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Political Hustle And Missing Black Policy

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Say I'm gonna do something that's only gonna benefit black people? No, because whatever benefits that black family will benefit that community and society. Unwritten truths. The political hustle. They tell you to get out and vote every four years, but vote for who? Vote for what? Let's go back to the 1960s, when black people were beaten in the streets, bitten by police dogs, and sprayed with fire hoses, just for the right to vote. And when the cameras were rolling, both parties, the Democrats and Republicans, stood on those debate stages, never once saying the words African American or descendants of slaves. Fast forward to today, watch the debates, watch the campaigns. Same story. They'll talk about LGBTQ plus rights, Asian hate crime bills, women's rights, immigration reform, veteran benefits. But never, not once, have they proposed a single law specifically written to protect black Americans or to compensate descendants of slaves for 400 years of unpaid labor, genocide, and systemic oppression. Both parties want black votes, but they offer black people nothing. They parade black celebrities on stage and throw slogans like hope or make America Great Again or for the people. But when it's time to put it in writing, when it's time to write black specific laws, when it's time to talk reparations, they go silent. Not one Democratic debate, not one Republican debate, not one candidate, not one bill, not one law. Since the 1960s until this day, black America has received nothing specific written by name for us, for our lineage, for our survival. They just built a large bronze statue of a very obese black woman appears in Times Square. But for what purpose? This does not liberate or help African Americans at all. They play in your face, giving symbols over substance, holidays instead of justice, statues instead of policies, diversity speeches instead of reparations. You don't belong to a political party. You belong to a system designed to harvest your vote and deliver nothing in return. Follow at Official Black Knowledge and at Black Knowledge Network, because until you understand this, you'll keep playing a rigged game.

Welcome And Numerology Focus

SPEAKER_14 2:45

Peace, peace, and welcome back to Freeman's Affairs Radio. I'm your host, Vaughn Black, Aaron Vaughn Black, that is. And excuse me there, as you know, that we are appreciative of you tapping the button and joining us again this morning, April 21st, 2026. The numerical order for the day is wisdom knowledge. Wisdom knowledge. That is the numerical focus for the day. Out of the gate, we want to give the the bio for today.

William Parker And 1851 Resistance

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Before we get into the program, we're gonna give the bio. And um that bio is is from a one William Parker. That is the bio for this week's program, is William Parker. And let's see if we can find something, a little, a little clip to um to give uh give an explanation of uh who this brother actually was and what he means to to our history. And uh let yeah, let's hear a little bit of that. Hold on just a second.

SPEAKER_00 4:23

The message was clear. Black communities would kill federal agents before letting slavery win. President Fillmore declared martial law. For the first time in American history, black Americans faced federal treason charges. The government was so shaken they brought the full weight of federal power down on one small Pennsylvania town. Parker escaped to Canada through the Underground Railroad, but the damage was done. Slaveholders nationwide realized their worst nightmare. Free black people would literally fight the United States government itself to protect their own. This wasn't just resistance. This was a preview of the Civil War, proving slavery could only survive through federal military force against armed black rebellion.

SPEAKER_14 5:01

Yeah, so that was just a little clip. That was from the year 1851 when that incident happened up in Pennsylvania. Our brother William Parker, the first time in history, an American was charged with treason. American citizens were charged with treason the first time. Okay.

Shreveport Shooting And Community Grief

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Now that we got the bio out of the way, my next order of business up here, family, is to if I can bring you what's happening in Shrevin, Shrevansport, Louisiana, the shooting there yesterday, I believe it was. And this this is uh this is um horrible by all accounts. This is a a tragedy. And we want to get a and see we can bring a little bit in there. There's eight children killed in this thing. Family in his uh it's pretty rough. Pretty rough stuff. Hold on. Let's see, can we get it in here?

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Hold on.

SPEAKER_01 5:57

The community in Louisiana is in shock after police say a gunman killed eight children in a mass shooting. Police sent reports say the violence unfolded early this morning at two homes with crime scenes spanning several locations. Officials say the children ranged in age from just one year old to about 14. In total, 10 people were shot. The only survivors being two adult women, one with suffering life-threatening injuries. Investigators believe the shooter was related to some of the victims. Investigators also say the suspect ran from the scene, stole a car, and led officers on a chase. They say the gunman later died after officers opened fire. Local leaders in that area held an emotional briefing earlier this afternoon.

SPEAKER_03 6:46

There are eight children that are deceased. I can't be strong for you. I think about the mother and what this family has lost. I don't know what people think in the crevices of their mind to want to harm another human being, let alone that of children who have their whole life ahead of them.

SPEAKER_01 7:18

Absolutely heartbreaking. Authorities have not released the names of the victims or the suspected shooter.

SPEAKER_14 7:25

Now, family, to all accounts, this was an incident from a foundational black American family. Uh it's it's pretty heartbreaking to to watch and to hear the updates about it. I don't know when we're gonna get time up here to do a program solely for mental uh uh health and mental illness, addressing those those uh issues. I don't know if what uh happened that could trigger this this this young man to do this. It apparently from from what I'm getting from the reports that this there was some type of domestic dispute. These were his children, as I understand, these are true children of the same home. And they they were all killed, and and two adult women. And again, I don't know when we're going to be able to to dedicate a program just for that. Uh you know, when when I do stuff like that, I'd I'd like to have someone of somewhat of a professional background in dealing with these things so they can so they can be able to give us more of an insight as to what to look for because we can almost guarantee that every time something like this happens, whether it happens in in in our community or in the w in the in the uh white community, that there's always signs of something disturbing or something wrong that that builds into the final action. We can almost guarantee it. So yeah, it's it's it's it's heartbreaking. I'm sitting here, I'm looking at the you hearing the report, but I'm looking at the actual footage and and the the investigative footage and stuff like that, and it's pretty, it's pretty rough. It's pretty rough, family. But um, yeah, so we wanted to address that before we get into the program. We wanted to address that and and give our condolences to to those uh people in that area. Not just the family, the the the whole community, because when something like this happens, you can almost guarantee that it rocked the entire community no matter what's going on there. Something as precious as children, and this happens in this fashion that has to take a toll on the community. So that's why we wanted to address that. And uh yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm. Anyway, family, keeping keeping

Brooklyn Wrongful Arrest Caught On Video

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step. We we we we want to go to um we want to come local here to Brooklyn. There was a situation the other day that uh we wanna we wanna get get a get a hold to. We wanna get a hold to that. Okay, let me see. We wanna get into that. This this happened right here in Brooklyn where I'm at just the other day, and this involving a foundational black American man, um, Timothy Brown. And let's see, can we get a little bit of that report in? Hold on.

SPEAKER_02 10:52

It's good to be with you tonight. I'm Christine Johnson, and we begin here at six with a CBS News New York exclusive. A Brooklyn man bloodied and beaten after a violent arrest by two NYPD detectives that was caught on camera. And tonight, police admit they arrested the wrong man. Only our Masa Saidi sat down with him and his family, who said he feared for his life. We do need to warn you, the video is disturbing to watch.

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The video starts as the arrest is unfolding. You see two NYPD detectives holding the man by his arms. Then they punch him again and again. The man's head slams into glass bottles. They drag him by his feet.

SPEAKER_14 11:40

Family, I had to pause it there for a second. I had to pause it again. Some of you probably already seen this. I'm just I do a weekly program, so I have to report on this, on these incidents and bring them to you. You're hearing the audio that I'm playing, some of you hearing the audio. I'm actually looking at the footage. Family, when I tell you, they beat breaks off this brother. They beat the living breaks off of him. And I'm wondering if you're going in for an arrest arrest to do an investigation or to stop someone to investigate uh or ongoing complaint, because from what I'm understanding, this this place was was a little drug hub or whatever, and they sold drugs around the the the establishment there. It was a it was a liquor store where you go buy wine and spirits and stuff, and his brother was get got off from work and was going to purchase a bottle of wine to take home for the evening. And the police right away, you know, they they looking for a guy in in green shorts, supposedly. He had on green shorts and a green hat, and they stopped him and and accosted him. And one thing probably led to another. He guy know didn't know what was going on. That has happened to me. Police have approached me um with a description looking for someone else. And I'm shocked. I'm I I remember one time I got out of my car and I'm I'm got off from work. Um at the time I was working for a beverage company and I had my full uniform on, parked my car, getting out, get ready to go in the house, man. Police ran down on me, blocked me in, squeezed me in, and everything, and they jumped out, you know, and they went through it, man. Hands up, you know, get out, get out, hands up. You know, I got out, and and I'm saying, like, what's going on? What what happened? What did what you know? I'm trying to figure out what's going on. And they would they apparently was looking for somebody that either had a car like mine or was had some kind of description of that resembled my uh description or whatever, and and they were they were on me. So they realized they radioed to somebody that was uh maybe a block or two away that had their binoculars or whatever and they could see and they realized no, that's not him or whatever. And you know, they let me go, but they had guns drawn. When I tell you they had guns drawn, nobody threw a punch or nothing at me, but they had me up against the car and everything, and and you know, there's always one one, you know, he's a bozo because he's you you're trying to act tough, man. I'm looking at the guy like dog, if you wouldn't have the rest of them with you and you was by yourself, you wouldn't be talking like you're talking, and posturing like you're posturing. You're you're you're a punk, man. You got these guys behind you and you got a pistol on you. And this is what's giving you your your your your courage. Because other than that, man, I I would I would slap you around like a female, man. Like a pimp would slap on his hose, man. I would I would slap you around like that. But he was playing tough and he was he was screw facing me and what what what what you know he was it was that type of thing with him, and I was like, you know, I should have put in a complaint at the time, but I didn't know the things that I know now, so it it rolled, and and this is why they get off with behaving the way they do. They beat the brakes off this brother. When I tell you, family, they beat shit out, they beat dog shit out of this dude, man. I'm I'm not laughing at the incident, but I'm la and I'm not even laughing really. I don't know why I had that reaction. Um it's it's not funny. It's not funny, and this is why we need specific protections against this kind of behavior. And I wouldn't be mad at other groups, Latinos, Asians, or whatever, if they put in and and they wanted these same type of protections from this type of, but this usually doesn't happen in those communities. It always happens in our community. The police, oh, we made a mistake. Because the guy wasn't even who they were looking for, and they beat dog. They family, I'll tell you, they beat dog shit out this dude. They beat him down. It was it wasn't even like an arrest, it was like they just jumped him. This is what the video is showing. They just jumped this brother, man. Let me let me let's get too back to it. Back to it. Hold on.

SPEAKER_07 16:34

The nearly eight-minute video was taken Tuesday at a liquor store on Hoyt and Baltic.

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I pray not none of this ever happens to anyone else. And um, I want justice.

SPEAKER_07 16:45

Timothy Brown tells me he was attacked without explanation while buying wine after work. He's a security guard and home health aide. What did they say?

SPEAKER_13 16:55

He said, You're under arrest. I remember being grabbed and shoved, and he said, Don't resist. And I said, I'm not resisting. They slammed me up against the the um the glass, you know, repeatedly hitting me in the temple and my head. You know, you see my eyes black. I just thank God that I'm alive. That's all I can say.

SPEAKER_07 17:16

Tonight, NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau is investigating. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch says the officers have been placed on modified duty with their guns and shields removed.

SPEAKER_09 17:28

We'll have more to say about it as that investigation unfolds, but I understand the community interest in it because it is an upsetting video.

SPEAKER_07 17:38

How did this happen? The NYPD says police were looking for a drug dealer's associate wearing green shorts. They spotted someone nearby who matched that description and tried to arrest him. Brown was initially charged with resisting arrest and obstruction, but now all charges have been dropped. His mom, Donna Brown, tells me the video left her outraged.

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And I was like, you know what? I'm going back to the precinct to make sure he's gonna be okay. Excuse me. Because I felt like the police was gonna beat him up some more. It's disgusting. It really is. It's disgusting. And they do it all the time to our bracking brown people all the time.

SPEAKER_07 18:20

And lots of reaction tonight. Mayor Mamdani calls the video unacceptable. He says officers should never treat a person this way. Meantime, the union for NYPD detectives says police put their lives on the line every single day. They say if you don't comply during an arrest, what do you think is going to happen? But KJ, what happened is what is under investigation.

SPEAKER_02 18:42

Well, even the commissioner there admitting that the video is hard to watch. I know you spent some time there in the community when you were speaking with this gentleman today. Wondering how this has affected the neighbors there.

SPEAKER_07 18:54

Well, police say they were there because of the community. People had been complaining about drug sales, so police were doing a sweep. But some community members tell me they feel that this crossed the line. They held a rally earlier today. Take a listen to what they had to say.

SPEAKER_04 19:16

It was a savage beating, big two, and the people are from New York City. Come on, have come together and say no more. No more.

SPEAKER_02 19:31

Absolutely. Massa, thank you for bringing um that gentleman's voice to our broadcast here tonight. We appreciate it.

SPEAKER_14 19:38

All right, family. Yeah, you heard that you heard the report. Now, now, here's

When A Stop Turns Dangerous

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here's the kids' take on it.

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All right, let me get situated here.

SPEAKER_14 19:49

Here it is. The reason why this hits so close to home for me because I got people right there, right across the street from where this took place at. Shout out to my family over there to join us and and Pootie and you guys over there. And and uh Jennifer and Yusuf and all you guys. Shout out to y'all. Uh right across the street, I got folks there. That's my family there, that's my people's there. And I know the area. Well, very well familiar with it. And and uh knickknacking all of them around the corner there. And you know, I got folks around that that that in that little area there. Now, I'ma say this there is a lot of activity that goes on over there. And it's it's in the hood. It's in the hood, and it's it's a place where, you know, guys it's always been a little hub for, you know, hustlers, you know, selling their little stuff around there, whatever like that. So yeah, it is a it is a problem. It's a hot spot, it it's potentially a problematic spot. So I understand the police have to do a job there, but there is no excuse for what they did with this young man. There's no excuse. There, I don't know if it's training or I'm not even gonna go on that route about the training because there's a certain thing, you can have all the training you want, but there's an instinct, and this is why we need to have our own people policing our own communities. No need outsiders. These were white boys that were put in these areas. They don't they they come with with an attitude anyway, uh about uh or preconceived notion about us anyway. So when you come put them in our in our areas to police our areas, they already have a a certain chip on their shoulder, a chip in

Policing Our Neighborhoods Ourselves

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them somewhere, something in them. That that's that's uh there's a bias there anyway. Now I'm not saying that that's this is all police. Police have a job to do. And I'm not gonna sit up here and act like uh you hear some of these some of these fellas is talking about how they hate the police and and and all that stuff. And these most of the dudes who popped that that dead bull never did a day. They never did a day. They don't have they don't even have a real criminal background. You know, not patting myself on the back or glorifying nothing. It was once upon a time in my life that I was I was an outlaw. Let's put it that way, a criminal. You know, a serious criminal. And if anybody had a position to hate the police, but then as you grow, you understand that they have a job to do. Just like you have a job to do, their job is to investigate 24 hours, seven days a week, 360 days a year, to investigate to catch you. You doing your job to do what you do, and their job is to investigate and to apprehend you and stop what you're doing. That's their job. And once you realize that, there's a there's a kind of almost an unspoken respect that you have for certain police. Now, there's punks out there, we know there's some cowards out there that just got uniforms or they got badges and guns. You know, you know they are just like these two bozos. It took these two bozos to arrest the man that wasn't doing anything but purchasing a bottle of wine after work. And they beat the brakes off this dude, man. They just jumped him. It wasn't no, where's the investigation at? Where's where, you know, they did that was just a jump, a street fight, what it was. And they jumped on the brother and beat, beat him. He's he got his face bloody, his eyes swole up shut, he broke his nose, they kicking and stomping on him, kicking him in the face. They slammed his head up against a shelf there and broke a bunch of bottles. You heard the noise. You heard it. You understand? So there is some chumps out there. But there in my day, I don't know about now. I look at some of these cops now, and it's really a joke. I'll be looking at some of them, and I'll be saying to myself, man, this is a this man, this is a joke, especially here in NYPD, man. I'm like, it was one time when these police here, you know, they were mostly Irish and Italian and stuff like that. A lot of them were corrupt and stuff. You have black cops and white and stuff like that on the force. Very, very strong guys. You could see they were strong. You know, they were they were in shape and they were strong. Now these guys, man, some of these people they hiring in the force. Now, I remember years ago, years ago on 42nd Street, I seen, I seen a young kid, man, he was a cop, uniform on everything. This could this could this cat couldn't have been no more than five feet, maybe 4'11 or something like that. He was a short guy. And I'm like, I'm thinking, in my mind, told me this this dude was going on his way to a costume party, because you can't be no cop. And I think I expressed something to that effect verbally, and he was levid. He was levid. But, you know, he didn't try nothing or nothing like that, you know, because and then you got these females, and I'm not a chauvinist or anything like that. Um you need female officers to deal with female situations. So I don't have anything against female officers. I just think that when it comes to hardcore criminality, I don't think there's no place for them. You know, because of the chances are that that you could get into a shootout or something, some kind of gunplay or something to that effect. And and when you're dealing with hardcore criminals, I I don't I I'm I'm not sure I would want women on the front line like that. That's just me. And it's not a chauvinist thing or any kind of chauvinist attitude. That's just something that I I um this is my thought. But yeah, but back to the story family. They really they beat this brother down. They beat him down, and it was, you know, for eight minutes, this video went for eight minutes. Now remember, George Floyd was was choked at the knee of Derek Shaven, had his knee on that man's neck for nine minutes, and they beat the they they wailed on this brother for eight minutes. Wailed on him. When I tell you, they beat, they was beating the flames off this dude, man. They beat the skin off this cat, man. And and you know, they should be held accountable for it. We should have laws specifically protecting foundational black Americans from this type of behavior because it's too many times in recorded documentation that this happens in our community. You heard what the mother said. This happens all the time. You know how these guys are when they jump out in the in these areas, especially the different task force and the. I'm not talking about just the regular uh blue and blue and white cops in the uniform. I'm talking about these task force and these uh these special uh units. I mean, these guys run around like they like they cowboys. You remember that guy uh a few years back doing I think right around the pen, the uh when the pandemic hit, when COVID hit, and and people were staying in. There was a guy, there was a Spanish cop up there in um, I want to say in uh what is that area up there in Manhattan, above Harlem, uh Washington Heights, he was around in that area. Hernandez, I think was his name. But he was he would be in Harlem, he would be up, you know, in that Manhattan area, upper Manhattan, and they said, man, this dude he had several complaints where he would just jump on black teenagers and and beat fire at them for whatever. They had weed in their pocket or whatever like that. He'd jump on them and searching all through them and just manhandling him and beat punching him in the face. He had that disposition about him, and they stuck him right there in Harlem. Right? And he's he was Hispanic, but they stuck him in Harlem. And usually, usually when that kind of incident happens, is usually that those guys had some kind of problems in their youth growing up, going to school with black, with black individuals where they might have been chomped or robbed or something like that. So he came on the force now, he got a gun. He got a license to be a cowboy now. He got a license to act a fool. And that's what they do. Act a stone fool. They showed him one time jumping on a kid, seven, about a seven, sixteen, seventeen-year-old young man. I mean, he jumped on him, man, pulled his backpack off him, and slapped him around, had him on the ground with his with his face towards the ground. He on top of his back, just wailing on him, wailing. Where was the handcuffs at? Where's the man, the young kid is down, you apprehended him, put the handcuffs on him if you're gonna arrest him or if you're gonna detain him for any period of time, do that. You throwing punches, you on top of him. He's he's a as no threat, and he just wailing. But that was the hatred. That hatred in him was doing that. Same thing with these two cops in this video. That was the hatred. Right? But uh, yeah, family, so that's

Pull Up Summer Pressures Democrats

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what it is. We're bringing you the stories. But getting down, we got to get down to because we're gonna get out, we're gonna boogie out of here in a minute. But getting down to the uh to why we came up here today to the microphone, you know, the Democrats have been have been catching catching the flames from Foundation of Black Americans. They calling it Pull-Up Summer 2026. They call it the pull-up summer. They pulled up on Al Shawlton last week, that brother uh Melrose Mike. And then uh just the other day, Kamala Harris was somewhere doing a book signing or something to that effect. I don't I don't think she was campaigning or nothing like that, but she because she hasn't officially said that she's gonna enter the 2028 uh general election. However, she's she's said, she's indicated that she's thinking about it. And um folks been meeting her at the at the path, and like, nah, don't even think about it. My man, my good man, my brother, Black Alpha went to uh a book signing that she was at, and that Black Alpha put on blast. He put on blast. I'm not gonna play it up here. I'm not gonna play it, but shout out to Black Black Black Alpha, shout out to him. I met Black Alpha at the DC rally. I met my brother, he's a good dude. Uh you know, we took a couple of pictures, he's a good guy. I love his energy. Uh now you had casts like the amazing Lucas that critiqued him, him and Melrose might for being politically stupid in so many words. And I I'm gonna get into our good old friend here, Swollen Martin, in a minute. But yeah, uh there was there was very harsh critique by Amazing Lucas uh uh towards Black Alpha for him standing up and and putting Kamal on blast, even though it wasn't a campaign thing. She's not in public office right now. You know, so Black Alpha, when he stood up, he made it clear that that uh we want reparations, we want um uh recompensatory justice for the harm of slavery, and he made that clear that he was representing Foundational Black Americans, and he stood up and you know they escorted him out, eventually they escorted him out, but he put on blasts and she was standing there looking with her mouth open like so. Yeah, uh I I I agree with it. I I think I I agree with it on the premise of don't even think about running. Don't even think about it because this is what you're gonna face. Everywhere we get a chance to to meet you on the campaign, we're gonna be someone's gonna be there with a bullhorn to let you know we're not rocking with you. You should have known last time you ran twice already and failed, and you should know to go on about your business. Because I never wanted to see that woman again. I never wanted to see her again. But who knows? Now, right now, as it stands, I think Gavin Newsom is their front runner for the Democratic Party. I think he's their front runner. I I don't like him either. Don't like him either. And that's what's gonna segue us into the next piece of the part of the show, and and we're gonna we're gonna um we're gonna do that and we're gonna get out of here because I don't want to hold you. I don't want to hold you. And let's see, can we get into that?

Roland Martin Clip And The Pushback

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Hold on. Just give me a second and we'll bring that in.

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So y'all know um we spend a lot of time really trying to help people out, to help them understand politics, to help them understand.

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Family, real quick, you hear that scratching sound, you hear that scratching sound. That's not my equipment up here. That is nothing wrong with your phone or your laptop or your iPad or whatever you're watching or listening to this program, whatever device you're using. That is Roland Martin. He has a wireless mic uh clamped onto his shirt. You know, he got that big old thick uh uh, you know how a piece of ham hock look. I don't know if any of y'all can remember remember ham hocks, and you got he got that fat rubber meat around it, around the hock, and he got a neck like that, like a like a piece of ham hock, and he got the the wireless mic on his collar there, and you know he got that that scrabbly uh I guess you could call it a beard or five o'clock shadow or whatever, and it's scratching up against between his uh microphone and his and that that that fat that uh ham hock neck. So that's what you're hearing, that scratching noise. That's what you're hearing. Okay, let's just get back to it.

SPEAKER_15 35:28

How things actually get done. And that was a clip I saw that was posted on the social media. Uh of a brother who uh asked this question. Matter of fact, I'm just gonna go ahead and play it right here, y'all. Um, so okay, all right. So listen to this. I just want y'all to just just listen.

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Fear use, by the way. Fear use.

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Listen to this.

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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?

SPEAKER_05 35:59

Where's the news? Hey, yo, as I look around this room, if you're 35 years old or younger, raise your hand. Four people.

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Now, family, I played this last week, so y'all heard this before. I played this last week. But I let it play for those who didn't hear last week.

SPEAKER_05 36:21

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 condition during the midterms and in 2028. If you don't have our check, you won't get no vote. No check, no vote. I know that's what you want to hear, but that's what's happening. Oh, you're in here with all the 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. We're not happening no more. So if you want a vote, you gotta come with a vote. We're not scared of Trump. We're not scared of anybody. Kamala is a racist, and if you don't have all the money, you don't get them a vote. Who are you? So, like I was saying, I'm gonna put my plane right there, but the Democrats are no better than the Republicans, no check, no vote. Y'all take care. Somebody give my man a tissue, he needs a tissue.

SPEAKER_15 37:30

All right, so I saw that.

Promises Versus Commitments For Reparations

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And a couple people actually posted that um uh on their on their Instagram accounts. And I've asked a very basic question. How do you get a tangible before the election? You don't. You get a promise. Someone can say, This is what I'm going to advocate for if you elect me. Okay. So so let's just say someone running for a house.

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I had to stop it right there. I had to stop it right there, family, because this dude, this dude, let me tell you something, what this guy does. Now, Roland is not stupid. He's not a stupid man. He's not a stupid man at all. And what he's doing, he's talking into the microphone, talk in the camera. And most people he knows that listens to him, they're not politically astute. I should say. Not all, because some of us are very politically astute, and we know basic civics. What he's doing, right? Listen at the language. See, language is very important. This is why they tell you to listen. Now he's saying, how do you get it uh tangible or whatever? You you don't, you really don't before you elect somebody. You really don't. That's not what we're asking. He says you get a promise. No, we're asking for a committed person where we can hold you to what you said, not a promise. Politicians make promises all the time, and they lie all the time. Republicans do it, Democrats do it, liberals do it, independent candidates do it. Right? The Teapot, all of them do it. They tell lies, they talk to who's who's ever in front of them, whatever constituent or group is in front of them, that's who they talk to, and they they they flavor it up to talk to who's ever in front of them, and they tell them what they want to hear. Just like uh a pimp or the player might do with a female. He don't mean nothing he's saying, really. He don't, but he's telling he's telling her everything to make her feel like she's the one. And that's what these politicians do. They talk in that cadence. You know, they touch on emotions and touch on things that are very sensible to you. Uh to whoever the group is they're talking to. And that's what they do. So no, we're not looking for there's no way you can you can elect someone and get any kind of benefit from the from them before they're elected. We know that you see, you're talking to us like we're dumb. First of all, and I don't appreciate that. I don't appreciate that. But he's talking to us like this. How do you get uh simple question is how do you get uh a tangible before an election? You don't, you get a promise. No, we're not looking for a promise. We're looking for a committed person, a commitment. Someone who says, yeah, they're gonna fight for this. They're gonna fight for uh uh uh compensatory justice, whether it be in reparations, whether it be in tax exemptions, whether it be in in housing, don't come to us with that, with that uh um uh medical stuff and uh education and all this because that is not specific to us. That is put there for everyone. We when we talk, we're talking about specificity for black Americans, descendants of the freedmen. Not talking about Latinos, not talking about Asians, not talking about people from Africa, people from the Caribbean. We're talking about foundational black Americans, specifically descendants of chattel slavery, right? This is who we're talking about, and we want commitment from whatever politician that says they're committed to uh hate crime bills, federal on the federal level, right? They're committed to uh specific housing for the descendants of freedmen, certain tax exemptions and different things of of that ilk, right? That's what we're looking for, is the commitment. We know you don't get something up front, but if you're committed, if you tell come to us and tell us I'm committed and this is what I'm gonna do, hence Marcel Dixon. Even though he lost twice to Jim Kleinburn and he didn't have a strong showing because he was virtually unknown. He was known to us, but in the political arena, he was uh unknown. And so people went with the someone who they knew, Jim Kleinburn. He gives the fish fry to keep finding catfish nuggets every year, every election cycle, and that's who they went with. Marcel was pretty much unknown to them. He's a little more known now, but he he has bowed since then bowed out of the the political uh arena. So what I'm saying is this we look for commitment. Marcel was committed. That's something. If he'd got elected and got in office, and then now he's, you know, a little while after office, they start, you know how some people, not saying Marcel would have done this, because Marcel is my man. I supported him. But sometimes these people they'll make a promise and they'll get, once they get elected, all of that stuff that they promised, they not all of a sudden they're not talking about that no more. And then when they're confronted about it, when they're confronted about it, it's well. We got more important things right now. We can't address that now. We're gonna leave it up to this, and then we'll come back to that. And it's a whole bunch of split tongue talk, then split tongue. Yeah. Like the snake. It's talking in split tongue now, talking on both sides of the mouth. All the stuff they promised, they not even addressed. That's not even an issue anymore. So this is why we say not a promise. We don't want you to promise us anything. We want a commitment from you, documented, and put in putting in your in your uh campaign uh thing, in your campaign. You know how when they do the campaigns, they have these web websites. We want that documented so we can hold you to what you said. Right? So now when you up for election the next time, you out of there, boy. You out of there, boss. You out. But let's get back to it. Everybody's talking to us like we're dummies. I just had to stop it and say something on that. Let's get back to it.

How Congress Blocks A Reparations Bill

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Says that I'm gonna advocate for you for that reparations check. Got it. What then happens if that person running is a Democrat? What happens if that person loses? Now let me flip it. What happened if that person in your congressional race wins, but nationally Democrats don't win another 217 seats. That means that Republicans are in control of the U.S. House. Your bill will not even get to the floor. Okay. Let's say your person wins, and let's say Democrats win a majority of the House seats. Got it. You're going to need 218 people. So your person may say, how much of the people? I support this. But you're going to need 217 more votes. And the other 217 votes don't come from all black districts. Majority black districts. They don't. Okay. Let's say your person wins. And let's say you do get 217 other votes. It now has to go to the United States Senate. You're going to need 60 votes. Right now, Republicans control the Senate. You ain't getting no check. Let's say Democrats win in November. And let's say they have a 5149 lead. 5149 majority. They're going to need nine more votes to get to 60. Can you name me nine Republicans who are going to support this issue? No, you can't. Let's say Democrats get the 53 votes. You're going to need seven more votes. Can you name me the seven? No, you cannot. Because they don't support your issue. Okay. Let's say your person wins the house. The Democrats. Democrats control the house. And your person wins the Senate and they control the Senate. So let's just say it gets 218 votes in the House. And 60 votes in the Senate. Who then can sign or veto it? Donald Trump. What do you think he's going to do? It'll be a veto.

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Now I had to uh suffer just as much as you did sitting there listening to this guy with that mic scratching up against that fat, that, that, that fat meat. That fat meat hanging off his neck. I had to endure that. And I'm sorry I put you through that, but I had to let him spit and get it out. Now, all of that talk, see, these are basic civic civics that you learn in I learned, I think I learned Civics in junior high school. I think I took civics in junior high school, if I can remember correctly. And the the the the uh branches of government and how they work and how the Senate and everything works and the Congress and the White House and different things like that. So you're not talking to he's implicating by breaking this down the way he is in that sarcastic manner, or tone, I should say, because his his manner wasn't sarcastic, it's the tone. So let's say you get 63 votes, and it gets to the president, it gets past it. What do you think he's gonna do? He's gonna be the way. Now, let me say this.

Gatekeepers Profit From Black Politics

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You know why all that's a crocker doo-doo? No one asked all a crocodoo-doo family, and you can't come to us with that. These people really, what what they should say, they should just be honest and say, as them as democratic officials and po and and and journalists, we cannot push an agenda for foundational black Americans. We just can't because it's going to upset our white base if we do that. Just say that. And now we have painted them into a corner. We've backed them into a corner where they have to say it now. He's not gonna say it. He's sitting here lying through his uh liverwish neck, that liverwish mouth of his. He's not gonna say it. Right? He's gonna continue to make us or some of us believe that he is out here advocating and and pushing for black folks. And that's just not the truth. These guys are paid. Roland Martin, Al Sharptons, and all of these uh big-time people, they're paid. They don't care. They kids, they got enough money for their great-grandchildren of being the world, some of the best schools in the nation. And it won't be HBCUs, half of them. These these people these folks. They done padded their pockets so much. They got money for generations. Now, not saying that they're crazy wealthy, but they done made enough money off skimming and and and bullshitting black people and gatekeeping to they done made nice livings. Nice pad. Some of them got two and three big old homes in different states and and five or six different cars, and their wives got got this and that, and that, and this, and they got money and offshore accounts and all kinds of investments and stuff like that. These people are straight. So they don't care nothing about no reparations or compensatory justice for 500 years of uh free labor, for 250 years of free labor and and all and 400 and something years of uh harm and mistreatment. Just forget about that. We ain't getting that. You heard him say, according to what he said, and this is even more of the reason that we should not be voting in this process. You just laid out here, according to him, he just laid out all of the reasons why we shouldn't be participating in this two-party system because they're not gonna do it. They have a monopoly on this thing, and they're gonna just run you around, run you around, run you around, and run you around. H.R. 40, which is nothing more than a study, has been sitting in Congress collecting dust for 38 years. I think it was John Conyers that that first pushed that thing through, right? Back in the 80s. And it's been sitting there ever since. They'll come out every every time they up for office, they'll come out, Clyburn and all of them, and they'll dangle it like a carrot.

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H. Vardy, H. Al Fardy. I've been pushing H.R. Varty for 30 years. Don't tell me nothing about H.R. Varde.

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But the damn thing been sitting there 37, 38 years, almost four decades, collecting dust. And it's a doc, it's nothing more than a study. So this is why I wasn't upset when when uh Wes Moore, the governor of Maryland, when he vetoed the the uh the reparations bill that came to him because it was nothing more than a study. So people got upset because then you know he's he's a tether, he's a foreigner, whatever like that. But people got upset with him because he vetoed the bill. I'm not really upset with him. You know why? We don't need no more studies. William Dhagdy and Dr. Claude Anderson did the studies already, wrote treatises on it. We don't need no more studies. We know what happened. They know what happened, everybody knows what happened. United Nations knows what happened, right? According to recent events. So, what is there left to study? So, yeah, I don't give a damn about you knocking down a veto and a bill for a study. We don't need no more studies. We need to get to it. We need to get down to it and start talking about some cash. That's what we need. Don't need no more studies. I'm not interested in a study. I done studied this stuff enough myself. My my uh uh uh uh I got nieces and nephews, grandnieces and nephews that know this stuff, that know what happened, and can sit and elaborate on it. So, what kind of studies do we need? This is all cap, family. All of it is cap, and it's a way for them to use, be able to use stalling tactics to put up these studies and these study commissions and these committees and all of this. It's all cap. Let me explain something to you. You talking about Trump was he, what do you think he's gonna do? He's gonna veto it. Well, the reason why you know all of this, what they talking is devil talk and and talking on both sides of their mouths.

Trifectas Show The Real Priorities

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In 2009 to 2011, Obama had a trifecta. He had a trifecta. From the years, two years he had a trifecta. He had the Democrats had the White House, so-called first black president, right? They had the Senate, and they had the House of Congress. Not one executive order, not one bill was passed, not one bill was introduced, but you talking to us like we don't understand civics, basic civics. Then you turn around, and in 2021 to 2023, Biden had a trifecta. They were the Democrats had the House, the White House, the Senate, and the Congress. Not one, not one, not one, not one executive order. Not one bill passed. But see, you play in the faces, you're playing our faces because when Biden came in and he came in office, he right away told you, during the campaign, he told you, he told us, he's looking to let anywhere from 11 to 18 million people in across the border. And we was gonna have to learn how to get along with the Hispanics. That's what he said. Now, y'all, some of y'all remember that. Some of y'all remember that, family. That's what the man said. It's not me saying it. It's not something I I said. Right? We can re get out of here though. But yeah, family. Yeah, so so don't come to us with that. Obama said himself that that he understands the the idea or the or the the the thought of reparations. He understood that, but his thing was it would be unfair to everyone else. Well, what I could say to that to you, old Barack. That 250 years free labor was unfair to us when they whipped our asses from sunup to sundown and made us work. And then, even after we came out of the fields, we still had to go, our women had to go take care of their children and bathe their children and feed them and put them to sleep and all that stuff like that. They could where they couldn't even uh um foster and mother their own children and families. So don't talk to me about no fairness. You understand? But we're gonna get ready, get out of here, family. But as usual, I like to come with some solutions. Now we done painted them into a corner, family. We done painted them into a corner, and we now know that they not interested. They're not interested in doing anything that will propel black empowerment for Foundational Black America's descendants of the United States Freedmen. There's just no interest in that. Shout out to all of you who were listening. Salute to all of you, my man Matthew Smith, all of you, Big Malik, King. You understand? All those in the South listening. Family, last time I checked the analytics, we in 88 countries. So they so we we we making some noise. We making some noise. And I appreciate all of you.

Do For Self And Build Infrastructure

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But yeah, family, so now we have to, we have to start uh going in the way of like Elijah Muhammad said, the honorable Elijah Muhammad said, do for self. And that's where we at with it. That's where we at with it, family. Let me let me see if I find something here. Let me see, can I find it here? Uh, yeah, yeah. So I I've I'm working on some things now. I don't want to make no announcements here because every right now things are premature. But we we are making some moves, family. We are making some moves that we should have been doing a long time ago. But it's okay. It's okay. We're gonna do them now. And we're gonna we're gonna leave something here when all of us are gone, myself included, that somebody behind us can pick up the mantle and continue on. But we're gonna we gonna we wanna leave, we wanna leave something just like the ancestors left for us. And see, this is another thing, family. This is another thing what they're not counting on. I want to say this before I get off the mic. I want to say that something they're not counting on that they can't see, that we can see. This is why I don't get upset when I used to get upset when I would hear guys like Amazon Lucas and all of these uh conservative conservatives, black conservatives, talk about y'all ain't getting no reparation, stop begging and all this stuff here. Well, they've told us that before. They told us we was never getting off those plantations. They told us we was never gonna get this, we was never gonna get that. This was never gonna happen. But our resilience and and the fight that's within us kept us going. That with the fact of, and this is where you could tell who really for the people. Whenever you start talking about the ancestors, you you start seeing certain people squirming in their seats, they get uncomfortable because they don't like talk, they don't like like you're talking about that energy, that that ancestral energy. That's behind us, family. That's that's that wind is behind our sails. Now, I don't want to say too much here in that way, because really, to be honest with you, that's something that they that no one can prepare for. Is that unknown, that unseen power that we got behind us. But never mind. They make they you got certain people laughing and making fun. Oh, we politically stupid, you know, we're dummies, you know, we're not smart enough. We don't know how Congress works and all of this, yada yada, yada, yada, all of this foolishness, right? But there's something they're not accounting for that we have, and it's gonna show and prove. Oh, trust me, it's going to show improve. But that said, that said, family. Meanwhile, we done backed them in the corner, made them say the quiet part out loud. Now we can get on with the business of building infrastructure just like we did before. We've done it so many times, so many times before. Right? And like I said, I got something cooking now, but I don't, it's it's I don't want to make no premature announcements. When this thing is when this thing is fully in gear, I'm gonna bring it to you. Right? But meanwhile, we can be doing uh things like uh uh rotating savings and credit associations, uh corporative banking, share housing co-ops,

Trust Issues Scammers And Community Fatigue

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things like this. Now, the problem we have, the problem we have in our community is the lack of trust. Because you got scammers out there, you got your your Umar Johnsons out there, these people that can speak real good and come with a whole lot of game and make you think, man, this is the Messiah right here. We got a lot of that, and they they're taking advantage of the community. They're taking advantage of gullible people who are looking to do better. And they've these some of these people are very, they have very high orative skills, they're very high IQ, and they're smart, and they sound smart. They use these big words and they're able to, their cadence that they speak in is just hypnotizing. And they and if you notice, they always mostly talk to the women. They spit that game to the women. You understand? And anybody knows when in war, in war, whenever you want to infiltrate a society or sneak in, you sneak in through the women. Just like they did with us, just like they did with us with the feminine movements and all of the government assistance and all that, they came and destroyed, systematically, destroyed the homes. Because before the civil rights era, before the civil rights era, you y'all know family, uh we were we had the highest marriage rates in the nation. And once they came in with all this free government stuff and the feminist movement on top of that, and then the Rockefeller laws locking brothers up, coming out of Vietnam and all that, all of that was designed to take the men away from the families. Unfortunately, a lot of our sisters brought into the feminist thing, but that's a whole nother podcast, that's a whole nother discussion. I want to stay in tune with this, and and like I said, we've done this so many times before. It's just that once we've done it and it's been repeatedly destroyed and taken away from us, you get fatigued, and I understand that, but we got we're gonna have to curry up the strength to come back and do it again. This time, this time, family, get with the gatekeeping mindset we have to protect us from all outsiders, we gotta come

Land Trusts Co Ops And Living Together

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back. We gotta come back and build our fortress and and build our communities. And how do we do that? We we're gonna start doing some nonprofits and doing these uh what you call these CTLs, these community uh uh land uh trust and stuff like that. That's the that's the gump, that's the lane we're coming in now, family. That's the lane we coming in now. And this is going to give us the leverage by doing these things because I told you many times in this program that we're gonna be forced with a shove kick in the butt. To get out of them people's faces and leave them alone and for us for them to leave us alone and we go off and do what we need to do. This is what it's gonna come to, family. This is what it's coming to, and then that that reality is hitting more and more as these days pass. We're starting to see it. We're starting to see it. But anyway, like I said, we we gotta there's a lot that a lot of things we can do to build the to build up, you know, the acquisition of land. Even if we gotta go through nonprofits to do it, it's just that we can't afford to to have these sellouts among us anymore, and these people that are self-interested, interests and looking out for themselves. We're gonna have to go back to to things like the barter system. Where we name where you and this is what I want so bad for us to start living amongst each other again. That's why we gotta cut out the fighting and the carrying on and harming each other and putting it on videos and all on, you know, we all in Walmart fighting, and we in the restaurants fighting each other over foolishness. You're gonna have to leave them people where they at. And those of us who like-minded and want to build, we're gonna have to be together, and we need to start living it back together this way. We can make keep an eye on each other and make sure we we tight. And these are the programs that that, like I said, I don't want to make no no premature announcements, but we're working on those things up here. We're working on those things, and and uh I suggest I want to get into nonprofits, and I suggest some of you who are listening in different cities and different parts of the United States, the freedmen, I want you as well, and wherever you reside at to start looking at these things and looking up information on how to do these things. I don't know, I don't know what I'm doing. I I'm learning. I'm learning. But the effort is there, and we because it's apparent already, these people are not gonna do the right thing and pay that debt that they owe. So we gotta, we're gonna force them to do it. Eventually they're gonna do it, but we're gonna have to come from a le a position of power and leverage to make them do it. That

Closing Principles And Farewell

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said, family, thank you for listening. This is your boy Vaughn Black. Y'all go in peace and keep the peace. And remember, King always tells us, he always told us, must respect life, love justice, cherish freedom, and treasure the peace. Y'all go in peace and keep the peace. Love each other, have a little patience, have a little patience with each other because you know we're damaged people. And let's get some understanding, and we're gonna come back until next time. We love y'all, and we'll be back and we'll do it again, family. Peace.