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Live on the Black Star Network congresswoman Ellena Holmes Norton she wants the federal government to be more accountable to the advertising dollars they are spending on blackowned and minority media also it’s time for Senator Chuck Schumer to hold a senate hearing on these white ad agencies and
How they are refusing to provide more funds to blackowned Media we will talk to congresswoman Holmes Norton right here on Roland Martin unfiltered Tennessee Republicans they want representative Justin Jones to resign from office forget this y’all not wanting to lead the Pledge of Allegiance Target pulls a product about black civil
Rights icons because it was wrong we’ll show you the now viral video at Nevada history teacher a shot showing knowing what was wrong with the product this year marks the 10th year since the Flint Michigan Water Crisis began all this week we will reflect on what took place
There and talk to various folks about holding folks there accountable plus the Poor People’s campaign is launching its voter mobilization plan for this year’s election journalist Klay Kane will be in studio to discuss his new book the grift the downward spiral of black Republicans from the party of Lincoln to the coat of
Trump and Jay-Z spoke last night the Grammys he accepted a an honor a big honor from them I’m going to tell you why he should have boycotted it’s time to bring the funk and Rolland Martin unfiltered on the Blackstar Network let’s go he’s got whatever the he’s on
It whatever it is he’s got the the F theine and when it breaks he’s right on time and it’s rolling best believe he’s knowing putting it down from Boston news to politics with entertainment Just for kicks he’s Rolling it’s so [Applause] y it’s rolling M yeah rolling with rolling now he’s FK he’s fresh he’s real the best you know he’s rolling Mar now [Applause] Being frozen out facing an extinction level event we don’t fight this fight right now you’re not going to have black on folks black on media is often overlooked by White Run ad agencies and get the short end of the Stick of the 340 billion dollars being spent in the
General market but the same thing happens in the federal government a government accountability office study that was asked for by Congressman ill Holmes Norton found that over a 5-year period the federal government spent more than $5 billion on Advertising guess what blackowned media Got 5 1 million out of that 5 billion in
November congresswoman Holmes Norton sponsored a bill requiring federal agencies to include in their annual budget justifications for the amount they spent on Advertising contracts with small disadvantaged businesses and businesses owned by women and minorities she joins me right now congresswoman homes L glad to have you here and first
Of all thank you for being someone uh who is being on this this is not new you’ve been true to this I serve I talk about that study that you called for the GAO to do and the report came out in 2018 and present day we’re still having the same
Problems yes we are and that’s why I’ve introduced a bill Rand that requires the federal government to include in their annual report justifications for the amount they spend on contracts with small disadvantaged businesses and businesses owned by minorities and women during the prior fiscal year and I ask also for
Projections of their spending for the upcoming fiscal year and they have a number of co-sponsors who helped to me lead or co-lead a letter to President Biden uh and in that letter uh I said I was seeking answers about the inequities yep and in federal advertising contracts awarded to
Media advertising agencies owned by minority and women as compared to the rest of the country I think you indicated a figure where blackowned Industries received only five 51 million and that amounted to only 1.2% of these funds now remember who we’re talking about uh the largest Advertiser in the United States is the
Federal government so it has a very special obligation y to ensure Fair access for minority and women-owned media companies and here’s what we discovered congresswoman here’s what we discovered we had during this is during the Trump Administration we had Congressman Steven Horford on the show and the CBC tasked
Him to be their liaison if you will when it came to the census he met with the Ad Agency that was responsible and they told him we are not going to buy any P newspapers circulation 50,000 or under that’s 98% of all black newspapers and
So I can tell you what happened we we filled out the we filled out the they say go to the portal we fill the whole thing out we go through this whole deal we don’t hear from them for several months it was like September and when
The Trump folks were going to cut it short I then begin to blast uh this Ad Agency uh on social media and I begin to call them out on the show all of a sudden they called Carol H Williams who was supposed to be the black Ad Agency
But they cut her out of the money and they were like Carol what’s going on why is this guy upset she said cuz y’all never responded well what should we do she said I advise y’all to cut him a check so and and and and they did we got
For one month of work but the bottom line is if I didn’t go off and put them on blast no money would have would have come out I met with Susan Rice and her team within the first 60 days of Biden being sworn in I told her team this is
What’s going on this is what the deal is y’all got to I said these are the traps these are the games that they play and nothing came about it and so the ministration tells me well Rolland you know give us some time I said guys we
Don’t have time I said Co money is about to be spent and you know what happened there same thing congresswoman they s split that money on mainstream media and we were told by one of the Consultants yeah we thw we put all the money out and
We just wanted to see what what would stick and nothing happened when we gave a detailed plan on how to pair shots doing broadcast locally and it’s the same thing the the same white ad agencies that we fight in the General market they’re the ones who get the federal government
Contracts well Roland I uh there is some better news uh I had a letter here from the uh GAO that’s a general Accounting Office yeah Y and I want you to know what that letter says it says that GAO is confirming its commitment to examine the federal government’s advertising Contracting
With small disadvantaged businesses and businesses owned by minorities and women on the basis of my letter to the controlling uh to The Controller General it and the letter says we plan to complete our work and I want want you to know this m and send a draft product to
The small business administration for comment by May or June in 2024 so I think we have finally gotten their attention so here’s here’s what so I’m just going to tell you just one of the games they’re going to play congresswoman they’re going to try to group everything together when uh
When when Congressman Hank Johnson sent the letter to the White House they did the exact same thing uh and they sent back oh here was the percentage I said no no no no no I said tell them they got to break it out and that is don’t group
It they got to break out when they say women that’s actually white women because if you’re a black woman you go in a black category and if they say and then when it say black it needs to say first of all it needs to be an itemized listing here’s why because what they’re
Going to do is they’re going to put black targeted in the same category as black owned so for instance when they trying to reach black people digital they go to complex complex is white BuzzFeed owns them they’re not going to go to a black digital company and so
That’s so I so I I’ve said to the other CBC members force them to be specific in fact I would even when you said in your in in your press release it needs to be an itemized listing name of media company how much they got cuz then so if
I see that I can then go congresswoman black targeted black targeted black targeted blackowned and then we’ll see if the blackowned people got a small amount and black targeted got a larger amount well Roland look remember in my letter uh I said uh uh uh I they indicated that they planned to complete
Their work uh and send a draft product to the business admin Administration for comment comment yeah the SBA May or June so that comment will give you and it will give me the chance to see whether they have done the work we’ve asked them to do absolutely and the reason this is
This ticks me off it’s because you and others in the CBC this is what people don’t understand when people complain that I don’t know what the CBC does I can you say when it came to the census the CBC fought for an additional $70 million to be added to the marketing budget for
The census and that money was supposed to actually go to a black agency to make sure that we’re reaching black folks and we’re counting black folks well what the General market agency did was they kept the money and blocked the black people out so if people don’t realize y’all are
Out there fighting to get the Stu allocated but when it goes to the bureaucracy that’s what happens same thing USDA I can go down the line all of these different federal agencies uh and I’ve said look the Pentagon of the billion dollars spent annually the Pentagon spends about 600 million and
I’m sitting there going okay I can tell you right now Congressman I met with the Ad Agency OMD they have the US Army contract had a meeting talked to them last year nothing happened nothing and I’m sitting there going aren’t y’all having a recruiting crisis aren’t y’all having a problem reaching people like
What are you doing and and these are the games all of these agencies play and we have to call them out and put pressure on them and then they’re like oh well it’s not us it’s the client and I’m going no no no you’re telling the client
What to do and you’re stopping Black agencies black media companies from being able to access the dollars so we can tell our community uh the USDA when it comes to they have an advertising contract to tell black Farmers how to sign up somebody called me this weekend about a lowincome affordable housing
Program in the USDA I had never heard of it I’m sitting there going who are y’all’s advertising with to tell this stuff too it is stunning what happens and the money just goes out and it gets spent and then when you come back oh sorry we ran out we can’t help you
Now yeah Rand unless we watch them it just doesn’t happen uh that’s why I so appreciate your you’re using your platform to call attention to this and if you will keep in touch with me I’ll be right with you absolutely and I’ll tell you this here uh uh when July when
They had the black media round table with the United States Senate I specifically told Senator Chuck Schumer there should be a senate senate hearing regarding this very issue I followed up in September they didn’t get back to me and I told said I’m going to call you
Guys out it needs to happen because we’re talking in the General market congresswoman $340 billion and you know what’s crazy when bet was sold 22 years ago black own media was getting 1% 20 plus years later we’re still getting 1% oh my God yeah oh there’s work to do
Roland all right so keep in touch with us I will do thanks for your work I appreciate it you take care of course folks G to go to a break we’re going to come back we’re going to continue this conversation with our panel and I want y’all to understand this right here is
Why black black media black own media can’t cover stories this is why we can’t hire staff this is why black own media dies this is why ebony is not what it used to be this is why this is why all black on media is not what it used to be
Is because we’re being frozen out of the money and while you are buying their cars and buying their soft drinks and buying their snacks and buying their clothes and buying their shoes and buying their apple and Microsoft products and while you’re using their Banks JP Morgan Wells Fargo Bank of
America I can go on and on and on while all these things are happening they will gladly take black money but will not spend with black people you’re watching Roland Martin unfilter on the black Network for the last 15 or maybe 16 years 18 years I’ll say since I when I
Moved to LA I hadn’t had a break I hadn’t had a vacation probably a week vacation here there right this year after I got finished doing Queen sugar and we WRA it out because I knew I had two TV shows comeing on at the same time
Said I’m going to take a little break so I’ve been on break for the first time and I can afford it praise God you know what I’m saying so I can afford it I’m like I can sit back I ain’t got nothing to worry about man but this was the
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S CL Claire all of these media companies in America they all are multibillion doll companies because of advertising so I need some of these simple assignment to explain to me why is it that these companies can go to the upfronts in April and May and June where 80% of the
Money is actually handed out and pitch their goods to the ad agencies but black own media can’t we’re supposed to starve no man uh we can do for self no you can’t no you can’t you cannot let me be very clear you cannot build a thriving media business if you’re not getting media
Advertising can’t do it and so when we’re making this point I need people to understand that that’s how they got big that’s how CNN is what it is and Fox News and MSNBC and on and on and on so it would be nonsensical for us to sit here and say
We shouldn’t be demanding the money when black people are buying the products I’m just going to give you an example I’ve never drank in my life I’ve never smoked in my life and the National Association of black journalists the board of directors that voted I think
Was 88 or 89 not to accept any mon money from tobacco and alcohol companies all right I totally understood that but then it was stupid to me because whenever we picked a convention City we always picked a hotel with a big Lobby and we picked a hotel with a big
Lobby because that was always the me meating point where everybody went to drink and I was like I’m confused we literally exceed our food and beverage requirement in the hotel contract exceedingly I mean we blow the number out I mean we drink some alcohol so we had we had um a convention
In Orlando and we had a big opening party at Disney World and y’all every 50 ft was a bar or big tubs of big big big tubs of beer and I was sitting and I was like why in the hell are we spending all our money on alcohol and we ain’t
Getting no money back so so we had our business meeting that Friday and that was a contentious issue and after is a bunch of people left well I know the rules the rules are when the the organization meets in the business meeting you can pass measures and that becomes essentially the law of
The organization so I stood up and I made a motion to resend the ban on alcohol money it pass and I I laid out my case and it passed all people came to me mad as hell now never forget Arthur solsberg the owner of the New York Times
He came to me at the Gaya just blasting me wack in his finger I said who the hell you think you talking to I said if you don’t want us to take alcohol money then you should increase the amount of money you give to nabj he got real quiet he got real
Quiet folks here’s the reality we are amazing consumers we are consumers we buy cars we buy General Motors Ford Hyundai Chrysler Mercedes BMW we buy cars man we buy Nike we buy rebok we buy Converse we buy New Balance we go to Foot Locker and buy them we buy Target
We buy at Walmart we buy at koh’s we buy everything we buy Clorox we buy fabreeze we buy washing detergent we buy dishwashing detergent we buy JBL speakers we buy Apple phones Apple iPads Apple Computers Microsoft software Microsoft Services Samsung TVs Vio TVs LG TVs we buy
Everything but have you ever asked the question how much do these companies spend on Advertising to blackowned Media do they have any black board members do they have any black senior Executives is it possible that any of these companies may very well have a black CEO one day and if they do have
Black board members and black black executives are those black board members and black Executives actually standing up and fighting on behalf of black people are they providing Professional Services are they including black law firms are they including black accounting firms are they do do they have they use catering companies do they
Use any black Caterers they have PR companies do they use any black PR companies they use Transportation companies do they use any black limousine companies they do events they have any black event planners I hope y’all watching Now understand that I’m not talking about just blackowned media the fundamental problem in Black
America is that the black economic ecosystem is not being expanded so you know what we do we allow these companies to freely come to the NAACP convention come to the image Awards come to the National Urban League convention come to the Nan convention come to the rainbow push convention come
To fraternities and sororities local events State Regional National we allow them to come to Congressional Black Caucus Foundation ALC I’ll give you an example Amazon was the primary sponsor of this year’s Congressional Black Caucus Foundation ALC Amazon gave $1.5 million do y’all know what the Amazon annual marketing budget is it is $20
Billion that means if Amazon spent 5% of its marketing budget with blackowned businesses blackowned media would be generating 1 billion blackowned media will be generating from Amazon alone Amazon alone $1 billion now go Microsoft now go Apple I told y’all about PepsiCo PepsiCo has a 5year $10 million initiative with the
National Urban League PepsiCo wants to drop running cam running commercials they want to drive a $100 million in receipts every year to Black own I mean over five years to Black owned businesses that’s great problem is they can’t track it because there’s no code one of the black own restaurants told me
But understand this here PepsiCo spends $3 billion dollar a year on marketing if PepsiCo spent 5% of his marketing budget with blackowned media that’s $150 million a year that’s $750 million over five years huh 5year $10 million partnership with the National Urban League $100 million in receipts or 750
Million y’all that’s just marketing that’s not other contracts Wells Fargo signed an initiative to a 10year Comm 10e commitment to the NAACP of $50 million really how much did black people lose in the home foreclosure crisis through Wills Fargo’s actions I can guarantee was more than 50 million so
Here’s my question what is whales Fargo marketing budget how much money does JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America and City Group financial service companies spend end with blackowned media I hope y’all who are watching are now understanding what I’m talking about if you want to understand why black people
Are broke I can show you how we are broke we’re broke because we are investing in a system that has no return on investment in us and what we’re not doing is what Dr King actually said to us on April 3rd 1968 when he literally said we need to redistribute the pain
He said the garbage workers are the ones that feel in the pain we must redistribute the pain in that very speech Dr King named companies to boycott he told black people to put it put the money in Black Banks he said buy insurance from black insurance companies now some of y’all might be
Saying well man that’s going too far okay well you please tell me then how then are we going to be able to build capacity and grow that is why Senator Chuck Schumer the Senate leader should have Senate hearings and calling every major Ad Agency head and my by the way 90% of
The executives of ad agencies are white he should call every single one of them to a senate hearing cuz guess what last week last week how many of us saw the social media companies testifying before Congress how many of us witnessed uh Senator Lindsey Graham making Mark Zuckerberg apologize uh to
The families how many of us witnessed that take place last week well guess what if they can call for the social media companies to do that well then they can have this type of hearing and call every major Ad Agency and say explain to me how is it that bet was
Sold 20 plus years ago and in the New York Times story on the sale of bet a media analyst said that blackowned media was getting 1% of all advertising dollars and here we sit sit more than 20 years later and black own media is still getting 1% this this folks
This is about Equity this is about inclusion this is about diversity oh and I know cuz I I love when they do this here I love when they do this here well Roland uh uh uh maybe you don’t have the ratings but we do oh oh uh this we get from ad agencies
Can y’all do tags yes uh uh C can y’all do programmatic yes oh y’all they they love they love coming up with all these excuses about uh what we can’t do and and and oh oh I I I don’t know if y’all could uh I mean
One of my guys with the urban Edge Network they had a meeting with one agency and they literally were like uh hey uh do you guys do y’all know how to uh do y’all use this for yep we do and see I love when they try to
Matter of fact go to my iPad Henry this is my guys from Urban Edge Network prepared a report for a deal that we did with Proctor and Gamble if they did with Proctor and Gamble and we did some with Proctor and Gamble last year where they laid out technology used boom semantic
Targeting device targeting custom targeting detailed delivery insights compliant metrics activation boom laid out the report the delivery boom 2.9 million impressions 2.4 million completed views 4,000 clicks laid out delivery by month frequency by device okay summer report overall campaign laid the whole deal out this was the report
That they actually sent to them showing exactly how the campaign was effective y’all know what happened to the ad agencies dang now we got to figure out some other way to tell them no y’all I’ve been in the meetings it’s four agencies I’ve been meeting with for three
Years you know how much we’ve gotten zero I say to them everybody in this meeting get paid except me y’all being paid to be in this meeting I’m not see let me also tell y’all what y’all don’t understand all of these streaming services and all of these cable
Networks the pr people hit me can you cover can you come to our red carpet event can you cover our event uh can we get so and so celebrity so and so director on your show oh so y’all find Value in my show cuz y’all find Value in my black
Eyeballs but why do your advertising people never call me see I want y’all to get what I’m saying so y’all want me to spend money to go to pay a photographer to go shoot an event but I got no money coming back oh so that’s no rate no no
Return on investment it’s costing me money oh oh we’ll we’ll invite you to the junet oh so you think I’mma be excited because I get free food and a hotel room but but I got to fly across the country to LA to do it my time is not
Valuable last night the Grits Travis Scott performed do you know what ran when he went to commercial break a commercial featuring Travis Scott do you not think the companies do business with him didn’t know he was performing y’all I keep telling y’all if you’re not having a money compy
Conversation you ain’t having an American conversation we need to understand this is a money game and they are excellent at freezing us out of the money the federal government because one of the things that I’m also going to ask Congressman El Holmes nort to do and I
Asked it to the I told the B Administration last year to do this year they should put together a list of every single it should put together list of every single federal agency and who is the Ad Agency responsible for that agency who handles the Pentagon who handles HHS who handles
Transportation go down the line and say Here’s the chief investment officer here’s the contact because what they do is y’all they run us through Hoops see what y’all don’t know what happened with the census one agency got the contract they then split the contract up into multiple
Agencies one agency got it and they gave I’m I’m peing y’all the game they gave the broadcast contract to one of their subsidiaries they gave the digital contract to one of their subsidiaries and the print piece to another sub iary same company split the money up three four different
Ways and all us all of them got their percentages that’s the game they play against us and they use our size size against us are you too small well I can’t grow never get any money and the same thing happens with political folks the campaigns do y’all
Know in 2022 9 billion was spent on political campaigns mhm 9 billion how much money does dscc Chuck Schumer controls that dlec Jeff controls that I’m just speak on the Democratic side you got the Democratic governor Association you got Emily’s List you got all those packs y y’all see what I’m doing I’m
Breaking down where all the money is each one of them should be asked what’s your black own media spend oh oh so you want your surrogates to come on my show you want us to cover your rallies you want us to cover your speeches you want us to cover your policies but you
Don’t want to spend money that ain’t no different than Hollywood I’m just going to before I go to my panel I’m going tell you what happened it’s been one bank I ain’t going to name them right now but I’m going to name them later it’s been One Bank I’ve been talking to
For three is Major Bank major major bank I get a call last week from a African-American on the pr side hey this thing is going on we want to get one of our experts on really y’all ain’t spent no money y’all a respond to any of my proposals for
Three years but now I’m valuable enough to get one of your experts on I said no that’s not going to happen so I broke it down to the broke it down to him what the real deal is black people we have got to learn to stop being played
Small we’ve got to stop accepting crumbs and think it’s a meal this is how we stay broke guess what the word no is a complete sentence and I have turned money down because they played me small at a political campaign hit me up in 2022 saying wanted me to do this whole
Camp won a whole advertising campaign for 25,000 I said y’all out y’all mind I said hell no I said I will keep my black ass at home good luck in your campaign they had to come back tripling the amount the 75 wasn’t even actually what it should be but was more than
25 and that was a black candidate y’all need to understand everything I’m describing for you is why the condition of blackowned media is is what is what it is in it is because we are completely frozen out of the money that’s Julian Malvo Economist president Emer uh Ben in college author
Jones out of Washington DC uh Dr Dr mango dingo senior professorial lectur School of International Service American University and Derek Jackson Georgia state representative uh out of Atlanta Julian I want to start with you again Julian this a money conversation and it boils down to the money absolutely Roland now I think
You’ve laid it out you know quite skillfully in terms of what’s going on they see us as consumers they want our consumer eyeballs but they don’t want to invest in our media and so what we end up seeing is our people being sidelined in so many ways as you laid it out you
Can’t grow if you don’t have the reach and you don’t have the reach if you don’t have the dollars you have created a very unique and very important platform but imagine what it could be if you had double or triple the dollars that you deserve not that you are
Begging for as you said but that you deserve and you deserve we deserve to have black old media out there I’ve seen too many black newspapers cut from weekly to bi-weekly uh because they don’t have the advertising I’ve heard the conversations you know I’ve been with black media I started with the San
Francisco Sun reporter actually as a writer back way back in the day when I was a baby girl and um I remember going to meetings where Macy’s in particular I remember Macy’s cuz they said well why would we advertise with you when we could go to the San Francisco chronical
Was the you know big white newspaper and you’re like you know well I won’t say what I said I I’m try to grow up and be a little bit more perodite in my old age but there was profanity to use I’m like what the Blu um because
Actually yes we read the Main Street newspapers too but we have special Affinity yep for those papers who speak to us Y and so we don’t see a paper there or the at you know we’ve gone through this I went through with Jackson 84 88 you know I’m dating myself but
Where they had ads for everybody L doy everybody except rev Jackson and so what we need to know is that we should ask questions when we purchase we should ask questions about are you buying from black old media now you know we can’t always Center our eles around all of
That but we should Center ourselves around some of it and uh again the work work you do is invaluable the work that congresswoman Norton has done is invaluable what’s even more valuable though is US lifting our voices and saying to people are you investing in us because we’re spending money with you
Yep uh I spoke to Rainbow push at the installation of Reverend Dr freder Douglas hes I third on M cono on Thursday uh and he specifically asked me to speak about the issue of blackowned media and I laid this whole thing out and I’m trying to get our people to
Understand I saw all these black people uh why we don’t have blackowned media covering uh the Tory Lanes Mega uh uh trial cuz we can’t afford a court reporter um I’ve told Congressional Black Caucus members guess what y’all I said hey I said we can’t afford to pay a congressional correspondent $75 to
$100,000 a year here just to cover Congress sorry we can’t you can’t do and so I’ve walked them through and I said but if the money comes I sent an email over onanga over the weekend to a variety of people Hollywood folks Business Leaders civil rights leaders and I laid it out I
Said if I got an additional $2 million this year in annually for list the next three four to five years I could hire in 90 days up to eight top Riders and have one have arguably the best black news staff in the country cuz you know why LA Times just closed a
Bureau sister was the bureau chief Wall Street Journal just closed their stuff down was a black sister uh who was in there uh the messenger shut down 300 people you got ma massive Talent out here jobs not there I said yeah I said I
Can hire them in 90 days 60 days if the money is there and now all of a sudden now we’re covering a variety of stuff and we ain’t talking gossip we ain’t talking mess we’re talking substantive issues but you cannot hire those people if you do not have the
Money absolutely and it’s very interesting because you know a few weeks ago you talked about the whole thing with tub and stars and how you know just like we did with Fox back in the day we build up all of these platforms for other people who just see the beauty of
Our of our talent but don’t want to give us real money to help us build our communities but as we continue to shine the light on it now with with what congresswoman Norton is doing what you C talked about consistently we have to we talked about you know R Car talks about
Bringing eyeballs home we have to make sure that we’re continuingly pushing these organizations government entities and the like to bring the dollars to us and we also have to be mindful of the fact that we have have to be willing to tell them this is
An if then Clause if you don’t do this then we won’t support you you see that example you gave with the bank ex Rolland when you said somebody wants to come on the show but they haven’t been supporting you have to talk to them in three years you told them I’m not going
To let you just pimp out my audience so I can get some type of Click so maybe get that loan that’s the piece that so many of us are missing we’ll say we want the dollars we want we want the add dollars but then they know if they don’t
Give it to to us we’re still going to watch we’re still going to go to the show we’re still going to go to the concert and what you’re doing hes congresswoman holes noron is doing you’re putting words to this and there’s going to be actions relating to this and
I’m hoping that people are watching this because that’s what’s going to really wake up these advertising agencies because that that you gave that hasn’t changed over like decades it’s ridiculous and Dereck here’s the point here uh and after your comment we’ll go to a break uh is is very simple
We can’t be I go back to MLK speech April 3rd 1968 we cannot be afraid let me be perfectly clear Derek I’ve got meetings set up over the next two weeks with a multitude of ad agencies and companies if I keep hearing no I’m telling you I know what I’m going to do
I’m going to name them I’m going to show the faces of their white and black executives and I’m going to say how long we’ve been talking to them please because see part of the problem that’s happening here Derek there are black people just like in politics there are black board
Members who are doing nothing who are saying nothing but they’re getting paid there are black senior Executives who are doing nothing you got black Chief marketing officers who are doing nothing but we celebrate them and fed them and oh my God and we hand them Awards but we
Never say but did you change the condition of our community while you were there or did you only get a check see and My Philosophy is real simple if I didn’t get no money last year or last quarter or last month or last week or yesterday or today it’s a good bet I’m
Not going to get any money tomorrow so what the hell do I have to lose by calling people out that’s right there you go you know Roland you know Roland we have to be bold and we’re not begging and if I may Channel my inner Jay-Z when you talk about men lie women
Lie numbers don’t lie in six days Roland we’re going to see Corporation spend million for a 30 second commercial let me let me say that again Y for the audience $7 million per 30 second commercial so cocacola right here home quarter right here in Atlanta if they have 10 commercials during that three
And a half hour Super Bowl rolling they done spent $70 million and the reason why they are spending 70 million because they want to show The 100 million people just in the United States G that gonna be watching the Super Bowl about their ads we do consume and we are
Consumers because the the the the the feds already told us that black economic trillion let say that again one that’s our economic spending power in this country we are major consumers but we just don’t see the dollars returning into our community absolutely and so this is not
A moment for us to be scared we must challenge power and I told y’all what MLK said in his book Where Do We Go From Here ksr Community when he challenged black the Negro press to be militant and focused on the subsi and not the superficial and the
Conservative all I’m doing is what the brother said and now is a time for black folks to stop walking around on eggshells scared to name people and call people out because again I while I was just sitting here Verizon took $168 out of my account for this phone I don’t think Verizon has
Advertised with us in two years so I’m actually spending more with Verizon than Verizon has spent with us and I can go to T-Mobile and 18t down the line folk it’s about the money and like Frank Lucas said in American ganger I’m going to get that money coming up next she’s running for
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Co from blackish and you watching Roland Martin unfiltered North Carolina’s primary folks is on March 5th and one of the closely watched races is for attorney general uh satana DeBerry folks Tim dun and Jeff Jackson will be battling to secure a place on the November ballot now DeBry is the state’s 16th uh
District prosecuting attorney she’s responsible for Durham County she was a defense attorney AG she was a defense attorney general counsel to the State’s Department of Health and Human Services and North Carolina Housing Coalition executive director she joins us now from Durham glad to have you on the show um I
I I’m always trying to explain to our folk again understanding politics and what I say to them is if you want to understand and people finally have gotten it you want to change the criminal justice system get rid of mass incarceration people kept focusing on Congress when the most critical person
When it comes to the criminal justice system and reform is the da absolutely and so we talk about Das judges attorney generals and so too often we we Overlook the importance of those positions but the fact of the matter is Attorney General of a state wields significant power that’s correct and your local
District attorney wield so much power over the criminal justice system they have 100% discretion in everything that is happening so they decide what goes to court and then your attorney general is representing your rights you know we see here um what’s happening in Texas around Reproductive Rights what’s happening
Here in North Carolina around voting rights all of those things your attorney general can affect and you know as black people we really have never gotten anywhere unless we have litigated it unless we have litigated our rights in court Court well and it is really
Important for us to be in these spots in fact you mentioned Texas when it came to the voting uh law when it came to again interpreting the law and Prosecuting the state law when it came to abortion uh uh that that pathetic you know Ken Paxton
Who’s been indicted was at the lead of it in fact after the affirmative action decision you had Republican Attorneys General who wrote letters to law firms telling them you’re also uh in violation when it came to uh Biden’s uh School uh uh school debt relief plan it was Republican attorneys generals Who
Challenged that and went to the Supreme Court those were so the position you’re running for those were Republicans who were sitting in those positions yeah in your previous segment you were talking about the money um it’s been Republicans attorney generals who have joined in a brief Against The Fearless fund right
Which was providing private Equity um startup money to to Black and women owned companies to black women owned companies so they are saying we can’t even give our money to each other now right so for for you now explain that folks who are watching because I’ve been
Involved in this a whole lot uh and 2008 then Senator Barack Obama wins North Carolina by 14,100 votes and man the Republicans get pissed off and then they start changing the law in 2010 and then shall be Beholder the change of tomorrow and it has been a literal
Battle for for to the last 14 years of Republicans using the power of the Attorney General and the governor’s mansion controlling legislature or controlling the state supreme court when it comes to voting when it comes to so many different issues so walk people through how critically important the
Attorney General is in North Carolina where it’s not a red State it’s not a blue State it’s a the purple state if we actually vote well if we actually vote we North Carolina’s uh Democratic voters are about 45% African-American that is a huge chunk of Voters that means you get to
Decide who the nominee is and what the issue for us you talk about uh Obama in 2008 is that after Obama in 2008 um only the regular voters came out 2008 infrequent voters people who may or may not get up off the couch to vote but
They those are black voters who want to vote for somebody who believes in what they believe in unfortunately Democratic party in those last 14 years as our voting rights have been suppressed keep giving us the same people to vote for right and one of the things that I’m
Saying this year is that if the top of our ticket in North Carolina is three white guys in blue shirts black people aren’t coming out for that yep and look we want to see people we don’t need allies anymore we actually have um the education the leadership the
Background to do these jobs and we want to see us on the ballot and if we’re not on the ballot black black people they’re they’re not going vote for Trump stay home look and look 2018 Sher be Chief Justice of supreme court she runs loses by 400 votes 400 votes and we know
Several thousands upon thousands of black people did not vote in 2018 what the Democrats could have had a 6 to1 majority on the state supreme court they lose it it goes four to three 2000 what happens uh 2020 they lose they lose a majority now it’s what 52
Republic on the state supreme court and so again and that’s voting so the bottom line is when I hear people talk about well my vote don’t matter trust me the other side they know it matters that’s why they want to stop you from voting and this is about power this is about
Controlling dollars when you elect people who you want to elect that’s correct they make they are the ones who are making the decision about what happens North Carolina is what’s called a Dylan rule state that means that localities only have the power that is given to them by the general assembly
Well you’re our general assembly now is busy giving money to themselves and their friends and power and control they’re not thinking about the needs of everyday North Carolinians about environmental justice about voting rights about protecting Reproductive Rights about even having a hospital North Carolina has the second largest
Rural population in the country some people have to drive an hour just to get Primary Care forget needing a specialist right forget having cancer forget um having a traumatic injury or a complicated birth right and they don’t have any interest in changing any of that in fact they want to make it
Worse questions from my panel uh Derek I’ll start with you appreciate the uh the the overview on your candidacy but a lot of um individuals in North Carolina just like it is in Georgia do not know what the attorney general what their role is what their responsibilities are can you
Share with the Roland Martin audience exactly the role and how important your role will be as attorney general sure absolutely so the Attorney General represents the people of North Carolina in litigation whether that means um your if the general assembly passes a six-week abortion right ban who represents the people of North Carolina
Against that if they are attacking your voting rights the Attorney General represents the people of North Carolina on that issue not the general assembly the people of North Carolina right the Attorney General represents the people of North Carolina on environmental issues if your grandma is getting calls getting scam calls about her Medicare
All day and night or there’s AI calling her telling her that you’re in jail and needs money and you got to wire money that is the AG that prosecutes those things that take that holds those scammers to task right H we’ve been talking about stolen cars everybody’s
Been talking about Hyundai and Kia um there may not be criminal sanctions that can be brought against Hyundai and Kia about how they built their cars for them to be stolen but the Attorney General can bring civil litigation that forces Hyundai and Kia to fix their cars and
Hyundai and Kia are low-end cars who’s driving those we’re driving those we’re the ones that most at risk getting our cars stolen so there are lots of ways in which the Attorney General impacts literally your everyday life if there’s a company that is dumping chemicals in a black community that’s the AG’s
Responsibility to hold them account Julian sister uh appreciate you I tell people all the time I served time in North Carolina when I was president of benett college and I know you’re familiar with the amazing Legacy of Andrea Harris who was a vital um basically advocate for
Minority business what is your of mine platform yeah mine too what was what’s your platform on minority business and what will you do to advance the cause of minority business well my platform one is that that um we will let minority businesses play uh one of the things that the
General assembly has done in North Carolina is try to shrink the Attorney General’s office and so that means that the attorney general has to Outsource work and that Outsourcing generally goes to the same firms and attorney general a more diverse attorney general will have more diverse out side
Firms right and it’s like Roland was saying in the previous segment if he just had a fraction of the advertising money yep um that some of these big compan these big broadcasters had he could have enormous reach that is the same with law firms right if they had a fraction of
The business y that some of these white shoe firms had their ability to move forward uh Economic Opportunity Economic Development uh would be massive yep and and the Professional Services we’re talking billions of dollars for legal fees uh for uh for uh again accounting and stuff John Rogers keeps he says stop
Calling it Supplier Diversity he says call it business diversity and that’s what it is and we’re frozen out of those dollars and it happens uh constantly uh and people don’t even understand how significant that is Pension funds you name it private equ all of that mango
That’s right yep mango Mr thank you so much for for your continued work I I want to know what are some of the challenges you’re facing in North Carolina and going into November 2024 as it relates to voter suppression because it seems like across the country Republicans are stepping up their
Efforts to make it harder for us to vote what’s going on in North Carolina well you know the number one thing that’s going on in North Carolina is voter ID right and so they are trying to suppress voter they’re trying to um make certain IDs inaccessible to people they
Are uh you know the trick you’ve seen the dirty tricks where it’s like if you did not sign this in the right place then we’re going to throw your ballot out uh North Carolina for a very long time has had same day registra voter registration for early voting they have
Been challenging that they say that is that you can’t do that anymore just recently Court said that’s uncom constitutional and you continue to do that I have been on a regional task force that is looking at the possibility of actual political violence at the polls that there may be people who show
Up and take it on themselves to quote unquote police the polls well one second when you said the court said that was unconstitutional what was unconstitutional um the restricting uh voter same day voter registration got so the court say it was unconstitutionally restricting but this is the thing I need
People to understand because Republicans now have a 5 to2 advantage on the state supreme court that state supreme court is actually ruling in in favor of many of these Republican efforts when it was a democratic Court that’s how they overruled Rachel Jerry manderin that’s right and let me tell you this Roland
Those cases had already been decided yep for for everybody watching first things you learn in law school is story decises well for everybody decided they can’t go back and bring it back for everybody who’s watching let me tell you how bold they were there were cases that were decided in late
200 uh uh 22 when the court switched they brought them back up and and flip three of them that’s right that’s how they use a power go ahead that’s right that’s exactly how they use their power and and and they’re attacking the black sister the sister uh Anita ears
They want her off the Supreme Court cuz they wanted to be 6 to1 and they want her off the Supreme Court because she said the court should be should um pay attention to racial Equity the the woman gave a speech about diversity and they actually investigating her that’s right
She she did nothing wrong right she she just said the court should be concerned with racial Equity she didn’t uh take money from anybody she didn’t uh her daddy is not the speaker protim of the Senate right she is a well-respected civil rights lawyer of many years and
All of a sudden she has a Judicial standards campaign that is ridiculous yep all right so again the primary is March 5th uh and so look folks got to get to the polls and whoever wins the primary March 5th now how does it work is it whoever gets the
Most votes on March 5th or is is it it’s got to be a major it’s got to be a 50 plus one so how does it work yeah it’s got to be more than 30% um and then everything over that is it’s got to be a majority so got it
Somebody has to get 30 30% or more all right then well look um da DeBerry we appreciate you being on the show Good Luck uh in uh the March 5th primary there in North Carolina for the next Attorney General thank you so much and thank you for having me tonight this has
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Republican who switched Flint Waters source to the Flint River to save money the water contained high levels of lead and bacteria which of course flowed for 18 months affecting Flint’s predominant black population and killing at least 12 people to date no one has been held responsible for the crisis you know I
Mean now is Jordan Charlton a reporter and CEO of the status CP uh they’ve been covering this story from the beginning Jordan glad to have you here um and you had the back and forth legal battles you’ve had the folks who say indict the governor it being thrown out uh it’s it
Is crazy to me that no one has truly been held accountable for what took place it’s really unconscionable you would think in America uh whether intentionally or accidentally if if government makes decisions that kill a lot of people and based on my reporting I believe it was significantly more than
12 uh someone would be held accountable but uh essentially La last year um the state of Michigan Supreme Court threw out uh the criminal charges uh from attorney general Dana nessle of Michigan uh Dana nessle basically saying that uh she brought the charges her team brought the charges in violation of the State
Constitution it’s a long drawn out story like you said there was multiple investigations um the original investigation seemed to be making momentum uh before this current attorney general came in and fired the prosecutors and investigators and restarted from scratch uh but that decision has now led to the charges
Being thrown out and it it does seem very unlikely that anyone uh will be held be convicted much less face a jury uh for uh poisoning Flyn um and you know this was um didn’t you have the former um the manager was put over it I remember having him on my
Show uh he was he was caught up in this as well uh what about the federal investigation I mean we can go on and on and on I mean we mean we thought that that was going to actually be uh some justice done yeah uh obviously Governor Snider
Uh like many Republicans felt uh let’s run Flint like a business uh so they appointed four different unelected emergency managers who basically were just kind of puppets for the governor to do what he wanted uh and they according to my sources uh concocted a completely fraudulent Financial scheme to allow
Flint which was broke uh it did not have any ability to borrow money it was nearly bankrupt allowed Flint to borrow a hundred million doll to join a unnecessary new water system uh that was going to make a lot of people money um those emergency managers were originally charged by the original investigators
And prosecutors uh those original investigators were actually uh near filing a racketeering case uh Rico which you know was created in the 70s to go after Mafia figures but when attorney general Nestle came in for reasons that are still heads scratcher she cleaned house she fired the original team that
Was about to charge that racketeering case she put in her own prosecutors and it it was a disaster after that their all their cases got thrown out and now the statute of limitations which in Michigan for felonies is six years the only felony that is not six years is
Involuntary Manser that’s 10 years the statute of limitations for most of the criminal charges has run out so it’s it’s you know I’ve asked the federal government the doj if if there’s some you know uh extra Extraordinary Measures that could be taken for the doj to step
In here um but I I’ve never got a solid answer and meanwhile you know the media doesn’t cover it anymore I’m glad you are but people in Flint uh still have contaminated water the lead levels are rising again they were at 10 parts per billion just in December uh the EPA says
15 parts per billion of lead is according to them their allowable limit but experts will tell you that there is zero zero should be the level particularly for children of lead in your water uh and residents the the the effects of heavy metal poisoning happen
They get worse as the years go on Flint right now has one of the worst cancer clusters in America and they’re doing a cancer study a study to try and you know connect the dots and see if it’s from the water I don’t think it’s from the weather so obviously uh heavy metals
Like lead bacteria can cause cancer so these residents are still struggling they do not have you know Universal Health Care a lot of them I speak to have had to you know basically go bankrupt to pay for Specialists uh because Medicaid won’t cover all their medical costs it’s it’s really a lot of
Um they’ve been had a lot of insults after injury over the last 10 years questions from my panel omongo you’re first well want first of all thank you for for for this work it’s really important like you said nobody’s talking about Flint anymore to we’re talking about this tonight now people talk so
Much about Michigan being all in all Democrat run top to bottom now and all of these cases are running out but what about the concept of restorative justice is the government at the local your state level are they doing anything because it’s the right thing to do as it
Relates to helping these communities heal because I’m going to assume that the idea of feeling abandoned by the government is another mental toll that they have to deal with on top of the physical health tolls that they’re dealing with it was described to me by the former mayor of Flint Karen Weaver um
She told me her last year in office you know she was obviously excited to uh have Governor Whitmer come in because Governor Snyder presided over this whole disaster and she approached Governor Whitmer according to her uh to ask for you know help in getting more funds because residents still have damag pipes
In their home um that have not been replaced that were damaged by the Flint River and according to Mayor Weaver Gretchen Whitmer told her that the state legislature has Flint Flint fatigue and she can’t get any more money from the state legislature which at the time was um you know majority Republican but
Michigan’s now majority Democrat and there is still issues and it’s not you know Governor Whitmer ran on reopening the free water stations for Flint she did not follow through on that and it’s not just Flint you know um I’ve been covering in kalamazo Michigan there is a
Uh paper mill Graphic Packaging a multi billion dollar paper mill that is emitting toxic levels of hydrogen sulfide uh in a predominantly black community on the north side of Kalamazoo people are getting sick um I I got sick just next to the plant for a few days uh
High levels of asthma COPD and Governor whtm helped them expand a few years ago despite so obviously we know Republicans don’t care but it’s not just get Democrats in there and it’ll be fixed there’s a lot of issues and the people and Flint do not trust government whether it’s the
Republicans they I think they trust the Democrats more but have been disappointed that the promises that were made to them have not been followed through there wasn’t even a health registry for many years to track Flint residents health problems from this um so in terms of restorative justice you
Know I’m not an expert but the people I talk to do not have much nice things to say about the local state or federal government Democrat or Republican dere my question is around and I’m a legislator just so you know here in Georgia my question is around legislation What legislation has been
Pass to mitigate this because it’s Flint today or Flint 10 years ago but you got other municipalities that’s dealing with infrastructure other issues and those families still dealing with chronic issues as you already mentioned What legislation has been passed to mitigate this going forward well first of all I want to make
The point the original sin of this was the emergency manager law in Michigan uh that was actually started before Rick Snyder and there are still provisions of that Emergency Management law on the books in Michigan and that’s the law that allowed the governor to declare a financial emergency not just in Flint
But uh Catal in Cadillac uh predominantly black cities I should point out they declared Financial emergencies and appointed uh unelected emergency managers that in many cases were just basically the proxy for the governor uh so that there’s provisions of that still on the books uh and that
Is Direct that’s not the only reason but that is predominantly why the Flint waterer crisis happened because the elected representatives the mayor the city council uh their power was overruled by uh the governor and the emergency manager you know there’s been some federal laws obviously the infrastructure law in DC that Biden
Signed um put money towards replacing lead service lines but still not all the lead service lines have been replaced in Flint uh and this is 10 years later and they have not replaced the main pipes I don’t want to get to in the weeds but it’s not just the service lines it’s the
Main pipes underneath the ground that are bursting all the time in Flint and many other cities um so in terms of legislation uh not a lot I mean and it’s not just lead that was the main headline but bacteria there’s something called posos which are forever chemicals that
They’re finding in Flint other parts of Michigan North Carolina uh the industrial Midwest they’re they’re called Forever chemicals they’re made from the uh as a byproduct of Teflon and they cause cancer and miscarriages and all sorts of problems so you got lead um bacteria um posos there there’s a major
Water problem in this country that’s I don’t believe being fully addressed Julian first of all I want to thank you for your continuing coverage of the Flint Water Crisis um mayor Karen Weaver is a personal friend and I think the world of her um she was she lost her election because of reverberations
Around the Water Crisis and Governor Whitmer while many of us are fans of her as Democratic women um has been a disappointment around Flint can you speak first to uh mayor Weaver’s loss and secondly to the ways that Governor Whitmer has been disingenuous in her lack of support of
Flyn yeah I mean I I’ve interviewed mayor Weaver several times you know I’m a journalist I’m not standing for any one politician but she she she got a lot of heat for not Towing the line you know Governor Snider uh tried to push her uh
To say the water was better uh to you know get businesses back into flint and she wouldn’t do it because how could you in good conscious say the water’s fine if you don’t definitely know that um I think that’s part of why she lost there’s a lot of powerful interests who
Stopped supporting her uh because she would not just declare crisis over and you know problem solved um I was surprised uh uh in her election uh when she lost um but you know she obviously ran again um I think part of why she lost honestly was the media is a problem
In this too I mean the media and Flint um you know obviously they don’t have a ton of resources but they haven’t continued investigating this residents complain to me all the time that the media stopped covering it I’ve pitched stories when I have like investigative details to the Detroit Free Press
Detroit news they don’t want to touch it anymore it does seem like there was a bit of Flint fatigue uh in terms of Governor whitmar listen I know obviously she there was Co to deal with and the kidnapping plot so uh it’s not all bad
But it does seem to me that this is a case of you know you you make promises and then you get in and you you simply just choose not to follow through um they have Democratic control now so they could deliver you know again the pipes didn’t magically fix themselves
Residents have damaged pipes that that water’s going it’s been told to me Jesus can bless the water and bring brand new water through brand new pipes into your curb but if the inside of your home pipes had acid water going through it for a year and a half they’re still
Going to be leeching things off um I don’t know if it’s an issue of just you know penny pinching or wanting to allocate the money elsewhere but she has not fought the fight uh the way she said she was going to for Flint there’s still residents 10 years later that are on
Bottled water it’s but it’s very expensive to keep buying bottled water so Flint has 45% poverty uh there’s a lot of residents who have no choice but to drink from the tap now because there is no free water stations and I think that there has been an effort you know I
Don’t know what’s in Governor whitmer’s head but there’s been an efforts by other legislators to sweep this under the rug and declare it over the current mayor who I think you know has some analogy to the truth Sheldon Neely uh he just says it’s about trust the water’s
Fine now well I’m talking to Residents who still 10 years later say they have rashes on their body I’m not talking about one person person I’ve talked to dozens of residents over the years like the last year or two they still get reactions from the water residents tell
Me and uh the water smells uh in their Community you got to remember also not just in Flint but other parts of America the water system in Flint was built for the city when it had 200,000 residents it’s got 880,000 residents now so you have a lot of sections of abandoned
Homes where water is stagnant it’s not moving through the system fast and that creates bacteria problems too when water is stagnant through the system so there’s a lot of problems um I’ve reached out to Governor Whitner many times I’ve never gotten a response but
Um you know she still got time to do the right thing and the right thing I you know listen Libby Montana which is 96% white they had a asbestos disaster in the the 2000s uh their Senator I believe is Max bacus he snuck into Obamacare call it what you want universal
Healthcare they call it Medicare for all they snuck in universal healthcare for the citizens of Libby Montana rightfully so where is the the fight for Universal Health Care and health care for life for these residents uh you got children who have permanent learning disabilities ter uh have regressed in learning because of
The heavy metal damage uh you have people getting cancers now I think that is one of the top things that the governor should be fighting for the Democratic party should be fighting for um and the settlement the civil settlement I got to tell you I mean I
Don’t live there I wasn’t poisoned but when it’s all said and done residents when they get paid might if they’re lucky per family get about seven 8,000 I’m not saying that’s nothing but that that doesn’t even pay for a really good home filtration system in most cases not to mention the medical bills
And extra bills if you have a child with learning diffic difficulties um meanwhile again no no one is in prison no one has even faced jury I’d like to see the Biden Administration the doj maybe there’s something that could be done um as far as the statute of limitations Governor Snider perjured
Himself in front of Congress I believe congre perjury is still a crime in America he’s never been charged with that so there’s this is I think it’s been framed that this has happened long ago and it’s 10 years and it’s in the past it’s still going on there’s still a
Problem with the water just in December there was news articles about the lead levels are rising in Flint there’s been bacterial issues as recently as a year ago uh during the summer months there’s still bacterial issues uh so I I hope uh as this 10y year anniversary approaches
Uh people that have you know not intentionally but maybe just forgot about this realized it’s still a problem well and for the folks watching again to understand my first segment this is what happens when you don’t have uh media investment going to Black own media Outlets when you don’t have uh money
Going to uh independent Outlets then you are relying upon mainstream media and that’s not going to cut it when we talk about some of these critical issues and so Jordan Jordan we certain appreciate it thanks a bunch tell folks where they can watch more of yall coverage yeah we’re at status C on
YouTube that’s cup uh and we cover Flint we were just in East Palestine for the one- year anniversary of that disaster uh and you could watch us every day at five o’clock Eastern time all right Jordan thanks a lot thanks all right folks we come back you
Got a lot of these black Republicans running around just stealing money I keep telling y’all the easiest person to get money from is a white conservative and if you black oh they will hook you up well Klay Kane Series XM has a new R has a new book out talk about that very
Thing and we’ll chat with him next right here on Roland Martin unfiltered on the Blackstar Network next on the frequency we have an incredible conversation with my guest Nadira Simmons talking about her new book first things first hip-hop ladies that change the game the founder of Gumbo net tells us the stories behind
The women in hip-hop starting with the first woman that promoted the hip-hop party to Megan the stallion there’s even a chapter on me thank you so for including me in there it’s just so like you had to be in there that’s next on the free quency on the Black Star
Network hatred on the streets a horrific scene white nationalist rally that descended into deadly [Applause] violence white people are losing their damn mind as an angry Pro Trump mock storms the US capital we’ SE 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 think what we’re seeing is the inevitable result of violent denial this is part of American History every time that people of color have made progress whether real or symbolic there has been what Carol Anderson at em University calls white
Rage as a back is the rise of the proud boys and the bugaloo boys America there’s going to be more of this here’s all the proud boys guys this country is getting increasingly racist in its behaviors and its attitudes because of the fear of white people the fear that
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Donald Trump brought in was a whole crew of people and their whole aim their whole aim uh is to sit here and get paid Gaslight black folks go out here say crazy stupid stuff and get people all upset and then cuz you got the new people like the Jason whitlocks of the
World who all of a sudden now he he entertaining races like Charlie Kirk you got of course a whole bunch of these folks out here Klay K Kane breaks it down in this new book it’s called the grift the downward spiral of black Republicans from the party of Lincoln to
The Cult of trump he joins us right now of course you can hear His Radio Show on SiriusXM clay glad to have you what’s happening oh my God it’s such an honor to be here really really is thank you so much for having me well glad to have you
Here uh I deal with these crazy folks all the time I’ve had some of these fools on the show and when they come on here uh like I had that fool Mark Fisher oh yes and he tweeted today I said boy you should never tweet me after I expose
Your lying ass uh then that fool Philip from from Indianapolis we can go on and on and on and what people don’t understand is uh this is a money game that’s what’s really at play here they are making a lot of money from these crazy white conservatives M no no it’s
True and one of the things I love that you’ve done when they’re held accountable they fall apart that’s how you know their grifter you’ve interviewed Co pal you’ve interviewed an early version of Tim Scott a much different conversation right but when they’re held accountable they are combative they are confused they have a
Script that they stick to even when Alan West came on oh Alan West when he came on he was real sensible when he talked to me right right right but crazy out there but he knew like no I I can’t pull that with him yeah yeah
Absolutely and the thing is you know I wanted to write this book because the GOP has mangled our political IAL history black political history it begins with black Republicans so the original black Republicans are rolling in their graves because they would call Radical Republicans so when you talk
About after the Civil War first of all when you talk about the people who were a lot opposing Civil War and then of course after the Civil War those reconstruction amendments that was being driven by The Radical Republicans exactly exactly and people don’t know that history so when I hear the GOP say
Oh black folks are Republicans go back to the party of Lincoln I’m like y’all don’t even know your history y’all even know recent history you hear this affirmative action conversation Arthur Fletcher yes is the The Godfather of affirmative action of black Republican president Johnson gives a speech at
Howard University where he talks about affirmative action but it’s not until Richard Nixon is elected in 68 is inaugurated in 69 and then Arthur Fletcher comes in when it’s actually put in place and one of the people who no one ever talks about who was one of the
Critical folks with Dr King and Lieutenant was Bob Brown who was one of the most powerful folks in the Nixon Administration who got a lot of stuff done but those are real black Republicans yeah exactly so it’s interesting like I think of someone like Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts
He said the Negro has been evicted from the GOP we were kicked out of the party we were told you are not welcome then you’re in shock that we don’t support you so now what it’s turned into it’s a downward spiral of these really Insidious obvious and the GOP knows the
Grifters and they don’t mind paying them well speaking of Edward Brook again if people don’t understand uh you had the 64 Civil Rights Act the 65 Voting Rights Act but Republicans and Democrats Fuster the fair housing act that he wrote it was Senator Brook who was able to break
That filibuster in early 1968 and of course it wasn’t until King was assassinated in ‘ 68 uh in April when LBJ sent a letter the next day saying let’s honor His Life and Legacy by passing this particular Bill uh and so Brook understood and so before he died
He spoke out against uh these crazy uh Republicans and how they’re treating black people yeah and it’s funny it’s like uh you know they erased someone like Senator Edward Brook another name Dr trm Howard he was an abortion doctor in Chicago a black Republican they eras his history part of the reason why
Brooke is kicked out of the United States Senate he’s pro-life he’s an he’s anti the uh the uh death penalty like I feel like if you want to uh try and call on uh well why are black folks no longer voting Republican know your history know
Your history and this book calls him out well but and also understand the change in policy exact so you can’t say you’re the party of Lincoln Lincoln if you don’t want to identify what those policies were uh when it came to the 13th 14th 15th amendment uh you don’t
Want to deal with that they talk about oh how many Republicans voted for the bar civil rights laws uh again but they don’t want to talk about it was after uh uh Barry goldwater’s book dropped that that served because people like William Buckley who was white they were very
Much in support of civil rights but it was wasn’t until goldwater’s book dropped uh that changed the entire Republican party and they flipped from being pro black yeah to antiblack southern strategy Southern Strate they wanted to get that white conservative vote back in the South and you know I
Tell people that I feel like we as black folks we aren’t wedded to the r or to the D it depends on who is going to protect the most vulnerable who has our best interest at heart and when the GOP made that decision that we are going to
Marry ourselves to to former dixie crats we’re going to push uh uh the Richard Nixon narrative as as well war on black people Ronald Reagan The Welfare Queen narrative Willie Horton the 1988 uh ad that goes under Bush like you’re obviously you shouldn’t be in shock that
We’re not going to support a party that doesn’t support us I don’t care about the r the D who who who who what’s your policy for fair housing Fair wages health care and so on voting rights well it’s so funny so uh I was earlier today Kim kayek who had a Baltimore again
Speaking of Grifton I mean she raised a ton of money to run for Congress now we all know she was going to get murdered F you know and I’m talking about they gave her campaign a ton of money didn’t even live in the district didn’t even live in the district and
Then you had the the dude the dudes who ran against Maxine Waters and other I mean they gave them millions of dollars and we sitting there going uh you know uh the only people getting paid of political consultants and they know the game as well when Kim dropped this video
Today I I cracked up last and of course I had to respond to this but again this is the the silly stuff that folk like her will put out yeah so if you continue to vote for the Democrat Party knowing they’re giving millions of dollars in prepaid debit cards to Legal migrants
There’s nothing I like I can’t help you you’re an idiot you know what I mean like I there’s nothing else I could do like I could see if you thought the cow and violence wasn’t maybe the fault of Democrats and their failed policies I could see if maybe you know looking at
Baltimore city or any inner city in this country uh the poor education system you know I could see if you were confused about whether or not that falls on to Democrats but as you see Democrats handing out millions in prepaid debit cards of your tax dollars to Illegal
Aliot illegally crossing our borders if you can’t figure out by now the Democrat Party is a sham for that they could care less about how you feel about it I can’t help you I can’t help you look people say you can fix a lot of things stupid
81 well what’s stupid is you also want to support a party that yells about the Border exactly gets offered an actual deal negotiated by Republicans and Democrats but they say don’t touch it because we want Trump to campaign on it trp that’s their dear leader and you
Know what’s so sad I don’t think Barry Goldwater or Richard Nixon would have predicted that people who would uphold a new version of of the southern strategy would be black Republicans they wouldn’t even saw that coming oh we can get black people to uphold otherism we can get
Black folks to uphold look over there look over there but first what’s happening here and she’s doing that and then cuz she ain’t no Jackie Robinson no she ain’t no Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson chastised Richard Nixon because he wasn’t more pro- civil rights uh and he campaigned against Barry Goldwater
And he was a black Republican exactly and they called him a communist and they attacked him yeah so it’s listen I think you have to call out before it takes over extremism there are folks who want to be the next Clarence Thomas they want to be the next Daniel Cameron they want
To be the next Tim Scott they’re hoping they can go look at Mark Roberson in North Carolina running for governor had no political experience and became elected lieutenant governor just for going viral because he attacked Michelle Obama and black panther made it to lieutenant governor and now he’s now
He’s the front runner for governor that’s scary that’s scary you also have some of these other people I I’ve been jousting with him uh ma teray You’ got uh uh what go by Officer Tatum oh yeah see I love he put out some video where
He this was a couple years ago you know I I anybody who accepts my offer to debate about black lives matter let’s go I went that fool ain’t answered that at all Candace owens’s been running her ass as well because again with the way they’re able and then I forgot this
Other dude some dude Harris or whatever again and not you got the two brothers out of Texas twins okay them fools all of but again what they do is they get in that ecosystem and then they hype them up yeah and then they go oh yeah look at
You you posted that you got no retweets I’m like cuz y’all a cult that’s what y’all do plus y’all live for the retweets y’all live for the likes and so what their whole aim is what the white Republicans do they go CC we got us one
We got us four we got us five and then like I even tried to get sunny I believe Sunny Johnson is one of the more it’s somebody who is a republican who’s conservative who is sensible I’ll try to invite her on the show she she won’t
Accept the invitation uh but I said look when Chris mcha comes on here when Elroy saor comes on here there are Eugene Craig there are numerous black Republicans I have on but I tell them if you come on and you start lying exactly then it’s going to be a problem you
Don’t lie we ain’t going to have a problem we might disagree right but if you start lying right I’mma Jack your ass well that’s the blueprint they have to lie because they provide racial cover they provide racial cover for the GOP so they got to lie they they got to say
Black onbl crime get off welfare Democratic Plantation I mean you literally Chicago Chicago Chicago Chicago mind you one of the most violent states in the country is Alaska according to the FBI no one ever talks about that but it’s important to listen I’m okay with having a policy argument
If you want to talk school choice regulations that do but they don’t talk policy they they they can’t even go into Pol let me ask you a question you interviewed Tim scottt when he wasn’t as crazy what do you think happened oh easy the closer he got to
Wanting to run for president uh it changed and also it was it was power listen when when when and I saw it happening at the end of the day uh they made he made a decision Lindsey Graham made a decision all of them they said we can’t fight this magga thing so instead
Of standing on principles I’m going to sit here and start kissing Trump’s ass and that’s exactly what Tim Scott did and so then uh it just it just continued and continued when I believe a Tim Scott and even a lindsy Graham could have been somebody who says no I ain’t got to go
That far I’m going to stand on my principles I’m not going to sit in Kiss show behind oh but they AB I mean Lindsay on TV you got to elect her I mean he he just black man he just went to a whole different level and that’s
When you go bro I can’t respect thata I can’t I can’t listen to you when you Tim Scott sat here and went on Fox and lied yeah about Donald Trump he gave more funding to HB than any other president history it was a flat out lie yeah then
Tim Scott tsed opportunity zones I had the day Trump announced opportunity zones a a passor from Baltimore was at the White House came on a show had him on a show I said I’m going to check back with you in 6 months 6 months later that
Brother called us he said this is trash gfic now I then I call the Trump White House I got the emails saying I need somebody to provide for me some data showing me how opportunity zones have actually impacted no response Tim Scott goes on Fox News and says the greatest
Anti-poverty program ever were opportunity zones now now Fox News ain’t going to fact check nothing right again and he said it’s a lie it’s a lie they cannot they and I’ve asked for it they cannot provide any data that shows who got tax breaks right and show how many people
Got jobs that Pastor said all this was was a tax break for Rich developers it was not and in fact in Maryland it was even crazy they gave tax breaks to people who were outside the opportunity zones supposedly in the same Zone you know one of the things that I’ve said is
That this is the mess the GOP created decades and Decades of terrible policies and now you’ve gotten to a point where if there were any credible black Republicans they were flushed out during the Trump era they were kicked out there’s no space for them if you aren’t
Willing to uphold white supremacy if you aren’t willing to lie if you aren’t willing to spit out the talking points and say you’ve left the plantation wi some SE with her AR-15 you aren’t even welcomed anymore if you aren’t going to perform if you aren’t going to audition
In that way you aren’t welcome and it really you know Dr King said in 1964 that he’s afraid of the GOP becoming the white man’s party that it would hurt the GOP and it would also hurt Democrats it’s unfortunate it’s an unfortunate grift it’s a downward spiral and the
Check’s going to keep coming look you got folks like K Cole James who of course who was the first African-American to hit the Heritage Foundation okay K’s conservative she’s Republican I got it and there were there was some emails that went out and I
Remember I was like K stop and and so uh and so I knew why she did it I knew sending it out but the bottom line is i’ I’ve talked to some others uh who I know very well and they’re not going on television they’re not doing these
Things they met privately with Trump people or whatever but they will tell you no these people are trash and they hate they hate these black Republican grifters they can’t stand themely uh that was a meeting that Pence had at the White House with several black Republicans yeah and Trump made him
Invite uh Candace uh Candace Owens and so what’s crazy is when they posted the Tweet Pence thanked everybody but her oh yeah and I was told in that meeting she said something crazy about black folks and K Cole James dressed her ass down and literally told her little girl you
Don’t know what you talking about in front of Vice President Pence she was grossly embarrassed I had some other black Republicans who told me Point Blank they said Roland we have told her you don’t know what the hell you talking about you need to go read up on policy
And he they I mean one black Republican told me Roland she admitted she doesn’t know this stuff but for them you get out there you got you a nice look you can sit here and you sound great and you speak fast and repeat the talking points boom boom Fox News conservative radio
They will love you immensely and that’s scary thing is that conservative media they have a massive infrastructure and when they find their black darling they will lift I mean I mean Michael steel I interview him in the book told me that that it is embarrassing they have the
Likes of herel Walker diamond and silk Candace Owens that it’s it it shows the party is irredeemable it is irredeemable and they couldn’t tell you one thing about Ida Wells who once ran for office as a republican they couldn’t tell you one thing about the origins of where
This really began it’s a shame to our history uh before I go to questions with my panel what was also interesting to me uh was I was on CNN and I got to find a clip and it was some black Pastor he was conservative he was going off on
Reverend Jackson and so we went at it so we go into the Green Room he goes uh man uh we should take this thing on the road he goes man it’s a lot of money out there for this looked at his ass and I was like ain’t no way in hell I’m going
To road with your ass yeah see I the mo I knew when we were on it had nothing to do with principles exactly morals values Integrity ethics it was the money yeah and his whole deal was roll with me on this and we can make a lot of money
Because these white conservatives will fund this stuff and I told him to go to hell that’s right Roland if you came out tomorrow and said you were a trump supporter you’d be a tril a trillionaire within a year no I I’ve said that for years you trillionaire I’ve literally
Said with my skill set if I made the decision gri to condemn black people yeah with my skill set absolutely yeah I would be a billionaire that that I AB I absolutely believe that yeah absolutely believe that but you have morals you have values you know policy I’m I’m like
I’m not going I’m not you’re not going to play this little game here ex and that’s the game that they actually play hold tight one second folks we’re going to go to the break we’re going to come back we’re going to take some questions from our panel we’re talking with Klay
Kane about his book the grift the downward spiral of black Republicans from the party of Lincoln uh to The Cult of trump we’ll be right back on roller Martin unfiltered on the Black Star Network for the last 15 or maybe 16 years 18 years I’ll say since I when I
Moved to LA I hadn’t had a break I hadn’t had a vacation I a week vacation here right this year after I got finished doing Queen and we wrapped out because I knew I had two TV shows come on at the same time so going to take a
Little break so I’ve been on break for the first time and I can afford it praise God you know what I’m saying so I can afford it I’m like I can sit back ain’t got nothing to worry about man but this was the first time in almost in in
Two decades wow that I’ve actually had time to sit back and and and smell the r I am Tommy Davidson I play Oscar on Proud Family louder and prouder right now I’m rolling with Roland Martin unfiltered uncut unplugged and UND damn believable you hear me Folks welcome back we’re talking to Klay Kane this new book is called the Griff the downward spiral of black Republicans from the party of Lincoln to The Cult of trump let’s start with our question questions Julian M your first absolutely clay thank you for your book I’m looking
Forward to reading it um what I’d like to know I mean I remember reasonable Republicans uh Ed Brooke certainly but there’s so many others they call them Rockefeller Republicans fiscal um conservatives social quasi liberals I mean it has to be something other than Trump that’s turned these
People into fools I mean there has there’s got there’s something there’s a secret sauce somewhere maybe it’s buried in the bowels of your book but but what else is it because I mean I’m even thinking of um what’s a guy named Gary somebody from Connecticut yeah Gary Frank Republican he wasn’t crazy you
Know he wasn’t Tim Scott crazy but so what happened I don’t want you to give away all the secrets because we want people to buy your book but give me something more than the cult of trump so the watershed moment that I lay out in the book is Clarence Thomas he changes the
Game he starts to rise in the late 70s early 1980s he speaks of this black Alternatives conference and he basically characterizes more or less his sister as a Welfare Queen he says horrible things about affirmative action mind you he admitted previously if it wasn’t for affirmative action he wouldn’t be where
He was Clarence Thomas perfected the grift per affected um the performance the audition that I think that is the moment where folks said okay forget about you know the Nixon eras about black capitalism I forget about Senator Edward Brooke and George W Lee and all these other folks how can I really just
Be about rugged individualism and I think when Clarence Thomas did that people followed his lead and said yo I want to make this much money and I I have quotes in the book of folks slamming Clarence Thomas that he’s literally just profiting from this I
Mean this is he was a a mastermind at this blueprint of grifting and hustling so at that point the era before before and after Clarence Thomas he really be the be the beginning of the Eraser of credible Republicans I mean Senator Edward Brook disappears Arthur Fletcher who does support Clarence thomon to the
Supreme Court says that after he is on the court he is now leaning white I think that he found a way almost I know some folks might be offended by this almost Booker T Washington esque Atlanta Compromise 1890 but doing it in 1980 and he is rewarded he is rewarded so I think
That is the watershed moment and I lay the blueprint out in the book I mean the the language um the independent thinker that all starts from him uh all these all these uh scenarios that folks follow it began with U Mr Clarence Thomas but I think what also with then began to also
Happen when you talk about that conservative ecosystem and so what then became it then became the speeches and the radio talk shows uh and so when you take Larry Elder you take about Elmer fud Jesse Lee Peterson who can barely even talk again so what they do is so
Sean Hann was a member of his board and so what they decided was wait a minute hold up we need black puppets and their deal is we need black people who we can send out and so they begin uh to latch on uh to I forgot I forgot the sister
She used to be on welfare you see her now uh a star something like that and so with so then this next wave was kind of like oh we got no real Republican credentials we can get paid yeah we can we can I mean I I remember there was a
Fight between some black Republicans and I was watching the live stream and a couple of them admitted that they gried it yeah yeah they cuz they they know the game it’s like yo I can become a millionaire I can earn me four five 6 700,000 they going to buy you books they
Going to book you to speak they going to have you on the shows and I and I some again off air they’ll they’ll be honest with you right what the real deal is but the the funny part is when it turns on them some folks got a wakeup call I mean
Some folks you know JC Watts Had cover in the book in the beginning of his Congressional career he was saying some wild stuff then towards the end when he saw the G the GOP is giving him no power he he he realized because what happened
Was JC Watts was uh supposed to be uh overcommunication yes and when they screwed him that’s when he said wait a minute oh hell no and that’s then he was like man look I’m out uh that was that was this sister man what was her name
Her name was crystal something oh oh um and Crystal right was it Crystal right yep y so so Crystal Wright I don’t know what the hell happened to her she she’s Crystal Wright came on my show oh man she was sitting here just slinging I do
The game yeah and I was kind of like child whatever and so she was taking shots at me she taking shots at everybody and I remember man when the Republican National Comm committee had a black History Month deal David Stewart was a keynot speaker it’s 8:00 and they
Invited me to speak invited me to attend and I sat between Bry and Stewart bro she was living now here’s why she was mad she was mad because I walked in and all these black Republicans were like hey Roland right but they all knew me right A lot of
These people I already knew and so she’s hot cuz her ass in the back I said girl don’t respect your ass and then what happened came to find out she had worked on Kendrick Meeks campaign in Florida and she had registered this black uh I forgot GP black chick I think a month
Before the election she was trying to get a fox deal man but by the time when Trump got there she disavow all that she took all that stuff off I think she got rid of the Twitter feed you ain’t heard from her because the Griff didn’t work
It was over it was it it didn’t work even they saw her ass a fraud this this and some folks are craftier you know some folks are going to fall apart like Stacy Dash like Chrystal Wright now some folks they want to take it as far as
They could go absolutely take they want to ride to the wheels fall off mango go ahead Su clay long time no see just s today at American University brother play just crushed at American University so thank you and you inspired a lot of students and you just gave us a new term
BC before Clarence as it relates to the grip anyway um you said that when whoopy Goldberg was beaing book she was really upset like just pissed off at all of the stuff she was reading but towards the end she felt hopeful in terms of how you
Ended the book what are some of the things you are giving people to give them hope in this after they finish this book so at the the last chapter is called the what’s next chapter you know I lay out the grift I expose the grift
As I to be well says the way to write wrongs to turn the the light of Truth upon them I turn that light and the answer is what’s next and for me I spoke once upon a time I was a non-voter I wasn’t engaged I grew up in
Philadelphia I didn’t know Civics didn’t understand government so I really wanted to activate and Trigger the non voter out there if you don’t do politics politics will do you I I want people to understand listen I get feeling like disenchanted I get I get understand I get the perspective that you feel like
Government isn’t on your side but the answer isn’t to uh disengage it’s to engage even more and and you talk about this Roland Martin that in 1868 we had 80% black voter turnout so I show that the answer really is in the original black Republicans and not even going
Back that far when Andrew Young ran for congress in early 70s it was 72 when Harold Washington was elected uh mayor of Chicago it was 85% can you imagine that’s how he won can you imagine if we could do that then we can vote in more people who care
About reparations we can vote on more folks who care about Healthcare but if you disengage you’re not winning because the other side they don’t disengage right the other side they get they get activated in fact I remember the Tallahasse Democrat I I should go back
And try to find it they did uh a graphic after the DeSantis Gillum uh race and it was the top 15 or 20 counties in Florida and it showed um the turnout the participation I think you had to get to number 11 before blue County showed up the top 10 were Republican counties
I think I think Broward came in at 57 if I if I remember correctly Miami day came in at 52 so the reality is had Gillum hit 65 in Broward and 60 in Miami da he would have been elected governor right and so I’m always trying to show
Black folks the numbers that if white voters state right here if we go from 4852 to 6870 we flip whole Statewide elections think about Gary Chambers Louisiana Mike espie Mississippi those are races that we could win if we have a little higher voting lost by 65,000
Votes to Cindy H High Smith in 2018 and that were at least 100,000 black people who didn’t even vote in the election yeah I want us to C I feel like we had less power then and used our power more absolutely I want us to use our power
More and if you don’t like what you see vote them out right vote them out show up and vote out that’s why you have a primary system general election system as well Derek go ahead play appreciate your book and most of your book highlights political figures um my
Question is around it looks like the Republicans are also trying to recruit uh entertainers rappers athletes um so what’s your thoughts around their strategy trying to recruit and I don’t want to mention no the well-known rappers in the last 48 hours that that came out talking about voting for uh
Trump but what’s your thoughts around uh the them trying to recruit entertainers athletes and others uh Beyond just political figures yeah I do touch on that in the book and it’s kind of funny it even goes back to the Nixon era I touch on Sammy Davis Jr and James Brown
And how they supported Nixon and the backlash that they had you know listen it’s another part of the grift that if you are um if you spit out propaganda uh propaganda is profitable and it can get you a headline Fox News now I don’t know if they’re saying this because they
Enjoy the tax breaks or because they they’re misinformed they’re ill-informed but also you see that they infantilize black communities with with celebrities you know why why is sexy red even talking about Trump wh why why does she have an opinion about politics you know but these are the ways that um it makes
It seem like oh look at the black community because a rapper said it right when and but again though but this is also this is also uh a fault even of M mainstream media agreed so what they do is they you don’t see white celebrities speaking for white people nope okay so I
Remember during covid uh cing in had a segment that featured Magic Johnson and douge fresh now great respect for both Doug’s a friend but I was sitting there going why y’all talking to Magic Johnson and douge fresh yeah when on my show we actually had black doctors black infectious disease experts professors
From mahary uh what are y’all doing and so what happens is what they do is they go oh that’s who speaks for Black America well unfortunately many of them are uninformed just the other day when Killer Mike was on Real Time with Bill Mah he brought up W is Biden going to
Poize for the crime Bill well when I saw the deal when I saw the clip on on Twitter cuz I don’t watch Bill Marsh show uh cuz look I did a show one time and he had little attitude and that wasn’t that was 10 years ago here’s what
Happened I sent Mike a text I said Mike Biden spoke on this in 2020 sure did he said bro thanks for pulling my coat on this I said anytime I got other celebrities who will call me and say hey Ro I might get asked this give me give
Me the 411 give me the break and so I will walk them through this is what’s going on this is the whole policy they go now now I’m comfortable speaking on it and so when a sexy throws that out about oh oh the stemies and
It’s kind of like well first of all sex red you’re not aware that was a that was a democratic control house that passed the bill all funding bills start in the house and so if Democrats don’t vote for it Trump ain’t got nothing to sign oh
Did you also realize there was a $1,500 check that went out under Biden as well and so and then they seized that and so when sexy red says something when charlot man says something when oh Snoop like yo I’m cool I’m cool with Trump oh Snoop now endorsing Trump no Trump
Pardon and Trump part of this whole deal Trump was all about celebrities anyway absolutely you look at presidential medal of freedom damn every one he gave was to some Entertainer or or athlete lim okay and so he gave one the tiger he gave one to Bob Koozie some other
Athletes and so he was always about the celebrity so they will then amplify the black celebrity and what they said and the criticism and what I keep saying the black celebrities before you open your mouth call somebody in the know before you do because then your then your comment gets weaponized and then
Sometimes our media amplifies those comments as well and it becomes uh a big viral sensation and you see it on certain media Outlets absolutely and you’re like wow now now we have it in the main in the conservative media now it’s on our media actually that that but
That actually is the conservative media strategy yeah I mean Christopher rufo said it about CRT mhm we’re gonna sit here and create the momentum here and then we’re gonna embarrass them to run it see when not say CNN they were always scared of being getting criticized of
The right and I was like tell them to go to hell well but they said we don’t cover it I don’t care and what people don’t understand is in these so-called mainstream news rooms when I was at CNN they looked at drugge report every single day I didn’t read that
But again they so when they concoct these things in conservative media they’re driving the agenda of the mainstream media and force you to cover it then they go boom we good I remember when rofo did Joy and Reed Show people like Joy you got him I wasn’t no it’s a
Bad move because rufo that’s all he wanted he didn’t care that you disagree with him he Now set set your lineup and I’m like you got to un it’s but that’s what I try to tell people you have to study media you have to understand how media
Works and and I’ll just give you real quick when I was at CNN drudge put out this story that says who some of the staffers at own at at Oprah show it was a big furb because she wouldn’t have a Sarah Palin on and when I saw it I went
This story and so the producers came to me uh uh I never forget uh Anderson Cooper’s producers want to have you on the show I was like for what you see the drug report I was like this is a article they like what do you mean I said said Oprah Winfrey said
After she endorsed Obama she was not going to have any candidates on her show I can tell you this story is a lie and New York Post picked it up and so the whole aim was to create this Firestorm to force Oprah exact to put
Palin on I said y’all they like well how do you know I said I’m telling y’all the story is a lie I said I’ll be right back send an email to Gail came back this story ain’t true I said I know it’s not true but that’s how they play the game
Exactly and now with social media it’s worse yeah absolutely absolutely um last thing have any of these black grifters hit you up and challenge you to say you’re wrong absolutely not you know what’s funny uh when I was on The View uh we were talking about Tim Scott so
Tim Scott goes on Fox News a couple days later and reacts to the view clip mind you it’s me sunny and whoopy talking but the only person Tim got addresses is Joy bear and I said oh I see what you’re doing there you go that’s slick Timothy
That’s slick you you ain’t going to talk about the three black folks who called you out you just focus on the white liberal Joy beay I said oh Timothy you still go for that check brother you want that VP slot but no but they’re welcome
To reach out i’ I’d love to I I have nearly a thousand sources in that book that that book is over sourced because I want to live in a world that’s not alternative to facts well look look they won’t do it and the problem that we have
Is thankfully The View hat you on and some of these other platforms but what you also have is you got many of these white producers who are scared to death I literally had a network host call me and say I would love to have you on my
Show but my white producers don’t like your title of your book White fear oh I said you do know I wrote about those very people in the book I said the reason we don’t have these conversations because white Executives and white producers are afraid to talk about white
Fear they keep calling economic anxiety I said they won’t even say white voters they just say voters yeah and and and I and this person and I then I sent this person articles from The New York Times NPR time and Newsweek which would wrote articles on the basis of my thesis I
Said so they all literally did stories of what my book is about but my book my book title is bad and this just shows you again how media if you’re in charge you are determining and you’re shaping The Narrative and and refusing to have the question go forward and so hopefully
These producers and Bookers will see this book and now think differently about how they book because inside these networks I’m going tell you I was at CNN for six years I saw if you say something wild crazy oh book them to go viral and I’m like but they don’t know
Anything and what you’re doing is you’re now making the grifter more popular that’s right and all they want is the exactly exactly can I say one thing before we go it’s an honor to talk with you I’ve admired you for a very long time you are a truth teller you’re a
Hardcore journalist and I’ve been just following your career so it means a lot to me it really really does to be here at the Black starting nwor and I really thank you I appreciate it brother I appreciate it folks the book is called the grift the downward spiral of black
Republicans from the party of Lincoln to The Cult of trump written by Klay K Klay I appreciate it man appreciate thank you thank you you got silence before you go yes yes all right y’all we’ve come back uh I got to tell y’all Jay-Z spoke last night the Grammys he should have
Boycotted the gramys I will explain ain’t nobody else speaking from this angle wait till I show you how even he contradicted himself that’s next on roller Mark unfiltered on the Blackstar net When you talk about Blackness and what happens in Black Culture we’re about covering these things that matter to us are speaking to our issues and concerns this is a genuine people powered movement there a lot of stuff that we’re not getting you get it and you spread
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Color being able to be successful we still aren’t seeing the mass level of us being lifted up that’s right here on get wealthy only on BlackStar Network on a next a balanced life with me Dr Jackie how big a role does fear play in your life your relationship to it and
How to deal with it can be the difference between living a healthy life a balanced life or a miserable one whenever the power of fear comes along you need to put yourself in that holding pattern and breathe examine find out if there’s something that your survival Instinct requires you to either fight or
Take facing your fears and making them work for you instead of against you that’s all next on a balanced life on BlackStar Network hatred on the streets a horrific scene white nationalist rally that descended into deadly [Applause] violence white people are losing their damn Minds an angry Pro Trump mock storms the US
Capital we’re about to see the rise of what I call White minority resistance we have seen white folks in this country who simply cannot tolerate black folks voting I think what we’re seeing is the inevitable result of violent denial this is part of American History every time
That people of color have made progress whether real or symbolic there has been what Carol Anderson at em University calls white rage as a backlash is the rise of the proud boys and the bugaloo boys America there’s going to be more of this there’s all the proud boys guys
This country is getting increasing L racist in its behaviors and its attitudes because of the fear of white people the fear that they’re taking our jobs they’re taking out resources they’re taking our women this is white fi [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] I for the last 15 or maybe 16 years 18 years I’ll say since I when I moved to LA I hadn’t had a break I hadn’t had a vacation probably a week vacation here and there right this year after I got finished doing Queen sugar and we
Wrapped it out because I knew I had two TV shows come on at the same time said I’m want take a break so I’ve been on break for the first time and I can afford it man praise God you know what I’m saying so I can afford it I’m like I
Can sit back I a get nothing to worry about man but this was the first time in almost in in two decades wow that I’ve actually had time to sit back and and and smell the [Applause] roll next on the black table with me Greg Carr immigrants lured off Texas streets and shipped to places like Marcus Vineyard and Washington DC believe it than that we’ve seen it all before you people in the north you’re so sympathetic to black people you take
Them 60 years ago they called it the reverse Freedom rids back then Southern Governors shipped black people North with the false promise of jobs and a better life it’s a part of a well-known Playbook being brought back to life so what’s next that’s next on the black
Table a conversation with Dr Gerald horn about this issue of the reverse Freedom RS right here on the Blackstar Network hello I’m Marissa Mitchell a news anchor at Fox 5 DC hey what’s up it’s Tammy Roman and you are watching Roland Martin unfiltered all right folks the Grammys
Took place last night and there were a number of black folks who won awards you got you name it things happen well it was a big award uh the Dr Dre Global image award okay so they named this award after Dr Dre and it was awarded to
Jay-Z uh and so a lot of people have talked about how Jay-Z man he called the Grammys out he challenged them when it came to Beyonce never winning album of the Year even though she’s woron more grammies than anybody else at 32 and he’s absolutely right but Jay-Z should not have been the
Gramming last night I’mma play y’all some of what he said and I want you to listen closely to what he said so watch this you it’s great to have a an award um for such an icon how far we’ve come with uh Will Smith and them Chazzy CHF
And The Fresh Prince winning their first Grammy in 89 and boycotting because it wasn’t televised and then they went to like a hotel and watched the Grammys I ain’t even understand what the wasn’t a great boy Kai um here but then 98 I took a page out of
That book I was nominated for the best rap album and DMX had dropped two albums that year they both were number one shout out to DMX and he wasn’t nominated at all so I boycott it and I watched the Grammys I’m just saying we just we want y’all to
Get it right we love y’all we love y’all we love y’all we want y’all to get it right at least get it close to right and obviously it’s subjective y don’t got to clap at everything obviously okay all right so Jay-Z says will Jesse Jeff boycotted and then
He boycotted cuz DMX did not get nominated and he got nominated in album of the Year okay rap album of the year last night wasn’t televised in fact Killer Mike swept the category and Killer Mike actually won for rap album of the Year this was in the non-televised portion here it
Is for best rap album the nominees are Drake and 21 Sav Killer Mike Metro boomman NS Travis Scott and the Grammy goes to Killer Mike [Applause] M sweet it’s letter is some tweet you can’t God ain’t good you can’t tell me you can’t tell me you can’t tell me you cannot tell me you cannot tell me that you get too old you can’t tell me it’s too late you can’t tell me dreams come
True it is a sweep it is a sweep it is a sweet I’m so Jay-Z if you want to force the grammar to change you should have said I will not accept this award nor will I attend until y’all put one of the rap categories on the televised
Broadcast Dr gra should have said I will not allow you to put my name on any award until you put at least the rap album of the year as a part of The Telecast see this is how Stuff doesn’t change stuff doesn’t change when we lend
Our presence to it and allow it to continue you heard Jay-Z say say when he boycotted you heard him say Will Smith and boycott it so sure Travis Scott performed sure they’ll have a rap act perform but rap is never going to get the respect until major rappers say
Until you do right by us we are not going to show up I know other rappers Luther Campbell wrote about in his book when the Grammys honored Madonna for the her first amendment battle when she was battling folks I think it was the video she did where she portrayed herself as Jesus and
Luther Campbell said wait a damn minute I took my case to the damn Supreme Court of the United States and won and you’re not honoring Me JayZ has enough juice to say me and Beyonce will not come back until y’all make rap a part of the broadcast y’all we got to learn how to use our power we got to learn how to use our leverage and influence and when we keep showing up at
Places that continue to minimize us that continue to disrespect us you know what they going to do they going to say keep doing it cuz they going to show up anyway they going to come and pick up the special award anyway and you say no don’t even put my
Name on it unless you do right by us see Julian this is the thing at ml was talking about on April 3rd 1968 when he was talking about how do we properly use our power in order to affect change and this is what Jay-Z should have done and then he could have stood
There and said I told them I would not accept this award unless a rap category was a part of a televised broadcast and that’s why the best rap album of the year was a part of this year’s telecast and it will be a part of The Telecast from every year now on
That’s how you force some change except for the fact that integrationists want to be integrated people want to be part of the club they want to be part of the party if they didn’t want to be part of the party they would do what Jay-Z had the opportunity
To do which is say I’m G sit this sucker out no um everybody all these people they talk a black game they talk a strong game but at the end of the day they want to be a part of the club and it doesn’t matter whether they’re ticket
Is marked half ass or marked um sit at the back of the room or marked you ain’t valued they still got in the room um I agree with you fully uh there’s so many instances of this where black people just do not we don’t stand up for
Ourselves and if you don’t stand up for yourself ain’t nobody else G to stand up for you let me tell you something Derek man listen I I have I have been a part of stuff and um I’ve gone to places and they didn’t have room on the red
Carpet those th in Black media and I literally would said no we ain’t covering nothing until you create a spot I I’ve literally been somewhere look I’mma there’s a hold on stay right there Hillary Clinton was first first lady of the United States see this photo right
Here I go to the other shot all right this photo was shot at the m center I shot it at the MLK Center in Dallas okay this when she was first lady all right let me tell you what happened the m center is literally about a 100 yards across
Uh from the Dallas weekly the black newspaper where I was the managing editor so I knew she was coming and so what happened was I then said I went over to the m center about 3 hours before she was supposed to get there and so they walk so they had two rooms they
Had a room to the right then had a room to the left well the room to the left they had these lights set up and I said um I said um what’s going on in this room and they said oh well the first lady is
Going to be in this room and she’s going to talk to some of the kids and the photographers are going to get a photo of the first lady with the kids I said well who’s in The Press pool they said oh um the Dallas Morning News the fo warstar
Telegram the Associated Press and UPI and they may have said Reuters I said wait a minute ain’t no black media no black on media in the Press pool in the press press pool they said no I said ain’t no way in hell the first lady going to come to Black South Dallas to
The m center with a black paper less than a 100 yards across the street and ain’t nobody black in the damn press pool uh well sir and I was mind you I was managing editor of the Dallas weekly at the time and it was like well uh well
Sorry uh the um the uh uh the Press pool is already set I said you need to go find the advanced person because the first lady is not going to come to Black South Dallas and a black paper is across the damn street and ain’t nobody from
The Black on media a part of this press pool so person walked out came back uh uh Mr Martin uh you’ve been add to the Press pool I said yeah I thought so that’s how that photo was shot that’s how it ran in the paper and for all
Y’all who are listening find the photo the photo that we all know of Bernice King sitting on the lap l laying on the lap of ketta Scott King in his funeral Monita Monita sleep with Ebony magazine was the first African-American to ever win the pulit prize for
Photography for that photo do you know how that happened it’s because Lon Bennett and Simeon Booker went to ketta scottt King and told her the white me has locked Ebony and Jet out of the press pool that was a segregated press pool covering the funeral of Dr King and
They said Mrs King they are not going to allow Ebony and jet to be in the Press pool and ketta Scott King said you make it perfectly clear that if Ebony and jet are not in the Press pool there will be no press pool the white racist allowed Ebony and
Jet in the Press pool and that’s how sleep got that photo and it won the pull of surprise this is what happens when somebody black saying no we ain’t doing this and so Jay-Z is great that they wanted to give you the Dr Dre award that’s great but Jay-Z and Dr Dre should
Have said ain’t going to be no award until y’all make rap a part of a televised broadcast Derek that’s how you take a stand you know rolling through the examples that you’ve provided it’s one thing to have power but it’s something else to communicate that you’re willing to sacrifice your
Position see you didn’t you didn’t say hey let me not say say anything in fear of losing my job no you were bold and you upfront on your principles and your values here’s the thing uh that we got to really understand about the use of our Collective power and individual
Power if you’re not willing to sacrifice see the Montgomery Bus Boycott Roland was successful because they realize their power but they also demonstrated that for 300 plus days they’re willing to sacrifice they’re willing to walk they’re willing to not wage on their principles and their values Muhammad Ali was powerful because
He demonstrated hey I would sacrifice these heavy weight belts to make sure that you understand my platform and my voice that’s the reason why we got to move from having moments and turn them into movements but we’re not going to be successful with movements if we’re not willing to
Sacrifice and so last night you didn’t see someone that exercised the use of their power because they’re not willing to sacrifice and saying I’m not showing up until you make the change it takes a level of sacrifice to do exactly what you’re asking us to do yeah and and and
All I’m saying is this here if Jay-Z says to all the rappers we ain’t going to the gramit we are not going going to the Grammys next year until the rap album of the year is a part of the live telecast and let’s see them say no and
Then we turn and say and if you are our allies of the artist you stand with us and you know what you do you throw an event somewhere else and you don’t turn the damn TVs on you have something else going on but this is the only only way
Otherwise the the Grammys they going to keep doing it they going to sit here and say yeah we ain’t got to put y’all on y’all going to show up anyway y’all going to show up and be happy in the pre-show and we going to do all the other Awards they could have easily
Listen the the in memorian was long as all get out they could have cut one of the perform all I’m saying is we there’s a certain point when you allow people people to disrespect you because you don’t use your power to say not anymore it ain’t going to happen again so Jay-Z
Dr Dre y’all make it clear whoever they want to give the award to next year you make it clear we ain’t showing up unless y’all make the rap album of the year a part of the broadcast I guarantee you it’s going to cause some folk to to say
We better do it or we going to lose the star power and they ratings were up this year you pull a star power ratings go down when ratings go down they lose money and we know in America when they lose money stuff changes Derek Julian had to go I appreciate y’all being on
Part of today’s show uh folks listen we going to speak this truth regardless we ain’t asking for permission the reason we were able to speak as freely is cuz frankly I own it I keep telling y’all the only person who can cancel me is God we don’t seek
Permission we don’t run our subjects by anybody nobody the power of black on media as Dr King said is to maintain its militancy in standing up for black people what we have to do is use our power and not be afraid and not back down and speak an uncompromising and unfiltered word every
Single day that’s what she did out be Wells Barnett that’s what Mr B did that’s what James Baldwin did we got to have the same courage that they did in order to change this system support us in what we do y’all I can’t tell you enough I got meetings tomorrow
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