#RolandMartinUnfiltered - Trump Name on Kennedy Center? DC Police Chief Rips Critics, CFPB Redlining Threat, Warnock v Trump

Episode Date: December 20, 2025

12.19.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Trump Name on Kennedy Center? DC Police Chief Rips Critics, CFPB Redlining Threat, Warnock v Trump The Kennedy Center slaps Donald Trump's name on the building and website--But is it legal? We'll break it down. Plus, DC Police Chief Pamela Smith tells critics "F you" and storms out in a fiery speech, you won't want to miss it. And Consumer Financial Protection Bureau now run by a Project 2025 insider--proposes rules that could revive modern redlining. Global Black Economic Forum CEO Alphonso David joins us on the threat to Black homeownership. Donald Trump is pissed off with NBC News and Senator Raphael Warnock after Warnock appeared on Meet the Press,Trump is accusing the network of political bias and suggesting it should face consequences over its broadcast license. #BlackStarNetwork partner: Fanbasehttps://www.startengine.com/offering/fanbase This Reg A+ offering is made available through StartEngine Primary, LLC, member FINRA/SIPC.  This investment is speculative, illiquid, and involves a high degree of risk, including the possible loss of your entire investment. You should read the Offering Circular (https://bit.ly/3VDPKjD) and Risks (https://bit.ly/3ZQzHl0) related to this offering before investing. Download the Black Star Network app at http://www.blackstarnetwork.com! We're on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku, FireTV, XBox and SamsungTV. The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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here he slaps his name on everything because he's so desperate for attention. Well, now that's the case. This here is a photo of the Kennedy Center. The John of Kennedy Memorial Center for Performing Arts. This is, again, what is called the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Performing Arts. Well, poor little, this little child, the Kennedy Center board supposedly unanimously voted to put his name on because he saved it and then he gave an interview. He was an Oval Office, oh, I was just surprised. I was surprised it happened. Here's a thing, though, y'all.

This is how childish it is. First of all, you just can't just rename stuff with the executive order. That's actually, this was dictated by Congress, but, you know what, that idiot would never, ever accept that reality. And so that's the deal. But, you know, and so talking about, you know, just really screwing with a venerable institution in this country,

facility that was a broke ground on it in December 1964 a year after the assassination of John of Kennedy in Dallas but again when you're dealing with a child that's what you are dealing with and so he is attacking all of these systems

and in fact if you want to understand you know what's going on here you got to realize how again, shameful and despicable this individual is. He is desperate. He is desperate for attention. There's no amount of attention. Like, did he not get enough as a child?

But that's exactly who he is. And so he wants to destroy numerous institutions. Robert Rice, former Labor Secretary, put out a pretty interesting video, I thought. I'm going to go to that in a second, where he talked about what we're dealing with here with this petulant child, this individual who calls himself

we don't know what the hell even call himself. And again, we're talking about a Villema institution. This here, of course, is the Kennedy Center right here. This is a Rortes video showing. And, of course, the Trump folks are like, oh, my God, it was falling apart. It was in disrepair. They had been losing money.

And talking about all of these donations that Trump has been now getting. Well, here's the problem with. that they're giving and donations are down in a huge way, a huge, huge way. They're down in a huge way. But, again, when you're dealing with a child, this is how children act. And I'm telling you right now, I saw one Tim Schreiber. Of course, Kenny Relatives said, hey, whoever's the next Democratic president,

we're going to take a chisel to that sucker. Michael Imhotep, host African History Network, Shaw, Detroit, Matt Manning, Sidney, Superite, Corpus, Christi, Wincuny, Cian, CEO, co-founder of politics, and glad to have y'all here. Wincuni, listen, this is part for the course, who this idiot is,

the Institute of Peace, he slapped his name on that, and that's his thing. You have to feed his ego, and surely these Republicans are going to get tired of feeding the massive ego of this grown-as-either. 80-year-old child. I don't know if the Republicans are going to get tired of it, actually.

It seems like they've gotten quite good at it. But it is sad because the Kennedy Center has been heralded worldwide as a center for the intelligentsia, as a center for the performing arts and fine arts. And now it bears the name of a man who probably will go down in history as one of the worst presidents of the United States. And in addition, it's insulting to put his name up there alongside. President Kennedy's name. You know, President Kennedy's living

grandson even said, grand nephew, excuse me, even said that they were not happy that this is something that's illegal and it was named by federal law, as you mentioned. And you can't just go around renaming historical relics in this way. The other thing that was concerning, Roland, is that this was allegedly voted on unanimously,

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That's what he is. He is a grown-ass child, Michael, and he wants to, I mean, he's destroying the East Wing. He wants to erect this massive ballroom. He's fired the architect. It's just a whole big heap of mess over there right now. No one knows what the hell is going on. And so this is just a pure idiot we're now looking at.

Yeah, he's a pure idiot. And this is, you know, followed up by the Wednesday 18-minute debacle by the petulant child-in-chief who just stood there and just went on, just rambled on and told lie after lie after-after-law after-to-lie about how great the country is, how great the economy is. So here you have, you know, another dictator-fascist move from Donald Trump, the traitor-in-chief, putting his name on the—adowing his name to the—adding his name to the—you-hmm. Kennedy Center. Now it's the Trump Kennedy Center. No, no, no, no, it is not the Trump Kennedy Center. It is the Kennedy Center. That is the only Congress can change names. It's the Kennedy Center. That's what I was about to say. Only Congress can change it is a federal law.

Only Congress can change it. Okay. So somebody's calling it the Trump Kennedy Center. Okay. It's still officially the Kennedy Center. The same way, the Department of Defense, is still the Department of Defense, even though they want to call the Department of of war. Okay? So once again, that goes to my point. That's about to Mike, about to make, Roland. We're on the same page here. He just tries to

force either by executive order or by putting people on a board to then vote and do things that are illegal, try to make them legal. This is what's taking place. But once again, you know, these are the dictator moves. This was all predicted. And I know when Cooney said

Republicans keep going along with this, but look at the number of Republicans. in the House who have announced that they're not running for re-election or are retiring, as recently as today, Representative Stefani has announced that she's not running for re-election and she's dropping out of the governor's race of New York. So some Republicans have had enough of this as well. Well, that may be the case, but you still have massive ass-kissers. And one of the biggest ass-kissers, Matt,

uh is this idiot um is this idiot um is this idiot lindsay graham i mean you talk about uh a true uh true idiot let me put this tweet here i mean you talk about i mean it's like dude really i mean this this is how bad this is how bad you are uh at this uh he was just sitting here uh going oh my god this is just so amazing uh this is what this fool said this is lindzy graham okay you thought this person used to have a sense of integrity and decency. This well-deserved honor has been given to President Trump because he has poured his heart and soul into refurbishing and revitalizing the now Trump Kennedy Center, a national cultural icon. I have been intricately involved in helping President Trump seek funding to

structurally improve the facility and given a much-needed facelift. It has been an honor to work with President Trump and his team on this project. I have witnessed President Trump's passion to modernize this iconic venue and believe the renovations and my modernization efforts will have long-lasting effects for the benefit of our nation. Congratulations, Mr. President. Again, this is well-deserved. That's a massive amount of ass-kissing in one tweet. Yeah, I mean, it's supreme bootlicking, and I really don't see why you think you need to do that.

If you're Lindsey Graham, especially with the president who at least constitutionally cannot be re-elected. We know he's sent shots across the bow indicating he's going to do. try to be there for a third term. But presuming the Constitution and reasonable minds prevent that from happening, then I don't understand what the means to the end is for Lindsey Graham, especially as I think you're starting to see cracks in the Republican ranks. I think they're, I think Michael's point's is exactly right. They're starting to get worried about their re-election prospects and are starting to jump ship, especially when you have somebody like Stefanik, who I think is otherwise, you know, beating the MAGA drum jumping out of everything altogether. That to me really calls something

calls it into question. But what I think is especially interesting about this Kennedy Center, him attempting to co-opt it, is the fact that Kennedy's nephew is in his administration. Now, obviously, RFK is broken with his family. But that, I mean, that's a huge slap in the face, right? This is named after your uncle, and the guy who's attempting to be the dictator has decided to just slap his name on it without any authority. And I want to highlight one of the viewers in the YouTube chat, because I always see insightful things there named Corden 84. And they said something very important. They said, Roland, you're saying that he's not supposed to do that or rather he can't do that.

But we have to reframe the language. Not only is he can he not do that, he's not supposed to do that. And what we're seeing with Republicans is they're trying to play at both sides, right? They're trying to say the law should be used as a sword and the shield. But if the law very clearly names this, the Kennedy Center, and it can't be changed except for by congressional action, then we cannot allow him to have an executive order that purports to allow him to do something other than that. I mean, you've got to stand up at some point and say that's not how the process works. And if we're going to say the process must be followed in these other respects, then we can't allow him to deviate from it here.

And we know that they're not doing that. That's obviously been their track record for both of his administrations. But particularly now, as their re-election prospects loam on the horizon, I would think they would be planning the flag towards keeping themselves, self-preservation. keeping themselves in office, and we don't see them doing that. Yeah, the same person, though, who just decided, yeah, Department of War, even though same thing, you can't change it. And again, Republicans in Congress are not abiding by their constitutional duties. And so that's what we're dealing with.

So it's just, I mean, this is just who these idiots are. They're just going to do stupid stuff like this all the time. Let me go to a break. We come back. We're going to talk about the economy. Isn't it amazing how even Foxx, all of a sudden it's kind of like, uh, economy ain't that great.

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totally delusional regarding the economy has been Fox News and Fox business and we showed to Maria Bauderama the other day going oh no there's not as bad as everybody thinks when you may make it. 10, 15, 20 million dollars, and you don't really feel the problems in the economy. But watch this segment right here.

Spences like rent, electricity, and the cost of everyday items like beef, coffee, and seafood are still up substantially from a year ago. President Trump, of course, is looking to combat concerns that costs are still too high under his administration. He's been arguing it's the previous administration that drove the economy into the ground and that his policies are restoring. it. Really so why our prices up. Not only that.

Carolyn Leavitt, who's the chief liar for Trump, she talked about how the unemployment rate is at a record low of 4.6%. I think it went down to 3.6% under Biden. So how is it a record low?

This goes to show you exactly how delusional these people are. And I'm telling you, as each month goes, by Michael, as they keep refusing to release job data numbers, as they keep refusing to release

inflation numbers. They can keep hiding the reports, but you cannot hide the pain from the people feeling the pain. No, you can't hide the pain from the people feeling the pain. And this is something that was echoed this past Wednesday in that 18-minute debacle that Donald Trump did when he wanted to brag about the economy,

ignore people's pain, ignore the devastating impact that is terrorists are having is costing the average American family an additional $1,200 to $1,700 a year. When you look at the unemployment rate, it ticked up to 4.6%. We saw only 64,000 jobs created in the month of November, and we see the African-American unemployment rate explode to 8.3%, I think it was, 8.3% right now. This is the same guy who told us that immigrants were taking black jobs. Well, about 1.2 million immigrants, both here documented and legally, undocumented and legally, have left the workforce, but the unemployment rate for African Americans has exploded, but the White House doesn't want to address that. So we're seeing that this

continues to bleed. We see his approval rating continue to plummet as it should. And this was all predicted. Hashtag we tried to tell you, don't blame us. We voted for the black woman. Well, I thought this here was pretty funny here. The Labor Secretary went on Fox Business. And damn, even my man here had to throw some shade at her line. Listen. So with more people searching for jobs, the unemployment rate can tick up because that That means more people are getting off the sideline and finally wanting to be part of the American economy and this workforce. And at the Department of Labor, we want to stay focused on understanding exactly where we need to send those dollars to make sure that everybody has the opportunity at the American dream. That was an interesting diplomatic move, I'd say, to see a four-year high for unemployment.

It's actually kind of beneficial and good news. Madam Secretary, I'm being facetious, but I don't mean it. No, Matt, he did mean it. did. I like the shade, though. I mean, I think that was a very British way to do that. It's funny. But in any event, you know, this is what we see the do, try to repackage it. And, you know, I think either it was you, Roland, or somebody in your staff posted a clip that I saw on Instagram, I think yesterday about this person in Congress. I can't remember which Congress member talking about all the times the Trump administration claimed they were going to have a plan for health care and never came out with it. And I think this is very similar to that because think about all the rhetoric we heard in the campaign last year. about how, you know, basically prices are going to go down day one. Biden's bad, and he's kept your prices too high. And we're not feeling any difference. We're, you know, right, people on the ground recognize that this stuff is not true.

So for them to try to reframe even these unemployment numbers is absurd. It's insane. And it's just more rhetoric. And what we see from this administration is they don't ever call a spade a spade a spade. They just reframe it and call it whatever they want to try to call it. But I think the problem is they're going to get called out during the elections because people are still feeling the pain in their pocketbooks. And I think there's a lot of concern right now across the United States

about job retention, about keeping jobs with AI. The advent of AI continues to, you know, version. So I think that's a huge issue, and it seems to me they're slow playing it and underplaying it and are trying to get sound bites rather than make sound economic decisions that charter better course. In fact, here was another discussion on Fox Business. Look, when they start telling truth to their white audience, it's going to be a problem.

That's 41 million homes sold on an annualized basis. That is not strong at all. That's just not. Also, latest read on consumer sentiments. What's that number? It surprised drop to 52.9. This is a December number. It's the final number, so it's pretty recent. And consumers are just worried about the price of things and long run inflation expectations as well. But with rather these dull numbers, the market seems to like it, perhaps implying that we'll get more Fed rate cuts. Actually, the market went up a little bit, all the pieces of information being slightly weaker than expected. The weakness, I think, is attractive. Bad news is actually good news for the market.

Maybe. Now, here's a thing that's important here, when Cooney, they keep talking about, the market, the market. The market, though, the stock market, that's not the full picture of the American economy because the vast number of people who don't even buy stocks and bonds. So if you keep looking at the market, that is not the barometer. And if they want to bank on that one, okay, this time next year, Republicans are going to be unpacking because they're going to be in the minority in the House and potentially the United States Senate. If we're rolling, I mean, the fact of the matter is that we're plunging into a recession.

And I mean, I'm shocked by, well, I'm not shocked by the language that Fox News is using because it's very resembling of how they've always framed things. It's very confusing. But the fact of the matter is that the economy is in shambles. And we know that because with black unemployment going up, that's a signaler, generally, of the fact that we're plunging into a recession. When you look at how long black people are staying unemployed, black women being unemployed at an average of 14.5 weeks long and black men about 12 weeks long, compared to white women and white men at 8.6 weeks and 9.6 weeks,

you see that the changes are egregious. And I think the reason why the Trump administration simply does not care about the economy's bottom falling out is because they know that it's going to affect black people first. They always say when America sneezes, black people get the flu. And that's exactly what we're seeing here with the economy being downtrodden. And so we really have to pay attention to this. I urge people to consider this strongly when thinking about who they're going to vote for in the 2026 elections, because these are the type of statistics that matter. Absolutely. And so, y'all, numbers are numbers, and it's going to get worse for them.

It's going to get worse. And it should get worse. because if they and if they think oh, 2006, let's keep blaming it on Biden.

All right, try it. But I'm telling you, that ain't going to work. You think it's going to work. That ain't going to work. It's going to fail. All right,

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Make me a little 35. Not the truth setting off a petulant child. U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia. also pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church appeared on Meet the Press and he talked about where we stand in the society talked about the issue of faith is what he said.

Senator, let me ask you about something else that you said in your speech. You said, my faith is not a weapon, my faith is a bridge. You also say, quote, Trumpism is a plague on the American conscience. How do you square those two ideas for people?

Yeah, as I point out, I think over the last several years, you know, over the last 50 years and over the last year, we have seen a deepening divide between what people need from their government and what government is delivering. There's a kind of corruption, legalized bribery that attends our politics. You see it in the frustrating fight to get basic health care for ordinary citizens. Surely the wealthiest nation on the planet can afford. to provide basic health care to its citizens. We suffer not from a poverty of resources, but a poverty of moral imagination. And I do think that Donald Trump, if he's better at something than anybody else, is dividing us. And I think it is a distraction,

and while we are distracted and divided, we have literally witnessed the largest transfer of wealth in American history from the bottom to the top and people are fighting to seeing that their costs for health care are doubling while

Congress engages in everyday political games. They're seeing their utility costs go up, their grocery costs go up, and meanwhile, the president is saying that he would rate this economy an A-plus-plus-plus. The question for me is who is he talking about?

Clearly, his friends, the well-connected, the wealthy, certainly not the people that I see every day in Georgia. Oh, Lord, that ticked off a little petulant child, you know, the fake Christian. This is what the idiot posted on this truth social. Raphael Warnock was on Meet the Press, Meet the Fake Press with a one-sided and very biased. Christian Welker as the host hostess. Warrenach spent the entire show using religion to try and divide the country.

If a Republican in particular me made those statements, it would be front-page news. Actually, you mean you. mean like, you know, two Corinthians. He ended by saying that he was going to his church to preach now. Well, I think that's fine. I do say, whatever happened, the separation of church and state, that would be the first thing they were used against us, but actually it's something that never much bothered me. Yeah, because you don't go to church.

That don't bother you. Anyway, Warnock is a lightweight whose wife correctly states that he tried to run her over with the car. trust me, your first wife accused you of raping her. Oh, I guess we forgot. Fortunately, she was able to get out of the way and only almost lost her foot. Yeah, your first wife died and you buried her at your golf course.

Warnaker's a bad guy at NBC News, which is second-owned to ABC fake news for being the worst, should be ashamed of themselves in allowing garbage interviews with untalented and uncaring people to take place. Well, he beat the person you endorsed. public airways, which these networks are using at no charge, should not be allowed to get away with this any longer. Aw, you hate the fact that they let people say what they feel that hurts your little feelings. They should be properly licensed and pay significant amounts of money for using this very valuable public space.

Thank you for your attention to this matter, MAGA. Ain't that something? Well, Warnock responded to the little punk child. So Donald Trump just attacked me on truth social, claiming that I'm using faith to divide people. He's got a lot of nerve. Remember, this is the same president who literally had peaceful protesters, gas and beaten, so he could stand in front of a church holding a Bible up. He ought to read that Bible that he was holding up on that day.

That Bible says that Jesus came to preach. good news to the poor. He came to heal the sick. He never billed them for his services. He stood up for the weak, the marginalized, average, ordinary people. Mr. President,

my faith is not a weapon. It's a bridge. And I invite you to Bible study. Maybe you can meet the Jesus I know. In the meantime, I'm going to keep fighting for the people. Now, some of you may be asking, well, what is what I'm talking about? well, his FCC, the Federal Communications Commission,

they've been using that as a bully pulpit to beat down companies. In fact, one of the reasons AT&T and others announced that they're ending DEI is because Brendan Carr, who is the chair of the FCC, he literally said, if you do not get rid of DEI, we're not approving any of your acquisitions or mergers. Yep, that's why they're doing it. This week, Carr went before the United States Senate for a hearing and man, he got challenged big time by senators over a variety of issues.

This is Andy Kim of New Jersey. This was pretty good. So when you're talking about all power vesting the president, I mean, I just want to read this a little more because you're saying, not just that it is an independent agency, but you're saying that Congress did not want these technical decisions to be made in a haphazard manner or based on misinformation or short-term political interests. You specifically said it placed the authority outside of the executive branch for a reason. So you were not just stating what was the law at the time. You were stating the benefit that comes with the independence. So I guess I'm just trying to get a sense from you. If you don't think that the FCC is independent, then is President Trump your boss?

President Trump has designated me as chairman of the FCC. I think it comes as no surprise that I'm aligned with President Trump on policy. I think that's why he designated me as chairman, but ultimately... You consider him your boss? Ultimately, the... Well, the president of designated me as chairman, I can be fired by the president. The president is the head of the executive branch. The decisions of the commission...

So he's your boss. Look, look, the decisions of the commission are going to be based on a vote of the three of us right here. So there are some things that are different about that. And our decisions are based on the facts and the law and the record. You swore an oath when you came into your job, right? Does the oath have the word president in it? Senator, again, I'm not tracking this line. What I'm saying is every decision you remember the oath that you took?

Yeah. Do you swear an oath to protect what? Sir, every single decision that you're protecting? In this job, we're based on the facts of the law and the United States. I'm just consistent. This is not consistent with the Constitution. I'm just trying to get a sense of how you're trying to operate here. No, we know.

He sucks up to Trump. Whatever Trump wants, he is going to do. And so what you have to understand is he is not going to challenge the right. He is not going to do it. And so what he also is going to do is going to use his power there to target, you know, folks like Jimmy Kimmel as opposed to others. He's not going to challenge Fox News. What is going to do is he's going to threaten companies.

like he did when it came to Jimmy Kimmel. And so when you see that particular post by Trump, what Trump has been doing is using the FCC to target companies, using the FCC to do his fighting, threatening these companies, oh, I will snatch your license because here's what you've got to understand. So let's explain to y'all the structure. So when you see NBC News, okay?

NBC News is based in New York. Okay, Trump can't pull the license of NBC News. NBC News does not have a license, okay? The federal government has approved licenses for individual TV stations, which means that you have owned and operated stations of NBC. and ABC, and CBS, and Fox. Okay? But most of the stations that care of their programming, they don't own.

So when he says, I will pull the license of NBC, well, that can only impact the stations that own. So that's a sacred license, and nobody wants to lose their license, okay? Because you're pretty much printing money. So this is how he is weaponizing the FCC to attack people. That's what he's doing. we have never seen a situation in American history where an occupant of the Oval Office

is literally weaponizing the federal government to attack folks he don't agree with. So what he's doing. It's all about vengeance. And this individual is leading that. Man, I saw some a few moments ago that was a law firm that bent the need to Trump. Well, so many of their top talent left the law firm

that firm is now having to merge with somebody else in order to survive. That's what happens when you bend the need to Trump. And it's interesting you say that. I think I've said it on the show before, but there have been a number of Facebook groups that I'm in as a lawyer, and there have been lawyers who have been excoriating the other lawyers from these firms who've bent the knee saying if any part of the populace is best equipped to fight back and is duty-bound to fight back, it's us, right?

It's us who file the documents in court. It's us who craft the arguments to stand up for everyday people and corporate entities alike. And it's us, particularly those of them in big law, who go to the Supreme Court, who argue in the most hallowed courts across the country. So when you have the president of the United States brazenly and unconstitutionally attacking people's ability to speak freely, to petition the government, to represent whomever they want, then it's duty bound on us as part of our job. part of our duty to the public to stand up against that. And there's a huge rift in, you know, the group of lawyers across the United States on whether they should do that. Because what it comes down to is a balance sheet versus your values. Your balance sheet says, yeah, you don't want to lose that federal work. So you're going to capitulate and let yourself be pumped by the president

of the United States. And then you have other people that say, no, we can't do that because I wouldn't want to work with a law firm that wouldn't stand up for itself, let alone for me. So that's what happens when you bend the knee, and I'm sad that a lot of my colleagues at some of these firms have done that. But I'm also proud of those who stepped away, who said, look, I cannot be parting to this because if not us, then who. And I think that's what you're seeing. That's why that firm is having to merge. I saw note about that this morning and something I read about those two firms merging. And I didn't realize that was the background. But I followed a lot of this with the big law firms at the beginning of his second term. And that was the line in the sand. Are you

going to stand up or are you going to cower and we see the consequences of those who cower, which is people leaving en masse. One of the things that I think, when, Cooney, that's important. I had somebody, someone was coming in our chat and they were like, ban, you know, stop talking about Trump. What I need people to understand is we're not talking about Trump. We're talking about the actions of Trump. And the actions of Trump are severely hamperable.

regular ordinary people. And so if somebody who's watching right now, they need to understand that when they attack law firms, they're attacking law firms for hiring black lawyers. They're attacking law firms from actually

recruiting at HBCUs. They're attacking black law firms from having fellowship and internship programs to bring in more black lawyers. A story this week showed how there's a, I think it was a massive drop

of African Americans that have been admitted to Harvard Yale law schools. Well, I keep telling people, they want to defund black America. This is all by design. They do not want African Americans at these top law schools. They do not

want them in these law firms. This is what their game is. It's abundantly clear. It's before our very eyes. And so for the people who act like, oh, man, you're just making a big deal out of this? No, this is what they are doing. These people have to be stopped because if we just sit on the sidelines and accept it, they are going to completely destroy all of the institutions, the infrastructure in Black America,

and I'm just going to keep yelling it over and over and over again. Academic, political, social, cultural, and economic. All of it. Roland, they don't want to defund Black America. They're actively doing it, right? If they don't want to talk about President Trump fine, let's talk about fascism. Fascism is a far-right authoritarian political ideology emphasizing extreme nationalism. That's what we're seeing right now.

When you see the president of the United States control the FCC, control the FCC chairman, Brendan car who's under oath to protect the Constitution, but instead is doing the bidding of our president, that's a scary sight to see. And I'm so happy we have new senators in office like Senator Kim that are actually holding people like these as feet to the fire because this is utterly inappropriate. But when we see people that are starting to challenge these First Amendment rights, when you see people like President Trump say, hey, I don't like what Senator Warnock has to say. let's pull him off the air. And not only let's pull him off the air,

let's pull the network that he's talking on off the air, that's a scary sight. That reminds me of the time I've spent in communist and socialist countries where there is only three news channels that are seeing what the president wants them to say, right? So we have to be really, really careful in the United States because we are pledging towards

fascism every day. The FCC is one of the first, first post of defense for that. If we don't have freedom of speech in this country, what do we have, Roland? Michael. Roland, people who say I'm tired of hearing about Trump,

obviously, didn't I read Project 2025? It's clear that you don't know that Brendan Carr, who is the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, wrote the chapter in Project 2025 that dealt with reigning in the Federal Communications Commission. all this shit was planned. This is what happens when you don't read. This is what happens when you don't watch rolling marching and unfiltered. When you look at the piece from the New York Times from July 11th, 2025, the FCC is pressuring companies to drop DEI. It's succeeding to. They talk about how they pressured T-Mobile because T-Mobile, the FCC is reviewing a proposed merger. The T-Mobile was involved in. And then the piece, from Hollywood Reporter from December 2nd, 2025 AT&T says it will eliminate DEI amid FCC's push. This goes to what you were just talking about.

Brendan Carr, the Federal Communications Commission, are reigning in corporations, forcing them to get rid of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs if they want their mergers and acquisitions confirmed. And this is devastating African Americans. This helps contribute to that 8.3 percent unemployed. rate, a record, well, when just two years ago, you had record low unemployment for African Americans under Biden and the Harris. This is the consequences of elections. This is what happens when you don't read and don't understand what's going on. Yeah. But folks want to act like

these things are not happening. I'm trying to tell y'all, they are happening. It's real. And we're going to keep calling it out because I'm telling you, I'm telling you, they are going after every, every, every single thing. All right, y'all. Gonna go to the break. We'll be right back. Roll of Martin Unfiltered on the Blastard Network. Don't forget, support the work we do.

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a week. They have been going crazy over this article in this magazine called Compact. It's called The Lost Generation. This dude Jacob Savage, he wrote this here. And I'm talking about y'all. They've just been going crazy. They've been going

crazy. They've just been going nuts. And so as a result of this, the EEOC chair, Andrea Lucas, who a fierce DEI critic, she posted this about saying to white men, if you've been discriminated, please call us. I'm Andrea Lucas, chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Are you a white male who's experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex? You may have a claim to recover money under federal civil rights laws.

Contact the EOC as soon as possible. Time limits are typically strict for filing a claim. The EOC is the federal agency charged with enforcing federal anti-discrimination law against businesses and other private sector employers. The EOC is committed to identifying, attacking, and eliminating all forms of race and sex discrimination, including against white, male, applicants, and employees. Check out EOC.gov to learn more and read our one-page explainer about DEI-related discrimination. I mean, these folks have been going crazy. They have just been, all these white dudes, egg done by Elon Musk or on Twitter,

because, you know, he changed the algorithm. They've just been going on and on and on and on and on and on. Oh, my God, I experienced this here. And a whole bunch of these folks ain't got no talent whatsoever. But see, y'all got to understand something. See, these folks, they believe that white men are the answer to everything. In fact, you know, that's super racist.

I mean, Matt Walsh, it ain't even a question. He's an absolutely white nationalist, white supremacist races. He was putting out these videos saying, that's read, oh, yeah, America is going to be so much better. And our society has gotten worse. Our society's gotten worse because white men have been excluded. Okay, if y'all want to watch the stupidity, again, listen to this fool in his lumberjohn.

shirt. The biggest and most important downstream consequence of this open discrimination against white men is that everything in society gets worse as a result. That is the second order effect that the compact piece doesn't really get into. It's the third rail, the part you're not supposed to talk about. But the truth, which everybody intuitively knows, is that things were a lot better back when white men were not being discriminated against by everyone. institution in the country, but instead we're running most of them. And the fact of the matter is that a hugely disproportionate number of our greatest leaders, innovators, pioneers, explorers, philosophers, and so on have been white men.

I mean, without white men, we wouldn't have airplanes or spaceships or trains or phones or light bulbs or computers or the internet or batteries or x-ray machines or jet engines or rockets or a thousand other things that our society depends on to exist and to flourish. We never would have had a railway system or the printing press. We wouldn't have this country, which was founded by white men and led by white men and expanded from coast to coast and settled and built up, mostly by white men. Now, these are all facts, historical realities that cannot be denied by reasonable people. It's just true.

and while black women are encouraged to be proud of the historical achievements of black women, whatever those might be, and Asians to be proud of Asian achievements and Native Americans of Native American achievements and so on, white men are the one group in the entire face of the planet who've been forbidden to even acknowledge what other white men have accomplished, much less to express any pride in it, God forbid. Instead, our society set out on a campaign to punish and exclude and alienate this very group. That is their reward for having carried the weight of Western civilization on their shoulders. But white men, as it turns out, you know, they're not just good at building and flying spaceships. They're also good at writing television shows and covering the news and teaching students at the university level and so on.

In fact, in the aggregate, based on every existing piece of available evidence, white men are better at all of these tasks than the allegedly underprivileged communities that are replacing them. And if that sounds harsh, I really don't care. It happens to just be true. Allegedly underprivilegedly. But it's not, and we do it. But remember, nobody watching this right now should be shocked. I've been telling y'all this for a long time. In fact, the late Jerry Springer, I saw this.

I don't even know where this is from. This is literally what Jerry Springer said about where we stand right now in America. through the election of Trump as basically white America's last stand against multiculturalism. There were a lot of people that just see the whole world moving away from them. They see all this globalization. They see their kids dating someone of a different religion or a different race. They see gay marriage is suddenly okay. They see all these things happen.

They see the music. They see the television shows. They see everything moving to the left. And they're... How do they stop it? How do they stand up and say, we've had enough? And when you look at where Trump's votes came from, they literally came from communities

where there are no Hispanics living, where there are no blacks living, where there are no Muslims living. So they... How did this? these people even feel threatened by multicultural America. It's just they want to say time out, time out to this liberalization of, of, I wrote this, white fear of how the browning of America is making white folks lose their minds.

This piece by this dude, Jacob, I mean, these white men have been going crazy. Oh, they have been losing their mind. Y'all, I'm telling y'all, I'm telling y'all, we've been saying this, because they believe that white men deserve everything. These white men are so arrogant that they walk in going, oh, that's my job. It's the equivalent of them walking to a cafeteria

saying, why are you sitting in my seat? I'm sorry, this was first come first serve. No, this is my seat. Why did I pull up the cover of white fear? I need you to understand. why did I choose this photo? I chose this photo for a reason. Let's not just happenstance that this is the photo that makes up the cover of my book White Fear.

When I was sitting here going through, I chose it for a reason. And what was the reason? because when I saw all these different pictures or whatever, come to my iPad, I'm going to zoom in on it. What this photo says, I want you to understand why I picked this photo. So when you look at this photo right here, you've got the U.S. flag, you've got this Trump 2020 flag. I'm shocked there's no Confederate flag in here.

I'm sure it may be somewhere. you got the United States Capitol, and you got this white man, his arms are outstretched, and he's saying, all of this is ours. That's why I chose that photo. Why were they protesting the election?

Because Donald Trump kept signaling out Fulton County, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Milwaukee. What are those four havings come in? Four black cities. So they were angry that black people turned out, and voted. And see, what we need to understand

what this whole deal is, the attack against DEI, what you're seeing with ICE and deportation, what you're seeing all of this, y'all, it's dawn on them that, oh shit, we can't reverse it. If you look at the

social media feed of Elon Musk, he is constantly talking about birth rates. He is constantly talking about birth rates. And see, he is sitting here going on and on and on, and what they're doing is they're so fixated. They're just like they don't know what to do. They're angry, they're upset, because this nation is no longer about whiteness.

Why did Donald Trump stand up last week in Philadelphia and say, can we get a few more from Sweden, from Denmark, from Finland? Because they want to import white people. See, y'all, when you're not producing enough white people on your own,

then you need to import white people. That's why they imported the white Afrikanos from South Africa. And see, I'm trying to explain to black people, you literally are playing into their hands. When I see black people shitting on African immigrants,

And let me be perfectly clear, if you're an African immigrant and you're shitting on black Americans, you should be called out too. But y'all do know they don't want them. And if we sound just like the white supremacists, what do we sound like? Folks, I said in 2009, prepare yourselves because this is going to be a 50-year war. What they want to do is they want to completely destroyed. They have, they hated how

white America responded to the death of the murder of George Floyd. They hated how white America responded after King's assassination in the 13 year black freedom movement. They hate it. And now what do you see?

Now you see oh, what was the UC, what was the story this week? The UCLA story? it was in a Hollywood reporter White streaming and the folks who I think it was like 90%

of the showrunners of these of these new shows since 2004 white men so what you have now is you got you got you got white execs who are like man cool

hell we can go back we can go back to the way it was when we ran this shit here it is right here y'all this two days ago nearly 92% hold on let me let me get rid of this ad

nearly 92% of the top scripted streaming series come from white creators women and leading roles slipped from 39% last year to 34% this is the annual

survey put out by the UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report. Look at this here. 91.7% of the top scripted shows on streaming have white creators. Even more granularly, 78.9% have white male creators. The execs are like, man, cool. Trump is there? We ain't got to do anything in this bullshit. We ain't got to recruit women.

white women, we ain't got to recruit no black people, Latinos, Asians, yo, white is right, baby, we're back in business. The corporations are going, oh, man, cool. We ain't got to go to that damn national black MBA. Oh, the hell with the National Bar Association. Damn the National Dental Association.

Forget the National Association of Black Journalists. Forget the National Society of Black Engineers. We got to do none of that shit anymore because Donald Trump has said, yo, we're good. So what's the downflow of that? You don't recruit black talent. You don't hire black talent.

Now all of a sudden, the median wage of black people is going to drop. You already see more than 300,000 black women being fired this year alone. How do y'all not see what the hell is going on? Do y'all now see why I don't give a shit when somebody asked me,

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look at it share of all show creators by race and ethnicity look at that 91.7% white my man Howard Bryant

sports writer he said oh you know things change because you ain't never seen this many cowboy hats on TV what you're seeing is through marriage media, the programming

of whiteness because of white fear. When Tony, folk better wake up because again, if they maintain control of all three branders of government after 2006,

the damage that they are going to reek in the next three years, will make the last year look like child's play. There's so much to address here, Roland. The first thing is the chair, Andrea Lucas, I couldn't take that video seriously. I thought initially that it was an SNL spoof,

but I'm frightened to know that it's not. Secondarily, you know, every day, I pray that God would give me the confidence of a mediocre right man. And yet and still, it seems like that's just not enough for them. When we look at the unearned privilege that white men carry in this country and have carried since the inception of this country, we know that society has been structured to favor them. We know that they have a presumption of competence and power, and that it leads them to the sense of entitlement that we're seeing now. And Matt Walsh, he's a scary in-cell, but that doesn't even shock me.

What is shocking to me is that in his oratory, he wanted to go on and on and on about how. how white people are better at this, that, and the third. But he failed to mention that white men kidnapped and raped black people, pillaged black villages, eviscerated the natives, spread diseases. I could go on and on and on. So he failed to mention any of those things, but instead talked about how black, white men founded, were the founding fathers of this nation. Well, yeah, because they murdered everyone else in sight.

And then he talked about how it's become, you know, painful that they can express white pride here in the United States. Let's think about Roland what white pride has looked like historically. Oh, wait, there's an organization for that. It's called the KKK. And now, as you said, Roland, all of them have gotten the privilege and opportunity to unhood themselves on national TV. So the one good thing about this is that we can see the racism. to our faces now because everyone is unhuded themselves. Quite oftentimes, they've just switched one hood for another. You know, they've just put on a different type of hat rolling, and it's

really, really, really scary. The last thing I want to mention is what you were noticing about Elon Musk and his hyperfixation on birth rates. It's a little theory called eugenics that they're, that they're really, really been leaning into, which is the thought that they want to improve the white race by selectively breeding people. That's why they want to import these European immigrants, but yet every person, every country that's

on Trump's restricted list is a country of color. And so these things aren't happening by mistake. We have to play COSA attention. They're not even doing dog whistles anymore, guys. They're straight up broadcasting this on national TV. All you have to

do is pay attention. I came across this. This was from Nightline. Someone posted this on TikTok. It was when Dr. Francis Cress Wilson was on there. And she said something. There was a year that she gave that I thought was really interesting. Just listen to this. Then we're going to talk about it. Listen.

Well, let me say this, that six million Jews were killed. and it was a plan to kill them. There was a WANC conference in Germany where officials sat down at a conference table and planned to kill 11 million. The Semites of the Jewish religion did not believe that anybody would do that to them. And when people began to talk about,

something is being planned to destroy us. I suppose then also that people said, oh, that's a conspiracy nobody would do it. Are you seriously suggesting that there is a comparable plan in the United States today? Are you really? See, wait a minute. We have to see, the thing that we're not doing and the thing that we are constantly avoiding is talking about racism.

Now, let me tell you what I understand racism to be. Racism is a behavior system that is organized because white people are a minority on the planet. They are a tiny minority of the world's people. The black, brown, red, and yellow people are the world majority. Not only that, white people are genetic recessive in terms of skin coloration. You see, somebody like whose skin is white, if they have sexual relations with a black person, the product is colored. And there is the fear of white genetic annihilation. It existed in Europe.

It existed in Germany. It exists here today. And this is why people, I mean, it's written about in the Washington Post, in the New York Times, in the Washington Times, when there are discussions that go on like this by year 2080, the majority people in this area of the world are going to be the blacks, the Hispanics, and the Asians. Oh, my, we must do something about it. Mr. Cobb. Now, you see, it's the same discussion that goes on in South Africa. Let this gentleman respond. But let me just say finish this quickly.

You've had a good long run, but so... Let me just say this, that if we understand, if we understand the white fear of genetic annihilation, which was why Willie Horton could be used as a very profound symbol by the Republican Party, we'll understand what is happening to the black male in this society. The black male is a threat to white genetic annihilation. And so he is profoundly attacked in this society.

And if we begin to understand that, we understand what happens to the black family. If you remove the father, then the son is wandering around, confused, doesn't know what to do. We'll get together in a gang and ends up being depressed, getting on drugs and going to prison. And in the United States, in Washington, D.C., I believe we have the second highest incarceration rate, second only to South Africa. And so in South Africa, you have black men. in the work camps, and the women on the Bantu stands, and here we had the black men in prison, and the women in the projects,

and the male children going unfathed. Now, I say that racism is responsible. Okay, go ahead. All right, so Michael, this would jump out of me. And I've been trying to figure out when this was broadcast. And this is the thing that I did everybody understand. She said 2080. Right.

Okay, 2080. Then it became 2070, then 2065, then 2060, then 2050, then 2050, then 2050, then 2050, then 2050, then 2040, then it got, all of a sudden I get 2039, 2038. And all, everybody was, see, when it first happened, folks are like, man, this, that thing is so far off. I ain't even going to be here. Folks said, ain't no big thing. But all of a sudden, that thing kept dropping. Now it's 2043. That's a 37-year difference.

So when that report, I mean, I remember when they report came out, America one day is going to be a nation-majority people of color. People said, man, that's 20-80. Oh, hell. Now I was like, oh, damn. And like I said in my book, White Fear, what did it for me was when I saw the story

and there were 10 states where the average white death rate was higher than a white birth rate and that's what I said, oh, it's on. Yes, yes. So much here rolling. I'm going to have to do an extended segment on the African History Network show about this.

First of all, thanks for playing Dr. Francis Cress Wilson. I knew Dr. Wilson. I interviewed it three times on the African History Network show. She was a brilliant sister. She taught us a lot about racism. Racism is a system of advantage and privilege distributed based upon race that comes out of the ideology of European white supremacy for the purpose of preserving genetic white survival. Okay. And she learned a lot from Dr. Nilly Fuller as well, who was an ancestor now, who recently passed away.

And Dr. Wilson is an ancestor as well. When you talk about birth rates and you talk about Elon Musk and birth rates, this goes back. back to our segment a couple weeks ago about that little punk-ass, Nick Fuentes. And I talked about how white people, the percentage of white people in America in the 2020 census dropped to 57% alarm bills went off because that's the first time their percentage dropped below 60% since 1790 when the first census was taken. So she hit the nail right on the head. And this is connected to Project 2025 with the attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion. You have to understand. Andrea Lucas, the white woman who you just played in that PSA, she's the chairwoman

of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a Civil Rights Commission. And one of the initiatives of the Trump administration is to go after white grievance and to position white people, especially white men, as the ones who have been discriminated against by diversity, equity, and inclusion, civil rights laws, et cetera. And all you've got to do is read the article from Axios.com from April 1st, 2024. It's not an April Fool's joke. It's called Trump allies plot anti-racism protections for white people. And this article talked about what would happen in a second Trump administration. And they said if Donald Trump returns to the White House, close allies want to dramatically change the government's interpretation of civil rights era

laws to focus on, quote, anti-white racism rather than discrimination against people of color. Now, this came out seven, eight months before the 2024 election. Axioles.com warning us what was going to happen. This is why elections have consequences. This is why you have to watch the Black Star Network because we told you what the hell was going to happen. And too many black people, too many Latinos, et cetera, sat their asses at home, okay?

This is why the 26 midterm elections are so important. Okay, we got to vote these people out. And in addition to Republicans not running and things to this nature, more right-minded African-Americans have to run and seize power and utilize power when they seize. Matt, this was the New York Times June 20, 2018. Fewer birth than deaths among whites in the majority of U.S. states. Come on, switch, guys.

Come on. Thank you. Right here. birth than deaths among whites in the majority of U.S. states. That was 2018. This is why these folks have been losing it. And so people need to understand

the basis of the attacks. Their whole deal is if we can severely destroy or in a significant way dismantle weaken

black infrastructure, then it's going to be a long time for them to try to rebuild. That's what all this is about. This is literally about how can we... That Louisiana versus Cali decision

Republicans are sitting here going oh man, if they rule in our favor and they weaken section two, we could wipe out 19 to 30 black and Latino congressional seats. Oh, wait a minute.

We can wipe out black state legislative seats. We can wipe out black county commissioner seats, city council seats, school board seats. And that will submit our power. That's what's going on. Yeah, I mean, look, I think you, Michael,

and Wincunee covered it far more robustly than I ever could. I think there are a couple discreet things I want to address here that I think are important. So the first, as it relates to Andrea Lucas and the EEOC. I have two cases right now pending where I represent two brothers in different parts of the state, both of whom were very obviously treated differently than their fellow employees were fired,

and they have EEOC cases in the Fifth Circuit. I guarantee you that I've had to tell my clients, and I guarantee the judges are going to look at these cases hostily, because they always do, because what do they always say? They always say, oh, there's some non-race-related reason that this person either got fired or had an adverse employment action to use that parlance. So let's steal man this a little bit. Let's say white men en masse start filing EEOC cases.

That might actually have a net benefit to us, because that means the courts are either going to have to determine and recognize that there is a large cadre of cases where people are, in fact, discriminated against because of their race, right? Or they're going to have to brazenly rule for white men and continue to not rule for black people. But what it's going to come down to is it's going to come down to if you're recognizing it in that case where there's a white man who's claiming that he was discriminated against, then the same discrimination that we've been complaining about for decades and centuries can be proven the same way.

So there may be a net benefit. I know that's foolishly optimistic, but legally that's what has to happen here. Because if you have people filing these cases in droves, then their cases should be dismissed just like the meritorious black cases that are dismissed all the time on the basis of we don't see. It has to be some other reason. So I mean, that's the thing I think happens with this. And I think this is really more rhetoric than it is a true call to arms for, you know, white men who've been discriminated against. But the second thing I wanted to speak to was something that when Cooney spoke to, which

I think is brilliant about the hood's coming off. But you know, the hood's coming off to me. It's not the person who was willing to wear a hood that concerns me. It's all the neighbors. It's all the people who live in polite society who don't have the gumption, the come out and say that they're scared of black people or they think black people are mongrels and don't want to live alongside them. It's all the polite society types who are hiding behind the rule of law and structure and infrastructure, the Ryan Walters types and all these other types who are

doing things like at Texas A&M talking about, you can't talk about gender and diversity, but I guarantee you they want every single one of those Negroes to run that football in your playoff game, right? Those are the people that are more concerning to me because that is the section of society who has always wanted to espouse these values and always felt like we were coming for their jobs and their lives and their women and all these other things and don't have the gumption to say it. But now they're being emboldened to say it. And that to me is what's far more concerning because to your point, those are all the micro decisions every day when it's the people on the local level that are denying you benefits, denying you the fullness of your

citizenship, denying you the rights to things you should have, denying your ability to elect the person in your community, you should be entitled to elect. That's what's happening. It's an erosion on all levels to your point. And I think it's the polite society types we should be far more worried about because they're the people who are not as brazen with their racism, but who clearly espouse those same views. And say, again, I need y'all to understand why.

You're like, I don't understand. Why? I'm going to find the Robert Rice video and play in a second, where he's like, you got to understand why he's attacking institutions. Now you're going to understand why are these right-wing folks Why are they tacking the college as universities? This was, again, this week in the New York Times,

the conservative overhaul of the University of Texas is underway. The school has been brought to heal by conservative critics of higher education and is part of a broader transformation at the state's universities. And then when you read this article, it talks about rage conscious decisions.

It says state Republicans have passed laws to curtail what it's taught in college classrooms and installed a new university administrators with partisan affiliations among a host of New Strategy University of Texas is one of their main targets. Same thing. Listen, they've done this with Texas A&M because their whole deal is how can we attack the institutions? Like right here, the firing of a Texas A&M instructor teaching a gender studies lesson after a stooping and complained put the university at the center.

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And eventually, the Texas A&M president resigned. So what are they doing? They're talking about gender. They're talking about transgender. But they also are talking about race. And so what they want, so you got that going on. So they now all of a sudden are saying, oh, no, no, no, we're going to change a lot. Faculty Senate, y'all don't have any control anymore whatsoever.

And so this is how we're going to do that. Matter of fact, that was a Texas State, used to be Southwood's Texas State University. Texas State and Black Mobile. Give me one second. They just decided they canceled a black book exhibit, citing anti-D-E-I. That's right. They were going to have this,

do-do-do-do-do. Oh, so after all the criticism, the store has been updated. It says surely after this report was published, University spokesperson, Jamie Black, told the American states when that Texas State University will consider bringing the Black History 101 Mobile Museum to campus for future Black History Month programming,

he declined to specify when and how the university will consider the museum. Khalid al-Hakim, the founder of the museum, said he has not heard from Texas State University. So what they did was they actually banned him bringing this black mobile museum citing the state's anti-D-EI law. So y'all got to understand.

The attack on higher education in Texas, it started in Florida. They were like, oh, cool. Sandus you did it? Now are we going to do it. So y'all got to realize, I keep trying to tell you, they want to attack the infrastructure, the system, they want massive control over all of it. That is their strategy.

They do not want people to be taught about history. That's why they target the books. They do not want any of this stuff happening. And so this thing is so deep, it is so pervasive. and I just think too many people are just, ah, man, that stuff don't really impact me. Oh, man, I didn't go to college, so

that in my school, I don't really care. You don't understand. This thing is so, so deep. And again, they are going after systems, institutions. It is all by design. Watch this Robert Reich video.

Why is Trump trying to fire you? Well, tell more things that can be. Maybe because Mr. Trump is mad at Sesame Street for making fun of him. Brassed in all of you, so... Nya, yeah, nya, nia, yeah. But trying to cancel Sesame Street, which has helped children learn to read and count for over half a century, is part of a larger plan.

Trump is waging a war on the American mind. Throughout history, tyrants have understood that their major enemy is an educated public. slaveholders prohibited enslaved people from learning to read. The Third Reich burned books. The Khmer Rouge band music. Stalin and Pinochet censored the media. And Trump, like past authoritarians, wants to control not just what we do, but also how we think.

He has embraced one of the mottos from George Orwell's 1984. Ignorance is strength. He knows that an uninformed public is easier to divide and conquer. I love the poorly educated. There are five facets to the authoritarian attack on our minds. Number one, rewrite history. The protagonist of 1984 works in the so-called Ministry of Truth, where he's made to literally rewrite history because Big Brother knows that he,

who controls the past, controls the future. That's chilling in a dystopian novel. It's even scarier in real life, where Trump and his maga cronies are making schools, whitewashed slavery and segregation, cover up the genocide of Native Americans, and erase the LGBT rights movement. Authoritarians know that if they can convince us,

our country has never been wrong, they can make us believe our ruler is always. right. If they can make us forget how brave activists fought for change in the past, they can stop us from seeking change in the future. Rewriting history goes hand in hand with the next facet of the attack on our minds. Number two, gut education. As Trump tries to abolish the Department of Education, he's also proposing to cut funding for K-12 public schools and to force universities to give him influence over student admissions, faculty hiring, and what's taught. As a professor, I know firsthand how education empowers young people's minds.

We can't have a functioning democracy if people cannot deliberate critically about it. That's why authoritarian's replace education with indoctrination. Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots. Instead of teaching students to think for themselves, authoritarian seek to instill blind allegiance and to suppress dissent. That's why the Italian and German fascists of the 20th century immediately turned their country's educational systems into instruments of the party.

Placing a chokehold on universities also relates to the next facet of the attack. Number three, dismantle science. By freezing university research grants and attacking the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and USAID, Trump is stifling medical and scientific research, and his cuts to the Centers for Disease Control, and the Food and Drug Administration put all of us at risk. He's also abducting scientists who disagree with his administration. Can you imagine a cooler way to rob America of the global intellectual capital, that has helped us become the world leader in scientific research.

All of this moves us further from cures for cancer, Alzheimer's, and HIV. This could seem baffling if you don't recognize it as part of a larger strategy. We all get sick. So how can medical research and disease prevention be political? Because science acknowledges objective facts. Authoritarians insist that the ruler is more powerful than the facts. As Orwell wrote, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when party discipline demands this. Another way to attack facts?

Number four, suppress the media. As I call it the fake news media? From suing ABC and CBS over their news coverage to threatening to strip network broadcast licenses, to defunding PBS and NPR, Trump is trying to silence major news sources. He wants control over what information Americans can or cannot get. A free press exists to question authority and help the public question it as well. But authoritarians insist they must never be questioned. Don't ever say what you said. That's a nasty question.

Authoritarians want to consolidate state power over what the public can know. The final facet of the authoritarian attack on our minds also attacks our spirit, which brings us to number five. Attack the arts. The arts exists to provoke us, challenge our thinking, and help us see beyond ourselves. They're an important and independent aspect of an educated society,

which is why authoritarians have historically attacked the arts. So it's no surprise that Trump is canceling grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, dictating what's displayed at the Smithsonian. and has installed himself as the chair of the Kennedy Center for the performing arts. To limit art is to limit free speech and expression. It's a crucial step that authoritarian's used to silence anyone who dissents through creativity. Added up, these five facets of Trump's attack on the American mind

render us less informed, less inspired, and easier to control. They empower him to divide us with hatred and fear. and they prevent us to discovering that we have more in common with one another than with the authoritarian who try to rule us. This attack on our minds reduces our capacity for self-government because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny. Please help spread the truth by sharing this video. I wish people really would wake up and realize how serious. this thing is. Me too. I'm really, really happy that you show that video, actually, Roland, because, you know,

to what you were saying earlier, I'm not even surprised about the indoctrination of Texas. As you said, it's a hand-playbook playoff of what we've seen done in Florida and what we talked about a few weeks ago with Turning Point USA and starting in high schools with the Club America. Indoctrination is going step by step. If we look at the five, steps delineated, rewrite history. We've been seeing that done. They're taking the books out of the classrooms. They're gutting the education system. They're dismantling sciences. They've torn apart all of the, you know, national institutes of health and all of the other health care agencies and scientific agencies that help us move forward and be the champions

of the world in science. They've suppressed the media. Thank goodness for Black Star Media, that it's not controlled by the powers bat B. And they've attacked the arts and even mentioning that Trump installed himself as the head of the Kennedy Center. And we saw what happened today with his attempted renaming. And so these facets have been followed to a T. And like I said before, we're on the cusp of fascism. Anyone who's looking closely at this, it's a playbook, play for fascism. Trump wants to install himself as a dictator as a king.

and he's doing an excellent job at carrying out these things step by step. So I think as Black America, we have to wake up and make sure that, again, we're making sure that we are assessing our political capital in these upcoming 2026 elections. When you say that politics don't matter and it doesn't matter what you do at the polls, this is exactly the type of president that we get. A lot of Americans are seeing now that it actually does matter. politics does actually hit close to home. And if you're not paying attention, quite frankly, you have to be after seeing this video. Absolutely.

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Sign up for a free trial at audible.com. War on wisdom. This is a coordinated backlash to progress. At the end of the day, conservatives realized that they couldn't win a debate on facts. They started using our language against us, right? Remember when we were all woke and the woke movement and all that kind of stuff? Now everything is anti-woke, right? When we're talking about including diversity, equity, inclusion, higher education,

now it's anti-Di. All this are efforts to suppress the truth because truth empowers people. You're watching the other side of change only on the Black Star Network. doing my name is Mark Kerr and you're watching Roland Martin unfiltered deep into it like pasteurized milk without the 2% we're getting deep you want to turn that shit off we're doing the interview motherfucker folks the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau founded under president of Barack Obama which is now led by someone title of project 2025 is proposing a rule change that could quietly bring back modern day redlining right now banks can be held accountable when their

policies hurt black borrowers, even if they don't admit to discrimination. The proposal would weaken these protections, making it easier to deny loans and harder for our communities to fight back. This story was done last month. Go to my iPad. This is Reuters right here, right here, where they lay it out. And so it's as a result of an executive order signed by, well, you know, the twice-impeded criminally convicted felon in chief Donald Trump.

And so again, look at this here. requiring coverage to prevent discriminatory outcomes and practice encouraging favoritism and unfairly burdens them, according to the White House, a position rejected by consumer advocates. So, I mean, Matt, I don't know how many times I can say they don't give a damn about black people, they don't give a damn about protecting,

they say corporations, man, y'all can do whatever y'all want. If y'all want to screw these people, go right ahead, and we're going to let y'all do it. Yeah, I mean, that's what they're going to try to do. I think hopefully 28 U.S.C. Section 1981, which protects your rights to contract and to engage in business and to not be discriminated in those contracts, is going to stay on the books. And you can call your friendly civil rights lawyer to file a lawsuit on your behalf, even if CFPB is not going to stand up for you. I mean, from an infrastructural standpoint, this is part and parcel with what we've talked about all night. they're attacking everything and trying to find every way to undermine people's ability to vindicate

their rightful claims, right? Where you've gone into a store, if you've gone somewhere, you try to get a mortgage, you try to get an auto loan, and the lender has discriminated against you and not against some white person, you know, applying. There actually has to be some kind of recourse. And hopefully with 1981 and some other sections that they'll be able to continue to do that. But this is stupid. I don't understand why you would even want to die on this hill, but we see that.

Republicans and, you know, the MAGA, all these people are doing everything that they can to erode all protections, unless it's a white guy who's being discriminated against, as we've spoken about earlier in this case. Well, one of the things that they've done, Michael, is they have absolutely tried to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. They tried to get rid of it through the Supreme Court. That didn't work. And so, and they've been letting companies off the hook, just dismissing cases, not paying fines.

screwing customers, screwing regular, everyday workers. Yeah, and this is, once again, the consequences of elections is something that we want people about. And what's taking place here is, you know, Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting disparate impact liability as well. So that plays a part in this. The Legal Defense Fund did a press release about the negative impact. that this rule change would have, especially on African Americans.

And they talked about how this deals with disparate impact, you know, deals with the legal framework that is long served at identifying and addressing discrimination that hides in plain sight, things that are very subtle embedded in the structures of lending, hiring, housing, education, policing, and health care. So this has wide-ranging implications, okay? This also lends to is in that same vein of the attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion. And as you talk about rolling, defunding Black America, okay? So this would bring back redlining, which still exists in some areas, right?

But this would be catastrophic if this goes through. So this is something else that we have to fight and educate people on. But once again, one of the things that we miss. oftentimes is understanding how to assess, one, to protect gains that have been made. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is something that's very important. No, it's not perfect, but it's been beneficial to African-American. So when we vote, whether it's for the House Representatives, for the Senate, for President, we have to do an assessment, a systems analysis of gains that we have made that are that are that are at risk if the wrong people get in power

well again what we see here they just do not that they believe don't trump and maga believes wincone that the people been discriminated against are white and we're not going to offer any protections whatsoever if you're black and if you're brown we do not care it's similar to what we saw with the Black Lives Matter movement. And when we had to counter and say the reason why you can't say all lives matter is because black people are the ones that are being disproportionately affected, it's similar here. We don't have to say that black people have continued to be disproportionately affected by illegal financing practices, redlining, not being able to get a mortgage, getting higher insurance rates, getting higher mortgage rates. All of these things have been inherently

baked into the American economy. So when we have things like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that are created to help protect, you know, black and brown people from continuing to succumb to these financial mispractices, and then you have someone like Rossovoit, who's the Project 2025 architect that's now running this organization, you see that that's been effectively co-opted. But it's extremely important that we realize that without these protections, you know, we're moving back into the early 1900 into the 1800s where black people couldn't get a fair mortgage, when black people couldn't live in communities

with their white neighbors, when black people couldn't send their students to certain universities. So I think what we're seeing is with this Make America Great of Grand slogan, they're trying to roll back the times. They're trying to take us back to a time where black people and white people were not equal in the United States of America. And the more we learned that this is happening, the more we need to be acutely aware of it

and put an end to it. When I say Jim Crow 2.0, that's not an overstatement, Matt. People have to understand what that means. Again, when you start stripping away the protections, if you strip away protections on voting rights, stripping away protections on civil rights, which both impact economic rights,

that's Jim Crow 2.0. Yeah, it is. And I'm really glad you say that. because I think a lot of times, both the media and people talking about these issues, try to compartmentalize them, right, and say the effect of this one law being repealed or rescinded or affected in some way is going to affect this one discrete aspect of life. But the reality is it is a full frontal assault on all aspects of life to make life worse for black people by not only devaluing black people, but by leveraging the infrastructure to put people in on things like

the library boards. I mean, we've talked about it here, but it's been a huge issue in this community. The literal library boards, who's sitting on the library board, what book is being put in. All of that is, as Michael always says, it's part of a, you know, Project 2025 and a larger assault on every aspect of it. And I want to correct myself earlier. I said the wrong number. It's 42 U.S.C. 1981. But the point is, you know, look, if the judges aren't going to honor the law if people are going to get the ability to bring non-meritorious cases, including Trump himself, bringing an FTCA case for being prosecuted where that case would be thrown out for any other person. It's just a matter of, you know, playing the game however you want so that you ultimately

win is ultimately what we're seeing. And I think it is going to usher in Jim Crow 2.0. And I think, as I said earlier, it's all the polite society citizens who are on board with that that's making it a much bigger issue because there's not a moral question in the way it was framed during, I think, the thick of the civil rights movement. There's still the same moral issue, but isn't being framed the same way by as many people. Because part of it is, you know, you've got all these people at all levels of white society primarily who are on board with this, and they're not seeing people getting hosed down in the streets the same way, but they are seeing people continue to have their rights eroded and continue

to have things like redlining happening in 20, 25. So it's a full frontal assault and I think we have to look at how all of these parks coalesce together to make a worse quality of life for us. And again, on this point, I need people to understand what is

going on here. And really, I'm talking about folks, y'all got to get this. And we can't just keep us walking around like, oh, man, it's really ain't no big deal. Yeah, y'all saying this here. It's what has to be shared. There's a complete down

to all of this. It's a complete downflow. It goes top to bottom. It goes top to bottom. And if you do not have a political change which then leads to a judicial

change, then you have all of the systems at one time firing against folks. And that's the piece of when Cooney I need folk to get. this is happening. The pieces are firing.

They're firing. Michael, they're firing. Matt, they're firing. And if you see the attack on illegal, because they want to limit the legal folks from being able to sue, now folks are like, yeah, we can't take that case

because if you take your case, they're coming after us, they're going to lose our other clients. And so when the lawyers are afraid, when the media is afraid, well, hell, Michael, I don't know who you got left. Who else, beyond legal and media, who really are the watchdogs? Yeah, well, you know, you have activists, but... Yeah, but the activists, but media has to cover what the activists do. The activists do.

Otherwise, you could just be yelling, and then the lawyers also filed cases on behalf of the with activists. Right, right. No, I understand it's all connected. And unfortunately, a lot of activists don't understand how law works or politics, for that matter. Yeah, this is why we have to keep educating people and building power and also leveraging our economics to enforce our political agenda. So all of this is connected. The terrorists, there was an article from black enterprise.com that I was reading and I shared on my

social media that deals with how Trump's tariffs have stymied black business growth. Well, you had black economic empowerment gurus or whatever hell they want to call themselves that would tell them black people, you don't have to vote. You just have to build businesses and do like the Asians do and invests in the stock market or things like this, right? Well, all this is being attacked. The tariffs are drastically hurting African-American owners. businesses to the point where they have to shut down. Then you have 8.3% unemployment rate

for African Americans, right? We're about to lose, 22 million, about to lose the Affordable Care Act subsidies. So there are going to be a lot of black people walking around with no health insurance, okay, as well as white people. It's going to devastate red America. It's going to devastate these former Confederate states. So we have to understand politics is the legal distribution of scarce wealth-pound resources and impacts every aspect of our lives. So, you know, the day's show is like extremely, extremely important. I hope people go research and read these articles that we're talking about and that you're showing, Roland.

And I haven't watched the Diddy documentary either. I really don't plan to. I got too much damn research to do dealing with factual things that are happening that are kicking our ass to deal with Diddy or 50 cents. We literally are facing their consequences so I just see people to understand. All right folks.

Matt, what you doing this weekend? I'm continuing to enjoy the holiday season and I'm waiting for you to run all over y'all the same way you ran from having to talk to me after we beat y'all. Oh, no, no, no, I didn't run from you. A golf tournament or something.

I did want to show you. No, no, actually I was show up when I have to make a capability actually I was actually I was actually traveling but I did want to show you this year Matt because I thought it was pretty cool

you know it's been a busy week because you know last week Go ahead and play it already man quit with the setup let's get to it. No no I'm just saying I'm just saying so I don't know if you were aware Matt I don't know if you were aware that the Texas

and the women's volleyball team you know upset the number one team in the country in Nebraska they hadn't lost a game all season and they got upset on their home court so the amazing game it was really a fascinating game and then after that

Wisconsin played Texas in Austin y'all lost so because there was a bunch of people who were talking about you know it could be a natural

you know, A&M versus Texas National Championship. Yeah, we made it. Y'all didn't. And then, of course, last night, Matt, let me tell you this for you, Matt, right here. This was the winning point. Go ahead and watch this, Matt. It's going to be a free ball back to the action.

So that was the point that put Texas A&M and volleyball and national championship game. So looking forward to that. Then, of course, tomorrow at noon eastern, it's going to be Miami. The Hurricanes playing A&M in Kyle Field. So are your Longhorn's playing this weekend? I wanted to ask you, who would you say is the most celebrated college coach?

I'm asking. That'd be Nick Saban, right? No, no, I'm asking. You'll have to play any practical as well as a lie. That's a lie. I'm asking. No, that's a lie. Nick Saban says it.

No, first of all, Nick Savan says a lot of bullshit. That's not true. But again, are y'all playing this weekend? We are not playing this weekend. Oh, and I do, I do appreciate. I'm sure it was playing. I do appreciate you wearing your Howard Bison shirt. I did wear that because I think you're going to say something.

Yeah, because, I mean, it hasn't really made an appearance often on this show. You know, Win Cooney, you may not be aware, but Matt didn't even go to that little school in Austin. But he reps them like he did. He's always like, oh, I grew up there, my parents. Babes, what are you doing? What? I'm just mowing the lawn. No, it's blazing hot and dry out.

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So what I'm hearing. Hold on one second. You're against black love. You're against the black woman. No, no, no. No, no. Seems to be a problem. No, actually, I would think you have black love for your college.

I do. I do. I have great deep abiding love for alma mater. But really, I also have abiding love for accountability, which is why I show up when I lose. unlike you who just happens. Hold up. Hold up.

You stop. Hey, hey, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt. I don't know. I can't help. Matt, I can't help it that I'm in great demand. Oh, here we go. Here we go. I mean, I'm at a disadvantage on this show because your mic is like predominant over mine.

But what it comes down to rolling. No, it's not. I literally, if I'm, if I'm not. And I was correct. And I was correct. And we're in the playoffs and you're not. And matter of fact, matter of fact, I do. I don't know if you heard the news, I saw this here.

Let me pull them back up. Because, you know, I mean, you know, y'all had to file your defensive coordinator if y'all sucks so bad. But you know that? We'll must champs coming back. Did you know that? I don't know. I saw Mike Yonful crying after the game, so, you know. All right, all right, yeah, okay, all right. But, yeah, y'all had to file your defensive leadership because they suck. So, it's going to be a great weekend watching Texas A&M, beat the Miami Hurricanes.

and I'm sure Matt will be sitting in front of his television watching because ain't like he got a school to look look at this weekend I'm going to text you the moment y'all get that in like you're going to cry about your offensive court man no actually no no no no no first of all Colin Klein Colin Klein took the job uh Colin Klein took the job actually let me shot the brother out Colin Klein took the job as a Kansas State head coach so his ass gone praise the Lord so let me go ahead and shout out my man we made a

we got a new office of coordinator he got promoted he's a brother got to know nothing about that at Texas because y'all don't promote brothers so I know you're not talking here let me shout out let me shout out let me shout out Holman Wiggins who was a new office of coordinator at Texas A&M

so he's going to do a great job tomorrow so Matt I'm sure you will appreciate watching a Texas team play in the college football playoffs but it will not be your institution. All right, Win Cooney, Matt, Michael, I appreciate it. I can't wait on Monday

to see the Texas and the women win the National Championship in volleyball. Game is tomorrow. That's going to be great. And then, of course, watch football game tomorrow as well. So, there we go. And Howard Bison, yeah, y'all should be... Go ahead. Take a solo shot of Michael, excuse me, of Matt,

so you can actually see, because you don't see this often. No, go solo. Come on. Give me a solo shot. Drop the lower third. Drop the lower third. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Y'all take a screenshot of that H.U., but we know the real H.U.'s Hampton. All right. So, uh, there we go. Oh, ugh. Cut the, uh.

Just wrong. Just wrong. What? I'm sorry. Did I say something? Come on, man. Don't do that. You don't got to get that bad. Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy. brutal, diabolical. Was something wrong with it? All I know is half of the people on the screen are Howardites. That's all I know.

So I can't speak on hand. I mean, I got two Hampton people who are in the control room. I don't see. So, I mean, that's what I'm saying. So I don't really care. Y'all go back and forth. It don't even matter. But I'm just simply saying.

So, you know, y'all'll be, y'all'll be all right. Y'all'll be all right. You talk a lot of noise for a man whose college is out there with the hogs and the horns out in, you know, the middle of nowhere. So I don't even think college station really... I'm sorry. That's a conversation for a different time. You're complaining about hogs and cow and you're literally the bison.

Which is a buffalo. That's not the point. The point is, y'all out in the middle of the middle of the nose. And we beat your head. Hold on, hold on. And you will not... Hold on. Let me help you out.

Let me help you out. You say we're out in the middle of nowhere. But when you got 78,000 students, you kind of need some space. I'm just saying. So there we go. So, again, enjoy your pooling, we eater bowl, or wherever

y'all going. I don't, I'm not sure. It's, it's, I don't know, is it, is it the Eminem Bowl, the Tick-Tac bowl? I'm just saying, I'm not, when the U runs all over you on this week. Are y'all going down to? I want you to wear my airs wedding. Are y'all playing? Are y'all

in Shreep? I know, all you all, you all are the citrus bowl? You know what? Nobody cares. They only care about the playoffs. And y'all not there. Okay. All right. right there we go so um that's it uh y'all have a good weekend good holidays uh and matt will show to wreck it for you with texas an and wins all right with cooney matt and mike appreciate thanks yeah saw horns off there we go folks you want support the work that we do please join our bring the funk

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