#RolandMartinUnfiltered - Trump/MAGA attack rule of law, Student loan chaos, Harvard v Trump,"Protect White Americans" trashed

Episode Date: April 23, 2025

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I told y'all Donald Trump does not give a damn about black people. In Louisiana, a U.S. attorney tells a judge they want to review the case of a deputy sheriff who beat a black woman. He was convicted. The judge said, hell no. We're proceeding with sentencing. You have time to review. We're going to talk to y'all about that with Megan Cundiff reporter who posted this on the social earlier today. Also, a judge tells the Trump folks they need to reinstate 123 international students who had their visa snatched by these Trump thugs. Also, they are forcing 5 million students to begin to repay student loans folks they may even garnish your wages and the live we go live to atlanta in our second hour uh for the target boycott town

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You know he's fresh, he's real The best you know, he's rolling Martel Martel Alright folks, I have consistently said that Donald Trump and his thuggish MAGA administration wants to consistently attack black people. They do not care about these thug cops who also beat and harm people. And I was on social media earlier today, and Megan Cundiff, a legal affairs reporter,

posted a tweet about a story that was a conviction of beating a black woman that sheriff is going to get sentenced next month well the u.s attorney goes before the judge and says they want a delay in the case because he wants to review this case and the judge is like i'm sorry you got time between now and the sentencing. So no, there will not be any delay in the sentencing. Megan Cundiff joins us right now. Megan, glad to have you on the show. This is crazy to me. We've seen this. Trump, when he got inaugurated, he issued a pardon for a cop who they chased down and they shot a black man in Washington, D.C. We've seen other stories where they are pulling out of settlements in Alabama,

a case in Louisiana regarding petrochemical companies. But when it comes to cops, they literally are letting cops get away with heinous crimes because Trump does not believe that they need to be adjudicated. Walk us through what happened with this item you posted today. And I think it's with that background that you provided that people are a little worried, on the victim side at least, about what's going to happen with the U.S. attorney wanting to review this case. Because of course, the prosecutors have so far taken an aggressive stance here against this.

They've opposed the motion for acquittal, directed verdict from his attorneys. But of course, that was before Trump appointed this new guy in. And the first indication we got that he might have a different view on the case occurred when they asked for this long three-month delay in a sentencing. And this is a case that only took three days to actually try before a jury. But for some reason, they said, we don't want to do the sentencing in May. Can we do it in August now? And of course, the defense wanted to go along with that because they're hoping that this new U.S. attorney somehow persuades the judge to throw the case out. But they're in a bit of a bind because the prosecutors already have a conviction. So the prosecutors might be in a place where they're trying to almost undermine their own conviction, but the conviction still stands and it's really up to the judge

whether to throw it out. And he's already said no. And again, so give us the background of this case. What happened? So this was outside of a WinCo. I think those are pretty specific to the West Coast, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Oregon. But they're grocery stores, and a deputy responded to a robbery call there. And a couple, the woman who is the victim here and then a man she was with, supposedly matched the description of the robbers. And the prosecutors in their case against this deputy say that the two deputies did everything right with the man, that they were able to de-escalate the situation and take him into custody without incident.

But the woman was filming this and telling them that she was filming it. She was even telling them that, hey, I've got this on YouTube Live. And the prosecutor's theory is that this one deputy really didn't like that, and he wanted to retaliate against this woman. It just made him mad that he was being filmed like that. And he ended up taking her to the ground and pepper spraying her. And of course, this is all on body camera footage. And the police said that, or the prosecutor said that he had no justifiable means to do that, that that was excessive force. And that was the case they presented to the jury. And the jury said, yes, that's excessive.

Okay. So deputy sheriff, excessive force against this black woman, does nothing wrong. They go to trial, last three days. Jury says, you're right, he gets convicted. They sent a sentencing. Now Trump's U.S. attorney wants to come in and say, hey, we want to review the case. And, okay, it's already done. It's already done. And this judge said, what? Like, what the hell? That's three weeks, four weeks before sentencing. You got tired of reviewing in a month. Yeah. Yeah. The judge was really saying, why would you need more

time than the time that you already have right now to review this? And it was interesting because I went there expecting the new U.S. attorney to be there wanting to talk about this case, but he just left this to the line prosecutors who were there trying to explain why they should delay a sentencing for three months. And it was an awkward dance. They were dancing in front of the judge for sure, and he really didn't buy it. I mean, it was six minutes of a kind of back and forth, and then he just said, motion denied, sentencing proceeds on the 19th. So it's a big question of what are they going to recommend for this guy? The maximum is 10 years in prison, and it's unlikely under any circumstances that he would face the maximum. But you would expect prosecutors to recommend some kind of

prison sentence. But I think people are worried, people who support this prosecution are worried that it's going to be undermined from the inside now. Well, first of all, I mean, look, we see what happened and where three prosecutors today in New York City resigned in the case dealing with Mayor Eric Adams, where they issued a scathing letter where the Trump administration was trying to pressure them to, frankly, lie about not being pressured, and they quit. And what we are seeing, we're seeing where Trump's U.S. attorneys are coming into office and literally undoing cases, crapping on the work of prosecutors who say, no, we got us a conviction. That's our job. And when it involves cops, especially involving cops, Trump wants to let those cops off scot-free. Yeah, I think a lot of people see it that way. And what some people are concerned about is they indicate in court yesterday that Bill, the new U.S. attorney in L.A.,

this is not the only case that he's reviewing right now. So I've asked the U.S. attorney's office, public information office, if they can say what other cases are being reviewed here. And I've yet to hear back. So we'll see. Well, and the reason the folks with the victim had better be concerned because in January, literally, when Trump let the January 6th domestic terrorists free via pardons, he also pardoned two cops in Washington, D.C., who were convicted in the 2020 death of Karan Hilton Brown. These cops were found guilty of second degree murder, conspiracy to obstruct, obstruction of justice in connection with the death. And what was crazy to me is that Washington, D.C. did not like the fact that these cops are being prosecuted. They felt they could have handled this with an administrative hearing. And the U.S. Attorney's Office is like, no, this should actually go to trial. They were convicted. Trump pardoned those cops for that.

And so I'm telling you right now, I wouldn't be shocked if this judge, no matter what he sentences with, that Trump turns around and pardons this police abuser. Exactly. And I've heard from this police officer's camp that really is supporting him, that that's what they're going for, that they've gone to Washington, D.C. And I'm a little amazed at their use of the word lawfare and their insistence that this must

have been a political prosecution, because just having reported on federal cases in Los Angeles for a few years, the unit that prosecuted this police officer, it's the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office. And they're supposed to be nonpartisan. But really, when you look at the cases that they've done, at least the cases that I've covered, most of the people they've prosecuted that I've written about have been Democrats. So the idea that they're somehow just these neoliberals that are just going on anti-the-Trump agenda, it's not true at all. But then you have some people, on the other hand, who actually appear to be playing politics with this case. They got somebody in office that appears to not like what the jury did, and they're hoping that they can get him to try to bend the case to their will.

I mean, it seems like they're the ones trying to play politics with it. But unfortunately, Megan, it is the anti-Trump agenda. Trump is anti-civil rights. And I guarantee, and so Trump does not believe in civil rights. He said during the campaign he wanted to give cops 100% immunity. We tried to warn people about this and that the problem here is that this was not a state prosecution. So I got to ask you this. Now, was this officer, was he tried by the state or did the state step away and allow the feds to move forward? So that's the case.

So the only way Trump can intervene if it's a federal case, was there ever a state prosecution? The state prosecutors in LA did look at the case. They did not prosecute him. That's why it was federal. And that's actually something that his supporters are pointing at. And it's not the worst point, because George Gascon, who was in L.A. and didn't prosecute him, does like to prosecute cops. I mean, the idea that Gascon would not prosecute someone who deserved to be prosecuted, they were really pointing to, if Gascon wouldn't take this case, the prosecutors must have been really out of line to take this case. But I think there's a whole other side to that.

And in the end, from what I've seen from their defense, it's everything that was presented to a jury. And the overall defense is that he was following policy and that they all do this in these situations. So I think it's a little bit alarming that 12 people in L.A. County or the federal jury area around L.A. heard all this and saw the video of her being pepper sprayed and still said, this is out of line. We shouldn't have officers doing it. And the police response to this is not to take it to heart and wonder about this. Maybe some are, but overall, the response is that they're being unfairly treated. Yeah, because that does tell exactly with what Trump thinks.

He believes, and a lot of these conservatives believe, and these cops believe, that they should be able to do whatever they want. We know for a fact the last time the twice-impeached, criminally convicted felon-in-chief sat in the Oval Office, Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr specifically said they were pulling back from consent decrees. They all decried the morale of cops. Then you've got so-called progressives, liberals like Bill Maher, who praised Trump restoring the morale of cops. And let's just be honest, police in this country cannot stand oversight, and they can't stand accountability. And anytime a single cop is held responsible, their response is like some petulant child. And they respond with, we're not gonna police,

we're not gonna answer calls., my God, this is unfair. I mean, you rarely ever see a cop say, you know what, that asshole should no longer be on the force. No, they are protective of each other because they say, it might be us one day and we want the same protection. Yeah, one of the deputies, the sheriff's deputies who are supporting this guy, one of their ways of protesting this conviction, there's an annual relay. It's Baker to Vegas. It's a big marathon happens every year. It's the prosecutor's office is really big

into it. The police officers always form teams for it. Some of the deputies actually boycotted the relay as a way of protesting this, this conviction. I mean, it's just the thin blue line and the whole idea that being blue is somehow an ethnicity or something that they seem to latch onto. Well, I'm going to call it the thick blue line because we see this all around the country. The folks supporting the victim, how are they responding? What are they doing? Are they, you know, are they just hoping the judge do right? Are they, are they any public pressure? You know, what are they doing in this case? Yeah, I think they're hoping for a lenient sentence, but really it's a pardon that they need right now because the problem for them is their

guy came in after the conviction already happened. So, once there's a conviction, it's in the judge's hand. And he actually issued a ruling on Friday saying, no, the conviction stands. So maybe there's a chance he would give a lenient sentence, but the conviction will always be there. So I think they're hoping they can get Trump to issue a pardon on this. And it's interesting, because the police aren't completely uniform on this.

He has some vocal supporters. The former sheriff in L.A. County is one of them. But the current sheriff is—I think takes a little bit of a different tone. And so, it's not completely unified, but it's still—I think they're still clamoring for that pardon. So, we'll see. Well, let's, for folks who don't know, that former sheriff was the one who, I'll call him a thug, and then he lost, and then he tried to run for re-election. And did he switch parties? So explain what happened there, because

he had some serious problems. Yeah, he's a story all in himself. And as far as I know, at least through the years, Villanueva has been a Democrat. But he definitely embraces the fake news aspect of the MAGA agenda, for sure. But he's definitely been on the deputy side, Deputy Kirk's side, and he was in court for him. And there's even video after the verdict of them hugging in the hallway outside the courthouse. Yeah, but he was also the one, didn't he also launch an investigation into reporters who were reporting on some cases? Yes, yes. All sorts of that stuff. All sorts of that stuff. He's not a friend to the press, that's for sure. Well, I'm going to tell you right now, for the woman who was beaten here, I really think, and I'll be perfectly honest,

knowing how this is going to turn out, I think the solace they're going to have is that the guy was convicted. Whatever the judge sentences him, I would not be shocked, and I will put money on it, that within a week of this sentencing, it may be the next day, Trump is going to pardon this cop. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, we're going to find out in less than a month then, it seems like. So May 19th, and then they've got to file their papers too, saying in the weeks before, saying how much time they're gonna they're they're gonna ask for him so it'll be interesting to see the tone on that but roland i think you're i think you're predicting the future here we might be talking about this later on yeah and so unfortunately

we have to deal with this constantly um and where this man does not, but he does not believe that cops should be held accountable for anything. And he said that he wants 100% immunity. So as he said, they can do their jobs. And these cops know that they, with Donald Trump, they have a 100% license. And that's why people like Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh and these conservatives are calling for Trump to pardon the cop that killed George Floyd on the federal charges. They want him to pardon him on those

charges because they know that they have somebody in office who is going to use the pardon power to let cops go free. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think we're going to see a real life example play out here over the next few weeks here in L.A. So I'm so glad you're interested in the case. Well, you know, we've been covering these things. This is what we warn people about with Credit 2025. We warn people. And it's also why on social media I've been challenging all of these black MAGA folks by saying, oh, if y'all can't, y'all so-called claim that you support black people. It's amazing how they are eerily quiet on every single move that Donald Trump makes that's anti-black. And so they expose exactly who they are. So we'll keep looking forward to it, look forward to see what this judge does.

Yes, yes. Thank you so much for your time. Megan, I appreciate it. Thanks a lot. I want to bring in my panel right now, Dr. Mustafa Santaygo-Lee, former Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice with the EPA out of D.C., Teresa Lundy, Principal and Founder of TML Communications out of Philadelphia, also Eugene Craig, CEO, X Factor Media, Baltimore, Maryland.

Glad to have all three of you here. Eugene, I'll start with you. And I said it. Okay, we don't have Eugene. Let me know when Eugene is here. But look, I made it clear, Mustafa. Donald Trump does not give a damn about black people. He is anti-black.

His agenda is anti-black. His agenda is anti-black. And he is absolutely pro-cop. He doesn't care if these cops kill people, beat people, maim people. He is going to let them off. Yeah, I mean, you know, his policies speak to that. You know, he doesn't have any policies that are protective of our communities. He's actually been trying to erode many of the policies at the various agencies that could help us to be able to find justice. The individuals that he hires as a part of his staff, both at the White House and at these federal agencies, also have no record of ever being supportive of the needs that exist inside of our communities. And evidently, he doesn't also care about the facts that are out there, the studies that have

shown that, you know, on the conservative side, over 300,000 folks each year in our country end up dealing with this type of police violence. You know, we've got over 100,000 injuries that happen every year, and everybody knows the statistics around the fatal encounters. Like, I think in 2024, we had over 1,300 people, and we know that black folks are three times more likely to be the recipients of violence, of police, you know, misconduct, of false use of force. So whether it's the facts, the policy, or the individuals that he surrounds himself with, it shows very clearly that our lives don't seem to have the same value as others that he does try and protect and does try and uplift. Yeah, I mean, look, we've been covering this, and Teresa, from day one, I have said that Donald Trump wants to completely destroy the black civil rights and economic agenda.

That's what this is all about, pure and simple. He is showing exactly who he is. Teresa, you're on mute. Thank you. And it's unfortunate because the writing was on a wall when he was first elected in 2016. And yet, you know, folks decided they wanted to put him back in the office. And actually, instead of him taking four years to do a destruction, he's now doing it within under 100 days. And I think, you know, as we, you know, all try to figure out how to navigate, you know, Trump, his team, his policies,

I think, you know, the rule of law is really going to have to be our blueprint here on how we govern as a society, but also being very aware of the tactics that they're doing. We've seen what Trump administration has been doing in the justice system, where, you know, basically he's creating signals to law enforcement officers that, you know, if something goes down, we got your back. And it's unfortunate, because, as Mustafa said, it is affecting our communities and our neighborhoods. But I think there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Democrats just need to get aligned, not only in their communication, but in unification on strategies ahead. Well, I don't know what the light at the end of the tunnel is, because the reality is, Mustafa, unlike

in previous years, we cannot, we cannot look to, I'll dare say this here. even if I factor in Nixon Reagan both Bushes and to some degree this thugs first administration this will be the first time since the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division was created that we cannot, under any circumstance, look to the federal government for any help prosecuting rogue cops.

Oh, that's exactly right. And I've worked with folks at the Department of Justice and Civil Rights Division and in other divisions that are there, there is no longer, there never has been a safe harbor in relationship to the impacts that are happening inside of our communities. But now you have folks who are intentionally making sure that they are deconstructing any possibility of us finding justice or equity in relationship to how they move. So we as a community have to make sure that we are helping to keep ourselves protected. We have to be smart and strategic about where we find ourselves and how we move. And that's not saying that that is right. I mean, as American citizens, you should be able to do and say whatever the

Constitution allows. But we also have to understand the moment that we are living in. And this is a very dangerous and deadly situation that is lining up. For me, the North Star is actually the midterms. And that doesn't mean that anything is going to significantly change, but we can begin to balance out power. We can have folks on Capitol Hill who can pull people up and have hearings on issues and put pressure. So that is still a little ways off. So we have to make sure that we're doing everything that we can to keep ourselves safe and to make sure that we are truly living as a community. And unfortunately, once again, we have to carry additional weight that we shouldn't have to, but we understand the history of America. And we just got to make sure that we modify and adapt for the moment to the situations that we're dealing with. Well, Sir, the reason I think this is a lot different

is because you have an individual who is trying to undo convictions. It was different in the first time when they only launched one police patterns and practice investigation, which was a small police department. I think it was in Louisiana or Alabama. I can't remember which one of the two, or maybe it was in Mississippi. It was one of them three anti-black states. This is different. This is trying to stop and undo convictions. And then this is using the pardon power. So if they even are convicted

to allow them to go free, this is absolutely unprecedented. And again, you know, I was honestly talking about when I said the light at the end of the tunnel, I'm hoping that it will be the midterms where we start seeing change. But when we talk about the convictions, it is what yes is different. It's unseen. It's unheard of. You know, the signs were there early on when he was packing the court. But I do believe that, you know, if we have some of these judges that, you know, do not have the same frame of reference of how they are interpreting the law on these convictions, then I think—and some of these defense attorneys that are—that is going to hold them accountable, I don't think it'll be as serious.

I just think they are. The Trump administration is actually trying to see how much they can get away with. Oh, I mean, they've made it clear what they can get away with. Again, he holds the ultimate pardon if a cop is convicted. I mean, look, they don't care about lying prosecutors. They don't care. We have seen multiple prosecutors in New York City resign because of the Eric Adams case. They don't care. They want prosecutors. They want lying prosecutors to lie. They are forcing out prosecutors in Washington, D.C. They are forcing out prosecutors in Washington, D.C. They are forcing out prosecutors all across the country. If you believe in holding cops accountable, Trump's U.S. attorneys are going to likely run you away or fire you if you do not hold a line. This is official Trump policy.

We let cops do what they want to do. Yeah, it is a doctrine for them, right? They believe that this is a part of the new world order that they're trying to put in place. It also, you know, gives them that additional flexibility that they've been looking for. We've seen the dynamics around the military and them removing people. They are pushing people out. It's the same dynamic when it comes to other parts of law enforcement. Everybody's paid attention to the FBI,

some of the other law enforcement agencies, but they haven't been paying as much attention to some of these other dynamics that are playing out. This is just one example of trying to actually run the board, right, to make sure that you have power in all possible ways. And folks need to pay attention to it, but don't just pay attention to it. You've got to also speak out. You've also got to make sure, as we've said earlier, that you understand how important your vote is and make an informed decision about how you want to utilize that. The last thing that I'll say is that we've got to also make sure that people are paying attention to these state attorney generals and making sure that that is a part of their equation when they're deciding how they want to utilize their vote.

Because we've got to make sure that not only on the federal side that we have folks who are focused on justice and equity, but in the state and even on the local level and the county level, it's important to make sure that we have the right people who are there also, who are going to follow the letter of the law, but they're going to do it through a lens of understanding how important justice and equity is. Absolutely. All right. Going to a quick break. When we come back, we're going to talk about student loans. Folks, if you've got one, Trump administration wants you to pay up. They might even garnish your wages.

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nationalist rally that descended into deadly violence. You will not. White people are losing their damn lives. It's an angry pro-Trump mob storm to the U.S. Capitol. We're about to see the rise of what I call white minority resistance. We have seen white folks in this country who simply cannot tolerate black folks voting. I think what we're seeing is the inevitable result of violent denial. This is part of American history. Every time that people of color have made progress, whether real or symbolic, there has been what Carol Anderson at every university calls white rage as a backlash. This is the wrath of the Proud Boys and the Boogaloo Boys. America,

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The U.S. Supreme Court said no, and then he turned around, and then they figured out within the rules how they could wipe out more than $150, upwards of $200 billion of student loan debt. And then people were still bitching and moaning about how they wanted him to wipe out student loan debt relief when it was already clear it didn't happen. So maybe if a bunch of those same people had voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016,

then that would have happened because then she would have appointed three Supreme Court justices. But that's another story. So what then happens? Folks sit on their asses. They don't vote. Or some vote for MAGA. and guess what we now get? This from the clueless press secretary, Carolyn Leavitt, about student loans. The Trump administration has announced we will put an end to Joe Biden's illegal student loan bailout attempts.

No student loan has been referred to collections since March of 2020. That comes to an end. On May 5th, the Department of Education will resume involuntary collections for borrowers with defaulted federal student loans. The student loan portfolio controlled by the federal government is nearly $1.6 trillion, but fewer than four out of 10 borrowers are in repayment. This is unsustainable, unfair, and a huge liability for American taxpayers. Debt cannot be wiped away. It just ends up getting transferred to others. So why should Americans who didn't go to college or went to college and responsibly paid back their loans pay for the student loans of other Americans? The Trump administration will never force taxpayers to pay student loan

debts that don't belong to them. Student loan borrowers need clarity, and we're finally giving it to them. Borrowers will now be clearly expected to repay their loans, and those who default on their loan obligations will face involuntary collections. The government can and will collect defaulted federal student loan debt by withholding money from borrowers, tax refunds, federal pensions, and even their wages. America is $36 trillion in debt. We must get our fiscal house in order and restore common sense to our country. If you take out a loan, you have to pay it back. It's very simple.

Mm, really? Okay. Gotcha. Tell that when taxpayers used 25, Trump used $25 billion to give to farmers last time because of his dumb tariff decision. Roxanne Garza, Director of Policy at Ed Trust, joins us now from Washington, D.C. Roxanne, glad to have you here.

Elections have consequences. A lot of people were complaining about Biden, didn't do enough, didn't do enough. He was catching hail from all sorts of people, and they just ignored the almost $200 billion in student loan debt relief that actually took place. Well, guess what? Now people are realizing that Trump don't give a damn, and they're now going to have to deal with the possibility of their wages being garnished. Yeah, no, thank you. First of all, thank you so much for having me to talk about this issue. Yes, as we just now heard, that is the plan. So next month, for the first time in about five years, federal student loan borrowers will start to face the financial consequences of missed payments on their student

loans. So the people that we're talking about here are people that are potentially delinquent on their loans currently. So that means you've missed a payment, you missed up to three payments, so you can be delinquent for 90 days. After those 90 days, your loan is essentially flagged as delinquent. At that point, it can affect your credit score. And then, you know, once you're about nine months of no payment, then your loan goes into default. And that's when you can really see these very serious financial consequences, like she said, you know, wage garnishments, you know, tax credit, a garn said, you know, wage garnishments, you know, tax credit, a garnishment, Social Security, things that, you know, people really

rely on to make ends meet. Those are things that the government can start to garnish in order to, you know, essentially make a payment on that debt that you owe. I'm sure a lot of these people really wouldn't mind if Kamala Harris, the one who was sitting in the Oval Office. Well, I think the one point that is important to make here is that 2025 was going to, this was going to be the year that these consequences were going to be faced. I think the problem that you have right now is that or the thing that might be might have been different in another situation is that this is happening all while this administration has decimated the Department of Education by, you know, essentially cutting half of its staff,

making big cuts to the staff in the Federal Student Aid Office that is really charged with managing this process. And also, all while they are wanting to make changes, installing, you know, essentially applications for student loan repayment options that are more manageable, like the SAVE plan that would reduce payments for borrowers. So I think the real issue is that this is happening all while this administration is doing a lot of other things that are hurtful, that are causing chaos for student borrowers. So it's really creating a perfect storm of all of these things kind of coming to a head at the same time. And this is really the last thing that borrowers need when there's already a lot of

chaos, a lot of unanswered questions about what they should be doing, how they should be repaying their loans. I think this is the other thing to really take note is, you know, people want to make payments on their loans. They want the payment to be manageable, but they want to make payments, but they don't know how. Like, the process just isn't clear for people to start going down that path of finding, like, the right repayment plan for themselves and really starting to make those payments. So the idea that, you know, this administration is trying to bring clarity in this moment, if anything, there's a lot of chaos and confusion in this moment. And they're not going to give them any relief. They're going to be,

they're going to be, you know, hard asses on this. I mean, folks just might as well get used to it. Yeah, yeah, I think that's right. I don't think that we will necessarily see a lot of leniency or the administration potentially trying to find ways to make repayment easier. I think in previous administrations, you know, people understood that these financial consequences of default are very real for students and borrowers and their families at a time when we're seeing, you know, cost of living go up, housing, child care, all these different costs that are really stretching families thin. So that is why there was really this attempt to make repayment easier on families and trying to

create repayment plans that were more affordable, that could provide relief. That is not what we're unfortunately seeing right now out of this administration at a time when a lot of these flexibilities are coming up. So folks just might as well prepare themselves because they're going to come after the money. Yeah, I think that's true. I think what I would recommend is that if you do have student loans, if you haven't been making payments, you should contact your servicer. The Department of Education, you know, says that you can contact them to figure out what your next step is to make a payment. So, you know, I would make sure that I would contact the servicer. I would contact the Federal Student Aid Office and see what your options are. Make sure that you understand

what plan you're on, whether you can get on a more affordable plan in order to avoid delinquency or default. The problem is, I don't know that you will get your questions answered or your call answered. So I would say, you know, I would urge people that if you can't get through to somebody, then you really should make your voice heard with your member of Congress and really make them understand that, you know, you're trying your best. You're trying to get in touch with the agency. You're trying to make it right. But sometimes it's going to be really difficult, again, because of the staff cut.

So I think those are the big things for people to know right now. There aren't a lot of options. There's not a lot of clarity. So I would, you know, actively reach out again to the, to the department of education, to the extent that you can get through to your servicer or to your member of Congress. Crazy, crazy, crazy. Roxanne, we appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Thank you. You know what, Teresa? Again, elections have consequences. And there were so many people who were whining, complaining, moaning, oh, Biden's not doing enough. Well, what you going to do now?

Well, what most people are going to do is hopefully reach out to their student loan provider and try to get on a monthly payment schedule like I did. I think when the first announcement came out, obviously, we was all waiting for Biden's plan to get it across the finish line. But again, the roadblocks in the Supreme Court also halted that opportunity to alleviate so much payment debt from so many. But now, again, we're, you know, instead of being alleviated from all these student loan debt payments, we're now being forced to pay in full. And so, you know, you and your guest was totally right when it comes to, like, elections have consequences, and those consequences are, you know, meeting us exactly where we are in our home and in our everyday life. So when people are complaining about eggs, just remember, you know, you now have to pay a student loan debt that's three times the cost of what it is

to purchase eggs at this moment. Mustafa? I mean, it's just the continual foolishness of this administration. I mean, so you got people continual foolishness of this administration. I mean, so you got people who are in survival mode, right? There are so many people trying to keep the lights on, trying to put food on the table. They're literally just trying to survive. I had a few folks who I know who actually reached out to the Department of Education because they were trying to, you know, figure out what they could do and how they could, you know, rectify some situations. They just couldn't get anybody to answer the phone or, you know, they get transferred. So you've got that dynamic when you have the

hollowing out of these agencies and departments. And then you got, you know, the impacts that are going on. Like they said, wage garnishments, you got tax refund offsets. That means that you think you're getting a tax return and you're not going to get it because they're going to use it toward whatever the balance is. And then the other thing that follows people for a long time is the negative credit report stuff. So, you know, somebody's got to do something differently. Here's the last thing, too. You know how Trump always talks about how he loves, you know, these Norwegian countries,

whether it's Norway or Finland or Sweden or Denmark or Iceland, all these countries that he often wants to emulate. It's interesting because all of them, if you are a student and you want to go to a university or a college that's public, it's free. So that's actually where we should be headed. In this moment, we've got to deal with this particular issue. You know, pick up the phone, send an email, go up to Capitol Hill, and let folks know that you have some concerns here and that you're trying to get it right, but that is causing you some significant, you know, distress and harm. And for some folks, you know, it's going to put them in a bad situation because once you get negative credit, it just follows you around like a ball and chain. So, but as you said before, you get negative credit, it just follows you around like a ball and chain.

But as you said before, you get what you vote for. You had the opportunity to actually have somebody who understood what it means to be out there grinding and to be out there trying to do the best that you can, and you decided that wasn't the individual that you wanted. And then you had someone who is a billionaire who's never had to worry or his children never had to worry about going to college and paying for it. And you chose the individual who has absolutely no idea who you are and doesn't care about you. So once again, you get what you vote for. Indeed, indeed. All right, folks, going to break. We come back more on Roland Martin Unfiltered on the Black Star Network. Folks, support the work that we do. Join our Breana Funk fan club.

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-♪ -♪ It's always important to fight back. Donald Trump has been attacking Ivy League schools, uh, like Columbia and Harvard. His administration sent a letter to Harvard, y'all, literally saying, hey, I think that you guys ought to pay us

and, sorry, you allow the federal government to have oversight over your university and allow us to audit the thinkings of faculty, staff, and students. They said, go to hell. Trump said, well, I'm going to hold up $2.2 trillion, billion dollars in grants. They announced another billion dollars. And they claimed, well, the letter was sent erroneously or inadvertently,

but you actually put it together and you put it on letterhead. Now Harvard is suing the Trump administration, saying, you are breaking the law when it comes to canceling grants. See, here's the deal. Trump thinks he's a king, and he thinks that he can just unilaterally say we're not going to send him spending money on grants. Here's the only problem. Congress passes laws.

Now, first of all, let me explain this to a bunch of y'all, especially you simple Simons who've actually never read the Constitution. Anything dealing with money has to begin in the House of Representatives. That's actually in the Constitution. Okay? So it begins in the House, bill is passed in the House, then it goes to the Senate, then another bill is passed in the Senate, those two then have a conference, and then they actually sort that thing out, the House revotes on the agreed-to bill, the Senate

revotes and it goes to the president for the signature. That's what happens. Congress decides who gets what money. Not the executive branch. So Harvard says you're actually breaking the law by canceling grants because Congress has a procedure that spelled out exactly how grants can be canceled. So as a result, they are suing the administration, saying that it violates the university's

First Amendment rights. It also says it violates Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. For me, Teresa, this is how you treat bullies. You punch them back. The problem that we have right now in this country, major law firms capitulated.

Trump issued these executive orders that were frankly illegal. And instead of fighting them like they should, they all ran scared and was like, oh, no, we're going to cut deals. And then Trump says, fine, y'all do pro bono work for stuff that I think you should be fighting. And too many capitulated.

We're now seeing the news media right now. Bill Owens, who is the head of 60 Minutes, what happened? He sent a letter today stepping down from 60 Minutes. Now, folks, I'm going to show you in a second the letter that he actually sent out, because he declared that he's actually lost the editorial independence to run 60 Minutes the way he sees fit. This is what he actually sent the staff. He said, the fact is that 60 Minutes has been my life. My son was six months old.

My wife was pregnant with my daughter. And my mother was in a coma when I spent five weeks on the battlefield in Iraq with Scott. My 60 Minutes priorities have always been clear, maybe not smart, but clear. Over the past month, it has also become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 Minutes, right for the audience.

So, having defended this show and what we stand for from every angle, over time, with everything I could, I'm stepping aside so the show can move forward. The show is too important to the country. It has to continue, just not with me as the executive producer. Please remember, people didn't think we would survive without Mike or Ed or Don or Jeff.

We did. You will. 60 Minutes will continue to cover the new administration as we will report on future administrations. We will report from war zones, investigate injustices, and educate our audience. In short, 60 Minutes will do what it has done for 57 years. He says Wendy McMahon has always had our back, and she agrees that 60 Minutes needs to be run by a 60-minute producer. Tonya has been an amazing partner, as have Claudia and Debbie, Matt Richmond, and Matt Polvoy. I'm grateful to all of them. Look, I have worked at CBC News for 37 years,

more than half of that at 60 Minutes. I have been shot at and threatened with jail for protecting a source. I've overseen more than 600 stories as executive producer of 60. I know who I am and what I have done to cover the most important stories of our time under difficult conditions I'm also proud to have hired the next generation of Correspondents and to call Leslie bill Anderson Sharon John Cecilia and Scott friends Scott one of my closest meaning Scott Pelley Thank you all remain focused on the moment our audience deserves it bill Now why did he actually send that, folks? He sent that memo to the staff because 60 Minutes, excuse me, CBS, is being sold. Sherry Redstone is selling Paramount, which owns CBS, which owns 60 Minutes, to Larry Ellison and his son. They need the Trump administration to sign off on it.

Trump has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against 60 Minutes and CBS and Paramount because he's mad about their interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, claiming that they edited it. Well, Fox News edits all of his interviews as well. They released their transcripts. Ain't no big deal. But Sherri Redstone, because she wants her billions, is willing to settle with Trump. They're going to mediation because she wants the company sold. Here's what we're dealing with, Teresa. You've got these billionaires, these oligarchs who care about money. They don't care about the law.

They don't care about integrity. They don't have morals. They don't have values. They don't have principles. They don't care about journalistic integrity. They don't care about integrity. They don't have morals. They don't have values. They don't have principles. They don't care about journalistic integrity. They don't care about the First Amendment. They don't care about these things. So you're seeing these folks capitulate.

You're seeing them bow down. And Trump knows if he can weaken the colleges, if he can weaken the press, then he is able to rule like an autocrat. That's why Harvard saying, oh, hell no, we're going to fight y'all in court is so important because you've got to punch the bully back. These are such bold moves that have been front and center of our faces, you know, weeks after weeks. And, you know, it is troubling just to see some of the latest news that is coming out. And you're absolutely right, Roland, when it comes to those of influence with money, we've seen it first with super PACs on the political side, and now we're seeing it in

government, right? Creating an entire entity of doge of trying to figure out how to cut budget and spending like accountants aren't available and accessible. So there's just so much going on right now. Glass, amongst other universities, are stepping up and suing. Attorney General here, Josh Shapiro, is suing the Trump administration. So like Moussa said earlier, state attorney generals and local prosecutors are doing their part to make sure that our cities and states are secure. Unfortunately, it isn't enough, but it is a start to punching back to an administration that feels like they have the utmost power and support with inside the walls. And again, that is not government. That is not true journalism. And

that is not democracy. Listen, you can't you can't sit here and play games here. And the thing is, if you bow down this early in the first year, Mustafa, this man does not have a bottom. He will come back and he will take and he will take and he will take and he will take and he will take. He is not satisfied. His thirst is to decimate you, destroy you. And so you have to swing back with everything in order to knock his ass out. Yeah. Luda said you better throw them bows. Some folks might remember that. I mean, I'm glad that Harvard is throwing bows.

And then you had a number of other colleges and universities have also signed onto a letter of support. We'll see what that translates into. But that's exactly what it is. Anybody who grew up in the street, anybody who grew up on the playground, you understand what the dynamics are. If you let a bully continue to bully you, they will continue to take your lunch money. Then they'll take your shoes. Next thing you know, they done took your pants. And I don't even want to know what's after that. The reality of the situation is, is that you just can't let

people run all over you. And this administration has a game plan, and they understand how to deconstruct all of the foundational elements inside of this country so that they can make sure that they have all of the power. They understand that education is a critical part of that. One, they want them to bow, but they also want them to change their curricula. They want them to change who they accept into colleges and universities, so forth and so on. They understand the other way that you take over is that you control the mechanisms around communication. And of course, whether it is TV stations or radio stations or whatever it might be, that could help to balance out and help people to get information so they can make an informed decision for themselves. They're not interested in that.

They want something like the novel 1984, where people are controlling what is being shared, and the only narrative that you ever receive is what Trump says is reality. Even when you, with your own eyes and your own ears, know that there's something different going on, if someone continues day after day after day to feed you misinformation and disinformation, you will eventually start to believe it and you will cower. So I'm glad that there are people who are fighting back. I'm glad people are finally finding a spine because for the longest time, folks act like they didn't have any cojones. So, you know, you just got to change the dynamic. Yeah, I just think that, again, you can't not stand idly by and allow this thug to do what he is doing.

Otherwise, he is going to continue to take whatever he wants. I mean, he operates like a mafia thug. That's who he is, Teresa. Call it what it is. And so all those law firms, oh, he's going to demand more. He's going to demand your first child, your firstborn, your lastborn. He's going to demand everything because this is nothing but retribution. And also somebody posted something that's very interesting. Another reason why he can't stand Harvard, because Harvard, Columbia

and Stanford all wouldn't admit his son. That's who he is. The amount of money, Columbia, and Stanford all wouldn't admit his son. That's who he is. The amount of money that Columbia, he went after Columbia for, was the exact same amount of money Columbia turned down a sale to him when he wanted to acquire some of their property. This is a person who's about retribution, and this is a person who never should be allowed to have the level of power that a president actually has. You're absolutely right. This is hopefully a learning curve to Democrats, you know, as they are gearing up for the midterms,

but also a call of action of the holes that we do have in our government right now that is allowing this ability to even happen from a standing president. Listen, it is, you know, just from my generation, millennial, generation Y, we're looking at this like this is not what was told to us as we were talking about what our black history is, what our ancestors went through. And as we see, like, what's happening today, when we talk about, like, change and, you know, is it supposed to, what is it supposed to look like? It seems like we're, you know, essentially going backwards just a bit because of what's happening right now in our government that it looks like. So it's not really promising for the next generation. But I do believe, you know, some of these young voices that we do have from AOC,

Jasmine Crockett, at least they are standing up to say something. We have a lot of, you know, our sitting elected officials from Congress and U.S. Congress and Senate that are absolutely not saying anything because of fear of retribution. And that just also has to change as well. Yep. That is absolutely the case. All right, folks, we're going to a break. We'll be right back right here on Rolling Mountain Unfiltered on the Black Star Network. On the next A Balanced Life, we're talking about the stress of stress and trigger warning. Looking at those areas in our lives where we often don't turn the page or turn the corner,

but giving us the ability to really take a deep dive and look at who we are, the people around us, and the ways in which we're triggered. A lot of times we are so stressed out because we are trying to control things that are outside of our sphere of control. That's all next on A Balanced Life on the Blackstar Network. Hey, this is Motown recording artist Kim. You are watching Roland Martin Unfiltered. Boy, he always

unfiltered, though. I ain't never known him to be filtered. Is there another way to experience Roland Martin than to be unfiltered? Of course he's unfiltered. Would you expect anything less? Watch what happens next. Well, folks, we had a couple of dumbasses who went down to Texas.

One of them, a white supremacist, joined by a self-hating black man. The white supremacist is Jake Lang, a January 6th domestic terrorist insurrectionist, joined by Philip Anderson, another domestic terrorist insurrectionist. And so they went down to Texas regarding the case of Austin Metcalf. He, of course, is the white high school teen who was stabbed to death by a young black teen, Carmelo Anthony. And so he's with a group called Protect White Americans.

Now, again, what's interesting here is that you have Philip Anderson, who is black, who is standing with Lange, who is white, and the group is called Protect White Americans. Well, it was real interesting because all he was doing was he was going there just to get some attention, both of them. Well, they got the attention of Austin Metcalf's father, Jeff, who had some stern words for Lange.

Basically it was, we don't want you here and go to hell home I stand with you sir but today I'm here on behalf of the father Jeff Mecca okay what he's asking you is to not use his son's image or likeness in what you're doing. You can do what you do, but that's not what you want his son tied to. Okay. Out of respect for that family. Now, I would ask Jeff Metcalf if he would be bold enough to act like a father of a deceased young man that was murdered instead of being somebody suppressed, worried that he's going

to spark the next race riots or some type of thing. He needs to stand for righteousness, not for consequences. The consequences of righteous actions always need to be taken seriously. He needs to be righteous before he is fearful. He is acting out of fear, not out of righteousness. He should have been on the top of the bus today. He should have been standing shoulder to shoulder with me. Are you a father?

No, I am not. I'm a father. Amen. I'm a father. As a father, standing shoulder to shoulder with me. Are you a father? No, I am not. I'm a father. Amen. I'm a father. As a father, there is this thing called grief. So let me tell you what's going on in his house. He's getting swatted. His other, his only other son- Who's swatting him? Which community? No, we don't know the community, but it's happening. That's on the police to find. Secondly, he has a son who's a twin, who his son died in his arms. So that means he needs to navigate that.

Then his son, his only son, is getting death threats. So as a father, his hands is full. So the last thing he wants to be tied to is having this complex of race. So yes, violence is bad. Young black men are getting killed every day by young black men across this country. Yes, but I'm not a member of that community. I'm a member of my community. And my community is being victimized by the community of violent black. I mean, here's the degenerates. Here's the degenerates. When you stand up in the name of God, there's one body.

And if you're not a part of that body, I could I could read statistics. I'm also a pragmatic human being. So I understand when's a problem, it needs to be addressed head on. If you tiptoe around a problem, that's how you get to the end result of this. So your biggest concern is the loss of white life by black people? No, that's not my big... Is that your concern? I have concerns. The concern is a repeating pattern.

It doesn't stop. It just keeps going on and on and on and on. First of all, my biggest concern... We just can't ignore it any longer. If it stops, we're good. So I have a question for you. Do you believe more white people are killed by white people or by black people? Listen, by strangers, it's two to one.

Every single race and domestic issues, because we live amongst each other and uncles kill uncles or drunk at barbecues and stuff like that, it's always the same amount. So your response is this. Let me respond, please. Please let me respond. Your response is that Mr. Metcalf needs to get on your bus and tell people if I was him, I would do it. But he's not you. So what I'm saying, I'm telling you, I'm somebody that stands for what I believe in. And I don't cower when it's time to stand.

If your desire is to represent my desire is that another Austin Metcalfe does not happen next week. And if I was his father, I would stand righteously to say, yes, but I'm a man. We all have conversations. I'm a white man for his father. Hold on. We know. No. I'm speaking for white men in this country.

Are you a father? Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on one second. Are you a father? Hold on one second. Are you a father?

I'm not. Hold on. Who is not dealing with grief. You've talked for an hour. Pause that right there. Pause that right there. So the brother who is talking talking his name is Bruce Carter And you see him approaching him now what y'all about to see y'all about to see this idiot Philip Anderson now

Philip Anderson is the foot the black fool. So here you got a black dude Okay, all skin folk and kinfolk standing with this white nationalist Just listen to this fool and i ain't gonna play much more of this uh because they ain't deserving of it so just watch this so if you want to dress i can give you after i give this message the bottom line is this you have a father that's out of respect asking you not to put his son's face in a place how do you say you're going to represent people when you can't respect the will of the people? Let me respond, guys. There's too much peanut gallery.

That's not what his father said. His father did not say that. I've never heard that. Can we please let me respond? So you believe, so you believe I'm having a conversation between you and I. Listen to this. Austin Metcalf is no longer Austin Metcalf. So here's the deal. All these two fools, Lang and that other fool, Phillip Anderson, what they wanted was the media attention. But what you see here,

people need to understand that these idiots exist. This is how dumb they are. And I respect Austin Metcalf's dad who's like, no, I don't want y'all around. I don't want y'all on this. I don't want y'all near this crap don't want y'all on this. I don't want y'all near this crap

because all y'all are trying to bring is a whole bunch of BS. That's all this is, Mustafa. You know, and then he's like, oh, it's going to be a race war. No, it's not. No, it's not. That's what Lange desperately wants

because that's what he thrives off of. And again, I don't know what that dumbass black dude is doing. I mean, I don't know where he could come from. But then again, if you black and if you were stupid enough to be down at the Capitol on January 6th on the side of MAGA, well, that lets us know how stupid you are. I mean, racists are going to be racist, right? Hate is their oxygen. And when they don't have that, then they begin to suffocate. They begin to shrink. And that's why they continue to stoke these fires. You know, it's interesting because he

wanted to talk about statistics, or at least that's what he said, although we know that that's not true. If he would even just go over to the FBI, they have the Union Crime Reporting Program, if it still exists, because they might have gotten rid of it here recently. It's better known as UCR. And it actually talks about crime inside of our country. And it's just what that other brother had shared. You know, white folks do crime on white folks, just like other groups do it. And a lot of it is proximity and all these different types of things that are part of the dynamics that go on. So, you know, trying to make a race war or all these different types of things is just a part of the talking points. It's a part of attracting folks who are, you know, who are hurt and in pain, who are looking for a group to be a part of and a cause to be a part of.

And what folks should be doing is actually supporting the Metcalfe family as they're going through their moment. And then, of course, the other young man who's a part of this and trying to find ways of making sure that, you know, young men don't find themselves in these types of situations because we are infusing positivity and love and a number of other things that is often missing. So the courts are going to do what the courts do. The case will go through and folks will figure out, you know, what transpired and who was guilty. But on the other side of the equation is, you know, these individuals who look for these moments because they have nothing else.

I believe, and I could be incorrect, that Lange is actually trying to run for office for Marco Rubio's old position. And, you know, nobody knew who he was, so he needs something because he has no policy to actually garner people's interest. So you'll see people, you know, gravitating toward hate and using that as their platform instead of things that actually uplift community. Teresa? It's a travesty. You know, no one has any policy ideas.

So, you know, on the backs of people who are supposed to be represented by their representative, this is what we're doing. You know, but again, the door was wide open for this type of theatrical behavior in politics when Trump decided to run with no background in government, no curiosity about economics, but pure abuse and solemn, you know, hardship. So this is what we are dealing with, because we have someone who doesn't care about the people. And I think this case is just amongst many. You know, you got Lange, who literally is wearing the Trump red tie, is trying to look the part, act the part, to get to the White House or some house, wherever.

But it's unfortunate. And again, someone like me who's in communication, I'm also fighting these battles that's in miscommunication and relevancy in media and accuracy thereof, because what's happening now is I feel like it's an overkill with so many mainstream outlets that, you know, these smaller ones are just able to find a narrative and just keep poking and poking. So I don't know. It's just something that we definitely need to keep our eyes on. Well, again, expect more of these crazy, demented fools to be out. That's what is simply going to happen.

All right, folks, funeral services of Pope Francis, who passed away on Monday, have been released. The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis' funeral will take place on Saturday. They've also released images of the pontiff lying in a simple, wooden, open casket in the chapel of the Santa Marta Guest House. Folks, if you could show those photos, please.

Cardinal Kevin Farrell presided over the certification of death following the pope's passing at the age of 88 due to a stroke and heart failure. In his last words, Pope Francis reportedly expressed gratitude to his aides who facilitated his final appearance in St. Peter's Square on Easter Sunday, saying, thank you for taking me into the square. His coffin will be removed from the chapel of the Santa Marta Guesthouse, St. Peter's Basilica on Wednesday. There will be placed by the main altar for the public to visit and pay their final respects. After nine days of mourning, cardinals from around the world were gathered in the Sistine Chapel to conduct a private vote to elect the new pope. The process typically takes two to three weeks,

and all ballots, of course, are burned afterwards. And using a special chemical, if it's not a pope, it would be black smoke. And then once, of course, they were able to choose a new pope, it would be white smoke, letting the world know that a new pope has been chosen to oversee the 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide. And so, of course, as we said, the pope is the head of state there for the Vatican.

So as a result, you're going to see many heads of state from around the world attend the funeral on Saturday. So that is going to be the case. Of course, this right here, the Vatican News, again, look at their feed on social media. This is a photo, give me one second, this is a photo they posted of the Pope, the rosary in his hand. And this is video here, again, of his body there. And so you're going to see folks from all over.

We talked about his passing on yesterday. Mustafa and Teresa, I want to give you all an opportunity to speak. Obviously, extremely consequential. Conservative priest did not like what he had to say because he challenged them and even rebuked many of them. And so as a result, they're hoping that a conservative pope is chosen. Mustafa, you first. Well, you know, he was the pope of the people, right, which was incredibly refreshing. He cared about the unheard and the unseen.

He cared about those who were vulnerable and marginalized and wanted to make sure that he uplifted, you know, the things that they were going through. And I think that's the reason that he resonated with so many people across the planet. I once—I'm not Catholic, but I've heard him speak a few different times. And I remember one time from the book of James, he talked about faith without works is dead. And I think about his life and how he was always one who made sure that people understood that faith was important, but it was also about who you are uplifting, who are you bringing in, who are you bringing in,

who are you helping to protect. And that's why I think he will always be remembered. And that is also why some of those who are maybe more conservative in the doctrine did not see the greatness of what he was able to accomplish. So rest in peace and thank you for everything that you did for humanity while you were here. Teresa. Yeah, I can say the same. You know, I think one of the proponents that he stood for that was noteworthy, you know, address poverty and the rights of refugees and migrants. You know, he was a bridge builder. You know, he loved this simplistic life by living in a modest guest house rather than the Papau Palace. So, you know, his deep commitment to humility was just a simpler way of life. He made himself really, you know, part of the people and

focused on pastoral care over politics. And I think, you know, as we are looking for those type of servant leaders, you know, regardless of religion, but, you know, him being the pope, those are the type of attributes that when choosing the next pope to reign over the Catholicism. So, folks, we will, of course, be carrying that funeral live here on the Black Star Network. All right, going to a break. We come back. Just a couple more stories, and then we will go live to Atlanta for the Target Boycott Town Hall. It will be taking place there.

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We'll be right back. Next on the Black Team with me, Greg Vaughn. The enormous impact of race, education, and affirmative action in America, and how, believe it or not, white America is starting to feel a little bit of the pain. Dr. Natasha Waraku joins us with a case study of one suburban community and how it reacted when the minority students started to accept. Most people didn't say this explicitly but with that you know the academics are getting standards are getting higher in

part because of the Asian kids and that is making our kids really stressed out so we need to reduce the amount of home work teachers are allowed to. A sign. She shares a perspective that you don't want to miss. That's on the next Black Table, only on the Black Star Network. This is Tamela Mayne. And this is David Mann.

And you're watching Roland Martin. I'm filter. Okay, this is Kareem Torrance was last seen in Philadelphia on April 11th. The 12-year-old is 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighs 140 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information about Kareem Torrance should call the Philadelphia Police Department at 215-686-3153. 215-686-3153. I repeatedly told y'all these MAGA people don't give a damn about regular, ordinary people. Rental assistance money for seniors and for single moms is running out. People are at risk of losing their homes because the Emergency housing voucher program is running out of money. The program was a lifeline for nearly 60,000 households, helping folks escape

being homeless, domestic violence, and even human trafficking. But HUD says the funding will run out by the end of the year unless Congress steps in. If these vouchers disappear, we could see one of the largest mass evictions in U.S. history. I don't think for a second, Mustafa, that these people give a damn. And I wouldn't be surprised if they allow it to run out and if the Republicans say they're not going to fund it because they want their billionaire, millionaire tax breaks. I mean, you hit it right on the head. I mean, I would be very surprised also if they stepped up and did the right thing, And they're just going to continue to create these chaotic situations. They're continuing to put people in these survival situations.

And it just doesn't make any sense. These are, in many instances, folks who are hardworking folks who are just trying to be able to survive, trying to keep a roof over their head and to not to do the right thing and to make sure that folks have this assistance just shows that, you know, the dehumanization of individuals who are currently in office. And it's so unfortunate because it's going to make these very challenging situations get so much more intense. Teresa. Yeah, I'd be surprised. Teresa yeah I'd be surprised

we have currently not only people are losing their homes doing a funding shortage but also food banks that serve underserved communities are also at federal risk a lot of them are not getting their food to serve those who cannot

have food in the morning to feed their families or their children if they are going to school. So again, same chaotic behavior. More leaders that are in position need to step up and address it a little bit louder, but also put their feet to the fire and do something more because this, again, is another outrage because if these people lose their homes, where are they going? So it's a trickle-down effect that I'm not even sure the ones who are even thinking about, oh, let's just cut the funding, are thinking about on a whole another scale on how they, you know, are creating additional hardship for people that they are sworn to protect. Indeed, indeed. All right, y'all. Today is Earth Day celebrated all around the world.

And but a couple of things that I just I mean, it's a lot of things we can talk about when it comes to the climate, how we take care of Earth. But I was I saw this clip earlier, and I usually ignore stupid people who believe that the earth is flat. I really do. But that was a debate on Joe Budden's podcast. And rapper Wiz Khalifa says he believes the earth is flat. But I'm going to show you all a a couple things that makes this utterly hilarious. So let me first play this. Is the earth round? I would say no.

What shape is it? I just believe that we live on a flat plane. Yeah, like a huge flat plane. It's only because I've traveled so much, and I see, like... Did you ever get to the edge of the Earth? Nah. Okay. It's not that. There's more... I think that there's more masses than just what we see.

Just the Earth. Because we lived... It was one thing before, and it's, like, spread out. So it's layered like a pastry. I wouldn't say layered like a pastry. I would just say, like, if this rug was the world, we would probably be, like, spread out. So it's layered like a pastry. I wouldn't say layered like a pastry. I would just say, like, if this rug was the world, we would probably be, like, over there somewhere, and then there's just way more undiscovered. There's other shit that we haven't discovered.

Got it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's what I think. Because when I travel, the routes that we take and how we do it, it's not possible to go up and down. You're just going straight. I never thought about that. Yeah.

Yeah. Now you laugh. That's the only reason I think that. Of course you're right. You can say it for a second, just for a second. It's fine. I never looped around. I never was on one place and then went to the other coast from that place.

You always go the long way. You never just go like, like how. They talk about emergency landings and shit. Emergency landings don't really be what would make sense if you was looking at the map. Thank you. I don't want to fight. Somebody give me an edible. I would love, man. why are we talking about conspiracy yeah

is the earth round um i would say no what shape is it like i said no no no no, no, no, no, not yet. No, don't switch yet. Why? I told y'all in Twitter's search box, I typed his name in and there are four categories there's top latest people Complex posted a tweet. And don't go to it yet. Tweet says, where's Khalifa? Kush plus orange juice two out now. That means that they have a new album out. This is the inside of it. I...

This is the album cover. Mustafa, I'm... Mustafa, I'm confused. If you go on a podcast and say the earth is flat. Why your ass don't put a flat ass photo

on your album cover of the earth? Maybe, you know what? Here's what I think it is. Maybe he gave that answer. Go ahead and show the album cover again. You know, maybe he gave,

you know, Mustafa, it just hit me. Maybe he gave that answer. Maybe he gave that answer. Maybe he gave that answer because with the album cover, with the album cover, I think the album cover is covered with weed. So I think he was high as hell when they were talking on

the show about the earth being flat. What you think? Oh, my goodness. No, somebody was definitely blazing. If he wasn't blazing, then I'm really concerned.

I mean, there are all kinds of ways of getting at that. The scientific response is that the Earth is actually an oblate spheroid. What that means is that it bulges a little bit at the equators on the top, on the North and South poles. It's a little bit flatter. So it is spherical. You know, it is a circle for folks. But besides that, I mean, all you got to do is look at whether it is a satellite who's taking pictures or the missions that have gone to the moon or the space station. When they show the pictures, you can very much see that it is circular. I'll use very common language as I go through this. So you had to be high to be able to

possibly justify you sharing that. But there's another part that's not funny is that, you know, for folks who have influence, when they share these types of things, there are all kinds of people, hopefully not all kinds, there are a few folks out there who actually hear it and believe it. And that's another reason why we need to make sure that education is enhanced inside of our country. We've got to make sure that folks understand at least basic science and basic math. You don't have to be a physicist or an astrophysicist to understand some of these basic types of things that are so critically important. The other thing, too, is that it's somebody from our community. I

love hip-hop. But when folks from our community begin to also share misinformation—I'm going to say misinformation and not disinformation, because I want to make sure that I'm giving grace to this brother that he wasn't intentionally telling people the wrong thing. Now, when it gets back to the album cover, maybe he had nothing to do with the album cover because he could see that the earth is round and that, you know, I guess in his idea of the world, you know, we should have more opportunities for edibles and more opportunity to zone out. But in this moment, we can't afford to zone out because there are people who actually would love to take education away from kids inside of our community.

So let's make sure that whatever we share when we're on the airwaves, that it is accurate. I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops called this taser the revolution.

But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything that Taser told them. From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multibillion-dollar company dedicated itself to one visionary mission. This is Absolute Season 1. Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad.

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And this is season two of the War on Drugs podcast. Yes, sir. We are back. In a big way. In a very big way. Real people, real perspectives. This is kind of star-studded a little bit, man. We got Ricky Williams, NFL player, Heisman Trophy winner.

It's just a compassionate choice to allow players all 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 thing is. Benny the Butcher. Brent Smith from Shinedown. We got B-Real from Cypress Hill. NHL enforcer Riley Cote.

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to hear episodes one week early and ad free with exclusive content, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. You say you'd never give in to a meltdown, never let kids' toys take over the house, and never fill your feed with kid photos. You'd never plan your life around their schedule, never lick your thumb to clean their face, and you'd never let them leave the house looking like less than their best. You say you'd never put a pacifier in your mouth to clean it.

Never let them stay up too late. 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, know 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. And it is not something that could be harmful to the next sets of generations who will have to deal with lack of access to education. See, Teresa. It's some shit I'm not going to talk about with some people bring your ass on here talk about your album talk about music

talk about fashion but we not going to start talking about stuff that you have no idea what the hell you talking about I ain't never really flew from one place to the other. I ain't never, like, ain't nothing spinning, ain't nothing moving. I just, I wish some, I know, folk don't want me to cuss, and I'm trying not to cuss, but this right here is, I need some rappers, I need some

entertainers, I need some media people to shut up. Just don't even, see, you saw Mark Lamont Hill, like... Because, see, Mark has actually had debates on his podcast with some fools on this very topic. And I text Mark, and I said, Mark, just tell me you were just doing it to get some clicks. But if Wiz Khalifa was sitting in this studio

and said that to me, I would literally say, Wiz, just tell me you high or you just out your damn mind. To me, this ain't that difficult. So you're absolutely right. And I'm going to go back to Mustafa's point that that was just a missed opportunity.

You had Angela Rye there as well. Some very intellectual... No, that wasn't Angela Rye. That was Melissa Ford. That was Melissa Ford. Melissa, okay. Sorry, saw it as a glimpse. But some really like...

You just saw a light-skinned black woman and you thought that was Angela. No, that's not Angela, that's Melissa Ford. That's good to know. But yeah, there was just a firm opportunity to really clear it up because, you know, I'm sure that clip probably got millions of

views. And so you know, when you have somebody like Wiz Khalifa saying that the Earth is flat, somebody could have literally just pulled up his album cover. Then why is the earth round on your album cover? Like, why is it an actual circle? I know Wiz Khalifa probably because he's from, you know, Pennsylvania.

Well, Pittsburgh, not Philly. But and he's probably traveled on I-95 quite some time and I-80. So it does look a little flat, but, you know, I'm not sure what happened there as he's, you know, thinking about what Earth Day really means to him and the ganja. But again, that is a missed opportunity to educate so we can, and it didn't have to be to be harsh you know it could have just clearly uh been the let's stop there the the world is not flat it is round because right and and i think he would have taken that like oh that makes sense but if no one's educating someone and they go into another podcast and say the same exact thing or they then double down with a tweet you know high or not

this is how misinformation spreads and again as we have more of our younger generation on social where you know Wiz Khalifa you're not seeing him on mainstream television you are seeing him on social media on podcasts on digital, they are picking this up and saying, well, my source is Wiz Khalifa. You know, so they're going in a classroom telling the teacher that the earth is flat. I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes.

But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops called this taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything that taser told them. 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 1, Taser Incorporated, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes 1, 2, and 3 on May 21st and episodes 4, 5, and 6 on June 4th. Ad-free at Lava for the War on Drugs podcast. Yes, sir. We are back. In a big way. In a very big way.

Real people, real perspectives. This is kind of star-studded a little bit, man. We got Ricky Williams, NFL player, Heisman Trophy winner. It's just a compassionate choice to allow players all 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 is. Benny the Butcher. Brent Smith from Shinedown.

Got B-Real from Cypress Hill. NHL enforcer Riley Cote. Marine Corvette. MMA fighter Liz Karamush. What we're doing now isn't working and we need to change things. Stories matter and it brings a face to them. It makes it real. It really does. It makes it real.

Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to hear episodes one week early and ad-free with exclusive content, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. You say you'd never give in to a meltdown. Never let kids' toys take over the house. And never fill your feed with kid photos. You'd never plan your life around their schedule,

never lick your thumb to clean their face, and you'd never let them leave the house looking like less than their best. You'd say you'd never put a pacifier in your mouth to clean it, never let them stay up too late. 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, know 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. It's not. So. And this right here is why we got some clueless ass people when it comes to politics, when it comes to what's happening in news.

And just the other day, just the other day, somebody came up in me and they said, Roland, can you believe that this person does not believe that we landed on the moon? And this millennial literally tried to tell me that we never landed on the moon and that could have been in the studio. And you know what I said?

I need both of y'all to get the hell out my face. I need y'all not to even talk to me. I said, don't even look at me because what I cannot, I am not even going to entertain that level of stupidity that we didn't land on the moon. I can't stand conspiracy theorists. And I didn't even want to waste any of our precious time discussing this. And just so y'all know, the only reason I'm even discussing this is because we were supposed to go live at 730 to the Target Boycott Town Hall, but they asked us late. That's the only reason this made the cut. And so otherwise, it would have never even made this broadcast.

This is what we call stretching. But I just think, Mustafa, we got to learn to tell some people. I ain't even going to entertain stupidity. It's just we just got to say, no, y'all just too stupid for me to even discuss. So why don't you go ahead? You're the big time environmentalist. Why don't you just go ahead and talk to folk about the importance of Earth Day before I start? I know a lot of cops and they get asked all the time.

Have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops called this taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything that taser told them. From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multibillion-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 1, Taser Incorporated,

on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes 1, 2, and 3 on May 21st and episodes 4, 5, and 6 on June 4th. Ad-free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Glod.

And this is season two of the War on Drugs podcast. We are back. In a big way. In a very big way. Real people, real perspectives. This is kind of star-studded a little bit, man. We got Ricky Williams, NFL player, Heisman Trophy winner. It's just a compassionate choice to allow players all 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. Benny the Butcher. Brent Smith from Shinedown. Got B-Real from Cypress Hill. NHL enforcer Riley Cote. Marine Corvette. MMA fighter Liz Karamush.

What we're doing now isn't working and we need to change things. Stories matter and it brings a face to them. It makes it real. It really does. It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to hear episodes one week early and ad free with exclusive content, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. take over the house and never fill your feed with kid photos.

You'd never plan your life around their schedule. Never lick your thumb to clean their face. And you'd never let them leave the house looking like less than their best.

You'd say you'd never put a pacifier in your mouth to clean it. Never let them stay up too late. 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. Cussing. Yeah, no, so let's make sure you ain't gotta cuss nobody out. You know, it's interesting when we look at Earth Day, you know, April 22nd, 1970 was the initial day. We had all kinds of different people from across the country coming together because

there were real significant things that were happening at that time. You literally had rivers catching on fire because there was so much pollution that was in them. The Cuyahoga River there in Ohio literally caught on fire. It didn't catch on fire once. It caught on fire a number of times, but that was one of the things that really caught the country's attention. And then in lots of different locations across the country leading up to 1970, you had places where you couldn't even see the sun in the sky because there was so much smog. And of course, that, you know, does some really dangerous things to people's lungs and a number of types of things. So you had all these people who got together at that time.

And because of the activism, because so many folks who had came out of the anti-war movement and the environmental movement, they were able to push to get many of the landmark pieces of legislation that we now take for granted, you know, whether it's the Clean Air Act or the Clean Water Act or some of the others that are so critically important in making sure that you have cleaner water to be able to drink and, you know, cleaner air to be able to breathe. The missing component was that no one at that time was talking about environmental racism or environmental injustice in any significant way. So there was this gap that existed inside of the environmental movement for decades and decades until the environmental justice aspect began to move forward.

And then, thankfully, Warren, to you, Roland, when you came down to Warren County, North Carolina, which was one of the flashpoints where there was the black community that those PCBs were being cited in. And we continue each and every day to fight to get the attention on the impacts that are happening inside of our community. So I always honor Earth Day. I appreciate people talking about making sure that we are protecting the trees and that we are protecting, you know, Mother Earth. But we also got to bring it down to the level where folks, whether it's in Flint, Michigan or Jackson, Mississippi or a number of other locations across our country are dealing with these lead issues and kids having difficulty learning because of being exposed to all these chemicals or all the Superfund sites and brownfield sites that have all this toxic pollution that often gets located either in our communities or I know a lot of cops and they get asked all the time have you ever had to shoot your gun

sometimes the answer is yes but there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no across the country cops called this taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything that taser told them. From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multibillion-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 1, Taser Incorporated, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes 1, 2, and 3 on May 21st, and episodes 4, 5, and 3 on May 21st and episodes 4, 5, and 6 on June 4th. Ad-free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Glod.

And this is Season 2 of the War on Drugs podcast. Yes, sir. We are back. In a big way. In a very big way. Real people, real perspectives. This is kind of star-studded a little bit, man. We got Ricky Williams, NFL player, Heisman Trophy winner. It's just a compassionate choice to allow players all 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 thing is. Benny the Butcher. Brent Smith from Shinedown. We got B-Real from Cypress Hill. NHL enforcer Riley Cote. Marine Corvette. MMA fighter Liz Karamush. What we're doing now isn't working, and we need to change things.

Stories matter, and it brings a face to them. It makes it real. It really does. It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to hear episodes one week early and ad-free with exclusive content, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. You say you'd never give in to a meltdown.

Never let kids' toys take over the house. And never fill your feed with kid photos. You'd never plan your life around their schedule. Never lick your thumb to clean their face. And you'd never let them leave the house looking like less than their best. You say you'd never put a pacifier in your mouth to clean it. Never let them stay up too late. And never let them run wild through the grocery store. We have one aisle six. And aisle three. 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. Near our communities, or the fact that we've got, you know, from the Harvard study, you know, over 300,000 people who are dying prematurely from the burning of fossil fuels, from that air pollution. More people are dying from air pollution inside of our communities than are dying from gun violence

or from overdoses of drugs or even from at the hands of police. So when we talk about Earth Day, yes, we should honor it, appreciate all the gains that we've made, but we also have the reality of the impacts that are still happening in black communities across our country and brown communities on indigenous lands and a number of other locations. And now we have an administration that is doing everything in its power to eliminate environmental justice from not only the federal conversation, but the resources that are necessary to help our communities move from surviving to thriving. And they're also trying to make sure that science is no longer being honored or utilized.

So that, you know, when we think about, you know, Wiz and the statements that he's making, it just goes to show why we have to make sure that we are investing in our communities, in our schools, to make sure that our students have the ability to become engineers and scientists or poets or whatever it might be, because everybody has the opportunity to be able to give back using that gift that they have. And education is one part of that. But the other part of it is understanding that there are people on the front lines who each and every day are literally dying for a breath of fresh air, who are dying to make sure that they have clean water to drink. And then, you know, we had Catherine Coleman Flowers on not long ago, where she was talking about people literally walking in human waste. And it's in our communities where we often find,

you know, the lack of infrastructure, you know, so sewers and everything else, all that waste ends up running back into our communities. Or you have the chicken farms and the hog farms that people are being placed to, and the smells are overwhelming, along with the pollution that often impacts people's clean water, whether it is surface water or the water that they're trying to drink. So in this moment, when we think about Earth Day, we understand how incredibly important that moment was and everything that built up to the time that we're in, but we can never, ever. I know a lot of cops and they get asked all the time,

have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes, But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops called this taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything that taser told them. 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 1, Taser Incorporated, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes 1, 2, and 3 on May 21st, and episodes 4, 5, and 6 on June 4th.

Ad-free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Lott. And this is Season 2 of the War on Drugs podcast. Yes, sir. We are back. In a big way. In a very big way.

Real people, real perspectives. This is kind of star-studded a little bit, man. We got Ricky Williams, NFL player, Heisman Trophy winner. It's just a compassionate choice to allow players all 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 man.

Benny the Butcher. Brent Smith from Shinedown. Got B-Real from Cypress Hill. NHL enforcer Riley Cote. Marine Corvette. MMA fighter Liz Karamush. What we're doing now isn't working and we need to change things. Stories matter and it brings a face to them.

It makes it real. It really does. It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to hear episodes one week early and ad free with exclusive content, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. You say you'd never give in to a meltdown.

Never let kids' toys take over the house. And never fill your feed with kid photos. You'd never plan your life around their schedule, never lick your thumb to clean their face, and you'd never let them leave the house looking like less than their best. You'd say you'd never put a pacifier in your mouth to clean it, never let them stay up too late.

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, know 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.

Don't forget about our most vulnerable communities who are continuing to fight each and every day to be able to move from surviving to thriving. Mustafa mentioned what took place in Warren County a few years ago. A couple of years ago, when the Biden administration went there, that is the home of environmental justice, where black people were fighting there in the 70s. We were actually the only national media outlet that was live streaming that event. So this is what Michael Regan, he was speaking.

Let's just show you some of what he had to say. So not only did this community make a fuss, this community ignited a movement. And today, Warren County is synonymous with being the birthplace of environmental justice. That was a perfect toss. You know, those protests 40 years ago were not only a catalyst for the environmental justice movement as we know of today, but it was a real awakeningness of the consciousness of this community that had been underserved and overburdened for so many years. It demonstrates the transformative potential that exists when people peacefully mobilize and come together in a common pursuit. As Ms. Dolly Burwell put it, African Americans determined that henceforth and forevermore will have some say in the government that was controlling our destiny. So despite

losing the initial battle, these visionary women and men sparked something so much bigger, so much more powerful. And that's what of you here today. Folks like Bernice Miller-Travis, Dr. Bob Bullard, Reverend Barber, Dr. Wright, Juan, and Ana Paras, and young leaders like my good friend, Lamisha Whittington, William Barber III, who are carrying this sacred mission forward. These are the people who have dedicated their lives to standing up and speaking out against racism and injustice and inequality. And they are finally being heard at the highest levels of the land, from Warren County to the White House. On day one of this administration, President Biden directed every single member of his cabinet to embed environmental justice

and racial equity into all of our decision making. I know a lot of cops and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes, but there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops called this taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything that taser told them. 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 1, Taser Incorporated on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Binge episodes 1, 2, and 3 on May 21st and episodes 4, 5, and 6 on June 4th. Ad-free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Lott. And this is Season 2 of the War on Drugs podcast. Yes, sir. We are back. In a big way. In a very big way. I'm Greg Glott. And this is season two of the War on Drugs podcast. We are back. In a big way. In a very big way. Real people, real perspectives.

This is kind of star-studded a little bit, man. We got Ricky Williams, NFL player, Heisman Trophy winner. It's just a compassionate choice to allow players all 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 is. Benny the Butcher. Brent Smith from Shinedown. We got B-Real from Cypress Hill. NHL enforcer Riley Cote.

Marine Corvette. MMA fighter Liz Caramouch. What we're doing now isn't working and we need to change things. Stories matter and it brings a face to it. It makes it real. It really does. It makes it real.

Listen to new episodes of the war on drugs podcast season two on the I heart 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 Podcasts. You say you'd never give in to a meltdown.

Never let kids' toys take over the house. And never fill your feed with kid photos. You'd never plan your life around their schedule. Never lick your thumb to clean their face. And you'd never let them leave the house looking like, uh, less than their best. You'd say

you'd never put a pacifier in your mouth to clean it. Never let them stay up too late. And never let them run wild through the grocery store. We have one aisle today. And aisle three. 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. And you know, I'm proud to say that EPA is at the heart of that mission. As administrator, I've had the privilege

to travel across the country and see firsthand the injustices communities of color, low-income communities, and tribal communities As Administrator, I've had the privilege to travel across the country and see firsthand the injustices communities of color, low-income communities, and tribal communities continue to endure. Last November, I launched the Journey to Justice Tour, and I spent time in Jackson, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, meeting with communities on their front porches, in their churches, and in their schools. And the conditions that I saw on the ground were deeply troubling.

I'm talking about children going to school right next door to chemical plants. Elementary school students using porta-potties because of failing water infrastructure. And generations of families living in the shadows of petrochemical facilities. In my time as administrator, I've met with mothers whose children have been poisoned by the lead in the water, the water they drink, elders, our grandparents who must bathe with bottled water, families watching as the floodwaters continue to rise. Perhaps one of the most egregious examples of systemic injustice, you've heard it today, is Lowndes County, Alabama. Lowndes County, which sits right in the middle of Highway 80 between Selma and Montgomery,

was a wellspring for the Civil Rights Movement. The birth of the Black Panther Party. Lowndes County became known as Bloody Lowndes because when organizers and protesters attempted to register black people, they were beaten and battered, even evicted from their homes. So I visited Lowndes County so that I could see up close the injustices that folks have been living with for decades.

Pipes protruding from the side of their homes. Spilling raw sewage in the same places where their children play. I'll never forget two beautiful children that I met. Their toys scattered around a lagoon filled with waste. It was as if these children were conditioned to accept that this is the way it's supposed to be. But that's not the way it's supposed to be. But that's not the way it's supposed to be. Not for those children in Lowndes County. Not for the children in Jackson, Mississippi.

Not for the children anywhere in the United States of America. So from Lowndes County, Alabama to Warren County, North Carolina, these communities show us that the fight for civil rights and environmental justice are inseparable. For health justice, for racial justice, for economic justice, for climate justice, we cannot be for one without being for the other. President Biden and Vice President Harris, they understand this viscerally. The president and vice president see everybody for who they are and who they can be when they're given the opportunity to soar. So from Justice 40 to the bipartisan infrastructure law to the historic Inflation Reduction Act, We are finally ensuring that communities who have long borne the burden of pollution see,

breathe and feel the benefits of the federal government's investments. It's about changing how our government works and who it works for, something that so many of you today have dedicated your lives to realizing. So if we're going to change how the system works, we have to change. I know a lot of cops and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes, but there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops called this taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple.

Cops believed everything that taser told them. 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 One, Taser Incorporated.

I get right back there and it's bad. It's really, really, really bad. Listen to new episodes of Absolute Season 1. Taser Incorporated. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes 1, 2, and 3 on May 21st. And episodes one, two, and three on May 21st and episodes four, five, and six on June 4th, ad free at lava for good. Plus on Apple podcasts. I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Glott.

And this is season two of the war on drugs podcast. We are back in a big way, in a very big way, real people, real perspectives. This is kind of star studded a little bit, sir. We are back. In a big way. In a very big way. Real people, real perspectives. This is kind of star-studded a little bit, man. We got Ricky Williams, NFL player, Heisman Trophy winner. It's just a compassionate choice to allow players all 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 man. Benny the Butcher.

Brent Smith from Shinedown. We got B-Real from Cypress Hill. NHL enforcer Riley Cote. Marine Corps vet. MMA fighter Liz Karamush. What we're doing now isn't working, and we need to change things. Stories matter, and it brings a face to them. It makes it real.

It really does. It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast season two Stories matter and it brings a face to them. It makes it real. It really does. It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to hear episodes one week early and ad-free with exclusive content, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. You say you'd never give in to a meltdown. Never let kids' toys take over the house.

And never fill your feed with kid photos. You'd never plan your life around their schedule. Never lick your thumb to clean their face. And you'd never let them leave the house looking like less than their best. You'd say you'd never put a pacifier in your mouth to clean it. Never let them stay up too late. And never let them run wild through the grocery store. We have one aisle six and aisle three. 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. The structure of the system, and that's exactly what we're going to do. I could not be prouder to announce that today EPA is creating a new... Unfortunately, after what the EPA did, the Trump administration completely decimated that

because they call all of that DEI. And so, again, this is what we always say when we talk about how elections have consequences. Folks, they're having technical issues in Atlanta. We're trying to get those sorted out. We've been on the phone with them when it comes to their feed from the town hall there. And so once that gets straightened out, we're going to have it. We'll be able to stream it for you live. We're going to go ahead and close the show out. Let me thank Mustafa and Teresa for joining us on today's panel.

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And you'd never let them leave the house looking like less than their best. You say you'd never put a pacifier in your mouth to clean it. Never let them stay up too late. 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, know 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. I know a lot of cops. They get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes.

But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. This is Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. Listen to Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Glott. And this is season two of the War on Drugs podcast. Last year, a lot of the problems of the

drug war. This year, a lot of the biggest names in music and sports. This kind of starts that a little bit, man. We met them at their homes. We met them at their recording studios. Stories matter and it brings a face to them. It makes it real.

It really does. It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get

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