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Welcome And Today’s Focus

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Peace. Peace and welcome back. Welcome back. Freeman's a fans radio. Vaughn Black here, your host. And out of the gate, as usual, every week we come up here out of the gate. We'd like to extend in appreciation for you tapping back up with us on this glorious great grandrise at 6 a.m. Tuesday, June 30th. The numerical focus for today is understanding cipher. And today we're gonna dig into a few things. I'm not gonna stay long. As you know, I've I've taken cutting the show just about in half so I can get you good folks on with your day. Some of you in the gym listening or riding in your on in on your way to work or just take

Paying Homage To Tony Brown

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dropping, getting ready to drop the kids off to school, or well, school's out just about now here in New York, I think just the last week. And we just like to just put a little something, whisper something in your ear, and get you through the week to give you something to think about. On today, family, we're not going to do a bio today because certainly we got a couple of people that passed away that we want to pay homage to and give them some flowers up here, and that is journalist Tony Brown. He passed away, I believe it was June 10th, and it wasn't that much of a fuss made about his passing, but he is one person that I I don't want to say idolize, but in reality, I do idolize him because of the field of work that I'm in. This this broadcasting, podcasting, or whatever you you choose to call it. And he is one of those legendary journalists that you want to model yourself behind. There's a bit of echo in here because I got the windows open and the studio is very hot. And there's there's some room echo in here. We we haven't finished the studio here, uh sound treating it and whatnot. So bear with us, bear with us. But as I said, as I said, Tony Brown, he was one of the ones, him, him, Gil Noble, and also Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes. These are j these gentlemen are are juggernauts in in black journalism, and this is who you want to patent yourself behind or fashion your style of journalism behind. These men were impeccable throughout their careers. And they were something, they were they were models to be followed. I should say. They were models to be followed. And this is what you know, sometimes I slip and I say a little cuss word up here, as my uh great um my grandmother used to say cussing, a little cussing. And I say a little slip and say a little cuss word. I try not to, because I understand you have a certain audience listening, you have children, and you some really very religious people, faithful people that listen, and we, you know, we don't want to offend them with uh language that is that is unbecoming of civilized people because that's what we are, civilized people, regardless, irregardless to what anybody says, we're

Salute To Mother Khadija Farrakhan

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civilized people. So, but the the two there's two him, Tony Brown, the journalist, and also also family, my gosh, my gosh. Salute to the nation of Islam who just Saturday passed to bid farewell to Khadija Farrakhan, that is the wife of the minister Louis Farrakhan. And we just want to take a moment to reflect and think about that. Woman was 90 years old. I think her and the minister were married for 72 years. 72 years. These these folks were married, and in this time and day, people can't even stay in a room together for 72 hours before they're tearing at each. So these people stayed married for 72 years. I believe they had nine children. And um we give condolences to the Farrakhan family, to the minister. He's he's up there in age, and uh, I you know, we don't know how long he has left. And certainly his departing will be a great loss to us. His his, you know, we don't even like to think about it up here. But yes, uh Sister Khadija, some called her mother Khadija, and and for the sake of the respect for the nation of Islam today, we will call her Mother Khadija Farrakhan. I don't like to get into all of that stuff, you know. I think it's it's uh some Roman Catholic stuff. But out of respect for them, that's what they called her and they referred to her as, and we will do the same. So those are the two passings in the past week that were made public, made public announcement about, and and we like I said, we give homage to them and uh condolences to both families, the Brown family and the Farrakhons, and to the Nation of Islam as a whole. Because I know how they felt about that

July Fourth Safety And Responsibility

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that woman. Moving forward, that said, family, moving forward. Let me get a bed back up in here because it's a little dry and I want to chill out some of that noise. Moving forward. Uh, where do we start here? Where do we start here today, family? What we want to talk about. We got a couple things. The first thing I want to get to is the I didn't say anything about the Juneteenth celebrations. I didn't mention it before the holiday. Uh week for last, I didn't mention it. The the celebration. Uh, and of course, you know, this weekend coming will be the 250-year birthday of this nation, the 4th of July. They'll be celebrating, it will be massive celebrations throughout the country. And right off the gate, we want to say to each and every one of you who tune in here every week. We want to say to you, be safe, be safe, be responsible, and be accountable for yourself. That's what we want. That's the message we want to really up here. Go enjoy it, celebrate. Celebrate. I have no problem with you celebrating the 4th of July. Because as we know, our history, our heritage, we're heritage Americans, and our contributions are sewn or woven into the fabric of this nation. So go celebrate. Yes. Yes, go celebrate. But be responsible, be safe, and as I said, be accountable for yourself.

Juneteenth In New York Feels Off

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And everything should be fine. That said, uh back to the Juneteenth thing. Um I didn't make mention of it. I don't I I guess it was an oversight. Sometime I get up here and we do the show, we do the program, the broadcast, and and we have some things that we intend to talk about. We just don't get the time to talk about them. I get up here and I get the run of my mouth, and before you know it, time's up and we gotta go. And I'll be like, oh man, I'm supposed to talk about this. But yeah. So anyway, I I went to a celebration in Highland Park, which I went to last year in Brooklyn, New York. And I had a great time last year, but this time when I went, as soon as I got in the park, it was massive people out there. Hella people. But as soon as I got in the park, they were playing all this Caribbean music and they just you would you couldn't tell it was Juneteenth. First of all, family, first of all, the colors, the colors are not red, green, and gold. That is not the colors of Juneteenth. The colors of Juneteenth are uh blue, red, white. That is the color of the flag, the Juneteent flag, and we should stick to that. You see, because when you get start getting all these other colors and different things, and you start uh Caribbeanizing and Africanizing it, and that's what's happening. I went in the park, and like I said, they were they they was they were playing all this Caribbean music, and I went to the organizers of the event, to the DJ himself. I think his name was DJ Love, and I had a conversation with him. I pulled him to the side, had a conversation with him, and I asked him, man, what's happening with all this this Caribbean music, man? All this why are you playing this? You know, this is our day. This is about our heritage, about our history in this nation. Why are you playing this? And they the MC on the mic, he was, yeah, we got some people from uh Tobago and Trinidad and all that. I'm like, what the hell is this? But see what happened here in New York City, family. It's it's pretty much a rap for foundational black Americans. It's pretty much a rap. And we want to get to this and be done with it. It's pretty much a rap until we can get organized and and get localized where we can pinpoint where our people are. We can have big celebrations without the other people interfering and injecting and infusing their cultural thing into our thing. They won't leave us alone. They just will not leave us alone. We can't have anything just for us. They have to inject themselves into our cultural things, and that says a lot. That says a lot about our culture and our heritage in a good way, but also it's just you would think people would have consideration. I I wouldn't go to the West Indian A parade with a big boom box playing uh soul music. I know what the people there to listen to. They they listen to their to the steel drums and and and the calypso and the reggae and the different things from that that uh that culture. So I wouldn't go there uh blasting no Marvin Gaye or Shalomar or anything like that because it would be an infringement on what they're doing. I wouldn't dare do anything like that. We don't do that. But they they don't see a problem with it. So I asked the guy, I asked the guy I said, man, why? Oh man, I'm showing love to everybody, man. I said, well, everybody don't show us love. This is our day. These people are guests. If you get there's nothing wrong with them coming and celebrating with us, but they're guests. This is not for this is not uh specifically for them. This is specifically for us. And you're saying you're showing love because people show you love, this is bigger than you, bro. It's bigger than me. And this is what I told this guy, DJ Love or whatever his name was, but he was half drunk when I tell it, it was pointless to even talk to him because he just wasn't hearing it. You know, and that's this this is why I say New York is a rap for Foundationals as far as cultural things. Uh uh, I guess Harlem Week would be, but but not even that's been tainted.

Chicago Shootings And Zero Arrests

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So we gotta try to do better, family, and get get get our number, get pinpoint our people where they're at so we can have big celebrations and don't have interruptions like that or people injecting themselves into our affairs. That said, talking about Juneteenth, Chicago, Chicago for the over that weekend, Juneteenth weekend, uh forty shootings. Forty shootings, eight deaths, zero arrest. And this caught the attention of President Trump. Where to the to the point where I think he tweeted or something, or made uh what is what is that thing you all on he's on with his social media thing. I forget that uh thing he's on, and he posted something to the effect of he wanted to send federal help into these cities, these violent cities like that. Now, a couple years ago, family, we talked about that. We talked about that up here a couple of weeks, a couple of years ago. I think it was during a uh 4th of July celebration, uh I forget where, was it in St. Louis or somewhere, and you had all these people getting shot up and just people acting like straight monkeys. And yes, I said it. I said it straight monkeys. That's what you act like when you you can pull up to a Juneteenth celebration and spray a crowd, spray in a crowd of people. Two two gunmen get out of a truck with assault rifles and spray into the crowd. One incident, uh a 14-year-old child was killed. Shot in the head, shot up and just just unalived. Now, up here we talk about police brutality and different things like that. But family, this kind of behavior, this kind of behavior has nothing to do with uh police uh uh police or or well let me say this. There's a cause and effect for everything, but accountability, you have to have accountability, and we cannot blame this kind of behavior uh on white supremacy, not when we're doing this, not when we're doing this. Now, the underlying factors may be uh you can put some some blame on the cause of it. Because think about that. You so you can, you can, you know why I'm saying that. You can. Because if you got 40 shootings, this is a democratic ran territory, Chicago, right? Led by democratic uh apparatus. The mayor of Pritzker, uh the not Pritzker, uh, that's the governor, the governor Pritzker, and and and that that that uh that that alfalfa looking fella uh with that mohawk, that silly haircut he wears, um, Brandon Johnson. Yes, him. And it's uh it's a circus there. It's a it's just a plain circus, and it's and it's really an atrocity that they can allow that city to be ran like that and just just just how do you 40 people get shot, 40 civilians, eight deaths, and zero arrests, not one arrest. Now, when Trump starts talking about sending in federal troops or federal help, you know what he means. They want to shut it down. They want to send they want to send set it down and call call for martial law. So, but there's there is uh there's a um, you you just can't do that. You just can't do that, and there's things that's stopping him. Okay,

Can A President Send Troops

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you know, so now he got a hold of this and he made some remarks about it. And the question that keeps coming up when cities face violence, how much power does does the president have? Uh actually, to send federal federal troops into into these uh large American cities, mostly urban uh cities, he his power is limited. Now, there was a day people try to compare Washington because you know they changed that D that district of D.C. up, and it used to be violent and and a lot of stuff going on in Washington, D.C. And it got changed up because it is a federal district. That's different from uh Chicago or Memphis or St. Louis or any of these cities. These are under state uh jurisdictions, they're not federal. So that's one of the problems that he has uh sending troops in to do police work. It just doesn't go like that because it's a lot of bureaucracy involved in that. Okay. Uh the basic rule uh federal troops generally are not supposed to act like local police. That is the general rule. Uh and that that principle comes from what they call the posse commit com uh comitatus act. Am I saying that right? Comitatus act. The posse comitat comitacties act, uh, and that limits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement. There is an a very important exception to that, and that is the Insurrection Act. Uh that law can allow a president to use troops uh, you know, in limited situations, like rebellions, insurrections, uh or obstruction of federal law. You know, you got something going out there with the feds and the people come and obstruct that. But it doesn't mean that that the president has unlimited power to deploy troops whenever a city is struggling or going through a crime wave, let's say. It's it just it doesn't work like that, and people need to understand that. So there's but I understand people's frustrations in cities like Chicago, and I'm talking about black people, working black people who are law-abiding citizens, they get tired of the violence day in, day out, week after week, month after month, year after year, the same thing. Oh, and then these babies are getting killed. Come on, man. Like, like, listen, listen, family, listen. Come on. Fourteen year olds. You you you you you fear to even send your children outside, I'm imagining. Right? But yeah, so uh uh high crime alone is not automatically the same as as insurrection, where where these things would be bypassed. Uh courts and legal experts have repeatedly emphasized that the government still needs to need a real legal basis in order to do these things. It just don't happen. So you know uh it's it's it's bad because the the police departments, they all tied into this this democratic apparatus. When you have these these cities that these territories and and s and places that are dem heavily democratic, there there's an apparatus there and it goes from the from the highest top of the courts to the uh beatwalker police there they have a system that is designed to work just the fun it work and function just the way it does and that is it works off of black chaos that's the only way it works and is designed that way so this is why you have all of this this shooting and these these uh store takeovers and what do they call this thing um these teens and big gangs of them going to take over these shopping malls and stuff and raid these raids and stuff and different things like that that's because it's being allowed to be done that's what it is family now we gotta move fast we gotta move fast but we got other things to talk about we have some other things excuse the noise I got the windows up so you can hear all of the noise coming from outside but yeah so the other thing we want to talk about is uh is that a we got all right so let's maybe maybe let's let's just do we need to recap that no we don't we covered everything with that just about and like I said I don't want to keep you um here much longer we got about seven minutes to get out of here six seven

Camelo Anthony Appeal And New Team

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minutes and we'll we'll spend the last few minutes of that talking about the new Camelo Anthony legal team that's handling his appeals. Now I am we have talked about this thing ad nauseum up here we have talked about the Camelo Anthony case the trial is over he's been found guilty and he is sentenced to 35 years in which he will be eligible for release in 17 and a half that will put him around at 2043 about that yeah 2043 somewhere in there and uh I didn't like the trial hind went but let's take a look at at some of the the new legal team and there's a lot of noise being made about it and uh let's let's take a look at it let's take a look at it folks yeah we got I got a list of them here hold on yeah it's about six he he got six new powerhouse attorneys three of them are the lead and the lead attorney he's he's an appellate specialist his and his name is Russell Williams II a veteran attorney and former Dallas County prosecutor who serves as lead counsel right that is Russell Wilson uh Michael L. Ware who is the director of the Innocence Project of the state of Texas you know that Texas is is where the innocent project was founded because of all of the the the railroading there in that state and kangaroo courts and stuff like that so that's how the the innocent project um came into existence in that state because of that state okay you also have Gary L. Bletso he is the present current president of the NAAC chapter there in Texas okay and also from civil rights attorney with Ben Crump law firm you have Brooke Klaus Cluz her name is Brooke Kluz beautiful woman and she is she is the backup counsel you have the three leads and then you have the three other counsels so he has six six attorneys in this so-called dream team right and you also have Sean uh criminal defense and civil rights lawyer very good very good Justin A. Moore civil rights trial attorney so there it is that's his six new attorneys that's going to be handling his appeal now the courts have been put on notice about the appeal I don't know if the appeal has been filed officially but they have been put on notice now let me say this family let me say this and I I a lot of people got excited about the new team I don't think we should get too excited about it although I do hope that that young man gets a new trial because that last trial was was murky it was too much murkiness even though you got you got old Coon Boots Brown people like him oh Joe Joe Coom boots brown I think he did I think the judge did a good job on handling the court bro I think he hell held a tight trial on you know anything white people do he just hold his nose pinch his nose together and start licking anything white people do and say he just holds pinch his nose and get the licking because that's what he is that man is about 80 something years old and it it's a crying shame to see see him uh uh sucking out the crack of them people's behinds the way he does and I don't care who he's up there with then I I like Dana I like Dana a lot I listen to her and I tune in with her quite often I like Dana she she can get a little saucy sometimes but that's okay but yeah that that Negro there with that with that Coon is I call him Joe Coon Boots Brown and uh he always got something to say now he called Daniel Penny a hero that cow would snuck up behind that kid and choked him and he's he's he's uh viewed as a hero by Coon Boots Brown.

Why Appeals Are An Uphill Battle

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But anyway family back to the Camelo thing I would advise people don't get too happy about this because 90 cents 90% of appeals are usually rejected at the rate of 90% so that is an uphill battle and then it's not when you go to to appeal hearings when the when the Supreme Court looks at that's not a trial family that is not a new trial now you can I've seen people get reversals on appeals in case overturned conviction overturned and they're set free I've seen that I've also seen where you go submit an appeal and the appeal is granted and you get a new trial and I've also seen where you get the new trial and you get more time than you originally got. We've seen that also we don't have the case or dockets up here but that is a that is a thing that happens but you usually on a retrial you know if we can get him a retrial if these these high powered attorneys can get him a retrial and get a lesser conviction say a manslaughter or man two I think that would be a win because after all as I I've said it up here that you have a body and you also have a confession to the crime and we can't forget that he did confess because he did not know any better and he said he put his hands on me I told him not to he put his hands on me I did it I'm not alleged I did it I was defending myself you admit it to it now do I think he meant to kill that other kid to receive a murder one no but this is the reality of it family and we can't overlook that now hopefully these these these this this team this team of magnificent lawyers can work their magic and get his appeal heard and get him a new trial and get him a lesser conviction say of a manslaughter or man two and he can be out of there in a couple of years and the young fellow can do something with his life he can still make a difference but to keep him in there 17 years or 35 years or whatever just to you know they say well he killed he did kill him and and the other kid is never coming back but the other kid what they're not saying is the other kid put himself in that in that uh situation he told he did tell him don't but don't touch me man leave me alone and you went as a bully and you put your hands on that kid and you got got what you were looking for you know what they say F around and find out and he F'd around and he found out but that would by him finding out he had to go to the other side to never

Final Message And Sign Off

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return. But family I hope I hope that everyone will be safe during this uh celebration of the fourth of upcoming 4th of July 250 year birth uh birthday of this nation and we're gonna leave you we're gonna leave you as Malik always says my man Big King my brother respect life love justice cherish freedom and treasure the peace y'all go in peace I mean that go in peace and keep the peace stay together love on each other and help each other be there for each other because ain't nobody else there for us y'all take care and we see y'all next week and we'll come back and we'll talk again. Love y'all. Peace