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Equality and culture: mere buzzwords or the keys to a fair society? Join us as we embark on a thought-provoking quest to unravel these concepts and their impact on justice. We start with a reflection on wisdom's role within culture and then navigate through the complex dynamics of high-profile legal cases, including those of Sean Combs and the intense security measures seen in New York's recent court proceedings. Our discussion also touches on the societal implications of xenophobia, and how public perception is often molded by contrasting media narratives and law enforcement actions.
The conversation then shifts its focus to the heated debates surrounding immigration enforcement and deportation trends, shedding light on the personal stories of individuals deeply affected by these policies. We question the motives behind current immigration policies and explore the need for unity among diverse communities facing these challenges. Amidst these serious topics, Tariq’s comedic insights provide a moment of levity, while we also ponder the importance of legal immigration and the intricate relationship between citizenship, reparations, and democracy.
Our journey concludes with a deep dive into the complexities of Black empowerment and political strategy in the wake of recent elections. We explore economic concerns that drive voter priorities and challenge the notion of a monolithic Black American community. The episode further explores gender dynamics, especially in the political arena, and the frustrations that arise when campaign promises fall short. From the cultural appropriation debates in hip-hop to the fascinating world of drone technology and potential threats, our discussions aim to provoke thought and inspire action on these pressing societal issues.
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peace, peace, peace and welcome back, welcome back to the Freedman's Affairs Radio, the Freedman's Network, and your boy, your guy Vaughn Black, is back with you and I just want to wish everyone peace and thank everyone for tapping in with us on this day, december 24th 2024. We're dealing with wisdom, culture. Wisdom culture is the math for the day, and that manifests or all being born to equality, and we understand wisdom to be manifest, or all being born to equality, and we understand wisdom to be right, discernment or correct judgment. Right, that's what wisdom is. And culture is the sum total of people, activity Relating to language, relationships, dress, food or cuisine.
Speaker 1:And how do we determine if a particular people or have a wise culture? We have to view that group through the lenses of equality. Right, stay with me. And when we do that, we're able to see, because equality is is balance, right and uh, fairness. Balance, fairness, homo statius or harmony, and we we look at a people's culture. These are attributes we look for to make the right judgment about those particular people. Right, I'm just keeping it real. We do this is what we do as human beings, from one group to another. This is why we are able to distinguish different cultures, but we have to view every culture through the lenses of equality. Is that fair enough? Through the lenses of equality, is that fair enough? And sometimes we. If you go to the 24th letter in the alphabet, which is X the unknown. In some cultures that we've experienced, they have what most people refer to now as xenophobia, and all X is is the fear of the unknown. Right, that's what xenophobia is the fear of the unknown and X is the unknown, it represents the unknown.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, family, yeah, we're trying to grow up here. We're trying to grow and this is why we bring it to you, like in the fashion that we do, because we're trying to grow up here, we trying to grow, and this is why we bring it to you, like in the in the fashion that we do, because we're trying to grow. All right, you with me. So far Good. So what do we have? What do we have this week? Oh man, it's so much. It's so much going on. It's so much, uh, you know they, uh, sean Combs had a hearing the other day. He had a hearing the other day and I believe it was last Thursday, thursday past. Yeah, he had a hearing, I'm not sure some kind of relating to discovery. They were talking about discovery from from what the news reports were saying and from the reports. They were saying that that he came into court looking, you know, like he lost some weight, significant weight, and you know his hair is gray. His hair is, and you know his hair is gray, some of his hair is turning gray and things of that nature, and he looks I don't want to say malnourished, they didn't say that like he was dehydrated looking or nothing like that. They just said he lost significant weight, which is to be expected. He's not able to looking or nothing like that. He just said he lost significant weight, which is to be expected. He's not able to eat all of that luxurious, rich food that he's used to eating. You know, whenever he wasn't getting high, taking the narcotics, so yeah, you can imagine that he probably lost a few pounds. You know that happens, that happens. You know he's probably eating. You know he's probably being very selective about what he eats and I'm quite sure that getting him food in there from the street at some point. You know this guy he's got money so he can make things happen through his lawyers. You know this guy, he's got money so he can make things happen through his lawyers. You know they can make connections through the correction officers there in that facility and they get him some outside food. You know I'm not sure how the food is at that facility Most of the time. You know when you go on the court and stuff that food be so horrible the mess hall food. Know, and you go on the court and stuff that food be so horrible the mess hall food if he's going to a mess. So I don't think, I don't think he's in an irregular populated or housing or nothing like that. I think you know he might be in some kind of some kind of uh unit or from everybody you know, from the rest of the people.
Speaker 1:Now, this kid that, that, um, that kid that that blew away that health insurance CEO, they said he's in the same lockup as Zonkoms and he would be under that heavy, heavy security status, housing or whatever. And speaking of that, speaking of that family, you seen how they brought this dude into court in New York the other day, I think, to read his federal charges or whatever, into that family. You seen how they brought this dude into court in New York the other day, I think, to read his federal charges or whatever. You seen how they brought this kid in the court? Man, they had to be about 20 or 30 cops around this guy. I mean including Mayor Adams. Mayor Adams was there. They did the prep walk. They did they prep walked him and it was so many cops around you would think this dude was Daylon Roof or some kind of serial Charlie Manson or somebody. This guy has so many cops around him and he killed one. He killed that one person. He assassinated that guy, the CEO guy. I forget his name. I don't have that work in front of me here. I apologize for that.
Speaker 1:I wasn't even expecting to talk about him. But you know, we just right now we're just shooting a breeze and trying to get the mood set. But, yeah, family, you know what that was? Because I was listening to Sabby Sab's podcast and she was saying that that is a way for them to try to intimidate the public, because a lot of the public is not looking at him like he's a murderer. They're looking at him through the lenses of a hero, like giving him hero status. Family, yeah, that's what. That's what's happening. They talking about this guy like he is a hometown hero, the way he laid and waited for that guy, and this is why they I think they bumped it up to federal charges.
Speaker 1:But this was, this was a I don't know. I gotta look into that because, because I haven't been really following it. You know, the case is a big case and and you know, initially I followed it because it was so big in the news cycles but I haven't been paying close attention, close, really close attention, as I, as I would when it comes down to, to news stories concerning our lineage. I just haven't been um, I've been following. It is about as much as you know top, you know surface level as I could, because you know you have to know what's going on. But the public is looking at this, this young man, as a hero.
Speaker 1:Now, there were there was some discrepancy, saying there was some funny stuff, saying that some of the first photos of him images of him when this thing first happened he had the hood on and the face mask covering his bottom half of his face and just his eyes were showing. And then, when they showed the mug shots, when they actually apprehended him, I think at a mcdonald's or something like that in pennsylvania, somewhere in pennsylvania and, um, they were showing the mugs, the, the images side by side and this guy has a unibrow, damn near unibrow, but in the images from the end of the shooting incident, with the hood and the face mask on it, didn't? It doesn't look like the same person. So there was there was some people talking about that and uh, yeah, I've heard things that I was. I was wondering was it just me? Because I was thinking the same thing is this the same person that that, uh, allegedly.
Speaker 1:Um, well, who did the, the act? Who did the crime? Because it was, it's not a legend, there was a crime committed and it was on and it was caught on image, you know, camera. So, yeah, it's not alleged Somebody did so. I don't know if it was this young man or not, but this is the law enforcement saying this is him and they round him up and they went and got him, they apprehended him and he is in custody. He is in custody right now, whatever his name is. I forget that and again, once again, I apologize for not having that information up here with me.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so, but anyway, anyway, as I was saying that the public is looking at this guy like a hero, because a lot of people are very upset in this climate of the country now with the health care insurance and and people. You know this is getting pushed to the forefront of why united states of america does not have universal health care for all people. But we know why there's no sense in playing with it and we know why. We know why, exactly why. And so what they, what the, what the law enforcement did as, as in conjunction or in connection to, to the media, the image they put out. When they brought this guy to New York they got about gotta be about 20, 30 people around him going into court and these they're carrying assault weapons and military style weapons. They got the riot gear on and the helmets. These guys look like they're getting ready to go out to desert storm surrounding this guy.
Speaker 1:Now they can't possibly think this dude is that dangerous daylon roof. If you remember daylon roof down there in charleston, south carolina, at the uh, mother emmanuel church there, which I visited recently, when I was down there in Thanksgiving week, I was down there and I went and visit that church. I went there, I took some photos and that'll be going on to the to into video and when I, when I, when, when the YouTube channel finally gets underway, that footage will be going in there. But I did visit that church. But yeah, daylon Roof killed nine people and they didn't have that many. When they finally got him, they finally apprehended him, he didn't have that many people around him. He didn't have all of those cops and law enforcement around him like this guy.
Speaker 1:So what they're doing is they're trying to send and send a message, or it's a scare tactic, trying to intimidate the public. This is what sabby sab was saying. Sabrina savati on her podcast, what she was saying that uh, and it's and it's not working, it's not working, it's not working, it's not working. It's not working because people actually and it's not good to say this, I really don't take any pleasure in saying this because someone lost a life and it's you know, he's not a foundation. This guy was a white guy, but still he lost his life and he was a husband and a father and someone's son and he was a husband and a father and someone's son. So we don't like to see that. But the public is like good riddance because they're so angry at at the health care insurance companies that that are really actually from.
Speaker 1:According to what a lot, of, a lot of people are saying, they're actually killing people. Right, the health care insurance, they. They take all your money for your premiums and everything and then when it's time you get, you come down with something or you need the insurance, they denying you and this and that, and I hear a lot of that. I hear a lot of that, you know, and I'm thankful that that. I haven't been through that or nobody in my family has. Well, to a small degree, I've heard some of my family complaining about the system and how it is, and I think the system could be better.
Speaker 1:It should be health care for universal health care for all American citizens. You know they have it in other countries but we don't have it. And we know why we don't have it is because of us other countries but we don't have it. And we know why we don't have it it's because of us family. It's because the foundation do not want us having anything that will give us equal footing on any level in any industry, in any industry, and they and I'm gonna talk about this a little later on in in the uh in the program, even when it comes to the music, and I'll go into that a little later you know the battle we had all last year and the year before. The last 18 months we've been battling with the hip-hop music and the trying to hijack that away from us, the creation of it. But we, like I said, we'll go into it a little later Um, but yeah, that's um, but you know what else? You know what is what's really going on? You know what's really going on? Family, um, I ran across something that was I was the other day.
Speaker 1:I was. I was listening at at a um, at a x space, that tyreek, you know he does these, these x spaces. I think that brother be putting out stuff clips every every day or every other day. He's scheduling, he's doing a lot of work and I was listening to one of the spaces and they were saying on on this particular program, that that, that um, the government, you know, they, they.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of chaos in the air right now behind this, this um proposed migration deportation thing, these immigrant deportations. There's a lot of noise going on with this stuff. Right, and this, this has been big in the headlines and some of the um, I said, some of the content creators been talking about this, and I was listening to an x space the other day and, uh, let me see, can I get it up in here. Let's see, can I get it up in here. Hold on, just give me a few ticks and we'll see can we get that in here. Hold on, hold on, let me get the music down. Let's see, let's see, let's see here, let's see here, let's see, hold on.
Speaker 7:Hi Tariq, how you doing? I want to tell you two things. They've been deporting people left and right here in Houston. I mean, they did a bus on Antoine with Venezuelans, dope guns, everything, and then this lady. They were supposed to have been going to the deportation place to get their papers. Well, the lady went into labor and had to have a C-section. Instead of her husband going to get the papers right, he went to the hospital with her and didn't go to the immigration office. So they deported her.
Speaker 7:It's been all over the news. Everybody been telling me on Twitter. It's been all over the news. They deported her. The brand new babies, her C-section and her other kids, Damn, and yes, as soon as she had them, they deported all of them. And they about to deport him too. He trying to get a lawyer. They about to deport him too. They've been really doing some sweeps here In the last past week or two. They've been doing some sweeps and I wanted to ask you do you think that y'all governor gonna put y'all on lockdown, since he put a state of emergency? I don't know if you touched on it, because I came in at the end of, at the end of the first broadcast yeah they got.
Speaker 8:They said there's like some bird flu going on out here and they're talking about it's an epidemic and a pandemic and all that stuff. And it sounds like it might kind of be a finesse If they do this state of emergency thing. That can kind of slow down ICE or somebody getting deported or if people go to the hospital, that can probably slow it down. So it sounds real weird that they put that state of emergency for the bird flu. I'm like who the hell got the bird damn flu? I'm out here I don't see nobody with no damn bird flu. So this sounds like a ploy to possibly stop the people from coming in and rounding folks up. Because what I'm seeing?
Speaker 8:I was in Hollywood a couple of days ago and I saw some people. I don't know they were some official people but they were like checking homeless people. They were just I saw a bunch of these people. They almost look like parking attendants, but they were something else. I couldn't tell what agency they were with, but I noticed they were all going up to a lot of the homeless people and kind of checking them and all of this stuff. So I'm like does this have something to do with the immigration. They're checking everybody. But yeah, it's about to get real. It's about to get real out here, ladies and gentlemen. So this is why people up here are like we're all the same, nigga, let's build together. You see, this is why we're hearing this. We all together talk right about now it's getting very, very interesting.
Speaker 1:Tyreek is a nut. I swear man, sometimes I can't with him. Tyreek is. I thought I was. I thought I cut a lot of fool. Family. Tyreek be cutting a fool. He be cutting a fool on the max basis. I mean every day. Tyreek just be. You know, he got he's got that, that, that borderline comedic thing going on with him and he knows how to roast people. Good, but yeah, but what he's saying is real. What he's saying is real. What he's saying is real. You know now, everybody talking about brother, we must stay together. No, no, no, no, no, no. Y'all keep See.
Speaker 1:The thing is now a lot of people, a lot of those foreigners, are scared now because they talking about this. These are deporting all of these people, not just Venezuelans and South Americans, they're talking about Indian, east Indian people, they're talking about Africans, they're talking about Asian people. They got some smoke for everybody. But from what I understand from the news reports that they are going to be focusing on the criminal element in the top stages. They're going to be Now, let's just be keeping a buck family. They're not going to be All those 11 to 13 million people they don't let in here. So far in the last four years, maybe more.
Speaker 1:Some say up with a 16 million. They're not going to be able to get all those people out of here in no, four years. They're not. They just not. But the criminal element is what? What they are going to according to news reports I'm just giving you what I get is what they are going to according to news reports. I'm just giving you what I get. But according to the reports that this is that Tom Holman, who is the border czar, he's going to be in charge of this program about getting these people out of here and, according to them, they're going to be focusing on the criminal gangs and and the criminal element first. Those people will go first and then they will start with rounding up. Uh, certain people, people that don't overstay their visas and and came here on short uh stay visas and and things of that nature, or work visas, and who've been here 10, 20 years and their visas has been expired and they haven't done anything to get themselves legitimized they're going to be also getting out of here.
Speaker 1:And that's a good thing, it's a good. I think it's a good thing, think it's a good thing. I'm not. I'm not against it at all, I'm all for it. I am all for it. And if you came here the right way, we're glad you're here. Come on in and contribute to the economy, pay your taxes like everybody else, like all of us do, and and hey you, you can live, you can do you're an.
Speaker 1:American citizen at that point. And also I'm hearing that Trump wants to end birthright citizenship, which I think I am in total agreement with that, totally. This is why we have situations now where we have a hard time. You know, we've delineated the foundational black american descendants of freeman. We we've been on this delineation movement, but it's very hard to get our right. Well, not hard. It's been difficult to really approximize just how many of us is now. It's most people think it's 43 to 45 million of us here.
Speaker 1:Let me get some music back in here real quick, um, but however that's it's, it's really very difficult to tell that. No, this is why I think and I didn't want to give it away divine, uh, prince is supposed to be up here, I think next week or the week after next. I spoke to him the other day and he's supposed to. He heads the Freedmen's Project here in New York. He's at the head of that, him and Annette Wilcox and some others, but he's been trying to get up here but Devon is very busy and I understand, and uh, but he told me he wants to come up here and do the podcast and uh, I've been waiting for brother. He's a good dude man, real good dude.
Speaker 1:Um, we was at a hearing the other day right out in Roxdale, queens. We went to a hearing because you know the commission, the reparations commission here in New York. They had two meetings there in Rocksdale the other day last week and I went, I attended and the fine was there, you know, of course, but he's supposed to come up here and kick it with me, so we're going to wait on that. But, yeah, this is my thing. I'm gonna talk to him about some things about we. We need to start getting getting a database together, not just here in new york, but in nationwide, a database to to get a figure on just how many of us it is and and where we're at the, the enclaves of where we're at. We need to, we need to get that together because we've been um, you have people that are that have had children with, with people from other countries, from the caribbean and from africa and stuff like that, and it's just, it's very hard getting approximate, getting a thumb on just how many of us it is, and we're going to have to do this thing. We're going to have to really do this thing and get to the meat and bones of this thing, and that's going to be. You know, we're going to keep fighting for the reparations, but I really want to have a discussion with Divine about that, about that, yeah, how we're going to keep fighting for the reparations. But, um, I really want to have a discussion with divine about that, about that, yeah, how we're going to get to get to knowing who's who and getting this, getting a database together to know who's actually foundational, because they they call, they all call us african-american, whether we from here, this lineage, or whether they're from the Caribbean or from Africa. They call us bunch, got us bunched in. So we want to get the numbers, the actual numbers of who's actually foundational and you know, that's that's, that's my concern, that's the thing. I really want to get that, get that rolling and get some, some. I don't know if legislation is the word, but we really want to get some accuracy with that. I do anyway. But, yeah, family, yeah.
Speaker 1:So what's happening now is there there's a quiet. It seems like from what these reports are saying I just played it for you on tyree's program that there's some kind of quiet deportation already starting to take place, and that's not the first place. I've heard that. So, yeah, that could be what's happening, because you know the Democrats were talking all of this smack about they was going to form a coalition to oppose Trump and all of it it was. You know it was about the, it was about immigration, it was about immigration. You know it was. See, because these people are afraid now and they want it. They want the looking at us, the foundational, the black of the black Americans that they talk so bad about, right, they got so much smoke for they. Look into us now, right, right, they got so much smoke for they looking to us now, right, looking at us, wondering what we're going to.
Speaker 1:We are minding our own business, we are. We have enough on our plates dealing with, with the things that we're dealing with. So we don't, we can't get involved. Family, we cannot. We don't have the, the resources or the energy to get involved in other people's affairs and this is why they need to stay out of our affairs.
Speaker 1:Now, when we extended the hand of fellowship and brotherhood to these other melanated nations from other countries and other lands, they didn't want nothing to do with it. They, you know, we are codders, we Yankees, we this, we that, we lazy, da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da and ba-da-bing, ba-da-pow, you know? So no, no, no, no, no, no, we ain't got, we don't, we can't. We have no help, no resources to help you or no energy to help you. You have to hold your own testicles, just like we did, right, but yeah, so this is all intertwined together with this, with this thing, and not only that.
Speaker 1:Uh, the, the democrats, the democrats. You know I was tired of talking about them because leading up to the election and then a little bit after election, we kept on the political thing. Well, family, family, they still trying to put out that fire. You know I never spoke on this. This woman raised the Harris, the vice president, during her campaign. She raised a billion and a half, or some say two billion Dollars for her campaign, right, and they have a deficit of 20 million dollars in the red right.
Speaker 1:Where did where did the money go? Now we know stories came out about al sharpton getting getting a half a million and old Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Roland Martin got $350,000, they said something like that. He got a bag and they lost so heavily. I mean, she got washed, washed. This dude flipped the whole country Right and they're still trying to put out these fires. It's like they had a big old fire and they still got it. The fire is the smoke and everything, but there's still little pockets of fire going on and they still trying to figure out things. Let's, let's, let's, go to my man here, let's go to my man here. Hold on and fair use, by the way. Fair use, Fair use, hold on.
Speaker 10:As, ladies and gentlemen, they're still discussing the election, and the reason why they're still discussing the election, especially with black men, is because black men in particular did something that they didn't really see black men doing. So there was an interview with a Tanisha Sullivan with the NAACP out of Boston and they just questioning her about black men and even the way we vote. But it's a reason why they're doing that. Let's go check that out.
Speaker 6:Democrat to Republican, slipped from 84 percent to 67 percent, driven by desertion of black men.
Speaker 5:Why.
Speaker 5:What's going on to know about this last presidential election is that so many people, through their vote, expressed deep concern about really the bread and butter issues really being able to make ends meet, being able to pay the rent, being able to buy eggs, being able to buy gas, being able to have one job that is life sustaining and, through their votes, um, really, uh, had their voices heard about the change that they wanted to see.
Speaker 5:Not just in the white house, I would say, but across government. People want to know that government is working for them. That said, um, I think it's also important um to to recognize that black people are not a monolith, um, and so if there's anything that we can declare coming out of this election, is that that is, in fact, um, the case. Black people are not a monolith, and so, if there's anything that we can declare coming out of this election, is that that is, in fact, the case. Black people are not a monolith and, in many respects, represent a diversity of political ideology and perspective and are not bound to any one political party. Does this?
Speaker 6:dictate changes or rethinking of your, of what you do and your organization's mission? For instance, does it mean less emphasis on police reform and other crime related issues that are are controversial? You know where there's some, or potentially some, some rightward drift in the electorate.
Speaker 5:I think it's important to understand that what we saw and certainly, I think, some of the the the data coming out of out of the election is that economics really rose to the top of the list, the top of the priority list for many voters. That does not mean that people are not concerned about public safety. That does not mean that people that black people or anyone is not concerned about racism and racial discrimination, nor does it mean that we have succeeded in eliminating racism. There is not a black person walking the streets, dare I say, who wants to be subject to racial profiling on any level, and so this election should not be an indication that for the NAACP or for any civil rights organizations, that our work is changing. What it may mean is that the ways in which we go about advancing racial equality, fighting against racism, the tactics, may change.
Speaker 10:So I want to pay attention to that reporter. You notice how he was focusing more on oh, basically, oh, y'all gonna be talking about racism because it's a shift more rightward. Why, when you have a shift to the right, people got to stop talking about the human rights. Because talking about racism, you're talking about human rights, human rights, you're talking about the civil rights, we're talking about our economic freedom, we're talking about black empowerment. That's never going to change. It don't matter if it's a left shift, right shift, center shift, it don't matter what it is. We we have to have to have to, as FBAs, to continue to fight for our community, because who else is going to fight for nobody, nobody's going to fight for us.
Speaker 10:Number two what makes them nervous is black people getting out of the default setting. We talk about this default setting. It's like a computer right On every computer there's a default setting and sometimes default setting is not the best setting. So you go in and sometimes you change the settings to make some things run better and more efficient. But if you keep it at default setting, your computer may not even operate at its potential. So us being at default setting in America, voting Democrats and doing what we're doing right. It's keeping us at the bottom, it's keeping us oppressed, it's keeping us not being able to prosper as we should as black Americans. So it would be better for our community to get out of the default setting.
Speaker 10:The sister said that we're not a monolith. That's true, we're not all the same and that's okay that we're not all the same. But we should be a monolith on black empowerment. We should be a monolith on, you know, supporting our children, you know, and helping them get to the future where they need to be. We should be a monolith on supporting education. We should be a monolith on, you know, definitely fighting against anti-black racism, no matter where it comes at. It's a lot of things.
Speaker 1:We have to be a monolith on the code, especially now. I agree with brother on a lot of what he was saying, but we have to be a monolith on the code. No matter what religion or what we believe in or what we don't believe in, or what group we with, what organization we with, where we work at, where we go to school at, we have to be on code. That's where we, the the monolith, comes in. That is, with the code. Because once we have that, we, we are unstoppable. We are unstoppable and you can't tell me we're not because, um, look at this election. It only took 10 million of us to shake the table and cause a major, major upset. It just took 10 million of us family, just 10 million, right, and these people, they, they're still crying, they're still trying to put out these wildfires and stuff and everything like that. And it didn't have to be like that.
Speaker 1:What we we've been telling you for for for years now, what we want. We want reparations. We want what you owe us, right, the reparations. Special field order 15, right, we want a crime bill, anti-black crime bill. That's what we want. We've been telling you this. You didn't want to hear nothing. You paid for it. With the election you crashed out on on the reparations commission down in california and those things were very every all of those things contributed to that big election loss that y'all had. But but yes, family, speaking of that, speaking of that, come to find out some. I didn't report on this the last couple of weeks, but this came out a couple of weeks ago about the Kamala Harris campaign staffers man, man, man, a lot let's. Let's hear a little bit from my brother, professor Black Truth, on this.
Speaker 11:Suckups in the left corner of the white media still struggle to try to comprehend how Trump could have won the election so overwhelmingly. They've actually, some of them, begun to do what they should have done from the beginning. Be honest with themselves about how Kamala was dodging black voters. Look, family. There's not going to come a headline that says black voters are the only ones who decide the elections. All other demographics are either too small to matter or too many of them are in the tank for the Republicans to have a cohesive whole. They're not going to actually say that. But understand, under white supremacy, the white media acts as not just a propaganda bullhorn, but also as a means of internal communication to white supremacists to alert them to things that they may be missing. That's the function that it actually serves. Externally, their message is supposed to be brainwashing the masses through the relentless use of propaganda narratives, but internally, the white supremacists are informing one another and telling each other things that they probably are not paying attention to, but should be. That's the reason why the New York Times the paper of record did a bit of accidental journalism last week when they looked at how the Harris campaign's failure to reach black voters in Philadelphia was an example of the campaign's national failure. A former Harris campaign organizer, amelia Purnell, told the New York Times they hadn't talked to anybody. It was like, hey, nobody has come to our neighborhood, the campaign doesn't care about us. Purnell, alongside other Harris campaign volunteers, believed that the campaign leadership was ignoring black voters and instead focusing their efforts on white suburban voters. Now that was coming for the New York Times, mind you, exactly what the black media has been telling you all along. So here they are bringing up the rear as usual, the white media. A month after the election. They're just now publishing a piece that dares to say what we've been telling you all along. The Harris campaign's failure is because their entire strategy was to try to appeal to white suburban women. When they say suburban, that's what they actually mean. The white media already admitted that Trump's message was already resonating with white male voters in particular, and Harris's entire campaign was about abortion. That's supposed to be mattering to white women, especially college-educated white women, which is what you're going to be finding out there in the suburbs. So that's what they mean. They use these code words, but the black media already deciphered it for you and told you about it long before the white media decided to put their own little sanitized spin on it.
Speaker 11:For several years now, the black media has been telling you about how the Democrats have been pivoting to try to find a way to put together some new voter coalition, one that would not be dependent or, as the Democrats see it, vulnerable to black voters' demands. So they've been trying to appeal to immigrants, they've been trying to appeal to white women, they've been trying to appeal to the LGBT community, anyone and everyone at all, and, as Rahm Emanuel said when he gave away the game, biden Republicans. He called them, in other words, all this Bill Clinton stuff been going on since at least the 90s of Democrats trying to figure out how do we appeal to these right of center voters, white voters, who may be fiscal conservatives but who are socially liberal. And that's the button that the Democrats have been trying to push ever since. This was their top priority, because the overarching goal of the Democrats was making sure that Black political demands never become national policy.
Speaker 11:They ran away from the base because they saw that, in more and more places that they went to, black voters were talking about reparations and Black voters were talking about tangibles, specifically for us, their pathetic attempts to pretend to have a black male agenda didn't fool anyone. The same way that four years ago, when you had Mike O'Malley or Martin O'Malley whoever that clown is out there in Baltimore, he was sitting there claiming that all lives matter. We hear you when you say black lives matter, all lives matter. Even their own audience wasn't fooled. Even their own audience called him out on it. So the Democrats have been doing this for a long time now, trying to see if they could BS their way past the voters, pretending to acknowledge what you say and then, in the very next breath, dismissing it.
Speaker 11:The New York Times is confirming that, as Harris and the Democrats saw it, the enemy was not Donald Trump. It was the political demands of black voters. That was the real enemy that they had to defeat. They decided that they would rather see Trump back in the White House than to do what the party's base told them to do. And that's why, once again, we're seeing the Democrats and those in the so-called leftist white media who have been banging the drum to once again flood the zone with a talking point that the party's too woke. The Democrats lost because they're too woke. It's those woke read black people who are talking all.
Speaker 1:And family. They're going to keep losing. They're going to keep losing. I wanted to stop it right there because I don't want to step on all the brother, professor Black true stuff that was from him and I listened to him religiously, religiously, I listened to him and I advise you to do the same. I listen to him and I advise you to do the same.
Speaker 1:If you know, when you have to have an acquired mind for guys like Professor Black Truth and Jason Black and Tyreek, he comes across because Tyreek is able to. His style is he mixes it up with the humor but he'd be kicking in the history and what needs to be done. These brothers are the top brothers, along with cats like Phillip Scott. But Professor Black Truth and Jason at the Black Authority, those are, those are and those take an acquired mind. To listen to those guys daily and very attentively, you're not going to be entertained. If you're looking to have a good time or looking to, you know, just be entertained. That's not their function. Now, jason, he comes off a little bit and he'll give you a little chuckle every now and then, but he's mostly business. Very thorough, brother, very thorough. So is Professor Black Truth and, like I said, those are quiet minds. Some people listen to me and I play news clips and I do a little music, so that breaks the ice a little bit. But I'm dead serious about what I'll be doing up here. I'm dead serious about it and it's not a game. It's not a game family, but yeah so. So that's what's been happening.
Speaker 1:Those, those campaign staffers, those children started telling after everything was over because the money is dried up now there's no more money. They probably made those kids some promises that they're not going to keep about their careers in the political arena. And some of those staffers said that some of the headquarters where they were campaigning out of they didn't have no food, they didn't have water, they didn't even have copy machines. They said but you spending money on first class flights to go do these interviews with the Roland Martins and different people and Al Sharpton and those guys they just know well, hey, more power to them, more power to them. You rather do that and burn your crashed and burned and you're still burning because, like I said, you're still putting out these wildfires.
Speaker 1:You rather had done that than to give us some of the things we wanted. You wouldn't even try to meet us halfway. And then, right after the election, you heard a lot of black women. Oh, they so angry at white women and white women and vote for Kamala. What made y'all think let's talk about this? Just for a quick second? I'm going to get off of it. What made y'all think let's talk about this? Just for a quick second? I'm going to get off of it. What made y'all think that they were going to actually back that woman? They didn't even back Hillary Clinton, and she's a white woman. See family. We got to get off. We got to really get it together, man. We got to get this together. Black woman is the only one jumping up, man. I like I said thanksgiving I was down there talking to my cousins, my girl cousin, and someone was so mad and then one of them told me she almost cried when camilla lost, and I'm saying, like why?
Speaker 1:yeah, because we thought, no, you y'all, the only ones that are quick to jump up, not all, not all of you, but the ones who are hearing this and know that they're guilty of this. You know who you are. And it's not all black women, because we absolutely love y'all, even though y'all are a pain in the neck and I and, and it's like that remember that song jay-z had with uh when they did the uh, both, the both, both the best world tours. You just want to crack up, right, y'all? Get us like that sometime, but we love y'all. We absolutely love you, black woman, we love you. I think I'm speaking for for the majority of the brothers. We absolutely love y'all, but y'all the only ones will jump up, just constantly jump up in our face and and uh, show resistance and and tell us how much you don't need us I don't need no man telling me what to do.
Speaker 1:Y'all, the only one, the white women, women, they not going to go against the man. Y'all got to understand that. They come at y'all with all this women, lib and sister girl. Yeah, girl, it's time for women to take charge. All this feminism and stuff, and that's your thing. That's your thing. But understand them. White women is not going to go against the grain, she's not going to go against her man, unlike you who will stick your chest out in a minute and beat on your chest like you, queen Kong Right, you'll do that in a New York minute. You'll jump out there quick to tell us man, I don't need you, I got my own money, I got a business, I got this, I got that. That's why I used to listen to the brother. You know, may he rest in power.
Speaker 1:Kevin Samuels, I didn't agree with everything he said. A lot of things were very harsh, but it was reality. It was reality. We don't care about how much money you got, how much your highfalutin career is and how independent you are. That's not appealing to a black man. We, our natural inclination is to maintain and protect the woman. That's our natural inclination. And when you making all this money. You got a career and ain't nobody knocking that. But when you letting us know we can't do nothing for you, that's not appealing to us.
Speaker 1:Some of the finest women out here right now beautiful, beautiful, successful women, single can't get a man. Lisa Rae, ray, vivica Fox fine women right, successful in they 60s damn near. I think Vivica Fox is in her 60s. Lisa Ray, if she ain't 60, she's pushing it. Beautiful women, excuse the plane going by, y'all, excuse that plane going by. I got the windows open. It was just too hot in here. I had. I got the windows open. It was just too hot in here. I had to keep keep the windows open.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, family, yeah, beautiful women single because they ain't, because they ain't, no man can keep up with them. You know, keep, keep, right going. You're gonna be the next thing you look around you'll be 70, 75. You have a little cattle, a little teacup, yorkie or something in the bed with you and, uh, some, some dudes. If you fun still, if you still kind of good looking, you got some dude to come on and clean your pipes every now and then. But that's it and I hate to put it that way, but you know we got to stop this family. We got to get it together, y'all got to get together, we, we, because we need you, black woman, we need you and you know you need us. So let's stop all of this gender wars and all of this other foolishness and and figure out a way, man, to be there for each other and get back to to to family and family nucleus and things like that. That's what I would like to see. But, yeah, okay, all right. So, uh, moving, moving along, moving along, moving along real quick.
Speaker 1:I want to just uh mention a little something about the those drones, about the drones. Let me see can I pull it up. Let me see, let me see can I pull it up here, because I had this story. Just give me a second, give me a second, let me see. Let me see Can I get it. Let me see Can I get it back, because they were talking about this on what's his name, and I thought it was interesting because he had a person who's I was listening to PBD the other day. He had a person up on his thing that actually works with drones and stuff like that. He's an expert on it and I thought it was very interesting what he was talking about. Let me see, can I find it? Hold on, okay, let's see, can we get it in? Yeah, here it is. Here it is. Hold on, family, let's see. Let this play out, and then we would be better to do it at night, let me just rewind it back a little bit.
Speaker 4:And you are measuring parts per million, right. So that's what I was missing.
Speaker 3:Did you say a couple warheads from Ukraine?
Speaker 4:Warheads were missing, and so everybody tends to get this wrong. I love your show. This is fantastic, so thank you.
Speaker 3:Anytime. Well, listen when Joe tweets out your video and he says this is the realest guy. This is the first thing that I see that I actually believe. And then, all of a sudden, hundreds of millions of views. Everybody's watching your answer. If you don't mind, maybe take in a minute for somebody audience hasn't seen. Give your you know idea of what you said in the video and maybe we'll have some follow-up questions.
Speaker 4:Well, well, thank you. Uh, you know, I I stand by everything that I say or that I had said on that video. You know, I was just doing the math. You know, I've sat in my office and I've I've been monitoring this whole drone issue and I've heard some amazing theories on the this drone phenomenon, and then I'm hearing our elected officials saying that that this is Iran coming from a mothership, coming out of the ocean, this is Chinese operatives flying Chinese drones, and I just thought, oh my God, like if our foreign policy isn't screwed up enough right now, the last thing we need to do is go pissing off you know, two of our largest adversaries.
Speaker 4:So I just thought, why don't I just do a technical breakdown of how drones operate, so people in the world could just understand a little bit more about how drones operate, so they can start to make their own assessment and not take my word for it as to what is out there, but really just do your own assessment on on the drones with the knowledge that I have given you right. So again, my belief, and I can't get too deep into the details, but what I said about them, potentially, you know, looking for some type of, you know radioactive material or gas leak or something along those lines. I stand by that. I stand by that firmly.
Speaker 3:How many did you say were missing? Did you say a couple warheads from Ukraine? Warheads were missing.
Speaker 4:And so everybody tends to get this wrong based on what I said and I just emailed you guys some. I emailed your producer, tony, some documents that shows the claims that I'm saying. But back in the 80s, when Reagan was dismantling the nuclear arms program, there were 132 nuclear warheads that came up missing. They have since recovered several of them. There are a few out there and everyone that knows me I have a large footprint around the world, I have a very huge network and I do have a small political footprint, meaning I do communicate with some elected officials and I don't want to overplay that.
Speaker 4:But this gentleman that I was referring to in the video it has nothing to do with a shipping container with medical supplies, right, absolutely not. That's not. That's two totally separate deals. But this gentleman was in the very same room with that particular warhead and I can't give out any more details. The very same room with that particular warhead and I can't give out any more details. But he saw it, it was there, it was right in front of him, right. So he came back and he was trying to raise awareness to the United States and he really didn't get any response from our elected officials and this has been a multi-year investigation.
Speaker 3:What is the level of credibility of this individual? We don't need names, oh. So, by the way, is this somebody we would know or we wouldn't know? No, okay, but this is somebody that the people that are in that space have a very high level of respect for, that when he says something, they listen.
Speaker 4:He communicates with leaders in Europe. He communicates with leaders in Europe. He communicates with leaders in Europe. Got it? And you don't communicate with leaders in Europe if you're not credible.
Speaker 3:And he shared with you that he saw what it was. So are you speculating that they're looking for something that may be out there in the greater Jersey and New York area?
Speaker 4:Well, I will answer that question very directly. But this gentleman came back to me and he's like look, I know you have a large network and I know you have some contacts of elected officials. You know, can you help me raise awareness? And I said, sure, I made some phone calls and I didn't. I didn't get anywhere either, right? So his, his concern was that that was coming over here to the United States. Right, concern was that that was coming over here to the United States, right? So when I see these drones flying at night, you know, as I had stated in the video, there's really no reason for a drone to be flying at night, because you can't see anything with a standard camera. Right Now, we do have great thermal optics and you can see very well at night, but your resolution just isn't going to be the same.
Speaker 1:So if you're going to try, yeah, I wanted to stop it right there, family, but just wanted to give you an idea what, what the talk has been going on with these, um, with these drones or whatever, over new jersey, new york, connecticut area, the tri-state area, bed minister, in different places, and some say even in the state of california. They've been seeing these drones and it's been given the public, you know, spooking a lot of the public, and uh, we figured we we'd come up here and address it a little bit as much as we can. And that guy I didn't get his name and everything, but he's a drone expert and he's highly connected to the government at some intervals. But yeah, so, but yeah, going into that family, family going into that. The other news is, um, you know, they letting a lot of these guys that have been in prison for decades, they, they're getting out. Now they're getting out one of them. Well, you know they let big me child. Um, walter johnson is home, who we call who's better known as tut. He's home home and different guys.
Speaker 1:They let Rafe Edmonds out and family. He passed away Rafe Edmonds. Let's see Can we get a little story from that. Hold on, let's see Can we pull in that story. The screen went dark on me. Hold on, Give me a second. Give me one tick of a second and we're going to go into it.
Speaker 8:Hold on the death of infamous DC cocaine kingpin, rafe Edmond. He died at the age of 60 months after he was released from prison.
Speaker 6:Edmond's drunk operation profited hundreds of millions of dollars at the height of the crack epidemic back in the 1980s. Fox 5's Bob Barnard is live in Northwest tonight with more Bob.
Speaker 12:There are no confirmed details about his death, but numerous reports indicate Rafal Edmund died suddenly of a heart attack at the halfway house where he was living in Miami. I'm back, Bethany and Ellen. This is the most recent and only video of Rafal Edmund we've seen since his release from a federal prison last summer, captured on camera at an airport just after his release and shared on social media.
Speaker 2:My first thought was man, I hope he wasn't assassinated, but as it turns out, he apparently died a natural death, and anybody who's been in prison long enough eating prison food it doesn't take much to imagine how that can happen.
Speaker 12:Billy Murphy is one of the attorneys who represented rafael edmund over the years. Here was murphy outside dc's federal courthouse in september 1990, the day edmund was sentenced to life in prison.
Speaker 2:This kid was a genius. Uh, there was no question about it. I sat with him every day during a very long trial. What would have happened to him had he, instead of having two parents who trained him to be a drug dealer From the earliest of ages, I might tell you if he had had two parents who were successful business people or business executives who trained him in the right direction.
Speaker 12:Raefel Edmond spent 35 years in prison, arrested at age 24, and convicted of running a multi-million dollar criminal conspiracy dealing crack cocaine on the streets of DC, leading to multiple murders. As well Then US Attorney Jay Stevens. I think Raefel Edmond has been held accountable for the human destruction and tragedy that he has brought to this city and to the lives of thousands of young people who live in this community. But Raefel Edmond would continue running his enterprise from inside prison, later becoming an informant, leading to the arrests of nearly a dozen of his former cohorts.
Speaker 8:I don't think I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison. I think I'm going to go home one day soon.
Speaker 7:You think your appeal will be successful.
Speaker 12:Yes, I hope and pray that it will. Turns out, his prayers were answered. Despite being sentenced to life in prison, edmund was released into the community last summer, his sudden death coming just five months later and there's no word on any services. Rafe Edmund is survived by his mother, who served time in prison as part of that conspiracy, and at least one sister, angie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, family, that was, um, that one threw me for a loop. Man, uh, ray for edmunds. Uh, hold on, I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that, that that threw me for a loop yeah but yeah, these, they let a lot of these guys out. Uh, big meech and, like I said, um, walter johnson, y'all call him Tut, you know, and everything like that, and I'm gonna try to give it, get him up here to talk. But you know he just got out, you know, not too long ago, and you know you don't want a crowd, you know, because everybody's at him for his story. You know, if I get it, if I'm able to get him up here, it wouldn't be about all that, that street stick up stuff and all that stuff he was doing. It wouldn't be about that, because he's into something totally different now. He's into into community and his people now. So, and that's what we about up here. So I'm going to try to get him up here.
Speaker 1:I was supposed to have Ebron last summer. Me and Ebron talk for about two hours one day on the phone. Last summer, me and Ebron talked for about two hours one day on the phone and he was supposed to come up here and do a program with me because they're doing a documentary about him and he said they was in the beginning negotiations of that and I was trying to get him up here but we just couldn't connect and make it happen. But I'm going to push and seek because I want to get Ebron up here. Ebron, he's a good dude man. He got a lot to tell too, and all them guys used to run together, tuck and Ebron, all them guys, glaze and all them guys. They ran the streets together. But yeah, they let these guys out and you know, this guy just suddenly died. Man, you know it's crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy. But anyway, family, we're going to keep it moving. We're going to get ready to wrap things up.
Speaker 1:But before I go, before I go, guess who's at it again running his big fat mouth. Again, none other than Flat Joe. Yeah, he's been talking. He's been chirping and bumping his gums again about us. Let me see Can I find a little piece of that. I listened to DeJuan B and DeJuan B gave him the business. Dejuan B gave him the business. Dejuan B gave him the business. Okay, hold on, let me see Can I get it where he was talking his crap about us Because DeJuan B gave him the business. Now this dude was on Math Hoffa talking this stuff. Right, let's see Can I get it. Hold on.
Speaker 9:My God, the world changed on me. Nigga, I'm like yo.
Speaker 1:You know what, where you been. Let's get into that, because I think people outside of New York it's hard for them to understand you know, puerto Ricans, dominicans, trinidadians, jamaicans, guyanese.
Speaker 9:First of all, let's start by this. Let's start by this Around each other. Let's start by this these rumors were made by radical black racists. Let's just say that. Okay, it's a group of these guys that don't want to hear Jamaican, don't want to hear Guyanese, don't want to hear, they don't want to hear a black guy. That ain't down with them, right, right. So their job is to criticize anybody who don't look like them, who ain't black, american. Who are these guys? You want me to say a name. We're going to give him too much clout the FBA, foundational Black Authority. Whoever the fuck these broke niggas is, I'm just keeping it a buck. And their shit is to attack everybody on Twitter. You see this nigga who run them Like you know your leader. Oh man, you got to be fucking kidding me, man. And so they trying to change the narrative.
Speaker 7:They're not from New.
Speaker 9:York, right, so they telling a whole nother story. This was whoopity-doop-wop Yo bro. Far as I know, we're at Yankee Stadium right now and it's hip-hop's 50th birthday and the guy who invented it, grandmaster Flash. My brother carried his crates, grandmaster Flash, my brother carried his crates. My babysitters made up the. Let me hear you say ho. It's two girls, twins, used to babysit me. They made up. Let me hear you say ho.
Speaker 9:So they have a big problem. These guys right. So they're against anybody who ain't with them. So this ain't a popular message. This ain't what everybody's saying. We might be giving them too much light right.
Speaker 1:Here is what I'm trying nah, that's where you're wrong at, fat joe. That's where you're wrong at we already got the clout man. We don't need you for clout bro, we don't need you. First of all, let me correct a few couple of things. First of all, there's no leader to FBA. Fba is a lineage, meaning foundational black Americans, not foundational black authority. Foundational black Americans that's what we designated the name for ourselves. Now, when it comes to paperwork, we are freedmen. When it comes to status and paperwork, we're freedmen, but other than that, it's FBA.
Speaker 1:Some people want to say ADAR eight hours, and that's fine too. The thing is, you talking about this come from broken broke niggas right, this was his words broke niggas. That music, hip hop music came from, uh, youth gangs, right, youth, children, poor in the ghetto, in the broke ghetto. So the music that you made a living off of and that you were able to make good and take care of your family came from these broke niggas you talking about, right? Let me show you now, because some people say yo, this is why we so divided, because we all the same and all how, how, how. Because if that was the case, they wouldn't have a problem. See, it was.
Speaker 1:I was listening to Clarissa Shields, the boxer, the other day and she did an interview with Andre Andre Ward. He's an he's an ex-champion, andre Ward. She did an interview with him and it came to a point she was saying she, she started getting emotional and saying how she's. She's at the top but she's very lonely, and you know. He asked her the question. He said well, you know you got your family, you know how they dealing with it. And she said that's where the problem is is. She said her siblings, she took care of her mom. She brought her mom a house. She brought her mom a car. She brought every one of her sisters, her siblings, her brothers and sisters, each one in them a car. She brought her father a car, helps him with his bills. One of her sisters she um, her three kids are living with her and she goes to parents, teachers, conferences and all these things.
Speaker 1:And she said the more she do, the more not just her family, her close friends to hate her. I'm going to draw the parallel real fast. I'm a. Draw the parallel this she says the more that she does, the more that they hate her. Show her that they hate her. Says the more that she does, the more that they hate her, show her that they hate her. And she tried her best to take care of people and that that were close to her and she has best friends that she never thought she would be without and all of a sudden she's. She's there by herself because they're not around, and she broke it down so good and so profoundly. She said no matter what you give them, they don't want what you give them, they want what you got. And it's the same thing with these other ethnic groups and these other people.
Speaker 1:This music came from us. This hip-hop genre it came from foundational black american youth in the ghetto. But it wasn't just relegated to the bronx, because the root of it come out of the south. Most of those, those guys when you seen the micro microphone check documentary, meli, mel, all of those guys shy rock, all of those mcs and djs and stuff, king mario and all of them hollywood, these people, families came from the south. They didn't come from the islands, they didn't come from poterrico or any other of those, those on latin places, they came from the south. So and we even said you know, like, like, they was around us in the early parts. They were around us. They didn't help us create it. But they were around, they were watching what we were doing. They participated later on.
Speaker 1:That's not good enough that we give them the props like that, because they don't want what we're giving them.
Speaker 1:They want what we got.
Speaker 1:You understand that. They want what we got. And that's where the hate, envy and jealousy comes in, that. That's where you hear fat joe saying what he said. He called the people that made up the genre, that created the genre, created this thing, broke these broke niggas, these fba broke niggas. Well, you was able to take care of your and your family off this culture that came from broke niggas. Right, man, man. But see, they can't accept it. They've been that argument. They come with about the 50-50 and it was this one, it was that one, it came from the Caribbean and it came from over here and it came from over there. Well, that done been pretty. Beat to the dust. We done. Beat all the dust out of that mat. We done. Beat the dust out of that and that's done with.
Speaker 1:He called Lord Jamal a nut, a crazy person or whatever. He said derogatory, derogatively towards lord jamal. But lord jamal had to put a challenge to y'all, I remember back in the early part of the summer, me and faze was on the phone. He talked about it, we he put it to fat joe buster rhymes on anybody else who wanted to smoke. He put the challenge out there and gave y'all a weak note. None of them responded and here he goes, he bumping his gums again. But, family, it's been great. Talking to y'all it's been great and we got to pack it up and we hate to do it, but we got to go. We got to go, we got to go. And departing from you is never a fun thing, but it's fun knowing that you're going to come back and we're going to be able to kick it again. Until then, respect life, love justice, cherish freedom and treasure the peace. Y'all, go in peace. Go in peace and treasure the peace. Y'all go in peace. Go in peace and keep the peace.
