What do you say to those of us um who may have fallen out of love with the Democratic party what do they need to do better because I know there’s a need for us to get out and vote but there is a right resounding group of people who are just
Saying the Democrats aren’t doing anything Biden doesn’t care about us what say to the Democratic class about having better leadership um to make us come out and vote more first of all anybody who was saying those two things know what the H they’re talking about and so that is an indication of two
Things one they don’t have the knowledge of what’s going on and you also can blame folks who are not who are not actually speaking to the issues here’s what I mean by that when somebody says they’re not doing anything that’s just on his face is a lie it’s just it’s a
Lie if you say Okay under Trump he wanted to get rid of the Affordable Care Act they stopped advertising they stopped pushing it under Biden they expanded it they’ve now broken the record three straight years for people who are covered the the percentage of Americans who are not covered today is less than
%. black health coverage has expanded dramatically because of the Affordable Care Act Now people can say well that’s not just for us it’s not but healthc care is damn near important to black people yeah so that’s one issue 6.5 billion dollar specifically to HBCU 6.5 billion
I got the Excel sheets right here okay 6.5 the largest in history in fact if I pull the ex Excel spreadsh I’ll send to y’all if you look at the the dollars that a Florida A&M North Carolina ENT got from the state and their state schools they got four to six times more
From the federal government they did from their own State and they’re state funded so that’s a perfect example three you look at minority businesses black minority women oned businesses three years of consecutive increases then you look at the dollars being allocated to expand the opportunities those things are happening now I’ve been blasting
White House Democrats because they are awful at narrative they are awful at telling people what’s going on they’re awful at telling your story PES called them out by saying damn it y’all need to learn how to brag so this is a part of the problem that you’re doing stuff but
You ain’t communicating to people you ain’t buying advertising on black own media platforms whether it’s yours or whether it’s mine you’re not driving the people out there to say hey here’s information I just got a call over the weekend from a sister who’s working on a program with the USDA the agriculture
Department providing loans for homes for lowincome people in afford for for affordable housing I’m like who are y’all telling about this here here and so these things are happening the mistake that people make is they go man Democrats ain’t doing nothing they’re Republicans no no no this is what I do I
Tell everybody what do you care about so somebody says uh uh here my top five issues okay my top five issues had a brother tell me he says man he said reparations number one I said okay he says Democrat didn’t do nothing by reparations I said let me ask your
Question I said how many house sponsors are there for hr40 he’s like I don’t know I said 217 I said of them how many are Republican he was like 10 I said zero I said can you name me one Republican in the house in the Senate that actually
Supports reparations I said number zero I said so you I said you’re saying to H the Democrats I said that’s the only group of people who actually talk about your one issue he was like not one I said he said not one Republican I said not one
Bro not one so now when you go to education you go so you start I look at issues I go here my 10 issues where does this candidate because remember you’re voting for a candidate and a party because here’s the deal will your candidate being the majority so like
Right now congresswoman Elanor Holmes Norton has a bill that specifically addresses the Federal government spending for black on black owned media she introduced the bill in November here’s the problem Democrats in a minority in the house yeah her bill ain’t going nowhere so you might say con
Great bill it ain’t going nowhere but if Democrats control the house bill could get passed now you still got to go to the senate for the pass there to go to the president but the bottom line is you now look at Power so I look at the
Judges people go man these judges don’t mean nothing are you out of your mind federal judges have immense power absolutely so when you look at so here’s the deal who appoints judges the president who confirms judges the Senate well if you want judges who are going to be sympathetic to class action lawsuits
Civil rights economic rights uh environmental rights you probably want a Democrat president the Democrat Senate because you have look you just had a republican judge in Louisiana say the Environmental Protection Agency cannot use the Civil Rights Act when it comes to dealing with cancer alley in Louisiana 50 to1 ratio of minority
People are impacted black people and others are impacted by cancer in cancer alley in Louisiana that was a trump federal judge but guess what when a federal judge rule to Louisiana get those juvenile out of Angola prison you know who she was an Obama appointee so
What I’m saying is people have to step back from ain’t nothing being done to then go okay hold up what does that mean what actually is being done and so this is why I keep saying we need Schoolhouse Rock 2.0 we need return to uh we need to
Return to Civics 101 we need to return to uh where we have freedom schools in the black community because there are things that are happening where people don’t understand how the dots are connected so you’re somewhere let’s say somebody black right now and they in Tallahasse and they’re sitting
Here going you know what man I’m sick and tired of the the roads okay so here’s the first question is it a city road is it the county or is the responsibility of the state well guess what the bulk of money for for roads in America comes from the Federal
Government that’s the infrastructure Bill who passed the six who passed the largest infrastructure Bill since Dwight Eisen how was President Biden Harris did so right now you have thousands of projects bu uh Bridges roads schools other infrastructure that’s being rebuilt water system so guess what we complain about
Flint oh the water deal it’s part of the infrastructure bill in terms of dealing with the Water Crisis in this country country so uh the Biden folks have said Biden Harris they’re going to replace all uh lead pipes I think by 20 I got 2030 I think it’s like a 10year period
Okay that impacts us so I need us to this is what we have to be smarter and stop getting locked into party party to go no no no no here are my issues and guess what there are some people who are watching they are like I don’t care
About nothing but tax cuts that’s not a problem that’s your position but for me I could care to buy tax cuts cuz that’s going to benefit me but my concern as an African-American goes beyond just me I’m thinking about more of our people and
When I when I when I sit down and look at critical issues and I go this is the Democratic candidate this is Republican candidate Republican candidate might get one out of 10 might get two out of 10 in lines with me I can’t vote for that person if this person over here gets
Seven out of 10 but here’s the last Point once the election is over I still got to push them to make it happen and that’s the mistake too many of us make we we step out of the process when we supposed to now step into the process
Okay and how do we do that as a quick followup easy first of all first of all we have to understand politics in this country is it it’s on multiple levels again City School Board County state federal that’s our politics so if I’m trying to say man I I really what did
What what did progression finally learn if I really want to change the mass incarceration Criminal Justice Reform system I gotta change who the district attorney is because they’re determining who gets prosecuted we kept coming to DC pass the Bill no change the Das if I care about so so that so that’s one
Issue if I care about the education to my kids I can’t run the Congress I need to say oh what’s happening with the school board Okay so I got to understand politics I got to understand who controls what what it now then means is okay these these council members and
These school board members and these County politicians state and federal they got Town Hall meetings okay you’re a constituent okay I tell them you ride them I covered City Hall you know why I saw white folks be showing up and granted I understand time people got to
Work but they been show up at the committee hearings city council hearings we often only show up to stuff when it’s an emergency when it’s all when they G to shut our schools down all we a pack of meeting but six months ago we could have
Stopped at six months ago so we have to now use our groups MLK said this in his book Where Do We Go From Here chaos whole Community he said there are four institutions that are positioned to liberate Black America the Negro Church the Negro press of negro fraternities and sororities negro professional and
Business organizations we got black infrastructure bro we’ve got Divine n we’ve got Masons Eastern Star we’ve got uh the links we’ve got church groups we got we got all this infrastructure but how are we using it how are we mobilizing and organizing to change something I given speeches across the country and I’ve
Said this here take let’s take Divine n Prince Hall Masons Easter star and lyns that’s 12 organizations what if those 12 said okay this month we G to go to the council meeting y’all go to the school board meeting we going to the County Commissioners meeting then next month a
Different group see we’re not using our capacity the person who’s sitting out there understand you’re constituent if you voted for somebody for congress let’s say that Democrat and the Republican won you are still a constituent you still should be calling them you still should be emailing them you still should be telling your
Neighbors no no no no hit them on the phone because we are still cons constituents when we check out of the process is easy to ignore us but it’s hard to ignore folk when they on your behind every week
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