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The "Smither-vent" - Episode 127 - Accountability and Voter ID · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: If you do have KERCD talk station, Happy Monday always
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Speaker 1: made extra special and happy. I feel a weight of
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Speaker 1: relief off my shoulders because Christopher Smithman, the former vice
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Speaker 1: mayor of the City of Sin Saint, joins the program
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Speaker 1: talk matters related to downtown. Since are generally welcome back,
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Speaker 1: my friend, and congratulations to Camille your daughter.
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Speaker 2: See my man, thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: Man. Tell our listeners what happened.
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Speaker 2: So, you know, we had had a weekend of swim.
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Speaker 2: You know, girls from all over the region swimming for
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Speaker 2: times and their relay team, which was the two hundred
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Speaker 2: freestyle relay made it to State.
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Speaker 1: That's awesome.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, we'll find out more details today. My hat
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Speaker 2: goes off to all the all the parents you know
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Speaker 2: who are who have been sitting there going through this
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Speaker 2: with seating the seating girls, because it's a lot, as
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Speaker 2: you know as a former swim Yeah, for the parents,
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Speaker 2: it's a lot for us. My hat goes out to
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Speaker 2: the to the to the Seaton High School, the athletic team,
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Speaker 2: the athletic program, and then specifically for coach Jody Schaeffer.
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Speaker 2: I mean, she doesn't she's not getting any real money
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Speaker 2: for this. No, this is her passion and she really
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Speaker 2: is a great leader, uh for these girls on the
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Speaker 2: swim team. So we're really happy coaching Jody Shaefer. My
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Speaker 2: hat goes out off to you and to all the
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Speaker 2: girls who will be swimming for a state championship coming
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Speaker 2: up soon. So well, thank you, Brian from a from
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Speaker 2: a former swimmer, which I am not, no.
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Speaker 1: I just as you were talking about that, I just
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Speaker 1: kept thinking of my mom because I was on Barlin's
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Speaker 1: and of course swim from my high school o'll Kills
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Speaker 1: high school. But my mom and the other women who
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Speaker 1: it was all moms who would car pull us over
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Speaker 1: to keating that adatorium which is a half hour plus
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Speaker 1: drive from the West Side. So you didn't leave the
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Speaker 1: n edatorium and go home and come back and pick
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Speaker 1: your kids up. You sat up for two hours of workout,
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Speaker 1: and you sat and you sat, and you watch kids
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Speaker 1: go back and forth in the pool, which is the
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Speaker 1: least exciting thing like when you're watching a swim practice
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Speaker 1: that I think you can possibly come up with. So
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Speaker 1: as a student or as a kid who was swimming
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Speaker 1: in the pool, I also found it to be well
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Speaker 1: the least thrilling activity that could be involved with but
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Speaker 1: for the parents out there involved in swimming, then of
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Speaker 1: course come to swim meets Christopher. You know this. You
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Speaker 1: sit around in a hot and auditorium for hours and
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Speaker 1: hours waiting for the singular moment in time when your
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Speaker 1: kid comes up in swims. Maybe it's a fifty freestyle,
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Speaker 1: it's over in like thirty seconds or less, and that's it.
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Speaker 1: Then you sit around a wait for a few more
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Speaker 1: hours for your kid to compete. Again. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It's a tough sport. Everyone involved, they serve some praise
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Speaker 1: they do.
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Speaker 2: And the other thing about it is the conditioning that
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Speaker 2: you have to do to get to that those thirty
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Speaker 2: second Yeah, I mean, you know, my daughter is constantly
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Speaker 2: in the pool, costly, working constantly trying to lower time.
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Speaker 2: So like those these these these are real athletes. People
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Speaker 2: who have never watched swimming or you know, don't appreciate.
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Speaker 2: Maybe I'm telling you these are some of the strongest
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Speaker 2: people athletes in the world. Their full body workout aerobic amazing.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, my hat goes off to you seriously as
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Speaker 2: a swimmer, because you had to be in great condition
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Speaker 2: to get out there and compete.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I typically view my keating adatorium days and
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Speaker 1: the days on Marlins is like Vietnam flashback kind of thing.
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Speaker 1: I don't look back with real positive thoughts. But I
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Speaker 1: thank my mom and dad from the bottom of my
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Speaker 1: heart for insisting that I do it. Why because it
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Speaker 1: kept me out of trouble and of course I got
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Speaker 1: the benefit of physical fitness from it, Christopher, So you know,
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Speaker 1: it is a great sport if you want to be
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Speaker 1: physically fit. I love you, Mom, I.
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Speaker 2: Love you, Mom, I love you. I'm sure thank you
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Speaker 2: for doing this for me. And let me because I
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Speaker 2: know we're going to go to break Let me because
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Speaker 2: this is going to be a nice pivot into my
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Speaker 2: step matter my vent. But look, Seton also has a
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Speaker 2: great academic program. So not only has my daughter gotten
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Speaker 2: a great you know, athletic experience, you know as Seaton
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Speaker 2: as a swimmer, But the most important part of this
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Speaker 2: is she's getting a great experience with her academics. So
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Speaker 2: as she now pivots and thinks about, Okay, where am
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Speaker 2: I going to go to college, I'm not sitting around
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Speaker 2: going is she prepared or not? So they prepared her academically,
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Speaker 2: they prepared her spiritually, They have prepared her culturally, meaning
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Speaker 2: just the support that they give her as a woman,
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Speaker 2: a young lady or a woman, and now even as
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Speaker 2: an athlete. So it's an all round great program and
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Speaker 2: I just can't say enough about Seaton High School. So
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Speaker 2: but it's going to be a nice pivot into where
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Speaker 2: I'm going into my next subject matter when I vent you.
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Speaker 1: Sound station, so if you have Kercite talk station Monday,
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Speaker 1: of course we're in the middle of Christopher Smidman and Smidavan,
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Speaker 1: former vice man of the City of Cincinnati. I can't
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Speaker 1: believe your daughter doing so well and going upstate in
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Speaker 1: the relay provided a pivot that you can get to
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Speaker 1: the topic you want to talk about. But glad it did.
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Speaker 1: What's going on, Christopher Smitheman, Well, look, as.
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Speaker 2: As much as I'm honored about what's happening, you know,
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Speaker 2: if my daughter a Seaton noticed that there aren't any
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Speaker 2: school walkouts that are happening at Seaton. Oh okay, these
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Speaker 2: planned walkouts that the administrations are allowing kids to do
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Speaker 2: across our region, and very young children too, not just
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Speaker 2: not just seniors and juniors, but even young children walking
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Speaker 2: around they don't even know what they're what they're out
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Speaker 2: there marching out if you're a fifth or sixth grader
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Speaker 2: and you're indoctrinating them into protesting. But anyway, in North
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Speaker 2: College Hill and our region, right kids went out, we're
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Speaker 2: protesting ice and then they decided to go into a
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Speaker 2: Kroger and start destroying the inside of a Kroger. I
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Speaker 2: everybody hasn't seen that. He can go to my ex
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Speaker 2: page and check out this where people are in their shopping.
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Speaker 2: All of a sudden, it looked like about fifty kids
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Speaker 2: just going there and they're ramshacking and grabbing things. Whatever
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Speaker 2: they were doing inside of that croker had nothing to
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Speaker 2: do with the protest at all. And I'm saying if
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Speaker 2: I were Kroger, I would absolutely sue the school district
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Speaker 2: because you have a sponsored activity that you're saying kids
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Speaker 2: can leave your school. They entered my store, my product
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Speaker 2: and started tearing things up. People don't realize how much
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Speaker 2: money is on the shelves on these stores, meaning hundreds
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Speaker 2: of thousands of dollars of inventory that are there. What
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Speaker 2: makes these students think that they can go in there
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Speaker 2: and tear up the store. I don't understand it. And
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Speaker 2: by the way, they didn't even have the insight to
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Speaker 2: go to the ice machine. It would have made some
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Speaker 2: sense if they went to the ice machine and started saying, Man,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna take all the ice side of here, We're
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Speaker 2: gonna put it out in this. I don't know, but
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Speaker 2: they just started running through the store, tearying it up
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Speaker 2: and things. It was such an embarrassment, and I think
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Speaker 2: North College Hill, if you're listening, you owe all of
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Speaker 2: us a very deep apology.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I'll go back to the point I made
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Speaker 1: last week on this whole issue. Parents. You know, the
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Speaker 1: teachers stand as parents when they have a control over
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Speaker 1: your children during these school hours. They are in loco.
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Speaker 1: Parentis a Latin term which means that they put themselves
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Speaker 1: in the situation a parent as a parent, assuming and
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Speaker 1: discharging the obligations of a parent, which means, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: illegally speaking, if I had a young person and I
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Speaker 1: was in control of them, and my young person, my
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Speaker 1: daughter or my son, went on a criminal rampage inside
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Speaker 1: of Kruger, if I could be held responsible for allowing
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Speaker 1: them to do that. But maybe, But to the extent
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Speaker 1: there's any criminal responsibility or liability, it makes perfect sense
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Speaker 1: to hold the teachers who allowed this to happen. Who
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Speaker 1: you would and you would expect, would have control and
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Speaker 1: discipline and authority over them when they left this school,
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Speaker 1: because well, they might leave the area of the protest,
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Speaker 1: run in the middle of the street, or otherwise run
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Speaker 1: around commit criminal activities, which makes the whole idea and
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Speaker 1: concept of doing it to be a stupid one. I
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Speaker 1: don't I don't get it.
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Speaker 2: I don't get it. When I was a parent, you know,
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Speaker 2: and you know I'm talking about actively, you know, Camilles
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Speaker 2: about to graduate, but when they were babies and stuff
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Speaker 2: like that. You have permission slips, you have to sign something.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm trying to figure out, you know, how
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Speaker 2: are the parents involved with this? Is this something that's
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Speaker 2: organic that the kids are saying, we just want to
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Speaker 2: do and they just start walking out of school. But
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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, you can tell that
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Speaker 2: the kids had no concept about what they were protesting.
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Speaker 2: Their decision was to leave school. They got out of
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Speaker 2: school and then just to walk into a Kroger and
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Speaker 2: just start tearing it up. I mean that that that
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Speaker 2: really was their protest. And what's so amazing about it
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Speaker 2: is you have not really heard from North College, you know,
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Speaker 2: from the from the from the administration, and no kind
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Speaker 2: of accountability. That's what's missing with so many of our
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Speaker 2: young people, this lack of accountability, this sense that they
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Speaker 2: can do whatever they want to do, they can follow
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Speaker 2: their feelings. Their feelings now become facts. They're not they're
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Speaker 2: your feelings, they are not facts. And so there's notion
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Speaker 2: that there's no accountability. And all that school system told
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Speaker 2: those kids to do are what they taught to them
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Speaker 2: on that day is they can do whatever they want
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Speaker 2: to do and not be held accountable. Incredibly dangerous. Every
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Speaker 2: one of those kids that were involved in that Brian
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Speaker 2: Thomas should be held to an account Now I'm not
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Speaker 2: talking about where they get in some very serious, deep trouble,
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Speaker 2: but you just don't let kids go out of your
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Speaker 2: school and then rampage through a Kroger and nothing said
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Speaker 2: about it. And by the way, this made national news.
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Speaker 2: People might this made Cincinnati is yet back in the
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Speaker 2: national news with kids tearing up a Kroger. It was
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Speaker 2: just absolutely insane.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, the if I recall a statement from
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Speaker 1: the principle of the schools to these that you know,
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Speaker 1: these criminal acts in the Kroger won't be tolerated, they
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Speaker 1: will be suspended or held accountable. Blah blah blah. Nothing
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Speaker 1: in the statement that I recall, and I'm willing to
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Speaker 1: be corrected on it said that the protest itself was
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Speaker 1: either authorized or not authorized, which led me to believe
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Speaker 1: that they had encouraged it or authorized. In other words,
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Speaker 1: the teachers were involved in this. They allowed the students
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Speaker 1: to leave the building, and only the students who went
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Speaker 1: to the Kroger and started throwing things around will be
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Speaker 1: held responsible.
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Speaker 2: I e.
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Speaker 1: It was okay for the other ones to leave the
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Speaker 1: building to protest. No permission, slip, no advance notice to
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Speaker 1: the parents, Christopher, Sorry.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And if I'm a parent out there and this
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Speaker 2: is something that I don't support right now, I'm going
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Speaker 2: to weigh it on that too. So if I'm a parent,
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Speaker 2: you didn't tell me this was happening my kid in
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Speaker 2: some way, it was involved in it, I'm going to
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Speaker 2: come and hold the school accountable in that way. That's
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Speaker 2: why this is incredibly dangerous stuff. To allow this to
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Speaker 2: be happening during school hours. And here's the kicker, the
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Speaker 2: real kicker. They're not even doing a good job on
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Speaker 2: what they're supposed to be doing like reading, English, math, history, science, Like,
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Speaker 2: it's not like you got that top top school. The
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Speaker 2: reality of it is is the students are not getting
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Speaker 2: the best education that money can buy. Why in the
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Speaker 2: world are you doing anything outside of what my kid
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Speaker 2: needs to do when they come to your school, which
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Speaker 2: is prepare them in the basics so they can get
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Speaker 2: out there and survive, or go to college, or go
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Speaker 2: in the military and be a productive citizen. They're they're
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Speaker 2: not even good at what they're supposed to be doing.
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Speaker 2: That's what's so frustrating about it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but they get stellar academic awards for their achievement
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Speaker 1: in left winging, protest organization and left wing ideology. That's
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Speaker 1: one thing they're really succeeding in. Heck, with math and
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Speaker 1: reading and arithmetic and all that. Christopher, we need we
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Speaker 1: have woke people. We need to train. That's why we're here.
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Speaker 1: Seven thirty seven one more the talk station seven A
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Speaker 1: bit about Krocit talk station. After the top of the
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Speaker 1: ore it is money money with Brian James. We will
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Speaker 1: talk tariffs among other topics of Brian James, and in
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Speaker 1: the meantime got Christopher Smithling on the phone doing his
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Speaker 1: Smither event for this Monday morning, Christopher, what else is
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Speaker 1: on your mind today? My friend?
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Speaker 2: Look, brother, I went into a Kroger. I had to
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Speaker 2: get some medicine, specifically ALCA selicer for my daughter. And
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Speaker 2: what amazed me is in the transaction is I was
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Speaker 2: asked for my identification. Sure, I need your driver's license,
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Speaker 2: and I'm standing there going okay. So I get my
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Speaker 2: driver's license out, I turn it over, they take their
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Speaker 2: little thing, they scan it. Okay, you can buy the
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Speaker 2: Alca selzer and I'm like, oh wow.
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Speaker 1: Well, Christopher, wait a second, hold on my listening audience,
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Speaker 1: except they don't know you. I am talking with a
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Speaker 1: black man, Christopher Smithing. You're black. I thought you weren't
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Speaker 1: able to get one. According to the Democrat, you're not
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Speaker 1: smart enough to get an I d huh.
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Speaker 2: And that that the that is that is so condescending.
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Speaker 2: It is when they keep emphasizing that African Americans cannot
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Speaker 2: buy the d m B, don't have state IDs, don't
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Speaker 2: have driver's licenses, don't know how to get them. It
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Speaker 2: is insane when Senator Schumer continues to put that craziness
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Speaker 2: out there, which makes no sense. But here I am
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Speaker 2: buying Alca Selzer and had to show my ID, And
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Speaker 2: I just want everybody to know I didn't think it
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Speaker 2: was racist. I didn't think I was being profiled. I was.
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Speaker 2: I was. I was shocked that I needed a driver's
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Speaker 2: license to buy Alca selser. That was a whole nother conversation,
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Speaker 2: but it just emphasizes this, this fake outrage that's coming
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Speaker 2: from Democrats. And by the way, anybody sitting there going
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Speaker 2: why is some of them and talking about it? Is
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Speaker 2: because I'm African American and I keep turning on my
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Speaker 2: TV and listening to Democrats tell me African Americans aren't
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Speaker 2: smart enough to get a driver's license or difficult or
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Speaker 2: cannot get a state ID in order for them to
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Speaker 2: vote or for us to vote in elections. You know
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Speaker 2: this is crazy. Don't use us right to promote your
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Speaker 2: craziness when the reality of it is you really are
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Speaker 2: focused on people who you don't want to have identification
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Speaker 2: voting in our election. That's really what this is about.
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Speaker 2: It's not about African Americans. It's about using us right,
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Speaker 2: and they're just throwing us out there like, hey, let
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Speaker 2: me take be Condes Sydney. We've got to worry about
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Speaker 2: they even say poor white people, and they also say
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Speaker 2: African Americans. I don't know why they're picking on those
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Speaker 2: two groups of people, but is insane. And so when
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Speaker 2: you have every person out there, if you go out
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Speaker 2: there and you're just I'm going to take a plane trip,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to go out and buy a beer or
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Speaker 2: buy some alcohol from a store, all of these basic transactions.
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Speaker 2: If you're trying to go into any federal building in
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Speaker 2: the United States of America, including Congress, they require identification.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, the former president who I am
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Speaker 2: of the Cincinnati in double ACP, they require identification for
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Speaker 2: you to participate in their local election. I can back
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Speaker 2: you that I cannot go into any election anywhere in
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Speaker 2: the United States of America as an n DOUBLEACP member,
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Speaker 2: whether it's Detroit, right, whether it's Columbus, whether it's Cincinnati,
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Speaker 2: participate in their local election without providing your identification when
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Speaker 2: you go in and vote. So I am the president
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Speaker 2: of the N DOUBLEACP, and I'm trying to understand why
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Speaker 2: the NAACP is saying that something is racist that they actually.
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Speaker 1: Require and white guy Brian Thomas, I was a member
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Speaker 1: of the NDAACP. When you were president of the sin
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Speaker 1: SINY chapter, and I was happy to be a member
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Speaker 1: because you were president and you did some great, great
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Speaker 1: things including bring the national naacpeople into LACP groups to
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati for their convention. What a shot in the arm
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Speaker 1: that was, Christophers. You deserve some praise for it. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: I had to present my photo idea what I wanted
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Speaker 1: to vote for. You you did, you.
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Speaker 2: Did, and they and sometimes in some areas they will
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Speaker 2: say they want you to have your ID, your your
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Speaker 2: your membership card. So they say, hey, I want you to
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Speaker 2: bring your membership card, and I want you to bring
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Speaker 2: your driver's license. And by the way, then there when
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Speaker 2: you go in and you vote at a local NAACP election,
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Speaker 2: we also provide the membership list. So the membership list
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Speaker 2: is in front of you. You go in, they check
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Speaker 2: your ID, they then check off and say, hey, you're
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Speaker 2: here to vote. It's a very important process to make
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Speaker 2: sure that that election is fair and transparent. I don't
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Speaker 2: understand anybody who thinks that providing your identification with your
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Speaker 2: voting in any election, but the American elections this country,
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Speaker 2: that that in itself or on its face is racist.
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Speaker 2: I just want to tell everybody. I bought some Alcoa
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Speaker 2: Celtor this weekend. I needed to provide some id.
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Speaker 1: That really bloils it down to its faris Elemen's Christopher,
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Speaker 1: and I guess since you keep an active of voter
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Speaker 1: role at the NAACP, when someone dies, are they removed
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Speaker 1: from the active list?
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Speaker 2: Christopher, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, matter of fact. You know, if
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Speaker 2: somebody's membership has lapsed, you can't come in and participate.
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Speaker 2: We are very very strict in making sure that the
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Speaker 2: elections are local elections for N double ACP officers are
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Speaker 2: very tight, and I'm very proud about it. Meaning every
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Speaker 2: N double ACP location across the United States should be
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Speaker 2: very proud of it. But we also should remain silent,
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Speaker 2: and we shouldn't be out here saying that if a
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Speaker 2: leader is saying we needed to have a driver's license
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Speaker 2: to participate in a local election, that on itself is
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Speaker 2: not racist. That's somebody coming in and doing the same
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Speaker 2: thing that we're doing. If we're if we're holding our
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Speaker 2: local elections, which happened, you know, I don't understand that
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Speaker 2: they happen. Every two years, every local NAACP will have
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Speaker 2: an election for their officers and I guarantee you when
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Speaker 2: they're voting, and any of them that are listening to me,
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Speaker 2: you're going to have to provide identification to walk in
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Speaker 2: there and participate in that election, and if you don't,
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Speaker 2: you will not cast a vote. And by the way,
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Speaker 2: we do provisional votes. If somebody comes in and they
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Speaker 2: challenge their membership and they say, hey, I have paid
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Speaker 2: my membership, I am in good standing. Hey, they can vote,
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Speaker 2: but that vote is over provisionally. And then after the
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Speaker 2: doors closed, all of those ballots are separated and we
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Speaker 2: go through and verify whether that person should or should
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Speaker 2: not have cast a vote in the election before we
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Speaker 2: put it in the big aisle. I mean, it's a
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Speaker 2: very very methodical and serious process. And I'm saying I
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Speaker 2: don't understand anybody believing that providing ID on its face
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Speaker 2: is racist. All of us, white, Black, Latito, Asian elements, Lebanese,
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Speaker 2: all of us should be pushing back and saying IDs
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Speaker 2: are not racist. Stop it. Democratic Party, stop it. Democratic Party,
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Speaker 2: just stop it. And I'm offended as an African American
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Speaker 2: that they keep putting us out there as the ones
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Speaker 2: that can't get the ID or can't find a DMV
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Speaker 2: and I know where my DMV is and I know
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Speaker 2: how to get a dog on ID.
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Speaker 1: And that statement comes from primarily a white guy in
19:22
Speaker 1: the form of Chucky Schumer. I just kind of wonder,
19:24
Speaker 1: as a you know, black person, African American, if you will,
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Speaker 1: how that sets with you. I guess you can make
19:30
Speaker 1: if the credibility would be much larger if these cries
19:33
Speaker 1: were coming from I suppose members of the black community. Listen,
19:35
Speaker 1: I'm black, and I know what it is that the
19:37
Speaker 1: struggle for me, here's the reasons why as a black
19:40
Speaker 1: person it's more difficult. None of that comes through when
19:42
Speaker 1: you hear in Chucky Schumer just pair it the same
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Speaker 1: thing over and over again, and it really, it again
19:45
Speaker 1: comes off as extraordinarily offensive. I'm a white guy, and
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Speaker 1: I find it offensive on behalf of all my black friends,
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Speaker 1: like you, Christopher. I just get how they I don't
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Speaker 1: know that how he gets away with it that more
19:53
Speaker 1: people don't stand up and say, Barbara Streisan basically, listen, man.
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Speaker 2: What would be racist if they said African Americans were
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Speaker 2: the only ones that had to provide identification without identification? Okay,
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Speaker 2: so that would that would that would be racist if
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Speaker 2: you said they were the only ones that had. But
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Speaker 2: you're saying everybody is on the same playing field and
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Speaker 2: everybody must provide the same identification to participate.
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Speaker 1: That is not racist. Everybody, Alca Seltzer must provide a
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Speaker 1: photo ID. It's not Chrisopher, you're black, give me your
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Speaker 1: photo ID. White guy didn't have to provide one. Now see,
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Speaker 1: we see through the nonsensical argument that is being made
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Speaker 1: by the likes of Chucky Shum, the Democrats and our
20:41
Speaker 1: government is shot on this argument.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, if I didn't have identification, they
20:48
Speaker 2: wouldn't have sold me the Alca Celtic. I would not
20:52
Speaker 2: have walked out. Hey, the lady there was very serious.
20:55
Speaker 2: She said, hey, I need some identification to buy the suit,
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Speaker 2: and I need your turn it over. And she scanned
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Speaker 2: the back of it. And and Kroger, any representative of Kroger.
21:05
Speaker 2: They know what I'm saying is true. Let me end
21:07
Speaker 2: by saying this, Look, man, there's some great things. Hats
21:10
Speaker 2: off to the Olympians hockey team. And I was so
21:14
Speaker 2: excited they won the goal. You know, that's amazing. We've
21:18
Speaker 2: had some great skaters out there, Bob sledters skiers has
21:21
Speaker 2: just been wonderful to watch the Winter Olympics. So my
21:24
Speaker 2: hat goes off from you know, USA, USA, USA, proudly
21:28
Speaker 2: with the flag. Let me also say that what I
21:31
Speaker 2: see happening in Mexico is wild. I mean, if you're there,
21:35
Speaker 2: if you have family there, if you own property there,
21:38
Speaker 2: and people might not are waking up and might not
21:40
Speaker 2: even know what we're talking about here. But one of
21:42
Speaker 2: these gang leaders was assassinated, are arrested and killed.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and.
21:50
Speaker 2: Now wow, and now you have all of the gangs
21:54
Speaker 2: out here and looks like burning and blowing things up.
21:57
Speaker 2: My hat and my heart goes out to any American
21:59
Speaker 2: that trapped in Mexico, are family members who can't travel
22:03
Speaker 2: airports that are closed there. It is incredibly serious, but
22:07
Speaker 2: in underscores the work that ICE has been doing in
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Speaker 2: our country making sure that people like that aren't making
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Speaker 2: it into our country and if they are here, Brian Thomas,
22:20
Speaker 2: that we are throwing them out. See this is an
22:23
Speaker 2: underscore to remind us the work that these federal agents
22:27
Speaker 2: are doing, how dangerous the work is that they are
22:31
Speaker 2: doing when they are approaching these gang members that have
22:35
Speaker 2: come into our country from Mexico and other places. This
22:38
Speaker 2: is the reality and they're expelling them now. I want
22:41
Speaker 2: to be clear, I'm not talking about dreamers. I'm not
22:44
Speaker 2: talking about nonviolent people. Look, we can have those discussions
22:49
Speaker 2: about when we start talking about immigration reform and what
22:51
Speaker 2: we need to do. I am specifically talking about rapists
22:56
Speaker 2: and murderers and gang members that have been coming over
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Speaker 2: our border under the previous president, President Biden. We need
23:03
Speaker 2: to get these gang members out of our country AFAP.
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Speaker 2: I don't want any city in the United States to
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Speaker 2: look like Mexico looks like today.
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Speaker 1: Amen, and maybe we've seen the beginning of the end
23:15
Speaker 1: of the drug cartels of Mexico. Fingers crossed for that.
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