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ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT SHOULD BE THE BLACK COMMUNITY'S #1 PRIORITY · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 1: Nolan Wells, a grand jury said that there was no
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  Speaker 1: grounds for legal prosecution of any, of anybody connected to
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  Speaker 1: the case.
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  Speaker 2: So obviously we don't, we don't have.
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  Speaker 1: Inside information of what the autopsy or what the grand
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  Speaker 1: jury saw, but this is.
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  Speaker 3: A legal, this is a blunt force trauma to the
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  Speaker 3: back of the head.
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  Speaker 1: This is an important part. You know how we need
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  Speaker 1: financial literacy. Obviously that's something that we brought to the forefront, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And we think that financial literacy should be taught in
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  Speaker 1: every school because kids should learn about financial literacy.
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  Speaker 2: What's also important, and maybe it's equally important, is civic literacy.
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  Speaker 2: We need to teach.
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  Speaker 1: The average American does not have any civic literacy as
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  Speaker 1: far as voting, who does what, what is the difference
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  Speaker 1: between a congressperson and a senator, your local elections, mayors.
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  Speaker 1: school board, a grand jury.
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  Speaker 2: So important.
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  Speaker 1: So many people don't even know what a grand jury is.
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  Speaker 1: And this is part of the legal system that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: get talked about a lot. Where literally a grand jury
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  Speaker 1: has the power to actually bring a case forward or not.
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  Speaker 1: So who's on a grand jury? Nobody's ever asked this question.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody really asks this question. Where does this grand jury
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  Speaker 1: come from? Who is a grand jury? How do you
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  Speaker 1: get on a grand jury? So many different things happen.
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  Speaker 1: We just hear a grand jury. Every once in a while,
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  Speaker 1: we just hear about a grand jury. But I will
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  Speaker 1: say this. Obviously, I don't know what happened.
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  Speaker 2: But.
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  Speaker 4: We know blunt force trauma to the back of the
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  Speaker 4: head happened, and when the autopsy was done.
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  Speaker 3: They removed his throat. A blunt force trauma.
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  Speaker 2: They removed his throat, you said?
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  Speaker 3: That's the report.
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  Speaker 2: Who removed his throat? The coroner? Allegedly? I'll tell you this.
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  Speaker 1: Some very disturbing things have been happening or has happened
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  Speaker 1: for 56 years. Longer than that in the state of Mississippi.
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  Speaker 1: The whole entire state needs to have a federal investigation.
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  Speaker 1: You got people hanging from trees.
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  Speaker 2: It's insane, bro.
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi, the state of Mississippi, their whole structure needs to
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  Speaker 1: be gutted. Because this shit, it keeps happening. It just
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  Speaker 1: keeps happening. And like I said, you can say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: one time, but this is.
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  Speaker 4: Historically, it's been happening for hundreds of years.
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  Speaker 3: It's heartbreaking.
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  Speaker 4: Praise to the family. I can't give my real thoughts
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  Speaker 4: about what should happen next. But at some point, as
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  Speaker 4: a community, we're going to have to take some other
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  Speaker 4: actions to get some of this resolved.
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  Speaker 3: Got to have some pushback. And then you see they
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  Speaker 3: posted the picture with their new black friend on IG today?
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  Speaker 4: The kids?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So... To all of my parents, keep your kids safe.
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  Speaker 3: Pray over your children. Watch over your children. Be careful.
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  Speaker 4: I pray none of us tonight ever have to go
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  Speaker 4: through a situation like this because I know some of
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  Speaker 4: us would throw our lives away if this happened, including me.
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  Speaker 4: God rest that boy's soul. But something has to be done.
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  Speaker 4: As far as Mississippi, though, nothing's going to change. If anything,
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  Speaker 4: they're going to, they got away with it. They're going
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  Speaker 4: to double down on it.
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  Speaker 2: What can, what can be done?
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  Speaker 1: What can we, how can we, this is, so when
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  Speaker 1: Angela and watch the latest episode of native land podcast, myself,
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  Speaker 1: myself and Troy, we got asked this question and I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a three part process. I'll give you the
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  Speaker 1: abbreviated version. If you want the long version, watch the episode.
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  Speaker 1: We need to have economic empowerment.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: As a community at a very high level. Then we
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  Speaker 1: got to have organizational empowerment. We got to have, the
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  Speaker 1: problem is that we train so much to just, we
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  Speaker 1: don't trust each other. So whenever something comes out, look
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  Speaker 1: at Black Lives Matter, how they just tore that apart.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's a layered conversation too, because why did it
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  Speaker 3: get tore apart?
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  Speaker 1: No, but what I'm saying is that We don't trust anything.
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  Speaker 1: So we don't have any organization, okay, that we really
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  Speaker 1: can look forward.
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  Speaker 3: But Morgan talked about the Sun Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: There's a.
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  Speaker 3: Cohort that is paying to tear down any institution.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm not just saying because our involvement in it,
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  Speaker 4: but when it's like, okay, attack on InvestFest, then it's
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  Speaker 4: attack on Afrotech, any positive black institution, Even in a
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  Speaker 4: response to Umar, I know he was misguided, but a
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  Speaker 4: constant attack on every brand that's trying to do anything
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  Speaker 4: for anybody black, that's not by design. It's too much
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  Speaker 4: money and the talking points are the same across all
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  Speaker 4: of the internet internationally to think that's a coincidence. So
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  Speaker 4: I agree that we may not trust a lot, but
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  Speaker 4: it's a lot of media and PR put into not
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  Speaker 4: trusting us.
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  Speaker 1: And it's psychological warfare. It goes back to COINTELPRO. For sure,
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  Speaker 1: it goes back to COINTELPRO, and there's been a lot of...
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  Speaker 1: You know what's so crazy? Somebody wrote COINTELPRO in the
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  Speaker 1: YouTube chat, and it was hidden.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: They.
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  Speaker 3: They.
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  Speaker 2: Blackout. They.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it's a deep-rooted psychological issue that a
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  Speaker 1: lot of us have as far as Black leadership, Black organizations.
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  Speaker 1: We have a deep-rooted hatred, distrust of Black leadership.
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  Speaker 3: Why is that?
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  Speaker 2: Why do we have a deep-rooted... Mm-hmm. It goes back to.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even want to say that word because it
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  Speaker 1: got hidden. It goes back to the 60s. It goes
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  Speaker 1: back to slavery, actually. It goes back to slavery where
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  Speaker 1: they made people turn against other people.
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  Speaker 2: Willie Lynch.
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  Speaker 3: And it really goes back to the 60s when.
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  Speaker 1: Strategically, every black leader was taken out. Malcolm X, Martin
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  Speaker 1: Luther King, Mega Evers, Fred Hampton. And if they didn't
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  Speaker 1: kill you, they found other ways. Like QEP Newton, Bobby Seale,
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  Speaker 1: or even before that, Marcus Garvey. So, Every black leader,
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, has either been discredited.
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  Speaker 2: Or killed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Publicly persecuted.
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  Speaker 2: Publicly humiliated.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Publicly humiliated, discredited.
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  Speaker 3: Damaged financially, attacked and killed your family.
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  Speaker 2: Mayor Marion Barry.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you could say, okay, well, yes, he did obviously
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  Speaker 2: make a bad choice.
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  Speaker 3: He was not the only one.
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  Speaker 2: And he got set up. Yeah. Why would they set
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  Speaker 2: him up?
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  Speaker 1: He made two black billionaires, Robert Johnson, Bob Johnson and
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  Speaker 1: Don Peebles.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: District of Columbia.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But you always got to be worried about the setup, drugs, women, uh,
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  Speaker 3: bad deals. Be careful. Any deal that's too good to
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  Speaker 3: be true. Usually it's.
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  Speaker 2: Usually a hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: So I think, um, I don't know how we get
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  Speaker 1: past that. Because what organization do we trust? Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, somebody made a good point. Even before all
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  Speaker 1: the stuff with Black Lives Matter came out, we still
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  Speaker 1: didn't trust them. Like, when I say we, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying about me. I'm just saying as a community at whole.
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  Speaker 1: Kamala ran for president. She's not black. She's Indian. She
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  Speaker 1: locked up more black men in California than anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Man, they talked about her more than they talked about Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Whether you like her or not, What I.
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  Speaker 1: Saw was more vitriol hate from Black people, especially Black men,
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  Speaker 1: towards her than for Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 4: But how much money was put into tearing her down?
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  Speaker 4: And then there's other conversation we have to have one day,
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  Speaker 4: but when we're like 90, there's a Democrat who.
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  Speaker 3: Helped line her up.
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  Speaker 4: Who are blue MAGA who are not supportive of any
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  Speaker 4: candidate but them potentially winning.
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  Speaker 3: Allegedly. Olivia Pope calling.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: All right. What's the answer? I pray no parent that's
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  Speaker 3: pushing this situation up.
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  Speaker 1: But what I saw, like I said, when you see
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  Speaker 1: other groups, right? And I'll take when i was a
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  Speaker 1: financial advisor right and i worked in the office and
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  Speaker 1: pretty much everybody in my office was jewish and i
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  Speaker 1: learned the valuable lesson is that you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: be a billionaire these people wasn't billionaires but millionaires you
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  Speaker 1: know they was doing upper middle class, lower class wealthy,
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  Speaker 1: but they would have functions and they would fundraise $ 7 million.
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  Speaker 1: They would fundraise $ 7 million at the Black Tide Center
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  Speaker 1: with no billionaire. No billionaire there. They would fundraise $ 7
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  Speaker 1: million for the state of Israel.
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  Speaker 2: Six hours. For the state of Israel. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: It's not controversial, but I'm just saying this is just
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  Speaker 1: a fact.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they would do. Okay, so that's one thing.
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  Speaker 2: They have enough financial economic empowerment.
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  Speaker 1: Then they have enough education to know no matter what
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  Speaker 1: you believe, because everybody don't agree on the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: we have a common united goal. It's been taught since
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  Speaker 1: they were little children. You don't got to agree on everything.
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  Speaker 1: You might be super religious. You might not be religious
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  Speaker 1: at all, but We are going to come united for
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  Speaker 1: this one particular thing. Then they have structures in place
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  Speaker 1: that can collect the money. Then they have political power
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  Speaker 1: in place that can do the super PAC thing and
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  Speaker 1: can lobby the politicians. So it's actually like a pipeline.
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  Speaker 1: It's money, organizational skills, then political pressure, power from an
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  Speaker 1: organizational standpoint.
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  Speaker 3: And then you got a muscle underground.
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  Speaker 1: So that's how you really achieve things. It starts with money,
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  Speaker 1: by the way. It starts with the economics. Then it
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  Speaker 1: goes to the education, core structure, who you are as
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  Speaker 1: a person, why it's your obligation as a black person
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  Speaker 1: to help black people.