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Making knowledge Born : Tyson vs. Paul, Neely's Trial & Blacklit's Closure 🔍🥊📚
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Bringing an idea to life requires patience and care, much like nurturing a growing child. I open up about my personal journey of resisting the urge to share new projects too soon, revealing how such premature exposure can lead to unforeseen distractions. This episode of Freedman's Affairs offers an in-depth exploration of how thoughts, like newborns, need time to mature before they can make a meaningful impact on the world. Alongside these reflections, we dive into the realms of sports and justice, highlighting the much-talked-about fight between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul. Are these bouts transforming boxing into mere entertainment rather than a true display of skill?
Shifting from the ring to the courtroom, we examine the significant trial surrounding Jordan Neely's death, focusing on the testimonies that reveal the complexities of legal defense when it involves community impact and individual fate. The conversation doesn't shy away from the weight of these proceedings on societal justice and the influence that external support, such as fundraising, can have on their outcomes. As these events unfold, we also touch on the legal challenges facing figures like Sean "Diddy" Combs and how the implications of such allegations ripple through the community.
In a somber turn, the closure of Blacklit, a beloved Black-owned bookstore, underscores the persistent challenges Black entrepreneurs encounter in the face of harassment and systemic neglect. I urge listeners to reflect on the importance of supporting Black-owned businesses and holding local authorities accountable for ensuring safety and opportunity. With each topic, from personal growth to community advocacy, this episode is a call for unity, authenticity, and unwavering dedication to justice and peace. Join me next week as we continue these vital conversations, rooted in respect and driven by a commitment to bring about positive change.
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There are many whites who are trying to solve the problem, but you never see them going under the label of liberals. That white person that you see calling himself a liberal is the most dangerous thing in the entire western hemisphere. He's the most deceitful. He's like a fox, and a fox is always more dangerous in the forest than the wolf. You can see the wolf coming. You know what he's up to, but the fox will fool you.
Speaker 2:He comes at you with his mouth shaped in such a way that, even though you see his teeth, you think he's smiling, and taking for a friend.
Speaker 3:I'm out, peace and welcome back. Welcome back, family, freedman's Affairs, radio Freedman's Network. I'm your host, aaron Black, aaron Vaughn Black that is, and we back up here. We back up here at it again. Come in and sit and have a chat with you for a little bit and, ok, the levels are clear and we, we're back, family, we're back and right off the gate. I want to welcome you back in hopes that you've had a good past week. Everything has worked out with as less as possible difficulty for you. That's what I will for you. On this glorious sunrise, november 19th 2024,.
Speaker 3:The mathematics is knowledge born, knowledge born. That is today's math. And the knowledge representing the numeral one and born representing nine. To make born complete, let me turn the levels down a little bit. Yeah, nice groove there. Fred Weisley, the JB's, yeah, family, that is, that is today's math, what we're dealing with.
Speaker 3:And you know, you hear, you hear the gods and earth saying a lot of times make knowledge born, make knowledge born. And that is a process of how things function, to make things go from inception to conception in in in life. Inception to conception in in in life. Well, you know that the, the woman when the female when she is um with child we say pregnancy there are stages that she goes through and it's the same thing with the human thought, the stages of human thought from inception to conception. It's the same way with the female. They go through stages, they call them trimesters, and a lot of times when a female finds out she's pregnant, especially young and traditionally it's a nine-month period and we're dealing with that knowledge. Now it's born. That is a very critical time. When she is first finds out she's pregnant, she's in the first stages, right, and she usually won't tell anybody. Maybe she'll tell her best friend or a close auntie or even a mother or something like that. But you know, keep it away from dad or whatever the case might be. I'm just saying usually that she's that's a very vulnerable time in her own mind. As far as she's how would I say it Contemplating over what's happening with her and her body Very critical time. And this is also a time when for the fetus it could miscarriage. And it's the same thing with thought. And they always say whenever you have a new thought in your mind, comes to your mind, don't share it with anyone, because the early stages of the inception of the idea that comes in your mind, it at it's at it's very vulnerable stage, where that too can miscarriage.
Speaker 3:For example, how many times I have told you that that we're doing a podcast? Hip here comes every week and I'm I'm working hard on finishing the studio and I want to create a. Well, I have the channel already. It's just no content on the channel. But how many times I've told you that the channel's on its way, it'll be here soon, and I've told you that in the past, maybe for the past year or so, and it hasn't manifested itself yet. And that was wrong for me to do that until I had all things ready and ready to be born, make it born to conception. I should have held on to that idea and just let it manifest itself instead of me talking about it. It's not always good, because look how much I've been sidetracked between the studio and the channel and it has been a miscarriage.
Speaker 3:Not intentionally, I've been meaning to bring it to you, but this is how the things work, the function of things. So we call these trimesters and in the first trimester, as we go through it, the critical stages is the inception, the idea, the idea right, talking about the human being now and we go through the, through the knowledge, wisdom and understanding. How is this? When you get the idea in your head, just like up here, when I, each week, when I do the programs up here, the podcast, I have to I'm gonna think about what I'm gonna talk about, what I'm gonna bring to you, and I and the idea comes in my mind, but the stages of it, the function of it is how will this affect man, woman and child? Because that is knowledge, wisdom, understanding, man being the knowledge, woman being the wisdom, child, is the? Is the understanding of it all right? How will this affect man, woman and child when I come to this mic and speak to you, man being the knowledge, woman being the wisdom, child? Is the understanding of it all Right? How will this affect man, woman and child when I come to this mic and speak to you, speak to the various people out there that are listening? How will it affect the families? Some people have their children listening to this program, they have their wives listening, women listen, men listen, children listen. So that is the first stage.
Speaker 3:And if and if and if, if I can navigate those stages functionally and they all function well, I come up with a good concept, a good, a good, a good idea comes and I conceptualize it and it's time for me to bring it into the, the um, the second trimester, Same thing with the woman. Now the fetus is growing the legs and all of the organisms that are necessary for this fetus to grow, and you're ready to move into the second trimester. And that'd be culture, power, equality. Now a thought. When we usually get a thought, you want to think to yourself how will this affect the culture? What ideas will I come up here with? Could I talk about this week that will affect the culture?
Speaker 3:Because, you know, up here, every week we talk about our culture, up here, things that that affect our culture and our lifestyles, and you know, talking about, you know, for the foundational people and the descendants of freedmen, how will this affect the culture? What I say up here at this microphone, this is this is the second trimester I'm going through from inception to conception, right, and how will this culture, once I find out whether it's good for the culture, what I'm saying up here, what I'm doing, or what we're talking about up here, how will this empower, how will this empower the people in my community of my ethnic group? How will what I say here empower you or give you the thought of empowerment? This is a process I go through every week, right, and from that empowerment will it? Will it cause have an effect of equality or stableness, or harmony, or homo states? What's the word? Homostasis? Yes, homostasis. How would it balance and be equitable throughout the different states and around the country, around the world? That that what I say here from the microphone, right?
Speaker 3:Oh, excuse me for that, that was too close to the microphone, but yeah excuse me for that, that was, I was too close to the microphone, but uh, yeah. And then, if we can positively answer these things when it comes to the culture of power, equality and we move into the third trimester, right, god, build, destroy, born, god being good, orderly, good orderly direction or great orderly direction, right. How will this give what I say here? Give good or great orderly direction for us to move in or for myself to move in, to continue into the next week? The next episode, the next podcast Is what I'm saying up here building. Are we building on that which is positive and destroying the negative? Build or destroy, right. And and if, in all these things fall away from knowledge to build or destroy, if the all of these things, if I'm answering all of these things in a positive yes, a definitive yes in all of these areas where we're talking about, then the idea is necessary for me to bring it up here and put it in my notes and get up here on the mic and spit and let it be born, let the knowledge be born. That's just a little something for the family to think about and this is what we deal with. This is a simplistic way, a insight on how things function in a very simple way. The same way with the mother when she uh, with, with the child inside of her, the fetus inside of her is growing these things. It works the same way and same way with the you, with the universe, really. That said, family, that said we want to give a.
Speaker 3:Let me see, can I find, find it here, because we got some people that tapped in and messaged. They send us text messages from Colorado and I want to thank them and salute them. Before we continue on, hold on just a second. Let me go into the account and we can get that going right away. Hold on and get a message in here. We got some fan mail, let's go to it. Ok, this comes from Colorado Springs, colorado. They didn't leave a name and I'll call it 1622. It says thanks for sharing that interview with Q. That was from the last week's program. I talked about Quincy Jones and I played some interviews from him. So this person from Colorado Springs, colorado, uh, salute, you didn't leave a name so we can call it up here or something or we can identify. But thank you, thank you for the, for the, for the mail, and I gotta say to the people up there in Colorado, that that, denver and Aurora, uh, colorado Springs, all those places up there. We got some real serious family up there and I want to thank all of you for tuning in and listening each week and coming back up here and joining us. Keep messaging, sending us the messages All of you who listen. Send a message, leave a name so we can interact with you so when we have a call to action, we know who we can depend on up here. Okay, so let's keep in focus with that, right, as I promised. Family. Let me see Can I get a bed up in here, because it sounds a little. Let me see, hold on, I'm sick of moving this mic around. Hold on, yeah, family, ok, ok, get a little something in here. As I promised, we kind of moving away from the politics where we're going to be touching on them periodically, but we're not going to focus or center the program around the political happenings unless something very catastrophic or very important happens and we have to report on it. So we're going to try to move away from that a little bit.
Speaker 3:First thing, let's start off with it. Everybody's been talking about this thing, this fight with Mike Tyson, over the weekend, last weekend, I think it was Friday they fought Was it the 15th? Yeah, friday the 15th. They fought Jake Paul, mike Tyson. I didn't watch it. I didn't watch it. It was on Netflix, but I had no interest in it. They hyped it up. They made a lot of money. From what I understand, it was on Netflix, but I just I had no interest in it. They hyped it up, it was. They made a lot of money. From what I understand, they had it out there at that big, huge stadium in Dallas, texas, I believe, where the Cowboys play at, and I heard it was. The arena was sold out. It's like 80,000 people in the place or whatever. Whatever the number was A very big event, very big event.
Speaker 3:I didn't watch it. I had no interest in it, um other than if it's not like a tank or terrence crawford or any one of those guys, canelo and some tiafimo and dumb, dumb caliber guys. I'm not really interested. There's some good up, up and coming um, lightweight guys and stuff in those smaller divisions very good, very entertaining, skilled fighters, but overall in the heavyweight division is it's a, it's a, it's just a. It's a crap shoot. Let's put it that way. We'll leave it there. It's a crapshoot and I I really have no interest in it. So I didn't watch the tyson fight.
Speaker 3:Tyson is older man now, as as I am, and he need you know he getting his coins, he's raking in his coins and doing getting his hustle on. He reinvented himself. So salute to to I and mike tyson. Uh, he was able to reinvent himself and he's he's doing well. He's doing well. He has. He had the podcast I think he still has it and he has some other ventures that he's into in businesses and stuff. So when this opportunity came, learning to make some money, hey, why not? Um, he made Tyson made in his career. He made so many millions and millions and millions of dollars and he had gotten some trouble with the IRS. He blew a lot of that money. People took advantage of him over over the course of his career and his life and um, everybody, you, you, you know the story family, but anyway, people were talking about this fight.
Speaker 3:In the fight, um it, I seen little clips of it. The next day I looked, you know, in the sports and um, I seen, I got little little snippets of parts of the highlights of the fight and I watched tyson uh for the longest, for months. You know his training sessions hold on. I want that for his uh training sessions and he looked very sharp and when you put that in contrast with what happened actually in with the fight, in highlights of the fight, I'm saying like I used to box a little bit and I know a little something about the game and it looked, it appeared to me that he was holding back and then it was online. They were saying that there was some leaked scripts that they were supposed to use, because they use actually they use 14 ounce gloves for this fight. And they would, they would, they would.
Speaker 3:There were eight two minute rounds and, um, this was to favor jay paul because, uh, mike has fought most of his life. He hasn't been in the ring in all these years but he fought and he's always trained for three minute rounds or even even some sometime. They're training for three and a half four minute rounds because you have to build the endurance for when you're fighting. And he looked. Well, you know his legs are gone. He had the band, the brace on his right leg, I believe, and the way Mike Tyson stands, everything comes from that back leg. His power when he's shooting that overhand right or that straight. Right, it comes from that back leg and his back. He was off balance. He was very off balance. From the highlights I'm saying, there was times he could have hit the guy clean and he didn't. So that indicates to me that he was holding back. He was holding back and they probably didn't want the Jake Paul kid to get hurt. Now that kid is pretty big and he laid hands on Tyson a few times. But Tyson know how to eat those punches. He's been doing this all his life. He knows how to eat punches. He's been hit by some of the best.
Speaker 3:So was it a fake fight? I don't know. I don't want to say that. That is not my place to say that. I'm not judgmental up here. I'm just giving you how I see it and this is what a lot of people in the boxing community are saying. You know the pros from the experts from the boxing community. I think it's a sad affair, but this is what it's going to. Everything's boxing is turning into something like. I think it's a sad affair, but this is what it's going to. Everything Boxing is turning into something like the WWE or professional Wrestling with all of the scripts. It's just. To me it's a clown show and I don't like the way it's going, so I don't really have a great interest in. Now, if you're telling me Tank is on a card and I'm watching his training camps and I'm tuned in for the fight Him, crawford, canelo and guys like that, you know I'm just there for that because they really those are something special to watch. But yeah, family, yeah, family, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's, that's what it's been, that's what it's been.
Speaker 3:Let me see, can I get this? Um, because, like, as I stated, we have other things other than um politics to talk about up here. We have um things that are going on and what I've been trying to pay attention to is the Daniel Penny case here in New York City. You know he was uh charged. He's on trial for the for the um murder of Daniel. I mean um Jordan Neely, he's on trial. That trial has started and there's been testimony and uh, let's see, can we get some of that stuff in here, get to we get a story from it? I don't know, I don't know if I have any. Okay, the medical let's get some of the medical examined in here. Hold on, see what they said, Hold on.
Speaker 6:Who examined the body of Jordan Neely, taking the stand today.
Speaker 7:All right let's get right to Fox 5's Michelle Ross outside the courthouse in lower Manhattan.
Speaker 6:And Michelle, you are inside the courtroom to hear it all. Steve, natasha, they are trying to wrap for the day so that the prosecution can rest its case, but we heard continued testimony this morning and this afternoon from the same person, and that's Dr Cynthia Harris. She is with the medical examiner's office and she's also the person who inspected the body of Jordan Neely after that chokehold. Now she determines the cause of death to be compression of the neck, and today she walked the jury through the steps of what happens when there's a lack of oxygen to the brain, when the neck is restricted. Graphic images were shown to the courtroom on Friday as Dr Cynthia Harris, from the city's medical examiner's office, testified how Jordan Neely died while he was in a chokehold by Daniel Penny. Dr Harris examined Neely's corpse in May 2023 and dissected his neck in the process. Explicit pictures of it were on display for the jury, showing physical damage to his organs because of lack of oxygen. Jordan Neely's uncle, christopher Neely, says the images are too difficult to look at, seeing his nephew in this vulnerable state.
Speaker 7:We saw his backside. We saw his buttocks.
Speaker 8:We saw the number two behind him. You know what I'm saying. We saw how his skin was.
Speaker 7:We saw the bruises on his neck. Today we saw his esophagus taken out.
Speaker 6:Dr Harris also testified that even though you can hear a police officer say on body-worn camera footage that he can feel a pulse, she's not surprised because the brain dies first when oxygen is cut off. In Penny's interrogation video he tells detectives he applied pressure on the ground but not standing up.
Speaker 2:I kind of came like this Okay Did you apply pressure to? Him. No, I just wanted to keep him from getting to people.
Speaker 8:At any given time while he's squirming? Did you have to apply more pressure to hold him down?
Speaker 2:I mean a little bit. He gets a burst of energy at one point and then I do have to hold him a little bit more steady. But if he's not moving tonight, we let up a little bit.
Speaker 6:Daniel Penny's defense attorneys argue that not enough pressure was applied to kill Neely, implying he could have died from another cause, such as the drug K2 that was found in his system or his sickle cell trait. Prosecutors asked Dr Harris if there could have been another reason for his death. She replied it's my medical opinion that there are no alternative reasonable explanations for Mr Neely's death.
Speaker 3:There you go.
Speaker 6:Again, we're still waiting to hear if the prosecution was able to arrest his case this afternoon. They were still in cross-examination when I had just left the courtroom, but if this is the situation, then the defense will be able to begin its side on Monday. We'll find out in a few minutes for the 6 o'clock news where that stands.
Speaker 3:There you go, family. Yeah, that was the medical examiner. Now, also last week, one of his POs, his officers from the military testified that actually trained him in martial arts and the man testified and he said that he applied pressure the wrong way. He was trained. This man was trained militarily trained in martial arts and the pressure, the chokehold that he used, he used it the wrong way. That was the first thing that came out of that testimony. Now there was another guy that testified that was on the scene that was helping to what they're saying is subdue, mr Neely, and he was the guys on tape holding both his hands, while this guy, penny, has his chokehold on him around his neck. This guy, this other guy, was holding his hands. Now, that guy testified last week also was holding his hands. Now, that guy testified last week also and I didn't get a chance to listen to it was uh torian rain from torian. Uh torian rain reloaded. He did a broadcast about it on his youtube channel. I didn't get a chance to listen to it, but he was saying that they and and also articles came out about this that the guy who, that second man that was holding uh jordan nilly's uh arms lied to the police in his original statement and it came out in his testimony.
Speaker 3:So, family, we got to pay closer. This is what I'm talking about. We got other issues that that need our attention and, um, this is where we're going. We're gonna be gonna touch on politics here and there, but we actually gonna keep our hold on. We're actually gonna keep our focus on on these stories and, uh, because they need our attention. Now, before I move on there, there, when they this, this first. This incident first happened and he made bail. They did fundraising for him for, for his he has a war chest of over two million dollars for his attorneys. So this is what I'm saying family, why we got to pay close attention to these things, and, um, how these DA's are moving, these prosecutors are moving, because things get real shaky all of a sudden, you heard the medical examiner, you heard her testimony and and parts of her testimony and you heard it and some sometime. In these cases, things just go mysteriously left, just out of nowhere. Yeah, but it's always a. I hate that, yeah, but but anyway, anyway, family moving, moving on, moving on, because we're not going to stay long. I want to get out of here because it's hot, it's hot and I got the window closed because I didn't want the outside noise coming in as I'm, as I'm sitting here talking, and I didn't want it to pick up in the in the in the audio. So I got the windows closed in here and the heat is seems like it's all the way up in this in this office and I'm burning hot in here. So I'm not going to stay too much longer, but too much longer. But we're going to whiz through this stuff also. Family also moving forward.
Speaker 3:Oh boy, the diddler is at it again. Oh, diddler is at it again now. Reports have came out this past week about him. Now he has a bail hearing, another bail hearing, another bail hearing, I think, coming up this Friday. Today's the 19th, so that bail hearing will be this upcoming Friday. In another what? Three days? Another three days 21st.
Speaker 3:He has a bail hearing and the prosecution is is already asking the judge to the the courts because it's in, it's an appeals court now.
Speaker 3:So they're already asking that they uh quash this, this, this hearing, because this is the reason why they didn't grant him hearing, because they didn't want him to have the capabilities to get access to some of the witnesses and some of the people that's supposed to testify and people that's involved in the case.
Speaker 3:They didn't want him contacting them because they they said he was going to do this and, if this is true, he's been from what the reports are saying he's been contacting his family.
Speaker 3:True, he's been from what the reports are saying he's been contacting his family via phone. He's been contacting them and telling them to contact this one, that one, and get in touch with that one and this one and see if they can talk and have, you know, set up talks or whatever like that. That, and this is what the prosecution is saying that he's trying to manipulate situations where he can, uh, bribe um people that are involved or bribe on witnesses and stuff like that, and they are um, I don't know if this, if this is true, he's not doing himself any favors. Let's let's see can we get a report on it. Let's see can we get some action on that. Hold on, give me a second, one second. And this is why they denied him the bail in the first place, because they said they were concerned about these things. And here it is. If these things are true, like I said, he's not doing himself any favor, any favor at all. Hold on just a second.
Speaker 5:We'll cue it right now details this morning in the sex trafficking case against sean diddy comcutors now claiming that from behind bars, combs has been trying to reach out to victims and possible witnesses, and ABC's Phil Lipoff is here now with this story. Good morning, phil.
Speaker 7:Good morning. Gio Diddy's lawyer is trying for a third time to get him out on bail, but this time the prosecution telling the judge about attempts they say the rap mogul made from behind bars to influence everyone, from potential jury to allege victims who's the boss? Dudes is lost. Don't think because I'm iced out, i'ma cool off. This morning prosecutors leveling new accusations against sean diddy combs, saying he poses a serious risk of danger, even from behind bars as he awaits trial in a court filing late friday prosecutors detailing the steps they say Combs is taking while locked up to reach out to prospective witnesses and influence public opinion to affect potential jurors.
Speaker 9:The accusations within the prosecution's motion to deny bail are very serious and will be considered very heavily by the judge, because the judge is going to want to ensure that he is not influencing witnesses and or contacting anyone to influence a trial in any way.
Speaker 7:Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges of racketeering, transportation to engage in prostitution and sex trafficking. He denies any wrongdoing. The government now asking a judge not to grant Combs' third request for bail, in which the music mogul offers a $50 million bail package. Citing new evidence and changed circumstances, Prosecutors pointing to recorded phone calls from jail. They say Combs asked family members to reach out to potential victims and witnesses, urging them to create narratives to influence a jury pool. Allegations that could land Combs in even more trouble.
Speaker 9:Diddy's jail calls can be used at trial if they are able to support the prosecution's case in chief. They can also provide grounds for additional criminal charges to be filed against him.
Speaker 7:All of this while a Hulu documentary is set to be released Monday. Name is Shine Kid is nice Called the Honorable Shine, about a young rapper who says he took the rap for a nightclub shooting involving Combs and then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 1:Puffy got acquitted and he got 10 years.
Speaker 8:He was betrayed.
Speaker 1:I was absolutely set up to be the fall guy.
Speaker 7:Moses Shine. Levy Barrow, now running for president of Belize, says he was betrayed by Combs, so that documentary is out tomorrow on Hulu. Lawyers for Combs say he categorically denies Mr Barrow's allegations and that these claims are unequivocally false. Combs, by the way, has that bail hearing coming up on Friday. We reached out to his legal team about these new accusations from prosecutors and we have not heard back.
Speaker 9:with so many developments, in this case phil lip off.
Speaker 3:Thank you okay, family, you heard it, you heard it and, um, that's where we at. But, like I, I I'll say it again. I said it and I'll say it again. If this is true now, they they claiming that they have. When you inside of these panties, on these jails and you make phone calls, these calls are recorded. Whether you're in county jail or state federal penitentiary, your calls are recorded.
Speaker 3:And if they have him, if they have this material and they present it to the appellate courts, he's not going to get out of there appellate courts. He's not going to get out of there. Now he should know better, because right now he could have been in a position he might have, would have gotten a bail, because once, on January 6th, once Trump is inaugurated and he takes office, that prosecutor that's on that case comes off. This is what this, the the, the route that Eric Adams is playing Cool as a cucumber. If you notice Eric Adams, he's cooperating with Trump and trump has probably told him. They had phone conversations. He's told him well, listen here, you know, don't worry about that, that's going to go away, don't you just play ball with me with this deportation thing and I got you puffy. Should should have sense enough, or whoever is handling him should have sense enough to know listen, we gotta. We may have a shot of getting you out of here, if you can. Um, if once this prosecutor is removed because that guy is going to be removed once trump takes office, that prosecutor's, he's off, he's out of there. So he might have had a shot. Is what I'm trying to say, and you're not doing yourself no favor like this, my dude, but he's the gift that keeps on giving. I'm hearing now.
Speaker 3:I listened to Choke, no Joke. The other day. He was having an interview on another guy's content creator I forget the guy's name. Pretty good interview, pretty good. And Choke, no J. Choke was going at, uh, gene deal, because gene has been talking for a long time and, um, there's accusations about him being involved in a lot of this stuff, with the drug dealing and all of this stuff. Now, gene deal was a peace officer. I think he was a parole officer or something like that to that effect, some kind of state officer where he was working with the state or whatever. And then you know he was involved with the security detail of puffy and there's accusations saying now that he's had some under dealings, maybe not with the, the freak off type of thing, but some of the some of the under dealings that that were taking place around um, some of the some of the under dealings that that were taking place around um, some of the characters that that were around bad boy records at the time, um, maybe we can go into that next week or at another time, Cause I don't have that stuff up here with me. But they're saying he might, he may be very well facing indictment himself. Gene deal, you know he's been talking, he's been talking more than Keefy D was talking. You know, and you know Keefy D was, he was bumping them gums man and popping them chops like crazy. But yeah, family, that's the gift that keeps on giving. And then there was a recent arrest in charge, I think, in Fulton County there in Georgia, withia, with lowe dirk and he's in, he's uh, been arrested and charged and everything. But he's took a not guilty plea in his charges. I'm not sure exactly what they got him charged for.
Speaker 3:I was reading some of the bio and some of the built up of this. It was around that whole, that whole thing with King Vaughn and the murder of King Vaughn and the other kid. What is that other kid's name I forget, but his cousin got killed. It was supposed to be a hit and they're saying that's what this is about murder for hire and this kid. What is this kid's name? I don't have it. Let me see can I find it. Hold, don't have it. Let me see Can I find it. Hold on, give me one second, let me see Can I pull it out. Can I pull it out there? Oh boy, okay, it was Lil Durk. I went through his bio. What is the kid's name? That cousin got killed. Let's go, let's see Can I find it. Oh boy, you know, when you get up here and you, I wanted to put this here. It is okay, here it is. Let's go to the. What was this kid's name personally? Oh, he's only the family. Okay, that's the name of the label, I think Only the family, or something like that. Okay, here it is Okay.
Speaker 3:Dirk was involved in a rivalry between fellow Chicago rappers, chief Keef and Joseph Lil Jojo Coleman, after Dirk released the song L's Anthem in which he dissed Jojo's affiliates L's Anthem in which he dissed JoJo's affiliates. Jojo responded with a song BDK 3000K where he attacks Chief Keef, lil Reese and Dirk. The feud ended after Lil JoJo, was shot and killed on September 4th 2012. After signing with Def Jam Records and Interscope Records in late 2012, tensions developed between Dirk and Chief Keef's record labels Glow Gang, after a social media exchange Hold on, let me get a bed up in here. After a social media exchange, dirk disassociated himself from Keef's label, himself from Keith's label. Several diss tracks were released, including Dirk's remix to Nicki Minaj's Chirac, where he attacked Keith and other rappers, including Low Reese, the Game and Tyga and King L. Dirk called Keith disrespectful for turning his back on their friendship by supporting Tyga is back on their friendship by supporting tiger and the game's own remix of charak the um. The feud ended on amicable terms in august of 2014.
Speaker 3:Dirk's feud with california rappers the game and and tiger uh ignited in 2014 after releasing their remix to Nicki Minaj's. Chirac called Chirac to LA, chirac to LA. I'm saying Chirac, it's Chirac talking about Chicago. This resulted in in Dirk and the game releasing several diss tracks written with within a year. Dirk squashed his fuse with Game and Tiger and then Youngboy. It involved Youngboy and King Vaughn. You know he was from Baton Rouge Quando Rondo that was the boy's name, his cousin. He got laid out. They laid his cousin out, quando Rondo, and it was a back and forth and back and forth and now they finally done, charged this guy, arrested and charged him and it's just, it's all over the place and yeah, family, yeah, yeah. But I got one more story that I want to bring up here and I want to go to it. I thought it was very interesting. It's about a bookstore, a black-owned bookstore in Texas, and let's see, can I bring a little bit, bring the story and hold on.
Speaker 4:With KERA News. I'm Andrew Garcia. The first Black-owned bookstore in Farmer's Branch has closed its doors after only two years. Kera's Zahra Emeji reports after experiencing harassment and threats. Its founder isn't giving up on the dream.
Speaker 10:At Blacklet's second anniversary party last month, the small bookstore in East Farmer's Branch was packed with customers. Vendors displayed their crafts as families flipped through books, but what was supposed to be a celebration was bittersweet. After months of harassment from a neighbor and issues with building management, founder and CEO Nia Taylor-Clark had recently announced the store's closure, a blow to the Black community seeking spaces that represent them. For people like Stavion Willis-Hill, blacklit's closure feels like a setback. This is a space that gives voice even without talking.
Speaker 10:Supporter Alindra Ford says this isn't the end, but a reason for more spaces like Blacklit.
Speaker 8:This is a space for God's people to come and to enjoy Black culture, Black literature.
Speaker 10:Clark started Blacklit as a subscription box service in 2019 after the former teacher heard a student say they didn't read because they were.
Speaker 8:Black, and I just didn't want my son to become my 10th grade student or anybody else's student. I just wanted them to start seeing themselves in books, to know that literacy was for them too.
Speaker 10:The service took off when it was ranked the second best by Oprah magazine, With orders overflowing overnight. Clark opened a physical store in 2022, focusing on supporting fellow Black-owned businesses.
Speaker 8:And just where Black Lit is located now, the businesses that are opened are owned by Black women, so we're surrounded by neighbors that look like us.
Speaker 10:But running a bookstore brought challenges. As a first-time store owner, Clark dealt with financial strains and lack of proper resources for management. Safety issues also escalated. Clark says a male neighbor began to stalk the store, attending women-only events and making sexual advances towards the attendees.
Speaker 8:We just thought it was like an uncomfortable coincidence, if you will, but then it got to the point where we could clearly see this is not a coincidence.
Speaker 10:Police were dispatched to Blacklet at least five times between February and October, but officers told Clark they couldn't make an arrest without clear grounds. They advised her to first notify building management, but she says they were no help either, it seemed like they were annoyed.
Speaker 10:To be honest, like that she has to deal with this, clark quickly learned the struggles of running a Black-owned business aren't new. In North Texas, emma Rogers, who founded Dallas' first Black-owned bookstore in 1977, black Images Book Bazaar faced similar threats. I treated every threat seriously. I didn't take anything for granted. Rogers isn't surprised by the harassment Black-led faces today, but she's disheartened by the lack of support. I don't know why America is so threatened by Blacks being successful. There are about 160 Black-owned bookstores in the US, according to the African American Literature Book Club. Clark says closing Blacklet is bigger than losing a business. It was a step to protect her family and the community she built and as a mom, I can't wait for worse, Like it's worse now.
Speaker 10:After months of harassment, farmers Branch Police issued her stalker a criminal trespass warning. Clark has since obtained a temporary restraining order against him. Building management told KERA in an email they quote, moved to evict the individual but can't act until the court issues a judgment.
Speaker 8:What I don't want is for anybody to say they didn't know.
Speaker 10:Now without the store. Clark faces an uncertain future, potentially moving back home with her son and relying on family while planning Black Lit's next chapter. I'm Zara Meachie in Dallas.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I thought that. See, family like this is what I mean. These kind of stories need attention. Now you've heard it and you can look it up and stay on top of it and you know we can do online petitions and things of that nature. Well, maybe not for this case, an online petition, but for different things, like when something happens, like when something happens and even something like this. We can call, we can make phone calls down there to the local politicians of that district and find out why was this allowed to happen? Why was she? This woman was allowed to be harassed to this extent she's trying to run a business. This woman was allowed to be harassed to this extent. She's trying to run a business and these people coming in and harassing her because they're afraid of the business being successful. I've been hearing things about in the same state there, the Turkey Lake Hut. They was getting the same kind of treatment and harassment and different audiences from the neighborhood. Police would come in by writing them tickets. Now, since then, they've had some internal things going on with the owners of the establishment in Turkey Lake Hut. I believe the guy and his wife have had some internal problems and that has, overall, caused the business to shut doors at the Turkey Lake Hut. From what I understand Now, right here in Brooklyn, New York, there was another turkey place, a fried turkey place.
Speaker 3:They called it Jive Turkey, over on Myrtle Avenue. I believe the address was 540 Myrtle Avenue Family. When I'm telling you, the lines used to be around the corner because the food was good. They fried those turkeys. You go in and get a fried turkey wing or sandwich, a fried turkey sandwich. They had pastries in there. Nice little shop place, black owned place they rented. They was making money hand over fist.
Speaker 3:And then, as that neighborhood got gentrified over there, because you know you started, once you start seeing um them folks coming around jogging and then walking their little dogs and stuff like that, you know the neighborhood is being gentrified. And then once you see a starbucks, you that you know the neighborhood is being gentrified. And then once you see a Starbucks, you know okay, they're here, which is not a problem. But they were leaving horrible reviews for that eatery and I've went there many times to get food and the food to me was delicious. The fried turkey was, was, was on point, the little cakes and pies and stuff they would sell in there and in the other sides. You know they had the little potato salad and different things you know from our culture, our traditional dishes, and those dumb folks used to leave reviews on, on app apps like and different, those food apps and stuff like that. They would leave horrible reviews and I don't know what happened. But they closed up and you think to yourself OK, what happened? These places were making money hand over fist. The lines would be around the corner, right You're on Myrtle Avenue and then all of a sudden they closed Because this time of year we're getting close to the Thanksgiving holiday and you would have to make orders early If you wanted them to fry a couple of turkeys for you, you had to make the orders in advance. That's how much business they was doing. And then you look up one day and they're closed. They're gone Because it makes you think, because this place was an institution, it was going to be an institution and they were harassed online by the neighboring residents because that whole. They got Pratt Institute near there and you know you start seeing, like I said, different demographics of people coming in these places and yeah, that's what it is family. But we're going to get ready to get out of here.
Speaker 3:But before I do that, two things I want to acknowledge. One thing I want to acknowledge and the other thing I just want to leave a quick message with you about. And that is the first one is we want to give a salute to the rapper, trick Daddy. We want to give a salute to him. He's been making news about delineating the, this delineation thing that we on and, uh, salute to him. He's telling, he told someone, someone that you know and they reported on it, that he doesn't want to be called african, african-american. We're not african-americans, because that would indicate that we are some kind of genetic, what you call it, some kind of generic African, and we're not. We went through an ethnogenesis here in America. This is our home and this is our heritage here and I don't have no connection to Africa other than ancient, some ancient lineage that I know nothing, I really know nothing about. And when you, most people, will do their DNA or do their ancestry, it will lead to that continent. So, and that continent, europe, and places like that where we were at, where melanated people were at, so, yeah, I don't, I don't like the term African-American. You know, there's a big delineation movement going and salute to Trick Daddy. Salute to you, sir.
Speaker 3:And the last thing I want to leave you with, the last thing we want to talk about here, because it's time for us to wrap it up. The last thing is, you know, going into the politics a little bit, this election has caused so much division and OK, I don't hear it now, so it must have been something that was going. Anyway, yeah, we've been, we've been, we've been through this, we're going through this delineation thing and it has caused some division, which I think division is good, because it is a mathematical expression that helps solve problems, just like multiplication, subtraction and addition. Division is good, it can be used for good and that's what we're doing. We're delineating and we're focusing on our lineage and our heritage and our culture. Right for our empowerment, back to that knowledge, from from knowledge to born, make, born, complete, and that's what we're trying to do.
Speaker 3:But, yeah, family soul. So it's been people um, like um, michelle obama, joy reed. They've been talking about people um, not like Michelle Obama, joy Reid. They've been talking about people not having Thanksgiving dinner with their families If they voted for Trump and you stay away from them, they don't deserve to be around you All kind of foolishness. Now I've told you last week that I had some family members actually curse me out, told me I was ignorant and I was bad for the people and I was bamboozled. That I had some family members actually curse me out, told me I was ignorant and I was bad for the people and I was bamboozled in the vote for Trump. I didn't even vote for the guy. That was the sad part about it.
Speaker 3:And, like I said, you know, this family member of mine is and my thing I'm looking at, I'm saying, well, you're gonna, you're going through all of this for this, this curry eating brahmin indian woman who could care less about you. But because that's part of the line that has been drawn in the sand is that you're for the establishment, never mind empower. I'm for the empowerment of my people and for the, for the liberation of the masses of our people. That's what I'm for, and if you're for the establishment, that means you're against that. So we don't. In that case, we don't have anything in common.
Speaker 3:But it's not a thing where I hate you. We can have differences of opinion or different political views. Family, y'all. Go eat with your family Y'all. Stop this stuff. Don't let this thing break up your families. Don't let this thing break up your families.
Speaker 3:And we, as a group of people, we have to set the bar. We have to set the set the bar. We have to set the bar because no matter who would have won if kamala would have won, I wouldn't have liked it, I would have been pissed off about it. But I'm not gonna curse people out or tell people you know this, that and the third. You know you, you know I don't want you around this, that and the third. You know you, you, you know I don't want you around me, and this and this and that. My thing is this if we have a difference of political positions, we can always discuss it and we bring out the facts. Let's bring the facts of what it is and we put it on the table and pick it, and pick it apart, dissect it, go through it and come to some kind of amicable agreement. Or we can continue to disagree, doesn't matter.
Speaker 3:But all this foolishness, man, you got these women telling don't tell women to cut their hair, don't have sex with your man. Michelle Obama was telling women to go vote and don't tell your husband or your boyfriend or your significant other who you're voting for. It ain't none of their business, because we women got to stick together. And now black women are seeing that you've followed. They're mad at white women also now too, because you fell for all this feminism stuff. And those women unlike our women, they don't go against their men. They know that their man is the symbol of white privilege. Let me say that, and they're not going gonna go against that. Now you have people like joy read. They're talking oh, we're not dealing with these white women, no more. We're just gonna stick and worry about oh, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3:Like jason black, stay your black behind over there. You, joy read candace always in y'all. Stay where you were at. You. You was on that side. You was always degrading and denigrating black men and this, that and the third stay over there. We don't want you over here. We don't need you around us. Stay where you at, keep the same energy and stay over there. That's it, family. We're going to get out of here. We're going to get out of here Cause I've been up here for a little bit with you and I'm always glad this when this time comes and during the week and um, respect life, love justice, cherish freedom, treasure the peace. This is vaughn black and um, come on back next week and we're going to have another talk and we're going to sit down and chop it up for a little bit. Until then, y'all go in peace. Y'all go in peace and keep the peace.
