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Why We Must Celebrate Our Legends: Insights on Angie Stone’s and Roberta Flack's Contributions
He is my king, he is my one. Yes, he's my father. Yes, he's my son. I can talk to him cause he everything I go through and everything I am. He's my support system. I can't live without him. The best thing since sliced bread is his kiss, his hugs, his lips, his touch. And I just want the whole world to know about my black brother. I love you and I'll never try to hurt you. I want you to know that I'm here for you forever, true, cause you're my black brother, strong brother, and there is no one above you. I want you to know that I'm here for you for who ever, true, he's misunderstood.
Speaker 1:Some say that he's up to no good around the neighborhood. Well, for your information, a lot of my brothers got education. Now check it. You got your Wall Street brother, your blue collar brother. You're down for whatever. Chilling on the corner brother, you're a talented brother. And to every one of y'all behind bars, you know that Angie loves you. My black brother, brother, I love you, I'll never try to. No, no, no. I want you to know that I'm here for you.
Speaker 2:Peace, peace, and welcome back to the Freedmen's Affairs Radio, the Freedmen's Network. There is no one Peace to everyone. I want you to know that. March 4th 2025 Peace to everyone.
Speaker 2:Today, march 4th 2025, culture or culture? Freedom Is the math for the day that we're gonna deal with. And what is culture, culture? Culture is one's way of life In every aspect. And what is culture? Culture is one's way of life in every aspect and of people, activities in that life. Everyone has a right to express their own culture and the way they live. Not saying that's not without consequence for the choices you make, but still in all, you have the freedom to express your culture. So we open up with that and hopefully we can understand that.
Speaker 2:And you hear the music playing. You hear the music playing about their angel, angie Stone, and it's so heartbreaking to come up here and do this. As you heard, on Saturday we lost sister angie stone and, um, it's a, it's a very, it was very sombering and and also on the heels you know the heels of that on the heels of that, we lost also the great, great, roberta Flock, and we're going to be talking about those things up here today. I'm going to see. Can I pull in the report and family. She was 63 years old. First, let's go into the hold on. Let's just get a little bit about our sister here. Let me turn the music back down and let me turn this mic down a little bit so you can hear and, uh, you won't get no distortion. But uh, yeah, family, yeah, unfortunately, unfortunately born angie laverne stone on december 18th 1961 was an american singer, songwriter, actress and record producer.
Speaker 2:She rose to fame in the late 1970s as a member of the hip-hop trio the sequence. In the early 1990s she became a member of the r&b trio vertical hold. Stone, then signed with artista records to release her debut solo album, black Diamond, in 1999, which received gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America and spawned the single no More Rain in this cloud. Yeah, beautiful song that was. I might even play that up here during today's podcast. I might even play that up here doing doing today's podcast. And she was born in Columbia, south Carolina, and that is, that is the home of my ancestral home, as I've mentioned various times up here on on the program. I've mentioned that and this is very touching as a result of a car vehicle collision on her way from doing a show.
Speaker 4:Let's see, can we get the report in for that. We start now with some breaking news. Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Angie Stone has died in a car accident in Montgomery County. A spokesperson with her team has confirmed this with WSFA 12 News. Joining us live now is our reporter, simon Schuster. And Simon, you spoke with Stone's publicist. What can you tell us?
Speaker 5:Yeah, Monet Stone's publicist, Deborah Champagne, tells me the singer was leaving a performance when the crash happened. According to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, it was on I-65 around 7 am. This is a look at the scene about two miles south of Hope Hall. According to Champagne, the singer was supposed to meet her in Maryland today for a performance at the CIAA basketball tournament. She had just performed last night at the 2025 Grand Marshalls Ball in Mobile. That's according to the Mobile area Mardi Gras Association. Stone's publicist remembers her as an honest, talented person that left a big impact on the music industry.
Speaker 6:Her songwriting skills were second to none. Literally, she wrote a lot of songs for the Sugarhill Gang label that she never got credit for, but she was just an incredible talent. I mean when I say very smart, she was just a very, very smart woman.
Speaker 5:And the crash did block the left northbound lane and the left southbound lanes, but Aaliyah Troopers declared all lanes open and the scene clear at 11 am today. I'm told that multiple people were also in the van you saw in those pictures, but the singer was the only person to have died. Nothing further is available at this time and Aaliyah Troopers continue to investigate the incident. Monet.
Speaker 4:Simon, thank you. Stone rose to fame as a member of the Sequence, a pioneering female rap group. She was only 63 years old. Wsfa has reached out to Alabama Law Enforcement Agency for more information.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you heard it reached out to Alabama Law Enforcement Agency for more information. Yeah, so you heard it 63 years old, there were nine people total. In the vehicle that Miss Stone was traveling in. There were nine people and she was the only fatality, according to reports. So it was another story I wanted to bring up here with her. Hold on, let me see, can I find it. Of course I'm doing this program so I'm not going to be able to find it, but anyway. But anyway, yeah, family, there was nine people in the total coming from a show she just performed then in Alabama I think it was Montgomery, I believe, and this her, her, the van she was in rolled over. It was a Mercedes Sprinter. It rolled over and was then struck by a semi-truck and this is what caused her death.
Speaker 2:Now people are saying that there's some conspiracy theorists out there. You know, we can't really have anything without people. You know the conspiracy theorists. And people are saying, oh, she was killed because recently she had spoke out about her not getting paid for different projects that she had done, had done, and music that she had written that the industry cheated her out of, or whatever label she was signed to. They didn't pay her money and this is why she was still performing. Now, what some people are saying is she was performing because she had to make the money she was supposed. She said it herself that she was supposed to retire 20 years ago and wasn't able to because her not getting her money, the money that was owed to her. They beat her out of a lot of money.
Speaker 2:And I believe that the children she has two children, I think, a son and a daughter, and two grandchildren, and two grandchildren, according to reports, and this is so ironic because the day she died, the day she passed away, was on Saturday the 1st, and that was the birthday of her son. Yeah, ain't that something? So yeah, but I suspect that the family will go after those royalties and whatever monies that the industry owes her, because she has children and grandchildren. That's going to inherit her estate. And, yeah, family, it's been a rough ride, rough ride Been a rough ride this last week. It's been a rough ride, rough ride Been a rough ride this last week. And also, as I stated, losing our other songstress, roberta Flack, and that was crazy. That was crazy also.
Speaker 7:Hold on, let me see, can I get that in here and fans around the world are mourning the loss of Grammy-winning songstress Roberta Flack. Flack was one of the most famous voices to come out of our area. She reached international fame with her string of hits, including Killing Me Softly with his song, and the First Time Ever I Saw your Face. Flack got her start here in DC, first as a student at Howard University and then as a DC public school teacher and then a musician. News 4's Mark Seagraves joins us now. Mark, I had to stop myself. I wanted to start singing. The first time ever I saw your face. I know that you, and specifically your father, had a special connection to Roberta Flack.
Speaker 8:Yeah, that's right. As I've noted over the years in some reports, my dad was the music critic for the Washington Star in the 60s and 70s and he's one of the first critics to write about Roberta Flack back in 1967, predicting she would become a star Today. I went back to the club that launched her career and sat down with one of her former students, who went on to be an international musician himself Her tightly controlled, lilting contralto voice is how one critic described her in 1967.
Speaker 8:Roberta Flack grew up in Arlington, Virginia, studied at Howard University, then went from being a DC public school teacher to performing in nightclubs around the DC area, most famously here at Mr Henry's on Capitol Hill, where the owner of the club built this room to hold the crowds who would come to hear her play piano and sing.
Speaker 9:And her music was so intentional you know what I mean. And the dynamics that she used was so intentional, I remember, with Bernard Sweetney playing drums and Marshall Hawkins playing bass. It was intentional. I mean the focus. When they walked up on that bandstand it was all in, you know, and she commanded that from musicians that were around her.
Speaker 8:One of those who was often in the audience was Keith Kilgo.
Speaker 9:Well, she was my piano teacher, but she was classically trained and I used to take the bus over to Southeastern every Saturday morning. She meant discipline.
Speaker 8:Kilgo would go on to help form the famed group the Blackbirds and performed with Flack.
Speaker 9:She was a mentor to many, many musicians.
Speaker 8:Flack achieved international fame with a string of hits in the 1970s, including First Time Ever and Killing Me Softly. She would continue to record and tour the world with her music until 2018, when a stroke left her unable to perform. She was also noted for her continued work in supporting education, and through it all, flack never forgot where she started. Kathy Nagy, general manager of Mr Henry's, remembers how Flack would always make a point of stopping by the club she made famous.
Speaker 10:You know it was incredibly personal. I mean it was such a nice personal touch because you know, a lot of times as people get more famous, they, you know, they don't really touch their roots as much. But she was so down to earth and so very gracious, it meant a lot, it really did.
Speaker 8:As for what Kilgo will miss most about his teacher and friend, just that infectious smile that she had and she always, like, looked me in the eye.
Speaker 9:you know she was like, okay, because we just had that connection.
Speaker 1:I'm going down.
Speaker 8:So you know a lot of that video that we saw on this piece was filmed inside Mr Henry's almost 50 years ago. It's some treasured video that we have. One of my earliest memories as a kid was my parents take me to brunch at Mr Henry's in the morning and Roberta Flack letting me sit on top of her piano as she would play.
Speaker 7:Really.
Speaker 8:And you know she did that for a lot of kids not just me I am, you know, but still but it was just a real special memory for us. You know her voice was what made her so famous, but she was a notable piano player as well and my dad, in that 1967 article that I quote, compared her to Nina Simone and said she was one of the best piano players he had ever seen come through DC. And so you know she really left her impression on the world, but she was ours and she never forgot DC and we will never forget her.
Speaker 7:She had an incredible voice and an incredible presence. I'm jealous when you say you actually got to go and see her play. I grew up in the Midwest, in Indianapolis, indiana. The closest I got was my dad's eight tracks or his vinyls listening to Roberta Flack. But we certainly got to hear them and appreciate them because I mean, I'm still singing those songs today.
Speaker 8:And not bad too. We heard you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So family, that song report there from both both of our songstress, angie stone, and roberta flack. And the thing about roberta flack I was looking at something the other day and there was a uh interview she was doing and it was pretty sad. And the reason why I say that is because she broke down her family background in in that interview where she went into a little bit of it and she started to cry a little bit as the lady that was interviewing her.
Speaker 2:And one of the things that she said that struck me that she said, no matter what kind of success or fame she achieved, her own family never appreciated her. They never, even her mother never acknowledged her accolades. Her accolades, I should say, is the proper way to pronounce that word and she started when she started speaking about her mother, she started to to cry a little bit and, you know, wipe her tears and it was very touching. She said that no matter what kind of success or fame that she achieved, her mother wouldn't even acknowledge it. I don't know what that was about. She didn't put it as it was like a mean-spirited thing. She just never gave it a like. Okay, you know, dear, you know sweetheart, this is great, I'm so proud of you, you're doing this. It was like, yeah, that's nice and you know. On to the next thing it wasn't even acknowledged and she said that throughout her career. That really hurt her. Coming from her own family, not just her mother but I guess, siblings and the rest of the family they were never really glad for her.
Speaker 2:And if you recall, if you recall that I don't know if it was last week or week before last I was talking about, oh, ok, I remember now it was when I did the piece on ASAP Rocky. That was last week, with him being acquitted of those charges and the guy that had testified against him, his friend, the ASAP Rel dude, and they were all close but ASAP Rocky had started achieving more notoriety and success and even though they started out together, the guy that testified against him was his one-time close buddy and they ended up. They ended up beefing about whatever was going on and the guy ended up testifying against him and it was a jealousy thing from all accounts, what we could surmise from all accounts that was reported and that when I looked at the Roberta Flack interview she was doing I forget the particular woman who was interviewing. I forget her name I can't recall her name as I'm speaking. It reminded me of that, and sometimes you have people around you that you think would be happy for you and I said this last week but there's really an underlying envy, or hate, in some cases a hate for your achievements, and that struck me when I heard our songstress, roberta Flack, talking about her, her experiences with her, her mom and and her family. Hold on, let me turn that down. Yeah, I'm gonna keep it right there, but yeah, that that that struck me as soon as I heard her say that and I was like, wow, this is from her own family and I say that, all of that to say this.
Speaker 2:Sometimes we look at these people, these singers and entertainers, and we envy the life they have because of the, you know, the material things they have the cars, the big homes, the jewelry, the clothes, what we perceive as a life of leisure. Sometimes that's not even the case. We don't know what these people go through. We don't know the inside story. A lot of times, as much fame and fortune and notoriety and celebrity that this woman attained, she didn't have it where it really counted and that was with her own family, her mother in particular. That had to be pretty hard to deal with and I wouldn't want to deal with that. She actually broke down and cried on that interview. So, yeah, well, I had something on my mind that I was about to say yeah, we sit back and we don't know the sacrifices or the internal things.
Speaker 2:Now, speaking of Roberta, that's what I was thinking about talking about Miss Roberta Flack. Talking about Miss Roberta Flack she did a song that was very popular in my growing up in the 80s and that was a duet she did with Donny Hathaway. Back Together Again and I'm going to play that up here before we depart today. I'm going to play that song. And Donny Hathaway his story was so sad Another successful, celebrated songwriter and singer and producer. But Donny Hathaway killed himself. I forget what year that was. It was 1980, 82, 83, somewhere around in there 82, 83. Donnie Hathaway killed himself, jumped out of the window in a place I think that was near Exit's house or in Exit's house there in Manhattan, not too far from where I was going to high school at, and I remember the day it happened. I remember I can't remember the year, but I remember that day Because when we went down there to where the incident was they had roped everything off and the news was out there and everything like that.
Speaker 2:But this man was fighting depression. He was fighting depression, donny Hathaway, and she did a very famous duet with him, back together again, that that was the name of the uh, of the uh, single and um. He was fighting depression to to the point and they say I got, if, if I can recall, they said he was uh battling. Also schizophrenia, if I if, if I'm correct. I may be wrong, but I think I think in the stories that I read about him, I think he had some kind of split personality. He would be up one time and the next time you see him he would be down or he'd shut himself up and he would be going through a depression scenario or whatever and he killed himself, jumped out of a window to his death.
Speaker 2:Also, phyllis Hyman, right, and both incidents happened right here in New York. I think Phyllis Hyman overdosed or took some pills or something like that, and they found her in some penthouse over there near Columbus Circle. I believe it was Upper West Side. Same with Donny Hathaway, upper West Side. That happened and she killed her. She checked herself out.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, yeah, family, it's um, but you know, this thing with Angie Stone, it was uh, this one it rocked everybody. I mean losing Roberta Fly she was in her 80s, I believe, and she had been ill in her later years but the thing with Angie Stone, only 63 years old and to die in a automobile accident like that, it just rocked the whole nation, it just rocked us and, yeah, family. So we're gonna take a short intermission Let me see Can I find a bed and we're going to come right back and get into some more discussions. We got some more stuff to discuss. I'm not going to stay too long today. We're going to talk about when we come back from break. We're going to talk about the boycott and all of that stuff, and then we're going to get out of here because I don't want to keep you too long, okay, so hang on you got it, you got it.
Speaker 11:You got it, you got it. I know you got soul. Hey, if you didn't want to be in here, I know you got soul. If you didn't, you wouldn't be in here. I know you got gold. If you didn't, you wouldn't shake that thing. Hit me with the beat, hey, cause it makes me sing. I know you got the flow. Hey, if you did, you wouldn't be here. I know you got the feeling the way you move over there. Don't let the green grass fool you. I know you don't like a faker. Tighten up your game and shake your mind and make a Say yeah, say yeah, say yeah, say yeah. I know you got no, because we can't focus, I know you got soul Because we can.
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Speaker 2:Okay, we back in, we back in. We just had to hear from our sponsors, some of our sponsors, real quick, uh, people over there because we can, and uh, yeah, family. So yeah, the thing with angie stone and roberta flag. But, man, angie stone thing really, really hit, hit. It hit heavy, heavy, I guess because of the way the incident happened in such a tragic, tragic death. But we never know the day or the hour. As my mother used to say, you never know the day or the hour you're going to be caught and it'll be your time. We all got to walk that walk. So let's live life to the fullest. Let's live life to the fullest. And yeah, so, but anyway, but anyway, anyway, family moving forward. We got these calls from some of these pastors and so-called activists to boycott certain companies because of I'm guessing, because of dei, because I was on on my, my Facebook page just recently, the other day, and let me let me see, can I go to it and find it?
Speaker 2:Find it, let me see. Yeah, wait, where is it? Ok, here it is All right. Yeah, here it is, I got it. So, anyway, yeah, I'm on, I'm scrolling through my.
Speaker 2:I posted a story on my page and then I went and checked some of my notifications and then in there is a brother I don't want to say his name up here, but he's cool. I don't know him personally, but I know he's in my friend's thing or whatever the case is and he posted something. Him and I correspond sometimes and he posted something. He said 22825,. If anybody is out, please video the crowds in grocery stores. Some people just don't give a F. And he put 100 percent right there. And then some of the people, some of the people were responding and one person said I did all my shopping today, got gas too. And another person wrote all my shopping was done on the 27th. So I wrote, I responded and here's what I wrote. If any, if everyone did all the shopping today and gassed up, what's the point? Because they got your money already. I just don't understand how we become so gullible with question marks. I put question marks there, but listen y'all, I'm selling the Brooklyn Bridge, if any y'all are interested, and I'll put some laughing emojis up there. And I got a few likes, quite a few likes for that. And, um, another person wrote uh, they like the way things are, but they really don't know. We can have so much more. And there was a sister who wrote yeah, she, this sister, crystal Neal. She wrote so because I'm seeing this, which I'm really on Facebook.
Speaker 2:I have to share what I was schooled on yesterday Blacks not being consumers for one day is not going to be impactful. Why? Mainly because of what Erin said. That was me, she was talking about me. Wow, said above, if we spend the money on Tuesday or Saturday that we would have spent on Friday, we still have contributed the same amount to the economy. Change requires progress over time.
Speaker 2:The Montgomery bus boycott wasn't just one day, it was 381 days and it was a laser focused boycott. Yesterday's impact was not laser focused, it was just for one day. So for the people who didn't participate, it's not that they don't care, it's that they probably already understood this concept. That was just schooled on yesterday at 7 pm, after I spent the whole day not spending money and I complimented her on the thing and I said well, said, sis.
Speaker 2:The question is, why should we be boycotting? Because if it is due to DEI the DEI issue that some companies have discontinued the program, well, what does that have to do? What does that have to do with with us as black consumers. For example, target is a company that discontinued their DEI program. However, when we look up the data, only four percent of black employees benefited from the program. White women were mostly the beneficiaries of the program.
Speaker 2:People talk, right, people talk, but math screams. It was the same thing with affirmative action. We have to stop being so emotional and triggered by these charlatans and frauds like Reverend Al Sharpton and these hoghead cheese-eating preachers Misuse our intelligence and our energy all the while they are being caked off under the table and out the back door and the family is out here marching and protesting and being made to look like total idiots. That was my response and there were some people who didn't like that. And, uh, there was. You know, it was some back and forth. It was some back and forth, but it was some back and forth. But you get the picture right. You get the picture of what was going on. Now, very interesting, that sister brought up the Montgomery bus boycotts and everything like that, because it was something that Dana from the sister has the podcast the Real Dana. She does a program every week with Judge Joe Brown, dana, you know who I'm talking about, right, and she made a very good point that the Montgomery bus boycotts.
Speaker 2:Back in the days right, that was in the in the days Right, that was on the heels of legislation. There was legislation behind that. There is no legislation behind this. Now you have Al Sharpton that call for this. Him and him and another pastor out of out of Atlanta, georgia, just Jamal Bryant. Don't know much about him, I haven't heard any good things about him, but I want to play something for you here. Hold on, let me go to it. Let me go to it. I want to play something for you here. Yeah, here it is, here it is. I'm going to play this. I'm going to play this and I want to come back to you.
Speaker 13:February 28th was the quote unquote, blackout, fair use. Jamal Bryan and Al Sharpton was trying to put on getting people to not shop at a plethora of businesses that decided to do away with their DEI policy. Let's get into it. Like, share, subscribe, let go.
Speaker 12:Hey, hope and pray that you're doing well. I am at McDonald's Now, according to Reverend Al Sharpton and Jamal Bryant, two cultural eunuchs. All right, we're not supposed to shop at, you know, mcdonald's and Best Buy and Target and Walmart and Amazon today, but I don't get my marching orders from wolves. All right, we just pulled up to McDonald's, all right, and, as you can see, we're at McDonald's. However, I've seen a few black people go into McDonald's. We're getting ready to go check it out. I support McDonald's.
Speaker 11:I's I support. Mcdonald's I support mcdonald's.
Speaker 14:Hey guys, come to mcdonald's on capitol boulevard.
Speaker 12:We love it here hey, I'm here at mcdonald's and I just wanted to do something kind. You know, I wanted to purchase the food of americans, people who live in this country, not just for black people or for white people, for Hispanic people, all people and I have several receipts of, you know bills that I paid for. You know, I don't think that we should support Reverend Al Sharpton and Reverend Jamal, non-bible compliant Bryant. I don't follow them. I support McDonald's and I also support their decision in getting rid of DEI, and so should you.
Speaker 13:Oh yeah, oh yeah. I didn't even really have to need anything on Friday, but just to not be in accordance or in line with these people, I went ahead and bought a couple of things on Amazon, you know, and had it shipped to the crib. I did Because this whole situation, it was ridiculous. Let me pull this up for you guys. This is the letter or memo that was going out last week. It was on all on Facebook.
Speaker 13:There's a multitude of people I kind of, you know, said some things and I normally don't get into this type was all on Facebook. There was a multitude of people. I kind of said some things and I normally don't get into this type of stuff on Facebook. But there was a couple where I was just like man, what are y'all doing? Don't fall a victim to this, don't fall a victim to this. But there's one phrase here that really stuck out to me and I was like this whole thing is just dumb, and it's this phrase right here where it says try to buy all you need before Friday, February 28th, but, if necessary, only buy essentials Of absolutely necessary items such as food, medicine and emergency supplies. If you're going to boycott, you got to boycott. If you're going to do it. See us conservatives, we know how to stand on business. When Bud Light decided that they were going to do what they do, you know, and really jump in and support the alphabet community and the trans community, the way they did, and folks was like nah, I'm cool on Bud Light and I ain't bought a Bud product since, since don't have any interest in doing so either. No, thank you, not interested.
Speaker 13:But this whole situation was ridiculous and absurd anyway and, to be honest with you, anybody that's still following al sharpton anywhere is hustling backwards in 2025. This dude has shown you time and time again that he is a grifter and he is about to bread. Simple as that. When they were at Costco's up in New York, grandstanding, they walked through there ain't pick up an item, ain't buy a thing, and sorry that you know I kind of got a little country, but it needed to be said that way because they went there with the video cameras and they all got these $25 gift cards but didn't buy a thing. Not one person had an item in their hand and not one person got in line to purchase anything.
Speaker 13:These people are suckers, man. They're grifters, they're liars, and Al Sharpton is one of the biggest hustlers out there, biggest race hustler out there. Dude ain't started any business. Dude ain't created a product, doesn't provide a service worth millions of dollars keeping black folks riled up and agitated because there's a bunch of money in this race hustling industry. Let's keep going and check out Cousin T.
Speaker 11:If you respect Al Sharpton as a pastor, as a reverend, you might not want to watch this video, okay, because he ain't nothing but a dollar store pastor. He faked it in a $3 bill. Al Sharpton, listen up here. You bobblehead ambulance chaser. You all you've been doing since you have been running around town is lying to the black community, fear-mongering, ambulance chasing. You don't show up unless money is involved. You, you pretend like you care about black people, but the only time you show up, the only time you show up and speak about black people, is when it's a white person involved, but you don't speak about black issues when white people are not involved, because you're fake and you don't care about black people. Now you're putting on this whole stupid boycott. This is about the dumbest boy. Boy. Martin Luther King Jr would be ashamed of you. This is the dumbest boycott ever. So y'all. I'm a business owner and I think this boycott is straight up stupid.
Speaker 11:Al Sharpton don't want you buying from businesses like mine that don't support DEI. He don't want people shopping at these stores and these grocery stores because they don't support DEI. Boy, buy, al Sharpton. Do you not understand this? You told everybody to buy all the things they need before the boycott, things they need before the boycott. Do you what? Do you know how, boy my kid, this jar of jelly, this of this jam, is smarter than you? You, you ain't. You're not even smarter than the jam in this jar. Do you know how dumb you are, al sharpton? So this is your way of trying to hurt the economy. This is your way of trying to get back at Donald Trump and get back at people who don't support DEI. You don't even care about black people. You don't care about people making money. All you care about is your pockets.
Speaker 13:He's absolutely right. He is absolutely right. And if you have not tried any of Cousin T's pancakes and syrup and other products, go check it out. I bought some and they're good and I'm not getting paid to say this. I bought and I went in because I wanted to support him and what he's doing and I bought it and we enjoyed the pancakes. We still actually got some and I believe we still got some of the syrup as well. It's delicious, I enjoyed it. But he's absolutely right and this dude is a grifter like no other man and been grifting for years.
Speaker 15:Making no impact. What are they protesting? I mean they're mad at companies that they're not hiring people, that don't drive any revenue for the company. I mean nobody's paying attention. It's one giant virtue signal, like all of woke capitalism.
Speaker 3:Well, when it comes to the legal jeopardy part of things, it seems they're kind of a day late and a dollar short. There are multiple cases that are being pressed forward that are holding these companies and CEOs accountable for taking their eyes off the bottom line and instead focusing on social issues and ramming them down the throat of a public that did not have an appetite for it.
Speaker 13:Yep, and the thing is is people got to understand that these companies, if they're publicly traded, they have a fiduciary responsibility to do everything that they can to turn a profit, to make money for their shareholders. So when you get out here and you start trying to check boxes and hire people that can't affect the bottom line in a positive way, that's a problem. And any of you all that own any business would you hire somebody to check a box? People got to understand the number one expense for every company out there is their labor, the human capital expense. That's the number one expense right there. And y'all want people to be hired that can't necessarily do the job, but they got to check a box. Equity is dumb. Equality is what we all want. We just all want the opportunity to go and earn a position, but you can't sit there and say we got to have a certain quota of this person, this person, this person and this type of person. That's just dumb and it's not good business.
Speaker 2:And I want to stop it right there. I want to stop it right there, family. You know why I want to stop it right there. I want to stop it right there, family. You know why I want to stop it there? Because the brother made a very important point, and that is these people that are doing this and carrying on about this DEI. Like the brother said, give me the opportunity I don't want you to give me because of a quota. Give me the opportunity to go in there, do a job and show you that I'm qualified to do it. Just the opportunity to go in there, do a job and show you that I'm qualified to do it. Just the opportunity I want you to give me the job and put me in a position, because some quota and because you got to fill out a line in order for you to get some money from the government, so you have to have me there as a black person or as a female, as a whatever the case might be right, but these are the same people that are fighting to push this DEI thing. The same people that are telling us hear me, hear me that are telling us that we're begging for reparations.
Speaker 2:Stop begging for reparations. Y'all begging. Y'all ain't doing nothing but begging. You're begging the government. Well, what are y'all doing? See? Reparations Y'all begging. Y'all ain't doing nothing but begging. You're begging the government. Well, what are y'all doing? See, reparations is a debt that's owed. That's a debt that's owed from their mouths. They owe it from their mouths, not ours, from them. But what are y'all doing? Right, and like the dude. Back to what he said. You can't be smarter than a jar of jam. You telling people to hurry up and spend all your money on Thursday and Friday so you can boycott on Saturday. They still got the money. They still got the money. So what did you do? You hurt. See, what this whole thing boils down to is you got these people emotional over the election. You're still angry about the election. The dude won, the Trump dude. He won, and these people can't. They can't all of the money that they raised in the DNC for that chick, the Kamala Harris chick. All of the money that they raised and they still lost.
Speaker 2:They out-fundraised Trump two to one and they can't account for the money. Billions of dollars are gone. The donors have left them. The donors have abandoned them because you can't account for their money. So this is the only recourse you have You're getting out here, getting behind these silly arguments, these silly things.
Speaker 2:Now, I went into Target on Saturday. I went in there. Let me go, Let me take you to it. Let me take you to it. March 1st, Saturday, 2025. Headed to Target. Man see there Marching right in here. I'm going in and get me a few items. I ain't studying about Al Sharpton or any of the rest of them. Bozos with that DEI, garbage, Garbage. I don't see much people in here. There's a few black folks in here, but it don't matter because black folks in here. Well, it don't matter cause I'm in here. I care nothing about that stupid boycott. Here you go. I did this purposely. Where is it at? Where is it at here? It is okay, got it. I'm good, going to checkout peace. Yeah, family, that was me talking on Saturday. I just went in there basically to see if people were in there. There was a few people in there, not as much as would be on a Saturday. That was early Saturday morning, so, but I did go in. I did go in. So, yeah, but back to it.
Speaker 2:Back to it, what we were talking about here as I said when they did with Dr king and rosa parks and all, and were doing the, the montgomery bus boycott, that was on the heels of legislation that was already put forward to the congress. That was, that was it was, it was a solid plan and it was backed up and it was, uh, they did like 300, uh, 300 and something days of the boycott, almost a year. They boycotted the, the, and that's how legislation got changed and, um, things happened and moved the needle. This is nothing behind this, nothing but emotion. And this is, they know, guys like al sharp the limit. Let me pull up something, hold on. Let me pull up something, hold on.
Speaker 2:Let me pull up something Hold on family. Here we go. Let's get this in here, let's get this in here. I want you to hear this foolishness with this dude. And this is what we black people are so emotional and crazy about.
Speaker 16:Hold on as a church. You may be seated, but in the season of Lent, which is the 40 days leading up to Easter, our church is going to be in a fast of 40 days of consistent prayer. Come on, I can't hear nobody. I said 40 days of consistent prayer. Lent starts on Wednesday, march the 5th, and for 40 consecutive days our church will be in prayer. Some of those days will be here in person, other days will be virtually, other days will be on the phone, but 40 consistent days of prayer.
Speaker 16:Secondly, ladies and gentlemen, I am calling us listen to me because we have to operate in the spiritual. I am calling the conscientious Christian community all over this country, the conscientious Christian community all over this country. I am calling for a 40-day fast from Target, beginning on March the 5th. 100,000 conscientious Christians you don't have to be black, latino, asian, white 100,000. You're going to sign this commitment to be a part of this 40-day fast. 100,000 of you, bare minimal. I'm asking you that after service, you'll go to TargetFastorg, targetfastorg, targetfastorg. I want you to share with everybody on your job.
Speaker 2:I'm going to speed it up a little bit. I'm going to fast forward a little bit. Every person in your home, every person in your. I'm going to fast forward a little bit and show you the foolishness. This is because we love to be entertained, so I'm going to. We're going to be entertained for a second Hold on.
Speaker 16:I'm not just prayer, but fasting from Target. You to fast for 40 days from Target. I am telling you to sell all of your Target stock Black businesses. I'm glad you asked you at Newberth. You not at there, brother Busby, would you please stand? Thank you so very much for being with us Saying anything to me. You can buy black on paper, towels and toilet paper and soap and dishwashing detergent.
Speaker 16:Do you know what it's going to be for America when we start shifting our own economic ecosystem and start investing in ourselves? Let me further say to all of the black vendors who presently have products in Target we are not starting for 30 days because I want you to have enough time to shift all of your product digitally so that the community will be able to support you. Your business will not fail and your family will not suffer Additionally. Every black business that is not in the black chamber of commerce in decency and in order. I'm gonna say it again we operating in decency and in order. I'm saying this before. They got a new fbi chief that calls us a terrorist organization. We doing it in decency and in order.
Speaker 2:target, you got 40 now you hear all that foolishness, you hear that, you hear that family, you hear it and we going, you know, like a sound, like a hog on the line, like a big old hog on the line about to get his head chopped.
Speaker 16:Commitment in January. You are reneging to the financial commitment you made to our people. Y'all ain't saying nothing. You got 40 days before we shut all of it down. We are calling all of the stockholders to be accountable to the commitment that you made to black people. Y'all ain't saying nothing. And I got naysayers saying won't you just preach the gospel? I'm preaching the gospel. Jesus kicked over tables and used a whip to drive people out when they were out of order. In handling God's people. Maybe see that. You see family, that's what we like we like that.
Speaker 2:That's entertaining, that foolishness, pure foolishness. Family pure foolishness, pure foolishness. But that's what we, we, we're entertained by that. I want to play a little bit from here, from dana, and then we're gonna get ready to wrap it up. Hold on just a.
Speaker 14:Why is this man calling on a boycott? Yes, he is. First of all, any black person that participate in this buyout boycott thing. You are a damn fool. So I Sharpton DEI boycott plan. 24-hour blackout on Friday, february 28th, from 12 am to 12 59 pm. This is the first step to counter the attack on DEI, diversity, equity and inclusion.
Speaker 14:Black people or, I guess, all Americans right do not make any purchases. Do not shop online or in store. No Amazon, no Walmart, no Best Buy, no McDonald's and other fast food stores, no gas, no major retailers. Do not use credit or debit cards for non-essential spending. Try to buy all you need before Friday February 28th but, if necessary, only buy essentials of absolutely necessary items such as food, medicine, emergency supplies. If you must spend, only support small, local businesses. Why this matters? Corporations and banks only care about their bottom line, disrupting the economy for even one day since a powerful message. If they don't listen, we make the next blackout longer. Our numbers are powerful. This is how we make history. Spread the message. Please share with all your contacts, talk about it, post it, document your actions that day we must use power we do have and send an economy message with our numbers, as did Dr King.
Speaker 14:February 28th, 24-hour economic blackout begins. So this is Chicken George National Action Network organization scamming you people. First of all, I am not boycotting. And if you're telling people to buy all of the things they need the day before, dummy, that just doubles the corporation businesses. So even if they don't shop on Friday, which majority of people are still going to do they're not going to lose any money, you idiot. But why are people not shopping? Why do you want people to boycott? Because they got rid of a DEI program that did not benefit black people or people of color or white will benefit of white women or illegals. So it's dumb.
Speaker 2:But that is what chicken george do he dances prances and he scams the black community yeah, so you heard dana it ain't just me, it ain't just me found out that she's an influencer big time, big time, with a lot of followers. But back to what I was saying about legislation there's no legislation behind this. They have, and I'm really surprised, that revenue now. Now, the only good thing that I will say that may come out of this is that black people start supporting more black businesses, online businesses and whatnot. Supporting more black businesses, online businesses and whatnot. There is a site I saw a sister the other day where she was um, giving links to sites where you can get your products, whatever household products, clothing, whatever you need, food items and everything from a list, a long list, of black owned businesses. Now, if those things can, if we can boost those businesses and spend our money, like I do a lot of times, a lot of my products that I buy, I buy online from black owned businesses. Now, some things you have to run out and get real quick and you need businesses. Now, some things you have to run out and get real quick and you need, you need right then and there and whatever and their necessity, of necessity, and you go out and you're buying. But the thing is, I try my best to support black businesses. Now, that may be the good thing that come out of it is because anything that's bad, you can always draw something positive out of it, even though it's a negative.
Speaker 2:I would never take a cue from people like Al Sharpton. I could never take a social cue from someone like him. However, there could be some good that we can draw out of this and that's where I'm at with it. That's the positive that I could see coming out of this. Now, I did go in Walmart the other day I think it was Sunday. I went in Walmart and it was empty. The store was empty and there weren't any. That's when the store first opened up. I think I got there really early. So people mine and I had been out. There were a couple of people in there, one or two black people in there doing their shopping, and there were no. There was, the store was just empty, wasn't black nor white in there. So I maybe it's a, it's a thing. So who knows, it's like I said, I'm not taking any social cues from a guy like a Sharpton or this.
Speaker 2:I don't know this Jamal Bryant guy, I don't know. He has a big church in Atlanta, georgia. I don't know anything about him other than what I see online and it's nothing good, but yeah, so, but anyway, family, we're going to get ready to blow out of here. We're going to get ready to blow out of here because time, you know, you got, you got things to do and a day to get get on, and we're going to get ready to blow out of here. But yeah, but we're going to stay on these stories. We're going to stay on these stories and, as always, as always, y'all go in peace, keep peace and remember, respect life, love, justice, cherish freedom and treasure the peace. This is Vaughn Black. We're gonna catch you next time and we're gonna talk again.
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