#RolandMartinUnfiltered - Trump Renames Confederate Bases, $45M Dictator Parade, Travel Ban Protests & AI for Black Community

Episode Date: June 12, 2025

6.11.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Trump Renames Confederate Bases, $45M Dictator Parade, Travel Ban Protests & AI for Black Community The twice-impeached, criminally convicted former president Donald Trump says he's restoring the original names of several military bases that once honored Confederate leaders.  D.C. is preparing for Trump's military parade, which is estimated to cost between $25 million and $45 million. We'll break it all down.  But isn't this the administration that wants to cut costs?  Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick joins us to discuss growing condemnation of Trump's sweeping new travel ban and the wave of immigration protests erupting across the country. Democratic leaders Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Chuck Schumer pleaded with House Republicans to do the right thing and vote NO on the GOP Tax Scam. In New Jersey, a grand jury indicts Democratic Congresswoman LaMonica McIver on federal charges stemming from last month's clash outside a Newark ICE detention center. And on tonight's Tech Talk, we'll discuss how AI workshops can benefit the Black community.#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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or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey folks, hope all is well. Today is June 11th, 2025 coming up on Roller Mark Unfiltered, streaming live on the Black Star Network. Well, guess what? The twice impeached, criminally convicted felon in chief Donald Trump, he continues to do his nonsense. So he's now saying he's going to restore the Confederate names to military bases across the country. That's what white supremacists do.

All right, so folks, Washington DC is preparing for Donald Trump's birthday celebration. Oh, it's supposed to be about the 250th anniversary of the US Army. It's probably gonna cost anywhere from 25 to $45 million in DC. But is he gonna reimburse DC? He didn't do it last time. You know it's not gonna happen. Also Congresswoman Sheila Schervel is coming. Cormac joins us to discuss the growing condemnations

of Trump's sweeping new travel ban and the impact on immigrants in this country's plus democratic leaders, Hacking Jeffries and Chuck Schumer. Uh, they please the house Republicans to do the right thing and vote no on the GOP tax scam known as the big beautiful bill. Plus in New Jersey, uh, a federal grand jury indicts Democratic Congresswoman LaMonica McIver on the federal charges, sending from a clash outside of a talk will discuss AI wor

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You know he's rolling Martell now. Martell. The tragedy of having an idiot in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue means that we have crazy, ridiculous, insane public policy. What we're seeing take place in this country with the attack on immigrants and migrants shows you how shameful and despicable Donald Trump and the Republican Party is. Now the problem is that what you're seeing in Los Angeles was caused by them, was caused by crazy deranged, overzealous ICE agents.

And we don't even know if they're even ICE agents because they're hiding their faces refusing to show ID. They are literally grabbing people off the street, not even providing warrants, sharing no information with their families. There are people who have been taken, who have been put behind bars. And they family members have no idea

what has happened to them. That should not be happening in this country. But I need people to understand. What we are seeing take place right now in Los Angeles, they want to do all across the country. Don't be mistaken by what you're seeing. They are coming to your city. They are going to be in Florida.

They're going to be in Texas. And you're gonna see these things happen over and over and over again. So just be prepared for this. Now, he also of course has moved forward with his travel ban. Remember the first time it was a Muslim travel ban. Now he's targeting 12 predominantly African and Middle Eastern nations from entering the

United States. That's what we're seeing from this fool. Last night, California Governor Gavin Newsom gave a televised address. He spoke for nearly 10 minutes talking about the shameful actions of Donald Trump. This is what the governor of the fourth largest economy in the world had to say. This past weekend, federal agents conducted large scale workplace raids in and around Los Angeles. Those raids continue as I speak.

California is no stranger to immigration enforcement, but instead of focusing on undocumented immigrants with serious criminal records and people with final deportation orders, the strategy both parties have long supported, this administration is pushing mass deportations indiscriminately targeting hardworking immigrant families, regardless of their roots or risk. Donald Trump, without consulting California law enforcement leaders, commandeered 2,000 of our state's National Guard members to deploy on our streets illegally and for no reason. This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed a combustible situation.

He again chose escalation. He chose more force. He chose theatrics over public safety. He federalized another 2,000 guard members. He deployed more than 700 active U.S. Marines. Today, we sought an emergency court order to stop the use of the American military to engage in law enforcement activities across Los Angeles.

This isn't just about protests here in Los Angeles. When Donald Trump sought blanket authority to commandeer the National Guard, he made that order apply to every state in this nation. This is about all of us. This is about you. California may be first, but it clearly will not end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next.

Democracy is under assault before our eyes. Folks, Congresswoman Sheila Sherifilis McCormick, a Democrat from Florida joins us right now. She's a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security. Glad to have you here. Dormick, a Democrat from Florida, joins us right now. She's a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security. Glad to have you here. What do you make of just this craziness coming from this man? I think it's a lot of propaganda and a lot of distractions

that's very harmful to all Americans. We have to understand that when they implement these policies, they don't actually give you due process so you can actually prove to them, what is your status? They just go after whoever they're profiling. Today, they're profiling Hispanic people. They're also looking at Black people who they believe are Haitian. But then the truth is, they don't give you an opportunity to prove that you're actually

legally here. So I think everybody should be very alert and very aware that the implementation and the propaganda behind this. And be clear, when I say the propaganda behind this, there's no need to have such a gross showing of force. There is no need to have the National Guard. There is no need to be tackling people, shooting rubber bullets.

None of this is called for. This is just to intimidate us from standing up and protesting about what is right, which is everybody has an opportunity and should have due process, and we shouldn't just be targeting people and snatching them off the streets. Well, the reality is there is a need. And for Trump, for Stephen Miller, for Tom Homan, it is the need to treat this like a television show. That is what they are doing. What their whole goal is, they want to show

how tough they are, how brash they are. The reality is that President Obama, President Biden, they deported millions of people from this country, but they want to make a show of this and so having a show of force is what they are all about. Absolutely. I think it's definitely to intimidate. And we have to understand why they want to intimidate us. They want to intimidate us so we can be pushed into submission and to rubber stamp, whatever their agenda is.

But let's also be clear that there are people who are in this party who do want a culture war. And they are actually pushing us closer and closer to that where they actually said, hey, the enemy is gonna be black and brown people. The enemy are Haitian people. And the truth is, if you look at this total ban that they're instituting,

Haiti has no reason to have a total ban. There has never been any kind of data that supports that Haiti has ever been violent towards the United States or any other country, or even supports that there's ever been any kind of national security threats. So this is just pretextual. And when you want to really look into it and see the racism that's behind it, Cuba has been designated as a country that's a terrorist country, but they have a partial ban, whereas Haiti has a full-blown ban, and it's never had any data to

support such a thing. The second thing they talk about is overstay. The truth is, the only overstay you have when it has with Haitian people are when the TPS has been extended. So there really is no basis for them to actually institute a total ban. But this goes right back to the culture war they're trying to institute. This goes right back to the discriminatory policies when it comes to foreign affairs, and it comes back to intimidating and threatening people of color to stand down and be quiet. What are the conversations like with your fellow Republicans on this committee? What are they saying?

Well, I think they're really scared to say anything, to be honest with you, because especially in Florida. So my committee is foreign affairs. And in foreign affairs, we do have Salazar, who lives in South Florida, and she's actually one of the ranking members from the chairwoman for Western Hemisphere. And when it comes to this, her whole community is Haitian, Cuban, Venezuelan.

And so everybody's up in arms. And when I talk to the people in the community, they all feel betrayed, especially by their Republican counterparts, who represent them. And mind you, these are the people who were dancing around the place talking about, oh my god, I'm going to vote for Trump. Well, oh my God, guess what?

He's coming to deport you. He's coming after you. And so right now, when they should be standing up and defending them, they are cowering back and trying to be silent, but they're going to be held to task because the whole community is outraged. All of South Florida, every community is outpaged. Can you make that point again about the Republicans who stood with him, who now say, this is not what we voted for?

It actually is what they voted for. And, you know, I remember the videos, we saw them everywhere, all throughout the communities, dancing and praising Trump and saying, they're going to dance for Trump. They're going to vote for Trump. But Trump turned around and actually is targeting them. He's targeting them more than anybody else.

The Venezuelan community, the Cuban community. Now, these were top Trump supporters. And for some reason, they thought he was going to go after everyone else, but not them. And it makes you wonder, who was the other people you thought he was going to go after when he talked about immigrants? Did you not realize you also was an immigrant, just like every A lot of times the big economic forces we hear about on the news show up in our

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They were silent, but they were very outspoken in supporting him. And now that he's filling all these detention centers with all the Hispanic people, the Cuban, the Venezuelans, now we see them pushing back. And I wanna give you an example. In 2021, I actually started visiting detention centers. And when I visited, it was 50-50, 50% Black, 50% Hispanic. When I visited this time, it was only 8% Black,

and the rest of the 92% were Hispanic, which make it very clear that he's been targeting and going after Hispanic people. I wanna bring in my panel right now. Joy Cheney is founder of Joy Strategies out of Washington DC. Joe Richardson is civil rights attorney out of Los Angeles. Rebecca Carruthers, executive vice president

Fair Elections Center out of Washington DC. Rebecca, we'll start with you. So what do we do? A lot of us are watching what's happening. There are many people who are going to the streets, but also understanding the streets aren't necessarily safe if doing that type of direct protest. What should ordinary Americans do in this moment as we're watching the rise of tyranny, as we're seeing authoritarianism, as we're seeing very unconstitutional acts being carried out by the president?

Well, I've been telling everybody is that there really is a war going on out there and everyone needs to be on the front line. And the reason why I say that is because there's so-called poor implementation or total disregard. There's a reason why Americans are being picked up also and being sent out of the country with total disregard. If you think you're safe, you are not,

but we do have a responsibility to get up and start fighting now, because today it's immigrants. It's a war on immigrants. Tomorrow it's gonna be be us. It's going to be Americans who they're coming after. And if you understand how these kinds of totalitarian regimes work, they work on fear, intimidation, actually pursuing you, having these gross showings of force. So I tell everybody to get on the front lines right now, fight, uplift your voice and say, we're not having it. And the good thing about it, when we have pushed back on this administration, they have

backed the route. They have backed down. You know, we say the whole — we say taco because they do back down. So this is the time when we push forward and say, we're not going to stand for this and we're not going to allow America to turn into this. Joe? Appreciate what you're doing, Congresswoman. I would ask, is there anything that you think the Democrats should be doing more or doing better as it pertains to keeping up the fight here in Congress?

I think we just have to be more aggressive in the community. We've been doing a good job, I think, in Congress, fighting and pushing and pushing, but everybody has to be on the same page. And unfortunately, I think some people think that this immigration issue is not their issue, but it is everybody's issues, because the truth is, at night, we're all watching this,

and everyone is, and everyone is terrified and everyone is disgusted. So when we all start talking in unison and saying, this is not tolerable, this is not world leadership, and this is not making America great, then everybody will understand that the fight is ours, and that this is not just for a certain group. Thank you. Well, you're absolutely right regarding that. Joy. Well, first of all, I think I'm having bandwidth issues,

so I hope you can hear me. One of the things I think Democrats are gonna have to reconcile is the fact that polling shows that many Americans are concerned with illegal immigration. And while they're not supportive of lack of due process, they are generally supportive of deportations. How do you reconcile that in your messaging as a Democrat? Well, I think it's very clear that we could talk about being in the United States as legal

status, which we all agree, you know, you need to be legal. We don't really want people coming here illegal. But when you see people being tear gassed, when you see people being shot with rubber bullets, when you see Americans coming out there and protesting of having the National Guard out there, these are grotesque uses of force. And these are Americans who are protesting That's when it becomes unacceptable. This is no longer an issue of illegality This is an issue of is this how we treat?

Americans is this how we even treat people who are who are foreigners or who in this country? Because we have to like distinguish the two many of these people are legally here. They're just targeting them. They're intentionally going to graduations where their parents are there to watch their kids graduating and grabbing them, not saying, hey, we want to see you in court, but you're grabbing them in graduation. At some point, we have to say that this is inhumane and this isn't right. Tearing families apart in public, there's nobody right now who's watching this who wants this. And I think if we're silent, people are going to grow even more and more frustrated with our party because this does not look like America. This should not be America.

When I'm watching these videos, I had to ask myself, are we in a third world country? What country is this? Because this doesn't look like America. And it eerily reminds me of January 6th, where they were allowed to kind of break into our buildings and try to fight and overturn and try to hang Nancy Pelosi. And so we're losing control every single day. Every day everybody's watching this and they're upset. So I think we need to be clear about what this is. Should this activity be happening in America? Should we be going after Americans who are protesting? And do we even value our First Amendment rights?

Lastly, on that point, you've got Donald Trump threatening people, saying that if there are protests at his birthday military parade, it is not a celebration of the 250 years of the US Army. It's really all about him. That he says, protestant we met with a major force. This man does not believe in the first amendment. Absolutely. I think it's becoming clearer and clearer

that the people who he respects, which we've already knew that he had respect for authoritarian leaders, that now he is acting like it. And this is when, as Americans, we're defining ourselves for the next decade. Do we believe in the right that you shouldn't be able to protest because you're going to be met with force? Absolutely not. That is not democracy. When you're silencing the media, when you're silencing people, when you're silencing protests, when you're silencing any opposition, that is what you call a dictatorship. Dictatorship 101. That's what this is. So I think every American must be engaged right now.

Every American must know what you're looking at. And I think that's why some people are actually being a little bit on the sideline, because America really hasn't seen a dictator. I've seen a dictator. I've heard about dictators. My mother still has PTSD from growing up in Haiti, where she saw dictators target children, target protesters, and also target the media. And once they're able to silence everyone, that's when they actually start attacking

the people more aggressively. And that's what we have to stop. All right, Dan. God, I'm going to start with you. I really appreciate it. attacking the people more aggressively. And that's what we have to stop. All right then. Congresswoman, we surely appreciate it. Thank you so very much. Thank you for having me. All right, folks, going to break when we come back. More about the drama happening in the nation's capital.

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Yet yesterday, that's exactly what he did. He had these troops jeering at the media assembled. It was a gross speech. What was really shameful was this idiot talking about restoring the names of Confederate domestic terrorists to military bases. Now, keep in mind what happened here. Congress passed a law getting rid of these names saying we don't want military bases named after Confederate white domestic terrorists. Well Republicans didn't like that. Donald Trump really didn't like that. So he's

been held bent on saying no we need to reverse that. Listen to this. For a little breaking news, we are also going to be restoring the names to Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort AP Hill, and Fort Robert E. Lee. We won a lot of battles out of those forts. It's no time to change. And I'm superstitious. You know, I like to keep it going, right? I'm very superstitious.

We want to keep it going. So that's a big story. We just announced that today to you for the first time. They said, why didn't you wait till Saturday? I said, I can't wait. I got to talk to my friends here today. This is a record crowd. You never had a crowd this big.

That's an honor. You think this crowd would have showed up for Biden? I don't think so. I don't think so. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. Yeah, you are wrong and you're shameful and despicable. But let me tell you what they're doing. They're not reverting back to the Confederate names.

What these racists did was go find other soldiers that had the same last name as the Confederate folk and then renaming it after them. These people literally are stupid, Joy. They're stupid. They're stupid and they're also very racist. That is what's happening here and I'm gonna be honest with you. What was most concerning wasn't Donald Trump.

It were the claps and the cheers and the jeers from the audience. We have a problem here and it's not just Donald Trump. We spend so much time on him. But the fact of the matter is we have a racist populace. I don't think they're the majority of people, but there is a defining number of people out there who are bigoted against racial and ethnic minorities, against women, their misogynist and sexist towards women, of course, sexual orientation minorities as well. And as a nation, we're going to have to talk about that. Why is that?

Why has that been allowed to take hold? You know, I'm sure, you know, some of us have, you know, there's some blame in terms of the way we communicate with people. I think that folks have been left behind, which makes them preppy and prey to this type of thinking. But a lot of the racism and bigotry that we falsely thought had subsided was really just lying dormant. It is a cancer. And we need to be talking about that in our churches and in our personal relationships. You know, for those of us who have relationships with Republicans, our neighbors,

we need to be, who are these people? Where are they? Where does it come from? And whose onus is it to fix it? And I think it's white Americans' onus. So we need to figure out that part, because these people are going to be there once we get rid of Donald Trump in four years and neutralize him politically in two. And I believe we will do that. We still have a populace of people who will be dormant again.

That's a problem. But Rebecca, these people have not been left behind. They want to go back to where it was. Let's be real clear. They ain't been left behind anywhere. They don't like where we are going. You know, the interesting thing is the rank of out of the military is extremely diverse.

It's overwhelmingly black and brown. And so even though we saw mainly, we saw visually look like all white people behind Trump, white military folks behind Trump when he made that announcement, these people are gonna FAFO. They're gonna F around and find out. You can't just show up to a base talking that stuff and don't think that you're not going

to get handled. So he can say what he wants to say. He could try to be cute and clever by reverting to those last names that represent racist Confederate traitors to this country. He could do all those things. Every president has the ability to name and rename different military installations. At the end of the day, though, all of these people who think that they're Trump,

they think that they're big and bad, people are going to reach the breaking point in this country, where the normal everyday racists can't go up to black people and say these things. They're going to find out real fast. And so what I'm concerned with, what I'm very concerned with in our country is that the temperature is steadily being turned up. And to what point is this president willing to keep turning the temperature up?

What is it that he wants? Does he want a full out civil war? Does he want to incite violence? Does he want to have some type of coup? A lot of times the big economic forces we hear about on the news show up in our lives in small ways. Three or four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding, but the price has gone up. So now I only buy one. The demand curve in action.

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From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multi-billion dollar company dedicated itself to one visionary mission. This is Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. It's really, really, really bad. Listen to new episodes of Absolute Season One, Taser Incorporated on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Binge episodes one, two, and three on May 21st and episodes four, five, and six on June 4th. Add free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. You say you never give in to a meltdown and never fill your feed with kid photos. You say you'd never put a pacifier in your mouth to clean it and never let them run wild through the grocery store. So when you say you'd never let them get into a car without you there, no it can happen. One in four hot car deaths happen when a kid gets into an unlocked car

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It really does. It makes it real. radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. And to hear episodes one week early and ad free with exclusive content, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcast. Does he want to have worse happening in this country? Because people are tired. in this country because people are tired. Just everyday life is so hard now, it's very expensive for people and people are feeling that. And I am really curious to what end is Trump willing to go? Because I don't think the population in this country

is willing to go down the path that he wants to take this country down. in this country is willing to go down the path that he wants to take this country down. Joe. Yeah, I think you'll reach a breaking point. He's not very thoughtful in terms of what it is that he's trying to do. Divide and conquer can only go so far,

particularly when fundamentally at the end of the day, you are in the process of being outnumbered if you're not outnumbered already. Can you, to Rebecca's point, keep turning the heat up? Eventually you can turn the heat up, and everything around it is going to burn. Everything around it, there is going to be pressure. And there will be people going back and forth. There will be people that aren't, you know, that aren't enamored with the Republican Party, or maybe they aren't enamored with the president for a different host of reasons. But a lot of it, I believe, will eventually come bearing down on him and bearing down

on them. And so they really do have to decide how much they want to go through and what it is that they're trying to do. And ultimately, you're cutting off your nose to spite your face when you're just turning people against each other. And you think, you know, it's interesting, something is happening here. Donald Trump thinks that with what he's doing, he'll always be, shall we say, politically safe, right?

And at the same time, people that support the president, while ignoring what he does that's unconstitutional, that's unsanely, that's illegal, et cetera, they think they'll always be safe, right? And so, interestingly, I think that all of the players in this thing are going to become very, very surprised, because, ultimately, they'll figure out the thing that they either actively participated in, actively made happen, or looked at with a crime of omission for lack of a better term, or allowed to happen, ultimately comes back and bites them.

And that's what I think everybody on that side of things will eventually have in common. Roland, can I get in again? Bomb lining it. Okay. I want to believe Joe and Rebecca, Roland, can I get in again? Bomb lining it. OK. I want to believe Joe and Rebecca, but I'm going to be honest with you. I'm thinking this is like 1930s Germany.

I think a lot of these folks who we think are going to reach a breaking point might not. I hope they will. I pray that they will. I will be working towards making sure that they do. But I think a lot of these folks are willing to go along just to say that they aren't wrong, are willing to go along to protect their own safety. This is why he's cutting off every path to safety.

The encroachment on the law and him approaching what he's going to do to American citizens is there meant to frighten us. And there are people who are thinking who's going to stop him. The stupid Democrats who are engaging in a reelection right now? No. And internal politics? No. Not them.

Who's going to stop them? You got military people who seem to be aligned with Trump. Who's going to stop them? Everyone is silent, including our former presidents. We have got to do something. Otherwise, we are going to find ourselves in a Nazi Germany regime. We are not there yet, but we can get there and we cannot afford to think the American people are going to come to their senses. Got it. They have not done so. Alright folks. Alright folks gotta go to break we come back.

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Now, she openly talked about avoiding getting mammogram. In the end, when diagnosed, she chose to use, she chose to go the route of alternative medicine as opposed to the traditional routes. Well, as a result, the cancer spread and she is now dead the age of 52. I had the opportunity to meet Ananda a couple of times. She was an amazing sister, extremely focused in media. Remember, she had an syndicated television show. So many people watched her, slew to her. But, you know, Rebecca, folks were just shocked and stunned. And she later admitted it was a massive, massive mistake to ignore this thing that was going inside of her.

And after she was diagnosed with stage four, she implored people, women to get checked, to get mammograms, things that she didn't do. And so it was heartbreaking to see this story of her choosing not to deal with it, and then by not dealing with it and ignoring it, her cancer spread, now she's dead at age of 52. To get a yearly mammogram. Even though the quote unquote recommendation now is, oh, you don't have to go yearly, but guess what?

There isn't any medical doctor who was on that review board who made that recommendation. So if you talk to your primary care doctor, if you talk to radiologists, they will tell you they are encouraging people every single year. And also, black men also need to go in as well because black men can also get breast cancer because it's the breast tissue. You don't have to be a biological woman in order to get breast cancer. Go every year. Some of the guidance says, okay, you go your first time at age 40, especially if you don't have a family history.

Well, guess what? The number of black folks who are getting diagnosed with breast cancer do not have a family history. Well, guess what? The number of black folks who are getting diagnosed with breast cancer do not have a family history of breast cancer. So make sure you're doing the preventative care. Many insurance companies will pay for you to get an annual mammogram. When my mom used to get it, it used to hurt a lot more,

but technology has increased. You could get 3D mammograms. If you don't have insurance, there are many community organizations that has a free mammogram mobile that will go throughout the community will show up to different events, your local library. But please get tested. I know that we have all sorts of crazy people in this administration who are trying to say that science doesn't matter. It does matter. This is the difference between life and death. I can't tell you what to do once you get tested. I can't tell you what treatment to observe. But get tested.

Her sister, Lakshmi Imuri, announced on her Facebook page her passing. She said she's free and in his heavily arms and in a series of broken hearts, Lord rest her soul. And I'm reading several stories here saying that what's really crazy here, Joy, her sister's a physician. Ananda was diagnosed in 2020 with breast cancer.

And again, she gave interviews talking about how she literally ignored it. She ignored it, did not want to deal with it. And then chose to go the route of alternative medicine. And clearly that did not result in her being saved. Yeah, so many people have an experience with cancer. I'm not alone, but I am a cancer survivor. Thyroid cancer, you can't see it,

but my scar is on my neck and I am a survivor and I had a great outcome. Many of us don't get screened and we don't get checked because we are afraid of a bad outcome. But with cancer, as with many diseases, the earlier you found out, the better the outcome and most people have successful outcomes and live the fullness of their lives. Please don't be ignorant. What you don't know can hurt you. You must go get screened, not just for breast cancer, if you are a man, breast but also prostate cancer and for all other types of cancer. And having a primary

care physician is central to that. Central to that. And the other thing you have to do is make sure your politics align with your health. The big beautiful bill that's out there looking to cut Medicaid, looking to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood, where many people get their mammograms done for free or heavily discounted rates. And, of course, with Medicaid, many people can get those screenings done who need that kind of care and that kind of insurance. So make sure that you are caring for yourself, both health-wise and also policy-wise.

Your life depends on it. It's a real shame that she was not able to live and survive this and the world is robbed. But at least she was honest about it and sharing the mistake that she made. Herbal teas will not do it. Let me repeat it, that's to the people in my family who believe that foolishness. Herbal teas won not do it. Let me repeat it, that's to the people in my family who

believe that foolishness. Herbal teas won't do it, but that doesn't mean you have to have the most invasive process. What you need to do is go to a primary care physician and let your physician guide you in consultation with other medical professionals and you can get a second opinion. There was a story that aired, excuse me, that ran at essence.com. I'm going to control room. Y'all could pull that up on your end. I'm sending it to you right now.

It was in the January, February issue, Essence Magazine, where she wrote where she wrote a particular piece. She talked about being in the shower in December 2018, feeling a lump in her breast. Then she talked about then going in in 2019 and then revealing to her exactly what was going on. And it was a very fast moving, aggressive form. And then what she said is, she said that she chose to take a different route.

She said, I dove into the research and learned that environmental and lifestyle factors influence 90% of what causes cancer. So I stopped drinking alcohol, I stopped consuming sugar, I did a cleanse to get the buildup of toxins in my body out, I began to shift the way I manage stress. My goal was to do things that supported my body's ability to continue to be whole enough to heal

instead of destroying it up front. I also couldn't figure out how to fit the double mastectomy, the full chemotherapy, and potentially the radiation they were telling me to have into my already overwhelmed life. More importantly, these methods went against what I believed was right for my body. She talked about doing high doses of vitamin C, followed by hyperbaric chamber sessions, exercise, energy work, prayer, and diet changes, all while managing the stress of ending a 10-year relationship with the man I loved, my son's father. And then she talked about in January 20, what took place, that COVID hits,

all these different things. And so again, she talks about all these things. She says, I did cryo libation, an FDA approved procedure that injects gas into the tumor to kill cancer cells. By freezing them, I did genetically targeted fractionated chemotherapy. I also started acupuncture to help bring my red blood cells

back up when Keno would drop them too low. I tried a cutting edge drug that boosts the local immune system in the tumor I've been did. Afaresis where they pulled my body, pulled my blood out pint by pint, cleaned it of toxins, filtered it, and put it back in my body. All these things were part of a layered approach.

Cancer was attacking the body from a lot of different directions to be truly effective, yet to attack it the same way. When I left Arizona in December, I had gone down from stage three to stage two. The cancer was out of my lymph nodes and the tumor significantly reduced. And so then she talks about, you know,

what this all meant and in terms of, you know, how it changed here. But the reality is those things simply did not work, Joe. They did not. And the fact of the matter is that lump in her breast canceled everything out she was thinking about doing. I loved Ananda because when you pay attention to the talk show space, those of us that patterned ourselves after Arsenio Hall, we saw who got talk shows. We saw who was hosting shows. And of course I watched Ananda from BET to MTV

to her own show. And I'll tell you a personal story. When I was 16 years old, I started having blood discharges and I didn't know why. And I was scared and I didn't go to the doctor. And when I went to the doctor, I wasn't completely honest. And so it took me a year to finally get the colonoscopy based on my admitted symptoms. And I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis.

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It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. And to hear episodes one week early and ad free with exclusive content, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple podcast. When the colon itself is inflamed, it's ulcerative colitis. I've been having colonoscopy since I was 16 years old because I'm at higher risk for cancer. Fortunately, as they go, I've had a quote easier ride, never too severe medication. I told you guys last week that.

And no, And no surgeries. But that being said, there are so many men, let me talk to the fellas now. We talked to the ladies quite a bit about breast cancer. Let me talk to the fellas about their manhood not letting them get their prostate checked. Their manhood not letting them get a colonoscopy once they turn 45 or 50. Colon cancer, you are going to be able to resolve 90% of the time if you catch it early. Because of my reality, my reality is not,

oh, I don't want to go to colonoscopy whether or not I'm going to go. My question is whether it's going to be prophofol or whether it's going to be dimerol, because prophofol is a much better drug and a lot easier. I ain't talking about it in a Michael Jackson kind of way, but it's very easy to recover from it. I have accepted that as my reality.

My wife did her first colonoscopy this week because she's at the age for it, and fortunately, everything was fine. But we got to do the things that allow us to deal with preventative, right? All of the things that Ananda was talking about doing were doing, relieving stress and all this other, all of that's fantastic.

But once there's a lump in your breast, that doesn't mean that you don't test. That doesn't mean that you don't do the things that you need to do. And I'm not standing in judgment of her or anyone else. But I'm particularly talking to the men because a lot of times our manly-hood tells us not to do these things.

That uncle who was very dear to me, my uncle Rodney, he was, the heart hurts me, he knew he was sick, but didn't want to get biopsied, didn't want to get tested. And by the time he finally got tested, he had cancer all over him. Sometimes we decide to do it the way that we want to do it, which I guess is fine and good and well, but you have family.

You have people that love you, you have people that care about you. I don't stand in judgment of anyone, but what I would say is I want people to be encouraged to go and check the boxes that they need to check. Those of us that believe in heaven, we're not in any hurry to get there because we will be there eternally.

So why cut it off? You know what I mean? But let's do the things that we can so that we can have the most quality of life we possibly can. You know, cut back on the ham hocks and the pork, right? Some of those types of things. But for whatever you know, cut back on the ham hocks and the pork, right, some of those types of things. But for whatever you do, if there's a lump, if there's something, if there's a problem,

if there's a blood discharge, go get tested. I was 15 years old and it took me a year to go. So who is it that's out there that's not getting a test? Because they've told themselves that they couldn't. They've told themselves that they wouldn't, or that they, you know, if it's not one thing, it's another. Yeah, maybe so if you don't get tested when you know you have a symptom. Do what you need to do, man. Let's do what we can to live as long as we can. And particularly as it pertains to things that are potentially avoidable

altogether or maybe very, very curable when caught early. Let's do that work because we've got people here that rely on us and care for us, and we got to care for each other. Roland, can I say it this way? Unfortunately, her young son. Yeah, yeah. Modern disease requires modern medicine. On this show, we talk about policy,

we talk about environmental racism, we talk about how in black communities across this country, there are higher rates of cancer because there are electric and utility transformers in our neighborhoods. We talk about how South Memphis, Elon Musk, AI, and data center is housed there and that increases the rates of cancer.

We talk about in parts of Houston, we talk about in parts of Baton Rouge and New Orleans and Fisherman's Paradise where there is an increase of petrochemicals that leads to diseases. So we're seeing a lot of new diseases that our ancestors didn't have to deal with a thousand, two thousand, three thousand years ago. And so while I understand going the holistic route for our everyday life to keep ourselves everyday healthy, but when we have these specific modern diseases that are caused by policies that are caused by greed and corruption in this world, it's going to require modern medicine to fight back because our herbs can't catch up to what's happening when we're seeing a lot

of these manufactured in, I won't say that, when we're seeing all these new diseases that are associated with modernity, with a post-industrial society. So that's just food for thought. I see some people in the comments saying, hey, there's holistic routes. Yes. Do that for everyday life.

Do that for everyday stress management. Do that for the common cold. But it's time for us to, yes. Yes. It is, it is time for us now to have that understanding for those of those of us who are of faith, pray over your medicine. My mother in particular, she died prematurely. Had there been more cultural competence around her

health team, had she actually followed some of the protocol, I very much believe she will be alive today. Taking medication going to the doctor is not a testament of your faith. Take the pill when you need to take that pill and you pray over it. But at the end of the day- Pray over the pill and then take it. Faith without works is dead.

Yes, but these modern diseases require modern medicine. Talk within your family. All right, folks. All right, folks, gotta go to a break. We come back. We come back more of what's happening in this country and lots more to talk about in the second hour of the show you're watching

while we're Martin Uncultured on the Black Star Network. Back it on. Next on the Black Table with me, Greg Carr. An hour of living history with Dr. Richard Mariba Kelsey, thinker, builder, author, and one of the most important and impactful elders in the African American community. He reflects on his full

and rich life and shares his incomparable wisdom about our past, present, and future. I'm a genius saying that my uncle was a genius, my brother was a genius, my neighbor was a genius. I think we ought to drill that in ourselves and move ahead rather than believing that I got it. That's next on the Black Table, here on the Black Star Network. This week on the other side of change. We are here talking about the unfortunate case of 30-year-old Adriana Smith, who was diagnosed and pronounced as brain

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LaMonica McIver, who represents New Jersey, and two members of Congress, along with new Mayor Roz Baraka, they were visiting Delaney Hall to conduct federal oversight of the 10,000 Bayer Detention Center. During their visit, a scuffle of law enforcement took place, resulting in assault charges against McIver and Baraka's arrest for misdemeanor trespassing charges.

Charges now, they dropped the charges against Baraka. New Jersey Youth's attorney, Elena Habba, posted this on social media Baraka. New Jersey use attorney, Alina Haber, posted this on social media about McIver's indictment, saying, today a federal grand jury seated in Newark, New Jersey, returned a three county indictment charging U.S. Representative Lamanica McIver, with forcibly impeding and interfering

with federal law enforcement officers. This indictment has a maximum penalty of eight years for count one, additional maximum penalty of eight years for count two, additional maximum penalty of eight years for count two, and a maximum penalty of one year in prison for count three. As I have stated in the past, it is my constitutional obligation as a chief federal law enforcement officer for New Jersey

to ensure that our federal partners are protected when executing their duties while people are free to express their views for or against particular policies, they must not do so in a manner that endangers law enforcement and the communities those officers serve. Today's decision about the grand jury is the next step. Any process in my office will pursue to a just end." McIver released her own statement, and she said, the facts of this case will prove I was simply doing my job and will expose these proceedings

for what they are, a brazen attempt at political intimidation. The indictment I no longer justified than the original charges and is an effort by Trump's administration to dodge accountability for the chaos ICE calls and scare me out of doing the work I was elected to do, but it won't work. I will not be intimidated. The faces are on my side. I will be entering a plea of not guilty. I'm grateful for the support of our community and I look forward to the day in court.

I mean, this is sheerly, this pure silliness, Joe, on the part of Trump. But what they wanna do is they want to intimidate a member of Congress from doing their oversight duty and they've been blocking doors, shutting members out all across the country. Yeah, take her, make an example out of her. They don't go after Barack Obama. They go after her instead.

The other day, Maxine Waters was trying to get in and do oversight and see some of the people that had been detained. Dora was closed on her face. And so I appreciate the stand that she's taking. She's just trying to do her job. See, you know, in the world where you get discretion or you get to decide, you're a prosecutor, you're an officer of the court,

you have to decide what it is that's responsible to do in the name of protecting and doing right by the people in the job you have and the authority you've been invested, nobody can stand back and say that morally or even legally that this community is going to be better off for this congresswoman being prosecuted for a situation that she frankly didn't create at all. And there's no good that would actually come from it. And hopefully this allows people to become awakened, even all the more awakened, about what it is that we're facing, the whole idea that the government would be weaponized

in order to intimidate Congress people and people that are duly elected by people, directly elected by people, to do the business of the people. And that includes oversight in situations such as this. It's absolutely insensing, but it would be more insensing if people don't react to it, become more aware and dare I say woke, so that we can go and continue to do the things that we need to do in terms of fighting back, in terms of letting folks know, letting the government, even our government, even our leaders of our government,

know that the weaponization of the government in the name of doing the business of the people is immoral, it's illegal, and it won't be tolerated. Joy? I mean, I think the facts here, when you see the video, when you see that she was trying to protect others, really, that she was there doing her political, her elected duty, her sworn duty on behalf of the citizens of New Jersey. I think when you see that, you know, we're going to have a jury that is extremely empathetic

towards her. Seeing this as a political prosecution, so much of what Trump did was accuse himself of having a political prosecution. This is the definition textbook of a political prosecution. This is the definition, textbook of a political prosecution. This woman, absolutely, because we can see it, is not fighting back. What she's trying to do is to protect herself from assault and harm in a melee, right, where lots of things got thrown around and none of them were intentional, you know, but it was because this was a crisis that had been created by the officers, not by her. She was doing her job.

And I think that she's going to get more donations because of this. She's going to get more political, not notoriety, but fame because of this. She's going to have an elevated platform because of this. And this will work in her favor. The fact of the matter is, right now, there's almost no bet, like being in jail is the sign of you doing something right. She was in the way, and that's why she got targeted here. And we need to be in the way.

We will be rewarded for this. Rebecca? here. And we need to be in the way. We will be rewarded for this. Rebecca? Look, I think this whole thing is disgusting. This is — they want to create a chilling effect. Like I talked about earlier, how far is this president willing to go? If they are now jailing or imprisoning, if they are charging, they're indicting members of Congress, then what does that mean for ordinary everyday people who aren't a member of Congress? So at this point, the American people

are going to have to figure out, okay, so what do we do? For some folks, you know, I need our white counterparts to use their white privilege, and they need to be the ones on the front line and show up and use their white privilege. Because I'll be very curious if the Trump administration is willing to jail thousands of white people.

I kind of think he's not willing to do that. But black people have been in this fight. We are tired, but we're still willing to fight. But I need more white people to show up at the front lines. They keep saying, oh, black people, you all have been sitting on the sidelines since November. Not really. I think some of us have been resting. But white people need to be at the front lines

of this fight. Mm-hmm. All right. I mean, I would say white members in particular. I agree with that, but the question is, but the real question is whether they're going to step up and see this as being their issue. Going to a quick break, we'll be right back.

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I didn't take it as a woe is me moment, or I was like, what am I gonna do? As a matter of fact, I looked at it, I rolled up my sleeves and I said, hey, whatever it takes. That's all this week on A Balanced Life with Dr. Jackie here on Black Star Network. This week on The Other Side of Change. We are here talking about the unfortunate case of 30 year old Adriana Smith, who was diagnosed and pronounced

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Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. So of the world, my name is Margaret Chappell. I'm from Dallas, Texas, representing the urban trivia game. It's me, Sherri Shepard, and you know what you watch. Roland Martin on Unfiltered. Senator Chuck Schumer, House Leader Hakeem Jeffries, joined forces daily, joined news conference condemning the Republicans, what they call GOP scam bill. Here's what Jeffries had to say. It's an honor and privilege to be joined today by Leader Chuck Schumer.

We've been working closely with Leader Schumer and Senate Democrats in a unified way to stop the Republicans' one big ugly bill from ever becoming law. Later on today on the House floor, Republicans will have an opportunity to stop the GOP tax scam and address the concerns that have been raised by dozens of House Republicans with respect to the damage that the one big ugly bill will do to everyday Americans. The GOP tax scam represents the largest assault on health care in American history. More than 16 million Americans will lose access to health care in the United States of America as a result of the one big ugly bill. Hospitals will close, nursing homes will shut down, and people will die because they'll lose access to the medical care that they need. Tens of millions of additional Americans will pay higher premiums, copays, and deductibles.

There are more than a dozen House Republicans who have indicated that they don't support cutting Medicaid for the people that they represent. Those House Republicans have a chance to stop this bill from even being sent over to the United States Senate by voting no on the rule today. Other House Republicans have indicated that they don't support the cuts to the clean energy tax credits that have generated jobs and economic opportunity in their communities. Yet somehow, mysteriously, they voted for the one big ugly bill a few weeks ago, but now these House Republicans have the ability to stop the GOP tax scam from being sent over

to the United States Senate. It's strange to me that you have Republicans who voted for a bill that they apparently dislike, and then publicly send a letter to their Senate Republican colleagues to say, stop these provisions from ever becoming law. I mean, that's the height of irresponsibility. Vote yes, and then hope for the best. No, you have a job to do in the House of Representatives, and now you have a second chance to actually stop this one big ugly bill and the provisions that you disagree with, whether that's the cuts to Medicaid or the cuts to clean energy tax credits

or the prohibition against regulating artificial intelligence across all 50 states, or the aggressive overreach that many Republicans have complained about in terms of trying to strip away the ability of federal courts to issue contempt orders against an out-of-control to issue contempt orders against an out of control executive branch. Every single one of those Republicans, dozens of them, now have an opportunity to actually act responsibly, vote no against the rule that will be on the floor of the House, and stop the GOP tax scam from even going over to the United States Senate. I'm thankful again for the leadership and presence of Chuck Schumer. It's now my honor to yield to him.

Thank you. It's great to be back here in the House, and I want to thank Hakeem for the great job he has done and constantly does against this big, ugly bill. Now, as Republican Congress members went home after voting for the bill, they got a huge amount of flak because the more the public knows about this bill, the less they like it. And so many of them said, well, I didn't like that part. I didn't like this part.

I didn't even read the bill, some of them say. Well, now is their opportunity to make the changes that they told their constituencies that they don't like in the bill. The bottom line is, what is a congress member's core power embodied in the Constitution? The power to vote. And they ought to exercise that power to vote afternoon, because it's a unique opportunity to change this bill. If it's because they didn't technically provide the right bill to pass the Senate, it has to be sent back to the House. And if even a handful of Republicans vote no this afternoon on the rule. They will have that opportunity. They will have the opportunity to change the vicious cuts on Medicaid That hurt so many that will close rural hospitals in many of their districts. They have the opportunity

to restore the tax credits on clean energy because if they don't It's going to affect their districts. At least in the Senate, 70 percent, 75 percent of the clean energy projects are in Republican states. And I imagine it's not that dissimilar in terms of districts. If they want to stop the vicious cuts to snap, if they want to prevent the billionaires from getting tax returns, whatever they went home and told people they didn't like and a few of them said they didn't even read the bill and many of them whispered to each other, we didn't know this was in the bill, particularly on the energy tax credits, which was done at the dark of night because

Chip Roy and his right wing Texans just have a religious hatred of clean energy. So now's the time. This is a golden opportunity. If they really mean what they say and they want to change the bill, this is their golden opportunity. Don't throw the key away. Don't shrug your shoulders a second time

and say, well, there were things I liked in the bill and didn't like. This is the chance to change it. And I say, and we say to every Republican Congress member, this vote shows if you're real, when you said you want to scale back clean energy, when you said you don't like the Medicaid cuts, when you said the snap cuts are too deep, when you said the court's powers of contempt should not be taken away, if you're real about it, if you're not just BSing your constituents, vote no, and then you have an opportunity to change the bill. Rebecca, do you believe that how this presentation resonates? Is there a different way that Democrats should be highlighting the crazy, nonsensical, outlandish things in this bill?

Yes. I mean, no one's really going to be moved by anything that Chuck Schumer says at this point, right? That's not compelling TV. It's not compelling news. They have to take this fight out to the public. They need to show up in districts and they need to go through and list, this is the community hospital that will be shut down if this bill passes. This is, they need to go line by line, like show up to Tennessee.

As much as Marsha Blackburn always used to talk about, oh, how all the great things that TennCare is doing, talk about how TennCare is gonna be undermined, it's gonna be decimated. And I think it's over half of kids in Tennessee use TennCare, AKA Tennessee's Medicaid. Talk about it, call it out. But just like whatever it is

that the minority leader was trying to do, to me, that's not effective. Like, I'm going to be honest, even listening to Chuck Schumer, I kind of tuned out what he said. Like, I heard him talking, but then I didn't even really focus. And I'm someone who is locked in to these public policy issues. Democrats have to figure out what its soul is as a party, right? The reason why a lot of Americans are saying that they don't see a big difference between Republicans and Democrats is not just the policy issues of whether or not you're for Trump or it's against Trump. It's even how they talk about it.

It's the framework, because at the end of the day, I think Chuck Schumer is more concerned about some of the corporate interests that may back him than actually delivering good policy for the American people in meaningful ways that the American people can easily digest. Like this wasn't it, it didn't even capture me. Joe. The thing that's good about Republicans

is that they talk in third-grade language. And we got to get better at speaking to people in a way that meets them where they are. Now, you know, we can have this whole discussion, oh my God, we shouldn't have to talk, you know, that low, be that simple. No, you can speak in complete sentences. You not undermine anybody's intelligence. And talk in a way that's revelatory for people that know a little bit more, that are a little bit further along, somehow, some way. The travesty

here is that people don't seem to understand that Democrats actually, most programs that they come to rely on, most things that they have in their lives that are any good for working-class people came from Democrats, almost always. And we typically are the ones on the right side of that. So how do we translate that to people? And this is an example, this big, beautiful bill that they're actually giving you something that's due to and telling you that it's ice cream. They're saying, oh, no, we're not cutting Medicaid. We're just changing the requirements so that we kill

waste. No, you're cutting Medicaid. You're cutting it. You are cutting it. How do we make sure that we get that to people in precise language so that they stop voting against their own interests? That's the big challenge because we look, I don't know if we look too much like them or we look too different from them or whatever it is. I don't even know if I have it figured out, but we've got to speak in a precise everyday language. We can have a discussion some other time. I had a discussion with Pete Aguilar about this. Like is Schumer still the guy?

I mean, you know, it's an open question as to whether, I mean, he still seems to be the guy, but there's open question as to whether he ought to be. And so we have to talk about this and make sure we break this down to people in a way that they can understand and give them something that they can get behind so that there's less smoke and mirrors and so that what is being portrayed is truly the reality that we are the good guys as pertains to a policy, a policy standpoint, and that should really be coming across.

Joy. All right, look, all that is fine, but this is about legislative time. This is legislation. We need groups who are on the ground. It's great that they are protesting. That's wonderful. But we need them to pick up the phone, get on their email,

and write their members. If they are a citizen in that district, they need to call their member of Congress, especially the Republicans, but also the Democrats. If you want to help Chuck Schumer, if you want to help Joaquin Jeffries, you have to give incentive to the members of Congress that they are trying to appeal to. I agree. It looked pretty feckless.

I agree that, you know, we can ask questions about do we have the right leadership for this time? That is not what is of issue right now. What we need are enough people calling. I've been a Senate chief of staff. What we care about is how many people thought enough of this issue to call in and to make their voices known. That's how they're measuring it.

How many people are concerned about rural hospitals closing? How many people are concerned about the fact that work requirements, we already know this from when they've been implemented in other states, actually cost more than they save and kick people off their rolls. They do not do what you might think they do.

How many people know that people will be kicked off Medicaid, that it will be more difficult for women to get the maternal health that they need? How many people know that? That's our focus, along with all of the other problems in the bill that are not healthcare related. This bill kills people and it does it so that it can give tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans

to an oligarchy that is undermining our democracy. Those are the basic facts. But you got to get on phone. You have to do that. If you're not doing that, you aren't doing shit. You don't know what you're about. Right. All right, folks. hold tight one second.

We come back. We're gonna talk about a AAP program, a stem cell AI program out of Georgia being greatly impacted by cuts in the federal aid. You're watching Roland Martin on Filtered on the Block Star Network. This week on A Balanced Life with Dr. Jackie, we're talking faith, family, fatherhood,

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Hello, we're the Critter Fiction, I'm Dr. Vernard Hodges. And I'm Dr. Terrence Ferguson. And you're tuned in to... Roland Martin on Filthy. All right, everybody keeps talking about artificial intelligence and how we need to know how these things work, but the question is, where do you go to actually learn this stuff? Well, in Georgia, they have an initiative to teach young folks and their parents with regards to AI, but one of the issues they were facing, resources. CUSTA federal grants has impacted a program in Georgia.

Joining us now is Valerie Mackey, the CEO of Right Now Solutions. Of course, Andrea Curry, the director of West Side Works. A lot of times the big economic forces we hear about on the news show up in our lives in small ways. Three or four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding, but the price has gone up. So now I only buy one.

The demand curve in action. And that's just one of the things we'll be covering on everybody's business from Bloomberg Businessweek. I'm Max Chafkin. And I'm Stacey Vanek-Smith. Every Friday, we will be diving into the biggest stories in business, taking a look at what's going on, why it matters and how it shows up in our everyday lives. With guests like Businessweek editor Brad Stone, sports reporter Randall Williams and consumer

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Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcast. Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcast. Belary Rice, glad to have both of you here. Belary, first tell us, what is this program? Who are you helping? Sure, this program is Who are you helping? Sure. This program is to help upscale folks in the community of Atlanta

that would like to have a technology career. It was specialized in artificial intelligence because it is in high demand and employers need it all the time. So there's an eight week boot camp, so to speak, where we have people come in, they learn more AI tools.

It's not just one tool. So we like to look at it as vendor agnostic. So they learn several different types with them, Microsoft, Google, IBM, all the tools that makes them very marketable in this field. And for this particular program is for our youth,'s for 18 to 24. We have some programs focused on everyone. This particular program wanted to focus on our youth, the ones that may or may not have gone to college to give them an opportunity to start their careers. And hello. So, Cassandra, what? I'm sorry, go ahead. No, no, I'm sorry. I dropped the hit there. Go ahead. No, no, I'm sorry. I dropped a hit there. Go ahead. Nope. So let's talk about this program. First of all, how long has this been going on?

How many students have you helped? Yes. Okay. So this particular program, I'm sorry, Cassandra. Go ahead. No, go ahead. Cassandra, go ahead. Okay.

So I'm going to go ahead and ask you to tell me how long you've been helping. So I'm going to go ahead and ask you to tell me how long you've been helping. So I'm going to go ahead and ask you to tell me how long you've been helping. So I'm going to go ahead and ask you to tell me how long you've been helping. So I'm going to go ahead and ask you to tell me how long you've been helping. So I'm going to go ahead and ask you to tell me how long you've been helping. So I'm going to go ahead and ask you to tell me how long you've been helping. So I'm going to go ahead and ask you to tell me how long you've been helping.

So I'm going to go ahead and ask you to tell me how long you've been helping. So I'm going to go ahead and ask you to tell me how long you've been helping. So I'm going to go ahead and ask you to tell me how long you've been helping. So I'm going to go ahead and ask you to tell me how long you've been helping. So I'm going to go ahead and ask you to tell me how long you've been helping. So I'm sorry, Kassandra, go ahead. No, go ahead. Kassandra, go ahead. Okay, so I'm Kassandra and I am grateful to be here, first of all, but I work for an organization called Career Rise and we are an intermediary here in Atlanta that really work with a number of organizations, resources, workforce providers, and employers all for the purpose of helping job seekers get access to training programs and employment that help them with their economic mobility. And so what I do is I oversee

operations at Westside Works, which is a Westside resource center that have a number of different phenomenal career support service resources and training programs. And Valerie and her team are one of those providers that support us with that training to place model. And so that AI program was implemented really because we know that technology is ever changing and we have to do all that we can to help our young people

and all job seekers maintain relevance to the current day market and the needs and the shifts in our workforce. And so this training program is the very first implementation at Westside Works for this year and it's focused on youth and engaging them in opportunities and pipeline opportunities to go into technology career pathways.

So while it's the first time that we're doing this, we have a youth program initiative that focuses on multiple different tracks. And there's about 80 youth that we've engaged through those various tracks, but I think we have just about a little under 25 that have started this particular program with Val. I just want to add, over time, we have trained approximately 2,000 people in various areas including cloud engineering, web, project management tools, Salesforce, ServiceNow, all these tools. Westside Works has also been in business for a very long, quite a while now and they've had,

I don't know, a couple of thousand go through various programs, but the artificial intelligence program being hot and heavy, new, employers said they needed a new one. And so this is what we're giving them. All right. So obviously, these programs cost money. Costandria, we've had a lot of cuts take place coming out of the federal government. And so how these cuts impacted this program and how much money do you need to fund this program and what is the plan of action to raise that? Yeah. So, I will say that, you know, we have had a lot of shifts, as you mentioned, in government

funding and just funding in general across all of the different pathways that's typical non-profits access funding, whether it's through philanthropic organizations, private funders and sponsors, because when the government shifts occurred, a lot of those funding sources really hunkered down to support their anchor partners and organizations. And so you didn't see a lot of fruitful offerings to new partnerships flourishing as of now. So we really have considered it particularly a slowdown in funding opportunities that we typically would anticipate to support operational operations for nonprofits, specifically our workforce efforts at Westside Works. So our partnership with Right Now Solutions and this particular AI program, Career-wise, we're a funders collaborative. And one of our larger funding sources is the Arthur and Blank Foundation,

which proudly supported the initial grant that supported with the implementation of this program. However, really helping this program see its way through to the end really requires multiple diverse funding sources to really support to fill in those gaps. So we currently, Val can share a little bit more about what this particular gap is for this particular program, but across all of our program pathways, we're seeing about a million dollars in a funding gap. One of our largest funding opportunities that was gonna be through a government's particular program

was about a $1.2 million gift that we were hoping to receive and that funding was rescinded, just it was offered and then it was rescinded. So we are quickly putting our boots on the ground and hoping to hunker down with getting support and leveraging other resources to continue these programs that we're offering to youth

and all of the job seekers across metro Atlanta. So Valerie, how are you reaching out to the public for them to support this funding shortfall? So we have some employer partners that we have talked to. We have individual funders, as she mentioned. We have a shortfall. So essentially, these programs are free to the participants. We do not want to charge the people in the community. We agree that these programs would be free to the participants, but this particular program is about $8,000 per person to have this expertise and give them everything they need, the tools,

the access to the tools they need to learn, their certification, and so forth. Also, I want to mention as a part of this program, it's a holistic program. We think about this from a family perspective. So we also have programs for parents. We mentioned this is for 18 to 24, but there are adults that are trying to help their children decide where they want to go in their career. They got us to this point.

So we have programs for parents that also cost money. We're doing things with the parents like helping them not on the level of becoming AI consultants, but rather how do they utilize AI in their everyday life? How do they utilize AI to create healthy recipes for their family? How do they use AI to send emails to the superintendent or the principal if their child needs help at school to make sure that they're heard in the school system if they have younger children? And bringing us to the younger children, we have pop-up programs for them around career discovery. Like, what does it take to be a civil engineer? What does it take to be a technologist?

What does it take to be a media company? What does it take to have those careers they may not think of? So this program is not just for artificial intelligence in this cohort. We talk about this one the most because it is actually the most expensive one to run. It's the most comprehensive. But we didn't forget about the younger students that may be in high school trying to figure out what their next step is. Nor do we forget about the parents that we need to help them decide how they can help their kids and giving them the support systems that they need. How do they have cyber security in their home. Different programs like that. All in all these programs cost three hundred and twenty seven

thousand dollars to run. We have garnered one hundred thousand dollars already. So we started with some funding. We mentioned Westside Works already had a program and they work with several vendors. Right Now Solutions is one of them. Right Now Solutions offers the programs that I just mentioned, but they have other programs that they run too. So the Arthur Blanks Foundation has started us on our way last year. We planned this last year, we started last year, we kind of knew we would be coming into this funding this year. We anticipated the funding this year. But unfortunately, after planning and after all of the things we did, that funding, like she said, was rescinded in May. We actually got, most people got their letters May 9th that the funding was going to be rescinded.

Most people got their letters midnight that the funding was gonna be rescinded. So we had to figure out other ways. And so we're asking people, hey, it costs $8,000 per student. Can you change a life? Can you do $8,000 to change a life? One scholarship is 8,000. And then we have sponsorship opportunities

where if you can do five scholarships, we will list you as a sponsor as helping. So the community can see your company actually making that huge impact, but individuals can make that huge impact too. So we're reaching out to our employer partners, we're reaching out to our corporations, we're reaching out to individuals

to see how they would like to help change a life. So if a person out there wants to help, where do they go? So we have a donation page. Go. No, we definitely have a donation page. Thank you, Valerie. On our Career Rise site, you can visit www.careerriseatlanta.org, donate now today. And we also have a specific donation site

that we can share with you and post on our social, we have it posted on our social media pages as well. What is the site? So careerriseatlanta.org is our website and there's a link there to the donation button. Yes, there's a link on our website to the button. And if you would like, if you are, what would you need? So it's CareerWise Atlanta, one second, hold on one second, one second. You said CareerWiseAtlanta.org? Yes, CareerWiseAtlanta.org.

And there's a place on our, Okay, hold on one second. A place that says Donates. And also we have partnered with them. Hold on one second. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on one second. Okay.

Control room, can y'all pull that website up? Control room, can y'all pull that website up please? Okay, cause I wanna be, so folks can actually see it. So careerwiseatlanta.org. Yes, that is careerwiseatlanta.org. Yes, that is correct, right? Yes, and Atlanta is spelled all the way out. So, career, C-A-R-E-E-R-R-I-S-E-A-T-L-A-N-T-A.org. All right, so folks, this is the page.

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We really appreciate the time you gave us here and appreciate the opportunity. Thank you so much, Roland. Yes. Folks, we'll be right back. Roland Martin on filtered on the Black Star Network. This week on A Balanced Life with Dr. Jackie, we're talking faith, family, fatherhood

and the pathway to reentry. Most of us in some way, shape, form, or fashion have had someone in our lives, whether it was a grandfather, a father, an uncle, a brother, or a cousin, who has been incarcerated or justice impacted. What does that look like in rebuilding family and relationships? What does it look like for us to be able to have substantive conversations come to the table, love on each other, while at the same time get it all out in the open so that we can begin a new journey together. You know the last thing you want is in the midst of trying to

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But if you are a Latino for Trump, I literally don't care what happens to you. I'm just going to go ahead and say it. I don't... sorry. Remember the viral video and brother was like, it's above me now. That's really the position that I'm taking. I have zero zero compassion, zero concern, zero empathy for anybody who was a Latino for Trump supporter and Yoas now in trouble.

Here's what I mean. Have y'all seen this story of Cuban activist Hector Luis Valdez Cocho? He founded Latinos for Trump and he rallied voters for Trump in Florida. His ass is now sitting in the ICE detention facility and likely is going to get deported back to Cuba. Now Florida Senator Elena Garcia, also Latinos for Trump, blasting inhumane and wrong and this is not fair. Rebecca, all I have for them are thoughts and prayers. Thoughts, prayers, salutations. I mean you hate to see it but not really. I mean, like, what are we doing here? I, you know, this is so bizarre for people to think, Oh, it's gonna be everybody else but me. They supported a strong man. And

now they're understanding what is a strong man and it's not Hector. I just, I, I'm Joe, I, I can't, I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm trying to right now be Christ-like. Oh, but I'm not like Jesus wasn't petty. Didn't Jesus turn some behind at the church? I hashtag, hashtag we tried to tell you, Joe. I, Joe, I've got nothing for him. I just don't. Sorry. Here's, here's, here's where I split it up. I'm still a Christian guy and try to be Christlike. I come up short all the time and I'll tell people when I do.

And that being said, do I have some compassion for the families of people, the families that are connected to stupid people that make stupid decisions? Yeah, on some level. That being said, that doesn't mean that I get to save you from every consequence, right? You know, I really got free.

Let's talk about being free and what freedom really means. Freedom really means that you can't always save people from their stupidity. That's what that means. So listen, I'm gonna try to help. You know, I'm assuming people are already, you know, getting calls about, you know, people in different situations or whatever else, even though I'm not really are already getting calls about people in different situations or whatever else, even though I'm not really an immigration guy.

But on some level, in my world, we have to prioritize, not only talking about the legal world, just in social circles or whatever else, you have to prioritize people that did what they could to help themselves. People make mistakes all the time. But this right here is walking into the street when you know that a car is coming, and you think that somehow you're gonna evade it, like you're gonna walk through it or something, like this is Ghost, you're the Ghost Whisperer or something.

No, this was going to happen. You could see that this was going to happen. And so therefore what that means is that in the prioritization of my responsibilities and my priorities, I don't trip as much as I would. Now, I still am concerned about some of the larger constitutional implications, doing things without due process, et cetera,

and we'll be there on that front. That being said, there's 24 hours in a day. I need about eight of it to sleep, and I'm going to. And I'm not as sympathetic as I could be for those that saw something coming or knew or should have known, as we say in the law, and still voted for him anyway. And, hey, that's where I need help. Pray for me. I wanna associate myself with Joe.

Joe, you speak for me. I struggle here, I want to be empathetic and I am, but they made a huge mistake. I'm really putting them in. No, no, no, no. I just want y'all to know this is my position with Hector. You just can't always keep it one way. I'm just letting y'all know.

I ain't, matter of fact, if I could get my eye mask, this is me with Hector. If my two phones were ringing and Hector was calling, it would be able to not disturb. Go ahead, Joey. A lot of times the big economic forces we hear about on the news show up in our lives in small ways. Three or four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding, but the price has gone up. So now I only buy one.

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subscribe to Lava for good plus on Apple podcast So go ahead I There's some Haitians in Florida Who made a bad choice as well. And we see what's happening to them. There are some people who felt like we're different from African-Americans and then, you know, whatever. And they, they, they went a different way.

Everybody after round and they're going to find out. And while I certainly am going to help where I can, I'm going to start with African Americans first, with, I just have to because resources are limited. Resources are limited and like Joe, like Rebecca, I've got a focus where my energies are both respected and welcomed and deserved. But anything that might spill out to the rest of us,

we have to prioritize that. So to the extent that's true, absolutely. Let me just say to all protesters, no matter where you are, and I know this is controversial, but your goal is to convince Americans to be with you. Fly the American flag at your protest. Don't fly the Mexican flag.

Make sure that you are, unfortunately you're gonna have to look at what we did. Oh hell no, no, no, no, damn that, damn that, damn that Joy. Oh, no, no, damn that, damn that, damn that, Joy. No, hell no, Joy. If them punk asses flew the Confederate flag and the Trump flag on January 6th, hell, fly your Mexican flag, fly your Venezuelan flag, fly your Costa Rican flag, damn them.

No, no, I have no interest in appeasing these punk asses. If you are Haitian, fly your Haitian flag. If you are from Bermuda, fly your Bermudan flag. If you are from Sudan, if you are from Chad, if you are from the Congo, if you are from Sierra Leone, you from any of these countries fly your flag. Cause guess what? Them goddamn Irish folks show fly they flag. We don't say shit on St. Patrick's Day.

No, hell no. I'm not appeasing these racist. No, I ain't appeasing these damn racist. I don't care. I ain't appeasing. damn racists. I don't care. I ain't appeasing, listen, they don't even like the Puerto Rican. They don't even like, see, no, no, no, see, see y'all talking about optics.

They don't give a damn. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. Every, every protester, every protester could be dripped in American hat, shirt, T-shirt, underwear, socks, shoes, jeans, and they would still deport they ass. That don't mean a damn, listen,

these fools are sitting back, no, no, no, let me tell you something right now. You can't convince them. See, Joy, that's what I'm trying to get you, this say damn respectability politics. You cannot convince them because they don't care. They are sending back Afghans who helped us win in Afghanistan.

They are sending, they don't care. That's what we gotta understand. Donald Trump and MAGA doesn't care. They don't care. You're not trying to convince Trump and MAGA. No. Okay, well who are you trying to convince? You're trying to convince-

They are rain monsters. Of Americans who they can't support these- Joy, they rated an elementary school graduation. They rated an elementary school graduation. Guess what they are. They are ready monsters. They are, but not, but we want Americans, some of whom are Democrats, some of whom are

moderates who don't support much of the way that these are being carried out, but who support the sentiment. They believe that you are, if you are here illegally, you should not be here. I was just in a studio on Monday and someone was telling me this, who supports the archaos, who supports immigrants, but who feels like they shouldn't be here. Guys, this is a real sentiment. We gotta stop believing that everyone feels the way that we do.

They don't. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let me be real clear. I understand sentiment. No, I understand sentiment. I understand sentiment. I'm real clear where, listen, I got a whole book on this. It's called White Fear. I understand sentiment.

Okay, so this ain't got a damn thing to do with the sentiment. What I'm trying to explain to you is, I don't care what, if every single person in Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Philadelphia, what protests are taking place. If every single one of them was waving an American flag, if they were sitting singing, God bless America and America the beautiful and the star spangled banner.

Do you know what the MAGA Republicans gonna say? Send their asses back. You're right. I'm not talking about that. That's what they're gonna say. So I'm not tripping. So I'm not tripping. And our family members who are looking at them and saying, you know what, I really hate what

I'm seeing, but we want to help them remove the but by making sure we are bringing people along with us and that we are saying what's happening here is inhumane and this is wrong. And no matter how you feel about whether people should enjoy it, don't matter. Joy, joy, they fired, they firing bullets. They're fun. Joy, they're firing rubber bullets at journalists. They don't give a shit. They don't care. I'm telling you right. These people never come to this matter. It's well guess what? Okay, well, well, well, hold on. Hold on. Okay. So what you're saying is moderates are going, you know what, I would be on the same page with you

if only they weren't flying those Mexican flags. Hell no, they ain't saying that. No, but I do think what it says is that you wanna be here, and so how do we create an image? This is a TV show. We've said that a couple of times. You have got to create a TV show that appeals to the people watching and the audience.

And if you don't believe that, then keep doing what you're doing. But I think that they're going to have to not believe what we did. We did the Rice Movement, what we did. Otherwise, you have to be strategic, and you have to know your audience.. What we did in the rice movement, what we did otherwise, you have to be strategic and you have to know your audience. And what we're trying to do.

So no, no, no, no, no, we know the audience. We- We're differently in the midterms. Okay, so I'm confused. Well, this is where I'm confused then, Rebecca, because these same folk go to Mexican restaurants. These same folk love them some salsa

when they get chip salsa and guacamole when they go to restaurants. These same folk love dancing the salsa music. These same folk love them some Gloria Estefan. They love, see again, see the point I'm making here is you, there is nothing that you can do. You cannot, you cannot put a suit on, put a tie on, you can't be quiet, you can't be, it doesn't matter. Where we are right now, these white folks are saying, we want all y'all gone. I have played that clip from the Under Shepard.

When the Matt Damon character says, when Joe Pesci said, we Italians got this, the Jews got this, the black folks, he didn't say black, he said the N word. They got this, the Irish got the homeland. He said, what do you people have? And Matt Damon said, we got the United States of America. The rest of you are just visiting. That's just, so you can't, there's nothing

you can't do. Go ahead. Go ahead. So I'm listening to Joy's argument and yes, Joy, I saw those talking points too. So tonight I'm in Montgomery, Alabama. I'm not too far, you know, it's less than an hour away where the Pettus Bridge is. If John Lewis had the flag draped around him, rather than his church clothes and his church hard bottom shoes going across that bridge, the outcome would have been the same. The dog still would have been sick. Like, would have got it. Would have got his ass whooped. Would have got his ass whooped. It would have wiped the blood in the American flag.

would have got his ass whooped, would have got his ass whooped, it would have wiped the blood in the American flag. Well, one thing that was interesting is that when we saw the fights and we saw Bullo Connors sick the dogs across Alabama, one thing that we noticed is that when it played on the nightly news, it was an effort to appeal to those white folks in the North. So they really understood

that this is America. This is what's happening in America. Now, where I disagree with you, Joy, here is that it's not the Democrats or the moderates that I think this has to play out for as we go into the 2026 elections. But it's for those who opted not to vote. It's for those who decided they weren't gonna be a part of the political process in 2024. So as they're seeing these American cities, they're seeing that the National Guard

against the will of the governor is being called up by the president and it's taking over American streets. Those are the types of folks that we need to get activated and for them to say, you know what, this is not okay. I'm actually going to use my voice here and I'm going to register my vote. I'm actually going to vote here. It's not the moderate Democrats because if you are a moderate Democrat and you're watching this and you go into the 2026 election cycle saying, you know, they, Democrat, Democratic Party really hasn't convinced me that there's

something wrong that's going on. Then that's, that's a whole different thing. But for those who have opted to, to not vote, not be a part of the electoral political process, it's those people that think this is going to play out towards. And it's those people who I think are going to vote against the current regime in 2026. Joe, you want to weigh in? Yeah, I mean, I'll briefly say to kind of sum it all up, I think you do have to leave, if you can, an olive branch as it pertains to the potential for convincing some people, whether it's the moderates and Democrats,

whether it's the people that aren't voting, you really have to still make that presentation, even though we have reason, it would seem, for us to be pessimistic about that, because I think that if people vote the way that they're supposed to, and that's who I'd lean toward, people that aren't voting, these elections won't be close. And so we really have to do that the best way we can.

Joy, Joy, so here's the thing for me. It's a whole bunch of these Latinos down in South Texas along the border flying their Mexican flags, but they standing with Trump. So again, and I've seen the arguments. Look at them. Look at them. How dare they fly their flags. The reason I take the issue with this is because in this country, that's literally how white folks have been. You don't like it, go back to where you came from. Well, for us, that was the United States. That's how they operate. But don't say white folks don't never take their ass back to Germany or Europe. So again, I get the whole, I get what people say. I just wish they would just

fly the American flag. I guarantee you right now, if they all flew the American flag, them same folk, they're not going to change their sentiment. They're not. They're going to find some other damn excuse. Look at how they're dressed. Oh my God, look how loud they are. Oh my goodness, why must they block traffic? They just going to skip to the next thing. This is just one in the litany of things that they want to whine and complain about. Go ahead.

You're probably right. We're talking about everything that you can do to make sure that when the narrative is being created, you are making the other side look worse than you are. And I think Donald Trump is doing a great job at that. There's going to have to be more. Guys, look at your polling. The American people are not where we think they are on it. I hope it changes. I hope that if you do care about this issue, that you are calling in to your member of Congress, really that's the only thing that matters.

It's actually not what we see on TV and not what we see on the streets. You actually have to call in if you care about these issues, don't like what you see, you gotta hit up your White House switchboard, have to hit up your member of Congress switchboard. They have to believe this is going to cost them something. You have to be at the town halls, et cetera. That's the only thing that matters. That said, if you are a protester, I do think you have to be careful and strategic about the way you are being presented. And that is especially true.

I'm glad that Rebecca brought up Bloody Sunday. One of the reasons we were successful is that America saw what happened there and they responded because it was so terrible. So part of that, and we saw protesters who were nonviolent who were attacked, that was strategic in and of itself. So you know, Juan Luther King and everyone there, they were strategic.

These protesters, I encouraged them to be strategic as well. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, but there is a difference between, there's a huge difference between folk trying to get the right to vote and dressing up, being presentable, being nice, and you dealing with Jim Crow folk in the South. There's a difference between that and then,

you a parent, and you at an elementary school graduation and ICE rolls in and, showing no IDs, roll up to school saying, oh, the parents have given us permission to do a wellness check on their children. And the parents have given us permission to take their kids out of school, straight as lying to the principal. The principal won't let them in. Then what happens is, they then ice people say,

yeah, they with us, but they not really ice agents. Right. So what's going on here? When these folks- but they're not really ICE agents. Right. So what's going on here? When these folks, when there are people, no, no, hold up, when there are people who are following the legal process and are showing up for appointments and are being snatched on their way to their appointment. They're following the legal process. When you got racists like Christopher Ruffo who literally, who literally, literally, literally posted this on his sub stack.

This is what a flag don't mean nothing. Christopher Rufo posted this. I read this yesterday and I need to read it right now. This is the same white conservative who led the whole CRT, an anti-woke, an anti-DEI. He said, at the same time as we saw demonstrated in Portland, Oregon, during the George Floyd riots, the agencies should dispatch unmarked vans to follow key agitators and, quote, this is what he says, and snatch them from the streets, bring all the panel up, and snatch them from the streets

while the media are not looking. Says the most effective riot control is to take movement leaders off the field. A lot of times the big economic forces we hear about on the news show up in our lives in small ways. Three or four days a week I would buy two cups of banana pudding, but the price has gone up so now I only buy one. The demand curve in action and that's just one of the things we'll be covering on everybody's

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It's really, 5, and 6 on June 4th. Add free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple podcasts. and never let them run wild through the grocery store. So when you say you'd never let them get into a car without you there, no, it can happen. One in four hot car deaths happen when a kid gets into an unlocked car and can't get out. Never happens. Before you leave the car, always stop, look, lock. Brought to you by NHTSA and the ad council. reasonable means to care for themselves. Music stars Marcus King, John Osborne from Brothers Osborne. We have this misunderstanding of what this quote unquote drug ban.

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a strong precedent for the rest of the president's term. Rebecca, that is what one of their so-called thought leaders literally rolled out. This ain't got nothing to do with flags. These people, they are calling to snatch people off the streets unmarked. Trump is saying that he is going to send European citizens to Guantanamo Bay and will not tell their home country where they're located. Go ahead. So Roland, I'm in the movement space. I lead a national organization. A lot of the conversation that especially other leaders of color are having is about personal safety, safety of our staff.

I personally know movement leaders, whether it's state leaders, local leaders, or national leaders who now have security detail. This is a very real conversation, even as people are going in and out of the country discussing, okay, do I take my laptop? Do I take my cell phone? Do I disable the biometrics on my devices just in case that when I'm crossing back into the United States,

I'm detained and they're searching through my personal or work items. This is a very real conversation. This is the conversation even across philanthropy. On the progressive side, you're talking about what does it look like to provide rapid support, security support, emergency support for those who are leading during this time. And so, you know, it's very real. It's very serious. This is also what we keep using words like authoritarianism and totalitarianism and fascism.

So another way of telling the audience, if we are a quote unquote nation of laws, if we have a constitution, if we're saying that people have the right to vote the way they want to vote, they have the right to speak out the way they want to speak out, they have the right to protest, they have all these first amendment rights, which is the ultimate set of rights when we talk about First Amendment rights in this country. This president, this regime is saying that they're going to disregard it. They're saying it's not important. They're saying that they're above the law.

And then last year, the Supreme Court said, well, the president could do whatever he wants to do because he is the president. So these are very troubling times. This isn't just something that I'm even saying in abstract. This is something having to live it out, having to talk to my staff and to make sure that they're not scared, make sure that their families aren't scared. So earlier when I was saying it's time for white people to use their white bodies and their white privilege.

This is what I'm talking about. Because if you are black, if you are brown, if you are perceived as an other in this country, they would deport you too. That's not act like black Americans can't quote unquote be deported in this regime. That's next. That's what's happening. The whole point of this is to silence people, to scare them, um, to stun them. So then he could spend the next three years doing things that will permanently impact and permanently harm this country.

Final comment from Joe, final comment from joy. Then we are done. We just have to make sense of, make sense of everything that's going on. And if it doesn't make sense, we have to make sense of what it is that we do. We do have to be strategic about taking care of ourselves, about taking care of each other. A lot of these things have come to many of our minds, A lot of these things have come to many of our minds. Everything from concealed carry permits on down. I mean, it is really on right now, the things that are going on and the things that we're thinking about.

And so, and at the same time, I think there is a way to do both. Yeah, we're in a different place as it pertains to what the government seems to want to do as it pertains to what the president seems to want to do. At the same time, I say that there is convincing to be had, convincing to be made, so that people that are inclined to vote the right way still need to be brought out to vote. We still need to be very, very aggressive about creating opportunities to vote, about understanding the moving targets

and that keep getting made and the barriers that keep getting removed. We need people and entertainment with big money to help us with voter things. If it has to do with making sure people can get to the polls, that they have voter IDs, that's what it is that they need to have. We can no longer not vote, not participate, because

of the barriers that are put up when we have the numbers. So whatever gets us there, that's what I support. Whatever gets us there, participating, belonging, and watching, watching out for each other so that when something's amiss, we know right away and therefore we can respond. Joy. I agree completely with what Joanne and Rebecca have said really. This is a part, this is a time of strategy. If you are a leader of an organization, as hitting the dead clear goals and you need to be able to say no to some things because that's not your lane and you need to say yes to some things so that you can focus. You need to be able to say no to some things because that's not your lane. And you need to say yes to some things

so that you can focus. You need to be focused on what you need to do in order to convince the decision makers that you need to convince. Whatever that looks like for you, you need to be able to do that and to zero in and focus on that. We are getting way too distracted with every comment

and every issue that comes about, it is not important. Clear out the shiny red objects, sparkly objects, and focus on that which you can change and who you need in order to achieve that change. That's our only goal now. The feeling part, if you are a leader, the feeling part is what should drive you to be more strategic. So that's for our civil rights leaders, that's for our women's rights leaders,

that's for the Democratic Party, and any Republicans who wanna be with us as well. If you don't like what you are seeing, this is the time to be strategic, not just be impassioned, but to be smart. That's where we are going right now because the stakes not are for all of us are high, but there are certain people the stakes are the highest for.

And if we care about them, we have to be smart. Folks, what we are facing are thugs. That's what they are. They are thugs. If people are responding to thugs in the way they feel is best to get their attention, that is what is happening. So let me thank Joel.

Let me thank Joel. Let me thank Rebecca. I certainly appreciate it. Thank you so very much, folks. That is it for me. We broadcast live from Memphis, Tennessee tomorrow. So look forward to being there. I'm speaking at noon tomorrow.

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y'all can pull the photo up and And so again, every June 10th, so yesterday, of course, we cut the short show, cut the short, cut the show short. We played the David O'Yellow interview in the second half of the show, because I had a meeting to go to. So wanted to give them a shout out today. Look at them going out, look at all cute and everything

as they go and hang out. So I'll be in Houston this weekend for Father's Day. And so be celebrating there. So 58 years of marriage yesterday on June 10th. All right, did y'all get it now? Y'all have it? Let me know y'all got it. So y'all can flash the photo.

Again, so tomorrow, let me tell you about Memphis. Tomorrow I'm gonna be speaking. It is actually a Juneteenth celebration taking place. Tomorrow Juneteenth Memphis taking place in the Grand Ballroom of Holiday Inn, University of Memphis, their Juneteenth freedom lunch. So I look forward to doing that. And so we'll do so and so I show the photo. So there you go. That's been hanging out yesterday,

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