Honoring Bob Law And The Fight For Reparative Justice

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Welcome And Global Reach

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Peace, peace, and welcome back. Welcome back, Freedman's Affairs video. I'm your host, Aaron Vaughn Black. Not Vaughn Vaughn B-O-N Vaughn Black. And um as always, right out of the gate, right out of the gate. Family, we are in 73 countries. Listeners in 73 countries and almost almost 600 cities globally. Y'all, you you guys are amazing. You guys are amazing. And I can never, I could never get up here and thank you enough for helping making this program the success that it's becoming. And I mean that. I'm not just, you know, anybody that knows me knows that I don't talk just to talk. Or I don't, I'm not into cliche things. And when I say something, it's usually from I'm meaning what I say. Because I say what I mean and I mean what I say. That's the way I was raised and brought up. So I don't just gaslight and talk about your talk. But I gotta tell you, I'm very humbled and appreciative of all of you, family, all of you. I'm talking about everyone from around the world, whether they like and agree with us up here or not, whether they like us, Freedman's Affairs Radio, they might not even like the name Freedmen. They know we're black American people, but you got people listening from Senegal. You know, and it was a long time before we got any countries in Africa to pick up, to pick up the uh, and smash the button to listen and to download. And now we're getting them, I think it's Senegal, there's there's there's uh Tanzania, but quite a few places on the continent that are listening. And and we we're we thank you for that. Really, really, family over there. We thank you, we thank you. And um, especially here in the United States, United Kingdom, the Indian Ocean Territory, uh, Egypt, everywhere, man. I never, I never, I, I, I knew the show was the program was gonna grow. I had no idea that it was gonna, it was gonna, so just all of a sudden it just took a turn, hit a curve. Because we were we were up to 40 something countries and you know, a few hundred cities here and then all of a sudden that thing took a curve. I think when I took that hiatus and I came back, it was it was like it just started picking up. You have to pardon me. I'm still dealing with that nasty cold. And um, yeah, but we um we back here today. We back here today. Today, April 14th,

Knowledge Culture And Public Conduct

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2026. The numerical focus is knowledge culture. Knowledge culture is the numerical focus. And when we um when we go to we we go to the to the lessons as we call them, as normally what we call them up here, the lessons and we go to the it's very important, I thought, would be for for today's broadcasting. Um we go to the to the open up the lessons and go to the 1 to 14, right? It um it it it raises a question. It raises a question, right? What is the meaning of MGT MGT and GCC? And the answer and the answer was Muslim girls training in general civilization class. This was the name given to the training of women and girls in North America, how to keep house, how to rear children, and how to take care of their husbands, so cook, and in general, how to act at home and abroad. Very important, sisters, very important. How to act at home and and abroad. And you could take that in the in the literal sense, or you can take that in the sense of how you behave yourself in the home and and how you behave yourself outside of the home. You know, you got we see a lot of times you have you have women that are that are very loud and and opinionated and voisterous. You know, they when they're in the house, they're yelling at the kids, kids running around doing what kids do, and they're yelling this sh, you know, the women get aggravated and they're yelling at the kids, and and I remember once, I told my lady once, this is the first and only time I had to have this conversation with her. It was one Saturday I met her, she she she was I I had to drop something off over there by her mother's, and when I got over there, they were in the in the mall. They weren't upstairs in the apartment, they were in the mall. In the little strip mall there. So I went over there to to greet them, you know, the mother and sister and everybody was there. And she had asked me for something, and I forget what it was that we got into it about, and she started raising her voice. Um she was at my car window, and she was they they were over there by the nail salon, sitting in in her sister's car, and she yelled, she was she was raising her voice. I didn't say anything at that moment because there was nothing for me to say. It was only two ways that was gonna go. Either you were gonna be quiet, which she wasn't at that time, or I was gonna hit you in the mouth. And I don't hit women, family. I'm just telling you here, this is this is the thoughts going in my head. I'm gonna hit you in the mouth and make you be quiet. So I chose the latter to to spin off, you know, after she aired her grievance out, whatever it was, and I drove off. And you know, family, when someone knows they're wrong, you you all you know, when people have a conscience and they know they're wrong, they they will own up to the wrong because it wasn't I I had pulled away and I pulled out the light, went around the block, hit the light, and I was going to the parkway, you know, to go back over around to to my area where I was staying at at that time. And before I got to the to to the to the parkway, my phone rang, and it was her. So I hit the button, now she's gonna speak in the car, and she was telling me, you know, I'm I'm I apologize for for raising my voice. You know, we we argue in in closed quarters, we have disagreements or whatever in closed quarters, and sometimes it gets a little testy or a little intense, but not nothing, never nothing crazy. And that day, for some reason, she she was going at, you know, she was talking at the top of her voice. And it shocked me at first, and then it then then I started, I could feel the blood flowing through me and heating. So I said, I better get out of here. It's best for me to peel off from here. So anyway, like I was saying, before I made it to the to the actual parkway, I made the left at the light and I'm going down uh Pennsylvania Avenue, headed toward the toward the Bell Parkway. Before I could reach the park, we she had rung the phone and I put on the hit the button and put on this car speaker and everything. She was like, oh, you know, I I want to just say, you know, I you know, I apologize for raising my voice like that. And yada, yada, yada, yada, yada. And I just paused. I didn't say anything. So when she finished talking, there was a long pause. And I she said, Well, you know, um, I'm gonna hang up because you're not saying anything, whatever. So, and I stated to her the reason why I'm not saying anything, because I want to convey something to you, and I'm trying to rationalize it in my head, but I'm just gonna come out and say it. You know, I'm I've never put my hands on you to strike you in any kind of physical way or anything like that, other than we playing, you know, you know, we in a house and we playing around, I'm tick, she's very ticklish and I tick tickling her, she had slapping at me and stuff like that. We play around like that. But never in a heated exchange or anything like that. I said, but if you ever, if you ever raise your voice to me ever again in public like that, you're gonna lose some teeth, and I'm going, I'm probably gonna end up with some charges. And I got bail money. But to avoid that, we're not we're not gonna have any type of discussions like that out in public ever again. Now, not saying we won't have disagreements in public, like, you know, we just, you know, because since then she, you know, she has gotten mad with me and let me out of the car, pull over here, and I'll take a cab home or whatever like that. She'll get mad like that. But even I try to avoid that. But she on, you know, uh, my lady is no punk. No punk at all. She broke Brownsville, raised and born and raised, and and that's what it is. She got that side of her, so there ain't no punk in her at all. But she understood exactly what I was saying, and she she didn't uh show any resist resisting or she didn't put up any argument about what I said, and uh that was the last time that happened. Hopefully that you know it'll never happen again, you know, because uh I don't I don't tolerate that. I don't tolerate that's something you can't tolerate. And the reason why, that's why that that thing I read from the from the um from the 1 to 14 is so important because you have to, as men and women, we have to know how to behave in public because someone see people I if I'm your protector, I'm your man, I'm your protector, your maintainer and protector, right? And someone sees you doing that, what respect are they gonna have for you if you can talk to me that way, there's no way for me to be able to protect you when it's time. This is why when whenever I'm with with my lady, I try to, and she wants to go to these stores, she wants to go over here, go over there. Let's go out the Long Island, I want to go out to Roosevelt Field, I want to go over here, I want to go over here. I try to, let's look, we'll get up early, and I want to be there when the doors crack open, especially when it's the weekend. I really don't like being bothered with that that woman stuff on the weekend. You wanna you wanna go over here, you want to go over there, you want to go over there. I try to do it early. See, why do you want to do everything? Because the that's the less people you have to deal with. You see, be you see what I'm saying? Um, when it comes to you, there's it and it comes down to that where I where I am called on for some situation where I have to defend you because some someone's acting like a savage or or they're they're they're you know, they're being disruptive or whatever like that. I have to be able to protect you. And for me to protect you, the way I protect is there's nothing. I'm going all the way. At my age, I don't have time to play. I'm going straight for the juggler vein. And I have to put you away the best and fastest way I can. So there is no playing. And she understands that, and and you know, she handles things, you know. She's even told me times that things have popped up, and she she, if she had the capability to handle it without informing me about it, she does, she would do that. Just to keep down the the potential of disaster. And I respect her for that. But I always tell her, don't never hesitate when you, especially when you're in the right. And I always tell her, don't argue with men when it's another, don't even argue with women. And she she's pretty much, that's her temperament anyway. But yeah, family. I just, you know, that's just, we just talking and getting it uh, getting it warmed up. Because we're not gonna stay long, we're not gonna stay long. But then yeah, I thought that was important because that the that that phrase, how to behave at home and abroad. Very important, very important, sisters uh who listening out there, and the men too, to the brothers too. That's why I told that little that little tidbit. Okay, and um, yeah, that's what it is. Now, family, I gotta I gotta tell you, let me get get the bed back up in

An Apology And A Dedication

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here. I gotta tell you, I have a big apology. I have a huge apology to make to you, family. Um man, I don't know how this slipped past me last week. And I'm really ashamed of myself. I really am. Just give me a minute. I'm rearranging this desk up here and plugging some stuff in. Okay. Yeah, I'm really ashamed of myself. And I want to apologize to you, family. You know, with everything that's been going on, you know I've been dealing with uh back-to-back deaths of very close friends of mine and a family member. And uh, you know, your mind goes sometimes, but it's no, I make no excuse for this. You know, March 30th, March 30th, that was uh on a Monday. I believe it was Monday, 27th, 829, or Tuesday. I think it was a Tuesday. Monday or Tuesday? But anyway, that was that day uh we lost a great legendary freedom fighter and and a wonderful brother. I met the brother, I've talked to him, been inspired by him, and that is Bob Law. Family, I I can't apologize enough to you guys, and it's it's really bothering me as I'm speaking on it because man, he was a he was a great, great, great one. Great one. Low-key, low-key, wasn't all into the TV stuff and everything like that. Wonderful individual. Now, he did I don't know anything bad was never about him, was never said in my presence. I've never heard anybody had a bad thing to say about brother. You understand? In his public life. Bob Law. And uh, I'm gonna read from his obituary, but yeah, our brother, man, he passed away. He passed away. And Bob Law was very, a very high, a very great inspiration for me from what I do up here and what I'm doing right now. Speaking in this microphone to you, family, he's one of those guys. Him, Frankie Crocker, these all these people were inspirations to me to do what I have to do. I'm not a DJ, so I don't, I don't, you know, I play a little music up here, here and there, but mostly for the program, I'm I'm bumping my gums and and things of that nature. So, but yeah, excuse me a moment. Uh Bob Law, man, he just, you know, wonderful, wonderful human being. Wonderful. I I got I met him on several occasions, and I met his wife on occasions. I met his wife, especially when I would stop by the the little uh what is that street? Is that Vanderbilt or what street is that? That that I remember that part of we we used to I remember when I was working for the beverage uh company, I would stop, I would have deliveries. There was a supermarket there, and I would do deliveries there. And I would always stop in the little health place they had there. And I got a crazy story about that. We're gonna come back to that. But uh I have his obituary here, and I want to read from it. This is the official obituary of Robert Lewis Law. Born April 6th, born April 6th in night in 1939. Let me let me text this person, man. Anything people don't uh just give me a second, I'm sorry. So let me let him know so he can stop ringing my phone and uh I I I can get into what I'm getting into, yeah, because people don't know, they don't mean harm. They just you know it's early and they, you know, they they wanna talk. Cause they know I'm up and up and about, you know, it's early, but I'm up, you know, and certain people know you're up this time of morning and they want to talk and you know, ask you certain things or whatever, but it's all it's all good. It's all good. But anyway, yeah, this is the official

Bob Law’s Life And Legacy

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obituary, obituary for our brother, and I'm gonna read from it. Bob Law was born on April 6, 1939, and fell asleep in death peacefully on Monday, March 30th, 2026. He was devoted to his faith, his family, and his community, and he impacted many lives through his words and actions. He was a staunch advocate and defender of the black community, a freedom fighter, an entrepreneur, a radio personality, an author, a playwright, and a filmmaker. At the WWRL radio station, where Bob was first the public affairs director and the host of Black Dialogue, he used his platform to not only highlight the challenges and injustices the black community encountered, but to effect change through action, coordinating community events and bringing the concerns of his people to the front steps of power. Bob demanded institutional change in the face of institutional biases. Later becoming the program director during the glory days of Black Radio, he brought together the dream team of radio personalities, including Hank Spann, Bobby J, Jerry Bledsoe, Jeff Troy, and Gary Bird. As the host and executive producer of the first nationally syndicated late-night call-in radio program, Night Talk, Bob brought his audience into the movement. Listeners heard not just his voice and thought, but those of black leadership and black excellence from the arts to the streets across the nation and around the globe. He founded several community organizations, including the National Respect Yourself Youth Organization, establishing Saturday Academies around the country and launched the forty person Respect Yourself Youth Choir, which toured in various cities with him, instilling in those young black men and women that they were worthy to share their voices and their stories and involving them in upbuilding community outreach that impacted their communities. Bob was the New York State coordinator for the groundbreaking Million Man March and the Millions More movement, the creator of the play The Magic Crown, a children's productions which he later turned into a stop-action animated film. And the creator and producer of Say It Loud, a feature-length documentary film on the state of modern black radio. Most recently, he was the host of the of the popular weekly radio show From the Streets with Bob Law on WBAI Radio, was the chair for the National Black Alliance, an organization organization dedicated to the to empowering and educating black Americans, the black American community, and mobilizing voters to effect positive change, and was and was one of the lead organizers of the Peacekeepers Global Initiative and anti-violence organization. He and his wife, Munto Law, were the proprietors of Namaskar, a health and wellness store in business for over 40 years. That became a community institution in Brooklyn, where together they improved the quality of life of many. They also owned and operated Bob Law's Seafood Cafe, which made arguably the best fried fish and cabbage in Brooklyn, always attuned to the needs of his community. He also found the Nasmaca Capital Assistance Program. His legacy is that of unfailing love, dedicated service, creativity, dignity, empowerment, and black excellence. Salute to you, King. Salute. Thank you, thank you, family, thank you. Wonderful human beings. And this today's program is dedicated to our brother Bob Law. Salute to you, King. Take your sleep, take your sleep. You've earned it. Now, let me see. Let's get a bed back up in here. I don't know. These buttons have been okay. These buttons been kind of really mushy lately. So we're gonna have to see. Can we uh I'm gonna work on that probably during during some time this week, I'm gonna work on those. So, but we're here together and we we doing what we do, family. We doing what we do. I'm still battling this cold. Yeah, but I I I you know back to Bob Law. I I don't know how I let that that slip slip away from me like that. All right, man, that that that that bothered me. I I gotta do better. I gotta do better. But we all humans and we're prone to to miscues and oversights, because that was was was a pure oversight. Because I I would have done this show for Bob Law, man. You know, come on, bro. Family, you know, we're catching it from all different all different angles now. And you know, it's Jason Black that says, I hear him say this a lot. You know, I can get up here on this microphone and talk about how wonderful I am and you know, and all of this other crap and pat myself on the back and talk about this, or I can do it as a collective, you know, tell tell tell us, you know, I can get up here, which I do it anyway. I do it anyway. I get up here every week and I try to um give the bios and stuff like that because my intention is to recall our memory, the greatness that we come from, the heritage, the lineage that we come from. And this is why I do the bios every week. And I talk about all these wonderful, magnificent people of our past who have gone on to join their ancestors. Some of them are still with us, but most of them are gone. But I do this every week to recall that memory. You know, because as you know, we're in a fight for reparative justice, but that's not the only fight we're in. Family, we we are at the precipice where we have to, we're gonna be forced to unify. We're gonna be forced to unify our collective because they're not, oh, the the the reparations and freedom and stuff like that. This is not something they're gonna just give to us because they feel bad. No, we're gonna have to take it. I played that clip last week of Dr. John Henry Clark where he said, your freedom is something that's not given to you. It's taken your freedom is taken. And with with just about with anything else, you have to take that. Just like with the the the word respect, we throw that word around a lot. Respect. I want respect, man. Uh say whatever you want, man, as long as you respect me. Well, you have to command respect. You can't ask for respect, you have to command it. And how do you command respect? Most of the times, through your actions, how you treat people, how you treat yourself, how you carry yourself. Right? I never, you know, and I knock on wood. Because my interactions with the youth, I never have a problem with them, and I'm so proud of that. You know, I've I've never had a run-in with the youngster about, you know, we're getting into it, and he he threatening me and I'm threatening him. I never never do that. And I'm very grateful for that. You know, you know what I'm saying? Um, most of my in in in interaction with them has been very positive for the most part. You know, I had to get used to them calling me OG and stuff like that. I had to get used to that. Because you don't feel you're old, but to them, you are you're old. You're OG. And they they, you know, that's it's a it's a thing of of uh honor. It's it's a term of honor. And I had to get used to that. And I I never uh don't call me OG. I never said nothing like that. You know, I don't call them youngsters. I might say occasionally young man or you know, sir. I usually call them sir because I want to show them the respect, the high respect I have for them. So yeah, I I never had that uh that kind of run-in. And again, what I do, what I do up here every week, I try to do the bios and stuff like that. Now, and I want you all to get you you uh number players and scratch off players and stuff like that, and people who

April Dates That Build Memory

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do the cards and stuff, there's some dates up here I'm gonna give. This this today's program is is dedicated to to Bob Law. That's without a doubt. Now, I'm gonna name some names up here that I'm that I will be using in further in other um programs that I will be dedicating to some of the people on this list here. But I thought this was interesting interesting for the month of April. Uh Bob Law, as you as we read, the obituary, was born on April 6th of 1939, right? Now, check this out, family. I want you to look this up. Matthew Henson. You know who that is? Well, if you don't know, look up Matthew Henson. He's the he's the brother that um reached the North Pole. He was the first brother ever reached the North Pole and planted the flag there or whatever, and that was on April 6th of 1909. This was this was 30 years uh before Bob Law was born. Same day, April 6th, right? April 6th, 1939, birth Bob Law was born. April 6th of 1909 is when this brother uh reached the North Pole. Also, also in April, now check this out, because this one here is really, you just gotta flip the numbers around and it's there, right? Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 10th, 1947. Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers April 10th of 1947. Hank Aaron hit home run number 715 to break Babe Roof record April 8th of 1974. Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers 1947. Right? April, nine uh April 10th, 1947, and our brother Hank Aaron, Hank Henry Aaron hit his 715th home run April 8th of 1974. You take that and look at 1947, 1974, just flip the numbers around, and it was crazy. So I thought that was a little a nice little tidbit. So, like I said, for all of you guys that's into astrology, you know, uh ladies and gentlemen that are into astrology and family out there, some of the youngsters, they may be into it also. And not for nothing, guys like my man Chalk that be playing the numbers all the time. You know, he'll eat something like that up, you know, he'll eat that up. And then um we got on April 25th of 1917, the great legendary jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald was born. Ella Fitzgerald was born April 25th, 1917. And one more important date, well, I have much, I have a whole bunch of this stuff, but one more important date that I want to bring up here is on April 30th of 1926, Bessie Coleman, the first black woman pilot, she became the first black woman pilot in America April 30th, 1926. And the reason why I bring these bios up and these people up, family, is to to get to um to get us to remember. I wanna I want to remind us and to keep it in our heads what type of people we come from. You know, most people will paint us as uh just party, we want to party and get high and smoke weed all day and just goof off. And you know, we'll work bare minimal and we're lazy and all that stuff like that. We don't come from a lazy stock or trifling. As they used to say in the South, they used to call you shitting. Oh shitting, boy, that boy, they ain't worth nothing. Look at him, he's just a shitting. You know, we we don't, that's not who we are at all. And that's why I bring up those bios. I try to bring them up every week up here to remind us, to recall that memory. Because we're gonna have to, we're gonna need that. You know, you hear me talk about reparations last week and how we're gonna have to, we're not gonna get it from the uh judiciary side. We're gonna have to go the legislative route. And right now, we just don't have anybody that will represent us now on that level, on the legislative level. We don't have representation. The Congressional Black Caucus, they're for uh the illegal people, they're for foreigners, foreign nationals. They have no interest in us at all. And there's a reason why, but that's gonna change, family. We have to make that change, and we got to make them respect us. That's how we're gonna get the reparations. And that's why I bring these individuals up because showing us what we come from. We come from pilots, right? Scientists, explorers, great athletic people, right? People of great uh voice that impacted the world. These these people are named here today, and did they just didn't impact our community, they impacted the entire globe. These people reached the globe just like we're doing up here. You may not think about it like that, but I said it in the beginning of the program, family. I talked about it. We in 74 countries, almost 600 cities touching the world. You and I, you you here with me, listening to my voice right now. I'm talking into this mic. And it was Jason Black, and this is gonna segue into my next uh bit of discussion here. As I said, it's Jason Black that says, you know, don't listen to me. Listen to what my detractors and my opposition says about me. Damn what I say. Never mind what I say. Listen to the people that oppose me, listen to what they're saying. Right? That's what we do. Now, I want to play something for you. I'm gonna we're gonna switch gears here and go into our next thing. Give

Why Some Demand Your Vote

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me a second. Go on to the iPad. Just give me one second, and we're gonna put the mic up and do everything.

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Podcaster, YouTuber, even though he makes fun of us that are YouTubers, he's on YouTube too. He is very upset. And he's upset with those of us that are black media that basically are demanding something for our vote. So let's hear what he had to say, and then we'll get into it.

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And I'll and I'll say it again. I want Magazine completely decimated in November. I want them to lose the House, I want them to lose the Senate. And all you punk asses out there, let me be real clear, especially some of you loud ass folk who proclaim to be FBA, um, all men in the Hill Sheel, book, dancing for the Democrats, all y'all can go fuck yourselves. Because let me be real clear. I know what these people are trying to do. And you damn right. I want them to lose a Senate race in Michigan. We're gonna play the play my interview with one of the candidates. I want them to lose in Alaska, I want them to lose in Maine. I want them to lose in Georgia, I want them to lose in North Carolina, I want them to lose in Texas, I want them to lose in Florida. I don't care because what these people are doing, they are they want you to destroy any and everything in black America. Again, all y'all FBA, B1, Amazon folks, it don't matter. There is not a single black attorney who is representing a family who has been the victim of police violence, who has any faith that this Department of Justice will intercede and prosecute them on civil rights violations. So all y'all talking about there claims no problem. Let me say it again. This DOJ don't give a damn. Donald Trump is taking 100% immunity for any company. So, and you're right, the two cops, the brilliant of the case, they drop the charge. So if y'all can call me whatever names you want to, and y'all can sit here and do all your little pumpkins, pumpkin, talk under your microphone about why y'all simple sentiment holes are saying that Black America is being under absolved.

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Let's pause it there for just a second, if you guys don't mind. Um, so let me break this down for everybody here, okay? Um so Roland Martin, um he interviewed Kamala Harris. He has a very, you know, he has an inn with the Democratic Party, right? So he can interview presidential candidates. He interviewed Hillary Clinton when she was running for uh president. He's in that club. The rest of us are not. Okay, like I'm grassroots. I don't even have sponsors on the show. Many of us that are in this independent media that are black, because that's that's what we're talking about. Many of us when we don't have that type of access, we are not in those spaces that Roland Martin is in. And what has happened over time is that people have started to ask the question why should I vote for someone if I'm not getting anything in return? And in particular, you know, it didn't start going into 2024. This started earlier. But in particular, he said FBA and ADOS. Black Americans have been asking, have started to ask the past couple years, I'd say, why should I vote for you if I'm not getting anything in return? In other words, making demands, which other groups do. I remind you, in 2020, I remember the Latino community making demands to Bernie Sanders. Oh, I remember, I remember all of this. Other groups make demands. There was demands towards Kamala Harris coming out of the uncommitted movement, which started in Michigan, which is at ceasefire arms embargo. Other groups make demands. Why am I voting for you?

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Yeah, family. I just wanted you to hear that. Uh, fair use, by the way, fair use. That was Sabby Sab. You know, she's a reliable, reliable, well piece of uh good information. She is. Oh boy, here I go. Excuse, excuse me. Excuse me for that. Here I go. Well, you know, I'm I'm an independent podcaster and I don't have an elaborate studio like Roland Martin. Because he, you know, he makes money from the demo, the DNC. And we found that out last year he got paid uh to do a one softball interview with Kamala Harris. He got paid $350,000. Now he'll chalk it up. See, you got ad revenue, you got the ads you got to pay for, you got airtime, you got to pay for, you got this, got 30%, got to go to this. This dude, I think this dude is is is uh a closet uh skittle guzzler. I believe he's a he's a closeted skill skittle guzzler. You know,

Legacy Media Versus Independent Voices

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he was married once before he was married, right? This is information that we Know about this guy. He was married. And his wife, one of the conditions was his wife said she didn't want to have any children. Now, I found that odd. Your wife tells you, Yeah, we married, but I don't have no children. Listen, when I'm ready to have some children, that's what it's gonna be, and you're gonna bear them, or else you're getting out of here. You, my wife, you're gonna tell me you don't want to have no children. What? So it it you can only imagine that had to be a condition because some of these guys, I told you I had a cousin that was um always suspect. Now he's a preacher now, but I think he's still kind of suspect. Cause I, you know, I asked my cousin one day, you see his picture on Facebook, and this dude got on foundation in his face to take, you know, these these pictures, these photos. And I asked my cousin, my cousin, female, she was like, Yeah, this dude, he always, you know, he always been weird like that. And, you know, when we were young kids, this dude, um, this dude never played with the boys. Never played with the boys. He had no interests. We would be out there playing leapfrog and uh shooting marbles and shooting Scully and playing uh cops and robbers and doing, you know, doing doing getting in all kind of mischief. He ain't want nothing to do with that. This dude was jumping double dutch and playing with dolls. Yeah, yeah, family. He was always suspect like that. We always thought that about him. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but live your truth, bro. See, a lot of these people go get married because he got married. He got married and he had two kids, beautiful kids. I'm not gonna say no names up here because I'm I'm I'm just not gonna do that. That's that's still my family. You know what I'm saying? Uh I don't I don't have nothing to do with the guy. I don't we have nothing in common. I don't even socialize with him or nothing like that, but he's still my family. And there's people in his family that still love him. So I wouldn't do that up here. But you understand what I'm saying. This dude hadn't got was married, had two beautiful children, and um he's he's in the church, he's uh quote unquote pastor. And uh I still think you know how Red Fox used to do his hand, you know that that that when he takes his hand and do it like that, you know what I mean? And uh I still think that. But that's his business. It doesn't long as it does. I ain't got no problem with people of alternative lifestyles, as long as you don't encroach on my life. Whatever you do is for you, it's good for you. I don't have no difference because I know I know some actually some people that are some um men that are gay, and they they happen to be beautiful people. I mean, in spirit, I mean, you know, will help you with anything they can help you with, and you know, very kind, have always treated me kind, and I treat them likewise. So I don't have a problem with that. Just live your truth, man. Don't don't be and a lot of these guys get married and have children just because they don't want to be perceived a certain kind of way, and I always had a problem with that, always had a problem with that. But that's not my problem, so I don't get too engulfed in that. But yeah, so she didn't want to have um children with Roland Martin, but then when they got divorced, she she got remarried and started spitting out them babies. She started spitting them out. Go look that up, family. Go look it up. And this guy, you know, he talks all that zesty talk, and you know, y'all can y'all go, fuck yes, Sam. You know, I didn't mean to play that because I'm trying not to curse up here for the for the children who listen, but I'm just we we gotta talk. We gotta talk about these things. And he's always talking that spicy talk, and it's it's it's like, wow, bro. You know, I did a show about him a couple of years ago, and I I I went in on him about his hip, hip hands on his hip, and rolling his eyes and shaking his head, and you know, just he got a lot of feminine energy in him. And then that talk you talk, you tell the people to kiss, kiss my entire ASS. Oh, y'all punk ass. Look out of the way he said. Now, does anybody hearing him talk like that, does Roland sound like he's any type of threat or somebody you should, when he comes in the room, should turn around and acknowledge that he's in the room. Okay. The energy is a little different in here. This cat is in here. All right. He don't have that. You know, you you might take a quick glance at him and be like, eh, okay. Uh, you know, it's one of them things. So when you talking all that tough talk, Roland, we don't believe you, number one. You're too feminine. And you got these other three bozos on the panel who they shaking their head, yes, to agree with everything you're saying. But you know what it is, family, you know what it really is. It's that, again, those Roland is an he's a gatekeeper for the DNC and for the Boulet. That's that's his position. That's how he makes his money. And there's frustration because you're you were paid to deliver the black vote. And these last couple elections, these last couple years, you've been having run into running into grave difficulty doing that. It's because of us. Me, I'm sitting here with this this little microphone in my little system here. I'm not in no elaborate studios, I'm in an apartment. You know. Maybe one day I will get to a nice big elaborate studio. Well, maybe, maybe not. But what's important to me is bringing this work to you. It ain't about me. It's about it's about you, it's about the the generation behind us. To be quite frank about it. So, you know, guys, you know, like I said, just listen to what the option opposition is saying. Never mind what I'm saying. Let's listen to what the opposition is saying. You know, you know, you gotta understand the friction between established figures like Roland Martin and independent voices of the new black media is it's essentially a battle over narrative authority and the future of the community's influence. This is what all of this is about, family. The gatekeeper versus the independent. Roland Martin often positions himself as he's the guardian of professional black journalism, emphasizing legacy infrastructure and institutional access. You know, as you heard Sabby say, he has access that we don't. His his critique of independent creators uh frequently dismissing them as closeted or basement commentators is a classic gatekeeping tactic, family. That's all that is. And his attempts to invalidate the new voices of black media that are forcing, really, that that are just focusing on the lack of traditional credentials or institutional backing. We don't have that. You know, and there's there's the arguments of uh is of no substance. Look at what he's talking about. I know what these people are doing. Black America's under attack right now. I know what these people, all y'all can go to hell. When has black America not been under attack, family? Can somebody answer that? When has black America not been under attack? That is nothing new. Nothing new. But this is this is the um this is them playing in our faces, guys like him. And what what it is, is really a fear. When you see him kicking, because this this was on unprovocated. This was unprovocated, right? And then and the reality is is this this often mass a fear of losing the market share of listeners as people make a migration towards independent broadcasters with no fluff, the facts and lineage-based analysis. You know, at one point in time, these people had a monopoly. They had a monopoly. Legacy media had a monopoly that they held over black perspective, and now it's crumbling. Right? Now it's crumbling. You know, the the divide in in in in the communic communication skills, and some massive discontent on how information is delivered. They're corny, they're corny, boring, and you know these kids don't want to hear it. You know, legacy, they're often uh performative. You know, they have high production, and it's usually tied to some some kind of corporate or political interest, which Roland, if in his case, it would be the political interest, because he's been fired from every gig that he had on legacy media. He was fired from CNN, he was fired from um uh TV1, right? Those were the big gigs he had, and he got really he got let go from all of them. Get out of here. Booted. Our style, the new black media style, is lean, direct, and focused on structural realities. That's what it is with us, and this is why people tune in. This is why, like I said earlier in the broadcast, at the top of the broadcast, I said, it seemed like we done hit a curve, a curve, and and and we're going around this curve with with tremendous precision. I don't want to say speed yet. It's it's it's gaining a little momentum, but we hitting this curve with with precision. You understand? And and it's picking up. Because people have been telling me lately, they they really, really have been uh centered on the content that we that we produce up here. And I'm I'm I believe me, I believe me, I'm still trying my best. I'm trying to, you see how I fumbled in a few minutes ago, I fumbled and dropped the phone on the floor because it's not organized up here. I'm trying to get everything where the program just flows. It just flows. We're gonna get there, and we're gonna get there. Trust me, we're gonna get there. But yeah, family, the you know, the bottom line is when an established figure spends significant airtime attacking independent voices like this bozo, it's usually a sign that those independent voices are effective. The new black media, if the new black media weren't making a tangible impact on the public conscience, legacy commentators wouldn't even feel the need to mount a defense. I just told you it's Jason Black who I heard say this. That don't work, don't never mind what I'm saying. Look at what my detractors and opposers are saying. You heard the language this dude used. Now you got Roland has, I think, two million followers, right? I got a little small family that I'm grateful for. 74 countries, 600 cities. Roland has over 200 million subscribers to his YouTube channel. I'm not on YouTube yet. I'm not on YouTube. Right? I'm like a like a crumb on the table for him. He could just pluck in, but you are going at folks like me. You going at folks like me. With your big old, big old studio over here. You know, you look at that studio, man, he got he got like, I think it's maybe three or four compartments to that studio where he can film over here, he can program over here, he can do this over here. They got couches in there when they have guests, they can sit out, sit around, uh uh, and have a discussion, and they got all the wires and cameras and lights, microphones uh hooked up everywhere and boom, big boom arms everywhere. I got one boom arm here. One boom arm and a mixer, my my laptop where where I do my where my dog is, my my digital uh work thing here is, and my my phone and my iPad for the extras. The iPad is for the extra stuff. And that's all. That's it. That's it. I don't have no studio lights in here. Well, I do have lights, but we they those lights are put away because we're not doing the you when we transition to the YouTube thing, we'll we'll uh we'll you know be using the lights and the cameras and stuff like that. I have that stuff, but I don't like you know, it's just a regular setup. This guy got this big, big uh well, he probably spent over a million dollars on that on that equipment in there. It's a nice setup. It's nice. But that's because you you've been you have that you've had the access. You've been Luminous for what, 30 years? You came from syndicated radio in Chicago. You had a little night program that nobody was listening to, and you worked your way up. Good hard work, and you made something out of yourself. But see, you you you you know, you don't you know you you got your hand in the pig feet jar so much to you done got so greedy now. You you have a couple of nice homes, properties, or whatever, and you get around, but that ain't enough for you. Their success comes at our chaos. Always remember that. Their success depends on our dysfunction. Want y'all to keep that in mind. And we're gonna get ready and close out of here because we've been up here a little bit, and we're about to get out of here. I just want to bring, I just want to bring one more, one more story. You know, um, this guy, what is this this clown, his bozo? Hold on. I gotta get out of calling people names too. That's not good either. Now, you know, Reverend Al Sharpton had his uh let me see if I can use this one. Oh yeah. Al Sharpton had that up at his Nash Nash Network, had his convention up there this week. You know, they had all the big powerhouses from the DNZ up there, Kamala Harris and a bunch of them, you know, other people up there. They cackling and I might even be president. I'm thinking about it. She's still cackling, grinning and cackling. But yeah, I was hoping we'd never see that woman again. Family, I was hoping we'd never see that stinking woman again. No, don't let me say that. Kamala Harris is actually a her, her aesthetic, she's a beautiful woman. She's a very beautiful woman. You just hate seeing her coming. It's like that principle you hated. That principle you hated. You walk down on her, she's coming, you be like, oh, let me shoot up the staircase, man. I don't even want to look at this person. Yeah, that's what she reminds you of. But anyway, family, they had the convention up there, and there was a young brother, young brother, Melrose Mike, they call him, and he went up there and lit a torch to their behinds up there at the National Action Network. And they didn't like that. Let me let me bring you a little clip of that, family. Hold

No Check No Vote Moment

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on. Check it out.

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Briefly, we have to get going in one moment. Step up, tell us your name, and briefly, what's on your mind?

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Where's the name? Hey, yo, as I look around this room, if you're 35 years old or younger, raise your hand. Four people. So here's the thing. Y'all in trouble. Yesterday you had Al Green up here talking about we need a secretary of reconciliation, and then that's gonna include what he said was reparations, which by the way, wasn't reparations. Reparations is more than a check, but the very first thing it is, is a check. And come this year during the midterms and in 2028. If you don't have our check, you won't get no vote. No check, no vote. Yeah, I know that ain't what you want to hear, but that's what's happening. All of y'all in here, with all due respect, you're beautiful, but you're old. You're not talking to the youth. You don't know how to talk to the youth. You're trying to tell us what to do. We're not having it no more. So if you want our vote, you gotta come with our paper. We're not scared of Trump. We're not scared of anybody. Biden is a racist, Trump is a racist, Kamala is a racist, and if you don't have our money, you don't get our vote. You're not who are you? Oh, ah, yeah. So, like I was saying, I'm gonna lend my plan right there. But the Democrats are no better than the Republicans. No check, no vote. Y'all take care. And somebody give my man a tissue. He needs a tissue.

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Man, that young boy, that's Melrose Mike. And he made sure he held that mic tight grip in his hand because they was trying to take it away from him. They was trying to take it away from him family. And he held on to it, and he gave them the business like he should have. Like he should have. That's what needed to be said and needed to be heard in front of their audience. That was at the Sheridan Hotel, Midtown, at the at the at the National Action Network at their convention, the NAN convention. They have it because you know we we we in the midterm season, so this is when they usually have it uh around the midterms. Every couple years they have these conventions up there. Al Sharpton spearheading it. And he couldn't even you know what he ended up calling his brother here, an agent. He ended up calling the brother an agent. Now, Melrose Mike is a stomped down young generation, a millennial, and he's ex has established himself as such. So, no Negro, you're the agent. You're the agent. They get there's tapes with you, audio and video tapes with you working with the government as a as a as a spy, as a uh a rat. A stinking fat ham sandwich rat. That's when he had them big old wide jaws and was had the cowboy hat on. Yeah, that big that big old gelatin sandwich Negro. The same one, the same one that tried to get a Fini Shakur uh uh knocked off by the feds. He was trying to set that up. And you talking about somebody's age, non-Negro, you the

Patience, Peace, And What’s Next

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agent. But family, that's gonna do it for us. That's gonna do it for us. We've been up here long enough today, and we're gonna get out of here. And we want to remind you that, again, stick with us, family, because this big things are gonna be happening up here. Freeman's Affairs Radio, we're gonna have this show, we're gonna have this program, and we're gonna have the TV program. Freeman's Affairs TV. Right? TV channel. We're gonna have that. And it's gonna, it's gonna, we're gonna have some special things going on over there. And again, I'm gonna keep bringing our memory so we can recapture our memory, family. This is all therapeutic for us. All of it is therapeutic for us. So hang in there, stay with us, y'all be good. Remember this now. Before I let y'all go, remember this. We have to understand we we are a lot of us are very damaged people. We come from a lot of hurt. So we have to have a little more patience with each other. You know, this is why we don't want the fights to break out, to stop breaking out in the Walmarts and the restaurants and stuff, because we got to have a little More patience. You see somebody they're a little inebriated and they're being a little rambunctious, try to stay clear of that. Or if you if you encounter something like that, try to reason with the person. If you can't reason, just try to get away from them. You see what I'm saying? Because we gotta stop putting hands on each other and harming each other out of here. I want that to stop. But uh it's a reason why these things happen. And once you understand that, you under you understand how to deal with the things, situations much better. In the words of my man Malik, in the words of my man Malik, big king, we love you up here, brother. We love you. And my brother would always say to us must respect life, love justice, cherish freedom, and treasure the peace. Y'all go in peace and keep the peace. We talk to you next time.

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A man had you whatever he can get me Baba don't, babadon, babadon take no mess