From Mourning To Meaning Through Service

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Return, Apology, And Tribute

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Greetings and welcome back to Freeman's Affairs Radio. I'm your host, Vaughn Black, Aaron Vaughn Black, that is. And right out of the gate, as always, we want to thank you and tell you how much we appreciate you tapping back in and pressing that button and joining us again on this morning of April 7th, 2026. We are dealing with the numerical number seven, which equals God, in the Supreme Mathematics. Before we get into that, I wanna circle back to that. But before I get into that, family, I want to first extend apologies out to you, to the listeners who join us every week here. I didn't broadcast last week. Um it's been a tumultuous tailspin of a month. I'm speaking of the month, month of March. And I've been dealing with death, it seems like every week. So last Tuesday I didn't come on because uh I was busy with um f funerals and dealing with death. Uh close friend of mine, moneymaker, passed away. He my brother had been dealing with uh terminal cancer for for for quite some time. Uh I I think maybe since uh last summer. Early last spring, I believe it was, that he was diagnosed and uh you know he went through the battle and he finally succumbed to the um disease on March 27th, that was a Friday. And uh my brother was was Muslim, so in that Muslim tradition, they have I think they have 72 hours to to bury the deceased. And we were dealing with that, so I didn't I didn't have a chance to come and broadcast on Tuesday because I was dealing with a lot. You know, it's been back to back, back to back these last month. It's been back to back. And, you know, like I said again, I apologize for not broadcasting. I didn't even have time to give give an update or a advanced excuse to why I didn't broadcast last week, but that was the circumstances of why I wasn't here. And I just wanted to make that clear to you, and so you don't think that I'll was just sl you know slacking and slacking off and not keeping you in mind, because as I always say, I'm in service to you. Your brother gets up here and I put my effort into broadcasting and bringing you the stories and bringing you the updates and whatever concerns us as a community and as a lineage. So I wanted to get that out of the way, and also I wanted to dedicate this to today's broadcast to my brother, Moneymaker. This is dedicated to him, and we're gonna keep the tradition of when somebody close to us here at Freeman's Affairs Radio transitions, we want to keep that as a celebration of life for them. And my brother gets that nonetheless.

Supreme Mathematics And Inner God

SPEAKER_00 3:43

Okay, so yeah, family, uh dealing with today's math, we today is the seventh, which equals God in the you know, in the um supreme mathematics, and it is a testament in in the culture that the true and true and living God himself is the black man. Now, I don't get into faith and different things. I try to stay away from those things, what people believe and what they don't believe in. But in that culture, in that culture, which I'm which is very influential to me, in my thought, we see the black man as God. You know, and it was the late great Revan Ike that says when you you when you looking for God, you have to look within. And that was such a profound teaching. But now, you know, there was a time, there was a time that people guys used to walk around because in that culture the woman is seen as the earth. And the the black woman is seen as the earth, and then the black man is seen as God, true and living, arm leg, leg arm head. So there was a lot of, you know, I'm God, I'm black man is God, you know, that that that bravado in that bravado vein. You understand? Now I I never did that. I never did that, and I don't do that up here. Because when you come to understand, you come to understand the concept, well, some people would argue, let me let's slow it down a little bit. Some people would argue that is the black man nature, is is that the nature of God? And I would have to say yes. I would have to say yes on that. However, like I said, I never walked around saying that because when we when we understand the black man is God, we we understand it as potentially, there's potential for you to be God. There is potential there, and at the apex of your understanding, you come to realize that uh that that that nature has to be nurtured because you could you could verbally verbally uh profess that right, but does the way you live manifest that you see is there any evidence that your life, the way you live it, projects the God, the godlike quality or the potentiality of God in you. You see? So there's the difference, but in in the apex of your understanding, you will come to understand that that uh the highest attribute, as I heard a brother say one time, and this is this is I got this from a brother, the higher at uh uh the highest attribute of a of the manifestation of God is is a utility personnel technician. Excuse me for a minute. I'm coming down with a little with a little something there. I got me some tea up here, some hot tea. This is why I'm not gonna stay too long. I know I usually say that, but to today I'm not gonna stay long at all. I'm not feeling well. I've been ripping and running and and um I'm pretty worn down. So this week I'm gonna pretty much take it easy. I'm gonna do a little studying and resting. That's what I'm that's the agenda for this week. But

Godhood Means Serving Others

SPEAKER_00 7:50

back to it. Back to it. Yes, so yes, a utility personnel technician, just and that's a fancy word for a janitor. You know, you you go in a building or office building or or something like that, or some kind of facility or whatever, and the janitor, he's not a a in a great title position because he's the janitor, but he's he's always called upon because he has most of the time he has he he walks around, he got a large ring of keys because he has the key to every room in the building. So when somebody requested him to open this door, open that door, to get this supply or get that, or they need access to this, they're gonna call him. So, in other words, he's a servant, and we have to understand that when we're talking about the God quality in us, we are servants, not to be worshipped. When you say the black man is God, it's not to be worshiped, at least not in the way I see it. Let me let me make that clear. I can't speak for everyone else, but this is my understanding. You follow me? So that is the apex of understanding the nature that that nature in you has to be nurtured into that God presence. And that's when you can say the black man is God. You know, Elijah Muhammad used to say, Elijah Muhammad used to say that uh the honorable Elijah Muhammad, let me put that there, used to say that whenever the black man looks into the mirror, he's looking at God. Now we can that that someone, some of you, some of you listening to me right now might be saying, yeah, well, you know, brother going off the deep end, and you know, we don't know about that because some of you are Christian, Muslim, or you're of the Ibrahimic order of different faiths. Some of you may be Gnostic or or whatever, and you might disagree with what I'm saying, but how I understand God to be, yes, there is potential in myself and in you that could be God. So when you understand that we can move on and move into today's program, I'm gonna be talking about a couple things up here. As I said, I'm not gonna stay long at all, just gonna give a couple of updates and briefs on things, and we'll be out of here. And you can go on with your day. And some of you will be listening early this morning on your drive, on your way in for the drive to work or from work or on your way to the gym or in the gym on the treadmill, whatever you're doing, you might be sitting down in Starbucks and on your computer and listening to my voice. And uh, like I said, we appreciate everyone of you who tune in and listen every week. All right, so what do we have

Iran War And Strait Deadline

SPEAKER_00 11:05

first? Well, you know, I've been covering covering the uh keeping close watch on the on the Iranian conflict, right? That that America is very steeped into right now, and I gotta be honest, I gotta be honest. Now, today is I think the deadline that that that President Trump gave the gave the threat or the warning. Some people look at it as a warning, some people may take it as a threat for the for the Iranian regime there to open the Strait of Hermuz. This is where the where the supply of some of the world's oil comes through that strait. And they the Iranian regime has put a chokehole on that, on that strait, and the oil has not been able to get through to the world supply. And that is an issue. That is that is a very big issue. So there was there was there was a a warning or a threat issued, and um let's see, let's see where we are with the with the war. You know, this is escalating to a full-scale conflict that is, you know, it's entering the second month as of April. You know, the geopolitical landscape is extremely violent. Um with with with a very, very significant military, economic, and humanitarian developments. We know this because, like I said, we've been following this. You know, the conflict which began with joint U.S. and Israeli strikes on February 28th has, you know, is has since intensified. Um we want to talk about decimation and capabilities. You know, President Trump recently stated that Iran's offensive capabilities are essentially decimated following a month of air campaigns. Reports indicate severe damage to major missile production sites. And I don't know how to pronounce these words. These are Iranian words, I think. Um, but it is uh over 12,000 targeted sites, including a first ever strike on an Iranian naval base in the Caspian Sea. Now they have had some leadership losses, high-ranking officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Kamenini, Kamenini, Kamenini, I forgot, I don't know how to pronounce those names. Kamenini, Ali Kamenini. That is, that was the he was this, I think the son of Aitola Khamenei, right? National Security Chief Ali Larry Janani. Larry Janani Jani? Larry Larry Jani. Ali Larry Jani. Okay, that's that's the way you pronounce that. We're likely killed in in the earlier campaigns. Iranian retaliation, despite the degradation of its infrastructure, Iran has continued smaller-scale missile salvours toward Israel and has leveraged proxies like Hezbollah and the Houthis to launch coordinated attacks. Now, here's where the the big the big stages, like I said in the beginning in the top of the program, that straight up her moose in the global economy. The maritime situation is primarily is primary primary driver in gold economic anxiety. Is is let me say that, let me pronounce that over again. The maritime situation is the primary driver of global economic anxiety. Blockade of Iranian's parliament, blockade and sovereignty of Irania's parliament recently passed the Strait of the Strait of Hume Hormez Management Plan asserting sovereignty over the international waterway. Tehran has deployed naval mines and attacked commercial vessels effectively choking the floor of oil. And we could we could go into um can we get a little clip of that maybe? Let me see if we can get a little clip of that. Nope, we can't. Okay, anyway, we won't bother with that right now. We won't bother with that. I'll just leave that alone. Because I can't pull it up. I was gonna pull up a clip, but I can't. But anyway, this is um this is the energy crisis. Roughly 11 million barrels of oil per day are currently missing from the global market. Check that. I'm gonna say that again. Roughly 11 million barrels of oil per day are currently missing from the global market. Uh Brent crude, which is Brent crude oil, has has surged above $106 a barrel. Now remember when this thing first started out, it was like $80 per barrel. Now it's up to $106 per barrel, pushing U.S. gas prices past $4 per gallon. With your analytics, analysts warning of imminent spikes in grocery and transport costs. It's gonna be we we could possibly be headed for a global recession.

Oil Shock And Recession Risk

SPEAKER_00 17:20

Possibly. If this thing plays out, continues to play out the way it's playing out. Let me take a sip of tea, family, and get back to you. Hold on. Give me one second. One more second. Let me I got a swig of brandy up here. I'm gonna take just a little brandy. I got some tea with honey and lemon, raw honey and lemon. I don't think I'm coming down with something, but uh yeah, I got I got the a little pinch of brandy. I'm gonna take that and chase it back with the tea.

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SPEAKER_00 18:15

All right. Yeah, so I don't think, even with the threats, I don't think this is going to, I don't think this is gonna work out good for for not only for the US, for the world, for the world economy. And I talked about this, I think on the last program, we spoke about this, right? If you can go back in the archives, you know, okay, financial fallout, uncertainty has caused sharp drops in risk assets, including Bitcoin and the SP 500 as markets markets price in a prolonged disruption of at least several more weeks. Humanitarian and regional impact, UN warnings, Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned that the world is on the edge of a wider war, particularly, particularly as the conflict spills into Lebanon. Israel has announced plans for the for a permanent security zone in southern Lebanon involving the demolition of border villages. Right? And we want to talk about uh what is this here? No, I don't want to go into that. We're responding. Okay, let's talk about um domestic control. Analysts suggest that despite the external war, the Iranian regime's grip on power tightened following the suppression of mass internal protests in January of 2026. The U.S. has deployed thousands of additional troops to the region, including marine and airborne units, as speculation grows regarding potential ground operations on strategic hubs like Kerg Island. Now, family, I gotta tell you, I have some young people in my family now in the military, and one of my cousin's sons. Salute to Darien, Darien Brown. And uh he's he's set to be deployed, I think, next month. Uh I want to see if I can get him on the show before he deploys. I want to see if I can get him maybe hopefully next week. I'm gonna I'm gonna try to put that effort in because he's going over there and he's been over there before in that region. I don't know if he's been to Iran, but he's been to Iraq and Saudi Arabia and that region over there. So, but I want to try to get a little something from him and get him up here and see what he could share with us. You know, excuse me for that. But yeah, family. So this is what's this is what's happening, you know. The recent escalation on social media has brought the conflict to a critical tipping point. President Trump, 48-hour ultimatum, delivered in his characteristic his characteristic, unfiltered style, has set a hard deadline for Tuesday, April 7th, for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hermuz or face hell. Whether it is good for the country is a subject of intense debate, depending on whether you prioritize long term national security or immediate economic stability.

Sorting Propaganda From Reporting

SPEAKER_00 21:55

Now, I don't think, see, you can't. Can't really depend on the mainstream media with this stuff because you got one side's gonna say this, that's gonna be the the the the left wing. You know, ABC, NBC, uh CBS, MSNBC, they're gonna be to the left, CNN, Fox is gonna be to the right, they're gonna come from that perspective, from from the uh conservative side, they're gonna say one thing. So you have to you have to listen to those all sides, both those sides, and then listen to other outlets like like this one and like other independent independent independent pundits and journalists to get to the the real gist of what's going on. Now, as much, now there's a guy that I listen to, I like him very much. His name is DevRoy Dawkins. He has a YouTube channel, does excellent work, but he's he's so Trump can't do no wrong. And that's where these guys, to me, they kill themselves. That brother does excellent work. I really like him. I really he's a he's a conservative, black guy's conservative, but he's not one of them boot, he doesn't appear to me as one of them boot-licking doodle-eating coons that that call himself Black MAGA or, you know, Trump supporters. He's not one of those. He you can tell he does his research, and he's very, I want to say very straight down the middle with a lot of his content. He does his research and he he knows these political ins and outs, and and I guess he studied some kind of political science or whatever, but he's a conservative nonetheless, and he's one of those guys that Trump can't do no wrong. And, you know, he if Trump does make a bad move or wrong move, he's not going to harp on it. He may say something about it, but he's not gonna harp, or he's not going to hold Trump accountable like he would a Barack Obama or Joe Biden or any other person on the on the left. And that's just that's just when you when you dedicated loyalty to these parties, that's the hang-up statue faced. I don't have that problem. I don't have that problem. I I report whatever I report up here, and whether it's good, bad, or indifferent from either side, you know, I'm gonna state what what it is and how I see it. But that brother, he does, he's just not a straight bootlicker like a lot of those um black conservative MAGA people. They're just straight, they're just straight bootlickers, man, and and doodle eaters. That's what they do. They eat the dog crap off of Trump's boots, man. If Trump was on the golf course and stepped into a root or a whole big pile of dead, uh, you know, because dears had used the bathroom too, there's some dare doodle there. They step their foot in and they'll be fighting each other to get to the, get to lick the the bottom of the or the heel to get the get the boop the crap off of there. That's how they are. You know, they hate themselves, they hate the culture. This is why they get up there and talk that stuff. You know, white folks can't do nothing wrong for them. But we don't want to hop on that too much. We're not because I'm trying to get away from uh the name-calling and the degradation of other people. We want to just come up here and focus on freedmen affairs and what we need to be doing as a group, as a lineage, and the things we need to be focusing on. I don't want to focus on other people, but every once in a while, you know, it it raises its ugly head and uh fall into it, and we're gonna have to work on that up here. So, but with that said, yeah. Now, there are, I don't want to stay too long more on this.

War Pros, Cons, And Vietnam

SPEAKER_00 26:10

Now, the question was raised: argument is it good for the U.S. Now, uh got some pros and cons here. The pros are argument strategic victory. Um, restoring deterrence, uh support supporters argue that a firm, credible threat is the only way to force Iran to back down without a full scare ground evasion. They're really afraid of it. Let me tell you something, family. This is not going like everybody thinks it's going. You see how do some of these uh outlets report, they just gonna wipe them out. It's gonna wipe Iran off the face of the map. That's not gonna happen. All I said this, I think in the in the earlier broadcast, a prior broadcast, I said when this thing started, all Iran has to do is survive. See, um the United States can't afford to miss not once. They can't afford no mess ups with this. Guess what? Iran can. All they gotta do is survive, and that will be a win. Because if you remember, going back to the Vietnam War family, America lost that war. It doesn't get talked about as much, but we lost the Vietnam conflict, and it was an embarrassment, it was a huge embarrassment, and we've never been able to live that down. And this is shaping up the same way, only but worse. If if we lose this conflict, it's going to make things much worse than in Vietnam. Vietnam will look like child's play with this thing. All right, but sticking to it, the pros and cons. We're talking about the pros now. Energy independence. By neutralizing Iran's ability to choke the global market, the U.S. aims to secure long-term price stability and weaken a primary adversary. Ending the slow war, the administration urges that surgical strikes haven't worked, and a massive escalation is needed to end the conflict quickly rather than letting it drag on for years. Now here's the cons to it. Economic shock. Gas prices have already climbed past four dollars a gallon. Critics fear a strike on power plants will lead to a permanent closure of the strait, sending oil to $150 plus dollars per barrel and triggering a recession. The humanitarian fallout would be targeting bridges and power plants, hit civ hit civilian life. This could annihilate U.S. allies and fuel anti-American sentiment across the Middle East, which is slowly happening. It's slowly happening. The anti-American sentiment is slowly swelling. Let's not fool ourselves, right? We keep it a buck up here, as the kids say, we keep it a buck. Anyway, escalation, the escalation ladder, there's a high risk that Iran responds by attacking the uh desalination de desalation plants or oil fields in neighboring allied countries. The UAE, Saudi Arabia boarding the war, bordering the war. Current market impact. Uh marketity. Wall Street is on the edge while some traders hope that the threat is a negotiating tactic tactic to force a deal. Prediction markets show only a 1% chance of a ceasefire by tomorrow. That's not good. That's not good. Military readiness, thousands of U.S. troops are being repositioned in the region. The U.S. Navy is reportedly preparing to escort tankers if the deadline passes without an Iranian stand down. Hmm. Bottom line, if the if the threat works and the strait opens, it will be hailed as a master stroke of peace through strength. If it fails and leads to a direct hit on the global energy supply, the no the domestic fallout could be the most significant challenge the U.S. has faced in decades. Okay, so we're gonna leave that there. We're gonna move on, family. We're gonna move on. What do we got next? What do we got next? You know, right now, let me let me see if I can get to that. Let me see if I can get to that. Let me matter of fact, let's see if can we get a music bed in here. Hold on. It's kind of dry up here. Let's kind of dry. Let me see. Yeah, there we go. There we go, family. There we go.

Birthright Citizenship At The Supreme Court

SPEAKER_00 31:40

Anyway, yeah, we um right now, right now, there is um a big, a big Supreme Court uh proceedings going on right now, considering the birthright citizenship. Alright. Let's go. Let's see, can we where we at? Where we at? Okay, this is nothing this. I think I'll go to the laptop and pull that up. Yeah, let me go to the laptop and pull that up. Give me a second, give me a second, listen to the music. Hold on. Okay, I found it. Here we go, family. Let me turn the music down a little bit. All right, so now, right, like I said, in the Supreme Court, there is a very, very significant, important proceedings going on surrounding the birthright citizen citizenship thing, right? Right now, the current status is birthright citizen is still fully in effect. The Fourteenth Amendment still guarantees citizenship to almost everyone born on U.S. soil. The long-standing rule is backed by the 1898 Supreme Court case, Wong Kim Ark. Bottom line is if a baby is born in the U.S. today, they are still a U.S. citizen. Right? The thing that's being challenged is President Trump issued an executive order to restrict birthright citizenship, mainly targeting children of undocumented temporary status parents. Multiple courts have blocked the order, as you know. Well, if you don't know, I'm telling you, multiple lower courts have has blocked the executive order. So it has not taken effect. And this is why this case is going all the way up to the big dogs, up in the Supreme Court. What's happening right now is the the U.S. sub U.S. Supreme Court just heard arguments in this first week of April here we're in on whether that order is legal. And early signaling is that justices from both sides sounding skeptical of the order. They question whether whether a president can override the Constitution in this manner. Right? The final decision is expected by June or July of 2026. What could happen next, who knows? There's there's basically about three realistic outcomes, and one of them would be the order struck down, and that is the most likely signal that that we're seeing so far, if you're following this thing, right? And and the birth birthright citizenship will stay exactly as it is, which I hope it changes, right? A narrow ruling maybe is possible, and court blocks the courts block uh Trump's order, but leaves room for Congress to try to change the law, which I don't think is gonna happen. But it could. Um the order is upheld, which will least which is least likely but possible. It would dramatically uh change who gets citizenship at birth. That's possible, but it's it's it's it's highly unlikely that's gonna happen. You know, because the the j the change would be so dramatic and drastic. You know, there's no way to reverse that once it's done, it's never gonna be able to reverse that. So I don't know, I don't know if these uh courts want to do that. Now, you know, the the the the right has the courts that this is such a big thing here. You know, so not nothing has changed yet. Nothing has changed yet. This is one of the biggest constitutional cases cases in years. Because it because it could redefine uh who counts as an American citizen. And you know, this summer that that will be answered. This summer that will be answered. Now my thing is this the Democrats are pushing so hard against this executive order because they want the the a pathway for these illegal people to become citizens. So, you know, they right away they go to the birthright thing, you know, telling, you know, encourage him to have to bring kids here to give birth. That's because they want to destabilize the the black vote. That's one of the main reasons why they want to destabilize the black vote because we are sl we we were the the second highest demographic demographic in polling, right? And we're slowly becoming a third. And but between the Latinos and Asians, we will be in fourth place. We're right now we're in second, but between the Asians and Latinos, we'll be in fourth place on in the uh population as far as population goes. And once we're not getting anything now as the second largest demographic, right? So like Dr. Claude Anderson said, imagine, I mean, just imagine if we in fourth place. You ain't getting nothing now in second place. Imagine you dropping down to the fourth slot. Tragic. Tragic. I'm telling you. Okay. And uh we see the Democrats, they're going, they're putting on the capes and they're going, these mayors are getting arrested at these protests, and Raz Baracca, who I once really liked, Raz Baracca.

Immigration And The Black Voting Bloc

SPEAKER_00 38:20

And I'm like, I can't, I can't wait to bump into him at some type of event or something or another. And I just want to give him a look. Like, bro, are you serious? Or you were just like when I had that little thing spat with Charles Baron. You know, with Charles Barron, the way that Negro came at me, man, he was just he had the full cape on. And it's hard for me to believe you was actually a Panther, bro. What happened to you, man? What happened? You know, you got around Sharpton and them bozos, man, and you just lost your mind, man. You done brought into it. Yeah, you done brought all the way into the system, it seems like the way you was talking to me. But anyway, that's you don't want to get off into that because you're ready to blow out of here. We hit almost hitting the 40-minute mark, and I want to let you go because I'm not like I said, I'm not feeling well, but I wanted to bring you that. You know, and the Democrats always try to, you know, do the pump fake, like, yeah, the Democrats, we are prioritizing American citizens, supporting labor uh protections, minimum wage and unions, expanding health care access, investing in education and infrastructure, trying to vent exploitation of undocumented workers, which can undercut wages. No, that is not why. That is not why. The thing is, black people are starting to wake up, the black voter is starting to wake up. We've been delineating. So and that's gonna be the next in the next segment. We've been delineating, and we are now asking for tangible goods for the vote, and they realize that they need a new voter base, and that's what all of this stuff is about, mostly. That is one of the main things that this that this whole migration thing is about, is about destabilizing the black vote. Now, some of you who listen to me, you pay attention to this and you follow this stuff, some of you don't, and I understand, but it's it's becoming more and more apparent that we're going to need to unify, unify together, and stand together on these on these issues. Because as Dr. John Henry Clark has taught us, we have no friends. And that's that's slowly becoming a reality of our community. Now, we can leave that story and go into the next. I got this thing here. Okay, okay.

Ed Blum Challenge To CBC Programs

SPEAKER_00 41:24

Now we're talking about this thing here. Uh Freeman reparations and race law. Now, you know, recently, and and I I gotta say off the gate without leaning one way or the other, I gotta say off the gate that I like this, but there could be consequences. And I'm gonna read them, and this is the Ed Blum. Now, we've talked about him up here on this program before. We've talked about Ed Blum. He's the guy, he has made a career off of suing institutions, and he had he's gone after the the Congressional Black Caucus as of recent. Right? And he's the head of the um, he's he's the seems to be the head of the uh American Alliance for Equal Rights. And uh he's going after the Congressional Black Caucus, the CBC, um, and how race conscious programs are treated under U.S. law. As of April 26th, this conflict has moved beyond college emissions because that's where he started at with college emissions and into the realm of private uh philanthropy, right? And legislative adjacent foundations. For United States descendants of freemen, uh, the stakes are particularly high as the outcome could dictate the legality of future lineage-based reparations and specialized economic programs. Now, Ed Blum is coming from this point against the CBC. He filed a federal lawsuit against the Congressional Black Awkward, specifically targeting its CBC uh spouse's scholarship program. And the core argument of the allegation is Blum argues that by limiting scholarship eligibility to black students, the CBC Foundation is practicing practicing racial gatekeeping. And that violates the Civil Rights Act of 1866, section 1881. The mechanism, Section 1881, prohibits racial discrimination in the marketing and enforcement of private contracts. Right? Blum successful successfully used this same tactic against the Fearless Fund, a venture capital firm for black women, in 2024 arguing that a grant contest is effectively a contract. That's the argument he used. And he won. Now the CBC's defense maintains that these programs are essential to closing the racial wealth gap and the education gap and represent a form of expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment. They're gonna lose that. Well, I hope they lose that. Because you know what the CBC, like I said, there's 62 on the congressional, 62 seats on the Congressional Black Caucus, right? Out of those 62 seats, there are only 13 who are foundational black American FBAs. And of those 13, they are all controlled and they're controlled, and I want to say in depth to the DNC, the Democratic National Convention, right? Or the Democratic Party. They're staunch, staunch Democrats. So they're going with the Democratic agenda. They're not thinking about situations concerning you and I. That's the least of their worries. Now we now the black vote is their base because black people vote at 92. I want to say the last election, it reflected a 92%. Well, 92% with the women and 88% with the men, black men. Right? So here's the thing. But when it comes to these foreign nationals, right, they get real specific, very specific and down to the letter. Right? This is why I'm begging you, I'm begging you, I'm begging y'all. Please wake up. I'm nudging the bed as hard as I can, and I'm shaking the bed for you to come out of that slumber. We need to come out of both of those, those, those political, you mean because there's only there's only two political systems. That's the left and the right, and it's all one. They two feathers of two wings are the same bird, as far as I'm concerned. And we need to set our own caucus. And there's talk of a of a group of us who are talking about doing a foundational black American caucus because we have too many of these foreign melanated people in the middle of our politics. And this is a mistake from us that we have made. This is a very huge mistake we have made over the years, right? So we need to get out of that. And hopefully we can get some small caucuses going and then become a larger caucus, right? But we need representation because we don't have any right now. We just don't have any. You got these bozos and bimbos like James Clyburn, Stacy Abrams, what's the other guy down in Georgia? Uh, what's that? Raphael Warnock and these kind of people. And and then if they on the right, they they just boot boot licking and and I want to be nice here. Stick. Stick. Stick sucking negroes. I said stick. S-T-I-C-K stick sucking negroes. They just am I being too graphic up here? I don't feel good, but I'm just bringing a little levity. Just bringing a little levity. And for the for the children to listen in, I'm sorry, but your uncle gotta get a little gets a little rambunctious sometimes. Well that said, yeah, family. So this is this is why we need to start setting up small caucuses and hopefully we can get some things going and representation going. We got guys like Marcel Dixon and the other young lady, I forget her name. I'm gonna have to get a list of um potential political uh people that's coming up in the political world that that represent us. That we can hold their feet to the fire, right? So yeah. So the CBC maintained that these foundations uh maintain that these programs are essential for closing the racial wealth gap and educational gap, yada yada, yada, yada, yada, right? Now, pay attention to this because this could this could could potentially harm us or help us. It depends on us. Now, pay attention close to what I'm about to say to you.

Lineage Reparations Under Legal Attack

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I'm not even gonna play any music. The potential impact on the freedmen could be the implications for the descendants of freedmen community are profound. As this legal trend challenges the very foundation of race-based versus lineage-based remedies, the lineage versus race pivot, the primary concern for the freedmen advocate is whether programs can be restricted to the descendants of enslaved persons in the United States. The risk, if the courts rule that any program benefiting a specific racial group is a violation of section 1981 of that of that um section of that law that was passed, right? Then even lineage-based reparations, which are specifically for descendants of the enslaved, regardless of of current racial self-identification, may be viewed by the court as a proxy for race. They're gonna change up the language. That's telling me that there's a curveball that they would use to change up the language, and they most likely will. Right? Now, the defense would be some legal scholars argue that descendants of freedmen is a political or ancestral status, not a not a strictly racial one. If Bloom wins, the movement may be forced to strictly define all benefits through the lens of specific historical injury lineage rather than broad racial categories, b black, African American, yada yada yada, to survive strict scrutiny. Threat to the local reparations. We are already seeing this play out in places like Evanston, Illinois. Lawsuits often from groups like uh Judicial Watch, right, have used the 14th Amendment and section 18, 1981 to challenge cash payments for black residents. Because I think in Illinois they were getting that money. They were getting checks. So they rushed in there and did the switcheroo there. If Blum's suit against the CBC Foundation succeeds, it provides a playbook to dismantle state and local reparation task force like those in California and New York before they can even issue checks. We gotta be ready for this and we gotta get down. This is why I'm saying never mind arguing with these tethers and all these other people online and from Ghana and Africa and the Caribbean. Never mind arguing with we got work to do, family. We got work to do. They are light work to us, they're light work. This is the real fight here. Um the chilling effect, the descendants of Freeman community often relies on private grants and phralantic support for advocacy and economic development. The fearless fund precedent, the 11th circuit ruling against the fearless fund has already made foundations hesitant to fund black-only initiatives. Right? And that affects me because I'm I'm in the process of of doing something in that in that direction. The result USDF org organizations may find it increasingly increasingly difficult to secure the capital needed for community building if donors fear a blum style lawsuit. Right? The strict scrutiny landscape under the current Supreme Court, most race-based policies must pass strict scrutiny, the highest level of judicial law and review. Right? Requirements, uh compelling interest, the government must have a very strong reason in general, remedying specific past discrimination, narrow tailoring, the program must be the only way to achieve the goal without being too broad. Right? And the freedmen's outlook on this the blum the blum litigation is forcing a survival of the specific for descendants of freedmen. This could mean a shift in language, moving entirely away from race-based labels towards ancestry-based or inquiry, injury-based legal frameworks. Increase litigation, expect more challenges to any government or private program that uses black as a qualifying checkbox. Three, the Supreme Court showdown. This path likely leads back to the Supreme Court, which may ultimately decide if the Civil Rights Act of 1866, ironically designed to protect the rights of newly freed slaves, can be used to block programs meant to assist their descendants. Right? And I was thinking, well, you know, they gave it to the Native Americans and the Japanese for the internment camps and stuff like that. So with all of the evidence that we have, you know, what could be the the the objects or things that would block us from from getting any kind of compensatory justice, right? And you know, these these you know, bringing up that argument is a central point of contention in the in the current current legal and political debate. Right? So here we

Lessons From Japanese And Native Cases

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go. Here we go. Primary reason critics argue that the Japanese American or Native American models don't automatically apply apply to freedmen comes down to how the law categorizes the group. Uh they look at the Japanese Americans Civil Liberties Act of 1988. The government argued this was a remedy for a specific time-bound executive action, executive order 9066. It compensated specific individuals who were directly detained or their immediate heirs. Native Americans, legally Native American tribes, are viewed as quasi-savage and political entities, not just a racial group. Their compensation often stems from treaty violations, essentially a breach of contract between two governments. Very interesting. But there's some precedent, even in that, there's some precedent that I believe good legal people could pull out of that. Right? The freedman dilemma. Opponents like Blum argue that reparations for black Americans are race-based rather than injury-based. They claim that the that because the individuals directly enslaved are no longer living, providing benefits to their descendants today, based on their race, violates the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause. The lineage strategy solution strategy has a solution to bypass the race

Why Courts Reject Historical Claims

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argument. Many in the Freedman movement are pushing for a lineage-based legal framework. This is designed to mirror the documented evidence that I always bring up, right? By using documents like the 1870 census records, Freeman's Bureau Files, and the manual mission papers, that argument shifts, right? Very good for us. That's a very good point of contention right there for us. From we are helping people because they are black, which Blum argues is unconstitutional, to we are setting a debt with the legal estate of a group of people, freedmen, whose labor was stolen and to whom specific promises like 40 acres and a mule were made and broken. Now the courts have been infamous for denying these claims despite the evidence. Even with mountains of evidence, the current judicial philosophy often calls originalism and colorblind constitutionalism uses three main hurdles to deny claims. Right? One is a the status of limitations argument. Courts often rule that while the harm was real, the legal window to sue has closed. They argue that descendants cannot sue for harms done to their ancestors 150 years ago unless a specific a specific new law like the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 is passed by Congress to reopen that window. The standing issue is to win a lawsuit, you must prove direct harm. Courts are increasingly skeptical of intergenerational harm. They demand proof that a specific person's current economic status is a direct, quantifiable result of a specific ancestry enslavement, a high bar for strict scrutiny courts. Well, we would have to go to the legislative branch instead of through the true judicial system. We would have to frank this thing on on leg on a legislative level, and that's gonna be hard. You know, the battle now is is which door of the law that evidence is allowed to walk through. And I believe, I believe, I'm a believer that it is is the legislative law, because it's not gonna work in the traditional courts. Hell, the people from from um from uh Oklahoma, the Oklahoma massacre, I think there were three of them. One of them died recently. They're like two of them left. And they still denying those people. So this is why I say, fam, we got a lot of work to do. Got a lot of work to do, and this is gonna bring me to the last last story, and we're gonna get ready to get out of here. Let me uh uh pick this brain a little bit. Let me go do this and uh you know this thing, uh put this kid uh, what's his name? This Gucci main thing. I don't know what this stuff was about. Hold on, let me see. I had the whole story. Let me see here. Now, let me let me see that I have it in the in on the iPad. Hold on. I got in, I got in on this side, but let me see if I have it in the iPad.

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Let me see.

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Listen to the music for a second, and I'll be right with you. Hold on. It's almost it's time for us to go. But yeah, I wanna I wanna get this in there. Well, anyway, anyway. Let me let me let me go back to this. Get it up on Google. Yeah, okay, here it is.

Rap Contract Robbery Meets Federal Law

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And according to the DOJ, Pooch Neisty is the one who set up the meeting to discuss his recording contract.

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Ms. Lemon's Williams Jr. produced an AK pistol and forced one of the victims to sign a release from the recording contract at gunpoint. The remaining uh conspirators displayed firearms and robbed the other victims of Rolex watches, jewelry camp, and other high-value items.

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He was wearing an ankle monitor at the time of the crime. Officials say all nine suspects will be transported here to North Texas, where they will face their crimes. Now, if convicted, each suspect can face life in prison. For now reporting in Dallas.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:44

Yeah, well, here's the thing. Here's the thing with all of this. Here's the thing. This boy's father was with him. This Pooh Sheisty guy. His father was with him. He's supposed to be a rapper to uh uh N30 or whatever. The, you know, they they they got they this thing was set up. It wasn't a street beef. It, you know, this is business going wrong. So they go to this so-called business meeting for a sit-down, have a discussion or whatever, and it was a setup for a robbery. This boy wanted out of his contract with Gucci Main, I think the 1017 is the name of the label or whatever. And he he thought it was a contract meeting, so he goes in and according to the federal authorities, it turned into an alleged setup involving Pooh Shysti. Um now we're talking about guns, people being held against their will, paperwork being forced at gunpoint. This is a federal case now. And here's the lesson nobody wants to say. You can't handle legal business with street tactics. Once you sign a contract, you're in the courtroom world, not the street world. If you want if you want out of the deal, you get lawyers. The moment you bring guns into it, you just turn the business problem possibly into life in prison. Or a lot of years in prison. Maybe not the rest of your life, but a lot of long years, because nobody was killed. But you know, the bottom line is this situation shows exactly what happens when the streets and the industry collide, and dudes having learned from prior mistakes. You had the thing with Pac and Biggie going all the way back to what that was 27 years ago. Going all the way back there. And you still haven't learned from that. Family, the system is undefeated. Undefeated. And this boy father was with him. How you how you not talk your son down out of this foolishness? There had to be, you had to understand there was a better way to deal with this. You had to understand that. But when we say delineating, family, they think we're only talking about delineating from people of Africa, Pan-Africanists, the Caribbean people. We talking about some of our own people we gotta delineate from, because we can't go into legal legal issues in legislative courts and legislative hearings with these kind of bozos around us. You gonna do bring guns into the to the into the Senate or into the Congress hearings? What are you gonna do? We have to delineate from all this ignorant bullcrap that we're doing. Right? Um that's that real talk. There's just some people you're gonna have to leave alone. They wanna stay right where they at. They want to smoke weed every day and roll up weed and do what they want and go to parties and fight and big old fights at these clubs and all that's pe that's something that these folks they live for week in and week out. They live for that. I don't want to be bothered with people like that. I don't. I don't want that kind of energy around me. And this is part of the delineate delineation getting around from some of even some of my own people who want to stay stuck and trapped in that ignorance like that. Because this don't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense. Now it's all Gucci main and snitching and eh. What come on, bro? What are you what do you expect the guy to do? He's trying to run an official business and you coming with this this gangster, this, this, you pressing shit. You know, you you pressing up on shit because you don't like something in the contract. Well, you fight it out in court. But you know, this is this is what some people live for. This is what they want. That's it,

Closing Values And Next Week

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family. We're gonna get out of here. We're gonna get out of here and let you go. And um come back next week. We're gonna do it again. We're gonna do it again. And hopefully, hopefully I'll feel better. And as Malik always says, you must respect life, love justice, cherish freedom, and treasure the peace. And we're gonna blow out of here and let the horn blow. And y'all go in peace and keep the peace. Be patient, love one another, help each other. Peace.