#RolandMartinUnfiltered - Sen. Warnock Community Kickback, Fla's Voter Fraud Arrests, TX Principal Throws Student Into Wall

Episode Date: October 19, 2022

10.18.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Sen. Warnock Community Kickback, Fla's Voter Fraud Arrests, TX Principal Throws Student Into Wall  Community Kickback for Senator Raphael Warnock in Savannah, Georgia.  Video of folks getting arrested by Florida's Voter Fraud police force Governor Ron DeSantis created is released.  We'll show you how even the officers are confused about why the people are going to jail.  The Deputy Director of Florida Rights Restoration Coalition is here to discuss the governor's supposed crackdown on voter fraud. Roland talks with Dr. Karen Green who is vying for Florida's 7th Congressional District seat. In Texas, a mother wants to understand how a Round Round school employee still has his job after throwing her son into a wall.  Wait in until you see the video.  And in our Marketplace segment, a financial advisory company with resources to help black business start and thrive.  Support #RolandMartinUnfiltered and #BlackStarNetwork via the Cash App ☛ https://cash.app/$rmunfiltered PayPal ☛ https://www.paypal.me/rmartinunfiltered Venmo ☛https://venmo.com/rmunfiltered Zelle ☛ [e-mail] Annual or monthly recurring #BringTheFunk Fan Club membership via paypal ☛ https://rolandsmartin.com/rmu-paypal/ Download the #BlackStarNetwork app on iOS, AppleTV, Android, Android TV, Roku, FireTV, SamsungTV and XBox 👉🏾 http://www.blackstarnetwork.com #RolandMartinUnfiltered and the #BlackStarNetwork are news reporting platforms 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Today is Tuesday, October 18th, 2022. Roland Martin Unfiltered, broadcasting live from Savannah, Georgia, coming up on the Black Star Network. We're talking about the second day of early voting here in Georgia. We're talking about the campaign of Senator Raphael Warnock versus Hershey Walker. Also, Stacey Abrams facing Brian Kemp. We'll talk about all the facets of that campaign tonight. Congresswoman Val Demings will be debating Senator Marco Rubio in Florida,

where she, of course, is trying to defeat the incumbent as well. We'll also break down this campaign. What is going on? Are we seeing Democratic enthusiasm compared to Republican enthusiasm? Also, what do black voters want to see and hear? Earlier today, we were in Savannah and visited with several black-owned businesses and heard from them about what they want to see in the campaign as well. So lots of stuff we'll be covering. Also, today, the Department of Agriculture announced a new $800 million initiative.

One day, a few days after the lawsuit announced by Ben Crump and the black farmers. We'll find out if that's actually legitimate. And Governor Ron DeSantis, folks, shocking video where police were arresting formerly incarcerated people who actually voted. Y'all remember, Florida told them they could vote, but then his unit claimed voter fraud. Stunning, stunning video. We'll show you there as well as he faces former Congressman Charlie Crist, the next governor of Florida. That and more right here on Rolling Rock, done filtered on the Black Star Network.

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You know he's Rollin' Martel now. Martel. Hey, folks, we're here in Savannah, Georgia. Glad to be back. Of course, we were here several times in 2020 for the runoff between with Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff. Now we're back, of course. Huge, huge race is taking place here in Georgia. Midterm elections on November 8th all across the country. Today is the second day of early voting. Yesterday was a record turnout in Georgia. Nearly 130,000 people voted early. That breaks the record. 2018, that midterm election, some 72,000

people voted early. Don't know yet in terms of who those voters are. Democrats, though, are happy with that level of turnout. They really want the focus to be on a massive early turnout because they know what's going to happen on election day. Typically you have a significant Republican turnout

so they want to build up a massive lead doing early voting, which of course started on yesterday and will last for a week. And so we are here. I want to kick off with a couple of folks who are joining us. First up is a commissioner and forgive him y'all. He a little capital. Y'all can forgive him. Commissioner Aaron Whiteley can share with us being here. How you doing, Doc? Thank you, thank you, thank you. I am good, sir. Thank you for the introduction.

I want to welcome everybody here to the beautiful, beautiful, beautiful Chatham County facility of Lake Mayer. I appreciate all of you for coming out. I want to bring greetings from our chairman, Mr. Chester Ellis, and my colleagues at the Chatham County Board of Commissioners. I am excited, excited. Oh, yeah. That does deserve a clap. I'm sorry. I'm excited that we are here talking about voting issues. It is vitally important that we all take part in the political process and understanding why we're voting, who we're voting for,

and having these discussions are vitally key to our community's growth and development. So I want to thank Mr. Martin. I want to also thank the Trident Group for making this happen with Monsello. If you could raise your hand, sir. Trident Group, thank you guys for putting this together also. And what I'd like to do is first go ahead and introduce somebody who does not need an introduction.

They say introduce to some or actually, no, I'm going to kick it back to Mr. Martin so he could do what he's going to do. I see that alpha mug over there. So let me go ahead and have the mic back to the alpha. Thank you, sir. Well, the cap will figure out who show this is. Look, I'm like, I don't need you doing that. So, again, we're glad to be here. Look, this is election season, less than 30 days before election.

And, look, there is so much on the line here. We're going to be talking about that with these races and also talk about turnout. Let's turn right now to y'all see him. And he purposely wore his little Sigma shirt. We were with him earlier, and so he's our co-host. We were earlier today at a black-owned restaurant, Representative Derek Mallow. And so, like I say, it's cute,

but I had to remind him Alpha is still a daddy. What's going on, Savannah? I just want to shout out one of our other co-hosts on the grill. That's Moses Calhoun, who's the awesome brother of Omega Psi Phi. And my colleague who had to step away, Edna Brance Jackson, who's a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated. Y'all make some love for Edna. You know all them Deltas in the house,

did you? But listen, I'm excited to be here to talk about voting, voting in this upcoming election. It is extremely important, and we're thankful for Roland Martin for coming to Savannah and broadcasting and streaming his show out right here in the great city of Savannah, Chatham County. So y'all make some love for Roland Martin. All right, then. All right, then. As I said, a whole lot is happening, folks, all across the country. But this is also one of the critical states. Look at right now the United States Senate. It is 50-50. Of course, that was a result of the 2020 runoffs where Warnock and Ossoff won.

Ossoff won a six-year term. But Warnock, of course, filled the remaining two terms of the retiring Republican. And so now he's running for reelection for a full six-year term. Looking at the polling numbers, a very, very tight race. Neither candidate, Warnock or Walker, has actually hit 50 plus 1 percent. And so some are talking about that even though you're going to have a November 8th race, that this could very well be another runoff that takes place this when it comes to this year. So I want to ask both of you, though, I want to get a sense of from you about enthusiasm,

because all across the country, you look at various polling data, it's about a five to seven point difference between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to enthusiasm. Also, this state was on fire in 2020 in that runoff. There was so much emphasis, so much attention on Georgia. And obviously, you have multiple races going on, but you don't have the same level of intensity. And so just your perspective in terms of what you're seeing, what you're hearing in terms of folks, you know, are they, do you see the intensity understanding how critical this race is and what the turnout needs to be? Well, I think that's a great question, Roland. One thing I think we're really looking and dealing with is voter apathy at a very historic high. And with that, that's making people not want to come out. Another challenge that we're facing is that we've had to battle so much misinformation

through our media outlets and so on and so forth that some folks just are throwing their hands up and saying it's just too much going on. So I think it is vitally important that we as individuals who understand the importance of this election, we cannot let that go understated. So it's important for us to make sure that we're taking a friend to the poll and a friend's friend to the polls. Additionally, I think it's important for us to do our own research. Oftentimes it's easier and a lot more simple for us to take somebody else's word for it. And again, we can call that laziness. We can call that avidly. We can call it whatever we want to do. But at the end of the day, it's vitally important that we get the facts, all of the facts. So I'm hopeful that as more facts come out about the candidates, as more

facts come out about the races and the importance of the race, we'll see more excitement brew. Well, one of the things that jumps out at me when we talk about informing folks is also connecting the dots. And so if you look at polling data now, the issue of inflation, the economy, huge, huge gap between that and also the issue of abortion and other issues. I mean, in terms of what are really the top three. And so new polling data shows out where I'm on the independent side, Republicans are plus 18 with women in terms of, and obviously Republicans are getting, you know, their women voters, but Democrats are getting their women voters as well. That's going

to be a huge block. But in terms of African-Americans in this state, you have President Biden's approval numbers that are very low in this state. That's also impacting black polling data as well. And so what is happening in these, not just the cities, but also in the communities, down to the precinct level of being able to tap where people are, who didn't vote last time, and how you're trying to reach those folks to support critical candidates, especially Warnock and Abrams. What is happening here in this city? Well, I think we're doing a lot in Savannah to get people to turn out to vote and to decrease the amount of voter apathy that we have. And I mean, it's all about just spending time on

the phone, talking to voters, explaining what each candidate has done for black Georgians, what they're going to do for black Georgians. But as you and I talked about earlier, voting is our medicine. And so you don't take medicine one day to get rid of a cold. You have to take it over a regimented course or period of time that you have to take medicine. It's a seven-day course, a 14-day course. And guess what? Just because you got rid of the cold don't mean you have to stop taking medicine. So we have to continue to be engaged in that process taking our medicine. But after we take our medicine, we got to go back to the doctor and get a checkup and say, hey, I took the medicine. These are the side effects of

the symptoms I'm still having. What do I need to do next? And so after November 8th, after we elect Raphael Warnock as senator and Stacey Abrams as governor, y'all make some noise. We have to make sure that we continue to educate the electorate that it doesn't stop there. You got to come back out and talk and hold those politicians accountable for what you're asking for. Because how can they deliver something that they don't even know that you're asking for? And as you talk to most voters and you say, why are you upset? They'll say, well, I didn't see this for black people. I didn't see this. Wait, who did you tell? Oh, I didn't tell nobody. Well, how are we supposed to know what you wanted if you didn't tell us what you wanted to see us do? So I think when we have those

conversations and educate the electorate, hey, vote the entire ballot, vote down the ballot, vote for every candidate that's on the ballot. And let me tell you, these are the folks that are going to do something for you, because if you look at the other side, they're not going to do anything for you. And they've already told you what they're are going to do something for you, because if you look at the other side, they're not going to do anything for you. And they've already told you what they're not going to do. In fact, you educated me earlier today. We have a U.S. senator that said we don't have enough folks in prison. So when you think about the difference between Raphael Warnock and Hershel Walker, I think

the choice is clear that Raphael Warnock has the credentials to be our U.S. senator. And we, as a community, each person here, each person on the live, has to tell people to come out and vote and why they should come out and vote and encourage them and push them until they say, don't text me no more about voting. You got to turn it to the people that's texting you about voting to your friends that you know aren't getting text. Well, I think when you start breaking down, you know, who turns out, I mean, the reality is, if you look at polling data, even Joint Center has done,

NNPA has done, especially among black folks, 65-plus highest voting category. And as you go down in each voting block, it gets lower and lower and lower. And so one of the things that I have consistently said to millennials, Gen Z, is that you can't talk about or complain about, well, why do we have all these boomers who are in office if you're the largest voting bloc and then you don't vote? And so what has that conversation been like, trying to reach those college students, trying to reach folks who are not in college, but getting them to understand that you have power,

but at the end of the day, if you don't use it, it's simply untapped power. Well, one of the things that I've tried to do is make sure that I do what I can to build a bench, bring somebody along, take somebody under the wing, whoever wants to shadow me or anything as an elected official, I offer that opportunity. And it's important that we as Americans build a bench of voters, because the less of us who are voting, then that means that the decisions are going to be made by a small minority of people who may not necessarily have your community's best interests at heart. So really engaging as a parent, I've made it a point to myself and my wife to engage our kids about the importance of voting and just kind of their thoughts. And one of the things that we see, again, going back to my earlier comment, that laziness, some folks will rather get their

information from TikTok and social media, which oftentimes are being used as tools for propaganda and also misinformation. So when we're engaging those Gen Zers and those millennials, which I am a millennial, we have to make sure that we're also making it plain to them. Something as simple as understanding that Raphael Warnock was one of the sponsors of a bill that made sure that grandma can get insulin and not have to pay out the yin-yang for insulin. You know, making it plain and bringing it to a tangible reality for our youth, I think, is incredibly important because otherwise it just seems like optics, it seems like semantics and not something that they really can affect.

Of course, on that point, remember, every Republican in the Senate voted against capping insulin at $35. So, I mean, that's an important detail as well when you're talking about, you know, who's actually going to do something. One of the things, as I was watching, of course, a debate the other night, the last night,

between Kemp and Abrams, one of the issues I'm always covering, of course, deals with black businesses. And so I saw it posted that black businesses in Georgia are getting less than 1% of state contracts. What in the hell? Explain that. So we can start off right there.

The state of Georgia has no DBE, NBE requirement at all when it comes to contracting in the state of Georgia. And, in fact, one of the issues that black businesses run into in the state always comes back to bonding capacity and the ability to get, if the project costs a million dollars, five million dollars, to get bonded on that project is extremely high. But we know that the state will bend the rules for their friends, right? So I've seen a million dollar grass cutting contract

be broken down into four $250,000 contracts to support rural Georgia, right? But when you come to the more suburban and metro areas, oh, we can't bend the rules. It's gotta be X, Y, and Z. And so when you talk about a state that's the number one state to do business, I always say when Governor Kemp touts that, it's a lie because it's not the best state for black business. And we can do a lot more in the state with record surpluses to make investment in minority women-owned businesses in this state to create a pathway for them to get access to capital so that they can have opportunities to compete and bid on these contracts. One of the reasons we don't do as well is because access to capital.

You can't get banks to lend. And in fact, in the legislature, it was actually a policy that the only way that you could be in the legislature is if you were in a rural community and you owned the bank and you could be a legislator was only if you owned the bank. You couldn't work for the bank. You had to own the bank. And so a lot of people in this legislature currently are people who benefited from owning banks.

And so when you own the bank and you make the loans, you can make loans to all your friends because you own the bank. But when you have a group of people that have been marginalized and oppressed and we don't own the banks, we've got to come back to you and ask for a loan. And you say, oh, no, you ain't got X, Y, and Z together. And we saw that even in the PPP loans. It was one hurdle after the other hurdle after the other hurdle after the next hurdle. And for most black businesses, we didn't even get PPP loans. We just said we'll make it work, right? Because that's what we do best.

We make it work. And I think in the state of Georgia, black businesses have been just making it work. But less than 1% is something that we should hold this government accountable for right now and elect state services governors so she can at least get us past 1% and get us to 25%, 30% and keep growing that number. Well, see, that's what I find to be interesting, because I've seen all of these stories talking about how Kemp is appealing to black business owners, specifically black men. And I've actually not heard a lot about the less than one percent. And so for me, that also raises the question about Democratic messaging.

You talk about, and I firmly believe this, that when it comes to messaging, Republicans do a much hell of a better job. You look at what's happening with the economy. And look, I've been saying this for a year now, but I think the Biden-Harris administration has done a woeful job of actually telling people what they've done. It's one thing to pass bills. Obama was the same way. And even he admits, hey, they passed things, but they were horrible at telling folks what they passed. Part of the deal as a politician is to actually take credit when you do stuff. And I think they've been, frankly, too modest, especially when you follow the fool who took credit for stuff that he never did. So I'm like, if you follow the fool who took credit for stuff that he never

did. So I'm like, if you've done stuff, take credit for the stuff that you've done. And so I think, I believe that's also part of this, this deal where people say, well, nothing has been done. I love, I've heard people say, they've done nothing for black folks. And I'm like, well, this, this, this, this, this, when you count those things, that to me also has to be better explained. So when you're talking to these voters, are you walking people through and knowing full well they say, well, nothing's been done. Well, no, this, this, health care, education, all these different things, being very specific what has been done by Senator Warnock and others. Absolutely. I mean, and that's key to the message overall. I mean, when we think about what Senator Warnock has done, he's very, he's humble, but we have to make sure that we're overstating some of the victories that made sure that Medicare insulin, or excuse me, medications under Medicare is capped.

When we talk about locally in the economy, he's worked to make sure that the Savannah Combat Readiness Center stayed open. When we talk about the economy keeping, I think it's S&K battery here in Georgia, you know, 26,000 jobs, that was because of Senator Warnock. So I do think that those of us who support Raphael Warnock have to make sure that we're sharing these victories and also sharing that he went to the Senate and did what he said he was going to do. He went up there and he worked with everybody, regardless of party, to get stuff done for Georgians.

When I think about the work that he's done for veterans, Senator Warnock was one of those folks, one of the sponsors of the bill that brought over $2 million for homeless veterans throughout our country. So as a veteran, I hear those things and those ring bells for me. And so I think it's very important when we're talking to people in different aspects of our community that we are sharing the victories that he has done. And going back to my earlier point, those tangible victories that the average person can relate to, we have to sometimes simplify it to make sure that it's digestible. Last point for you, and that is this here. If there's someone who is a millennial and they're just sort of stuck on the fence and they're like, hey, I don't see any point of this. What would you specifically tell them why they must use the power of the ballot?

I'm just telling everybody, I remember when Senator Warnock went to Washington and he said, if you send me to Washington, I'm going to make sure that I deliver. The first thing I get for y'all is a STEMI. And he went to Washington and he cast one of the deciding votes to make sure that $1,500 that Americans desperately needed, he cast the vote to make sure that we were able to have that. And we couldn't have done that without Senator Raphael Warnock being the senator from Georgia. And he worked hard to deliver not only that issue, he went to back not only with the Savannah Ports, he went back to bring money back, historic funding for HBCUs. So if you're a millennial and you attend an HBCU in the state of Georgia, you've got to understand we've been historically underfunded.

And if it wasn't for Senator Warnock making sure that CARES Act dollars went back to HBCUs that then went back in the students' pockets to help them through the pandemic, then you've missed it. I need you to get plugged in so you can understand when you got that refund, that was because of Raphael Warnock. And I'll say this here, and again, this is one of the things that I'm always about connecting the dots. When you talk about the amount of money that HBCUs received, we broke this down on the show, whether it's in Georgia, whether it's in Tennessee, Alabama. From the federal government, they actually received three to four times more money from the federal government than their own state funded them.

And when we talk about money that went to HBCUs, this is the thing that people lose out on. It's not just the money. When we say money went to HBCUs, you're also talking about not just students, but faculty, staff, also restaurants and other businesses tied to the HBCUs as well. So that money that went there had an impact in multiple ways beyond just those places. And plus, the homeless folks came from as well. And so, again, that's one of those things. If you're talking about, hey, how are you voting? How did folks vote on those issues that impacts

African-Americans? Jim, I certainly appreciate it. Thanks a bunch. Glad to have you here. We're going to go to a break. We come back. We're going to talk to some business owners here in Savannah, Georgia, about this election. What do they care about? What is most important? And so we'll do that. You're watching Roland Martin on the Black Star Network. Be sure to download the Black Star Network app. All platforms. You can download it on, of course, your Apple phone, Android phone, Apple TV, Android TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Xbox One, Samsung Smart TV. Also, you can join our Bring the Funk fan club. Your dollars make a pile.

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They like, yeah, we're going to the back for some food. We'll holler at y'all later. Welcome back, folks. Savannah, Georgia, we're here, of course, second day of early voting here in Georgia. Glad to be here on the ground. We were in, of course, Swainsboro, Georgia, last Thursday. Was it last Thursday? Last week.

Then, of course, Valdosta, Georgia, last Thursday. Was it last Thursday? Last week. Then, of course, Valdosta, Georgia, last night. We'll be back here next Monday and Tuesday as well. So glad to be back. I got a couple of folks here who are business owners here. Let's welcome right here, of course, we have Sabria Scott. Scott Realty, how you doing? Yeah, she all nervous and everything. I don't know why she nervous.

And we also have Gary. Gary, is it Gordon or Gordon? Gordon. Gordon, 520 Wings owner. All right, glad to have you as well. So let's talk about this here because I was talking last segment about business owners and what people are talking about. It's interesting, I was talking to a woman today, and she said she's a new business owner, and she said on a number of issues, she's absolutely with Senator Warnock, but she's looking at it strictly as a business owner, so she's looking at tax policy. And so talk about that, because I hear that a lot as well, where folks are like, hey, I line up with Senator Warnock on these issues,

but the dominant issue for me is also my business and having lower tax rate, things along those lines. Are you hearing that discussion among other business owners, and are folks sort of on the fence there when it comes to something like that? Well, I think that that is very important, but you do have some people that's on the fence about the taxes, right? For me, I'm a small business owner, the owner of Scott Realty Professionals, and when everything shakes out, I'm kind of up here versus down here, but I'm really not rich, you know what I'm saying? So what happens is I'm paying the higher taxes. So for a lot of my friends that are business owners, they feel like,

well, hey, you know, when I'm looking at the tax policies, when I compare them to the Democrats and the Republicans, it's kind of like I'm getting more of a tax break with the Republicans. But for me, I'm not just voting for myself and my business. I'm voting for my family. I'm voting for my children. I'm voting for my clients and everybody. So I'm not the selfish person that's saying, OK, well, you know, my business would be thriving a little bit more if this person was in office. I'm looking at the whole picture. So I think that's very important, especially with being a small business owner. Well, again, that was one of the couple of things we were talking about earlier.

And again, that's when people are voting, folks vote in different ways. Some folks are voting just about single interest only or just about how it affects them, whereas others are saying, hey, this thing is much bigger than you and also it's bigger than that one particular issue. What is it for you? I want to just piggyback on pretty much what Sabria said. I own two restaurants in Savannah. One of them is a bar, and a lot of times in the evenings,

I get a lot of females at the bar, and I see a lot of concerns as just women rights. And I know we had the big thing with them overturning abortions in the United States. And that's a lot of topic at my restaurant a lot. So, like I said, I think if you vote other directions, you know, you may get a tax break, but I'm voting and a lot of my customers are voting just for everything else besides that kind of, it's just, it's deeper than just, you know, saving some money in the long run. Speaking of that, when you're having, when you're hearing these conversations, what role are you playing and are you seeing the back and forth? Are you seeing, to the point earlier, are you seeing people who are bringing in misinformation

or are you seeing people really understanding what is at stake and are they factoring sort of all of that in? Me personally, from what I'm seeing, I'm seeing, you know, 99.9% of my consumers or customers are voting for a one-off. I mean, if we talk about Hershel Walker, it's just comedy. But when you talk about policies, you know, just between the two candidates, man, I think it's a no-brainer, and that's what I'm hearing, you know, at my establishments. You know, everybody's looking at the policies, breaking them down, and everybody is just like a no-brainer. What have your conversations been like with friends and families and others around this particular election?

Well, it's been a bit different because I'm in an industry that is actually male, white male dominated. And so I attended one of our realtor events just recently. And we were at an oyster roast, actually. And one of the guys were over there talking. And he was like, you know, so-and-so is running for whatever office. And, you know, he's a black man and you should vote for him and he's a Republican and blah, blah, blah. And then he started talking about women's rights. And no, he supports what he said was he supports the new bills with, you know, reverse and roll versus

Wade. And I said, well, I think you're at the wrong table. I said, I'm just going to be real clear. I think you need to stop it right here. But all of us women at this table, we think that it should be a woman's right to choose. So I think that that's very important. That's one of whether it's Warnock or whoever, I think at the end of the day, whatever a woman chooses, at the end of the day if they got to take it up with God, that's what they do. But it should be their choice. She's like Warnock or whoever. She's like, I ain't even mentioning his ass. She's like Warnock or whoever. She's like, whatever. She's like, whatever. Whatever's name.

He actually said it was a table of women, and he said that? Yes. It went all bad. It went all bad. One of my agents, she's in the audience. I said, listen, you're at the wrong table. I think you need to stop it right now. She's about to say, team, that ass is about to show up right now. That's what she's about to say.

She's about to say there. Also, let's talk about this. Again, we talk about businesses. Earlier, again, the conversation I had with another business owner, she talked about the whole issue with lack of access to capital. When you look at, this is pre-COVID, when you look at Black-owned businesses, some 2.6 million Black-owned businesses across the country, but 2.5 million had one employee. And so people keep talking about how, oh, my goodness, we're seeing these increasing black-owned businesses, but we actually aren't because they're sole proprietors. And so if you only have, if it's just you, I mean, you're not actually building capacity. And so are you hearing what you want to hear from the candidates you're supporting when it comes to how to help and grow black-owned businesses in this city, state, and in this country?

Yeah, I think so. I was talking to a banker a couple of months ago just about lending, and she was asking me how did I feel. And I just told her, you know, I'm used to the used to. I mean, when you're a black-owned small businessman, you're just used to getting it out the mud. But I am looking forward to see if Warnock can do some stuff to change it. But again, I'm just used to being so hands-on and so used to not getting the loans, even applying for them. I'm just used to it.

So I would be looking. I am looking forward to see if Warnock can change my mindset of we can get more lending for minority businesses out there. And when President Biden spoke at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, ALC, he talked about, because on a national level, we talk about Georgia getting less than 1%. On the national level, black people only get 1.67% of the $560 billion in federal contracts, and he wants to grow that from $9 billion to $100 billion, which is going to be certainly a tall order. And again, I think if we're talking about connecting the dots, if candidates are speaking

to that particular issue, that has a direct impact on growing our communities and growing us economically. And so when you have folks talking about a crime, well, if you don't talk about employment, if you don't talk about jobs, then you're not having a crime conversation. So crime is not so isolated because that's also based upon economics. That's certainly just one of those issues.

And so what do you want to hear Senator Warnock say or do more if he's reelected? Because we know how you feel about whoever. Right. Well, I definitely want to see more opportunity to teach black business owners and minorities, even if you're not a black business owner, how to do business with the government, classes, also how to file your taxes, how you should be filing your taxes, how you should be designating yourself as a small corporation or S-corp, and just also the tax advantages of having businesses and what all things that we should be able to qualify for.

So I definitely think it should be more opportunities for us to learn about what's available, how to actually obtain these government contracts, how to obtain bonding. And so we can lift this 1% up to the 25 or the 30% because I'm one of those people that is getting my foot in the game on government contracting. And it been difficult just understanding the lingo of some of these contracts has been very difficult so I think that putting more money into funding and explaining you know having more classes to help us be able to go after these contracts is very important look we certainly appreciate it thanks a bunch I told you that was paying she was all nervous and everything. I was like, you need to relax.

She's like, oh, my God. And he's like, hey, what you going to ask? I was like, I don't know. Look, I don't write no questions. He's like, so you're going to wing it? I'm like, yeah. So you got to listen, pay attention. Then hear what I say.

So I told y'all. See, see, see, that wasn't hard. That wasn't hard. See, y'all can sit down now. See, it's all good. All right, we're going to a break. We'll be back. We'll talk to a couple more business owners here in Savannah, folks,

as we, of course, on the second day of early voting here in Georgia. Record turnout on yesterday. We're still waiting to hear what the numbers are for today all across this particular state. A lot of stuff we're going to be covering as well, talking about, again, other states. Of course, you have tonight's debate in Florida between Congresswoman Val Demings as well as Senator Marco Rubio. We'll discuss that next with our panel in our 7 o'clock hour. So look forward to that. Also, folks, again, coming up next, we'll chat with a couple more

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here eating and I hear all this smacking. Ain't nobody brought nothing up here. I see Sabria back there licking her fingers right now. I see you back there. I mean, didn't bring nothing up here. Brother up here working. I mean, I'm just saying, Lord, ain't he offer the brother some water? I'm just saying. All right. Right now, joining us right now, folks, is'm just saying, Lord, ain't he offering the brothers some water? I'm just saying. All right. Right now, joining us right now, folks, Zolonia Williams, owner of Patches. Glad to have her here. Ben Polo, Jr., Polo Corporation.

He's the president. Glad to have you all as well. And so earlier, you and I were having a conversation, again, about what it means to own a business, what it means to support the community. We were at the restaurant earlier, and they were talking about, again, what they also do for the community. And that's the thing I think it's important for people to understand. When we talk about black-owned businesses, the role that they play beyond just the business, but also the support that's being offered in so many other ways to our communities?

Well, one, it's my civic duty. Before I'm a business owner, it's my civic duty to vote. Secondly, as a business owner, it's freaking tough. It's no instructions to this thing. I don't come from a family with moolah. It's just tough. And so I've been blessed to be surrounded by amazing mentors to pull me to the side and tell me, you know, hey, yeah, you doing the right thing? Or no, you may need to rethink that. But I was the one that was not

into politics. I'm like, hell no, this is just not me. I don't do it, my voice is my voice, and this is where it is. But what I found out is that in my latter years in business, that politics is business, and serious business. And as I maneuvered through my business, I understood that there were several obstacles that was causing me not to make better business decisions for my business. And so that's when that whole voting thing came into place.

And so I understood the importance of voting and not only my vote, but my family. My mom was not a voter. My mom is not a voter. And so to make sure that she votes and understand that she's helping me out, she's helping her grandkids out, she's having her great, great, great grandkids out, that was just something that was instilled in me by my mentors, not my family. It was just instilled in me by my mentors. And so for those reasons alone, I go to Warnock. You know, this is, I stand for him because he was in the trenches. He lived in the trenches.

I lived in the trenches. And so he slowly but surely crawled out the trenches. You know, I'm getting there. But for the most part, he lived the type of life that I seen as a child. And so I think more so his platform and all of those good things up under that I stand for. So it's one of the reasons why I would vote. So you made your mama vote? Oh, heck yeah. Yeah. My mom came up with every excuse she possibly can to knock on my back. It was one year she was saying that her insulin was, her blood sugar, well, her

sugar was low, you know, as they would say. It was just so many reasons why she could not vote. But for the most part, yeah, she's now a voter. See, I, now, mind the reverse. My parents are 75. They worked the polls. My mom was a judge. I mean, they do all of that. are 75. They worked the polls. My mom was a judge. I mean, they do all of that.

And so they've worked on campaigns. So that's literally been in my DNA my entire life. And so we operate totally different in my family because if you don't vote, you got to get your ass out the house. Like, I got 13 nieces and nephews. First thing you do, you turn 18, vote a registration card. So, I mean, we ain't even having a conversation. And so, actually, I feel bad if any one of my nieces and nephews ever sat at the dinner table and actually said I didn't vote. The cops probably going to get called.

I'm just, somebody going to get slapped. I'm just, somebody going to get slapped. I'm just letting you know. I'm just letting y'all know right now, if y'all hear reports, somebody in the Martin family slapped the hell out of a family member, I guarantee you it was over because somebody didn't vote.

I'm just letting you know, it's probably how it went down. Ben, she said something I think is important, and that is, she said, how voting is business. And that's the thing. It sort of pains me when we bow this over and over and over again, trying to get folk to understand that the folk who get stuff are the ones who are in the game.

And even when I listen to people and they say, well, we haven't gotten this, it's also folks who don't stay mobilized after the election. We have so much intensity around get registered and vote, but then when the election is over, we're not showing up at school board meetings, at city council meetings, at county commissioner's meetings, except when it's a police shooting or there's a controversial issue. But that's actually how things get done, is when we are making demands after the election. Share your thoughts on that.

So twofold, well, a couple of folds. So to talk about politics and voting being a business, for me it is, because we're in the construction business. So outside of myself, we are literally responsible for employees and those employees' families. How many? We've got a total of 68 right now, and that's on one project. And you talked about federal contracting. We're heavy in federal contracting. So, the voting aspect means a lot more to me because, again, we are literally responsible for families every Friday. They get a check, they feed their families. The policies allow us to compete in different markets that, again, in turn, allows them to feed their families.

So, policies are very important. We're talking about Senator Warnock. I was blessed enough to shoot a commercial for him when he ran. So as far as keeping in touch with the politicians, the politics that are involved in business are key to what I do. So you've got to stay engaged. You've got to stay plugged in. You allow your employees to do the same thing.

You build a stronger company. And, again, opportunities for us pushes down to opportunities for our employees. Everybody wins. One of the things that happens, and it's always an interesting thing when I try to walk people through this. I say, first of all, if you're not having a money conversation, you're not having an American conversation. You're just not. And and, you know, I think that, again, when I listen to a lot of people talk about, well, our communities and what's happening. And then I start asking them, what do you care about? And then when someone says what they care about, then I ask the next question. OK, well, then what are you doing about that? And so you were there. And so once you, the light bulb went off, what did that then do for your activism?

Because a lot of people say, look, man, look, I got a business. I got a family. I don't have time to add something else. But, I mean, you got the shirt on. You got three, four buttons on. So it really does, that light bulb really went on for you. Well, this is my business. Everything that you see is my business.

So what I have learned is that a closed mouth will never get fed. We know that, right? And so if I'm wearing. I'm going to eat barbecue right now. So that stated, everyone that I'm wearing everything that I have on, I have met these people. So, and they patronize my business. So the question is, do you know me? Do you know me?

So if I am wearing anything that I have on, I will not Nike. I understand it. I respect it. Louis Vuitton, I get it. But there's patches. There's patches, right? So I want to make sure that, hey, where's that patch jacket? Tighten up. You know, I need to know that you are pouring back into me as much as I'm pouring into you.

So that love should be equally. It should be equally given. Gotcha. Ben, I want to pick up on something you said earlier when you talked about the families you feed. And that was the point I was making earlier, that when we're talking about building our businesses, then we are actually then funding our own institutions, not just supporting churches, but supporting our organizations, supporting HBCUs, supporting other nonprofits. And that's the piece that I think is important, is getting many of our folks to get out of an employee state of mind and operate in an employer state of mind. And so the reason I go so hard on

this, because again, we're not building capacity. I mean, it's, it's just sort of one person. I mean, when we launched this show, uh, four years ago, I mean, and this is crazy. The day we launched, we were actually in the top percentile of all black-owned businesses because I had more than one employee. Now, but people have to understand that 95% of all black-owned businesses do less than $5 million or less. That's 95%. And so when people keep talking about the condition of our community, it also goes back to the condition of black businesses. And we know with Atlanta, first of all, the reason Georgia is what it is is because of what Maynard Jackson and Andrew Young and Maynard Jackson again, what they did with the airport. But everybody forget, Maynard comes in, Atlanta blacks were getting

0.0012% of all city contracts. Not 1%, not a half a percent, not a quarter, not 0.10, but 0.0012. I mean, that's virtually nothing. And when he said tumbleweeds will go down this runway before I let it be rebuilt without black participation, political power impacted black economic power. So that's why when people say I'm not voting, I'm like, what the hell are you doing? Right, well...

How can I follow that up? Because again, you're absolutely right. But even to go a little bit further with our employees, our position as a company is you may start here, but it shouldn't end here. I mean, I can name, especially folks that's in the crowd from Savannah, I can name contractors right now that have their own businesses, but they started with us. But they started right here with us.

Because, again, it was to grow their capacity to make them employers instead of employees. Some of those same people we subcontract to right now because we know their work ethic because they came through our doors. And that is a revolving situation that can happen not just in my business, but anybody's business. Sabria said it earlier. I'm sure she got some continuing education classes with her employees.

Any of them are probably equipped to go start their own real estate business because of what she imparted into them. Gary's no different. These people I know. So that revolving door with regard to how we can actually build our own is feasible.

It's possible. It's possible. It's out there. But again, you've got to do the groundwork to make it happen. And this is where it starts. It starts at ground level, but you should never have your starting point be your ending point. You've got to have an end game in mind. But wherever you start,

you've got to see direction to build on that and make it something else. Final question for you both. And, again, there's somebody who's sitting out there who's like your mama. What do you say to them right now? Why they're in Georgia, why they should support your candidate who you went all the gear, shirt and everything. I bet you got some Warnock socks on, too. I'm just messing with you. But there's somebody who's sitting there where your mama was.

What are you telling them? I kind of look at voting like a being in prison and why i say that is um having someone make a decision for you and you're not having any right to say or do or feel in that regard so having like i said your civic duty to vote to actually go out there and and do something about how you feel or a policy that you would like to have implemented. To have no voice is to not vote. So sitting at home doing nothing and talking and running your mouth or talking to your friends or, as I stated earlier, just that whole prison mentality of you all discussing it together does nothing for ourselves, our community. And if my mom, if my mom could go out there and vote, even with her aching bones and all of the excuses that she has made, if she can go out there and do it. And most importantly, I am an educator first.

And so to my students, they are those persons who are illiterate. So there are sample votes that are available for those persons who do not understand and comprehend those things. Grab somebody, tap them on the shoulder, what does this mean? What does this look like? Because there's fear. There's fear there when you're looking at those words or you're unable to talk to that person there at the poll and ask them what does this really state. And that's, again, some of the individuals that I deal with day to day. So what do we do with those persons? Ask someone. Stop being afraid.

There's opportunities out there for you. Savannah have ample amount of opportunity. Marcello does an amazing job with getting that out there. We are super proud of him. He's kind of like our Superman here. He's doing an amazing job with that. But I would say to anyone that is sitting home wanting to vote, someone like my mom, just do it. I mean, it can't hurt you. Just do it.

But make sure you do your research first before you go there and vote. Actually, I would say, actually, it can hurt you. It can hurt you. It can hurt you because if the person who wins is against all you stand for, you absolutely can be hurt. It can be hurt. Right, right, right, right. Absolutely. Ben, final comment.

So the Warnock vote is easy for me for a couple of reasons. Senator Warnock was actually raised in a project that I spent many summers in. My father grew up in the project, was born in the project, a couple of blocks from where he was born. So when I look at Senator Warnock, that's me. So that's how I identify with that. He's me. So just based on that in itself, because he is me, I will vote for him. So it's simple for me.

With regard to what he stands for, again, you can look in the mirror, that's me. So that in itself is easy. And to educate others to vote, you've got to understand that politicians and policies, if they represent what helps you and your family, then that's the direction that you've got to be smart enough to say, that's the person that represents my best interest. That's the person I need to see in office. That's the person I need to support. And that's the person that I'm going to rely on to make myself and my family situation better. Appreciate it. Thanks a bunch. Appreciate it. Let me, I'm going to close this segment of the show out, uh, before we go to the next hour this way. Uh, and I told y'all that I gotta be real careful when y'all posting

comments, uh, in our chat rooms, cause I actually watched them and somebody named Jamal Woods. How many of these black business owners support the black agenda? First of all, Jamal, what the hell's the black agenda i mean you're posting in here what the black agenda what is it you you might want to define what it is before you ask somebody what are they actually supporting the second thing i think is we also have to deal with there are there are some simple simons in our community who really are stuck on stupid. See, and I know some of y'all, y'all can be nice. The show called Unfiltered, I don't really give a damn what they think, so I don't care. But here's the deal. So I had some folks who were upset.

They were like, how dare I demand the Biden-Harris administration award more black-owned media contracts to black-owned media firms? Well, that's what I demanded when I was during the election. So I love all the people who holler tangibles. I want tangibles for my vote. Well, every candidate who came on my show, I demand that they actually do that. Biden-Harris wins every time a secretary of a cabinet came on the show. I specifically asked him about black-owned media dollars. Federal government spends a billion dollars a year on advertising,

and then African-Americans only get $51 million out of the $1 billion. And so then you have the people, and again, I'm just saying the simple assignments. These are the same folk who then say, why are you begging Democrats for campaign money? Well, let's see here. $9 billion is going to be spent this political season. Do you know who's getting rich? Every single TV station owner in Georgia. Every radio station in Georgia. digital operations, media strategists. It's amazing to me to listen to black people complain when a black business demands fair

share, but other folk get rich. I need people to understand what I'm saying. One of the speakers earlier said this in terms of we are used to doing a lot with so little. I'm actually tired of us saying that. I'm tired of us literally saying, well, we're going to do a lot with so little. How about we do a lot with a lot more? So when we're talking about supporting a Raphael Warnock, supporting a Stacey Abrams, supporting other candidates who are running for other offices, that should be a part of the deal. What are you driving black to African-Americans? That's what I call the return on investment. That's what I call tangibles. So all y'all who keep hollering tangibles, like I had somebody who was, the dude was, he was in a chat room. It was funny. He was yelling about reparations, and a sister, Nikki Barnes in Florida, asked him, who's your state rep?

And he didn't know. She says, well, how in the hell you asking? She said, how in the hell you going to demand Florida pay reparations when you don't even know who your state rep is? What's happening right now is there are billions of dollars that are being spent in cities like Savannah and states like Georgia in this country. I told you the federal government spends $560 billion a year on contracts. Black people get 1.67%. In this state, billions being spent spent we're getting less than one percent so if you want to understand how we impact it we force kansas say you need to increase that to black-owned

businesses now all y'all folks who also yell holler and scream uh you want you want bills specific to black people well you can also advocate that okay Okay? The state of Tennessee just announced they're going to spend $2 billion on a new stadium for the Tennessee Titans, and the state's going to kick in $500 million. But this is the same state that owes Tennessee State $500 million for being underfunded. So how many black folks are challenging them, saying, damn, a stadium for a billionaire owner, how about $500 million for Tennessee State? So, again, I think a lot of us need to completely be reprogrammed with what it is we're demanding and asking for. And, again, y'all know how I feel.

If you support reparations, great. But you're advocating for dollars that they have not even remotely allocated. But you're silent about the billions that are being spent right now. If you want to change the black community, why don't you fight for the billions being spent right now? And then when that happens, then we can fund our own candidates who then might run for office and then might support the very thing that you say you want

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Atlanta. There are no public libraries in Liberia, but together we can change that. Get tickets at ledinow.org. Hi, my name is Latoya Luckett. Yo, it's your man Deon Cole from Black-ish and you're watching Roland Martin Unfiltered. Stay woke. All right, folks, welcome back to Roland Martin, unfiltered on the Black Star Network. Time for our second hour. We were sitting here busy signing copies of White Fear, so I'm going to be still doing that with the folks who are out here.

And so we got one. Come on, come on, come on. Come on, come on here. So, y'all, this is one of our avid viewers of the show. And where did I first meet her? Where did you say? Oh, that's right. When I was here in 2020, we went to the Black-owned restaurant.

So what's your name? Mikayla. Mikayla. Mikayla. And so what's your whole name? What's your government name? Mikayla Bryant. Mikayla Bryant. Michaela Bryant.

Gotcha. And so you watch the show? Nope. My mama does. Your mama does. And what you call me when you watch the show? Uncle Roro. That's what everybody call.

I'm Michaela. Good to see you. Appreciate it. All right, folks. Let's do this here. We got our panel who's there, of course, in D.C. Glad to have them here. Let me introduce them right now.

And let's see here. Hold on one second. Michael Brown, he, of course, former chair of the DNC Finance Committee. Randy Bryant, diversity and inclusion strategist, speaker, trainer, and writer. Dr. Larry J. Walker, Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida. Glad to have all three of you here. Folks, one of the huge issues that we've been looking at is the issue of voting. And in Florida, Amendment 4 passed, which restored the voting rights to folks who formerly incarcerated. And after that happened, it was by a wide margin. Republicans then began to change the law because they saw what the impact would be. Upwards of 1.4 million people

were going to be impacted. And so what Governor Ron DeSantis did was how shameful and despicable this man is, created a so-called voter integrity unit, where they then began to arrest people who they say voted fraudulently. The New York Times, the Tampa Times, the other newspapers, they've been reporting on this. And this is a video video it went viral today body cam footage of police officers arresting people largely black people who they claim voted illegally even though the state of Florida told them they were eligible to vote watch this apparently apparently I guess you have a warrant. For what?

I'm not sure. It's for voter stuff, man. For voters. It's what it is. I think the agents with FDLE talked to you last week about some voter fraud, voter stuff, when you weren't supposed to be voting maybe. I didn't. So.

What are they talking about? We're not the case agents, but what you got gotta do, they have reduced your bond quite a bit. It's two felony charges for voter fraud, but they've reduced it to $500 bonds. So, it's $1,000 total. Oh, my God, man. What the? Yes, sir. So, unfortunately, right now, we're gonna have to take you to jail, but you got a bond right away.

You don't have to go to first appearance, nothing like that. A bond? I didn't do it. Ma'am, we have a warrant for your arrest. What? Good, how are you, sir? Wait. Oh my God.

Hold on. Wait, wait. Let me see how I'm holding him. We're telling him. He's right here. He's holding him right here. So if you could put your hands behind your back, please. Oh my God.

Do not move. Ultimately, ma'am, you have a warrant? Okay. a warrant. Okay. Hold on. I know you're, you caught off guard. I understand. So you have a warrant.

It's for voter fraud. Okay. Hear me out. It's an ROR. You know what an ROR is? Oh my God. You go in, you get booked, and then they're going to release you from booking. You can go right out. You're going to be right back out. Right back out. Right back out. But you have a warrant.

Okay. I'm like voting for that voter, but I ain't committing no fraud. Well, so that's the thing. I don't know exactly what happened with it, but you do have a warrant. That's what it's for. Oh, my God. Yeah, so I don't know what happened with that but i got out but the guy told me that i was here to go broke and well cause i need all my time

but the warrant was just made uh yesterday so i i yeah i know i I don't know, ma'am. I honestly couldn't tell you, okay? So I gotta do some paperwork, and, uh, the quicker I can get the paperwork done, the quicker I can get you there, okay? Hey, unfortunately you got a warrant out, okay? A warrant? What for? Put your hands behind your back for me. I guess you're not allowed to go?

Well, no, but when I... No one ever really explained all that much to me. I told the guys when they came out here that I was at the driver's license place, getting my new driver's license. The guy there asked me, he says, hey, can you vote? He says, hey, are you registered to vote? I said, no, I'm convicted of calling. I'm pretty sure I can. He goes, well, are you still on probation? I said, no, I got off probation like a month ago.

He goes, well, then you can probably vote. Hey, just fill out the form, and if you can vote, then they'll let you give your card. If you can't vote, then you won't. I'm like, all right. Then there's your defense. You know what I'm saying? That sounds like a good call to make.

Well, we can hope. Yes, sir. We'll do it. It's because of the sex offender thing that you can't vote. So, I mean, the warrant is for the voting deal, I guess, but... I guess it's kind of all tied together. Yeah, I guess they're doing like some kind of roundup thing or something for all the ones that were within the county. Yeah, I had to do one of these this morning already. Oh, really? Do you know the statutes for them?

It doesn't say it on the... Let's walk over to my car, okay? Why is y'all doing this now and this happened years ago? I don't know. I have no idea, man. This shit's crazy, man. Y'all put me in jail for something I didn't know nothing about. Why would y'all let me vote if I wasn't able to vote? I wasn't able to vote. Go.

Gentleman, now it's Neal Volz. He's Deputy Director for the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition. Neal, glad to have you on the show. Let's just be clear. This is shameful, despicable, and sadistic. And this is the kind of intimidation from an autocratic leader like Governor Ron DeSantis. It is designed to intimidate the formerly incarcerated to keep them from voting in that state. Well, man, Roland, thank you for having me.

Well, man, Roland, thank you for having me. And watching those videos, man, it's just heartbreaking. It puts a face on the system, man. It's just not working. It's reverberating around the community. Like you said, people are confused. People are scared about voting. And it's just having a real disruptive impact in terms of those things that just seem to make sense.

They said it on the video. Everyone there got a voter identification card from the government. And then years later, the government now is arresting people on voter fraud. I mean, it just doesn't make any sense, man. Doesn't make any sense, man. I remember when Amendment 4 passed, and you had various voter registrars who were saying they needed guidance from the state. Republicans were racing to change the law, saying they had to pay back all of their fines in order to actually get their voting rights restored. And that was, there were all kinds of people who were saying, look, we don't know what's going on here because it passed. And then of course they changed the law. They got sued before the Supreme Court affirmed that decision by the Republicans in the state. And so

for the governor to spend millions of dollars on this unit and what there were only 20 cases right well and think about it like you just said we're spending millions of dollars arresting florida citizens for voting when their own government gave them voter id cards and said they could vote i mean the truth is we know how to fix this system those of us here at frrc we've been clamoring for this since 2018, 2019, 2020. We're saying you got to fix the front end of the system. You got to be able to give somebody voter eligibility verification right on the front end. I mean, let's be honest. I'm somebody with a felony conviction. You know, if I go try to get food stamps, I try to get, you know, government

services, man, they're going to determine my voter eligibility immediately on the front end. We should have at least as good a system as that for voting, especially four or five years after the voters were very clear about what we wanted. The truth is none of these people should have been arrested in the first place if we had a system that could give assurances on the front end. Instead, we're spending millions of dollars on law enforcement and courts and investigations, and we're seeing what kind of impact it's having in the community by that video right there. It's it's it's just it's it's a super unsettling, especially as we go into this upcoming election. Absolutely. So what are you all doing right now to warn formerly incarcerated? Because, again, folks are seeing this video and there's,

you can even tell these officers were like, we really don't want to hell we're here while we're doing this. I mean, they were apologetic for what was going on. And so what are y'all doing to warn folks as a result of these scare tactics that the governor has unleashed on the formerly incarcerated in Florida? Yeah, I mean, we're doing a couple of things. I appreciate you asking. One, once these arrests started, we immediately set up a bail fund. We immediately set up a legal defense fund because, look, we know the system. Ninety eight percent of people plead out. Right. So we got folks put in a situation which they're sitting in jail trying to negotiate for their own freedom and for their own future. And it's an uneven negotiation.

So we want to make sure that we get everybody out. We want to make sure that anyone who wanted attorney, that we could get somebody assigned to them so that they could have counsel, they could make wise decisions. And we want these conversations to be happening in the courtroom, right, because we know that there needs to be intent. And we didn't see intent from anybody there. We saw shock that they were even being arrested, right? Everyone that we're seeing in those videos are saying the same things that we're reading in all these affidavits, right? I didn't know that I was, you know, I was on the sidelines of my community for years. I wanted to vote. I wanted to be a part of my community. So I did because the government told me I did. And now two, three years later, you know, they're getting arrested. So what we're doing is getting the word out to all of our members through our chapters,

through webinars, through one-on-one conversations and making sure that folks know that they can connect with us and connect with attorneys if they have questions, because we've got a horrible situation, to be frank, here in Florida. If you're unsure, the system's basically saying don't vote. And we think that's a horrible process. We need to get the certainty back in the system. And that's why we're also grateful for platforms like yours, in which we can be very, very clear. Other states have figured this out. They know how to determine eligibility on the front end of that process so that we don't have to deal with any of this stuff on the back end.

A couple of the gentlemen who are in the videos that we saw, they got their information from the DMV. They went down to the DMV and had government folks tell them that they were eligible. If I went down to the DMV as a 13-year-old and said, hey, I want to drive, and they gave me a driver's license for three years and then arrested me afterwards, I think we'd all be up in arms. But that's exactly the process that we have here. We have a system that doesn't work, and now we're reacting to it with law enforcement and criminalizing voting and making things worse. So, man, we are beating

the drum as loud as we possibly can. And I say it again and again, man, thanks for allowing us to talk to folks who care about this through your program, man. We're really grateful for that. Well, Neil, we certainly appreciate it. Give my best to Desmond and Sheena as well. It's just shameful, these folks having to deal with that. This woman trying to go to work, and then she gets arrested, and she's trying to tell her husband because of the actions of Florida Governor Rhonda Sanders. But we appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Thank you so much.

Michael Brown, I'll start with you. Actually, let me start with Larry, since he's there in Florida. Larry, if people need any other reason to throw Rhonda Sanders out and vote for Charlie Chris, this is a perfect example right here. I mean, what he is doing, this is about intimidating the formerly incarcerated, and I really hope those upwards of 1.4 million people in Florida who are formerly incarcerated

use the power of that ballot and throw him and every single other Republican who passed that law trying to stop them from being able to get their voting rights restored? So, Rowan, we know this video and how they were treated is how with people in the state of Florida, particularly the governor, are treating returning citizens, but not just returning citizens. We also talk about migrants also. Right. I think that the issue here in Florida, Roman, is that there are some people who don't have a problem with this kind of behavior. Let's be clear. We've seen some of the recent polling numbers leading up to the November election in the governor's race in particular. But if you're an American and you believe in fairness, you certainly can't believe this is the way things should be done.

It's also, once again, as you've highlighted, is that those individuals, the state said that they could vote. And then they were arrested a few years later. And we clearly understand that we have an election coming up in a couple weeks. So this is a silly season as it relates to politics. Another layer to this rule, and I think is really important and is terrorizing for Floridians that look like me, is if we allow Governor DeSantis to win in a few weeks, as he ramps up to run in 2024, it will get far worse for black and brown Floridians. So it is important in the next couple of weeks that we put an end to these shenanigans right now because we can't allow our everyday individual in the state to be treated like this. And if we allow people to have this occur in Florida, we'll see that mirrored in other states. But once again, it's silly season leading up to elections, and there are people in this state who embrace this kind of behavior from the governor. Michael, I did a video the other day where I said the hell that is going to be unleashed on Americans, especially black folks, if Republicans take control of the House and the Senate,

as well as more governor's mansions, is real. I've got these fake new black, these so-called new black media people out here who, frankly, represent nobody. All they do is talk about other people, trying to say, oh, my goodness, these are scared tactics. Roland's employing no fools. Look at this. This is real. If Ron DeSantis gets reelected, we are to see how he is terrorizing teachers when it comes to teaching there, how they're trying to actually strip folks of tenure, how they're trying to tell what they can't teach in classrooms. And so it's abundantly clear what's going on. And then you got people like Senator Marco Rubio, who's running against Congresswoman

Val Demings. He wants to be senator for another six years, who's just kissing the behind of Donald Trump. And I'm telling you, people, you can sit here and play games if you want to. But the agenda that they plan to unleash is all about literally stealing elections. Steve Bannon has said we're going to put people in the rooms counting the votes and not all votes should count. And so if folks want to dance around this issue, they can. But I'm telling you right now, they're going to rue the day if all of a sudden they are in control of the House and the Senate and they continue to control state legislatures and it is going to be hell for the formerly incarcerated

and for black folks. And thank you. Do we have to call you Uncle Roro now? Is that what we have to call it? First of all, first of all, all you omegas just simply say, bow down to us alphas? I didn't say anything. Michael, I don't know why you started. Michael, I don't know why you started, because you know... Michael, just kiss the ring. Just kiss the ring. See? I wouldn't even go there, Michael.

See? You omegas want to be disruptive. With having to do with Governor DeSantis. It's one of the... You know, It's interesting when we watch some of the reports about him and people say, oh, he's Trump in sheep's clothing or whatever, however folks describe him. I don't necessarily agree with that. I think he is just as bad as Trump. And frankly, he may be worse for a couple of reasons. One, the 45th president didn't really understand government. He had never been elected official. He didn't understand. He was like a bull in a china shop. Governor DeSantis knows exactly

how government operates. Moreover, if he does run in 24, he will still have the bully pulpit of being governor. He doesn't have to give up his seat. And so he'll be able to do things as governor to show how extreme he is. So when he's running for president and then when he loses, he'll still be governor of Florida. As for the actual law that was passed, which was a great law, they did it also in the state of Virginia when Governor McAuliffe was governor, that you give Black folks, and this is obviously we all know the history, you give Black folks and brown folks the rights, but then you restrict them so much that people are going to have to make a decision. Do I want to vote or do I want to get arrested? And that's one of the ultimate deterrent. And so I'm glad that you formed the

guest that was just on a second ago is out trying to get the word out. I'm glad you do it every day, Roland, so folks aren't scared and can exercise their rights. Randy, Michael makes a great point. and I've said the exact same thing. Ron is saying this is even more evil than Donald Trump. Mike Pence, I said the exact same. And I have detailed what is happening here. Axios did their reporting talking about how these hardcore MAGA Republicans, what they're doing is they are

putting together a shadow government as we speak right now. So if they win in 2024, the hell they're going to unleash. In fact, right now, Randy, with the Supreme Court, when they listen to the oral arguments in this so-called state legislature legal theory, Republicans in Louisiana and in Alabama are literally trying to redefine the definition of who is black. They are, right, so what they're trying to do is, because it was already established by the Supreme Court when it came to the census, they want to redefine that because they are trying to shrink the number of people who qualify as black. They do not. The census allows for an individual if they put two different categories to be counted as

black. They want to actually get rid of that. What that means is if you're biracial and you put down black, you can't be included. That's how sadistic they are. I keep warning everybody who watches this show that you need to understand what they are doing. They are trying to hold on to power because they see what's coming, and they are afraid when they are no longer in the majority. That's why I wrote my book, White Fear. They're not sitting here playing games here. They are letting us know exactly what they're going to do. And this was happening in Florida is a perfect example of how they're trying to disenfranchise

for incarcerated people, but especially black and brown people. Well, 100, if there were to allow us to have fair elections, to participate in a democratic process, they wouldn't win. You know, the world has changed now. So what they're doing is creating all sorts of ways to cheat. We see how also the districting is changing in Florida and all over the United States. I read an article about how they are trying to redefine what African-American is. And that's not the first time they've done that.

They have always tried to broaden and they've done that. They have always tried to broaden and they've changed the structure of actually who's accepted and counted as a white person to change numbers. And now with this, and when I saw that there was a task force in Florida, it so reminded me of when our African ancestors were enslaved, and there was a whole group of people meant to really not just catch us but intimidate us. It should tell people the power of our vote, because what they're trying to do is scare us, not just the recently incarcerated, the formerly incarcerated, but all Black people. They understand that we have a fear with systems

because of course these systems were not built for us and don't treat us fairly. So they're now showing that should you try to participate in the democratic process, you have a chance of being arrested. And they feel that that will keep people home. And they're probably right if we don't go out here and have programs like yours and have these conversations.

It's all about intimidation. It absolutely is. Folks, right now in Florida, Congresswoman Val Demings is debating Senator Marco Rubio. Let's go live to that debate right now. I have a bipartisan red flag law sponsored with Senator Jack Reed. But the problem is that the leftists in the Senate and in the House, like Congresswoman Demings, are against it because they want the California red flag law that allows your co-worker, has a grudge against you, and can go to a judge and take away your guns. That I'll never support.

That's a 30. I'm going to overlook Senator-elect Demings. We're going to just blow by that. I didn't say elect. I said Congresswoman Demings. Congresswoman Demings. Thank you. Look, every time we talk about responsible gun ownership and legislation that could help protect lives, you pull the Second Amendment out. My father was a gun owner.

It has nothing to do with the Second Amendment. This is about taking dangerous guns out of the hands of dangerous people. And the overwhelming majority of people in our nation want us to do just that. How long will you watch people being gunned down in first grade, fourth grade, high school, college, church, synagogue, a grocery store, a movie theater, a mall, and a nightclub? Congresswoman, do nothing. That is time. I want to give you 30 more seconds, Senator. Well, everything she's for would have done nothing to stop any of these shootings.

Every one of these shooters would have passed a background check that she keeps insisting on. No one here is in favor of mass shootings and violence. And that's why she says we did nothing. That's not accurate. Today, you go to the Department of Homeland Security website, and there's a clearinghouse. She's going to mock it. She shouldn't, because the idea came from a Parkland father. And there's a clearinghouse there that basically tells schools, for example, this is what works for safety and this is what doesn't. And we got that put in there. You know who's trying to take that down?

The Biden administration. Because they say that to have a school safety clearinghouse is discriminatory against minority students. That's a big thing. The clearinghouse is fine, but Senator Rubio thought that he could reduce this very critical issue to supporting a clearinghouse on the Homeland Security website. And he thought he would get a pass for the mass shootings that we've had in our state and doing nothing significant to do anything about it. Your primary responsibility, Senator, is to protect the safety of the people that you represent. We just passed a bill they wanted,

and there was a shooting a week later, and a week after that. Why don't we just stop arresting murderers and say we can't find them all? A rapist, a robberist. We're out of time on this issue, and in this half of this debate, we've reached halftime.

And it is brief. So everybody stay tuned. We have many more issues to get to. You are watching Decision 2022, the U.S. Senate debate for Florida. Palm Beach State College. 90 years of preparing top graduates who are industry

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Rasheem Carter, folks, has been missing. The Laurel, Mississippi Police Department is asking for help locating 25-year-old Rasheem Rael Carter. Last seen on October 2nd. He is 6 feet tall, weighs 190 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information about Rasheem Carter should call the Laurel, Mississippi Police Department at 601-399-4440, 601-399-4400. Folks, a Texas mother is upset after a teacher actually threw her child and then lied about it by saying the child failed. So 14-year-old Quentin Proctor attends the Round Rock Independent School District's Gold's Learning Center, a school for kids who qualify with an emotional disturbance.

Well, on April 29, 2022, T was being escorted out of his class by two female teachers for being, for disturbing the class. Well, they took him to the cool-down room. At some point, the assistant principal, Jacob Thomas, came to relieve the two women. Quentin says he thought he could leave with his teachers. When he tried to walk out of the room, Thomas threw him back in, making him hit his head on the wall. Quentin's mom, Tatiana Alfano, got a call and an email from the school alerting her of the incident, saying her son was defiant, fell down, and hit his head. Quinton told her he did not fall, but was thrown down. She requested the video and saw exactly what happened.

Here's a school district statement about the incident. The district's investigation is complete. The staff member is still employed but not assigned to Gold's Learning Center. He is currently working on administrative projects at the district's central office. She was not particularly happy with how the school handled the situation and reached out to the Department of Family and Protective Services to review the case. They ruled that it was reasonable to conclude that the alleged abuse and neglect did not occur. Unhappy with that, she posted the video on social media.

The school district reached out to her lawyer and offered $10,000 to delete the video and sign a nonddisclosure form. She declined. Randy, what the hell? First of all, how do you continue to employ an assistant principal? And they lied. The video shows the kid was being thrown into a wall and the person is still employed. How about not lying? And then you're going to offer 10 grand to delete the video. I'm glad she posted it because the Round Rock School District, which is a suburb of Austin, Texas, they are flat out lying. And this is someone that parents have to trust and trust their kids with every day. I mean, how can you trust someone who will just blatantly lie about something that happened and also become just violent with a child.

You know, I watched the interview with this young man and, you know, he just seemed like a kid. He seemed innocent. And it's just a shame that he was handled by a grown man this way, a grown man who said that he was dedicated to nurturing children and helping children. He is throwing a child like this. To me, it even looked like he hit him in the end. And then to lie. How could he in any way keep a leadership position? If they allow him to stay in that position, then, you know, I think it speaks highly of the entire district. I mean, I'm sorry, it speaks low of the entire district. It says a lot. Low of the entire district.

Michael, I would say file a salt charge against the principal. This is the principal. Absolutely. Make it hurt. And because right now where they have him, when they hold them in administrative, like where they hold them in those camps, their school systems, I'm a former high school teacher, they're still getting paid and they're just not having to do the work. It's very similar to the way they do police officers. So this man is not suffering, but so much. And it could stay, he could stay that way

for a long time. There's some people who stay in the system that way and make money and not work for years. For years. Michael Brown, this is assault and that assistant principal should be charged for assaulting a student. Absolutely. And no question about it. Especially, I mean, you know, it's interesting that we were talking about the paid leave situation. That family that suffered this, their taxes are paying his salary right now while he's still working. So there has to be some middle ground when punishment is imposed until people say, oh, there's an investigation. There has to be some middle ground. Maybe he doesn't technically lose his job. He has to go home. But he doesn't get paid. I think what irritates folks is the fact that people are

getting paid for doing bad while there's an investigation. Number two, absolutely wrong, absolutely correct. I know you mentioned the name of the town outside of Austin. We'll see what the D.A. does. I mean, there should be no question this is assault because keep in mind, this is he can't act. He can't call it self-defense. The young man did nothing to cause this person to commit an assault and battery against him. So from my standpoint, you're exactly right. Should be charged. I just don't have no idea what these DAs are going to do. And the whole, how they act with impunity. And, oh, you know what?

Just delete it and we'll send you a check. You know, that's the thing. It's so tired and typical. And that's what impunity does. People think there are no consequences. Larry, check this story out. In Wisconsin, a white man in Milwaukee was caught on video holding a young black man with special needs by the throat

after accusing him of stealing his bike. This video has gone viral. Watch this. I'm recording you. Let go of the mic. Record. Let go of his neck. He's not going anywhere. Stole a bike right out of a friend of mine's yard. Let go of the shirt. Let go of his neck. Record. Let go of his neck. He's not going anywhere.

Stole a bike right out of a friend of mine's yard. Sir, sir. Let go of his neck. Let go of his neck. Okay, you're fine. You ain't got to hold his neck, sir. Oh no, I didn't touch it. I didn't touch it. Come on, though. I didn't touch it. I didn't touch it. Yeah.

Bitch! I didn't touch it. For real, I didn't touch it. Yeah. One of this kid over here, one of his friends stole a bike right out of a friend of mine's yard. Okay, my address is... I didn't touch it. You know, for real, I paid on God, I didn't touch it. Yeah. You ain't got to touch his neck like that, bro. He a kid. Yeah, right in the middle of the road.

No, he's just a kid. Just a few minutes ago. Hey, little man, do you know his people? There's actually three kids here. Go get his people. Go get his mom. He's got to go with us because his mom don't know us. No, go get his mom or go. He gotta go with us cuz his mom don't know us. No, go get his mom or go get somebody that where he live.

He doesn't know. I don't know what kind of bike, it's a green one. Yeah, but he didn't steal it. I don't know what you got going on with him, but he don't need to be grabbing your neck like that. I'm saying how did he grab me? No, I didn't. He got me. He ain't got no reason to be grabbing me on that.

What? Go. Well, Larry, let me tell you what happened here. It was a black group. They pulled up on a homeboy. His name is Robert Allen Walsikowski Sr. He described the bike to the 911 operator as green. You saw the bike.

It was blue. Milwaukee Police Department is aware of the video. An investigator in the young man's name was not released, but he's 24 years old. But a group of black folks pulled up on this white man's house, and they've been protesting. I don't know if y'all have the video. And they said, oh, you want to touch a young black brother? Here you go. And then you've had other activists from around the country who said they're going to pull up at his house in Milwaukee.

Look, I keep telling that's why, you know, we had this segment, crazy as white people. Y'all keep putting your hands on black people. It's about to be a problem, Larry. Listen, Roland, you know, this is I feel for this young man who's obviously read the article with special deeds. But this is once again an example of racial violence. And listen, we could have videos like this. You could play these on loop, Roland, every single day. And we obviously talk about these issues with law enforcement, but also these citizens. And this gentleman thought he had the right not only to detain him, but his

hands around his throat. And I'm glad that that citizen showed up, that brother showed up, let him know he did take his hands off of him. But we can't continue to allow these folks to get away with it. So yeah, they need to be out in front of this house 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to let them know that members of the Black community won't allow this to continuously happen, particularly those in our community who are the most vulnerable, which is clearly the case. But once again, the police department should be investigated. This gentleman should be arrested for assault. And then people not only protest in terms of in front of his house, they need to go

in front of his job and let his employers know this is the kind of behavior an individual you're employing. And it certainly better not be a state or city employee. But once again, Roland, if you mess around and find out, if you put your hands on members of the Black community, and we need to keep doing this to hold these folks accountable. Look, look, Randy, I'm telling you, I'm glad to see how people responded. And I bet that man is a little bit upset. Remember the guy in New Jersey? I remember the story of the guy in New Jersey

who attacked this young brother. And man, the protesters showed up at his house and he had to move. And so that's what should happen. I mean, bottom line is, you don't sit here and just put your hands around this young brother's neck. And then you call 911 and say the bike is green and the damn bike was blue.

Right. And he also said the friend stole it. He said that not that gentleman stole it, but the friend stole it. So why do you have this gentleman in a neck hold? Not that that would be appropriate anyway. Definitely he should be arrested. Again, this is assault. But I think that the message should be loud and clear that Black people are sick and tired of being sick and tired.

And if the police will not protect us, if the systems will not protect us, we will protect each other. So they should be paying attention. And I'm so thankful for that brother being there. Michael. We were just talking about deterrent in the previous story.

There have to be deterrents, too, for people like the gentleman in the plaid shirt. You have to put some bracelets on him, take him downtown, book him for assault. I mean, because then, hopefully, the message will get out to people like him. I better

not do this because this will happen. Same with the deterrence with the police. We had, there has to be some, some stronger deterrence when folks do things that are not, that frankly are illegal, but the laws protect police officers and the laws or whoever happens to be the DA will protect this gentleman in the plaid shirt or the gentleman at the school. So that's why elections matter, because it depends on who is in these particular positions. Absolutely right. Folks, got to go to a break. We come back. We'll talk with a sister out of D.C. who's actually a business advisor helping black owned businesses and others. And so we'll chat with her in our marketplace segment. Android TV, Android phone, Android TV, Apple TV, Apple phone, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Xbox One, Samsung Smart TV. And, of course, you can also support us in what we do with our Bring the Funk fan club. Check in money orders.

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and the Wham Dance. What's going on? This is Tobias Trevelyan. And if you ready, you are listening to and you are watching Roland Martin Unfiltered. All right, folks. Starting and running a business is not easy. Trust me, people love talking about entrepreneurship, but you have to understand the business of the business, navigating tax code, talking all the other aspects of running a business.

My next guest is somebody who is helping folks do that, Tadeo Moon. She is the founder and CEO of Moon Advisory Group. The full-service accounting firm handles bookkeeping, monthly accounting, tax preparation, business advisory services for high-net-worth individuals and business owners. She joins me from Lanham, Maryland. Tadeo, glad to have

you on the show. How you doing? Doing pretty good. Thanks for having me, Roland. Really, really appreciate it. All right, so let's talk about this because, I mean, look, when you're trying to run a business, you're trying to keep up with everything and you're not keeping up with the tax code and how things have changed. In fact, literally, as I was sitting here talking, I got an alert from the Wall Street Journal that dealt with changes in the tax code as well, what you should know. And so a lot of small businesses, especially the black-owned businesses, aren't taking

advantage of the tax code and what it is they can write off, how they can actually make purchases. And so how do you help them in terms of understanding to grow their business in a unique way? So the cool thing right now is it's actually a huge topic right now. A lot of people didn't really understand tax planning. A lot of people prepare for what? Tax season. And tax season takes into account what you've already done for the year. Therefore, now all you left to do is just pay your taxes. What a lot of people are trying to headlight right now is tax preparation. You have to do some tax planning. So with tax planning, we show individuals, we show business owners how they can put a plan in effect right now that shows you room that you can, how to spend your money and how to buy assets and buying those assets, how you can write those off so you can lower your tax liability.

It's a huge thing right now. And that's what I'm going to stress to a lot of business owners that they need to do. Look into tax planning strategies. It helps you plan before it's tax preparation season. And that's also great because there's nothing worse than sitting here and you get to it, when you get to it, one of the things is that, look, you may have a business and you bought as much as you can. So now you're trying to figure out, well, how can I spend my money? And that's one of the first questions I ask. Okay, what do you anticipate our tax bill is going to be and what can

I buy to lower the tax bill? Because at the end of the day, if I can go out and make some acquisitions and some purchases that's actually benefiting the company, I'd rather do that than give the government like one year to give them 325 000 and i was pissed and the only and actually i was so upset because we had timed

it out perfectly and literally around december 27th uh 300 grand in revenue came in one company wanted to book it at the end of the year, and I was like, damn. I was trying to figure out how to spend. I'd already spent about $400,000 in a month. I was like, damn, I cannot spend $300,000 in three days. And I was hot. And so that's why NAPS,

part of the deal, people who owe me, I'm sitting here going, all right, so when y'all going to pay? Now, why don't y'all go ahead and pay that thing like January 30th instead of December 30th? Yeah, that strategy is called deferring your revenue, deferring the revenue, which is just waiting a little while longer to collect it so it hits in a whole other year rather than the year that it's happening right now. It's huge, Roland.

A lot of companies don't understand the value of tax planning. And that's something that I'm emphasizing right now in this season. Like you said, you did it around August, around September. October, it's almost too late, but you have to get in the game, get your numbers together, get your financials together. Most businesses don't even have their financials together. They don't have a CFO or the basics. They don't even have a bookkeeper. And a bookkeeper at least lets you know, are you profitable? So if you find yourself being profitable and you owe taxes in previous years, you don't have to keep giving that money to the government, giving it to the IRS. I call it, why not reinvest that money back into yourself? The same exact thing that you

were saying. Spend the money on yourself, spend the money in your investments, spend the money on developing your team and bringing in new revenue rather than giving it away to the IRS. Last question before I go to my panel. And this is the thing that totally trips me out. I've had business owners who say, I do my own taxes. And I'm like, you do know that's a tax write-off if you pay somebody else to do it. I am not. I am not going through the stress of doing my own business taxes.

I'm going to pay somebody to do it and I get to write off me paying them because it's a business expense. Yes, yes, yes. A lot of people don't take that in consideration, but it's a business expense. Yes, yes, yes. A lot of people don't take that in consideration, but it is a business expense. All of it, as a matter of fact, is a business expense. Whether you're doing it one time a year for preparation

or you're doing it for planning season or you're doing it for bookkeeping, accounting, all of it is a write-off. And if we're in your numbers every single month, we even can find new write-offs for you, new things that you didn't know you can actually account as a business expense, and you're spending it on your personal accounts. I've seen a lot of people do that where they don't realize that you can sometimes write off so much more in your business, but you're spending it on your personal expenses. Questions from our panel. Larry, I'll start with you. Yeah, sure. Thank you, Roman. So there, you know, you're right there in the Washington,

D.C. metropolitan area. There are a number of Black-owned businesses, and those numbers are increasing. But I want to talk specifically if you have any programs where, for instance, Black women. We've seen in the last couple of years a number of increasing of Black-owned businesses. Like I said, D.C. right there is a the last couple of years a number of increasing of Black-owned businesses. Like I said, D.C. right there is a hub. Can you talk a little bit about if you're partnering with organizations to support specific subgroups like Black women? Currently partnered with a major agency that you've probably heard of. It's called the MBDA, which is the Minority Business Development Agency. It is a federal program, but they partner with small businesses,

not just in the D.C. area. It's literally nationwide. And we partner with companies that are women-owned, you know, black-owned, any type of diverse group. They partner with them, and I'm strategically leveraging a relationship with them where any businesses that come in looking to develop, looking to grow, looking to see capital funding, that's what my firm does with them. So there's a lot of women-owned businesses, Black-owned businesses, disabled veteran businesses that come through, and they're looking to secure contracts with the state government and also the federal agency here in D.C., which you know is one of the big, big businesses here, is federal government contracting. And that's what we do. Get their money together. We pitch them for opportunities. We also go after funding with

banks or even venture capitalism. Randy. I know that your tax plan is very much dependent on the type of corporation you are if you decide to be an LLC or an S-corp. Do you provide services to people even prior to formalizing the business to advise them what would be the best type of corporation for them? I am 100% in agreement with that strategy more than anything, but not everybody get that opportunity to do that in advance because a lot of people right now, what the information is out there saying, get an LLC, get an LLC, get an LLC. And then getting an LLC is so easy that they're not emphasizing,

get some education to determine what structure is going to be best for you. So yeah, I do offer business incorporation services. I like to educate. My team likes to educate how to start from the ground floor up and begin with the end in mind. I want to know what type of goals do you have in the next three to five years because those goals and those plans can help us set you up, structure you the right way you need to be today, rather than just going for LLC, going for S-Corp. So I really appreciate that question. Michael. I'll be very quick, Roland. Thank you. Ms. Moon, congratulations on your firm, and I continue to hope you continue to grow.

Can you, a little quick, little quick specifics for the viewers. When you say prepare for tax season, exactly what does that mean for folks? Does that mean they should make sure they collect all their, the W-2s that come in the mail? Does that mean they should keep every single receipt? What does that mean by getting ready? Well, oftentimes, in my opinion, the people who need to prepare are the ones that recognize that they have a pattern of owing. If you have a pattern of owing, there are strategies that you can implement that can help you prepare for a better result. Not every individual is going to be able to do that. The reason why I'm saying it is most individuals make

what? W-2 wages. And if you're not going to make W-2 wages alone, you have a business, you have investments, you have real estate, those individuals are able to manipulate or change their bottom line numbers with certain decisions they can make or implement today. So for those who have a pattern of owing, that's where I would say you can start preparing during 2022, because once the year is over, you've already passed or surpassed the preparation phase or the planning phase, so you can get into the preparation phase in order or the planning phase so you can get into the preparation phase. So anybody that has a pattern of owing, there are strategies that you can do rather than giving up that money. You can now reinvest that money into assets that's going to benefit you as an individual or benefit you as a company. And Ms. Moon, quick follow-up, Roland. And Ms. Moon, isn't it,

can you also give quick advice to folks that even if they don't have the money ready that they know they may owe, shouldn't you file no matter what? Oh, yes. You should file no matter what. Hit the deadline, April 15 for individuals, March 15 for businesses. Hit the deadline no matter what. And if for any reason you cannot hit the deadline, at least file for an extension because the failure to file penalty is far worse than anything else. Very good. Thank you, Ms. Moon. All right. Neil Moon, we certainly appreciate good. Thank you, Ms. Moon.

All right, Chenille Moon, we certainly appreciate it. Thank you, Ms. Moon. Thanks so much. Folks, we want to reach you. Where did they go? If anybody's looking for some assistance, yeah, you can find us on www.moonadvisorygroup.com. That's moonadvisorygroup.com. We're also on Facebook. We're also on Instagram at at to neil underscore

moon or at moon advisory group on Instagram as well. Well, all right, then again, we really appreciate you joining us and I really hope folks take advantage of that. That question that Randy raised about

the corporation is important because we actually switched take advantage of that question that Randy raised about the corporations is important because we actually switched our corporate designation as a result based upon when we changed the size of our company and the revenue. So, again, that's where having professionals who can walk you through those things are critically important. So, appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Yes, thank you.

Folks, that is it for us. We appreciate all the folks here in Savannah, Georgia, for hosting us. We were in Valdosta, Georgia, last night. And so I want to thank everybody who was involved for that. Thanks for coming out as well. We certainly appreciate that. We'll be back in D.C. tomorrow. This Saturday, I'm going to be speaking to the Buffalo NAACP in Buffalo.

So look forward to being there. Friday, I'm going to be at the Men of Color Conference at Montgomery College. Looking forward to that. Sunday, we're going to be in Houston with the NAACP and other organizations for a Get Out the Vote rally. I'll be hosting that. And I'm back here in Georgia on Monday and Tuesday. So quite the busy week for us here at Roland Martin Unfiltered. But look, it's what we do, covering the issues that matter to us, to our community, and speaking truth to power. So let me thank Randy.

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