We Stop Arguing And Start Using Policy, strategy, and money to move the needle

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SPEAKER_08 1:43

And when you live in a nation that would more about registering their rival than registering children, then we're in trouble.

Welcome And Today’s Focus

Knowledge And The Meaning Of Cipher

Listener Feedback And Community Support

Daily History Beyond A Single Month

Heroes, Violence, And Strategy

Reparations Focus And Movement Builders

Stop Debating And Master Data

What Systemic Racism Really Means

Housing, Policing, And Employment Patterns

SPEAKER_05 1:52

Peace. Peace and welcome back. Welcome back to Freedman's Affairs Radio Family. As always, and I'm not just saying this in a cliche fashion. As always, I am honored and I'm elated that you took the time out to take your phone or your laptop or your computer and tap the key to punch back in with us and tap in with us so we could have a nice little sit-down and and have a discussion and talk about things that concern us. Never take it for granted. And I am certainly proud of that and very appreciative of you. That said, that said, family, today numerical focus on this glorious sunrise, February 10th, 2026 is knowledge ad cipher or knowledge cipher, right? And a lot of times we say knowledge is is the key, knowledge is the is the foundation, but that could mean many things. And it certainly is the foundation in terms of our numerical understanding. It is. But on a broad spectrum, on a broad scale of things, it could mean many things. And you can relate it or correlate it to many things along the spectrum. Right? And cipher, cipher, what is cipher? Cipher's zero, meaning nothing, of no value. Zero has no value. The only time zero has any value is when you add it with another number. Then it has value. Whether you put a nine in front of it, this is 90, 90 degrees, or you put uh one and two in front of it, and that's 120 degrees, or you put a three and a six in front of it, and it makes it 360 degrees. But in it of itself has no value. But but here's the thing, and it is and two things can be true that it is a complete circle, as we call it. A complete circle, 360 degrees complete, right? And that means it it it encompasses everything. So it's zero value on one end at one viewpoint, and then it's everything in another lens. So, yes, because uh just just as though, just as we add on other numbers to give it some value, it's all it's also a code because in everything in life, whether it be plant the plant life, animal life, DNA. Hold on, somebody's banging on the wall. What the hell is that? Okay, we back to it, family. Anyway, yeah, whatever the case may be, everything has codes in it. Every living thing, everything we touch, it it has a code in it. Anything that exists, and a lot of times in coding, you'll find zero, zero, zero zero because you keep there, it's like a key to keep unlocking something. Right? When you get to to the end of this, it's another key to open another, uh to unlock another door, another dimension. And these in these codings, they use a lot of zeros, a lot of numerical uh figures, but mostly zeros. Let us understand that and let us pay attention to the to these things. That said, moving forward. That said, moving forward, family. Um I want to take the time to acknowledge some of the listeners, some of the listeners here, and um I got some texts from the show. I got some texts from the show, uh, and I will read them. I will well, I got one from the show. I don't I didn't I didn't um get to check the emails this morning. I didn't get to check the emails, but but nonetheless, I will we did get a text from everybody like the last week's program. And I want to say I appreciate I appreciate all of you who who emailed my personal email. Those of you who have my personal uh math as far as my phone number and stuff like that. You send me texts, you send me emails, you send me um you just were elated with the show. Everybody liked that show last week where we spoke about the poisoning of America's food system and supply. Right? But this is uh, we wanna let's get to it. Let's get to it. Where is it at now? Okay. No, that's is that it? Nah, that's not it. Somebody sent a this this brother, he said he sent the message. It was I I liked, I really appreciated that. Let me see, can I find it? Where is it? Let me see, can I find it? Just give me a second and we'll get right to it. Oh, here it is. Here it is, family. Okay, this is from um a brother called himself Hits Man. That's uh H I T T Z M A N, Hits Man. He and his message was, and I appreciate you, brother, salute to you, General. Salute. He said, I commend Brother V Black on pointing out the many different carcinogens, cancer-causing chemicals, and they in a way to avoid them through many different apps that are online for us to utilize. And after learning, cross-referencing the info with books and others who may have studied this subject, patronize the local farmers, local businesses which have healthy products, which guard against carcinogens. Brother V Black, this was a very knowledge-filled show, and it's up to us to do the knowledge. It certainly is. And thank you. That's from the brother Hits Hits Man, and we appreciate you. Keep listening, keep tapping in, keep supporting the program. And all of you, send send, send an email. If you have something you want us to talk about, send some information to us, and we'll look into it. And if it's show worthy, we will definitely come up here and talk about it. Whatever your remarks are, if they're not derogative and and and any kind of attacks on anyone specific, we will we will acknowledge them up here. We will say your name if you want us to, whatever you want us to address up here, we'll try to address that. And that's that uh you can well the the text is for the for the program, Freeman's Affairs Radio, the the way to text us is in the description below the show. When you go tap into whatever host that you use, you can tap in and and the description is is right below. And um the email, of course, as you know, is Freeman's Affairs Radio at gmail.com and send your emails and whatever you have, information, whether it be clips, any kind of information as far as uh census reports, any kind of government documents, anything you want to send in that you want us to look at and uh and maybe address up here, you can do that. So, yeah. So I appreciate that and salute all of you. Okay. Today, today, um, and this is I meant to get into this some time ago, and I'm not using this to um talk about any um any uh black history month or nothing like that. I don't even recognize that, and and I'm probably gonna get some flag for that from some of you. I don't really recognize Black History Month. You know, February is supposed to be celebrating Black History Month. Let me say this. Let me say this. Every day, 365 days a year is black history for me. There's not a day, not one day that goes by that I don't do some kind of medit meditation, some kind of reading, or some kind of research, or some kind of focus on our history, foundational black American history. Not a day. So Black History Month, the month of February, it means it doesn't mean anything because we're not looking for validation from anyone. And that's what's gonna be we're gonna segue into that part of the program in just a few minutes, but I wanted to get this out. We are not looking for validation, we don't need anyone to tell us when, where, and how we choose to recognize our lineage and our icons, right? I don't need anyone to tell me that. I was just the uh last week ago, I was just with two guys who were like heroes to me when I was growing up. Now, these guys, they were bad, they were some bad cats now. They were some bad cats. They were out there in the street life, and I'm after all these years, I finally get to, I was hanging out with them two brothers, man. And I'm not gonna say their names up here because I'm not sure that they want me to you know talk about them, you know, their names and stuff like that. I'm not sure if they if they hear this playback and they say it's all right, then I'll come up here and say their names. Because I salute these two guys, man. These guys were like, these were icons to me, and I told them, so I give them their flowers every chance I get, man, because they help shape who I am right now, speaking into this microphone. They don't realize it, but they were very influential in my life because I watched these dudes. You talking about some fly, bad, I mean, just these dudes were the top of their game, man. When I was a youngster, they was at the top of their game, and I and I used to just watch these dudes in awe. And they were criminals. They were stomp down gangsters, but they were good guys. It's not what you're thinking. I know what you're thinking when I say that, but it's not what you're thinking. These were good guys, actually good guys. Good-hearted dudes, man. I love both of them brothers, man. I love them, man. And um, I don't wait for nobody to tell me who I can look up to. You can't tell me nothing about them dudes, man. Nothing. There's nothing I want to hear. You can't tell me nothing neg negative about them. That's that will sway my opinion and my view of them. There's nothing you can tell me. I don't care who it is, because I know who I am and I know the influence they had on me. So there's nothing you can tell me about these cats. And it's the same way with all our icons. You know, I don't I was speaking the other day to someone, to my uncle, as a matter of fact. I was talking to him. He called me for the first time in 2026, my mother's uh baby brother. He he called me and he he talked, and we somehow we got on Dr. King. And I explained to him, I didn't agree with Dr. King's ideology or his politics. I didn't agree with it. I am under the mindset that desegregation harmed us more than it helped us. And the nonviolent thing, I never agreed with that. I told I how many times I told you up here on this on this microphone that Huey Newton and uh Fred Hampton and Bunchie Carter and them were some of my heroes. Those the guys I looked up to. And you know Huey P. Newton was no joke. You understand? So I didn't I didn't believe in non-violence. I don't believe in somebody coming and slapping the hell out of me, and I'ma stand there and pray for him. I ain't with it. Like I said, you kill my cat, you can expect to lose your dog. Right? If I find out you killed my cat, well, you can expect to lose your dog. And I mean that. I'm saying that and I'm standing on that. Now, sometimes we have to fight strategically, right? You might, you might, if the odds are against me, you might get your slap off, right? Or get your lick off. And I might not do nothing to you because it might not be strategically smart at that time to address you, but you can rest assured, I'm coming for you, buddy. Some kind of way, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get my lick back. Because I've had to deal with that. We've all had to deal with that. That, all right, you got that one, money. You got that one, Paul. Alright, Paul, you got that one. I'm gonna see you on it, though. This is what you're saying in your mind. And you hope you get your lick back. And it's so gratifying when you do get your lick back, right? But I don't want to veer off too much. Um, yeah, so what I really wanted to talk about up here today, what I really want to talk about, and I don't want to stay too long, so we're gonna, I'm gonna try to move as fast as possible. Um, what I really want to talk about, you know, this this program and the work that I do, I'm a heavy advocate for reparative justice when it comes down to foundational black Americans and the descendants of the freedmen. I'm very um strong advocate for reparative justice and compensatory justice, reparations, and namely, this this show was built, this program that we do up here every week was built on that premise, right? But if you notice, I usually in the last year and a half, I don't really get into heavy talks about reparations, right? Because we got people out here working in the background. They're out here working in the background for these things. You know, you got my man over there at the Freedmen's uh, the United States Freedmen Project, Divine, Divine Prince, my brother, my good brother, salute. And sister Brooke, salute. Uh politicians like like the sister, the assembly woman, sister uh Nikki Lucas, salute. Right? You got some people out here doing some serious work with that. And I go, I go to the meetings sometimes when I can afford to be there, I go to the hearings, you know, for at to give my support for the advocacy, whatever uh letters they need and stuff, or petitions or whatever they have, I'll sign them and I'll do whatever they need to be done. But I don't I don't usually in the last year and a half, I really haven't got up here and focused on reparations in the sense of the word. I don't talk about it as much because I, you know, when we first started up here, it was very, I came out the gate strong with it. You know, and I still believe in it. I'm never gonna let up off the gas with it. It's just that there's been so many other things. When you start, again, back to the to the cipher, to the coding, when you start unlocking doors and you start going, you know, you you unlock, you know, go through this door and you unlock another door. There's something else there. And this is what's been happening. Not that we've put reparations on the back burner, is uh we have made big strides, some very good strides in the last couple years without even touching reparations. Right? Now we still talk about that. You got guys, Tyreek and Afro Elite and um Black Alpha and them guys still talk about reparations. They they're heavy on it. I just I just pump the brakes on it a little bit because there's other things that I've been paying attention to that which do correlate with reparative justice. You understand? Everything we do up here will be able to relate it to uh reparative uh justice for foundational black Americans and the freedmen, the sentence of the freedmen. Now, I don't need to, but I what I want us to do, family, is to stop debating with these people online and stuff like that. And on if you got a YouTube channel or you got some kind of platform. Now, there's people who we have in the community, we call them, we call them the the data they the guard dogs, man. They they the data pit bulls, man. They the beasts, they beasts with it. And they will chew you up, and that's who we unleash on people who oppose us. And usually, usually what's been happening in the last couple years, we've been able to squash all the opposition to our talking points. From the tethers, from the foreign tethers, to the the the the uh political coons for the both parties, Democrats and Republicans, because you know you got your your your your your coon boots, your kitten heels, and your coon boots for those two institutions and the boole and all those who oppose us, like your Roland Martins and people like that. We have we have people that that's that can neutralize them easily. So uh like I be telling the sister, um, what's her name? Uh Gigi, Gigi Kelly. I be telling she every time I see the sister posting on Facebook, she FBA this happy. Yeah, you I understand you're happy, you're glad. We doing this, you know, the the lineage is picking up. It's steamrolling, but it's no need to engage in in frivolous conversation, exp uh spending your energy with these folks. Cause they they ain't do nothing but talking loud and saying nothing. Because they're not stopping anything. And as you see, as you see, uh I'm gonna play that clip in a little while, but I used to get into it with these people about because you know, especially on the in the black conservative circles, they'll tell you, racism doesn't exist. Racism, there's no racism. There's no more oppression. You're playing victim. You're you're just being a victim. You d you don't have any any accountability. You know the Anton Daniels, the uh righteous perspective with the bozo wise. That that he's a good brother, man, but he's he's a lame. He's a lame and you know, you you you lick the the the dog crap off of white people's boots and then you try to act like you you standing up, you know, you you so concerned about the black community, but everything you do is is a punch down. See, that's that's how you can you can tell him too. I want to go into something here, I want to go into something here. And then uh I want to start the segment off. Well, before we get into that, the bio for today is a brother named Abraham Galloway. And uh this is from the NPR. And uh this is a figure that from the Civil War era that we should know about, right? And this cat has been compared to James Bond and Malcolm X. They say he was James Bond and Malcolm X rolled into one. Though his name has largely been left out of the history books, Abraham Galloway was an African American who escaped enslavement in North Carolina, became a Union spy during the Civil War, and recruited black soldiers to fight with the North. That's the short version. The fuller picture would include his work and his revolutionary and as a revolutionary and being one of the first African Americans, well, FBA, we're changing that word. We're not African Americans, we're foundational black Americans, descendants of freedmen, uh elected to North Carolina to the North Carolina Senate, right? And there's there's people who have done work on him and uh bio work on him and stuff like that. But look him up, family, Abraham Galloway. And I don't want to spend because we we we um we've been up here a few minutes already, and I want to move fast. This brother is like a uh almost like a secret, super secret agent who tr who traveled from North Carolina to the Mississippi River Valley. And uh the now deceased historian Harold Jones told me, said that when I interviewed him for a story on Civil War, he he painted the picture by the Confederate escapes and and took on two, three men at a time at one time. He's that kind of a guy. He's he's almost unbelievable because he's been left out of the narrative for so long. This is Abraham Galloway, bad dude. I want y'all to look him up. Abraham Galloway, he was one of the first foundational black Americans to the North Carolina Senate. Serious dude, man. Serious dude. We talk a lot of times up here, we talk about cats like John Horse and Osceola and different people like that, different um uh um cats, um, Nat Turner and different people like that. But this this brother here was not, he was not nothing to play with. Serious dude, man. Look him up, read about him. All right. But anyway, getting back to the to the to the program. Um, as I said, you know, a lot of people would get up here and talk about, oh, there's no um, there's no such thing. You know, black people like to play victims. There's no uh systemic racism anymore. And I want to just touch on a few things. I just want to touch on a few things, family. All right, here it is. Yeah, and I I got this too, so we can understand just what systemic racism is. Because most people tell you, oh, you know, especially on the boot, the boot-licking conservative side, uh, the black conservatives, they'll tell you that in a minute. Oh, you know, it's no such thing. Then but Tim Scott, right? And then you know what the crazy part about it is, family? Tim Scott said that one time. He stood there and said, America, America is not, it's not a racist, never been a racist country. Now, the other day, Trump, they got, they, they, he's been getting backlash for this tweet or whatever he sent out, or this Instagram thing, whatever he put on his social media and it had the Obamas, Michelle and Barack Obama as monkeys. They said it was a Lion King type of theme, and it was about voter fraud or whatever the case they were saying it about. But he's saying that some of his staff people put it out, he didn't really read it, but you know, he's doing that to throw a bone to his base. He's do it, that's why he's doing that. Throwing a bone. Look, I don't like these, you know, because they usually refer to as monkeys, refer to us as monkeys or primates, when they look more like primates than we do. When you look at a ape or chimpanzee or gorilla or something like that, when you cut, if you shave their fur off, their skin is pale. The monkey's skin is pale. Now the silverback gorilla, I think he's he's might maybe dog skin under his uh flesh, under his fur. But the chimpanzees, the monkeys, all of them other primates, when you if you shave their hit their their fur off, they are pale skinned with thin lips. We're dark people, right? With thick, broad lips and broad noses. So who looks more like the primate? Who favors the primate? But that's another story. We want to we don't want to get, you know, tit for tat with them with that. First thing is, what exactly is systemic what systemic actually means? Does it mean every white person is a racist? No. No, that's not what it means. The system rules create racial disparities even without racial intent. Right? It doesn't mean every white people or every white person is racist. See, we get we get caught up in our feelings, but we're looking at right, we're trying to do right here is look at it from a logical lens. With logic. It's almost like uh, and this is what I would say to to the person or people who say, well, there's no such thing as systemic racism. It just you it doesn't exist. You don't see it. Well, you can't see gravity, right? You can't see gravity. It's gravity is an energy you cannot see. But you know that it it that it has an effect on you. It can have an effect on you. You can't see it with the physical eye, you can't see gravity, but you know it's there, it exists, right? This is science. How systemic racism works uh mechanically. Here's the pattern you usually see. It's it's done by a rule or policy uh gets created, but it looks neutral on paper. Because of history or economics, one group starts from behind. Uh, that's where the the rules multiplies the disadvantage. Right? The outcomes the outcome looks like culture or personal failure instead of policy. And and that's key, right? When it's invisible, people say they just it they just don't work hard. Instead, the structure blocks mobility. Right? That's what the bootlicks are usually say. You know, you just don't work hard. You you don't have no accountability, uh, you're not responsible, the culture, and we're gonna get into that. It it looks like uh when it's not the that's what it looks like when it's not obvious. Here's concrete examples, not theory. Housing and wealth, redlining in today's wealth gap. Back a long time ago, uh banks labeled black neighborhoods hazardous, right? Remember that. I remember that 60s and 70s, back when I was a kid. Uh no loans or mortgages, and the result of that was black families couldn't buy homes when homes were cheap. A lot of black families couldn't buy, they would zone us out of different areas and redline us. Um, the white median family uh wealth equals six to eight times that of black wealth. Now, when we do the history on that, that is just that is a system in place. Because that's what we call systemic racism. It's a system. But I'm not gonna hold your hand up here and act like you don't know because we know, but we're just saying this for the sake of the boot licking coons that that will turn their head to this and they don't want to discuss these things. But this is why it ties into why I haven't been um stomping hard on reparations, the talk at least. I've been doing it in the work, but in the talk at least. Because you get tired of talking to these people because they just they just want to manipulate the algorithm in their talk. That's all they interested in is manipulating the algorithm, right? So, okay. Nobody's not gonna say um uh banks and stuff ain't gonna say we're not gonna we uh says don't lend to black people. They're not gonna say that, but lower appraisals, home appraisals, worse schools, worse school funding and property taxes, fewer inherited assets, the old policies still shape today's outcome. That's systemic. That is what systemic is criminal justice, not just police brutality, right? Talking about criminal justice. This this is it. More patrols in black neighborhoods means more stops, means more arrests for the same behavior in in other uh geographical areas, right? Criminal records, and once you get these criminal records, it's harder for you to get jobs and housing, and poverty continues, right? Same crime rate, same enforcement rate, right? So it becomes policy plus policing patterns, sentencing laws. Not one, not someone yelling out a slur, the N-word. That's not what racism is. See, you see policing and policy, you see how it ties in uh employment. There's no sign saying we don't hire blacks here. Instead, net network hiring, who you know, zip code filtering, cultural fit, name um bias on resumes. Studies show Jamal gets fewer callbacks than James with identical resumes. Nobody says race, but the outcome repeats by race. This is the system quietly working. Why some people say it doesn't exist? Because they expect racism to be personal hatred, but systemic racism is structural math. If you only look for racist people, you'll miss racist outcomes. Two totally different things. The useful way to test to test it for yourself is ask, ask the question, which we do up here a lot. Ask the question. If race doesn't matter, would this outcome still look like this? Examples. Why are schools funded by property taxes when property values were racially manipulated? Back to that red lining, back to the uh under under certain underfunded schools. Why were drug laws harsher for crack than powder cocaine? Remember that? 1994 crime bill. Anybody can recall that? Why black neighborhoods police more heavily for minor infractions? This pattern reveals structure. This is structure. The nuance, um important nuance is that um systemic racism doesn't mean black people are helpless, or personal responsibility doesn't matter, or that every disparity is racism. It doesn't mean that. It does mean historic his history compounds, policy advantages stack up, disadvantages also stack up. Both can be true at the same time. Personal effort plus systemic barriers, right? Now, the other part I wanted to get into is this, and we're gonna touch on these too a little bit. This is what you gotta look at too. You have to you have to think about the early days of black farming, what happened with those situations, right? And um we we can talk about early uh voting and political power, right? You know, and these these will when you look in when you pull the layers back off of these things and you really, really get get into them, you really look at them for what they are, you you will see that it you you can't there's no denying it. But but these people will still tell you, oh, you know, um, you know, it's just about personal choices and and being responsible. And we kill that argument every single time. But let us go back, let us go back into something, right? I want to talk about early black farming and land laws that that actually formed today's systemic blueprint. Let me get a bed up in here. Let me get a see, can I get a bed up in here? Yeah, I like that song. Anyway, this this usually is not taught, right? Right after emancipation, black Americans didn't start from nothing, like people say. They actually built serious uh agricultural wealth fast, right? People don't know that. We built wealth really fast back then, right? By the late 80s by the late 1800s, black Americans owned 15 to 20 million acres of land, thousands of independent farms, entire self-sufficient rural communities. For a brief window, the freemen were farmers, landowners, producers, not just laborers, and that was economic power for us. And that's the things that that got what were exactly targeted, right? Then the system kicked in. Not mobs, not slurs, policy. Here's where system eration shows itself, right? Nobody passed a law saying take land from black farmers. Instead, they use mechanisms, quiet tools use. Here's property laws, no wills, land easily seized, property tax manipulation, predatory lending, USDA loan denials, forced uh partition sales, legal fees black families couldn't afford. And then the USDA explicitly and especially was discriminatory. And you can look up this document called the Pigford Lawsuits. The Pigford Lawsuits, that's P-I-G-F-O-R-D lawsuits. White farmers got loans fast. Black farmers would be delayed or denied. They missed planning season because of these delays, and then they had a lot of foreclosures because they couldn't uh afford these uh astronomical ridiculous fees. So they lost their farms. It's not hatred. That would that was just uh bureaucracy being weaponized, right? And the outcome, the outcome of that was in 1910, 14% of U.S. black farms uh owned owned uh farms were black owned, right? Today less than 2%. That's not cultural, that's policy attrition. Why is this systemic? Because no one says race out loud, but the structure consistently removes black ownership. And that's the definition of systemic, right? And most of the common arguments will be against systemic ra the point of systemic racism and how we should uh counter it is the argument slavery was a long time ago. Get over it. Well, newsflash, slavery isn't the only variable. Land theft, redlining, USDA discrimination, the GI Bill exclusion. That all happened within the last two one uh one to three generations ago. Uh uh my grandparents were alive for this, right? This is an ancient history, so it wasn't that long ago, right? Systemic racism isn't 1865, it's 1965 to 1995 with policies. And then they they might say, they'll say sometime, oh well, if racism was real, all black people would fail. Well, the answer to that is systems affect averages, not individuals. And this is an example. If a school has broken textbooks, some kids will still succeed, but the average will still drop. Pay attention to that, family. Pay close attention to that because these are the talking points that we're gonna need to arm ourselves with to counter all of this foolish things that these folks talk about. Right. All right. And this, you know, these things they'll they like to point out people like Oprah and all of this stuff like that. Man, you know, again, again, a lot of times when you go into these different topics, the averages drop. Even though there's some success stories, the averages still drop below, way below, right? And then they'll say, oh, it's just uh personal responsibility. You have to take accountability for yourself. And personal responsibility does matter. But if two runners race and one starts at 50 yards behind, effort alone doesn't explain the gap. You can you can both you can acknowledge both uh effort and structure. Right? Then they'll say there's no racist laws today. Okay. Exactly. Modern systemic racism works through uh funding formula uh formulas, right? Let lending standards, zoning, enforcement patterns, institutional discretion. That's race, that's race neutral. They're not saying racist things, but these are the formulas that they use. If a law counts constantly hurts one group, intent doesn't matter. The impact of it does. And then say, well, black culture is the problem. Black culture is the problem. You know, the culture's in the trash. That's your boy Anton Daniels, right? Black culture is trash, right? But if culture was the issue, why did uh black land ownership and marriage rates used to be higher in the early 1900s? Culture didn't collapse first, the economic base collapsed. When you destroy land plus jobs plus credit, culture follows. Not the other way around. Right? That's real talk. Culture doesn't collapse first. When a society starts going down, it's not the culture that collapses. It's the economic base that collapses. First, then the culture follows. So it's not just uh aspects of our culture. Yeah, we do need some work with in certain parts of our culture. We need some work, of course. Man, it's so much I can go into here. That uh let me see what else we got here. Yeah, family. So, you know, these things we're gonna need, you know. This is why it ain't it's not important for us to be up here debating with people and having these these emotional arguments online. I'm not doing none of that. I don't only think I want to focus on is the family. Right? I'm not I'm not hearing the outside noise. Let me let me before I close out, before I close out, let me I was gonna do a third part of the segment. Let me see if I if I want to go into that. You know. Okay. I don't even need to go into that because we're done covered all this. You know, reconstruction from 1865 to 1877, freedmen began inquiring land, thousands of black farms were created, economic independent rising, upward mobility starts, right? Then coming after 1877 to 1930, users in the Jim Crow era, the black codes, sharecropping traps, violence pushes families off lands, illegal uh illegal intimidation, land ownerships begin shrinking. I just said to you, I just said to you, whenever a society, a particular society starts going in a downward spiral, it is not the culture, it is the economics. And that's the important part. The economics, not the culture. Right? This is what they did. My family, my father was a part of Jim Crow. He was born up with Jim Crow sharecropping, my grandfather on my father's side, sharecropper. There's nothing you can tell me, man, about this. There's nothing all you can sit and play and pretend, but you always gonna come back to reality. Right? Tim Scott. Byron Donald. You're always gonna come back to reality. You have to. It's inevitable. Right? You gotta play no games up here of Federal uh from the 1930s to the 1960s, federal policy discrimination, redlining maps, uh FHA mortgage exclusion, social secure Social Security exclusion, farmer debt on farm and domestic workers, the GI Bill benefits largely denied USDA loan discrimination. White wealth grows through sub through the suburbs while black families are locked out. And this is huge because most middle class white wealth starts during those times. Go look at the history books, right? Remember that. Remember, I told you that Pigford uh case. Look that up. Uh um uh property appraisals, school funding property taxes, student loan debt gaps, credit score barriers, corporate land consolidation. And these these uh disparities continue without racial racialized language. This this is what you call uh modern systemic racism without paperwork, uh with with uh with paperwork, not whips. They wasn't using whips, they was using paperwork, right? But you know, family, we don't what we've been doing has been largely very, very effective. And I want you to hear something. I want you to, I'm gonna play something for you up here, and I want you to pay close attention to it. I want you to play clo pay close attention to this. Because we just we just getting cooked at it, getting it cooked up here, right? Hold on. I'm I'm gonna find it and I'm gonna start it up, and I want you to hear it because we're gonna get ready to get out of here. Let me uh let me bring it up here. And this is fair use, by the way, fair use, fair use.

SPEAKER_00 45:59

On this Black History Month, we're highlighting foundational Black Americans whose ingenuity, innovations, and labor play a critical role in American culture and infrastructure, including Alexander Miles, who invented automatic elevator doors in 1887, and Garrett Morgan, who invented the three-light traffic signal in 1923. And our next guest is working to ensure that foundational black Americans' contributions are known.

SPEAKER_02 46:27

Before the modern-day toilet, the can, the pot, the throne, the jump, whatever you call it, going to the bathroom used to be messy, uncomfortable, it smelled bad, and it could also spread disease. All that began to change because the foundational black American invented the modern indoor toilet. And his name was Thomas Elkin.

SPEAKER_00 46:47

Yeah, thank goodness for Thomas Elkin. And that is just one of many videos made by author and creator of Foundational Black American Legacy, Teresa Allman.

SPEAKER_06 46:57

Okay.

Black Farming, USDA, And Pigford

SPEAKER_05 46:57

Yeah, get that book, family. Teresa Allman, Foundational Black American History. Get that book, get that book, get that book, and support that sister's work, man, because she's doing a great, beautiful job. Beautiful. So we don't have to debate with these people because that was a report from ABC News. That was that report was ABC News. Now they done since then, four days, that came out four days ago. Since then, they they have taken it down off of the website and they took it off of ABC's YouTube page. But it's too late. Like my man Tyreek said, you cannot unring a bell. Once a bell rings, somebody come to my door right now and ring the m ring my doorbell. I can't act like the doorbell didn't ring, it rung. I'ma look in the camera and see who's out there. Right? Or go to the door and look in the people to see even if the person that got in the elevator or ran down the stairs or whatever like that. I'ma still go to the door and see because I heard the the um bell ring. I can't you can't unring it. Right? And um they put that up there and four days ago. They did the report on that particular sister. And like I said, go support her book, go go purchase it, go on Amazon and get it. And they done took it down because that call came from the DNC in my in my the way I'm seeing it. That call came from the top brass in the DNC, and it's not good because we are about to enter into an election season for the midterms, and this kind of lane, we've been in their way. We've been in their way, and we've been a pain in their side ever since Kamala Harris lost that election. And they're saying they cannot afford to have this thing uh swell up the way it is swelled up too. They weren't expecting this, they weren't expecting us to be uh this way or this or this ahead at this time, but they can't stop it. And you took it down, but too many people have have retweet re uh posted it and and and got the the the video and the footage. So it's too late. And for you to take it down like that with no kind of uh uh explanation or anything of why man, it it it's not looking good for you. It's not looking good, ABC. But we understand, but we understand, but we're gonna keep doing our thing. This is why I said it ain't no sense in arguing. Look how they've been talking crap about FBAs. Right? Now here's check this this um this woman here, she's a Caribbean. Listen.

SPEAKER_03 49:43

Equality for women that would have been Shirley Chisholm. Um during the Reconstruction era, right after slavery, that was Marcus Garvey. Um during the time of actual civil rights movement and getting us to information, Malcolm X, who's rolling over in his grave at this moment. We also had Colin Powell, we've had um a lot of other activists like um uh Cicely Tyson, Sidney Pointier, um too many. I I did a video on it already. But Caribbean people contributed in the making of black liberation always. Even right now.

SPEAKER_05 50:40

Bullshit.

SPEAKER_03 50:41

Caribbean woman that's out here loud, proud, getting it done. That is Joy Ann Reed, who's also a Caribbean. There's always a Caribbean in the making. You might think that they're a foundational black American.

SPEAKER_05 50:56

Bullshit. I'm calling bullshit on that. And excuse my language if the youngsters, if you got young children listening, excuse me, but I got to call it that is pure hogwash.

SPEAKER_03 51:06

Fashion. We have done many, many things, um, including Africans that have come here and have done a lot for the movement of black Americans. When you say you agree with black Americans for what they are doing now, what you are saying is that you agree with them being or the isolation movement or them being isolationists, which is not a good movement for the black community. Because when we start dividing, when we start breaking up ourselves in these subcategories, right, it only hinders. So right now, what are black people? Um, 13, 14% of the population.

SPEAKER_05 51:54

If you and I are not counted as That's not true, it's more of us than that.

SPEAKER_03 51:59

That weakens the black community. That will give them, like, there'll be 10% of the population. How does that help the senses and the money that goes into the communities to help the money? Black people right now, these black people that are talking, they're dumb. They're stupid. They have they're un they're the uneducated. They are like the magas. Like white people have the magas and family.

SPEAKER_05 52:28

Do I sound dumb or uneducated? Do I?

unknown 52:32

All right.

SPEAKER_03 52:33

MAGA movement. Do not, whatever you do, do not condone this. Speak up against it because it's dumb. It is dumb to separate me and you from them. It is dumb for them to separate them from you from me. We're all one black people. And our oppressors, we're not- Oh no, we're not. There are many, many people that we can boycott. Why are we boycotting our own people? Makes no sense.

Timelines From Reconstruction To Redlining

SPEAKER_06 53:06

Well, see, she started naming all these people, right? But she, but this is the thing. All those people that came here came here to a system that was already in place. That we opened up our arms and allowed them to come in. Right? Shirley Chisholm, right? But we already had Mary Pathul McLeod. We already had Fanning Lou Hamer, right? We already had those people here already. We already had a Martin Delaney, Octavius Valentine Cato. We was already on the front line. Emigrants came here, and because we had our arms open, we allowed them to come into something that was already established, something that was already happened, right? Marcus Garvey, we already had a Hubert Harrison. Like I said, we already had a Martin Delaney. We already had a Henry Holland Garnett. We already had those people that was already here. So don't try to crowbar yourself into it and say that we wouldn't establish something without you guys. No, you guys came here to something that was already going on, right? When you did, when you did with our fascists, we were already doing this stuff. This stuff was, the foundation was already being laid, right? When you have, like, like when you bring up a Harriet Tubbon or Amaretta Ross, we were already doing these things. Phyllis Wheatley, we can go on and on and on and on. We was here putting in the work already. Already. But you guys, um, you guys want to say that basically when you hear a woman talking like that, she's saying that we don't have a culture. Our culture is an amalgamated culture.

SPEAKER_05 54:36

I want you to remember something, family. I want you to remember something, because a lot of Caribbean and West Indian people like to talk about Marcus Garvey, right? But Marcus Garvey movement started in the island of Jamaica, right? Starting Pan Jamaica. But guess what? They rejected him. His movement movement didn't get popping and cracking until it came here to these United States where the American Negro was at. That's when his movement took off. Not over there in Jamaica. You understand? Let's get back to it though, fam. Let's get back to it. Man, who these people think they playing with, man? You know? Who they think they're playing with?

SPEAKER_06 55:22

Respect you. But you have to respect her being Dominican or whatever she is, right? Because they'll be the first ones to say that I'm not black. They'll be the first. If you notice, when we when whenever foundational black Americans go to Africa, they go to Africa to ingratiate themselves in the culture. When Africans come here, they come here to separate themselves from us. All the other groups today come here to separate themselves from us. So now when we start calling that out, it becomes a problem. But I'm telling you, it's a problem because of the voting block. It's political. So they called up and said, hey, take that down right now. It's only hatred because it's going against their strategies, right? Even Dante Cow all of a sudden wanna change his strategy because uh uh because of what Shabuzi did and the backlash that he was getting from foundational black Americans. This guy's now talking like this.

SPEAKER_07 56:16

Immigrants did not build America. Okay? America was built off the genocide of the Native people and the enslavement of the African people. This type of slave labor. Yeah. Immigrants have definitely contributed to American culture, to American history throughout the duration. But if we're gonna talk about how what was built, what built this country.

SPEAKER_09 56:44

Nigga, please.

SPEAKER_05 56:46

Man, that's the same dude from last two weeks ago was talking. He was talking real down on this movement. He was so now he he got it. That shabbuzzi got up there with the Grammys and made that statement about immigrants built America. Now these these bozos, they can't even, they can't even um front no more. They can't front no more. When stuff like this comes out, you have to address it. This is why I say, family, we don't have to do nothing. We ain't got to argue with nobody. We ain't got we all we got to do is study on what we doing, study on each other, focus the study on each other, the focus on each other, and do what we doing. We ain't got to be uh uh uh having no conversations with these folks. We ain't got to be doing that. And it it will play out and it will it these things will remedy themselves. And this and this is what we talking about solutions, and that's why we focus based. We ain't studying about what these other folks are doing. But I want to play something for y'all right here, and this is from a white activist woman, I forget her name, um, but she she was on a CNN broadcast uh some time ago and talking with interviewing with Don Lemon, and I want you to hear what she she had to say. Hold on.

SPEAKER_01 58:01

Many of your opponents support a commission to study the issue of reparations for slavery, but you are calling for up to$500 billion in financial assistance. What makes you qualify to determine how much is owed in reparations?

SPEAKER_11 58:13

Well, first of all, it's not$500 billion in financial assistance, it's$500 billion,$200 to$500 billion payment of a debt that is owed by reparations. Look at evidence. I'm pretty sure that what it's uh it is time for us to simply realize that this comes from people. People when it comes to the momentum, it doesn't come from the two hundred five. It would be trillions of dollars. I believe that anything less than a hundred billion dollars is is an insult, and I believe that two hundred to five hundred billion is is politically feasible today because so many Americans realize there is an injustice that continues to form a toxicity underneath the surface, an emotional turbulence.

Media Narratives And FBA Visibility

SPEAKER_05 59:41

Family, family, this is why we don't need to argue with them. There ain't no need to argue because this is this is let me tell you something, right? Let me tell y'all something. I'm gonna say this, I'm gonna share this with you. All this jargon and this this this uh posturing we see in out in these streets with with this ice and all of this stuff, that is because on the Democratic side they calling for these people because they know they they they know that that that the baby boomers have died out for the most part. We're no longer interested uh uh in marching, we're not interested in protesting. This is not this is why we're not out there, family. This is why we're not out there. We're no longer interested in that. It's about quid pro quo. Right? Reciprocal uh legislation, reciproc reciprocal politics, I should say. Right? We're not just going to the polls and voting blue no more because this is tradition. These kids don't want to hear that. Gen X, my my I'm from the rebel generation. I'm a rebel was born that way. Right? The Gen Z, the Gen X, the Millennials. They don't want to hear what these people gotta say. They don't even want to hear from a from a Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton. They don't want to hear that. We marching through the streets, no justice, no peace, no justice, no peace. We ain't doing that no more. That's over with. Now, when you violate, you violate, and and we gotta get out here and turn up and it's up. We going out to them streets and it's gonna be up. We go we gonna show you. We ain't playing. Remember the George Floyd's uprising. That thing went worldwide because of what we was doing. Now, now Black Lives Matter and all these other little organizations infiltrated that and messed things up and did whatever. That's another story. But for us, here in the grassroots, man, we don't we not interested in no margin. This is why we're not out. That's one of the reasons why we're not out there. These people are looking to replace, destabilize the black vote because the the Democratic left uh knows uh that it can't really support the the the uh usual support is not there no more. You've seen that with the election of Kamala Harris. Now, these upcoming maketerms are gonna be very interesting, but they know this is not this is why they was asked, they called somebody made a call to ABC News and told them to take that video down because this FBA thing, this movement, they can't handle it. It's organic. They didn't this is not something that they manufactured, this is something that was created organically. And it just when it caught, it just took off. Right? So no, we ain't got to. I don't want to go on nobody's channel, sit on only panels I want to sit on. If if I can get to a show like Afro Elite or Brother Black Alpha, I'm not interested in debating none of them other bozos out there. I got my time uh is being spent on you, on us. I don't want to talk to nobody else. I ain't got nothing to say. You don't like what we're doing, you don't believe we ain't getting reparations, we stupid, the coaches in the trash. Fine. Leave us alone then. Simple, simple. Leave us alone. Let's see if we can find some solutions, family. Let's let's first let's hear from my man Tariq.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:42

Let's hide it. Are you supplementing the black American accomplishments? Let's hide it, let's try to hide it. It's too late, though. Yeah. So that that move that they made, for whatever reason, yeah, that converts suppression into proof, and proof accelerates movements, ladies and gentlemen.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:09

Hello.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:10

Hello can point to observable contradictions. Hey, a positive news story about foundation of black American history, you gotta hide it. What are you afraid of? See, now people got questions. You know, this foundation of black American delineation, is it that powerful? A lot of people got questions. But again, you can't unring a bell. It's already out there. You can't unbroadcast something, it's already been seen by millions and millions of people.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:48

And see, I agree that it's up, it's out there already. You you can't take it down, the consciousness is being there, and we gotta keep plowing the road because in order to undo uh um uh a conditioning that's been there for so long, you have to keep, keep on talking about it because you have to change the consciousness of the people. The people are not, the people say that they want change, but they're not willing to do the things that requires them to have the change because that requires work, right? That requires work. It's easy to just go down to the ballot box and vote Democrat, even though you know that you're voting, the vote that you're putting in today is diametrically opposed to that which you're desiring. That vote that you're giving to that party is not stopping gentrification, right? Uh things that's supposed to be specifically for your group is going to everybody else because they say that there's nothing specifically supposed to be for your group. If it wasn't for us, you wouldn't even have it. That's what they say. That's why they bring up a Michael Max. They bring up these people. Michael Max is an FBA, man. He has family that's connected to the Caribbean, like I do. We born here.

Immigration, Attribution, And Cultural Claims

SPEAKER_05 1:05:52

Family, let's um, I'm getting ready to wrap this up. But before we go, before we go, we we like to. Try to have for whatever problems we may have, or whatever we talk about up here, we like to try to have something that we can take away as as uh armor or or some kind of tools we can use to go, you know, to propel forward. Right? So let's um let's see what we got here. Let's see what we got here. You know, guys, I I I curate this stuff every week when I come up here. I try to curate it. Just for whatever specific uh topics that we we um that we talk about up here. And some of the things, let me see, because I picked, I picked them out, I picked them out. I already told you, we're not interested in no more marching and no more protesting. If you harm one of us unjustly, if you harm one of us unjustly, understand that it's up. It's it's up. You understand? So they they've come to notice that and they they they know just what it is, excuse me. And um right now we we um we don't believe in parties. What we're interested in, what are you gonna give us? No concessions is no vote. These are some of the solutions, family, that that that I can point out up here, right? And we keep a public uh we we we creating a public scoreboard, right? We we want to know who the candidate is, these elected officials, whether they be senators, governors, assembly people, people in our local districts that that work in our uh local assemblies and and and our different districts where we reside. We want to know who the candidates are, what's their stance on reparations, what's what's gonna be their their uh black business funding uh protocol or their stance, right? We wanna see where they're at with police reforms. Then we can talk about our vote, right? Now, this way the politicians know that they have to earn our vote or lose it. Not emotional, we're not emotional, we're transactional. That's what it is. Transactional. That's that's what you call adult politics. Economic leverage, right? Politicians listen when money moves, no hashtags, you know, you know what I'm saying? Just straight up grassroots tactics, buy black campaigns coordinated, credit unions, uh, corporative gross grocery stores, land trusts, collective investment pools, boycotts tied to clear demands. When you can say for sure, for a surety that that the X, Y, and Z business will lose two to three million this quarter unless the this policy changes, now they paying attention. They listening. Because that money, that's that you you you you you you stopping that money flow. Suddenly doors open. We're talking about institutional penetration. Instead of marching outside, get inside. Example, school boards. And this is real talk, family. This is real talk. This is about the solution parts of it. This is real talk. We have to uh start in especially, especially where we live, not so much big government, but it but where we reside, where our children and grandchildren go to school, right? We have to get in, get in, sit in these school boards. And this is not for everybody, this is for the people in the grassroots who are nation building, who are pushing this FBA movement, this freedman thing, and they're getting down, they rolling up their sleeves and they getting down. School board meetings, we gotta be involved in zoning boards, right? Procurement offices. We gotta be inside those procurement offices because this is where the housing appraisals and different things go down at. You understand? They don't expect us to be in these rooms, and these are the rooms we gotta be in. Not not sucking up to no politician because he's black or she's black. Right? Sigit uh city budget committees, we gotta be in there. We gotta be in there checking and and keeping a watchful eye on the on the grant review panels. The police oversight boards. These are the rooms we have to be in where where um this this is where the quiet control of millions of dollars goes down at in these rooms, right? This is where policy happens. Real policy. No chance, no chance, no chance. We out there, no justice, nope, we ain't doing none of that. Narrative control. What we're doing up here in Freeman's Affairs Radio, we controlling the narrative because they try to manipulate the algorithm, they try to get in there and manip manipulate all of the talking points, and we countering that. Right? This put this particular podcast is one, it's a tool for the grassroots. Because like I said, not only do I point out the problems, I try to come up with some solutions. Right? Because media equals legitimacy, and if the mainstream media ignores or removes stories, uh uh the answer isn't isn't asking them nicely, right? It's to build something something parallel, podcast, YouTube, email listing, news or local newsletters, community radio. Uh these are movements that control uh our own storytelling. Don't depend on ABC or or or the DNC for validation. We not looking, we not even paying attention to them people. When they talk, when they say something good, we recognize it. Right? But we're not we not taking nothing for granted. If they take something down, it doesn't matter. We already have our megaphone. We already got the megaphone. So you can take down all the stories you want, ABC. Right? Structured demands. Now, no more complaining, structural demands. Instead of saying, like, oh, racism must end and all of this stuff, right? We just come at them, yo. We want policy A, we want budget B, we want program C. By date D, this is the time we want it. We're not asking, we're telling you what we want. And this forces negotiation. Uh vague morality is is largely ignored, family. Create, let us create demands and get meetings. That's what we gotta do. Right? Mind shift. We gotta we gotta shift our our mindset, right? Not protest. We need leverage. And and this is where we're clearly leaning at. And and this is apparent and evident. This is why people are losing their minds over what we're doing. Right? And um, with that said, family, with that said, we're gonna get ready to blow out of here. We're gonna get ready to blow out of here. And and I wanna, you know, I wanna leave you in the words of my man Malik. Must respect life, love justice, cherish freedom, and treasure the peace. Family, y'all go in peace. Thank you for listening. Y'all go in peace and keep the peace. Keep the peace and come back and see us next week, and we're gonna try to do this thing again.