#RolandMartinUnfiltered - Repubs block voting rights; Family of John Lewis rally for voting rights; LA teacher's racist post

Episode Date: August 12, 2021

8.11.21 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Repubs block voting rights, go on recess; Family of John Lewis rally for voting rights on Capitol Hill; Rights groups urge Biden to end the filibuster; New census numbers expected to impact redistricting; Outrage over Louisiana teacher's racist social media post; President of the National Medical Association talks COVID vaccine and mask mandates + Willie Moore Jr and his son Khalil talk mentorship.Support #RolandMartinUnfiltered via the Cash App ☛ https://cash.app/$rmunfiltered or via PayPal ☛ https://www.paypal.me/rmartinunfiltered#RolandMartinUnfiltered is a news reporting platform 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.

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Coming up on Roland Martin on the filter. Republicans, they block Democratic attempts to get some movement on voting rights legislation before the August recess. Now Democrats will wait until September. The Republicans campaign, they are not waiting. They will be hand delivering their request for them to move. Tomorrow I'll tell you all about that. The family of civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis was in town today to express their displeasure

about nothing being passed so far. When it comes to voting rights, some civil rights groups are urging President Biden in the filibuster. They plan to deliver our give that petition tomorrow. Since this numbers will be released tomorrow and will find the impact of redistricting

due to the new numbers, but also. Guess where the growth has been? People of color, but will we benefit from new seats? Community in Louisiana is outraged by a racist social media post by a teacher in a predominantly black neighborhood demanding she be fired.

Two Georgia basketball coaches are being charged with murder after one of the athletes died after working out in 106 degree heat two years ago. Yeah, we also talk with the president, the National Medical Association about vaccine and mask mandates. All of that more coming up next.

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Martin now He's funky, he's fresh, he's real, the best you know, he's rolling, Martin. Martin. The attempt by Democrats to get consideration for voting rights before their recess got blocked by Republicans early this morning. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell quickly rejected Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as he tried to bring up Senate Bill 2093, a revised version of Senate Bill 1, before the People Act, after the chamber approved a budget resolution. At this late hour and before the conclusion of this session, this chamber is going to take one more step in the fight to protect voting rights in this country. In a moment, I will move to discharge the Rules Committee from further consideration of the For the People Act,

a vehicle for the Senate to have a debate on voting rights. It is my intention that the First Amendment to the bill would be the text of a compromise bill that a group of senators are working on. Let me be very clear, this is a debate the Senate must have. In America today we are witnessing the most sweeping and coordinated attacks on voting rights since the era of Jim Crow. Reactionary Republican legislatures are making it harder for poorer, younger, and non-white Americans to vote, while at the same time making it easier for partisan actors to steal an

election. Well here we go again colleagues, we've seen this once before, and I think it's fitting that after passing this budget resolution full of reckless taxing and spending, we end the evening with an effort to federalize, take over all elections all across America by the federal government. Now, we're hearing there's going to be a substitute but what's technically before us is as follows. After ramming through this this reckless taxing and spending spree, here in the dead of night they also want to start tearing up the ground rules of our democracy and writing new ones, of course, on a purely partisan basis. I suppose the timing actually makes sense,

given the terrible votes that every Democratic senator has just cast here tonight. I can understand why their thoughts have turned so quickly to their next elections. And Senator Ted Cruz of Texas objected to the measures shortly after 4.30 a.m., the Senate voted 15-49 to approve a motion to discharge S-1 out of the Senate Rules Committee, meaning it advance out of committee into the Senate floor. Since there was no movement during this session, Schumer promises voting rights will be the first matter of legislative business they will take up when lawmakers return from recess on September 13th. Now, today, the

family of civil rights icon John Lewis was in town. They are not happy the Senate did not pass any legislation. Lewis' two brothers and niece stood with Trans-Foreign Justice Coalition on the Supreme Court steps today pleading with President Joe Biden to do whatever it takes to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. This is a wonderful day in our

nation's capital, but I cannot say that based upon what has happened and what has more importantly, what has not happened. What has not happened. What has not happened is that our Senate of the United States is not in session right now. What has not happened is that the For the People Act that would cover millions of Americans,

people of color, communities of color, has not been passed. What has not happened is that what is necessary to be certain that our democracy is protected and that right to vote is protected has not happened. But one thing that I am confident of that will happen is that the American people will rise up and demand that the Senate come back into session

and pass the Florida People Act and to protect every American's right to vote. We have a current fight that is worthy of the same spirit and stamina that our hero, John Lewis, brought to the Selma, to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965 that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which is under serious attack and is being assaulted by state legislature after state legislature. H.R. 1, as we know, was designed to protect the people, to make it easier for them to

vote, not harder. H.R. 1 and H.R. 4 was actually written by the late Congressman John Lewis. H.R. 4 actually put in place to enable states to put in their own laws about voting, making it harder, scaling back. I was talking at breakfast this morning,. I used an analogy, which I thought was very fitting. If you keep slicing the voting right, you keep taking parts out of it. It's kind of like a cake sitting on this counter here. You keep slicing parts all around it. Very soon, there's nothing left. And the congressman worked more than 60 years of

his life protecting the voting rights. And when you're protecting the voting rights, you're not only protecting just voting rights, you're protecting a wide range of rights. I think about my parents when they used to talk about when they couldn't vote. And I was just a little boy and a lot of the stuff I didn't understand. But as I grew older and understand more about the political realm of things, I know how important it is to protect the right to vote. I can't walk in John boots, but I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to put my hat on and start walking.

John had did so much for this country, for this human race, black race, all races. It didn't make him no different. He tried to do his best to make it right for everybody. So I'm going to pledge today that I will fight non-foully to everything that John voted to go. And I recently heard a song that John Lewis still lives. Yes. He still lives.

He still lives. And we keep that in our mind and run this race with patience. Yes. We will see the evidence that John Lewis still lives. I am proud to be able to vote simply because of all of the hard work he done. I am able to vote because of the beating he went through. And because of that, I stand here proudly, like my uncle said, putting on my shoes, ready to fight, ready to walk, ready to stand still, ready to sit if I have to, to do what's needed to make sure this vote, this act is passed. Yes!

SR will be passed. SR 2 will be passed. HR 1 shall be passed. HR 4 shall be passed. Why? Because we need to make it easy for us to vote. We need to make sure we capture the information that will make it possible for people to vote without being prosecuted, without being ridiculed, without being held down, pressed down.

We've been pressed down long enough. Now it's time to vote. Now it's time for us to be able to vote freely. Now we have to focus on our future. And if we don't pass this bill, what's going to happen to the generation to come? What's going to happen to our grandkids and our great-grandkids? What's going to happen to your grandkids? What's going to happen to your generation as well? Because one thing we know, Uncle Robert didn't just stand for black. He stood for all. He wanted all men

to be equal. He wanted all men to have the same justice. And so with that being said, we must vote and long live John Lillard. Now, tomorrow, several voting rights advocacy groups from across the nation will join Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton to deliver a petition to the White House, as well as Senators Schumer and McConnell. That petition will urge the president to publicly urge the Senate to end the filibuster, ensuring a crucial bill is passed. In fact, before we actually came on the show, I got a text message from Reverend Dr. William Barber,

and this is what he sent me as well. He said, Poor People's Campaign, a national call for moral revival, a national multiracial faith leaders and Texas legislators to hand deliver moral challenge to defend the infrastructure of our democracy to Senate and White House leadership. Delegation of multiracial national faith leaders, they're going to deliver that to, again, as I said, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, President Joe Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris. They will include Bishop William Barber, Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis, co-chairs of the Poor People's Campaign, Dr. Jim Winkler, President and General Secretary of the National Council of Churches in Christ.

Also, they're going to start a gather outside the Supreme Court at 10 a.m. for a news conference tomorrow, then walk over to the Senate offices together to deliver the urgent demands. The letter will demand in the filibuster, fully restore and expand protection of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, passage of all provisions of the bill

of John Lewis wrote for the People Act, an immediate increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 our they would deliver these demands six days after the 56th anniversary of the 1965 voting rights act doing this right now is cliff albright co-founder of black voters matter and will be one of the folks who's going to be with congresswoman home homes norton uh tomorrow cliff um this uh we've talked about this beforehand, the constant pressure that is needed. We saw the action that took place today. Congress did not move. The Senate Republicans blocked them again. But the reality is, if you had some guts shown by Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, they could actually end the filibuster and get these bills moving.

Yeah, thanks for having me, Roland. I mean, you're exactly right. We need those senators, and not just those senators, because it's those two, and they might be the worst and most stubborn of the crew. But there's some other ones that have been a little problematic and on the fence in regards to the filibuster. There's people like Senator Coons from Delaware and Carper and a couple of others. And so what we've been saying is that recess can wait, right, that the Senate should not have recessed until they dealt with voting rights. They suspended their recess, including over the weekend, so that they could deal with this infrastructure bill. If they could do that for infrastructure, then surely, surely they can deal with one of the most fundamental rights that this country has, which is the right to vote and passing this voting rights legislation.

They failed to answer that call. Be it as it may, then we're adjusting the call from recess can wait to recess needs to be cut short. They can come back early from this recess, the House on their side is coming back August 23rd to deal with not just infrastructure and the budget reconciliation, but to also deal with voting rights, in particular H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, because they've already passed it for the people. And so they're coming back towards the end of August. The Senate can cut their recess short and come back.

And unless they—and if and if they until they do, the other call that we're putting out, and I'll talk about this tomorrow, is that if they're going to be on recess, then we need to be hounding them, particularly, again, the most problematic ones in those states. We need to be at any event that they're doing in their districts, in their states, then folks need to be there demanding voting rights and demanding that they cut recess short and come back and deal with those voting rights. They don't want to get to a point where they want to end their recess, because they're so doggone tired of seeing folks raising these issues with them while they're in their states on their recess. And so that's what we're going to be doing. We'll be talking about that tomorrow.

But more importantly, tomorrow is at the White House, because we're making the call and delivering these petitions to the White House, saying, we need President Biden to pick a side, we need him to lean in, we need him to call for them to come back from the recess and to deal with voting rights. He has got to be unequivocal at demanding and using everything he has at his disposal to get this voting rights legislation passed. JOHN YANG And so what we heard for a very long time is that the priority of the White House was the infrastructure bill. Okay. It's now passed the Senate. It goes over

to the House. No more excuses from the White House. No more excuses from President Biden. That's right. No more excuses, right? You've done your job. You held your 300 or so. We've heard that he held 300 meetings in regards to passing the infrastructure bill. There's been a fraction of that, maybe less than 1 percent in regards to voting rights. So we need him to keep up the same energy that he just showed for the past couple of months for infrastructure. He's got to do the same thing in regards to voting rights. But let me add this, because infrastructure is not quite yet done, right? The House still needs to act on it. And so part of what we're also going to be saying,

even though we appreciate our friends over in the House, they were the first to pass H.R. 1, they've been the ones, four members, as you know, four members of the Congressional Black Caucus arrested over the past month demonstrating for the For the People Act. So we know that they've done a lot, but we might need them to do a little bit more because we have got to start connecting this issue of infrastructure to voting rights, the same way Congress, including Nancy Pelosi, is saying that they're not going to pass that infrastructure bill until the Senate takes action on reconciliation, the same way that she and the House are connecting those issues. We need them to connect it to voting rights. In other words, President Biden, until we get some action,

and Chuck Schumer, until we get some action for the People Act, this cherished infrastructure bill that y'all just passed, it may not get acted on in the House. That's a call that we need to start putting out to those who are on our side and friendly on the House side. And that's the type of leverage that is needed. Yeah, I mean, this is a lesson in power. I mean, at the end of the day, you know, it's a moral lesson. You know, it's an issue about voting rights and civil rights and all that. But, you know, if we're not clear, this is about power.

Mitch McConnell is unapologetic and unashamed about the ways that he uses his power for the wrong. He uses his power against those who are marginalized, against black and brown voters and young voters and veterans and disabled folks. They are not ashamed about the way that they use their power for the good. We've got to be not ashamed about the way that we use our power and the way that we ask our friends, again, those that are supposedly on our side, we need them to use the power that we have given them. This is about power. And we're going to be making the demand that we connect these issues. So, again, you have demonstrated, President Biden, Chuck Schumer, you have demonstrated

that you care passionately about infrastructure, probably more passionately than you care about voting rights. Well, guess what? Right now, we're more passionate about our voting rights than we are about that infrastructure. And if we need to connect those two and use that leverage and use that power in order to get our priorities done, and not just – it's the House's priority. They named it H.R. 1 because it was their first priority. So if it's their first priority, they've got to send a clear message to the Senate that they're not going to move on the House side until the Senate moves on their side in regards to voting rights. The thing that I find to be real interesting when we talk about this issue, you have Senator Joe Manchin who is pushing hard for this national voter ID. And I'm just trying to understand who the hell is asking for that?

Well, you know, we know who's asking for it. It's the Republicans that are driving that narrative. It's the big lie that's driving that narrative. And Joe Manchin, out of his odd desire to be so-called bipartisan, with folks that have already demonstrated that they don't mind overturning elections, right? Like, he's going out of his way to give credence to the big lie, right? And so that's really what he's doing here. He's catering to those Republicans that he's hungry to have their acceptance and approval in the spirit of bipartisanship, which, again, ignores the

fact that the bill and the things that are in the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, as well as in the For the People Act, already have overwhelming bipartisan support. If you define bipartisanship on the country country instead of defining it on the people that are in the Senate and in the House, a hundred and something of whom voted, voted to overturn the election. You can't get bipartisanship with people that have that track record. So that's what he's talking about. That's who he's catering to when he throws out some of these proposals in regards to voter I.D., as well as when he ignores some aspects that are in the For the People Act, like the issue of reenfranchisement

and restoration of the vote to people who have had previous felony convictions. His compromise proposal ignored that completely. That's unacceptable. But, again, that's what happens when you have a senator who's going out of his way to appeal to those who have already proven that they have no interest in expanding access to the vote. And this is literally what he said on the Senate floor. And I'm still trying to find out where these 10 folk he keep talking about. I made it crystal clear that I do not support the For the People's Act.

Over the past few months, I've worked to eliminate the far-reaching aspects of that bill and amend the legislation to make sure our elections are fair, accessible, and secure. In June, I voted to begin debate in the Senate on my amended voting rights legislation, not for the People's Act. Tonight, I am again voting to move that process forward because I believe that we need to come together to restore people's faith in the integrity of our elections. But I do make it very clear that I will not support for the People's Act. For example, I firmly believe that we need common sense voter ID requirements,

just like we have in West Virginia, that strengthen the security of our elections without making it harder for Americans to vote. I also firmly believe that we shouldn't politicize the Federal Elections Commission, prohibit any guardrails on vote-by-mail, or prevent local election officials from doing basic maintenance of voter rolls. The compromise bill we voted on in June included all of these important provisions, and I urge my colleagues, Democrats and Republicans, to allow us to debate this critical issue and come up with a bipartisan solution that protects every

Americans right to vote All right, so You see it Republicans actually actually if y'all go back to it that you look at the graphic there That was the end Republicans for voting rights. They're the ones who are championing what Joe Manchin just said there the reason I'm laughing I'm sorry. He keeps talking bipartisan, bipartisan, bipartisan, just for the sake of shits and giggles. Please show me the 10. See, that's the whole deal.

All these media people, all these mainstream media people who keep talking to Joe Manchin because he won't come over here. They refuse to ask him, Joe, show me your 10. He can't because they don't exist. Right. And you hit it on the head. I scream at the TV

every time I see one of these interviews that some of these reporters do with them, and he'll say, you know, yeah, I think we got them. The votes are out there. The 10 are out there. And I'm waiting for them to ask the next follow-up question, which is exactly what you're asking, who, who are the 10? In fact, don't even tell me who are the 10 that are guaranteed to do it. Who are the 10 that are even in discussions about this? He can't name 10. He can't name five. He can barely name two. But he gets away with it.

And you're exactly right. I'm glad you showed that graphic, because showing that it was the Republicans for Voting Rights or whatever it was called, because what he is doing, he is giving Republican talking points. He is using the big lies as talking points. Every time he talks about, oh, we need voter, we need photo ID in order to have the integrity or security of our elections, like West Virginia, there's other states that don't have any form of photo ID and even, you heard him talking about the maintenance of the voter rolls, which we know has been used to purge voter rolls and to disproportionately impact black, brown, young voters, college students, et cetera, et cetera. And so he is using Republican talking points. And, again, we are going to have to, because at the end

of the day, we know, when he shows you who he is, then believe him, right? But we know what we've got to do. We've got to show up. We've got to support people in West Virginia, because they exist, that are trying to hold him accountable. We've got to support that process. We've got to support direct action. We've got to support and encourage civil disobedience, and not just in West Virginia and not just in Arizona, but in Delaware, in New York, where Chuck Schumer is, as well as in at least three or four other states

where there are Democrats, Democratic senators that have been on the fence about the filibuster. We have got to be ungovernable, and we have got to let them see us everywhere they go, in the spirit of love and accountability, right? But we have got to have civil disobedience in order to let them know that we are serious when we're talking about voting rights. Because at the end of the day, our voting rights are connected to all these other issues that we're dealing with, including COVID, which is ravaging parts of this country. Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter. We still appreciate it, man. Thank you so very much. Thanks, man. Thank you so very much. Thanks, Rowan. Bringing my panel now, Robert Petillo, Executive Director, Rainbow Push, Coalition

Peachtree Street Project, Monique Pressley, Legal Analyst, Crisis Manager, Georgia Fort, Independent Journalist. Glad to have all three of you here. Robert, I'll start with you. I really do get a kick out of every time I hear Joe Manchin talk. And all these folks keep saying, oh, bipartisan, bipartisan, bipartisan, bipartisan. And I just sit there and go, y'all, he lying. In fact, I was looking at, it was a tweet that Amanda Carpenter, She's a Republican. She's a commentator on CNN. And so she actually had said, that's right. She's like, you know, the four people act as dead. You know, Joe Manchin can get,

you know, can get this thing over. He can't. He can't. He cannot bring 10 Republicans because they don't exist. Well, it's interesting because that wasn't a bipartisan discussion Joe Mantle was having. That was a ditzycrack discussion that Joe Mantle was having when it comes to the right to vote. Understand what he was talking about, nationalizing photo ID. For what reason? The only point of that is to make it more difficult for elderly people to vote, to make it more difficult for poor people to vote, for the homeless to vote. Your right to vote is not supposed to be incumbent upon your housing status, which is what that would do. Maintenance of the voter rolls, what those

subterfuge for is the idea of these voter purges, where you take tens of thousands of people off the voter rolls and then force them to proactively go back and put themselves back on the voter rolls. So he is talking about one step further than simply not supporting these voter people. He said he's introducing his own legislation that will not further people out. He's making it very explicitly clear where he stands on these issues. So I think we have to get some folks together in West Virginia to find a primary challenge for him. I think the president has to exercise the maximum pressure, because even if we did break the filibuster right now, without Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema on board and whichever other Democratic senators, we still wouldn't go anywhere, because we still wouldn't even

have 50 votes if you don't have those folks on board. So, I think it's going to have to be an all-hands-on-deck situation to ensure that they understand that without the black vote, without the brown vote, they will not be in office. They will not be in a majority. And they have people ready, willing and able to primary them. You know, and this is just rare, Monique. It has to be just just relentless pressure in your face with these two. And then I hear people say, well, none of that's going to work. Okay, fine. Show me what will. Right. No. And I'm not saying that I know what will, but I am with those people who am not certain at all that the relentless pressure will get us where we need. I mean,

even Cliff and I, you know, I love everything that they do, but he's looking at the numbers and counting them and saying that it's not just these two senators that are problematic. So elections matter, people. And even with a razor-thin majority, it is not enough for the type of assault on our democracy, the type of racism and entrenched racism that the enemy is attempting to advance forward in our nation. So we voted once, yes. I'm not amongst those who say, why would the Black people vote again? You better vote again and again and again until there are more of us in power such that it removes all doubt. And that's just absolutely what is necessary

here because everything else is going to be a fight and you're going to deal with the president like President Obama had to decide if it was going to be health care to save millions of lives or if it was going to be something else. And President Biden is doing the same thing now. He's opting for infrastructure and trying to get people jobs and trying to get people vaccinated and keep his constituents alive. And yes, that actually matters. Is it that voting does not matter? Of course it doesn't. We need the vote to be secure. But we got this man in and I need him to do all of the things he is doing and do this. So I am torn. I don't have the solutions for this. If I did, I would say so.

Look, everybody has a role to play, Georgia. I believe when you are a civil rights group, voting rights group, poor people campaign, doesn't matter. Your job is to exert that external pressure. You've got people on the inside, like Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock and others who are doing their part. At the end of the day, you've got to wear these folks down, and I don't think being quiet. I think you've got to put more troops on the line to go after them, and it has to be constant.

I mean, it just simply has to be relentless, and that's the thing that I think so many people who really do not appreciate the Black Freedom Movement don't understand. That was a relentless effort. They were—King and Abernathy and Haidt and Roy Wilkins and, of course, Whitney Young. Look, they were in a constant pursuit of where can we exert the next pressure point to get the attention of D.C. Georgia, you're on mute.

You're on mute. There we go. Now we hear you. I was going to say, Roland, I couldn't agree with you more. And I'm glad that you brought up the historical component, because as a journalist, really trying to center our narrative in the facts of where our nation has come from in terms of voting rights. And historically speaking, when you look at the literacy test and the way that that was an obstacle to prevent Black people in this nation from being able to access their right to vote. And now that's just evolved. It's just morphed into what we're seeing play out present day. And I think having that comparison, being

able to compare and contrast what happened previously in our nation to what's happening now, I think it helps American citizens, maybe who are not so much into the political scene, really see how history is repeating itself, and that this is not a matter of trying to protect voting security. This is a matter of Republicans trying to protect their power. And so they're using this as a strategy, this attack on voting rights, voting suppression that we're seeing play out right now, is not about the security, right? It's about, how can we maintain power? If we can't convince you to vote for us and keep us in office, how can we dismantle your right to vote?

And so I do think it serves us well to examine exactly how we can apply pressure from different points. And so even if you're not in D.C., even if you're not represented by some of the politicians who are leading on this issue, you can absolutely organize and galvanize in your own communities to make sure that the voting rights of those in your community are protected. I have every time I hear Joe Manchin talk about, oh, it's all about security like we have in West Virginia. Dude, there's no evidence of all of this rampant voter fraud. It is a Republican lie. Robert? Well, I think we also have to continue to call that out. There's been so much attention on things like Cuomo this week, many of the other trivialities out there. What Reverend

Jackson's been saying for 40 years, the right to vote is a dispositive of all other rights. There is no infrastructure bill if you do not have a protected right to vote. You don't get that majority that they have to pass things through reconciliation without a protected right to vote. And the fact that these states are doing this at the exact moment that suddenly many traditionally red states are starting to turn purple, if not blue, as Georgia did, I think is the most obvious way of explaining that the only purpose of this was to make it more difficult for black and brown people to vote. I don't understand how you have a president who loses an election by 3 million votes, then they let a half million people die, and they lose an election by 8 million votes, and then suddenly you're saying,

well, we have to make sure these elections are secure. You need to have a party that represents a majority of the American people if you want to win a majority of the votes and start just dilding down with the rules and work on actually recruiting more people to your side of the argument. So I think there's a lot of work that needs to be done and we have to attack it from all fronts because if we allow this to stand, then we'll just simply be going back in this circle over and over again. We shouldn't have to win by a landslide every time just to eke out a victory. We should actually have fair rules where votes count the way they're supposed to. And we see exactly what is going on, Monique. We tie what's happening here with these voting bills that are being passed or being trying to force through by Republicans. Then we also have

to think about what's going on with the United States Census. These things are tied together. The reality is the Census is going to have a direct impact on representation. Now, these things matter because tomorrow the Census Bureau officially begins this decade's round of redistricting. And, of course, on the clock, we'll start with with about every state that's going to be drawing new congressional maps. Now, here's the piece. According to the 2020 census, as of April 2020, the population of the United States is 331,449,281. All right. Now, that means based on the population count, the congressional apportion meant will shift seven seats in 13 states that means that six states that will gain house seats Texas to Florida one Colorado one Montana one North Carolina one Oregon one okay now

we have Florida there twice I don't know why we have Florida there twice y''all so pick, take your pick. Florida getting two to getting one. Which one is it? Thank you. All right. So deal there. Now here's the piece. Seven states going to be losing seats. California will lose one. Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, West Virginia. Now let's go back to the seven states that are going to be gaining. Okay, let's go back to those. Now, let's go to the previous graphic, please. Previous graphic. Thank you. Now, if you look at that map, Texas, red state, Biden did not win Florida, won Colorado, Montana, red state, North Carolina, one of my Republicans, Oregon won my Democrats. Now, but here's the difference, though. Even though Republicans won Florida, the question is, where will that particular seat be? Same with North Carolina.

Let's go to the seven states that lost. Now, California, Biden won. Illinois, Biden won. Michigan, Biden won. New York, Biden won. Illinois, Biden won. Michigan, Biden won. New York, Biden won. Ohio, Republicans won. Pennsylvania, Biden won. West Virginia, Republicans won. Same thing. This matters because it's where the that is going to then decide what goes on. The other thing is this here. We now know that of the shift in the population, Monique, the shift in the population has been the result of largely people of color. What have Republicans been doing?

Creating seats to benefit white Republicans. And so in Texas, you're from Texas, Texas in the last census gained seats due to black and Hispanic. Republicans said, we'll gladly take those and basically elevated white Republicans. And then that's what may very well happen again. Yeah, and it's hideous. And these are the types of facts, frankly, Roland,

that I believe need to be dead front in front of our people's faces because we perish for lack of knowledge. So we have people still, even as we watch people die unvaccinated and due to this pandemic, we have people still in the face of job loss and in Texas in the face of hideous mismanagement. I mean, just a complete F of a governor. And they're still saying it's all politics and I don't like to talk politics and politics doesn't matter and they're all the same.

No, they are not. That is not true. That is a lie that they are perpetuating so that we stay home, so that we do not vote and so that we do not speak out. literally watching as our number grows in terms of majority status, and we decrease in terms of leadership. And the only way that happens is through the corrupt grab for power. And it can only be stopped, as I said, if we are awake, if we are active, if we are standing up, if we are putting on pressure, and if we are doing everything we can to secure the vote. It really is laughable, Georgia, when you see what they are doing. And I keep saying this is all about maintaining white supremacy, maintaining white

power, because they are fearing the demographic shift that's happening. Absolutely. Without a doubt, I think you hit the nail on the head. That's the essence of this fight. And so people at home sitting back watching this play out on CNN, on MSNBC, I think that they should be asking themselves before they get to the poll and find out they can't vote because their right to vote has been taken away from them. They better realize what is at the core of this fight, because I think if you go into the districts of these congressmen and women, lawmakers who are spearheading this attack on voting rights, if you go into their districts, I want to know where are the people who are pushing for them to advocate on this issue in this capacity, because I have not seen or heard

in masses public, in the public, people being concerned about an attack on voting security or anything of that matter. And so, really, what is the motivation, what is the intent behind these congressmen and women who are pushing to dismantle our right to vote? And at the end of the day, Roland, you're right. It is not anything in concern of security. It has everything to do with power. And I would even go as far as to say it has a lot to do with upholding the amount of money that they're able to bring in or their stakeholders are able to bring in. Robert, the thing that, again, I think when you see what's going on here, you're seeing significant money from very rich Republican donors. There was a story I was reading in The New Yorker.

They were talking about who is funding the big lie. And it showed the folks, many of these billionaires, folks who are backing them. And that's the thing. But this is so reminiscent to me of the Civil War and post-Civil War reconstruction, where you had the bourbon class, where you had the aristocracy, where you had these rich plantation owners who were funding many of these initiatives. And it was these broke-ass folks, these poor white folks who were out there fighting on the battlefield.

And I'm sitting there going, y'all don't even realize that you are fighting against your own interest. Well, you know, the corporate class has figured out how to weaponize and commoditize white supremacy and making these folks think that as long as you uphold white supremacy, even though you may personally be in poverty, that you benefit from that system. We have to look at what's going on on the national level and then look at Georgia as a petri dish, because that's how things normally work. 2004, we have the reauthorization of the voting rights tax, spearheaded by Reverend Jackson, signed into law in 2005. As a result of that, Georgia passed one of the nation's strictest voter ID laws. And indeed, it was struck down in 2005 as a poll tax in the state of Georgia.

Why is this important? Well, 2006, they reformed it. They put it into place. At the time, you had two previous Democratic governors, Zell Miller and Roy Barnes. You had many African-Americans and Democrats elected statewide. After that new voter ID law went into place in 2006, you do not have another Democrat or African American elected statewide for more than a decade thereafter. And because of that voter ID law, they were able to get control of redistricting in 2010 and 2011, and were able to put Democrats in a permanent minority through gerrymandering and packing districts. And despite the fact that Georgia is a state that's 35 percent African American, they have

a count—there's a constitutional majority for Republicans in the House, the Senate, and every single statewide elected office until Warnock and Ossoff. So this is why when we say these fights for voting rights are so important, because they are not just one big swing. It's a systematic effort over the course of years, over the course of decades to overhaul and take control of American elections against the will of the American people. They always talk about defending and upholding the Constitution. There's nothing more deleterious to the Constitution and to Western civilization than these attacks on voting rights. Look, these things are happening.

They're in our face. People need to understand exactly what's going on. And so we're going to keep folks apprised of this. We're going to keep the pressure going. All right, folks, got to go to break. We come back more on Roland Martin Unfiltered. We'll be talking about, of course,

what else is happening, you know, on Capitol Hill, the battle, the battle there continues. We'll also talk about, I mean, this drama in Louisiana. And then we're going to show you some crazy ass white folks in Tennessee who were threatening.

Listen to me, threatening doctors who testified about the importance of mask mandates. These people are nuts. You're watching Roller Martin Unfiltered back in a moment. White supremacy ain't just about hurting black folk. Right. You've got to deal with it. It's injustice. It's wrong. I do feel like in this generation,

we've got to do more around being intentional and resolving conflict. You and I have always agreed. Yeah. But we agree on have always agreed. Yeah. But we agree on the big piece. Yeah. Our conflict is not about destruction. Conflict's gonna happen.

Fort Till's murder. We saw struggle for civil rights as something grownups did. I feel that the generations before us have offered a lot of instruction. Organizing is really one of the only things that gives me the sanity and makes me feel purposeful. When Emmett Till was murdered, that's what attracted our attention. filter usually but we can be unfiltered here in the nation's capital Louis let's go Louisiana where Louisiana community is demanding the firing of an elementary school teacher over derogatory Facebook post. Julie Colley is a tutor and the in-school suspension facilitator at a predominantly black elementary school in Lafayette, Louisiana. Well, Colley used a racial slur in her comment on a post promoting a back-to-school giveaway on the city's north side. In response to the event's scheduled time,

Colley commented, I'm not going at 630 Cameron Street. That's Niggerville after dark, LOL. Lafayette Parish School System released the following statement. They said LPSS is aware of the situation and is conducting a thorough investigation into the matter. Because this is a personnel issue, no further information will be shared. First of all, they call it a personal issue, but it should be personnel, because it's not personal, your public school system. Joining us is the chairperson of the Louisiana NAACP

Political Action Committee, Norika Ross. Ms. Ross, how you doing? Hello, I'm blessed and highly favored. So I'm just trying to understand how long should this investigation be? Did she write the post? Did she call it Niggerville? This is not that hard. She needs to be removed expeditiously for several reasons,

one being this is a different era. So the era in which she was raised is completely different from the era of us millennials. And with that being said, social media plays a huge part in our lives. And with that being said, we don't know how many kids or how many students may have seen that slurp. Niggerville. I mean, that's absurd. And the thing is, first of all, when did this happen? Well, actually, it transpired

over the weekend. So it took place over the weekend. Today is Wednesday, and they're saying, oh, we need more time for a thorough investigation. Is the post posted up? Did she delete it? Well, I heard rumors that she claimed her account was hacked or then I heard another rumor that one of her relatives utilized her device and made that comment. And that, honestly, that's something you would anticipate someone to say.

Either their account being hacked or a supposed relative. You know, that's a typical lie. Well, and again, that's always the, oh, I've been hacked. Oh, so that's the only comment they made. So if they hack you, they made no other post anywhere else, just this particular one here. Exactly. And out of all the people in the United States, they choose this individual

and they also choose that individual to make a racial slur on a post in regards to our community. Yeah. What have you been hearing from parents? Well, honestly, as a Black mom, as a mother with two African-American kids, honestly, I would not want to bring my kids to that school until that teacher was removed. And they do a thorough investigation to see if there's any other like-minded individuals who have poisoned the

minds of our most vulnerable, which is our youth and our African-American youth at that. Well, we certainly be watching to see what happens here. It's inexplicable that this just sort of happened and then it was just sort of happenstance and so uh let us certainly let know what happens in the future absolutely and the superintendent miss armor chas claire needs to do her part okay all right we appreciate it thanks a lot have a blessed one all right let's go to georgia where two basketball coaches are facing murder charges on august 13, Imani Bell collapsed during outdoor basketball drills. The heat index that day, folks, was 106 degrees. 106 degrees.

Now, what's interesting in reading this particular story is that they were outdoors for basketball drills. But basketball is played inside. Also, what we heard from the account is that they were forcing them to run around the track, run up a hill, and that one of the coaches was walking along with her and started running along with her to encourage her. Now, there are actual rules in Georgia that prohibit external or outside activities when the heat index is 95 degrees or higher. Why were they outside when it was 106 degrees? In a moment, we're going to be joined by the family attorney.

I want to go to Robert. Robert, you're there in Georgia. This is one of those things here where it is beyond sad that a family loses a child who is trying to play basketball over working out, over conditioning drills. Again, as I said, the rules are clear in Georgia. If the heat index is 95 above 95, you don't go outside. It was 106 that day in Georgia. You're absolutely correct. I think this is why we have to have these safeguards in place and why we have to ensure that these people are punished. These people are prosecuted for what they did to this young child. Because quite frankly, there is this sometimes old-school mentality that you're supposed to get out there and sweat and struggle and suffer to build character and treat you how to overcome adversity. No, science is science, and a young person's body cannot handle a heat index of that nature. Also, each individual has their own capacity for cardiovascular exertion. So I think

that it is a good sign we're actually seeing educators and other individuals be prosecuted for these sorts of things because we cannot afford to lose a single young person or a single person in general to these sorts of excesses in this mentality of the past. You know, it was, George, as I saw this story, I just couldn't help but shake my head, thinking about these coaches, again, going through these conditioning, and I'm still perplexed going, why the hell are you outside? Basketball is played indoors. You can run laps inside.

You can run wind sprints inside. Why in the heck are you outside? Yeah, I think that it is indicative of the culture where sports, you know, this idea, especially for young black men, the pressure to perform in sports, to be able to advance in your educational career. There's so much pressure. I remember living in Columbus, Georgia and seeing some fathers training their kids by driving in the vehicle and making their kid run in front of the car and just forcing them to run and run and run and run in preparation for football season.

And now that is a sport that's played outdoors. But here in the event where you have a kid who's playing basketball, why would you subject them to that type of heat when you know that it's dangerous? And so I think that you have a situation here where the staff was pushing the students entirely too hard. The one thing that breaks my heart also in looking at this case, not only the fact that they violate the district's policy to not have these children out here if the temperature is higher than 95 or the heat index is higher than 95, but the GBI, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, their spokesperson, Nellie Miles, they decided in their investigation that this was accidental.

And so it contradicts the other findings that we're seeing in the indictment and the charges that are being brought forth calling this manslaughter. And so I would like to see that same level of accountability that we're seeing now in the criminal justice system, that same standard of accountability held by the GBI in their investigation as well. Those coaches were LaRosa Maria Walker-Ossacari and Dwight Broome Palmer. Those are the photos right there. Again, and I'm quite sure, and again, hopefully it will be, let me know, we will have Justin Miller, who is the attorney for the Bell family. The thing here is, you're coaching a high school girls basketball team. And, again, pushing them to the brink is just nonsensical. And when we see this crazy stuff, I think back to Monique,

and, again, the folklore when it comes to coaches. You know, in 1954, Paul Bear Bryant was the football coach, head football coach at Texas A&M. And they talked about the Junction Boys. A movie was made out of it, and it was how he drove them in the heat and guys were throwing up and deprived them of it. And it was how he drove them in the heat and guys were throwing up and deprived them of water. And they hated him for it. But, you know, later on how they just had so much respect for him. And again, it has turned into this mythic, you know, just amazing story,

the Junction Boys and what they went through, they could have died. They could have died playing a game. And that's, it's a game. But when we create these legends out of these type of stories on how they just know you're weak if you drink water, know what's wrong with you, know you must fight through this.

That's the kind of crap a lot of coaches get off on. Right. Well, all of that is true. And, of course, coming from Texas and being involved in sports and running laps in 90 degree and up weather regularly. And that that was something that was commonly done. There are reasons why we have these laws now, because young teens and soon to be adults were passing out, having heat strokes, dying. Same thing is true of concussion injuries and why we have those rules now. But, I mean, Roland, look at other folklore.

Look at pledging. It was thought for many decades, even maybe centuries, that if you didn't get beaten, if you weren't hit with a paddle, that you weren't legitimate in many fraternal organizations, white and black, and that was just beating. That's dumb as hell. And there are still people who think that today, and they will make light of, ooh, you

skated through because you didn't get beat. Man, kiss my ass. Yes. And so I think that as we, as a society, as a civilization, become more humane in the way that we treat ourselves, our students, our colleagues, our children, our spouses, the rules then, the laws then that are in place have to be such that they support their enforcement. I agree exactly with what Georgia said. We need to see it followed up

such that there is no skating when these laws are broken because people's lives are at stake. Yeah, I still don't quite get these crazy folks when they talk about the beating. I've made it clear. Another dude my age beat my ass over some lettuce. Somebody getting their ass whooped. Justin Miller, he is the attorney for the Bell family. He joins us right now on the phone. Justin, glad to have you on Rollerball Unfiltered.

I guess one of the things, Justin, that is just even more sad is that Imani's father is a coach. And that particular day, they called off outdoor practices because of the heat. Yeah, it's pretty bad. Eric, that's his name. He's the head coach at Columbia High School in Atlanta. He sent Imani to another school thinking it was a better school. And this is how we ended up. So it's pretty sad for him. Very, very sad, actually.

So you have the attorneys here. You have the attorneys who are arguing that, well, that that this really wasn't secondary murder, that it was just reckless. Yeah, well, that's what happens when you're reckless and you kill somebody. You know, it's murder. It's the same thing as if you were drinking and driving, and then you hit somebody and you killed them. You didn't mean to hit them and kill them, but you killed them. You meant to drink. That was the thing you meant to do.

In this case, she meant to have those children out there in that heat, and then one of them died. So, I mean, you tell me, what's the difference? And so were both of these coaches, is the latest that both of them were outdoors and driving these young girls? And how many other players, in addition to Imani, were forced to endure this? So we don't know exactly how many yet. We'll know as we get into the civil case a little bit more.

But we think there were at least five to ten other ones. The other coach was out there, but it's our understanding, just so far from talking to the kids, that he was more so, you know, kind of prodding them on. And the head coach was, you know, making all the moves and telling them where to go. His culpability is more so he didn't stop it. He saw her struggling and he allowed it to continue to happen. So, you know, he could have saved her life out there and he didn't. And so was it this whole idea of fight through it, fight through it, fight through it?

1000%. You know, same Bobby Knight, Bear Bryant kind of stuff. You know, that old school way of thinking. And in this situation, I think that it was benefiting more the coach than the players. The coach wanted to win so bad so she could prove herself at her new school that she risked these players' life, and Imani had to suffer for it. This is from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution story.

They said, according to the autopsy report, recounting the moments leading up to her collapse, Imani and eight of her teammates on the girls' basketball team had gathered that day for conditioning. They were told to run up a hill, perform jumping jacks, and then come back down the hill. But Imani struggled and coaches noticing she was lagging encouraged her

and provided water. The players ran a quarter mile lap around the track and then were instructed to run a set of stairs. Imani tried to run with her teammates but settled into a fast-paced walk with a coach walking at her side. When she arrived at the stairs, Imani began pulling herself up by the railing.

And then it says a coach was with her, encouraged her, and may have physically assisted her up the stairs. As Ms. Bell neared the top, she leaned into the rail and then went limp. Sounds like torture to me. It sounds exactly like torture to me. They're driving them like cattle in the 100 degree plus heat. I mean, these are little girls, you know, first and foremost, these are not professional athletes.

These are young ladies and, you know, they want to please their coaches. Imani was taught to listen to authority and to try to listen to coaches and do what they say. And it ended up getting her killed. So, you know, I'm definitely teaching my kids something different because we're not going to have that. It is certainly sad. 16 years old. And this happened two years ago.

She should have been celebrating her 18th birthday. Her birthday is the 13th, her birthday is uh the 13th correct well the 13th is her death day not her birthday i'm sorry no no according to the story her mom had a birthday uh according to the story her mom had a birthday what was it uh a couple days ago yeah about four days ago that's the sad part her brother's birthday was right before that too so this year around this time every year they going to have to deal with that. And those feelings are going to have to come back up when it's supposed to be a happy time. Yeah, according to this article here, yeah, according to the father, my wife's birthday was a couple of days ago.

Imani's death date is August 13th. It's just a time of grieving. So certainly sad there as well. Justin, thank you so very much for joining us. Roland, thank you very much for having me. All right then, folks. We've got to go to a break. But before we go to a break, Seek.com. We have partnered with them, of course. We appreciate their support right here on Roland Martin Unfiltered. Check out a couple of their products that you can take advantage of.

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Yeah, but that's what we deserve. We shouldn't have to beg anybody for that. I think that we are trying to do our best as a generation to honor the fact that we didn't come here alone and we didn't come here by accident. I always say every generation has to define for itself what it means to move the needle forward. Hey, I'm Cupid, the maker of the Cupid Shuffle and the Wham Dance. What's going on? This is Tobias Trevelyan. And if you're ready, you are listening to and you are watching Roland Martin Unfiltered. Folks, as of today, there are nearly 37 million reported COVID cases in the United States.

634,698 people have died. Right now, there are only 16 U.S. states and territories with mask mandates. Man, that is American Samoa, California, Connecticut, DC, Guam, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York State, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, US Virgin Islands, Virginia and Washington state. Earlier today, California Governor

Gavin Newsom announced that all teachers and school staff must be vaccinated or undergo weekly COVID-19 testing. This is the first state in the nation with this requirement. Then you have people refusing to comply with mask mandates anywhere, especially when it comes to schools. Now, what's interesting is that in Florida,

they're asking the federal government for ventilators. Yeah, ventilators. While DeSantis, the governor, Ron DeSantis, is selling school districts, I will withhold the money, the pay of superintendents and school boards if you have a mask mandate. Now, here's what I find to be interesting. Ron DeSantis' children go to a private school where they have a mask mandate. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Ted Cancun Cruz, whining and complaining. His kids go to a private school where they got a mask mandate.

So the mandates are good enough for their children, but they won't tell public schools, no, you can't. Joining us now is Dr. Rachel Villanueva, president of the National Medical Association. Glad to have you, Doc, on the show. It has to be just nerve-wracking to look at Florida asking the federal government for additional ventilators because their numbers are blowing up, yet you have the governor who is doing everything he can to oppose the efforts. In fact, same thing happening in Texas. The governor, Greg Abbott, is asking neighboring states for help to house folks in their ICUs, but he also is saying absolutely not.

Don't you dare have a mask mandate. It's ridiculous. You know, I think we have to remember to take our medical advice from the medical professionals and the scientists. And I think we have not done that. And we need to continue to do that, especially with this new Delta variant. It is extremely aggressive, easily transmissible. And it's really a different virus than what we dealt with initially last year. And so I think, even though everybody is tired, we are all tired. Health care professionals are especially tired. But we really cannot, we really need to remain vigilant,

and especially for our community. We were disproportionately impacted when COVID came around and we didn't have a vaccine. Now we have safe and effective vaccines, and our community is really underrepresented and not taking the vaccines. And so that's really where our push needs to be right now. We need to vaccinate our communities to keep them safe and keep them healthy, keep them out of hospitals, not needing a ventilator. And we also need to do that to keep our most vulnerable population, our children, protected, all those children that actually can't take a vaccine, the under 12 at this point. We need to vaccinate adults and all

those who are eligible, so all those 12 and over. We need all of those individuals to be vaccinated to help protect. Really, it's just to protect society. It's a public health crisis, and I think we need to remember that. And again, you're seeing this battle. Today, YouTube suspended the account of Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky because he put out a video saying masks simply do not work. Well, we know that's not true. So, you know, this is the type of misinformation and disinformation that really is affecting really our community disproportionately. If you look at the numbers of people who are vaccinated, and it's overwhelmingly two-thirds of those individuals are white. And our community, I think, is about 9 percent of individuals who are vaccinated.

So, I think it's really important that, really, vaccinations are our primary goal. That is number one. But those mitigation strategies, using a mask, especially when indoors, social distancing, those things are really still very, very important. All those public health measures are very important. We really can't listen to individuals who don't have the interests of our communities at heart. We really need to listen to our trusted messengers, our physicians of the National Medical Association. Those are the doctors that take care of you every single day, that take care of our black and brown communities. Those are the people we need to listen to. We don't need to listen to anybody that doesn't have our interests at the forefront. For folks who don't know, National Medical Association is the largest organization of black physicians. And what do you say to the people who are so skeptical of the vaccine, who talk about the historical impact of the medical community on African-Americans?

I keep saying to folks, we've had numerous NMA doctors on this show. We've had NMA folks who have been saying we are going to ensure that these things are done right and proper so they do not affect African-Americans in a negative way. And then you have folks go, well, you got, I literally have heard people say you got some black doctors who are part of this, part of the system of the white man system as well. I'm like, well, damn, well, who the hell can you trust in? Well, I think, you know, I, I currently, I see patients every day. I'm an OBGYN. So I actually deal with these questions every single day. I ask every patient that comes in whether they're vaccinated or not. I take care of pregnant women as well. I think it's really important. People have concerns and we need to

not dismiss their concerns really just to validate them, listen to those concerns, especially in our community. We see that when individuals in Black and brown communities are given credible, factual information by people that they trust, they are more likely to get the vaccine. So I think it's really important not to give up on people who have—who are concerned. I think we really need to just continue to encourage and educate and advocate for them to get the vaccine. I think we really need to keep in mind, this is a vaccine. There's not a black vaccine or a white vaccine. There's just vaccines out there. So, so while there has been a history of mistrust for good reason in our community. This is not the case for the vaccine.

And I think we need to kind of be able to separate things that are not related. And this is not related. What we do know right now is what's killing us is the COVID-19 virus. That is what's killing our community disproportionately. It did the first time around, and it's going to the second time around. And the Delta variant is not playing. It's looking for the people that are not vaccinated. So I think we really need to encourage our community to continue to trust the people that they go to every day to take care of their high blood pressure and their diabetes and to take care of their grandmother and the dementia in their family. It's always concerning when people trust their doctors for those things, but then for some reason think their doctor is part of some conspiracy when it comes to the vaccine.

We certainly aren't. I ran to get my vaccine. So, and I had a mother who was hesitant or concerned about getting the vaccine. And it really took a few months for me to convince her to get vaccinated and to just to reassure her that they were safe and effective. And now we have real world data. We have millions of people in the United States and around the world who have taken the vaccine. They are safe. They're effective, and we need to use them. All right, Dr. Rachel, bill it away, but I'm sorry,

president, National Medical Association. Glad to have you on the show. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. All right, folks, y'all know what time it is. No charcoal grills are allowed. I'm white, I got you, Carl. Yeah, deranged, white conservatives in America who are losing their minds over mask mandates. Oh, my God.

They just can't tolerate these things. Well, in Franklin, Tennessee, which is the richest city in Tennessee, last, there was a school board meeting. And there were doctors that testified, doctors, medical doctors that testified at the school board meeting about a mask mandate. Watch these yahoos after the meeting. You are shot abusers. You are shot abusers. The credit of a person.

Everybody's taking notes, buddy. Keep that little smug. Yeah. You have our freedom. We'll find job you boys. You protecting us. I don't care. Why? Really, I'll keep it a tie.

I'll tell you what. Put it back on. You should put that mask back on. Put your mask on. You poor kids stuck in that factory. How you like that? Put your mask on. We know who you are.

We know who you are. Keep it calm. No more masks. Keep it calm. Keep it calm. No more masks. We're on these guys' side. They're on our side.

No. No, they're not. They're on our side. They're on our side. They're on our side. They're on our side. We know who you are. Keep it calm. No more masks. Keep it calm. Keep it calm. No more masks. We're on these guys' side. They're on our side.

No, they're not. They're not on our side. The police are on our side. The police are on our side. Calm down. Yes. Calm down. We know who you are.

We know who you are. We know who you are. We know who you are. You can leave freely, but we will find you, and we know who you are. You will never be allowed in public again. You will never be allowed. I know who who you are. You will never be allowed in public again. You will never be allowed. You never let us be allowed in public again. I know who you are.

Let him out. Let him out. Let him out. Let him out. Let him out. Let him out. Let him out. Let him out.

Let him out. You better watch out. You better watch out. You better watch out. Keep it watch out. You better watch out. Keep it calm. Everybody back up. Back up. I'm back, man.

I'm on your side. I'm a parent. Give me a light. Peace. Peace. Everyone. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace.

Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace.

Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace.

Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Peace. Folks, did you see that? That was a reporter for the Tennessean. Her name was Allison. She posted that video. We'll get a full name in a second. Natalie Allison. Do you hear them saying there, Georgia, we know who you are? We're coming after you? I mean, they were, and I'm trying to understand.

You got cops standing right there. Those are threats being made yeah and and i feel like if that would have been a crowd full of black parents or black people there definitely would have been some arrests made due to those threats and the aggression that was shown the way that these individuals uh swarmed in front of this doctor's car. And, you know, to me, it just makes me wonder, you know, what is it about wearing a mask that make these people this angry? And on the other side of that, I'm absolutely terrified for parents who have children under 12, as we are seeing employers now requiring

parents to go back to work. That means that little ones are going to be back in daycares. They're going to be in preschool. They're going to be in kindergarten, first-grade classrooms. And so what's going to happen then when you have groups of small children who are not vaccinated and potentially are exposed to the virus. I mean, we, I think, are starting to see the ingredients for a huge disaster. And not only do we have to try to mitigate the exposure that our children are going to be at risk

of going back into the classrooms and going into daycares as parents go back to work. But now we have to figure out not only how to combat the virus, but how to combat white supremacy, Karenism, et cetera. So we're fighting a lot here. And it's just unfortunate that we can't count on the law enforcement who were clearly there to do their job and enforce the law.

I mean, this that is beyond sick, Monique. And apparently they were there at the behest of this idiot right here, Clay Travis of Fox News. He was one of the matter. I'm going to play this video. And so this is this idiot Clay Travis, again, outkick Fox News, a white male conservative. This is the guy who Jason Whitlock partnered with when he left Fox Sports. That gives you an indication how trash Jason Whitlock is. But this took place, and it was Travis who ginned this all up. I called him an asshole on Twitter.

I have no problem saying it again because this is what happens when you're trying to become the next Rush Limbaugh. Good evening. I'm Clay Travis. I have two kids in Williamson County Public Schools, fifth grader and a first grader, and you all should be ashamed of the choices that you are about to make. We teach our kids that facts matter. That's why they go to school. The facts are these. Masks don't work. There isn't a single scientific data that has ever proven that masks work. Also, let's talk about risk analysis, which is the key. I feel bad for all these people

walking around in masks, engaging in cosmetic theater, thinking that they are making a difference against COVID. They aren't. Here's the truth. Our kids, under 25-year-old, one in a million chance that they are going to die of COVID. They are more likely to be struck by lightning. They are more likely to be struck by lightning. They are more likely to be struck by lightning. They are more likely to die of the seasonal flu. Have any of you ever mandated masks for the seasonal flu? Well, shame on you because every kid in Williamson County Schools has been under more danger from the seasonal flu every year than they are for COVID. I would tell every parent here, don't let your kids wear masks. So all those idiots, oh, one in a million.

I bet not one of them want their kid to be that one in a million, Monique. Right. So, and that was the only thing he said that was accurate. All of the rest of it about the fact that masks don't work, that's not true. That you aren't safer wearing them than not, that's not true. That children really were looking at the numbers of pediatric cases, pediatric hospital cases now spiking. And so that's like saying because they're not going to die from it, we're good with them having it. What rational parent, what parent is actually thinking about the welfare of their family member, thinks along those terms. My children would not die of measles, mumps, or rubella, but that doesn't mean that I want them to have it

just because the chances are slim that they would die from it. It's all absurd. But what strikes me more so than that is the whims of the crowd, the way that our citizens can be manipulated, that our country really is just a few Jim Joneses away from being a dictatorship where everyone is following not their own interests, but the interests of another. And they are sacrificing their own well-being, their lives,

their finances, their education, their stability, their health, all for the sake of a dear leader. And for anyone who thought that that could not happen in this country because of the way that we were founded, you need to wake up and pay attention and see that it is happening. Are they the minority? Yes.

But the numbers are large enough that we all should be more than concerned. Well, here's the thing that's a trip, Robert. So this idiot, Clay Travis, posted this. These are the people who couldn't get into the meeting. Watch this. No more masks! No more masks!

No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks!

No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks!

No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! No more masks! Well, Robert, I sure hope none of those rich white folks in Franklin, Tennessee, have to bury their children because of their sheer stupidity. You see, Roland, this is a perfect Glock 43 situation.

That's going to be your subcompact. That's going to be something smaller than a Glock 19 or a Glock 17 that you can fit in for concealed carry. So you can either have it in an abdomen holster or you can even have it in a small handbag or purse for a situation like this. Now, can I implore people, do not get an extended clip or extended magazine for a subcompact pistol because, you know, a 30-round magazine is bigger than the pistol itself. Just train enough where you know how to do a proper switch of your magazine so if you need to reload, you can do it in an expeditious period of time. But when people start...

I don't know what the hell you're talking about, but go ahead. I have no idea what the hell you're talking about. Look, look, Roland, if your car gets surrounded by a bunch of crazy magas saying that we know where you're at and what you're going to do and how they're going to get you, get yourself a nice Glock 43 to keep you so safe.

Those folks are crazy. All we're doing is hitting the gas pedal. Go ahead. Hold on. I'm just saying, surround my big-ass navigator. Okay? Trust me. I'm going to put a Lincoln imprint in the middle of your chest.

Go ahead. Look, we're dealing with a group of people who are disconnected from reality. When he says masks don't work, remember earlier this year when we had a mask mandate and then we got rid of it presumptively because we thought everybody was going to get vaccinated? What happened the minute we got rid of the mask mandate? All of a sudden, you've got 100,000 people a day being infected with COVID. That's the empirical evidence that you need. These people are completely separated from reality.

You see this as a cultural war issue. They see this as an oppressive, tyranny, Marxist state trying to take their liberty away from them. This is all they have left to fight for. So we are in a very tenuous period of time where these folks will storm the Capitol. They will storm school board meetings over CRT that they don't understand. They'll storm the schools over mask mandates just because somebody doesn't want to, even the kid isn't going to die from COVID. He might infect the janitor or the school resource worker or the lunch later or an administrator or someone along those lines, or he might catch it at school and bring it back

home and kill grandma. So these people are disconnected from every bit of reality or objective fact. And we have to make sure we are prepared as a community in case these folks get another Janeway system now on a national level. I'm telling you, I'm just looking at these crazes here, and that's what they are. And I am happy to see Georgia. I am happy to see school districts, the Houston Independent School District, the Dallas Independent School District, the Austin Independent School District, Broward County in Florida. I'm happy to see these school districts telling Governor Greg Abbott of Texas and Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida to go to hell when it comes to them and their mask mandates.

They're saying, no, we're going to require it and take your executive order and shove it yeah i think it's the the smartest thing to do in order to keep our children safe and we know historically speaking just because something is legal doesn't mean that it's right and so even though we can't count on some of our governors and mayors to do the right thing parents need to lean into the fact that they have a choice. They have a choice to homeschool. They have a choice to request distance learning, but also a choice to speak out. And so I am glad to hear some people speaking up against this crazy rhetoric that it looks like

so many people are getting behind. And what it tells me is that white privilege is important to so many white Americans. And this to me is white privilege, not at its finest, but definitely on full display. I'm telling you, Monique, these folk here, so now they shifted from critical race theory now to no mass fight it. I mean, you got folks like Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw and Senator Rand Paul telling people resist fight.

I'm like these people. I mean, I'm telling you, just just just absolutely out of their minds. Absolutely out of their minds. Right, and they were always there. It's just that they were drowned out by the noise of rational thinking people. Trump brought the fringe to the main stage. in that space that has been created, we see all of the clays of the world and, you know, the tuckers of the world and whoever battling for the control of the, you know, vapid headspace of millions of Americans who really will eat sand and think that it is water. Yeah. And see, and the thing, Robert, these people are, are so dumb and gullible. They don't even realize that people like Clay Travis, all they're doing is trying to build their name off of their

sheer ignorance. I mean, that's the other deal. Oh, and just think about it logically also. If you're working for Fox as a journalist, you're vaccinated. They sent out an email a couple weeks ago, you got to be vaccinated to come back to work. Not just vaccinated, they have not been in the facility. That's why you watch these shows in the five bosses, because they ain't on set.

And then if you are in studio you have to wear a mask the entire time you're inside so while you're going to these poor rural communities telling them to fight back against these oppressive mass mandates when you're doing your job and getting your paycheck that they're ensuring they are following every health and safety protocol you're completely inoculated it's the it's the the worst case of demagoguery that I think we see often. About a month ago, Tucker Carlson did a commentary where he said if you see a child wearing a mask, that's child abuse. He called the authorities on them. And you heard at the beginning of that clip, somebody

said, well, if a child has to wear a mask, that's child abuse. They are repeating these messages they hear in conservative media. They've been completely bought and sold into these conspiratorial ideas. They believe that the vaccine gives you microchips. They believe that the masks are a sign of totalitarianism. They believe that critical race theory is teaching kids to hate white people. These are a very dangerous group, and we have to work on one counter messaging them to hopefully bring some of them back to reality. But we just need to be prepared for the remainder. Crazy and deranged. Go ahead. Hopefully bring some of them back to reality, but we just need to be prepared for the remainder.

Crazy and deranged. Which for Robert means shoot them. Go ahead. Which for Robert means shoot them. Monique, if you don't want the Glock 43, Monique, you can get a Taurus. It's about half the price, either a G2C or a G3. It fits perfectly on everything. It's great for even jogging. You go from countermeasures such as talking,

like messaging, into recommending my Glock. Like, isn't there anything else available? Look, you go out there and figure it out. I, on the other hand, I ordered some ammo

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You talk about awakening America. It led to a historic summer of protest. I hope our younger generation don't ever forget that nonviolence is soul force. I believe that people our age have lost the ability to focus the discipline on the art of organizing. The challenges, there's so many of them and they're complex and we need to be moving to address them. But I'm able to say, watch out Tiffany, I know this road. That is so freaking dope. Hello, everyone. I'm Godfrey, and you're watching... Roland Martin Unfiltered. And while he's doing Unfiltered, I'm practicing the wobble.

An aisle man, folks, will spend the next ten years in prison for shooting into a car field with black girls after attending a Donald Trump rally. In December, Michael McKinney got to an altercation with the team and surrounded the teenagers car with other Trump supporters.

The car backed up, hitting a pickup truck. McKinney fired into a teenager's car, injuring one of the girls. In June, McKinney pleaded guilty to intimidation with a dangerous weapon and willful injury. In court on Monday, he apologized to the girl he shot, saying he used poor judgment that day. Really, Robert? I've read this case multiple times. I don't understand how he avoided an attempted murder charge or at least a second-degree murder charge, a reckless endangerment, negligent discharge, all sorts of other things.

These are the lowest, most—they made it seem almost like it was an accident. He can say, oops, my bad on it. We got to understand that these crazy and deranged people are out here. They are whipped up on a media sphere that tells them that they are the victims and they are fighting back to save their civilization right now. And so we also need to look at these prosecutors and find out what kind of deals they're cutting with people, because he needs to be doing some very serious jail time. I know brothers who were doing five and 10 years of weed, and he's shooting into cars, and they're talking about negligent discharge of a weapon. I think the charges are ridiculous. Monique, this is, I mean, again, this is

these people, and I love these people who say, oh, no, the more places we have guns, the safer we are. Not from these idiots. Listen, Robert knows exactly why he didn't have any of those other charges, and it's not just his white status. It is the fact that it was

young black girls who were in that vehicle. I don't have to start quoting Malcolm X for everybody to understand that it is still true that we are the most unprotected in the United States and in the world. So the value of our lives is down and the cost of his crime is down as well. So if it had been some white boys and he had shot into that vehicle, he would be looking at hard time and the charges would have been completely different. This is age old. Them being Trump stupid, that's new because Trump didn't come on the scene like that. But white men not being held to account for their crimes against black women, that's as old as

this country. Georgia? I mean, I couldn't have been any better than Monique. You know, I interviewed Ben Crump a few times, and one of the things that he always talks about is the two justice systems, one for white America and one for black America. And you see that playing out here in this situation, the criminal justice system was not designed for us. It's not designed to work for us. And so that's why someone like him can get just a little slap on the wrist for something that should have been attempted murder. Speaking of murder in California, the man accused of beating a prominent Bank of America JOHN YANG, The Washington Post. JOHN YANG, The Washington Post. JOHN YANG, The Washington Post. JOHN YANG, The Washington Post. JOHN YANG, The Washington Post. JOHN YANG, The Washington Post. JOHN YANG, The Washington Post.

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murder and first degree residential burglary. The LA County District Attorney's Office says Turner and Avon not only worked together, but they had a personal relationship. Man, that's a really sad story. There were a lot of people who were commenting about her work. She was saluted by Essence Magazine, was also being one of the L.A. Urban League.

And so that's what, just, sad, sad story there, which also speaks to, again, the issues that we continue to see in terms of how we also must have much stronger laws, Georgia, that deal with domestic violence. There are so many other stories we've seen. There are probably about three or four other stories that I've read in the past couple of weeks of black women who have been murdered by their partners as a result of domestic situations. often anymore because it's been replaced with partner violence because of the growing population of people who identify with, you know, they and them. But when you look back at the research that was done on femicide, which is simply the murder of women, what you discover is that 80 to 90 percent of the women who are murdered are murdered by their significant other or even their father, someone in their family, someone within the household, someone who that they would trust.

When you look at murders against men, 80 percent of murders against men are from a stranger, someone that they're not acquainted with. And so I think that as we examine the state of our culture here and we look at how we interact with one another romantically, that we address the violence that's happening in personal relationships. And it's going to require a full approach, not just women speaking up to protect other women, but also men taking a stance when they know that they have friends or relatives who are acting violently against those who that they're intimate with. The sad story there, folks, this passengers of an easyet flight out of London came together to protest the removal of two black men from the flight. This happened last Thursday as the flight was taking off from

London's Gatwick Airport heading to Spain. According to a passenger, flight attendants alerted police and had the plane return to the gate to remove two black men from the flight for huffing at a member of the crew when asked to put their shoes back on until after takeoff. Well, the men stayed on the flight after the passengers protest, but the flight crew was replaced. EasyJet says the crew was replaced because they exceeded time limits on their shifts and not because of complaints from the incident. Watch the video. It's the general response. No, no, no, no, don't do that.

Don't get off. Don't get off. Sit down. Don't get off. Pretty interesting there, Monique, where the passengers said, oh, hell no, we're going to overrule this and told the brothers to stay. They did. They remained on their flight. The crew got booted. I'm not buying that. They exceeded their time limit? Maybe, but still, it was just great to hear others on the flight who were sticking up for them and not just letting this pass. We see sort of the craziness. These things happen. And all too often, I know this country, Robert, a lot of folks, they remain silent when

these things happen, not wanting to get involved. Those passengers said, nah, we're going to get involved. You know, shout out to those European white people. I think that some of our white people here in America can learn from those Europeans about what it means to really be an ally. That it's not simply you were your ally during election time or when we can do something for you. But when you see incidents of racial injustice taking place, then you can stand up and use your privilege, ALLIED DURING ELECTION TIME OR WHEN WE CAN DO SOMETHING FOR YOU BUT WHEN YOU SEE INCIDENTS OF RACIAL INJUSTICE TAKING PLACE THEN YOU CAN STAND UP AND USE YOUR PRIVILEGE USE YOUR POWER TO ACTUALLY SPEAK OUT AGAINST IT AND STOP AND STOP SOMETHING FROM HAPPENING AND LOOK I DON'T KNOW WHY THE BROTHERS HAD THEIR SHOES OFF THAT SOUNDS THAT SOUNDS VERY WEIRD TO ME QUITE FRANKLY NO IT'S

NOT NO IT'S NOT ROBERT I FLY I FLY ALL THE TIME WHITE FOLKS HAD A SHOES OFF HELL THEY BE SITTING HERE WITH THEM FUNKY ASS TOES AND NO SOCKS UH ON THE SEATS UH ON THE DAMN WALL SITTING IN THE BOOK the time white folks had a shoes off hell they be sitting here with them funky ass toes and no socks uh on the seats uh on the damn wall sitting in the bulkhead position and i'll be looking like man take oh uh-uh like i like one plane they live at one we were flying and they had that nasty ass crusty foot uh you know uh in between uh the seat it was kind of like hey hey you need to take that AS CRUSTY FOOT, YOU KNOW, IN BETWEEN THE SEAT. IT WAS KIND OF LIKE, HEY, HEY, YOU NEED TO TAKE THAT FOOT DOWN. SO I'VE SEEN IT. YOU SEE, ROLAND, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I TELL THIS DAY.

I DON'T CARE WHEN COVID ENDS. I STILL TRAVEL WITH MY MASK, WITH A FACE SHIELD, WITH GLOVES, AND A BOTTLE OF LYSOL THAT I SPRAY ON THE SEAT WHEN I SIT DOWN FOR THIS IS THAT REASON. SO I'M NOT SAYING THE FOOT THING WAS THE BEST THING FOR THEM TO BE DOING. BUT REGARDLESS, I DO THINK THAT THE AIRLINE NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND BETTER WAYS TO HANDLE THESE SITUATIONS. is that reason. So I'm not saying the foot thing was the best thing for them to be doing, but regardless, I do think that the airline needs to understand better ways to handle these situations. And when you see exercises like this, where there's actually good allyhood, it does give you some hope for the future. So hopefully some of our friends at the Tennessee mass meeting can learn from these European white people how to act a little bit better and be

better allies. Well, I just let them know you bring your little crusty ass feet over here, but look, so I get it. And again, they didn't say they didn't have socks or anything on. Also, where's the damn rule that says your shoes got to be on? See, that's that arbitrary BS that you see

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It makes it real. It really does. It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We asked parents who adopted teens to share their journey. We just kind of knew from the beginning that we were family. They showcased a sense of love that I never had before.

I mean, he's not only my parent, like, he's like my best friend. At the end of the day, it's all been worth it. I wouldn't change a thing about our lives. Learn about adopting a teen from foster care. Visit AdoptUSKids.org to learn more. Brought to you by AdoptUSKids, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Ad Council. This is an iHeart Podcast.