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Welcome And The Focus On Knowledge

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Peace.

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Peace, peace, and welcome back, welcome back to Freeman's Affairs Radio. I'm your host, Aaron Farm Black, Fast Black, to be exact, and we on track. This morning, the numerical focus for today, the numerical focus for today is knowledge. As we start this day with another chance to get things right, September 1st, 2026. Let our numerical focus be knowledge because knowledge is just not information or data. Knowledge has a very vast meanings to the word. And it's a compounded word. No ledge. Very powerful in that. So let that be the focus for today. And out of the gate, thank you for tapping back in. We never want to take you for granted up here. Those of you who are listening on your way to the gym or in the gym on your way to work or coming from work or whatever you're doing, taking the kids to school, on your drive back taking uh from taking the kids to school, whatever you're doing, I want to thank you just for tapping the button and just hearing what we gotta say here makes us feel important. And we don't want to ever let you think that we're not appreciative of you. We do this because of you. Okay. So that said, family, that said, we got a couple things we want to talk about. And how do we jump right

Keefe D Verdict Read In Court

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in? Well, the first thing is, as you know, yesterday, the in the Keefe D trial, they closed the arguments. The defense, the prosecutor, I think, closed last week, but the defense closed their closing arguments yesterday and came back with a verdict within two hours with a verdict. Oh. Man, this is something we're gonna talk about it. So without any further ado, let's let's let's get to it. Let's get to it, family. Let's uh I'm gonna pull it up, it's in the queue, and uh turn my mic down and and let you hear it.

SPEAKER_02 3:00

All right, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. We do have a verdict. Anything we need to address before reading in the jury. All right, please write to the jury. Will the clerk please uh will the defendant and his attorneys please stand to the proceeding verdict? And the clerk will now read the verdict.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

Mr. Cork, Clark Coming, Nevada, State Nevada versus Dwayne Keith Davis, case number C two three three seven seven four zero seven-one, department two. The verdict reads as follows. We the jury in the above entitled case by the defendant, Dwayne Keith Davis, as follows. Count one, murder with use of a deadly weapon. Guilty of first degree murder with use of a deadly weapon, dated this 31st day of August 2026. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is this your verdict as read? So say you one, so say you will. Yes, yes, yes. Does either party would desire to have the jury pulled? Yes, sir. Okay, please call. Yes. Yes. Journ number four, is this your verdict as red? Yes. Journ number five, is this your verdict as red? Yes. Yes. Yes. Jair number eight, is this your verdict as red? Yes. Jar number nine, is this your verdict as red?

SPEAKER_02 5:24

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

Journal number ten, is this your verdict as red? Yes. Jair number eleven, is this your verdict as red? Yes. And chair number twelve, is this your verdict as red?

SPEAKER_02 5:32

Yes. Thank you. The clerk will now record the verdict in the minutes of the court. I want to thank you all for the time I changed to this case.

SPEAKER_05 5:41

There you have it.

How He Talked Himself In

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There you have it, family. There you have it. They gave it to him. And we knew, we pretty much knew that was coming. I followed the case from the beginning to the end. Once they came back after lunch and I saw they had a verdict already, you pretty much knew it was over. For him, it was over. Let me get a bed back in here. They they, you know, here's the thing. Here's the thing with uh Keefe D. This guy ran his mouth. Now, this case was 27 years old, family. 27 years old, this case was. They didn't have anything. He was doing interviews, but that's not what got him in trouble. It wasn't the interviews. It was the memoir that he wrote. He wrote that memoir, and that's when they started, when they went in on him. Now they had been recording his interviews. He would he would go on these podcasts and different interviews and stuff. They would give him some money, a couple thousand dollars every time he did an interview, and that's how he was eating. He couldn't be in the streets no more because the, you know, the Fed, the Feds was always on him. This guy, you know, he became an informant. So he couldn't move around in the streets anymore. So what was next for him to do? Cooperate and try to make some make some dollars off of off of the uh cake off of the um the incident and his involvement in it. That said, he went on to talk, to talk for all these years. Now there would there was a one off one official, um, law enforcement official that was recording everything. He had 27 years of documentation. And I believe he testified. If if if we go back in the record, I believe this this particular uh officer testified. And it it's it's impossible almost for the defense to discredit something of that stature. Someone who has been documenting, documenting something for for almost 30 years. Verbatim, word by word, your words. And this is this is what the the this was the uh the investigative I don't want to say brilliance because it wasn't really brilliance. The case was 27 years old. And they and like I said initially, they had nothing, they had nothing on this guy. This guy pretty much convicted his own self. And this is why I made the statement, I believe it was last on last week's broadcast, that I have neither sympathy or any kind of empathy for him. Now, I don't I don't particularly wish the man to be in prison, but you put your own self there. So, hey, what can anyone else say to that? You follow me? Now, there's uh he's the he'll be sentenced at a later date. I guess in a few months from now, by holiday time, they they should be about ready to uh give him his sentence. And and my guess is that they're gonna give him life. And he's looking at life. He's he's it's a possibility he could get life. Now, I wanna make something clear before we move on, because we we don't want to stay too long. But I wanted to wait a minute, let me see. Can I find it? Uh because I I I like to be factual when I talk to you guys up here. Yeah. They they only came back, it wasn't a a multiple charge indictment or you know, for deliberation. It was just one murder one. So that's all they had to come back with. Now, let me let me uh yeah, the murder, you know, it says so the jury is being presented with a remarkably uh clean choice. Keefe D uh repeated statements over many years constitute credible admissions of participation in Tupac's Tupac's murder. Or or are they unreliable stories that the state cannot successfully corroborate with ph physical evidence? Now, here's the thing, right? His his his defense was when he was going on these interviews and saying these things, his involvement, he was clout chasing for money. These things were made up fallacies, and there was no truth to him. But the problem was everything that he said, it was corroborated by the witnesses. Now there were 25 witnesses, I think, that the prosecution brought. A few of them were hostile. I think Marv James and I I believe it was one one more person, but the rest of them, everything corroborated. Everything that he had been saying. So they did it was no, it was no it was no really task for them to come back with that with that verdict. They didn't take a day, they didn't take two days. They took a lunch break and came back with a guilty verdict. And I I'm chuckling a little bit, but because you know, this is uh this is the games that that they play in these courtrooms. But nonetheless, uh what I did observe, what I did observe that the the family members of Pac were in attendance. And when the judge announced that uh that they had a decision from the jury, you could see the family, the the sister, and I believe it was some cousins, because uh uh Afini is gone, she's passed on, and and uh and Matulu has passed, the stepfather Mthulu. And I I believe that that sister of his is is uh through Matulu's, that's Mthulu's daughter, I believe it is. Now, they were in court, there was about maybe six, seven family members there. There was two roles of them, and they were all holding hands. I found this on the web for them. Oh wow. What was that? What the hell was that? Excuse me about that, family. Excuse me. I be hitting buttons and don't know what I'm what I'm paying attention to what I'm doing. But yeah, they were holding hands and consoling each other. And uh I guess they could from their standpoint, justice has been served. And um hopefully they can move on with their lives. I'm I'm sure it would it will be some interviews that they will be doing because this thing is gonna be people gonna eat off of this thing for for months and years to come. Because it's a it's a magnificent story. It's a it's a it's a fantastic, amazing story. And uh unfortunately, uh brother Pac was lost his life at a very young age. And it's it's always um it's always a to me a pitiful uh a pitiful story. That's how I see it. That

Master P Sparks A Slavery Debate

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said, family, we're gonna move into uh what do we have over here? What do we have? Uh I don't know if if you guys were paying attention to uh we're gonna we're gonna stay on the um we're gonna stay on on the um into the music world because most of the topics we're talking about today, we only got a couple, uh, is is dealing with with the uh music industry. So uh as you heard, as you heard, last I believe it was last week, that Master P Percy Miller, No Limit Records, made a statement. Hold on, I got it in the queue, hold on, I'm gonna let y'all hear it. Hold on. And uh he's he's caught a lot of backlash from that. But we're gonna let you hear it. I'm gonna let you hear it, and um we're gonna we're gonna get into the discussion about it.

SPEAKER_00 15:06

Okay, hold on, just a second. Because they still going back to, oh man, slavery, they did us this, and and and I'm like, you still hoping on that, man. I never hoped on that. Because I can't change the past, but I can change the future. And I think you got to get used to us being successful. And I think a lot of us, we block our own blessings because we don't think that we could. So there's Right.

SPEAKER_05 15:38

Okay. That was the statements he said. Now, people jumped on him, people jumped on on that brother, and uh they was they was going for his neck. Right? And I'm I'm just gonna place something here. I want you to hear this. Now, you heard what he said. You heard the statements he said, right? I want you to hear something else. Hold on.

SPEAKER_00 16:04

If I could do it, it anybody could do it. You don't have to be the smartest person in the world. You don't have to be a rocket scientist. You just gotta have integrity and do good business. And these doors will open up for you, uh, building great relationships. And I think that's the biggest thing for me, trying to get that negative mindset out of our culture, because they still going back to old man's slavery, they did us this, and and I'm like, you still hoping on that, man. I never hoped on that. Because I can't change the past, but I can change the future. And I think you gotta get used to us being successful. And I think a lot of us, we block our own blessings because we don't think that we could do it because we're looking at a color. So, I mean, Muhammad Ali was a guy that, and I I I loved like his story because he didn't care about that. He just wanted to be around good people, but he did represent for the culture. Right. And and I want more African American-owned tennis shoe companies. I want, I don't want this just to be me. I want so many different product brands owned by us, but making it for everybody. Because think about it, when other cultures make products, they don't make it for them, they make it for everybody. And so I want that mindset of our people. If I could change that, that's the way we're gonna bridge the wealth gap.

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Now, I don't see anything wrong with that. Now, you have some people going at him, calling him a clown, and I wish I can I find that. No, that's not it. I don't want that clown. But uh, yeah. But you had some people really, really, oh, here it is, right here. I want you to hear this.

SPEAKER_03 17:50

Y'all see what Master P said, telling our culture to forget about slavery and all of that, man. This man is a clown, man.

SPEAKER_05 17:59

Now, that was a clip of somebody getting on him, calling him a clown, saying that he said to forget about slavery. That's not what he said. You see, this is what I be saying sometime, family, when when I say for us, we have to take the emotion out of things and stop being so dark on emotional. Now, here's what I will say to that. The thing

Trauma, Healing, And Hard Truths

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about the slavery thing in our past, we are a very traumatized people. Yes, we are very traumatized. This is not a secret. Now, that said, let's look at it from a scientific point. It is clinically proven, and studies have been done on this. If you take a child that has been reared up with different kinds of abuse, whether it be physical, sexual, whatever the case may be, and that child never gets intervention to address and repair the damage. In other words, get the help that he needs or she needs. Going into adulthood, that trauma comes into their adulthood, and they're it usually acts out in in hyper vigilance, destructive behavior, right? This is a single child we're talking about. And it doesn't matter the color, we're just talking in general about children coming up with trauma. Now, that said, remember what I said now. This this this if they never get the intervention that they need to address the harm and the damage, to repair it, it goes into adulthood and it affects how they make choices, how they mistrust, and they have in a lot of instances very self-destructive behavior. This is cle uh done studies have been done on this, and this is good through uh clinical research. Now you take the black American, the descendant of the freedmen, the emancipated of slaves here in America, you're talking about almost 500 years of mistreatment, well 250 years of chattel slavery, and another 200 and so years of of redlining and and different atrocities, hangings, rape, abuse, extraction from uh economic positioning. We are very traumatized people, and we never got the remedy, never got the intervention. This is why I started this this Freedman's Affairs Radio. This is why I started this program to address because it was never it it it was uh it was supposed to be addressed, the 40 acres and a mule and and uh economic uh compensation. Right? It was supposed to be, but they they they quickly rescinded it, and they never gave us remedy for the harm. So we're still a healing people. We are healing, but we're self healing, right? So we do have problems in the community. We definitely have emotional, mental uh problems, trauma, or uh generational trauma, mistrust of a system that treated that had a history of treating us very bad. We have that because we have been victimized. And you'll hear a lot of the boot-licking uh black maggas say, yeah, you just you just love to be a perpetual victim. No accountability. Yes, we have been victim, victimized by a system, and this government allowed it. That said, I found nothing wrong with what Master P was saying, Percy Miller. I found nothing wrong with what he was saying. Now, here's the thing with that. Here is where he has to be careful. A lot of times when you're speaking from a a position of success, your wealth, and stuff like that, and you're talking to regular people who work nine to five or may have a job, may not have a job, and you're telling them, well, stop feeling sorry for yourself, man. If I can do it, you can do it. I came from nothing. But now look at me. See that Maserati I'm driving? See, I got on a I got on a um bust down Rolex with diamonds all through it. You know, I got a $5,000 suit on, $2,000 shoes on.

SPEAKER_04 23:45

If I can do it, you can do it.

SPEAKER_05 23:46

So you gotta be careful with that. And I think that's where a lot of people had the problem with Master P because he he's a successful business person. He was once a rapper. He still raps, I think. They still got no limit records, I believe. And uh he's he's a celebrated person. But I don't look at it through those lenses. I look at for what the man said, he got it out the mud. He really did. He came from Calio projects out there in New Orleans. Rough place, rough place, rough, but he got it out the mud and he came up. That said, we I I look at it from a total different lens than he was an entertainer, a rapper, or successful. I look at the model of how he did it. And he's right, a lot of us can do it. This is this is one of the reasons why uh every week, and I forgot to do it at the top of the hour, and let me do it now while I'm while I'm got it on my mind. This week's historic focus is on three people, two generals, they call them the Invisible Generals, looked them up, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. and Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Two military generals, the first in the United States uh Foundational Black American Generals in the uh Air Force uh wing of the military. Look them up. Also, also Dr. Mae Jemison, look her up. Dr. May Jemison, she went to work for NASA. She was a uh uh she was a doctor, an engineer, she was a physician, engineer, and she went to work for NASA. Look her up, family. That is the homework assignment. That is the bios for this week. I forgot at the end at the top of the hour because I don't have nothing written down, so I was just going off the top. And back to Master P though. So, yes, there was nothing wrong with what he said now. But what I will say is this we don't never supposed to forget, and that's not what he said. We're never supposed to forget what happened because what happened, our story is the American story. I'm gonna say that too to you again. Our story, freedmen, I'm talking to you, foundational black Americans, descended of slaves in the emancipated of this nation. Our story is the American story. Well, it's a part of it. It's American history, what happened. Documented. Never, never let nobody tell you, oh, move on from that. You know, it happened a long time ago. You weren't a slave, so you didn't uh experience none of that. Don't I'll never let no one no person stand in front of me and say that without me challenging them. Because you know why? No one, no one tells the Jewish, anyone in the Jewish community, the Askenazi, to forget about the Holocaust, move on from it. That's what makes them so powerful. Because they gatekeep the memory of that, and that propels them to the to the greatness that they uh have accomplished and continue to accomplish. And we can do the same. This is why I give the bios every week for us as a homework to do, to reflect, to capture that memory. Even though there's a dog to pass along with it, there is so much positive to pull from it, and that's why I do it. Every week I talk about the greats that uh we come from. We are a product of that, we are the progeny of that. So, yes, as long as I come to this microphone, I will talk about our past. Not dwelling, like brother said, dwelling on the bad part. We talk about the bad parts too at times because we have to. We have to gatekeep that memory. And that's a part of the healing process. You can't, you can't uh uh you can't get to a to the medicine part, to the healing part, without addressing the core of the problem and what happened, what went wrong. This is why we we advocate for reparations. But as I tell you a lot of times, reparations starts in your mind. It doesn't start on the Congress floor talking to senators and and Congress people. That's not where it starts at. It doesn't start drafting uh in drafting a bill to present to government. It starts in the mindset, and that's what Brother Master P was talking about. Percy Miller was talking about the mindset. Right? Because what is reparations? It is repair. We have to repair our minds. And how do we do that since they're they have not been willing to help us do that? How do we do that? We have to lean and uh lean into each other and help each other do this. You know, when a family is going through trauma like this family went through this thing with the Tupac trial, they're gonna, they, this is the time now, they're gonna need each other. They're gonna be digging into each other because of the trauma of losing their loved one. Now they they're gonna need each other more than ever, just like we do right now. And it's a great

Teaching Our History Without Permission

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thing. We're in a renaissance right now, family. We are in a renaissance. This is a great time for us. Even though all of these things around us, wars and different things, you have them talking about taking black history out of the school curriculums of the education departments around the nation. Let them, because you know why the cat is already out of the bag. We know I'm hearing there's some churches, some in the south, some in different parts of the country that they're teaching our history. And and they having they're holding sessions apart from regular service and Sunday school and stuff like that, they're teaching the children our history. And that makes me so proud, and it warms my heart to hear that. Some of these pastors and some of these churches, clergy, they're not just there to get the money off from the congregation on Sundays. They actually love the people. And they've decided to, if they're gonna take these, these uh stories, our stories out of the history books, let them. Because we know what the history we it's documented or we have it. We have so many scholars and so many people that know the history, that have written books and volumes of uh things to teach from. So let them. Because we can't depend on the open enemy to teach us our history. We have to teach that. This is why I had never people say, man, why you sit around? You don't get mad, you don't feel no kind of way. No, I don't feel no kind of way about them talking like that. No. You want to take Black History Month? You want to uh uh take away uh Martin Luther King Day and all of this stuff? Don't family. I've told you several times from this microphone, right? Power is not giving, it's taken. Power is not inclusive, it's exclusive. I've said that to you several times from this microphone. You can't rely on anyone else to do what you need to do for yourself, and that's what again, back to Master P. That's what he was saying. So let us understand these things, family. And again, don't never let nobody tell you to forget about your your history and your past or move on from slavery. And putting it in context, we can't stay, we can't uh harp on these things to the point of paralysis. That's not what we do. But we use that the same way those ancestors used that energy what they because they were actually going through it, but they used that energy to propel them forward, and we have to do the same thing. Because of a lot, I I grew up, my grandfather, my father's father was a sharecropper, which was another form of slavery. Yeah. Jim Crow South, my father grew up in Jim Crow South. I was born in the G uh just about in the Jim Crow era, I believe. I believe if I can get the years right, I was born around that time. It was leaving out, but it was there. Nonetheless, it was there. I remember a lot of things, how things used to be at once upon a time. And some of it was very traumatizing as I look back on it in my childhood. Some of it was very traumatizing. I don't use that as a as a as a as an excuse to not move my behind and do what I need to do for myself. Because then you're then you're being a perpetual victim. That is perpetual victimhood then. And we don't do that. Most of our people are very hardworking people. We're just they try, this is why we cut the fool so much and act a fool, act out when we in big crowds and people fighting in Walmart, and you got uh big old fat chicks uh rolling around on the floor in Walmart or uh pulling each other's bonnets off and they half naked and washed the nut and they came out with their slippers on and they on the ground fighting in Walmart. We never used to do that, but we've been traumatized. And this is why we cut the food like that. But it's not an excuse. I'm not making any excuses for it, because we got to do better. And but as I said earlier in the program, it's a process and we are healing. We're making the effort to heal. And if you're not doing that, then you don't need to be around us. That said, family, we're gonna get ready and wrap it up because I've held you here long enough. Today, I've held you here long enough. But uh, we want

Dolly Parton Tribute And Closing

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to leave. Uh I thought it would be fitting to make mention of one, she died uh, I believe it was August 25th, and I'm talking about the none other than the great uh late Dolly Parton. Now, she is a white woman, and as I said from this microphone plenty of times, we don't hate white people up here. We don't. What we hate, what I hate personally, and what I advocate against is white supremacy. Our people love, black folks love Dolly Parton. And I thought it would be fitting to make mention up here and and and pay tribute to her.

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And uh, yeah. Yeah.

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That's what we're doing up here. She she was um she was very, she was a uh for uh how you say that word, philanthropist, and she did a lot for the black community. She did things and she didn't wait for cameras to show her doing these things. Now, to make the correlation with her and our people, why black people loved her so much? Well, one, she came from very humble beginnings, very meek and humble beginnings, very poor. I think there was there were 12 of them in the house, and she was born somewhere in the rural Tennessee, very poor people. And uh she they wore burlap to school for a dress. She was that poor. And when she became celebrated and made and rich and famous, that did not change who she was, and that resonated with us. Because we, what do we always say? Keep it, keep it a buck, keeping it real, keep it a buck, yo, keeping it real. And she kept it real. Now, that song, I Will Always Love You, that big hit for Whitney Houston, everybody thought that was Whitney Houston's song, and it wasn't. That was Dolly Parton, was the she's the the original one who sung that song. Whitney Houston covered it, as they say in that industry. She covered the song and for the and it was used in the soundtrack for the movie, what she did with Kevin Costner, right? She she got royalties. Dolly Parton got royalties from the song when uh that Whitney Houston covered, and she used that to open up a uh a studio there in Tennessee in the black community. And she called that, I should, I believe she called it Whitney's House. That that particular studio, she called it Whitney's House, and she never got an attitude with Whitney about it. She always told Whitney she loved her and she loved the remake of it. It was never no sour note between them or nothing like that because she naturally was glad for her success. And then turnaround just a couple of years ago when uh Cowboy Carter, Beyonce, she used one of she remade one of Dolly Parton's songs. And Dolly Parton gave her all the love in the world about that. So this is why she she resonated with black folks, and black folks loved her. They've been paying tribute ever since she's she's passed away. They've been paying tribute, black folks have been paying tribute to her. So we're gonna we're gonna depart from you now, family, because we've kept you here long enough. And uh, wait a minute, what am I? Okay. Yeah, so we're gonna depart as always, as always. Must respect life, love justice, cherish freedom, and treasure the peace. Y'all love go in peace and keep the peace. Be patient with each other, have patience, because you know, like I said, we're traumatized people and we're healing, so we gotta have patience with each other in love. Until next time, I love you all. Take care. Peace.