#RolandMartinUnfiltered - 9.17 #RMU: FUTURE Act vote; AKAs to raise $1M for HBCUs; Viral singing Walmart couple talks to RMU

Episode Date: September 18, 2019

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This is an iHeart Podcast. Today's Tuesday, September 17th, 2019. Coming up on Roland Martin Unfiltered, the congressional vote for the Futures Act goes down in just a little while. We'll talk with the co-sponsor, Republican Mark Walker of North Carolina, excuse me, out of Alabama, on what this means for HBCUs.

Also, the AKs are trying to raise a million bucks for HBCUs. We'll talk with the international president and president of Tennessee State, Dr. Linda Glover, about that very issue. Democratic donor Ed Buck of California has been under suspicion for being a sexual predator for years. Political activist Jasmine Koenig

is here to tell us why she has been sounding the alarm about him targeting black gay men. Also, Drew comments, posted a hilarious video on his Instagram page saying why he supports Senator Kamala Harris, and he also dispels lots of folks who criticize her, or of course, her term as Attorney General and District Attorney.

We'll talk to him on why he put that whole video together. The Tuskegee Airmen are being honored with a new Air Force plane. Plus, comment this today, y'all. Posted a video on Instagram of this black man and black woman who sang If This War Were Mine in a Columbia, South Carolina Walmart.

Unbelievable. It has gone viral. I will talk with both of them right here on Rolling Mark Unfiltered. It's time to bring the funk. Let's knowing. Putting it down from sports to news to politics. With entertainment just for kicks. He's rolling.

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You know he's rolling, Martel. Now. Martel. Yesterday we discussed the Future Act, of course, a bill that will greatly benefit HBCUs when it comes to STEM. Congress is going to be voting this hour for this bill. It could impact, of course, nearly four million students, more than one quarter of all undergraduates in the country. If, of course, this is not passed, universities serving these students and they face elimination of federal funding for this particular project.

And so the bill is called the Fostering Undergraduate Talent by Unlocking Resources for Education Act, again, or Future Act. It's a bipartisan bill designed to help to deal with this very issue. Joining us right now is the co-sponsor of the Futures Act, Republican Mark Walker of North Carolina. Glad to have you on the show. What is it looking like? Is it going to be a vote? Yesterday, Congresswoman Alma Adams said it requires a two-thirds vote. That's what Michael Lomax of the UNC has said as well. Are you confident the votes are there to actually get this bill passed?

I am confident because even though we had some opposition rolling on the floor, there's a procedure where it can pass by voice vote or where someone calls for a roll call vote. Usually that's to put people on record if somebody calls for a roll call vote. I would hope that it passes by voice vote. I'm fairly confident that it will, but stranger things have happened on the floor and we're there. Watch it. About 20 minutes, we'll be opening up the floor. This will be one of the first things we take up. Got some folks who would oppose a bill dealing with education for young folks. And Representative Adams said the bill pays for itself. I mean, so it's not like it's adding to the federal deficit. Absolutely. I think one of the

oppositional pieces is they didn't like the funding stream. They felt like that the college debt as a whole is a problem. So they're coming in from a different angle. However, this is something that I believe is important. Last Congress, we were able to plus up HBCU funding $14 million. So this time we're looking to extend the $86 million. And listen, for me, it's personal. My wife is a family nurse practitioner at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. She's a two-time graduate HBCU alum.

Also, I represent the largest HBCU in the country, North Carolina A&T. So this is something that we've been working with Representative Alma Adams for the very beginning. And so, again, the HBCU community, they've put a full force, full court press on this, trying to have folks call in, send emails, things along those lines. And so, again, you have Democrats who, of course, in the majority as well, but this requires two-thirds. Just explain to the folks why that particular, why it requires two-third as opposed to majority. Well, the reason that it requires two-thirds is because you're reauthor Well, the reason that it requires two-thirds is because you're reauthorizing something. A simple passage of anything, a piece of legislation, just requires

a majority without going, as your audience knows, it goes to the Senate and eventually the President's desk. You're reauthorizing something. You need the two-thirds. And I think that's why the kind of funding that's needed would require the two-thirds. But as I said earlier, I don't think this gets to the place where you're actually putting your card in behind the seats, pushing the button. I think it's going to pass with a voice vote unless somebody calls for the roll call vote. I don't anticipate that. But as I said earlier, it could happen. I just hope that it doesn't. All right, then. Representative Walker, we certainly appreciate you joining us. What does it look like for the Senate? Last question.

I think it'll be good. My friends, Senator Tim Scott and Doug Jones from Alabama, have been doing the bicameral counterpart. So I think we're going to be good to go from over on that side. So hopefully within an hour or so, it'll be through the House, and we'll have some good news report. All right, Representative Walker, we certainly appreciate it. Thanks a lot.

Thanks, Roland. All right, folks, the AKAs are on a mission to raise a million dollars in one day to help the nation's hbcus the good news is that on yesterday's impact day they surpassed their goal we'll get the final tally by the end of the week but there's still time to make your own impact i talked yesterday with international aka president dr gl Glover, about their initiative. So Dr. Glover, let's talk about this initiative you and the AKs are doing when it comes to HBCUs. You're obviously president of Tennessee State University. And so what was the impetus for this? AKs have previously supported HBCUs, but why this targeted effort and where really did it start from?

Well, thank you very much for this opportunity to talk about this wonderful initiative with you today on one of my favorite shows. So thank you very much. As a college president, I see firsthand the plight of black colleges and HBCUs and what we need to do to sustain HBCUs. So this initiative, HBCU for Life, a call to action came about as a result of that. So recognizing the need for financial contributions for HBCUs, we set out to ensure that each HBCU, each four year school would have an endowment of $50,000 to $100,000 on each campus for sustainability purposes. And again, what the folks don't realize is that to understand the endowments, to understand the disparity. When you look at the likes of Harvard, Yale, Stanford,

University of Texas, Texas A&M, Ohio State, Michigan, those schools, they have massive endowments in the billions. And unfortunately for HBCUs, you do not have that. And so explain to folks what the endowment actually means because I think a lot of people don't realize that you have a budget on one hand, and many HBCUs, their budgets are really based upon the financial student aid. And so explain to the audience why that endowment is so critically important. Thank you. Endowments are so important because scholarships are awarded from the interest on endowment.

How the endowment grows, so grows the scholarships. Most, especially private schools, depend on endowments. And the state schools also, because there once was a time when the state schools got far more money, more financing from the legislature and the government, state government. That day is over now. And they get about, I know Tennessee State, we get less than 30 percent of our total budget comes from the state of Tennessee. The rest we're to make up through other means. So to have an endowment on each campus is so significant because it represents a way to give scholarships, a way to finance student education, a way for students

to actually stay in school. You mentioned the big endowments. Yes, there are some large endowments at the other schools, the majority institutions. But the average endowment at HBCU, on average, is around $20,000, which is not good at all. So you're saying the average endowment at an HBCU is around $20,000? Yes. The average endowment of an HBCU is around $20,000. We looked at some of the larger ones, FAMU, Howard, Morehouse.

Those three are the largest ones. There may be one or two more in the top five. Then you have a group that have endowments between $50,000 and $100,000. That's about, I would say, six or seven schools. Then you have some that have $30,000 to $40,000 to to 40 to less than 50. That's another handful, but the majority of them are in the $10,000, $11,000, $12,000 category. So we looked at the average of all of them, of our 96 schools, and it was about $20,000, which is so insufficient. So, and that's why we, AKA said, well,

let's have a, let's set up an endowment at each university, each college of $50,000, $100,000, depending on the school. So at least we will have some way to support the sustainability

of HBCUs. Well, here on this show, we also created a hashtag, HBCU Giving Day, where we profile one particular school, giving people an opportunity to give as well. And I think what people don't understand, and I've covered this story for a number of years, and the reality is that we have lots of people who walk around with Tennessee State gear.

It might be FAMU and Howard or whatever their school is, but the average giving is so low when it comes to graduates. And when I explain to people, I get some people who push back who say, well, these black graduates can't give. I say, no, I say, y'all don't understand. When you talk about three and four and 5% giving, that's any level of giving. That five bucks that's ten dollars that's a hundred a thousand so i think a lot of people have this assumption that we talk about alumni giving we're talking about major gifts no we're talking about total giving any amount of money and so uh how important is it uh for hpcus to create this culture of giving from the moment a student walks onto the campus

so when they graduate, it has been ingrained in their mind that they must give back to their institution? Well, many schools now have started to establish public-private partnerships with contributions to the endowment. And they're asking students to join the alumni clubs, the pre-alumni clubs, to teach them how to give the importance of giving. Here at Tennessee State, our endowment is not significant. It's around $60 million, which is, did I say, I'm sorry, did I say $20,000 or $20 million earlier?

I meant to say $20 million. I'm so sorry. The average is $20 million. So TSU is about $60 million, which is nowhere near what's needed to get scholarships. If it were not for the various majors that we have, for example, agriculture, we depend on USDA to assist us a lot for students majoring in engineering and STEM areas and agriculture. We depend on some of our other partners in the hospital industry, in the banking industry. We depend on them for partnerships, which has become the new wave of the day now to supplement the scholarships with other income from our partners.

Because there is no way, well, because the alumni, although alumni, that giving has increased a lot over the years. It's just, it's not where it needs to be. And we're steadily growing, steadily growing. TSU this past year just entered a partnership with Apple and with Amazon. The Apple partnership is so significant to the university in that not only does it provide resources, but it teaches students how to code, how to develop apps so they can have entrepreneurial ventures. So based on that,

we're able to get more funding from Apple. And then Amazon came in, they're moving to Nashville. So we're proud of the companies that are coming to Nashville. So we are priding with the companies that are coming to Nashville and those that we can show that TSU makes a difference. And other HBCUs make a difference. Just to clarify, Dr. Glover, so the average endowment at an HBCU

is around $20 million. And what you're trying to encourage the AKs, but also other fraternities, sororities, the Divine Nine, but also other organizations is to sort of takeities, the Divine Nine, but also other organizations, is to sort of take up this challenge as well because the reality is with declining funding, if you talk about from state institutions, but also when it comes to the struggle for a lot of these private HBCUs, that endowment really serves as a backstop for universities not only to give scholarships, but also to weather a financial storm that hits if they have a dip in enrollment or anything along those lines.

Exactly. And that's why we're encouraging these public-private partnerships. We encourage alumni to give, to give more, because everybody has to have their rainy day fund. You never know what's going to happen. At TSU, we try to make sure we can live six months just in case something happens. I hope we'll go a whole semester and now we extend that to nine months. So we want to make sure that there in case something some catastrophe happens or something beyond our control that we can still manage for at least a in an academic year. So we're trying to get that for each university. Now we talk to the various presidents, talk among ourselves about what it is, what are the things

that we need to ensure survival of our campuses. And we've concluded there is no problem that we have that money cannot solve. So we're out there asking alums, we're asking the foundations, we're asking public-private partnerships. We're just asking for assistance. That's why today is so important. We just told our membership. We're Alpha Kappa Alpha has 300,000 members. So we said, yes, we raised a million dollars in one day last year.

Let's do it again this year. We need to show HBCUs that we're serious. Because someone said, let's have an awareness campaign. We don't need an awareness campaign. We're already aware that HBCUs need money. We know who they are. What they need is financing. They need funding. They don't need any more awareness of here I am. We need no more pat on the backs. We need you to give money to support HBCUs. And that's what this effort is all about. Dr. Glover, if folks, other AKs out there who are watching have not given, where can they go to participate in this effort?

Anyone who's watching, but AK, other Greeks, or just friends of ours or supporters of others, can go to aka1908.com on the Internet, or they can do text to give at 44321. Just type in AKHPCU, akaHPCU at 44321 if Just type in AKHPCU. AKHPCU at 44321 if you're texting. If you're online, aka1908.com. All right, Dr. Glover, we appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thank you.

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Good morning, Mr. Lewandowski. I'm questioning you right now. Thank you. The president asked you, who had no role at all in the White House, to deliver that message to Attorney General Sessions. The president could have just picked up the phone himself at any time and called the attorney general. The president also had a full staff of executive employees right down the hall. So this made me wonder

if the president thought what he was doing was legal, why didn't he just pick up the phone and call the attorney general Sessions or why not ask any member of his staff who worked right down the hall to deliver a message? It is clear to me that the reason he went to you, Mr. Lewandowski, is because everyone said no. So I want to ask you about that. days before meeting you, the president had called White House counsel McGahn at home on a Saturday to fire the president of counsel saying, and you can see that on the screen, Mueller has to go. Call me back when you do it. Plain and simple. But McGahn refused. When the president asked you to deliver that message, did he, the president, tell you that two days before your meeting his White House counsel had refused to fire the special counsel?

Volume 1186 is where you'll find that language. Volume 2. Volume 2. When the president asked you, did you hear the question? I'm sorry, could you repeat the question, counsel? When the president asked you to deliver that message, did he, the president, tell you that two days before your meeting his

white house counsel had refused to fire the special counsel? The white house has directed me that I not disclose the substance of any conversations with the president. You are not allowed to answer whether the president told you

he called his counsel at home on Saturday to remove, on a Saturday to remove the special counsel and his counsel said no. The president had also personally called Sessions at home and asked him to unrecuse himself and oversee the special counsel's investigation, and Sessions said no. When the president asked you to deliver his message to Sessions, did the president tell you that Sessions had already said no? Volume 2, page 107. I'm going to continue. I'm going to continue. I'm going to continue. I'm going to continue. I'm going to continue. I'm going to continue. I'm going to continue.

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I'm going to continue. I'm going to continue. I'm going to continue. I'm going to continue. I'm going to continue. I'm goinging my time. This is a House Judiciary, not a House party. So if you ask me a question, give me the opportunity to answer your question. The very campaign the special counsel is investigating. I'd like my time restored, please, of his interruption. The gentlelady controls the time. So he was a witness to the special counsel's investigation. For that reason, Sessions said publicly that federal law prohibited his involvement in the special counsel's investigation. For that reason, Sessions said publicly that federal law prohibited his involvement in the special counsel's investigation. Here's a quote from the report from volume two, pages 49

to 50, which is on the screen. You can read that. Yes or no. Did the president tell you that the attorney general was legally not allowed to take any part in the special counsel's investigation when he asked you to deliver him a note about that very investigation. Did the president tell you that? What you've just read on the screen, Congresswoman. You need to look at the screen. There it is. Yes or no. Read the screen. You're welcome to read it, Congresswoman. You're welcome to be stalling and I'm not going to stall. You either answer the question yes or no.

Congressman, I'll take the same privileges that you've had other members. If the president tells you that nobody at the White House was supposed to even contact the attorney general about the investigation, that you can answer yes or no. I will not disclose any conversations I've had with the president, Congresswoman. Again, you are obviously here to block any reasonable inquiry into the truth or not of this administration. The White House counsel, quote, shortly after Sessions announced his recusal, directed that Sessions should not be contacted about the special counsel investigation. In fact, the White House counsel's internal notes state no contact with Sessions and no communication serious about obstruction. Can you read that? I just said it. Can you read that? Did you hear me?

Yes. Is there a question? Yes. Did the president tell you his White House counsel told him no contact with Sessions because of serious concerns of obstruction when he asked you to deliver a message to Sessions? I am respecting the executive branch privilege of confidentiality, and I will recognize that this time. I'm not going to be a president. I'm going to be a president. I'm going to be a president. I'm going to be a president. I'm going to be a president. I'm going to be a president.

I'm going to be a president. I'm going to be a president. I'm going to be a president. I'm going to be a president. I'm going to be a president. I'm going to be a president. I'm going to be a president. I'm going to be a president. else had already said no. He called his White House counsel to fire the special counsel. McGahn said no. He called the Attorney General to ask him to unrecuse himself from the special counsel's investigation. Sessions said no. His White

House counsel said there should be no contact with Sessions because of his recusal. So what does the president do? He calls you in to do what everyone else wouldn't do. He called you in to do his dirty work in secret because he knew it was wrong. Well, we will expose the truth. The president can't hide behind you any longer. You should be here to be telling the truth, because the truth will set you free and the American people. I yield back. The time of the gentlelady has expired. The witness may answer the question. I don't believe there was a question, Congressman. Very well.

Yes, there was. Could you repeat the question? I didn't hear it. I'd be happy to repeat the question. It's just a rant. I can't repeat the question. I'd be happy to repeat the question. The gentlelady's time has expired.

The gentleman from... Did you know the Attorney General had recused... The gentleman from... All right, let's go to our panel. Joseph Williams, Senior Editor, U.S. News & World Report. We have, of course, Kelly Bethea, Communications strategist, Malik Abdul, Republican strategist. Joseph, how in the hell can the White House assert executive privilege for somebody who never worked for the White House or the American people? What Donald Trump is doing is beyond shameful to suggest that you can exert or assert executive privilege not only people who still work there, but folks who used to work there and for folks who never worked there.

It's ridiculous. I mean, there's no legal justification for what he did or what he was saying, but this has been their game plan all along. I mean, anybody who's remotely connected to Donald Trump since the campaign or before the campaign, when they come to testify, they execute the same game. They don't want to say anything. They dare the committee to hold them in contempt and dare the legal process to start, which basically is stalling in a way.

Kelly, this committee should hold him contempt and throw his ass in jail. I don't see why that didn't happen on the spot because all the pieces were there in order to do so. He flat out refused to answer the Congresswoman's question. There were no grounds for him to not answer the Congresswoman's question. So in my head and in common sense's head rather, you know, this this was contempt like he was in contempt of of the panel, of the of the committee. So I don't understand how he's not in jail right now. I don't understand how he even thought that executive privilege extended to somebody who's

not an executive. You know, I mean, it's very, very common sense. It's not complicated stuff. If anything, he's making it more complicated by, you know, going back and forth with the congresswoman. So the fact that he's free right now is just ridiculous. So, Malik, was your boy Trump, is he above the law, that he can tell somebody? How do you assert executive privilege when you never worked for the White House? Oh, I mean, I don't know.

I can't speak for that, but I can speak to the fact that this was pretty much backfired on Democrats. No, no, no, no, no, I asked you a question. Well, I don't know. No, no, no, you don't know? First of all, executive... Well, I don't work for him. No, no, no, no, no. I asked you a question. Well, I don't know. I don't know the answer. You don't know? First of all, executive... Well, I don't work for him. I don't know how any of that works.

Malik, Malik, Malik, executive privilege, you can apply that when somebody is working for you at the White House. Yeah. Cornel Lewandowski never worked for the White House.

That's absolutely true. And so it doesn't offend you that Donald Trump is trying to operate above the law? He wants to deny Congress its duty to properly investigate the executive branch when you've got three branches of government? It doesn't offend you? Well, I'm pretty sure that whatever it is that Congress can do to remedy that, they're going to do it. No, that's not what I asked you. What I asked you is, does it offend you that the guy who you voted for and plan to vote for again believes that he is above the law and that he is actually spinning on the Constitution and making things up to say you can't testify to send White House lawyers to sit behind Corey Lewandowski when he never even worked for the White House. Well, from what I've been

hearing all day, there seems to be some discussions on whether or not he's been he's actually allowed to do that. But no, no, that's not allowed to do what? Not allowed. Well, well, but he did. Let me flip it. If a Democrat president chose to flout the law and to assert executive privilege where there is none, would that offend you? Probably not. It wouldn't offend you? Probably not. Malik, that's bull.

Well, you asked me the question. Malik, are you trying to, so you're saying you're perfectly fine. I'm giving you the answer that you asked me. So you're perfectly fine. It's not a matter of me being perfectly fine. It wouldn't bother you? You said whether or not it would offend me. Would it bother you?

And I would say probably not. Would it bother you? Maybe. Would it concern you? You said whether or not it would offend me. Would it bother you? And I would say probably not. Would it bother you? Maybe. Would it concern you? Maybe. So is that big a deal to break the law, to flout the law? Well, either you're going to want my answer or you're going to want your answer. Do you believe the president is above the law?

No, I don't believe the president is above the law. So what is this? But I've seen a lot of these things in politics in general that where politicians or even presidents do things that people question. Hold on. Show me an example where the president of the United States has asserted executive privilege for individuals who do not work for the White House. I don't have it. I don't have it. But you just said I've seen these things.

Well, I said I've seen these things, meaning presidents flaunting laws to their advantage or what have you. Okay, but this is a case where... And I answered that question. You asked me whether or not if there were a Democrat in office, you asked me would I be offended, and I said, yeah. And I said, probably not, because that's actually how I feel. So you're perfectly fine with it? And then you followed up and said, well, would it bother you?

And I said, well, probably so. So it's either going to be if it bothers me or not perfectly fine. Hold on. But that's what you said. Probably so. Well, probably so is something that we don't know. That's a hypothetical. Probably so is not a bother to me.

Okay, but it's still a hypothetical. Probably so means it might not. But it's still a hypothetical. This is a hypothetical. Well, your question was a hypothetical, was it not? Okay, so are you bothered? Are you concerned? Yeah, that concerns me.

But you asked me whether or not I was offended. Let me finish. Are you bothered, concerned, or offended that a president of the United States, in this case, Donald Trump, will flout the law and would literally say, you don't say a word when he networked for the White House.

Sure. Absolutely. Joseph, this was a trip. The so-called party of law and order. Don't give a damn about law and order. Okay, so I didn't just say that it would bother me. Hold on, but you switched. So which one is it now?

Well, you asked me whether or not it would offend me, and I said no. You asked me whether or not it bothered me, or something I said maybe, yeah. So now it does? Well, you just asked me that, and I just answered that. And I said, sure. And in fact, I said that sure, but anyway, for any

of us to sit on the set and be surprised that a witness didn't answer questions, come on, this is, all of these hearings are pretty much political theater. But we know that. But I think there's a difference, though, right? I mean, the difference is not in not answering questions. That's that. You're absolutely right. That happens fairly frequently. But the difference is in exerting a privilege that doesn't exist. Maybe. I mean, that's that. Maybe not. It doesn't. It doesn't. Well, it did today. Well, it did because it made it up.

No, it didn't. Well, it didn't answer the question. You're sort of like saying, hey, the Detroit Lions won a Super Bowl. Maybe they did. They did. Well, you asked me whether or not it would bother me, and I said, sure. No, I mean, like when you say maybe, maybe not. And I said, sure.

That's exactly what I said. I said, sure. So I understand you don't like that answer but you asked me and I gave you that answer but it but as you said the fact that someone didn't answer questions under testimony in a congressional hearing all of this stuff is political what you have is an absolute lying president who obstructed justice who literally ordered Corey Lewandowski to fire the attorney general

as if he somehow has the authority, when you had White House lawyers, Don McGahn saying, that is obstruction of justice, now you have a president further obstructing justice by ordering people or asserting executive privilege

that doesn't exist because he wants to stymie Congress from doing its job he acts as if that there are not three branches of the government but even with all of that i'm still concerned with how congress handled this hearing today because they still have tools at their disposal to punish those who are doing these things if not the president because we do have um the policy that the president, because we do have the policy that the president can't be,

you know, incarcerated. Well, no, no, no, no. Something like that. It's a policy. Right, it is a policy. There's a memo. No, no, no, no, no. It's not policy.

It's a memo. No, there's a legal memo that was written in a Department of Justice to protect a thuggish president named Richard Nixon. That's sort of like having my jail cell

my jail cell inmate write a letter on my behalf both of us in prison. I just find it offensive that they're still following a legal memo written by a attorney, by a DOJ, to protect a criminal president again. I got that.

There's no disputing that. What I'm saying is, considering that they are following it, that's what we got right now. But that's still the executive branch. We still have a legislative branch that has tools at their disposal to punish those in the executive branch doing the wrong thing. And for whatever reason, they're just not. And they didn't. They didn't do it. Everything at their disposal just today. We're not even talking about the Mueller hearing or anything else.

Anything that has been on any other investigative panel, just today, he could have gone to jail based off of what the legislative branch can do. And he didn't go for whatever reason. I mean, we do have to blame the Democrats for that because they're the majority right now. So, you know, as someone who is a progressive, you know, I can call him out on that because that's ridiculous. Like you're letting criminals go. And for what? Like there's no, there's no rationale behind that. What we're dealing with here, folks, is a lying administration. First of all, a president who lies about lies. I mean, that's what gets me. I mean, not just lie, but he'll lie about a lie. And then asserting this privilege,

this is where Democrats should be tough. And I'm going to tell y'all right now, if Obama tried any of this, oh, my God, Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan and all the Republicans would be Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Laura Ingraham. They would have lost their ever-loving minds. They would have called for a gun-toting NRA-loving people to descend

on the White House and try to drag Obama out of the White House. And Democrats probably wouldn't have had my position. But as... No, actually, no. See, that's the difference between Republicans and Democrats. No, not in... It's all political. No, no, the reality is... Because, see, I'll tell you. Democrats ran out a senator accused of sexual harassment.

On mere allegations. On a mere allegation. Mere allegations. Forced him to resign. Your party. Who, who, who? Al Franken. Al Franken.

No, and I'm saying, who are you saying that's been accused of sexual misconduct? Who's still in office? It's not. Okay, first of all, remember the boy from Texas, Blank Farenthold, who stuck around for a long time? I don't even remember him. You don't remember him? Okay, gotcha. He was a Republican.

I don't know the name. Remember the guy called Senator David Vitter? The guy who was busted? His name was in the phone book of the Washington DC matter. No, no, what I'm saying is he served out his term. Right, but I'm saying was this before or after Me Too? Because I think Me Too kind of changed the dynamic. No, not on the Republican

side of things. But that's the only reason that Franklin was out because of what we were going through. No, no, no. What I'm telling you is Democrats have done a much different job of holding their own accountable than your party. Y'all let it ride because you ain't trying to lose no vote. Well, that's, well,

again, I think the Me Too era changed the dynamic of how we look at those things. Now on the Republican side. And that's something that... Go ahead, Joseph. Mark Foley was a pretty big deal. Mark Foley, the congressman from, the senator from Minnesota. Not Mark Foley, Republican from Florida. No, Republican, he was from Florida, but I'm

talking about the guy in the airport from Minnesota. The guy in the airport from Idaho. No, no, he's from Minnesota. Hell, that's two. Yeah. That's two then. But both the allegations kind of surfaced. They lingered, lingered, lingered.

I mean, even the speaker, Dennis Haster. Dennis Haster was a big one. Jim Jordan's another one. He's still around. Jim Jordan's been accused. Jim Jordan. Jim Jordan. I don't think the Republicans get out.

Jim Jordan. There's a difference between being accused of something. Hold on. Ohio Republican Jim Jordan. Hold on. Ohio Republican Jim Jordan... Hold on. I just told you... Accused of something, an actual... And even in Frankenstein...

But wait a minute. You actually have pictures of him with his hands going towards the woman's breast. But there were allegations on Foley. There were text messages. And in Jim Jordan... But again, I think that was Foley. Clearly on the record. Here's my whole point.

Was it Foley before or after? No. But Foley eventually resigned. But the point... But was that before or after Me my whole point. Was it Foley before or after? No, but Foley eventually resigned. But was that before or after Me Too? Before. But the point is, the time period that we're talking about. I mean, no, I don't think so. Because at this juncture, we're talking about several, several Republican members of Congress.

And they ain't done nothing. Well, Bill Clinton was in office, if we want to talk about that. And Bill Clinton got impeached. But he was still in office, though. But he got impeached for lying. But he got impeached for lying, not for the accusations. The police know damn well Republicans don't hold their own accountable. And we all know that.

I'll be back. Y'all know doggone well, the reality is Republicans, as long as they can hold them votes, they're going to hold on to it. The so-called party of family values, the so-called party of law and order, as long as they can hold them votes, they're going to hold on to it. The so-called party of family values, the so-called party of law and order, as long as they can stay in power, that's what they're going to do. Bob Mline is Coral Lewandowski. He should have thrown his ass in jail for contempt, for lying. That's what he should have done. Lock him up.

Absolutely lock his ass up. Your party believes in law and order. Lock him up. Sure enough. Blame Democrats. When you come back, we're going to talk to Jasmine Koenig about Democratic donor Ed Buck. Of course, still targeting black gay men. And we'll talk to a brother who put together this pretty hilarious video for Senator Kamala Harris.

And there was a viral video, comment posted today, of this black man and black woman who was seen in a Walmart. We're going to talk to both of them. Trust me, y'all don't want to miss that as well. All that next, Roland Martin Unfiltered. That was good. I enjoyed that. You want to support Roland Martin Unfiltered? Be sure to join our Bring the Funk fan club.

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So go to lifeluxjazz.com. All right, folks, we talked about, we were one of the early folks who brought attention to Democratic donor Ed Buck out of California. This is a guy, of course, where two black men have died in his apartment. He has not even been properly investigated by California authorities. Jasmine Koenig, a sister who's a journalist and activist out there as well. She has been on top of this from day one.

She joins us right now. And now there's a picture surfacing, Jasmine, of another unidentified black man entering his apartment. And you've been, of course, on this. And so it's unbelievable that authorities are essentially protecting Ed Buck with the things that he's involved in. Yeah, absolutely.

That picture is surfacing because I put it out there. You know, there are a lot of people in L.A. County who want to see justice brought to Ed Buck, and I'm so happy that a lot of his neighbors understand what's going on. And so when they see things that just don't look right, they do let us know. And that's how I got that photo. We've said all along that Ed Buck never stopped his behavior at all. I mean, I think you probably remember, Roland, there was that whole video of them taking Jamel Moore's body out and another young man, he had already called somebody else

to come upstairs the very same night. So this is just proof for us to show the world and to keep calling out the DA's office and the sheriff's department on them doing their job. And a couple of days after I posted that photo, Ed Buck called the police on that young man, the sheriff, as he usually does when he doesn't want to pay you or he's tired of you and you won't get out. He called the sheriff's on him and had the sheriffs come and kick that young man out. I made it over there, but not in time to catch the young man.

The sheriffs just seen him on his way. Then they must have realized it was Ed Buck's house because they came back driving up and down the street asking people, have you seen the black man? We're looking for an African-American man. He was walking down the street. So, I mean, it's just crazy. I don't know if Ed Buck is ever going to come to justice criminally for the death of Jamel Moore and Timothy Dean with the way the Sheriff's Department and the District Attorney's Office is acting. And, of course, have Democrats finally stopped taking Ed Buck's money? What?

Have Democrats finally stopped taking Ed Buck's money? What? Have Democrats finally stopped taking Ed Buck's money? No, I heard you wrong. No, no. I think that he stopped giving money for right now. We're constantly monitoring that because I would dare someone to take some money from Ed Buck, especially now knowing everything that's happened. I think he's just stopped giving

his money or he's giving his money in a way that we haven't been able to trace it back to him. He likes political action committees. He likes to do things where maybe his name isn't on it, but it'll be something like the animal compassion pact. And then when you look behind it, you realize, oh, that's Ed Buck. Well, Jasmine, look, you keep staying on top of the story. We've always given you a platform from day one when a whole bunch of other media people were ignoring you

and this story, and so we appreciate it. I appreciate you, Roland. Thank you so much, and I can tell you that the families appreciate what you are doing. Jasmine, thanks so much. I appreciate it. Thanks a doing. All right. Thank you. Jasmine, thanks so much. I appreciate it. Thanks a lot.

All right, folks. A couple days ago, I saw this video on Instagram, and there's been lots of talk about Senator Kamala Harris and her record as Attorney General and District Attorney. And this one brother, a North Carolina A&T graduate, put together this hilarious video. I thought it was pretty funny, and I wanted to go ahead and get him on the show just to talk about it. And so check this out. So Kamala Harris,

it ain't the fact she black, Howard University, Alpha Chapter, AKA. It's enough to get my attention, but it ain't enough to get my vote. All skin folk ain't kin folk. You better check her record. And I did that and I found out some things. She dope. Yo, Kamala Harris is almost exactly what you expect from a prosecutor with the credentials I just mentioned. First off, you ain't even qualified to talk about her unless you heard about Back on Track. That's like trying to discuss Jay-Z without hearing reasonable doubt.

Back on Track was a restorative justice program for 18- to 24-year-old first-time nonviolent low-level drug offenders. Instead of jail or a charge on the record, folk got sent to boot camp where they got job readiness training, parental training, earned a GED, got connected with employers for careers,

got their credit fixed. That's a pretty good deal. I'm finna go sell an ounce right now. Okay. But for real, once people graduate that program, she threw their charges out like it never happened. As DA of San Francisco, she made social services help parents chronically and habitually treat kids. Twitter told y'all she was threatening them with jail. Cap.

The most important issue for me really is that we get these kids into school. The goal is not to prosecute parents. It's to get these children to go to school. We are not talking about hooky and playing hooky and frankly, we all did, okay? Nah, they were missing

40 to 80 days. That ain't hooky, that's hiatus. And nobody went to jail. I checked. Sister got them kids back in school and kept them out

of incarceration and the grave. She also created reentry initiatives so people in jail could get out and not go back. Convicted over

1,200 domestic abusers. Prosecuted child molesters, rapists, and violent criminals. Transnational gangs. Got $20 billion back for Cali from the big banks after the foreclosure crisis, created a civil rights division in the San Francisco DA's office. When she first got in, she threw the charges out for the activists and the protesters who

got arrested. Shotty a hero. Senator, no disrespect. Not to mention the incarceration wage for marijuana charges fell each year she was AG. So much for that theory about her believing in mass incarceration. But Kamala Harris, I'm excited. I'm excited about her plans for gun reform and the HBCU agenda. I'm excited about women's equal pay

and the return of consent decrees. I'm excited about black homeownership and a black woman on the Supreme Court. I'm excited about black businesses booming and the D9 Step Show the day before her inauguration. Y'all know they having a Step Show. And I'm gonna be there too with an $8 fish plate and some Mambo sauce.

At the end of the day, she the strongest and most prepared and exactly what America need right now. And I look forward to seeing her stroll into the White House in 2021. That's an AKA joke. I hope she don't make her academy members probate, though. Nah, seriously, four to eight years of D9 jokes is going to be hilarious.

I still ain't been the same since somebody said she's going to put AKA tags on the back of Air Force One. Oh, man, joining me right now is Drew Commons. Drew, how you doing? I'm doing well. What about yourself, Roland? Thanks for having me. All right, man. First of all, the video's hilarious as hell.

How long did it take you to put it together, and why'd you do it? Well, to put it together, let's see, as far as writing it out, you know, testing it, I'd say maybe a few hours. We talked maybe about, I'd say about four or five hours or whatever, just to kind of gather everything I wanted to say, because I had all the information. But what made me do it, honestly, was just out of frustration. Like, it was really the negativity that I saw on social media regarding Senator Harris and her record. And that's just her record, her identity's pretty much everything like i remember as soon as she launched her campaign back in january somebody on twitter said you know i i'm embracing myself for the amount of massage noir that she's about to experience and i was like yeah it's probably gonna be bad but

yeah and you know people definitely lived up to it but um you know at first when i saw the uh the the information i was like y'all does this sound like does this sound believable to y'all like i but i feel like it's low over then i thought back 2016 i was like what they did say that hillary was running some sort of operation out of a pizza parlor so my people might start believing this but i'm like nah nobody would do that and it just kept going and going and i'm like wait a minute have y'all looked so i i had to go ahead and start digging and looking up for record if it wasn't for that negativity, I probably never would have done the amount of research that I actually did do.

And, you know, I was like, you know what, I'm dropping this video because, like, it's just, I just wanted to say something. So there you have it. So when you started, you were not necessarily a Cinder Common Hair supporter, yes or no? Oh, I already was. I already was. Like, first of all, I called this.

I'm just going to put this on record. I called her. I knew she was going to was like first of all i called this i'm just gonna put this on record i called i knew she was gonna like put her hat in the ring the matter of fact i got the instagram post to prove it i gotta this had to be back in like 2000 and it had to be prior to maybe 2015 2016 like it was just some about when when i when she said that she was going for the senate i was like hold up wait a minute um it's just it it was just real about when she said she was going for the Senate. I was like, hold up. Wait a minute. It's just it was just real, you know, just just I'm not saying predictable, but it looked like for a while that she would be somebody who would be a contender. Also, right after the 2016 election, Sinbad was actually on the Breakfast Club, as a matter of fact. And he made a mention of her too

I think the one would be Kamala Harris I got that clip of that too so I was like hey man she put her hat in the ring I don't know anybody else from HBCU especially the MEAC that's my conference who most identifies with my cultural experience so I was like yo

she runs I'm with her and then sure enough she did it so I was like oh yeah we she runs, I'm with her. And then, sure enough, she did it. So I was like, oh, yeah, we got it. Joseph, you got a question? Yeah. Hell, it took you a long time to put this together. What's been the reaction? What's been the feedback?

It's gone viral. Have people been agreeing with you? Have people been trying to tear down what you're saying? What's been the reaction? Yeah, they're hating you. So here's the thing. It's actually been mostly love. I'm going to say about 98%, 99% love, man. They hating you? So here's the thing. It's actually been all, been mostly love.

I'm going to say about 98, 99% love, man. Like, for everything, like, for all the vitriol and stuff that you see, even rolling, like, even in your comment section on your videos and such, with folk, and I promise you, it can't be, like, these got to be, like, Russians. I don't care. Or whoever it is. Like, I'm just saying, because, like, some of the stuff they say,

and, like, we don't even talk like that. Yeah, your bonn so like you know what i mean like so but i mean like in real life and then even the reaction to my video it has been mostly love like oh this is what i'm talking about i've been trying to say this so he said what i've been trying to say but he said in two minutes and 50s at two minutes and 15 seconds um you know so so the reaction has been just one of shock people uh are you know kind of surprised that i guess uh somebody from i don't i don't know i i think i bring something a little bit different than a typical person giving their political opinion you know talking about who they want to endorse just the way i presented it and such so it's been overall positive even in real life i'm out here in la i went to a day party a few weeks back you know i'm saying i actually got a uh combo of 20 to 20 tank top you know say just to uh go to that that that day party and i rocked

it up there and it's a it's a black party and um i walk in there and i mean from the door i'm just getting compliment after compliment compliment on the shirt like okay folk either and it's crazy people have a hunger for her man it's wild out here in real life so i'm not even letting social media you know i mean like really really you know what I mean, like really, really, you know, guide me. And there's some people, even on Facebook, people I went to college with who are skeptical or might believe some of the stuff. But as I put the video in, I got people

coming back to me saying, yo, you know, I was against her or whatever, but now, like, since you did that video, like, you convinced me. I'm voting for her. Or, you know what? I'm going to go ahead and do some more research. So it's been good Kelly yeah so considering that your videos viral now has anybody from Kamala Harris's camp reached out to you yeah that's the crazy boy that's what I knew it got real so I posted this video on

that morning and you know I knew first of all like i knew it was going to do numbers but like just because i'm like no one else is doing this man and like and i do i do these kind of videos all the time just on other topics you know usually it's about dating a relationship something like that but really it's anything that that could be you know encompassing current events but um it got real i remember i was looking at my uh my uh my, and when did it get real? I saw a notification. It said, Maya Harris liked your tweet. And I'm like, whoa, hold up. So I open up Twitter, and I see not only has Maya Harris liked the tweet,

but she mentioned me and actually embedded the video on her profile. I was like, son. I was at my desk. I had to get up and just take off. I was like, people in the office must have thought I was crazy. I started just laughing out loud. So, yeah, that was pretty cool. Douglas, follow me.

I followed him, so we follow each other now. Kamala's niece, Mina Harris, we've, you know, we've followed each other back and had a little bit of conversation and such. So it's been all positive. It's been all love. I haven't heard from Kamala yet, but I don't want to say that because she's busy. She's got to race with me. Malik, you got a question? No, I don't. You ain't got a question?

I mean, you got it covered. Fine, all right. Drew, I'm trying to give a damn black conservative something to say, but that's fine. No, for real, bro. I respect you, bro. Say something, please. I think you got something. I mean, I think that...

He ain't got nothing. I think you guys pretty much covered it. You know, the question that I would have asked is what was the reception event, but Kelly has already asked that. And whether or not they called you. And so they contacted you. I mean, it's nothing negative I can say about anything.

You know, I don't I can't even think of any questions really to ask, because between Roland and my panelists here, they pretty much covered it. So. Well, since you're a conservative on the panel, I would say this, though, from a conservative standpoint, this is actually one of the reasons I'm actually supporting Kamala. So not only is she, you know, able to get, you know, folk either from the moderate left and so on, but I think that, you know, one of the things that really gives me the confidence in her is her prosecutorial background actually will dip into some of that conservative bucket. Some of those folks that's on the fence who are not really down with what's going on, who feel that

this current administration is antithetical to their actual moral beliefs and such as conservatives. And it's a lot on them, I know that. I think that, especially we're talking places like Iowa, where those middle America

white women, when they see law enforcement, when they see Attorney General or DA, they're like, you know what? In their American cultural experience, they're going to equate that with safety. They're going to equate that with something good. You know what I'm saying? So I think that actually might work out. I actually count on that working

out in her favor. So this is another reason I'm on a train. We shall see. But Malik still gonna... But Malik gonna still vote for Trump. He don't matter. So... Don't do that, bro.

Please. No, straight up. No, he already said... He already said he voting for Trump. A black man from Mississippi. Yes, from Mississippi. Voting for Trump. November...

Keep America great 2020. Don't say that. Malik. Yes. Why, dog? Come on, man. Why, bro? I do plan on voting for Trump in 2020.

He still ain't explain why. And even, and to be honest. He still ain't explain why. And to be honest, even if I were a Democrat, it's unlikely that I would support Kamala Harris. Oh, all right. I mean, that's cool. I can understand, you know, folks.

Here's the thing. My whole purpose was like, look, you can, you know, people can support who they want to support, you know what I'm saying, as far as the Democratic field. It's just's just that yo let the information be real and be honest and stuff you know like like let it be based off of fact and reality not off of this myth that this black woman from a civil rights family from oakland uh who went to howard who pledged alpha chapter aka spring 86 somehow hates black men. Like, that is not believable.

You got to tell me, like, that Santa Claus is not only real, but stopped in the hood first. Like, that's insane. Like, it's just not factual. That's what I'm saying. Like, that's what started it. Like, y'all telling me she hates black people. She locked up thousands of black people.

I'm like, I look at the record. I'm like, yo, the numbers say a completely different story. But you know it's not conservatives saying this. These are actual liberals, progressives who are saying this about her. That and some Russian bots. You're right. Drew comments, man. Look, man, we appreciate it.

A hilarious video. Great job. And good luck in the future. I appreciate it. Thank you. Aggie pride. All right. Thanks a bunch.

Folks, breaking news here. Go to my iPad. Congresswoman Alma Adams tweets, the Future Act has passed the House. Thanks to Representative Bobby Scott, Representative Mark Walker, Representative Ted Budden for speaking in support of this important bill to provide funding for HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions. And so it now goes over to the United States Senate. Folks, Acting Secretary of the Air Force Matthew Donovan said the service's newest advanced trainer aircraft has officially been named the T-7A Red Hawk in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen, the nation's first African-American pilots. Here's a quick look at history. The End As America enters the war, these Tuskegee Airmen are ready to fly into combat with honor. Donovan made the announcement during the speech

at the 2019 Air Force Association's Air, Space, and Cyber Conference. The name was also in tribute to the Curtis P-40 Warhawk, a fighter aircraft that first flew in 1938, and that was flown The name is also in tribute to the Curtis P-40 Warhawk, a fighter aircraft that first flew in 1938, and that was flown by the Tuskegee Airmen. One of the original Tuskegee Airmen, Colonel Charles McGee,

who flew more than 400 combat missions during World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, was on hand for the announcement. All right, folks, today I was on Instagram, and my man Common posted this video that has gotten now more than I'll double check. Last I checked, it was about 350,000. I think it's actually way higher than that. I saw the folks at Inside Edition. They picked it up as well.

I posted it on my page. And again, it's gotten now, yeah, 434,000 views on the comments page. I reposted it and man, it has just gone viral. And so here's the deal, okay? This couple, first of all, just play the video and then we'll tell you exactly how this thing actually happened. Go. Do you know if this world were mine?

Yes, I do. If this world were mine? Yes, I do. If this world were mine, I would place at your feet all that I own. You've been so good to me. If this world were mine I'd give you the flowers The birds and bees And if it'd be your love beside me That would be all I need If this world were mine I'd give you anything

If this world were mine I would place at your feet With words of hope We could have anything If this world were mine I'd give you each day so sunny and blue

and if you were mine I would give you that too if this world were mine don't be If this world were mine Don't be mad, I can't do anything

Oh baby, you're my inspiration And there's no hesitation When you want me Honey, just call me Oh, baby, I'll be your consolation And there'll be no hesitation When I'm in your arms When you believe in me Oh, the way that you do

Oh, the way that you love me Oh, yeah, oh, yeah The way that you do Oh, the way that you love me. Man, y'all cut it off. That wasn't all of it. Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh. No, Millie, stop.

What? Are you kidding me? Hell no. We ain't trying to hear your ass singing. Oh, no, no. I ain't trying to hear y'all. I'm not like that. No, I ain't trying to hear that right now. I ain't trying to hear y'all. I ain't trying to hear that right now.

I ain't trying to hear it, okay? In fact, I think y'all cut the end off when they just hit it. Oh, man. All right. Joining us right now, I'm going to play it at the end of this interview. Take it to break. You're not going to see him, Alec. Joining us right now is Cassandra Nelson and Donnell Cross.

How y'all doing? Hello, hello, hello. How are you? Okay, okay. I'm trying. So I'm just trying to understand here. So y'all didn't know each other? Not at all.

Okay. I was shopping, and I had my headphones on. I was humming something, and he was like, she can sing. So wait a minute. So hold up. So you were shopping at a Walmart where? Is it Columbia, South Carolina? No, actually, Alpharetta, Georgia.

Alpharetta, Georgia. Oh, so both of y'all live in Alpharetta, Georgia. I mean, and basically near Atlanta. Yes. Okay. She lives there. I live in New Orleans now. I used to live there.

I live in New Orleans. So y'all happen to be in this Walmart, and, Deneo, you hear her humming. She wasn't singing. She was humming the song. She was singing it low, and I was like, you know, now I'm going to tell you the story. I was going through a little breakup,

so I was kind of depressed. I had been drinking and had a few too many. So I got the courage to walk over to her and say, you know if this world were mine and she said she did. I didn't know she was going to do it that way.

I didn't know she was going to work it out. So all of a sudden, you asked her, do you know the song? She's like, yeah. So I guess in the beginning you said, let's sing it. Or did you say, I want to hear it? No, I said, let's sing it. Or did you say, I want to hear it? No, I said, let's sing it together. So he starts singing, and Cassandra, the look on your face like, OK, all right,

let me show you something. Exactly. But I want to tell you, this is a humble woman. This woman is humble. From the time that I've been speaking with her, she's very humble. I'm very happy this happened for her and I. But what was so

crazy is that first of all, as y'all are singing, y'all in a Walmart, okay? Yes. Okay, do y'all remember what section of the aisle y'all on? No, I don't. It was near the vegetables were on my side. On his side was the ketchups and stuff like that.

I don't know which aisle it was. So, so, so y'all start seeing it. And then all of a sudden, there, we're seeing the background people are coming. Danielle, behind you, are there people watching y'all like, what are they doing? There was more people behind me than there were in front of us. And so now y'all got this audience, y'all singing acapella, and so Cassandra, he starts singing, then you start getting into it.

Hey, whenever I sing, I'm always into it. That's what I do. That's how I am. Now, Danelle, first of all, either one, first of all, do y'all sing professionally? No. I mean, I've done, you know, different things. I've sung on the Apollo and one. I've done different here and there, do weddings.

And, you know, but I'm a maintenance man. I fix air conditioners all day. You fix air conditioners all day. And Cassandra, what do you do? I am a maintenance man. I fix air conditioners all day. You fix air conditioners all day. And Cassandra, what do you do? I am a claims examiner, a worker's comp. But I have done background singing for different gospel artists. My dad, Reverend Norris Turner, was a gospel preacher and a gospel singer. And he has six albums.

So I've been singing all my life. But as far as professional on my own, no. No. Okay. With your help, we're going to get there, though, right, Roland? No, because first of all, I mean, let me tell you something. So Common posted this this morning, and when I saw it,

it was up for about five hours from when he posted it. Uh-huh. And then all of a sudden, then all of a sudden that thing just grew and grew. It's now more than 400,000. And then I put on Facebook and Twitter saying, yo, black people, do what y'all do. Find out who these two black people are.

Then I saw the two of y'all comment, find out who these two black people are, then I saw the two of y'all comment on a comments page. So first, Donnell, how did you find out, how did you find out that it was posted on comments page? Someone told me this, a friend of mine told me this morning while I was getting ready

for work, and then Cassandra had hit me up and told me that it was there and that she was excited and we were riding to work. And the guy that actually posted it, my boy Craig Reese, we called, Cassandra and I called

him. And the three of us just had a melee this morning going to work. So, Cassandra, how did you find out Carmen had posted? Well, I found out from my good friend, Shanisha Watkins. She texted me and she was like, girl, Carmen just posted

your video. And I'm like, nah. So I went to Instagram and I'm like, oh my gosh. And then I contacted Darnell and I was like, okay, you ready? Because we going somewhere. So, Darnell, and I was like, okay, you ready? Because we going somewhere. So, Darnell, at the end of the video, you had asked for a number. Your boy said he was going to send her the video.

And so, now, of course, you know, you got some bros who said, yeah, Darnell was being slick. You know, at the end, he was like, why don't you go ahead and slide me your number? So, you know, black boys would comment on everything like that. And so, first of all, how long ago did this happen? This happened in March of February or March of 2018. That happened a year ago. This was last year? Yes.

This was last year? Last year. They just picked up and just soared. Now, the thing about it is my grandmother raised a gentleman. You know, Ms. Alberta Ross raised a gentleman. I'm not going to just walk up to a lady and be rude and, you know, it's rude to me. But I'm very much, you know, very much a gentleman, you know. Right, Brittany?

Right, Roger? Adriana? So who are all those people? Those are the guys that I work with. They was like, you better shout us out. So I said, all right, I'm going to give it a shout. So, I mean, and again, so, okay, this happened in March of last year. Yes, sir.

Did y'all get together and sing somewhere else? No, haven't talked to Donnell since. We haven't seen each other. Haven't talked to him since until all of this blew up. Now, I saw, Cassandra, you posted on your Instagram page, Inside Edition saw this, and they actually ran a clip of y'all singing. Yes, they did. Yes.

Wow. Rob and me did it on singing. Yes, they did. Yes. Wow. Rob and me did it on HLN in the morning. Yeah, Morning Express. Wow. That's how fast this thing has blown up. And so, Cassandra, you first. What has your day been like since Common posted this? The rest of us picked up on it.

My gosh. it has been, I really didn't get anything done at work today. I'll just say it like that because I'm like every minute my phone has just been blowing completely up. My daughters, Briella, Kimberly, and Kiana, they are ecstatic. So of course my daughter, who's almost an attorney, she's probably going to get me for saying this. But anyway, she said, okay, we got to do some things. Let's do this. And so I have a daughter who's a fashion stylist. She said, okay, mom, let me style you. Let's do this. So, yeah, we're there ecstatic. And my day has been crazy. Since this thing has blown up, it's been crazy. But I give all, you know, everything to God because it's all in his timing. And my frat brother, Roland Martin, with your help, we're going to go somewhere, right?

Absolutely. Danelle, how has your to go somewhere, right? Absolutely. Danelle, how has your day been like? Oh, man. Like her, I didn't get anything done. I tried. But my phone was going off as well. My niece, Latriva Cross, you know, and my sister, Phyllis Thurston, and all my family, they're going ecstatic over it. No because my sister has been praying for this for me since we were children and she sings to my

back my whole family saying so basically they're like oh my God, this is just too much. I don't know what to say roll enough. First of all you got them, you got the, if you actually shade, you got the look and sound like B.B. Winans. Oh, wow. No, that's what, you know, I sung,

when I found you, I found the, I got to think of the words, but, you know, but my favorite is Luther Vandross. Kelly, you got a question? No, I'm just in awe, and just, I just loved everything about the clip.

Thank you. I just hope that it goes somewhere far. I don't want this to just be a viral moment. I want careers made out of it. Well, okay. I'm going to say this in a minute. Joseph, you got it? Yeah, that was my question.

Your phone's been blowing up. Who has called you? Has anybody reached out to you and said, hey, y'all could make a really great act? No one. Roland, you're the first. You're the first one that asked us to be on a show. And I want to thank you for that.

And yes, we want it to go somewhere. We don't just want it to be a foul moment. We've been singing. I have, been singing all my life. And that's what I wanted, my dad wanted for me. Me and my sister, she sings as well. And, you know, we're just ready to go and do this. Malik, go ahead. So what I wanted to say is that what, and to explain this to people kind of outside the community of why this is so

touching, is that for so many of us, we heard our mothers, aunts, uncles, you know, so many of us actually heard these songs growing up, and especially we're talking about Luther Vandross. So we have our own Luther and Tommy Terrell here. And so I just want to say that, you know, this is just pretty awesome. And the fact that you guys, you know, are great singers, but this is a great moment. And especially in this political climate that we're in, even though this was a year ago, but to really see something like this

and to hear you guys, it's so refreshing. And so I wish you the best. I absolutely wish you the best. Thank you so much. What we want to do is to bring R&B back. I mean, R&B is, you know, that's what we were born and raised on. Some crooning. Some crooning we got going.

My father sang with the, he started off with the Jive Five out of Brooklyn, New York. Him and my uncle Richard Harris. And then you can look them up. They're on there. My sister sang with Hezekiah Walker. And, you know, the list goes on with the singing and all that. So I wish my mother was here to see this. I promise.

And I just want to say the next, I'll put in a request for some Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack. Yes. Yes. Okay. That's too good. You ain't got to wait. So here's the deal. One, I wanted to get you on this show. For all the folks who are watching, Danelle and Cassandra, they're going to be on the Tom Jordan Morning Show tomorrow at 7.15 a.m. Eastern. And I

know Common had put out there that he wanted to know who y'all were. Have y'all heard from any of his people? No, not at all. I haven't been back on the thing. Well, I know Common personally. I got his number. He's actually overseas.

And so we've hit him up. And so I'm going to connect y'all with Common and his manager as well to holler at them. And then a couple other things. I did send an email to my buddies, Robin Roberts, Michael Strahan, and George Stephanopoulos. So I'm going to send them y'all information, try to get y'all on Good Morning America. Oh, what? Yay! I'll be in New York this weekend. Well, and then my other homeboy, of course,

is Steve McKeever, Hidden Beach Records. And so I just sent Steve a text to see if he had heard y'all singing. And so I'm going to connect with Steve as well. Of course, he was the first one to put Jill Scott out and some other folks. I know. We'll do that.

And so, again, it was just amazing. The fact that y'all don't even know each other, how this whole thing just happened. And it sort of reminds me of the brother who was singing in the train station, the subway station in New York. And then James Cordon put him on his CBS show at Brothers Been Tune Across the Country, things along those lines. And so before we let y'all go, y'all here. So we might as well.

Now, granted, being together is different being on Skype. But y'all here, let's hear y'all sing the same song together. Okay, let's do it. Let's go. If this world were mine, I would place at your feet. All that I own, you've been so good to me. If this world were mine, I'd give you the flowers, the birds and the bees.

Come on! And it'd be your love beside me. That would be all I need. If this world was mine, I'd give you anything If this world were mine I would make you the king With wealth untold

You could have anything If this world were mine. I'd give you each day so sunny and blue. And if you wanted the moonlight, I'd give you that too if this world were mine I'd give you anything

oh baby you're my inspiration and there's no hesitation Oh, baby, you're my inspiration And there's no hesitation When you want me, honey, just call me Oh, baby, I'll be your consolation And there'll be no hesitation When I'm in your arms.

Oh, the way that you do. Oh, the way. The way that. Love me both. Oh, yeah me Oh Oh yeah The way that you do Oh the way that you love me

Oh Oh Every sky would be blue as long as you're loving me, baby. Oh, give me pretty loving, baby. Give me pretty me, baby.

Loving me the way you do. The way you do. The way, the way, the way, the way you love, you love me, baby. No, no. And I don't want to let you go. I don't want to let you go. I don't want to let you go, my love. No, baby. And I don't want to let you go. I don't want to let you go. I don't want to let you go, my love. Love.

You know the world would be yours. Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, hey Yeah, hey Oh, man Woo Somebody called a lot That is

As we say, y'all can't sing Y'all can sing Well, it is First of all, it's an amazing story Oh, also, by the way, I also hit up my man at Walmart. I sent him the video. I said

y'all need to shout them out as well. And so I passed that on as well. Cassandra Nelson, Danelle Cross, I hope all of y'all dreams come true. Whatever I can do to make that possible, we'll make that connect. Thank you for, first of all, answering the Instagram post.

Thank you. Certainly appreciate that. And again, just an unbelievable, fabulous video, and I can't wait to see what happens next. Thank you. And with your help, I'm sure they will. Thank you so much. All right. Cassandra Nelson,

Danelle DeCross, we certainly appreciate it. Y'all take care. Thank you. All right. Have a good one. That was a hell of a thing. That was pure black girl, black boy joy, magic, sparkles, everything. I'm just, I'm a kid in a candy store.

I said that clip to Tyler Perry today. He was like, I need to do my auditions in a Walmart. It was just too fun. I just want to say very quickly to

the audience out there, you heard what they said. Roland is the first show that they've actually been on. I saw this a couple of days ago. This is the importance. Roland is the first show that they've actually been on. You know? And I saw this a couple of days ago. But this is the importance. This is why the show exists. And, yeah, I get beat up. And I read what you guys are saying in the comments section.

But I come on here because this is where my family is. And so, support the show. Support Black Magic. We got it all here. And so, from me to you, I love all of y'all, whether y'all don't like me or not. Just don't sing that song. That's all I have to say.

But about that connect with comment, can I have that connect with comment? Listen to her. I gotta shoot my shot like they did. Yeah, you gotta sing a song or something. I can do that too. You ain't never done it. She broke it up. You ain't never done it. So let me or something. I can do that, too. You're going to have a problem with that. Well, you ain't never done it. She broke it up.

You ain't never done it. So let me try to say I can. We ain't never heard that. But yeah, so we'll see. I mean, we'll see. Carmen is in Amsterdam. And I tried to get him on the phone, but Jackie said, come to sleep.

But I'm going to get him on the show, trust me. And when the show's over, I'm going to call his manager and see if we can hook that thing up. Even when we got to do a pre-tape video interview. But again, he put it out there. I'm glad he did. And man, I'm telling y'all, I think last count, I think it's got like 10,000 comments. Wow. So let's see here.

Let me see. Go down here. So yeah, 442,486 views, 11,005 comments. Wow. Seth Entertainer, Snoop Dogg, all these different people have been commenting. That's viral. On this video, and so that's the deal. So, yeah, so I'm going to send it to the folks at Good Morning America, and then we get done.

I'm going to send it to the folks at Gayle King and CBS this morning. You know, look, I know I might as well send it to them. Hey, as Malik said, this is why we created Roller Martin Unfiltered, because we talk about and cover stuff nobody else is going to touch and talk about. That's what this show is all about. And so we want you to support this by joining our Bring the Funk fan club. Every dollar you give goes to support this show. That's what's critically important, so we want you to be a part of that. Go to rollermarknonefilter.com to join our

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One person up to $5,000 who gave. Oh, check this out. So this just in. So guess what? Steve McKeever, my man, said he just got off the phone with Commons Manager. Yes! See how that thing works? See how that thing works?

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I'm a board director, so I'll be there tomorrow and so look forward to seeing you guys. All right, I got to go. I was gonna play the, you know, matter. Uh, I got to go. I was going to play the, you know, matter of fact, I'm gonna go ahead and play it again. I'll play the whole thing. This was the whole full video. Uh, cause I, it just, you know, cause like they sang on the show, but I'm telling you, they were so phenomenal. Uh, and I just loved, uh, when they hugged after. Uh, and so, uh, just, so this was actually in a Walmart in Georgia.

This was Cassandra and Donnell. What actually happened last year. Y'all, take it to the break. Y'all have a great day. Holla! My, I would place at your feet All that I own You've been so good to me

If this world was mine I'd give you the flowers the birds and the bees, anything you love beside me, that would be all I need. I'll give you anything If this world were mine I would lay at your feet With words untold

You'd have anything if this world were mine. I give you each day so sunny and blue. And if you ever said you wanted to go back, I would give you that too. Come on. Come on. I would give you that too if this world were mine. Don't be mad. I'd give you anything. anything Oh baby you're my inspiration and there's

no hesitation when you want me honey just call me Oh baby I'll be your consolation and there'll be your consolation. And there'll be no hesitation when I'm in your arms.

Will you believe me? Oh, the way that you do. Oh, the way that you love me. Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, the way that you do. Oh, the way that you love me. Oh, every sky would be blue as long as you're loving me, baby Oh, give me pretty loving, baby Give me pretty loving, honey

Keep on loving me, baby. You know I need you, honey. You know I need you, baby. Keep on loving me. Loving me the way you do, my love. The way, the way, the way you love me, boy, you love me. I don't want to let you go, I don't want to let you go, I don't wanna let you go, my love I'll go away with you, go away with you

You know the world would be yours Yeah! Woo! Oh, yeah. Woo. Awesome, awesome. Yes, yes, yes. Donnell. Ladies and gentlemen. Your number, Cassandra.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't have a number. Thank you. She was holding up the line. Yes, ma'am. He was singing it. He was singing it.

I was singing it. Thank you. I love it. Yeah, we just had a dance. You know, she was singing. I said, do you know if this world was finished? She said, yeah, dude. Yeah, that's what we're going to do. Now you got to send me that. I absolutely will.

That is. Y'all were fantastic. This is an iHeart Podcast.