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Staying informed and engaged in today's political climate is more crucial than ever. On the night of Novembe 5th 2024 , I found myself wide-eyed, glued to the election results, surrounded by the buzz of content creators and community watch parties. This episode explores the whirlwind of emotions and reactions from that tense night, navigating through personal attacks and family disagreements, all while emphasizing empowerment and unity among Foundational Black Americans and freedmen. Amidst the chaos, my commitment remains steadfast: to provide information that empowers listeners to form their own opinions.
The aftermath of the election has left many facing disillusionment and grappling with societal biases that persist despite citizenship protections. We delve into the complexities of grassroots political mobilization among Black and Latino voters, particularly in Michigan and Detroit, where dissatisfaction with traditional voting patterns is palpable. This episode highlights the strategic responses and growing demand for tangible benefits that are reshaping the political landscape. As we reflect on the controversial potential return of Trump, we address the rise of "white fear" and the resistance it has sparked, critiquing the disconnect between mainstream Black political figures and the communities they claim to represent.
Beyond politics, we celebrate the legacy of the legendary Quincy Jones, who passed away on November 3, 2024. His monumental contributions to music and culture, from groundbreaking collaborations with Michael Jackson to his historic achievements in the music industry, are explored with reverence. In his honor, we reflect on his journey from a crime-surrounded childhood to becoming an iconic figure, illustrating the transformative power of music. Finally, we navigate the complexities of emotions and relationships, exploring themes of longing, devotion, and maintaining one's sense of self amidst overwhelming feelings, creating a deeply personal and resonant narrative.
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Speaker 2:What up with y'all family? What up with y'all family? We coming in the door hard and heavy. We coming in the door hard and heavy, family. It ain't a game. It ain't a game. Oh man, I'm gonna let this, just this brew for me. Get y'all in that mood. Let this brew for a minute. The freedmen stand up, fba, put them power fists in the air. Family, the book is open. The book is open. The book is open. The first page, the first paragraph, is on paper.
Speaker 2:We coming in the door hard and heavy, family. And we ain't playing. And we letting it be known they on notice, family, they on notice, oh man, oh man, let's go. And we letting it be known they on notice, family, they on notice, oh man, oh man, let's go, let's go, man, family. I'm so proud, I'm so proud of y'all, all of you, all of you, all of you. I'm so proud of all of you, all of the states, everybody that come up here and listen every week and come back. You play, all of you played a part in this.
Speaker 2:And don't get it twisted. We just we having a little moment of enjoyment because what we've been doing has has been effective, but we ain't taking the focus off at all. We know we got a hard hill to climb and we got some major, major fights ahead of us. This is only the beginning. And yeah, family, but I feel good. I feel good on this glorious sunrise, november 12th 2024. The math for today is knowledge, wisdom. And when we go to the 1 to 40 and the 12th degree, it said tell us why the devil does not teach that. And there was a precursor to that. There was a question before. That was a precursor to that. There was a, there was a question before that. And the answer is because he desires to make slaves out of all he can, to rob them and live life and luxury. Now you can go look that up, but that's what we're dealing with today and that's this. This was, um, this was very ironic that the 12 fell. I'm coming to you on a microphone and we're talking about this thing here. I wanted to turn the page on this whole election thing. I wanted to turn the page on it. I didn't want to talk about it anymore, but we have to because it is. It was so crazy.
Speaker 2:I stayed up last Tuesday, last week, tuesday on the 5th, I stayed up to about 430 in the morning, almost five o'clock, and you know, watching the different legacy networks. You know watching, you know, know, keeping a close eye on everything, because you know, the last time we did this, four years ago, we went to bed and trump was up and then when we woke up, man, it was like something else popped off and and you know the rest. But we're not living, we're not gonna um rehash that. We moving on. So I stayed up and I kept an eye on things and was texting different people back and forth that were doing the same thing I was doing and we was comparing the numbers in the different states and whatnot. And also I was looking at a couple of lives, live stream people that were different content creators that were live streaming. We were watching them.
Speaker 2:I was watching Black Authority and also PBD, patrick Davis, david on his value attainment, he had a big watch party there, big election watch party there, and a lot of people came out. He had like over 2000 people at his watch party and a lot of people came out. I already had like over 2 000 people at his watch party and black authority did something I believe it was in atlanta. He he did his watch party and that was huge and, um, yeah, family. But you know people are losing their minds behind this thing. People are really losing their minds and I gotta let to let you know. I got to let you know be on the microphone. I even got cursed out.
Speaker 2:People have been texting me and telling me how much they didn't appreciate me advocating for Trump, which I never did. Never did that. I never told any of you who you should vote for, how you should vote or anything. Now, I did go and vote, but I didn't vote in the presidency category. I voted for the, the House and the Senate seats, the congressional seats. In the Senate seats, I left the top of the ticket blank because I didn't vote for neither one Harris or Trump. Because I didn't vote for neither one Harris or Trump. Now, and I think I made that explicitly clear because I said if I go vote, it would not be for her, it would not be for him. I was going to sit it out, I was going to stay home and sit on the couch the cows party. I didn't do that. I did go and vote, but I explicitly explained how I was moving.
Speaker 2:Now. I never told any of you who listened to me what to do or how to do it or who to vote for. I just put the information out as I got it and let you make a decision on the information. Whatever you got from me, whatever you got from other people, whatever you got from your own research, and you make the decision. But anyway, people didn't want to hear that. They told me I was a Trump supporter and advocacy was dangerous for the public and for the people. Excuse me for messing up the words I got a little tongue-tied there, but anyway, you know what I'm saying were cursing me out people from my own family. I mean, I got some really nasty texts from people calling me names. They were saying I was ignorant and I was a self-hating black man and all kind of. Now this is from family members saying these things to me.
Speaker 2:For a Brahmin, because they're angry over a Brahmin Indian woman Right, a Brahmin Indian woman. You're angry and you're going to come at your family like that. Well, as I've said, this situation has drawn lines in the sand and I'm glad because now it's letting everything be revealed and we know who's who and where people's different positions stand, because you are part of the status quo. You want to be a part of the status quo so bad that you would actually draw lines of war against your own family. Now, families have different opinions, they have different people they support and reasons why they support them, but at the end of the day, we're still friends and family. Now, if you are a person that is for the status quo and you are against black empowerment I wouldn't care if you was my brother, sister, mother, father I'm not standing with you. I can't deal, I can't mess with you, because you are an enemy. You're an enemy to the black society and I don't want no parts of you. And those lines are being drawn in the sand. Now I got a buddy, my best friend, right. He's on the opposing side but at the end of the day, we're still friends.
Speaker 2:I spoke to him. I believe it was Sunday morning. I spoke to him and he still has some gripes, he, but he he expressed to me that he understood everything I was saying and a lot of the stuff is coming to fruition and he's starting to understand some things. Not saying he's coming over because I, as I explained to him and as I've said on this mic raffone plenty of times that we don't need to be tied to any party, whether it be left, right, democrat, republican, independent left, green, white, black, brown, purple, red, blue, tan, beige, lavender. We don't need to be tied to any party. We need to be independent thinkers and we need our own political system. We need to get away from both of the Democrat and the Republic, because the vote is up for sale. This is how we're standing on business and the vote is up for sale. We don't need to be tied to any party.
Speaker 2:People are really losing their minds behind this thing. They really have lost it. People are falling into depression. I had to call a few, call up a few friends to check on them to make sure they were all right once I realized how deep and serious this thing was. People are really going off the off the deep, off the wagon. They're falling off the wagon with this stuff. Hold on, let me see can I find some of this stuff here. Let me me go to to the, to the tick tock and see Can I find some of this stuff. I mean, let me, here's a guy right here, hold on.
Speaker 3:I'm going to start with the message to the Latinos first, and then I'll get to the other people. First of all, I want to start by saying that you know I wanted to do this video immediately after the election when I found out the results, but I found myself using words and terms that are not conducive to relaying a good message, so I decided to wait. I'm still probably going to use a couple of those words, but it's not going to be near as bad as it would have been had I posted that original video. So you voted for a man who doesn't care about you at all, and he's made it very clear Whenever he talks about the immigrants and he calls them rapists and murderers, killers and garbage and scum and the worst. And murderers, killers and garbage and scum and the worst. They're sending their worst over here. He's talking about you too, and me, because to him we're all the same. If he was walking down the street and he saw you and one of the people that had just crossed the border, he wouldn't be able to tell you apart, and to him it doesn't make a difference, we're all the same. They don't care. They just want to get rid of the immigrants, and I don't know if you know this or not, but there's a man named Stephen Miller that's probably going to be on Trump's cabinet, he's going to be one of his cabinet members and he's going to be in charge of the deportation actions, actions, right, and that man, stephen Miller, wants to change the laws so that they can take away naturalization.
Speaker 3:You think that that piece of paper that you have, if you have it, if you've become a naturalized citizen, you think that piece of paper makes you different. But in their eyes, you're not different. I was born here and I'm not different to them, to those people, the way they think I'm just like all the rest of them. To them I'm the same. So that piece of paper is not going to save you. And they're trying to make laws Now. They're in the process of figuring out what they have to do to change the law to take away that naturalization citizenship. They're also looking into taking away natural born citizens, people who came here and had kids here that were born here that's right.
Speaker 2:Let me, let me. Let me just turn this down for a minute. That's right. They looking to end the anchor baby situation and I'm for it, I'm for it. It might sound harsh what I'm saying, but I'm for that. Let us continue. Hold on. Matter of fact, I don't even want to go back to him. I want to find some of these crash outs because that's what I wanted y'all to see. I wanted y'all to see some of these crash outs. Hold on, let's find these crash outs. Let's find these crash outs. Hold on, we gonna get to them. Here go one. Here go the favorite one. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Let me line it up here. Real good, let me line the crash outs. Here go one, here go.
Speaker 4:I can't believe Trump's actually Gonna win this day. Oh Jesus Christ, I'm so pissed off.
Speaker 5:God damn it and this woman went completely mad, shaving her head whilst talking about how much she hates men this morning feeling spicy.
Speaker 4:You guys feel spicy cuz I do. All right, I don't know how to use this thing. Let's see what happens. Is this cutting off hair? I'm going to have to cut it shorter than that.
Speaker 2:Family's got people cutting their hair off. Women cutting their hair off completely bald.
Speaker 4:Here we go. I've given up on America. I've also given up on coloring this hair because right Coloring my hair having my hair be, long and luxurious, being skinny, being hot and all the things that the patriarchy wants us to be, because clearly they don't give a s*** about us. And I'm talking to you too.
Speaker 5:This woman took to the streets to let out her frustration.
Speaker 4:Oh, I've been waiting for this. Oh boy, I've been waiting for this.
Speaker 5:Days before Election Day. This streamer was so angry he ripped his shirt off.
Speaker 4:I can't believe Trump's actually a five.
Speaker 1:She was the first Listen look at this.
Speaker 2:You're seeing these.
Speaker 4:After realizing that it was a red wave, just keep it inside. Family.
Speaker 2:Hold on, let me find the clips that I want that it was a red wave Family. Hold on, Let me find the clips that I want here. It is here you go.
Speaker 4:I love you, I love all of this.
Speaker 6:All of the people who voted for him will be like happy, and they'll just be celebrating.
Speaker 4:And everyone else. Everyone who feels threatened by him is fucking scared like we're we're scared for our lives.
Speaker 5:We're scared for our friends. If you've lost faith in humanity, this is your villain origin story.
Speaker 4:If you've lost faith in humanity, clap your hands. Clap your hands. You will never make me give up hope. No matter what you say, no matter what you do, no matter what the hell you cannot be serious. How did I wake up to this garbage as my president? That's right, garbage. I went to bed last night and she was ahead. I woke up to this freaking nightmare.
Speaker 2:She was never ahead. She was never ahead. Family, she was never ahead. These people are really delusional. They're delusional and they're hurt. And I understand they're hurt, but hold on own, why, why?
Speaker 4:Why, why, why Do you really hate me that bad? I'm done, I'm done. I'm done. I'm done with you. I'm done with you and your mother and your sister. I'm just done with all of this. Call the results. It sucks being the results. It sucks being hated by so many people. This can't be real.
Speaker 5:This can't be real. All I can say is how fucking dare you? How dare you put this man into office for another four years, knowing damn well what it means for our country?
Speaker 2:family. These people are crashing out and they're, but they're really bugging I'm and it's not just. These are random tiktokers or whatever. They post their little videos online and letting out their frustrations. But even in the in the political world and all of the democrat, political pundits and and journalists, they're losing their minds. They can't accept this thing. Now I gotta be honest with you. I gotta be honest with you. I had a I I knew he was gonna win. I never thought she had a chance. She was a horrible candidate, horrible candidate and I never thought she stood a chance to win. I didn't know it was going to be that bad. I think she did. She was the worst, I think, in history, or the second worst. She got washed the family. He washed her Once.
Speaker 2:I looked at I was watching. This was a little before midnight. I was watching. This was a little before midnight. I was watching and a lot of the polls were closed and people were tallying their votes and I was paying close attention to North Carolina and Georgia and I got to say shout out to them, salute, salute to North Carolina, georgia, south Carolina and my family and all my people there. Salute to all of you. But I was watching Georgia and North Carolina and it didn't look good. And I was keeping a close eye on Pennsylvania and it wasn't looking good.
Speaker 2:Now the swing states I really thought she was going to win Wisconsin and Michigan and places like that. I really thought she had a chance there and there might have been a little path. But family, this dude, damn. They turned the whole map red. I've never seen that. I've never seen anything that I can remember. I think Reagan, was it Reagan? I think it was Reagan that washed the opponent. No, no, no, it wasn't Reagan, it wasn't Reagan, but it was one of them where they damn near won every state. Now, this is the crazy part about it is family. This dude won the popular vote as well as the electorate. That's how bad she got washed. She was just an unlikable candidate. Nobody liked her, nobody. Now, the interesting thing about it is in certain states that were blue shoe-ins. He even gave a headaches in those states with those different counties and districts. Some of those districts and counties flip red. Now New York and New Jersey. I think New York has 28 electoral points right. He lost New York by 11. He lost Jersey by five. He came within five points. Now these two states may, in coming years, maybe going into the swing state category. You won't know their swing states until they actually are flipped. Right now they're Democratic, but they're starting to move shift. The paradigm is starting to shift from blue to red Family.
Speaker 2:You know any of you out there who listen to me and come to this program and listen every week. Let me try to get some music in here. Hold on, no, no, no, no. I'm just going to talk because I'm not going to stay on this too long, because we got something else to talk about. We have other things. I want to get away from this election. I don't even want to hear about this woman, no more. I'm going to play one more thing. I'm going to play one more thing and show you why she was so disliked. Let me go to it. Let me go to my um hold on, let me go to it. Just give me one second family. Just give me one second hold on.
Speaker 5:This is why she wasn't liked so how do you make your greens? Do you put turkey in them? Bacon? I do bacon, garlic, I put white vinegar. I so I start with, I slice up my garlic. But no, first I fry, chop up the bacon and get all that fat going. Then I put garlic, some chili peppers and then a lot of water and a little chicken stock and I let it go for a while before I put the greens in and then right, so you get that going and all that flavor, and then I put the greens in for a couple hours, then I do vinegar and then I cheat and do a little Tabasco. No, that's okay yeah, because.
Speaker 5:Tabasco of all like I. Like Louisiana hot, but Tabasco has that right amount of vinegar, yeah, and so that's how I do my green. I see why you get invited every year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, family, see, this is why people don't like it. They've seen the phoniness. They've seen the phoniness in her and you know, with our folks and our culture, you can't be phony with black folks. We're going to see right through it. We're gonna see through it and we're gonna call you on it. Now.
Speaker 2:A lot of black people voted for and I want to get. I want to touch on that before we move on, because the the mainstream media is putting out information that it was all on the latinos. This is why Kamala Harris lost and Trump won. Because of the Latino vote, they all shifted over to Trump. That's just not true, family. That's just not true. They held power. The Latino vote, the Hispanic vote, holds power in certain states.
Speaker 2:New York is one where I reside. They have some power here in New states. New York is one where I reside at. They have some power here in New York, florida, because Cuba's right there, and then states like Texas because the border is right there. So all of the people living in those border counties, they feel the direct effect of the invasion I'm not even calling it a migration the invasion, they feel the effects of it. So of course, they voted, I think, at 75% in some of those border towns in Texas. Right.
Speaker 2:So, but they, let me tell you something. Let me tell you, let me explain something to you. When you start talking about North Carolina, atlanta, pennsylvania, michigan, those, once I seen those states that he won and was flipping them, the blue wall states like Michigan and Pennsylvania was flipping them. Them blue wall states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, that was because of cities like Detroit, michigan, hamtramck and all them places like that. Those are heavily black populated enclaves. In Pennsylvania, you got Pittsburgh big time city, nothing but black folk. Same thing in Philadelphia, even bigger. Those are black folk there, foundational american black folk, who a lot of them didn't even come out because, as the the reports I got, there was a decline. In every place that I'm mentioning to you, there was a heavy decline. Hold on, let me pull it up, family, let me pull it up. Hold on, just give me a it up. Hold on, just give me a second, let me get the. You know, because my thing is you know, women lie, men lie. Sometimes the children might lie, but them numbers don't lie. Okay, let's go to it. All right, let me see what I got here, what I put down here. All right Now. This is the breakdown of the black vote in North Carolina, georgia, pennsylvania, michigan. We talking about right. All right, let's go.
Speaker 2:The black vote played a critical role in shaping outcomes in North Carolina, georgia, pennsylvania, michigan in the 2024 election, with each state reflecting unique dynamics that influence voter turnout and candidate support. In North Carolina, black voters made up around 18 percent of the early voters, a slight decrease from 2020, when Black voters represented 19 percent of the electorate. Democrats have been concerned about a lag in turnout, particularly among younger black men, a demographic Republicans have increasingly targeted through tailored outreach efforts. Democratic organizers in the state noted the need for an Obama like turnout among black voters to improve the chances of their candidate. In Georgia, black voters have also been pivotal, comprising about one third of the state's electorate. This year, however, georgia experienced a decline in black early voters compared to 2020, prompting Democrats to make extensive efforts to mobilize voters in Atlanta and other key urban areas. The Harris campaign faced the challenge of motivating black voters amid economic concerns and cultural issues that have led some to question their traditional support of the Democratic Party. Now let's go to Pennsylvania. Black voters, particularly in cities like Pennsylvania, like Philadelphia, we're critical to maintaining a democratic edge. However, voter engagement in some predominantly black neighborhoods has reportedly declined since 2020. Democrats have focused on outreach to counter this trend, especially since Trump has gained traction among some black male voters due to shifts in their perceptions of party alignment on issues such as economic policy and social values.
Speaker 2:In Michigan saw significant efforts to mobilize black voters. In Detroit, where high turnout was essential for Democrats, detroit's historically high black voter base responded to targeted campaign efforts with strong rates for mail-in ballots. Those are the ones who voted for Trump, helping counterbalance lower turnouts in other demographics Family. Don't let them tell you Now. I had to tell this to my man. Salute, mr Buck, salute Buck, it up now. Buck it up, salute Mr Buck. I had to explain to him. Yeah, in some states the Latino vote was strong and very essential, but don't get it twisted. It was because of us, the grassroots, because Kamala got all them boule, the Divine Nine, all of those Greek alphabet, all the churches, all these paid bootleg pastors and these churches that don't care nothing about black empowerment, they just care about greasing them fat, nasty pastors' pockets. She got all of their votes. All of these fraternities, these.
Speaker 2:Masons and Eastern Stars and all them, boulay Negroes, them Boulay Booplicks, the NAACP crowd and Urban League and all of them and the Congressional Black Caucus. You got all that All that. So it wasn't. That's not even a thought. Now, what they're not talking about is since 2016,. Trump was at 8% of black vote Right 2024,. You know how much now this is how much. The Trump was at 8% of black vote right 2024, you know how much now this is how much the, the, the, uh.
Speaker 2:Now I'm not talking about the what do they call it? The walk-away vote? I'm talking about the actual vote. They're saying it's at 26%, but the other side is saying it's more. Like, 30 in the 30s Can't win like that. Now, with black people, a lot of black people stayed home. They didn't vote a lot. There was nothing for them to vote for. As I said, our vote is up for sale to the highest bidder. You want our vote? You got to bring some goods, and that's where we at we, and then the days are over with where we just vote because, just to, just because it's traditional in our family, but we ain't getting nothing in return. Y'all sitting in our faces and all these other groups are getting giveaways and benefits and this and that. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something let's go to New York where I'm at right now. I'm in Brooklyn, new York. Let's talk about New York where I'm at right now. I'm in Brooklyn, new York. Let's let's talk about New York City now.
Speaker 2:If you remember back when, when the migrant buses I did a program on it, migrant buses was coming in here and Eric Adams was, you know, yucking it up for the cameras and it was all that. But then, shortly after, the city started hemorrhaging because the resources were being depleted and he was begging Washington, he was going begging an administration to please help. We need aid. We're suffering. The resources are minimal and these buses are coming in every day. Sometime it was like 2,000 a day. Coming in here, coming in here, coming in here, coming in here. It was bus after bus after bus. Greg Abbott, the governor, down here in Texas, was sending them in. He was like, well, y'all want to be sanctuary? Huh? Well, I got something for you, hold this. And he was sending them buses here every day, 10, 15 buses coming in here, 2,000, 3,000 people a day.
Speaker 2:And after about a month and a half of that, the city started hemorrhaging, the resources started hemorrhaging and he was asking for help and he was expressing his concern in the media, which he's a man, he was supposed to do. But why did he do that? Because you know you're never supposed to stand up against them, democrats. Now See, especially if you're black, negro, don't you dare ask for anything. You ain't got no business asking for nothing. If you're black, you got no business asking us for nothing and expecting nothing from us. You just do what you told.
Speaker 2:And Eric Adams stood up to it. He bucked back at him. He bucked back. He bucked back at him and right after he was bucking back, they sent the feds on him. They put the feds on him and got him indicted. They started running up on him, taking his phones and this and that and everything. And the more he opened his mouth, the closer the investigation got to him, because they started going at people around him, his staff and his deputies and different things. They ran up on him one time and took a couple of phones from him and, I think, some iPads or something like that, and they did that. But the more he talked, talked, the closer the investigation got to him and then they finally arrested him, um, had what, had him turn himself in and charged him formally, charged him with with some kind of corruption and and, uh, some other charges. I don't have this, the paperwork, in front of me, but yeah, you get what I'm saying, right?
Speaker 2:And now that trump has won, the day after the, the election was over, the very next day now, you remember them debit cards. They was giving all of these, these people, right, these 1500 a month debit cards, 1400, whatever the amount was. The day after the election was over, they debted them cards. The program is over. The program is over. They debted those debit cards and they're starting to debt a lot of other little things, benefits that they were getting, because it's time for y'all to start getting ready to get out of here, because Trump ran on a mass deportation.
Speaker 2:Now you got some people telling me well, I don't think he's going to do that. How the hell is he going to do that? He ain't going to be able to even find them people. First, if I'm thinking correctly, they're going to start with the criminal class. They're going to start with the people that's in the jails and if they're charged with whatever they, they're going to find some way to get rid of it. They might not be able to send them back to their government where they came from, but they will be put in some type of camp or some kind of holding facility somewhere along that border or something like that. And they're getting out of here Now because there's a mandate for it the United States. The people have spoken and they put a referendum on the president.
Speaker 2:He has to do something, and he's going to do. I believe he's going to do what he said when it comes down to these deportations. But family, yeah, this, let's go to this little dude here because he's's been crashing too. Let me come out of that. Let me come out of that. Ok, I went through that, went through that. Ok, before I go through that, let's talk about the Latino vote. All right, in the 2024 election, the Latino vote is expected to play a crucial role, with projections indicating increased turnout in several key states compared to past years, one of those states being California, florida, nevada and New York are among the states expected to see a significant rise in Latino voter turnout. And it goes on into some other stuff, but I don't want to read that. But what they're trying to do is they're trying to say well, it was just the Latinos voting reaction that caused this red wave.
Speaker 2:No, no, it was not. No, no, it was not. It was the small percentage of black people that voted for Trump and a huge percentage of us that sat to vote out. The Latino vote was very intricate in this thing, don't get me wrong, but it wasn't on just them. You understand Now, once they start deporting these PDs, the Latinos don't have the numbers we have to make significant impacts around the country the way we do. Don't ever get that. Don't y'all ever lose sight of that. You hear what I'm telling you. Don't ever lose sight of that. Hear what I'm telling you. Don't ever lose sight of that. They don't have the numbers we have to make the impact that we can make, and that's not a slight. To them, it's just a matter of simple math. So but let me show you something. Let me show you how bad these people crashing that. Hold on, family. Hold on. Let's to it. Let's get to this little dude here. He's just man. Somebody need to go check on this cat. Somebody need to go check on this boy. Hold on.
Speaker 2:Hold on right there. Fair use, by the way, fair use.
Speaker 7:Do we have to recognize that it is called America and America. History repeats itself, but also America can correct continually itself. America has decided to align with other nations in electing far right crazed, deranged leaders. And what you have to understand is that and I'm going to keep saying is that this is white fear. This is absolute fear of the future changing of this country.
Speaker 7:The Constitution, Declaration of Independence that wasn't democracy. Black men couldn't vote, Men of means couldn't vote, Women couldn't vote, Black folks couldn't vote. I mean, if you were not a white man who owned land, you couldn't vote. So there's been a constant effort to change this country, to change its values. So what you've seen tonight is this country has decided that you know what Trump? Those are our values. In fact, he's actually poised to win the popular vote. Wow, when you look at states like New York, New Jersey, Harris barely wins those states, Lower margins than when Biden did. When you look at the numbers, look at what the country decided. Countries decided we don't mind if you lead an insurrection, we're good. We don't mind if you steal classified documents and lie about it and don't return them. Classified documents and lie about it and don't return them we're good. We don't mind if you cheat with your company. We're good because you're going to bring back the good old days. It's going to be fabulous.
Speaker 2:Hold on, I'm going to pause it for one second. I'm going to pause it for one second because I got to cover myself up here, because this dude here he's so salty. He's gone. He'll probably go after him. Hold on.
Speaker 7:I mean fixed by Democrats, and he's going to immediately claim credit for all of it. He's going to say, oh, it came back, all because I'm coming back. But do understand, you better pay attention when he lets Elon Musk run amok in the federal government. You better be scared to death when he literally lets Robert F Kennedy be in control of science and health. Oh, you better bring back the mask and everything else, because it's about to be a lot more people who ain't vaccinated, because it's about to be a lot more people who ain't vaccinated. And when polio comes back and some of these other, family is that we can't long time.
Speaker 2:You hear this idiot.
Speaker 7:You hear this idiot when polio comes back, lord Anyway let's get back to it, To white nationalist Stephen Miller oh he's back. Steve B Miller oh he's back. Steve Bannon oh he's back. And do understand all of the same people you had before who served as guardrails. They won't be there. You truly are going to have a cabinet and administration of zealots, of individuals who have no business holding on to power, and so America got what it wanted tonight, and America is going to get what it deserves.
Speaker 2:So let me say this right now to all of you white farmers in Michigan, in Wisconsin, in Indiana. Let me pause it right there for a second fam. You see how these Negroes in the back you hear them in the back? Woo, yeah, you hear them in the back, as this fool is spitting out this, this, this fear mongering. I just wanted to point that out. Let's back to it. Back to it.
Speaker 7:In Iowa when he drops his tariffs and all of your asses go broke. When he drops his tariffs and all of y'all asses go broke. I don't want to hear shit Because hashtag, we tried to tell you. And to all y'all people who blame the Biden-Harris administration for an awful economy, even though inflation today, where it was in December 2019, inflation today, where it was in December 2019, where we had the longest period of unemployment at that low of a rate in 50 years, stock market S&P savings, all that stuff oh, by all means, by all means, when his tariffs plan shifts all of that debt to you, don't look at us, who voted for Harris, Because hashtag, we tried to tell you. We told you, by voting for that fool, what was going to happen.
Speaker 2:Hashtag. We tried to tell you Don't look at us. Ain't nobody looking at us? See, you know what Rowling is really salty at? You know what he's really salty at See? Because he's obsolete. Now he positions himself as some kind of grand mouthpiece for the black community and he touts to white society and the Democrat, the DNC he's positioned himself to, so they'll look at him like he's some kind of mouthpiece or some kind of liaison between us and the DNC party and he's not the black streets.
Speaker 2:Don't mess with him. This dude is a straight chump. He's a straight chump Sucker. Yeah, them boule people mess with you because that's your audience. Them old church folks and all of them, them divine nines and that boule crowd and all of they. They mess with you. The people that believe in the status quo fool with you because that's what you are about status quo. But here on the, on the boot, with people with boots on the ground and the black grassroots, we don't forward. You can't even come around us rolling anytime. That dude try to come out and come out on the block, he get chased off. Somebody starts get get right at him. Look, a couple of months ago at the, at the dnc convention there, them brothers in chicago got. Chicago was right on him, he was right on top of him and he running around, don't touch me. Don't touch me. Somebody call security, somebody call security, don't touch me. First of all, first of all, come on man Ain't nobody coming to you talking about?
Speaker 2:don't come to us? Who come to you? Ain't nobody coming to you talking about? Don't come to us? Who come to you? This is why you've been auditioning for a pundit job for the last couple of election cycles and them folks in the DNC ain't fooling with you. They're not fooling with you. But anyway, don't waste time on it. I just wanted to show you the fear-mongering that's going on, the fear-mongering. People are losing their minds. You see, they thought we was playing and they haven't learned yet.
Speaker 2:Believe me, family, all the B1 people, all the grassroots, all of you who come up here and listen to me, you listen to the other content creators the fight is not over. We got a long way to me. You're listening to other content creators. The fight is not over. We got a long way to go and it seems like they are poisoning, positioning themselves to double down on their rhetoric, because they just can't believe. They cannot believe that there's a huge contingent of us, not even a huge contingent, just a small little pocket of us that's saying nah, we ain't having that. You got to come with something. We ain't having that. It ain't business as usual and that's all. It takes just a handful of us, just a little bit. Don't take millions of the masses. Anytime there's been significant movement made in our society, it's been made by a very small handful and we're going to move the needle. We'll move the needle and we have moved it. Look what happened. And we told you, we predicted, we told you it was going to happen like that. You want to keep playing in our faces. Keep on playing and you're going to lose another couple of elections because we're coming right back. The movement is going to get stronger and stronger. This is what I tell you, family. Don't let nobody tell you what we ain't going to get. We ain't getting no reparations, we ain't getting this. We ain't getting no hate crime. Don't let that stuff like oil on a duck's back. Let it roll off like a drop of water. Let it just roll off. Don't even pay no attention to it. Don't let these people tell you what ain't going to happen, because we tell you, we telling you what will happen if you don't do this. And it didn't happen, right.
Speaker 2:Another thing I want to point out. You know they went through the little five months that she had the campaign talking about Ms Harris and they was trying to push this black thing on us with the collard greens and all of this Every time. Yeah, she's a black woman. Blackity, blackity, blackity, blackity, black, black, black, right. What bothered me so much about the other night? What bothered me so much about the other night?
Speaker 2:Once they realized her campaign, people realized it was looking very dim and drab for her. They went out there because they had that big party there at Howard University. They had that big party. They was out there dancing, people and folks was out there. They was doing them line dances and electric slide and they was just out there partying. It was one big old party and as the night progressed it started early. Them people had been out there since that afternoon and they just poured in there. It was thousands of them out there, right, because that's where she went to college, that's her alma mater, howard University, and those children, them children, as the people in the South called them those children was out there all day and all that evening, all night long, because they was waiting to hear from her.
Speaker 2:And once her campaign handlers realized that it wasn't looking good in North Carolina, georgia and Pennsylvania, they realized in Michigan, where it wasn't looking good, they sent the campaign staff person out there I forget his name to tell the people to go home that she wouldn't come out tonight and come back tomorrow. Now I thought that was cold-blooded. I thought that was so foul. Whether you win it or not, you see, those poor children I'm going to keep calling them children. Them poor children was out there all day. They were still trying to hang on to some hope. Some of them was crying, some of them was very sad and you know their eyes were there, hanging their heads low. But you were still supposed to go out there and give them something, some kind of inspiration, or at least, at the very least, thank them all the volunteers that the campaign had, all of the work that they did, going, knocking on doors and stuff, because it's a lot running a campaign, it's a lot of work and you couldn't even see. But that talks to the person's character. You couldn't even go out there and say a few words if it was nothing but maybe a 10 or 15-minute speech to give them some inspiration, even though it seems like we're losing and we may lose, but we won something, because look at all of you here Give them some type of inspiration.
Speaker 2:She didn't have it in her to do that, because it was never about black folks. What happened to all that black talk, all that blackity, blackity, blackity, blackity, black, black. What happened to all that? See, at that point, see, now you ain't black, no more. Now you don't put that black, that black shit done going out the window. Now see, I don't want to get around, I'm mad.
Speaker 2:She was mad, probably. I just want to get away from these negros. Man, oh my, oh. I just want to get home to Doug and she went, probably curled up on her old Doug Emhoff, and that was another thing. Family, that was another thing.
Speaker 2:You know, when Barack Obama came out there and everybody was getting on black men about not supporting her and sticking by her, when did she stick by us? You went and married a white man, supporting her and sticking by her. When did she stick by us? You went and married a white man. So when did you stick by us? With all your background as an attorney general and senator, you went and found you a white man to marry and adopt his children. A black man wasn't good enough for you, but you expect us to stand by her. That's what y'all was getting at us about.
Speaker 2:Anyway, family. I hope that's the last Program that I talk about that woman. I just want her to go away. I never want to hear that her voice again. I don't want to hear the cackling, that stupid wicked cackling Laugh she has. I don't want to hear the cackling, that stupid wicked cackling laugh she has. I don't never want to hear that stuff again. I'm taking all of the recordings I have in my sound pads or whatever. I'm deleting all that stuff. I don't ever want to hear her again and hopefully I never have to play her recordings up here again. So we turning the pages. I promise we're going to turn the page on that and we're going to get into family.
Speaker 2:On November 3rd November 3rd we had a situation where one of our great ones, another one of our great ones are gone. Another one of our great ones, another one of our great ones are gone. Another one of our great ones are gone, and this was Quincy Jones. Quincy Jones is gone family. Quincy Jones, a legendary music producer and composer, passed away on November 3rd 2024 at the age of 91, known for his groundbreaking work with artists like michael jackson, frank sinatra, ray, charles jones influence spread genres from jazz to pop over a seven decade career. His production on michael jackson's thriller made it the best-selling album of all time. Jones also won 28 Grammys and made history as the first black music director of the Oscars. His legacy as a musician and cultural icon endures. And family yeah, old Quincy is gone, but this is why we so special. Family, this is why we so special foundational black Americans and descendants of the freedmen. This is why we so special. Hold on, I just want to play something here for you. Just want to play something here, hold on.
Speaker 1:The astronauts on Apollo 10 took a little tape recorder along with them and they played that tune back to Earth from about 150,000 miles in space.
Speaker 4:This is just so that you guys don't forget what your job is down there. We're ready. Frank called up when they played that music on the moon, he was like a little kid.
Speaker 1:You believe that, man? I said no man, the that music on the moon. He was like a little kid. You believe that? And I said no, man. The first music on the moon. Give me a break, man, you can't plan that.
Speaker 2:Now, that was the song Fly Me to the Moon, sang by Frank Sinatra, and the astronauts played that. When they hit the moon, when they touched down on the moon, they played that. That was the first song in space ever played and it was sung by frank sinatra, but it was composed and produced by quincy jones. Uh, he had a a very unusual middle name. I think it was delight, or something like that. Delight, or let me see, can I? There was another story, uh, story that I wanted to play up here. Hold on, hold on, let me see. Can I find that? Okay, no, that's not it. That's not it, I don't have it there. This was him on David Letterman's show. Hold on, give me one second and it'll be right up, family, I'm going to cue it right in. Hold on, give me one second and it'll be right up, family, I'm going to cue it right in.
Speaker 6:Snoop Dogg is here and he'll be singing your music later, is that right? I saw him here.
Speaker 1:He's St Louis' brother.
Speaker 6:Is that right? How long have you known him?
Speaker 1:Long time Before electricity.
Speaker 6:Wow, that is a long time.
Speaker 1:No, I love Snoop Dogg. I used to live in St Louis a little bit when I was young.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:My grandmother so, but he's a beautiful man.
Speaker 6:Is that where you were born? In St Louis? No, Chicago, In Chicago. And what did you do as a kid in Chicago?
Speaker 1:My father was a carpenter for the most notorious black gangsters in Chicago the. Jones Boys and I wanted to be a gangster. All my life All I saw were dead bodies and machine guns and stogies in the 30s, really and piles of money All my life, until I was 10 years old, you know.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then Capone ran that gang out of town because they made too much money, and to Mexico, and my father got my brother out of the barber shop and took us on a trailway bus to the northwest and we broke in an army. We were gangsters out there too. At 11 years old, broke into an armory eating pies and saw a piano, and I went back to that piano and I knew I'd do that the rest of my life is that right, 11 years old it saved my life, yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 6:Um and again, what did you, what did your father do for the gang?
Speaker 1:He was a master carpenter, Carpenter. He built their homes and everything. But we were all Joneses and so he didn't want to be associated with them. But they were incredible. I'm doing a movie on that.
Speaker 6:Yeah, that's a fascinating era Back. Snoop Dogg's going to be in the movie. Yeah yeah, and was your father? Also musical, in addition to being a character no not at all.
Speaker 1:Alex Haley traced the roots back to Huguenots, the seventh court musician for Henry V, second and seventh for Louis XIV. I mean, that's the way it rolls.
Speaker 6:And then I found out.
Speaker 1:Jane Fonda's, my cousin, it's true.
Speaker 6:Really, it's true. It's a linear family plantation in bovine, mississippi. At one time I lived next door to alex trebek. Let's talk about other people you've known in music the piano. That's what caused it to blossom. The seed blossomed when you found the piano, but you can play every instrument Right.
Speaker 1:After that I knew that was what I'd do the rest of my life and I stayed after school and I played sousaphone, tuba, baritone, trombone, trombone, so I could be up front with the majorettes and the marching band. I was practical, the trumpets were way in the back man, but I wanted to play trumpet and I finally did and I went with Lionel Hampton at 19.
Speaker 6:And when you have that special personal intimate calling, what instrument are you drawn to? Is it still the piano?
Speaker 1:No, yes, it is now. Because I have two brain operations, I can't play trumpet anymore. But orchestration and arrangement is my core skill in composing.
Speaker 6:I did 40 movies and 14 TV shows. Tell me about working with Count Basie. How did that happen? Oh no, and Ray Charles? You know all of these guys I met.
Speaker 1:Ray Charles when I was 14. He left florida and, uh, somebody took a string to get him farthest away as he could be, and that's seattle. Seattle was on fire during world war ii, you know because the eastern western pacific theater and uh, he was 16, but he's like 100 years older than me. He had two pair of shoes, two suits, a record player, two girlfriends. Man, I was still living at home. I said that's my man, but he was like 100 years older than me.
Speaker 6:And at 16, he struck you as being that much older and you knew-.
Speaker 1:Old career together. We did the night, we did symphonic things and he said I want to own three airplanes. Back then we didn't know who we wanted to be. You know, and every day we used to say not one drop of my self-worth depends on your acceptance of me. You had to for survival, you know.
Speaker 6:This is Count Basie and Frank Sinatra, and you worked with both of these gentlemen. This is from 1964. And it's your arrangement of Fly Me to the Moon that Frank recorded is that right, yeah, they played it on the moon, yeah. Oh, that's right.
Speaker 1:With.
Speaker 6:Buzz Aldrin yeah man, oh man. What is going on here? You guys just taking a probably taking a smoke break. For God's sakes.
Speaker 1:He said he used to tell us every night, to Bates and I Guys, live every day like it's your last and one day you'll be right.
Speaker 6:No disputing that.
Speaker 1:I didn't have a chance between Ray Charles and Sinatra man. I couldn't win.
Speaker 6:This is 1971. This is yourself, Ray Charles. That's Merv Griffin huh On the Merv Griffin Show right there, yeah, and tonight when we come back, Snoop Dogg will come out and he's. Is he doing something from this right here, yes, Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, family, yeah, family. Quincy Jones was a thorough one and we'll play some of his music that he composed here. This is the theme from Red Fox here. This is the theme from red fox. This is the theme from red fox and quincy jones composed this, this song, right here for the red fox san for the sun show. Yeah, he was a thorough one, thorough man, thorough man and, um, you never heard nothing bad about quincy and stuff. You know there was little rumors about something with Tupac or whatever like that. I never got into it, never followed it up because it was never proven or anything like that. But it's a thorough guy, it's a thorough dude man and he gave us a whole. He just gave us. This. Dude won 28 Grammys. Hold on, let's hear some words from him, some more.
Speaker 1:Do you think anybody that would say we're going to make a record that's going to sell 50 million records is lying, because it's not possible? What gave you goosebumps during that recording? Almost all of it.
Speaker 2:Tell me about when you think back about making Thriller. How great was that.
Speaker 1:I was a musical director for the Wiz for Sidney Lumet. When you think back about making Cinderella, how great was that. I did was a musical director for the Wiz for Sidney Lumet, who was putting me, started me in the movie business. I wanted to do that since I was 15, and I had to wait until I was 30, because they didn't use black composers, a lot of black composers. He's the Wiz and he lives in us. I didn't really want to do it, you know. And finally he said the magic words. He says you owe me. I said you're damn right, I owe you and I'll be there. And we started to work on it.
Speaker 1:In the beginning I started to meet all the people I knew Lena and Nipsey Russell and all those people you know, diana and I met Michael when he was 12. He said I'm getting ready to do my own solo album with Epic. They had changed labels from Motown and would you help me find a producer for my album? I said, michael, I don't want to talk about that now. We've got to pre-record Nipsey Russell, richie Pryor, all these people, because a musical is based on the pre-record. It's got to be just right the timing, because that's what they shoot the picture to, so you can't play around. It's got to be just right.
Speaker 5:I'm glad you fellas enjoying your breakfast.
Speaker 4:Hey, fellas, is today the day you're going to help me get down from here?
Speaker 1:After we finished pre-recording, they started to rehearse and I started to watch Michael and see his profound sensibility. He knew every word of dialogue in the movie. He knew every dance step. He knew every song, the dialogue in the movie. He knew every dance step. He knew every song, everything else He'd just have to get up at 5 o'clock to put the makeup on for the scarecrow. But in the beginning he didn't even have a song. So I was concentrated on getting a song in there for him because he didn't have a song. So finally we got a song in there with the crows called you Can't Win, you can't win.
Speaker 4:The world keeps moving and you're standing far behind.
Speaker 1:They were rehearsing in a hotel in Brooklyn one day, with Sidney Lumet and all the four principals blocking and telling them where to go and everything, he would pull out a piece of paper out of his chest and say da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da Confucius, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da Confucius, da-da-da-da-da-da Kierkegaard, da-da-da-da-da-da Socrates. Okay, so nobody said anything. You know, diana or Sid, nobody said anything. And after about three days I said Michael, it's Socrates. He said really, come on, now he's on down. I said really, by that time people were saying Michael couldn't be any bigger. And I said I'd like to take a shot at the album. And he said great. And he went to Epic and Epic said no way, quincy Jones is too jazzy, he can't do it, he can't handle it. I said Michael, don't worry about it, we did. We did Off the Wall. At that time it was the biggest black album sales ever. What was your favorite moment in the Thriller? There's no such thing.
Speaker 6:What do you mean?
Speaker 1:No, there's no such thing, man, I made too many records, man.
Speaker 1:But there was no magic moment in the band. All of them had magic. To me, the studio is a place. It's a sacred place, man, where I used to have a sign that says let's always leave space for God to walk through the room, because I really believe in the divinity of what this stuff is all about. That's why I never had a studio in my home, because there's no place to play, because some real special things have to happen in the studio and you're not going in there to make a hit record. That's not my thing. We didn't come from that school. I'm from old school. No, I hear you no money to pay me. We weren't about that. It was about making something that gives you goosebumps, it makes you feel something.
Speaker 1:What do you think made that so magical, really, really, I think, from that much time in the business, is that we take too much responsibility of ourselves. You know we are terminals for a higher power and if she let that happens, there's not so much pressure on you. You know, as everybody says is all me, me, me, I mean my. It's not, it sits, it's so. It's a very spiritual, spiritual process. I think you can't see music, you can't taste it, you can't touch it. You can't smell it, man, you sure can feel it. It's just powerful stuff, man. It's in the universe, and all the symphony orchestras tune up to 440 cycles, right A that's because the universe is 450 cycles, you know, and it's a very, very, very divine process. I think. That's why I think it's the strongest of all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, family, quincy dropping that math on us, he dropping that math from the universe to tie into the music. And man, man, thorough brother, thorough producer man, he worked with so many. Like I said, that song Fly Me to the Moon was sang by Frank Sinatra and it was the first music played in space on the moon that was composed by our brother, our foundational black brother, friedman, the Senator Friedman, quincy Jones and family. We've been up here enough, long enough. We done kept you up here long enough and I didn't want to keep you this long, but we can already go. We can already go. I'm going to leave you with some sounds of Quincy, but before we go, we always got to bring my man King in here and respect life, love justice, cherish freedom and treasure peace. This is Vaughn Black. We signing off here at the Freedmen's Network and we're going to see y'all next week. Y'all go in peace. Y'all go in peace and keep the peace and we love you up here and we want y'all to keep coming back.
Speaker 4:I hold you, I touch you and I can't find my way. I think you, I drink you. I'm being searching on a train. You see, girl, that's what I go through every day. Is this the way it should be? Pinch me, I'm dreaming, but if it is, don't let me know. I'm drowning, don't save me. It's just the way I like to go. You see, girl, you thrill me, have killed me. That's what you do. I don't come near. That's where I am. You send me back. Your dream is my command. I don't come near. I find myself no other path, just you and nothing else. You and nothing else. We'll be right back, thank you.
Speaker 4:I find myself. No other fun, just you and nothing else. You and nothing else. I know Profita. That's where I am. Send me back. Your dream is my command. I know Profita. I find myself no other fun, just you and nothing else. I know Profita, that's where I live. You send me love. Your fame is my command. I know from data that I'm myself no other boss, just you and nothing else. You and my friends. Thank you. I hold you, I touch you and I make it my way. I think you. I dream you. I'm being sent to you on a train. You see, girl, that's what I go through every day. I thank you.
