#RolandMartinUnfiltered - #RayshardBrooks update; Cop who hit journos w rubber bullets charged; COVID mask feud; Gillum speaks

Episode Date: July 23, 2020

7.21.20 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: #RayshardBrooks case update; Detroit cop who shot journos with rubber bullets charged; Judge hears lawsuit Gov. Kemp filed against Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms over her mask mandate and reopening plans; Should there be a national mask mandate to battle the spread of COVID-19; Protests in Portland Oregon continue; Why are African American women are disproportionately impacted by fibroids; Andrew Gillum speaksSupport #RolandMartinUnfiltered via the Cash App ☛ https://cash.app/$rmunfiltered or via PayPal ☛https://www.paypal.me/rmartinunfiltered#RolandMartinUnfiltered Partner: CeekBe the first to own the world's first 4D, 360 Audio Headphones and mobile VR Headset. Check it out on www.ceek.com and use the promo code RMVIP2020-#RolandMartinUnfiltered is a news reporting site covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. stars. Workers skilled through alternative routes rather than a bachelor's degree. It's time for skills to speak for themselves. Find resources for breaking through barriers at taylorpapersilling.org brought to you by Opportunity at Work and the Ad Council. Today is Tuesday, July 21st, 2020. Coming up on Roland Martin Unfiltered, the attorney for the Atlanta police officer charged in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks filed a motion seeking Fulton County D.A. Paul Howard's recusal from the case. We will explain. In Detroit, a police officer who fired rubber bullets at three journalists during a police

brutality protest was charged with multiple counts of felony assault. Also, this morning, a judge heard the lawsuit Governor Brian Kemp has filed against Mayor Keisha Lance Bottles of Atlanta over her mask mandate and reopening plans. We'll also talk about whether there should be a nationwide mask mandate and where we are with testing any possible vaccine protests in portland oregon continue and neither side is backing down we'll talk with one of the activists also as fibroids awareness month and we're talking about why african-american women are disproportionately impacted plus former gubernatorial candidate andrew gillum speaks for the first time about after he checked into rehab after he was discovered

passed out in a Miami hotel room. And also we talked about that speech John Lewis was supposed to give at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Well, we're going to play a video for you of Danny Glover reading the speech that he wanted to give. All of that right here on Roland Martin Unfiltered. It's time to bring the funk. Let's go. He's knowing, putting it down from sports to news to politics With entertainment just for kicks He's rolling with Uncle Roro, y'all It's rolling, Martin

Rolling with Roland now He's funky, he's fresh, he's real, the police officer Garrett Rolfe, who was charged in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks, filed a motion late yesterday seeking Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard's recusal from the case in a statement. The Howard statement to the public had been ethically inappropriate. Plus, Howard is a necessary witness in the case. OK, that kind of makes no sense. Remember, Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed after cops were called to a Wendy's in Atlanta. He was pulled. He was, of course, pulled out of the car.

He went through the test and then all of a sudden decided to run away. They scuffled. And then, of course, Roth fired the fatal gunshots into Brooks. He was fired and again charged in his death. And so we'll see what happens in that case. Seriously, that's what happens when they try to go out to the D.A. Let's go to Detroit, where a police officer was charged with multiple counts of felony assault after firing rubber bullets at three full journalists during a protest in downtown Detroit. Daniel Devano had been suspended with pay while police further investigated the accusation. He faces three counts per victim. If convicted, Debono could be sentenced up to four years in prison. All three journalists suffered injuries. Now, while we were talking about what's happening in those cases, we also

see what's happening in Portland, where Donald Trump's thugs in boots are sitting here snatching people off the streets. You have the Oregon you have the Oregon attorney general, the Portland mayor demanding answers from the administration. Then Donald Trump says that he might be unleashing those federal agents to other places. And I've seen this video right here. This is an actual veteran right here, a veteran of the US Navy. And they beat him with a baton. My man did not flinch at all. And what he did was he went up to these federal officers saying that, remember the oath that you took.

But what has happened as a result of this, you've had thousands more people who have come out as a result of these tactics by these unidentified federal officers and have been protesting. I'm going to show that to you in a little bit, just a moment. Let's go to my panel, Kelly Bethea, Communication Strategist, Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali, former senior advisor for Environmental Justice EPA. We also have on the show, Amisha Cross, political analyst and Democratic strategist. Mustafa, I'm going to start with you. The thing here is real simple. Trump is trying to unleash these federal officers. They have not informed the Oregon Attorney General who they are or the mayor. They're demanding answers. And Bill Barr is acting as if everything is fine to have people who are unidentified driving unmarked cars. Now he says

that he is going, Donald Trump says he is going to send them to other cities. I saw a tweet where someone said that these officers are already on the ground in Baltimore. This is Donald Trump and Bill Barr trying to operate like dictators in the United States. Yeah. And, you know, people have the right to peacefully protest. And you're utilizing individuals who do not have the proper training. So you see them doing all kinds of egregious behaviors. And the reality of this situation is quite clear. The president knows that he's in trouble. He's trying to rally support by showing that what he assumes is being a tough on crime, holding people accountable type of paradigm that he operates from. Of course, we know that that only applies to those states,

those cities that have not been supportive of him, because we don't see them going into red states doing these types of behaviors. We didn't see them utilizing these types of Gestapo tactics with the folks who are rushing state houses, you know, and demanding governors to do certain things in a COVID-19 moment. So we understand he's just trying to fan the flames continually to actually get people riled up. And if we had a Department of Justice that was actually doing its job, it would check him. But of course, Bill Barr is in his back pocket and continues to allow these types of violations of people's constitutional rights and a number of other rights as well.

Amisha, real simple. This is an ad the Trump people have put out and I've been telling people this is the goal. The goal is to scare white people. And oh my God, they're going to destroy the country. Watch this. Seattle's pledged to defund its police department by 50%, even including a proposal to remove 911 dispatchers from police control. Joe Biden said he's absolutely on board with defunding the police. Listen closely. Yes, absolutely.

Hello, you've reached 911. I'm sorry that there is no one here to answer your emergency call, but leave a message and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Crime will rise significantly. I'm Donald J. Trump and I approve this message. First of all, you saw the lie in there where they used a soundbite of Sean Hannity saying Joe Biden wants to defund the police. That's a lie. But then they used the Biden soundbite when he was actually responding to the question of reducing police funding and shifting resources to mental health services. So they use the text, but the Sean Hannity soundbite defund the police.

They want to scare white people. They want to scare older white people that, oh my God, the people are taking over these cities. And so therefore I'm the only one who can save you. I mean, sure, that's the goal. That is the goal. And you're absolutely right, Roland. And this isn't the first commercial that the Trump campaign has run that appears to be like that, where they're splicing together different things that don't actually fit. And they are basically drawing a what they think is a clear line to showcase that Democrats don't care about your safety. And this isn't, again, this isn't the first time, and Trump actually isn't even the first president who's used a fear tactic like this to try to get more older white people specifically,

and white women, to jump on board to support conservatives. What I find the most interesting in regards to his moves towards sending in these unarmed troops, officers, whatever they happen to be in camo, is that he has gone, Trump has gone through this entire process during COVID-19, arguing that states and localities could handle a global pandemic on their own, arguing for a small government. However, when it comes to protests that he does not agree with, dissent that he does not agree with, he's willing to use the government to overshot its role completely outside of our constitutional powers, outside of his constitutional powers, to basically go into cities across America that have not asked for him, that are not seeking that level of support at all, that have not reached out to his office for

anything in relation to this. So I think that what we're looking at is classic authoritarianism. We're looking at a president who is trying to get as many word splices, as many hashtags, as many video as he can of any type of riots to scare people, because he has given up on actually trying to create any type of legislation or policy that makes sense towards the hundreds of thousands of people that are currently unemployed or uninsured health-wise. And he's gone straight to their deepest, darkest fears. And that is that level of anarchy and there not being any police. And he's gone straight to their deepest, darkest fears. And that is that level of anarchy and there not being any police. And then, of course, you have you always you always get to confine somebody black to go out there and say some stupid stuff.

Here is a so-called civil rights attorney, Leo Terrell. Again, oh, my goodness, these Democrats, they're going to be destroying our city. So as a black man, please, please elect Trump. Have you ever voted for Republican for president before? Good question. Here's my answer as a lawyer. This will be the first time in my life. This will be the first time in my life, Sean Hannity viewers, that I will be voting Republican. Right on your TV pro. First time in my life, Sean Hannity viewers, that I will be voting Republican right on your TV pro first time in my life for Donald Trump, for Donald Trump. Have you ever voted for Republican for president before?

Oh, my God, they're going to be taking over these cities and and I don't know what to do. Dude, stop. Just sit the hell down, Leo Terrellrell you sound like an idiot and a buffoon i mean it's just he sounds dumb just just to be frank with you because he didn't really give you any basis as to why he was voting for trump he was just again promoting propaganda promoting and insinuating actually actually actually actually, actually, you know what? Let me go and give you this here. So he went to, let me tell you how bad he is.

He goes to OANN, which is a joke of a network, a Kanaan experience conspiracy. So listen to this. This is the propaganda he's pushing. Now, just earlier, you said that you support President Donald Trump. I want to hear from you personally why all of a sudden you came out in support of him. Let me be very clear about why I support the president. I want everyone to hear this. In the last three years, Donald J. Trump has done more for people of color than the Obama-Biden administration for eight years.

Let me give you some examples. Donald Trump funded historically black examples. Donald Trump funded historically black colleges. Donald Trump passed a law, the first step law, that reversed the mass incarceration that Joe Biden did in 1994. Donald Trump signed an executive order for police reform. And then you have a black South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott who tried to get legislation in the Senate. Guess what? Two black Democrats, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, stopped that legislation.

Donald Trump helped people of color. I'm begging Democrats, people of color, to leave the Democratic Party and vote Republican and vote for Donald Trump. Because I do not want chaos in the city and throughout this country. All right. I do not want chaos. He acts as if Trump has not unleashed chaos, Kelly. All I see right now coming out of the administration, honestly, for the past four years has been chaos. It has been an absolute just cacophony of mess and just

no order whatsoever, which is ironic because all Donald Trump says is, you know, law and order, law and order. And that's what I'm about in And this, that, and the third. And he's doing anything and everything but perpetuating that kind of sentiment, especially when it comes to like putting out military against protesters who are peacefully protesting. I it it is scary to me. And it is honestly reminiscent of what we've learned from Tulsa and Greenwood and this, you know, covert operations from government and possible self-deputizing these people because we don't know who's who. They're unmarked. They're unlabeled. And the fact that they're going into cities predominantly of either color or predominantly left wing, It just shows you just how careless and reckless and negligent our president is. But to the lawyer's point regarding he's done more for black people than any other president, I mean, we all know that's not true. And if you don't know that's not true, please read, because it's not true. Specifically regarding the HBCUs, the funding

that went towards us, I'm an alum of an HBCU, that's virtually nothing. Well, but no, it's not even a question of virtually nothing. They're lying about it. So Trump is the only one going to go, when you say HBCUs, it's a lie. Okay, we're talking about, first of all, it wasn't even Trump's idea. It was Congresswoman Alma Adams, who was the one who pushed that through. He signed it. So dude, don't act like you can all of a sudden take credit for it. That's, that's how just stupid it is. But I want to stay on this whole defund the police thing. Okay. The interview he gave with Chris Wallace, this was manna from heaven to understand how lies, how you get confronted. And see, Chris Wallace was nice.

What Chris Wallace should have said is you're lying. You're lying. Joe Biden didn't say that you're lying. Y'all watch this because they want to defund the police and Biden wants to fund defunding. Sir, he does not look. He signed a charter with Bernie Sanders. It says nothing about defunding. Oh, really? It says abolish. It says nothing about defunding the police. Oh, really? It says abolish. It says defund. Let's go.

All right. Give me the charter, please. All right. So here's the deal. Okay. He goes, let's go. All right. I'm going to find the longer clip because I thought it was hilarious where he literally asked for Kaylee McEnany to step in with the information.

He's going, I can't find it. I'm sorry, Mustafa, it's not quite in here. I mean, he acts like he caught Chris in a lie. He's like, yeah, I can. Well, bottom line, he still wants to do it. He was lying. The guy was lying. You can't find what doesn't exist.

You know, I always encourage people to actually read and go to the source so you can find out what's really going on. Neither has Joe Biden said he wanted to defund the police and many other folks just want to divest and they want to move resources back to communities to make sure that the issues that are going on are addressed. So, you know, we know the game that the president is playing, as Kelly said, and others. He continues to, you know, try and create chaos because he has no policy to live on. And, you know, he thinks that that will be a winning strategy for him. Folks are actually, I'll bet you people, if they could, they would stand at the polls today or they would go ahead and mail in their ballot because folks are ready.

And he's going to find out that it's time for him to go ahead and move on. And then we'll deal with him on the judicial side once he leaves office. But the thing that we have to understand is, again, and I keep warning people, he will do whatever to stay in office. Forget norms, forget it. He will do whatever. And if that means unleashing cops against Americans, he will do it. We saw what he did just three blocks away when he wanted to have his photo op. Drop the tear gas. Clear everybody out. There is nothing this man won't do to hold on to office.

And the Bidens and the Democrats better understand that, Amisha. Yeah, this is a by any means necessary campaign, Roland. I think that you're 100 percent spot on here. He is willing to unleash tear gas and unmark people who the heck actually even knows who they are on communities across this country. He is willing to basically militarize our communities. He is willing to create a false narrative about basically an us versus them, the us being those who are protective of this country and its democracy, and them being anybody who wants to see progress in racial equity or civil rights advancement. He is creating a dichotomy that is problematic because it speaks against everything that a

functioning democracy is supposed to stand for. And he doesn't care. And he doesn't care because his base continually shows that they don't. They continually show that as long as this means maintaining white supremacy, he can do whatever the hell he wants to do, irrespective to the fact that he's basically shredding the Constitution before our very eyes every single day. I look, I'm just trying to get people to understand Kelly. He does. Does it matter that there's no such thing as I've gone too far. This thug in chief will do whatever Michelle Obama says when they go low, we go high. Nope. You got to be a junkyard dog dealing with these thugs. We cannot afford to go high right now. that is way too much of a price too high of a price no pun intended to to deal with this issue because like you said there is no low there is no bar that's being low the bar has been obliterated there is no more bar the threshold is so low

we could stomp on it and it it would still be feeling like we're floating. So with that said, I mean, just vote. I mean, November is coming up very quickly. We are already more than halfway through the year right now. All we can do at this point is vote and be vigilant and make sure that our constitutional rights, what's left of them anyway, are protected. Defund the police is not a terrible thing. We need to reallocate resources that the police already have to entities and groups that will actually help the community. That's not to say get rid of the police.

That is actually a supplement to the police, an aid help the community. That's not to say get rid of the police. That is actually a supplement to the police and aid to the police, if anything. And he's not understanding that, but he's not understanding a lot of things. So with that said, we should just cut our losses with this man, vote him out by any means necessary. All right. this is when you get busted in a lie, in your face, just too good. In violent crime in America in recent weeks, we've seen deaths. I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops called this taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed

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And when they heard that we were going, they set their police force. Liberal Democrats have been running cities in this country for decades. Poorly. Why is it so bad right now? They've run them poorly. It was always bad, but now it's gotten totally out of control. And it's really because they want to defund the police and Biden wants to defund the police. Sir, he does not. Look, he signed a charter with Bernie Sanders. I will get that one just like I was right on the mortality rate. Did you read the charter that he agreed to? It says nothing

about defunding the police. Oh, really? It says abolish. It says let's go. All right. Give me the charter, please. All right. You've got to start studying for these. He says defund the police. He says defund the police. They talk about abolishing the police. They talk about illegal aliens.

I look forward to seeing that. Meanwhile, the George Floyd murder has reignited the issue of racism in policing in this country. I want to give you a couple of statistics. Nationwide, blacks are twice as likely, fewer in absolute numbers, but in terms of per capita, blacks are twice as likely to be shot and killed by police as whites are. In Minneapolis, over the last five years, police used force against blacks at a rate seven times that against whites. Can you understand why blacks would be angry at that? Of course I do. Of course I do. Many whites

are killed also. You have to say that. I mean, many, many whites are killed. I hate the sound, but this is going on for decades. This is going on for a long time, long before I got here. You know, if you look at what's going on in Portland, those are anarchists and we've taken a very tough stand. If we didn't take a stand in Portland, you know, we've arrested many of these leaders. If we didn't take that stand right now, you would have a problem like they were going to lose Portland. So let's see what this says here. Prosecution, sanctuary cities, incentivize illegal alien, expand asylum, abolish immigration detention. That's not what I will find.

OK, this thing is many pages long and prosecution of illegal border crosses. Support deathly. And these are the worst. Sir, I'm not I'm not disagreeing with you on any of those. I'm disagreeing about defund police. The White House never sent us evidence the Bernie Biden platform calls for defunding or abolishing police because there is none. It calls for increased funding for police departments

that meet- Can somebody answer? Yo, so, boy, it's amazing. Chris, you need to do your research better. No, how about your dumb ass learn how to read, Kelly? That's what Chris should have said. You the one can't read. It's not even about reading at this point.

It's about comprehension and his blatant ineptitude. Like, he really does not know what he's doing. He really doesn't. All he knows is how to disrupt. All he knows is how to incite and to create chaos. He's talking about, you know, liberal cities being a wasteland and Portland is, you know, a bunch of, full of anarchists or whatever. He's bringing the anarchy. He's bringing the chaos. He is bringing the discomfort and the disruption and the destruction

of these cities and of these people and of these societal pillars, such as freedom of speech, right to protest, all of these things. He's the one, the president of the United States is infringing upon our right to protest. He's infringing on the very first right we have in the Constitution, in the Bill of Rights, within the Constitution, is freedom of speech. So for me, it's laughable, but not in a humorous way. It's just, it's really pathetic how he has been able to continue this. And it's not just him. It's his entire administration.

But that's why. And that's what's really frustrating. It's people with actual degrees who have actually been in the business, who have been in administrations or in policy. But they want to be in power. Petuating this president. They want to be in power. So it's sick. They want to be in power. They want to be in power.

What is required here? What is required here is, again, people need to understand if they are going to lie this blatantly now, to roll back civil rights, to roll back protections in health and human services, in HUD, in look at environmental stuff in the interior. They will have no problem raping and pillaging this country to benefit big business. People had stopped, had better stop playing games. And so stop entertaining these stupid-ass conversations about Kanye running for president. Stop listening to these idiotic people who keep throwing out other kind of nonsense. We are literally talking about the future of this country

on the line if you give this idiot four more years to have power? So the president is, some people will say he's a buffoon. I say that there is a very strategic plan that has been put in place since the moment that they walked in. They understood how to manipulate policy. They understood how to begin to dismantle the foundational pieces that are important to our democracy, but are also important to people actually being able to survive. So when we say that they are, you know, just kind of knocking around in the dark,

I disagree with that because I've seen the strategic actions that they have done inside of federal agencies, rolling back statutes and rules that, you know, many people have come together, often in a bipartisan way to create, because they knew that it was the basic safety net that was necessary. I by no means do not think that the president and Stephen Miller are not having conversations about how to fan the flames of racial sort of divisiveness inside of our country. So I think that there is a very clear plan for the president. And he utilizes the opportunities with the media to continue to play folks. I often say that he's been pimping America.

And I'm very clear and I can back up each and every time that he's actually done that. Well, simple as that. Now, of course, a little bit earlier, Trump had a news conference, coronavirus news conference, and none of the experts were there. He actually tried to sound sane. Then he even said that, oh, I've always been advocating the wearing of masks. Well, now you have Surgeon General Jerome Adams out there saying, oh, look, that, you know, that that he does not think a national mask mandatory is necessary. But at the same time, urge all Americans to continue to wear face coverings. Guys, seriously, seriously, y'all, it just makes no sense. Joining us right now to talk about this here, of course, is Dr.

Georgia C. Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. This is what's idiotic. Trump was asked about it. He sidestepped it as well. Doc, here's the problem here. You have a CDC director who says if we can get all Americans to wear a mask, we could actually get this under control in one or two months. But as long and now a sudden Trump is saying, oh, it's presidential. Now his campaign is like, oh, I've always supported wearing masks. Then they bust him last night going to his hotel not wearing a mask. The bottom line is this here.

There are people out there taking their cues from leaders. They mocked Joe Biden because he wore a mask. I mean, I just don't understand these people who, I mean, are they operating like he is where he keeps saying, oh, yeah, this thing just going to go away. This is not going away. This only goes away when people start practicing proper protocol. I have no question about that. Look, you get this disease from other people. I wear my mask to try to model that good behavior. I have no question about that. Look, you get this disease from other people. I wear my mask to try to model that good behavior. All of our leaders must wear a mask.

And I tell each and every person out there, you must wear a mask, both to protect yourself from me and for me to protect myself from you. That's the only way we get control on this thing is for all of us to wear a mask. It's got to become cool. We've got them in all kinds of colors, all kinds of designs. I've seen all kinds of neat masks. And look, I'm a Chicago Cubs fan. I even got a Chicago Cubs mask. So wear your mask. This thing is utterly confusing to me because, you know, they just won't order it. Now you have Governor Brian Kemp suing the mayor of Atlanta because of her mask mandate saying, I get to overrule you. Oh, this is going to actually hurt businesses. I'm just trying to understand 137,000. I think numbers now 140,000 have died. You've got hospital beds that ICU filled up to Houston, Dallas, in Florida, all these places. And these people are so hell bent on, oh no,, this is going to hurt all the businesses.

Here's the deal, Doc. People ain't showing up anyway. Look, masks save lives. You can't go shopping. You can't go to work if you're sick or you're dead. The governor is wrong. The mayor is right. There's no debate about this. The governor in Georgia is wrong. And the mayor of Atlanta is wise and smart and is right. By the way,

she's also had COVID, her and her family. Yeah. So she's also committed. So I hope the courts will, you know, follow the right, do the right thing and save lives. I know sometimes lawyers just do the law, but this is about saving lives.

And look, and I just keep saying this to black people when I'm gone. I saw a story of a black woman in Florida. Her 22 year old child died. Daughter died of COVID-19. Then a 19 year old son died of COVID-19. Black people are dying. And I'm like, you know what? Look, if non-black people want to kill themselves, hey, boo, knock yourself out. But I'm like, black people, you better be wearing masks. You better be practicing safe distancing, not playing games, not having a whole bunch of people over to the house in these groups because this is not going anywhere.

And we're seeing how it's impacting the southern states. And that's where more than half of us live. Well, all I can say is, look, we know who's doing things in our best interest. And those elected leaders that are not supporting the wear of the mask are not doing things in our best interest. And those that are supporting wearing the mask are doing things in our best interest. I usually do things with people that are in my best interest. When it comes to testing, we still have been too narrow when it comes to testing. Long way to testing. We still have been too narrow when it comes to testing. We're now... So we're operating now

in July. When does flu season start? Because now, you're going to be dealing with those shots as well. So you're going to have all of these forces converging. You don't have the capacity to handle all of that because the federal government

hasn't done what they were supposed to do. That's right. Look, we have one disease in which we have an effective vaccine for, which is influenza, the flu shot. And then we have another disease which has very similar symptoms and is more severe, I might add, has a higher death rate, which for which we don't yet have a vaccine, although we've got some promising ideas on how to get one. The best thing we can do as a nation right now is get your flu shot in the fall. That way we'll know that if you get sick, it's not the flu. It's something else. That's the first thing we can do. Everybody ought to get their flu shot. And I know many of us are out there concerned about this and concerned about that. Get your flu shot.

It's safe and effective. There are a few people who can't take it for medical reasons, you know, if you're allergic to eggs and a few other things. But almost all the rest of us can get a flu shot, so we should get that. And then we need to continue to wear a mask, wash our hands, physically distant. If we're sick, don't go to work, don't go to school. Don't go out with others if you're sick. And then when this vaccine comes, I hope it is sometime next year, and we'll understand how safe and effective it is. Then at that time, we'll give you recommendations on that vaccine and how and when to take it. All right. Dr. Georgia C. Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. We appreciate it. Thanks a lot.

Well, take care. Thank you. All right, then. OK, lots of anti-Trump ads have been dropping online. Many of them after that train wreck of an interview with Chris Wallace on the Fox News. Roll it. I think the president was incredibly presidential tonight. I'm proud to have worked hand in hand with President Trump. I'll tell you what I really think about him. This man is a pathological liar.

I think he's a kook. I think he's crazy. I think he's unfit for office. He's not a serious adult. He wasn't prepared. He didn't hire very well. Trump's candidacy is a cancer on conservatism. Donald Trump is a delusional narcissist and an orange-faced windbag.

Friends do not let friends vote for con artists. This man is a pathological, delusional, con artist. Join the other Republican voters against Trump at RVAT.org. Mr. Trump, I respectfully ask you to step aside. To the best of my knowledge, we're sitting at the White House. I must tell you, I'm just telling you, and the Oval Office is right behind me. Fox News has a new poll out today. Joe Biden leads you by eight points, 49% to 41. First of all, I'm not losing. People trust Biden more to handle the coronavirus by 17 points, on race relations by 21 points. Those are fake polls.

You still have more than 100 days to this election, but at this point, you're losing. Not on my watch. It's not going to happen on my watch. I have other polls that put me leading. I have a poll where we're leading in every swing state. If I may, sir, respectfully, in the Fox poll, they ask people who is more competent, who's got, whose mind is sounder. Yes. Iden beats you in that. Let's take a test. Let's go down. Joe and I will take a test. Let him take the same test that I took. Incidentally, I took the test too when I heard that you passed it.

Well, it's not the hardest test. Nobody's done what I've done. It's a picture and it says, let's not, and it's an elephant. No, no, no. See, that's all misrepresentation. Yes, the first few questions are easy, but I'll bet you couldn't even answer the last five questions. I'll bet you couldn't.

They get very hard, the last five questions. Well, one of them was count back from 100 by 7. And let me tell you, you couldn't answer many of the questions. I'd get you the test. I'd like to give it, but I guarantee you that Joe Biden could not answer those questions. Don't you believe America deserves a president who doesn't brag he can spot an elephant? The Lincoln Project is responsible for the content of this advertising. I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops called this taser the revolution.

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Who is more competent? Whose mind is sounder? didn't beat you in that well i tell you what uh let's take a test let's take a test right now let's go down joe and i will take a test let him take the same test that i took incidentally i took the test too when i heard that you passed it yeah how did you do well it's not the hardest task no but the last picture and it's a lot and it's an elephant no no no you see that's all misrepresentation that's what it was on the web it's all misrepresentation because yes the first few questions are easy but i'll bet you couldn't even answer the last five questions i'll bet you couldn't they get very hard the last five well one of them was count back from 100 by seven

and let me tell you you't answer, you couldn't answer many of the questions. I just look at, I look at school, I watch, I read, look at the stuff. Oh! Oh. I can't imagine. I can't imagine that. Don't ask me. Ask China that question, OK? Yeah.

No, I don't take responsibility at all because you take any responsibility for these 50,000 deaths that have happened. And I think we've done a great job because I don't know anything about it. I mean, you say you say we did that. I don't know how you say we did that. I don't know how you say we did that. I don't know how you say we did that. I don't know how you say we did that.

I don't know how you say we did that. I don't know how you say we did that. I don't know how you say we did that. I don't know how you say we did that. I don't know how you say we did that. I don't know how you say we did that. I don't know how you say we did that. I don't know how you say we did that. I in this country. I think we've done a great job. Because I don't know anything about it. I mean, you say we did that. I don't know anything about it.

I don't know those gentlemen. Now, it's possible I have a picture with them because I have a picture with everybody. I have a picture with everybody here. And when you say me, I didn't do it. We have a group of people. I could ask, perhaps. Do you know about the $135,000 payment for something he knows?

You have to ask Michael Suleiman, attorney, and you'll have to ask Michael. I didn't say that. They did. Do you take any responsibility for the fact that you're about to be impeached? No, I don't take any. Zero, to put it mildly. Because it's ultimately my job, too. I have to get everybody in line.

I take responsibility always for everything. The hard truth is, you won't be safe in Joe Biden's America. So radical, so all-encompassing that it would transform this country into something utterly unrecognizable. Knock the crap out of him, would you? Seriously. Mounted police to clear what has been an entirely peaceful protest. I called the fake news the enemy of the people, and they are.

Are you okay? Dominate the streets. Masked, camouflaged men with patches bearing the words police, detaining individuals and putting them inside unmarked vans. This is an attack on our democracy. Their agenda is based on government control. Our agenda is based on freedom. Who has heard the poem called The Snake? My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars. Well-documented and severe financial downturn in the past year.

You know about sexual predators and things like that. I mean, uh... You are one. All right. It's more than anger. It's hatred. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime.

They're rapists. Down the path, along the lake, a tender-hearted woman saw a poor half-frozen steak. You'll absolutely love Trump steaks. More than 150 former students allege Trump University was a fraud. Persistently illegal conduct at the president's charity. Take me in, oh tender woman. Take me in for heaven's sake. Take me in, oh tender woman.

Sigh the vicious. Would you denounce what happened in 2016? President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. He withheld the money, he withheld the meeting, he used it to coerce Ukraine to do these political investigations. The American embassy in Baghdad under siege. He stroked his pretty skin again and held him tight. The Chinese government awarded Ivanka Trump's brand seven new trademarks.

They're pack of griftes. His campaign manager's got two condos, a Ferrari, a yacht. They're all just fleecing the campaign. That snake gave her a vicious bite. The coronavirus. This is their new hoax. The U.S. now leading the world in death. No, I don't take responsibility at all. This is a great success story.

I have saved you, cried the woman, and you've bitten me heavens wide. You know your bite is poisonous and now I'm going to die. We want to terminate health care. And then I see the disinfectant. Shut up, silly woman, said the reptile with a grin. You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in.

Amisha, going from laughter, mocking to serious. Those series of online ads also that are going to be shown in some targeted markets. I mean, that's effective marketing to reach folks. Just your assessment. It's effective. It's poignant. It is him live. Like, these are the words that came out of the snake's mouth. It is a very good drawdown to what we're actually facing across this nation and who Donald Trump really is.

It's those type of ads, I think, that are going to be strong counters to the president's consistent selling of lies, even in the face of, like we saw at that Chris Wallace interview, all the truth being present. I think that the more Americans get to view exactly how this president is, what his character is, the types of things he's capable of doing and are watching him, you know, shake down our constitution every day, these types of ads are going to be extremely effective and vital. Remember, we're still a long way out of November and a lot can happen between now and then. We have to hit him and we have to hit him hard. I got I got a laugh here, Kelly. I got some dude named Truth Seeker on on YouTube. He goes, Roland, this channel is nothing but a Democratic ad channel every day.

And I'm going, but your name is Truthseeker. You're afraid of the truth? I mean, sometimes people are. Show me where we lied about Trump. Those ads are showing he's a liar. Flat out, he's a liar. Go ahead. No, absolutely.

The difference between these ads and ads that uh like the ad that you posted earlier uh that came out of the trump camp is that these words coming out of trump's mouth were still in context in which he said it there's nothing that was doctored or altered um you know greatly outside of outside of editorial discretion that would remotely sway you one way or the other outside of just getting the truth out. Like he said those words the way he said them in the context in which the ad is portraying them. That's it. And it's interesting how his words are coming back to bite him. And he's acting like he's Teflon. Hopefully he's not. This is the first time in history that an impeached president just, you know, just, I'm sorry, Bill Clinton and the

other one. But he's been impeached and he's actually liable for a couple more impeachments if they actually wanted to bring it forward. He's, he's just a corrupt, disgusting, pathetic man. Um, and these ads show that in it, in all its glory. Well, I just sort of, I just sort of crack up at all the people who get upset when you, when you literally use his own words. He said, I don't take responsibility. That's what he said. And then he lied today. Oh, I'm always advocating the wearing

a mask. Dude, stop it. Mustafa, he is a massive liar. Donald Trump will lie about a lie. Yeah, my mama calls them hypothetical liars. so she got her own way of describing folks. The president's a failure. You know, I worked under, what, four presidents, and I never saw someone until this one who was such a failure. I mean, he fails at diplomacy. He fails at international relations. He fails at protecting our democracy. He fails at civil rights. He fails at the economy,

which was supposed to be his shining glory. He fails at public health issues. He fails at civil rights. So whenever the young man or older man or whoever he was who sent the message in to you, I'm like, just look at the record. It's very clear. The president

is a failure, and he's someone who does not show up when a president is supposed to show up. Presidents are supposed to be built for these moments that we are currently in. When the country is under duress, when the country is under stress, the president is supposed to highlight how you are going to be able to move forward to a brighter day. And the president doesn't do that. He's not interested in that. And that is why he is a failure. Well, folks, I keep saying at the end of the day, you can talk, but you've got to be able to mobilize, organize, register and then vote. Got to go to break. We come back. We're going to talk about black women, fibroids, and what you can do to ensure you're protected. Also, Danny Glover will show you his reading.

You want to check out Rollerball Garden? Guys, you fired that audio too early. Danny Glover will talk about the, we will show you the reading of Danny Glover of the speech that John Lewis was supposed to give at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28th, 1963. Give you an update also on funeral details with regards to Reverend C.T. Vivian. All of that. And plus, last thing, we'll talk to one of the organizers in Portland to find out why they protesting and about the thousands of people who are now coming out after those thugs, Donald Trump and Bill Barr, sent out there, began to snatch folks off the street. All that next on Roland Martin Unfiltered. I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun?

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and so we want to be able to provide that for you. So don't forget Seek.com, C-E-E-K.com. Use the promo code RMVIP2020. Uterine fibroids are non-cancerous growths in the uterus. It is common, but rather unexposed condition that an estimated 70 to 80 percent of women deal with by the age of 50. However, compared to racial groups, black women are 80 to 90 percent more likely to develop uterine fibroids. Black women also tend to experience fibroids at a younger age. Well, there's a fibroid summit coming up that will address that issue and more. Joining us now is nutritionist and founder of the DetoxNow.com, Coach Jesse Thompson.

Jesse, glad to have you on the show. So we had a woman on the other day who created her own feminine hygiene products company, and she said because of her experience with fibroids, and she felt that the chemicals that were being used in the products were having a negative impact on her and other black women. For the folks out there, I mean, how significant is this for black women? And is there an understanding of really what causes fibroids? Absolutely. First of all, thank you so much for having me on and supporting us and telling our story, as you always do, Roland. And I specifically personally greatly appreciate you always providing an opportunity for me to share my own work.

So, first of all, a firebirds awareness month is July. So we're all talking about it right now, but it disproportionately affects black women. The the issue related to the commercial feminine products that that contributor to heavy bleeding. And again, the toxicity of in those products, those chemicals, it actually stimulates heavier bleeding. All right. But when we look at because you did a great job talking about what they are, but the root cause that we often are left asking why, because doctors always say, well, we don't know why. We don't know what the cause is, but we know based on research that is actually prevalent out there that the root cause of fibroids is estrogen dominance, which is triggered by stress, diet and pollutants. And the key thing here is not just that it's triggered by stress, diet and pollutants in women at large, because you talked about those stats, Roland.

You said 70 percent of women at large, but then it goes up to 90 percent when you look at black women. This is why I'm actually doing my share of the Mike Now Firebird Summit this week and next with influencers such as activist and love and hip hop star Yandy Smith, Angela Yee from The Breakfast Club, and tomorrow I'm actually taking over a Ricky Lake's IG page all day long to raise awareness about fibroids and provide keen insights on the disease. The details specifically, it boils down to the stress. The specific issue that causes why we are disproportionately affected by it is related toroids and cysts on our program. And it was because she was doing an estrogen-free diet. She was doing herbal supplements, et cetera, that are all part of her elimination reproductive system.

But the key thing that we've been finding in our patient profiles over and over rolling is women suffering with undue stress. And when it comes to why, the profile says, A, they're overachievers. They crave validation. They feel the need to be super women. They are incapable of saying no, have control issues, all because the world around us, Roland, is telling us, telling black women that we are not enough through the lack of representation, the overt racism, the microaggressions that we experience daily.

And we have the pressure, we carry the pressure to disprove them. And as we have seen, we have one of our clients who eliminated 50 fibroids on her elimination program. 50 fibroids on her elimination program, 50 fibroids, MRI documented. And the key distinguishing factor was the stress reduction specifically in her life, trauma healing in her life. Her whole story is on our website at thedetoxnow.com. And she tells it even herself. And she shows her MRI reports. And even recently, another woman just during quarantine, she eliminated a seven plus centimeter fibroid literally in about five weeks. So we know that when the stress factor is

addressed, that it is something that we see the difference in terms of the acceleration of the reversal. And we also see the acceleration of the symptoms, like you said, the heavy bleeding, the anemia that can lead to heart failure, blood clots that come from, again, restriction from the larger fibroids, restriction of arteries from the larger fibroids that black women tend to statistically, excuse me, experience more frequently. It's all the same linkage. Questions. Let's start with Kelly. Kelly, question for Jesse Thompson.

Hi. Hi, Kelly. Hi. I am totally in agreement with you that a large reason that us Black women frequently have fibroids is because of stress. But also the reason we are stressed out is because of systems that are not in place for us. They look like it, but they're not necessarily. So speaking from experience of having to be independent, yet wanting to be dependent in many regards, how do you reconcile that? And any tips that you have regarding self-care in the event that you cannot reconcile the need to depend on someone? Very good point.

These are the things that we deal with in our coaching sessions. Okay. So key things is understanding what you can control and what you can't, what kind of community and support systems you can basically align around you and self-care tips, everything from number one is eliminating toxic relationships, eliminating too much. There's this pressure of us to say yes and not not to be able to say no when we need to. And what I like to say is saying no may make you feel bad, but it doesn't make me it may make you feel sad, but it doesn't make me bad because, again, we're looking for that validation so one of the key things that we look that we equip women with in our program is is being comfortable with saying no because no is a complete sentence right when a woman that's a wonderful thing it's a wonderful thing right

but there are too many of us who are not not comfortable saying no because there's that fear of lacking that validation, lacking that approval. And when it comes to self-care tips, there are things like, number one, making sure every day you're spending time doing things that only make, only what I say, that only increase your joy, right? That's a very important part, and deep breathing, and meditation, and prayer, but focusing time to slow your life down, slow down, create breathing room between the events in your life so that you can recover. Shutting down specifically social media at certain times, giving yourself fast from these things all allow you to recover. Amisha?

Well, first off, I wanted to thank you, Roland, for opening the conversation and thank your guests as well. As someone who found out I had fibroids just last year at 31, I had eight fibroids and one of them was the size of a third trimester pregnancy. I was rushed to the hospital to go through a lot of invasive treatments to make sure that it would stop growing. So I understand the connection that you're having here because I went through several specialists before anything was done. And as someone who was otherwise healthy, does not have any types of, you know, other issues with weight or anything like that or blood pressure or anything, the side effects of fibroids are extremely excruciating and

problematic. And I think that for me, I was lucky in many ways because I have good health insurance, but a lot of African-American women do not. And when we talk about the level of specialists, the level of care and the cost associated with it, even with my health insurance, I came off owing close to $12,000 after my insurance paid for, you know, the part that it paid for. So I do want to also talk to you about, I know that people talk about natural remedies and things like that. Doctors typically don't recommend those because fibroids have a habit of coming back even after they're treated. So what is your, what would you tell women who can't reduce their stress? Because I think that's an easy thing to say in terms of self-care, but if every day you are a single mom, you are the main caregiver in your household, the rent is due in a few weeks, there is no way to

really relieve that type of stress when everything falls on you. What do you have to say to those women and those who may have fibroids but don't necessarily have the treatment options available to someone who has greater access to health care? Lots of great points you brought up there. First, I would start by saying there's always something you can do to take better care of yourself, because guess what? When you remove them surgically, they come back. I had five fibroid surgeries, five surgeries for complications from those fibroid surgeries, specifically because it was never dealt with at the root cause. So where there's myomectomies and here's the deal. Doctors with specifically are quick to cut on black women. And we are the higher, highest recipients of hysterectomies because they're looking to, number one, just take that, take our uterus.

OK. And I think there's a lot connection there around just neutering us. But specifically when you look at so there's that there's the health inequity gap, women who don't have good health insurance. Then there's also the issue we have when we do face our doctors who are giving us specifically who are not believing us, who are not listening to us, and who are telling us, oh, if it doesn't bother you, don't bother it. Okay. So there's that and the stress that that causes. So no matter what we do, we're going to have to find ways to deal with the stress because at the end of the day, we have to control the stress, the diet. That's the other thing we can do is change our diet. There are things that we can do. It's incremental even if necessary. We have a Detox Living free food list, free food list that everybody can download right at

thedetoxnow.com specifically to learn what foods can I substitute because a lot of what we deal with in terms of the fibroids is they are fed by estrogenic foods. They're fed by the stress. That's what makes it disproportionate in terms of our response. But in terms of what causes them, the estrogenic foods are very high, as well as the chemical pollutants. You can switch out those kind of things, and those kind of resources are available, like Roland was saying earlier about the toxic feminine care. There's so many brands that are available now. I'm actually going to be talking with Yandy Smith in our session coming up Friday about a partnership we're having around a brand that she launched,

helped co-launch, called Yanni Talks. Again, it's about finding what kind of incremental changes we can make to take better care of ourselves. And if we don't learn how to deal with the stress, it's not that stress is not there. It is tips that we can use to better process the stress. Breathing and taking time to breathe specifically. Breathing is a huge piece. Mindfulness is a huge piece. I can access peace by virtue of deep breathing. And in a way that it doesn't matter what's going on around me, I can still access this. So it's not a matter of eliminating your stressors. There is stuff you can do in reducing your stressors by being more mindful of your relationships, being more mindful of everything we take on, because I'm going to

tell you most of what we have on our plate. Don't get me wrong, I know that we're carrying a lot, but there are a lot of things that if we would reevaluate them, we're doing them because it's someone else wants us to do it, not because it's something that we have to do. And I know this because I see these women every day. This is the client I'm dealing with every day. She's the one who's carrying all these same issues. But guess what? As we work together to implement ways of, it starts off with the mindset, shifting the mindset and saying that self-care has to be a part of, I have to be radical about my self-love and self-care. That shift helps me deal with what's on my plate even better. Mustafa.

Yeah, I just want to say thank you. I've had a number of members in my family who have suffered from this. And thank you also for raising the issues around nutrition, because in our communities, we deal with food desert issues and can't access healthy food. And that's also on the environmental side, huge impacts that happen inside of our bodies because of that. My question would be for all the folks who are watching, are there policy recommendations that we should be getting behind to help to make sure that we're,

you know, utilizing that as a way of supporting and building a foundation underneath the work that you're doing? Great question. I love that. So, you know, on our IG Live yesterday, the first one in the summit, I was talking to neuroscientist Dr. Caroline Leaf, and we talked about how 7% of the diseases, 7%, excuse me, of diseases are born from genetic reasons, right? Right. So 93 percent actually comes from things. Lifestyle determinants are what they call them that we can change. They're called social determinants. And guess what's at the top of that list? Mustafa, nutrition, food insecurity, like you talked about. So there are there are there are policies that people are trying to put in place, such as prescriptions using food prescriptions for organic foods, like ways that we can use food as medicine in our health care system. OK, there are policies for that on the table. There are also policies for having nutritional coaching support. Preventive care really has been centered around, you know, what do you call pap smears, mammograms, of course, your your your your annual visits.

But it really has been around the things that can help prevent inflammatory conditions that disproportionately affect us as black people, such as learning about nutrition and then access to food in our communities, better foods in our communities. So those are the kind of things we need to get behind. I know that they're piloting programs right now where doctors will actually prescribe food, actual food as their prescription and using that, piloting that to see how it can turn around and become something that can be incorporated in the healthcare system.

All right. Again, where can people get more information on this summit? At the detox now dot com and specifically on my IG page, because all happening via IG lives coach G.S.S.I.E. Thank you so much, Roland. And of course, the panel. All right, then. I certainly appreciate it, Jessie. Thank you so very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right, then. All right, folks, got to go to a break. We come back.

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Fuck you! Hands up, please don't shoot me. Hands up, please don't shoot me. Hands up, please don't shoot me. Hands up, please don't shoot me. Hands up. Ever since those federal law enforcement officers began to attack people, the protests have gotten larger. They began protesting in Portland in May to protest against the police brutality of black lives. 31 days later, of course, you saw those federal officers attacking folks there.

Joining us now is Gregory McKelvey, vice chair of the Democratic Party of Oregon Black Caucus. Gregory, glad to have you on the show. Clearly, those federal officials there did not expect that to be the reaction to see white moms and others coming out there, linking arms with one another on the front line, basically daring them to move them out of the way. Now you have moms out there, children out there. They probably are shocked that that's the response. I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun?

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Well, we've been dealing with police brutality in Portland for a long time. First, I want to thank you for having me. But Portland police have been tear gassing, pepper spraying, detaining and arresting people in Portland for a long time. And so this sort of violence is not anything new to people. Obviously, there is a certain threshold when you see Donald Trump's thugs coming into Portland that brings more and more people out. But yeah, the front line at the protest has been a group of moms, and the federal officers gassed that group of moms. That's the situation that we're dealing with in Portland, but I think it's going to continue to

drive people out into the streets. And I don't know how many officers Donald Trump has sent or is planning on sending, but I can say there's a hell of a lot more of us and we're going to keep showing up. And I would guess that the numbers would grow every single day so long as they remain here. So what do you make of, again, Donald Trump talking about all these anarchists in Portland, these radicals in Portland, alleging that the Portland protesters are unleashing violence on the city, tearing things up in the city, destroying the city. is about black lives and the focus needs to remain on black lives. And so I don't like hearing from our elected officials, whether it be the mayor of Portland or whether it be Donald Trump, when we talk about petty property destruction. Yes, there has been a little bit of graffiti. We had one night of looting long before the federal officers arrived here. None of that adds up to the life of George Floyd or Qantas Hades, Patrick Kimmons, and the many people that

have been murdered by police in Portland. And so when we talk about these are anarchists, not protesters, I think that that is not a distinction worth of making. There's no good protester versus bad protester. There are certain tactics that some protesters take that I assume a lot of people disagree with, but it should not detract from the entire movement. And we were really talking about a very small amount of graffiti, et cetera. And I still don't think that even, let's say the entire city of Portland had been graffitied overnight by anarchists. That doesn't justify gassing the moms of Portland as they're trying to stand up for black lives. When it comes to anarchists, yes, there are anarchists in Portland.

And anarchism is a political ideology that has longstanding in Portland and globally, whether it be in the Spanish Civil War or in Europe and in places in America. And it's not all about just property destruction. It is a legitimate political theory that some people in Portland subscribe to. And that's OK. And it does not delegitimize the fact that these protests are still about black lives. And that's where the focus should remain. So when we talk about these protests continuing, you have the Portland mayor, the Oregon attorney general demanding answers to know who these federal officers are.

Because what they say is what's happening there is simply unconstitutional. It's hard for the people of Portland to hear that from Portland's mayor. And I think it's a very similar situation in cities across the country because the 50 somed days of protests that we had before federal troops came here had nothing to do with Donald Trump, and they were still being gasped, beaten, et cetera. And so what it appears for the people that are on the ground in Portland is that there is not an argument necessarily about tactics. The mayor of Portland, Ted Wheeler, has called the protesters these exact same words, violent anarchists, disruptors, outside agitators that Donald Trump is now using.

So it's not a disagreement about rhetoric, but rather it's a disagreement over whose authority it is to quote-unquote quell protesters. And the protests will continue once Donald Trump's officers have left, and then it will be Portland police once again gassing us. But yes, it is unconstitutional and the people of Portland don't need our mayor to speak on behalf of us to the nation to say that. We know that and that's why we're out protesting. And I would love if we could see some of our elected officials, not just on television in the country, but also showing up to the protests

and being on the front lines. If the moms can do it, then I think that the mayor of Portland can do it as well. All right. Gregor McKelvey, vice chair, Democratic Party of Oregon Black Caucus. Man, I appreciate it. Thanks a lot. I appreciate it. Thank you for having me. Thank you.

I think, Mustafa, that people have to understand that this is not as happening in Portland. The protests continue. They're not getting the media coverage. But the reality is this has been a sustained action since George Floyd was murdered nine weeks ago. Yeah, this is a movement. It's not a moment. And, you know, we sometimes use those phrases, but it's important for people to actually understand that there is a cultural shift that is happening in our country where people are demanding justice. And it's not just people of colors,

and it's not African-Americans. There are white brothers and sisters who are true, authentic allies who are standing up, who are willing to put their bodies on the line as well. And that is the change that's happening, along with the attention, of course, that when we get things on the media and those types of things, it's reminiscent, you know, of the 50s and 60s, where especially the 60s, when cameras started to show the beatings that were happening.

It was showing the police who were doing these egregious types of behaviors to protesters that people began to pay more attention to the civil rights movement. So, you know, hats off to the brothers and sisters who continue in the fight. This is important people to understand, Amisha, because the constant protest keeps the pressure to do what's right. A lot of people, they really prefer, and again, folks in media have no problem. Let's just move on to something else. But the story has to remain front and center. And it's no shock that media all of a sudden leaves when folks are burning stuff up, tearing stuff up.

And that's why I keep trying to explain to people who say, oh, well, it should be peaceful demonstrations. Well, guess what? Where are the cameras? And you have a good point. Media also has a habit of emphasizing chaos. They like to create an us versus them narrative about what a good protester looks like versus what a not so good protester looks like. And I think that as soon as those, you know, those what they would describe as riots ended up going away, so did the cameras and the influence. That doesn't mean that

people aren't still protesting in the streets. That's happening in hundreds of cities across America. And to Mustafa's point, many of those protesters are also lockstep with their white community members as well, who have decided that for weeks they are going to be out there with alongside African-Americans who have not had their rights, who have not had their rights upheld by their cities and by their states, who have also having some really integral changes that they want to see throughout the country, but also in their localities. And what we're seeing now is that this administration, the Trump administration, greatly despises any level of concert of moving forward for black people. And he is demonizing these protests solely because of why these protesters are in the streets. I think we talked about it earlier. He had absolutely no problem with the protests as long as it was about free speech and it was white people gun-toting and marching on capitals. As soon as it was black people arguing for their rights, albeit peaceful protest, he decided he was going to send in this force of God knows what to actually try to quell and dismantle it. That's what we're seeing. Kelly. No, I agree with the panelists here. This is just a situation where, once again,

our president is the one who is perpetuating the chaos. He is the one who is stirring the pot. And the people of Portland, Baltimore, D.C., Seattle, L.A., New York, we're all tired. We're all tired and we're fed up. And that's what you're seeing in Portland right now. That's what you're still seeing in D.C. right now and the other cities that I just mentioned. I have yet to be in D.C. where there's not a protest. Like you said, there's been a protest every single day. A group that comes to mind right now are the Freedom Fighters of D.C.

I have friends in that group who have been out there on the front lines every single day, and they have either been still tear gassed or rubber bullets or assaulted by police and, you know, their equivalents in that regard. And you don't see the media out there you don't see any news coverage about it because it's like because there's no overt chaos um and it's it's actually a movement now that's not being um vilified now all of a sudden it's not a news story so we we definitely need to keep the pressure up. We need people out there protesting, but we also need people covering the story like you, like others. Just step up to the plate and support wherever you can.

All right, folks, our next story, former mayor of Tallahassee and a Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Andrew Gillum, made his first public remarks since entering rehab in March. You might remember he was found passed out there in a hotel in Miami in March. There were allegations of drug use, alcohol. In this 11-minute Instagram video, Gillum explained his battle with depression and alcoholism. He also apologizes to his supporters for his actions. Hello, everybody. This is Andrew Gillum. I know it's been a while since we've had an opportunity to connect. But as many of you know, I decided to take some time away to work on myself, deal with some issues that I was having. I went away to rehab to focus on my issues with alcoholism.

Having grown up in a household where my father battled addiction to alcohol and later died from complications from that deadly addiction. I know well the toll that alcohol can take on not only the individual, but also on the family. I know well the toll that it took on my father's dreams, on his hopes, on his ambitions. And I knew that if I didn't wanna recycle many of those same issues for my children, that I had to do something about it and I had to do it now.

With a lot of encouragement from family and the people who love and care about me, I also got into therapy where I could start to talk through some of what was going on with me. I knew that if I had not dealt first with issues of addiction and the numbing that I chose with alcohol, there was no way I could start to pull back the layers and talk about what was truly happening underneath. Therapy created the outlet for me to be able to do that,

to be able to talk to somebody. I had totally underestimated the impact that losing the race for governor had had on my life and on the way those impacts started to show up in every aspect of my life. I didn't want to talk emotionally or really deeply about what had happened in the race for governor because it was a constant reminder of failure and my own personal failures. It was a reminder that I had let so many people down. It was a chorus of this voice that I tried for so long to quiet, which said that I wasn't enough, that I wasn't good enough. All the things that I wanted to suppress and numb and forget about, that depression around what I was experiencing there became far too much for me to keep down. And that's the real crazy thing about depression is that a lot of times we think we're dealing with it.

We're strong and we'll put on a brave face and it bubbles up on the inside. But eventually what is bubbling up on the inside is going to come out. And I certainly know what it felt like to see that come out. The feelings I was having as a result of what happened in November, the fact that the office that I thought I could do the most for, for other people and for the state that I love, I no longer had access to. But not only that, after having spent 16, 17 years as an elected official, the thing I knew how to do well, the thing that gave me an outlet to go and try to change the community in the way that I thought would make it better, All of that was all of a sudden gone. And it really did cause me to think about my own purpose and my own value and what I

could contribute, if anything. And I didn't want to have to face all those things. And so I numbed. I tried to suppress. I tried to ignore. And as I said, those things come up and they have a way of showing out. So I did the one thing that I knew that I knew I could do. And that was I got busy. For those of you on the outside, you were looking at me and you saw me on television. You saw me giving speeches and traveling and, you know, posting on Instagram and Facebook like I was living my best life. And in truth, I was perfecting what it meant to wear the mask, suffering and silence, because I simply could not bring myself to deal square on with what was happening more deeply inside of me. If there was a lesson to learn, if there was something I would want you to take from me, it would be don't be like me.

Don't suffer in silence. Get access to the help that you need. So many of us, you know, think that we got to perpetrate this image of perfection. I know I did. This image of strength, this image of I've got it all together. But the truth is nobody has it all together. That's the big secret. All of us are struggling and trying and clawing at trying to be something else when we really ought to be trying to just be at home in ourselves. And that's really the journey that I'm on right now. This very deep down desire to want to be a whole and complete and indivisible person, not having to be one thing in one place and one thing in another and a different person when I'm in this environment and in this setting.

And I know that all of us struggle with different layers of that. While my stuff had to be, you know, public and, you know, cause, you know, great embarrassment and lots of rumors, false, some true. The shame that I felt from all of that, from the harm that I had caused, was tearing me up. I needed real help to try to unpack that. It's one thing to feel guilty for a harm you feel you may have caused someone. That's how you know you're human. That's how you know you're not a sociopath. But shame is something completely different. Shame is like kudzu. It takes over you from the inside out. It has no real meaning and redeemable purpose other than to keep you from being the person you need to be. Other than stopping you from being your truest self, other than keeping you from your own purpose and promise, it has no other purpose.

It has no other meaning. It has no other desire. And so get rid of shame. Forget about shame. I know it took me quite a while to try to process my way through that. There's so much going on in the world. We got COVID. COVID hit very close to home for us. I watched my mother battle with that virus for over a month as we watched on helplessly, not sure how that whole thing was going to turn out, man. Take care of yourself. There's a lot of pressure there. There's pressure with what we're seeing right now in the country around this Black Lives Matter movement and anti-blackness. I know as a black man, what it means just to have to convince people that your life has meaning,

convince people that your life has purpose, not to be set above anybody, but just to be treated on a level that's equal with everybody else around you. That's a lot of pressure. And I think it sometimes causes us to look for other ways to try to numb and put ourselves in a different mindset and do some mind shift. But y'all, this thing is killing us. Depression is killing us. Suffering in silence is literally taking so many of our lives. And I would just want you not to have to experience what I had to experience to get to a place where you can try to begin the work to being at your best and to becoming your best self. I want to thank those of you who reached out, who sent letters and words and texts of encouragement from the simplest to the most profound. One that stuck out particularly was

someone who told me in the midst of my lowest point to be kind to myself. It just said, Andrew, remember to be kind to yourself. So I would share the same thing to you as you're struggling through whatever it is you're struggling with. Be kind to yourself. There is no perfect person. There's no perfect life. We're all just struggling to get by and to do better. And I know as I'm on my own journey here, I hope that I'll be able to share more layers that I'm developing and enveloping. I'm doing a lot of writing these days. I'm trying to put on paper a lot of what I'm experiencing right now. If if not to just be cathartic for me, maybe it will help to serve as healing for, you know, for others out there as it as it works to heal me. It hopefully will be a way in which I can give back.

Y'all, I want to thank a person who is my life partner, my wife, RJ, a woman who knows everything that I am and everything that I am not. And she chooses to love me anyhow. A woman who is literally God's grace on earth, the epitome of grace. I can't thank her enough for not just standing by me, but encouraging me through this and helping to prop me up on my leaning sides and to tell me that even though we don't know what the future looks like, that she believes that this is just the beginning and that the best is still yet to come, not just for me, but for her and for us and for our family. And so I would also pass that on to you to the extent that any of us need to just hear a word that says,

you know, our better days are still in front of us. This is a tough moment not to be out in the world and contributing. I have found it particularly difficult, but I want you to know that that although I can't be what I would love to be for you and for myself and for my community at this time, I hope you know that I couldn't be those things because I couldn't be what I needed to be for me first. And that's what I'm working on at this point in time. So I hope you'll continue to send good thoughts and good vibes up for me and my family. I'll do the same for you. I know that there is better, that there is a promise for better

and I look forward to seeing you on the other side. Take care and God bless. So Amisha, it has been four months since of course the story came out. Now, the question is, was that needed? And was it necessary for Andrew Gillum to release that video to his followers? Your thoughts? I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time,

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And to hear episodes one week early and ad free with exclusive content, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. Sometimes as dads, I think we're too hard on ourselves. We get down on ourselves on not being able to, you know, we're the providers. But we also have to learn to take care of ourselves. A wrap-away, you've got to pray for yourself as well as for everybody else. But never forget yourself. Self-love made me a better dad because I realized my worth. Never stop being a dad.

That's dedication. Find out more at fatherhood.gov. Brought to you by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Ad Council. It shouldn't have been needed, but to be honest, I think that it was. Because of the way that media treated him after that initial hotel video, that initial hotel photos and things were released, there were so many questions. He seemingly went into the darkness. And because we live in this 24-7 news cycle and social media develops their own beginning and ending to stories, I think that it was very mature of him to speak. It was very honest of him in the way that he did, you know, reveal a lot of things.

And as a black man in America, I think that, you know, when you're coping with something that is as demonstrative as a loss that big for something that you really cared about or wanted, there is a segment of depression. That happens when anybody cares about something and it falls outside of their grasp. And sometimes when people get depressed, they fall into habits, they fall into things that they probably would not have had they not experienced that type of loss. So my heart goes out to him and his family. And I definitely think that that was a courageous thing for him to do. Kelly. No, I echo the sentiments of Amisha here. I that that was a hard time a couple months ago seeing that because I look up Andrew Gillum, his campaign was revolutionary for the state of Florida.

And for him to have lost that seat in the way he lost that seat, that could be devastating to anybody. So I certainly empathize with his plight. I empathize with his family and his loved ones. And I really, really wish him the best. What I will say is that the timing of his of his statement is interesting to me. A couple of things that I picked up are, well, one thing that was glaring to me is the fact that he said he's been writing more.

Maybe this is, you know, a segue for some some pieces that will come out that he's written, maybe a book, maybe a think piece, what have you. Maybe he has a project on the way. I don't know. But I wish him the best and I wish him luck regardless of what his future endeavors may be. Well, Mustafa, granted, doing a solo video is one thing. But if you have future political aspirations, that's going to have to mean sitting down for a one on one interview. Yeah, he's definitely going to have to do that. But, you know, let's focus on the moment. So it's a blessing to see Brother Gillum actually doing the work. You can hear the work in the words that he is sharing that is helping him to heal.

You know, we build people up. People love to build folks up in this society, and then they love it even more as you fall down. They will literally pull the legs out underneath of you. I've seen it happen to so many folks, and we often forget that all of us have made plenty of mistakes. We may not just have had the spotlight on us. We've got 21 million people in this country who are suffering from substance abuse,

and only 10% of those folks ever go and get treatment. We've got 16 million folks in this country who are suffering from substance abuse and only 10 percent of those folks ever go and get treatment. We got 16 million folks in this country who are dealing with depression on a yearly basis. And in our communities, unfortunately, you know, therapy is not something that had traditionally been embraced. And now that's beginning to change. So I'm going to focus on this moment and hoping that he continues down the road to actually get the healing, to get the treatment that he needs, and then worry about the politics and other things at a later date. All right, folks, last night we actually showed you the interview that I conducted with the late Congressman John Lewis in 2018. People said, okay, why are we just seeing this? Well, here's why. We actually had

that with a three camera shoot for the particular video. But we had a hard drive that crashed where we lost. We thought we lost all three of the cameras, which meant the video was completely gone. But the reality is we actually were able to save one of those files, which was the actual one of Congressman John Lewis. And during that interview, you're going to see something where he talked with Colin Kaepernick for the first time. And if you saw it last night, you may have missed it. This is what happened when two freedom fighters actually speak for the first time. Hello, sir.

How are you? Colin. Hello. Congressman John Lewis. Hi. How are you? Colin. Hello. Congressman John Lewis. How you doing, brother? I'm doing great. How you doing, brother? Fine. Thank you for all of your work, for your leadership. You have touched me. You have inspired me.

And to see you getting out there pushing and kneeling. You've done so much, not just for the American community, but for the world community. I said, thank you. I admire you. I love you. Thank you for paving the way for an opportunity like this to even happen. It's great to finally connect with you. I talk to Mr. B about you all the time. We have great conversations. So it's great to finally have

this conversation and be able to connect. Yeah, well, I'm honored to have an opportunity to speak to you. I wish sometime when you're in Washington or in Atlanta that we could get together and maybe have something to eat or something to drink. Talk about where we must go from here. I would love to do that. I'll make sure Roland passes you my number so we can stay in contact. Yes, I would love to do just that. I know there's a lot of members of the Congress, a lot of people trying to find a way,

especially young members, would love to have an opportunity to talk with you. And there's hundreds and thousands, no doubt, of millions of students and young people been deeply inspired by you not just in America but around the world so keep it up keep the faith it's all gonna work out good we cannot stop now too much work to be done you want to see that full interview or just simply go to our YouTube channel. And so I hope you check that out. Now, we talked about the speech that John Lewis, he was the last surviving main speaker at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28th, 1963.

They made him change his speech because the initial speech that he wrote was deemed far too radical. Well, actor Danny Glover actually did a reading of that particular speech, and I just thought it might be interesting for you to hear it. Watch this. In August of 1963, there was the great march on Washington for jobs and freedom. 200,000 people were there, and everybody remembers Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech, but the most militant speech of the day was delivered by John Lewis, a student leader from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

He's from Alabama. But he was pressured by established civil rights leaders to tone down his speech, but here is the part of the original speech that he had hoped to deliver that day. We march today for jobs and freedom, but we have nothing to be proud of. The hundreds and thousands of our brothers and sisters are not here. They have no money for their transportation for they are receiving starvation wages, or no wages at all. In good conscience we cannot support the administration's civil rights bill for it is too little and too late. The voting

section of this bill would not help thousands of black citizens who want to vote. It would not help the citizens of Mississippi, of Alabama, of Georgia, who are qualified to vote but lack a sixth grade education. We are now involved in revolution. This nation is still a place of cheap political leaders who build their careers on immoral compromise and ally themselves with open forms of political, economic, and social exploitation. What political leader here can stand up and say, my party is a party of principle? The party of Kennedy is also the party of Eastland. The party of Javis is also the party of Goldwater. Where is our party? The revolution is at hand and we must free ourselves of the chains of political and economic slavery.

The nonviolent revolution is saying we will not wait for the courts to act. We have been waiting for hundreds of years. We will not wait for the president, the Justice Department, the Congress, but we will take matters into our own hands and create a source of power outside any national structure that could and would assure us of victory. To those who have said, be patient and wait, we must say that patience is a dirty and nasty word. We cannot be patient. We do not want to be free gradually. We want our freedom and we want it now. We cannot depend on any political party for both the Democrats and the Republicans have betrayed the basic principles of the Declaration of Independence.

We all recognize the fact that if any radical social political and economic changes are to take place in this society, the people, the masses must bring them about. Mr. Kennedy is trying to take the revolution out of the streets and put it into the courts. Listen, Mr. Kennedy. Listen, Mr. Congressman. Listen, fellow citizens. The black masses are on the march for jobs and for freedom. And we must say to the politicians that there won't be a cooling-off period. We won't stop now. All the forces of Eastland, Barnett, Wallace, and Thurman won't stop the revolution. The time will come when we will not confine our marching to Washington.

We will march through the South, through the heart of Dixie, the way Sherman did. We shall pursue our own scorched earth policy and burn Jim Crow to the ground. Burn Jim Crow to the ground nonviolently. We shall fragment the South into a thousand pieces and put them back together in the image of democracy. We will make the action of the past few months look petty. And as I say to you, wake up, America. Well, I could see Mustafa why they didn't want him to give in that speech.

I would have preferred it. What do we say? What do you want, Justice? We want it now. I'm so proud of my brother. I know all of us are going to miss him. We appreciate his mentorship and his grace. I mean, he was such a graceful man. But he laid the framework. And it's so good to let folks know that the brother had a little radicalism in him also. Not so different than Jesus. People want to make Jesus seem weak. Jesus was a radical too. Well, Amisha, I make it clear he didn't have a

lyrical radical. Those were black revolutionaries. Absolutely. I think that what our history books have done is try to limit the level of radicalness that was in any of our civil rights leaders. Most of them were not the meek and mild black people that we have read about in American history books or that is even shown in a lot of the tributes and praises that we've seen since the late John Lewis's death. I think that, you know, in a speech like that, you recognize that this was one. How many other speeches were there that had to be toned down for, you know, for an audience

consumption. And I think that this goes to show just the type of leader, the type of revolutionary thinker, the type of fighter John Lewis actually was. Last point, Kelly. No, I definitely agree. I had chills, you know, going up my spine and down my arms just listening to it because 57 years later, it is still relevant. Just swap out Kennedy for Trump and Jim Crow for FOP, frankly,

and these other police organizations that are perpetuating the Blue Lives Matter movement. It is uncanny and sad, really, that almost 60 years later, we are in the same spot that John Lewis was on the march on Washington regarding this speech. And for it to have been watered down, like, and that's not to discredit his speech that he gave at the march on Washington. That was a very powerful speech. And to know that it had been watered down from that just goes to show you just how, you know, distant we are as Christians from what Christianity really is. Christianity at its core was a rebellion. We were rebels. Jesus was a rebel. The 12 disciples were a rebel. Even before that, David was a rebel. Pick somebody out of the Old Testament,

all rebellions. And it is that spirit that is fueling us and fueling this movement such that we need something to change. That is why we are where we are. So I commend Danny Glover for sharing that with us. It was truly powerful. And I look forward to the next generation, myself included, regarding what comes next. All right, then. Folks, update. The funeral for Reverend C.T. Vivian is going to take place at 11 a.m. on Thursday at Providence Missionary Baptist Church.

We will be live streaming that funeral. counts funeral plans for Congressman John Lewis until after the funeral of Reverend C.T. Vivian out of respect for him and his work in the civil rights movement. I want to thank our panel. I certainly appreciate it. Mustafa, Kelly, and Amisha, thank you so very much for joining us. Folks, I do want to read the name of the folks who are joining our Bring the Funk fan club. Aaron Smith, Anita Halbert, Ken DeHoe Gomes, Carol Williams, Deborah Baker, Deshaun Lee, Duchess Tours, Elmer Foster, Fidoice Brown, Gregory Horsley, Harry Payton, Jadonna Sanders, Jones, Joshua L. Pruton, Linda S. Edwards, McGee Williams, Michelle Mayberry, Patricia Carroll, Ronnie D., Shanita Watson, Stephen Stokes, Susie Tatum, Smith, Takiq, Dieb, Tawana, Terry

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That's Betty Featherstone, Rachel Richardson. Thanks a bunch bunch we also have on here let's see CC Washington CC thank you so very much as well let's see here Rasheed El-Amin thank you so very much Beverly Hamilton thank you so very much as well y'all I got this really special one. Now, first of all, I'm going to have to go get this money exchanged this year. So this is a euro, a $20 euro. Okay, you see it?

It's a $20 euro. It said, hi, Roland Martin. I do like to look at your show from Amsterdam. So I send you $20 euro to support your good work. Yours truly. And I think it's Nettie Van Ratt. Nettie Van Ratt. Wow. So we got a fan of ours. We got fans who are all over the country, but to have a fan send us a $20 euro. So I might have to go get this converted from Amsterdam. I certainly appreciate it. I tell you, folks, people all over the world, check us out.

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