Speaker 5: You don't want to get in your.
53:22
Speaker 6: Car and go to the polls because your gas price
53:25
Speaker 6: is high, your food price is high, your insurance and
53:28
Speaker 6: your tax and all these things out of control. And
53:31
Speaker 6: I know you're gonna have time to go and drop
53:33
Speaker 6: this ballot off. I'll come drop it off for you.
53:37
Speaker 5: And so these are things that these guys, these these.
53:42
Speaker 6: One of these individuals are doing, maybe a couple of
53:45
Speaker 6: them are doing it because that is something that's customary
53:48
Speaker 6: in in uh in politics, which is a sad thing
53:53
Speaker 6: because it's illegal to do.
53:55
Speaker 5: That, but nobody talks about it.
53:58
Speaker 6: You know, Trump talks about about Yeah, he says, yeah,
54:02
Speaker 6: it's voting is voted fraud with mail in ballots, and
54:07
Speaker 6: this is what That's why I say I agree with
54:09
Speaker 6: him in this case, and I hate to being agreeing
54:12
Speaker 6: with in agreeance with him, you know, which he's always
54:16
Speaker 6: accused the Democratic Party of doing. And you know, I
54:21
Speaker 6: keep it, I keep it. I'm just I'm just different.
54:24
Speaker 6: I'm not your traditional Democrat. If a Democrat is making
54:27
Speaker 6: a mistake, I'm gonna call it out. If a Republican
54:30
Speaker 6: is making a mistake, I'm gonna call it out for
54:32
Speaker 6: the mere fact though, you know, it's about the people, man.
54:35
Speaker 5: The people should not be defrauded.
54:37
Speaker 6: People should not be growth going and taking advantage of
54:41
Speaker 6: seniors who can't afford to even take the ballot to
54:44
Speaker 6: a box. They shouldn't be running again anyway, because they
54:48
Speaker 6: put these people in these predicaments because they're a career politicians.
54:52
Speaker 6: They should be out, they should be fired, you know
54:55
Speaker 6: what I'm saying. At the same time, so it deeply
54:58
Speaker 6: upseted me that they're actually doing that in a Democratic
55:02
Speaker 6: primary race. I mean, if you gonna cheat somebody, cheat
55:05
Speaker 6: the Republicans, which I would never do because I'm not
55:08
Speaker 6: a cheating person, but cheat them, don't cheat your fellow Democrat.
55:11
Speaker 6: But at the same time, say that you're running a
55:15
Speaker 6: real clean race when you're doing illegal things because you
55:18
Speaker 6: got a ton of money and you are desperate and
55:20
Speaker 6: you could do those things and so on that. On
55:23
Speaker 6: that note, I agree with him. But at the same time,
55:27
Speaker 6: you know, we have to do we have to do better,
55:30
Speaker 6: and that's how we get good representation. But and that's
55:34
Speaker 6: how you get the wrong representation. You know, you literally
55:37
Speaker 6: taking the old lady vote and then opening up the ballot.
55:41
Speaker 6: If it's rolled in ink, and if it's not for
55:44
Speaker 6: your candidate, you throw it in the garbage.
55:46
Speaker 5: If it's rolling pencil, then you scratch it out. And
55:49
Speaker 5: then what do you do?
55:50
Speaker 6: You are then put it in the in the box
55:53
Speaker 6: I mean, that's what these people are doing. That's totally illegal,
55:56
Speaker 6: you know, and that's how we end up with the
55:58
Speaker 6: wrong representation when we thought we vote for the right person.
56:02
Speaker 5: Hm.
56:03
Speaker 1: Hm, that's interesting. So that's what ballot? What is it harvesting?
56:08
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like harvesting the fruit.
56:09
Speaker 1: That's what it's called.
56:10
Speaker 4: So this is I just want to make sure to
56:12
Speaker 4: say it again for my own understanding. It is when
56:16
Speaker 4: candidates go to people, probably mainly elderly and disabe or
56:22
Speaker 4: other abled individuals, and tell them you don't have to
56:26
Speaker 4: worry about taking your ballot and I'll take it in
56:29
Speaker 4: and take it in and mail it for you. So, now,
56:32
Speaker 4: what are you saying happens at that point that if
56:35
Speaker 4: they look at the ballot, which they.
56:37
Speaker 1: Are going to do for the most.
56:39
Speaker 4: Part, and they find out that the pert that most
56:42
Speaker 4: of these people didn't vote for them or whatever you think,
56:44
Speaker 4: that that's where voter disenfranchisement happens, when maybe some of
56:48
Speaker 4: them get lost or like, what do you think is
56:50
Speaker 4: the issue?
56:51
Speaker 1: You don't you don't feel like.
56:52
Speaker 3: They're said the change he said, he's change changing, or
56:55
Speaker 3: they throw them away if they if they're in ink
56:57
Speaker 3: and it's not for the candidate. They throw them away
57:00
Speaker 3: and if it's in pensive then they change it.
57:03
Speaker 6: Yeah, it gets It's just more interesting than that because
57:08
Speaker 6: you have these ballot harvests. They go to senior citizen
57:13
Speaker 6: and homes on a year round basis. It's that's their business.
57:17
Speaker 6: They go there on a senior citizen on a year
57:20
Speaker 6: round basis. They take the seniors to the beach, they
57:23
Speaker 6: take the seniors to the park, they take them to
57:26
Speaker 6: the movies, they they take them to bowling, they buy
57:30
Speaker 6: dinners for them, They build a relationship with.
57:33
Speaker 5: Them, and they know them.
57:35
Speaker 6: Oh, hey, Bob, there's Bob. Bob does all this poking around.
57:39
Speaker 6: Bob then say look here, y'all, give me a balete.
57:42
Speaker 5: I'll take it and fill it out.
57:44
Speaker 6: For you guys, and and drop it in the box
57:46
Speaker 6: for you. That's a ballot harvest. The guys who get
57:50
Speaker 6: paid plenty of money by a campaign who has a
57:54
Speaker 6: bunch of money and they paid them as a consultant
57:58
Speaker 6: because they have a relationship with the senior home and
58:01
Speaker 6: they'll grab all those ballots and what they'll end up
58:04
Speaker 6: doing is get those individuals.
58:06
Speaker 5: To both for them.
58:07
Speaker 6: Why yeah, and it only it really really only a
58:12
Speaker 6: large part of it only happens in African American senior
58:15
Speaker 6: senior homes.
58:16
Speaker 5: I went and spoke the other day at a senior.
58:19
Speaker 6: Home John Knox in in Pompado Beach.
58:24
Speaker 5: All white.
58:25
Speaker 6: My opponent Debbie Uh, she shows up to the only
58:30
Speaker 6: all white forums, showed up there, and they're not gonna
58:34
Speaker 6: do those folks.
58:35
Speaker 5: They ain't no batter hobst going up in there.
58:39
Speaker 6: It's a five star senior home for uh, and it
58:42
Speaker 6: ain't no black people up in there, so they ain't
58:44
Speaker 6: gonna do them.
58:45
Speaker 5: Now, you're gonna have to go.
58:46
Speaker 6: There as as a lake of the fish as a candidate,
58:50
Speaker 6: and you're gonna to speak to them people, and then
58:51
Speaker 6: they're gonna make their own decisions. Nobody's gonna harvest still ballot.
58:55
Speaker 6: Matter of fact, the UPS is gonna come to.
58:58
Speaker 1: You know, to come figure up the US.
59:00
Speaker 5: Yeah, they click it up by doors.
59:02
Speaker 2: So what do you think should happening?
59:03
Speaker 3: Because my thing is this when I look at when
59:05
Speaker 3: I listen to that, right, there's an issue because these
59:08
Speaker 3: these elderly people probably can't make it to the balance,
59:10
Speaker 3: right they either mail an they ballots or somebody. So
59:13
Speaker 3: what do you think the process to where they're not
59:16
Speaker 3: disenfranchised and they actually getting a vote right and it's
59:19
Speaker 3: not taking away from them. What do you think needs
59:21
Speaker 3: to be done to protect those things from happening and
59:24
Speaker 3: actually protect those seniors vote from getting the vote that
59:26
Speaker 3: they want to have.
59:28
Speaker 6: Well, it needs to I mean you you know when
59:31
Speaker 6: you when Donald Trump in the federal government controls who
59:38
Speaker 6: is the head of the of of our of our mail,
59:44
Speaker 6: you know that person you need to change. You need
59:46
Speaker 6: to change how you do business if you know that
59:50
Speaker 6: these things are occurring, you know during election time, you
59:54
Speaker 6: know that these people are suffering, and a lot of
59:57
Speaker 6: people are disability and you know they're in these situation. Wait,
1:00:00
Speaker 6: say hey, look you can put a drop box right
1:00:03
Speaker 6: there on the site. You know you know what I'm saying.
1:00:06
Speaker 6: It's your little little simple things. You can you can
1:00:09
Speaker 6: have somebody go door to door and say, hey, look
1:00:11
Speaker 6: today we're going to be you know, put your I
1:00:14
Speaker 6: got the big bag. I'm from the I am from
1:00:17
Speaker 6: the I work as al and just put it in
1:00:22
Speaker 6: the bag right now. And that male carrier then takes
1:00:24
Speaker 6: it and on that particular day and takes it, you know,
1:00:28
Speaker 6: because they can't get to the pope. You know, if
1:00:30
Speaker 6: they can't get to the pole, then okay, you got
1:00:33
Speaker 6: your ballot all right. Now, there needs to be more
1:00:35
Speaker 6: regulation when it comes to senior homes. They got to
1:00:38
Speaker 6: do a better job and not allowing these people on
1:00:41
Speaker 6: their campus to be taking these people and you know,
1:00:46
Speaker 6: taking them and grooming them to be able to use
1:00:49
Speaker 6: them for the for quoting purposes. They need to identify
1:00:54
Speaker 6: that also. But then again, a lot of these senior homes,
1:00:57
Speaker 6: the directors are put in by elected officials, and these
1:01:01
Speaker 6: elected officials put these directors in allowing these people to
1:01:06
Speaker 6: do that. So you know, it's again the solution is
1:01:10
Speaker 6: you know, because I'm like you, it's all about the.
1:01:13
Speaker 5: Solution of what do we do.
1:01:14
Speaker 6: What do we do is not allow any outside entity
1:01:19
Speaker 6: to come into the senior homes. It's no different than
1:01:22
Speaker 6: the high school because a lot of these people are elementary,
1:01:26
Speaker 6: our kindergarten. A lot of these people are in the
1:01:29
Speaker 6: stages where they need to be taken care of. That's
1:01:31
Speaker 6: why they're in a senior home.
1:01:33
Speaker 5: You know.
1:01:34
Speaker 6: It's like you know, you send your kid the elementary
1:01:37
Speaker 6: and there they are to be taken care. If you
1:01:38
Speaker 6: send them daycare, there they'll be taking care. You ain't
1:01:41
Speaker 6: letting anybody walk in that daycare. That daycare is protected,
1:01:45
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. When that mama dropped that
1:01:47
Speaker 6: baby off in that daycare, anybody and everybody ain't coming
1:01:50
Speaker 6: up in a daycare. You're going to have to be
1:01:52
Speaker 6: a part of the staff of that daycare in order
1:01:55
Speaker 6: for you to be walking there. And we can put
1:01:58
Speaker 6: those type of measures in place where outside entities don't
1:02:02
Speaker 6: come into these senior homes and these disability facilities to
1:02:07
Speaker 6: do these type of things.
1:02:09
Speaker 4: No, I hear you on that, And I'm wondering, we
1:02:12
Speaker 4: got to check to see if this is happening in
1:02:14
Speaker 4: New York because it may be the same.
1:02:16
Speaker 1: You know, I want to be able to say we
1:02:17
Speaker 1: don't do that in New York, but you.
1:02:20
Speaker 4: People probably don't think it happens in Florida. You know,
1:02:23
Speaker 4: it's just that's that's actually it's predatory. Really, I mean,
1:02:27
Speaker 4: you can't trust because humans are going to get over
1:02:31
Speaker 4: if they can. Some humans, a lot of humans, and
1:02:35
Speaker 4: you know, and that's that's an unfair way to win
1:02:37
Speaker 4: an election.
1:02:38
Speaker 6: So hey, you they talk about that's why they're talking
1:02:42
Speaker 6: about the girls doing the record talking about the scammers
1:02:44
Speaker 6: and the boosters.
1:02:45
Speaker 4: What's the difference, Well, we said we always say that
1:02:48
Speaker 4: the main thing, there's a lot of that's right. Let's
1:02:57
Speaker 4: talk about popularity over real public service. You know, some people,
1:03:03
Speaker 4: because they are popular, they believe that they are entitled
1:03:08
Speaker 4: to position to support to whatever you know, to yeah
1:03:12
Speaker 4: to the support and votes, or you know, or for
1:03:16
Speaker 4: people to whatever they want to do to just get
1:03:18
Speaker 4: behind them. But public service and popularity are not the
1:03:23
Speaker 4: same thing. Sometimes you have people who are great public
1:03:26
Speaker 4: servants that you never know their names.
1:03:29
Speaker 1: You talk a little bit.
1:03:30
Speaker 4: About that that transition for you from yes, you are
1:03:34
Speaker 4: very popular individual, but having to in many ways humble
1:03:38
Speaker 4: yourself in communities around people. I know I have to
1:03:41
Speaker 4: all the time that I'm nowhere. I'm not Uncle Luke,
1:03:44
Speaker 4: but you know I'm well known. And nevertheless, when I
1:03:48
Speaker 4: go into communities, I have to remember that people do
1:03:50
Speaker 4: not care about your last hit, they don't care about
1:03:53
Speaker 4: your book you wrote and all of that.
1:03:54
Speaker 1: They want to know what can you do to serve
1:03:56
Speaker 1: the people?
1:03:58
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a I mean, it's a great, great question
1:04:03
Speaker 6: because I look at the qualification pick right, they sent
1:04:10
Speaker 6: us tell hass it.
1:04:11
Speaker 5: We all got to go in and fill out.
1:04:12
Speaker 6: Perform to qualify, and nowhere on the qualifying form it
1:04:18
Speaker 6: tells you that you have to.
1:04:20
Speaker 5: Perform x amount of hours of community.
1:04:22
Speaker 6: Service, which I think you should you or to qualify.
1:04:26
Speaker 6: It shouldn't be just about a check. It should be
1:04:28
Speaker 6: about your community service. What have you done to qualify
1:04:33
Speaker 6: you to be able to run for public office? To
1:04:36
Speaker 6: be representing people when you never represent people before, because
1:04:41
Speaker 6: you have a lot of money, and you can buy
1:04:44
Speaker 6: an election, because most elections are purchased anyway, because they
1:04:49
Speaker 6: look at an.
1:04:50
Speaker 5: Individual and how many people that are voting, and.
1:04:52
Speaker 6: Say, let's put a number on how often do I
1:04:55
Speaker 6: need to send information to that person eight times? It's
1:05:00
Speaker 6: going to cost me this amount of money to get
1:05:02
Speaker 6: information to that person eight times in order for me,
1:05:06
Speaker 6: in order for me to convince them to vote for me. So, yes,
1:05:10
Speaker 6: there is a thing of popularity, and then there's a
1:05:13
Speaker 6: thing of I got enough money, I can buy this
1:05:16
Speaker 6: election and create them, then create the popularity for myself.
1:05:21
Speaker 6: Everybody is not built for elections, I think you know,
1:05:26
Speaker 6: like for me, Yes, I have name recognition that saves
1:05:29
Speaker 6: a ton of money.
1:05:30
Speaker 5: I don't have to explain to.
1:05:31
Speaker 6: Nobody what I'm all about, who I am, where I
1:05:34
Speaker 6: came from.
1:05:35
Speaker 5: When it comes to South Florida.
1:05:37
Speaker 6: If I was running president of the United States, then
1:05:40
Speaker 6: that would be a different story because the average person
1:05:43
Speaker 6: in Oklahoma might not know who I am. But the
1:05:46
Speaker 6: average person here has grown up with me. And I
1:05:49
Speaker 6: think you have to have did a large part of
1:05:53
Speaker 6: community service to be able to get on the stage
1:05:55
Speaker 6: and say, you know, like I look at my opponents
1:05:58
Speaker 6: and I say, the Debbie you know who was an
1:06:04
Speaker 6: incumbent who jumped in our race, which I think is
1:06:07
Speaker 6: disgusting that she's in our race.
1:06:10
Speaker 5: She never held a job.
1:06:12
Speaker 6: She went portrayed from the University of Florida into politics,
1:06:16
Speaker 6: and she ended up being in an elected official started
1:06:19
Speaker 6: in nineteen ninety two. She never held the job, she
1:06:22
Speaker 6: never owned a small business. But yeah, and still she
1:06:26
Speaker 6: gets to get elected or reelected. It's because of money,
1:06:31
Speaker 6: because you can't relate to a person who has a
1:06:35
Speaker 6: job and who has gotten fired. You can't relate to
1:06:38
Speaker 6: a person who owns a small business knowing that, oh
1:06:41
Speaker 6: I got to rob Pete and pay Paul to get
1:06:43
Speaker 6: these bills done, and I actually started a small business.
1:06:46
Speaker 6: So how can you relate to these people. You never
1:06:49
Speaker 6: went and did community service, you know. So I look
1:06:52
Speaker 6: at each and every one of the candidates in this race,
1:06:55
Speaker 6: and then I look at myself and I say, okay,
1:06:58
Speaker 6: what qualifies you? Look owned a small business, got tons
1:07:02
Speaker 6: of artists, platinum records, tons of employees that became very
1:07:07
Speaker 6: successful people. I started a youth program. In my youth program,
1:07:10
Speaker 6: it's very successful program, over thirty five years old. A
1:07:15
Speaker 6: lot of top athletes, whether it's Chad Johnson and Davonte Friedman, was.
1:07:19
Speaker 5: You named it.
1:07:20
Speaker 6: I went and donated my services, and when my career
1:07:24
Speaker 6: died down, and went out and coached, and I coached
1:07:26
Speaker 6: some very fine guys like Amari Cooper and Carlton Davis
1:07:30
Speaker 6: and Sean Joseph and you name it.
1:07:32
Speaker 5: All these are very successful guys. But more importantly, I'm
1:07:35
Speaker 5: proud of the young ladies and the young men.
1:07:38
Speaker 6: Who came through my program, who are very successful individuals
1:07:42
Speaker 6: who went off to college, came back, got great jobs
1:07:45
Speaker 6: because of the education that we created.
1:07:47
Speaker 5: In my program.
1:07:49
Speaker 6: And I rebuilt at built parks, got money to build
1:07:54
Speaker 6: these organizations in these days, and I'm able to go
1:07:57
Speaker 6: and leverage my popularity with Adidas.
1:08:01
Speaker 5: I got an Adida's shirt on I'm sponsible adealers. I
1:08:04
Speaker 5: didn't jump out the.
1:08:05
Speaker 6: Window when Kanye West and everybody else said, because I
1:08:09
Speaker 6: know the amount of money Adidas put into my program,
1:08:13
Speaker 6: not my pockets, but into my community. So I can
1:08:17
Speaker 6: go and you know, use my popularity with Adidas and
1:08:21
Speaker 6: get broke a fifty million dollar deal with the entire
1:08:26
Speaker 6: school district so that they can have all the kids
1:08:29
Speaker 6: can have uniforms at the top of the line, and
1:08:31
Speaker 6: they could generate money.
1:08:33
Speaker 5: Through through through through their Adida's deal, you know.
1:08:37
Speaker 6: And so again, these are things that I do on
1:08:40
Speaker 6: a regular basis, you know, And I think those are
1:08:43
Speaker 6: the things that qualify you to be able to run
1:08:47
Speaker 6: and be able to expand on these type of things,
1:08:50
Speaker 6: you know, you know, on the next level as being
1:08:53
Speaker 6: the elected official and using the vision to be able
1:08:58
Speaker 6: to go and get some things done.
1:09:00
Speaker 5: I mean, look look at my strict.
1:09:02
Speaker 6: The port has not been expanded for sixty years now,
1:09:05
Speaker 6: mind you. The same people don't running against have held
1:09:08
Speaker 6: office a combined total of sixty two years. These people
1:09:13
Speaker 6: that are running who want to represent the same district
1:09:17
Speaker 6: combined total of sixty two years. The port has never
1:09:20
Speaker 6: been expanded in sixty years. So my plan calls for
1:09:24
Speaker 6: a five billion dollars port expansion. I can get the
1:09:26
Speaker 6: money from the infrastructure bill. We got a shortfall of
1:09:29
Speaker 6: one hundred and forty thousand homes. My plan calls for
1:09:33
Speaker 6: built by us for us, not built by them for them,
1:09:37
Speaker 6: but built by us for us. Another one billion dollars
1:09:40
Speaker 6: in the budget that I can take out to build
1:09:42
Speaker 6: affordable houses right here, my kids, a Prince's program. I
1:09:46
Speaker 6: got another one hundred and fifty million dollars I take
1:09:48
Speaker 6: out of the budget. Small businesses. People want to own
1:09:51
Speaker 6: small business, they want to enhance their business, another one
1:09:54
Speaker 6: hundred million dollars. Hey, look, I'm in an entertainment business.
1:09:57
Speaker 6: We don't have a tax credit here in Florida, which
1:10:01
Speaker 6: we should. I can create a tax credit, give another
1:10:04
Speaker 6: two hundred and fifty million dollars and encourage people to
1:10:08
Speaker 6: come down and shoot their movies and do productions, and
1:10:11
Speaker 6: give a fifty percent tax credit for people in my
1:10:14
Speaker 6: district to be able to do that. That's creating jobs,
1:10:17
Speaker 6: that's creating opportunities, but that's doing it with a vision.
1:10:20
Speaker 6: Not one candidate in this race has ever raised any
1:10:25
Speaker 6: of these these concerns are thought outside of the box
1:10:30
Speaker 6: to get these things done, and the money is sitting
1:10:32
Speaker 6: there available for us. And so that's the type of
1:10:35
Speaker 6: candidate I am. That's a different person. But you got
1:10:38
Speaker 6: to be aware of that. You got to have built
1:10:40
Speaker 6: some parks. You got to have identify twenty six million
1:10:44
Speaker 6: dollars to rebuild a park in over Town, apply to community,
1:10:49
Speaker 6: and another sixteen million dollars to rebuild one in my
1:10:53
Speaker 6: in my park. You got to be creative, You got
1:10:55
Speaker 6: to know where the money and you got to go
1:10:56
Speaker 6: fight for it.
1:10:58
Speaker 3: The evolution is just just watching where you come from
1:11:02
Speaker 3: being a fan, just seeing your plight and hip hop
1:11:05
Speaker 3: and just growing into this individual.
1:11:07
Speaker 5: You know.
1:11:08
Speaker 3: Another controversial thing I remember a lot like last year
1:11:12
Speaker 3: right before the election, where you interview Kamala Harris right,
1:11:16
Speaker 3: and you apologize for your take on her, and that
1:11:19
Speaker 3: interview was really it was really touching to me because
1:11:21
Speaker 3: you was mad enough to admit, hey, I made a mistake,
1:11:24
Speaker 3: I misjudge you, and then I started doing my research
1:11:27
Speaker 3: and the communication. I know, Black women was probably trying
1:11:30
Speaker 3: to kill you before y'all did that interview because they
1:11:33
Speaker 3: wasn't playing about that but just to see you take
1:11:35
Speaker 3: ownership and just step into that interview. And it was
1:11:38
Speaker 3: a real touch in interview and it was one of
1:11:40
Speaker 3: the dopest interviews I had seen. So I just want
1:11:42
Speaker 3: to congratulate.
1:11:43
Speaker 2: What was that like?
1:11:44
Speaker 5: And man, I appreciate it what it was like, it
1:11:49
Speaker 5: was how it came about.
1:11:52
Speaker 6: Like I said, I wrote a column because you know
1:11:54
Speaker 6: what I did after I ran for office, I would
1:11:58
Speaker 6: write this column in the Miami Times. It was something
1:12:01
Speaker 6: similar to Village Voice. I think they owned by the
1:12:03
Speaker 6: same per company. Where you can be who you want
1:12:07
Speaker 6: to be, you can exercity, you can write how you
1:12:09
Speaker 6: really want to write, but you know they still, you know,
1:12:13
Speaker 6: do their fact checking. So I wrote the column and
1:12:16
Speaker 6: it was a very scathing column about everything that everybody
1:12:20
Speaker 6: else mentioned about it as before when she decided to
1:12:25
Speaker 6: run for president, and the most the greatest thing ever happened.
1:12:32
Speaker 6: And this is what most men don't do. And I
1:12:34
Speaker 6: encouraged men to do this. Lady got on the phone
1:12:39
Speaker 6: and called me up. I remember, like it was yesterday.
1:12:42
Speaker 6: I was working my son out, practiced training him baseball,
1:12:46
Speaker 6: ye out, just sweating and hoping that somebody called me
1:12:50
Speaker 6: to distract him. Because he wanted water and he wasn't
1:12:53
Speaker 6: getting none, and so she called me right then it was,
1:12:56
Speaker 6: you know, and we had a conversation, Hey, look, I
1:12:59
Speaker 6: want to talk to you about your little article, you know.
1:13:01
Speaker 5: And I was like, okay, who is this, this Senator Harris?
1:13:06
Speaker 6: And I was like, okay, you know, so I had
1:13:09
Speaker 6: all the respect in the world for her to step
1:13:12
Speaker 6: to me about something that I said, you know, in
1:13:16
Speaker 6: a column where most men are going around the corner
1:13:19
Speaker 6: and be part powering or if you see something about me,
1:13:22
Speaker 6: and they won't never step to another man, like just
1:13:25
Speaker 6: like this lady. She stepped to me and was like, okay,
1:13:27
Speaker 6: let's have a conversation about the entire column, in the
1:13:31
Speaker 6: entire article and things that that people sing. And we
1:13:36
Speaker 6: we literally stayed on the phone for about two hours.
1:13:39
Speaker 5: Wow, They're just having.
1:13:40
Speaker 6: A conversation and about who she is as a person,
1:13:44
Speaker 6: what she represents.
1:13:46
Speaker 5: You know. It got even deep, you know. I was like, oh,
1:13:49
Speaker 5: you ain't.
1:13:49
Speaker 6: No real sister, you know, and all that there, like
1:13:51
Speaker 6: everybody else says, you know, in a joking way, and well, okay,
1:13:55
Speaker 6: all right.
1:13:56
Speaker 5: What you put in your greens? I put in that, look,
1:14:00
Speaker 5: ham Hawk, I put in their turkey.
1:14:02
Speaker 6: But she was like, I put turkey in there, but
1:14:05
Speaker 6: you he was a straightening code when you was young
1:14:08
Speaker 6: where they put it straight in com man.
1:14:10
Speaker 5: Oh my mom put it on it on the stove. Okay,
1:14:12
Speaker 5: you know, something messing with her? Right, and it be
1:14:15
Speaker 5: game O.
1:14:16
Speaker 6: So you tested me, You're really trying to test and
1:14:18
Speaker 6: see whether I'm a real black woman.
1:14:19
Speaker 5: And it's like, okay, I'll let you know right now.
1:14:22
Speaker 6: I keep my gun on me, like right, and so no,
1:14:27
Speaker 6: we we just we hit it off to the point
1:14:29
Speaker 6: where the interview you saw, I actually went and volunteered
1:14:34
Speaker 6: my services on the campaign trail, you know, when she
1:14:38
Speaker 6: was running for president the first time before she became,
1:14:42
Speaker 6: before she became you know, Joe Biden's running.
1:14:46
Speaker 4: Right right right, because people forget that that she was
1:14:49
Speaker 4: actually a Democratic nominee, I mean Democratic candidate for president first.
1:14:54
Speaker 4: But where does that come from? Why do so many
1:14:56
Speaker 4: people question because like, she is black?
1:14:59
Speaker 1: To me?
1:15:00
Speaker 4: When I see her, I see a black woman. Before
1:15:03
Speaker 4: I met her, obviously, I've met her many times, but
1:15:05
Speaker 4: I don't see this thing. I don't why do people
1:15:08
Speaker 4: think that she's not black? What is it that maybe
1:15:12
Speaker 4: myself I don't know one of y'all could answer.
1:15:13
Speaker 2: I never I never didn't think she was black, So
1:15:16
Speaker 2: I can't really answer that.
1:15:17
Speaker 1: Well, where did that come from in your mind?
1:15:19
Speaker 4: Was it because are you one of those people that
1:15:21
Speaker 4: be sitting around watching Fox News Channel listening to them?
1:15:25
Speaker 5: No? No, no no.
1:15:26
Speaker 6: So my article wasn't really it was I was messing
1:15:31
Speaker 6: with her because I was saying, that's what people were saying.
1:15:33
Speaker 6: But my article wasn't really a down the lines of
1:15:36
Speaker 6: whether questioning whether she was black.
1:15:38
Speaker 5: You know, I look doing my research on her. I
1:15:42
Speaker 5: do know she was black. My article was more down
1:15:45
Speaker 5: the lines.
1:15:46
Speaker 6: Of policy, how how her travels up to you know,
1:15:50
Speaker 6: to where she was, and those those were that's what
1:15:54
Speaker 6: my article.
1:15:55
Speaker 1: Would you say?
1:15:56
Speaker 6: I said to her, I said, well, people are questioning
1:15:59
Speaker 6: whether you're black.
1:15:59
Speaker 5: Let me sir, you're in a joking way, and we were.
1:16:02
Speaker 6: But where that comes from, that is the Republican Party.
1:16:06
Speaker 6: The Republican Party, Steve Banning, all them. They message well,
1:16:10
Speaker 6: they message better than than than the Democratic Party, and
1:16:13
Speaker 6: they're able to create narratives and they're able to get
1:16:17
Speaker 6: some of us, and they don't necessarily mean it's a
1:16:20
Speaker 6: celebrity to then push their narratives, whether it's on Twitter
1:16:24
Speaker 6: or whether it's on social media that you know, they
1:16:26
Speaker 6: question whether or not she's black. I mean she comes
1:16:29
Speaker 6: down the same damn near the same lineage as I have.
1:16:33
Speaker 6: I mean, my dad is Jamaican, her parents, her dadd
1:16:35
Speaker 6: is Jamaican.
1:16:36
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
1:16:37
Speaker 6: I think it's dad Jamaican, mom Jamaica is one of
1:16:39
Speaker 6: them Indian and you know, my mama is Bahamian. So
1:16:43
Speaker 6: so I would never you know, people people questioned my
1:16:46
Speaker 6: blackness and I laugh at them.
1:16:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, until we got to Kamala Harris. If you were
1:16:51
Speaker 4: any kind of black, you were black. In fact, it's
1:16:54
Speaker 4: it's been it's a very I don't want to say
1:16:57
Speaker 4: it's a racist trope, but it has been used as
1:17:00
Speaker 4: a racist trope against our communities that when people tried
1:17:03
Speaker 4: to insert that they were you know something else, Oh
1:17:06
Speaker 4: I'm Indian or I'm this or that, and they're like, yeah, no,
1:17:09
Speaker 4: if there was even a drop of blackness in you,
1:17:12
Speaker 4: you were black. And then when we got to Kamala Harris,
1:17:14
Speaker 4: it became that, well, no, she's not black because of
1:17:18
Speaker 4: you know other things that was in her bloodline. And
1:17:20
Speaker 4: I just think it's misogyny, and and it was, you
1:17:24
Speaker 4: know it was. It was misogyny. And it was also
1:17:27
Speaker 4: like a sort of like a reverse mind game on
1:17:30
Speaker 4: a lot of our people who actually fell for when
1:17:32
Speaker 4: really whether she was black or not was not important
1:17:35
Speaker 4: because guess what, it's a whole non black person there now,
1:17:38
Speaker 4: So what about that?
1:17:40
Speaker 2: You know, it's a.
1:17:41
Speaker 1: Whole, completely, completely not.
1:17:44
Speaker 4: Black person who also is a danger to black communities.
1:17:48
Speaker 4: And we see that through the attacks on diversity, equity
1:17:51
Speaker 4: and inclusion and so many healthcare as you mentioned, the
1:17:55
Speaker 4: list goes on and on, and I just want you,
1:17:57
Speaker 4: as you're closing out with us today, to tell me
1:18:01
Speaker 4: because when you talk.
1:18:03
Speaker 1: About going to Congress.
1:18:04
Speaker 4: In fact, we just interviewed last night Donovan McKinney, who
1:18:08
Speaker 4: is running for Congress in Michigan, in the thirteenth district
1:18:13
Speaker 4: in Michigan, and hopefully by the time this airs, I
1:18:16
Speaker 4: don't even know what episode we're on right now, but
1:18:18
Speaker 4: by the time it airs, I pray that he would
1:18:22
Speaker 4: have won his election. We have sent to people, if
1:18:26
Speaker 4: I'm in New York, why do I care about Michigan?
1:18:28
Speaker 4: And I'm sure they are folks to say, well, why
1:18:29
Speaker 4: if I'm in North Carolina, should I care about Florida?
1:18:33
Speaker 4: And the reason why is because when a person goes
1:18:37
Speaker 4: to Congress, they are not just representing the people of
1:18:41
Speaker 4: the district that helped to get them in Congress. They
1:18:45
Speaker 4: are representing and making decisions on behalf of folks, not
1:18:48
Speaker 4: just in America, but all over the world. If we
1:18:51
Speaker 4: look at the conflict right now Israel Palestine, and I'm
1:18:54
Speaker 4: not even gonna call it a conflict, If we look
1:18:56
Speaker 4: at the genocide that has taking place in the Middle
1:19:00
Speaker 4: East and the wars in Iran and all of that.
1:19:04
Speaker 4: The politics of America and how congressional members and senators
1:19:09
Speaker 4: vote dictate what happens and how much money is being
1:19:13
Speaker 4: spent to disenfranchise and harm people in other parts of
1:19:17
Speaker 4: the world. American, the US government, United States cong congressional
1:19:23
Speaker 4: members and senators literally helped to set the tone for
1:19:28
Speaker 4: what happens across the entire world and certainly across this nation.
1:19:33
Speaker 4: So if you're listening to Uncle Luke right now, don't
1:19:36
Speaker 4: be sitting here and saying, oh, what he just down
1:19:39
Speaker 4: there in Florida.
1:19:40
Speaker 6: Nah.
1:19:40
Speaker 4: If you are in North Carolina, you can give money
1:19:43
Speaker 4: to his campaign. You can also get up and say,
1:19:46
Speaker 4: you know what I'm going to I'm going to show
1:19:51
Speaker 4: up in Florida and support knocking on doors.
1:19:53
Speaker 1: I know family members that I can call.
1:19:55
Speaker 4: I can call the office and become a volunteer and
1:19:58
Speaker 4: get a list of people to call from the district.
1:20:02
Speaker 1: There are ways to help on it.
1:20:04
Speaker 4: For an hour during your lunch break, you can say,
1:20:07
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna sit here and make phone calls to
1:20:10
Speaker 4: folks who are in Florida and folks who are in
1:20:12
Speaker 4: other places around the country who can help these people
1:20:15
Speaker 4: to get in office. The only way that we can
1:20:18
Speaker 4: stop the racist, dangerous politics that's coming out of Washington,
1:20:23
Speaker 4: DC is to ensure that we retain the power of
1:20:27
Speaker 4: the House and the Senate and make sure that people
1:20:31
Speaker 4: are we're holding our elected officials feet to the fire
1:20:34
Speaker 4: and knowing that they are going to work for the
1:20:36
Speaker 4: people that we do not work for them.
1:20:38
Speaker 1: So that was my little Ted talk.
1:20:44
Speaker 4: I would appreciate you taking us out by just helping
1:20:47
Speaker 4: people understand, especially some of your brothers who are like man,
1:20:51
Speaker 4: politics don't matter. Why should I show up, you know
1:20:55
Speaker 4: and vote that on My vote doesn't count, As my
1:20:57
Speaker 4: son was saying, tell them why they need to care
1:21:01
Speaker 4: about your campaign in Broward County, Florid.
1:21:05
Speaker 6: Well, it's you know you you said, you said, it's
1:21:13
Speaker 6: you know everything that happens. You know, even with my campaign,
1:21:16
Speaker 6: it's all you know, everything, Every move that I make
1:21:21
Speaker 6: is all a move that the creator sends me to
1:21:25
Speaker 6: go and do. And I looked at even this move
1:21:28
Speaker 6: because always things are moving. It's always a moving parts.
1:21:32
Speaker 6: And so you said them mouthful. Yes, we have a tendency.
1:21:37
Speaker 5: You know.
1:21:38
Speaker 6: One thing, one thing that I'm gonna seriously advocate for
1:21:42
Speaker 6: when I get into Congress is teaching putting civics in
1:21:46
Speaker 6: school because I think a lot of us in our
1:21:49
Speaker 6: schools we don't understand simple civics. Simple civics will let
1:21:53
Speaker 6: you understand the political process. And just like you said,
1:21:56
Speaker 6: in a high school civic class that should be should
1:21:59
Speaker 6: take in place. People should know the difference between a
1:22:03
Speaker 6: school board member, a congressman, a senator or state rep
1:22:07
Speaker 6: a president, a mayor, a judge, and all of them
1:22:11
Speaker 6: to understand the importance of voting and understand the importance
1:22:14
Speaker 6: of getting involved.
1:22:16
Speaker 5: Me as a congressman, You're definitely right.
1:22:19
Speaker 6: That's why I said early on the things that I
1:22:21
Speaker 6: do in my congressional district. And if you're not getting
1:22:25
Speaker 6: those things done in your congressional district, you will be
1:22:28
Speaker 6: able to look at my district like they look at
1:22:31
Speaker 6: every other program that I create in my community, and
1:22:34
Speaker 6: everybody want to be like Mike. Everybody want to be
1:22:37
Speaker 6: like me, and so they'll look and see the things
1:22:39
Speaker 6: that we're getting done, and then they'll say, hey, look
1:22:41
Speaker 6: to my congressional member, we need to get those things done.
1:22:44
Speaker 6: That's number one, Number two why you need to be
1:22:47
Speaker 6: involved in this campaign, because you're right. I'm going to
1:22:51
Speaker 6: have to vote. I'm going to My vote is for
1:22:56
Speaker 6: New York, New Hampshire. My vote is for DC voters
1:23:00
Speaker 6: for I'm sorry, my voters for Chicago, my voters for
1:23:04
Speaker 6: all the different all those different policies and plans and
1:23:07
Speaker 6: and and funding that goes to these different cities and municipalities.
1:23:13
Speaker 5: Is about my vote. I'm gonna bring I'm gonna break line.
1:23:17
Speaker 6: I'm gonna break line because again, I'm not your traditional
1:23:22
Speaker 6: black congressman. I'm just I'm going to Washington, not to fight.
1:23:27
Speaker 6: I'm going to Washington and get things done. So I'm
1:23:30
Speaker 6: the guy that's gonna work across I'm just like those
1:23:32
Speaker 6: guys who are mad. This is my last ditch effort.
1:23:36
Speaker 6: I'm sick and tired of being second time. I'm just
1:23:39
Speaker 6: like everybody else. I'm just like the brother who's on
1:23:42
Speaker 6: the verge of going to change my party affiliation to independent.
1:23:49
Speaker 5: I'm that guy, you know what I'm saying.
1:23:50
Speaker 6: I'm the same guy, like like everybody else who are
1:23:53
Speaker 6: upset about the political process. We get on the phone,
1:23:56
Speaker 6: we call people, and it was a lady. I can
1:23:59
Speaker 6: almost play you the lady streaming on there about why
1:24:04
Speaker 6: she is not voting, why she wants to get off
1:24:07
Speaker 6: the grid, why is somebody living next door to her
1:24:09
Speaker 6: getting all these these benefits, and she get the insane bening.
1:24:13
Speaker 6: I mean, this lady went off and I was telling
1:24:16
Speaker 6: my people, no, listen, we need to you need to
1:24:18
Speaker 6: listen to this. These are the frustrations of people, the
1:24:22
Speaker 6: regular people who have been represented by these same people,
1:24:26
Speaker 6: and they're frustrated. They don't understand how to make ends meet.
1:24:29
Speaker 6: And I look at I look at me going to Congress.
1:24:34
Speaker 6: It'll it'll probably be a harsh reality check for every
1:24:38
Speaker 6: member of the Congressional Black Caucus, because I will my
1:24:43
Speaker 6: first week there on my first day there, It'll have
1:24:47
Speaker 6: to be a really, really have a real sit down
1:24:49
Speaker 6: and have a meeting the other mind, because i I'm
1:24:52
Speaker 6: disgusted by them. I'm totally disgusted by them, for them
1:24:56
Speaker 6: to allow this, this lady, every washingmith schutes this white
1:25:01
Speaker 6: woman to be in our race. I'm disgusted by them
1:25:05
Speaker 6: that the fact that they have not said anything about it,
1:25:08
Speaker 6: they did not denounce her. I'm disgusted by them because
1:25:12
Speaker 6: they they they are allowing us to happen. Because if
1:25:15
Speaker 6: you say on this on the other side, on the
1:25:18
Speaker 6: other side, we Civil Rights Act was taken away by
1:25:22
Speaker 6: Clarence Thomas, and we lost seats of representation in Louisiana
1:25:26
Speaker 6: and Tennessee and Alabama, and we need to boycott those
1:25:30
Speaker 6: states because they took black representation.
1:25:33
Speaker 5: But on the other hand, this lady could be running against.
1:25:38
Speaker 6: Running in a home owned district, But why would she
1:25:41
Speaker 6: come in a crowded race of black men and women
1:25:46
Speaker 6: to try and take representation away from us? And so
1:25:51
Speaker 6: again the Lord puts me in these places to let
1:25:55
Speaker 6: us know really right where we really at as a people?
1:26:00
Speaker 6: Do we have real black representation? And when it comes
1:26:03
Speaker 6: to the congressional Black Caucus. Do they have a backbone,
1:26:06
Speaker 6: because if you're gonna caulk us On behalf of African Americans.
1:26:10
Speaker 6: When somebody try and take whether it's a Republican or Democrat,
1:26:14
Speaker 6: try and take representation away from an African American community
1:26:18
Speaker 6: that's been here over forty years, you got to say.
1:26:21
Speaker 1: Something that's terrible.
1:26:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is.
1:26:23
Speaker 5: Horrible, and it was already done. Before it was done.
1:26:27
Speaker 6: In Memphis, Lebron James gives out there and go to
1:26:30
Speaker 6: screaming about Memphis and how all Memphis is not a
1:26:33
Speaker 6: safe place. Well, when Gerald Ford Senior was a congressman
1:26:37
Speaker 6: and Junior was the Congressman, it was a safe place
1:26:41
Speaker 6: and beautiful place to go.
1:26:42
Speaker 5: But then here come this guy, Steve Cohen.
1:26:45
Speaker 6: He goes in run in the same situation, a crowded
1:26:49
Speaker 6: field of African Americans, and all he needed was thirty
1:26:53
Speaker 6: percent of the vote. He then goes and win.
1:26:55
Speaker 5: Now they have three hundred and sixty five deaths a
1:26:59
Speaker 5: year Memphis.
1:27:01
Speaker 6: So I say to them, look, don't you know we
1:27:06
Speaker 6: have to have a real meeting none the minds, because
1:27:08
Speaker 6: again I'm gonna be my own man. And I know
1:27:11
Speaker 6: they're sitting there probably saying Please Lord, don't let him win,
1:27:15
Speaker 6: because you know, I'm a part of this culture of
1:27:19
Speaker 6: being syc tared, being sycatared, and I'm not gonna fall
1:27:22
Speaker 6: in no line. But nobody only lining them or fall
1:27:25
Speaker 6: in line is with black folks because of my and
1:27:28
Speaker 6: we're suffering, and at this period of time, we need
1:27:32
Speaker 6: to make a decision as to what direction we're gonna
1:27:35
Speaker 6: go in as the people. Because I could tell you
1:27:36
Speaker 6: one thing. If that happened to any Republican guy out
1:27:41
Speaker 6: of line with Mega then Old Trump, he would be putting.
1:27:45
Speaker 5: Down on him.
1:27:46
Speaker 6: And in that mere term, he is definitely gonna lose
1:27:49
Speaker 6: it because he's gonna denounce that person and he's gonna
1:27:52
Speaker 6: support that other person financially and physically. And so we
1:27:57
Speaker 6: didn't do that, and we had the opportunity to do that.
1:28:00
Speaker 1: Yep, Debi Washerman Schultz is dead wrong.
1:28:04
Speaker 4: And the black folks who have not told her publicly
1:28:07
Speaker 4: that she's wrong are wrong too. And I love many
1:28:10
Speaker 4: of them who have not stood up to her. What
1:28:13
Speaker 4: she did is it is actually racist. I'm saying that
1:28:18
Speaker 4: I didn't say you said it. I'm saying that it
1:28:20
Speaker 4: is racist for her to have come into a campaign
1:28:24
Speaker 4: or come into a district and just decide that she
1:28:28
Speaker 4: has the privilege to run and people said they did
1:28:32
Speaker 4: not want it, the community said no, and yet she
1:28:35
Speaker 4: still forced herself into that election.
1:28:38
Speaker 1: So it's dead wrong.
1:28:39
Speaker 4: And there's a lot of other issues with her that
1:28:41
Speaker 4: we won't get into today. You go run your race
1:28:43
Speaker 4: and do your thing, and come back and tell us
1:28:46
Speaker 4: when you win what the next steps are so we
1:28:49
Speaker 4: can support you.
1:28:50
Speaker 2: You got your back, We got you back on Look.
1:28:52
Speaker 5: Hey, I appreciate y' all. Man.
1:28:53
Speaker 6: I appreciate this time with you guys, and I enjoyed
1:28:57
Speaker 6: it and look forward to talk to you all again.
1:29:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, sake, keep it up, Okay, thank you.
1:29:05
Speaker 3: Shout out to Luther uncle Luke Campbell in this amazing interview.
1:29:10
Speaker 3: You know, he gave us a lot of insight on
1:29:12
Speaker 3: why he's actually running for Congress and a lot of
1:29:15
Speaker 3: things that he's done in the community. I don't even
1:29:16
Speaker 3: think a lot of people knew, you know. I know
1:29:18
Speaker 3: a lot of people knew that he was a coach
1:29:20
Speaker 3: for a football team, but I didn't know that he
1:29:23
Speaker 3: had got parks rebuilt and got football stadiums rebuild, and
1:29:26
Speaker 3: got a lot of money and resources donating into his community.
1:29:30
Speaker 3: So shout out to him for that. And he seems
1:29:32
Speaker 3: like he's really on poised for the physician. You know,
1:29:35
Speaker 3: a lot of people just do it, you know, and
1:29:38
Speaker 3: say I'm just running for office, but he seems like
1:29:40
Speaker 3: he's really sure about what he wants to do. He's concise,
1:29:44
Speaker 3: you know, he has a real platform, and he really
1:29:47
Speaker 3: wants to do things for the community.
1:29:48
Speaker 4: So I would say he's definitely concise. I would say
1:29:52
Speaker 4: that it is impressive that he is not just like ya,
1:29:58
Speaker 4: I just wanted to do good for my community, but
1:30:00
Speaker 4: instead he understands the politics. He understands the ins and
1:30:04
Speaker 4: outs of the Democratic Party.
1:30:07
Speaker 1: You know.
1:30:08
Speaker 4: He also understands history. He's mentioned or named a number
1:30:13
Speaker 4: of people who, you know, are our staples. Whether you
1:30:18
Speaker 4: like them or not is not important. But there's staples
1:30:20
Speaker 4: in politics or from a historic perspective, and he knows
1:30:24
Speaker 4: all of that. So I'm impressed with his level of
1:30:28
Speaker 4: knowledge and his ability to connect his politics to the
1:30:36
Speaker 4: to to history and also to the community's needs. So
1:30:40
Speaker 4: I'm impressed with that. I don't know all the other
1:30:42
Speaker 4: candidates that's running in the race, so I can't say
1:30:46
Speaker 4: whether or not there is some other very very progressive
1:30:49
Speaker 4: candidate who is running.
1:30:52
Speaker 1: But and I'm going to go look right because I
1:30:55
Speaker 1: just want to know.
1:30:56
Speaker 4: But you know, of course we have a relationship with
1:30:58
Speaker 4: Luke or you do, and he, you know, wanted to
1:31:01
Speaker 4: come on and talk about his campaign, So that's great.
1:31:03
Speaker 4: I think more candidates need to be reaching out to
1:31:07
Speaker 4: folks who people listen to, Like real piss people listen
1:31:11
Speaker 4: to our podcast. If people go out of their way
1:31:15
Speaker 4: to listen to this podcast, it's definitely not a bunch
1:31:18
Speaker 4: of trolls. It's people who are like serious about their communities.
1:31:22
Speaker 4: They're serious about making change. And so folks need to
1:31:25
Speaker 4: make sure if you're running for office that you spend
1:31:28
Speaker 4: some time talking.
1:31:29
Speaker 1: To people who are really on the ground.
1:31:32
Speaker 4: So I appreciate that. I want to see I want
1:31:35
Speaker 4: to see us make a big change. And I'm not
1:31:40
Speaker 4: saying everybody that we change too is going to be perfect,
1:31:42
Speaker 4: but I do want to see us like really just
1:31:46
Speaker 4: shock the world with the ways in which we shake
1:31:48
Speaker 4: up politics.
1:31:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, like we've been saying for years, we need something different,
1:31:52
Speaker 3: and we need people who are you know, connected to
1:31:55
Speaker 3: the community, who understand the community, who understand the culture,
1:32:00
Speaker 3: who are culturally competent, as we say, you know, incredible messengers.
1:32:05
Speaker 3: So you know, I think Luca is definitely one of
1:32:08
Speaker 3: those individuals. I'm excited. I hope he actually gets the opportunity.
1:32:12
Speaker 3: Like I said, you know, my other brother Dupray Kelly
1:32:16
Speaker 3: also known as do it All, who is the councilman
1:32:20
Speaker 3: in Newark, you know, just watching him for and he's
1:32:23
Speaker 3: been doing this work for like the last four or
1:32:24
Speaker 3: five years, and just watching him constantly do the work,
1:32:27
Speaker 3: and he actually does the work in the community, like
1:32:30
Speaker 3: he gives the resources the community. He's outside in the community.
1:32:33
Speaker 3: He's really for the community. He just had you know,
1:32:36
Speaker 3: a hip hop day in Newark the other day, which
1:32:38
Speaker 3: we actually performed that and it was just a dope
1:32:40
Speaker 3: event and to see how much they love him, you know,
1:32:43
Speaker 3: because he really pours in the community. And I think
1:32:46
Speaker 3: Luke is one of those individuals who can have the
1:32:48
Speaker 3: same impact in his community.
1:32:50
Speaker 1: So he's going to need some help, yepsolutely.
1:32:54
Speaker 2: I think so, I think, But I think he could
1:32:56
Speaker 2: do it, man. I think hip hop is strong enough.
1:32:58
Speaker 3: And I think when people like I told my I
1:33:00
Speaker 3: think when people realize that you're actually serious and they
1:33:03
Speaker 3: actually see how engaged you are, how knowledgeable you are,
1:33:07
Speaker 3: how much work you actually already put in on the ground.
1:33:10
Speaker 2: I think people will get excited.
1:33:11
Speaker 4: Well, you only got a little bit of time to
1:33:13
Speaker 4: make sure people know. But like he said, if he
1:33:16
Speaker 4: was running for a president of the United States or
1:33:20
Speaker 4: you know, some position that required people to vote for
1:33:23
Speaker 4: him outside of his community, that would be different. But
1:33:28
Speaker 4: the people who lived there actually know him. So let's
1:33:31
Speaker 4: see if folks get behind him and say they believe
1:33:34
Speaker 4: that he has the ability to help enhance the quality
1:33:37
Speaker 4: of life in Broward County.
1:33:39
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, that brings me to my I don't get it,
1:33:43
Speaker 3: and it's kind of power for the course, right. I'm
1:33:46
Speaker 3: just having a conversation with you and my brother Angelo yesterday,
1:33:49
Speaker 3: and we were just talking about, you know, different roles
1:33:54
Speaker 3: in society and our culture and how a lot of
1:33:57
Speaker 3: people don't understand their own rod or their own lane.
1:34:02
Speaker 3: And my don't get it is why don't our people
1:34:05
Speaker 3: stay in their own lanes?
1:34:07
Speaker 5: You know?
1:34:07
Speaker 3: When we talk about Luke, like Luke has evolved, Like
1:34:10
Speaker 3: some people might say, oh, you're a rapper, but Luke
1:34:13
Speaker 3: is actually someone who has done the work. He's done
1:34:16
Speaker 3: the necessary work he's done the research, he's been in
1:34:19
Speaker 3: the community, he sees how things he's actually ran for
1:34:23
Speaker 3: office before, he's done things in the community that makes
1:34:26
Speaker 3: him qualified to actually be elected official, you know, and
1:34:32
Speaker 3: you have.
1:34:33
Speaker 2: To respect that.
1:34:34
Speaker 3: And I think that in our culture now, there's so
1:34:36
Speaker 3: many people who have an opinion about things that they
1:34:40
Speaker 3: are not knowledgeable about, right and they give microphones, they
1:34:44
Speaker 3: give platforms, they lend their heir to people who don't
1:34:50
Speaker 3: know what they're talking about. And I think if people
1:34:52
Speaker 3: actually stand in their lane, like, understand what you do,
1:34:56
Speaker 3: and you allow me to do what I do, and
1:34:59
Speaker 3: we utilize both of our resources and we've utilize both
1:35:02
Speaker 3: our platforms and we do what we do.
1:35:05
Speaker 2: Together, we would get further. But it doesn't happen like that,
1:35:09
Speaker 2: you know.
1:35:09
Speaker 3: I think there are a lot of people who have
1:35:11
Speaker 3: platforms and voices who don't know about things and they
1:35:15
Speaker 3: speak about it in the world takes, you know, what
1:35:18
Speaker 3: they say at face value when they actually have access
1:35:22
Speaker 3: to somebody who actually knows about the things they're talking about.
1:35:25
Speaker 3: And by the time it's just like when you said,
1:35:27
Speaker 3: when we're talking about the di situation, and then you said,
1:35:31
Speaker 3: after we've been talking about how the dismantling of DEI
1:35:34
Speaker 3: was going to negatively impact black people.
1:35:36
Speaker 2: And you had all of these people.
1:35:38
Speaker 3: Talking about all DEI don't help black people and help
1:35:41
Speaker 3: white people more, help these people more. And we kept
1:35:44
Speaker 3: explaining to them, yes, those people might have benefited more
1:35:47
Speaker 3: from it, but when they dismantle it, the first people
1:35:50
Speaker 3: they're gonna get rid of is black people, because the
1:35:53
Speaker 3: intention is to disenfranchised black people. And we kept explaining
1:35:57
Speaker 3: that to people, and they kept coming back with their data,
1:36:00
Speaker 3: the stats, and we kept explaining to them, I hear
1:36:02
Speaker 3: what you're saying. But when you look at the administration,
1:36:05
Speaker 3: you look at the people in power, you look at
1:36:07
Speaker 3: the people that they keep calling DI. They don't say
1:36:10
Speaker 3: DEEI about the way. They're not saying d I about this,
1:36:13
Speaker 3: and they're specifically zeroing in on black women and black
1:36:18
Speaker 3: men and they call them d I. So when they
1:36:20
Speaker 3: dismant it, they're going to get rid of black women
1:36:23
Speaker 3: and black men and nobody, not nobody. But there are
1:36:26
Speaker 3: a lot of people who did not want to take
1:36:29
Speaker 3: heed to that. And then afterwards there are people that
1:36:32
Speaker 3: came back and said, well, I didn't see that.
1:36:34
Speaker 4: You were right absolutely, and we know them, I know them,
1:36:38
Speaker 4: and I'm not even talking about the more obvious people
1:36:39
Speaker 4: we know. I'm saying there there are people out in
1:36:42
Speaker 4: the world that I may not even talk to that
1:36:46
Speaker 4: were really I will never forget watching some of our
1:36:50
Speaker 4: brothers say that Project twenty twenty five was not scary,
1:36:54
Speaker 4: Like Project twenty five is not scary, you know, it's
1:36:58
Speaker 4: I mean I read it. It's nothing near that is
1:37:02
Speaker 4: you know, a danger Like It's true we should have
1:37:05
Speaker 4: because as as a public advocate, Jamni Williams always says,
1:37:09
Speaker 4: there are a lot of black people who drunk the
1:37:11
Speaker 4: kool aid of you know, immigrants, we're against immigrants. They
1:37:16
Speaker 4: taken our jobs. And you know, there were a lot
1:37:19
Speaker 4: of black and of course against the lgbtqi A community.
1:37:23
Speaker 4: And so when you look at Projects twenty twenty five,
1:37:25
Speaker 4: you see where it literally identifies those groups that, yeah,
1:37:32
Speaker 4: it identifies those groups as targets exactly and when, and
1:37:36
Speaker 4: so then it's like, oh, well, we're aligned. I'm aligned
1:37:38
Speaker 4: with the white racist man on being against lgbtqi A
1:37:43
Speaker 4: and against immigrants and other people.
1:37:45
Speaker 1: But what you did not understand is that.
1:37:48
Speaker 4: They try They said it very clearly, but not as
1:37:51
Speaker 4: boldly that they were talking first about you, and everything
1:37:55
Speaker 4: else that they do is about us. It's always about race.
1:38:00
Speaker 4: It's always about black people. It's always about race. It's
1:38:04
Speaker 4: always about black people. We are the oldest, most oppressed
1:38:09
Speaker 4: group of people on this land.
1:38:12
Speaker 1: That's just a fact.
1:38:13
Speaker 2: It's a fact.
1:38:13
Speaker 1: It's a fact.
1:38:14
Speaker 4: Now, if you want to know who's most disrespected in
1:38:17
Speaker 4: terms of how their land was stolen, it would certainly
1:38:20
Speaker 4: be the Indians. We would have to always mention that
1:38:23
Speaker 4: they were here on this land before it was the
1:38:26
Speaker 4: Americas and before it was America, and therefore they have
1:38:31
Speaker 4: what has happened to them and how they have shrunk
1:38:35
Speaker 4: their community and shrunk their identity and their ability to
1:38:39
Speaker 4: live in the freedom of the land and in their
1:38:43
Speaker 4: freedom of expression is it's criminal, absolutely criminal, and so
1:38:47
Speaker 4: we always have to acknowledge that.
1:38:49
Speaker 1: And if you.
1:38:50
Speaker 4: Think about but if you think about not but just
1:38:53
Speaker 4: and if you think about how we were born here,
1:38:56
Speaker 4: the labor we put into building this place, where every
1:38:58
Speaker 4: single group of people who've ever touched this soil has
1:39:03
Speaker 4: benefited in some way from the labor of the African
1:39:09
Speaker 4: who became the African American, and therefore everything that they
1:39:14
Speaker 4: do every time they move, we are always in the
1:39:19
Speaker 4: line of sight in terms of those who will be
1:39:22
Speaker 4: harmed by the policies.
1:39:24
Speaker 1: That's just the way, that's the nature of America.
1:39:28
Speaker 3: You're one hundred percent correct, and I think that's what
1:39:31
Speaker 3: my frustration has been. You know, I think that understanding
1:39:36
Speaker 3: that the way that you're able to break that down.
1:39:38
Speaker 3: You know why, because you've studied that for the last
1:39:41
Speaker 3: thirty years. You've been an activist, you've been an organizer,
1:39:45
Speaker 3: you've been a lead organizer, You've worked underneath some of
1:39:48
Speaker 3: the top civil rights leaders in this country. Right, so
1:39:52
Speaker 3: you understand that you've done the work necessary to be
1:39:55
Speaker 3: able to give that analysis, and that should be respected, right,
1:39:59
Speaker 3: And if you say you were respect the individual, you
1:40:00
Speaker 3: should respect their knowledge. And I don't know things about
1:40:05
Speaker 3: real estate, right, I'm not the most knowledgeable person about
1:40:08
Speaker 3: real estate. I'm not the most knowledgeable person about cryptocurrency
1:40:12
Speaker 3: or stock trade, and I don't really know those things.
1:40:14
Speaker 2: I'm learning.
1:40:15
Speaker 3: But I'm not going to tell someone who's done that
1:40:18
Speaker 3: for their whole life that they're wrong.
1:40:20
Speaker 2: About it, even if I might not agree with it.
1:40:23
Speaker 3: But if I respect you enough, then I'm gonna respect
1:40:25
Speaker 3: your space to allow you to continue to navigate, and
1:40:28
Speaker 3: then I would utilize the knowledge that I have about
1:40:32
Speaker 3: what I do and connect it. And I think that's
1:40:34
Speaker 3: what a lot of us don't do. We don't do
1:40:37
Speaker 3: that enough, and we find ourselves clashing and then we
1:40:40
Speaker 3: have to say, oh, I'm sorry, or you told me,
1:40:43
Speaker 3: but I didn't listen. I think that's what's been hindering
1:40:46
Speaker 3: Black progress is that we have those kinds of conversations
1:40:49
Speaker 3: instead of the conversation, okay, you know this. I know
1:40:52
Speaker 3: that I might not agree with you on that, but
1:40:53
Speaker 3: I don't really know. So what I'm not gonna do
1:40:56
Speaker 3: is get in your way or stop progress. Because if
1:40:58
Speaker 3: you're right, after you've been studying this for thirty years,
1:41:01
Speaker 3: if you're correct in your analysis because you've done the work,
1:41:04
Speaker 3: then it's only gonna benefit me. And just like if
1:41:07
Speaker 3: you're right about what you're saying, then it's I'm only
1:41:10
Speaker 3: gonna benefit you. So we need to respect each other's face,
1:41:13
Speaker 3: stay in each other's lane, utilize our platforms our voices
1:41:17
Speaker 3: to amplify each other instead of criticize each other or
1:41:20
Speaker 3: on the gate with someone else has done and didn't
1:41:22
Speaker 3: have to come back and apologize later because it's only
1:41:25
Speaker 3: setting us back years. Right now, we're in a position
1:41:28
Speaker 3: because there were people who said, we can't let these
1:41:31
Speaker 3: people get in the White House. I don't care what
1:41:34
Speaker 3: you said. And then people say, oh, it ain't gonna be.
1:41:36
Speaker 3: We had Trump before, it ain't that serious. We know
1:41:38
Speaker 3: what Trump won't do. This ain't that serious. And now
1:41:41
Speaker 3: it's that serious. There's no person that's really right now
1:41:45
Speaker 3: in this society that doesn't realize it's that serious.
1:41:48
Speaker 2: Even if they're not saying that, they understand we're in
1:41:50
Speaker 2: serious times.
1:41:51
Speaker 3: And it's and the reason why we're in these times
1:41:53
Speaker 3: because the people who knew, the people who are on
1:41:56
Speaker 3: the front lines, the people who did the work, who
1:41:59
Speaker 3: did who's strat, did jibs, who understood the history of
1:42:01
Speaker 3: what was going on, told you and you not only
1:42:05
Speaker 3: didn't you listen, you utilize your voice to combat that.
1:42:08
Speaker 3: And now most of them won't even come back and
1:42:11
Speaker 3: say you're right, but some of them will. Some people
1:42:14
Speaker 3: have come back. But the thing is, why do we
1:42:16
Speaker 3: have to always do that? You know, why can't we
1:42:19
Speaker 3: just stay in our lanes and respect each other's you know,
1:42:22
Speaker 3: intellectual property, the work that we've done, and build you know,
1:42:26
Speaker 3: and I just want to stop seeing that. I'm tired
1:42:27
Speaker 3: of being told you is right or I didn't understand.
1:42:30
Speaker 3: I just want you to respect my space enough to
1:42:32
Speaker 3: understand that I know what I'm talking about because I've
1:42:35
Speaker 3: done the work and the research necessary to be able
1:42:37
Speaker 3: to speak.
1:42:38
Speaker 4: On There's no black elder that I know from the
1:42:41
Speaker 4: most radical the one two did the you know people.
1:42:44
Speaker 1: Like, oh no, they weren't radical.
1:42:47
Speaker 4: There was the Bulet I'm talking about, the non bulet
1:42:49
Speaker 4: that has said that the Trump administration is not dangerous
1:42:52
Speaker 4: and probably one of the most dangerous administrations that we've
1:42:56
Speaker 4: had since probably more modern day presidents. There are people
1:43:00
Speaker 4: I have heard people saying, and I'm talking about elders,
1:43:06
Speaker 4: that they would take a bush, which is heavy to say,
1:43:10
Speaker 4: you would go back to a bush before accepting that
1:43:14
Speaker 4: Donald Trump is light work.
1:43:17
Speaker 1: He's not. He's actually very dangerous.
1:43:19
Speaker 4: And you know, the sad part is that only one
1:43:24
Speaker 4: group of there's not a possible scenario where only the
1:43:28
Speaker 4: people who were wrong will experience the wrath of the
1:43:32
Speaker 4: moment that right exactly, it happens to all of us.
1:43:35
Speaker 3: So there're that And with that said, we've come to
1:43:38
Speaker 3: the end of another episode of Tea in my podcast.
1:43:40
Speaker 3: Thank you for supporting us. Shout out to our brother
1:43:42
Speaker 3: uncle Luke. Listen, go follow his platform, see what he's
1:43:46
Speaker 3: running on. If you're in Florida in the Brober County,
1:43:49
Speaker 3: make sure that you look into his campaign. I think
1:43:51
Speaker 3: he's a dope individual, I think his evolution should be celebrated,
1:43:55
Speaker 3: and I think he'll make a dope congressman. But you
1:43:59
Speaker 3: need to do your own reason search. Make sure that
1:44:01
Speaker 3: you check into them. I'm not gonna always be right,
1:44:03
Speaker 3: Tamika d Marriage and I can always be wrong, but
1:44:05
Speaker 3: we will both.
1:44:06
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