#RolandMartinUnfiltered - 6.10 Off-duty cop attacks Black women; OR. may charge for racist 911 calls; LGBTQ being terrorized

Episode Date: June 13, 2019

6.10.19 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Off-duty cop attacks Black women. Now they are being charged with assault; Black man in California was almost shot by cops, but a concerned sister helped save his life; Oregon may charge people for making racist 911 calls; LGBTQ folks are being terrorized by their straight peers; Leah Chase laid to rest. - #RolandMartinUnfiltered partner: 420 Real Estate, LLC To invest in 420 Real Estate’s legal Hemp-CBD Crowdfunding Campaign go to http://marijuanastock.org - Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. Thank you. Thank you. Martin! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Martin! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Martin! Today is Monday, June 10th, 2019. Coming up on Roland Martin Unfiltered, an off-duty cop attacks two black women in Texas. Now the black women are being charged with assault. We'll talk with their attorney. There's more than one incident of bad conduct by police across the country in Hawthorne, California. Another black man almost got shot, but a concerned sister helped save his life. Wait till you see this video. Plus, another almost arrest with a young man filming knew his rights. You can't wait. Wait till you see this video. Plus, another almost arrest for the young man filming knew his rights.

You can't wait. Once you see this video, this is why what Colin Kaepernick is doing is so important. You must know your rights. Folks in Oregon, they may start charging people for racially based 911 calls.

And South Park Susan pleads guilty to harassing and calling cops and two black women who did nothing. Plus, in honor of Pride Month, we'll look at how young LGBTQ people are being terrorized by their straight peers. Also, Leah Chase's funeral was held today. There was a memorial service on Saturday.

We'll show you some of what took place there in New Orleans. And also, what happens when some racist folks cut off a Latina couple? They commence to get their ass whooped. Wait until we show you the video in our Crazy Ass White People segment. Oh, it's time to bring the funk. I'm Roland Martin on the filter. Let's go. He's got it.

Whatever the piss, he's on it. Whatever it on Roller Park Down the Filter. Let's go. With entertainment just for kicks He's rollin' With Uncle Roro, y'all It's Rollin' Martin Rollin' with Rollin' now He's funky, he's fresh, he's real the best You know he's Rollin' Martin Now He's fresh, he's real, the best you know. He's Roland Martin. Now. Roland Martin. Folks, thank God for cell phones. We talk about what's happening with police brutality all across the country.

It is vital that, frankly, we as citizens record what these cops are doing. This video went viral over the weekend, took place in Hawthorne, California, where there was an armed robbery. Then all of a sudden, cops descended upon this young man, guns drawn, and he wasn't arrested. But luckily, this sister, who she, of course, had to deal with the issue of gun violence cops killing her boyfriend she was there shooting this video it went viral over the weekend check this out we are on the corner of prairie and elundo and they have their guns drawn on this young black man right here. Why are your guns pulled on this young man? He has no weapons on him.

We live right now. We are so alive. What's your name? What's your name? What's your name? What's your name? Last name, William. Are you going to shoot him?

Are you going to shoot him? Okay, relax, baby. Relax. Relax, because they will shoot you. They killed my boyfriend boyfriend in 2015. yes he was killed by the police you're gonna shoot me too right for filming right we live look at that big ass gun she got on this man with no weapon Is all that really necessary, ma'am? I'm sorry. I just need to know. Is all the guns drawn on him necessary?

Excuse me, Mr. Officer. My name is Skye Pulsey. My boyfriend's name was Leroy Browning, and he was killed December 15th at a Taco Bell. This is crazy to me. Look, my car is right there. I was getting gas. I don't understand why y'all got guns drawn on him right now. Are y'all about to kill this man?

Like, look at these big-ass guns they got on this man right now. Look at this baby. Look at this baby. You're going to stand up and walk slowly to the sound of my voice, do it now. Can y'all just put your guns away and somebody get them? Don't move, don't move. Please don't move. Can somebody just come get them?

Can somebody put your guns down and get them please? Don't resist them okay all right folks uh the police department released a statement on june 7th uh stating that the man was detained uh was taken in now he wasn't arrested i still don't clear exactly what took place but again uh this is an indication of what we're seeing all across this country joining us right now after a bus Jones de Weaver political analyst also joining us pastor Shannon right third vice chair Maryland Republican Party Teresa Lundy founder TML communications a wish you see this sister here me pleading with

him and again according to the, he loosely matched the description. But the problem there for us is loosely could get us killed. Absolutely. I mean, that's always the excuse. Right. And what what she did was save this man's life. We saw her save this man's life. She did several things that were absolutely critical. First of all, she announced to them that she was videoing live. She told them it was live. It's live. Then she kept sort of challenging them in terms of all of them pointing their guns and their firepower at him, an unarmed person. She kept repeating that. And then finally,

when she said, don't move after he was at first told to stand up, that right there really saved his life because all we need is one person to say he's reaching he's moving and you know when one person starts shooting they would all start shooting this sister saved this man's life but he shouldn't have been put in that position in the first place the issue shannon i think for for for african americans is again um you see the video pull it up please drop the audio but just pull the video up. You're on a corner. Five, six police cars show up. You don't know which one of these cops could get the itchy finger, right? I think back to Terrence Crutcher in Tulsa, where there were three or four police officers. Three cops didn't overreact. One did. She was the one who shoots and killed Terrence Crutcher

so it stopped me you're sitting there and that's why the sister the video was like baby calm down you make any move these fools he will fire a gun at you yeah she did the right thing to tell him to be still cuz for him the way he was down on his knees with his hands up on his head you couldn't keep your hands there and get up so he would have had a hand down and they would have said he was reaching it was so like the video we had last week where we showed it where the cops the gals on the driver's side and the brothers filming and the guy says turn the engine off he said I am NOT moving right he said my hands are right here he said and then the cop

actually tells his folks there's a gun and and the guy's like, there's no gun in the car? Right. This brother's like, no, I'm not turning nothing off. I am not moving so you can sit here and say I was reaching for a gun. Absolutely. When our children were younger, there was a little booklet that the NAACP used to put out, Traveling While Black.

And it used to say the things that you do and that you don't do, if you get stopped, if you find yourself in a questionable situation, even though you know you didn't do anything wrong. Because you can be dead right and still be dead. So, you know, it's serious today. Folks got to really understand. Yes, you have rights, but that bullet

doesn't care about your rights. So you need to put yourself in the best place possible to know you will go home at the end of the day. And Teresa, by the end of the day, you cannot fully trust any of these cops. You can't. No, you can't. And nor so can you listen to their directive and really take it seriously. Because if that young man actually moves, especially hearing the heartwarming story that the young lady said about her boyfriend in 2015,

was shot, you know, and he was at Taco Bell. I mean, she's speaking from experience. You heard it in her voice. You heard the anxiety. So she's like something happened that went wrong with her boyfriend. And if she wasn't getting gas across the street, who knows exactly what would have happened to that man in that moment. And so when we can't trust cops, when we can't trust the people who are sent to protect and serve and who are supposed to be our our saviors and communities at large, of which they keep calling and access to donate to.

It puts the public in a real not at ease, even though they they're they're trying to, I believe, diversify as much. But they're not putting more of us on the street, nor are they also giving us more training. So, again, I think this is not only a national discussion, but definitely local precincts need to do better, and they need to probably have at least more consequences for these officers. Well, I just think that, again, I mean, again, when you're in that situation, what is happening for us, we're the ones who end up dead.

Absolutely. We're the ones who end up shot. All of a sudden it becomes, you know, I feed it for my life. And then people go, oh, you know, you're a cop, so we'll go ahead and give it to you. And again, the brother's dead. Unless you're a black cop that shoots a white woman. Yeah. Then, of course, you go to jail for 12 and a half years.

Absolutely. All right, folks. woman yeah then of course you're going to jail 12 and a half years absolutely yeah all right folks let's talk about this other case again when why is it important for you to know your rights uh this is another video uh that went viral as well i believe it took place in chicago based upon um the folks that you see in the video and so cop stops one brother and another cat is videotaping but listen to my man throughout this entire exchange. You shouldn't gain him no information. That's illegal.

It's a legal search. No, no, you got to answer no questions. He ain't got to answer no questions. It's no matter. It ain't on though. Right now, you can press the button. I know law, bro. If you ain't committing no crime, you ain't got no business right here asking no question, interrogating them.

This is a legal detain. What crime was committed? Who would they say was watching? Who they said that did it? Who are you looking for? What's the person's name? What's the description of the person, officer? What's your badge number?

What's your badge number? 161? Okay. I'll be calling your office. They know who I am. Toy battle. It's a legal search. You ain't supposed to do none of this. This is a legal stop too. You have suspicion. You have suspicion, but you ain't supposed to ask that though. Cause you're running them right now in Leeds. Yeah. You was free to go. He is free to go. He always free to go. And don't ask somebody else on Howard, their name without them committing crimes.

That is illegal. Y'all time is almost up. All right. Don't ask nobody they name the ID. That's illegal. Yeah. Everybody always good out here. We only good when you went out here manipulating people. Have a nice day. Stop scanning people names. Find some real criminals. Cause next time it might cost you your badge. Yeah, for real. You know what the ultra-various law is? Stop breaking the law. He's the guy. I love him. He's the guy.

Now, I need him. So, I think we all need a man like that. I wish he identified himself. Oh, he did. He did. He said his name. I forgot his name, but he said his name. He's like, they know me at the police station.

Well, I need to know him in Philadelphia. I need to know him in Philly because what he just dropped was a whole list of nuggets, information and more so education for everyone. Right. Because, again, these brothers are growing up and sisters because we can stop to a growing up scare, not knowing. Because, again, the parents aren't right necessarily telling the kids i know they i would i didn't i grew up in the suburbs so i didn't necessarily have to deal with that but when i got to philly i really got a life lesson and i wish i learned it in the home but my nephew and a couple of my brothers they got that but i also believe that the education wasn't there as in how to address the police and i think actually but also knowing yeah the law in your state uh i remember shannon it was a couple weeks ago i guess

we were on the show i forgot what was happening in the particular state and we were talking about something happening it was in texas and i was explaining to uh to scott bolden i'm like scott you might be an attorney the law in texas is here I don't have to show you my ID. If I am not being arrested, you do not have the right to ask me for my ID. And I just give it to you and you somehow detain me. And this is why what Colin Kaepernick is doing with his Know Your Rights workshops all across this country. He is teaching young black men and young black women to know your rights. And frankly, that's why the NFL won't let them back in the NFL. They will sit here and hire Richie incognito, who's a racist, who is a racist. Okay. Who is haze and abuse and assaulted other players. He is just got

signed by the Raiders, but cabinet can't get signed by anybody, but those Know Your Rights workshops are critically important. Those workshops are important. You know, it's funny. When I was younger, my mother used to always say, if you find yourself in a situation,

don't act out. Just give them what they want. If they ask for an ID, give it to them. And at first, when our kids were younger, we used to teach them the same things because that's what we were taught. That's what you do. If someone in authority asks you for your ID,

you give it to them. If they ask you where you're going, you tell them. You comply. But today, you can comply and still get shot or arrested. First of all, we're talking about the Central Park Five. That's what I was going to say. The Corey, the young brother, was not on the list. He was sleeping.

Yeah, yeah. Why don't you go ahead and come support your friend? He ends up serving more time in prison than all of them. Yeah, exactly. And that's the problem. People don't realize that the police can and do legally lie all the time. All the time. All the time.

We'll make up stuff. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. So when you blindly comply, what you're doing is oftentimes you are allowing them to get you caught

in a trap in the same way that we saw with the Central Park Five in the same way that it happens each and every day. So it really

just warmed my heart. I was just screaming for this brother when I saw him breaking down the law. Where is his honorary law degree? That's all I want to know.

Right. He needs one. And this is also why, when you get stopped by the cops, what about being detained for? So I'm asking you questions, I'll talk to my lawyer. See, right there.

That ends it right there. I ain't waiting for Miranda. For real. I don't need Miranda to show up and drive by. I'm going to hit you right then. No, I'm talking about a lawyer. And the other thing is, can you see my iPad? Can you see my iPad?

All right, y'all. So this happened over the weekend. This is the Twitter feed of Will Giuondo. Will Giuondo, y'all, sits on the Montgomery County City Council. So check this out. Go to my iPad. This is what he tweeted. He posted it on his page and is also on his Twitter page. Normally Saturday mornings are my time for therapy and early morning basketball run with my friends. So I'm always in my the McDonald's in White Oak, where four young men were stopped, frisked, and received trespass orders after being called the N-word, I was pulled over for the umpteenth time in my life, this time by the Maryland State Police.

Officer, I stopped you because you stopped on the stop line at the last light. What kind of crazy ass? The stop line. I was stopped right next to another car at the light side by side first question is this your car because of course the black lexus couldn't be mine me yes second question do you have any outstanding warrants or points me no officer i need to see your license and registration me may i reach into my pocket to retrieve my license and registration officer yes slowly me while passing them to him i say i'm a montgomery county council member County Council member. Officer, what did you say? Me. I'm on the Montgomery County Council. Officer, oh, surprised. He goes back to his cruiser and runs my license because who knows

if I'm telling the truth. He comes back and says he's going to give me a warning and have a nice day. As I tried to relax from the encounter, I realized this was a classic pretextual stop. When an officer stops a driver for a minor traffic violation to allow them to investigate a separate and unrelated suspected criminal offense. These stops are used disproportionately against African-Americans and people of color and are ripe for racial profiling. Fortunately, I resorted to my training honed over years of similar stops, but I couldn't stop thinking about what happens to the young man or women who's not a lawyer or a county council member, hasn't honed their training on how to survive a stop, has an outstanding traffic ticket or bench warrant they don't know about, and how

this situation could have escalated. Aside from the fact that the Fourth Amendment barring illegal search and seizure should mean something, these tactics erode public trust in law enforcement and must stop. Shannon, this is the thing that black folks keep trying to tell white folks all the time. This cop was in search of a reason to arrest this brother. Yeah, absolutely. You know, unless you've been through that situation, you don't know what that's like, and especially if you're not black.

You know, a couple of years ago, we were driving in Baltimore, and we came to an intersection that was blocked off. One officer said stop. The other one said go. They weren't communicating. So I went to go. The officer drew a gun, and I said,

okay, wait, hold up. What are we doing? She said, but I told she, I told you to stop. But she told me to go. Y'all wearing the same uniform. Well, she's a trainee. How am I supposed to know that? I'm in the car behind a wheel minding my business.

How am I supposed to know your business? So it is, you really have to understand what your rights are and understand regardless of what your rights are, and understand, regardless of what your rights are, when it is time to just be still and let God handle all that other stuff around you so you can get home at night. What's really sad, though, is that, you know, when you think of all, for example, the health disparities that we suffer as black people, I think a lot of it is rooted in this. Stress? Because the stress that we have to deal with in terms of being faced with these sort of indignities and potentially life threatening situations every day that will play out on our bodies in numerous ways. Racism kills in more ways than just a bullet. It kills in terms of the stress that it provides to your body and your system that you're not able to really decompress anyway. Oh, again, and so, I mean, all these things happen,

but this is why, again, knowing your rights, knowing exactly what it is that you can and cannot do and should and should not do when it comes to cops. And so, look, it's just always crazy, and speaking of crazy, folks, here's a case out of Texas that absolutely makes no sense whatsoever. The Natchitoches, Texas Police Department has confirmed a use of force investigation is underway involving an officer who arrested a black woman during a dispute at an apartment complex.

The officer, folks, was not in uniform and was wearing a T-shirt and shorts. Now, there were two women who were attacked, and they are being charged with assault. Here's a video recorded by a witness. Oh, my God! What the fuck? Oh, my God! Call somebody right now!

Let go of her. Yes. I'm at Birch. It's called Go. He's over here trying to talk to my friend. All right, folks, joining me right now is the attorney for two of the women, Attorney Kim Cole. Kim, welcome back to Roller Mark Unfiltered. Thank you, Roland.

Alright, so there's a dispute at an apartment complex where the two women, were they, first of all, how did everything just unfold? How did everything just unfold that led to this situation? Okay, let me explain, Roland. This was another pool party incident,

believe it or not. That's why the young ladies are in bikinis. So the young ladies were returning from a pool party on the campus of Stephen F. Austin University, where they both are students. And they went back to some mutual friends apartments to continue swimming. And when they arrived at the apartment complex, they were kind of waiting in the parking lot for some other girls to arrive. So there were a total of about 10 to 12 girls there in the parking lot. And this officer approached them and he wasn't dressed as an officer. And he started asking them questions like why they were there, whether or not they live there.

A couple of the girls basically stated that they did live there. And the other girls, you know, indicated that they were with the young ladies who live there. And they asked who he was and why he was questioning them. And so once they thought they were done, they started to walk off. And then he rolls up into a cop car. He rolls up in a cop car and jumps out and starts beating the girls. Wow. Whoa. So they don't know who the hell this dude is.

He's just walking up to them. And so he starts, does he go after them? Yes. And there is dash cam video as well, where they're literally just standing in the parking lot. And they're, you know, trying to lot and they're they're you know trying to you know they thought they were done with him they said he walked off so they dispersed they were like okay that weird creepy dude let's just you know go on about our business and so they

started to walk away and he got into a police car and rolled up on them now some of the girls matter of fact the two young ladies who were assaulted were pretty far away. So they didn't see who got out of the police car. They didn't know, you know, they still, all they see is this creepy dude in a t-shirt and shorts who is assaulting, who starts to attack their friend. And as you can see, none of the ladies assaulted him. None of the ladies tried to fight him or anything.

They're asking, who are you? This this sort of as you were describing, as I think about Rekia Boyd, the sister in Chicago, off duty police officer, Dante serving again, are some argument or dispute outside. He jumps into this thing. It escalates. He pulls his gun out, shoots Rekia Boyd in the head. some argument or dispute outside. He jumps into this thing. It escalates. He pulls his gun out, shoots Rekia Boyd in the head. She dies and he's charged. They go to court and the judge said that the DA charged him with the wrong charge,

dismissed the case, and he couldn't be charged again. I mean, it's like you have these cops intervening and if you're the person in the public, you don't know who the hell this person is. You want to be in shorts and a T-shirt. Who are you? And they say, well, I'm a cop.

I need more than that. Right, right. He never displayed a badge to these young ladies. They were, he introduced himself as apartment security because he is, he was a resident there at that apartment complex. And he was a security, security personnel for the apartment. How did they get charged, though? And they got charged for attacking him? Yes.

That makes no sense. And the DA will not drop the charges. In fact, we just went down there. They had their biggest economic event of the year, which is the Blueberry Festival on Saturday, a couple of days ago. And my church, you know, Pastor Freddie Haynes and I and a busload of folk went down there to turn their Blueberry Festival black. Thank you. And they advised the girls that us protesting would make matters worse for them. Thank you. what's next so we are um going to i'm going back down there wednesday to meet with another group who um are interested in uh police informing a police oversight board um i was a part of that

effort here in dallas and so i'm going to meet with them hopefully we can meet with the da and get the da to you know listen to reason and drop these charges. This is absolutely ridiculous. Nacogdoches is known for being racist and they're known for being discriminatory toward minorities there. And so hopefully we can get them to listen to reason and drop these charges. All right, then. Kim Cole, we still appreciate it. Thank you so very much.

Thank you, Roland. All right, then. Kim Cole, we shall appreciate it. Thank you so very much. Thank you, Rowling. All right, then. And shout out to Reverend Dr. Freddie Haynes. He was tweeting about this. I told him we were going to do this story on Monday. So I appreciate my frat brother letting us know. I mean, this is this this is the thing that again. Teresa, if you're black, dude, I don't know who the hell you are. So this notion that you see, this is this is where whiteness comes in. Absolutely. Where white folks believe they can walk up to anybody and begin to ask questions. George Zimmerman. Right. See, that's it. That's the only people understand. Just like it was in the Pennsylvania. Remember the brother? Y'all belong here?

I need to see your key fob or your ID. It's like, I'm sorry, you ain't pool security. And they call the cops. It's the same thing. So this notion that you just have the right to just ask us at any time, show ID. And then we just got to give it to you. Because it's there in some. I'm not going to say everybody, but in some white people's mindset, privilege is is at the utmost of importance of who they are.

Like, it's interesting because we just saw the last story with the Montgomery County councilman where he didn't have his badge, he was in plain clothes, and until the officer actually checked his registration, his license, it proved who he was. But I wonder how the conversation would have went if he already had his lapel pen, right? Or if he had

something on his car. Right. But with us, absolutely. We got to be dressed up. We got to be we got to look the part, you know, and it's so aggravating because you just don't know. And I've been through it. So and you just don't know who people are. But in some people's mindsets, especially those white people that have power, who feel like that you know the the authoritative portion of who they are is just i'm going to i'm going to address you i'm going to take your rights you you know you basically have no rights and and i think that's again especially coming up in a millennial generation that's what we're feeling like daily it was just like when you say we don't have a voice we we really don't as it relates to um some people as a white america no it's crazy i just think and again this is this is where um this this is where we have to be constantly on guard shannon constantly in a situation where

okay and again this is how it is okay what i got all my stuff is here i'm all good or whatever okay uh and you know and let me check that's why look I just I just I just put one of those mounts first of all record these videos with me my niece in the car I'm always uploading them I'm uploading one right now and I got I got it right there so if I ever if I ever get no I'm not like click I'd like over the wrong person that they i'll be like say hi say hi you on camera you got camera i got a camera because i'm not trusting these cops it's difficult to know who you can trust and who you can't i mean and let's be real there's just

some crazy people out there that will say they're cops and not be anywhere related to the police happen in florida exactly of fact, a dude got busted by a cop. Pretending to be a cop. So you really don't know who's doing what. Hey, you roll up to me, I'm telling you right now, you're going to be on candy camera. And I'll be streaming

live too. Be like, boop, that's right. See them comments, we live. Like, go ahead. Look, I ain't recording. We going live right there. So y'all better learn how to head at one touch at one touch live button ready to go live on Periscope, Facebook, YouTube immediately. That's what you better do. All right. We go to a break right now. We come back. We're going to have some HBCU news. A new president at Claflin University would tell you about that. And we'll also talk about a couple of the stories that have piqued my interest.

And then also I was today at the HBCU African home coming. So it's an issue they're actually launching. So we're going to be live streaming the whole news conference after today's show. But wait till I hear you. I can play this video of this sister who was ambassador, who broke down y'all, not just present day was happening in Africa, but all historical and why we sort of have this disconnect with the motherland. So I will show that for you when we come back. Roland Martin Unfiltered. You want to check out Roland Martin Unfiltered?

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than any other university. Well, Claflin now has its ninth president, Dr. Dwayne Wormack. He, of course, is taking over in the fall for Claflin president, Dr. Henry Tinsdale, who announced his retirement. Okay, Wormack, you see, we lead in the 150-year-old HBCU. Tinsdale served as president of his alma mater for nearly two decades, and his tenure is marked by visionary leadership and a number of remarkable accomplishments. And, of course, they're based in South Carolina. Wormack, he actually comes from Harris Stowe in St. Louis. So, Doc, congratulations. I knew Dr. Wormack, of course, when he was at Bethune-Cookman.

I had a chance to, of course, speak at Harris Stowe. So I'm quite sure I'll be speaking at Claflin come next year. He'll be giving me a call. So congratulations on becoming the new president at Claflin. Folks, in response to incidents where white folks keep calling the police on black folks for just living their lives, Oregon has a new bill that will crack down on racially motivated 911 calls. Now victims of those 911 calls in Oregon can sue the caller for up to $250.

That's it? That's not enough. $250? That's not enough. That's actually kind of insulting. $250? Should be at least a grand. At minimum. Should be at least a grand. minimum should be at least a grand i would say at least a grand now folks in charlotte north carolina you might remember remember south park susan let me refresh your memory i'm still gonna make 125 000 i'm still gonna make 125 000 monday morning who are you do you know live here? No, I'm not going anywhere. I'm not going anywhere. Is your boyfriend here? Is your baby daddy here? Nobody cares. I'm white and I'm hot. I don't know, but you're harassing us. You want me to bring out my museum weapons booth?

This is North Carolina, by the way. Mm-hmm. Well, Susan pleaded guilty to falsely accusing two black women of trying to break into their homes. She was sentenced to one year of unsupervised probation in order to pay court costs for harassing sisters Lisa and Mary Garris who live in the residential complex. You may have seen Susan in our crazy white people segment. Speaking of crazy as white people. No charcoal grills are allowed. I'm white.

I got you, girl. Illegally selling water without permit. On my property. Whoa! Hey! Give me your ass. You don't live here. I'm uncomfortable.

Oh, this is so delicious! I saw this over the weekend and I said, oh, we've got to play this on Roland Martin Unfiltered on Monday. A white couple jumped out of their car to confront a Latino couple in a case of road rage. The white couple was hyped, cut them off, stopped a Cadillac SUV. They about to whoop some ass.

But they didn't realize they went up against hashtag team whip that ass. I need you. I need police right now. I need police right here right now. I need police right now. They're coming to my door on the freeway. They're here on the freeway. What the fuck are you gonna do? No, don't get off the car. Don't get off the car. What's up? What's up? What's wrong? What are you gonna do? Let him go. Let him go. The cops are on the phone. You need to go. You need to go. I'm gonna go.

I'm gonna go. Can you please come? Come, come. They're off. They're fighting on the freeway. Go. Yes, go. Yes, physically. Go, bro.

Go, man, please. Get the fuck out of here. Please help, please help. There's cars that are gonna get hit. Oh my God. Go, please. Oh my God. What do I do, what do I do, what do I do?

What do I do, what do I do, what do I do? Please help, please help. Go, go, go. They're off, they're flying on the freeway. Fuck you, fuck you. Go, go, go. They're off, they're flying on the freeway. Yes, physically.

Go, go, go. Go, go, go. Yes, physically. Go, go, go. Go, go, go. Oh my God. What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? Please help. Please help. The Glen Oaks Boulevard. We're on the ramp for the Glen Oaks Boulevard. Hello? We're on the ramp for the Glen Oaks Boulevard.

We're right on the ramp. We're right on the ramp. Next to the Best Buy. Right next to the Best Buy. Right next to the Best Buy. It's the on ramp. We're on ramp. The on ramp? Yes.

Right next to the Best Buy when you get onto the freeway. Is it San Fernando? Yes. It's on Pacoima. You know where the Best Buy is at? Get in the car. Get in the car. No, no, no, no.

Get in the car. Please. Please leave it. Let go. Please. No. Please. Hold on. It's on the bus. That's fine. It's on the bus. Get in the car! Please! Let's go! Please! No! No! No!

Let us go! I don't know the address. I'm only 16. I don't know. Yes! Yes! Let's go! Get in the car!

Get in the car! Get in the car! Get in the car! Get in the car! Get in the car! Get in the car! Get in the car! Get in the car!

Get in the car! Get in the car! Get in the car! Get in the car! Get in the car! Get in the car. Fuck you. Get in the car. Get in the car. Fuck you. Hello? Hello. Get in the car. Hello? Get in the car. Get in the car.

Get in the car. All right. On the expressway at that. I don't think that ended up quite how they expected. I'm pretty sure that was... I mean, when you get in your car with your clothes on and you get out your car with your clothes on, you expect to get back in your car.

You can't justify your clothes on. I'm just saying. They walked over like they were supposed to roll out the window and just keep it moving. Come on, y'all ain't gonna do nothing. Y'all ain't gonna do nothing. That was, again, again, they got the car.

Yeah, what y'all gonna do? She's sitting here, and then she ends up halfway butt naked, shirt off, breasts all out, showing her bra. And then, of course, the hub, say, man, man no it's cool you got us off then you cussed us out yelling out the car then you've got out your car and

walk over to our car they were begging for that but what they really did they know they beg for that one got kids in the back recording it. She on the phone in 9-1-1. She on the phone and then find one of those. She like, well, we caught. We can go home. Never mind. Never mind.

We don't need y'all. We don't need y'all. They ain't got no weapons. They good. They ain't got no clothes. They ain't got no clothes. But that's all these folks. Again, see, I keep warning. I keep warning white people. The wrong one. I keep warning white people wrong one I keep

warning white people yo today don't don't you roll up on some folks it ain't going well I don't know why these folks keep trying us I said I'm telling y'all it's not going well you you keep acting a fool, and then when you get knocked the hell out, you're going to be like Debo. Like on Friday, you're going to get knocked out. You know, just jumping out the car and stuff along those lines. I mean, I'm telling you, I don't understand. But the woman, the Latina was just waiting.

Oh, my God. It was like Hulk smash. She was just flinging that. Oh, my God. She was like Hulk smash. She was just flinging that woman all over the place. She was sitting on her. She thought about immigration and everything else. I'm so tired of this. I'm tired of this. She thought about Santa Ana, the Alamo.

So she was reaching all the way back in history. All them ancestors came up. All of them. All over that. I'm just warning y'all. Just warning y'all. Don't act a fool. But wait, kudos to the kids,

because they just tried to stop it. Mom, you're embarrassing me. You know what I mean? Family found me. Stop it. All right, we got it. And Mama's like, I ain't trying to hit that.

Exactly. At this point, go sit down. Mama's like, let me handle this. But let me do this here, y'all, before I go to my next door, okay, which is this here store.

This is the third straight video. Can y'all do me a this here, y'all, before I go to my next story, okay, which is a serious story. This is the third straight video. Can y'all do me a favor? Can y'all please learn how to shoot horizontal? See, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, play the video again. Play the video again. Take the audio down. I just need to show y'all something, okay? This is, this is, y'all, I need y'all to see.

That's a vertical video. Y'all see all that stuff on the left and right? We got to put on the screen to fill it up. I need y'all to learn how to shoot your fight videos different. You don't care about the other ones, but just the fight videos. Right here, okay? Now, go to my iPad. Go to my ipad

can y'all you see this see that was shot horizontal that was the robotics competition uh at rainbow push i shot some video about three years ago uh see y'all see how it fills the whole screen up so do me a favor if y'all are shooting crazy ass white people please i need you to shoot this way i need you to shoot horizontal because see i want to get the whole ass whipping i want i want the whole ass whipping in the picture i can't get the whole as i can only get like portions of it when y'all shoot this way uh and so again and let me show you i got two phones see you can even do it with two hands okay this how you even do you got to boom I'm shooting to all action all the action going that go high I know that's all I'm saying so if y'all shoot

these videos okay I need y'all to go and even when you go live you go live on Instagram Facebook like turn your phone go horizontal okay I need y'all to go. And even when you go live, when you go live on Instagram, Facebook Live, turn your phone, go horizontal, okay? I know y'all think it's easier doing it this way. No, no, no, no. But for television purposes, I need y'all to go ahead and shoot that thing horizontal so I can get the full picture of crazy white people getting their ass whooped on freeways. That's all I'm saying. I appreciate that. All right, folks.

Next story is a pretty tragic story. I remember this out of Alabama. The mother of Nigel Shelby, 15 year old who died by suicide in April after persistent homophobic bullying is calling for an investigation into her son's death. She says that school administrators may have had some influence on Nigel's mental health. He has spoken to them about he has spoken to them about it and was told that being gay was a choice. Nigel was a student at Huntsville High School in Huntsville, Alabama. We're here to discuss this particular story is David Johns, executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, and also attorney Ben Crump.

They join us right now. And so, first and foremost, Ben, are you representing the family in this particular case? And so what legal plans, legal options do they have? Certainly, Attorney Jasmine Moran and I are representing Kamika Shelby, Nigel's mother. I've never seen a case like this, Roland rolling where you have precise incidents of the young boy reporting the bullying and the officials giving the most inappropriate responses to this young boy talking about where it's a choice that he's making and on top of that the fact that the school officials after he died by suicide,

they were able to tell his mother where she could find the suicide note in his book bag. So why didn't they do anything to try to prevent him carrying out this plan to cause his death by suicide, Roland? It's outrageous. David, the National Black Justice Coalition, of course uh represents uh african-americans uh lgbtq this uh the story is is is one of many stories where where young folks have killed themselves uh due to bullying but in this case uh it was different because he was gay yep um it was different because nigel is both black and gay. So Ben and I are in Alabama on the road. I appreciate you making space for us. But I keep reminding people

that every day we know that there are increases in the amount of hate crimes and bullying and microaggressions that LGBTQ people experience and report and that black people experience and report. But too often these conversations are had in ways that suggest that we don't exist as both black and LGBTQ or same gender loving. And so the important thing about Nigel is us appreciating that the vast majority of kids in public schools today are diverse.

They are racial and ethnic global majority members, although we continue to call them minority here in the United States. They are LGBTQ, more than 50 percent of high school kids report being anything other than strictly heterosexual. And in spite of all of that, 98 percent of the workforce, K-12 teachers, are white women. And so we need to have more meaningful conversations about the diversity that is the plurality of experiences in the United States and to really talk about the responsibility that teachers and educators and first responders have for sure that all of our babies

feel safe engaged and supported this is really Something that's troubling that was a young man Who's a elementary school in Houston? who committed suicide because of bullying as well and Being what I still don't understand is administrators who act as if there's nothing they can do. Yeah, and Roland, there are many instances of bullying where you don't hold the student or the school accountable

because you say the student could have been dealing with all sorts of situations. Here, we can concentrate that the harm being caused to this young man was happening every day he went to school. Even when he went to participate in physical education, they said, well, you don't have to worry about it. They never tried to confront the bullying head on. They just told him it's a choice and he got to deal with it. They never told his mother that he was reporting this bullying. She kept asking about, you know, what's going on with my son. He seems depressed at times, and they would say everything is fine. It's not until he is dead by suicide that they start

telling him, her, all these things, but he was coming to the office. His best friend, a young white boy, said, and this is how we know it, the principal told them that it's a choice they're making. They went multiple times saying we're being bullied, we're being attacked, we're being called faggots in all kinds of racial, homophobic terms. And the school just didn't want to deal with the issue. This young boy's life was taken because the adults did, they failed to act when they were given so many opportunities, Roland Martin. David Johns, final comment.

Yeah, I just want to underscore that point. There are too many of our children, black children, children who are not native to this country, for whom English is not their first language, who have a disability, hidden or invisible. And often when we think about schools, many of us think about that as a joyous time and a happy time. But for too many of our baby schools are sources of trauma. And so our hope is that one, we can provide Nigel's mother, Kamika, with some answers as to what happened to her baby. And then two, have conversations about how much more work we need to do so that all of our babies feel safe, engaged, and supported. Both Ben and I have been really clear that Nigel is perfect,

exactly as he was formed. He did not make a mistake. If anybody is at fault, it's the adults around him who failed to act. And I know as an educator that we have the ability and opportunity to create classrooms and school environments where each one of our children feel validated and affirmed. And that did not happen for Nigel, which is so very tragic. But I will spend the rest of my life honoring his legacy by ensuring that this does not happen to another child who was born both black and LGBTQIA or same gender loving and who deserves to be loved and respected as such. All right. David Johns, Ben Crump, we appreciate it. Thank you so very much. Thank you for making time. All right, folks, this is the year of return, 400 years in August, when 20-odd Africans first arrived on the shores of Virginia. And today, I attended the media

announcement of HBCU Africa Homecoming. And what this is, is connecting HBCUs with the continent. And so we covered the whole event after we finish today's show we're gonna live stream that whole event so you can see all the different comments that folks had to make there but but I have to I have to speak to speak to this and it was a sister who was the ambassador of the of the African mission here and And she opened this thing up, and I really want you to hear what she has to say, because she makes a direct connection

between what the colonizers did to the continent in 1884, to also what is happening today in terms of this whole dysfunction that exists with Africa, but also with those of us who, our ancestors come from the motherland. And so I want to play this for you, which is an excerpt from what she had to say. Then we're going to chat with her about our panel. I really think you're going to be blown away by what she has to say.

Go right ahead. We were way ahead of them in our civilization. They set out to destroy us. And Berlin Conference put an air on that coffin. Kwa hivyo, kutoka kutoka kutoka. Kwa hivyo, kutoka kutoka kutoka kutoka. Kwa hivyo, kutoka kutoka kutoka kutoka kutoka. Kutoka kutoka kutoka kutoka kutoka kutoka kutoka. Kutoka kutoka kutoka kutoka kutoka kutoka kutoka kutoka. Kutoka kutoka kutoka kutoka kutoka kutoka. They gave Burundi the same sovereignty as China. They gave Togo.

You see, the EU realizes individual little countries, they can survive on the world stage. So they come together as the European Union. Now picture this now. So they cut up this Africa into the tiny little countries, small economies that could never survive on their own, but gave them the same sovereignty as the big boys. So that way, when the little bitty countries go to the world stage

for the purposes of development and discussing trade, they are wannabe boxers who are being thrown into the heavyweight boxing ring every day. How do you put China in the same boxing ring with Iswatini? Iswatini has 1.2 million people. China has 1.4 billion people. And you put them on the same stage and say go at it, negotiate.

Are you with me? This is insanity of the highest order. How have we allowed this carnage to go on when is what tini is thrown in the same boxing ring with china and is what tini is collapses before is what even gets on the stage the world says what is what's wrong with you why can't you take care of your people when china came in and said give me all your gold or else. And if does not agree, they just go on next door to Lesotho. And give Lesotho an extra dollar.

And if Lesotho doesn't take it, they just jump on to Togo. Central Africa Republic. It was all by design, 1884. They did something else in addition to chopping us up. They also set out to make the African believe that everything African was bad and undesirable and everything Western, particularly French and British, was more desirable.

We call that the legacy of colonization. Prior to that, they had started long working on the slaves, make them think everything about them, forget anything about Africa. Where you come from is a horrible place, diseased and dying people constantly at war with themselves, uncivilized. Cut out any communications with them. You need to just know what we tell you and we call that the legacy of slavery. Cut out any communications with them. You need to just know what we tell you. And we call that the legacy of slavery. So that's why you look at where we are today.

135 years later, a system that was put in place to see to it that Africa and her children are forever defeated, that Africa is forever exploited, remains in place today, alive and well. And we sit here and we ask ourselves, why isn't Africa moving forward? Why does Africa continue to be taken advantage of? Well, I'll tell you why, very simply. Until Africa comes together as a continent speaking with one voice, one continent, one people, nothing, and I repeat, nothing,

is going to change. As individual little African countries, we are wannabe boxers. We will never make it fighting against the heavyweights. We must speak with one voice. And this is exactly. This is exactly what our Pan-African leaders wanted to see happen in 1963 when they came together

in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. They clearly stated that Africa for the Africans at home and abroad and that African Union was now. They said Africa must speak with one voice. It is the only way for Africa to take its rightful place on the world stage. Sadly, when they went to Addis Ababa in 1963, they were divided. We had two factions, the Casablanca group and the Monrovia group. The Casablanca group were saying Africa for the Africans at home and abroad and African Union now. This was Ghana, Guinea-Mali, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Only seven. The other 25 of the 32 who attended were the Monrovia group. They were the nationalists. They said, let's go slow.

Let's kind of wait on this Pan-African thing. 55 years later, 56 this year, we're still going slow. As if it wasn't bad enough that we were divided up into the tiny little countries that we are today. The gift that Berlin Conference gave us. One other thing that France did between 1958 and 1961 in the name of giving us our independence as African countries. France forced the francophone and I hate that terminology. There is no such thing as francophone, anglophone. They made it up. But for the purposes of communication I will use that 14 of those countries they said in order for you to get your independence from us you must sign this document you thought they could have found a better name for the

document the document was called the pact for the continuation, I repeat, the pact for the continuation of colonization. We are talking about giving you independence, but sign this pact for the continuation of colonization in a different format. And I'm going to highlight some of those issues that they said you must agree to if you are going to be independent hello maybe we need to redefine the meaning of independence for the French first France aid is human because you don't know how to manage your money Kwa hivyo, France ni kutoka kwa kwa kwa. the French Minister of Finance. France is then going to take your 85% bank deposits

from each and every one of you. Deposit those funds in the French stock market under the French name. And you may or may not know the returns. Today as we speak, the latest figures are

saying for every $14 billion that France invests in the stock market from Africa, they are realizing a pause of $300 billion in return. Every year, year in, year out, because of these deposits from the African countries, France is taking out of Africa over $500 billion. Now figure it out. For every $14 billion, the returns on the investment are over $300 billion, and they are taking over $500 billion. So in actuality, France is

taking out of Africa trillions of dollars, year in and year out from us poor people, Africans. Back to the pact. So should you want to access some of your money that you have deposited with France, you have to submit your country's financial returns. And if approved, you get to get it as a loan you can only access up to 20% of your money in the app as a loan at commercial interest rates your own money as if that was not enough they said all the minerals discovered yet to be discovered all your oil discovered yet to be discovered, all your oil discovered, yet to be discovered, France and French companies have the first right of refusal. If there's anything left over that the French companies do not want, your people might have.

To this day. They said you will only use the currency that we created for you because you're special Africans. We call it the Sefa. There was the Central African Sefa and the Western African Sefa, same animal. And that France is the only one that can print it for you. 1958. Fast forward.

They're still printing it for us. And if you start misbehaving, they're still printing it for us. And if you start misbehaving, they just stop printing your money, and your country's in trouble. They also said your language of instruction shall be French, whether you like it or not. That France will have military presence in your country, that your military can only be trained by France,

that you can only buy military equipment from France, that you cannot have any military alliance with your neighbor, and that in the event of war, your allegiance is only to France. And furthermore, because they have military presence in your country, they can invade you without notice should they feel that the interests of France in your country are being violated.

Teach, sister. Teach. Speak up, sister. Fast forward. 2019. Nothing has changed. The same people who have the audacity to tell us that we are poor countries, they are taking trillions out of Africa every year. And what is the African doing?

Like an obedient, programmed black man, we just give in. We know the facts, but we just do nothing about it. Now, you have to say some of the fears are real, because the France that has sold you inferior equipment to theirs, France that has trained your military to be inferior to their military, they are now in your country.

They can invade you. They have the permission to do so. They can destabilize you. And then one might say, why is it that African leaders haven't done anything about this deplorable situation? Well, let me tell you, my brothers and sisters, they have tried.

Documented to this day, 22 coups where leaders were assassinated. France had something to do with it. The first seven, when they decided they were pulling out of the CFA and that

they were going to print their own money, they were assassinated. Every time an African leader has tried to do what's best for their country, they were assassinated. Majority of them aided by France. It's a known fact. And then others, they were just mercenaries who felt that when there was a natural resource discovered in one country, they wanted to create a coup. So while the country is thrown into a civil war, they're siphoning the natural resource. We know of one particular story that had we not known about it, it would have been, oh, there we go again, the Africans. About 25 years ago, a group of young

rich white kids were having fun in Cape Town. They found out that there was oil in Equatorial Guinea that had just been discovered and they wanted it. So they set out a plan to have a coup in Equatorial Guinea. So while the Guineans are busy fighting a civil war, they will be suffering the oil. But they made one mistake. There were two planes. One was to leave South Africa, stop in Zimbabwe, pick up more ammunition, on their way to hunt in Equatorial Guinea. Another plane was taking off in the Caribbean that had this puppet diaspora who was supposed to be the next president.

Mugabe wondered why such young people needed such powerful ammunition to go hunt in Equatorial Guinea. In doing his research further, he found out that this was a coup in the making. He allowed them to land in Zimbabwe. They loaded their plane, and just before takeoff, they were all arrested. The ringleader of that group was none other than the son of the former prime minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher. She had to fly to Zimbabwe and paid handsomely to get her son out. The last one of those prisoners left Zimbabwe about six, seven years ago. Had these young people succeeded, it would have been another coup.

There you go, the Africans again. Such, my brothers and sisters, is the story of your Africa. They don't do coups anymore. They simply create instability. So when you hear of an instability in an African country, ask yourself, what is really going on? Because what they are telling you is really going on is just a shiny object. The real issue is over here. And you need to stop before you start being used as an instrument of your own self-destruction. She's did it. That is so powerful and it's so true. I spent a lot of time on the continent and it is beyond disturbing to see the after effects of the reality of the exploitation that continues to go on there.

And I am so happy that she had the opportunity that we that you got the opportunity to capture her breaking that down. Because one thing I can say that I think is important that African-Americans understand is that white supremacy is stunningly consistent. I don't care where it appears on this planet. If it appears in the form of colonization of the motherland, if it appears in the form of slavery, white Jim Crow and oppression here in America, if it appears in the form of oppression of our brothers and sisters in South America, it is stunningly consistent. They utilize the same methods everywhere, killing our leaders, exploiting us economically.

It is the same. And so when we try to segregate ourselves and say that, as African Americans, our experiences are way different, let me just say, we do have a distinct culture, but we have a very similar history and a very similar contemporary reality when it comes to dealing with the after effects of supposed white supremacy. So, Shannon, what this initiative is, is that, first of all, there were a number of African leaders that were actually educated at HBCUs.

Kwame Nkrumah and many others, of course, who led Ghana. And the first prime minister was educated at HBCUs. And so what they're trying to do is link many of those countries on the continent to HBCUs. And so what they're trying to do is link many of those countries on the continent to HBCUs. Morgan State's president, Dr. David Wilson, talked about them establishing a footprint there as well. And they'll be taking a trip there August 1st through the 10th and trying to do more. And so, again, it's called the HBCU Africa Homecoming. Today was a media launch. Go ahead. You know, seeing this and hearing this, it's heartbreaking, you know, to understand that this has been going on from back then to a little bit further, to now, you know.

And it's not something that I would hazard a guess that many African Americans are aware of, not in the full detail. And I made a point when I stood up there, I said probably if you asked 98% of black folks about the 1884 Berlin Conference, they would have no idea what you're talking about. 99.9. So we get so wrapped up in our struggles here,

we forget that there are similar struggles that really are not as dissimilar as people would like to say that are going on in all other parts of the world, specifically Africa and South America. connect and that is to connect african-americans with the continent when you talk about the natural alliance is there but you gotta have folks who hooked together reverend leon sullivan of course lately on sullivan he did this uh for many years for out of philadelphia having the annual conferences there as well and it's interesting because one year they were going to have one of the annual conferences there and um and i had these folks who i probably still have the emails around here somewhere uh and they were i was one of the folks they were trying to invite and i couldn't go but they were sitting here blowing me up uh no you shouldn't go because oh this particular leader here uh what what they have done uh you know in terms of uh you know, how corrupt they are.

And I'm sitting there going, you can say that about a whole lot of folks here as well. Heck yeah. And the reality is they need our help. We need their help as well. So why would we not work together? We should work together. And I think that connectability aspect that you're talking about from the U.S. to Africa, we can't just vacation to our motherland.

We have to make sure that institutions, elected officials, those community leaders and those influencers are now reaching back and saying, listen, I don't want to just vacation in Ghana. I want to actually learn and educate the next generation, the current generation, and see how we can better communicate, how we can better help them out of their struggle. Because again, what's lacking in a lot of these public and charter schools is the education of blackness. And so without that, without not knowing where white supremacy comes from, where civil disruption or disobedience is coming from. It's coming from a pattern longstanding before we even came to today and figured out, oh, these are actual titles.

No, this has existed since the 1800s. So I think that is a great initiative that the HBCU wants to do. And also, I don't want to just tag it at HBCUs. I want to look at private institutions, the one who has the millions, the University of Pennsylvania, the Harvard's, the Yale Laws, and see outside of the innovation and technology, are they willing to actually go back and want to help people more and more? And a gift, actually, is Reverend Leon Sullivan. My apologies. Louis Sullivan, of course, was a brother who was Secretary of Health and Human Services under President George W. Bush

and who led Morehouse School of Medicine, Reverend Leon Sullivan. And it was like seven years ago when they had the Southern Summit, and it was Equatorial Guinea. And these human rights watchers were saying, oh, no, they should have this conference there. But but when we talk about what's going on here and again, we shot the whole we shot the whole media launch. And we're going to live stream it for you, which also, again, folks, this just underscores why this platform matters. There were two other media people there and they were African. Nobody else was there.

And so I was invited and I certainly appreciate that. I had a chance to address them as well. And one of the things that I talked about was why you must have a communication apparatus because it's also one of the reasons why we don't know. Which is also why, and I said it there, my whole point about HBCUs as well, why you have to have those HBCUs also sending out their information, letting folks know about what's going on,

because otherwise we're existing in these silos. And so knowing what's going on is critically important, which is why it's important for you to support Roland Martin Unfiltered, because we have to have a platform that's covering our issues. While I was there, the brother who has communications up for Ghana said, hey, he would love to talk more. Of course, they are talking about travel. They're doing a number of events in Ghana this year because of the year of return. Senegal. So people are planning all sorts of trips back to the motherland this year because it's the year of return. And so in talking, the brother said, hey, I would love to have the ambassador of Ghana come on your show. The reality is there is no place. There's no place for these African leaders to talk to black folks.

Don't exist. Not like you're going to be on a lot of these radio shows and so we have to that's why this platform has having the ability to be able to communicate so we want you to support us at rolandmartinunfiltered.com join our bring the funk fan club every dollar you give goes to support uh the show as well and so we're looking forward to you doing that so again rolandmartinunfiltered.com you can pay via cash app paypal square you name it. It's all there on the website. Again, after today's show, we're going to have the live stream of that whole event there so you can hear it for yourself. Be sure to share it and spread the word all around. Teresa, Shannon, it was appreciated. Thank you so very much. I want to thank all of our guests on the show today. I'll see you guys tomorrow.

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