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Foreign Thank you Foreign Foreign Foreign Thank you Foreign Foreign Hey everybody thank you so much for joining us today and welcome back to the Black Star Network I’m Suzette speaks guest hosting today from my brother faraji Muhammad who is out we have a fantastic lineup for you today on the culture we’re going to begin in Florida

You know what we always cause in trouble seriously speaking there is a bill that is being considered in the Florida legislature that some lawmakers worry will stop the existence of black fraternities and sororities on campuses across our state I’m going to talk about it where else is going to deal with the

Supreme Court today the United States Supreme Court is the only court in the land without a code of ethics why not and should they develop one I’m gonna have my brother sineadu will cut for with me today to help me discuss and unpack that topic then we are going to

Turn to the state of the black World Conference this is accomplish all that’s happening in Baltimore in April and I have a special guest Kim pool who will be giving us a sneak peek then we are going to finish up with reparations yes we’re going to the West Coast my special

Guest Michael Imhotep joins me to talk about what’s going on in San Francisco y’all did you hear this uh local leaders are possibly showing early support for a possible five million dollar reparation for black residents y’all we’re going to talk about it stay right here we are

Ready to kick off today’s episode of the culture Well hey everybody again it’s a pleasure to be with you I’m super excited as soon as that speaks here TV host and attorney out of Miami Florida sitting in and feeling the very big shoes of my big brother faraji Muhammad thank you for Raji for the opportunity to sit in for

You today so we’re going to start with our first story y’all um directly out of the Florida legislature we are seeing a bill that is highly problematic we know that uh diversity equity and inclusion programs have had a very hostile environment as of late in the State of Florida and

We’re seeing a new iteration of a bill coming through the Florida state house this is House Bill 999 and the proposed Bill some worry would block the existence of black fraternities and sororities I’m going to go to uh there are a couple news sources we’re using

For this story that would be news one you can also find a story on this in the hill as well as w p TV which is the local Palm Beach affiliate of NBC but just to read a quick quote from that article cool here on news one what is

Going on basically we have a democratic representative uh Yvonne excuse me Henson a Democrat from Gainesville Florida and she has been advocating in the Florida state house for considerations that might inadvertently happen if this bill is passed and one that lawmakers are sounding the alarm on or whether or not this will impact

Student organizations such as black fraternities the bill States the controversial HB 999 Bill aims to restrict the programs and activities that Florida universities and colleges can promote or support it calls into question student organizations groups or activities centered on diversity equity and inclusion well I have the right

Brother to help me unpack what’s happening in my great state the Sunshine State you know him he is a continuous contributor here he is also a diversity equity and inclusion expert y’all please welcome back with me today to the culture my brother chinedu will kafur who will be joining me now welcome

Shanae new how are you brother how you doing my sister I’m fantastic good to see you hosting listen y’all got me a little bit nervous but I hope y’all will work with me and feel free to talk back you know this is an interactive conversation y’all so leave your

Messages in the chat or if you’re watching Team replay leave your comments below we’d like to hear what our audience the culture crew has to say so welcome Shanae do uh listen Florida is always going to keep us on our toes and this uh proposed bill is no different so

Let me just get your initial reaction when you read about this bill what was your initial reaction yeah when I first when I first read about this I wasn’t surprised because we all know that uh uh Governor DeSantis is uh posturing himself to be a substantial opponent to

Donald J Trump so again I wasn’t surprised at what was taking place what did surprise me though is that in my lifetime that we would be fighting for things that my forefathers and ancestors uh fought to get rid of um this idea of of kind of going backwards and not just

In Florida you see it in in bills in Arkansas and you see what Greg Abbott in Texas uh it is becoming concerning but there is no surprise on my end so absolutely I I neither was I surprised and again if you don’t know in the Florida State Legislature

Republicans have a super majority so even though we’ve seen votes I believe in this subcommittee I think was 12 to 5. realistically speaking Democrats don’t even have the votes if it gets to the Florida house or the Florida senate floor to block it which makes it ultimately very concerning so let’s talk

About what you saw in the meat of the bill uh they are going after a wide range of programs again we’re worried because we think that or some lawmakers have brought up the point that some of the organizations we have become accustomed to such as fraternities sororities other Affinity organizations

Around campuses could be affected so let’s start with this tell us why such organizations black Greek letter organizations are important to student life because we know that this term diversity equity and inclusion is kind of all-encompassing and it is kind of vague According to some lawmakers in

Terms of what is is being offered in this bill so let’s start by kind of unpacking why those organizations exist in the first place and what they do for Student Life on campuses across our country I I think first and foremost it’s really important to preface that there would be

No need for inclusion if white people weren’t so invested in that exclusion and being exclusive and keeping people out and not giving people regular human inalienable rights that’s number one so when you think about black Greek letter organizations the first uh being Alpha Phi Alpha if my uh I hope I’m saying

This right I don’t want Roland Martin getting upset with me but if my memory serves me correct these gentlemen who founded that organization they weren’t allowed to join the other fraternities that existed that led them to start their own and you go 100 and something years forward and now you have nine

Amazing Dynamic organizations uh in the now National panhellenic Council that uh not only bring culture but have been the harbinger for excellence uh for Change and for culture making in our schools in our our communities so many great men and women are results of those tenants that are followed by this uh these

Organizations and moreover they become the fabric especially for hbcus for the culture of that school and even in the predominantly white institutions especially the predominantly white institutions when you have your divine nine as they’re called organizations they they lend the space for uh the minority folks there especially

Um black folks to feel welcome to feel at home to feel like they can lean on the culture of those before them and when you look at the academic Excellence when you look at what folks who are members of that organization have done for society I mean at this point you

Know the the D9 and those who are of that organization have given so much to our culture to our nation so what what the Santa’s is actually doing is he’s trying to cut into uh the fabric of our excellence and whether you’re in a D9 organization or not

Um it is a threat to all of us because where does it end absolutely I want to bring up a comment I see you guys in the chat again thank you for showing so much love I see Karina Denise commenting and again we’re focusing here on divine nine organizations historically black

Fraternities and sororities however this bill could potentially affect others including Latin based fraternities and for excuse me fraternities and sororities as well as uh gender studies programs any kind of ethnic studies programs so it’s all encompassing uh in terms of possible student-led organizations that could be affected now

There are lawmakers who are are proponents of this bill again we have Chevron Jones and others thank you Karina Denise thank you so much as this bill would affect Latin and multi-ethnic exactly uh uh sororities and fraternities not just D9 of course so we have a broad base of possible

Um entities on campuses that have historically as you just pointed out provided a safe space a home for inclusion in campuses that traditionally had excluded people in many ways still do and provide a a place for reinforcement of black excellence and pride and hope away from home Etc so why

Do you think we have continuously seen kind of Dei as the low-hanging fruit for targets by specifically in Florida the the republican-leaning lawmakers why is the the phrase or the catchphrase you know diversity equity and inclusion now seemingly to be the uh Target of a yet

Another bill why do you think they they like going after these sorts of programs um I I would always well two things one I think there is an affinity uh that white folk have for black people in a very strange uh way but more importantly I always like to tell folks when you

Think about this whole agenda of attacking the eni an agenda of attacking quote-unquote wokeness I think it’s very imperative that we pay attention to what the census will be in 2050 where America will be a majority minority country where white people for the first time will be actually the minority now

Um I think because of that um it is my opinion that white folk are trying to do whatever they can to stabilize and consolidate their power even when that switch of uh the change of the guards if you will uh come to to place but furthermore the attack on

Denis it’s so funny to me when you think of the all Industries where black folk latinx Sexual gender minorities have been kind of kept out of the conversation and now people are trying to rewrite wrongs all of a sudden white people are getting uncomfortable you hear the Santa say things like I don’t want uh white children to feel uh upset about being

White but then that means in theory that you’re also okay with initiating and inculcating ideas to make black folks and latinx folks feel bad for who they are and I think that is very very dangerous damning and sad um and it’s a fight that I think my generation and the generations coming

After have to stand up for which I think they already are yeah is it we’re at a crucial juncture here in Florida I think I I was very optimistic at one point but knowing again how the uh the vote the vote is basically spread and there’s a super

Majority of Republicans it makes me you know very worrisome when it comes to what what will end up uh happening with these programs uh can you talk a little bit more about uh the critical race Theory which again is not really defined in this bill we have about a minute or

So when people hear this term it has become again a dog whistle for many uh to indicate some kind of Nefarious attempt at brainwashing uh children first and foremost and we know it’s not taught in elementary middle high schools College it started actually in the law

School Forum but uh for those who are still kind of spooked by this terminology which is mentioned in the bill but is not defined what is critical race Theory and how is it defined in your estimation I think uh critical Grace theory in my estimation is a high

Level graduate course uh that discusses um the let me let me take a second that discusses the not only the importance of what is going on in the African-American race in the black race but how it is affected in a socio-economic way in an educational way in a legislative way so

On and so forth but it’s very important that I emphasis that it is a high level like it’s not just that you went to college and this is something you study this is I would say this is more of uh what I’m looking for a concentration for those in those high-level graduate uh

Courses uh for for those who are you know in school however comma um in typical Republican fashion they’re buzzwording it to to put critical race theory wokeness that it’s being taught in your schools which is not uh even true ever been true but they’re co-opting this again because if the

Truth is now pontificated then maybe folks will look at them and question why they did what they did or why they even have power that is truly the most important part if people realize what is and what has been they may question why the people who are in power are in power

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On University campuses is being called an anti-dei Bill diversity equity and inclusion and it has passed out of subcommittee and will be considered by the Full House and then possibly aversion will go through the Senate shortly we are concerned because many lawmakers are raising the alarm as to whether this will affect organizations

Such as black fraternities and sororities historically black fraternities and sororities play a pivotal role in student life and when I’m talking about it uh today with my brother we can bring him back and they do thank you so much for unpacking some of what is being said in this bill I

Want to use another quote I saw uh that kind of gives us again some context as to why lawmakers are so really uh concerned with this language some of its seems very vague very broad so let’s go to if we can uh the quote that we see

Here WP TV which is out of West Palm Beach uh the NBC affiliate hb999 opponents for the bill would regulate student campus activities at Florida colleges agreeds what campus activities are you attempting to regulate step state representative Yvonne Hanson Democrat Gainesville asked during a recent house Committee hearing Henson

Who served parts of Alachua and Marion counties laid out her concerns and questions to the bill sponsor state representative Robert Alex Andrade from Pensacola he’s a republican out of the Panhandle the campus activities that would uh that would be all at all discussing considered by this bill our campus activities conducted by he’s

Saying Administration and professors in their position of roles of power over what students have on that cam Campus Student Activities are not included Andrade said so we’re hearing that the bill author is claiming that this is only for administration it has nothing to do with what the students are

Planning uh in terms of their organizations and their Affinity groups black student union I saw you in the chat was also mentioned as well as several others again not just black based organizations Hispanic Latino it could be ethnic for example our Jewish brothers and sisters as well as you know

Gender studies and all types of uh possible classes and organizations could be excluded do you believe that this um type of Bill will have the kind of cooling effect that they hope it will have that is that uh there are going to be professors that are afraid to take on

Classes that there are students that are not going to get the type of educational experience that uh you know students of the past have had that is broad-based that has you know cultural and ethnic elements and history imagine that involved do you think this type of Bill will in effect basically remove all

Mentions of um historical uh accurate in terms of uh historically accurate facts in terms of the black history as well as remove the elements that we’ve been talking about from college campuses absolutely I think that what we’re seeing here is going to uh distort historical truth for comfortability

Um what I find very interesting anywhere else this will be called imperialism this would be called communism anywhere else if you hear about something like this in Russia we would be so anti we hear about this in uh China what Xi Jinping would be so anti in North Korea with Kim Jong-un

Would be so anti but for some reason in our country when these things happen especially in the South there is this ideology that these are our Democratic rights or what have you this is crazy this is lunacy as I’ve said many times I think this is going to create a sense of fear

Um amongst teachers amongst professors think about those who want to be tenured think about those who want to feed their families uh this actually disincentivizes them from telling the truth right and even if they don’t uh uh speak the LIE um if they’re not saying the truth then

It gives more room uh for the lie to to Fester if you will um I think this is also an opportunity T right where we hear this all the time where you know we say education is power and our mind is a terrible thing to waste this also

Gives us an opportunity to say that we are not bound and gagged by the nonsense-ness the the nonsensical ideas of the government where the truth will live on regardless of anybody’s rule or regulation because I do recall once upon a time we were not allowed to even be

Educated in any form and that didn’t stop us from learning how to read and that did not stop us from learning how to teach I I do think that this is an important moment as we fight for our freedom and fight for our right to teach

As we see fit based off of the truths that we’ve experienced and lived through that we should not be stifled or scared uh or be made fearful simply because a law is coming into place I think education and knowledge is so powerful that I hope this this in inculcates

Something in our young kids maybe to do more educational talks which I’ve been seeing or educational reels which I’ve been seeing that knowledge is going to get out whether it’s in the classroom or not well that that’s a hopeful note because listen we’re gonna have to teach black

History at our houses in our church like we used to do hello somebody uh because it seems again this is quite an orchestrated effort to use Public Schools as a platform for this agenda which is to remove certain histories and even uh groups that are are based in

Diversity and inclusion from not only college campuses my fear uh sineadles that shenedo is that it’s going to trickle down into as what we’ve seen before you know when they go to k through eight in high school as well we got a high that conversation coming on

And in the chat going on here I’m gonna uh bring up a couple of the quotes from the culture crew thank you guys if you have comments and questions you know this is your show right so please go ahead and leave them in the chat let’s

Start with uh Janelle uh I see you assistant thank you again for always being a part of the culture crew her quote reads uh we need to meet their bold attacks by asking why they are seeking to roll back civil rights by advancing color blindness uh can you

React to this please again sometimes you see it kind of cloaked in this why do we talk about color and it is kind of a red herring if you will because we know uh that these are programs are designed so that we have more diversity and oftentimes you know pre I would say

Affirmative action when things started to open up in the 80s you know you didn’t have people hiring as well as um colleges admitting in the numbers that you did after there were support by you know diversity Equity inclusion program so what are your thoughts on Janelle’s comments my thoughts are very simple

Um that’s exactly what this is It’s a civil rights attack and and what is so funny about that exact statement how she presented it is that we have to also remind folks what happens when we move out the civil liberties of people where do we exist at you know thank goodness

For those Engineers who came from foreign lands who worked at Google and apple that are enabling us to do the things that we do today what happens when you make this place uncomfortable for people who have different ideas are from different backgrounds so it is definitely a civil rights thing it’s a

Human inhumane thing and I think sometimes we need to make sure that we are cloaking it in that way because that’s exactly what it is foreign absolutely we’re gonna go next to my sister Alana L thank you again for your support uh fellow uh culture crew member

Always holding us down says I think DeSantis is being strategic with this move an attack on mphc is an attack on Kamala Harris I think it’s smart politically but Greeks are gonna kick his butt I think yeah our election of the vice president um Kamala Harris did bring uh diversity

Uh they see excuse me D9 is a threat thank you for uh the end part of that quote there appreciate that Keenan uh but yes D9 has come to the Forefront with the election of Kamala Harris a lot of us already were quite familiar with their uh

Storied history and storied past but now is this maybe a power play to kind of get back at the D9 uh uh support and strong organizational uh capacities on the ground so that for future I mean I’ve heard brother Roland Martin say we plan for the next five years they’re

Planning for the next 50 years when it comes to the outcomes of what this country looks like and what its institutions look like do you think it’s you know kind of a specific attack on D9 absolutely it’s a it’s it’s a complete attack on Blackness and I think it’s

Important that we say that because if you need an example look at those amazing eight years that we had uh voted uh for one of the greatest presidents uh arguably in our history of this nation um and then look what we got right after um there’s this idea of even if Black

Folk are bringing things that could help everybody it’s this uh visceral feeling that Blackness is not good enough and they’re just using D9 as something as as you know as a stud point you know for their attack on Blackness altogether on Black Liberation and most importantly if

You pay attention what the folks of D9 were able to do is bring people together the college educated and the non-college educated White Collar Blue Collar celebrity every day and that is a threat to the uh plight of white supremacy man it is it is for sure I think

Orchestrated in a way so that again the institutions that have flexed the little muscle not a little a lot of muscle uh within our community uh can somehow be targeted and even crippled some would argue uh going forward by making sure they cannot be on campuses again I’ve

Seen quotes and I don’t know if you could put up a quote I saw uh from news one uh Keenan uh Senator Chevron Jones a colleague and friend of mine here from Miami he represents parts of Miami and Broward County uh said during a debate you know that he is obviously very

Concerned and again I’m so grateful for so many of our political leaders here in Florida even though they are outnumbered when it comes to voting you know they stay very vocal and they try their best to to bring light to you know what’s happening so my question to you to Nato

Is how do we even fight this because if the votes are you know not there in terms of the balance of power in the state legislature again Republicans have this super majority they don’t need Democrats don’t even have to show up and they would vote in a large enough number

Based on uh the the um layout of the house to to pass what they want to what do we do what would you suggest whether it’s through you know organizational structures whether it’s you know I we had a wonderful interview with uh someone from black lives matter uh come through yesterday

When we had to kind of cut away and and do some work behind the scenes but what do we do the everyday person so you read this and you say to yourself this is crazy how can you affect change Where You Are I think what’s important you can affect

Change by where you are more importantly by getting involved not taking this as a joke I think what you said about Roland or what Roland said is very very pivotal we’re planning for five they’re planning for 50. and if we’re planning just for five then we have to keep planning over

And over and over and over and over again it’s important that folks get involved locally with their community and more importantly that people are having these conversations and I would say to my fellow young people y’all it’s our turn our elders did what they could it’s our time to have these

Conversations and put some action uh on these conversations to make sure that folks are putting respect on our names um and lastly but never the least it’s important to join some of these organizations not just black uh Greek letter organizations but black affirming Black Liberation organizations because

You need to be around like-minded people because it’s very very easy to get lost in the black struggle uh when you are surrounded by a sea of whiteness they do we we have to say encouraged brother we’re gonna have to hold the conversation right there we got to take

A short break but after this break more of a conversation with your native will cut for uh right here on the culture stay tuned foreign On the streets a horrific scene a white nationalist rally that descended into deadly violence there’s an angry protestorm to the U.S Capitol we’re about to see the lab what I call White minority resistance you 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 had made progress whether real or symbolic there has been but Harold Anderson at Emory University calls white rage as a backlash this is

The wrath of The Proud boys and the Boogaloo boys America there’s going to be more of this this country is getting increasingly racist in its behaviors and its attitudes because of the fear of white people to see that they’re taking our job they’re taking our resources they’re taking out women this is Whitefield [Applause] foreign [Applause] Black star Network and black owned media and something like CNN you can’t beat Black owned media and be scared it’s time to be smart dig Hey everybody welcome back it’s Suzanne speaks filling in for faraji Muhammad right here on the culture good to be with you and we’re gonna move along in the conversation we’re going to Pivot now to the Supreme Court there’s an article that came out in the grill that talks about why so many organizations

Are now advocating for the Supreme Court to adopt a code of ethics now I have to put on my lawyer hat here today because I know as a student of law having passed the bar here in Florida one of the first classes we have to take is called professional responsibility what is that

Y’all it basically teaches you as an attorney how to operate at the highest moral standards and moral codes and there is no court in the land that does not have a code of ethics except the United States Supreme Court if we could bring up our quote from the grios so we

Could take a look a little bit more deeply at this subject uh in the Grio uh the story reads many organizations are demanding the Supreme Court adopt a code of ethics to preserve its Integrity the project on government oversight Pogo a nonpartisan independent Watchdog based in Washington DC DC is among several

Groups that have proposed a set of ethical rules for the justices to follow Sarah tuberville director of The Constitution project at Pogo told the grill that her organization has advocated for the Supreme Court to adopt quote a stronger ethical standard for self-preservation that’s real y’all we’re going to bring back our diversity

Equity and inclusion expert and regular contributor here on the culture Mr shinedu woke up for it who is going to come through and let us know what he’s thinking about this now again I’m partial because I have to follow a lot of rules as an attorney but why is it do

You think that the Supreme Court of the United States has been rather averse to adopting its own set of Ethics regulations y’all ready for this conversation I’ll start and preface it here and I have to for one our founding fathers were amazing people but they weren’t perfect they aren’t

Gods I think we’re starting to realize that a lot of things that have been set in stone in our country are due for a bit of changing um because they do not work in today’s day and age especially when you think about our constitution including so many

More people today than when it was written and with that being said there has been many questions about how the Supreme Court governs and how they handle their uh situation and even how they handle their appointments or when people can be appointed and not appointed I’m looking at you

Um when they appointed uh what’s her name what’s her name uh katanji Brown Jackson right before her right before her the white one um yes I’m looking at her face oh my goodness the lady from the Midwest I know exactly who you’re talking about yes but you know the process they went

Into in getting her uh into her seat very quickly uh while President Trump was on his way out but when Merrick Garland almost a year before Barack Obama was getting out that didn’t take place so like there is so much to be uh done but more importantly about how

These uh folks in the Supreme Court act um why do they theoretically get to be above the law and why don’t they have to hold themselves to some type of standard uh that the people have to hold themselves uh to so I think it’s very important for them to have a code of

Ethics on what they should and shouldn’t do especially with you know our our good uh Clarence Thomas uh doing some pillow talk with with Jenny Thomas that’s that’s out of the line and even the leak about the you know Roe v Wade situation that took place around you know the

Springtime last year there’s something going on in the house the call is coming from inside the house you know what uh and I could not agree with you more because we were seeing a situation in which there is you know kind of this I don’t know secret handshake going on

Where you have just just mentioned cases that uh bring this to the Forefront right so we saw Mr Clarence Thomas Justice Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas one of the Elder statements men probably the eldest on the court right now you know participant in cases that many observers would say he should have

Recused himself right so you have his wife who was being called to to answer questions with respect to her involvement in January 6. we have uh you know they they came uh together and came up with this excuse as if they don’t talk husband and wife about their

Politics and what she does as an individual you know Jenny Thompson is a very politically active person she says she has been before she married Clarence Thomas and remain so now but what about that why are we seeing less recusals when it comes to uh what many people who

Are just you know lay people looking from the outside would say you have a relationship with this person or you know you seemingly would not be impartial that’s the key because judges especially on the Supreme Court even though we know it has become much more political um Amy Coney Barrett just maybe Tony

Barrett and I was like I keep looking at her face in my in my mind’s eye Amy Cody Barrett again who would never really you know serve for any long lengths of time et cetera et cetera as you said uh she was pushed through very quickly and had

A political bent that people were really concerned about right prior to some of her writings when she was a professor really led to you know those of us who basically predicted what she would be on the court you know um for for the long term for her lifetime actually so back

To Ginny Thomas Clarence Thomas you know why is it okay and I know it’s not see this I can’t even answer the ask the question because I’m like why would it be okay for Supreme Court Justices to pick and choose for themselves when or when they don’t recuse themselves when

Everyone else like I said if there’s a conflict of interest in the state court me as an attorney I can raise it and I can say clearly judge this person I you know you can have judges removed all the time from cases or cases removed uh from what they call forums their location

Because of bias right we have rules for that why is it that the Supreme Court you believe and again we probably stand on the same side of this issue but why do you think they would believe that they alone should be able to make the calls as to whether or not they

Participate and hear certain cases I I don’t know exactly but it’s starting to seem like the there is some type of erosion in the Supreme Court and at the same time some type of connection between Supreme Court and uh politicians that’s what it seems like to me

Um when you think about some of the landmark cases that were argued whether it be Brown versus Board of Education or even Roe v Wade think about that time they were able that’s in a time where as far as history is concerned that we weren’t even as advanced as we are today

Um and to see how I hate to say this because I have high respects for the courts but it’s becoming a cesspool for um unlawfulness and it’s it’s if you look at it and juxtapose it to what you see in everyday politics you’re going to see a similarity

Um and I don’t know if folks thinks that they’re Above the Law or greater than the law but something has to give and it’s it’s really to the point where I don’t think the people are impressed with what’s going on and and who these folks are that are supposedly making the

Laws of the land if you remember when um uh the Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was going through his process I said to myself there is no way in half this man was going to get through but then he did it was a tough process with

That he did and that when I saw that even with all the stuff that was on his background if you will and all the things that even miss blase Ford as Brave as she was to come up to say against him when I saw that nothing changed it was reminiscent of trumpism

It was reminiscent of how how did this person who said what he could do what he could do in Fifth Avenue and nobody would be bothered or grabbed women by the genitalia how is that person becoming president you’re starting to ask those same questions in this realm

Of judgment and that’s why I think that corrosion is coming in and it’s becoming dangerous because this is a life appointment these people are there until either they die or they decide that they don’t want to be there anymore and there’s a danger in that and that even in itself might

Need to be changed and that might be one of these uh questions that are coming up in this ethics uh law if you will or this ethics code or what have you that they need to have because things are changing and people actually have questions absolutely there’s speaking of what the

Public thinks in the CNN article I think it said the Gallup poll conducted in September 2022 said more than 50 percent of Americans say they do not have trust and confidence confidence as much trust and confidence or not at all in the judicial in the judicial branch headed

By the Supreme Court so think about that 50 of the American populace doesn’t even trust their own Supreme Court now that is such a a daunting number that it it begs the question why why not act sooner because without trust all of our institutions break down actually but specifically trust in the judicial

System that’s what separates the United States from almost any you know problematic if you will countries around the world that is the law in order that the fact that something could happen to you and you have a recourse that a courthouse is there that you can walk

Into into the steps of the courthouse and say judge I have a complaint someone has wronged me or the prosecutor’s office on behalf of the people can say this person committed a crime and they will be held to account this is the beauty of even though it’s an imperfect

System that we have so if we are seeing that the the public trust is eroding um what what do you think is the the holdup I really can’t I mean when I look at it I’m just like without trust there is no government institution right so at

50 do you think that number will continue to decline if there are no code of ethics for the U.S Supreme Court I think the the trust in the the Judiciary will increase the the mistrust if you will um and I thought that 50 that statistic was interesting because it’s not 50

Democrats they’re 50 liberals it’s Americans so that means it goes through the gamut of Republican Democrat Independence libertarian etc etc etc um this is scary and what I’m going to say and I’ve said this before if we as the greatest nation the nation of Law and Order when people say that I always

Ask when we say they were the nation of Law and Order ask yourself whose law and whose order um if we don’t get our acts together us as the greatest democracy that’s just going to be in name only it’s we’re getting to the point where all of those

Great things that we were once known for are up for question and where do I get this from you hear our adversaries saying it you hear them talking about how America is not as great as they seem so I I think I love this nation and I believe

That this nation has so much room to grow but I think in that process there’s nothing wrong with saying folks we have an issue but we also have an opportunity and let’s not waste time let’s not dilly dally on this issue because in my opinion once a greater amount 50 is half

Once a greater amount continues to lose hope then where is law where is order where is trust more importantly where is that thing that Barack Obama helped many people find and that was hope yeah we have so much to talk about the comments are blowing up we’re going to

Read the comments after our break y’all let me put up one more quote though uh from this article again uh from the grill thanks to our friends at the grill we are going to uh put up a quote Again by Sarah tuberville right again she’s a director of The Constitution project and

This second part is really what I want to uh focus on told the grill that her organization has advocated for Supreme Court to adopt stronger ethical standards uh four what she calls self-preservation hello somebody the justices are blind she says to the fact that the Public’s faith in the

Institution is waning and the Public’s faith is the only thing that gives the Court’s ruling any force of law she said tuberville said the high Court’s lack of code of conduct quote diminishes The public’s faith in the court as an institution and as a fair and impartial

Arbiter of the law and end of Justice I think that really encapsulates what you just shared shenedo because again people can definitely take notes from around the world as to what it looks like when you don’t have the trust in civil society and in governmental organizations and when we do when we

Don’t pay attention to you know what the heart and the minds of people right are public our citizens are saying we often find ourselves in trouble so when you hear again there there have been many suggestions but they have remained a verse tell us what some of the

Advantages are whether that has been in the workplace again for my profession and other professions you’re gonna gonna have to have a code of ethics what are the benefits in addition to public trust that you get from having a code of ethics I think you get a better work environment that’s first

Um people do their best work when they can believe in what they’re doing so codes of Ethics once is something that not only the company can stand on but the people of the corporation can believe in it is a symbiotic relationship um and also it is something that it’s

Actually imbalance if you’re not doing this I can check you in the same way you can check me when I’m not doing that um and like I said it builds trust it builds honor it builds respect um and it builds on the tenets of democracy and freedom and I think a lot of

Corporations uh they they go for the code of ethics because they want to show that that’s something that they stand on but you got to practice what you preach as well because like I said it’s something for folks to hold someone on so when they do have the code of ethics

A great benefit is folks in that group can now say hey our code of ethics says that you ought to do X Y and Z but I’ve experienced a b and c how can we Rectify then you get people again democracies only work when people are participating

When it’s a participatory action and it brings greatness it brings diversity it brings Equity it brings inclusion and there’s never a moment where a code of ethics is ever a bad thing listen I want to read some of these comments I agree with you wholeheartedly we’re going straight to the comments

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Between black star Network and black owned media and something like CNN you can’t beat Black owned media and be scared it’s time to be smart bring your eyeballs home you dig hatred on the streets a horrific scene a white nationalist rally that descended into deadly violence it’s an angry pro-trump storms 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 but Carol Anderson at Emory University calls white rage as a backlash to the wrath of The Proud boys and the Boogaloo boys America there’s going to be more of this guys this country is getting

Increasingly racist in its behaviors and its attitudes because of the fear of white people to see that they’re taking our job they’re taking our resources they’re taking our women this is Whitefield double [Applause] foreign [Applause] We’re back on the culture right here on the Black Star networks which is speak sitting in for Mr faraji Muhammad we’re just going to go through some of the comments let’s bring back shenedu as we wrap up on the Supreme Court and the code of ethics that they probably should

Adopt sooner than later let’s go ahead and read a few of your comments guys before we get to our next topic um we’re going to start with how about Janelle Fields she writes why won’t Congress and the executive branch make the judicial branch behave aren’t they supposed to be three equal branches of

Government girl you said a word let’s go next to uh Karina Denise let’s do the hey sis and she’ll be joining me tomorrow affiliating for faraji she says this is a lifetime appointment blank needs to go Senators need four-year terms not six years in my view okay sis

That was how you feel also term limits uh for them may not be a bad idea she means the Supreme Court right they are lifetime appointees they can shape uh for 30 years or more what the court looks like let’s go to do we have a couple more comments I know we’re gonna

Have to take a quick break shortly uh let’s go next to Langston Langston I saw your comment uh Langston says Brett Kavanaugh got through the Supreme Court due to in his opinion uh white supremacy what other job interview can you discuss uh beer and being drunk in America yeah

That was probably one of the most memorable for the wrong reasons uh um uh confirmation uh hearings that we’ve had and again if we had code of ethics you know maybe we wouldn’t even have a person who had such questionable uh backgrounds on the Supreme Court again

We have to take a break y’all Korea Denise real quick let’s get one more appears that scotus does not give uh darn about the Public’s Faith the Supreme Court of the United States doesn’t give a darn about public space and why uh would they why uh excuse me would they when the conservative

Majority are drinking with power we gotta leave it there I gotta let my brother Shanae do will cuff for go and I appreciate you being with us we got to take a break more of the culture we’ll be back with Michael M hotep right after this stay tuned foreign Owens America’s wealth coach and my new show get wealthy focuses on the things that your financial advisor and Bank isn’t telling you what you absolutely need to know so watch get Wealthy on the Black Star Network Livestock Network is a real uh revolutionary right now thank you for being the voice of Black Americans all the moment we have now we have to keep this going the video looks phenomenal see the difference between black star Network and black owned media and something like CNN you can’t beat

Black owned media and be scared it’s time to be smart bring your eyeballs home you dig good Foreign Speaks here sitting in for faraji Muhammad welcome back to the culture I’m so grateful that we’re going to have the next contributor join me he is no stranger to the Black Star Network you’ve seen him all over Mr Michael M hotep he’s going to be uh schooling me

Really because he is the expert when it comes to reparations but there has been a movement going on in California y’all I’m not sure if you have uh kept abreast of what has happened in San Francisco well there are indications that local city leaders after forming a board a

Committee actually to uh look into the value of what reparations could possibly be for what black residents there have lost over time uh due to injustices of the past uh would value and they came up with and I know the headline is that five million dollar headline uh per

Residents who qualify but there were actually over 100 different recommendations by this Advisory Board that will now go to the city’s main board of governance for consideration now I am so uh excited yet even surprised if I’m being honest that the movement for reparations has gotten this

Far uh so far that a city the size of San Francisco is thinking about uh putting a major policy initiative like this forward well we’re going to get to the bottom of this and the devil yes is in the details I want to welcome now as a guest contributor today with me Mr

Michael M hotep welcome sir hey Suzette how you doing today it is a pleasure and privilege to be alongside you brother to be sitting here too thank you very much and again I am not the most um which I say knowledgeable about what has been going on in the fight for

Reparation so I’m grateful that you’re here and you’re going to be able to shed some light on what’s going on in San Fran so what do we have here I know again preliminarily this is uh which I say a suggested framework no one’s getting any money just yet

Um but tell us what you have seen as your initial reaction with what’s going on in San Francisco over there on the west coast okay and just very quickly I’m a historian I don’t claim to be an expert on reparations even though I know a lot about it okay you talk about it

All the time that’s why oh yeah well I’m a historian and I study history law politics and economics but I don’t claim to be experts but what what we have here is um you you have a proposal of a one-time payment going to um African-Americans who are eligible

Who would be eligible in the city of San Francisco not for slavery because San Francisco does not have a history of slavery just as generally speaking California does not have a history of slavery because California came into the Union in 1850 as a free state not a

Slave holding state so this would be according to the article from cnn.com called San Francisco leaders show early support for five million reparation payments for eligible eligible black residents it says that uh San Francisco’s reparations advisory committee which was created in 2020 to craft a plan to address institutional city-sanctioned harm inflicted upon

African-American communities okay so this would be a one-time payment of five million dollars and it’s not now you have some on the committee who support this however generally speaking under spending the finances of San Francisco in San Francisco has a 728 million dollar budget deficit over the next two

Years is unlikely that this will be actually be implemented okay but you have um the California reparations task force which is at the state level you also have a San Francisco reparations task forces as well and uh the five million dollars what were some of the more than 100 recommendations made by a

City appointed reparations committee tasked with the uh question of how to uh repair the damage of systemic racism redlining housing discrimination things like this in the city of San Francisco okay wonderful Foundation late my brother thank you for that uh this is the CNN article we are uh referencing

Guys you can go check it out on CNN.com it’s up there San Francisco leaders show early support for 5 million uh reparations payments for eligible black residents so my question to you Mr Imhotep why is California like the standout is it just the progressive nature of politics there I don’t hear

This coming out of other states or maybe there are other similar uh programs or considerations being made of course we’ve heard you know a couple of cities do things like maybe give housing down payments sure sure that was Evanston Illinois so let me address that okay let’s take Everest Illinois first

Because the person who spearheaded that her name was Robin who Simmons I interviewed her on the African history Network show for an hour okay to break down what actually happened now the state of Illinois about slavery in 1818. Evanston Illinois the City of Evanston Illinois wasn’t founded to the 1840s you

Had a lot of woke ass people running around who didn’t do research who said oh they should do reparations for slavery things like this Evanston does not have a history of slavery so when you have a city they’re not going to do reparations to repair the damage or

Something that the city did not inflict when you look at what San Francisco was doing or what they’re proposing they are saying specifically they are working to repair the damage that the city inflicted upon African-Americans not what the state did not what the federal government did because they don’t have

Those type of resources Evanston illinois is a city of approximately 60 000 people with a percentage of African-Americans at 16 and declining they don’t have a history of slavery but they had a rampant history of housing discrimination and redlining and there’s still some African-Americans alive today who live in Evanston who were the

Victims of the housing discrimination and red lighting so this is what they this is what their uh reparations program the 25 000 vouchers towards housing was uh designed to remedy not slavery okay so when we look at reparations on a city level and we have a reparations task force here in Detroit

I’m now on it but I do know people on the reparations task force they are looking at repairing the damage that the city did you first have to understand history in your city and the Damage that the city did to understand what to repair California is very Progressive

Because both the the state the state legislature is controlled by democrats is the most populous uh state in the country and you have a Democratic governor and that came through voting okay uh the 500 page report that they released back June 1st 2022 is the most comprehensive analysis of uh African

Americans and what has happened to us since the kernel commission report came out in 1968 all right so I encourage people to research what the California reparations task force is doing and they are going to um the proposals for reparations is going to be distributed if it passes the

State Assembly based upon lineage okay you have to be able to provide evidence that you are the Senate of a person of African descent who is here prior to 1900 or a person of or or free African-American here who was in the U.S prior to 1900. the reason why they have

To do it based upon lineage and not based upon race is because the in the state of California race-based policies are illegal it’s illegal to have a policy only for African-Americans and they they want to make sure that if anything gets passed in the state legislature it doesn’t get overturned in

Court which it will be because Republicans will file lawsuits and some brain damage Negroes will also file lawsuits as well to block it okay now at the federal level title 6 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act section 601 non-discrimination and fairly assisted programs bans race-based policies so if if reparations happens at

The federal level most likely what California is doing will be the model because you it race-based policies at the federal level are illegal as well which is why if we’re seeking a legal remedy to a historical problem we must understand both law and history well said brother okay I’m following you

I’m reading the chat y’all come on through with your questions I see a chat member uh his uh going by Oil King and in his opinion he has stated that he does not believe housing vouchers so to speak to be reparations um I think we need to Define terms

Because you’ve laid out you know there is a school of thinking that it goes uh back to you know the institution of slavery there’s a school of thinking that there was wrongs committed by law against uh citizens of African descent and were sanctioned by a local municipality or the state itself or the

Federal government itself and we can’t get that and I will talk to you that with about that after break why it hasn’t gotten more attraction in the Federal uh government but nonetheless so what we have is a hodgepodge of ideas and I’m grateful for some of the

Comments I’m going to bring them up after the break uh when it comes I need to address that first yeah go ahead and put up oil King’s comment thank you Oil King for being here and I’m grateful for all my culture crew who are letting us

Know how they really feel uh but this is what he wrote he wrote you know why is this considered reparations how do you respond to that please Michael well reparations for what the concept of reparations means repairing the damage or something that’s why you first have to understand what it

Is you’re talking about this is why a lot of arguments dealing with reparations I don’t get involved in because I’m listening to people and they don’t understand history law politics and economics Evanston Illinois has no history of slavery so why is the city of 60 000

People going to pass a law to address something that didn’t happen in the city and the city was not responsible for the city was responsible for housing discrimination against black people therefore the city is going to implement laws to repair the damage that they are responsible for we have to understand

What it is we’re talking about before we can seek a remedy for it reparations through concept means to repair to repair the harm that make you whole again the repair that damages something that was done you’re trying to go in the left Direction but don’t understand you

Should go in the right direction now you need to repair the damage of a legacy of slavery in in decades that Jim Crow it’s not just slavery uh child slavery ended something like 157 years ago Decades of Jim Crow segregation redlining housing discrimination voter suppression what we’re dealing with today is the

Culmination the accumulative effect of all that hap what happened after child slavery ended when the U.S Constitution when the 13th amendment was ratified December 6 1865 AI you have to look at the collapse of the uh uh the end of reconstruction collapse of the Freeman’s Bank understanding the redlining that

Was created by the federal government understanding why you have African-American homes have the value that 48 000 less than comparable white homes which is a cumulative effect of 156 billion dollars less net worth for African-American homes the comparable white home so that’s dealing with a legacy that happens after slavery ends

So when we deal with repairing the damage of a history of slavery and and all that happened after that we have to change the laws and policies that were put in place that continue to inflict the harm today cash payments are not going to do that cash payments can be

Part of a comprehensive reparations problem but anybody with any intelligence who understands the spending habits of African-Americans know damn well if we all got a million dollars a day white people have it all back by this time next week and the only thing you would have done is stimulate

Their economy but the laws and policies that Mal distributed wealth power resources will still be in place still inflicted harm and you haven’t repaired the damage what we’re doing work over here uh Michael is as really breaking it down let’s put up Chris’s Chris big uh I see your comment there brother says

Reparations really is the wrong word again we’re getting context now uh uh to as far as damages go in terms of the law in the United States consequential damages is one type of Damages we would be eligible for under law okay I’m getting into the legalese here and personally personally speaking

Understanding white supremacy I would take the turn I would take the name reparations off of because anytime you say reparations it automatically brings up resistance I would talk more I’m more understanding that most of the people who got a vote for these policies are white especially at the federal level

Okay I would talk about the actual policies and how it’s going to help not just African-Americans but help America in general because anything that benefits African-Americans is going to help America in general the the executive order that President Joe Biden did for student loan forgiveness that’s

Going to that’s going to move 500 000 African-American can families from a negative net worth to a positive network but it will also benefit white people as well it’s going to really help a lot of African-Americans okay and this chart a little more than 25 percent of our

Student loan debt uh is going to be discharged when you talk about African-Americans but it’s also going to help a lot of white people also so what’s good for African Americans is also good for America so when we when we present these remedies when we present these policies understanding that the

Majority of the people in the U.S House of Representatives and the U.S Senate who have to vote for this are white you also need to talk about how it’s going to help them and their constituents as well not just African Americans if you actually want to get something

Accomplished I love it we’re peeling about the layers y’all but we got to take a quick break I’m here on with Michael M whole temp doing work y’all this is the culture we’ll be back with more right after this oh I’m Deborah Owens from America’s wealth coach and my new show get wealthy

Focuses on the things that your financial advisor and Bank isn’t telling you but you absolutely need to know so watch get Wealthy on the Black Star Network Livestart network is here right now thank you for being the voice of Black Americans all the momentum we have now we have to keep this going the video looks phenomenal see this difference between black star Network and black owned media and something like CNN you can’t beat Black owned media and

Be scared it’s time to be smart bring your dig we talk about Blackness and what happens in Black Culture we’re about covering these things that matter to us uh speaking to our issues and concerns this is a genuine people-powered movement there’s a lot of stuff that we’re not

Getting you get it and you spread the words we wish to plead our own cause to long have others spoken for us we cannot tell our own story if we can’t pay for it this is about covering us invest in Black owned media your dollars matter we

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Money orders go to PO Box five seven one nine six Washington DC 20037-0196 the cash app is dollar sign RM unfiltered PayPal is our Martin unfiltered venmo is RM unfiltered jail is rolling at Roland s martin.com Thank you hey welcome back to the culture this is Suzette speaks sitting in for faraji Muhammad I’m here with my brother Mr Michael impotep who is teaching y’all about what it is that’s happening on the west coast over in San Francisco there has been a movement towards reparations

For a certain qualifying black residence and we’re having a robust conversation here I’m gonna put up a few of your quotes let’s bring back Michael and hotel now I see you in the chat y’all I see everybody and I’m gonna only be able

To read a few uh let’s go to a quote I saw by Mimi Mimi d726 a culture crew regular thank you for being here sis I see uh she writes that if the government gave us real reparations now this is a a contention I’ve seen brought up many

Times when this discussion comes forward Michael the cost right that would bankrupt this country are we cool with that how do we address this when we were having the conversation whether it be on the municipal level right or whether it be you know state or even next we’ll

Talk about the federal levels but what about the cost how do we address that because I’m thinking 5 million possibly per resident who qualifies in San Francisco like you said budgetarily it doesn’t even kind of come that ain’t gonna happen don’t don’t look for your check in the mail how do

Well first of all what are you repairing the damage of you first have to analyze what happened to African people and analyze uh the damage that was inflicted to then understand how to repair the damage okay this is why you have to understand the laws and policies that were put in place

The voter suppression the the housing discrimination and one of the main ways that people have accumulated homes and have accumulated wealth in this country is through ownership of homes one of the biggest programs to do that was the GI Bill 1945 1946 and from about 1946 to 1970 67 billion dollars was invested

Into the GI bill this gave low interest loans to uh veterans of World War II and and and and uh who served in the military to get low interest loans to buy homes start businesses and to go to school go to college okay largely speaking African Americans were heavily

Discriminated against that even though we served in World War II even though we earned those benefits and our taxpayer dollars were paying for them so when we talk about um the cost of reparations one putting just giving a check don’t sound just giving the check does not

Repair the damage that was done okay and then you you have people who say well our ancestors work for free for x amount of for 246 years things like this yes they were 262 skills trading crafts that our people had in this country from 1619 to 1865. now how do you enforce that

What law are that now this may go outside the circumference of some people’s awareness I don’t play games with people when when you understand getting reparations you have to be you have to have a Legal Foundation to be able to enforce what it is you say that

You want what law are you citing that slaves were supposed to be paid in the first place yes slavery was morally wrong I agree yes it should not have happened but when you study the laws of this country when you study the U.S Constitution which is the first legal document that you should

Read slavery was sanctioned by the U.S Constitution it was legal so what law are you citing the slaves were supposed to be paid this is why the the legal arguments that we make for this have to be different than a lot of the the arguments that have been made in

The past one of the legal arguments and I’ve talked about it on this show deals with enforcing the black Friedman Indian treaties of 1866 which is what one of my teachers Dr Claude Anderson has been fighting uh fighting enforce for years and then uh more recently attorney

Demario Solomon Simmons who of who is a Muskogee Creek ancestry and who is a frequent uh panelist on Roland Martin unfiltered as well he’s been fighting for that because that is an actual example of us getting some type of restitutional reparations from the Five Civilized Tribes in Native Americans the

Choctaw Chickasaw Creek Cherokee and Seminole Indians who all owned African slaves and then after the Civil War ended they were forced by the federal government to allocate land to those Africans that they own and set them free and give them membership in those Native American tribes give them all the rights

And privileges of Native Americans when you studied Black Wall Street in Tulsa Oklahoma we love to talk about Black Wall Street I’ve studied the history of it but we don’t understand that Tulsa Oklahoma was founded by Creek Indians around 1834 and when they went into Oklahoma they took their African slaves

With them and a lot of the early African-American landowners and what will become Black Wall Street which was that business district which began at the intersection of Greenwood archampine a lot of those early African-Americans gained land from those black Freeman Indian treaties which are still in effect today but many of our ancestors

Were being pushed out of those treaties starting in 1941. that’s so I’m all for I’m for what will ever work when it comes to repairing the damage of a legacy of slavery Jim Crow segregation and racism and redlining to understand what will work we need to understand the

History of what has worked and what has worked in this documented evidence of that are the black Freeman Indian treaties of 1866. yeah I’m gonna jump right here because they say just let him go because I know this is a a passionate subject matter for you I’m going to put

Up another based on what you just said sir you’re doing work uh quote from Jacqueline both Tang I think is how you pronounce it because what you have just mentioned is that there are different aspects of what could be considered and the term is probably imperfect reparations but Jacqueline brings up

Reparation can come in the form of housing Education Health Care employment and farming hello somebody because again black Farmers have been through it so we lost me as the acres of land coming from being discriminated against from the U.S department of Agriculture USDA has done by law some of the most

Heinous things and created the most damage and and remove the most land right from people uh from of black Heritage so when it comes to the check because that’s I think some people are very hung up on the dollar amount but there’s other forms reparations can take

Would it be better or or is it like like you said depending on what was lost in the first place as a remedy of what law was in effect in the first place but talk about the the various types of reparations even here in the in this uh

Specific case in California in San Francisco are being considered now the headline gave me the 5 million per person right but there were other suggested um remedies over over a hundred in fact so can you talk about what other even in you know the broader sense or directly related to the San

Francisco proposal uh forms of reparations that are being suggested various forms could be free college tuition uh going a certain period of year without having to pay taxes uh it could be allocation of land um for instance just generally speaking um when you study the Homestead Act in

This country the Homestead Act of 1862 it gave over uh approximately 250 260 million acres of land largely to white people in this country they had to uh maintain the land for five years and they had to uh pay the taxes on the land okay and then after five years uh the

Land was theirs okay well you have tens of thousands of families right largely white families today that still have land in their families that was given uh starting in 1862 but they gave away land for over for over a hundred years they get they kept giving away land up until

About 19 the 1970s or early 1980s all right largely African-Americans were locked out of this massive land and giveaway that’s the homestead act of 1862 okay this is it now this was legal and and this is example of how we were being discriminated against then you have the southern Homestead Act of 1866

They gave away about 45 million acres of land as well so when we study the history here of massive land giveaways then uh when you talk about uh housing housing is extremely important because that’s one of the main ways that people create wealth in this country and because of redlining which was created

By the U.S federal government around 1937 and what redlining did was they they took a map and they drew uh red lines around areas where African-Americans lived and what happened was they made it either impossible to get homeowners insurance or insurance for businesses in those

Areas or you had to pay a a very high rate okay and then we were discriminated against when it came to get low interest loans like when you have the the um the suburbs that are being built after World War II okay uh you have white people who

Were able to get three percent down on low interest loans to get homes built out in the suburbs herbs African Americans were largely uh locked out of being able to take advantage of those benefits we earned in our taxpayers taxpayer dollars paid for so we’re locked in the inner city then the U.S

Interstate Highway acts in 1952 and 1956 dropped 41 000 miles of U.S interstate highways all across the country drives comes right through Detroit right near where I live I live where black bottom uh black bottom was right here in Detroit it wipes out thousands of homes and businesses this place is about a

Million people the article that I posted here called bulldozed and bisected is an excellent analysis of from NBC news that documents this okay well well the 1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill that only 19 Republicans in the Senate and only 14 in the house voted for that’s going to start to repair that damage

That the U.S government did through the U.S Interstate Highway acts okay wiping my wiping around homes wiping out business it’s going to start repairing those those those neighborhoods where the expressways went right through so how closing is extremely important especially now with the cost of housing increasing because during the two years

Of covet you they weren’t building new homes so you have a you have a crutch when it comes to housing stock you think I wouldn’t want a house right now absolutely that’s going to really tell you the truth that’s one of the first things that we should be going after

Home ownership we got to take a quick break y’all I am enjoying this conversation with Mr Michael and motep I see you guys in the chat I’m going to read more of your comments but we got to take a quick break much more of the culture talking reparations right after this Hi I’m Pastor Jackie good Martin and I have a question for you ever feel as if your life is teetering in weight and pressure of the world is consistently on your shoulders let me tell you living a balanced life isn’t easy join me each Tuesday on BlackStar Network for ballast

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Hatred on the streets a horrific scene a white nationalists rally that descended into deadly violence 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 Harold Anderson at Emory University calls white rage as a backlash this is the wrath of The Proud boys in the Boogaloo boys America there’s going to be more of this guys this country is getting

Increasingly racist in its behaviors and its attitudes because of the fear of white people the food that they’re taking our job they’re taking our resources they’re taking our women this is Whitefield [Applause] thank you Is the culture it’s the culture right here on the Black Star Network I’m Suzette speaks to the emperor faraji Muhammad with my brother Mr Michael impotep talking about reparations and what’s going on in California specifically in San Francisco proposal that has gained some traction into helping to make black residents whole

For past uh wrongs by the city and others uh we were talking to Michael M Hotel I’m going to read more of your comments to keep them coming in the chat if you’re watching Team replay go ahead and leave your comment below like and share this video so um let’s start with

Karen Karen kanera I saw your comment says thank you again for being a part of the culture crew today uh she said there there wasn’t slavery in California and I think you said that to Michael uh there was and is racism the return of Bruce’s Beach and I love the Bruce Bruce’s Beach

Example uh to the great grandson uh was an indicator nation of was the best example of reparation so far he sold it back for 20 million do you want to make any kind of comparison there well when you uh read the articles dealing with the reparations task California

Reparations task force they one of the things they talk about repairing the damage of is the theft of land like with Bruce’s Beach okay and then uh in the San Francisco area you have the uh the Fillmore District okay which was a district that was wiped out by uh

Expressways and they had a lot of African-American homes it was in the 1960s so there’s a good article from The Washington Post from February 27 2023 San Francisco the base reparations five million dollars each for black residents okay and they talk about the Fillmore District in the 1960s uh was the was demolished

Um and this was a neighborhood once known as the Harlem of the West and it displaced 883 businesses and about 20 000 people most of them African-American okay so California has a history of this but we see this across the country so when we talk about repairing the damage

Not just of 246 Years of Slavery okay but Decades of housing discrimination theft of land uh racism voter suppression Etc okay so this is why you have to understand the laws and policies that were put in place that inflicted the harm to understand the laws and policies

That need to be put in place they’ll repair the damage that was done brother we are going to stay with our audience and viewers uh let’s go to another comment Chris big I saw this comment stand out wrote thank you sir compensation compensated emancipation act uh paid

Reparations to slavery owners at 300 per slave that was only Washington DC that was the compensated that was the conversation this is the mistake people make that was the compensated emancipation after April 16 1862 which was sponsored by a senator who was an abolitionist it was passed by Congress

Signing the law by President Abraham Lincoln and it was about um something like uh 2 900 petitions by slave owners that only applied in Washington DC that did not apply to uh all slave owners in the country all right okay and we’re gonna we’re just gonna finish the um and then you can

Respond as well uh so I use that number to come up with 4.9 trillion dollars adjusted for uh inflation the mistakes the mistake he’s making is he thinks that applied to all of the African slaves in this country it did not it that only applied to Washington DC go to

The Zen education project read the information they have on the compensated emancipation act all kinds.gov has it Etc so this is this is why we really have to understand what it is that we’re talking about because I hear people thinking that that apply to all the

Slaves in the US and all the slave owners no it did not that was only for Washington DC and that was in 1862 during the U.S Civil War okay very interesting y’all teaching me here and I’m enjoying the conversation Story another studying history 33 years Google my name visit my website

Historynetwork.com there’s a reason why I’m in seven documentaries okay well I think also maybe they and just to play Devil’s Advocate they perhaps do know it only applied to DC but are still people don’t okay so most people don’t if they did not then we’re definitely glad that

You have um highlighted that but if they do I think just the number he’s trying to come up with is based on one example you you disagree with that uh most people don’t know it only apply to Washington DC okay and the other thing is a lot of people confuse what Great

Britain did in uh 1834 with the slave abolition act when they uh abolished sleeping and they paid two they paid reparations to 46 000 British slave owners and they took out a loan for about 19 million pounds and that was for the 800 000 enslaved Africans okay a lot

Of people can pick uh uh confuse what Great Britain did with what the U.S did okay understood thank you uh keeping us on our toes and keeping us uh uh accurate I appreciate you uh Mr Michael M hold tab we’re gonna go next to let’s

Bring up Oil King I saw this quote uh just give me housing I think we were talking about housing sir uh this quote was used then and he said don’t call it reparations uh we have plenty of Housing Programs so he said he doesn’t need the title reparations although it could be

Used to make uh black people whole I know you went kind of in depth with that do you think that is one of the I guess most reasonable or possibly um which I say you use the word resistance probably will be least resisted uh means of providing uh coming

From the federal government part part of it see we have to have comprehensive repairing other damage it’s not going to be just one thing it’s not going to be just one bill okay so the the and uh home ownership and not just home ownership free property taxes don’t

Because see there’s a history of African Americans having their property taxes property taxes over assessed and then we lose our home when we can’t pay the property taxes this is one of the ways our our land has been stolen from us um over assessing property taxes the

Airs property rights uh when it comes to a loophole when it comes to land ownership and this is one of the ways that a lot of African-American uh Farmers have lost their land with The Heirs property loophole which is so if it’s so it’s safe for instance say if 10

Grandchildren inherit land okay uh from their grandfather or grandparents and then one of them sells the land to a Speculator part of their land to the Speculator then there’s a loophole that allows them somehow to be able to take over the rest of that land this is Ayers

Property all right when you study this we’ve lost millions of acres of land through that so uh it can be part of a comprehensive uh repairing of the damage but this is why you first have to understand what happened to us and one of the things one

Of the mistakes we make is we try to start studying our history in slavery as a historian and as a student of Professor James small Dr Leonard Jefferson Professor Kaba High Walker common a I have to say when we talk about repairing the damage and making us

Whole again we first have to understand who African people were and what African people had before we were put into an institution of slavery that stripped the strippers of our history uh names uh culture spiritual systems folklore Mall race nationalities things of this nature and and put us into an institution that

Uh put us into the category of child you can’t start studying our history and slavery because you missed the thousands of years of History prior to that so when we talk about repairing the damage I want to be restored to the level that my ancestors had prior to slavery not

Get a check because they didn’t get paid during slavery this is a totally different kind of say that that conceptually I’ve never heard reparations place as in what we would have been uh I’m trying to tell you we have to leave passion how we think about repairing the damage you first have to

Underly analyze the damage that was done that’s very deep I love this question we got to take a quick break after this but Lana L says does the African history Network have a reparations class I would love we have history classes we have history classes that I teach that deal

With not just the history slavery but thousands of years of History leading up to slavery taking place I teach that on Saturdays 2 p.m Eastern Standard Time It’s called ancient chemist the Moors and the Opera understanding transatlantic slave trade with the then teaching school and then the uh the

Class I teach on Sundays 2 p.m Eastern Standard Time uh black resistance movements from the Haitian revolution the U.S Civil War civil rights movement and black power movement so we deal with understanding repairing the damage reparations things like that in both of those uh courses visit my our website the africanhistorynetwork.com the

Africanhistorynetwork.com you can register for those and I’m also teaching a um a a free I’m doing a free online lecture uh Saturday March 18th 12 noon Eastern Standard Time in honor of women’s history month or black women’s History Month it’s called great African women in history the mothers of

Civilization so you can register for all that at our website the africanhistorynetwork.com but we do deal with understanding reparations better and repairing the damage and who we were before we were put into the institution of slavery I love it y’all we have more time listen I got to get to a few more

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Dc20037-0196 the cash app is dollar sign RM unfiltered PayPal is our Martin unfiltered venmo is RM unfiltered jail is rolling at Roland s martin.com foreign Speaks in for faraji Muhammad right here on the culture enjoying a deep conversation with my brother Mr Michael in holtep we’re talking reparations y’all and we’re going to bring him back now I wanted to ask you brother about why the federal response has been so stole the last thing I remember is

Ta-nehisi coats uh doing a wonderful presentation before Congress making the case for federal level reparations where are we now with the federal response has the Biden Administration made any moves and why or why not okay so um the biggest push at the federal level has been HR 40 which was first sponsored

By The Honorable John Conyers here in my city Detroit 1989 the year after Japanese Americans um you have to the bill to pay Japanese Americans 1.6 billion dollars uh divided into um uh twenty thousand dollars per Japanese American so it went to about 82 254 uh uh the being put into internment

Camps uh during World War II uh the year after that John Conyers introduces H.R 40 in the 40 comes from 40 acres and a mule with a special field order number 15. um the prior to the coup plotters taking back control of the House Representatives uh you had uh according

To congress.gov 196 co-sponsors of HR 40. uh none of them none of them were uh Republicans I’ve heard that you had 217 co-sponsors it takes 218 uh votes to get any bill passed in the house now the problem is in the Senate you’re gonna need 60 votes in the Senate

Um no Republicans support reparations in the house with a senate not even the black ones so uh you even with right now even with 51 Democratic senators and I’m not sure Joe manchin or Chris Kirsten Cinema supported either but uh uni 9 Republicans to vote for it at the

Federal level what what really should happen is um we have to push for the policies that we want and take the term reparations off of it the majority of the people in the house and the Senate they got to vote for this stuff are white 95 percent of the U.S Senate is white

And you need 60 votes in the Senate okay and uh one of the things that needs one of the things that needs to happen so for instance I posted this article here and I’ve talked about it here on the show before uh uh racism has cost you the U.S 16 trillion dollars Citigroup

Fines now this is an article from September 23rd 2020. I’ve done extensive uh broadcast dealing with this and it it documents how over the course of 20 years from the year 2000 to 2019 the U.S economy has lost 16 trillion dollars due to racism one of the things this does is

It shows how racism negatively impacts everybody in the country not just African-Americans the same argument that I make when it comes to getting the George Floyd Justice and policing Act pass is the same argument that I make when it comes to getting the John Lewis Voting Rights Act passed and the same

Argument with repairing the damage of a legacy of slavery Jim Crow reparations segregation Etc if you only make this a black issue you’re going to lose when the majority of the people they got to vote for it are white if you actually can we put if you can pull up that

Article because what it does is it it goes and looks at three categories and it shows it says that black workers had have lost 113 billion dollars in potential wages over the past two decades because they could not get a college degree okay so if they could so

If if you correct that then they can buy homes they could buy cars things like this this helps grow the GDP this helps grow the economy it number two the housing market lost 218 billion dollars in sales because black applicants could not get home loans this helped Banks

This helps real estate agents Etc this helps grow the economy number three about 13 trillion dollars in business Revenue never flowed into the economy because African-American entrepreneurs could not get access to bank loans most importantly they go on to say the U.S could have five trillion dollars in

Gross domestic products over the next five years if those gaps and and others were closed today this is dealing with laws and policies so when you repair this when you repair these laws and policies it helps everybody wow so so so we have to and what this study does and

There are others like it it shows how racism is hurting everyone in this country even though we may get the brunt of it okay so we have to also understand how to market the benefits of correcting these uh structural inequities as opposed to just focusing on how it’s

Going to help African-Americans when the majority of the people that got to vote for this stuff are white yeah I’ve never heard it frame that way quite frankly my degrees in Business Administration not history yeah and I’m thinking to myself with people rather than again maybe commentators would agree or disagree do

You think that the majority population would rather shoot themselves in the foot than actually make money uh and allow black people make money like that’s what that’s saying is in business when we talk about a win-win proposition right if I want to deal from you I got to explain to you what’s in

The deal for you how it’s going to help you okay and that even though you have a lot of people who mean well and their hearts are committed to this that largely that’s not what’s happening right we have to talk about how correcting these structures will help

Everybody yeah wow okay now even though we’ll get the majority of the benefit because we got the majority of the harm this will help repair America also that’s amazing African-Americans are good for America in general in general that I believe as well let’s go to a few more comments

Y’all we have about 10 minutes left uh Chris big I saw when you uh responded to what Mr Imhotep proposed uh Chris’s opinion States when uh the damage when the damages begin is a legal question as a as opposed to a historical one thank you for your comment let’s go to Lana L

Next thank you sis uh she wrote hr4 40 has been dismantled to garbage now if we don’t even have the votes in the Senate nobody is voting for in the Senate um what what benefit does it have like how can we continue to keep it at the

Fore many of us who you know support uh one party or another mostly the Democratic party uh you know see this as you know something that they have kind of overlooked is there a way that the public at large can put this back into you know the conversation at the

Forefront of the conversation where many people think it deserves to be as opposed to kind of like oh it’s a back burner and I guess you know wait on cities and states to do it instead what are your thoughts okay uh first thing that has to happen is America needs a

Massive history lesson because Americans are very ignorant of History I’m not just talking about America African-Americans I’m talking about Americans in general one of the good things about Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday is if it can become very powerful if we use it correctly because Juneteenth is the only federal holiday

That uh deals with slavery okay this is an opportunity to have a national conversation of not just about slavery and the harm that was inflicted upon African-Americans but what happened after slavery ended okay the collapse of reconstruction the collapse of the Freedmen’s Bank in 1874 when African-Americans lost 2.9 Million

Dollars in deposits how our land was taken away uh uh after reconstruction end the voter suppression that was implemented and then also a lot of people don’t know that you have between 8 000 and 20 000 white Southerners who fled the U.S and they went to Venezuela Cuba and Brazil because slavery was

Still available is still illegal there because they did not want to live under rule of Republicans and deal with free African-Americans running around as well so America must have a massive history lesson with uh June 1st uh with June 1st becoming a national day remembrance of the Tulsa Race Massacre that’s a that’s

An opportunity for us to have a national conversation of not just the greatness of Black Wall Street but that ties right into the black Freedom Indian treaties of 1866. okay because that’s how a lot of early African-American landowners got land to build Black Wall Street was from

Those treaties all right so we have to understand that one America needs a massive history lesson two you have to use that that history lesson as a platform to push the policies that have to be put in place to help repair the damage and three talk about how repairing the damage will benefit

Everybody in this country not just African-Americans when white people a majority of the people have to vote for these laws now if we were 70 of the population it’d be totally different with 13 and a half percent okay and we only make up two and a half percent of

The U.S Senate and I say half because half the time Senator Tim Scott does not like he’s black well hold on now we we about out of time he’s against reparations by the way Tim Scott is okay he brought against the John Lewis Voting Rights Act he blocked the George Floyd

Just as in police and that okay he he voted against Jessica tanji Brown Jackson he voted against uh uh Christian Clark uh being a deputy uh uh uh Deputy uh head of the Civil Rights Department of the Department of Justice he’s been a typically black not consciously black all right now we gotta

Wrap up because uh there’s so much more that we can say about this I want to get a quick 30 second prediction now this was through a Advisory Board an Advisory Board in San Francisco do you think this actually gets adopted by the elected officials in San Francisco

The five million dollars yes any of it uh I don’t think the five million dollars is I think some of the other recommendations will now the the real test is what happens when lawsuits are filed this is why you have to be on strong legal footing because whatever you pass laws get

Interpreted by the judicial branch of the government and I can go to Federal and then go to the U.S Supreme Court we’re out of time we’ll have to leave it there thank you Michael M Hotel for doing work today network.com of course we’ll come visit you thank you very much everybody for

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Shoes right here on the culture I appreciate all the culture fam for watching commenting sharing and for holding ants down in general I hope you enjoyed the conversation I’ll be back tomorrow also against hosting that’s it for us today y’all I will see you tomorrow thank you so so much for watching [Applause]

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