DETROIT TODAY, CRITICIZING REPUBLICANS, AND ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO GET OUT AND VOTE. THERE’S A LOT WIPING ON THIS YEAR’S MIDTERM ELECTION. BLACK VOTERS, THEY DO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HOLD ELECTED OFFICIALS ACCOUNTABLE AND RESPONSIBLE. THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE SURE THEIR VOICES ARE HEARD IN CASES. TODAY, WE ARE CONTINUING OUR
SERIES OF CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PRESIDENT OF THE DIVINE NINE, THE HISTORIC BLACK LEAD LETTER, WITH THE OMEGA SCI-FI FRATERNITY INCORPORATED IS THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION FOUNDED ON THE CAMPUS OF THE HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE. OH MAKE OMEGA SCI-FI PATERNITY WAS FOUNDED BY — AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY ON NOVEMBER 17TH 1911 AND IT WAS
DERIVED FROM THE CREEK MEANING, FRIENDSHIP IS ESSENTIAL TO THE SOUL. THAT PHRASE ALSO SERVES AS THAT FRATERNITIES MOTTO. THE ORGANIZATION WAS ESTABLISHED WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF MANHOLE — THERE ARE MORE THAN 200,000 MEMBERS OF OMEGA SCI-FI AND OVER 750 BRANCHES IN ALL OVER THE WORLD. SO LET ME BRING IN THE
PRESIDENT OF OMEGA PSI PHI FRATERNITY INCORPORATED, MR. WILKIE LOWEST. PRESIDENT LOUIS, LET ME JUST SAY, I HAD ALMOST ALL THE PRESIDENTS, AND THEY CUES FOR HITTING MY PHONE THIS WEEK. THEY WERE VERY EXCITED ABOUT HAVING YOU HERE. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOUR ORGANIZATIONAL EFFORTS IN THIS ELECTION, YOU KNOW, AS AN
ORGANIZATION, YOU ALL FOCUS ON THE SERVICE OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY. I KNOW IN 2008, WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS FIRST RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, YOU ALL HAD A PATH, THE 1911 BACK WITH THE OMEGA PSI PHI FRATERNITY INCORPORATED. YOU RAN ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY. YOU HAVE AN ACTIVE BACK AGAIN THIS YEAR.
TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT YOU ALL ARE ENGAGING IN. >> YES, SYMONE, THANK YOU FOR INVITING ME HERE. SO, IT’S A — AND HIS ADMINISTRATION FOUND THAT BACK IN 2020, AND THIS ALLOWS US TO NEED TO GO OUT AND KNOCK ON DOORS, GO ON BARBERSHOPS, ASK PEOPLE TO VOTE,
GET OUT, MOBILIZE, MAKE SURE WE DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO WHAT THE POLLS. >> SO WE KNOW THAT VOTER DISINFORMATION, WE’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT, IT IT IS RAMPANT. IT’S HAPPENING EVERYWHERE. TALK TO ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE. I HAVE TO IMAGINE THAT IN THIS ELECTION, PARTICULARLY GIVEN
THAT CLIMATE THAT WE ARE IN, YOU ARE ALL HAVING MORE POINTED CONVERSATIONS WITH THE BROTHERS, BUT ALSO, COMMUNITIES ABOUT DISINFORMATION, MISINFORMATION, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO THE TARGETING OF BLACK PEOPLE. >> ABSOLUTELY, ABSOLUTELY. THERE ARE PLACES WE CAN GO, WE ARE INTERESTING MESSAGES WITH OUR COMMUNITY.
WE CAN GO WHERE MOST OF THE GO DON’T WANT TO GO. SO, WE GO TO NEIGHBORHOODS, BARBERSHOPS, TALK TO BLACK MEN TO BE ABLE TO GET OUT AND VOTE. IT’S CRITICAL. THAT VOTE MAKES US WIN. AND THAT’S IMPORTANT. EVEN TRYING TO TELL EVERYBODY THAT IT’S IMPORTANT TO VOTE. WE HAVE VOTER REGISTRATION,
VOTER EDUCATION, AND VOTER MOBILIZATION. REGISTER, EDUCATE YOURSELF, PARTICULARLY DOWN THE BALLOT, AND MOBILIZE, AND GET OUT TO VOTE. >> THIS POINT ABOUT BLACKMON ENGAGING, OH, BLACKMON — I FEEL A LOT OF CHITCHATTING, NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT TWITTER, I’M TALKING ABOUT HOW ALL BLACK MEN DON’T GO, AND I THINK IT’S A MISNOMER.
BLACK MEN ARE ABSOLUTELY ENGAGE IN EVERY ELECTION. I THINK THEY ARE ENGAGED IN THIS ELECTION. >> ABSOLUTELY, AND IT’S JUST POCKETS. PEOPLE SAY THAT — WE’VE BEEN ENCOURAGED BY MOTHERS TO VOTE, OUR WIVES TO VOTE, OUR DAUGHTERS TO VOTE AND WE’RE MOBILIZING TO GET THE VOTE OUT. >> ALL RIGHT, PRESIDENT LUIS,
I’M SO HAPPY YOU COULD COME HERE. I DID NOT MEAN TO WARM UP ALL THE DAY, BUT I APPRECIATE — >> YOUR ROCKING IT PERFECTLY. I >>
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