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Michaelah Montgomery from America First Works · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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Washington Journal continues, welcome back.
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We're joined now by Michaela Montgomery.
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She's the Georgia coordinator for Fulton County for America
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First Works. She's also the founder of
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Conserve the Culture. Michaela, welcome to the
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program. Hello.
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Hello. Thank you guys for having me.
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You introduced former President Trump at his recent rally in
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Atlanta. How did that come about?
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What? How did you meet him?
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So I actually met him back in April at the Chick-fil-A that,
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you know, was a viral moment now.
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And I've been in contacts with the team ever since.
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Then President Trump actually invited me and all the HBCU
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students to have a private dinner with him at Mar a Lago.
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And, you know, I saw him when he went to Detroit for the rallies.
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Again, I'm a member of Blexit. So I was there for the Turning
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Point people's Convention, things like that.
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And so when I heard he was coming to Atlanta, I just
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reached out to the team and I said, what are the odds that I
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can speak on Saturday? And they said yes.
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And I made that request on a Wednesday night.
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And nobody, you know, told me what to say.
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Nobody said make sure you do this.
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Nobody made any edits to my speech.
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They literally let me write it out.
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I submitted and said, this is what I'd like to say.
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They said, all right, try to keep it under 5 minutes.
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That's probably the only rule that I broke.
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But I don't think anybody was upset about it.
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You you're very active in politics, obviously.
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Can you tell us how you got involved and why?
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Yes. So I actually moved to Atlanta,
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GA from Las Vegas, NV and just knowing or not knowing, but
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observing the starking differences in the quality of
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education that I saw some of the students receiving, looking at
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development, specifically Urban Development infrastructure and
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how people are complaining about the roads.
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And even now I've been here 10 years and people are still
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complaining about the same roads.
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I just thought, wow, there must be a way to do something about
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this other than complaining about it.
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And my senior year of high school is actually when I
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decided to change my major from pre law to political science
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because I knew then that I could really make change.
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Being in government before I thought that I could make change
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defending, you know, the defenseless.
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But I'm like, wow, if I create laws that could help them before
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they ever, you know, need to be in a courtroom, I think that
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would be better. And I was actually picked up by
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Miss Vivian Childs and Janelle King way back in 2017.
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Janelle King was working with the GAGOP at the time.
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Let me know that internships were available.
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I decided to go ahead and take one up.
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I learned a lot, I met some amazing people, and I've just
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been doing the work ever since then.
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So you're the organizer in Fulton County, Georgia, for
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America First Works. Tell us what that is and the
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affiliation with the Trump campaign.
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So as you know, the Trump campaign has shouted out America
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First Works, America First Policy Institute, the entire
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America First family tree. We're a big, I guess I wouldn't
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say think tank, but a lot of the outsourcing in regards to the
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engagement, the outreach, the mobilization of voters and
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volunteers would all come through America First.
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We also do a lot of events and things like that.
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So my role specifically would be to throw events to encourage
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people to not just pay attention to the election, but get
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involved with the campaign, to encourage their friends to vote,
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to come up with a voting plan on Election Day or during early
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voting, all of those things. So at America First works
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specifically, I am in charge of volunteer recruitment,
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coordination, and mobilization. And how is it funded?
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It's a pact. So I imagine that the money
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comes from donors, donors who support any of our pillars,
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whether that be for education, whether that be gun rights,
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whether that be pro-life enthusiasts, it would come from
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donors. And why do you personally
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support former President Trump? I personally support President
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Trump due to my personal beliefs.
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So as a former foster child, I really love family.
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And I don't think that just because things didn't work out
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with my birth parents that that meant that I didn't deserve to
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be here. So that turned me kind of into a
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pro lifer. I'm not the type to demonize
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people for the decisions that they decide to make, but me
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personally, if I'm going to vote for my personal views, I'm going
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to align myself with a pro-life candidate.
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Additionally, I am a mother now myself, so I do pay a lot of
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attention to the education that my child is receiving.
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And again, when I moved out here, I noticed the differences
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between the standards of education in Nevada and the
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standards of education out here in Atlanta, GA.
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And I didn't like how I came here.
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And I felt like, not necessarily that I was smarter than
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everybody else, but I just felt like I was equipped with a
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better education than a lot of other people.
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And I don't know whether that be the allocation of resources.
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I don't know if it had something to do with property taxes.
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I don't know if maybe I just got lucky and had amazing teachers
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all throughout my life. But as a mother now, I think
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it's very impairing, important that parents have a say so in
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their child's education and that parents can remain hands on.
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For instance, I don't believe that there's 53 genders and I
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refuse to allow my child to sit in the classroom in which
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they're going to tell her that that is what is true and she
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will be tested on said thing and possibly failed if I tell her
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that there's only two genders and I don't care what the
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teacher says. Lastly, as a single mother, as a
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woman who you know, I think I'm gorgeous.
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So just being able to protect myself, having my Second
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Amendment rights protected. Regardless, I do not want to
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live in a world in which your personal firearms are expected
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to be surrendered. Because in a world like that,
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the only people who have guns are criminals and law
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enforcement. So if someone were to break into
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my home, which actually has happened to me recently, I
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wouldn't be able to protect myself.
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And whoever was breaking into my home would also know that.
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And the person breaking into my home would probably be equipped
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with a weapon because just like drugs, if people want something
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that's illegal, they're going to get it.
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And so those are my three main reasons.
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Additionally, I have a brother that was formerly incarcerated,
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so he is now a returning citizen.
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And I think it's unfair that migrants can commit a crime by
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illegally migrating over here and they get rewarded with the
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same resources that my brother would be turned down for.
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So my brother cannot get food stamps.
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My brother cannot apply for a luxury apartment.
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My brother cannot just go out for a corporate job without
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knowing somebody who knows somebody.
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Yet a migrant can come over here illegally and be awarded food
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stamps, be awarded housing assistance, be granted the
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opportunity to pursue a higher education, all of these things.
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Yet my brother, who was born here, bred here when he worked,
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paid taxes here. He can't get those things, but a
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migrant can. So when I look specifically at
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policy and my personal experience, everything that I
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would want aligns with what I see on the Trump side.
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All right. And if you'd like to join our
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conversation with Michaela Montgomery, you can do so.
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Our lines are Republicans 202-748-8000, one, Democrats
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202-748-8000 and Independents 202-748-8000 and two.
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And Kayla, you founded a group called Conserve the Culture.
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What is that about? So Conserve the Culture is
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mainly a mobilization group. So almost a staff, excuse me,
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almost a staffing company. So I started out as a door to
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door canvasser actually. And when doing those projects,
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the field director would usually be like, do you have any friends
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that can join you? Can you bring some more people
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with you tomorrow? And me being a poli sci major at
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an HBCU, all I would have to do is go to class and tell people,
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hey, I'm doing this work for this election, they're going to
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pay us. Do any of you want to come?
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And of course, everybody would want to come with me.
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So I would get everybody to my house.
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We would wait for the van, the bus, the Uber, whatever to come
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pick us up. We would go to the
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neighborhoods, we would canvas those neighborhoods.
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We would go right back to my house, which was on campus.
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So everybody would go to their respective dorms afterwards.
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So that was something I started getting calls darn near every
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other week. And so I was like, this is very
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interesting. And eventually I ended up
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working for this man named Edward Moldrow.
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And after mobilizing the team, getting them, I'm out there
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getting them home, I'm going to pick up the money so that I can
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compensate the workers. And he gave me a nice little bit
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on top of what I was supposed to be what was owed.
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And I was like, what's this? And he basically let me know if
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you recruit, train, mobilize, transport and pay these people,
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you are a manager. And it's about time you start
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carrying yourself as such. And so Conserve the Culture was
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created from there. And now it's primarily not just
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jobs, but of course, I make an effort to make sure they have
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the opportunity to meet whatever candidate it is that they are
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working for. I bring them to different
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events, town halls, so that they can see their candidate debate
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or hear their candidate speak on the issues that are important to
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them. I have really done my best and
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exposing them to the different sides of politics.
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So while I may support Trump, I don't expect them all to support
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Trump because my journey that got me here might be different
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from theirs. So all I can do is give them the
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same opportunities that were granted to me.
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And that's let me get you in the room.
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Let me allow you to participate in these conversations and let
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me let you know that you know, you do have access to your City
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Councilman, to your commissioner, to your mayor, to
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your governor, things like that. You do have a right to speak to
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them. You do have a voice in regards
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to what your concerns are. So I bring my kids everywhere.
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They didn't. They haven't only met President
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Trump. They've met presidential
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candidate or hopeful candidate Robert F Kennedy as well.
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And if Joe Biden actually cared about the community, they would
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have met him too. But he hasn't made himself
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accessible. So with that being said, I just
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do my best to create a new generation of informed voters.
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Yes, Kayla rocks this way. And I'm going to bring y'all to
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wherever I'm at so you guys can see why.
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But if you still don't rock with it, here's what's going on over
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here. And here's what's going on over
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there. Now let's have conversations
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about what you learned in this room and how it differs from
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what was said in that room, I think is how we're going to
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solve the issue of voter apathy and the, you know, low level,
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how we have high levels of voter registration and low levels of
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voter turnout. So, Kayla, the Atlanta rally
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that we were talking about where you introduced a former
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President Trump, a few days before that, he spoke to the
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National Association of Black Journalists and he talked about
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Vice President Harris, racial identity, that she had become
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black. A lot of critics said that that
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hurt him with black voters. What was your reaction?
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I don't know why it would hurt him with black voters, because
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it seems like black voters are offended by everything except
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the conditions in which their reality is set.
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So while we might be offended that a rich white man is
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questioning the nationality of a quote UN quote black woman, that
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black woman does not claim to be black outside of campaign
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season. So we saw her be black as she
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was vying to be VP. The hot sauce on the pork chops,
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The marching with the band. All of us sudden she's paying
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attention to her AKA sorority sisters.
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But then once sworn in office, you didn't see the
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acknowledgement of her sorority or her HBCU.
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She didn't wear pink, she didn't wear green.
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She didn't wear anything Hu. She also did not acknowledge the
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black community while in office. We saw bills signed for Asians.
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We saw bills passed for migrants which primarily affect the
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Hispanic community. We saw bills passed for
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literally everyone but black people.
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So for her. Additionally, last thing after
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she took that oath of office, she went on record to say that
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she was the 1st South Asian Vice President.
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At no point in time did she promote her blackness.
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At no point in time does she acknowledge her blackness.
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At no point in time does she market herself as a black woman.
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And that was when she was attorney general.
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That's back when she was DA. That's all the way until she was
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senator and of course, as vice president.
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So the fact that, again, she's using this black card during the
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election season just so black people will turn out to vote for
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her and then she will, if she were to win, she would be in
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office and then fail those same black people who did everything
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in their power to get her in. I think that's disgusting thing.
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I think that's unfair. And I think that that's why I
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personally reached out to the Trump campaign and asked if I
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could speak because I'm like, you guys might be offended when
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he says it, but what are you going to do when I say it?
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Because at the end of the day, I am a black woman.
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I've lived a black life and therefore I pay and I pay
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attention to politics. So I was actually excited for
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her when she ran for president the first time.
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Just the fact that she was in the race, I was like, OK, HBC
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us, do your thing. But she never acknowledged, said
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HBC us in the first 100 days of the the administration, they cut
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funding to HBC US. She did nothing to support the
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very people that she's now leaning on to win this election.
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And I wish that those same people would understand that if
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they were to support her in this election and she does win, we
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will see nothing but a repeat of the last administration in which
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Black people, the same people that everybody touts when it's
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time to get elected, will also be the ones that are the 1st to
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be forgotten about once they're sworn in.
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Michaela Montgomery, also at that Atlanta rally and at a news
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conference the week before where former President Trump attacked
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Georgia's popular governor Brian Kemp.
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I want to show you a a segment of that and then have you
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respond to it. He's the most disloyal guy I
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think I've ever seen. But think of the wife.
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We can never repay you for what you've done, Sir.
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We could have never won. And now she said two weeks ago
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that I will not endorse her because she hasn't earned my I
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haven't earned her endorsement. I have nothing to do with her.
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Somewhere he went bad. And you know what?
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Your numbers in Georgia are very average.
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Your crime numbers, your economic numbers, all of your
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numbers. You're a very average.
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You can do a lot better and you'll do a lot better with a
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better governor. You can do a lot better, just so
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you understand. But I don't want her
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endorsement. I don't want his endorsement.
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I just want them to do their job for Georgia.
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And you know what? He's the governor.
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He ought to support his Republican Party.
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Because if he's not, if he doesn't have his Republican
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Party, I could tell you where he came from and it wasn't good.
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Michaela, your response to that? Well, I feel like that Trump and
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Kemp had a personal relationship, a personal
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friendship. And the media, the current, I
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guess, narrative is that Trump called Kemp and asked Kemp to
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find 11,000 votes. It wasn't until this rally that
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I understood that that's not how the call went.
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The call was actually, can you make the call to start an
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investigation to see if maybe some votes had been lost.
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So I could understand why Trump, who used his political prowess
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to help Kemp get into office, would be offended at the fact
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that Kemp would not help him at least investigate something that
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he felt had gone wrong in terms of being re elected.
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So I don't see anything wrong with Trump personally feeling
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attacked or feeling like Kemp was disloyal for not making the
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call to start an investigation. Additionally, he spoke in
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Atlanta and as a resident of Atlanta, I can speak that our
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crime rates are rampant. I can speak to the fact that
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people don't don't want to go out anymore because they fear
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getting shot or they fear their cars getting broken into two, I
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can tell you that kids no longer walk to the park or go hang out
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at the bowling alley or the skating rink or anything like
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that because crime legitimately is an issue here.
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Now what more can our governor do about it?
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I honestly would not know because that seems more like a
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mayoral issue. However, of course Kemp can get
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up and shine a light onto the things that are happening in
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Atlanta and the surrounding cities in Georgia of course,
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where they might be facing similar problems.
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So while I myself haven't, you know, received any, well, I
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haven't had a bad experience with Governor Kemp myself.
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I'm not going to act like I don't understand why Trump would
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get up and talk about his bad experience with Kemp.
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And additionally, the Republican Party is all about loyalty.
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So it kind of does make you want to say, yeah, it is pretty
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interesting that a Republican governor would not support the
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Republican Party's nomination for president.
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I can understand why Trump was upset that he did not get an
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endorsement from the two people he endorsed and helped get
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elected. And this is a comment we got on
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X from Eric, who says if you want to understand the problem
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Trump created for himself in Georgia today on the radio, 9
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out of 10 callers are women and they're all mad at him for
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attacking Brian Kemp's wife. Let's go to calls now.
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Kayla, Charlie's in Jonesboro, AR Republican.
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Good morning. Hey, I just wanted to ask you a
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little question about referendum voting.
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I think if we could vote on things ourselves, like this war
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in Ukraine or something, we could have some say in it.
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And at least this voting on John Smith or George, somebody, it
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doesn't matter who they are, they're not going to represent
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us. They'll do their, they'll get
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paid off. We have no say.
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This is an illusion of a democracy.
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And I also wanted to say I think Donald Trump's a wonderful
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person, a really good man. I'd like to hear what you think
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about the Bar Largo visit and how he is.
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Personally, I just since we can't have any say in our own
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government, I think he is the answer.
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All right, Michaela Montgomery, any comment on referendum
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voting? I agree, much like President
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Trump always says, you know, they're not trying to stop, you
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know, they're not trying to do something to him, they're trying
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to do something to us. And he's just in the way.
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I think referendum voting is something that we should support
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because if the public had to say so in funding Ukraine's war, I
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doubt that the funding would continue if the public had to
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say so and do we want little boys competing in little girls
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sports? I doubt that the Democratic
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Party would keep pushing that in the name of tolerance.
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I think that if we had a right to vote on really a lot of the
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government spending and a lot of the foreign relation things that
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are going on, if we even have the right to vote on the migrant
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issue. And should migrants have, you
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know, a clear path to citizenship or should they have
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to go through processes like we see in other countries?
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I think that that's important and I think that that is
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something that should be talked about.
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And Colin is calling us from Washington, DC Independent Line.
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Good morning. Good morning.
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Thank you for taking my call and thank you for C-SPAN.
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I've lived in Georgia during the 2020 election, and, you know, I
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didn't vote for Biden or Trump, but I do remember this same sort
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of rhetoric coming from Miss Montgomery, you know, trying to
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claim that, you know, Black voters were going to change
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sides to Republican Party, you know, and in 2020, I think the
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black percentage was like 6% for Trump.
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So it's just, I just find it funny that every four years the
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same, you know, kind of song and dance gets gets laundered by the
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Republican Party. And I think it's worth
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mentioning that, you know, Miss Montgomery, she's a she was the
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former city director of Blexit, which is a far right, you know,
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we're going to try and get, you know, we're going to try and
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quote UN quote free. The plantation mentality is a
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literal quote of the organization of black voters.
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And it's founded by Candace Owens, who's a far right moon.
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So I just think it's disappointing when C-SPAN, you
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know, platforms people like McCabe Montgomery or Sebastian
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Gorka or constantly refers to the Washington Examiner or The
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Washington Times, which are quite literally far right
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newspapers that are made-up. I mean, the Washington Examiner,
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go look up who founds them. Next.
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You're going to be, you know, referring to The Epoch Times.
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So. All right, Colin, we'll, we'll
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get a response from Mckayla Montgomery.
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Go ahead. And Kayla?
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First of all, I'm a huge fan of Candace Owens and I went to my
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first Black City event here in Buckhead back in 2019, and the
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speeches that I heard, the visualizations that were
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presented to me. It was like, wow, this is great.
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And when it comes to getting off the Democratic plantation,
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that's a real thing. And I don't know why somebody
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would feel like I myself would be offended by that.
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If everybody thinks the same, has been fear mongered into
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thinking the same way, living the same way, then yes, that's a
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plantation. Because how in the world were so
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many slaves who outnumbered their slave masters continuing
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to be slaves? It happened because they were
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fearful of doing something different.
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So when we say that Democrats are on this Democratic
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plantation, specifically talking about black people, is because,
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yes, you guys are all blindly following a leader and you're
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scared to do something different.
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Additionally, to think that somebody like myself who can
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clearly articulate their points, their opinions, their life
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experience that have led them to support certain candidates, it's
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very interesting that somebody would demean C-SPAN for having a
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guest like me on TV. There's plenty of people who
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think, act, and wish that a voice like mine had a bigger
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platform. So it's unfortunate that people
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like that feel like we should be silenced.
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All right, let's talk to Ladley and Marietta, GA Democrat.
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Good morning. Yes, I did not know that you
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knew Candace Owens. That sounds because she's pretty
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much been outcasted by the by the right because of her stances
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on Israel. But anyway, you will have a good
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job of Fox News at some point, I guarantee you that.
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And the things you point out are the Democrats, but they're
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failures. You're absolutely right on some
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of the things the Democrats fall short.
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But you know, at least at least we try like, I mean, the
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Republican policies are just just do complete opposite.
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OK, The last thing I want to say they're never going to let you
21:44
in the club. OK, And you like like the movie
21:47
to Django. You are the character of Samuel
21:49
Jackson. I don't know the exact like
21:51
terminology, but like, not Uncle Tom, but like Uncle Tommy or
21:55
like you're a complete sellout. All right, and we'll go to
22:01
Robert in. Oh, I can't respond to that.
22:03
Oh yes, you can thank. You very much because first of
22:06
all it sounded like that was a non black person telling me
22:08
that. So as a Democrat that sounds
22:10
pretty racial and pretty divisive.
22:12
Next, it's very interesting that I again would be called names or
22:17
be compared to fictional characters because of who I
22:20
choose to support. Again, these people who are
22:22
calling and making these derogatory statements about me,
22:24
who I choose to support, are denying the fact that, again,
22:27
who are you to tell me that my person national experience is
22:30
invalid? I think that that's something
22:32
that a lot of Democrats need to look within because how have you
22:35
tried? Kamala Harris is in office right
22:37
now and has not tried to do anything about the border, has
22:40
not tried to not tax people on tips and has not tried to do
22:43
anything about our failing education system.
22:45
So everything that she's promising she can do for you on
22:47
day one, she could do right now, but she's not trying to.
22:51
So that's something to, you know, for some Dems to take
22:54
home. Robert in Aurora IN Republican.
22:57
Good morning. Yes, sweetheart.
23:00
Miss Montgomery, I commit you. Sweetheart, you are telling the
23:04
truth. I want to tell you a little bit
23:07
about that. I'm 87 years old.
23:08
I I went for my first school. I didn't pass, but my dad served
23:13
World War Two. My uncle fought the Battle of
23:15
Gold. Back when I was a kid.
23:19
We had black people working for us.
23:24
There is colors, black, white, red, you name it, yellow.
23:29
They ate at our table. They didn't have to go out in
23:32
the bar or shed or sit on the porch to eat.
23:35
They ate with the family and anybody that wants to do
23:41
anything for their life, work for it, work for it.
23:45
There's yogs out here. They want to put Trump down and
23:49
he's worked his. Who would take a shot for this
23:51
country? Who would take a shot for this
23:54
country? And he wasn't in the military,
23:57
No, but he did take a shot for this country, and it almost
24:00
killed him. And you idiots out there that
24:03
can't see that this man wants to do right for this country.
24:07
He loves his country. He loves the people, all right.
24:11
For him. All right, Robert, Go ahead,
24:13
Kayla. I wholeheartedly agree with the
24:15
sentiment that if you work want something, you have to work for
24:18
it again. I moved out to Atlanta 10 years
24:20
ago with two suitcases and $1500.
24:23
Not an idea what I was going to do No family, no I don't have
24:27
parents that went to college. I was literally on my own and I
24:30
had to figure it out. I worked three jobs to get
24:32
through college. Then I got pregnant so
24:34
unfortunately I did not finish. But then I was like wow, instead
24:37
of sitting here and waiting on government assistance to come
24:40
and help me take care of me and my kid, what can I do to
24:43
therefore uplift us and make it so that I have the freedom to
24:47
raise my child and not worry about money?
24:49
And that's of course when I invested all of my time into
24:52
Conserve the Culture and grew it into a business that allowed me
24:55
to take care of my daughter. So I can't go for the
24:57
complaints. I can't go for the excuses.
25:00
I can't go for the woe is me. I wholeheartedly agree that if
25:03
you want something bad enough, you are going to work your ass
25:06
off to get it. Aaron Independent in Upper
25:09
Marlboro, MD Good morning. Good morning.
25:13
Thanks for taking my call. I would like to address my
25:16
comment to Mrs. Montgomery. If she doesn't know how she's in
25:22
her current station of life based on resources or housing
25:32
taxes or just her luck of the draw, I agree you're not very
25:38
smart. Thanks for taking my call.
25:41
Wait, wait, wait. Aaron, What?
25:42
What are you talking about? What do you mean?
25:44
Exactly. Let's sound smarter when we ask
25:46
the question, please. Well, yeah, you, you, you made a
25:48
comment earlier when you were living in Nevada and you moved
25:52
to Atlanta. You, I don't know if it was my
25:55
resources in Nevada because I guess they had pretty good
25:59
school systems. Actually, we don't.
26:00
Nevada was ranked very low when it comes to education.
26:03
It just so happened that our government allocates our dollars
26:06
better, but go ahead. Well, but well, but initially
26:10
you said you didn't know if you were smarter, but if you think
26:12
resources. In regards to how I feel, my
26:15
level of intelligence is in relation to the people that I've
26:19
met out here. Michaela let him finish.
26:21
Go ahead, Aaron. I'm sorry for talking while
26:23
you're interrupting. Well, you go ahead.
26:26
Carry on. I think I understand what you're
26:28
getting. You were OK.
26:29
You heard my sentiments earlier in which I said I moved out
26:32
here. And I don't want to say that I
26:34
feel like I'm smarter than anybody else, but was it the
26:37
resources that were allocated to me?
26:38
Was it the fact that I got lucky with amazing teachers?
26:41
Nevada ranks very low on education.
26:43
So let's not act like, oh, all of a sudden I'm not smart.
26:47
No, I noticed that even with Nevada being ranked so low in
26:50
education, I felt like the quality of education that I
26:53
received was much better than the ones that kids are
26:55
receiving. Out here, the property taxes.
26:57
OK, property taxes. Property taxes.
27:00
So are you telling me that with all the black wealth, with all
27:02
the black wealth that exists here in Atlanta, with all the
27:05
black millionaires that live here in Atlanta, why in the
27:08
world do 92% of APS students are illiterate?
27:11
Make it make sense. And we have Democratic mayors,
27:14
we have Democratic City Council members, we have Democratic
27:17
commissioners. And for whatever reason, 92% of
27:19
the kids here cannot read. That statistic did not exist in
27:23
Nevada. So again, I don't know if it was
27:25
the fact that I got lucky, I can't say that.
27:28
Oh my God, it's the teachers that suck out here.
27:30
I would never demean our educators here in Atlanta.
27:33
But what we can acknowledge is the numbers, Sir.
27:35
And so why you want to call me not smart?
27:37
Please tell me what your side has done to fix the illiteracy
27:41
rate that we see in our black children.
27:43
Absolutely nothing. And in fact, not only have they
27:45
not done anything to address the illiteracy issue, but then
27:48
they're further confusing their kids by confusing your kids by
27:51
telling us, telling them that men can give birth, by telling
27:55
them that there's 53 genders, and that by telling them that
27:58
your love for your best friend must mean that you are gay.
28:01
You are a pansexual asexual. Kids under the age of anything
28:05
high school should not be thinking anything sexual,
28:08
period. Sexual should not even be in
28:10
their vocabulary. So for you to say that I'm not
28:12
smart because I'm willing to call out all of the degeneracy
28:16
that exists within our current education system only points to
28:19
your lack of intelligence and your lack of initiative to
28:22
actually do something in regards to saving our children and
28:25
saving our schools. All right, let's talk to Sam in
28:28
Rome, GA Democrat. Hi, Sam.
28:30
Hi, good morning. And I have a question I want to
28:33
ask her first and then if you will indulge me, I do have a
28:37
comment I'd like to make after I hear her question, her answer to
28:41
my question. And before we get into it too,
28:45
remember she did all that complaining about the lack of
28:49
education, but we also have a Republican governor here who had
28:54
a hand in that as well. So it goes both ways.
28:57
Anyway, I want to ask her, she counts herself as a smart
29:01
person. So let's test it.
29:03
What is the mitigating factor that made the Democratic S turn
29:09
over to the Republican Party? And I'm waiting for your.
29:14
Democratic S turn over to the Republican Party.
29:18
I don't know what answer you're looking for, and I wouldn't know
29:20
how to answer that. But I can say again, I only
29:23
speak to my personal experiences, Sir.
29:25
So for people to question my intelligence as if my life is
29:28
somehow invalid, it's very interesting to me.
29:30
So so. Sam, go ahead with your point.
29:32
I believe you're talking about the Civil Rights Act.
29:35
The answered question is the Civil Rights Act.
29:38
The same Civil Rights Act that was authored by Republicans?
29:41
OK. But can I, can I finish, please,
29:44
OK. The act that gave you the right
29:47
to sit in the chair that you're sitting in right now and vote.
29:52
People in the city that you just moved into 10 years ago died for
29:57
that 'cause there are people still fighting for that same
30:02
'cause as we speak that in America they're still, they were
30:06
in the southern part of this state to which I live and I
30:10
love. They caught people trying to
30:12
fake the electors in this state and the Republican Party.
30:20
If you will look at if you will look at the history to which I'm
30:25
sure you claim to know or you do know the history of your state,
30:30
you should be aware that people have died for the cause to to
30:34
vote and now the people that. Hold on, Kayla, let him finish.
30:41
May I finish? If it's OK, your mother should
30:44
have talked to you a little better than that.
30:46
All right, Sam, just go ahead and finish your point.
30:48
Thank you. But but the people that have
30:51
died for this cause are still fighting for the same 'cause
30:55
that's OK if you want to be Republican or Democrat, but not
31:00
these Republicans. They are of a different elk.
31:02
They are of a different structure.
31:04
They are the same structure that left the Democratic Party to
31:08
come to the now Republican Party.
31:11
And that's my. Comment.
31:12
All right, Tim, go ahead. All right, so let's start with
31:15
the 1964 Civil Rights Act or the Voting Rights Act, correct?
31:18
That was all a ploy by Lyndon B Johnson's to get black people to
31:21
support the Democratic Party for the next 200 years.
31:24
And unfortunately, the tactic worked because much like you
31:27
heard our caller say, they're still fighting for the right to
31:29
vote. There's not one American citizen
31:31
without a felony who does not have the right to vote.
31:34
All you need is an ID, you can go vote.
31:37
We he also didn't acknowledge the fact that while he's saying
31:39
we had fake electors, we also had fake citizens going to vote
31:43
in our election. So of course, I guess we just
31:45
won't talk about election integrity in that sense.
31:48
Next, the ploy to get black people to vote for them for the
31:51
next 200 years was a fear tactic because again, black people then
31:55
thought that if they did not vote Democrat, they would lose
31:57
their right to vote. And even though Ronald Reagan
32:00
came in and didn't take away black people's right to vote,
32:02
for whatever reason, Democrats every election season get up and
32:06
talk voter suppression. Protect your right to vote.
32:08
Black people died for the right to vote.
32:10
Black people also died for the right to read.
32:13
So I wish a lot of you would please go read the Willie Lynch
32:16
letters. I wish a lot of you would go
32:18
read more about Jim and how, like, you know, the systems were
32:22
set up to basically make us believe that we were victims for
32:26
the rest of our life. So now let's talk about the
32:29
migrant issue and how it relates to the 1964 Voting Rights Act,
32:32
Correct? The Voting Rights Act was put in
32:34
place so that Black people would be a loyal Democratic voting
32:38
base. Black people are now leaving the
32:40
Democratic Party. Kayla, Kayla, you're saying that
32:43
the only reason the Civil Rights Act was was passed?
32:47
Was her vote the only no, no, no, The major portion of said
32:51
legislation was the fact that it gave black people the right to
32:54
vote. Right?
32:54
And Democrats touted the fact that they gave black people the
32:57
right to vote. They then use fear mongering to
33:00
make black people believe that if they did not vote Democrat,
33:02
they would lose their right to vote.
33:04
And whatever are the rights and resources that were granted to
33:06
them by these Democrats, Correct.
33:08
Now that you see black people leaving the Democratic Party,
33:11
now that you see black people calling out the Democratic
33:13
Party, now that you see black people tired of living in the
33:16
same conditions that they were in when the bill was signed,
33:20
they no longer have that loyal voting base.
33:22
So you know what they're doing now?
33:23
Now they're opening the borders. They're letting these migrants
33:25
in. They're giving them these
33:27
welcome packages full of food stamps, housing assistance,
33:30
whatever else that housing and clothing and whatever else it is
33:34
maybe that they need in order to come over here and live
33:36
comfortably. Why?
33:37
Because now when you have these illegal migrants coming over
33:40
here and it's clear that the Republicans are like, no, get
33:42
them out. Now you have a new loyal voting
33:44
base who's like, oh God, if we don't vote for the Democrats,
33:47
we're not only going to lose our right to vote, but we're
33:49
possibly going to lose our citizenship as well.
33:51
It's never been a thing where we're going to do this for the
33:53
betterment of the black community or the Latino
33:55
community. It's always been we're going to
33:57
do this so that we can stay in power and we're going to
33:58
manipulate the masses into believing that we are for them.
34:01
And even though they will continue to vote for us, we will
34:03
never do anything for them, but we will play on their feelings
34:06
for stuff that we did 60 years ago.
34:09
OK. And Dave in Kemmer, Wyoming
34:13
Republican. Hi, Dave.
34:15
Hello. Yeah, my question is, I just
34:19
have AI just want to tell her she's doing a fine job on air.
34:22
Tell us how what's going on in this world.
34:25
And I agree with her wholeheartedly.
34:28
I appreciate her as a young woman and her knowledge of
34:32
everything she does it. It's just wonderful to hear
34:36
somebody with Oliver zeal and and their knowledge.
34:41
And I thank her for that. All right, Dave.
34:43
Thank you. Let's go to Jill in Maryland
34:46
Democrat. Good morning, Jill.
34:48
Yes, first I'd like to know why she feels she has to smirk, neck
34:53
roll, eye roll and insult everybody that calls her
34:57
speaking over them. First of all, she is not that
35:02
knowledgeable. She has not had experiences that
35:06
other people have not had and not come out bitter and turning
35:11
on people who helped her. She's like the proverbial crab
35:15
in a barrel who pulls down anybody, any crab above her.
35:19
Jill, do you do you have a specific question for?
35:23
But did she set up the Chick-fil-A Trump agent?
35:28
Is that the question? The answer to the question is
35:30
no. I actually just got invited to
35:32
meet President Trump at a restaurant and I found out the
35:35
next morning that it was Chick-fil-A and nobody that
35:37
wanted to meet him was offended by the fact that it was a
35:39
Chick-fil-A. And neither was I.
35:41
But to quest to go back to the, oh, I don't know why she's smirk
35:43
while she neck rolls while she talks over to people.
35:46
It's OK for you guys to get on here and call me and Uncle Tom
35:48
to call me. Not smart to call me dumb to say
35:50
I haven't done my research, to say I haven't lived life like
35:53
you. But then if I smirk, if I laugh,
35:55
if I Oh my God, who? What is this person talking
35:57
about? Now all of a sudden you're
35:58
offended. I think that's very interesting.
36:00
Next to say that I'm a crab and a barrel and I'm pulling people
36:03
down. Actually, how could I be pulling
36:05
people down if I was in the bottom of the barrel with the
36:07
rest of you crabs? And I decided to crawl out.
36:09
And now here I am calling out the discrepancies that I've seen
36:14
in the Democratic Party and asking you, why is the hood
36:16
still the hood? The hood was the hood when you
36:19
were a child. The hood is still the hood now
36:20
that I have a child. That's three generations in
36:23
which the Democrats have done nothing to help you.
36:25
So it sounds more like you're the crab at the bottom of the
36:27
barrel trying to keep everybody down there.
36:29
And I'm the crab that crawled out.
36:30
And I'm saying, hey, let's get back to the beach.
36:32
Caitlin, we've got a text for you from chess in Jacksonville,
36:36
FL, says Miss Montgomery. You mentioned supporting ending
36:39
the tax on tips. Tell me.
36:43
I support. I wholeheartedly support yes, Oh
36:45
no yes ending tax phone tips yes yes yes.
36:48
Yes. And then the question is tell me
36:51
what will replace the $38 billion that would reported that
36:56
helps to run the country. So how would you replace that
36:59
income? Well, we would put it more on
37:02
restaurants owners to actually pay their workers a living wage
37:05
if we're not going to take tax off tips.
37:08
And then that money would be recouped from payroll taxes,
37:11
business taxes, sale taxes, things like that.
37:14
To act like the money can't be recouped from literally any
37:17
other, you know, compound is pretty interesting to me.
37:20
I don't think that taxing the tips of workers who are already
37:23
underpaid and therefore have to go out of their way to earn a
37:27
tip from the customer should then have to pay money on that.
37:30
Tip So would you support a raise in the the federal minimum wage?
37:37
I think that the federal minimum wage should reflect the cost of
37:40
living, but I can't say that we need to change the minimum wage
37:42
until we get the economy stabilized because minimum wage
37:45
might be sufficient if inflation wasn't so high.
37:48
So until we get inflation under control, I don't think we can
37:50
talk about wages because if we raise the minimum wage right
37:53
now, that would only make the current situation in the economy
37:56
worse. There's so many things outside
37:58
of raising the minimum wage that we would have to address before
38:01
we could go do something that big.
38:04
Stella, a Republican in San Diego.
38:06
Good morning. Good morning.
38:09
I'm grateful for the chance to say, Michaela Montgomery, you
38:14
are speaking the truth. Keep speaking the truth because
38:18
people are afraid to speak it. And you're absolutely, 100%
38:22
correct about the things you're saying.
38:25
It is so totally and completely unfair in this country.
38:33
The immigration crisis, the crime, it's absolutely out of
38:38
control. We can't buy groceries.
38:41
People are struggling. The the topic.
38:44
The fact of the matter is Kamala Harris is not coming out on
38:49
television and talking about policies.
38:53
She's going to hide behind the camera on a teleprompter.
38:57
She's not going to speak the truth.
38:59
You're speaking the truth. Keep doing what you're doing.
39:03
Thank you for your work. Thank you.
39:05
Thank you. Phillip in Jackson, Ms.
39:09
independent Line. Hi, Phillip.
39:12
Hi there. I mean, young lady, all I can
39:16
really understand what you're you're just explaining to the
39:20
folks that listen to the program today is that you believe that
39:26
pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps is the way to go and
39:30
that if you just do that, everything else will work.
39:33
All right. Those words didn't come out my
39:34
mouth. I said if you want something bad
39:36
enough, you'd work hard for it. That's the perception I
39:39
received. The reality is what I said, but
39:42
go ahead. Wait, hold on, Phillip Michaela,
39:46
just to clarify what you said. I said that if you want
39:50
something bad enough, you will work towards it.
39:52
That does not mean that you will not receive outside help.
39:54
That does not mean that somebody won't come along and give you a
39:57
hand up, not a hand out. That does not mean that you have
40:00
to do it completely on your own. But the word, the word, the fact
40:03
of the matter is you will dedicate your time, you will
40:06
dedicate your resources. You will dedicate your life to
40:09
creating a. Better situation for yourself.
40:12
Go ahead with your comment. Okay, now what I wanted to
40:16
really ask her was who or how many people can she name that
40:22
she sees as leaders in the black community that she believes in?
40:27
And my final question would be, and does she listen or take into
40:33
account some of the teachings of the Honorable Louis Farrakhan
40:38
and Malcolm X in terms of self improvement in the black
40:43
community? What was the first part of the
40:47
question? I know the second part about
40:50
Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan, but what was?
40:53
The first part, well, let's take it from light there because.
40:57
OK, so Malcolm X is actually one of the greatest people I think
41:01
ever to touch this planet. I actually have by any means
41:04
necessary tattooed on my back. And that speaks to the whole if
41:08
you want something bad enough, you're going to get it.
41:10
By any means necessary. Additionally, to question my
41:13
report, my support for the Conservative Party, as if
41:16
Malcolm X wasn't a conservative himself.
41:18
It's quite interesting. Malcolm X preached that blue
41:21
eyed white liberals were the black community's biggest enemy
41:24
and yet here you guys are touting blue eyed white liberals
41:27
or people who are, you know, a black woman who's the face, but
41:31
of course you know, will be controlled by blue eyed white
41:33
liberals. It's very interesting to me that
41:35
the Malcolm X enthusiasts or even the Martin Luther King
41:38
enthusiasts would act like our leaders were not preaching these
41:42
things to US 60-70 years ago. Additionally, we don't oh, the
41:45
first part of the question was can I identify any black leaders
41:48
that we have currently in the community?
41:49
Unfortunately, all of our leaders have been assassinated.
41:52
Anybody who was going to get us to go against the grain, go
41:54
against the status quo, to question our current economy, to
41:58
question our current such living situations, to question the
42:02
conditions in which black people live, Anybody who put up a fight
42:05
against that was assassinated. So to say that we have a black
42:08
leader, unfortunately we don't. We do have black voices that are
42:11
trying to shine a light on all the things wrong in the black
42:14
community. But as you guys have seen
42:16
through this programming today, those black people are attacked.
42:19
We're called Uncle Tom's, we're called Sambo's.
42:21
We're called Dumb. We're called.
42:23
Oh, well, you never. You haven't lived my life.
42:25
It's very, very interesting. You would never talk about
42:27
Malcolm X or Martin Luther King that way.
42:29
But for whatever reason, we're going to forget their teachings.
42:32
We're going to forget what they.