#RolandMartinUnfiltered - TSU Students Stun MAGA, Loomer’s Racist Attack on Crockett, GA Blackface Outrage, Justice in Boston

Episode Date: September 25, 2025

9.24.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: TSU Students Stun MAGA, Loomer’s Racist Attack on Crockett, GA Blackface Outrage, Justice in BostonAt Tennessee State University, MAGA demonstrators attempted to stir up trouble, but students shut them down. We'll show you what went down.Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is once again the target of racist attacks -- this time from far-right MAGA influencer Laura Loomer. And outrage in Georgia: parents and community leaders are furious after grown adults showed up in full blackface at a high school volleyball game. Racist much?The University of Southern Mississippi and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity face a federal lawsuit after a student says hazing left him hospitalized. We'll talk with his lawyer.We'll also hear from the President of the National Education Association about her plan to take on the Trump administration's education agenda.And, two Black men falsely accused in one of Boston's most infamous murder cases are finally getting some justice. It just took 34 years. #BlackStarNetwork partner: Fanbasehttps://www.startengine.com/offering/fanbaseThis Reg A+ offering is made available through StartEngine Primary, LLC, member FINRA/SIPC.  This investment is speculative, illiquid, and involves a high degree of risk, including the possible loss of your entire investment. You should read the Offering Circular (https://bit.ly/3VDPKjD) and Risks (https://bit.ly/3ZQzHl0) related to this offering before investing.Download the Black Star Network app at http://www.blackstarnetwork.com! We're on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku, FireTV, XBox and SamsungTV.The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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No shock because that's the kind of people he likes to hang out with. Also in Mississippi, the University of Southern Mississippi in the mega side five face a federal lawsuit after a student says hazing left him hospitalized, we'll talk with his lawyer. We'll also hear from the president of the National Education Association, but her plans to take on Donald Trump's administration's education agenda. Plus, two black men falsely accused in one of boss's most infamous murder cases or finally get some justice 34 years

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He's real the best you know He's rolling Martin Charlie Kirk being killed, HBCs were targeted with bomb threats. Now, a MAGA hate group decides to go to Tennessee State University. They call themselves the Freedom Tour. What they do, they go, fearless to them, sorry, they go to his college campuses. Now, here's a deal. They show up a Tennessee State uninvited.

did not seek permission and set up their table. And the whole point, this is what the whole point was. You see right here, DEI should be legal, deport all illegals now. Then they got upset because students grabbed their size and tossed them. And then, of course, they were escorted off campus by security. Now, the videos have been going around social media. Let's just roll it, turn the audio up. Yes!

You're going to stop them! He's stupid. All we did was set up the table. Mega supporters invaded our HBCU. You know it on over here. You called the East Primithin for what we created our knowledge. We created our science. We created our math.

Y'all didn't do shit besides steel. Y'all didn't do anything to your... You guys didn't make for you. You guys touched children. You guys fuck. Showing them the door. We're walking them to the door, y'all. I don't even know how they got on campus.

We're going to figure that out. But I don't know. They need to get like a train. trespass, like, penalty or something because... Sending them off. Tell him his f*** that boy. He thought he was going to come up like Charlie third man at a... Yes.

Yes. Say, good job, TSU. Good job. Say that under my... Okay, so let's be perfectly clear. They were not authorized to be on campus at all. Tennessee State University released a statement. This is what they said.

Today, a group of individuals unaffiliated with Tennessee State University appeared on a campus. without prior notice in accordance with the university policy any demonstration or protest activity requires advanced approval and permitting campus police and staff responded promptly and the individuals were escorted from university grounds without incident at all times TSU students conducted themselves in a professional and respectful manner the safety and well-being of our students faculty and staff remain our highest priority TSU will continue to uphold university policies and ensure that campus remains a safe welcoming and orderly environment for all members of of our community. Now, let me be perfectly clear, y'all. I'm a Texas A&M graduate, and even though I'm a graduate, if I decided to roll up at Texas A&M,

set up a table in front of the Memorial Student Center, and I have language that probably white students there would disagree with, don't you know I'm gonna be approached and told, I'm sorry, who are you, are you authorized to be here? These individuals were not authorized. So why do they do this? to get exactly what they got.

Their whole goal was to go viral. Their whole goal was to say, oh, look at these folks. They're protesting MAGA. This is ridiculous. And they've been on social media, trashing HBCUs, talking about graduation rates,

all those things. That's what their goal is. And so, let me be real clear. You're going to see this happen again. Because, see, these right-wing influencers, okay, what they're going to do is in the mold of Charlie Kirk, They are going to target other HBCUs.

I'm telling you right now, don't think this is a single thing. They are going to do this to other HBCUs. It's all about getting under their skin, and they want to be able to say, oh, we're exposing these universities, and they're going to be saying, oh, we're exposing these state universities. See, the whole deal here is Tennessee state is in Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee. So their whole deal is, hey, guess what? We've got a Republican governor.

We've got a majority of the Republican legislature. And so, what do we do? Let's target them. So what we need to understand, HBCU students, faculty and staff, need to understand this is going to happen again. I guarantee you, it might be South Carolina State, North Carolina A&T, Texas Southern University, Florida, A&M. It might be Albany State. We have no idea what it's going to be. but trust me, this is what these right-wing folks are going to do.

What did I tell y'all? I told y'all at the outset of this year with the inauguration that what they're trying to do is defund black America. It is the targeting of black America. It is everything about black America that they are targeting. See, these fools claim to have these fearless debates. Again, trying to do what Charlie Kirk do. Going to college campuses, we're going to have debates.

We're going to be debating on campus. now y'all it's not their goal their goal is to have frankly rage porn they're going to be able to say oh to their white supporters look at these savages look at these look at the blacks look how they responded and we came on campus we just came on campus and i make america great again hats and with our signs it's the first amendment that's what it's all is about it's freedom of speech that's what their goal is going to be. And so we need to be aware of this. We need to understand what their strategy is and to realize exactly what it is they're going to try to do. And so bottom line is

these folks here, we know exactly who they are. We know exactly who they are. We know exactly how they're going to operate. We know exactly how they stand. And so it's just crazy. It's just crazy. Now, the TSU released a second statement. okay let's go ahead and read this pull that up please let's pull that up and so so again that was

an initial statement then that was a second statement and and again and again I just need y'all to understand what these people are all about so when we reached out the Texas of the Texas Tennessee state we wanted to have of course the folks appear on the show but they actually declined so this is what was released ethnic ethnic disruption said

dear TSU community this afternoon a group not affiliated with TSU identifying themselves as fearless debates appeared on campus

without approval or notice it has been brought to our attention that fearless debates has visited several other universities

across the country at TSU the group carried pro poster boards with messages such as deport all illegals now and

DEI should be illegal the presence of hostile groups in our campus is not merely a political statement is an attempt to draw attention to their views by creating visibility at the expense of Tennessee State University students.

The presence of hostile groups on our campus is not merely a political statement. It is an attempt to draw attention to their views. While we recognize and uphold the Constitution rights to free speech, we also understand that there's a difference between exercising this right and engaging in actions that seek to disrupt demean and incite fear within the community. TSU police department, Metro Police Department, and staff responding swiftly by assessing the situation for any potential threat. de-escalated and escorted the individuals

from university grounds without incident. TSU will not tolerate attempts to undermine the safety or value of our community. We stand in solidarity with our students and staff. We remain committed to ensuring our campus as a sanctuary for dialogue and education. As of this evening, we continue our investigation and are reviewing all video footage

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to learn more. Thank you for your vigilance if we're standing united in the face of provocation. So folks, folks again, just need to understand. So many campuses are frankly wide open. You can literally walk on a lot of college campuses. They're not bound by gates and things along those lines. So it's no surprise this happened. Andrew Clark is a magic partner of District Legal Group of D.C. He joins us right now. Andrew, glad to have you here. Like I said, Andrew, this is real clear what's going on. They want viral moments. They want to be able to ramp up their right-wing MAGA base to say, look at this. We're unwelcome on this campus.

Republican lawmakers, y'all should penalize them. Yeah, and the interesting thing that I saw here is I think that they weren't just looking for a response, Roland, they were looking for a violent response because they wanted the violence. They wanted an uprising, and we're just not giving it to them. This school has 8,000 students. And like you said, it was inevitable that people were going to be perturbed by the fact that they were on campus. They knew this going in. But they didn't want to really debate anybody about anything.

You see them walking around on live. These do not look like people that are seasoned debaters that are going to make their points. They weren't setting up fielding questions. They wanted to go there for a spectacle. And they wanted to go there for a spectacle because they thought that they were going to be the sacrificial lambs. they thought that they were going to get beat up by these 8,000 plus students at the school, and it did not happen. And I commend all of the students at that school for not taking the bait

and for driving them out and even some of them yelling facts at them as to why their positions are complete nonsense. Yeah, I just, and again, we need to understand this is going to be the case. And so how students react is going to be critically important. Absolutely, absolutely, because as you said, it's going to be in other schools. There are other schools that are going to experience this. And if they follow this blueprint here, we're going to keep seeing these videos. They're going to keep getting escorted off of campuses. And like you said, it's going to be a free speech type of debate.

But then it's hypocritical because we have the issue that we're dealing with, well, we were dealing with Jimmy Kimmel, right? they're being hypocritical in that respect. But I think that the reaction, as long as it's nonviolent, and as long as it's spoken word, right, and not physical violence, then we are going to carry the day with this

strategy. Yep. Yep. So we know exactly what it is these folks are doing, and it's clear. All right, I'm going to go to a break. We'll be back right here, rolling mark unfiltered on the Blackshot Network. They said the quiet part out loud. Black votes are a threat, so they erased them.

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Lawler Lumer, one of Donald Trump's closest advisors, launched a racist attack against Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, posting this. She, of course, is in Trump's ear consuline, so go ahead and pull it up. This is the tweet right here. It hurts my heart that we have we have ghetto black bitches who hate America

serving in Congress. Now, she was angry because of Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett's response on various shows to the shooting death of Charlie Kirk. Now, she posted that. Then she posted that she doubled down mocking Crockett as a so-called D.E.I. Shaniqua, a racist, sexist, swipe, meant to discredit her work. Now, Luma has a long history of hate speech. It has been banned from multiple platforms. Again, Donald Trump calls her a free spirit and a patriot. That's who she is.

Y'all can roll some of this crap. that would ensure that the U.S. court, public agency, or any other legal institution never enforces or legitimizes Sharia law. And, yes, there actually is Sharia law, places like Minnesota, places like Michigan. But now you may have seen this video that has since gone viral in Texas. This video went viral several weeks ago, but I'm going to show you several examples of Sharia law here in America because somebody of you are like, wait, what, Sharia law here? and the president himself mentioned Sharia law during his address today at the United Nations General Assembly and said that we can't allow that here in the United States.

Let's go ahead and get Representative Randy finds legislation up on the screen here. So again, I just want you all to know that Donald Trump listens to her all the time. Donald Trump has taken her advice. She's actually led Donald Trump to fire a number of people from the federal government. But this is who these folks are. They can't make an argument based on substance, so they have to resort to racist attacks. So, Andrew, none of us are shocked by the loomers of the world. None of us are shocked how they act, how they respond.

And so this is Donald Trump, this is bagger, this is the Republican Party. Yeah, we're not shocked, but it's still jarring to hear in such a public space. people speak so negatively about another black women. I mean, black women make up 4% of Congress, but if you see the clips, it's almost every single time that they open their mouth, they're attacked. And Jasmine Crockett is somebody that is unapologetically black,

and she's unapologetically in her space. And she speaks the truth. She speaks through facts. Now, sometimes people might think it's, insulting, but she still is speaking through facts. And the way that she's presenting it, I guess they would like her to not be as affluent and not be as articulate as she's speaking.

But she's a very, very powerful woman. And Loomer attacking her is just so, in my eyes, it's very disgusting. And it should be, I'm glad that she's kicked off of these platforms because it's something that should never, never be seen, especially by young impressions. children.

But this is what they do. And so, again, they can't make an argument on the merits, so they have to resort to race. Exactly. And every time that they resort to race, for us, at Roland, because we've been around for a while, we know that it's the tactic of, I can't beat you on the merits, so I'm going to go and attack you on race. We saw it with the Bertha movement, with Obama.

He was so articulate, so intelligent that they couldn't do anything. that they couldn't do anything but just attack, well, maybe he's not really an American citizen and wake up because this has got to stop. This division in 2025 has got to stop. It is not black versus white. These are socioeconomic issues. And if white folks would stop voting against their own interests,

maybe our country could progress. Yeah, but what they're doing is they're appealing to their base. That's the whole deal. The reality is these folks in their racial language, that appeals to the right-wing base. And Roland, the right-wing base, we have to really examine who the right-wing base is, right?

Because if the right-wing base are all racist, if we're just gonna categorize them as all racist, then how did Donald Trump win the election? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's not categorize, see, it's not, see, this is, this is not the issue. The issue is not categorizing all of the right wing base is racist. The issue is that races are very comfortable in the right wing base. So the tent of the right wing welcomes the racist. Now that, now that is a thought, that is a thought that is chilling to me because

a Republican. But it's not chilling. David Duke ran as a Republican in Louisiana. Mitch McConnell has a gleeful picture standing in front of a Confederate flag. When the January 6th, white domestic terrorists attack the United States Capitol, they were waving Trump and Confederate flags. This is who they are. The only party that defends Confederate statues and monuments are Republicans. Donald Trump, Pete Hexeth, brought back the Robert E. Lee painting at West Point. They brought back the naming of these bases. They embrace that racism in the past. They want to limit the telling of the real history of this country to resort back to his story. So the bottom line is here. And so they love talking about racist Democrats and the Klan

and things along those lines. Well, let's be real clear. The folks who were racist Southern Democrats, they're now Republicans. And now you got to think about is it the party of racist? Because if Democrats were doing this and reporting this, then you have to kind of anybody that identifies, right, you can't say that

oh, I identify with their tax policy so I'm a Republican and ignore everything else that they're No, no, no, no, no, no, they do. They do, they do. I was playing golf and politicians came up and the white guy goes, yeah, I can't stay in love of the crazy

stuff he does, but I'm voting for him because of his policies. So, no, they are making a concerted effort. The folks who vote for Donald Trump are making a concerted effort to actually vote, to make a concerted effort to ignore what he says about women, to ignore what he says about black people, to ignore what he says about, oh, all undocumented workers, they're all criminals, They all came out of prisons. Listen, a white woman made up the story about Haitians eating cats and dogs. And what happened was her animal was actually found.

She later apologized. They made it up. But guess what? Donald Trump was on the airplane with Laura Lumer flying to Philadelphia, and it's no shock that that's when he brought it up in the debate against Vice President McConnell Harris. So this is who they are. They know that race works on the Republican.

inside. You press the button of race, white conservatives react. And it shouldn't it shouldn't be like that in 20205. That's the point that I'm making that in 2025 we should be able to move past race. You can't.

That race is not really the deciding. Hold on. Andrew, Andrew, Andrew, Andrew, I'm sorry. I know you want this nice Pollyanna world. That world is not here. Lee Atwater, the person who was behind the election of President

George H.W. Bush, who was later named the head of Republican Party, that individual, Lee Atwater said, hey, we don't, it's recorded. It's recorded. He said, we don't have to use the N-word anymore. There's other

language that we can use that appeals to our base. He said it. So every single time now that we have a Republican candidate, they're going to insert race to be able to divide their base. I don't think they're dividing their base. No, they're not dividing their base.

What they're doing is they are inciting their base. Listen, you can, you can, you can campaign on race. Where did Ronald, wait, where did Ronald Reagan start his presidential campaign? The same place with the same county with the same county with the three civil rights workers were killed. Ronald Reagan could have picked anywhere in the country. Nope. He chose to do it in the county where Cheney, Schwerner, and Goodman were brutally murdered by the KKK. Yep, he did that. That was Reagan. It was Reagan. So it's no surprise that Reagan refused to veto. Hi there. This is Josh Clark from the Stuff You Should Know podcast. If you've been thinking,

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Visit Toyota.com slash NFL now to learn more. The anti-partite bill, that's no shock. It's no surprise. He opposed the federal holiday of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It's no surprise that he made up the welfare queen story of a black woman who was stealing money on welfare. Okay, that's who he was. Now, he might have had a great smile. He made it be an old, oh, the Gipper and all this sort of stuff.

like that, but it doesn't mean that he wasn't racist. And see, what we've done in this country, see, what we've done is we have to understand there are racist and there are people who practice racial politics, and that's the difference. And so we have to recognize these things. And that's why I'm just saying that they are who they are. They are who they are. And they are going to use issue of race. you can be talking to a group of white Republicans.

This happened in Chicago. There were a group of black Republicans in Illinois who were presenting data trying to get the Republicans' party to appeal to African Americans. After the presentation, you know, the first thing the white Republicans said, now we're not going to support the increase in welfare.

Black Republicans look at each other like, did any of us bring up welfare? But that's state of mind. Bro, that's just who they are. And it's, and for me, I think that I actually am going to go back on something that I said. Based off of what the Republicans are saying now outwardly, because they really aren't hiding it anymore, if you still identify with the Republican Party, you are accept, you can't separate yourself from that view. You can't keep saying it's about tax policy. You can't keep saying that it's about their worldviews or their nationalism.

This is simply they're going after race. They're attacking black cities. They're attacking black mayors. They're going after race. So I think at this point, if you're part of the Republican Party, then you've got to accept that you're for racism and you're for these racist ideology. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. they don't, no, they're not going to do that. They're not going to do that.

Again, they're going to say, oh, how dare you? How dare you bring up race? They're not going to say that, oh, well, you know what, when it comes to, you know, the death penalty, no, you just can't sit here and make this thing about race. You can't do that. This is who they are. And so, again, for the people who don't know,

who unfamiliar with this, go to my iPad. This is what I call the Atwater tapes. Go. I want you to listen, turn the audio up. The actual words of what the top Republican strategy is the lately after. Here's how I would approach that issue as a statistician. I know as a psychologist, which I'm not. Is how abstract you handle the race thing.

In other words, you start out and now you want to quote me. You start out in 1954 by saying nigger, nigger, nigger. By 1968, you can't say nigger, that hurts your backfire. So you say stuff like force busing, states rights, and all that stuff. You hear that? He said, 1954, 1954, you would say nigger, nigger, nigger. 68, you can't say nigger, nigger, nigger. He said so, what do we start saying?

Forrest busing. States rights. Keep listening. and you're getting so abstract now you're talking about cutting taxes and all of these things you're talking about are totally economic things and the byproduct of them is blacks get hurt worse than white and subconsciously maybe that is part of it I'm not saying that but I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract and that coded that we're doing away with the racial problem one way or the other you follow me because obviously sitting around saying we want to cut taxes we want to cut this and we want it's much more abstract than even the busing thing and a hell a lot more abstract than never knew. So any way you look at it, the race is coming on the back run. That was Lee Atwater.

The Republican Party has been executing that strategy ever since. It started off as a southern strategy and it has continued ever since. and now the key term is DEI and the attack of DEI Yeah, no, no, no, that's the latest No, no, no, no, no. In 2021, it was BLM terrorist.

2022, critical race theory. 2003, woke. 2024, DEI. When they say DEI hire. Before that, it was affirmative action. Before that, it was quota. before that it was nigger they're all associated

and now it's race everything has to be race neutral which I think is going to be going into 2026 that which is nonsense yeah yeah yeah so I'm just saying we just have to understand the game that they're playing

just like they're trying to play the game right now oh no I went back and listen to what Charlie Kirk had to say and he no y'all are taking it out of context No, we're not, but they're trying to explain it all away. That's what is going on. So I just need people just to realize that, listen, the strategy is never changed.

It has never gone away. It simply morphs into something else. And what did Lee Atwater say there? He said it was the abstract. He said, if we keep it in the abstract. He said, if we talk about cutting taxes, he said, that's going to hurt black people. We start talking about a smaller government. He understands what that means.

because one out of five African Americans work for government. We just have to, I mean, one out of the five of every federal employee is African American. We just need to understand what's going on here. And so the problem is with white mainstream media, they don't want to deal with the issue of race. They want to say, oh, no, these white people in the Midwestern states, the fly over states. No, it's economic anxiety. No, it's not. It's in the data.

They're actual feelings. And so we just have to be honest The attacks on the immigration Ain't got done to do with sitting in it It's white fear That's why I call my book What I called it. And so again I need you to understand

Pull a book up I need you understand why the photo I chose It has a photo from January 6th White man has his arms outstretched And what that symbolizes is all of this is ours All of this is ours All of this is our

That's what that photo symbolizes, and that's what this is all about. And so, unlike these other folks in mainstream media, we just call it what it is. We're real clear on what it is, and what's happening right now in America, this whole white Christian nationalism, it all boils down to they are scared to death that they are going to be the minority in this country. And that's what they can't handle. These white men, these white conservative Christian men, they want their white women. to shut up, stop working, stop going to college, and just lay your last down, get pregnant, have babies, and get in the kitchen.

That's what they want. It is a race policy because they can't stand the fact that you have an increasing number of Latinos, African-American, they can't handle it. Because in their view, this is America, it's ours. And from that movie, a movie I always show at the Good Shepherd when he said the rest of you are just visiting. That is their view.

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Raphael Joseph alleges the abuse beginning December, 22, culminating in April, 2003 during the fraternity's so-called hell night. Joseph claims he was beaten so severely with wooden paddles that he was rushed to the hospital. He spent nearly 11 days there underwent surgery, received a blood transfusion, and had to re-learn how to walk. The law said alleges that university officials were aware of the abuse but failed to intervene or discipline those responsible. His attorney, Dr. Quina McKenzie Jones, is right now. I'm glad to have you on the show. So, okay, this was two years ago. So why is this now being reported now?

Was it previously reported? Why is the lawsuit being filed two years later? Roland, thank you so much for having me tonight. The lawsuit is being reported now because of accountability and lack of action. We've gone through the proper process of getting to where we are, but this is the beginning stages of trying to get some sort of accountability and action. Okay, so when you say, Yeah, lack of accountability.

So what does that mean? Is the chapter still in operation as anyone being suspended or kicked out of the fraternity? Are they still on campus? It's my understanding that it's a possibility that they may not be on campus at this time, but when the incident first arose, they were definitely on campus. So you, but you don't know if today they have a chapter on campus? That's correct. That's correct. Okay. Was there any response from the fraternity?

I take it and first of all, when were you brought on to this case? I was brought on from the onset of the case, so I've been alone for the entire ride of the treatment and healing process and everything of that sort. So has there been any response from Omega Sci-Fi at all? No. No response. So, many, y'all have contacted the national office. They've not responded at all. No, we haven't received a response. They...

No, no, go ahead. Go ahead. Yeah, they haven't. We tried to, you know, reach out to them and get a response, but there's, like I said, no accountability, no action whatsoever. So, okay. So when this happened, did he pursue charges? Did he call the cops to say, I've been physically assaulted? I want to press charges.

Well, unfortunately, I'm not at liberty to discuss the criminal aspects of the case that would be left up to the prosecution. But according to the complaint, he's seeking damages for the wrongful. eggs that were taken in a civil matter. No, no, no, I understand that. I understand this is a civil lawsuit. What I'm asking is this took place two years ago, okay? And so it took place, he said it culminated on hell night

in April 223. He spent 11 days in jail. Did he reach out to authorities to file a, to press charges against the individuals that actually beat him, or allegedly beat him?

I'm not sure if he, press charges, but it's my understanding that there were some criminal aspects to the case, but I don't deal with the criminal side, I left into the prosecution. No, no, no, I understand you don't do with the criminal side, but the point I'm making is

was anybody ever charged, indicted, prosecuted for what took place to him? They were charged. Who exactly I'm not sure, but I do not know if an actual trial has been held or any type of

sentencing. Okay, so you're saying that there were folks who were actually charged. All right, fine. I mean, we'll look that up. But again, I would think that, first of all, that would actually bolster your civil lawsuit if that was the case, because if they were actually convicted, I mean, that actually helps your case. So none of that is in your lawsuit. No, no, none of this lawsuit doesn't deal with anything criminal.

Okay, no, I understand that doesn't deal with in the criminal what I'm saying is, but nothing regarding that is even in the lawsuit. Is he still enrol at the school? He's not, unfortunately, due to the circumstances and all of the events that arose after the incident. Hi there, this is Josh Clark from the Stuff You Should Know podcast. If you've been thinking, man alive, I could go for some good true crime podcast episodes, then have we got good news for you.

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you leave. The message from NHTSA and the ad council. Hey, this is Matt Jones. Now I'm Drew Franklin, and this is NFL cover zero. We're just here to try to give you an NFL perspective a little bit different. Did you see this? Colts Pretzel. That was my other big takeaway from that game. What was that? Oh, my. We think NFL coverage should be informative and entertaining. And twice a week, that is exactly what you're going to get. Listen to NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin on the IHeart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Toyota, the official automotive partner of the NFL. Visit Toyota.com slash NFL now to learn more. The lack of sincerity and just trying to make him feel comfortable from the university and the organization, he had to withdraw from the school. Did he enroll somewhere else? Eventually he did, but that led him to be about two years behind, and I think he may have had to even switch his measure because it wasn't available at the school that he went to.

Andrew, got a question? Yes. In terms of the theory of the case, can you talk to us about for the civil case, the counts and what the theory is on liability? Yes. In terms of USM, it's all about Title IX. We're alleging that, according to the complaint, we're alleging that USM does not take hazing against males seriously. they take female hazing cases more seriously than they take male hazing cases um according to the complaint usm brushes off male hazing as boys will be boys as opposed to if this were a female they would have taken more accountability in action this is the the whole case is about they knew that this was going on This is not the first time that this has happened on USM campus. This is not the first time that it involved a member of Omega Sapp-Fi.

Just a year before, one of the initiatives actually came out at his probate on crutches. This was visible for everyone to see no. And, I mean, we're just alleging failure to supervise, failure to investigate, just not protecting my client's civil rights. And also, is this also against Omega-Syafi fraternity or just the school? We listed both in the complaint. We actually listed multiple parties within Omega-Sy-Fi-5, but yes, Omega-Sy-Fi-Fi-Fi-Faternity is a part of this action.

When you say multiple parties, do you mean members of New A, Yes, we listed the local chapter, the local grad chapter, a couple of the local organizations that may be under an umbrella. We listed everybody that we feel played a role in this action. All right then. We'll certainly keep us abreast of the outcome of this case. Mr. McKinsey, thanks a lot. Thank you. Folks, last night, Jimmy Kimmel was back.

on air issued an emotional monologue, about 28-minute monologue. And it was, of course, total time was 28 minutes. Of course, he became visibly emotional, as he recounted. The support he received from folks all across the country in the world, he emphasized the importance of free speech and sought to clarify his intentions regarding his comments regarding Charlie Kurt. Disturbed individual, that was really the opposite of the point

I was trying to make. But I understand that to some that felt either ill-timed or unarmed. or maybe both. And for those who think I did point a finger, I get why you're upset. If the situation was reversed, there was a good chance I'd have felt the same way. I have many friends and family members on the other side who I love and remain close to, even though we don't agree on politics at all. I don't think the murderer who shot Charlie Kirk represents anyone.

This was a sick person who believed violence was a solution, and it isn't ever. And also selfishly, I am a person who gets a lot of threats. I get many ugly and scary threats against my life, my wife, my kids, my coworkers, because of what I choose to say. And I know those threats don't come from the kind of people on the right who I know and love. So that's what I wanted to say on that subject. But I don't want to make this about me because, and I know this is what people say when they make things about them. But I really don't. This show, this show is not important.

What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this. I mean, I've had the opportunity to meet and spend time with comedians and talk show hosts from countries like Russia, countries in the Middle East, who told me they would get thrown in prison for making fun of those in power, them worse than being thrown in prison.

They know how lucky we are here. Our freedom to speak is what they admire most about this country. And that's something I'm embarrassed to say I took for granted until they pulled my friend Stephen off the air and tried to coerce the affiliates who run our show in the cities that you

live in to take my show off the air. That's not legal. That's not American. That is un-American. And it is so dangerous. Now, the White House has spent lots of time claiming, oh my God, they had nothing to do with this, that they're not going, that this was really all about Disney. Really?

This is what the twice-impeached criminally committed con man Donald Trump actually posted on his ridiculous little truth social. I can't believe ABC fake news gave Jimmy Kimball's job back. The White House was told by ABC that his show was canceled. Something happened between then and now because his audience is gone and his talent was never there. Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who's done? not funny, and who puts the network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat garbage.

He is yet another arm of the DNC, and to the best of my knowledge, that would be a major illegal campaign contribution, which is BS. I think we're going to test ABC out on this. Let's see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 million. This one sounds even more lucrative. A true bunch of losers let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad ratings. So, Andrew, this is Trump actually contradicting the lie.

as his own people were telling. Yeah, how does he say that he had nothing to do with it, but then he says, well, let's try to get some more money out of them for doing it. It makes absolutely no sense. And then the stream of consciousness, which is clearly a trademark when you know that he's actually the one tweeting, is something that at this point, I don't think that anybody is taking this seriously except for the right. But the problem that we have here is now, Jimmy, Kimmel in the clip that you just showed seems a little bit scared in watching his words,

because I've watched him in the past, and he usually is very confident in the words that he's using, and it seems like here that he's being very careful, and I think that that's a sign that the First Amendment is eroding, that now every time he speaks, he's going to wonder, is this something that's going to land the network in a lawsuit? Is this something that's going to get my job taken away from me again. And I think that all journalists and comedians, because that's what he is at the end of the day.

He's a comedian that they're going to all in national television, they're all going to start changing their fact. They're going to start changing their act. And unfortunately, the jokes may not be as funny because of it.

Well, look, we know how ridiculous he is. We know how shameful he is and so the right is really just playing this up, loving this and that's just who these

people are. So it's utterly ridiculous in terms of how they're responding but it's but it's no shock it's no shock and so these people just frankly meaningless to me

whatsoever and so that's what they do. If you want to talk about stupid and how petty childish sophomoric Donald Trump is so this idiot has now unveiled this portrait this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this is despicable what he's done so let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me show you all this give me one second so I saw this earlier on

the Twitter feed of this Margo Martin, who was a special assistant to the president and communications advisor. So, you know, Trump, who is just doing just stupid stuff. So, you know, that walk to the White House, we've often seen videos, pictures, you know, in movies as well. And usually, so you have to colonnate, got the columns, and you got the wall. So Donald Trump decided, you know, he can't just, he can't help himself. has to slap something on any wall. So this idiot is now put up what is called a presidential

walk of fame. Okay, come on, go my iPad. I don't get it. But look how just stupid this is. But I want to show you how childish he is. So then you see,

for some reason, I don't get it. He decides to elevate the Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, then his ridiculous photo. Then what he's done, he is so trash. He's so trash. Instead of a photo of President Joe Biden,

he puts up a photo of the auto pen with Joe Biden's signature. And then we get to see his shameful, ugly mug. Andrew, this is what I mean by a childish, despicable human being. I mean, I was going to ask first because I think I'm still believing that I'm dealing with a logical No, you're not. No, you're not.

You weren't four years. You weren't eight years ago. You're not dealing with it now. These people are childish, pathetic, and they're despicable. And they're just coming up with new ways just to push the envelope. You know, somebody in a meeting had to have said hey look we're not going to put up his picture because we hate him that much because he beat us

so we're going to go ahead and just put up a signature instead right and let's make fun of him that way and then also you know tilt things up so that everyone knows who's at the top because I'm not at the top because I'm the best right I don't have a very good Donald Trump impression but I imagine that that's how the meeting went there was no opposition everybody probably had a good chuckle out of it and then they pushed it out to the masses to disrespect a very good president and Joseph R. Biden. So I'm not surprised, but every time I see things like this, I always am just like this. They just keep pushing the envelope further and further away from being professional and from being actual politicians

and government officials that we can actually take serious. Well, we can't take this one is serious. All right, got to go to a break. We come back. Donald Trump is constantly attacking educators. So are all these other MAGA folks all across the country, the National Education Association, the NEA. They're doing all they can to fight back. We'll talk to their president. Next, right here, Roland Martin unfiltered on the Black Star Network. They said the quiet part out loud. Black votes are a threat. So they erased them. After the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, Republican legislatures moved fast. New voter ID laws. Polling place shutdowns. Purges of black voters from the

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What's up? It's the MCEO, Talib Kuali. You are checking out Roland Martin unfiltered. There's a massive attack against public education in this country by, the far right MAGA, Donald Trump. They want to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. They're cutting grants. They're cutting access.

They're getting rid of meals for low-income students, you name it. And they claim that this is all in the interest of improving education. Then you've got Ryan Walters, a superintendent of Oklahoma, who says, oh, his great idea is to mandate every high school have a turning point USA chapter on their campus. Hmm, how is that going to improve the low education and the low test scores and passage rates of Oklahoma? You see, this is what these folks all about. And what it is, again, it is to drive and to enrage their particular base as... Hi there, this is Josh Clark from the Stuff You Should Know podcast.

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Glad to have you here. These snap cuts for folk who don't understand, and I think a lot of people don't understand. And I remember having a teacher at my high school, Jack Case High School. I had gone back, and I was talking to the faculty there, and we were talking. And she said, people do not understand what it's like to be in a classroom. with a group of angry children. And she said, and then when you find out why they're angry, she said, when you had one meal the previous day,

when you come to school and you haven't had breakfast, when you understand that life, she said, it's a whole different deal. When I worked in Chicago, you know, the amount of money the city of Chicago was spending to literally send food home with kids because they were starving. this is a real thing

and for these so-called pro-lifers they don't give a damn their whole deal is just cut it Roland it's good to be here with you again you're absolutely right and we are fighting to ensure

that our children eat who doesn't want to feed the babies Roland who doesn't want to feed the babies? The Republican Party. Clearly, because when they pass that big, horrible, really bad, no good bill, it cut major programs that impact our kids directly.

So you started with food because that's as basic as it gets, right? If kids come to school hungry, they can't learn. If kids come to school hungry, not only can they not learn, but they're more likely to interrupt the learning of other students. If kids come to school hungry, then we know that they are not focused, not academically. They can work collaboratively with other students. We know that we have evidence. And by the way, Roland, we also have evidence that they are not successful academically.

Not that we actually need evidence of that. Do we actually need evidence that when people are hungry, they can't focus. So this administration, as you know, cut $186 billion from the student nutrition program. And that means that 18 million children will lose school meals. And we all saw it, right? And it's like we forgot. We all saw it in COVID when the light was shining. The light of inequities around everything was showing. We saw it. It wasn't only our kids. by the way, who came up to those places where our teachers and school bus drivers and food service workers were handing out meals, it was our families too. We have an issue in this country with hunger. And when we're talking about cutting money for our kids to be able to eat, not only is that not okay, but we have to understand what that means, not just for the hungry child.

but for all of our children. And again, when we talk about SNAP benefits, I think people really are confused. Some people seem to have this idea that we're just giving people, you know, $1,000, $2,000, $3,000 a month to buy food. That's not what the average SNAP benefit is. It's not.

And let me add to that too, Ron, because you know, I know you've heard this too. that many people don't believe they benefit from SNAP benefits. But let me just point out two states. In Texas, over three million kids depend on those benefits. That's two-thirds, two-thirds of our children in that state. When we go to Mississippi, it's the majority, vast majority of the students that are depending on that. And then when we add to it, the cuts to Medicaid, most people don't know that over 40% of our kids get their health care from Medicaid.

So combined, how in the world do we think our kids can be successful, not only in learning, but in life? Well, guess what? They're not going to have those opportunities and access. They're not going to advance academically or be able to work collaboratively and solve these wicked problems that are facing this country. They're not going to be able to do that if they are hungry and they don't and they're not healthy and they're not healthy. I'm sitting here looking at this is a CBS news story. Give me one second. I'm going to pull this up because I think people need to understand.

They lay out about 2.4 million people or about 6% of enrollees could lose access to SNAP. Their story says millions more will see their monthly benefit amounts shrink because of other changes mandated by the law, such as a new restriction on how individuals' benefits are calculated. The total pool of people who will either be cut from SNAP or see smaller monthly benefits could reach 22. 2.3 million U.S. families, according to a July analysis from the Urban Institute, about 42 million individuals in 22.3 million households received food stamps in 22.23, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture Report on the program. And again, it's food.

And these folks have been going through all the, you can't buy certain food items, how dare you, you be buying lobster, what are you doing, stuff along those lines. and you just sit here and you just shake your head and you're like, what the hell is wrong with you? And here's the other deal. A whole bunch of these people, because see, again, a lot of these average white people are here thinking, oh, that's the black folks,

they're helping illegal immigrants. No, no, no. They're cutting the benefits of poor white people. It's one of the reasons why rural and I talk about the outsized impact in rural communities. And we have rural white communities, we have rural black communities, rural indigenous communities, and the impact is outsides because those communities depend on funding from federal government more than others.

And let me add this to rolling, because this is something that a lot of people don't know. When the Trump administration decided to cut everything that supports the American people, some of the things that folks didn't know, that is directly tied to help. food. And that is just cut to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. People don't know that those cuts actually impacted our schools in this way. We were not getting the funding that we had, that we had gotten previously for creating and making healthy foods. We had done so much work rolling during the Biden administration to really not only talk about feeding kids, but making sure that they had healthy foods.

So during that administration, we really dug into what's called scratch cooking. And you and I know what that is. And not everybody knows what that is. You know, Roland, my mom was the head cook at a Head Start Center in Philly. And I'm going to tell you, my mother could do some stuff

with government-issued cheese that would make you want to slap your muck. Not mine, of course. Every official from the school district who could find their way to her head start center for that Thursday, that Wednesday Thanksgiving meal, because she knew how to do scratch cooking. And the U.S. Department of Agriculture was providing funds to schools so we could teach our food service workers how to do that kind of scratch cooking so they could work with healthy ingredients and fresh foods. cut, cut, cut. So it's not only the food itself, but it is

the quality of the food to Roland. And that's what we're talking about when we talk about not doing what we must so that our kids can learn and they can live and they can thrive. This was a graphic in that CBS story is pretty interesting.

And so here's what's crazy. You're talking about snap benefits on the high end of $231. a month. And it shows that each state, people who are expected to lose at least 25 bucks a month, people, some people can lose more. We're not talking about lots of money. That's what's crazy. But guess what? If you were getting $231 or you were getting $100 and you got $25 cut, yeah, that's a big number. That's a huge cut. It is a huge cut. And one of the things that we've been doing at the N.A. Rowland is, you know, when people hear you quote those numbers, it doesn't,

it doesn't become real for them. They can't, you know, who understands billions of dollars? Well, there are some people who understand that, but the average person doesn't understand that. So one of the things that we did at the NIA was that we broke those, those cuts, whether we're talking about snap cuts, or we're talking about Title I cuts for our students from low-income families, or we're talking about cuts to special education, making sure that we're supporting our students with disabilities. And we broke it down, Rowland, from those billions of dollars, state by state, and then digging even further congressional district by congressional district.

So the people could talk about it in real numbers, so they understood, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, $186 billion. But let me tell you what that means in your school. let me tell you how many kids in your school will not eat. Let me tell you how many kids in your community will go hungry. That's what we have to do. And I invite your listeners to go to n.a.org slash protect so you can get more information and you can break it down because it's got to be, we've got to engage in that, you know, organizing 101 where we're having those conversations with individual people so they understand how it's impacting their. students and then how

that impacts all students. Absolutely. The battle continues. And as we say, elections have consequences. And so for the folks who thought this wasn't going to happen, it did. And trust me, Republicans, they're not done. They actually want to get rid of snap

all together. So folk need to understand what's really at stake here. They do. And let me tell you something, Roland, they may try to silence us, but that's not going to happen. We will lift up our voices, and we will tell the stories of real children and real educators and real parents who are fighting for a public education system that is at the cornerstone of this democracy, and we will not stop. All right. Becky Pringle, we appreciate it. Thanks a lot.

Thanks, rolling. All right, folks. Going to break. What happens when a candidate running for governor talking about education says, segregation. Not bad. That happened in New Jersey. I'm going to play it for you. We come back.

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to improve the state's segregated school districts, a problem rooted in longstanding housing discrimination and the number of small districts. Would you continue fighting this in court, and what do you think New Jersey can do to achieve less segregated schools? We do have the most segregated schools, but I wonder if we would be having this discussion if the performance of schools with predominantly black student populations were outperforming schools with predominantly white populations. We need to get back on day one to improving all of our schools, and I intend to do that with a high-impact curriculum. New Jersey recently slipped from 2 to 12 on the national report cards. Most of that's because we haven't made up for all the learning loss following the pandemic when Phil Murphy and the Democrats shut down our schools for two years.

We opened up our nursing homes, but we closed down our schools. Louisiana and Mississippi have moved significantly, Louisiana from 48 to 32, with a high-impact curriculum. What is that exactly? If your child is behind grade level and any of the critical life skills like reading, writing, math, that child will spend the next market period in the one thereafter doing nothing other than reading, writing math, to get them on grade level. The data is clear. I'm a data-driven guy as an MBA-CPA.

If the child is not on grade level for reading, writing, math by the end of eighth, grade, more than likely they will be under-employed their entire life. So while that lawsuit proceeds, let's fix the schools on day one with a high-impact curriculum. So I spoke before about county-based school systems, because that can help address the segregation that we have going on in the state. It's also the way we have some of our best-performing high schools. But we need to do more. We need high-intensity to. because we know there's learning loss. And that's a special kind of tutoring that I've supported here in the state to make sure students get back on track.

We also need to address third grade reading and make sure we're pushing in phonics-based reading. We know that's the best way to help children read, and it's a reversal of the way reading has been taught lately. And we know third grade is that critical inflection point. Because if you're not reading at grade level by third grade, you're not going to be able to move on very well to your math and social studies and history work if you can't read your homework. So in these ways we can really push in as a state, get better outcomes, and address the segregation that we have going on here. Could you qualify if you're going to, with the lawsuit, clarify.

Could you clarify if you're going to continue to pursue the lawsuit? I don't think it's the government that's pursuing the lawsuit. The entity that's pursuing the lawsuit, I'm not going to get in the way. What I'm going to do on day one is fix our educational system. It's not the executive branch that's pursuing that law. lawsuit. They're fighting the lawsuit. The state is fighting the lawsuit. Yeah, we're not going to do that if they let the law let the lawsuit proceed. But I'll tell you what, I was in Newark this morning at a House of Worship that has the largest black congregation in the state. And you know what

they said to me? Fix our school system. Fix our school system. So there's a number of metrics that tell us if a school system is failing. Attendance rate, graduation rate, performance on standardized test, readiness for career if you're not going to high school. going to college. If a school system is failing in two, three, or four out of four of those categories, that district, that community needs choice. I'm going to give them choice. My opponent is not going to give them choice. Mikey Sherrill, but 30 seconds for that, 30 seconds. I think what you just heard is a very clear difference. I care deeply about our school system, and I'm going to make sure it performs better. I'm going to make sure that we're educating children for the future,

especially with AI coming. But I'm also going to attack the segregation that we have going on in the state. My opponent doesn't care about that. He just wants to talk about the schools, but has not come forward with any solution for the segregation. I care about both. That's what I'm going to do as governor. We could integrate the Norc school system tomorrow, and it's not going to improve student performance. We need to change the curriculum. final thought I think you heard again

that he has no intention of addressing the segregation in this state Andrew I thought it was interesting well you know this was reverse and it was nearly all black schools performing at the top wouldn't be having this conversation

yes we would because white folks would be losing their minds absolutely and the issue that I think both of those candidates in that clip did not address is the fact that it matters what zip code you are in is what school you end up going to so if someone can afford to live in a certain zip code they don't have

the opportunity to go to a school that might be better funded and then the other issue of are you underfunding these schools and certain zip codes and then you're giving more money to schools and other zip codes because it seemed like he was going to continue that same trend. It didn't seem like he wanted any kind of equality. He said he wanted to change the curriculum, but he talked nothing about the funding issue and the systematic racism that's happening in New Jersey that's preventing that's that's that's that's um that's promoting this segregation. Yeah, I just I'm like, dude, come on. We know what the hell's going on when it comes to these schools.

Let's not play any of these little silly games. Speaking of silly, y'all, the internet is just always showing themselves out. So some folks put together this satirical video of a lot of these Republican talking points, and I saw it, and they

use AI for a lot of it. I thought it was absolutely hilarious, so what the hell? Here we go. Sir, the bill cut off your access to crutches. What now? It's fine. If billionaires walk taller, I'll crawl lower. That's freedom. My tuition tripled. No more federal aid.

Still glad we voted for them. Yeah, totally worth it. Billionaires need a tax break. The big, beautiful bill shut our hospital down. Closest ones out the state. Still glad we voted for him. Hell yeah. I might even become a martyr. What are the perks of a cross-country trip is stopping for a meal and meeting the friendly folks who make up the heart and soul of our country. Hello, we're from the Northeast. Okay, then. We'll do 55 pancakes to go.

Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump!

Trump! Trump! So I'll be losing my health insurance. Don't worry about your son's cancer. We've got thoughts and prayers. Billionaires needed another yacht. They raised our taxes and cut Medicare. I'm going to die.

Still glad we voted for him. You're right. Anything for our king. And now a word from our sponsors. Side effects of this budget may include homelessness, poverty, and bankruptcy. Please consult your local representative. Andrew, I thought that was great. I mean, because it's right, all these people here voting against their own interests

and they should be exposed. they should and kudos who ever did that video I thought that that was great and you know absolutely just voting against your interests and that just put it together so

perfectly I thought that was great yep I thought it was on point speaking on point how American media covered Donald Trump's stupid speech to the United Nations was really pathetic and this fool is still going on and on we're going to figure out

you know, who turned my teleprompter off and the escalator stopped working. I'm like, like your petulant little child. But the folks at the BBC, they had no problem eviscerating Donald Trump, showing the level of pettiness and stupidity and the lie after lie after lie, if y'all want to see

how mainstream media in America should be reporting on this, watch what the BBC did. President Trump has addressed world leaders at the United Nations in New York for the first time in five years. In an extraordinary speech, he took aim at European countries saying they were going to hell because of immigration and a failed experiment of open borders. He criticised London's mayor, Sir Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital, and said London wanted to go to Sharia law. A spokesman for the mayor said they wouldn't dignify the president's appalling and bigoted comments with a response. Donald Trump also called climate change the greatest con job perpetrated on the world

and said green energy schemes were a joke. Well, BBC verifies Nick Beak has been looking at each of his claims more from him in a moment. But first, our North America editor, Sarah Smith, is in New York and has just sent us this report. Donald Trump came with a message to the UN about where it's going wrong and to tell its member countries what they need to change. railing against what he called the double-tailed monster of immigration and green energy. He repeated his familiar claim to have ended seven wars and complained he'd had no help from the UN in doing so.

All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle. If the first lady wasn't in great shape, she would have fallen. And then a teleprompter that didn't work. These are the two things I got from the United Nations, a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter. Thank you very much. The escalator stopped just as he got on, a perfect illustration for Mr. Trump of everything he thinks is wrong with the UN. He talked about the conflicts he's not been able to end, in Ukraine and in Gaza, criticizing nations like the UK who have recognized Palestinian statehood. We can't forget October 7th, can we?

Now as if to encourage continued conflict, some of this body is seeking to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state. The rewards would be too great for Hamas terrorists for their atrocities. This would be a reward for these horrible atrocities. On Ukraine, he said he could impose much tougher sanctions on Vladimir Putin, but won't unless European countries stop buying energy from Russia. And Europe has to step it up. They can't be doing what they're doing. They're buying oil and gas from Russia while they're fighting Russia. It's embarrassing to them.

And it was very embarrassing to them when I found out about it. I can tell you that. But they have to immediately cease all energy purchases from Russia. Otherwise, we're all wasting a lot of time. Immigration, he said, is destroying countries around the world, saying Europe, in particular. killer is in serious trouble.

They've been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody's ever seen before. Illegal aliens are pouring into Europe. Nobody is ever, and nobody's doing anything to change it, to get them out. It's not sustainable. He singled out Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London for criticism. I look at London where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor. And it's been so changed, so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia law, but you're in a different country.

You can't do that. Mr. Kahn has said he's not going to dignify these bigoted... Hi there, this is Josh Clark from the Stuff You Should Know podcast. If you've been thinking, man alive, I could go for some good true crime podcast episodes, then have we got good news for you. Stuff You Should Know just released a playlist of 12 of our best true crime episodes of all time. There's a shootout in broad daylight, people using axes in really terrible ways. appearances, legendary heists, the whole nine yards. So check out the stuff you should know

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And twice a week, that is exactly what you're going to get. Listen NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Toyota, the official automotive partner of the NFL. Visit Toyota.com slash NFL now to learn more. Comments with a response. The other great threat facing the world, according to President Trump, is not climate change, but attempts to halt it with renewable energy. Global warming, he said, is a hoax. It's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion.

He specifically chided the UK for not drilling for more oil under the North Sea. For almost an hour, he lectured world leaders on what they're doing wrong, as he bragged about what he sees as his great successes in office. First, let's go to BBC verifies Nick Beak in Washington. You've been going through some of the claims. Let's start with London wants to go to Sharia law. Yeah, that's right, Sophie. This was the startling claim made by President Trump today.

Part of his message that immigration is destroying European countries, including the UK. We know that for the best part of a decade, Trump has attacked Sir Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London. But this appears to be the first time the president has claimed that London wants to go to Sharia law. There was this myth on the internet about five years ago that was quickly and easily debunked that the legal system would be moving to Sharia law. So that was then. Today, the mayor of London's office

said that these comments didn't really dignify a response. They called them appalling and bigoted. And a government minister said for the record that Trump's claim was false. What about climate change? The president said it was the greatest con job ever. Yeah, he did, Sophie. The thing is that decades of specialist research really torpedoes that argument.

The vast majority of scientists and experts say that climate change caused by humans is real. And here's a quote. This is from the intergovernmental panel on climate change, IPCC, made up of hundreds of leading scientists. Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused. global warming. And finally, he also said, he told world leaders, that he has ended seven wars, has he? No, he hasn't, Sophie.

That is not the case. Trump claimed that thousands of people were dying in each of these seven wars he talked about. But the reality is very different. Some of them were very quick skirmishes across borders. There was one that was a dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over water over the construction of a dam on the River Nile.

There was no fighting there. President Trump says he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, but the war in Gaza continues as to the war in Ukraine, which, of course, Mr. Trump said he could end in just one day, Sophie. Thank you. Well, Sarah Smith is still with us, as you just saw. Sarah, how did this address to the United Nations go down? Well, that's really interesting, because you could see how uneasy many of the world leaders listening to it were.

by the looks on their faces. But they haven't come out and criticised them yet. In fact, we've had the UN Secretary General repeating that they believe that America is essential to the work of the United Nations. Ursula von der Leyen from the European Union, for instance, said she agrees with Donald Trump about Europe's need to end its reliance on Russian oil.

Donald Trump came here seven years ago and bragged about his achievements in office, and the people listening to him actually laughed at him. It was a humiliating moment for him, but things have changed so much. Nobody dares do that now. So even as they listen to him, lecture them on how they should be running their own countries with these fixations on climate change and on immigration, he was still applauded at the end of it because everybody knows they have to treat Donald Trump much more carefully now.

On North America, editor Sarah Smith, in New York, thank you. See, that's how you break down the lie after lie, Andrew. But unfortunately, national media here, including that lie factory of Fox News, they don't care. love it. Yeah, I actually watch BBC more often than I watch local news because when they talk about the United States, it's no-holds. And right now, they really are looking at us like we are a joke and that our leadership is laughable. And it's sad because although they believe that the United States is important because of historic reference, right now we have people and leadership that are all about their own self-interest, their own hatred for anything else

that is not white male. I'm telling you right now, it's, listen, they should have laughed at him because he looked like a buffoon standing up there insulting other countries. All right, folks, there are some other news, two black men who were wrongfully accused in one of Boston's most notorious murder cases are finally getting some compensation. Allen Swanson and Willie Bennett where each received $150,000 settlement from the city more than three decades

after being wrongfully blamed for the 1989 murder of Carol Stewart. At that time, Carol's husband, Charles Stewart, told police the black man had carjacked them and pulled the trigger. The false accusation not only intensified racial tensions in Boston, but also placed innocent black men under suspicion.

Eventually, the truth emerged, and guess what? It was that white man, Charles Stewart, himself who killed his pregnant wife and even injured himself to cover up the crime. He later jumped to his death from a bridge as the story began to unravel. Bennett will receive $100,000 where Swanson will receive $50,000. Now, I love this story here, predominantly black high school in Memphis, Tennessee, was told that they were just too loud for a football game and they got louder. The Memphis Central High School band says they were barred from playing at a varsity game in Brighton.

pretty much white school, on Friday, because they were considered a distraction and too loud. In response, the band showed up not with instruments, but with kazzoos. The superintendent of Memphis Shelby County School District, Dr. Roger Richmond, released the statement. He said, I want to address the recent decision that prevented the Central High School band from performing at a Brighton High School football game on Friday, September 19, 2025. The award-winning CHAS ban is a source of pride for our district, having earned top honors

at an international jazz festival earlier this year. Their dedication and talent are exceptional and their performance would have been a highlight for all in attendance while Brighton High's administration

expressed concern about the sportsmanship. It is important to note that there is no TSSAA rule restricting bands for playing during live game action. As a former high school student athlete and college drum major,

I know firsthand how athletics and the arts enrich student experiences. This is why both are pillars of our district's five A's program. because they helped shape well-roundly confident young people. As a former principal, I understand the challenges school leaders face. That said, I stand in full support of the CHS band students, their director, and their principal. These scholars devote countless hours to practice and deserve opportunities to showcase their talent and hard work.

We were pleased of the CHS band members and fans attended the game and found an amicable way to support our student athletes. We are certainly open to constructive dialogue with the BHS principal and superintendent concerning their stance on future band appearances. It was hilarious, y'all. audio up them playing their kazoo's during the game. This is a good. Yeah, it was Mattie. It was just too fun there. So I say, hey, next time I bring cowbells, just drive them crazy.

Have cowbells ringing all day, Andrew, just to piss them off. Yeah, yeah. And, I mean, I love football just like the next person. I actually ref high school games on the weekends. But the band is why people are coming to these games. And I don't understand why you would not want these kids to play. But it's so funny, Roland, because you set them. that up. In the beginning of this show, you talked about how we all need to be mindful that they're

not just going to come out and say the N-word anymore, but they try to build these rules and attack these different rules to say, no, this is giving your team an advantage because now your team is hype. They have some rhythm. They got their music. They got their band playing in the background. And they're killing us. So we got to get this band out of here. We need some kind of noise orders. And now these kids are so sophisticated and so creative that they said, well, fine, let's go ahead and bring out the kazoos.

I love it. Yeah, pretty just pretty stupid. But you know what? That's how it is. All right, going to a break. We come back. Democratic House Leader Hackeem Jeffrey spoke today about the budget impasse. We'll show you some of that. We come back.

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You ain't gotta wear black and gold every damn place, okay? Ooh, I'm an alpha, yay! All right, you're 58 years old, it's over. You are now watching... Roland Martin unfiltered, uncut, unplugged, and undam believable. You all know, Chris can't count on I'm 56. All right, y'all, this just happened moments ago. Vice President Kamala Harris was having her book tour.

She was speaking in Manhattan. And, oh, all of a sudden, pro-Palestinian protesters break out. Y'all notice, they never, ever go to a Trump event. Now, they broke out at Barack Obama's at a place he was speaking at just last week. Y'all keep showing up at Democrat events, but you never show up at Trump events.

All right, this took place. Watch this. Shut up. Take your mask off! You close! You close the steerboard, asshole! That's pretty, man. And you guys, listen, listen, listen, listen.

please please I actually also write about this okay which is about what I know about how and why you are saying what you are saying now and how I felt about it you're not letting me talk you know what I respect your right to speak Wait, wait, wait, wait, let's bring the temperature down. Let's bring the temperature down. Unlike the current president of the United States, I'm up. I understand what's happening right now in Gaza. What is happening to the Palestinian people is outrageous and it breaks my heart.

I get it. I get it. Andrew, here's I understand. They never show up at a train. Trump J.D. Vance event. Never. No. Hi there. This is Josh Clark from the Stuff You Should Know podcast. If you've been thinking, man alive, I could go for some good true crime podcast episodes,

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And I love her for that. But we do show up in our own way in their places rolling. It's not MAGA that's showing up in their spaces, but we do show up in their. spaces as well. Who? No, no, no, no. I'm specifically speaking of pro-Palestinian protesters. Why is it that they will interrupt an Obama event, a Harris event,

but they never interrupt a Trump, J.D. Vance event. And who's in the White House right now? Yeah, and, you know, I would have to disagree with you on that, because I think that they are showing up. Show me to video. Show me to prove. When Trump was in Georgetown, okay. No, so when Trump was at Georgetown, when?

When Trump was in Georgetown and he was eating, I forget the restaurant was. No, no, no, no, no, no. I didn't say the restaurant. Show me when Donald Trump or J.D. Vance is speaking somewhere at a rally or whatever. Show me when they're there. Oh, yeah, I agree. At the U.N. speech, there should have been someone that's- No, no, no, no, that's, hold up.

That's diplomats. No, I'm talking about whenever there's a rally, I have never seen. I don't see them ever interrupting a Trump, J.D. Vance rally. I haven't. Have you? Wow. Wow. No, no, seriously. Have you ever seen? Hold up, one second.

Not a rally. No, I mean, look, I'm going to my, hold up, let's see here. J.D. Van J.D. Vance was speaking today somewhere, running off his mouth, lying, lying, lying, lying. And, yeah, he was speaking. I mean, here he was speaking somewhere today. I don't recall them showing up there. I don't recall him interrupting what he had to say. Yeah. So, again, so what's the point of being a pro-Palestinian activist? and you're showing up at a Kamala Harris book event she's not in the White House

because she's lost that power she's not there so you show up at hold up let's see here because Obama told him like hey just so y'all know I'm not the person

who is in power, you know, let me see if I can find it. This happened just last week, and again, he was just, you know, sitting there, and they didn't say nothing, didn't do nothing. And again, I just don't understand why they continue to do this. They will have an outburst at a democratic function, but they won't say anything. They won't say anything

when Trump or Vance speaking. I don't understand what they're getting out of it. Well, Roland, they protest in different ways. And I have to push back because they do equal opportunity interruptions. It may not be at the rallies.

Okay, okay. All right. So if they do it at a democratic event, show me when they done a Republican one. Show me. Where was it? No, at these rallies or events, I agree that I don't have any rallies, but just a few weeks ago in Georgetown, Donald Trump

was trying to celebrate the fact that he had this present, and there was a lady that came in to Joe Seafood and interrupted his dinner. I remember. No, no. I'm being very specific. That's in his face.

Right, I got it. I mean, very, okay, gotcha. That's one. What else? Yeah, I mean, they don't show up a, and now they don't get in, they don't always get into the venues. No, no, no, no.

You gave me one. Give me another. Um, hmm. Now, I guess I can't give you a public speak. No, just give me, I'm just going to ask. for

a another one uh jaddy vance was at was in he was at the union he was at union station uh doing this photo up this is again and they right and they yelled at him

about the national guard the yelling at him about the national guard they also did uh free Palestine as well right so here we go this is Obama six six days ago um so in a week

we've seen them go at Obama, Kamala Harris, no evidence of Trump. Turned up. The states currently. So there's no point in shouting at me. I, I, I, there's no point in shouting at me about it. I, I, I'm not in charge of foreign policy currency. Those who carried out October 7th.

So again, they'll shout at Obama. mother, shot at Harris. That's two in six days. I don't see it at a Trump Vance event. I don't see it at his secretary of state. I don't see it at a Hexeth event. I don't see it in a Christenorme event. It's amazing how the folk, and again, I understand their argument. I understand what they're saying. I understand why they're doing it. My problem is it's pointless to show up at

event. How about this here? Show up at a Mike Johnson event. He's the Speaker of the House. Show up at a Thune event. He's the Senate Majority Leader. They don't show up at Republican events. And I would, I

believe that what they're trying to do here is garner support from the Democrats, which they have. Wait a minute, hold up. What? Okay. There's no point in gone. Okay, Andrew, here's the problem. Who controls the White House right now? The Republicans.

Who controls the House? Who controls the House? Republican. Who controls the Senate? Republican. So what the fuck does it matter trying to get something from Democrats? They don't control a lever of government. There's nothing the Democratic Party can do when it comes to what Israel is doing to Gaza.

Nothing. They don't have any power so you you so I'm just I'm just I don't understand you protest two people a former president and a former vice president who's not in office but you don't protest the person who is the people who are in office who actually have the power I'm confused now they are pro they still are protesting them they're just not doing it in the same format Okay, so explain to me again. Okay, gotcha. Okay, a couple of people

accosting Trump at a restaurant in D.C. Got it. Okay, what else? Show me what else? Don't forget about J.D. Vance. They accosted him in Union Station as well. And they do show up when it comes to, I believe it was, were they at the?

state of the union address? No. No. Hmm. Well, somebody needs to speak to that. No, I'm speaking to it. And what I'm saying is, it's performative. If you're going to show up at a Harris event

and a Barack Obama event to people who are not in power and you do not show up and do the same to Vance or Trump, it's a waste of time. Well, I think that showing up for Vance or Trump is going to be a waste of time anyway because they're not, they're not going to respect the demands.

Oh, oh, so hold on. Now I'm confused. So the people in power aren't going to respect their demands. So I'm not going to show up there, but I'm going to show up to two people who are not in power who actually respected me and my people more than those two.

So that makes sense. To bring awareness, it does. There's going to be a lot more people that are going to be empathetic to that position. So, oh, great. So more people are going to be empathetic to your position by showing you at an event

for Harris and Obama, and nothing will be done about your cause, but you feel great because you stood up at a Harris Obama event, but we're just not going to show up at all. to an event of the people who are actually in power

that... Yeah, because would it kill these politicians to stand up and say that genocide is wrong. They have. It seems like... Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. They have. No, no, wait, wait, wait. Wait, I'm confused. They have.

Obama has. Harris has. Okay, got it. They've said that. But they have no power. So, normally when you protest, you protest the people who in power. Normally you put pressure on the people who are in power. You don't

protest. That's like black people doing the civil rights movement protesting people who weren't the sheriff or the mayor or the county commissioner or the president. So black people are like, yeah,

we're going to go protest these people to change the law, but the people are protesting have no power to change the law. So we're going to go protest them, and we're not going to go protest the people who actually have the power to change the law. So, Dr. King, no, I'm not going to go meet with Lyndon Baines Johnson put pressure on him. I'm going to go meet with Harry Truman, who's not even in the White House, to put pressure on him to get LBJ to do something. Do you see how that makes no sense?

no i agree that what you're the way that you're presenting it yes it can make no sense right it doesn't make any sense overall so the logic the logic but but okay if your goal is to stop something shouldn't i target the people who could stop it place to catch them than while they're eating dinner right in their face. Okay, one time. Hold, okay, got it. Hold on, hold up. Hold on. That's one time that's one time

they protested Trump. Give me another one. Not that I could think of off the top of my head. Gotcha, but I can pull up, I can pull up multiple videos of them doing to Harris during the campaign. Okay, fine. Let's take the campaign.

How many times did they interrupt Trump at a rally during the campaign? They're probably not at the rally. Not in the immediate vicinity of the rally. I mean, but that's... How many times did they interrupt Harris at the rally? That, but that's akin to the video we saw in Tennessee of the MAGA guys setting up the stand.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. They were protesting. No, they were protesting Harris because Harris was in power. Again, so you're protesting Harris and Biden, or they were in power, but you're not protesting Trump and Vance when they're in power. I, it just, it's utterly illogical to me. It's an absolute waste of a protest to yell and scream at somebody who ain't even in office.

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