Constitutional Autonomy For Black Americans

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Claims Of Community Displacement

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800,000 illegal immigrants live in Houston. They've taken over all the black neighborhoods. There are no more black neighborhoods in Houston. Third War, Akers Home, Sunnyside, South Park, Cashmere Gardens, Brent War, all the high schools. There were predominantly African-American high schools. They're gone. Washington, D.C., Southeast DC is gone. All of New York, gone. Quarter Chicago, gone. Picket City, Pickett Town. Black communities are disappearing all over this nation, and we are under teaching.

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All this is the result for both blue, no matter who. They tell you about all this black and brown, all this minority coalition shit, when people are actually coming into your community to erase you and with it. That's why I want black people to stop with this all this black and brand a lot of these, these minority coalitions. These people coming into your community to take, not give, not add on to, but to take. And after they get their weight up, they say fuck you. They don't give a damn about you. So look in the comments how they feel about you, black man, black woman. This is the problem with black people. We're too friendly, we're too inviting, man. And this type of behavior is the very reason why they're saying by 2053, your network is gonna be zero. You have the least homeowners and the least business owners. You're too goddamn friendly. And a lot of you niggas love a lot of interracial relationships. And you're decking with your dick instead of your goddamn lie. Y'all don't see the value in preserving your race, culture, and your community, which makes you an enemy to the black community.

Welcome And Framing The Week

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Peace and welcome back. Welcome back to the program Freeman's Affairs Radio. And as always, we want you to know how appreciative that we are for you to tap back in and join us each week. Some of you are casual listeners, but a lot of you are every week. You're here every week with us having these discussions and going through the motions and through the pains and trials that we go through up here. So we want to let it be known how much we appreciate you and we thank you for your support and for your listening. That said, welcome back, welcome back, and today, July 7th, the numerical focus for today represents the seven, which is God as we see it. Now that is a I would say that is a perspective on how we perceive God. As you know, I don't get into religious a lot of religious talk up here on the on the program. But we know we all have different belief systems and and thoughts. Some of us are monotheists into monotheism and different things like that. But from the perspective that I attend to, I usually am in accordance with is the perspective that God exists in the black man. The black man is God in manifest form. Now that said, you'll never see me get up here. I don't I'm not one of these people that get up in in a in a very braggadocious or way that that I'm black man's God. It's because I understand that that the nature of God is is within the black man. And the question may arise, the question may arise, is God the nature, the very nature of the black man? And I would say yes, the supreme intelligence and the supreme force and power and infinite potential is is our nature, but that potential has to be nurtured. If you if you understand what I'm trying to say, it's no need to make known what your thoughts are as far as you know, you got guys that say, you know, they go around, they used to go around. It's not it's not fashionable anymore as it as it once was. The black man is God, this, this, and that. And it was a very, very confident, uh boastrous uh proclamation that that people used to do, and now it's to a point where you don't have to do that. You have to show improve through your ways and actions if if you are if you have the potential, the infinite uh potential because with that with that that title or or that possession of that nate nerd nurturing nature become there's a responsibility with that because you have to be God of everyone. You understand that is a responsibility. So a lot of times you you hear those pro proclamations, but you won't see it actually manifesting in ways and actions of the apex of what you're inspiring to be. You don't see that, but but if you're nurturing that nature within you, it will manifest itself. So let us keep that in mind as we move forward, as we move forward today. Today

Dr Mamie Clayton And Preserving History

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is the the the bio of of this week. We're gonna take a look at a woman who I think was widely unknown, but a giant in this in this cause that we have for liberation and freedom. Right? And that is the the name of this this this great woman with and I don't know if any of you ever heard of her. Her name is Miss uh Doctor, not Miss, Doctor Mamie Agnew Clayton. And let me see if I can pull something up on her in here, and we'll get right to it. Let me see, can I pull it up in here? Hold on, hold on. Give me a few ticks of the clock, and we'll be right there.

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She was born in Arkansas in 1923. She became a librarian at UCLA. And then she did something nobody asked her to do, and nobody else was doing. For 45 years, she collected the artifacts of black history: books, films, photographs, recordings. She found them in used bookstores, flea markets, yard sales, and the dump. She saved what everyone else threw away. You see, Helena kept denying her requests for funding to buy black books for the university's collection. So she bought them herself. She set it all up inside a renovated three-room garage at the back of her home in Los Angeles, and opened it to anyone who wanted access. Free, no barriers, just black history, available to the community that needed it. The collection grew to 3.5 million items, the largest privately held collection of black history in the world. It's Crown Jewel, the only known-signed copy of Phyllis Wheatley's 1773 book of poetry, the first book ever published by a black woman in America. She bought it for $600. By 2002, it was appraised at $30,000. Her name was Dr. Mamie Clayton. She understood what mainstream institutions refused to admit that black history requires black hands to preserve it. She built the archive so it would still exist. For us. Say her name. Dr.

SPEAKER_01 8:46

Mamie Clayton. There it is. There it is. That is the bio for today. Please go. Just don't wait for me to show you these things, family. Go, go to it, go to it and check check these things out. And look into these people. You know, I don't I don't get up here every week and do this just because, just to do it. There's a purpose why I do all of this stuff. And I come up here and, you know, before I even get up here, I script out a program and try to lay out a itinerary to come up here so I can we can flow and we can have a discussion and we can move on. This is why I do this every week. So I'm working and and you in turn have to do your part. Research this stuff, go look into it. Teach your children, teach your children about this, your grandchildren, or your nieces and nephews, or just someone you care about. Teach them, don't just hoard the information. This is why as soon as I get it, I give it. Okay. So yeah, that's that's what uh that's what uh it's about up here. We learn and we teach. We learn and we teach and we give it up. As fast as we get it, we give it up. Okay. So but uh hold on just a second. Let me get my notes and stuff out, get get my uh get my stuff. Hold on, hold on, hold on. What did I do here? Okay, yeah.

Two Stories Through One Lens

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So, you know, as we said, welcome back, welcome back. And uh this week we're not gonna do the standard outrage loop, which we we don't really do outrage up here, but some of the things that we've discussed are very passionate topics. Um, we're moving away from that kind of today. We're we're gonna be looking at two major news stories through one specific lens, and that is constitutional autonomy. Right now, our community is is somewhat reacting to two massive events, a historic Supreme Court ruling, as you know, on birthright citizenship. That was a 6-3 decision, and a fatal self-defense shooting in a Florida Walmart parking lot. Mainstream media wants to wants us to look at these as separate, racially polarizing spectacles, right? This is what the mainstream media would have, and this is why they report in the manner that they do. But if if we look closer, both stories are about the exact same thing. The macro and the micro legal tools require for black Americans, descendants of slaves, to protect our future, our wealth, and our lives. Now we're moving from the 14th Amendment to Washington to the Second Amendment in Florida, so let's get into it. All right.

Birthright Citizenship And Reparations Stakes

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First up, we're gonna deal with the Supreme Court decision uh that was issued, that has issued a major 63 ruling in Trump versus Barbara upholding birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment. Now, what the media is doing, family, uh is framing this strictly as a win or loss for immigration policy. But we need to talk about the quiet part, structural reality of what this means for foundational black Americans in the reparations fight. Right? So let's do a a quick history check. The citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment was a general thought by the that governing body at the time. It was passed in 1868 with a highly specific remedial purpose to permanently overturn the Dred Scott decision, which stated that black people enslaved, enslaved or free, could never be citizens. It was written for us to secure our legal status. Now, family, there's two veins in this thing. There's two separate veins in this thing. It could go good or bad for us, it depends on how we navigate the narrative, if you will. It depends on us. All right. Now lately there's been a you know dangerous political push to narrow the 14th Amendment by uh executive degree. Here's why here's why it matters to the lineage-based reparations movement. If the federal government can retroactively chip away at the absolute protections of the 14th Amendment, the legal flaw upon which federal reparations claims stand can crumble. Right? This that's one vein. Our fight for federal remedies relies entirely on the absolute unshakable nature of the constitutional rights, of our constitutional rights. When the court rules that the 14th Amendment cannot be modified or weakened by whoever happens to be sitting in the over office, it protects the structural foundation of our legal battle. That's one way of looking at it. That's one way of looking at it. Now, I'm not gonna sit up here and sugarcoat things and put sugar on on a pile of dung on a pile of uh mess. I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna give you both veins because this the in what's happening now, the shift that we're seeing in America now, there will be in a in a few years, there will be no uh majority group. But there will be minority groups, but there will be one group will be ahead of the other. And we are on target to be in fourth place. Right now we're we're number two, and we're narrowly number two. And with this immigration, all this immigration stuff and this birthright citizen stuff, we stand to be in the fourth spot. And as Dr. Claude Anderson has said to us on many occasions, if you ain't getting nothing at the number two spot, what do you think you're gonna get at the number four spot? Being behind uh Latinos, uh, um Latinos and Asians. Because of those, those are the two groups that are going to surpass us. I got a little bit of T there for the vocals, but excuse me for that. Now, here's the thing, family. Let's get let's get let's get back to the program. Let's get back to the program. Let's stay let's stick with it. Okay. All right. The s solution energy here is civil literacy. Right? That's what that's the solution for us, is civil literacy. We cannot execute a multi-generation generational strategy for economic justice if we do not defend and understand the legal baseline that keeps us in the game. We have to stop looking at the 14th Amendment as someone else's issue. It is our shield. And this is why Clarence Thomas, now, even though I think the Supreme Court, my personal opinion, I think the Supreme Court missed an opportunity with their decision because I was in agreement with the executive order from President Donald Trump. That's me. I don't I can't speak for the rest of you on how you may have looked at it, but that's me. That's how I'm seeing it. Now I think they missed, they missed this, they missed the they missed the spot on that. I think they did. And however, however, however, uh those justices, Clarence Thomas, he he stood on business, and I gotta say that. Now a lot of people don't like Clarence Thomas for for many reasons that we know of. He has been the spook that sat by the door, and especially on this particular incident. Let me get a bed up in here, because we kind of dry. Yeah. So I think they missed on that family. But he his his he did a a uh what they a dissent. He wrote a 91-page dissent. And and his in that dissent, he specifically explained that that 14th Amendment were for these children born of the slave. Because as I referred to earlier in the Dred Scott decision, they weren't trying to give us any kind of citizen status, citizenship status. And that that that 14th amendment came and we fought for that as a remedy to uh make us citizens, and that was due to our fight, our resistance, our resilience. So he explained that it is not it when they the the constitutional uh grafters and founders that put the constitution together, they had that in mind. It wasn't for uh people casually like now they have birth birth tourism, they have agencies, they have uh organizations that they have sperm banks that that that specialize in birthright tourism here in the United States. In in certain Asian countries of parts of Asia, they have uh organizations that have sperm banks and they send sperm to the United States to for someone visiting here from somewhere in Asia to inject into the woman to make her pregnant so she can give birth here on this soil, making that that that child an American citizen on birth at the point of birth, making that child an automatic citizen. Now, as the trajectory indicates to us that we are gonna be way down the podem toe. We're down now, but we're gonna be way further down if this thing keeps going the way it's going. Now, can maybe we should just get back to it because we we we only got a few more minutes. We're gonna be up here, and I want to get all of this because I want to get the story from from Florida also. Okay. Now, at the macro level, the institutional laws that safeguard our collective future, but my macro protection doesn't mean anything if you can't survive the day-to-day on the ground. So let's pivot from the Supreme Court parking lot. No, we're not gonna pivot yet. We're gonna we'll we'll we'll get back. We'll go go we're gonna finish up with with with uh Washington, D.C. Then we'll pivot. Okay. Our federal remedies relies entirely on the absolute unshakable nature of the constitutional rights. When the court rules that the 14th Amendment cannot be modified or weakened by whoever happens to be sitting in the over office, it protects the structural foundation of legal battle. The solution here is like I said, civic literacy. Right? And and our knowledge of these things, the 14th Amendment, and what it was meant for, depends on our is is going to strengthen our philosophy. Fight for uh reparations and any other thing that we get from this government, from legislation. Because I gotta say this before I move on. I gotta say this that we talk about reparations a lot. Now, let me say this, and I'm gonna keep it real. They're not interested either side, Democrat, Republican, government period, they're not interested in giving us anything that will empower us. I want to say that again. They're not interested in anything giving us anything that will empower us. So if we sitting around thinking that we're gonna guilt trip this nation into uh feeling bad about what they've done and they're gonna give us reparations behind that, that's not gonna happen ever it's gonna be on us to to force them and uh make them uh media out compensatory justice. That is going to be our job to take it. Literally, we're gonna have to take it. But at the rate we're going, with all of these things going on and these distractions, you got people talking about young Miami song and India I re and you got people going after India I re just for saying anything about that, the the subculture of our culture, the ratchet culture. Uh family, I've been explaining to you that delineation is just not about delineating from Caribbean and African people. We're gonna have to delineate from some of our own people. Now, I know I'm going all over the bouncing all over the place right now, but I'm going, I'm coming back to the point. Delineation is a wide brush that we're gonna have to use, and it's gonna even we're gonna have to delineate from some foundational people. The people who want to stay stuck in that ratchet, ignorant culture, and you know, they don't, they, you know, you're gonna have to get out their way, as as Bishop Bishop George Macon has said, you gotta get out their way, stay out their way, just step out of their way. Even when they need our help, step out of the way, get out of the way. But back to it, so that is the thing with the uh 6-3 decision on the birthright citizenship. Now, this thing could backfire because, like I said, there's a trend inside of the United States that's going on now. There's an energy and Latino people, Latino people from Latin countries, Spanish-speaking people, they're going to be the majority minority because there's no longer going to be a majority in a few years. It'll be a my or we'll all be minorities, but there will be a majority minority. And I think the Latin speaking people, Spanish-speaking people will be that that majority, that majority minority. And that said, that will make the reparations fight that much harder. This is why I say we don't have a lot of time to waste. We gotta move fast. We're gonna, we gotta move, move fast and hit hard. And that's why we we want to now uh uh uh Justice Clarence Thomas left a screen door wide open for us to pounce on what he said on that descent that he wrote, the 91-page descent, he left the door wide open for us to run into that and to use that as an armor for our fight for compensatory justice.

Florida Parking Lot Shooting Reality Check

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So that said, family, we're gonna we're gonna pivot from the the Constitution in Washington, D.C. And we're going to take a trip down to Florida. All right. Let's do that. Let's do that. Hold on. Give me a second. I'm gonna pull up the stories because we're gonna we got a few minutes and we're gonna roll out of here. Okay. So now yeah, now we're going down to Florida, right? Now, you know, by now you've probably seen the headlines or the commentary online. A black woman in Florida engaged in a verbal altercation with a 62-year-old white man over a parking lot spot. It escalated, and she used her firearm, killing him. She's claiming self-defense under Florida's Stanley Ground laws. The internet is turning this into a racial culture war, as always. We are going to uh to look at this uh at the practical life or death realities of armed self-defense. First, the reality, black gun ownership, especially among black women, is surging. I know that for a fact. My sister, my kid sister, got got a got a pistol. And she she paper right and everything, paperwork right and everything. Um, this is a form of personal autonomy, but carrying a tool for protection without absolute legal literacy is a trap. You gotta know the laws of the state where you're at. You have to know the laws. Historically, stand your ground and self-defense status, statuses have been applied highly and equitably. We know that. We just had the the the uh Camelo Anthony trial, right? Uh data shows that when a black defendant claims self-defense against a white victim, the the system is uh uh statistically far less likely to find the shooting justified compared to the reverse. We remember uh Marissa Alexander. Remember that? Here's the solution. If you're gonna exercise your Second Amendment right, you must possess an equal amount of legal education. You have to know your regional status inside and out. What is the the the the legal what is the exact legal definition of an imminent threat in your state? Does your state have a duty to retreat, like New York State does? Do you know exactly what to say and what not to say to law enforcement in the immediate aftermath of a critical incident before your attorney arrives? True autonomy means being protected both on the street and in the courtroom. If you carry the tool, you must master the law. This is this is what I put together, family. This is what I put together.

Legal Literacy As Self Protection

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And uh we're gonna get ready to go, but before we, you know, we're gonna just say a little bit before we go, and we're gonna try to tie this all together, whether we're we're talking about the 14th Amendment upholding our structural rights in Washington, D.C., or the Second Amendment protecting our lives in a parking lot. The theme is clear. The theme is clear here this week, family. We cannot afford to be passive observers of the law. We have to understand, utilize, and master these systems to protect our lineage, protect our families, and secure our future. Family, before I wrap it up this week, uh that's that's our time here. We're about to get out of here. But I just wanna say that we gotta do our part. I know you like me getting up here talking, and and it makes a lot of some of you feel good. But we gotta do our part. Just like I gave you the bio for this week when I first when I first opened up. Excuse the noise, the the you know, I got the windows up in the studio so you can hear the noise and sirens and stuff coming from outside, but excuse us for that. But yeah, we're gonna have to really do our parts individually, just like that that lady you probably never even heard of her, Dr. Mamie Agnew Clayton, very pivotal person in our journey for justice and equality. This woman put together over, I think it was 3.5 million pieces of information on black history, but you never hear talk about her. So this is a woman that did the work tired tirelessly and effort, effort uh moving forward all the time, but not getting the accolades or not getting the recognition. But she still did the work. And we're gonna have to do our part individually. Men, women, and children. That said, family. That said, we're gonna have to, we're gonna run out of here. I always do that. American hairstyles. Oh boy. That's it for this week. Respect life, love justice, cherish freedom, and treasure the peace. I messed up with the sound boards this week. My apologies. But y'all take care, be good, and uh be safe out there. Be patient with each other, help each other, and be there for each other. Vaughn Black signing off. Y'all, peace.