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Episode Date: June 10, 2021

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During a hearing today, Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton showed his white nationalist self, causally interrupting Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on the issue of diversity in the armed services. A federal judge has tossed one of the discrimination lawsuits black franchisees with McDonald's file against the corporation. In Minneapolis, a deadly police shooting has no record because there is no body cam video.

Really? In Oregon, a statue commemorating an enslaved black member of the 1804 Lewis and Clark expedition, defaced by a crazy-ass white woman, and the owner of the Baltimore Ravens donates $4 million to HBCUs, plus the High Point, North Carolina principal who serenaded his graduating seniors

with the Whitney Houston song, well, written by Dolly Parton, I Will Always Love You. It's time to bring the funk. I'm rolling the mic and unfiltered. Let's go. From sports to news to politics With entertainment just for kicks He's rolling It's Uncle Roro, y'all It's Roland Martin

Rolling with Roland now He's funky, he's fresh, he's real the best You know he's fresh, he's real the best You know he's rolling, Martin Martin The only black Republican in the U.S. House not happy at all. He's upset, saying the Congressional Black Caucus is blocking him from joining. 42-year-old Byron Donalds from Florida says his staff has reached out to members of the CBC multiple times. They have not gotten an adequate response why he is not a member.

Now, he has said that he was a member of the Black Caucus when he served in the Florida legislature. He believes he's being ignored because of his party affiliation. Now, when asked about Donalds' claim, the CBC gave us the following statement. The Congressional Black Caucus remains committed to fighting for issues that support black communities, including the Police Accountability Bill, protecting voting rights, and a jobs bill that helps our communities. Boom, there you go. Now, Congressman Byron Donald is going to join us on Monday's show. But he did go on a lot of media outlets talking about this issue after BuzzFeed actually reported this story.

Watch this. So in a second, I want to go my panel. Let's go to Dr. Greg Carr, chair, Department of Afro-American Studies, Howard University, Recy Colbert, Black Women Views, and also glad to have in the chair, Georgia Fort, independent journalist. This is an interesting one here, Greg, in that, first of all, you've had Black members before. Mia Love was a member of the Congressional Black Caucus when she represented Utah. You have Burgess Owens, who's not from Utah, not joining the CBC. Senator Tim Scott chose not to join as well. And so Donald is really upset that he is not allowed over there.

But keep in mind, this is the same guy who voted not to accept the electors, not to accept the results of the election of President Joe Biden. What do you make of his desire to join the Congressional Black Caucus? Should he or should he be kept out? Well, I'm glad he wants to be in. That's just because of phenotype, how he looks. But that's very different than politics and culture. This is a guy who got on Twitter today and said he applauded that corn-pwned governor of Florida for banning critical race theory. He said, we must tell our country's great story of redemption and teach our children patriotism. All that be hate. But the difference of opinion is one thing. But when you vote not

to certify a federal election, and of course, he's a native of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, transplant, went to Florida State as an undergrad, became a Christian at age 21. You can see the Christianity threading through his comments. He's in a district that's over 100,000 plus on the side of Republicans in terms of registered vote. But this guy's not a serious guy. His profile is very stereotypical.

Finally, he's joined a few clubs. In fact, I like what Ilhan Omar said. She said, that club you created with Burgess Owens, Maria Salazar, and Carlos Jimenez and them, they call themselves the Freedom Force. They're against everything the squad stands for, except the squad didn't name themselves, fool. So, Byron, I'm glad you said it with your chest. Just realize that we all stand together. It's not going to stop you from being a victim of state violence. Go on into that good night, brother, especially when you're giving them the gun to shoot you with. So you just stay safe. We still on the same team in terms of phenotype, but the rest of that

noise, take it on back over there to the Super Friends. No, oh, sorry, Freedom Force, whatever that is y'all created. Recy, he says that his viewpoint should be accepted within the Congressional Black Caucus. I mean, what is the viewpoint? Is it white supremacy? Because that sure as hell doesn't belong with the CBC. The CBC is the conscience of the Congress. They already get dragged enough for stuff that's not even accurate and not even fair. The last thing you need is a person who's working against the interests of the CBC

and Black folks altogether. This is nothing more than a stunt. It's very, it's very unserious, as Dr. Carr just pointed out. But this is a great way to raise his profile off the backs of Black people, because, you know, the quickest way to become a martyr is to try to make it seem like Black people

are anti-conservatives, which we aren't. A lot of Black people are conservatives. But Black people are anti-conservatives, which we aren't. A lot of Black people are conservatives, but Black people are anti the white nationalist party. That is where he runs into an issue. And so if he were bringing something like fiscal conservatism or something that was traditionally associated with Republicans before they came all out, hoods off, Klan flags flying, the white nationalist party, then you could make the case for his inclusion. But this is nothing more than a stunt. And if he really did want to be in it, it was probably for nothing more than networking and access to donors and access to clout and to

raise his profile. But I'm not buying it. And I think that the CBC is doing the absolute right thing by sticking to their guns on this. Georgia? Yeah, I agree with Recy. I think that he's a day late and a dollar short. If he wanted to be a part of the CBC, he should have said this a long time ago. He should have made it a priority in his career from the beginning. But instead, I think that he has prioritized his party affiliation, and he has been complicit on issues concerning the Black community. I want to know where was his concern about the CBC when Trump was in office and his

administration was passing legislation that left Black people out. I want to know where his concern about the CBC was when the Capitol was being stormed. And so I think that it's very convenient. It reminds me of a saying they used to say a lot, you know, growing up, that your black card would be revoked, you know, for certain things. And, you know, I think that this brother has found himself in a bad situation, not just because of his party affiliation, let's be clear. It's not just about the fact that he's a Republican. It's about where he stood on issues that concern the Black community.

I'm going to ask all three of you this, and Recy, I want to start with you. It's very interesting to watch a lot of folks highly critical of the congressional Black caucus. And like I was just seeing one tweet, this guy was like, what does the CBC done? Show me the black specific laws the CBC has passed. Um, and, and, and I keep trying to walk these people through to get them to understand, um, what you can and cannot do. Uh, and it's amazing. It's amazing to me, like I had one guy and another guy yesterday who was going back and forth. He was saying, well, they represent black districts. And I then told him, I said,

have you actually seen the racial makeup of most of the congressional districts? I said, first of all, the average congressional district is 700,000 people. I said, please show me the all black congressional districts. He couldn't answer any of those questions. And so when you hear folks say that, show me the black specific bills by the Congressional Black Caucus. How do you respond?

I want what I want to understand is why is it that they say that as a cudgel against the CBC, but then when they need a cudgel against something like the COVID-19 anti-hate crimes act, they want to bring up all the stuff that the CBC does. The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act that was led by the CBC in both the House and the Congress. Anti-lynching legislation, both of them. You know, the thing that everybody likes to talk about, all the progressives like to talk about? Medicare for all, championed by Representative John Conyers, the HR40 Commission, reparations. That's the CBC. As I just said, the CBC is the conscience of the Congress, but you need foot soldiers behind the CBC as well. Jelling on Twitter about we need reparations now, no reparations, no vote is not getting

us any closer to the finish line. So if you want to be critical of the CBC, make sure you turn that criticism inward towards yourself and find out what you've done to mobilize behind the CBC. Because there's no excuse for why, for instance, something like the Black Smithsonian, the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, took decades to pass because the CBC had to continually introduce it. Every single session of Congress, the CBC is introducing the priorities of the Black community. And every single session of Congress, we have Black people making the same complaints without mobilizing. And that's where the issue lies, not with the CBC members who bust their ass to try to get these things passed,

but with the fact that people would rather go after the CBC than go after Rand Paul, who single-handedly blocked the anti-lynching legislation in Congress. They would rather go after the CBC than go after Mitch McConnell, who has obstructed the agenda from since the Obama era. So we have to do something different other than criticize. We have to mobilize. And until we do that, we're going to still be stuck saying what is happening for black people, period. I had I saw this tweet, Greg. This person here goes, powerful CBC. What have they done of significance for black people? I missed the black specific laws they got passed. Like, oh, I don't know, the Asian hate bill.

They all are mostly all supported, among other things. And I keep seeing these people, these fake YouTube historians, Greg, who keep saying, it was like, see, see, see, we prove you wrong, Roland. It's an Asian hate bill. And I'm going, it doesn't just apply to Asians if you actually read it. And the thing I explain to people, this is not, oh, I'm defending the CBC. No. The average person is too clueless to even understand what members of Congress do. Again, when the heat pumps at Howard University went out, delayed classes a couple of winters ago, they had to go get emergency funding from Congress. That's right.

Who do y'all think they called? Congressman Eleanor Holmes Norton. Who did she call? CBC members. See, again, what kills me is people, like, they really have no idea. I sent the emails, Congressman Bobby Scott, when he talks about the bill that he passed, or when Congressman Alma Adams talks about how she inserted several things into the farm bill that benefited HBCUs. I mean, I can go on and on and

on. I remember, I never forget, Greg, I never forget when President Obama was in office, the members of the CBC on the House Financial Services Commission refused to vote for the banking bill. They forced Barney Frank to go get the votes elsewhere. They didn't vote against it. They said, no, y'all got to ask him stuff. And they demanded the inclusion of $3 to $5 billion for minority lending offices. And I'll never forget, I got a phone call about 10 o'clock at night. It was a Thursday.

Hey, Roland, are you going to have the CBC on your show tomorrow, on Tom Joyner tomorrow, on your TV One show? No, on Tom Joyner. Talk about this very issue. Now, Greg, I didn't know what the hell he was talking about.

But I clearly knew it had to be something major the CBC was doing for him to call me at 10 o'clock at night. And I said, no, I'm not going to have them on Friday, but I'm going to have them on Monday. Now, I was actually lying, but I wanted to hear what the whole deal was. And so he then went on to explain to me this tough negotiation they were having. We can't do all what the CBC wants. And I said, well, we'll see. I did have them on. Here's what happened. That bill got passed. It went to the Senate. The Obama White House tried to pull that three to five billion dollars out of the bill. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Congressman Gregory Meeks, like, no, the hell y'all not.

That actually passed. Now, I was moderating a panel at CBC-ALC, and a brother stood up and he said, see, the CBC wrong. The CBC shouldn't have opposed Obama. I said, fool. That was a minimum of $3 billion. He actually said it was worth not getting the $3 billion if they oppose Obama.

I said, you need to sit your dumb ass down. I said, their job is to fight. I remember when they had the jobs tour, and they were highly critical of the administration when it came to that. And Obama was not happy with them at all. Y'all, y'all think I'm lying. Go look at the Politico story in January or February 2010 when the CBC had their first meeting with Obama. The article lays out how he was not happy with them because they were

pressuring him. But what kills me are these people who keep putting stuff out. They ain't doing nothing. They ain't representing us. I'm like, when your ass got no clue what actually happens with black caucus members. They ain't got no clue. Well, Roland, I think you've just

anchored where we are. Not just as black people, but as people who live in America. Ignorance is the coin of the realm. Ignorance is how the market operates. And for everyone who is critical of the Congressional Black Caucus, they probably don't know about language inserted in legislation around technology and infrastructure development. You might wonder how broadband access gets expanded.

Under poverty reduction and safety net programs or education, how do those Pell Grants get expanded? Under judicial nominations, who's in whose ear to suggest to the president who to nominate? Under immigration reform, you know how many black people, look at Joe Nguza, for example, or Yvette Clark, and ask them about immigration and how those black people that come from the Caribbean and from Africa. When you start talking about foreign affairs and national security or homeland security, ask Bennie Thompson, you know, what it means to be on top of that committee, because the

longer you're in Congress, the more you gain seniority. Many of the congressional black caucuses of members are at the top of committees or leading committees. It's very important to understand. And that's not to say they can't improve. I mean, you know, folk think when you think congressional black caucus, you know, you got Richie Torres and Delgado out of New York or Ilhan Omar or Jonah Guz, as I said, continental African, first to second generation, Yvette Clark from the Caribbean, Stacey Plaskett from Virgin Islands. As far as I'm concerned, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez needs to be a joint member, because her people from the Bronx, which means the Dominican Republic.

We have to think about the work. Finally, H.R. 1, the for the people, well, Senate Bill 1, the for the people act is nearly 900 pages. If you haven't read it or even part of it, you don't know whose politics and whose staffers went into crafting that legislation. Right here, right here, right here. This is the email right here. Y'all, this is the email that I got on May 25th. Senator Senator Reverend Warnock and Representative Williams, Nakima Williams, introduced by camera legislation to help people register to vote as they change residences. OK, somebody watching might go, well, that ain't no big deal. That ain't no big deal. OK, I'm just going to sit here and just, you know, since folks say it ain't no big deal. That ain't no big deal. OK, I'm just going to sit here and just, you know, since folks say ain't no big deal. Let me sit here in and pull this one up, because, again, I actually see these things.

I actually, you know, get these actual bills. Congressman, Congressman Boom right here, y'all. Representatives Jeffrey, Scott, Armstrong, and Bacon introduced bipartisan bill to eliminate sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. This is dated March 9th, 2021. I'm just, y'all, I'm literally reading you. Again, for all y'all people out here who keep just running y'all mouth and saying just stupid stuff, I mean, I'm just saying you kind of need to understand what actually goes on, what actually happens. I mean, I can look at, I mean, I get notifications all the time from Frederica Wilson and her office about some of the things that is a perfect example. I'm looking here. I'm looking here right here.

Representative Wilson introduces bill to reestablish the advisory committee on transportation equity, dealing with the whole issue of transportation, billions of dollars being spent on roads that impact us as well. Right here, Frederica Wilson leads charge to help retrain millions of workers who lost their jobs to COVID. I'm sorry, y'all, these are receipts. You have to read them, though, Roland.

The four-letter word is R-E-a-d brother you out here cussing i mean let me do it georgia again this is not this is not look let me be real clear i said to the cbc y'all gotta do a better job uh when it comes to your comms when it comes to telling your story or when it comes to telling your narrative uh but hell comes to telling your narrative. But, hell, this week, we've had two CBC members on this week, Mondaire Jones and Congressman Jamal Bowen. I had a fool who actually sent me a tweet. I ain't seen the CBC out here talking about this voting deal. I'm like, dumbass.

I literally had two this week. Yeah, I think people are not really paying attention. And so those who would make that claim, who would say, oh, what is the CBC doing for the black community? I think that question should be posed back on them. What are you doing for the black community? And fundamentally, you know, speaking, I think the public, for the most part, doesn't really understand the foundational concepts of how bills are even passed. And so you really have to understand politics also, that the CBC is up against politics. They're politicians. They have to play the game. They have to make nice with maybe people who don't have the Black community's best interest

in mind. And they have to get that support one way or another, they're playing the game. And so in order to fully understand what all goes into that, you have to understand the game. And so I would encourage the people who have the audacity to make those types of claims. I would encourage them to research and educate themselves on the political process. The last thing I'll add to that, you mentioned Ilhan Omar, who is in Minnesota. And we saw the moment that Trump went into office, that woman had a target on her back. Hold on. Ilhan Omar, a member of the CBC? Yeah.

A target on her back. And can you imagine what it's like also to not only have to do your job, do your job while black, do your job while everybody's against you, but then do it while you're facing death threats and while the president of the United States is calling you out explicitly on Twitter. You know, you have to also think that the same things that we're faced in our workplaces, it's amplified for our politicians. And so the last thing that we need to be doing is trying to call them out. We need to be, if we're, if we feel like they're not doing enough, we need to call them and ask them how we can support them in doing more. And let me real clear. Again, I'm sorry. Wow. Congressman David Scott votes to pass enhanced consumer protections from predatory debt collections. But Georgia made a very important point, Roland.

I mean, if you don't have the numbers, you can't pass the legislation. And so, you know, Mondaire Jones might not have the numbers to get the 40 People Act passed, but Joe Manchin had to fight him, because these young cats that come in, he done called Joe Manchin everything but a child of God. He didn't question his whole human existence. In other words, he's doing what he can do until we, to George's point, do our part. You got to get to the ballot box. And, yeah, and I misspoke a minute ago.

Ocasio-Cortez, people from Puerto Rico, not Dominican. But, you know, like Malcolm X said, you get mad when you want me to call you Negro, you want me to call you Black. So it's okay for me to call you Negro in Spanish but not English. Black people who speak Spanish, who got black blood in them, y'all don't get mad because if her name was Chelsea Jones from New York, wouldn't nobody be saying she was white because she speaks Spanish. You should probably go look at the history of Puerto Rico and America. I'm just going to give one more. Representatives Beatty Williams introduced new diversity data disclosure bill. Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, introduced new diversity data disclosure bill. Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus,

also chair of the House Financial Services Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, and Congresswoman Nakima Williams, they joined forces to introduce the Diversity and Inclusion Data Accountability and Transparency Act, which will require regulated financial firms with more than 100 employees to disclose diversity data, enhancing transparency, accountability, and creating a more inclusive economy for all Americans. What that means is, show us your data and what black folks you're hiring. Now, but see, but see, Recy,

but the fool watching, no, no, no, but it needs to be black specific. Y'all, that, Recy, go ahead. First of all, the Supreme Court has done away with that. When it comes to federal appropriations or anything federal, you can forget about this big pot of gold with a leprechaun at the end of it, a black little leprechaun that says money for black people and only black people.

Okay? Forget about it. Now, now, now, there are, now, let's be real clear. There are federal grants that are targeted to communities, which means that, yes, like for instance, people are like, oh, what ahead is $50 million? And we're going to Asians for domestic violence. Yes, and there are federal grants that are specific to different groups. But the point is when you're passing a bill, you can't pass a bill,

a this is for Latinos only bill, Asians only, black only. And for all y'all folks who get, go ahead, just go ahead. Yeah, I mean, listen, there are ways that money is targeted and directed towards black communities, black people, black organizations, et cetera, et cetera. It's absurd for people to think that there's no way that black people and only black people get money. Okay, so here's the thing. Dr. Carr said it best. Read is a dirty word right now.

We've gone from the point to where it's not even just that people only read a caption or people only read 280 characters. People only read one damn sentence. People only read a headline. And unfortunately, with the CBC and politicians who are actually trying to do good are competing with is the meme culture,

is the dumbed down culture, where if it doesn't hit the shade room, if it doesn't hit baller alert, or if it doesn't hit their gossip blog, if it doesn't hit their particular feed, which it won't hit because the algorithms don't put it in your feed because you're not interacting with information. You're interacting with entertainment. You're interacting with things to get an emotional response out of you that you take and run with it. You're all of a sudden an expert. You're interacting with entertainment. You're interacting with things to get an emotional response out of you that you take and run with it. You're all of a sudden an expert. You're an expert on the COVID-19 vaccine. You're an expert on reparations.

You're an expert on whatever the situation may be, all from memes and headlines. And you react to it instead of informing yourself. And informing yourself, by the way, is not going on YouTube and typing in your opinion and finding a bunch of assholes who are just going to regurgitate your opinion to you and make you feel smarter because you're not smarter. You're actually dumber because of it. And so to your point, Roland,

the CPC has to realize the environment that we're in and get better on messaging. Roland has the emails that show the accomplishments. Anybody can go to congress.gov. You can go to these particular congresspeople and look up on their website. I'm sure they have press releases every single day. You can follow them on Twitter,

but you have to bring the information to the people because the people that are bringing the bullshit are outworking you. They're getting to the people before you get to get to them. The people who have the anti-vaccine information, all the disinformation, they're getting to the people and you're not. And that's the problem. And it actually harms us all. But like I said, I just want to be clear. If people talk about the COVID-19, the COVID Anti-Hate Crimes Act, there is zero dollars

specifically appropriated in that. I read through the bill on congress.gov. I just saw a tweet the other day from the Secretary of Interior that had millions of dollars in black organizations, whether it's for museums, whether it's for different organizations, millions of dollars. There's more money in that tweet for black people than what was in the hate crime bill for anybody. But the problem is that tweet that I saw is not hitting your timeline. That tweet that I saw is not getting in the memes that's making it on all these entertainment sites where people say, you got any... I saw somebody tag me in some bullshit today

where it was an Eidos meme that had the signing of the hate crime bill. And then it had Miss Seley, got anything for me? This is how stupid we're becoming as a people where we can't even process anything that's not in a meme anymore. We can't seek the information out and speak from a position of strength and authority

rather than a position of being fake mad about everything. Because if you were really that mad about it, you would inform yourself about what's being done so that you can ask these people to step it up in the ways that things aren't being done. But you aren't doing that. You're just reacting to memes and I'm really, really

sick of it. But the CBC has to get better. And I asked Congressman Joyce Beatty about this. What are you guys going to do to compete with this meme culture? And they still are not there yet. Same here, Reesey. Same here.

For somebody like Congressman Underwood, who is exceptional, who was in it, who had a very, very tight race in 2020, I need them to get their messaging together so that we can continue to grow the ranks of the CBC and Black people who are going to be the conscience of the Congress.

I've been saying the same thing. In fact, we talk about these stuck-on stupid people. I got a stuck-on stupid fool named Kerry Ivory on YouTube. They always introducing shit, but nothing passes. Really, Kerry? Pull this up, please. This is

called Text of Bills for the week of June 14th, 2021. Right here. Every single week. So here's the question, Carrie. Do you, are you even aware of this website? Are you aware? And I'm just going to type and see. I see. I make it real easy for you, Carrie. This is what I typed in. Bill bills passed this week by the U.S. House. Boom. What's the first one that came up? Bills this week. Docs dot house dot gov. Hmm. How about this here? The number two, action on legislation at congress.gov. Let's click that. Huh.

Look at this here. These are all the actions taken by Congress. May. April. Hmm. March. March. February. January.

Totals by session, Kerry, this is for the people who don't understand how Congress works. Let me blow this up for you right here so you can get it. In the first session, 4,000, you know what? Let me just zoom in some more, okay, for the folk who really, let me just zoom in a little bit more because I really want people at home to see this. 4,344 bills and resolutions were introduced in the House. 205 were passed. 2,285 were introduced in the Senate. 183 were passed. Folks, what you don't understand,

you got to get 218 votes to get something passed. And so excuse me for this very basic and rudimentary civics lesson for the folk who don't know, who all they do is run their mouths and they are clueless. You need to understand. I really believe we praise the Lord for schoolhouse rock growing up. I really appreciated the cartoons on Saturday that taught us how government works. Because folk just run their mouths.

And I know all the fake YouTube historians are going to be running their mouths this weekend doing videos, Dog and me, Reesey, Georgia, and Greg, saying, there y'all go, oh, oh, oh, Boulay, Boulay, Illuminati, Roland Martin,

sitting here defending the CBC. I can hear all y'all running your little dumbass mouths. Oh, defended his white Democrat masters. No, fool. It's called understanding basic civics.

And that's what it is. Now, I am not of the opinion that we do not push the CBC. Oh, y'all can ask them. I push them. But what I'm not going to do is

run my mouth and then say, man, the CBC, they don't do nothing. I don't know what they're doing for us. I ain't seen them do nothing. Because your ass eyes are shut with a pair of shades on. That's why.

Just understand what actually happens. Can I add one more thing? Yeah, go ahead. I just want to say, you also have to look at the amendments that pass. Not everything passes as a bill as it's introduced. Sometimes they have to have an amendment. Hold on, hold on, hold on.

I want you to slow that down. Okay. For all of the people watching who whine and complain, Okay. Because, see, for all of the people watching who whine and complain, who rode a different bus to school... Oh, no. Let me walk y'all through this.

What Recy just said is that when a bill is introduced, you as a member can attach an amendment to the bill right now your name isn't you want the is as a member, you can change the language in the bill. You can have a word inserted or removed. You can have a line inserted. A line item inserted. You are not going to see that flashed on the New York

Times Square billboard. It's not going to be on the Jumbotron. That's literally how it works. And see, for all y'all really, really just clueless dumb people, please, by all means, go watch the movie Charlie Wilson's War. Go watch Charlie Wilson's War.

A man who they call an undistinguished, booze-lo loving congressman from texas who happened to get billions of dollars funded for for the folks in afghanistan to fight the russians somebody who they were like how and I remember there was a line, Philip Seymour Hoffman said, how can a nobody congressman from Texas get all this done? He said, because

I, people owe me favors. Y'all, nobody knew what the hell Charlie Wilson was doing, but billions of dollars went towards the equipment to fund the war. But I'm sorry, he white. He not in the CBC. So y'all probably would praise him for work he did.

I'm just saying that's what happens when you got people who are just clueless and they don't get it, but all they want to do is whine and complain. Speaking of what you got to deal with with these white nationalists in Congress today, the black Pentagon secretary, first one in history, retired General Lloyd Austin, four stars, testified before Congress.

Then you had, then you had Lloyd. You got white nationalists from Arkansas. Tom Cotton, man who despises diversity, loves showing his whiteness. Listen to this round of questioning, y'all. We're going to talk about it on the back end.

Mr. Secretary, I have received, along with Congressman Crenshaw, several hundred whistleblower complaints about Pentagon extremist and diversity training. I want to share just a small selection of what your own troops are saying. And, Mr. Chairman, I have a longer list that I'd like to submit for the record. Without objection. Again, this is just a few examples. One Marine told us that a military history training session was replaced with mandatory training on police brutality, white privilege, and systemic racism. He reported that

several officers are now leaving his unit, citing that training. Another service member told us that their unit was required to read White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo, which claims, and this is a quote, white people raised in Western society are conditioned into a white supremacist worldview. A member of the special operations community has told us that they are being instructed that, quote, the U.S. special operations community is racist. One Army officer relayed to us the words of his general officer who told him that the entire U.S. Army is racist. A midshipman at the Naval Academy said classmates are calling America a fundamentally racist place and that this sentiment is not contested by school

administrators. An airman told us their unit was forced into a racist exercise called a privilege walk where members of the wing were ordered to separate themselves by race and gender in order to stratify people based on their perceived privilege. One African American officer disparagingly said, and I quote, the Navy thinks my only value is as a black woman and not the fact that she is a highly trained military specialist. Soldiers have come forward to tell us they are being forced to watch videos about systemic

racism and documentaries that rewrite America's history as a fundamentally racist and evil nation. One Space Force officer told me that two Guardians left his ranks in a short period of time. One was a young African American who said that after the training, she would never have joined the military had she known that it was such a hotbed of racism. The other was a white airman who said he didn't sign up to be indoctrinated and filed separation paperwork. Mr. Secretary, we're hearing reports of plummeting morale, growing mistrust between the races and sexes where none existed just six months ago, and unexpected retirements and separations based on these trainings

alone. And again, these are not my words. These are the words of your own troops. So I want to ask a few simple but vital questions. Mr. Secretary, do you believe that our military is a fundamentally racist organization? Yes or no, please. Well, I won't give you a yes or no answer on that, Senator, because it deserves more than a yes or no. The military, like any organization, will have its challenges, but I do not believe it is a fundamentally racist organization. Thank you. I'm sorry to cut you off, but our time is limited. I think it is a pretty simple question. I'm glad that you agree it is not fundamentally racist. Do you believe that any member of the military should be treated differently based on their skin color and sex? Again, yes or no will do.

Again, this question deserves more than a yes or no answer. It is... Mr. Secretary, I'm sorry to cut you off. Our time is limited. It is a very simple question. Should a member of the organization you lead be treated differently, in violation of the Constitution I would add, based on their sex or the color of their skin no I do not believe that and that is that that is okay why we have diversity equity and inclusion focus in the military it's in the military for decades has been one of the institutions in the society where you are most likely to get ahead based on your own performance on your own merit irrespective of the color of

your skin or where you came from or who your parents were. Senator, I absolutely agree with that, and I am an example of that. Your distinguished career is an outstanding example. Mr. Secretary, your career is an excellent example of that, but I have more questions based on the reports we've seen. The military has included the works of critical race theories on its reading list by authors like Abraham Henry Rogers, who now calls himself Abraham Kendi, and Robin DiAngelo. Mr. Kendi has written, quote, the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination, end quote. Do you agree with that proposition?

I've not read that, and I don't, you know, I certainly don't agree with what you just said. But I, you know, it's always important to have a full context of anything that you're being asked to evaluate. Mr. Secretary, do you believe that race and sex should be the key factor when selecting combat leaders rather than say operational excellence, technical proficiency, leadership, agility, and integrity? I do not, Senator. I think what you just said should be key components in making any selection. Thank you. I'm glad we agree on all this. So let me just wrap up by saying this. If troops are subjected to the kinds of trainings drawing on critical race concepts like America and our military is inherently racist, or certain races are inherently privileged, other races are inherently victimized, given what you've said,

should they report it up their chain of command or to the inspector general or to other appropriate channels? They've always had, yes, they should. They've always had that ability to do that, and I would recommend that in the future. I would also say that diversity, equity, and inclusion is important to this military now, and it will be important in the future. And so we're going to make sure that our military looks like America, and that our leadership looks like what's in the ranks of the military. And I appreciate your support on that. And I agree with that. Like I said, the military has always been one of the most diverse institutions in our society where you can get ahead irrespective of the color of your skin or who your parents are or where you came from. And I'm glad that we agree on that.

This is not about diversity in general, though. This is about a very specific kind of anti-American indoctrination that is seeping into some parts of our military based on the whistleblower complaints we have received. Thank you. My time's expired. Now, after that, after that took place, here was Senator Tim Kaine, who allowed the defense secretary to actually answer the question. Now listen to this. Explain the context. Senator Cotton asked you a question about your own career, and you indicated that your career is an indication that the military can be welcoming to all kinds of people.

But you were then going to explain the context of what your own personal experience has shown you during your time in the military about why we need to take seriously these issues of diversity and inclusion. The senator had other questions, but I'd like to hear how you were going a climate where everyone, first of all, we should be welcoming to everyone who can qualify and who is fit to serve and who can maintain the standards. And secondly, we ought to look like the America that we support and defend. And our senior leadership should look like what's in the ranks. And where we've done a great job in recruiting very highly qualified and capable people, I think we need to do a bit better in terms of making sure that we're absolutely inclusive

and making sure that we create pathways or pathways are available for everybody that's in the ranks to achieve, you know, to realize their full potential. And so that's what that diversity, equity, inclusion is all about. It's about cohesion. It's about making sure that we remain the most effective and lethal fighting force in the world. And we have been in the past and we will be in the future. And when we've moved toward diversity the military it's always made us stronger when President Truman integrated the military. It was not uniformly popular. In fact I believe a Secretary of the Army ended up resigning after refusing to desegregate units

about a year after the order. But moves like that, where the military has often led society in building cohesion, the military does it well. They're not always immediately popular, but they end up paying dividends not just for the military, but for American society. It has to be done sensitively, carefully, by people who understand it. But I applaud you and other leaders who are trying to do that. See, Georgia, this is why these things matter. You got white nationalist Tom Cotton, who hates diversity, who is all about whiteness, wants to be in denial, and then they love holding up the magical Negro. Well, look at you.

And what you heard, Secretary Austin say, yeah, we're doing a good job recruiting black folks and Latinos, but when they go up that chain, how many blacks have become four-star generals and three-star generals and two-star and one-star generals? See, they don't want to deal

with that, okay? And the cotton doesn't want to deal with that, okay? And the cotton doesn't want to deal with the military times and the other media outlets that have reported. The Associated Press just a week ago did a detailed report on discrimination in the armed services. It makes a world of a difference when you have context, when you allow someone to articulate themselves instead of pigeonholing them into a yes or no response. And so to him, you know, I'd like to ask a yes or no question. Did Christopher Columbus discover America?

Did white corporations own slaves that are still in existence today? And so I would like to ask some very clear yes or no questions to give him the context that is required to make an informed decision when you're talking about the men and women who are putting their lives on the line for our country. You have to take more care and compassion when you're talking about those who are bravely leaving their families to stand for all of us to have the security that we've maintained here in America for so long. And so I think it is embarrassing and it is a shame to see that type of ignorance used to try to make decisions that will affect our military. And so, you know, I think that this is also a great example of what

Black people who are in elected positions are up against. They're up against this rhetoric. They're up against the white supremacy. And think about how rude and disrespectful, yes or no, yes or no. And think now, if the response would have been anger or talking over, then now all of a sudden you're an angry black man, you're an angry black woman, you know? And so I think that this was a great example, Roland, to point to, and even to add to the conversation we were having before about the CBC. This is what our elected officials of color are up against when they're in there, they're on the floor, and they're advocating for things that would make our society, our nation, more equitable?

I guess, Recy, Cotton didn't come across this story. Dated May 27, 2021. Deep-rooted racism, discrimination permeate U.S. military. That's why they got to take those damn classes. Because, see, I bet you of those so-called 700 whistleblowers, most of them are white boys who do not like having to be confronted with their bigotry and with this black Pentagon chief saying, we throwing you extremists out of the U.S. armed services. Exactly. I mean, Tom Cotton was detailing that deep-seated racism.

If learning about the actual history, not this proper... They call it, what, anti-American history? That's American history. If it's not pretty, that's because American history is not pretty. If that's enough to make you withdraw from the Army, you didn't have no damn business being in in the first place. But it's really interesting how when white people like Tom Cotton, white nationalists like Tom Cotton talk about irrespective of race or gender, they're full of shit. Because most of the white people got there as a result of race and gender. Okay, so their whole default, when he's prodding Secretary Austin to talk about

irrespective of race, irrespective of gender, what he's saying is those positions should go to white people. That's what he's saying. He's saying that when they go to black people, it's because of their race or it's because of their gender. And that is the problem. That is the epitome of white supremacy.

When the white is right, white default measurement is used for what involves merit. There is deep-seated racism within the military. Secretary Austin is the first Black Secretary of Defense. And we know how diverse the Army is. And so why is it taking this long to get a Black person who is the head, you know,

the Secretary of Defense of this country? And I love that whole deal, Reese. He's like, well, you know, of all, the U.S. military has been, you know, an opportunity to get a fair shot. Yeah. Do you act like they've been perfect? No.

And I remember being in high school, the military coming to our classroom saying, look around, look to your left, look to your right. Some of y'all ain't gonna make it through college. They were discouraging people from going to college when I was in the 11th grade. So yeah, when you sit up there and you

try to indoctrinate black and brown kids into believing that they don't have a future through education or through a career, they only have a future in signing up for the military, you're going to do pretty well on your recruitment. But how do they ascend to the different levels within the military? That is what the measurement is. And unfortunately, what the white nationalists are measuring is there's too many of you black people making it ahead and we want to keep the status quo. Well, that is done. And I'm glad that Secretary Austin refused to just give yes or no answers. And he was important to add that context. Context is something that is always lacking in all of our political discourse this day. I guess also, Greg, he missed this story from February 25th, 2021.

Pentagon report warns of threat from white supremacists inside the military. A small number of extremists within the ranks carry the potential to carry out, quote, high impact actions. The report says. Senator Tom Cotton, he didn't quote from that report. Well, I mean, Tom Cotton is not stupid. There's a substantive issue. That's what we're discussing, the range, the complexity of them. And then there's the political issue.

In terms of foreign policy and the military, use of the military, I suspect that General Austin and Senator Gilligan, I mean, Tom Cotton, probably are closer in agreement. For Tim Kaine to evoke Harry Truman, a Klan adjacent, inward spewing racist who used the atomic bomb twice, only time two times in human history, and used it against the Japanese as a stalwart of integration when he reluctantly integrated, read the report 1957, to secure these rights. You know, this guy's a segregationist growing up in Missouri. But anyway, that's another story. We don't confuse the push for diversity, equity, inclusion in the military, which is part of the settler colonial project. I mean,

it's nothing in the Richard Pryor's, would you want them mad at us too? I mean, you know, a lot of times Black people join the military to escape a certain political economic condition. It ain't like we love this country so much. But but that's a different story. What what we see there with Tom Cotton is positioning for 2024. You know, so, you know, when he evokes Ibram Kendi, my friend Ibram Kendi, who we call by his government name, which, by the way, is fighting words where I'm from. When you start using your government name, somebody change their name to an African name. But we know how that would end, as my man Black Thought in Philly would say, first thing to fall is cats with no chin. So I suppose Tom Cotton would go very quickly in the Chin Check Club, along with his friend Ted Cruz and that junior senator from Kentucky.

Maybe they can borrow some chin from young Josh Hollis, who got all their chins. But anyway, the point is that he's positioning himself for 2024. This racist who last year, when he was attacking the New York Times, said slavery was a necessary evil. The one that

the union was built. This year, who tweeted out that we have an under-incarceration problem, meaning locking up people like you, me, George, and Recy, and who just said a month before last, when, last month, actually, when the anniversary of George Floyd's murder

came, that that tweet that came from the White House could have come from the Communist Party of China. Tom Cotton is not engaged. He don't care nothing about no facts. This man is trying to, he's auditioning for the role of not only lead white nationalist, they're all lining up to see if Trump collapses, whether they can be the

Republican nominee. He's not just a white nationalist. He's a white supremacist. And if you start matching up jeans, bruh, I don't know that you with that screech from Saved by the Bell chin and that flop sweat usually beneath your nose and above your... I don't know that you should be...

He's auditioning for the Hillbilly vote for 2024. That's all right. Tom Land of Cotton. And then you got folks like Florida Rep Mike Waltz who wrote a letter to West Point Military Academy's superintendent, who's black, demanding the schools cease teaching critical race theory immediately. Waltz reasons that the cadets are not, quote, activists and some will go on to hold powerful positions running the country. Hey, dumbass, that's why.

Walt said he has some parents complaining after they heard about some lectures called Understanding Whiteness and White Rage in a classroom slide labeled White power at West Point. Player, there has been racism at West Point and the black folks have been talking about it. I keep telling these folk, these white folks cannot handle what's going on. Going to a break, we come back. Hakeem Jeffries even questions the FBI director about using the phrase violent white terrorist. Also, McDonald's wins a round in the court with black franchisees who sued them. We'll break all of that down next right here on Roland Martin Unfiltered. When you study the music, you get black history by default. And so no, no other craft could carry as many words as rap music. I try to intertwine that and make that create whatever I'm supposed to send out to the universe.

¶¶ A rapper, you know, for the longest period of time, has gone through phases. I love the word. I hate what it's become, you know, to this generation, the way they visualize it. Its narrative kind of, like, has gotten away and spun away from, you know, to this generation, the way they visualize it. Its narrative kind of like has gotten away and spun away from, I guess, the ascension of black people. Black women have always been essential.

So now how are you going to pay us like that? And it's not just the salary. I mean, there are a whole number of issues that have to support us as women. Yeah, but that's what we deserve. We shouldn't have to beg anybody for that. I think that we are trying to do our best as a generation to honor the fact that we didn't come here alone

and we didn't come here by accident. I always say every generation has to define for itself what it means to move the needle forward. Black TV does matter, dang it. Hey, what's up, y'all? It's your boy, Jacob Lattimore. And you're now watching Roland Martin right now. Yee!

Folks, again, what we're dealing with is country white supremacy in so many different areas, but the nation doesn't really want to deal with those issues. Congressman Hakeem Jeffries had an opportunity to ask FBI Director Christopher Wray specifically about this issue with

these violent white domestic terrorists. Watch this. Why is the FBI generally reluctant to use the term violent white supremacy? I don't, I mean,

I think we use the term racially motivated violent extremism partly because we're trying to make clear to our people and everyone who's involved that our focus, that doesn't mean everybody else's focus, but our focus is on the violence. And so part of the reason we changed some of our nomenclature was to make especially

sure that what's important to us, and it gets back to this idea that we have one standard, it doesn't matter what your motivation is or how abhorrent or despicable your motivation is, what we have to be focused on is the violence. I understand that the violence is largely being driven by white supremacy as an ideology. If you don't name the problem and claim the problem, it seems to me that it's hard to tame the problem that's why I'm raising this particular issue in terms of domestic terrorism I think you've testified in the past that this is a growing problem that we've experienced in America correct domestic terrorism absolutely that's correct yes and I would argue that it is actually a problem that has been with us for centuries.

We know that the KKK was founded in 1865. That's a terrorist organization. We know that the lynchings that took place in the 1800s and the 1900s were acts of domestic terror. The murder, the brutal killing of Emmett Till in 1955, that was an act of domestic terror. The bombings of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which took place in 1963, that was an act of domestic terror, killing four beautiful black little girls. This most recent January 6th instance, the attack on the Capitol that resulted in death and mayhem was an act of domestic terror, and the through line through all of those instances is white supremacy. I hope that the FBI

will use all of its resources to tackle this persistent problem, I yield back. That's what you do. And that's what happens, Greg, when you have black caucus members trying to push the issue. As he said, you got to name it. You got to name it and call it what it is. You can't say, oh, it's terrorism. No, no, no. It's white domestic terrorism, because trust me, if it was Muslims, they would be saying Muslims

all damn day and demanding every Muslim leader in America denounce it. Well, if they choose to stand electoral politics and the demographics keep changing, I look forward to the day when Senator Turner or Senator Bush out of Missouri, or I guess they could do it on the House side now, push it a little farther than our friend

and brother Hakeem Jeffries to remind us that state terror looks like the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which began with the racial conditions persecution of Marcus Garvey in attempts to destroy A. Philip Randolph and everybody else, and continued right on up through the counterintelligence program. But I know he's got to get right up to that line because Hakeem also has presidential aspirations. That having been said, the challenge we have is the same challenge as a through line, to talk about through lines. It's a through line between the FBI and the domestic area, the CIA internationally, and the military globally, which is white nationalism is not an outlying thing that's invading these

institutions. It is the core of the way they were constructed. Now, I will agree with Senator Tom Land of Cotton on that regard when he attacks the 1619 Project by saying slavery was a necessary evil. That's how white nationalism views us. Our whole job is to try to fit into a structure and when you've got outliers, that's when they will say,

oh, well maybe we should talk about these people. This is the bad apple theory. It's not a bad apple, it's a bad tree. Now, I don't know how we root it out. And Hakeem probably went as close as you can get without, you know, getting a heart transplant from the aforementioned Congresswoman Bush or perhaps the new to be Congresswoman Turner. But, you know, for where he is, I guess that was pretty good. I give him a C. Racy? Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, white nationalism,

white domestic extremist terrorism, all the stuff you want to call it, is a break the glass in case of emergency for white nationalism. And that is the government working as designed. That's why Joe Manchin is against the For the People Act when he was an original co-sponsor of it. That's why he won't weaken the filibuster, have any reforms for it, even though previously he was for some small

reforms. That's why Tom Cotton doesn't want the military learning about the true history of this nation. That's why Christopher Wray, who was appointed by Donald Trump, is going to call it racial terror. I remember when the Republicans were on President Obama's ass all day, every day, you need to call it radical Islamic terrorism, radical Islamic terrorism. He didn't, he could call it anything else he called it was not good enough. It had to specifically be radical Islamic terrorism. But when it comes to white domestic terrorism, white supremacist terrorism, they don't want to call a thing a thing. Because at the end of the day, that's what they're going to fall back on as the demographics continue to change.

The January 6th insurrection was an insurrection for a democracy that is inclusive of all of us. Even though our votes are suppressed and they did everything they can to try to stop us from voting, it's about as inclusive as it's going to get short of any kind of reforms the Democrats are able to ram through. But the reason why they're not that mad at it is because it's a break glass in case of emergency. Trump wasn't the emergency for them. But we have to be on the lookout for when they feel that emergency is coming. It could be in the next decade or two decades, but it's coming. And that's why they're not going to root it out. And that's why you got to have members of Congress continue to put the pressure on them to call it what it is, Georgia. And so for those of you who

say this is no big deal, it is because when you call it what it is, then you can direct resources to it and you can't allow the game being played. The FBI, hell, has announced they've already made 500 arrests tied to the January 6th insurrection. You've got to call that thing what it is. That was white domestic terrorists attacking the United States. Absolutely, Roland. And every decade, I feel like the language, it morphs into something different. And so what used to be KKK is now what? Make America Great Again or now Save America, white supremacy, white nationalism, whatever you want to call it. It's fundamentally the same thing. It's fueled by the same principles and the same values. And you could say the same thing about the other side. When you look back at the civil rights era, affirmative action and different components that were pushed back then to really combat and resist white nationalism.

Right. And so now, yeah, we have diversity, equity, inclusion. Every decade, every every turn, we have new iterations. But fundamentally, it's the same principles. And so I believe that we are at a turning point in our nation where people who believe in white privilege, people who believe in white supremacy, whose identity is founded on that, whose political campaign was powered and funded by others who have those same fundamental beliefs,

they are threatened. And most of them, we're seeing them act out in fear by others who have those same fundamental beliefs, they are threatened. And most of them, we're seeing them act out in fear that when Black and other minority groups get a seat at the table, when we really start calling these things what they are, when we really get to the root of it and we're able to root it out, what are they left with?

What are they left with in 20 years when the tables turn and the quote unquote minorities of this nation are the majority? What are they left with? Because they won't have white privilege. They won't have supremacy. They won't be above on any level in any industry. And so I think that what we're seeing is them really try to, you know, fight against the tables turning. And there's really, in the next few years, nothing much that they can do about it. Absolutely. Folks, let's go to Virginia, where the governor, Ralph Northam, teamed up with Meek Neal to sign House Bill 2038. This deals with the issue of reform.

This is what he said in a news conference about this bill. Check this out. We have taken important steps forward to reform our criminal justice system. We've raised the felony larceny threshold and ended the practice of suspending people's driver's license for unpaid fines and fees or for non-driving related offenses. We have ended the use of the death penalty here in Virginia and in just a few weeks, marijuana possession for adults will no longer be illegal in our commonwealth. We have done these things because our criminal justice system has been inequitable for far too long. Too many crimes bring lengthy sentences that outweigh the severity of the offense and

that has resulted in far too many people particularly too many people of color in our prisons and jails. While none of these policies will end the problems of mass incarceration on their own, every step forward matters. And the step we're celebrating today is indeed a very important one. Too many people are in prison not because of the original crime they committed, but because once they were out on probation,

they did something that caused the court to revoke their probation and send them back to prison. According to a 2019 report from the Council of State Governments, a quarter, a quarter of state prison admissions nationwide are for technical violations of probation or parole. Now let's go to Michigan, folks, where a six-year-old boy is recovering at home after being threatened with a sledgehammer and then shot as he retrieved his bike from his neighbor's front yard. Watch this. Tchau. I'm

I'm I'm I'm Andrew! Kobe got shot! Call the police! What are you doing? Why wasn't I playing my game? The child's father, Arnold Daniels, says his kids were outside on their bikes when they stopped and left one of them in front of Ryan LeWin's home. When Kobe went back to get his bike, LeWin came out with a sledgehammer in his

hand and said something to the child. After that, Lewin went into his home and shot a gun through the front window, hitting Kobe in the arm. Luckily, the bullet went through the child's arm. Doctors told Daniel that had the bullet been an inch in either direction, it likely would have killed Kobe. LeWin was arrested and charged with assault with intent to murder. He was released on a $10,000 bond. And the emergency motion has been filed to raise the bond. No shit, Reesey. I said, listen, I know some people don't agree

with capital punishment. Give this motherfucker the electric chair, okay? What kind of sicko do you have to be to shoot a six-year-old over a bike in your yard? Fry his ass up, no trial, straight to the electric chair. And they bring him back to shooting. What are they doing? They're shooting the fire squad in South Carolina. Extradite his ass to South Carolina

and sit him on a fire squad. That is the only just result. I know the little boy survived. Thank Jesus for that. But he, I don't have any problems with the fire squad on his ass. $10,000, Georgia? Dude almost killed a child.

Yeah, as a mother, it breaks my heart. I have three children, and I can't imagine how it would feel to learn that my children were out riding their bike and were shot. And the thing that really frustrates me with this case, well, I mean, there's layers, but you have Ryan, who is an Asian man. Let's address the anti-blackness that exists in other minority groups. Let's address the fact that while everybody wants to lump us together and call us BIPOC and Kumbaya, all of this solidarity, which is great, before that can really be authentic, we have to address the anti-blackness that exists in other groups. groups that there are there are some people Asian indigenous Hispanic who have the same white supremacist ideology and and those stereotypes so deeply ingrained in them that they won't hesitate to shoot a little boy right and then when you look at the judicial system that allows this man to get out on a ten thousand dollar bond, it's very, very clear how America values black life.

Or should I just be frank, how America does not value black life? That's right. Georgia said it. I mean, and by articulating that way and joining those two things together, it's very compelling. The two things being the idea of anti-Blackness. Everyone looks at Black life as not human life. There are no humans involved. I wasn't shooting a human being. I was shooting at a little threat. And then the field of violence that is the United States of America, Senator Gilligan. In other words, this country is born in settler violence. And the only way you check that instinct is a fundamental restructuring.

So what you're seeing is someone who has been indoctrinated in a culture of anti-Blackness who has been empowered by a culture of violence to act out that anti-Blackness. In other words, in fact, the tragedy is this isn't an outlier story. Of course he got bailed. You didn't shoot at a human being. And it's gonna happen tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. And one day we're gonna remember what we did

up until fairly recently, the last maybe 50 years or so, which is shoot back, baby. And then at that point, when you call the police, they're going to have decisions to make. This doesn't end well for anybody in this country because people are only going to take getting shot at so much before they start shooting back. And that's when you're going to find out how the people in the damn police force hate the other half. Don't call. In other words, this deteriorates. This is the deterioration of the society we just saw in that attack on that child. Well, the outcry was tremendous. And as a result, a few hours ago, Ryan Lewin is back in custody.

He was picked up. Go to my computer, please. He was picked up after his bail was increased to $100,000 during a hearing on Thursday. And so, again, the video was captured on a Ring camera, but Luen is in prison as we speak as a result, again, of the live protests. He still has a bail number, though, right? Yeah, $100,000. Let us not forget Kyle Rittenhouse. Y'all better watch that GoFundMe.

Great point. Great point. Folks, in Minneapolis, activists are calling for an investigation into the lack of body camera footage in the fatal shooting of a black man. Officers on a U.S. Marshals Service task force killed Winston Smith Jr. during an attempt to arrest him on a warrant for illegal possession of a firearm. During the arrest, Smith allegedly failed to comply with officers' commands and produced a handgun,

resulting in task force members firing upon the subject. Folks, in addition to the investigation, activist groups are also demanding the head of the United States Marshal for the District of Minnesota, Ramona Doman, be fired. The U.S. Marshal Service does not allow body cameras for officers on this task force. However, while deputy marshals do not yet wear body cameras, the Justice Department permits state, local, and tribal task force officers to wear them. The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office has now issued a body camera to one of the deputies involved in the shooting. Still, sheriff's officials were told it could not be used while the deputy worked on task force operations.

That's stupid to me. I'm sorry, Georgia. I keep saying to people over and over and over again, every law enforcement agency in America should be required to wear body cameras. I don't give a damn if your ass is a cop for the for the for the metro, for the school district, whether it's whether it's county, state, federal task force, everything you got a gun, you're going to apprehend somebody. There should be a body camera on every single one of those officers. That's right, Roland. And I'm in Minneapolis. And so, you know, when you look at this is 2021, it is recommended practices for transparency and accountability that officers are wearing their body cameras. And so to learn that U.S. Marshals, which are simply just officers who have been on the job for about five years,

who are deputized to work on this task force, right, that they're allowed then to not wear their body cameras. And so we've seen since this happened, three different counties withdraw their deputies from serving on the task force. We have not heard any statement from Ramona Doman. In fact, the activists and community leaders who have been organizing on police accountability even well before George Floyd went to Ramona's house. She had been escorted about maybe 20 minutes before by different feds. They came, they got her from her home. And it was a small group of people asking her for transparency, asking her to answer questions, asking her to address the public about what happened to Winston Smith, who was a father of three and a comedian. Now, the one thing I will say right before the show started, I was at a press conference right at the intersection where that parking ramp is where he was killed.

And the attorneys for the only witness made a statement today. They said that their client was in the car when Winston Smith was fatally shot, and she did not see a gun. She did not see Winston Smith, who they said had a gun. On top of that, what has made this case very, very complex, and I think part of the reason why we're not seeing this specific killing in national headlines as much as we did George Floyd and Daunte Wright is because the Star Tribune, which is a credible, one of the legacy outlets here, they made a statement saying in their initial article about this killing that Winston Smith was a murder suspect. And that narrative is so damaging. Obviously,

people were in their homes and even people in the Black community were wondering if Winston Smith was the man who was accused of killing babies in North Minneapolis. We've had three children shot, two of them killed by senseless gun violence. So a lot of people, when they heard that initial report, were like, well, maybe the cops are actually doing their jobs this time. But in fact, it was a lie. It was a lie that now white people in Minnesota, they have that in their mind. They're like, oh, the murder suspect? But he was not a murder suspect. And let's just say worst case scenario, he was. Well, what happened to Dylan Roof, who indeed was a murder suspect, who indeed had just killed nine people? Why is it that a white man who goes into a church while people

are praying, how is it that he can be escorted out alive? But here in the case of Winston Smith, you're saying he's a murder suspect, so he can't be apprehended. But so this case on so many different levels, you know, I think it really deserves more attention than it's been getting. And I think that people really need to examine the way that the U.S. Marshals operate because they're not operating under the same guidelines as local police departments and the county sheriff's offices. And so we need to take that same level of accountability and transparency that we have demanded from our local police departments and apply that on a federal level and ask ourselves why Ramona Doman, who was appointed by Trump, is still in her position. Absolutely. Great analysis there.

Folks, you know what time it is. I'm white. I got you, Carl. Illegally selling water without a permit. On my property. Whoa! I remember.

Give me your ID. I'm uncomfortable. Well, y'all, my goodness. At Mount Tabor in southeast Portland, a white woman thought it was a great idea to deface the statue commemorating York, an enslaved black member of the 1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition. For the second time in three months, the monument was vandalized. This time,

it was caught on video. Here is Jeanette. My date of birth is 9 1378. Part of the solution. Good job. First, not color race or sex. What's your name? My name is Jeanette Brody. I will pay for damages if you want me to. Fuck all of you. I've been prejudiced against black people and Hispanic people, and everybody has, I'm sure you've been prejudiced against people as well. I don't give a fuck. Do whatever the fuck you want.

Alright. There's love and unity, not the fucking, not to replace a white man with a fucking black man. That is not fucking unity. Yeah, you can go ahead and shake your head. I bought the white privilege book or whatever the fuck else you want for Unity Spiritual Center. I don't give a fuck. Which one of y'all want to go ahead and comment? Go ahead.

Hey, I'm just glad York getting some shine. The only time I've been to Portland, I asked them, take me to the campus of Lewis and Clark College so I can see the statue of York. There's a statue in Louisville. There's one in St. Louis. There's a couple on the campus of the University of Portland. York didn't just accompany William Clark and Roger Lewis. He was enslaved by William Clark. And as my man Frank X. Walker, who's at the University of Kentucky, has wrote a whole epic poem about him. And there's only a couple of books about him. One's called In Search of York. York was the cat

they were sending out in front of them. The Native Americans called him the big medicine. They said, we ain't never seen a human being like this. He got back to St. Louis and Clark wouldn't let him go. He had a wife in Louisville who they sold to Louisiana. And then eventually they say that he finally got out of enslavement and went back to Native America where he was living out there near where you are, Georgia, apparently as an older man. That's part of the legend. So what this white girl did, who's only speaking English because the settlers came across the damn land and York was with them, and now you speak in English in the great upper Pacific Northwest, the beautiful thing about it is what this woman inadvertently did might interject York into the imagination of some people to go back and see

why the hell is she so mad at you? Go read up on York. He's a fascinating brother, the big medicine, and you can't do nothing with him with a spray can either. They put the statue up, Georgia, in February after protesters toppled one of the white men. And clearly, Spray Paint Karen is just not too happy at all uh that the statue of the brother is up yeah let me just say i have never been so ashamed to be half white karen karenism is a pandemic in and of itself and And violence by white women is real. I mean, we have often painted white men out to be the ones that are perpetuating harm

in the black community. But white women are just as guilty. And, you know, it's just, for people to try and present themselves to be so educated and, you know, so correct and that they should be model citizens. You know, it has been a relief, actually, in some ways to see their true colors captured on camera. And it's absolutely terrifying to know that we can be out in community and be approached by women who have this much anger. And we have seen that same character.

We saw that character accuse a young black man of stealing her cell phone. We've seen that same Karen call the cops on a bird a black bird watcher you know and so it's like we continuously see this character uh reveal itself in every city in every state there is a karen uh and yeah i'll just say frankly though i do feel bad for um the karens out there who are good women because uh that lady right there she is making she's giving Karens a bad rep. Recy, I'm surprised we have not gotten her name, but I can't wait to her ass get fired. Well, she said, I dare you to arrest me, bitches. I am white.

I am upset. I'm going to deface this property. It is my right as a white woman who's upset. What were them symbols about then? What's the gender symbols got to do with anything? Go ahead and put the Nazi sign on that, girl. Just lean into it. That's what you are. You are a white supremacist. Go ahead and own it, girl.

What you drawing purple symbols for? What's that supposed to mean? Initially, I thought she was celebrating Prince. I didn't know what the hell the purple was about. You don't know what the hell the purple was about. That was just me. You don't know what the hell she was doing.

But the reason why it's funny to me is because they're so triggered. They're so triggered by what? By a statue of a black man? Oh, you know, they put a statue up of a black man,

God rest his soul, who is a slave. That's what we get. Right. We get slave statues. We get slave movies. And they put somebody up there who's doing something that's a threat to white people. What is she that mad about?

But she gave him her name and date of birth. He might have been trying to steal your identity, girl. He might have agreed with what you're talking about. But he said, let me go ahead and get this crazy white lady's identity, open up a little account, and go on ahead and date of birth. He might have been trying to steal your identity, girl. He might have agreed with what you're talking about, but he said, let me go ahead and get this crazy white lady's identity, open up a little account, and go on ahead and get my life. I mean, she's very dumb, very triggered, very upset for no reason. I guess we can add black slave statues to the list of white people not enjoying that or long weekends or cookies.

The list is just growing and growing and growing. I'm going to need y'all to get it together because that's why your life expectancy is going down as a race. Because you're too upset about little shit. You're too upset. Get it together, girl. But go ahead and locate her. And hey, all y'all out there who

could do something with her name and date of birth, go ahead and do something. I'm going to save my next crazy-ass white person for after my next interview. There are always some videos. Black folk, we do stuff a little different, y'all. We got a little bit more flavor. We put that Tony Chassere's Creole seasoning on it.

We don't have struggle chicken. So in North Carolina, some students were graduating, and the principal of the school, he decided to go showtime at the Apollo at the graduation. Check out Principal Marcus Goss of T. Wingate Andrews High School. And I hope you have all dreamed up And I wish you joy and happiness But above all this, I wish you love And I will always love you You, my red, red is you

I will always, I'll always love you. All right now, Principal Goss, George, just right now. Doc, how you doing? Doing well. Thank you so much for having me. That was, so when did you decide, was that impromptu? Did you plan that? What caused you to say, this is how I want to send off my students? Hey, so we have had like a tumultuous year and the kids have lost out on so much. And so I wanted to do something that I thought would be memorable and special for them.

So I actually let my valedictorian, Ms. Trinity Goss, she's the one who chose the song for graduation. So she gets the credit too. Now, do you often sing to your students or was that like a first time thing? Oh, no, sir. This is like a tradition for graduations. Like we typically sing a nice little song for them at most graduations or their senior awards programs or something like that. But we typically try to make sure that we give them a nice song to go out with. Have you been surprised at how quickly this thing has gone viral? Brother Martin, I'm a country boy from Supply North Carolina. Absolutely. This has been absolutely an amazing response and something that, again, I never really expected at all. How long you been singing? I mean, do you sing with the group? Do you sing in the church

choir or do you just on your own? just on your own well i've been singing since i was a little boy like i've been singing in church um probably since i was four or five years old like it's been something that i've done for most of my lifetime my family at one time uh come from a pretty large family my family at one time had a had a choir that i sang with as well um but no formal training. It's just, you know, when your mom and daddy tell you, go sing that song for the people. That's just kind of where I got my training from.

I got folks here on Facebook and YouTube. They're looking at the colors you're wearing, and they're saying, is he a North Carolina A&T graduate? They're trying to figure out the color scheme. Hey, absolutely. I'm an Aggie until I die. All right. Questions for my panels. Let me go to our HBCU professor, Dr. Greg Carr.

Greg, your question first. Thank you, Roland. And congratulations, Dr. Goss. You're finishing up at High Point, from what I understand, right? Absolutely. Just finished and graduated in May. So yes, I am done. Okay, Dr. Goss.

Look, man, my only question is you become the most famous High Point resident in music. I suppose, can you let the rest become the most famous High Point resident in music. I suppose, can you let the rest of the world know the only other musician we might know out of High Point, North Carolina, for the rest of us?

Let me tell you what. None other than the infamous Fantasia Barrino. And she's actually a graduate of T. Winger Andrews High School. Oh, brother. That's the school you're at, right? That's where I'm at. And how long have you been principal? I've been principal there for four

years. Got it. Now, you know who I was thinking about. I forgot about Fantasia. I'm thinking about John Coltrane, brother. That's exactly who you're talking about, but I had to get my T-Wing at Andrews Plung now. Yes, you did. Congratulations, Doc. That's beautiful, man.

Appreciate it, man. Thank y'all. Georgia? Well, first of all, thank you for sending off students that way. It was so beautiful to think about that song to students, you know, and it's so powerful to see you

use your position with them to send them off well. What is the importance of having black educators? I think that in some communities we don't have enough of them. Especially black male. How have you seen having black educators impact students? So I'll actually use my own child as an example. He has more or less had his first black male teacher this school year. And when I tell you that he's been able to check him real

quick, like in our own little special way. And so the school that I work, Andrews is a school that's predominantly black. And so the educators there know exactly. We have our own dialogue. We have our own communication, honestly, as a culture. And I think that it's important for them to be able to see us in other positions. And there's nothing wrong with people earning a living as custodians and classified employees. But I think it sends a very powerful message when they have black educators and teachers and administrators that are leading their schools. And so I stand behind that because I think that that's something that will be impactful for them forever. It allows them to be themselves.

Racy. Dr. Goss, I love that you're showing that educators and principals can be multifaceted. They don't have to be pigeonholed into these super serious roles. My question for you is, and we won't probably know this person, but is there another educator in your school, I think you said it was a tradition, right, that you think could give you a run for your money in a viral clip in terms of their singing voice that you like to duet with? And then you also said that the student chose a song for you. Is there another song that maybe if you got an encore,

you would do that song? Well, I will tell you, I'll answer your first one. There are a couple of really talented individuals that can probably sing me under the bus that work in my building. And so, yes, I'm definitely going to give them their shout outs. Like, I don't want any. I don't want no, I don't want any problems. But there are, there were a couple of other songs that we considered. One of them was

Love. And just simply What the World Needs Now was love, sweet love. And that song was one of the ones that we thought about. And then the other one was John Legend's rendition of Bridge Over Troubled Water. So I went back and forth with these songs, but again, the only way we decided was just to let our valedictorian pick the song and i i would probably do uh a bridge over troubled water or um uh what the world needs now is is love sweet love well since um you pick one of the three look you're have to sing one of them two right now. So like your

parents said, go on up there and sing that song, boy. So since you're going to sit here and say it was one of those two and you're going to pick one, I ain't even going to get to the other crazy ass white people story. We're going to end the show on this. I'm going to run that

tomorrow. So you're going to take us out with a song. Go on ahead. I'm going to run that tomorrow. So you're going to take us out with a song. Go on Ed. I got you. I got you. What the world needs now it's love sweet love it's the only thing

that there's just too little love what the world needs now it love, sweet love. It's the only thing that there's just too little love. All right, then. All right, then. You know, Greg, I think Doc could make the alpha coral.

Don't do that to me, man. That's an act of pride. He didn't let them down, boy. That was all right. That's a false seller, man. He ain't missing a note, boy. Well, great job. We certainly appreciate you bringing some joy to those students as well as the family there. And, of course, folks now all across the country have got an opportunity to relish in that.

See, now you put pressure on a whole bunch of other principals. Because, see, now they're like, what you going to do? You just going to give us a little speech? No, you got to do something. I've been getting those calls. I've been getting those calls like, bro, what you doing? You setting the bar too high. Well, look,

the bar needs to be set. We appreciate the work that you do. Thank you so very much. And it's definitely important to see black male educators in the classroom leading as principals. So, certainly, congratulations. I got lots of fans

down there in High Point, North Carolina. When we go down there, they always show out well. And, of course, my man Bob Brown. Of course, Bob Brown was Lieutenant Dr. King. He was the highest-ranking black person in Richard Nixon's administration. I did a one-on-one with Bob at North Carolina A&T when I spoke on campus there in January of last year. So, folks, y'all can go to YouTube, check it out. And so he also is a product of Highport, North Carolina.

I'm going to be sure to give Bob a call and have him talk to him in a few months. So, Dr. Goss, certainly appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Absolutely. Thank you all. All right, then. Folks, we're going we go into that way. Big thanks to my panel today, Georgia Reesey, as well as Dr. Greg Carr.

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And so y'all cracking me up. Y'all sending. Chelsea, step out here. Y'all sending me. I got those blankets over there for Reesey, so I got to send Reesey those blankets. Greg Carr, somebody sent me a shirt for you and a book. Pass me that bag right there. He blacked the show.

Hey, dawg, seriously. Folks sent me, so I got to find, I got the car. I think there's a sheet underneath there. Give me that book. So somebody sent me this bag right here. No, no, no, that multicolored. Somebody made this bag here for me. I'm going to read it in a second.

I think I'll give it here. That sheet right there, that sheet right there. And so then somebody, they know I like to read. So somebody said so somebody actually made this book bag here. Then they put a bookmark in it as well.

This was sent by... Hold on. They put their name on here. And so... Alphacena Barrett. Alphacena Barrett. Is that it? Yeah. Alphacena Barrett. She hasacena Barrett. Is that it? Yeah, Alphacena Barrett. She has a book.

She sent this to me. The faces of struggles such as cancer are on the journey to God's glory. So Alphacena sent me this. I told y'all, Phobie's sending me all kind of stuff. Next week I'm going to share with y'all, somebody sent me a whole Juneteenth kit. They sent me a whole Juneteenth kit. They sent me a whole Juneteenth kit. So Juneteenth is next week, so I'm going to show you all that. They're Texans, so is it authentic?

You from the birthplace. Look, and of course, and the late state representative Al Edwards, our frat brother, he is Mr. Juneteenth. I'm going to do it next week. I'm going to do it next week. I'm going to do it next week. So he was the one, of course, who got the bill passed, and so we always give him a shout-out. Texas is becoming the first state in the country to make Juneteenth a state holiday.

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And so you know what? I'm going to do this here. I wasn't going to do it. But I wasn't going to do it until I got the keys, until I got the keys. Well, I had an opportunity to get the keys. So lease is signed. We're in. All these things are happening. And so what I want to do is I'm trying to see wrong one.

I'm going to send it to this one right here. So give me a sec. So I'm going to go ahead and do this here. While we're talking, y'all going to get the first glimpse of our new office space. And I'm telling you, I've already gotten our black folks who will be building the set, who are lighting, building out our whole control room. So y'all get the first glimpse of this. So just give me a second.

Let me pull this up here. I have not shown this publicly, but this is, so I'm gonna just talk over it in terms of our spot here and what our new office space is going to look like. We're going to be able there, y'all, to do stuff there, do our cooking segments in that large kitchen space. And then you saw, matter of fact, I'm just going to bring it back. I shot it a little quick there. Let me bring it back so you can actually see it. So we're going to be able to, like, we got chefs. So we're going to be able to shoot stuff right there in that kitchen.

You're going to be able to see that. Then we're going to have, like, right now, we really appreciate it. We're 50 can. We leased this space here. But we sort of landlocked only having just this set right here, only just sort of having just this one set. But we're going to have an opportunity to do more. And I'm just going to advance this a little bit. Just give me a second. And so y'all are going to be able to see us going down. So this will be, that's where we have offices

that are gonna be down there, where our staff will be able to do our editing and things along those lines. And I told y'all, I don't, look, I'ma show y'all how y'all money is being spent. Other folk who've asked y'all for money don't do that. I'ma show you, that's gonna be where we're going to have our equipment room. We got more offices.

And I can't band. Y'all are going to be blown away. This is the open space right there. Y'all see that? So where they're standing over there, that's where we're going to actually have our green screen. We're going to have our three-wall video wall right there where I sit, where that television is. And then where you see all those other chairs down there, we're going to basically have a talk show type setup. So when we have our panel back, they're going to be in that seated space. You're going to see this in a

second. You're going to see it in a second. You're going to see it in a second. Those are more offices. And again, we're right on Black Lives Matter Plaza. That's going to be, that furniture second. You're gonna see are more offices and again Black Lives Matter Plaza. furniture has moved out. furniture that's gonna be We're gonna have anywhere people who are in there. where you're seeing that

We have our green screen And then of course in tha room is going to be our p And so trust me, we're having a whole walls. You see, I'm talking right now how I want a wall set to be built. So that's being built by a black set builder on that wall. Y'all going to see, we're going to have a black art. I'm going to have a piece with Dr. King, Harry Belafonte. I'm trying to get this Nina Simone piece. We're going to have other pieces on there as well. Our control room is going to be in that room as well.

So we, y'all, so we will be live from our new location, July 5th, July 5th, we will be moving in. And so I told y'all, see, I told y'all what we are doing. And so I share with you how we're, you know, how we spend our resources. And so when I ask y'all to give, you get to see what your money is going for. And so we're going to have four different set looks in one place. We're going to have that where that video wall is. We're going to actually have two

85-inch televisions. They have a video wall there. That's where the set is going to go. We're going to be able to have the middle of the room. Not only that, the spacing in there will accommodate and trust me, I will be doing it. We can put probably 50 chairs in there

to actually have a live audience. Wow. That's what we are doing, folks. And so we want y'all to support us, what we do. That's why we're asking if we get 20,000 of our fans to give $50 each over the course of a year, that's a million dollars. Our OTT channels, y'all, are being built.

They will be launching next month. I told y'all that was $156,000. Those OTT, so we're going to be on Apple TV, Roku, Samsung TV, Xbox. We're going to be on all of those, Amazon Fire. We're going to be on all of those platforms next month. Your money went to support that as well. And so I just want y'all to understand what we're doing, how we're building this out. And so the OTT channel is one thing, the office space, but I got another announcement. I'm not going to tell you today though, but it's going to blow. I'm telling you, it's going, it's, it's, I'm y'all are going, I'm just letting y'all know. It's going to blow y'all away's, I'm, y'all are going, I'm just letting y'all know it's going to blow y'all away. I'm just letting y'all know it's going to blow y'all away.

I'm just, I'm just letting y'all know. Y'all going to be like, damn, I know he didn't. The anticipation. Y'all going to be like, I know he didn't. That's why, I need everybody to understand. That's why I don't sweat haters. How about that? Because the Lord, the Bible said he will prepare a table in the presence of thy enemies.

Haters. Go on back, Henry. Haters. Look at that. Haters. All y'all who said we were gonna fail that's what we move into at the end of the month

I just want y'all congratulations brother people don't have a way of judging that if they haven't compared when we would come down to do News 1 Now with you you were in the same studio where Morning Joe, all the MSNBC When we would come down to do News 1 Now with you, you were in the same studio where Morning Joe, all the MSNBC.

And we were landlocked. We had one set. We couldn't move. We couldn't stand up. We had no flexibility. And so I'm going to be able to have four different set looks in that one space. And I'm just going to give y'all one more. It's going to blow y'all away. It's going to blow y'all. Let me leave it right there. So I'm going to give you this because y'all, I visualized this. So you see the set piece we have here? Here, take a shot of the set piece.

So y'all see this Leroy Campbell art that's down here on the set. Y'all see my man Leroy Campbell put this on canvas and you see the art piece down here. So you see those rich, vibrant colors. This is gonna stay with us. If y'all see the desk, y'all don't worry about it. We literally are packing, okay? You see all those rich colors. Now go back to the video, Henry.

When we go live, all of those glass offices are gonna be lit with different colored LED lights. And so when we go live, you're going to have all of that color as a backdrop when we are having that shot. So again, and yes, and somebody said black art for the win. Yes, all throughout that space. You see those two pillars right there? There will be black artists. Their work on those pillars.

And so all throughout the space. So just like with Bill Cosby, when you watch the Cosby show and how he integrated black art into the show. Yes. Exactly what will be happening with our new offices, Roland Martin Unfiltered. So I just want to give y'all that sneak peek. Nobody else, I have not posted on social media. I have not posted anywhere. Y'all just got the first look

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