#RolandMartinUnfiltered - 7.15 RMU: Trump attacks Black members of Congress; Roland unpacks the fear of a changing America

Episode Date: July 18, 2019

7.15.19 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Trump attacks the freshman women of color in Congress; Sheila Bynum- Coleman makes a run for Speaker of the Virginia House after a gerrymandering case in her district; The mysterious death of the founder of the Baton Rouge African American Museum; CBC members are furious with a progressive group that tried to oust Black lawmakers; Security guard in Ohio pulls a gun on a Black uniformed officer. - #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.

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He says, I'm not a racist. You're a damn lie. We shall deconstruct all of it. Also, Sheila Bynum Coleman makes a run for Speaker of the Virginia House after a gerrymandering case in her district. She was live to discuss this and the impact of gerrymandering on the nation's politics. Also, mysterious death of a founder of the Baton Rouge African-American Museum sends shockwaves through the black community and the entire city of Baton Rouge. We'll hear from the mayor as well as his representative. But I talked to this morning on the Tom Journal Morning Show.

James Field Jr., the white supremacist who drove his car through a protest in Charlottesville, sentenced to more time. Yo, punk ass not getting out of jail. The security guard in Ohio pulls out a gun on a black uniformed cop. Yo, seriously. You might be black and blue, but you still black. In the Montgomery County, Maryland Police Department, they've released a body cam footage

of a white female officer using the N-word during an arrest. Well, she still has her job. It's time to bring the funk. I'm Roland Martin, Unfiltered. Let's go. He's got it. Whatever the mess, he's on it. Whatever it is, he's got the scoop,

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It's rolling, Martin. Rolling with rolling now. Yeah, yeah, yeah It's Rollin' Martin Yeah, yeah, yeah Rollin' with Rollin' now Yeah, yeah, yeah He's funky, he's fresh, he's real The best you know, he's Rollin' Martin Now Martin All right, folks, Donald Trump doing what Donald Trump does, and that is be a white nationalist. This is what he tweeted, folks, over the weekend.

Speaking out about the four women of color who are freshmen in the United States Congress, he had some things to say about them that ticked off a whole lot of people. First, he said, so interesting to see progressive Democratic congresswomen who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world, if they even have a functioning government at all. Now, loudly next and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came,

then come back and show us how it's done. These places need your help badly. You can't leave fast enough. I'm sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements. Now, let's just be clear. So you how dumb, how much of a dumb ass Donald Trump is. Three of the four women he's talking about, they're from here.

Like when I say from here, like from here, as in raised here, as in born here. So if they're going to go back to a country, they are already in the country they can go back to. Now, of course, he was immediately lit up by folks on social media, Democrats as well, but it was quite interesting. The length of silence that existed from Republicans. It was as if they were in such shock and awe that they did not know how to tweet or appear on Sunday shows or respond to the racist and bigoted tweets. Now, after they got their ass lit up this morning, all of a sudden they discovered their conscience.

And so we'll heard Texas, the only Republican in the House. This is him on CNN. The tweets are racist and xenophobic. They're also inaccurate because the four women he's referring to are folks that have grown up. They are U.S. citizens. It's behavior that's unbecoming of a president of the United States and a leader of the free world. We should talk about uniting people and not dividing us. And ultimately, politically, it's hurtful. You are having a civil war going on within the Democratic Party,

and now they've all circled the wagons and are protecting one another. So that's my thoughts, and unfortunately. Now, other Republicans had something to say. Can we pull those tweets up, please? They began to comment and all of a sudden began to show themselves. Again, it took them a really, really, really long time to say can we pull those tweets up please uh they began to comment and all of a sudden began to show themselves again it took them a really really really long time to say something uh and and so uh i'm gonna pull up some of them as well first of all what i thought was funny was brit huma fox news uh actually tweeting that yeah xenophobic not good politically stupid but the textbook

definition they do not define racists dude really really all right let me pull up some of the other tweets did we have those pull them up please uh the other republicans uh again what they had to say and so uh congress congress excuse me senator tim scott the only african-american republican in the united states senate he finally walked the hell up he said no matter our political disagreements aiming for the lowest common denominator will only divide our nation further by full statement below please pull up his statement which he clearly wrote on his iphone in the notes section i'm familiar with it because i've done it as well now don't you love how he starts off talking about the democrats

before he gets to donald trump in fact he goes through all kind of crap before he gets to Trump. He wrote, he wrote, prior to this weekend, we saw the Democratic Party embroiled in racial controversy from Kamala Harris attacking Joe Biden's segregationists to four black and brown women chastising Democratic leadership for attacking women of color. It is clear the Democratic Party has serious issues along these lines. Dog, really?

Yo party. All y'all missing are hoods go back to the statement all right instead of sharing how the democratic party far left pro-socialist policies not to mention the hateful language some of their members have used towards law enforcement and jews are wrong for the future of our nation then Then he finally gets to his damn president. The president interjected with unacceptable personal attacks and racially offensive language. No matter our political disagreements aiming for the lowest common denominator will only divide our nation further. That that that's the best you can do. A black man from South Carolina. That's the best you can do. Okay, y'all, pull up some of the other Republicans.

I want to show you what they also had to say. Again, you have a number of them. That's all you have? Y'all are supposed to pull several others. So, okay, well, that's all you have, and we're supposed to have more. So let me try to go to my iPad to pull those up. Because it was real interesting, again, looking at them finally waking up uh to comment uh you have uh you had a guy from uh mike turner okay from uh he writes ohio i'm confident that every member of congress is a committed american donald trump's tweets from this weekend were racist and he should apologize

we must work as a country to rise above hate not enable enable it. But no, Mike, all of your party are not going to say something. I mentioned Will Hurd. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, she said there's no excuse for the president's spiteful comments. They were absolutely unacceptable, and this needs to stop. A little bit more than spiteful. We have enough challenges addressing the humanitarian crisis both at our borders and around the world. Instead of digging deeper into the mud with personal vindictive insults, we must demand a higher standard of decorum and decency. You're talking about Trump.

That's going to be a little hard because he has no decency or morals or values. Let's see here. OK, Susan Collins trying to say Tim Scott crap. I disagree strongly with many of the views and comments of some of the far left members of the House Democratic Caucus, especially when it comes to their views on socialism or anti-Semitic rhetoric and their negative comments about law enforcement. But the president's tweet that some members of Congress should go back to the places for which they came was OK. Way over the line. Really? Did you? I mean, again, y'all see the pattern. Let's talk about the other party before we get to Dax Donald Trump. Let's see.

We got Tim Scott. Representative Elise Stefanik. While I strongly disagree with the tactics, policies, and rhetoric of the far-left socialist squad. Y'all know it's the socialist line. Okay. The president's tweets were inappropriate, denigrating, and wrong. It is unacceptable to tell legal U.S. citizens to go back to their home country. Then you have Pete Olson of Texas. He tweeted the tweet President Trump posted over the weekend about fellow

members of Congress are not reflective of the values of the one million plus people in Texas 22. We are proud to be the most diverse congressional district in America. I urge our president immediately to disavow his comments. Did not want to call them racist, as you see. Fred Upton, frankly, I'm appalled by the president's tweets there's no excuse inflammatory rhetoric from both sides here we go that both sides bullshit again both sides of the aisle that is used to divide us just isn't right it's not helpful we have too many challenges facing us that we ought to be working on together immigration the debt ceiling the border crisis the president's tweets were flat out wrong and uncalled for and i

would encourage my colleagues from both parties to stop talking so much and start governing more. Then you have Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. President Trump was wrong to suggest that four left-wing congresswomen should go back to where they came from. Three of the four were born in America, and the citizenship of all four is as valid as mine. I couldn't disagree more with these congresswomen's views on immigration, socialism, national security, and virtually every policy issue. But they are entitled to their opinions, however misguided they may be. We should defeat their ideas on the merits, not on the basis of their ancestry. Okay. All right. And let's see here. Anybody else?

Mitt Romney. I certainly feel a number of these new members of Congress have views that are not consistent with my experience and not consistent with building a strong America. That's all your sorry ass had to say. But then again, you're the man who held a big old speech during the presidential campaign, calling out Donald Trump. And then, of course, when he wins, you decide to go dine with him while he embarrassed your ass when it came to be secretary of state. What actually happened to the Republican Party party did they actually lose their guts uh really or did something just get sort of lopped off when trump became president i'm just saying uh and then of course uh i gotta find the video in a second uh okay this is the this is the second half of mitt romney's comments at the same time i recognize that the president has a unique and no, y'all,

he actually said this here. At the same time, I recognize that the president has a unique and noble calling to unite all Americans, regardless of our creeds or race or place of our national origin. And I think in that case, the president fell far short. That's what we call a punk ass statement right there. And then we have Chip Roy. POTUS was wrong to say any American citizen, whether in Congress or not, has any home besides the u.s but i just as strongly believe non-citizens who abuse our immigration laws whatever i don't want to hear that okay and so that's what you have going on there so finally they are waking up and actually saying something i'm gonna try to find this comment from lindsey graham he was actually asked about this on Fox and Friends. And what he chose to do was really punk out and basically call them communists. That's literally what he did. That was his response to the very issue. Again, you now understand sort of the mindset,

which is one of the reasons why he should be defeated. So I think, check this out, go to my iPad. We all know that AOC and this crowd are a bunch of communists. They hate Israel. They hate our own country. They're calling the guards along our border, the Border Patrol agents, concentration camp guards. They accuse people who support Israel of doing it for the Benjamins. They're anti-Semitic. They're anti-America. Don't get that. Aim higher. We don't need to know anything about them personally. Talk about their policy.

We all know. That was his answer to that. What they showed you is that Senator Lindsey Graham was a fraud and a fake the whole time Senator John McCain was alive because he was simply cowering behind McCain trying to draft off of him. Now that Senator McCain is dead, you thought that Senator Graham would step up and be a man and actually have some leadership. But instead, what he's chosen to do is kiss Donald

Trump's ass. He played golf with him yesterday with Senator Rand Paul because he doesn't have any guts to say what is right. Now, Newt Gingrich, always give it up to him because you know what he did. He went on Fox and Friends and said that Donald Trump's comments are politically good for him. That's really what this whole thing boils down to. So let me unpack or deconstruct really what this whole thing is all about. Donald Trump, folks, is speaking to the white fear of a changing America. Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, they represent the future makeup of America. And his base hates that.

By 2043, America is going to be a nation majority of people of color. Trust me, don't think for a second he's not fully aware of what buttons he's pushing. And you may say, really rolling white fear? Yeah. Ask John Avell on CNN. He and I were talking one day before we went on the air one day and we were off to the side. And I said, John, we are about this. This was the election of Obama as he's inaugurated. I said, we are now looking at the beginning of

what I call white minority resistance. That is, even though whites comprise majority in America, they are operating as if they are the in a minority because of what we're going to see in 24 years. As I said, I've been saying this for consistently since 2009, said on CNN, said on TV, one said on Tom Jones morning show on NBC, NBC, ABC, ABC. I would say it on Fox News, but they won't call a brother like me, likely because they know exactly how I roll. And frankly, it's time for white journalists and white media executives to wake up. Now, what white media journalists and media executives need to do is take off their blinders about Donald Trump and race. In fact, if you look at the New York Times, they won't even call his comments racist. They literally are afraid to even say the word. Now, let's go back to when he launched his campaign how did he start rapist from mexico shithole countries haiti africa refusing to apologize to the central park five yeah and see here's what he does he touts the first step back

to say i like black people the reality is don Donald Trump has a white nationalist view. Remember last week, Meghan McCain on The View? She said Donald Trump supporters hate what he hates. Well, guess what? He gives them permission to unleash their inner hatred. And folks, this is no different. And media is complicit for not speaking the truth on this. I keep telling you, by 2043, America is going to be a nation majority people of color, majority Hispanic, black, Asian, Native American,

and other. Whites will be 47% of the country, minorities 53% of the country. Don't get it twisted, folks. This is what is driving the conversation. When you hear white economic anxiety, first of all, the white family has medium income higher than any other group. If there's anybody who should be economically anxious are broke-ass people, black people, Latinos, others. But see, this white fear is driving the GOP's policies, and Donald Trump knows it. And does this mean all white Americans this white fear is driving the GOP's policies and Donald Trump knows it. And does this mean all white Americans have white fear? Nope. But the fear is of changing values, direction and priorities. Let me put a pin in that because, again, I need you to understand

what I am saying. America has been led, governed and shaped through a white prism. Rights weren't given to blacks and others. We had to fight and petition for them. If you're white, you're born with all your rights. You haven't had to have laws changed. If Americans saw black folks and others as true Americans, there would be no need for the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, also known as the Reconstruction Amendments. There'd be no need for the 1866 14th and 15th amendments also known as the reconstruction amendments there'll be no need for the 1866 the 1871 the 1875 the 1957 the 1960 1964 1968 1991

civil rights acts take a walk through american history folks white immigrants endured some resistance and bigotry from other white immigrants who are already here. But then they all got together and say, you know what? We all white, they black. And they link together with their white cultural identity, eventually meshing and accepting one another. But see, we've always been in the other category. Now, again, unpacking this, what Donald Trump is doing is giving voice to what was pushed out of public voice into the deep recesses of the home and minds. Remember Robert E. Lee

after the Civil War told his troops to furl the rebel flag. It was missing from American life for three generations. When did the Confederate flag reemerge? In 1948, when the Democrats, in a very small way, put a civil rights part in their party plank. The racist Dixiecrats got real upset, held their own conference in Mississippi, and guess what they pulled out of the attic? Ah, the Confederate flag. Now remember, this all happened after Republican Herbert Hoover led the Lilly White movement on the Republican Party. Then you had that violent racist Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, who embraced the birth of a nation.

The history of America can be marked based on white fear and attacks on people of color. And what is typically the driving force? Culture and economics. Guess what's always used as an excuse crime portray minorities as stains on american due to crime just check donald trump's tweet pull the tweet up please what did he reference the crime in these nations pull the tweet up here's what it says right there. OK, worst, most corrupt end up anywhere in the world. Next. Come on. Next. Right there. Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came?

What Donald Trump is saying is code. What he is saying is these others, they are criminals. And that's where you come from. That's what he was trying to say there. Folks, this racism formed the basis of his presidential run. But here's the key. This is nothing more than his 2020 reelection plan. What did he say in 2016? Only I can fix this.

The same racist playbook Nixon ran on in 1968. Oh, Nixon tossed the black folks an economic bone. That's what James Brown stood with Nixon. Trump today touts the black unemployment rate as his racist cover for white fear. Folks, as we stand here to fully explain Donald Trump's worldview and playing to white fear, I think of this scene. How many of y'all remember the movie The Good Shepherd starring Matt Damon, Joe Pesci? In The Good Shepherd, Matt Damon plays an early CIA officer and he seeks to help from Italian mobster Joe Pesci. Now, they don't like each other,

but they need each other because they have a common enemy. If you want to understand white fear in America, if you want to understand Donald Trump's go-back tweet, if you want to understand the history of America in terms of whites seeing everyone else as others, watch this Yes, you something We Italians we got our families and we got the church

The Irish I have the homeland the Jews their tradition Even the niggas they got their music What about you people mr Mr. Carlson? What do you have? The United States of America. The rest of you are just visiting. That 29-second scene explains white America and the rest of us. And the fear is that we're no longer just visiting.

Folks, this time white journalists woke up the hell up, because trust me, this ain't going away. This is going to survive Trump. This is going to continue far past 2043. And folks need to understand exactly what is going on in this nation. Let's go to our panel right now. Dr. Avis Jones-DeWeaver, political analyst, leadership strategist. Also, Dr. Julianne Malvolo, economist, president emeritus,

been in college as well as Eugene Craig, CEO, Eugene Craig Organization. Eugene, you're a Republican, you're a party filled with a bunch of cowards, absolutely afraid to question this man. They had to be forced to do so after about 24 or so hours because they literally had no choice because it was clearly racist. Before I would go there, there was even a news conference today where a crazy man literally said, I'm not racist. Not I didn't do that, but I will tell you with our country and I think everybody in this audience, these are great manufacturers, great workers in our audience too. They brought a lot of their workers here.

If you're not happy here then you can leave as far as i'm concerned if you hate our country if you're not happy here you can leave and that's what i say all the time that's what okay i'm gonna come back to it if you're not happy here you can leave didn't his punk ass criticize obama during the eight years? Did he leave? What's even more embarrassing? The punk ass is clapping in the audience to the stupid statement. Press play. What I said in a tweet, which I guess some people think is controversial.

A lot of people love it, by the way. A lot of people love it. But if you're not happy in the U.S., if you're complaining all the time, very simply, you can leave. You can leave right now. Stop it right there. He does know there's a thing called the First Amendment, which allows for you to protest, allows for you to assemble,

allows for you to critique. No, he can't read. Go ahead and press play. Come back if you want. Don't come back. It's okay, too. But if you're not happy, you can't read. Go ahead, press play. Come back if you want. Don't come back. It's okay, too. But if you're not happy, you can leave. Well, that's just a very racist statement, somebody that would say that.

So Speaker Pelosi said, make America white again. Let me tell you, that's a very racist statement. I'm surprised you'd say that. John, go ahead. Eugene. He definitely tried to pull the old conservative trope. I'm not the racist. You're the racist.

You know, it's a lot to unpack there. A lot to unpack. I'll do a quick rapid fire. Will Hurd, you know, stepped up per usual. You know, he's usually the first to call out the president on a lot of these things without having to be asked to. I am very shocked and disappointed in Tim Scott's statement. Literally two years ago, this is the same person that stood on the floor of the Senate and, you know, gave his encounter of being a black U.S. senator, not a black man, a black U.S. senator in the D.C. metro area. And for him to equivocate criticism of law enforcement to the president coming in and, you know, giving very blatant racist statements, it's beyond disappointing.

What you're seeing here is not atypical at this point of elected Republican members of Congress in the U.S. Senate, especially folk that are for re-election, like Lindsey Graham, to either not seriously criticize the president, call out his racist statements. But what I think is also more damaging and damning is to try to equivocate socialism or try to call the squad anti-Semitic because they disagree with the racist Netanyahu administration in Israel. They're not saying they hate Jews or hate the Israeli people, but it's not anti-American, it's not anti-Semitic to criticize Israel, the state of Israel, the government of Israel. Julian, not one white conservative evangelical has said a word, no shock. If you go back and read or watch our reading of Frederick

Douglass' July 4th speech, the biggest criticism he had in there was for the white church. Yes. Go back and read that, and then you can see present day. Trust me, they're both associated. Go ahead. And read the letter from the Birmingham jail, in which Dr. King also called out the church, the so-called Christians who are not Christian. I want to, Roland, go back to 1918, to the lynching of Mary Turner. Mary Turner was a black woman whose husband was lynched.

And she said that she was going to hold people accountable. And when they said that she turned her damn phone off, you change. If you're going to play with your phone on the show, turn the volume down first mistake. Did play with your phone. Yeah. Especially.

Julianne's don't talk. Cause your ass done before. Don't act like don't, don't, don't stop. Don't start trying to front. Yeah, I do have a point don't talk as your ass done before. Don't act like don't don't don't don't don't try to front. Yeah, I do have a point. I'm going to go point. OK, Roland, you know, I love you anyway. She's going to pile on Eugene with you done before.

Go on, go on, go on. Keep going. Mary Turner lynched because she was mouthy because she was a mouthy black woman who was going to hold white people accountable for lynching her husband. What the punishment for black women being mouthy has been lynching or worse, as in Sandra Bland, as in others. And so these four women of color, amazing women who I admire, did what Democrats do. Let's be clear what Democrats do. Dissent is the foundation of a democratic society. So they and Pelosi are dusting up. Ain't no biggie. That's what Democrats do all the time. But the orange

orangutan gets into it because he feels like he has something to say, which is nothing. The difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Republicans have sworn, they put their hands on the Bible of the orangutan and they've sworn fealty to him. And no matter what he does, as he said, he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue, and he thinks it's okay. But in the image of Mary Turner, of Shirley Chisholm, and of others, we must stand behind these women and also call this idiot to task for this. Yes, it's racist. I mean, so many of us have been told. I used to do radio in San Francisco. And whenever I said something that stupid people didn't like, go back to Africa.

I'd be like, send me tickets. Just send me tickets. Somebody did. They sent me a one-way ticket. I said, if you send me the round trip, I'll use it. But this is what people do when black people have something to say about the faults of this country, faults that they acknowledged when they wrote this Constitution. Ask John Adams. Avis, what we're, I'm not shocked at all by what Donald Trump did. I'm not pissed off by it.

Follow me here. I use this as motivation for what the focus has to be. It's to throw him the hell out of office because there is no bottom. There's no such thing as donald trump has hit rock bottom no he will go lower and he will go lower he does you cannot shame him and he he says what he wants to say folks they fall into it these white executives in media play it up big time and so the only way to the to to get rid of this cancer is to organize mobilize or, or throw him the hell out. Absolutely. I mean, he is what he is. All he did was put on display even more blatantly who he is. He is racist. This is no surprise. We've known this from day one. And as you've said, this is a trope that we all know is a racist trope. I mean, the first time somebody said that to me, I was probably six

years old. I mean, we know what that means. Yeah, we know what it says. Go back to where you came from. We've all heard that. That's the one white folks always, racist white folks always use that one. It's just like, really, that's the one y'all want to use? Absolutely. It's the second one of your affirmative action hire.

So we know all the phrases. We know them all. And nine times out of ten, my family been here longer than your family. Hello. Come on, let's get real. Because he ain't from here. What I want to say is, and we damn sure know his wife not here from here. How long has his wife been here?

How long has his mother been here? Was he even born in the United States? Let's just think about that for a minute. He projects every damn thing else. Now, I'm just, you know, wondering about that. So we know who he is. We know he's racist. And we know that there's he's specifically targeting these black women, because, as you mentioned, what they hate most are black women who are free, black women who will say what they have to say. And quite frankly,

they've never been able to black men or black women who are free. Well, that's true. But I mean, free minded. And I will also say it's not all Democrats that have the courage to speak up. Yeah, I really honestly, I really feel like Nancy Pelosi with the with the gave him the courage to come out here and do this. And I think she has some culpability in this. I also think that her that her tweet was weak. The only thing that she mentioned in her tweet was about xenophobia. She did not mention

that this was a racist tweet. And let me tell you, he's never criticized illegal white immigrants and there are plenty of them. Tens of thousands of them. And so this was a racist statement, not just a xenophobic statement. And she needs to say that. And in fact, this was a racist statement, not just a xenophobic statement. And she needs to say that.

In fact, this was Nancy Pelosi's tweet. When Donald Trump tells four American congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to make America great again. It's always been about making America white again. Our diversity is our strength and our unity is our power. Anyway. You know what's the problem here? Just a second. The thing about this is we built this sucker we built this sucker that mf would not excuse my language mf would not

maryland farmer would not have a white house if it had not been for the labor of enslaved okay first of all undocumented workers work on his damn golf courses his winery and he's been using them for all this time and he's playing these dumb ignorant MAGA red hat wearing fools and I'm like y'all he playing y'all his daughter all her stuff ain't made in America no all this stuff she get all kinds she get all kind of patents in China it's not. His hats are made in China. That's how dumb they are. But again, they're falling for this nonsense because in the history of America, when white folks, when broke white folks had economic problems, they did not blame everybody else.

Who do they blame? Black people. But also, on the West Coast, who do they blame in the late 1800s and 1900s? The damn Chinese people. You can trace American history. When white folks have economic problems, they lash out. We talked about it before. The reason Tulsa got burned down because white folks did not like the amount of money they were making.

In Memphis, same thing with lynching. Eugene, it's one after another. We can go back to the 1980s when they passed the initial proposition in California. Okay, they targeted, I forgot the number, they targeted illegal immigrants. I'll never forget, Molly Ivins wrote a column. She said, y'all, it ain't because of them. It's because of base closures

in the whole state of California. But that's what we've always seen. This targeting of people of color when white folks are unsettled because of economics. And the problem now, Eugene, they're now literally saying, like, damn, oh, my God, this is the most diverse Congress. What? You got two Muslim women and you got that Muslim dude, Andre Carson.

We had two Muslims before Keith Ellison became attorney general in Minnesota. Damn, now we came back with three. Like, what happened? They don't know what to do. Yeah, right, the hijab. And one wears a hijab. became attorney general Minnesota damn now he came back with three like what happened so the thing is this right um to Avis's point uh Nancy Pelosi is actually the only person that actually really do something about this and that's impeach 45 and she doesn't want to go down that path but she's going to end up being forced to go down that path um but this country absolutely has always blamed the other. It's one of the reasons why the work that Dr. Barber's doing is so important.

You know, some will wake up poor white folk up that, look, you know, your economic situation isn't because of brown people or tan people or black people. It's because of other white people. This is, again, I need everybody to understand understand you can't just make this about down trump exactly i'm telling you this is white fear yep and i'm gonna close this out so i can get you to understand what you're dealing with here when i talked about morals and values and culture okay when you hear okay okay zil cortez when you hear pres, or you hear Ilhan Omar, or Rashid Tlaib, you hear them talking about how we view the American flag. See, white folks have been raised, it's the flag.

Oh my God, wrap yourself in it. Oh my God, the glory of the flag. But see, for us, we also know the flag has been used for oppression. And so our view is different. What you have to understand is how America was created. How whites have been trained to view America. As Jackie Robinson said, I ain't saluting that flag. I ain't standing for that flag.

And folks said, well, what's wrong with him? He served in the military. That's the real deal here the reason the colin kaepernick case was so controversial because he had an alternative view of the national anthem and the flag that's what i mean by culture what i mean by culture folks is that the beauty standard in america has been white, blonde, blue-eyed woman. Now the problem is, damn, we got to consider other people. Okay, they're already pissed off. Look, it ain't even like a new thing now to see a black Miss America.

Because, hell, what are we wrong, about eight, nine by now? They don't know what to do. Okay? All right. Why do you think it was such a visceral reaction with Tiger and Goff, Serena and Tennis? Because you had black folks who are now going into typically white spaces and they're now succeeding. That's what's going on here. So when I talk about this worldview, that's the real issue. The worldview

is changing. This nation has been constructed through a white prism. Now, it now has to be seen through a black prism, through a Latino prism, through a Muslim prism, through a female prism. It was a nation that was built for white male landowners to have power. It's in the documents, y'all. All you got to do is read.

And so, don't think, oh, and that's why Joe Biden is wrong as hell. Joe Biden thinks, oh, defeat Trump, we go back to normal. That's the power, Joe. We ain't trying to go back to normal. Because we've known normal for 400 years. And that bullshit ain't work for us. Go into a break. When you come back, we're going to talk

about another piece that ties into this notion of white fear political gerrymandering and its impact on state elections and how if we're able to break the backs of it it changes state politics not just the nation's capital you're watching rollerbon Unfiltered back in a moment. to our YouTube channel. That's youtube.com forward slash Roland S. Martin. And don't forget to turn on your notifications so when we go live, you'll know it. All right, folks. Virginia, the 66th district map

has been redrawn after a case of racial gerrymandering was presented to the Supreme Court. Now, again, Virginia is one of those places. You've had Wisconsin, North Carolina, Pennsylvania. Then, of course, the Supreme Court tried to kick it down back to the lower court and not really rule on that.

Now, for the first time in a long time, the district in Virginia reflects the Democratic voters who live there. Now, in Virginia, the speaker of the House of Delegates is Republican Kirk Cox. He's been in that district 29 years. He's going to have a what has been called his toughest race in decades. Running against him is Sheila Bynum Coleman, who joins us right now. Glad to have you here. First off, first, let's talk about, again, you're running against somebody who's been in power for quite some time. But the gerrymandering issue, which the Supreme Court pretty much is now allowed, even they haven't fully, fully ruled, has an impact because that's how Republicans have been able to maintain control all across the South through racial gerrymandering.

And that's why people in North Carolina were stupid, the folks who sued, because they sued on political gerrymandering, which the Supreme Court ruled in their favor. They should have listened to Reverend William Barber and sued on racial gerrymandering. Idiots. But again, that's what Virginia is dealing with. Republicans need to maintain power because of political gerrymandering. Exactly. So the district changed about 32 points. The district that I lived in previously, it literally is like over the river, through the woods to get the voters. Right. So it was four localities, and it cut out most of the Democratic and all of the African-American popular groups of people.

And so this district, after it's been redrawn by the special maps master, looks like a circle around the district. So the people who live in the neighborhood next to me who go to the grocery store, we're all in the same district now, which is important, but it also is going to change the balance of power in our state government, which is important and something that people need to pay attention to because this election is so important, not just to 2019, but also 2020 and beyond, because as people say, so goes Virginia, so goes the nation. But what's powerful about this is that we're now in a place where the people can choose their legislator as opposed to the legislators choosing their voters.

What's your plan to take down somebody who's been in power for almost 30 years? I'm out in the community going door to door from all day long, and I'm talking to the people in the community. I'm doing everything I can to raise awareness. And this weekend I was out in the district knocking on doors, and you'd be surprised at how many people are actually excited to actually have a voice because they've been no one's ever knocked on their door before because they've been in a district that was racially gerrymandered. And they were all packed into one district and it was safe to whoever was representing them so that no one ever had to engage with them or speak to them. So my best foot forward is to go door-to-door and talk to people

and communicate with the people in the district and that's what we're doing again what you're dealing with is because the Republicans only have they had a very slim lead just one seat and of course that was that was decided by flip of a coin when there was literally a tie race in 2018. 2017. 2017. Yes. And, you know, we have a record number of people running and we also have a lot of minorities that are running, not just for the state, but locally. So, you know, we're starting to move things forward in Virginia. People are starting to wake up, pay attention, get involved. And so it's very important to our nation as a whole that we no longer have a

state that's racially gerrymandered, where we're packing people into, black people into one, into a few districts and diluting their voice. So we're working really hard to engage with our community. And I can tell you, Martin, that it's been so exciting and so inspiring. And one thing that I think that our lawmakers are missing is that because they've been in the, he's been in the district where it's been safe for him, he hasn't had to deal with the issues and talk about policy. And when the governor called for a special session and our lawmakers decided not to do anything, the Speaker of the House was the one in control of that. And so when you have represented a district that's one-third African-American

and gun violence is plaguing our community, I don't know how you can sleep at night and say that you didn't do anything to address gun violence in your district. I mean, when I was out knocking on doors, I was in an apartment complex, and literally every building that I went to, there was someone on each floor. So three floors of the building was three floors, and every floor I went to, somebody had a story about someone being shot, someone being murdered. And it's a real issue impacting our communities.

And now that we have a state where it has been legally drawn and the the maps are fair is not safe for anyone it's it's not it's not allowing the republics to have a stronghold now people will see things move forward and they'll see things change so folks want to no more no more no more what's your campaign where they where they go i'm sorry to hear you to no more what's your campaign where they got what's? I'm sorry, did you hear you? No more about your campaign. Where did they go? What's your website? Oh, www.sheilafordelicate.com. All right, then. Well, Sheila Bynum and Cohen, we appreciate it.

Thanks a bunch, and good luck. Thank you. All right, folks, going to a break. We come back. We'll talk about this stunning case out of Baton Rouge. A black woman, 75 years old, activist, killed, stuffed in the trunk of a car will have the latest on roland martin unfiltered you want to support roland martin unfiltered be sure to join our bring the funk fan club every dollar that you give to us supports our daily digital show there's only one daily

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Friday, Sadie Roberts Joseph was an activist and was well known for annual Juneteenth celebrations held at the museum. Folks have been stunned by this. This morning I spoke with the mayor of Baton Rouge, Sharon Weston-Broom, and State Representative C. Denise Marcel on the Tom Jordan Morning Show about how her death is affecting the Baton Rouge community. Over the weekend, it was stunning. I got a call from some folks down in Louisiana asking me if I had seen this story, which was just extremely tragic.

And people are still trying to figure out what in the world has gone on. Sadie Roberts Joseph, 75-year-old sister. She founded the African-American History Museum there in Baton Rouge. She was found murdered, her body in the trunk of a car, and was located in the afternoon on Friday. It was just just just unbelievable you would like who would kill a 75 year old black woman an activist historian who cared about the community joining us right now is the latest

on this case? Well, indeed, Roland, it is a tragedy. I can tell you that our Baton Rouge Police Department has intensified their investigation. We all had a very strong connection to Sadie. I've been knowing her for 30 years, and we anticipate the police department having, hopefully, hopefully having a breakthrough in this case sooner than later. I can tell you that they are certainly intensifying their efforts because the police had a very strong connection with Sadie as well. She was well-beloved by every organization, every person in this community that knew her. And when we talk about that, they got lots of tips. But people were also calling in, though.

I was reading one of the stories. They were calling in, just expressing their uh their love for her and it was sort of complicating because the cops were like hey hey you know we were trying to actually solve uh this murder to figure out what went on to sort through all of it absolutely uh the the police department has been on boots on the ground, talking with people in the community. But as you said, there's such an outpouring of love and respect for Sadie that that has been overwhelming the narrative that you've heard, more than solving the case. So we really want people to intensify their efforts,

the community to intensify their efforts with information, with tips, so that we can bring closure to this tragedy. You know, Roland, Sadie, in addition to starting the African American Museum here 18 years ago, some almost 20, 30 years ago, she started and was the founder of an organization called KADAB, which stood for Community Against Drugs and Violence. So for her life to end in violence, which she fought against and tried to empower communities to rise up against violence, is certainly a tragedy. Representative Marcel, you're also a longtime friend of Sadie Roberts-Joseph. What should folks around the country know about her that they have not learned through media reports? Well, Bob, thank you for allowing me to join you this morning. I want everyone to – I want to echo, first of all, what the mayor has said about her and about her death and what she

stood for. But prior to her ever starting KADOV, she was rolling up her sleeves, you know, cleaning up the community. What I want people to know is that she was an awesome woman. You know, people started to know her, I guess, in the last 20-some years for the museum and her work around Kadaw, but she has been an advocate in this community since I was a child. What is so disturbing for the people in Baton Rouge is that she was so mild-mannered, so soft-spoken, and so nice. So we're trying to grasp our feelings around and our concerns around who in our community would snuff out her life and not have a second thought about it in the middle of the day. The crime is running rampant here in Baton Rouge, and I would hope that out of her death, although we're saddened by it, that it would spark something in Baton Rouge to stop the violence that we've seen so much of lately.

Roland, how— Today, Baton Rouge police released a preliminary autopsy report saying the cause of death was traumatic asphyxiation. We'll certainly keep your family in prayers and keep you updated on this story as more information becomes available. All right, folks, do y'all remember the story of the Montgomery County, Maryland, white female officer using the N-word while talking with a group of black men? Roll tape. A record like court date, it means you don't, they can't find anything with whatever he rang like that's what it means what were you in court for hey we're trying to you want to get out of here fast, right?

So if we have more people, y'all niggas been trying to something. Do you want to get out of here faster? We have more of our friends to help you get out faster. Nope, that's a quote under your words. Y'all saw the black cop to the left just standing like he writing a report like he ain't paying attention this is outside of mcdonald's restaurant in silver spring where according to the montgomery county police spokesman captain thomas jordan four black men were originally approached by an officer for loitering and trespassing well this body cam footage was released and the acting police chief marcus jones is defending the

officer's actions but still call the language that she used inappropriate he did not say whether the officer in question would face any disciplinary action clearly not he's defending her actions if he's defending her the woman should not have a job i mean this see the thing is you have the you always show the crazy ass white people, etc., etc. There have to be consequences for this kind of behavior. Using the N-word as you're attempting to do law enforcement. Stopping the brothers, I mean,

maybe that's okay, maybe not, but the point is that that language is unacceptable. And if she is still on the force in Montgomery County, then the damn chief needs to be fired. And whoever is in charge needs to be fired. This is absurd. Black people are being assailed and assaulted every minute,

not only physically, but also intellectually, emotionally. A police officer. You know, I mean, the number of these things, Roland, and you've done a great job in documenting them, but the number of these things that happen on a daily basis, it really goes back to the lynchings. These are forms of intimidation. It lets folks know they have no civil human rights.

They can be talked to, treated any kind of way, and somebody needs to say enough. Eugene, so a couple things here. First is that she proves in that tape that she does not have the ability to effectively police unbiasedly. She needs to be pulled from the force and maybe have her police license revoked. Secondly, the reported cause of this stop was the scent of marijuana. In the state of Maryland, per law a couple years ago, that's no longer probable cause to be searched or to be stopped.

So everything after that apparent stop, a search for marijuana, should be totally discounted. I mean, the abuse of rights is absolutely appalling, especially in quote-unquote progressive Montgomery County. And, you know, this has to mean the police. It's even more disgusting that the black police chief will come out and defend it. You know, I think the Montgomery County Council. Blue line. The Montgomery County Council, you know, our friend Will and his buddies need to, you know, take some very, very aggressive action at their next session. But the problem is they won't.

And you know why they won't? It's because it has normalized to be disrespectful and violent towards black people and it's normalized for police not to have any consequences associated with that that is normal and so you know I find it very interesting honestly I hate to be I don't want to call this petty maybe it is go ahead and be petty be petty petty on monday go ahead petty okay listen i'm watching everything that's happening over the weekend and i'm seeing all these mayors come out and saying that they're going to defy ice and i'm thinking okay good

you should defy ice but why don't you defy your own damn police forces when they are out here murdering black people and i can't find your ass saying a damn thing about that how about you defy that oh you know and avis the point is that as you said violence verbal violence as fifth and physical violence against black people has been normalized so your neighbor can shoot you your neighbor who and this whole notion of feeling threat anybody who is threatening is these united states is us oh hold on hold on i got a good one i got a good one roll it i'm white i got you on my property. Whoa! Hey! Hey! You don't live here.

I'm uncomfortable. An IRS security guard in Ohio facing one charge of aggravated menacing after pulling a gun on a Lucas County Sheriff's deputy. The deputy, Alan Gaston, came to the IRS office to ask a question. Gaston arrives in full uniform, badge, firearm visible. Security guard informed Gaston he needed to put his gun in his car, and Gaston said that he could not do that.'s what a security guard pull a gun on the guy gas and decided to leave it to do to de-escalate situation the security guard follow him to the elevators and they try to take him into custody at gunpoint y'all the security guard fake ass top flight security tried to do a citizen's arrest on an actual cop.

I'm sorry. He is lucky he did not get his ass whooped. That's what should have happened. Someone from the office eventually calls 911, but fails to mention that the man with the gun was a uniformed cop. Gasson and his wife have filed a civil lawsuit against a security guard and a security company citing emotional and psychological distress. Y'all!

It's not even funny, Roland. I mean, I'm laughing because it's like, it's so incredulous. You a fake-ass cop! Who does not have to pass no IQ test. Who pulls a gun on a real cop. A rent-a-cop. Because a real cop got a gun, which real cops carry. And that white boy, again, economic envy.

Economic envy. I got the job. Black man got the job that he wish he had. There you go. That's it right there. And so he's going to pull a gun. Physical test. Pull it.

Because security guards, I mean, they're like, I'm not disrespecting security guards. Top flight security. But, you know, they're like the lowest of the low. I mean. Look, the use of the overuse of the overuse. When I go to Macy's next week, don't bother me, y'all. Jane, the issue is this. The overuse of special police officers in federal buildings.

Agencies like this, which face very real threats, need very real police to actually deal with very real issues. What happened to that guy, the SBOs, he's lucky he did not catch a bullet. Right. He's lucky that the officer. Y'all, look at it. The brother's like, man, look, dog, you straight tripping. Get it together. This is so fun.

He's straight. Y'all see the brother like, man, you tripping, pulling his gun out. Y'all, he balls him to the elevator. He tries to arrest him. Right, privilege. Now, these two other, he's got a gun and he won't leave. Yo, he's a cop. But here's what I don't understand. I don't understand what two white cops don't normally do when somebody mess with a cop,

like whoop the security guard's ass. I mean, it happened to black people. You know, or you put him in some handcuffs, and these put him in handcuffs, and these say, dude, you're out of order, you're out of control. I'm talking to you because you're struggling with menacing. You pull a gun out, that's suspect. You go all the way back to Plessy. Go all the way back to the Plessy decision.

A white man has, a black man has no rights that a white man is bound to respect. That's exactly what happened. That's Red Scott 1856. That's going back even further. But, but, but, and then you go back, you look at the whole trope around lynching. And all of the lynching really was about economic envy and what you call white fear, Roland. You talk about white fear. And so this is what black man comes in.

He mind his business. He wants a phone number. All he wants is a phone number. Y'all, remember the white boy in Virginia, James Alex Fields from Ohio, who was crying to his goat? I really shouldn't go to prison for killing a hell of a hire. I mean, prison's so tough. It's rough on me psychologically.

He's a white supremacist. He gave his ass life in jail anyway didn't matter now he got a second life term plus 419 years what the heck did he do on state charges in court last month he was sentenced to his first life term in prison without the possibility of parole on federal hate crime charges he was the one who drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters during a white nationalist rally two years ago in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others. But what got me was his attorney. Prison's going to be rough on him.

They always do that. It's going to be rough on him. Well, you know, they need to put him in a cell with the cops. I like life plus 419. When your punk ass die, you still come back. You still come

back. You still won't be in prison. That's all. I mean, that's the whole deal. All right, y'all. That's it for us today. First and foremost, tomorrow we're going to, of course, have some of the stuff from last week from the Bahamas, the gathering conference of the Global United Fellowship. We're going to, of course, have some of the stuff from last week from the Bahamas, the gathering conference of the Global United Fellowship.

We are going to hear from Dondre Whitfield and Devon Franklin. We're going to live stream their chat. They talked about manhood. They got real raw in their conversation. And so we're going to have that for you tomorrow. So we look forward to that. I'm sure Don Trump

is going to say something stupid. So we probably got to deal with that as well. But the last point is, this is very simple. You can be pissed off and mad and angry at Donald Trump. But if you don't sit your ass at home, you know what you are? You trifling as hell. And so the only way to get this fool out of office is to vote him out of office, which means you've got to mobilize and organize. And that's what our focus is going to be. I don't care who is running against him. You can literally put up a chimp to run against Donald Trump. And I'm telling the chimp will have a much higher IQ and will get my vote. And so I'm just trying to let you know that right now. And so and I don't give a damn what Bob Johnson had to say about how the economy is doing well on Donald Trump, the economy that he was handed in perfect condition by the black president.

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