Out of bounds & Out of touch

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Welcome And A Word On Wisdom

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Peace, peace, and welcome back to Freeman's Affairs Radio on the check-in, on the tap in with your man Vaughn Black, Aaron Vaughn Black. That is Fast Black, if you will. That's not Fast, that's F-A-S-S, Fast Black. But anyway, just poking some fun at y'all, but today, today, June 2nd, 2026, we the numerical thought today is wisdom. And what is wisdom? Wisdom is

Giving Flowers To Music Legends

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correct discernment or judgment. Right. As you hear the tune, that voice in the back, that is um the late Foster Silvers who died on May 30th. Of the Silvers family. That was a musical group, the The Silvers Family, and that that's a tune I grew up with that you're hearing in the background. He died on May 30th at the age of 64. Also, also on May 30th, you have Ronald Lepreed, who was the founder of the group Commodores that included Lionel Ritchie, the old group Commodores, and uh he's he passed away the same day at the age of 75. So we today we give flowers to these historic greats in our culture and community, and we give them their flowers. Rest in power both of them. And yeah, family, that's what it is. Foster Silvers is gone. And you know, a lot of times when I was young, there was a their sound, that sound of that song was compared to the Jackson 5 with young Michael singing. And every time I hear that song, I think of simultaneously, I think of the Jacksons and the Silvers. The Silvers were a good group, and they made a lot of

What The Out Of Bounds Boycott Is

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fun music, and we grew up off of that music. But anyway, as I promised, as I promised you, we were going to get back into the thing about the black colleges and the boycott, the out-of-bounds boycott. And uh that's what we're gonna do up here. I'm I'm gonna not gonna even mess around. We're gonna get right into it. And uh yeah, that's what it's gonna be, family. That's what it's gonna be. But um, like I said, man, welcome back. Welcome back to the you know, to the show. And thank you for tapping in. We greatly appreciate it. But as I promised today, we need to talk about this brand new campaign making major headlines, and it's called the out of bounds. It's being pushed heavily, as you know, by the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus. The way they have it down on paper, they're framing it as a righteous fight for civil rights. You understand? But here's the deal they're calling on black high school athletes, recruits, and their families to completely boycott and refuse athletic scholarships from major public universities in southern states. We're talking about uh powerhouse school programs like uh Alabama University, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia. Why? Because these states are changing their voting maps. The NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus are telling these 17, 18-year-old children, don't give these schools your talent because their state governments are diluting black voting power. No representation, no revenue. So if some of these these uh talents, these high school talents are looking to enter some of these big big time school programs, they're saying, well, if if you boycott it, they will hurt the that will financially hurt these universities and these these programs, right? And it probably will, but you know, that sounds real noble when you say it fast, like they did in the Capitol Hill press conference, right? Yeah, and Hakeem Jeffries and that Yvette Clark and all of them out there. But when you slow it down and and look at what's actually happening, it reveals a massive glaring problem with the people who claim to be our leaders in the communities. Right? And it's it's I find it very contradictory. You know, they they're contradiction. I find it to be a contradiction. Let's look, let's look at the actual reality of a high school senior, right? There's just just just for a minute, just just look at his reality, his or her reality, I should say. You've worked your entire life, put in thousands of hours in the gym, stayed out of trouble, and you finally secure a full ride scholarship to an uh SEC school, right? We're talking about world-class medical staff, elite coaching, massive media exposure. And in today's uh world, life-altering uh name, image, and likeliness, the NIL, they they name, image, and likeliness, NIL money, this is a ticket to generational wealth for these children and their families. But now who's asking them to throw that away? Bureaucrats in Washington. Now, these are the same people. I want you to think about this. These are the same people when they back here a few months ago, uh, back in uh uh uh March, April, they had the airlines all jacked up because the government shut down, the TSA workers weren't getting paid, and they had they had this whole country jacked up with with uh people trying to catch flights. I had an aunt that passed away, and I tried to get a flight to to a southern state from New York City

Scholarships NIL Money And Real Stakes

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where I reside. I tried to get a flight to South Carolina to go bury uh an aunt, my mother's sister. And I couldn't even do that. I had to go through it, it took it took so much to get down there. I made the the front and everything, but it took so much because this country was just twisted up with the flights and everything. Meanwhile, meanwhile, Congress was was was shut down, but the but the congressmen and the congresswomen were still getting their checks. See, this this is the contradiction. You got a bunch of children, uh people, not just children, but people out of work. And they're not getting paid, but you're still getting your check. If the Congress is shut down, these workers are not getting paid, you shouldn't get paid either. But you notice nobody lobbies for that. There's no legislation for that. See, they get to play by a set of rules that nobody else has to play. I mean, they they they they they we play we gotta play by a set of rules that they don't have to adhere to. Right? But that's that's that's the nature of the of this thing. That's the nature of the beast, and we have to stand up and do something about it at some point. At some point, we have to stand up and do something about it. But back to these these these uh these children. Let's keep it entirely real. Let's keep this thing real, family. Let's keep it a buck, as these kids say. If a top-tier recruit turns down a multi-million dollar opportunity at, say, like a LSU or Alabama State or whatever to make a political point, is the NAACP cutting them a check to cover the difference? Is the CBC setting up an insurance fund to protect these particular kids if they get hurt somewhere else? Absolutely not. They're asking teenagers to take 100% of the financial and professional risk while the politicians take 100% of the moral credit while they standing up doing news conferences. If it pops off the way they want it to pop off, right? I don't like none of it. I don't like this. I don't like this. Uh I'm against it. I'm speaking for myself. I can't speak to the rest of the grassroots or for them. I'm saying I don't like this at all. You know, the the here's the thing you're asking these children to save your jobs. Because all this is this is about is that these states are remapping their districts from the order of the um the Supreme Court decision uh Louisiana against uh Calais. Right? Ever since that decision came down, this has been what's going on. Now, uh this is as I stated to you before in the previous program, this is nothing new. This they saw this, they were talking about this 10-15 years ago. I'm a same closer to 15 years ago, they the the Republican had been talking about this, and this was this was this is nothing new. You understand? This was nothing new. You sat back on your laws, you sat back, crossed your legs in your chair because you knew you had the black vote in your hip

Politicians Take Credit Kids Take Risk

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pocket, you knew that, so you didn't have to do anything, and you didn't have to ever acquiesce to black demands. See, let me tell you what's was happening, and and I heard I'm echoing this this dude uh Umar Johnson. You know, I don't really talk about him up here. I've I've rarely ever, if I have ever mentioned his name, I I try not to. But I don't have to like a person or agree with a person to admit when they're right. And see, why all of this is happening, the the whole immigration thing with the Democrats flooding the country with all of these immigrants and everything, the reason why all of this has started happening is because the Democratic Party are sick and tired of hearing the demands of black of the black American voter base. So this was the reason why all of these foreign nationals were let into the country and put right on top of us in our in the communities where we reside at to drain the resources and and drown us out. And Biden, remember, before he was even even elected while he was running, he said his goal was to fast track two million uh foreign nationals to citizenship. You remember that? That was one of his goals, was to fast track two million undocumented immigrants to citizenship or some type of amnesty. Right? But back to I'm not gonna stray too far away from the topic at hand. As I said, you're not you're not going to make any assurances for these children, asking them to not accept these scholarships, and after they don't put in the work and work so hard, you sat back, you sat back, you didn't, you, you, you benign neglect the black vote. Y'all remember this family. The black elect elector electoral votes Democrat at the rate of 87, between 87 and 93 percent. And I think in the years Obama was elected, especially the first term, the first time he was elected, the rates were even higher than that. So that said, they really feel like they don't have to do anything. You know, I made a comparison to it. I was talking to a friend of mine the other day, and I was making a comparison to it. That's just like somebody pulling up in a in a truck, in a milk truck, selling bottles of milk, fresh milk, to a cow farmer. He pulls up in the cow farmer's ranch and and blows the horn. The cow farmer comes out and he says, I'm I'm selling wholesale milk here. Um, and I the the milk, the milk is gonna be $2.89 a bottle for a quart of milk. The the milk, the cow farmer look at him and say, You see that pasture out there? I got about 200 uh uh cows out there, heifers out there that give me milk, and I got another 200 over there in that pasture. That's my beef cows. I got cows for milk and beef. So what else you got in there? You got any orange juice in there you want you trying to sell? I don't need it. We don't, I don't need it. I got all the milk I need. What are you trying to sell? And see, that's the way the Democrats have been looking at the black voter base for the last almost 60 years now. Well, when it really started going down the tube in the last 35, 40 years, when they started just straight out, no, we ain't every time we come to them with something is something different. We gotta wait, we gotta wait till we get the Congress. We don't have the Congress, then we gotta wait till we get the Senate, and when we get the Senate, oh, we gotta wait till we get the White House, and then the Supreme Court, you know, it's always an excuse. Now that that that the Supreme Court has are going to uh gave the okay for these states to re to remap, you're gonna lose a lot of seats in the house. And that means a lot of you gonna have to go get jobs somewhere else. Some of them need to retire. They've been in these seats for 30 years, like that that stinking dog down there in South Carolina, that Jim Jim Kleinburn. That that that's that dog. But he's been saved by some of the Republicans there in that state. So right now his seat is safe. But but the the mitigated gall of these people to at to to now, it reminds me of New Jack City. You're gonna grab, they shooting at you, but you're gonna grab the baby and hold the baby up as a shield in front of you. That's what this is reminding me of. You stinking dogs. Every one of you. You asking these these young kids who who've sacrificed so much, and you don't know what the family sacrifice

Redistricting Blame And Party Neglect

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to help them to get to the level where they at, and you're gonna ask them, you're gonna ask them, please save me. You haven't done nothing for the black community. Does the congressional black August nor the NAACP, none of you. The Urban League, none of these, do nothing. Bourgeoisie, Boulet, dogs, do nothing. I'm not getting on, I'm not saying all the boolet and and the um the sororities are bad. You got some good folks in there, I'm sure. I'm sure you have some good, wholesome folks in there, but for the most part, these bougie niggas haven't been doing anything for the black community as a collective. They've been helping themselves to to a handful of candy, but they haven't been doing anything. But but let's let's get back to it, family. Let's get back to it. Uh let's take this let's go into the polit the the political shift and accountability. Here but here here's the part that completely trips me up, and it should trip everybody up, including you who are listening. These legacy institutions claim they are doing this because they are deeply concerned about black representation. But let's ask the hard question. What exactly what representation are you talking about? Right? What are you talking about? Because where where I'm sitting from, family, the CBC, congressional black hawks, and NAACP, and all the rest of those do-nothing institutions haven't properly represented the actual day-to-day priorities of the black community in decades. Look at the track record. Let's look at it. Where's the capital being spent? Over the past several years, the CBC has spent its energy fighting for national progressive party line items. Everything from illegal immigration platforms to LGBT policies to pushing for men to play in women's sports, to funding abortion clinics in black neighborhoods. They've been hyper focused on uh national partisan partisan agendas that don't move the needle on local economic stability. It just doesn't. All safe neighborhoods, all quality education from from from uh from kindergarten to twelfth grade for our children. None of that. But they spent years playing national politics, leaving the gates completely wide open, and now the Supreme Court has handed down a ruling, and the southern states are aggressively redrawing congressional maps. These politicians suddenly realize their jobs are gonna be in jeopardies in their districts and their institutional seats are in serious jeopardy. So what do they do? What do they do, family? Instead of doing the hard legal work, instead of building airtight legislative strategy over the last 20 years, when they held majorities, they panicked. Because you know the Democratic Party, they soft. They're soft. They look down at a bunch of black high school students and say, Hey, go sacrifice your sports careers and your financial future to save our congressional jobs. That's what they're doing. Complete cop out. They want high school students to clean up a political mess that the politicians themselves created. Man, man, man, man. Family. I said I was going to come back and speak on it, and that's why I'm talking about it again. But this is this is real simple to me. Real simple to me. If you're gonna ask these two, see, and then you know what part I really don't like? They tried to compare this. What they're asking these children to do to what was going on in the 60s with college students with the sit-ins and different things like that, totally different same type of of energy, right, that was going on around the country because some of these things these Republicans are doing are diabolical. But that's another story, and then we'll talk about that at another time. But the thing is, family, the thing is it's not the same circumstances. Everybody at that time in the 60s, doing the civil rights movement,

Black Voters As A Guaranteed Base

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were feeling this from the little children all the way up to the elderly. See, you're asking these children to sacrifice their whole their whole lives work. From the time they they picked up a ball, a basketball, football, whatever they into swimming, because they they got different athletes, you know, swimming and different things like that, wrestling and stuff like that. You asking them to sacrifice thousands of gym hours, right? And all of the work, hard work they've done, the sacrifices of their families to go in there and do this to save, to clean up a mess that you've made. You made this mess. And you're gonna try to compare it to those students of the 60s that were sitting in at the lunch counters and different things like that. When you right now, I told you, I told you about a week or two ago, the average salary on Capitol Hill in that Congress, in the House of Congress, the average salary, I think in the Senate too, the average salary is about $174,000 a year. Not talking about per diemes for traveling and hotel stay, uh uh honorariums for speaking engagements, book deals, and all you just name it. By the time they finish their terms in Congress or whatever, and they have other political aspirations, by the time they leave that seat, those people have for the most part then accumulated millions of dollars. But again, your stinking asses are going to these children. But you ain't giving up nothing now. You ain't giving up nothing. All you're doing is standing in front of a camera and a microphone and getting all the glory. Hakeem Jeffries. This is why I can't stand them. I don't have no, not that I have love for any Republican or anything like that. They both no good to me. And I've I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Black folks, we need our own political party, independent of any of those people. Because neither side ain't worth a pile of doo-doo to me. Now, not to say that if a candidate or a particular party are talking our language, we have a right and an obligation to at least give them some attention if they're talking our language. Professor Blacktruth did this past weekend. Professor Blacktruth did an excellent, excellent program. And he he did an essay on this because you got you got Luther Campbell down there in Florida. He's trying to, I think he's trying to run for some kind of Congress seat or something like that. And he's you he's always talked down on Foundational Black Americans saying he's against reparations and all of this other stuff. Now, now you'll hear a bunch of them. Uh uh Joy Reed, Luther Campbell, I Alliance, all of them now, they're talking about reparations now. Because they're desperate and they're reaching now. And these midterms are coming up, and they really need us, family. We are in a nice position to make some major, major headways, but we gotta we gotta stop being so emotionally goofy, and I'll get to that in just a second. But let me say this. Let me finish this thought. We owe ourselves now once you talk that kind of talk, Luther Campbell,

What Representation Should Look Like

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right? You got my ear now. I don't like you, but it's not about liking anybody. I don't give a I don't give a damn how you you feel. You might hate me. I don't care. I don't want you to care about me. I go back to that line in that movie, uh Fences, with Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, when the son, you know, in that movie, Denzel was riding the sun real hard. He was very cold towards the sun, and you know, he was taking care of him as his father, but there was there was no warmth or any kind of emotional attachment in that between the two in that relationship. And one day the son asked him, he said, Why don't you like me? And Denzel Washington, in that way, he plays his character. He looked at that kid and he said, You the biggest damn fool I ever seen in my life. Boy, you worrying about whether somebody likes you or not. You best to be worrying about if somebody gonna do right by you, damn liking me, somebody liking you, or you gonna do right by me and respect me. So we don't give a damn about no politicians that don't like black people. And I hate when I hear that, family. Y'all don't know how much I despise when I hear black folks talking about, well, they don't, then them Republicans don't like black people. Don't care about being liked. I want you to do something. When you do that, you when you do what I need you to do, when you capitulate to to our demands, go on about your business. I don't care if you like me or not, because I don't particularly like you. So just because I don't like somebody, that don't mean when they say something that's correct that I shouldn't pay them attention. I can't stand Luther Campbell. I can't stand what he stands for. He's a tether with a tether mouth. And I never liked them. That two live crew, they whole day, because they they are the ones responsible for making the bringing the raunchy, that, that, that raunchy, over sexual stuff into the hip-hop culture. They are responsible for that. So I never really cared for them. However, it ain't about that. It's about this dudes talking our kind of talk. You're talking about reparations and for foundational black Americans and and different things set aside for the crime bills and stuff like that. Now you now you you've earned my attention. I don't like you. I don't care if you die tomorrow. I don't like you, but but uh, but

Stop Chasing Likeability Demand Results

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you've earned my attention. What are you talking about? Oh, you're gonna run on this and you want us to vote for you. Well, this is what you do. If you want that, you have to keep saying that. Just like Donald Trump kept had that slogan, build that wall, he ran on that. And when time came when he got elected, he started the deportation movement. They couldn't physically build the wall, but he kept his promise because he ran on the campaign, that slogan, and that was something that his constituents and his people could hold his feet to the fire. So any politician that's talking our kind of talk, that's what we want to hear. We want to hear you keep saying that. Now, now we got something we can hold your feet to the fire. But family, we're gonna get ready to go. We've been up here long enough, and we're gonna get ready to depart from you. And uh let me see, do I have anything? Uh I'll just say this. Uh, true representation isn't about protecting a politician seat in Washington. True representation means building up our youth so that they have the power, the resources, and the education to secure their own futures. Weaponizing an 18-year-old's hard work to cover up for decades of lazy political strategy isn't leadership. It's an admission of total failure. But, family, we want to know what y'all think. Give us a text, give us an email, and let us hear from you. And with that, with that, we're gonna say, we're gonna ask you all respect life, love justice, cherish freedom, and treasure the peace. Y'all go in peace and keep the peace, and we'll come back next time. Again, we love you all, we love you all, and that's what it is. That's what it is. Peace. Love and devotion. It's a tracks of the shot. It's gonna stop.