#RolandMartinUnfiltered - 'Attack On All Rooted In White Supremacy': Jasmine Crockett SLAMS Trump EO Blitz, Anti-DEI Attacks

Episode Date: February 4, 2025

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) breaks down Donald Trump and the GOP’s chaotic tactics, their attacks on civil rights, and an agenda rooted in white supremacy. Crockett, unafraid to call out Republicans for their unscrupulous actions, urged Democrats to step up and fight back. Support #RolandMartinUnfiltered and #BlackStarNetwork 👉🏾 Use Cash App by visiting Stripe https://buy.stripe.com/7sI3ccgYyfSQ8y45kl 👉🏾  PayPal ☛ https://www.paypal.me/rmartinunfiltered Venmo ☛https://venmo.com/rmunfiltered Zelle ☛ [e-mail] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. Listen to Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Lott. And this is Season 2 of the War on Drugs podcast. Last year, a lot of the problems of the drug war. This year, a lot of the biggest names in music and sports.

This kind of starts that a little bit, man. We met them at their homes. We met them at their recording studios. Stories matter, and it brings a face to them. It makes it real. It really does. It makes it real. It really does. It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast season two

on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett of Texas, she joins us right now. Congresswoman Crockett, thank you so very much. Listen, we know what they're doing. We saw this movie before. They want to throw so many things at one time and have people just scatterbrain disillusion.

But I'm not falling for the okey-doke. What this is about, Congresswoman, is they want to attack the money source. They do not want to see black advancement. They want to go after the money. And they're not satisfied with white women getting 78 percent of the federal NWBE contracts. They want 100 percent. And those white women are silent. And so folk need to understand. And frankly, you know, Democrats need to understand they've got to be a hell of a lot more aggressive and understanding the game being played here. Yeah. So for me, it is overwhelming for so many people. He operates in chaos and only chaos and confusion. And he consistently hides some of the really big things in the chaos. Right. So I appreciate that you're talking about the executive order as it relates to civil rights. And so I think it is important for people to understand that Republicans and Democrats alike, including Donald Trump, consistently signed off on this EO. And this time he decided that he was going to rescind it. Right. And so when people are like, oh, well, what is it about immigration? And oh, what is this DEI thing? And oh, what is this going on over here?

Here's the reality. It is all rooted in white supremacy. And that's what people need to understand. The white supremacy agenda is alive and well, and every single one of these attacks, they are rooted in white supremacy. So unless you are a white man, I don't really know what place you have in this agenda that we see coming out. And by keeping us divided, by having those that understand the importance of affirmative action, those that understand the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion over here fighting this fight, and then those that are so concerned about their family members and whether or not they're going to be deported they're over here in this

other fight instead of uniting us we need to understand that it's not an attack on just one group it's an attack on all of us and it is all rooted in white supremacy even this random whitewashing of jesus and this narrative around Christianity. It is the white supremacist narrative of Christianity, the same one that kept black folk enslaved. Well, here's a perfect example. I'm going to pull this up for you. Today, I was perusing social media and people need to understand you got to be careful because it can get real overwhelming. So this tweet here came up from this Geiger Capital and he tweets affirmative action is systemic racism. Not my opinion. Look at the

data. So he shows Harvard applicants all in the top academic had vastly different chances of admission depending on their race. And so he puts this here. OK, so this is this is the first one that he puts in. So Hugh Hewitt, conservative radio show host, retweeted this and I saw it. And so I, of course, responded this way. Hey, Geiger Capital and Hugh Hewitt. I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops call this taser the revolution.

But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything that taser told them. From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multi-billion dollar company dedicated itself to one visionary mission. This is Absolute Season 1. Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. It's really, really, really bad.

Listen to new episodes of Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes 1, 2, and 3 on May 21st and episodes 4, 5, and 6 on June 4th. Add free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Lott. And this is season two of the War on Drugs podcast. We are back.

In a big way. In a very big way. Real people, real perspectives. This is kind of star-studded a little bit, man. We got Ricky Williams, NFL player, Heisman Trophy winner. It's just a compassionate choice to allow players all reasonable means to care for themselves. Music stars Marcus King, John Osborne from Brothers Osborne. We have this misunderstanding of what this quote-unquote drug thing is.

Benny the Butcher. Brent Smith from Shinedown. We got B-Real from Cypress Hill. NHL enforcer Riley Cote. Marine Corvette. MMA fighter Liz Karamush. What we're doing now isn't working, and we need to change things.

Stories matter, and it brings a face to them. It makes it real. It really does. It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to hear episodes one week early and ad-free with exclusive content, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. Hey, Drew Scott here, letting you know why I recently joined the board of an amazing nonprofit, A Sense of Home.

For 10 years, this charity has been creating homes for young people exiting foster care. It's an incredible organization. Just days into the L.A. fires, they moved mountains to launch a new emergency relief program, providing fully functional home environments for those who lost everything in the fires. Please get involved. Sign up to volunteer, donate furniture, or even donate funds. You can go to ascenseofhome.org to find out more information. Together, we can help our LA community rebuild. It takes all of us. Now do legacy. Please tell me the race and gender of Harvard students admitted due to legacy. White people never want to call out legacy. I'll wait.

And of course, Congresswoman, they never responded because what they know for a fact is that if you put on legacy, that's absolutely white people. And so they want to label everything else. Oh, this about merit, but legacy ain't merit. It's a whole bunch of grossly unqualified white folks getting into colleges and universities because their parents and grandparents with their, and that's the game they love to play. You know, you're absolutely right. When they try to play this game, I just remind them of the people that Trump has decided should be in his cabinet. They are all unqualified. Let me tell you something. I can find somebody of every color, of every sex, of every gender, of every everything that is better qualified than every single one of his nominees.

I absolutely can, because right now what we see playing out and the reason that we needed affirmative action is because it's always been this cronyism. It's been the good old boy system. And it was about making sure not that you were giving a hammy out, but instead of you saying the pool of people that I'm looking at, they are only white men. Instead, I'm going to look at everybody and I'm going to try to make sure that we have everybody here. Y'all can talk about admissions all you want to, but when it came down to getting grads such as Barack Obama he may have been admitted because of affirmative action but I can tell you for sure that he didn't somehow become the president of the United States as the only black person to hold that seat because of

affirmative action he became president because he had a work ethic about him and back then we actually cared about ethics in some way so he had had one wife. He had one woman that he had children with. He had no criminal record. That is what we required. And he also was intelligent. Yes, it may have been making sure that you will say it's basically like i've been talking about um we need to take up the ban the box legislation which is legislation that i filed on the state level we'll consider in the fact that we have a 34 count convicted felon that is sitting in the white house arguably the most prestigious job that you can have in this country and he just happens to be a felon i don't know why somebody can't get a job at the walmart because we refuse to ban the box on the application that's honestly what it is what it is is literally saying i am going to consider you even if this is your record what it is is saying i'm going to consider you even if you aren't a man i'm going to consider

you even if you don't happen to be white. That is all it is. It's opening up the consideration and giving us a chance. But at the end of the day, just like any other black person will tell you in this country, we have always had to work 10 times harder. So just because they gave us a chance, let me tell you, it is so much more difficult for us to say. Last question for you. I know you have lots of other things to do. It's been already a very long day. When it comes to Democrats, listen, you tried to

become chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications, whatever the title of that committee is. And I can tell you here we are almost at the end of January. And look, very limited opportunities that we've heard from Democratic groups, DNC, from House, Senate, or whatever. And I'm just trying to understand, after the shellacking that took place in November, after we saw what happened, how Republicans utilize independent media, streaming shows, things along those lines, are Democratic leaders going to wake up and realize this is a communications war and paper press releases ain't? I know a lot of cops and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes, but there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no.

Across the country, cops called this taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything that taser told them. From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multi-billion dollar company dedicated itself to one visionary mission. This is Absolute Season One, Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. It's really, really, really bad.

Listen to new episodes of Absolute Season One, Taser Incorporated, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes 1, 2, and 3 on May 21st and episodes 4, 5, and 6 on June 4th. Add free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Lott. And this is Season 2 of the War on Drugs podcast. We are back. In a big way.

In a very big way. Real people, real perspectives. This is kind of star-studded a little bit, man. We got Ricky Williams, NFL player, Heisman Trophy winner. It's just a compassionate choice to allow players all reasonable means to care for themselves. Music stars Marcus King, John Osborne from Brothers Osborne. We have this misunderstanding of what this quote-unquote drug man.

Benny the Butcher. Brent Smith from Shinedown. We got B-Real from Cypress Hill. NHL enforcer Riley Cote. Marine Corvette. MMA fighter Liz Karamush. What we're doing now isn't working and we need to change things.

Stories matter, and it brings a face to them. It makes it real. It really does. It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to hear episodes one week early and ad-free with exclusive content, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts.

Hey, Drew Scott here, letting you know why I recently joined the board of an amazing nonprofit, A Sense of Home. For 10 years, this charity has been creating homes for young people exiting foster care. It's an incredible organization. Just days into the LA fires, they moved mountains to launch a new emergency relief program providing fully functional home environments for those who lost everything in the fires. Please get involved. Sign up to volunteer, donate furniture,

or even donate funds. You can go to asenseofhome.org to find out more information. Together, we can help our LA community rebuild. It takes all of us. You're gonna cut it. I don't know. All I can tell you is I thank you for being my constituent. I have the best numbers in the entire state of any challenged Democrat or

Republican seeking reelection because I believe in communication and, and the way that I do communication is completely different. And I can tell you that the old school way of thinking, and I won't name any names, but I definitely remember someone who's actually gone on who talked to me and said, well, there's no way you can do all of that media and be effective. And I'm like, I can kind of walk and chew gum. Like, I can do both. Right. There is a sentiment seemingly from old school Democrats that you kind of keep your head down and you just do the work. And I do want to be clear. We absolutely need to do the work. But if no one knows what you've done, really, what was the point? Right.

And so that's where I see it differently. And I try to explain to people it's kind of like a teacher. When teachers walk into a classroom, they should understand that people will be better learners in different ways. Some people are auditory. Some people are visual. Some people are going to be hands on. And so what does that mean? It still translates even when these children become adults that some people just take their information in in different ways and so we need to know that they take them in in different spaces and in different forms and we need to make sure that we're prioritizing all of them and right now is when we should be communicating a lot you shouldn't wait till election time i mean you know we all know we've all seen the what I call the Chipman Circuit, right?

When it's election time and everybody comes to the black church. Like, why can't you come when it's not election time, right? Like, come tell us what you've been doing so that we know. And literally, you stay ready so you don't have to get ready. I feel as if I really am about to experience what Shirley Chisholm went through and what Barbara Jordan went through and what so many others who were first went through as they were trying to break through the noise. But they were doing it in a time in which people at least had. I know a lot of cops and they get asked all the time. Have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes.

But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops called this taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything that taser told them. From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multibillion-dollar company dedicated itself to one visionary mission. This is Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated.

I get right back there and it's bad. It's really, really, really bad. Listen to new episodes of Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes 1, 2, and 3 on May 21st and episodes 4, 5, and 6 on June 4th. Add free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. Ricky Williams, NFL player, Heisman Trophy winner. It's just a compassionate choice to allow players all reasonable means to care for themselves. Music stars Marcus King, John Osborne from Brothers Osborne. We have this misunderstanding of what this quote-unquote drug man. Benny the Butcher.

Brent Smith from Shinedown. We got B-Real from Cypress Hill. NHL enforcer Riley Cote. Marine Corvette. MMA fighter Liz Karamush. What we're doing now isn't working, and we need to change things. Stories matter, and it brings a face to them. It makes it real.

It really does. It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to hear episodes one week early and ad-free with exclusive content, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. Hey, Drew Scott here, letting you know why I recently joined the board of an amazing nonprofit, A Sense of Home.

For 10 years, this charity has been creating homes for young people exiting foster care it's an incredible organization just days into the la fires they moved mountains to launch a new emergency relief program providing fully functional home environments for those who lost everything in the fires please get involved sign up to volunteer donate furniture or even donate funds you can go to a sense of home.org to find out more information together we can help our la community rebuild. It takes all of us. Some kind of ethics about them. Ethics is out the window. Right versus wrong is gone. It's all out the window. And so if we don't tell our stories, then somebody else is going to co-opt those

stories and is going to tell them for us. And we will be back here in four years or in two years or whenever talking about we don't understand why we lost again. Yeah. I keep saying that Democrats are playing a political game that no longer exists. And so they want to play by a set of rules and Republicans are like, what rules? We're just going to create whatever we want to do. Y'all can suck it up. Connorswoman Crockett, keep swinging. We appreciate it. Thank you. Thanks a bunch. Support the work that we do. Join our Bring the Funk fan club. You heard what we just talked about there. Folks, I can't reiterate this enough. Listen to me clearly. I cannot reiterate

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letting you know why I recently joined the board of an amazing nonprofit, A Sense of Home. For 10 years, this charity has been creating homes for young people exiting foster care. It's an incredible organization. Just days into the LA fires, they moved mountains to launch a new emergency relief program providing fully functional home environments for those who lost everything in the fires. Please get involved. Sign up to volunteer, donate furniture, or even donate funds. You can go to asenseofhome.org to find out more information. Together, we can help our LA I know a lot of cops. They get asked all the time.

Have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. This is Absolute Season 1. Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. Listen to Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated

on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Lott. And this is Season 2 of the War on Drugs podcast. Yes, sir.

Last year, a lot of the problems of the drug war. This year, a lot of the biggest names in music and sports. This kind of starts that a little bit, man. We met them at their homes. We met them at their recording studios. Stories matter, and it brings a face to them. It makes it real. It really does.

It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an iHeart podcast.