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Close Out Of 2024 And A Look Back / 🇺🇸
Thank you, peace, peace and welcome back. Welcome back to Freedman's Affairs Radio, the Freedman's Network. I'm your host, vaughn Black, and let me get the music down a little bit. Peace everybody. Let me get the music down a little bit. Peace everybody. Today we're closing out the year. December 31st, we're closing out 2024. And on the line, on the line. I got the king with me. I got the king. He came up here to spit and um, give the peace to the people, king.
Speaker 2:Peace.
Speaker 1:There it is. Today, the 31st, we're dealing with understanding knowledge. That is the math for the day, and that borns culture, and how I see it is how I see it. I see it as understanding where you're at space. If I can go into it a little bit, I see that as understanding your awareness and throughout the program we're going to be dealing with that of people understanding their space and boundaries, and and in awareness, because that's what knowledge is. Is awareness, um, and and and born in culture? Um, we, we're going to be looking into the culture and realizing where we're at in the culture. How do you see things, king?
Speaker 2:You're right in the exact my brother, today's math, the understanding, knowledge, understanding is the greatest part of knowledge because it was born out of the wisdom which is born from the application of knowledge, understanding. Knowledge borns culture, which is our way of life. When your knowledge and your foundation is strong and based on truth and justice, the culture that's born from that knowledge and your foundation is strong and based on truth and justice, the culture that's born from that knowledge and understanding will practice and demand truth and justice and that's the basis or the foundation for us to build this universal government of love, peace and happiness. But first it all starts with the knowledge. You get the right knowledge based on truth and justice, and once that's spread and practiced, that will bring about our government that we want there it is, which is our way of life there it is.
Speaker 1:There it is and I'm in concurrence with that breakdown. I'm in concurrence with that breakdown, I'm in concurrence with that and it's, you know the math is going to fit right into the things we're going to be talking about up here recapping and going over things that has been major in the culture, along with, you know, things that have been happening in the country as it concerns foundational black Americans and the descendants of freedmen, and, yeah, we're going to be touching on things. But before we get started with that, before we get into that, I wanted to give a salute and acknowledgments to some of the greats that we lost in the past year to close out, and we're going to start off with that, and then we're going to give a salute to the supporters of the program. You got anybody special you want to acknowledge while you're up here King, and that has, maybe has passed away in the last year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a lot of celebrities that passed away in the last year. One brother that I like to shout out I remember it was a brother I grew up with. He went by the name of Drew and we all knew and loved him. He passed away during this last year. That one hit kind of hard. It hit close to home because this was a brother that you know, we grew up with. You know. The same brother, you know go out like that, you know, but you know we're in our 60s now. So you know this is the time when you know we may start losing a lot of people that you know grew up with us, and that's one of the things I want to mention a salute to to the brother, salute to the brother drew and, um, yeah, yeah, yeah, and salute to the family.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, um, as you said, we lost a lot of celebrities and I'm gonna run some names down, some we know and some we don't know. And I'm going to start off with OJ Orenthal Simpson. You remember the juice he went. This year we have William Strickland, who is who was a close friend of Malcolm X and if I can remember his what he was on, the organization he was in, but he was very close to Malcolm X, the brother of William Strickland, and if y'all get a chance, look him up, google him and look him up. Also, the saxophonist, casey Benjamin, and we lost him.
Speaker 1:Actor Lou Gossett Jr. And Sandra Crouch, who was a gospel singer. She was the sister of the late Andre Crouch. You remember him, the gospel singer Anthony Baby Gap. You know gospel singer Anthony Baby Gap. He was an early member of the Gap band. He was an early member when they had you know they had a whole band. You know they had the three leads, but then he was part of the band. He's gone. You got Guylin Kane and he was the founder of the Last Po, last poets. I don't know if you remember him right?
Speaker 1:yes, I remember, yes, yes, and you have um uh singer, uh, henry frank, uh fan bro fanborough. He was uh the last member of the spinners group, that, that singing group, the spinners, he's. He went this year um and then this one here.
Speaker 1:I didn't even realize eddie chiba was going, the rapping dj eddie chiba, I didn't even remember, I didn't, I didn't even, wasn't even aware. That too I, you know, started digging this stuff up. And also actor carl weathers. He's, he's left us this year. Dexter Scott King, who was the youngest son of Dr Martin Luther King Jr, and Miss Josephine Wright, who was in dispute with the government about her land. Her family had those acreages of land that they were trying to take away from her and they was in. They had been in a couple of decades long fight with the government about the land.
Speaker 1:And you had actor Bill Cobbs. I don't know if you remember him. He played in them. They made a docu movie about Mega Evers and he played as Mega Evers's older brother. He was an actor, bill carl. He was in a lot. I remember him from a lot of um, a lot of uh movies and television appearances and stuff like that. The mother of whitney houston, sissy houston, left us this year. Also john amos we remember him. Good times and roots. He left us a short Also. John Amos, we remember him from Good Times and Roots. He left us a short while ago. Fat man Scoop Actor, james Earl Jones, tito Jackson, quincy Jones and Tony Todd you remember him.
Speaker 1:He was the actor that played in.
Speaker 1:Candyman he's gone's gone, he's gone. And miss judith, miss judith jameson, she was, uh, the the artist director right for for the alvin ellie uh school for theater. She was the? Uh artistic director there. She's gone. Um, the sports commenter uh, great gumball, just passed away a few days ago, uh, cbs commentator for sports.
Speaker 1:And, um, of course, the one that that really hit me, the one that hit me well, two that these last two I'm mentioning here, he really hit me and that was frankie beverly. And, um, my mother, my mother-in-law, who, who I'm gonna dedicate this program to, along with your homeboy Drew, these this program will be dedicated to them is Doreen Washington, who passed, who left us on April 16th, for 2024, and, and your homeboy Drew. He will'll dedicate this program to those two. And also, while we're mentioning, I want to give some flowers to some people that are still here, and there's two of them that I want to mention, and that is Ms Viola Fletcher and Ms Leslie Bendenfield. They are two survivors left of the 1921 massacre in Tulsa, and Mrs Fletcher is 110, and Miss Lessie is 109 years old. So we also want to recognize them and salute them and give them their flowers and recognize them up here. I just want to mention a few more them and salute them and give them their flowers and, you know, recognize them up here.
Speaker 2:I just want to mention a few more people. Go ahead, brother, go ahead. They had the poet Nikki Giovanni. She passed away. She was a little controversial.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's why they mentioned her. That's why they mentioned her Right, right.
Speaker 2:Then we had DJ Clark King Right, I forgot about him. Yeah Right. The ball player Dikembe Mutombo yeah Right, right. Then we had the rapper Rich Homie Kwan, the young brother Rich Homie.
Speaker 1:Kwan sure. Yeah, yeah, fat man Scoop.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mentioned Scoop. I, yeah, I mentioned Scoop. I mentioned Scoop. Yeah. And Wally Amos, who had the famous Amos, famous Amos cookies, yeah, yeah, yeah, cookies, wow, yeah.
Speaker 1:See, I didn't mention Giovanni, miss Giovanni, I didn't mention her because there was some some some a little cooning going on, yeah, with some discrepancy.
Speaker 1:See, it's like I always say, you know and I got this from Professor Black Truth that when you hear us up here and we don't mention someone, we're saying a lot when we don't mention. Now, I know the woman had passed. I know she passed. I didn't mention her. You know, it's cool that you mentioned her. It's cool, I have no problem with it. But I didn't mention her because I did that purposely because of the controversy you know there was. There was some really there was talk about her being with them folks, as far as the dismantling of the black family, you know, that wasn't aware of that, the dismantling of the black family, you know?
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, I wasn't aware of that part.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. In fact, dana did a piece on her with Judge Joe Brown. Judge Joe Brown knew her and he was in his radical days. You know she used to come speak at those campuses and and he, uh, according to him, he stepped right to her and, you know, let her have it.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. Oh man, thank you for that information.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna have to look further yeah, she was, um, she was pushing that feminist thing real hard and then she ended up marrying a white woman, um, as her partner because you know, know, because of her situation there. But, yeah, she was a stomped-down feminist and I was under the, according to Judge Joe Brown, she was talking that stuff about you don't need no man, just find you an athletic man, have a baby with him and let him go on about his business, because you don't need no man. Just find your athletic man, have a baby with him and let him go on about his business, because you don't need him around, you know, you need just need his jeans, you know, and that type of thing. I it blew my mind. It blew my mind when I heard that you know about her. But, uh, yeah, that's what it is. Also. Also, while I'm up here, I gotta thank the supporters of the program, because I rarely get to do that and I want to do that to close out the year and I want to give a thank you to you all.
Speaker 1:Here in the United States, the USA, we thank all of you from all around the country for coming up here every week with us and spending a little time with us and just listening to us run our mouth and try to find solutions to some of the problems that we have. We got the USA, united States, and then we got the British Indian Ocean Territory. Dave, you know what man, you know what, let me, let me give them. Let me give them some real, because, brother, I'm too, I don't. There's a military base out there, right, it's a military base out there. That that they, they, man, we got some really heavy support out there and I want to thank all of you in the british indian ocean territory. That military, that naval, it's a naval base out there. And salute to all of you who listen every week. Salute to you all. We also yes, we also want to salute the united kingdom. We got heavy support coming from the United Kingdom and also Australia, mexico.
Speaker 2:Canada.
Speaker 1:Germany.
Speaker 2:Spain.
Speaker 1:We got heavy support coming out of Spain, germany, dominican Republic, ireland. I mean, brother, when I say heavy support, heavy support, thank you all, thank you all and keep coming, keep coming. And also we want to shout out to salute some of the cities here in New York, New York, of course, brooklyn, and Brooklyn, brooklyn stand up. Queens, we got Aurora, colorado. They are, man, we got some heavy support out there in Aurora Colorado. They come through the door hard and heavy. Family, when I look at the analytics every weekend, I see up there, aurora Colorado, thank you to you all up there, thank you all of you, and that's real from from us here at the network.
Speaker 1:Here, uh, the city of los angeles, california, we got some heavy support out there. Um, the bronx comes in at six, the six place, greeley, colorado, colorado, love, they love the program up there, a city, city called Greeley, colorado. They coming at 7th, peace, peace, yes. And also Washington, virginia. They coming in the eighth spot. And then family, charlotte, north Carolina, coming at the ninth spot. We got some heavy, heavy support coming out of that. That city of charlotte, and charlotte is a beautiful city, I love it there, I love it there. And also, um, flushing new york. Right here over there in queens, flushing new york. We got heavy support coming out of there.
Speaker 1:Thank all of you, thank all of you, right and um, stay with us. Stay with us because it's going to get better. It's going to get better and better and, like I said, we come up here we talk about things that's going on, but we also looking for solutions to problems. Family, and I want to say, right off the bat, right off the bat, it's starting to look to me. I don't know how you see it, king, but to me it seems like we're starting to lean into our power. And it's only a fraction of us Out of the 45 or 48 million of foundationals and freedmen that are here. It's only a fraction of us, because it was 10 million of us that flipped that election. Just 10 million.
Speaker 2:Right, it's a critical mass. It's a critical mass. It's a critical mass Because we don't need the whole thing.
Speaker 2:Go ahead. This is what Dr WEB Du Bois was talking about the talented 10th. It'll take 10% of us that get educated at a higher level and that'll pull the other 90% up. The problem is that those 10% didn us that get educated at a high level and that'll pull all the 90% up. The problem is that those 10% didn't have the knowledge and wisdom that was necessary in order to bring us out of the condition that we were in.
Speaker 2:But now times are a little different. Now you know, knowledge is a little more accessible. You know you got you carrying a en psychopedia around in your pocket on your phone. Whether you use it for that or not is a different story, but a lot of us are starting to use it the right way. And you know, we get instant answers to things and we start hearing rumors. We don't have to just dismiss them right away. You know we can look it up for ourselves. You know, and that's what cross-references is about. You try to find different sources of the same information and reach a conclusion based on that, on different sources. You know, and that's what our people is beginning to do now.
Speaker 2:You know, and the truth is that's what's going to make the truth come out. You know, and all the stuff that was going on on people were able to fact check on their own. You don't have to listen to matt lauer, one of these other news reporters. You do the, if you do the research on your own and you find out the truth. And it's more and more of us that's doing that, and that's why that 10 10 million was able to say wait, a something ain't right here. You know, and even though they try to hoodwink us with that shillery, you know trying to use celebrities, you know, to influence us. We might like their music, but that doesn't mean that we like their politics, you know. So people are getting awakened to that whole game that they be playing now, and that's one of the things that turns things around.
Speaker 1:When you said that last part about the celebrities and the entertainers, it made me think of a tweet this woman had put out. She said I love Beyonceyonce don't pay my bills, right? You understand, that's where a lot of us, that's where a lot of us were at. They were bringing out these celebrities and these, these, uh, sports figures to you know, to hoodwink us like like we usually do. But enough, our people had woken up by that time. Enough our people had woken up by that time. Enough of our people had woken up and seen. And they came with all of that foolishness, pandering to us with the collard green thing and all of that foolishness, and people were able to see right through that.
Speaker 2:And that's why it's important for us to give what we learned late to our next generation early, so they don't have to, you know, go through the things that we went through, because they'll know ahead of time what you know obstacles are in the way, and they'll know how to navigate their way around them.
Speaker 2:You know, and that's another thing that they're doing, you know. You know everybody's focusing on this thing they're doing with the immigration and blah blah, but when you look at it, they plan 10 to 20 years ahead of time, right? So by them letting however many million people came over here I don't know the exact number, but it's the next generation, the ones that were born here, that were anchored here, that are going to have the right to vote, were born here, that were anchored here, that are going to have the right to vote, you know, and those are the ones that they're shooting after, the ones that's going to be 15, 20 years down the road that'll be of a voting age, you know, and they'll be able to, you know, use the fact that they were anchored here and that they were allowed to come here as a reason why they should join whatever party. It is that they want them to join, you know, because it's all bs. If you ask me, republican and democrat, you know, take two wings and make a bird fly.
Speaker 1:so they are working together anyway yeah, see, that's the thing I always advocate that we should separate from both parties. Listen, man, it's almost like the vote is for hire. You want something from me. You got to bring me something, man, you ain't you know? They talking about Trump. He's going to attack this birthright thing about the anchoring, and I think that is right. You shouldn't be able to come over here and make a baby, and this baby is a citizen now. No other country allows that. No other country allows that. Now, all that was done, everything, every move these people make on both sides of the aisle, is to undermine and attack foundational black Americans. Don't, never, nobody who's listening to us up here, don't none of y'all ever lose sight of that. That's what it is.
Speaker 1:You know, you got some of these political pundits. They'll get up and talk about oh no, it's this and it's that, it's this and it's that, and you got 35% over there and you got another 40% over there. Listen, it's all done to checkmate us, Anything that they do, but see what happens is it usually backfires. Whatever they tried, they tried everything when they were doing all these experiments the tuskegee thing and all of these things from way back in the days, all of these experiments they do to try to poison a side of the population. They tried to come with the and with the, with the heroin in the back in the 60s and 70s. Then it came with the heroin back in the 60s and 70s. Then it came with the crack and that was supposed to wipe us off, and then you know the AIDS and all these other things that they manufactured.
Speaker 2:The bottom line is they don't want to eliminate us. If they eliminate us, they'll be eliminating themselves, because they're parasites and every parasite needs a host. This society wouldn't even exist without us, you know, and they know that this is why you think they don't. They're not serious about no back to Africa movement. You know we serious about it either.
Speaker 2:It's just something that was used at a certain point in time in order to raise consciousness by taking people's mind off of standard American activities, by saying look, we got a history that goes further back than what you've been taught in school, and one of the ways to introduce that history was through using the history of Africa, because at the time we didn't know the history that we had in this country.
Speaker 2:We didn't know that there were Blacks that were native to this land. The Folsom people you can look it up the Clovis people were here 20 and 30,000 years ago, you know. So we are not all immigrants. They try to make us believe we're all immigrants because that would take away our rights and our birthrights to this land, you know. But we are much more intelligent than that now and we have information that is written in the rocks, that's documented. You know, there's a brother I believe his name was Horace Butler that wrote a book called when Rocks Cry Out and he showed and proved that we were here thousands and thousands of years ago and they tried to silence that book and bury it, but enough of us got it, you know. So it's too late for that.
Speaker 1:What about? I don't know if this is in the Grand Canyon or whatever but, there's supposed to be monuments and relics there, and some of them cave dwellings or whatever, of um ancient, ancient uh, comedic uh that's right.
Speaker 2:statues in the grand canyon. They say there's a an area of the grand canyon that they have shut down or closed off and the reason they give is that it's too dangerous. When they said these are the areas where they have artifacts that are like the ones that are in what we know as ancient, that they call Egypt the Greek word is Egypt to this day and they're right there. And we know that there are pyramids in North and South America that are aligned with Orion's belt, at the same degrees of the pyramids that are in Kemet or what the Greek word is for Egypt and a lot of the times. The mounds were ancient burial grounds. These mounds were used in order to give respect to their ancestors and they still exist to this day. Many of them are covered up with grass and overgrowth and within them are the mounds. These are ancient burial grounds.
Speaker 2:They found one in South America. They had the coordinates from an old map that they found of where this pyramid was and they kept going over this mountain trying to find it and then somebody finally realized and looked down and said, oh, the mountain is it. And they started excavating the mountain and found out it was a pyramid. So we've been there. We ain't just come here right on the knee of the penta in the santa maria right, the chip jesus and all this other foolishness. You know fairy tales, king of john, not to laugh I mean, there may have been something that came.
Speaker 2:There may have been something that came, but you know, it wasn't to the extent that we didn't exist here until then. We existed long before that man.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, you know all you know these things. We've been studying, you and I have been studying these things for years now and this is why, um, we evolved the way we did. I mean, your, your, um, your thing was much more advanced than mines were because you stayed. You stayed into the to the books longer. Now that I'm doing this, this, this commentary thing, I'm more into the books than I used to be, and you put me onto a lot of things and point me in a lot of different directions that were coming along this journey, and I was, you know, some of those things. Really, just I said, man, I can't, oh, wee, it was just when I started finding things out.
Speaker 1:It was a lot of. It was very overwhelming to me.
Speaker 2:Right? Well, book learning is a little different than any other type of learning, because when you read something in a book, first of all it requires more focus and more attention. You got to get everything straight. You clean the house, then you sit down, then you read the book and you focus on that book, and the act of reading itself imprints what you're reading into your memory at a much greater rate than if you would just like, say, listening to a lecture. I mean, listening to lectures is an excellent way of learning also, but it shouldn't be the only way, because when you listen, like you listen to a lecture, you can clean your house at the same time. You may drift away from what the speaker is saying while you're doing it, or you may not, you know, but it doesn't have the same imprint as when you read, because it doesn't require the same amount of focus.
Speaker 1:Indeed, indeed as when you read, because it doesn't require the same amount of focus. Indeed, indeed, let's uh, let's try to recap the, the year in review of 2024. Now, I know we we had the election, we recently, with this drone thing, um, what else do we have? You know, the deaths that we have been dealing with and stuff like that. What are some of the things? Congestion pricing, congestion pricing right, that's coming in another few days. That'll be here in another few days here in New York City.
Speaker 2:And they've passed that, the migrant invasion.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the presidential election. Where do you want to start?
Speaker 2:at. Let's start off with the presidential selection, because it was an election. It was a selection Selection, true? The people that run this country, they will never put their future in the hands of the American public for a vote. You know they're going to select presidents and they're going to run this game every four years to make you believe that your vote counts, just to keep people in line and keep people going and following the law and following behind their so-called leadership. You know.
Speaker 2:But it was very interesting this year because it became teaching moments for us all.
Speaker 2:You know, as a group, as a lineage, we have been following the Democratic Party faithfully for much too long, for so long, in fact, that they've begun to take us for granted and think that, okay, we don't have to give them anything for their vote.
Speaker 2:They're going to vote for us automatically because Republicans are racist and they know the Republicans are not doing them nothing. But then they find out wait a minute there's a group of them that know a little better. A group of them know that the Democrats were originally the party of the KKK and they were also the Confederates, you know, and they're the ones that started the Black Codes and all these things. You know, it wasn't until the New Deal with Franklin Delano Roosevelt that blacks started voting Democrat because they were able to receive benefits from the government say the election of Richard Nixon when they started this benign neglect policy where they said, okay, we don't promise black people anything, because if you promise them something and they don't get it, they're going to turn up. They're going to start burning down the cities, like they've been doing.
Speaker 1:Let me just interject on that for just a second, and then you can continue. Family, pay attention to what brother is saying. Go back, go back to that benign neglect. That was a memorandum put out by, I think it was McCarthy.
Speaker 2:It wasn't Tip O'Neal. What was his name? Monaghan Monaghan, patrick Monaghan, patrick Monaghan. I said what was his name? Monaghan Monaghan, patrick Monaghan, patrick.
Speaker 1:Monaghan. I said McCarthy, but it was Monaghan. Yeah, that was a memorandum that he put out in the White House for President Nixon and the policy was the benign neglect policy Family, if any of y'all listen to that.
Speaker 2:And that was the way to deal with Black nationalism, because what Martin Luther King and his crew were practicing was what was called liberation theology. They were using the religion to strive to try to bring about growth and development. So they said, well, what was happening? It was exposing the racism and the hatred of the dominant society of America, or the KKK or whatever you want to call them, and that they had to find a response on how to deal with that. And their response was benign neglect. Don't promise them nothing, so they don't. They don't have anything to fight about not getting. They can't say well, they promised us, they're gonna give us this program and they didn't do it, so let's turn it up. You know, that was the whole idea to keep brothers from turning up, because that's what brought about the civil rights movement. Uh, the advancement, it was the whole idea to keep brothers from turning up, because that's what brought about the civil rights movement. The advancement, it was the turning up.
Speaker 1:It was the brothers out there tearing them streets up. They was tearing it up.
Speaker 2:Exactly. But you know that's a story that is not going to be told to the dominant society, because they don't want you to duplicate that kind of activity anymore. But that's what it was all about in my vision.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I want the family to go look up that memorandum. It was in 19. I believe it was 1973. Right, oh, that memorandum. But non-neglect policy.
Speaker 1:In other words, when you, talking to these black folks, shake your head yeah, like you understand, and tell them you know, you understand what they're saying and you feel that pain. Don't promise them nothing, nothing. Don't tell them you're going to do anything, because then if you tell them you're going to try to do this, they're going to hold your feet to the fire and it's the same game. It's the same game that these elected officials and politicians play right now. It's the same thing they do right now, even the black ones. The black ones have crafted a specialty in that. Yep, exactly, you know, that's a skill set that the black, that the black Elected official, has came up with.
Speaker 1:They send these Preachers out here To yell and scream On Sunday morning and tell them Alright, now you better talk about this, don't talk about that, talk about this. Yeah, you know, that's right. And meanwhile, meanwhile, we need, we need hate crime bills, we need them reparations and we not See, they thought, they thought, they thought we was gonna quiet down about them reparations and them tangibles after the election and Kamala ain't win, and they thought we was gonna and we still gone. We still bold up in your face with it yeah, they said.
Speaker 2:This cat, daniel Patrick Monaghan, with his advice to Nixon, was that the government's focus on racial problems actually helped to stoke them. He was saying that you just need to start ignoring these Negroes, because the more you focus on them, the more they're going to demand. But see, what he didn't realize was that we were looking up at down. So the demands that we were making was just to bring us to a level playing field. But that's what white supremacy's goal is to keep us from having a level playing field, because if we have a level playing field, it's an advantage for us. You know, and they know, that because of our energy.
Speaker 1:I talked about that on last week's podcast. I talked about it when I went into it a little bit about the health care, why we don't have universal health. I talked about it, I went into it a little bit about the healthcare, why we don't have universal healthcare because it's too much money to be made.
Speaker 1:The other thing is we wouldn't be as sick with all this diabetes and high blood pressure we got this is why they didn't want that. That JFK guy in there blood pressure we got this is why they didn't want that. That that uh, that that uh jfk guy in there over the uh, the food, because a lot of the food, huh, a lot of the food we're eating here, right, they allow all these additives and ingredients in the foods, but in Europe and different nations, caucasian nations, they have the same food, not the same ingredients.
Speaker 2:Right. They don't allow ingredients. They don't allow it. The preservatives and the chemicals have zero nutritional value for you. Preservatives have one job to keep the food from spoiling until it can be sold. So if they can put a preservative in the food that'll keep it good until past the expiration date that they have on that label, then they'll be able to sell that product and it won't be wasted. Whether it's going to be any good or not is based on. You know the preservatives, right. But the problem is, when your body takes in these preservatives, it doesn't know what it is you know, so it might preserve it. Food is not supposed to be preserved in your body. What you eat is supposed to be digested, absorbed and eliminated. You know at what point does this preservative play, you know. Is it being digested, is it being absorbed, is it being eliminated? Okay, this is the question that we have to ask. You know, now, with the way the world is now, it's hard to get away from a total diet. Unless you are really, really focused.
Speaker 1:It's hard to get away from a total diet that's free from preservatives, but you need to minimize it as much as possible, as much as possible, as much as possible, because I tell you, I do not like eating out. I used to have favorite things I would like to go get and stuff like that, and I noticed, every once in a blue moon when I try to do it, it throws everything off. I don't care what it is. I went, it was not too long ago. I went, I think it was, I forget which eatery it was. I said you know what? I got a taste for this. I'm going to go in there and try to get it and eat it. You know, and, man, because I eat at home most of the time, I eat at home Everything from the bottled water to every. I know exactly what I'm consuming.
Speaker 2:Right, that's the benefit, right, that's the benefit of eating from home, because you can control the infection control. You can control the ingredients that's going in there, everything. You don't know what's going on when you go out eating the rest of it.
Speaker 1:There's three oils that I use to prepare food with. That is extra virgin olive oil, preferably Moroccan, one blend, not infused stuff. One blend or one sauce, either Moroccan or like that. It's extra virgin olive oil, virgin coconut oil and avocado oil. Those are the three oils I use to prepare food with, whatever I'm doing. I don't care if I'm frying something, if I'm baking something or sautéing whatever. Those are the three oils I use. And grass, 100% grass-fed and grass-finished butter. Right, that's what I use.
Speaker 2:You know that's what you got to do. You got to. You have to be the the master of what you put into your body, because you can't control what you put in your body, then you're not going to be able to control the effects that you have. It'll be garbage in and in and out. You know you have control and that's something that you have the complete control of. You have control over what you put in your mouth. If you don't, then that means that you have somehow fallen victim to some type of hypnotism. You know that tells you it's more important for you to eat this hostess Twinkie than it is for you to be healthy. You know, just because you're hungry. You know, and when you're hungry, what does that mean? That's your body calling for nutrients, nutrients yes.
Speaker 2:Sometimes you can. If you don't give it the nutrients it wants, it's going to remain hungry. That's why you got to eat three times a day. You shouldn't have to eat more than once a day. You know, unless you know, you are undernourished and you need to build yourself back up. Once you build yourself to a certain level, you shouldn't be eating three times a day breakfast, lunch, dinner. You haven't even given your body enough time to eliminate the food that you put in before you put something else in. So now you're going to have food that's half eliminated with food that needs to be eliminated with and it just be backing up like crazy. You know it's best to. You know eat small meals what you need. Build up to try to eat one good meal a day. I agree with that.
Speaker 2:That's what my goal is that's and that's my goal too, because, sometimes I eat twice a day.
Speaker 1:I agree with that. That's my goal, that's that's, and that's my goal too, because sometime I eat, I eat twice a day. Sometime I eat because I don't eat no, three times a day I don't. And let me tell you something I don't, I don't even eat half as much as what I used to eat. Because you know why? Right the key word you said the nutrients. Because once you're putting the proper nutrients in you, you're not hungry. You may be thirsty, but you're not hungry.
Speaker 2:Right, it said it should be between 12 and 16 hours of a 24 hour period. When you're not eating anything, only thing you're doing is, you know, maybe putting water in there or something like that. You know, but there's, you know, and you figure, if you sleep for eight hours, then this should just be four hours. You know, when you are not eating anything, it gives your body time to adjust, absorb and eliminate the stuff that you ate before. Now, if you sleep for eight hours, right, that means when you wake up, it should be two hours before you eat anything. Sure, you can drink your water, your little juice, smoothie or whatever Before you put anything solid in your stomach. It should be two hours, and it should be two hours before you go to sleep. That you should be done eating for the day.
Speaker 3:That's right.
Speaker 2:And that right there. That's 12 hours right there and I'm quite sure you don't have to eat for the rest of those hours. There should be one good thing the rest of those hours. You know there's always going to be one good meal, you know. But the food industry has taught us that we need to eat three meals a day.
Speaker 1:And snacks in between.
Speaker 2:You need a big lunch, you need a big dinner and you need snacks in between. You need to keep a bag of peanuts in your pocket, you know, in case you get hungry, some raisins in your pocket in case you get hungry, Some razors in your desk. You can keep all the junk in your car. The thing about it the food industry they're bought into the health craze. A lot of these companies the same companies that make Lay's potato chips might own the health snack that you buy and that you think is so healthy for you. They just change the packaging and make it look good and maybe change a few ingredients. It's the same mess. You need junk health food too. You have to be very selective about whatever you feed into your mind and your body.
Speaker 1:Yeah, see, when I turn that package over. See, I already got to the point where I don't even need, when I go wherever I'm going to get groceries, I know exactly where I'm going and what I'm going to get. Ain't no sense in me looking in this aisle, going down in there Usually I stay on the outskirts to the produce section. You're getting your fish and your chicken or whatever you're getting. You know like that. There's no sense in me going in, because once you start going down in the mouths and you're looking at the back of them ingredients it's supposed to be natural this and natural that, but when you flip it over you see all this palm oil and this soy oil and canola oil.
Speaker 2:The thing about it is how is it that you got to pay more for healthy stuff? I say, if you want to buy a head of lettuce, right, if it's organic it'll be more expensive than if it's not organic. But if it's organic, all it means is there's no pesticides. So if there's no pesticides it should cause less. But the reality of it is it costs more. And it costs more because you know who wants. They follow all the rules and regulations to be an organic product. But you have to have what they call a blind faith. But there is a way you can tell. One of the ways you can tell is by the leaves. If the leaves got holes in it, it's more than likely it's organic because there's no pesticides. So the bugs was, was, was chewing through it and they chew some holes in it you know.
Speaker 2:But if it don't have the holes in it, that mean it was pesticides on it. The bugs just stayed away because they know that it would kill them, you know. But so that means the bugs are smarter than we are right.
Speaker 1:Well, here's the thing. Here's the thing right Now. They got the Clean 15, the Dirty Dozen that needs to be organic, the Dirty Dozen and the Clean 15. And the Clean 15 that don't really need to be organic because of the protection of the fruit or vegetable itself.
Speaker 2:The peeling yeah Right, the peeling, yeah Right, the peeling of it, like if you get an orange, it's the orange. The pesticide cannot Penetrate. Well, the belief is that the pesticide will not penetrate through the peel and get to the flesh of the orange, so it's less likely to have pesticides in it because of the peel, whereas if you get uh lettuce, yeah, apple the skin is thin yeah, so the the pesticides are gonna seep in through the skin of the thing about the apple is they.
Speaker 2:They put so much wax on wax on it. What I do? You don't peel that skin off. You're eating the wax, right? What I do with the, unless you can somehow melt it off right, I um, I wash.
Speaker 1:I got a solution where I wash different um products off, I wash it off and um, then I take the skin off. I wash that wax because I love me some apples, especially around around the fall time. You know I'm a very seasonal type eater. In the summer, in the hot months, I'm going to be eating mostly tropical fruits the mango and the papayas, watermelon and the watermelon man. I could eat the watermelon every day, every day, and that's the diet I keep. You know, as it gets cold I start getting into the apples and the pears and different things like that, and the nuts and stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, family.
Speaker 1:Why are we on this subject? Why are we on this subject? You know, over the holidays, these past holidays, you need to get around your family. This came up and want I wanted, I wanted, your thought on this when it comes to preparing meats. Now, you, you don't eat meat, but some of us still do. I I'm one. I still eat chicken and fish. I might eat a little piece of lamb or beef here and there. Now I was, uh, I was down down home and my sister was in the kitchen and she was doing the turkey, because she had to fry the turkeys.
Speaker 1:That was her contribution to the thing she had to fry the turkeys. And she had these turkeys. She had about three of them. She was washing and washing and washing and washing and washing. You know, in the sink, To my understanding and this is from the top chefs of the world they said you can make a brine for them or clean them with salt. If you're going to clean them, you get a kosher salt and you clean them, but using you know, you see people getting all this lemon and vinegar and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:And they said, the only thing you're doing by doing that is you're actually spreading the bacteria. Whatever bacteria is on that, on that bird, on that piece of meat, you you can rain prepare you actually spreading it around your kitchen when you you using water to wash it and you scrubbing it.
Speaker 2:You know, but the psychology of people is I'm cleaning this thing and I'm you know it's nasty if you don't clean it or whatever, but not realizing, when you're cooking something, the temperature or the heat that you're cooking from kills whatever bacteria is in this yeah, but this is I always thought that, well, the thought that I always had when, uh, I see people cleaning stuff or myself cleaning, whether I'm cleaning vegetables or whatever, but I, I do eat fish, I do introduce fish back into my diet about the last four, three or four years, right, okay. And my thing is, you don't know who was touching it before you did, right, right, you know, you don't know who packed that stuff, whether they had gloves on, if they had gloves on, how dirty the gloves was. You never know. You don't know where this stuff came. You don't know what, uh situation that was being shipped in. You know whether, so you gotta clean it. You know you gotta clean everything. You clean all your fruit.
Speaker 1:But now here's here's the thing, right here's okay, what they say about destroying the flavor and all that no, you put a little old bay on there, the flavor come back.
Speaker 2:You know, clean that chicken.
Speaker 1:Well, okay, okay, okay, well, here's the thing though. Here's the thing how in the hell do you cook hamburger? Do you clean hamburger meat or ground chicken? How do you clean that?
Speaker 2:Throw it in the garbage. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Well, this is what I was. That was the point I was trying to make is well, they're saying well, I clean all my meat. You know, people, I clean all my meat, I don't care what it is, I clean. Do you clean your hamburger?
Speaker 2:or your ground, turkey, I clean hamburger meat?
Speaker 1:How do you clean your hamburger off? Or your ground turkey? I eat through your hamburger meat, right, how do you clean that? You disinfect it by the heat. This is why you're supposed to cook at certain temperatures with certain things. Yeah, and you should know this. It kills all the bacteria. I'm not saying you pull out a.
Speaker 2:It makes sense. You know what I'm saying, but I still think you got to watch. I ain't putting nothing in my pots, not even refrigerated, until it gets washed off.
Speaker 1:It comes out the bag in the sink, in the bag with different things like like a turkey or chicken or something like that. You know it's nasty, it has viruses, salmonella and different things like that. This is why things like kosher salt kills that kind of stuff. The kosher salt and some people use a little vinegar or whatever white vinegar or whatever like that.
Speaker 2:But the kosher salt, mainly, is what you. Yeah, the vinegar is what you do you fill up your sink and you put the vinegar in there and you put your fruit and vegetable in there and let it soak, you know, for at least a half hour. You know, and you drain it, you wash it off, rinse the vinegar, everything off and wash it, bag it, put it in the fridge.
Speaker 1:Well, what I do with berries and everything like that, like berries, strawberries or raspberries, anything like that I use a little vinegar and some baking soda and I make a wash with that real quick because you don't want to extract whatever nutrients in there. So once that thing fizzes and the fizz go out, you hit it with water and um, maybe an ice bath or whatever like that, and your fruits are clean. They go in the refrigerator. You can eat some and they're clean and you can um, they'll be, they could be in there a couple days and be good, you know, without spoiling. You know two days tops. You know you want because, because, especially if you're making juices and smoothies- or whatever like that family.
Speaker 1:This is, uh, this is freedman's affairs radio. We doing the closeout of the year. We, we just kicking back some, you know kicking some information between us and you know making it uh, um, uh, how can I say? Digestible. Digestible for you, right, but now we want to turn into some of the events. Now we was talking about the election and stuff like that we got off into to the food stuff. But talking about that election and how, um, a lot of people still, um, they, I don't think, from what I can see, they haven't learned anything as far as the Democratic Party haven't learned anything, because they're still trying to figure out how and why things went the way they went. And it's because you've been playing. They know why, but they're not going to admit it because you've been playing with us. Now, this campaign of hers ran. They raised almost $2 billion, but they can't account for the money and why she lost in such the fashion she did.
Speaker 2:And it's because they know that a lot of money went to the white-owned media. Yes, they know that much. They didn't know they gave Oprah a million dollars. They spent 2.6 million dollars on private jets. They spent a million dollars on. You see that spear in Vegas.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've seen it. I've been out there and I saw it. Yeah, that big globe.
Speaker 2:They spent a million dollars in advertising on the sphere. You know they gave this dude a roly-poly. He got like $350,000. I was shocked. He got a half a million dollars.
Speaker 1:And see, that was money wasted because them dudes don't have they don't have the pull that this is how to touch these people are because them dudes don't have. They don't have the pull that this is how to touch these people are. Those people don't have no pull in black society. They have pull amongst them boule people and them church people and stuff like that, but when it come down to the grassroots.
Speaker 2:You know what that showed us? What's that that? We've been right all along about what they've been doing to us. We've been saying this for the last 20 years Look this dude out. Shopping is a shill. They're using him against us. They're using what's his name, roly Poly. They're using him against us all of them. And now people see reality. You got DL Hughley, luke, all these people coming out telling us we need to vote, we need to be ashamed of ourselves for not supporting a black woman. Then you got to give. As much as I hate to do it, you got to give props to Candace Owens.
Speaker 1:Yeah she did her thing with that she did her thing.
Speaker 2:She stayed on top of, traced her lineage to show that there was no black, american or African ancestors for Kamala Harris. She played her. She tried to portray that she was a black woman and a sister girl.
Speaker 1:You still got black people talking about they just didn't want a black woman. I'm like you know, when I hear that I'm saying like damn man, people, just they want. You know, a lot of our people want to be pampered Now.
Speaker 2:what they're saying now is that it was misogyny, is the reason why Kamala didn't win? Because they didn't want a woman president. Yeah, but just like when Trump ran against Hillary, they didn't pick a white woman president. What make you think they was going to pick an Asian woman for president Especially? When they know this Asian woman was cosplaying as a black woman, they said wait a minute this don't even make no sense.
Speaker 2:That's why they lost so bad. They not only lost the election, they lost the Congress and the House. You know, because people saw what they were doing and people that knew what was going on was like, nah, this can't be right. You know. At the same time, you know the segue into another part of what we got to talk about is what they call the migrants, why, all of a sudden, they start calling these people migrants and asylum seekers, when just before that they were known as illegal aliens. You know, because they changed the language. They could make it more palatable and more tasteful to the people, that the people would would would accept it. Because all these people are silencing.
Speaker 2:We have to feel sorry for them, because in their country, you know, they were being prosecuted and these people are migrant workers. They're coming over here to pick your apples and oranges and wash your cars and stuff. So we need and take care of your babies, so we need to be um more compassionate towards the plate. You know, at the same time, we said wait a minute though. These are the same people that you called illegal aliens last year.
Speaker 2:Now you're letting them in at alarming rates, you know, and we ended up displacing the people that have been here for a while, who know that, as an employer, you're supposed to have sick time, you're supposed to have health benefits, you're supposed to get periodic raises, you have the right to a union, and they're demanding that and that raises the expense column of the businesses. Where the businesses they want to keep the expense column low so they can have higher profits, you know, so they can buy their yachts and their islands and all this. So they say, yeah, bring them all in, because we'll have a whole group of people that we can use as workers who won't demand all the things. That's going to wind up costing us money.
Speaker 1:Now, two things. I want to touch on, two things, piggybacking off of what you just said in the second half. But the, the one thing I want to get, uh, get at I'm getting old timers here because I can't remember nothing um, one thing. You just, you just spit out about, um, the, the, the, uh, using them for cheap labor and stuff like that. Now did, did you hear? Did you hear the backlash that this Vivek, what's this nigga's name? Vivek?
Speaker 2:Kizzy Ramoswamy.
Speaker 1:Ramoswamy. Right Now he done, got like Candace, got real comfortable and now he's spitting and running his mouth. Dumb MAGA. People don't like what he said because, uh, uh, you. You know, like they do with us all the time, call us lazy and mediocrity and all he's talking about that stuff and no MAGA people. They they like yo. Get this, get this, get him out of here, get of here.
Speaker 2:He's saying that the reason why you have to open up the borders for, like, professional people from India and other places around the world is because we don't have the same level of education amongst the children that are going to college over here. Because of the TV shows. They said the TV shows they promoted the cool guy over the intellectual. You know, and it's been going on for so long, that now that became a part of the culture and you have kids that instead of them wanting to go to school to be engineers, they want to rap and be basketball players. So in order to fill the engineer class, you got to pull these graduates from India and these scholars from other places around the world so that you can have an engineer class of people that can create the structure that we need. And the people are like wait a minute, what the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 1:He down low.
Speaker 2:He down low called them lazy, good for nothings basically the same thing to us that they've been doing us he, he's been like that.
Speaker 1:He's a snake and you sit back and after a while that head will come rising up. And that's what he did, because I think what's happening? We are able to, and after a while that head would come rising up and that's what he did, because but you know what it is, I think what's happening.
Speaker 2:We are able to see these things coming because our eyes and our mind has been trained to detect this stuff ahead of time. So we knew Visit River Swami was a tether a long time ago and we said it. And they looked at us ah, y'all just jealous because they're doing that. Now. He done got there, he got the position he wanted and he's basically telling them we need to bring more Indians in here because y'all ain't doing what y'all supposed to, y'all ain't smart enough.
Speaker 1:And them white folks they not feeling that shit, they not feeling it and they on his bumper for that. But let me tell you this it's like I said, we in a very, very good, pivotal position because they having a lot of anxiety right now.
Speaker 1:I'm talking about on both sides, they having a lot of anxiety right now I'm talking about on both sides they having a lot of anxiety because the left has let all these people in, because they got this Vivek dude, they got Elon Musk, they got this dude's wife, jd Vance she's an Eastern Indian and they got the guy that's coming in to take over, I think, the Justice Department.
Speaker 3:He's an East Indian and some of the American people saying like hold up Trump.
Speaker 1:What you doing, man. You got to get these cats out from you know, because they got a whole different vibe. They're going in, so we in it now.
Speaker 2:But you see, go ahead. You see, years ago they tried to say that we was crazy for backing up Idi Amin. And Idi Amin kicked all the Indians out of Uganda because of the same thing. They came in Uganda, they took over all the businesses and they started oppressing the Native people there until Idi Amin took everything, took all their land and all their businesses and kicked them out and said that Uganda is for Africans black Africans, you know, and they, you know, they try to make it look like he was a savage through the newspaper. And it was this. He was there. He wasn't none of that. If you talk to anybody you ever met from Uganda, he wasn't none of that. If you talk to anybody you ever met from Uganda, they'll tell you Idi Amin was a beloved president, he was Muslim and he wasn't no savage they're talking about. He took his wife and killed his wife and put her arms on backwards. Oh, it's so crazy stuff.
Speaker 1:They did the same thing with Muammar Gaddafi.
Speaker 3:They did the same thing, monsterized him in the media.
Speaker 1:And we passed that we don't look at that. Listen man, listen Brother, we're going to get this thing popping and this is why I've been trying to pull you into this podcasting thing, because this stuff, this podcasting, this independent media stuff is going to really take off. The biggest thing that they did with this election, elon Musk changed that Twitter thing and made the X-Base and spent all this money is for cats like us on these microphones, because you can't trust the legacy media. You can't trust them, right, you know?
Speaker 2:so, pete, and Well, you know, the sad thing is that everybody doesn't know that there's still a lot of. I talk to a lot of people, right, and there's a brother on the plantation where I work at right and he's pretty at right and he's pretty conscious right. But if there's anything that goes against what he believes, the first thing he'd say, oh, you get that from the internet. Oh, that came from the internet. I said, well, where do you get your information from? You gotta listen to CNN and Associated Press and Reuters. And to me it's just crazy, because how is it that if you listen to CBS, abc and NBC, they all have the same news, so that tells you that they all came from the same source. You know there's somebody telling them what to say. These people are nothing but puppets.
Speaker 2:They're just sitting up there in mouthpieces.
Speaker 1:That got exposed during this election because leading up to election night they had this woman. She was ahead of Trump a few points and she was supposed to take Iowa by 16 points and it just that whole thing. I was like, wait a minute, these people actually lied, they were lying the whole time they were lying, only lie, they were lying the whole time.
Speaker 1:They were lying. So so now, now you got, you got, uh, these independent uh I'm I, I I look at reuters and different sources for things, for information and stuff like that, but I'm going to to get what I need to come up here and do what I do. You know, jason black professor, black Black Truth, tariq, phil Scott, all of these people that we got Lisa Cabrera, tori, all of these dudes, afro Elite, black Alpha, all of them cats we're going to really get our stuff from. And then, when we need to dig deeper, we got John Henry Clonk, we got Dr Francis Cress Wellseen, we got Bobby Hemet, we got all these people, that just man. So there ain't no shortage of information as far as we go.
Speaker 2:You know, when I started listening to Phil Valentine, bobby Hemet, dick Gregory and them back in, like I'd say, like 2003, 2004. I mean, I had knowledge of stuff before that, but I started listening to their lectures then, right, and the one thing that amazed me and that I wanted to train myself to do was to see things the way they did. It wasn't so much as what they were saying, but as how did they reach this conclusion based on the information they had? You know, how were they able to see and pull the reality out of this nonsense? You know, and it took me a while, but then I began to see.
Speaker 2:Once you understand the basics of how this system works and you can see past the veil, when the veil get lifted, then you'll be able to see okay, this is nonsense here. You know this whole president thing. This is this. Don't even make no sense. They don't. These people don't run the country. This country is run by the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex, big pharma, big oil. There's corporations that rule everything around us. That's where everything, the corporations, the people that are sitting in this White House, they're not. They don't make no decisions. You know, they can't stop a war. They can't start a war. You know what about the confessions of an economic hitman? Who was their boss? Who did they work for? You know, once the veil is lifted, then you can see everything you know and it's. It's a sad thing that all of us can't do it and you can't really teach that to somebody else, because they'll think you're crazy when you start telling them certain things. So you know, you just sit back, you listen.
Speaker 1:I ain't never heard nothing like that. You crazy. I ain't never heard nothing like that. Yeah, you crazy. I ain't never heard nothing like that. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2:man when you get that information from. But if they hear white men say okay, they'll go for it right away.
Speaker 1:If it's white, it got to be right.
Speaker 2:Right, exactly, but you know, it's a good thing. A lot of our people are waking up. It's a good thing. A lot of our people are waking up. It's a great thing. The more they wake up, the more they can wake up, more. Each one teach one and we're going to be all right. We're coming into the age of Aquarius, which is the age of knowledge. That is a beautiful thing. That's why everything is being revealed now. Nothing can be hidden anymore. It's all being revealed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, real quick, we're going to press forward. I don't know how much longer we're going to stay up here, but there's two things I want to touch on before we get out of here, and that is recently. They had this thing with this inmate. Robert Brooks got beat to death up there in Mossy Correctional Facility up top there in the state of New York prison. Have you been following that or you got anything you want to talk about on that? I'm going to just bring the reporting here and we can chop it up.
Speaker 2:The only thing I heard about that was that there were 14 Department of Correction employees that got terminated because of it, because supposedly they had something on film and they beat this man to death. I'm looking at it.
Speaker 1:I'm sitting here looking at one of these deals and this dude got his foot up, raised up in the air, stomping down on his brother man while he's handcuffed. But let me see, can I bring the report in here? Hold on, let me see. Let me see, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 3:This is a New York state, but live picture there over New York City Harbor, there in Lady Liberty. What I want to do now? Because we heard from New York Attorney General, letitia James, also from Governor Kathy Hochul James, releasing footage from the investigation into the death of Robert Brooks here I want to put this tweet up. This is from our colleague there at Fox 5 New York, linda Schmidt, with body camera footage there. Now remember, viewer discretion is advised. She says upstate prisoner beaten to death.
Speaker 3:Correction officers body cam videos were released today by Letitia James in the death of Robert Brooks at the Marcy Correctional Facility and Hochul has issued a statement as well. It says 14 people will be fired over this. So this is an ongoing investigation into the death of Robert Brooks. He died December the 10th of this year after an encounter with New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision officers. This was at Marcy Correctional Facility in Marcy, new York, that's in Oneida County. Now, the day before, on December the 9th, brooks was transferred from Mohawk Correctional Facility to Marcy Correctional Facility. Those are both in the same county, oneida County, according to James Brooks, she says, who was handcuffed with his hands behind his back, was then taken into a medical examination room where the events captured in the video took place here. So remember, we want to bring you some of this body camera video Viewer. Discretion is advised. New York City, hold on, hold on. I mean this commercial, you know they come with these Body camera video viewer.
Speaker 1:discretion is advised. New York City, hold on, hold on. I mean this commercial. You know they come with these stupid commercials.
Speaker 3:Hold on All right. So this was just released today by the office of New York Attorney General. Tish James here, piss James here, and so what you're?
Speaker 1:watching.
Speaker 3:Right now is the moment in the wake of the transfer of Brooks from one facility to another here. So, according to James, when he was transferred to this medical examination room you're going to see it in just a moment he was pronounced dead in the early morning hours of December 10th. But the action here. All right, we're going to watch it. Viewer discretion is advised. And there is Brooks there after being transferred from one facility to another. You are going to see the actions and it's very difficult to watch. It's graphic.
Speaker 3:This reporter is terrible, he's terrible. Appearing to beat Brooks there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they stomping on him, they punching on him, they stomping on him, you can on him. They stomping on him you can't see it. And the audio is not coming through, you know, because of the period.
Speaker 3:All right, so if you're just joining us for this story. This is what we know. This body-worn camera released by Attorney General Tish James' office.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they punching on him.
Speaker 3:That appears to show members of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision officers there at Marcy Correctional Facility beating Robert Brooks. Brooks was handcuffed with his hands behind his back. He was then taken to a medical examination room there where the events captured in the video took place. She says Brooks was then transported to a local hospital examination room there where the events captured in the video took place.
Speaker 3:She says, yeah, this dude got it, brooks was then transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead in the early morning hours of December the 10th. There Now, governor Hochul's office said 14 members here have been fired for their role in this. We also are getting statements in from elected leaders in New York. We're going to step away from this video. You're going to hear from James in just a second here. Let's put this up. So this is from state senator of New York, rob Ort. He says this I'm sickened by the brutal and senseless attack at Marcy Correctional Facility. The footage is absolutely appalling and these violent actions cannot be tolerated. While this incident will understandably outrage New Yorkers, it's important to recognize that this horrific event does not reflect the dedicated service of the countless correction officers who risk their lives every day to maintain order and safety in our prisons. He says those responsible must be held fully accountable. There is no excuse for this behavior. That's from New York State Senator, rob Ort. In the meantime, here let's.
Speaker 1:I'm going to pause it. I'm going to pause it because this dude, the dude who's reporting on this, he's garbage. He is garbage. You know your thoughts on this thing, king.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, that's the thing about it, right? A lot of times we see these videos and we think that these are isolated. So it just happened. We know this is something that's been going on. There's something going on for a long time. It's just now that they're being reported, you know, and people are able to see it. But police been killing people in prison for a long time, you know, and now they got it on video. Let's see what happened. And you see what happened. It was a brother and it was all Caucasians that did it. You know, and sadly, you know, that brother's gone and what they're going to do. These officers will probably say that they thought their life was in jeopardy, even though he handcuffed behind his back and sitting down, you know, and they'll give the family a couple of million dollars and everybody will forget about it, you know. But when it comes to reform and to them being punished, that's what the problem is. That's why we push for a hate crime bill. You know that was a hate crime man?
Speaker 1:It certainly was. Because you can't see the. I mean, I'm looking at it, the listeners can't see it. I'm looking at it, the listeners can't see it. I'm looking at it, this dude man. See now the reason why I'm so familiar with it, because the same thing happened to me Right there in Elmira. Right there in Elmira, something had happened. At that time I was in A block, you know, in reception, and you know I reception, and you know I don't know if you've ever been to the L, but yeah, I've been there. You know that big yard for A block you could you know, where my window was.
Speaker 1:It would be so cold at night going. I didn't want to go out in the yard at night, so I was staying. I was staying in the cell to sell, you know, in the cell block, and do my little push-ups or whatever like that, and dudes be hollering up to him yo come out, come out, man, I'm not going out there in that freezing cold to talk to you dudes, man. So, but something had happened in the yard one time and they, um, they, my name came up in some kind of way and they came at 2 o'clock in the morning and stuff to drag me out the cell in slippers and underwear and stuff and take me down to see the superintendent and all this here stuff. But now they beat me the whole while right, and I remember it was one dude. It was one dude, officer Buckabee, that was his name, officer Buckerby, that was his name, officer Buckerby. This dude had that stick man, that nightstick, all up in my throat and everything. And I said you know one thing. I said, boy, I was saying to myself this. I said you know, I'm going to get this dude If the last thing I do before I leave I'm going to get him. The last thing I do before I leave, I'm going to get him and come to find out.
Speaker 1:I didn't have nothing to do with what was going on. You know, whatever the incident was I think somebody got hit with a weight or something like that, or stabbed or something, something crazy. But there was some cats that I knew that I would frequently be around, but I don't know what the incident was about. I never really got the information on what had happened or what. I heard little rumors and stuff like that, but I was on lock, I was in because it was too cold for me to be out in the yard that night. So anyway, I said, man, they came this dude here. I said I'm going to get him, I'm going to get his ass.
Speaker 3:I'm going to get him. I'm going to get his ass, I'm going to get him.
Speaker 1:And one time, you know, I had gotten to a fight on the tier one and they come lock me up down there, right this. I ended up staying a little while there in the L and they came in there and they put me in segregation or whatever like that. And when my time was up to leave there, guess who they sent to come get me right, him and two other cats, two other guards. So as I'm getting ready, I said I'm going to get him now because he had his back turned to me. He was looking over the tear, he had his back to me. I said I'm going to crack him one right now. I hit that dude, damn it. I thought I was was gonna kill him, man, is. I hit him as hard as I could, knock them out cold.
Speaker 1:And when I tell you them police man, them dudes, beat the brakes off just like they was beating this dude here, man, them dudes, they beat the brakes off me, bro, I ain, I ain't going to lie to you, but you know I took the whipping. I took the whipping, I had some lumps and bumps, you know. But them dudes, you know they. That red beard you remember there was a famous officer up there. He was at Fishkill for a while too. He was involved in I think it was Comstock, where they found the bodies and stuff at under the gym. Was that Comstock? Yeah, he was involved in that, officer Redbeard, I knew him. I knew him and he was one of them that had that white supremacy thing in him. You could tell, if he ever got you somewhere alone he would try to, he would hurt you. He had that in him because he was involved in that situation.
Speaker 2:I don't know how he got around it but he got out of it.
Speaker 1:But yeah, this is folks, this is family. This is not an isolated thing. This thing happens up there. This is why an isolated thing, this thing- happens up there. This is when you got your folks. That's in there Now this cat, robert Brooks. He was in there. He had stabbed his girlfriend, he put a knife in his girlfriend and he got 12 years since the 12 years behind it from what I understand, but nonetheless, he didn't deserve to lose his life.
Speaker 1:I don't know what the incident was. It looked like it was transferring him Because you know that's a little hub there, mohawk, marcy Oneida, that's that little hub. There they got.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they said he had just transferred in from.
Speaker 1:Mohawk, but now in the video the transfer took place in the wee hours of the morning because it's dark out. When they was walking him to the medical uh for holding the, the medical holding part, the the outside was dark so they they transferred him in the middle of the night. Something happened wherever he was at when they transferred him to mars, something had happened and he might have been excited or whatever, gotten to it with somebody or something like that. You know how they do when they transfer you in the middle of the night, something happened. You can't be in that jail, no more. You got to get out of there. You know what I mean. So yeah, but I wanted to get your thoughts on that and we gonna get ready to move on. But before we go, we got to address the elephant in the room. We got to address the elephant in the room you talking about fat boy?
Speaker 1:I'm talking about none other than sloppy sloppy. I don't even know what to call this dude man. I don't know why he fat boy Joe. But here's the thing family, I want whoever's listening to this podcast, I want you to go to YouTube and check out this podcast called the check in, the check in report. That's the. This podcast called the check-in, the check-in report, that's the name of it, the check-in report.
Speaker 1:His brother runs this, this, this program up there, and he found out who all of this guy sponsors was White Castle, rock Nation, paramount Plus, and there's a few other companies that sponsor him and he wrote letters to them about the disparaging remarks he made about the lineage, the FBA lineage, because had that?
Speaker 1:He made those remarks about anybody Jewish or anything, any of these other groups. That's how they're going to attack it Now, since he went on Math Hoffa's show and did that interview and spit what he spit, he got a lot of backlash from it and then he decided he's going to go up in Harlem. He was riding around in a car with some other people and he's talking. You know they shooting a video and they they filming and they are saying, yeah, he outside, I'm outside, I got, we got the guns and whoever want it and all this kind of stuff. You're a 50 plus year old man. You, you out here talking this silly talk. You know you done made these remarks and now you're threatening, you know. So I think your sponsors should know who it is that they are doing in business with. I think they should, because I'm going to write them White Castle Paramount.
Speaker 3:Plus.
Speaker 1:Paramount.
Speaker 3:Plus.
Speaker 1:Rock Nation. You got to cut ties with this guy and I think everybody who's listening to us do the same, do the same. Go to that podcast, the check-in report. And the brother wrote a letter and we could use that as a template to get it popping. I don't know if you remember the show back here some time ago and the brother wrote a letter and we could use that as a template to get it popping. I don't know if you remember the show.
Speaker 1:Back here some time ago I did a podcast where Mark Curry was in Colorado and he was in a hotel. I don't know if he was doing a show he had some tour show going on or whatever like that but he was at a hotel I think it was Colorado Springs and he was in a lobby. I went, got his starbucks coffee and he was in the lobby sipping and some of the hotel workers came up to him and was like, oh, do you have a room here? You know residents here. You know what are you doing? Just just harassing him is here. You know what are you doing, just just harassing him.
Speaker 1:You know I called up there live on air. I was up here part doing the show and I called up there live and spoke to them to ask them what is being done about this. And the little chick whoever answered the phone, out of human resources she got so scared man, she hurried up and got off the phone. But I did that live on air, bro, and we got to do the same thing. We got to do the same thing. Now you get on Math Hoffa's show you talking about these broke niggas and these FBA authorities and foundational black authority and all that. Jason Black lit him up. You know, jason Black lit him up, tyreek lit him up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I saw it.
Speaker 2:But you know that was his clap back for microphone check yeah but it's no clap back. Yeah, but what happened is see, sometimes, when people are in a hole, they keep digging down deeper and deeper and deeper, and that's what he's doing. He's in a hole, they keep digging down, deeper and deeper and deeper, and that's what he's doing he's in a hole already.
Speaker 2:instead of him quitting while he's behind, he want to keep going and going and going and he's only going to dig himself deeper and deeper into the hole. You know, because microphone check left, no doubt you know. And then for him to come back microphone check left, no doubt you know. And then for him to come back and take a shot at a whole lineage, you know people are saying trying to say well, he wasn't talking about their lineage, he only talking about the people who consider themselves FBA. But the people that consider themselves FBA is because of the lineage. It's not a group, it's not an organization.
Speaker 1:There are no chapters. None of that.
Speaker 2:This is our lineage. We are a foundation of Black Americans. Our roots are here in America. You know, some of us have ancestors that came over here during chattel slavery. Some of us have ancestors that have been here for thousands and thousands of years. That's who we are. There is no leader and you just disrespected the whole lineage of people because you got caught lying and the evidence came back to show that you were lying and instead of you accepting it and trying to move on, you want to try to double down. And it's a sad thing for him, because the more you look into that situation, the more you see that this was a thing that was created by black American teenagers Because you were there. So what you said, your brother carried the crates for Grandmaster Flash.
Speaker 1:Okay, he carried the crate. Flash didn't start this. That's the thing. Flash didn't start. Flash came later on, actually True, indeed, but still he carried the crate. Flash didn't start this.
Speaker 2:That's the thing, flash didn't start. Flash came later on, actually True indeed, but still he carried the crates. Carrying the crates is not creating anything. You're just carrying crates. You're not creating anything. You're not playing any music. You're not doing any rapping, you're carrying crates. Any rapping, you're carrying crates. You know.
Speaker 2:And the fact is, if this was something that was created out of your culture, why are there no cultural references in any of the music? And why are y'all dressing and acting the way we do? You know, why are you cutting your hair short so that it look like a Caesar, instead of straight and long, like in stringing? You know, like an Irish setter or something you know. But I hope it's something that wakes us up because really, the fact of the matter is we should have benefited more from our talents than we have in the last, say, 100 years. You know, with our music, with our dancing, with our style, you know, people take our music, they take our style and they create industries with it. You know, and in order for something to get popping, it comes through us. Timberland was a work company until it became popular amongst us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we was wearing the hustle out in the streets, we was scrambling with them, boots on. That's how it got popping.
Speaker 2:Brand Newman is the ones that got Tommy Hilfiger popping. That's right, because that's all. Grand Poobah, the brother that was rapping Grand Poobah. That's what he was talking about. That's what he wear. You popping, that's right, because that's all the brother that was rapping Grand Poobah. That's what he was talking about. That's what he wear, you know.
Speaker 1:Jaboz and Baggy Hilfinger on the top. I remember.
Speaker 2:Exactly, yeah, you know, when you come to black companies with the same thing. You know, because LL Cool J is the one that got FUBU up and running. You know, and we, they somehow figure out a way to latch on to our culture and get the benefits from it. You know, and, and, and we look at it as something. This is just something we do and throw away. They jump on it and make it work. You know, like break dancing, for instance, we create a lot of dances the WAP, you know, the Charlie Brown, the Pee Wee Herman, all of that. We make dances and keep going and never stop. You know, and they take one that we left behind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they take one that we left behind and they use it, and then they say that they're creators of it. No, you didn't create anything. You just took something that we did left behind and went on to something else. And, like you said, we still do. Look at the slide dances that come out the electric slide, the cha-cha slide, this slide, that slide the Jerusalemer, and all this comes out of black culture and we do it, and then we leave it and we move on and other people come and do it to figure out a way to capitalize on it, to make money on it.
Speaker 1:Black American culture and then they say that they created it. Yeah, you know, that's right. I'm going to say this and we're going to roll out. I'm going to say this here, right, I'm going to say this here. Listen, we decide who lord jamal I'm repeating him. We decide who sits at the cool table. Yes, the jews and the white society run the business of hip-hop. They don't run the culture of hip-hop. You see, that's that's the whole thing.
Speaker 1:so that said, said man family, like I said, go to that brother's podcast on YouTube to check in, report, listen at that, look at that, watch that thing, get the information of the sponsors to the heads of those companies, to the emails, and telling them my concerns about this man making disparaging remarks and racial disparaging racial remarks and also antagonizing in the direction of violence, because that's what he's done. Now some of these on Castle get up here and say, oh, fba snitching, fba snitching.
Speaker 1:Damn right, damn right, because you can't say that about no other group and then sit still and not do nothing about it. Family, get your pens out, get your emails up and get to these sponsors, because this dude been using the n-word like, like he. You know a lot of these dudes, see, and I want to say this before I go to, I want to say this, right? So I'm math hoff and all them you know, they was black dudes up there kicking and cocking with this dude. Every time he say nigga, he said broke, fba niggas, and they start laughing. Them dudes are Caribbean, they Caribbeans. They have more of a camaraderie with people like that than they do with us.
Speaker 1:So this is why Joe can go on those. This Joey Cartagena dude can go on these platforms and talk to these people and they're not going to say anything. And every other word out of his mouth this nigga, this nigga, that nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga. You want, you want to stop that. You're going to stop it. And if we get on his bumper hard enough, we can make him apologize for that Cause. See, when you start getting at them, now you're touching that money, you're touching them pockets. Now, see, don't get on no gangster shit with him. He all up in Harlem talking about well, we outside, you talking like these little kids, school kids. Yo, we outside, what are you on Instagram? We outside, we got guns in the car. Really, really. All right, my dude.
Speaker 2:All right, see the thing I think about. You know this N? N word thing, right?
Speaker 1:We don't own that word. I don't bother.
Speaker 2:We do not own that word. Well, the thing I say about it is this All right, we know amongst us, right, that there are certain ways and contexts in which the word is used when it's not derogatory, right, but the word has historically, as well as present day, uses that is very derogatory, so it's not a word that we should be using publicly, if you privately, you know you and your house y'all and the barbershop or something, okay, but publicly it shouldn't be used.
Speaker 2:If you have to use it, you know, really any profanity is just an excuse for a lack of your vocabulary, you know. But if you do have to use it, it should be something very private. And me myself, I don't use it in any type of way. That's derogatory, you know, and most times you will probably never even hear me say it, cause I I really don't.
Speaker 1:I've never heard you say it and I've been knowing you over 30 years, I've never heard you say it, right?
Speaker 2:But my thing is, if they think that it's okay to use it, okay, fine, tell me the Spanish word that it's okay for me to use the Spanish derogatory. What Spanish derogatory term is it okay for me to use? The Spanish derogatory? What Spanish derogatory term is it okay for me to use? What derogatory Italian term is it okay for me to use? Since you think it's okay to use the word nigga, you know, anytime you want, what derogatory Spanish, italian, french, whatever word can I use? That it's okay, because if it's okay for you to use a derogatory term for me, it should be okay for me to use a derogatory term towards you, but there's no answer to that.
Speaker 1:He knows what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing. He knows he knows what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing. He knows.
Speaker 2:He knows this is why and he got an album coming out. That's the way you try to promote your album.
Speaker 1:The album been out for about 12 days or so 18 days, something like that. It's garbage. It's gone.
Speaker 2:He might have one or two. That's the worst marketing ploy I ever heard in my life. You know you're going to disrespect the same people that you are emulating and that you want to buy your records out of your mind. You know, and people say oh, you got to boycott his stuff. I ain't never brought nothing from him, so it's nothing for me to boycott.
Speaker 1:It's nothing for me to boycott I never brought nothing from him. So it's nothing for me to boycott. It's nothing for me to boycott. I never brought nothing from him. Don't boycott Later for the boycott. Get to that money. Get to that money. Write them emails and them letters, and when they get enough of that, them sponsors will see hold up man. We got distance ourselves from this guy.
Speaker 2:He's hot and that'll further let us flex our power and let the companies know if you continue to promote this guy, we're not gonna support your products anymore. We're gonna start boycotting your products too. So if that's what you want, that's what you got, you make a decision.
Speaker 1:Dad said family. Dad said we've been up here, we about to hit two hours up here. Dad said we've been up here, we're about to hit two hours up here. Well, we've been up here an hour and 45, 40 minutes or so 45 minutes. Anyway, family, family from the Freedmen's Affairs Radio and the network Freedmen's Network, we want to wish all of you a happy new year. Safe and happy new year.
Speaker 1:And we want y'all to keep coming back and building with us, and we're going to keep growing and we want you to grow with us. I'll give you the last word, malik.
Speaker 2:All right. My last word is respect life, love justice, cherish freedom and treasure the peace. Go ahead.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's it family.
Speaker 2:Peace, peace, and just keep lifting that veil, looking behind that veil and focusing on that truth. Peace.
Speaker 3:Peace. Hey, bobby, don't take no mess. Bobby don't take no mess. Bobby's the man who can understand how a man has to Whatever he can. Hit me, bobby don't, bobby don't, bobby don't. I don't take no mess, no.
