FL GOP Try to Block DEI in Education, FL Propose Flag Ban,7 Deputies Charged W/2nd-Degree Murder

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Threaten the black fraternities and sororities by stopping College funding for any program or campus activity supporting diversity Equity inclusion or critical race Theory we will speak with the state senator serving Jones about his efforts to protect the divine nine in Florida we have some good news out of

Florida also after serving 34 years of a 400 year sentence a man is finally exonerated after a new probe finds he was wrongfully convicted I’ll talk with one of his attorneys from the Innocence Project of Florida who helped the Broward County State’s Attorney’s Office free in Edison man seven Virginia

Sheriff deputies face second degree murder charges for the death of a black man held in a state mental hospital we will tell you the emerging details of the heroin Trend and stay Mental Hospitals it’s been awesome it’s been a tumultuous day for the banking industry we will speak with the president and CEO

Of the National Bank of the association about how the Silicon Valley Bank and the Signature Bank collapse could impact minority-owned Banks finally reading is an essential part of life and one group will create a web-based reading support program to increase reading levels in children of all ages we will speak with

The creator of reading Revolution online about how they help children build reading skills and confidence using cultural identity development it’s time to bring the funk on roller martyr unfiltered streaming live on the Blackstar Network he’s got it Whatever it is [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] foreign [Applause] as always we have to start with the state of Florida uh we talked about last night the State of Florida has House Bill 999 in Senate Bill 266 which are directly aimed at higher education the bills seek to eliminate all forms of diversity equity and inclusion programs

From state colleges and sort of how they used to you know at least lie about what they were trying to do now they just tell you up front we are going after diversity equity and inclusion so sometimes I appreciate their Candor we told your last name how Senate Bill 266

Threatens the divine nine now we’re going to take you to Senator Jones’s tweet I’ll just read from Florida Senator Sherman Jones uh during the show she said I would like to publicly thank the bill sponsors of sb666 Senator Aaron garl for hearing the concerns of the black fraternities and sororities by

Removing language that could have been at an unintentional consequence to our organizations as a proud member of alpha uh Alpha Phi Alpha thank you world of course Florida Senator Jones joins me from Tallahassee Senator Jones how are you this evening doing well how are you

I am doing doing great uh so can you tell us about the latest developments with regards to this uh these Florida efforts to curtail diversity equity and inclusion particularly as it um may have impacted uh black fraternities and sororities yeah I appreciate you all bringing light

Uh to this issue I think it’s important for people to understand that the the house bill and the house bill 999 and the Senate bill Senate bill 266. they they’re two separate bills uh you have the house bill that had language in it um that uh which was problematic because

The bill specifically said that uh basically said any membership or organization that promotes support or maintain any program or or campus activities that violate Equity inclusion or that espouse anything dealing with diversity Equity inclusion or critical race Theory can no longer receive uh funding from the from the state a lot of

Our programs here whether it’s in at floor a m whether at UF or any other schools that have Divine nines they if they fell into this category who receives money through Student Activities in SGA they will have the vagueness of that language uh could assume and get colleges and university

To begin to quote-unquote defund uh D9 programs but currently we in the Senate that language was totally eliminated from uh from our from out of there and then placed in an exempt but activities uh sort of activities are exempt from this period okay and and so with that uh one of the

Questions was uh uh was right you know what about things like the black law Students Association or uh nesby or uh National Associates of black journalists are those organs are there still going to be student organizations or for groups like that but yeah those those student organizations will still be able uh to

Function because they fall under the category of Student Activities okay and so this was the Senate bill that this happened was is there any movement on something like this happening in the house and if the house doesn’t adopt that type of language what will be the next legislative step yeah

So and here here’s what I will say that I think the the advocacy around this is valid um for those individuals who think that this is a win because the Senate um has put language to basically protect um these a lot of these Affinity groups and uh specifically like the divine nine uh

That’s one thing but I think they need to stay on the house to make sure that the house uh adopts our language in the next committee stop because remember the house language is really what the government wants um but the Senate language is is probably going to turn into a bargaining two

Um as it stands right now by the the Senate President and the bill sponsor have mega commitment that our language is going to stand and so I think the voices still need to continue to be raised uh that we protect our our divine nine and uh other organizations like our

Black student unions or the black law association that other organizations who might fall into that category but for the public can you kind of talk a little bit about why it’s important to uh to protect these types of programs because I’m sure somebody or opponents of the the change of this language may

Be listening and saying well why should we have a special group that cuts people up typically just have all the students together shouldn’t uh everything just be all the engineers all the journalists all the whatever the groups are why separate them out well when we’ve when we talk about not

Just diversity Equity inclusion but we talk about communities I’m not going to talk about groups communities individuals can be a part of whatever Community they want to be a part of especially within our college and university campuses but why these uh why why are these programs important because

Everyone needs to have a place where they belong and where they can go to whether it’s the black student union where whether it’s the Hispanic uh Hispanic Unity uh whatever those groups are it doesn’t matter everyone should be able to go to a group to be able to feel

As if they’re hurt and they can have thought Partners Within These groups it’s not saying that other individuals are not welcome there uh but in this in the standpoint these are in this is where we are let’s look at black fraternities and sororities why were we created we were created uh as groups

Brought back in back during the time to when we weren’t welcome in other groups and because we weren’t welcome in those other groups we found ways uh how to empower our own to advocate for our own to educate our own and that’s still important to uh to this day although and

We have probably moved on quote-unquote uh uh in in society these groups are still necessary and needed uh because these are areas where that where where we continue to move our agenda as a community now Governor DeSantis has made uh kind of the backbone of his potential 2024 presidential campaign that Florida’s the

State where quote-unquote woke goes to die will Governor DeSantis sign a bill with the type of compromise language generator or will it be sitting back to be reinserted say again I can understand the last part of your question I’m sorry what would Governor DeSantis basically saying this

Is where woke goes to die would he even sign a bill with this type of compromise language in it well I mean I can tell you this the the the Republicans they’re not going to want to be embarrassed uh so that will probably be uh worked out

Prior to even making it to the governor’s desk I can guarantee you that someone from the governor’s office are already talking to the fourth floor on whether or not they do or don’t want this but what should people do if they want to make sure that they can put the type

Of pressures that you mentioned uh on the house to make these changes because often uh these things get through Community they get through here and perform most of the public even know what’s going on uh what can be done to breathing the proper amount of tension

And pressure to the house side to make the proper changes you know this is a great opportunity for fraternities and sororities and other uh groups to use this as a chance to reach out to the governor’s office reach out to the senior president’s office reach out to the speaker’s office and I really

Think the national president from the the from the sororities universities should be the one to do that why is that important because if these if these individuals of high regard uh reach out to the governor uh and reach out to some of these other chamber heads uh I think

It can make a hill of difference for a response that will come from the Florida current leadership and just finally we’ll just concerted attack on diversity equity and inclusion in the State of Florida what can be done to protect those programs that do exist for things such as uh bringing in more

African-American students to the higher education making sure we have programs out there specifying black history they’re specifying black thought on this kind of macro issue with Florida going after diversity Equity inclusion what can be done to fight back against that larger effect you know I one currently now in the

Legislature we don’t have any uh leverage in you were in the house nor do we have leverage uh in the Senate so the first part of your question I’ll say that we need to be working now uh in in ensuring that what we are seeing that we do something about by electing those

People um who are reasonably minded when it comes to these type of issues we also want to point out that everyone has to realize where this conversation came from and and briefly I’ll tell you we see we saw since 2018 after the death of George Floyd this whole uprising of the

Elimination of Dei which started with Donald Trump uh because there was a Pew poll that was done it showed that uh over 61 of white men and women saw the word White Privilege over and over again during that time and individuals started implementing deas within corporations within schools and everything else uh

They didn’t like that and because they didn’t like that uh we are now and we saw this whole uptick of removing Dei from federal uh from federal programs removing Dei from uh States and that’s what this continuation is happening this is a paragraph This is nothing but the

Power grab it has always been a power grab that we will continue to see this until we as a people across this country I stand up to let this know the Dei is not the boogeyman y’all are oh you know the uh Florida has always been the canary in the coal mine so

Things are happening in Florida you best believe they’re going to trans uh continue in the rest of the country thank you so much Senator Jones for joining us please keep us updated on England slave developments there appreciate thanks we’re uh we’ll be back up to the break you’re watching Roland Martin

Unfiltered streaming live on the Black Star Network a lot of these corporations or people that are running stuff push black people if they’re doing a certain thing what that does is it creates a butterfly effect of any young kid who you know wants to leave any situation they’re in

And the only people they see are people that are doing this so I got to be a gangster I got to shoot I got to sell I got to do this in order to do it and this becomes a cycle but when someone comes around and make another oh we

Don’t you know they don’t want to push or they put money into it so that’s definitely something I’m trying to fix too is you show those other avenues you don’t got to be rapping you’re going to be a ball player it could be a country saying you can be an opera singer you

Can be a damn whatever you know showing the different Avenues and that is possible and it’s hard for people to realize it’s possible until someone does Thank you foreign with me Deborah Owens America’s wealth coach the studies show that Millennials and gen xers will be less well off within their parents what can we do to make sure that we get to Children younger and that they have the right money habits well joining me on the next

Gift wealthy is an author who’s created a master Playbook be willing to share some of your money mistakes right if that’s what if that’s what you have to lean on start with the money mistakes that you have made but don’t just tell the mistake right tell the lesson in the

Mistake that’s right here on get wealthy only on BlackStar Network hi I’m BB Winans hey I’m Donnie Simpson what’s up I’m Lance Gross and you’re watching Roland Martin unfiltered Welcome back of course another Florida story uh another Florida bill has Republican lawmakers pushing for legislation to exempt the Confederate flag from a broad proposal to ban most flags from being flown outside of state government buildings in Florida uh so what this is is they want to ban the

Flying a black lives matter flags for example or Pride Flags uh outside of governmental buildings so they are passing laws that restrict the number and types of flats that can’t be flown but now Florida Republicans want to make sure that if it’s a Confederate flag it

Gets to be flown uh right along with the other official Flags uh the so Florida state senator Jay Collins filed a new amendment to Senate Bill 668 which proposes the creation of a new section 256.045 and the Florida Statutes which will Define the term governmental entity and restrict that only certain flags are

Displayed on public buildings and other public properties the Confederate flag is among the 12 types of flags specifically Exempted from the band and unites one being the United States flag the State of Florida flag the flag of the United Nations the pow Mia flag the flag of foreign Nations the flags that

Represent branch of the United States military and armed forces the Florida National Guard the Florida counties Flags uh Florida municipalities public universities and colleges the flag of the Olympics and the flags indicating Beach warnings are right now the only Flags Exempted from this new legislation

But if you want to fly the red black and green Liberation flag that would be illegal if this new bill is passed in Florida the Florida Senate committee on governmental oversight and accountability recommends to be billed if approved take effect July 1st 2023. uh we got to talk about this joining me

Now is our panel we have a Scott Bolton forgement chair the national Bar Association uh Rebecca Carruthers vice president of the fair election centers and Joe Richardson civil rights attorney to discuss all things Florida so Scott I wanted to talk we’ll start with you uh specifically on this bill uh the

Diversity Equity inclusion ban in the State of Florida uh what what is what this Republican sudden attack basically being honest about the saying the quiet part out loud now that we are going after and trying to stop diversity equity and inclusion uh even if we can carve out something for the divine nine

And Affinity groups they’re going after the meat of the subject of of college admissions and scholarships Etc uh why are they saying the quiet part out loud now what can we do to stop it because Governor DeSantis was just re-elected by 20 points and they feel empowered the messaging on this coming

Out of Florida is just really incredible it really is um they don’t want to say the word gay uh they don’t want to use diversity and inclusion or List it they must not want to implement it and so as a result you know the the messaging out of Florida is

That we have a race neutral society and we are going to practice race neutrality and as a result if we sang it enough and we live in a ma enough then that could be the case 20 plus years outside of 2043 when black and brown people will be

The majority in this country we call America it’s a very dangerous rhetoric because it empowers white nationalists and white racists it empowers uh White oppression and white violence against people of color in in the Jewish faith and so I’m deeply concerned about it uh one of

50 doesn’t sound a lot but as you say this is going to spread to Texas another more conservative rest States and then you’re going to have a higher level of the Civil War that we think many of us think we’re in right now we’re battling

Ideas now but the closer we get to 24c uh 2043 we may be battling each other literally physically and violently or Rebecca on on that same note it seems that this should be one of the number one things percolating through black media black social media fighting back

On this because just as we saw it stand your ground laws back in 2006 you start with a state like Florida then that’s you know the whole country has the law before you can even fight back against it we saw this with abortion law to the

Uh uh the six week heartbeat bills he started in a state like Florida or Georgia and then it metastasizes across the country uh what do we need to do to get in front of this type of legislation because they are telling you exactly what they want to do destroy 50 years of

Progress in diversity equity and inclusion in society that has seen black folks uh and uh and other people of color catapulting over poor white people they’re trying to reset that social system well first of all Robert we’re not going anywhere that’s the first thing that Governor DeSantis need to know we were

Here before him and we will be here after him in fact I’m actually in Florida tonight and one thing that I would say that yes as a member of the Divine eye I am a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority Incorporated I am glad that Senator Jones is looking for ways

To make sure that um divine nine organizations are impacted by HD 999 however that isn’t enough while it’s great for us it’s not great for our overall community and other communities of color that’s being unfairly targeted in Florida I do think Governor DeSantis is going too far one

Just like Scott just said you can’t say gay anymore to students who are non-binary or identify as trans are now being attacked Governor DeSantis went after Disney so Governor DeSantis keeps doing these things and he’s going to go too far even seeing in the last couple

Days said members of the GOP like more of the hawkish types people people are going after DeSantis because of some of his foreign policy stances that he’s taking um I am hopeful that people in Florida will show up and vote these people out in 2024 because there’s enough people

Who didn’t vote in Florida who could vote and could um to completely change the trajectory of what’s Happening down here in Florida uh Joe kind of on that same note uh there’s always been this critical there’s often this criticism that the divine nine the roulet the letter organizations Etc separate themselves

From the rest of the black community did you have the kind of elite bourgeoisie uh uh blacks in one place and they legislate for themselves kind of leaving everyone behind by creating a an exemption in the legislation that helps the divine nine and other Affinity groups but doesn’t address the bigger

Issue of the destruction of uh diversity Equity inclusion does that push kind of support and buttress that argument that they see themselves as being separate from the masses well boy you know what’s interesting is that actually I think uh at the risk of saying so may become a bit of an

In-house conversation right uh how we feel about each other how we separate ourselves uh you know uh whether you’re talking about everything from organizations involved and are part of and not a part of or light-skinned or dark skinned or whatever that was we’re better off with the divine nine than

Without it okay and and with them being able to have every strength that they could possibly have including uh upper mobility in the way of scholarships Community involvement uh government support related to that institutional support related to that so that’s not going to be the problem right now you

Know to your point perhaps some people will use this moment uh as one to uh Express the differences to point out the differences and and the areas okay why do they get an exemption but but but these organizations don’t why are they so special some will think that but that

Was not my first thought and I would like to thank for anyone that wants black institutions to survive things that were created from a survival standpoint for a reason to uh to survive and a way to survive um I would like to think that the first

Thought would be we have to uh preserve those black institutions not those alone not uh those institutions or those organizations alone but we certainly have to be with them and then some of this other stuff that we may be talking about uh has to be in-house stuff that

Allows us uh we we need to talk about whatever we need to talk about so that we present our united front and can’t be divided in Congress and well and real quick on the the issue of this flag exemption they’re putting in place Rebecca I wanted to ask you about that

Uh this the idea that they want to list the Confederate flag alongside the United Nations Flag and the flag of the State of Florida as being exempt from this new flag band they have but at the same time they’re going to ban the Black Liberation flag and ban the gay boy

Pride flag you can ban black lives matter Flags how do they keep getting away well this level just bold faced white supremacy well Governor DeSantis and his henchmen and hinch women that’s in the Florida state house and the Florida state senate what they’re telling us is that they

Support treason they support people who turn their back on this country wanted to rip this country apart didn’t want this country to exist in any shape um symbols or form and they’re saying that we support treatment so they want to support treason once again I tell Florida voters you have the opportunity

To do something about this I even tell Republicans in the Republican primaries you have an opportunity to choose better and not choose lesser and so I’m telling voters there are enough Gen X there’s enough um gen Z there’s enough Millennials to actually do something that changes this course because we

Cannot go backwards if we go the way that Governor DeSantis wants us to do we will be going backwards as a country and that simply isn’t good for us and and Scott on this on the same point it seems the Democrats are running scared of DeSantis you’re seeing more

And more attention being pushed on him when it comes to attacks whether it’s in late night comedy whether it’s on the rhetorically here on the Sunday shows and so much so that it seems that they’re almost supporting Trump over to Santa’s hoping and thinking the trumps an easier candidate to beat why are

People so afraid of the Santos as a candidate for president because he’s not Trump and we don’t know whether we can beat him we know we can beat Trump for sure and so uh whether it’s the flag issue of these cultural issues DeSantis is laying a foundation

For his campaign that is going to harp on or tap on these cultural differences without the noise of Donald Trump the Democrats need Trump who’s got 30 to 40 percent of the GOP to feel comfortable that with Biden running again no one’s convinced that Biden can meet anyone but

Trump and that’s the cars that are being played right now and so um you know the culture war with regard to the Confederate flag I was telling you they they lost this that war that Civil War and yet we continue to promote them as the rebel part of the country

But who celebrates a loser who celebrates a loser like Trump or the uh Confederate flag and so DeSantis is dangerous because he comes without the noise the Democrats haven’t figured out a strategy right regard to how to beat him just yet and we need to get to getting as my

Grandmother used to say about what that race would look like and who’s best position to beat him because while he’s behind Donald Trump right the GOP um uh review or the research says that many of the folks who are undecided or not comfortable with Trump uh would go

To DeSantis and there are only a few others in the race right now and so that’s the power that the scientist brings the Unknowing well all I know is the last time Democrats started getting behind and hoping that Donald Trump will run in 2016 think he’d be easy to beat he won

So be careful what you wish for we’ll be back after the break yeah but he lost in 2020. live on the Black Star Network we’ll be back after the break hatred on the streets a horrific scene a white nationalist rally that descended into deadly violence oh

An angry Pro Trump mob storm to the U.S Capitol we’re about to see the last rock called 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 had made progress whether real or symbolic there has been but Carol Anderson at Emory University calls white rage as a backlash this is the wrath of The Proud boys in the Boogaloo boys America there’s going to

Be more of this that’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 fee that they’re taking our jobs they’re taking our resources they’re taking our women this is Whitefield Thank you we’re all impacted by the culture whether we know it or not from politics to music and entertainment is a huge part of our lives and we’re going to talk about it every day right here on the culture with me for Raji Muhammad only on the Black Star Network What’s up y’all I’m will Packer hello I’m Bishop TD Jakes and you are watching roly Martin unfiltered [Applause] [Applause] that sent me home reading his family after Florida judge at their Florida just exonerated him for 400 percentage for 1988 armed robbery conviction after the two and a half after two and a half year investigation with the help from the Innocence Project in Florida evidence proved Sydney did not commit

The crime that he had already served 34 years uh in prison for uh Sydney says despite it all he has no hate in his heart joining me from Tallahassee Florida is Seth Miller’s one of the attorneys for the instant project of Florida who helped Sydney gain his freedom attorney Miller how are you

Doing this evening I’m doing great how are you I am great uh can you talk a little bit about this case in particular and what evidence it was to help to exonerate Mr Miller um no it’s okay um for Mr Holmes his case rested solely on an eyewitness

Misidentification and when we look at these cases we’re trying to figure out how does someone get in a lineup and the most interesting thing is uh this may be the strangest case I’ve ever seen about how someone got in a lineup and was therefore misidentified Mr Holmes um was at a family Barbecue

Um for Father’s Day the day the crime all day long with his family at the same time that a robbery of two individuals going on somewhere else at a gas station and those one of those individuals who was waiting in a car um a getaway car he left while the other

Two individuals stole the victim’s cars the brother of the victim one of the victims said when he heard the description of the car said hey that sounds like a car that robbed me earlier in the day they went around looking for a car didn’t find a car two weeks later

The brother finds a car that is a brown Oldsmobile Cutlass one of the most sold cars at that time and says I think this was the car gives the tag to Law Enforcement Officers it hits Sydney homes so there was no police investigation they put him in the lineup

He’s missing he was not identified the first time put him in a lineup a second time he’s therefore identified and that’s the case that’s the entire case against any homes what we were able to do is we were able to show that that eyewitness identification was unreliable

And confirmed The Alibi and the state finally agreed that there was no evidence to even try him in the first place and agree to exonerate him wow why would something like that take 34 years to be rectified uh because as you said there’s really no forensics no

Kind of things tying him directly to it what took so long getting this case uh finally sorted out properly well I think what people don’t understand is that the system that we have to let’s say overturn a conviction is actually designed to preserve wrongful convictions so unless you

Figure this out very close in time to when you’re convicted in sentence and after you’ve had your first appeal the system is designed to prevent you from continually challenging your conviction and so we didn’t actually have any real Court remedies that we were able to go in ourselves and file instead what we

Had to do was wait for the innovation of this conviction reviewing it within the prosecutor’s office a unit designed to look back like at the Innocence Project we do look back at wrongful convictions reinvestigate them and determine whether they are in need of relief it was only

When that office was created in 2019 uh by the previous state attorney continued by the current state attorney Harold Pryor in Broward County that were able to collaboratively jointly investigate the case and come to an agreement that Justice was denied in this case and the case need to be rectified

And whoop that well if they’re I know they’re probably thousands of other cases like this uh in every stance on the board for the National Association criminal defense lawyers with Barry Scheck and and when I when we talk about just the sheer volume of this uh what

Can be done to create more capacity within the legal Community to handle these sorts of cases even if they uh even if it does require something legislative or even the initiative in the prosecutor’s office you just mentioned well I can tell you that only five of the 20 prosecutors offices in the State

Uh that cover our 67 Counties have a conviction Integrity unit or a conviction review in it and so you know for those that want to have a serious unit that’s serious about looking and finding miscarriages of Justice we should have more of these units because

I can tell you that for the places that don’t have them I and my team organizations like ours and other places have to fight tooth and nail for years sometimes five years ten years 15 years just to rectify a case often over the prosecutor’s oppositions so if if

There’s efforts to Institute these units uh and they’re independent of the rest of the office they can look back in misconduct by the office and there’s a real effort to try to overturn wrongful convictions we can get these done more quickly and more efficiently and collaboratively which I think the public

Expects prosecutors to do justice when they see other and it’s a wrongful conviction and these units are the way to do that and there need to be more of them all right I remember in the panel in uh Joe did you have a question for attorney Miller attorney Miller great work uh

Congratulations to you um I am wondering out wow not just similar from from what was just being said uh by Robert uh is there uh potential I’m I’m really concerned about uh the potential for the uh political wins uh wins winds uh in Florida to filter down to this very very important

Work and perhaps the governor wants to weigh in on it that it shouldn’t be happening because the fact of the matter is it’s not very popular it doesn’t get people elected to exonerate people and admit that your system was wrong sometimes grossly wrong and for a very

Long time but how safe do we feel in feeling like believing that the current State’s Attorney and and and that there’s enough of a of an imprint with what’s going on and how important it is that it will continue to be a priority and grow and not be a political casualty

It’s a great question many of your listeners might know that the state attorney Andrew Warren in and Hillsborough County in Tampa was removed by the governor this past summer for reasons it didn’t have to do with his um looking backwards work to rectify wrongful convictions um but did have to do with the

Governor’s disagreement with him basically about political beliefs and approaches and we have unique the governor’s unique powers in Florida to do that so it’s our hope that that won’t filter down what I can tell you is that my experience of doing this for almost two decades is that whether the

Prosecutor is one that Fashions him or herself as a forward-thinking progressive prosecutor or a telephone crime prosecutor when we have been able to rectify wrongful convictions with agreements of all different kinds of prosecutors the smartest prosecutors recognize that they can own and take credit for this work because it is

Politically viable because it is politically popular these are the big US news stories in the country when they happen and when prosecutors can realize they can take ownership of that it often times redounds to their benefit and that’s kind of what we’ve been trying to talk about to folks that this is good

Policy and in many cases good policy makes good politics and Scott that you have a question for attorney Miller yeah attorney Miller uh hey Scott Bolden just uh excellent work having represented uh Jimmy Gardner out of West Virginia who wrongfully incarcerated for 27 years and I look at your case uh your

Client was incarcerated wrongfully uh for some 30 years to things steep sick out of me stick out for me as a lawyer and uh wanted you to comment one was the amount of time each of them were sentenced to I mean Jimmy Garden was sentenced to like 100 years your client

Was sentenced to 400 years and then secondly what’s remarkable about them uh having been let out of prison is the Faith and Hope and resolve they maintained while they were incarcerated can you comment on those two points based on your experience in representing wrongfully convicted uh defendants

Well I’m so proud to hear that you represented Jimmy I love Jimmy he’s uh a good friend of mine and a great Advocate uh for preventing wrongful convictions in the future um look in this case City Homes was sentenced to 400 years I think your viewers need to understand that was a

Compromise sentence um in the in this case the prosecutor because Sydney homes wouldn’t turn in people that he didn’t commit the crime with he didn’t know who committed the crime because he was innocent the prosecutor asked for 825 years and the judge thought that was excessive and settled on 400.

Um this is insane I’ve never had a case like this before with that kind of sentence but in a case where he wasn’t eligible for a life sent an actual life sentence at that time under the current laws the judge threw the book at him for no other reason because the prosecutor

You know stated he should die in prison he should never get out of jail um these you know these things are abhorrent Florida has some of the worst sentencing laws and um you know we’re trying again to change our death sentence law to allow for a

Majority vote of a jury to give someone a death sentence which is going to increase the likelihood of innocent individuals wrongfully convicted individuals getting executed so we’re going in the wrong direction uh in that way now as for like the these people I’m always it’s so surprising they’re so resilient

Um I can tell you that Sydney Holmes um has an unbelievable family and it’s his family that is with him um his faith has been with him all these years and I think it’s what’s going to serve him well as he tries to navigate the path to transition back into free

Society he’s overwhelmed now um but but he’s hopeful and and it doesn’t really have bitterness in his heart I will say if he had bitterness if he was angry it would be reasonable and he would certainly we’d Grant him that Grace but he’s someone who’s looking forward and we’re going to help him

Reintegrate back into society to meet all his goals uh Rebecca do you have a question before we uh go attorney Miller I’m just a couple a couple how many how many wrongful convicts convicts um do we have now is it one out of ten is it two out of ten is it less

Than that more than that and second how do you all pick and choose and decide or evaluate um which cases you’re gonna pursue both great questions thanks um there’s been a lot of studies Pew research has done a study that suggests there’s up to four or five percent of

Individuals in prison who are wrongfully convicted you can imagine even more people who are charged with very minor crimes that they didn’t commit but just enter please and never even go to prison because they have to get home to their families don’t want to lose custody their children don’t want to lose their

Homes these types of things so that’s probably a low estimate of the number of people who are wrongfully convicted annually in Florida the United States um as for I’m sorry I forget our second question can you repeat it how so how does citizens project pick and choose or

Determine which cases that they’re going to pursue yeah so it’s a very difficult thing to do we have hundreds of people who write us each year and really what we’re trying to do is identify um issues in cases that we know cause wrongful convictions and use the existence or the presence of those

Causes as a way to filter cases to cases we can’t put resources into investigate and ones that we do and then what we’re doing is looking for evidence that wasn’t available to the jury the first time around that tends to demonstrate in a sense that then we can bring forward

To the courts through legal claims or to conviction review net to reinvestigate collaboratively and try to resolve the case without litigation but it’s very very difficult to figure it out and we sometimes get it wrong and when we get it right we get situations like Sydney

Homes were able to rectify case after 34 years and Tony Miller most people probably would think well after 34 years in custody he’s going to probably get you know tens of millions of dollars from the system can you talk about what the actual reimbursement is and how uh how it works in Florida

It’s a great question because uh that doesn’t happen and I think most people think it should um in Florida we have a law that allows for fifty thousand dollars a year for each year of wrongful incarceration capped at two million dollars it’s been like that since 2008. not adjusted for

Inflation uh hasn’t been raised in that time we’ve fallen behind many States including Texas and Indiana who provide much uh more generous compensation packages the real problem is that it has exclusions that make it be that most people compensated including City Homes because it has an exclusion for if you

Have committed and been convicted of a prior felony conviction unrelated crime and so right now we have a bill going through the legislature we’ve been trying since 2008 to fix this and it looks like this year might be the year that would pull that Clean Hands

Provision out and it’s going to lead to many many people who work uh equally Innocent but for years and eligible to be compensated and finally get that in money the financial support that they need to find Financial stability and overall stability so we’re hoping that

Our Avec this year we’ll be able to get that done well please keep us updated we want to Advocate and we have to have this whole show has been about Florida thus far I really thank you for all the work that you uh that you do and hopefully the

Legislature can Rectify that wrong uh we’re going to continue this conversation on the other side of the break you’re watching Roland Martin unfiltered streaming live on the Black Star Network on the next a balanced life with me Dr Jackie re-entry anxiety a lot of us are having trouble transitioning in this

Post-pandemic society and don’t even realize it we are literally stuck between two worlds in purgatory how to get out of purgatory and regain your footing and balance what emotions they’re feeling and being able to label them because as soon as you label an emotion it’s easier to self-regulate

It’s easier to manage that emotion in the next a balanced life on black star Network coming up on the next Black Tape a conversation with Professor Howard W French on his new book born in Blackness covering 600 years Global African history and helping us understand how

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Be smart bring your eyeballs you dig We’re all impacted by the culture whether we know it or not from politics to music and entertainment it’s a huge part of our lives and we’re going to talk about it every day right here on the culture with me for Raji Muhammad only on the Black Star Network Hey I’m Dion Cole from Black-ish hey everybody this is your man Fred Hammond and you’re watching Roland Martin my man unfiltered Turning out to the state of Virginia seven Virginia sheriff’s deputies faced second-degree murder charges for the death of a black man while held in a state mental hospital last week Henrico County deputies Randy Joseph Bowers Dwayne Allen bramel Jermaine Levar Brant Brantley Thomas diese Tabitha Renee lever Brandon Edwards Rogers and Caitlin

Du jour Sanders have been charged into connection with the death of ervo on Tiano during the intake process at the Virginia State Medical Hospital deputies physically restrained the decedent and was smothered to death by the weight of seven deputies on top of him according to the police documents irvo was taken

To Virginia State Central Hospital after being identified as a possible burglary suspect on March 3rd he was in place under an emergency custody order and taken to the local hospital when he became physically combative with officers officers didn’t then transported him to the county county West jail but the county the Sheriff’s

Office Personnel took him in around 4 pm on March 6th and admitted him to the Virginia Central State Hospital Virginia State Police have obtained a 12-minute on security uh security video but there is no immediate plan to release the video to the public all deputies are set

To appear before the grand jury on March 21st at 9 A.M Scott I want to go to you first on this we have these cases and it seems to black folks at every intersection that they have any contact with law enforcement new risk death uh how can something like this happen where

Someone is being taken into a mental facility they know this person has issues they know that this person uh may act out and they still end up killing him while in custody and they know that they’re being videotaped some Incredibles there’s some incredible stuff man and it keeps happening over

And over and over again in almost every part of the country Robert you do criminal defense well let’s just think about this the police clearly don’t care the police training matters but I’m not going to let the government off the hook about that the the mental health issue was so huge

And he was in custody being taken into a mental institution to get the help he wanted the police didn’t have to do anything but take him there and then they suffocated him because he’s having a mental episode and and the other thing that you get in

This case in other cases is what’s the rush with the police if you’ve got a disruptive mentally ill patient right what’s the rush in even moving them or bringing them out of a barricaded situation in a home or a uh a garage or a bathroom what is the rush

Why not let the the mental health experts do their thing but the police have no discretion all they know is force arrest and arrest with Force that’s all they know there’s no discretion on the street and they do what they’re known to do and people die from it especially mental health

Patients and so so much has to be done in Criminal Justice Reform and police reform right for them to be better but there again where is the discretion and so um I’m actually been doing rolling for five years maybe seven years I’m tired of talking about these cases it seems

Like every week there’s another case and it’s not getting better people are dying it’s just not getting better the police are just dumb they the cities keep paying out multiple millions of dollars and you get to a point where you think okay enforcement or money judgments just

Aren’t working and all the the political statements uh there are aren’t working the police are just it’s too ingrained in their training and stuff and what we really need to do is do a nationwide retraining uh National mandate manual for police training and start to implement it now because they’re not

Going to do it on their own the police in my opinion are incapable of changing they just aren’t so that Thin Blue Line has to be changed to be thicker or thinner but more importantly transformative and better on that same point Rebecca uh you know I

Feel like we need to start a hashtag mental health while black because it seems that having a mental health episode while also being black has turned into a death sentence what can we do to better protect people uh particularly black folks who are going through Mental Health crisises

Robert I’m pretty sure that’s already a hashtag in fact I’m just like Scott said we talked about a similar issue last week when we talked about the young brother in New Jersey where he was barricaded in his home he was having a mental health crisis actually worked with mental health trauma

Um folks who worked with them showed up to the scene and tried to talk to law enforcement who were on the scene and they weren’t listened instead um he I believe he was shot dead um so you know I I do agree what is the

Rush when it comes to someone who’s in a mental health crisis what is the rush to quickly get the situation quote unquote handled or under under control by any means necessary I don’t even know that training is the issue here I don’t think law enforcement should be involved when

There are mental health crises I think there should be a mental health task force that we have alone like we have the national was it for one I I forgot what the national number is now for those who are a mental health crisis but police shouldn’t be on the other side of

That call instead it should be trained people we should put money into this country to invest to make sure that we have the proper number of Mental Health Counselors and therapists and crisis folks um to deal with what is an increasing population that have mental health needs

And Joe kind of on that same point uh what do we need to do legislatively uh our policy wise to stop these things from happening because uh it’s very difficult to get any traction on police reform on the national level uh but as everyone has said these stories happen

On a weekly basis uh we can literally fill up an entire 24-hour network with just cases of black folks being abused or beaten by law enforcement or killed by law enforcement what should be the solution what’s at least be the role towards the solution there’s a wish list here you know

There’s so many things that need to be done but could we possibly agree and I’m just throwing this out there could it possibly become an initiative become important okay you feel a certain way about police brutality right but we all agree well at least most of us that

There is some such thing as having a mental health crisis and that it actually ought to be approached differently so you do one of two things you make police accountable to make that situation less likely from happening and of course there needs to be this discussion and action related to police

Not dealing with mental health issues or once someone is in a mental health box or in a mental health situation that there are certain rules that are different than the ones that the police are used to being able to live by Survive by Etc because you’re under the guise of

Mental health you know we have been talking a long time about this and you know what can change and when it can change and there’s more discussion on mental health and that’s that’s important but should it really be that police should in a mental health there’s no question

That there’s a mental health issue going on here this guy is in a mental health Place dealing with mental health and bring police brutality into that if you bring police culture into that it should do two things it’s just say no not here that’s thing one okay but thing

Two have this larger discussion about what belongs with Peak police and what both and what does not but I think the consolation prize for now is to find some way for there to be accountability uh and different rules that uh that hopefully lend to a different spirit and a different culture

As it pertains to people that are being dealt with under the mental health care umbrella and Scott you know we were just on a conservative show uh a week or so ago and the people on the other side of the aisle have a completely different view

Of these things they say that there’s a crime wave Nation why do we need to be empowering officers to be more violent to be more aggressive to be more militaristic in order to put down and control me in these communities uh how exactly can we get to a point of

Compromise where we on this side uh see a very clear situation where black and brown people are murdered on a daily basis uh by law enforcement but the folks on the other side I see there being this crazed crime wave that they have to put down by any means necessary

And they’re they’re not willing to even come to the point of having a conversation let alone a compromise they’re going to add to the penalties too they want to lock them up for longer you know Washington DC is one of the highest incarceration rates in the

Country if not the highest right and we lock them up for a long time in Washington and guess what like any other urban center the crimes keep coming we still got a crime wave and so I think a couple things we have to take a holistic view towards rethinking criminal justice

And law enforcement and how we enforce the laws right so for example have you ever done a ride out with the police you ride out with the police and the police ride around in most jurisdictions and they get a call after the crime has been committed and you show up with the

Police and the police begin their investigation why don’t we put more money into preventing crime versus solving crime if I’m a victim of a crime I don’t care what happens after I’m a victim sure I want them to be arrested or return my property or what have you

But I’ve been victimized already so why not increase police presence in my community high crime or not so that the presence prevents the crime versus um a Prosecuting or um or or investigating the crime that’s one thing the other thing is looking at a holistic approach to high crime

Communities and and and and Implement with poor communities and Rural communities that we’re going to require folks to be in school stay in school job training jobs entrepreneurship giving them alternative to gang violence or Life Of Crime most young kids who are selling drugs are involved in the gangs

Are involved in both of those bad activities because that’s the way out of their Community their View and they don’t see an alternative without a doubt you got to give them hope whether it’s with the church with the YMCAs with the boys club Girls Club whatever it is it’s

A holistic approach or Continuum of Care that keeps them busy we used to have Midnight basketball which was very popular in the 80s and 90s to divert kids from being involved in crime after eight o’clock or nine o’clock but all of these programs Robert take money and

Taking care of poor people or our young people or preventing crime is far more expensive and yet we get billions to Ukraine we give billions to other countries around the world to defend against us our national security and yet we won’t give billions to Black communities or poor communities or

Communities of kids and adults who are incarcerated why don’t we require them to have a skill set and have a job when they come out of the penitentiary why don’t we require them that they cannot be in a gang that it’s illegal to be in a gang if you’re out of the penitentiary

Certainly illegal when you are in the penitentiary where does the First Amendment come with that just a few ideas this guy you know on that point whenever I have a conversation some of our conservative friends and they say well what about black on black crime I said

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They’re feeling and being able to label them because as soon as you label an emotion it’s easier to self-regulate it’s easier to manage that emotion the next a balanced life on black star Network hello everyone I’m Godfrey and you’re watching Roland Martin unfiltered and while he’s doing unfiltered I’m practicing the wobble Last week we saw the second largest bank collapse the United States history of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank uh the largest that we’ve seen since the 2008 financial collapse that was followed up Monday uh by the collapse of the third largest bank collapse the U.S history to collapse the Signature Bank

Uh uh as a result of this uh kind of run on banks that we’ve seen recently we’ve also seen the collapse of Seagate Bank as well as markets overseas working hard to try to re uh sure up this process we saw the UK branch of Silicon Valley Bank

Be bought by HSBC as well as the Indian government stepping in to reassure startups there that their own deposits would be secured we’ve seen reassurances from the federal government we see Janet yelling President Biden uh reassured people that the banking system is secure the FED has announced that they will not

Be our many people believe the FED will not be raising rates in March despite the last two years nearly of continuous rate hikes as a result of this but despite these we’re still seeing people are very unsure about their money with the Silicon Valley Bank’s customers wrote through 42 billion dollars in a

Single day and that’s what led to them not having the cash flow balance in order to stay operating uh now could this Banks demise mean more businesses uh for more business for minority Banks joining me now for Washington DC is Nicole Elam president and CEO of the national Bankers Association NBA was

Founded in 1927 as the Negro Bankers Association the organization’s missing it to promote minority but depository institutions uh Nicole how are you doing well thank you for having me today well thank you so much for coming on during this very I kind of brought time

For people I can talk a little bit about what led to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and uh and Seagate bank and Signature Bank because I think a lot of people don’t understand that these Banks don’t actually have that money just sitting in a vault that money is out

Living its best life while it’s deposited you are absolutely right most people don’t understand what happened at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank and because they don’t understand it’s leading to a flurry of people wanting to take their deposits and take them to banks that are considered too big to

Fail but what happened to Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank is that they had a high concentration of their deposits and asset base and things that are considered risky and crypto the volatile Venture Capital Tech startups and so if you have one leave and you have all of

Those deposits in that asset base it makes it very risky that’s unlike most banks all across the country that’s what people don’t get and they don’t understand that Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank are unlike most banks all throughout the country and that they had a rapid growth uh non-traditional

Banking model that is unlike most banks like Community Banks that I serve you know kind of be um animating point of this was a tweet from Peter Thiel the the billionaire that kind of spooked the markets can you talked about what caused this Bank Run on these Banks and kind of the current

Financial uh fear that we’re in yeah so what happens is if you have somebody who says oh my goodness you should fear it then you have people doing that people leave the market and they want to take their money out for fear that it won’t be there when they

Need it and so the interesting thing is the impact not just that it had on Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank but the impact that it’s having on minority Banks because most people don’t understand that Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank or the bank of tech and crypto and Venture Capital they don’t

Understand that their money is safe and so what happens is they lose fear and the entire banking sector and so we’ve been spending a lot of time telling customers that your money is safe that you need to leave it in our banks 98 of deposits at minority banks are under 250

000 so they’re fully FDIC insured but people don’t get it and so the impact of that is that our customers are now leaving our banks and they are going to banks that the federal government taught them in 2008 are are too big to fail and so you’re seeing a deposit flight and

That has Ripple effects not just only on what happened at Signature Bank and Silicon Valley Bank but on not uh big Banks like our traditional smaller minority Banks after the 2008 financial collapse we did see legislation and Dodd-Frank in 2010 I meant to stop some of these risky investment practices that you mentioned

Earlier uh that time it was primarily uh pointed towards the real estate sector the liar loans to no money down no job no car payment mortgages that were being given out but the tech sector figured out kind of ways to circumvent this by giving out large uh loans to venture

Capital funds startups that really had no history or no evidence they would be able to pay these loans back then in 2018 we saw the rollback of much of Dodd-Frank under the Trump Administration even Senator our former Congressman Barney Franks was on the board of Signature Bank uh that kind of

Freed up much of the or Freedom which is this lending uh prohibitions that were created in 2010 can you talk about the way that legislation has kind of created the situation where Banks such as Signature Bank and Silicon Valley Bank can make these risky loans to go under

And could that become a contagion in the system that people of fear spreading out throughout the financial sector you know that is a great question but the intro interesting thing is that this wasn’t a case where UNESCO necessarily had loopholes and it was a loophole that

Led to the crash the reality of it is is that banks have to go through stress tests and the fact that this is a bank that grew 315 percent in two years and 60 of its assets were in treasuries that everybody else was saying you need to do

Something different with that in and of itself should have been something that would have been alarming and should have triggered a stress test so what tends to happen when you have these type of big major events is that people’s first reaction is oh my gosh we need new

Legislation we need new regulations and we need to over correct but this isn’t a case actually that you need new legislation and regulations what you actually need to do is Implement what was already in place and on that same note we’re seeing with those long-term treasuries the big thing

That changed was when they made the loans we were talking on interest rates being two percent but then after the last two years of uh chairman Powell uh with the nearly monthly seems like rate uh raises in interest rates now we’re at over five percent which makes those long-term uh long-term treasury notes

Less valuable things that he’s following kind of the uh following the road map laid out by Paul volcker in 1979 1980 when it came to Breaking the back of inflation by raising interest rates how exactly have those rate Heights uh impacted small and medium-sized minority Banks you know one of the biggest ways

That we’re seeing the rate Heights impact us is through deposits and the post-pandemic post-george Floyd environment what we saw is a lot of people now wanting to support minority Banks which is an awesome thing and one of the ways that they sought to a support minority Banks is by making

Deposits and so you saw a lot of big Banks and corporations really think about making deposits and minority Banks well what happened is when that rate environment changed they then wanted a deal that was a market specific and not necessarily impact investing so what we’re seeing is a flight of deposits

That were placed in minority banks at one rate and people trying to renegotiate it because of the rate change and so it really goes to show are people really in it to have an impact and to support minority Banks or are they in it to say that they’re supporting minority Banks

And on that same note what we saw was these banks that did go under uh is that they were very much the banks of venture capital the banks of startups um black and minority businesses often don’t have access to you know Angel Investors that

Are going to come in to help uh get your business or your app started or uh access to some of these loans that were considered risky uh what role do um smaller medium-sized black Banks uh play and kind of start filling that gap between those risky invest Investments

That something like the Silicon Valley would make uh versus people not having access to the of the funds to grow their businesses and really bring their ideas to fruition communities those are the businesses that we are investing in and we are making sure that they have access to

Capital when it comes to larger Tech startups that as you said are riskier there are banks that do that and so what we do is we partner with Venture Capital companies that are supporting those Banks and we really want to focus on particularly entrepreneurs of color those Tech startups and so we partner

With those Venture Capital companies to ensure that those uh small businesses that are in the tech industry have the capital that they need to survive and thrive but those types of Investments are very different than perhaps the traditional Community Bank lending that you see happen on a local level

And and just kind of finally we we saw that in the wake of the collapses on Friday and Monday uh of Silicon Valley Bank Signature Bank Seagate Bank uh that I think there were 12 plus banks that they had to stop trading and the stock exchange because they had lost you know

70 percent of their value uh for nervous investors or people who are thinking about pulling their money out of traditional Banks and putting them into crypto or putting them uh into hard assets like gold and uh Rare Earth elements Etc uh how could they be sure

How can they know if their Bank bank is in danger of going under talk to your bank right the reality of it is is that our bank is not a bank that is that is going under right most of the accounts deposit accounts that are at our banks are under 250 000 so

They are fully federally insured by the FDIC and for those accounts that are over 250 000 there are a number of tools that are in place to maximize FDIC Insurance they’re called reciprocal deposit agreements where banks have agreements with one another for amounts that are over 250 000 so they are secure

So what I would say is that our banks are probably more safe than any of the other things that you are seeing out there so keep your money at a local community bank these are the ones that have been sitting in and serving your community we have a long-standing track

Record for over a century of proving that we are reliable we are here to stay we are well capitalized and we are full of liquidity so we are here ready to lend and your money is safe all right and real quick before we go where can people find more information

About those small and mid sizes to a black owned Banks and Community Banks National bankers.org is the place to go to find out more information about minority owned and operated Banks well thank you so much for all the information I’ve been been encouraging people on the radio all week learn more

About the banking system because the CEO of the Silicon Valley Bank cast out 3.5 million dollars two weeks before they went out of business the executives at Silicon Valley Bank gave themselves bonuses Friday morning paid out by Silicon Valley Bank deposited in the bank then when the bank went under now

That gets picked up by the federal government so uh the FDIC pays to met their money learn the way that money works it helps you out thank you so much for joining us you’re watching Roland Martin unfiltered springing live on the Black Star Network we’ll be back after the break foreign

With me Deborah Owens America’s wealth coach the study showed that Millennials and gen xers will be less well off within their parents what can we do to make sure that we get to Children younger and that they have the right money habits well joining me on the next

Gift wealthy is an author who’s created a master Playbook be willing to share some of your money mistakes right if that’s what if that’s what you have to lean on start with the many mistakes that you have made but don’t just tell the mistake right tell the lesson in the

Mistake that’s right here on get wealthy only on star Network a lot of these corporations or people that are running stuff push black people if they’re doing a certain thing what that does is it creates a butterfly effect of any young kid who you know wants to leave any situation they’re in

And the only people they see are people that are doing this so I got to be a gangster I got to shoot I got to sell I got to do this in order to do it and this becomes a cycle but when someone comes around and make another oh we

Don’t you know they don’t want to push it or put money into it so that’s definitely something I’m trying to fix too is just show up as other avenues you don’t got to be rapping you want to be a ball player it could be a country saying

You can be an opera singer you can be a damn whatever you know showing the different Avenues and that is possible and it’s hard for people to realize it’s possible until someone does Hi everybody this is Jonathan Nelson hi this is Cheryl Lee Ralph and you are watching Roland Martin unfiltered We talked earlier about the quote-unquote war on woke that Governor Ron DeSantis launched in Florida the idea that he now says Florida State were woke goes to die well there’s a clip right now there’s going viral conservative author Bethany Mandel struggled to define the word woke while

Criticizing a clip uh that has now gone viral so uh they’re on the show the hill on the Hills web series Rising Mandel spoke to Brianna Joy gray about her latest book on the issue and what the progressive left and the leftist agenda and at one point during the issue the

Greatest question her and said uh hey what does woke mean uh the title of your book you talk about it time and time again what that clip down has two million plus views uh the term woke is something that’s often used by Republicans on the conservative to attack and critique Democrats anything

Progressive is woke uh if you make uh The Little Mermaid black that is woke if you make a character that used to be white into a minority that is woke if you have a Eminem that’s now wearing jeans instead of high heels that’s whoa

So I think we have a clip from the the interview of Bethany uh top Mandel talking about her her new book The about woke now so see that clip kind of Americans consider themselves very liberal and probably fewer of them consider themselves to be woke and so

You know when when what does that mean to you would you mind defining well because it’s come up a couple times I just want to make sure we’re on the same page so I mean woke is sort of the idea that um I this is going to be one of those moments

That goes viral I mean woke is something that’s very hard to Define and we’ve spent an entire chapter defining it it is sort of the understanding that we need to re totally reimagine and re reduce Society in order to create hierarchies of Oppression um sorry I it’s hard to explain in a 15

Second sound bite yeah uh so the reason it’s hard to explain it because it’s a made-up thing uh and it’s a double made up thing if you really think about it because I think particularly in the Black Hebrew Israelite community and black communities for the past Century we’ve

Talked about the Great Awakening about opening up your third eye to understanding who you really are within this Society uh as a descendant of the African continent uh that idea was intaken by black Liberals are by white liberals and turned into something completely different and then you start

Hearing on college campuses in Berkeley and Stanford uh Etc about them quote unquote becoming woke and then woke became about feminism it came about the lgbtqi APK plus community and they uh wokeness turned into a conversation about uh intercept uh intercepts and about uh feminism Etc and so then

Conservative took what white liberals said woke was and then they perverted it for their own purposes also saying that now woke was diversity equity and inclusion woke was anything besides each additional white American values anything besides John Wayne and Ronald Reagan on Horseback was considered wokman so he had a black couple day

Commercial now that’s woke the military wants to have a new policy that allows people to have gender uh identification that is woke so now we’ve gone so far from the actual origins of the word and actual concept and definition of what it uh started out being that we’ve turned

It into something that can no longer be this done explained or defined it is now this amorphous term that Republicans simply use to badge and to Brand anything they dislike meanwhile they actually got down to some of the roots where the thing came from they would have an entirely different view of

Things I think it’s time we don’t hold them accountable next time Rhonda Sanders an a politician or person cable news says they have a criticism woke and woke ism is ask them to Define it see if they can tell you exactly what it is they cannot because they do not want to

Say out loud I am against black people having equal rights that’s what they mean by woke I’m against women having a place in society outside of what it was a hundred years ago that’s what they consider woke I don’t believe that people should have the right and autonomy to challenge white supremacy

That’s what they mean when they say anti-woke so don’t let them get away with it don’t let them change what you have defined you make them come to your definition you don’t go to theirs I’ll go into the panel Rebecca uh what does it say when you have these folks out

Here like this author whatever her name was I don’t give more publicity uh who write entire books who build an entire career on fighting against quote-unquote wokeness but it can’t even tell you exactly what it is well she has an entire chapter where she defined it right that’s what that’s what

She just told us in this clip I mean this is a classic example of someone trying to use aave and not understand what it means so I would sell a lot of white people out there including some of my white friends if you don’t know what

The word means don’t use it don’t try to be funny I mean bottom line is like just ridiculous um and I would even say like you wouldn’t even you went back further with explaining where woke came from and I would say most of the people were talking about it now they’re just

Referring to in the last three years and they saw on Twitter when black folks were using the hashtag hashtag stay woke and so they thought it was funny they thought it was a term they wanted to use and spin against um what what um what folks were activated around George Floyd they’re

Trying to be funny I mean it’s whatever and Joe on that same note you know who I blame for this Childish Gambino Daniel or Donald Glover uh ATL native just as I am and when he made that song for the uh for the Jordan Peele movie with uh

Daniel uh uh Kahlua uh where he said stay woke you know he made that song that’s when all of a sudden it entered the kind of national lexicon and then that’s when you started getting white liberals who took the word and kind of perverted for their own purposes then

After that started become associated with black lives matter the social justice movements uh after George Floyd that’s when Republicans just took the word just about the same time they took critical race Theory and just discovered that and turned into the new Boogeyman so how can we reclaim something that we

Created and have used for generations and now it’s being double perverted by these groups there’s so many things that are actually in this category Robert um if you go to Merriam-Webster’s I I don’t mind the definition I I love that you give us the full history of it but

But the definition of merriam-wash was is aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues including those surrounding uh racial Justice racial and social justice um if somebody says stay stay attentive stay aware of important societal facts f-a-c-t-s and issues including racial Justice I can live with

That there’s a larger story for sure there’s more to be told like so many things that are out here we can go to music we can go to pyramids we go to a whole lot of stuff that we started that started with us and became perverted so

I think thing one is you know uh knowledge is keyword penalized for what we don’t know so we need to know that history Robert we I had to make sure my daughter has the whole story she she can she can give us the merriam-washers just just like I can but

Going back all the way to the beginning um and what that means for us now we have to take a hold of that and Define that and it’s it’s time for another show you said what you said maybe you weren’t kidding or maybe half jokingly but

There’s a lot of stuff that gets out here man at the top of the radio um because of hip-hop and Hip-Hop culture uh where it’s being used for that purpose but it’s not Public Enemy you know what I mean and so therefore we really have to do what we can

Um to take this narrative back and that starts off with even correcting ourselves and making sure that we talk about it the right way and to trumpet the horn that being whoa it’s not something for people to fear unless of course you’re feeling you’re fearing uh being outnumbered I mean we keep going

Back to that there’s so many things that have been corrupted but we’ve got to be part of it if they’re not going to fix this for us okay so we have to be on the front lines in terms of making sure that it’s defined properly and understanding

What it means but it’s amazing that this woman wrote a whole chapter on it and couldn’t explain it in 10 to 15 seconds you know with quiet and no distraction that just lets you know what we’re dealing with and Scott the amazing thing to me that these people have to understand is white

People can’t be woke the entire idea is that through prayer and meditation you can stimulate and open your penile gland to open up your third eye and to truly understand your position to the five-sided dimension of the positioning of the Asiatic black man going back a hundred thousand years through the

Creation Society because they don’t want to talk about it they turn this down to their own little uh uh a little term that they can say well the green m m doesn’t have a purse anymore so that’s being woke how do we continue to allow our culture our history our society to

Be co-opted and then fed back to us well we’re repeating their definition instead of learning what our own definition is you know I don’t think they’re repeating it back to us they’re just using their own definition I mean listen what this is not a bad word wokeness is a

Consciousness about freedom justice and equality in all aspects of American society as we continue to form a more perfect union what America doesn’t want to form a more perfect union it’s been perfect for them over 400 years for slavery to civil rights from Jim Crow to George Floyd right make America great

Again is their form of wokeness we don’t have to be sensitive to black brown and yellow people or physically challenged people or queer people that they want a life that is simpler and caters to White America Rooter than white privilege and the celebration of white privilege right so that’s their definition of wokeness

We know our definition of wokeness is rooted in civil rights Justice freedom justice and equality criminal criminal justice gun control right civil rights uh abortion rights right gay rights and all the things that would make America truly a country rooted inequality that’s what you tell white people when they

Start criticizing a woke culture you don’t want that freedom justice equality that the Constitution and the Preamble promises America you want it to stay the way it is and so I don’t think they’ve they they they’ve taken it from us they’ve redefined it for their own purpose so we need to keep our

Definition and in these debates with them we Define it my you know my lastly my third grade teacher sister Ruth at Saint Mary’s Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Jolie Joliet Illinois used to say to me all the time if you can’t say it you don’t know it so in englishcast if I

Class if I couldn’t say it then I didn’t know what I was talking about and she’s absolutely right this woman wrote a chapter maybe she didn’t even write it actually maybe she had a mental block but it’s so embarrassing to criticize a woke culture but not be able to Define

It just really really a bad moment for her but it shows you the air and the lack of depth and substance on how they have politicized uh one of our core principles of wokeness look I I will just tell these folks who call wokeness in vain uh be careful what

You wish for you don’t want to really get black folks looking up and learning things because once you have 10 million that uh Asiatic black men becoming Awakening or having their Awakening and becoming truly woke uh after French people what happened in the down in Haiti when the last time that happened I

Have to Folks at the store no Rebellion what happens when black people truly awake and become woke you might want not want to play with things you don’t really understand if you’re watching Roland Martin unfiltered streaming live on the Blackstone Network we keep this conversation going on the other side of

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Skate it’s time to be smart bring your eyeballs home you dig yes foreign Thing what that does is it creates a butterfly effect of any young kid who you know wants to leave any situation they’re in and the only people they see are people that are doing this so I got to be a gangster I got to shoot I got to

Sell I got to do this in order to do it and this becomes a cycle but when someone comes around and make another oh we don’t you know they don’t want to push it they put money into it so that’s definitely something I’m trying to fix

Too is you show this other avenues you don’t got to be rapping you want to be a ball player it could be country singer you can be an opera singer you can be a damn whatever you know showing the different Avenues and that is possible and it’s hard for people to realize it’s

Possible until someone does Thank you hey I’m Anthony Smith you are watching Roland Martin unfiltered Today’s black and missing we have tashonda Anderson she’s been missing from Fort Wayne Indiana since New Year’s Eve the 17 year old is 5 foot 10 inches tall weighs about 160 pounds with black hair and brown eyes tashonda may need medical attention anything with anybody with information about tashonda Anderson

Should call the Lake County Indiana Sheriff’s Department at 219-60001 again that’s the Lake County Indiana Sheriff’s Department 219-660-0001 going to headlines Chopper State University is not renewing the contract of headquarters the head coach Juan Dixon now Dixon has been under scrutiny as a former student filed a lawsuit accusing Dixon of not reporting

An alleged sexual assault and blackmail by Lucian Brownlee Brownlee allegedly harassed tormented and sexually assaulted the player before publishing confidential information he had obtained from the student Brownlee was an assistant coach the direct director Player Development and the director of basketball operation to chopping State

Now for those of you who don’t know Juan Dixon’s a former NBA uh player and All-American player he led the chop and state Eagles program since the 2017-2018 season under uh his leadership program has had a mark of 51 and 139 in six uh in six seasons following the decision

Not to renew Dixon’s contract top and State athletic director Derek Carter made this statement coach Dixon has been a valuable member of our community and we are grateful for his hard work and dedication to our student athletes he has made significant contribution to the top and State men’s basketball program

We was from all the best in his future endeavors I want to hop to our panel uh real quick on this uh Joe on this on this point do you think that it was the issue with the failure to address the allegations by the student or was it

That 51 and 131 record uh that kind of calls coach Dixon his job well I guess the the Silver Lining with Pat Ewing situation is that it didn’t seem to be a scandal uh other than him not doing a lot of winning so it makes you wonder out loud right what’s what’s

Really going on because the fact of the matter is sometimes at some schools you know everybody loves a winner when your coaches win and they find a way to get around this kind of thing so it certainly didn’t help his cause that they weren’t winning games right but in

The event this is something you of course have to take seriously uh uh for sure and to the extent that there’s potential that your culture that the leader of your program is complicit in all that I mean you hope that this type of thing if it’s a truly about

Accountability if it’s truly about keeping a problem from happening that’s the other part too it’s not just that okay we’re gonna let this guy go because we got our hands caught in the cookie jar uh so to speak what you really want to do is have a culture of support where

Athletes aren’t considered first-class citizens and people that might have complaints about them considered second-class citizens right are they dealing with a larger issue because if they’re not dealing with a larger issue whether Dixon was part of this or not then this is bound to happen again because there’s going to be more

Athletes there’s going to be more students um and there’s going to be more uh situations where there’s a power Dynamic possibility but in here this situation I don’t think there’s any question that the fact that he would seem to be a loser uh did not help him

That shouldn’t be the the final thing but I’m hoping that they’re dealing with a larger culture and added to Rebecca on that same point there seemed to be a culture in college sports where as long as the coach is winning they will forgive their players uh DUIs uh uh domestic violence cases

Um pretty much any activity but the minute that you’re not bringing those wings home the all those uh all of a sudden you have to be held accountable what can we do to shift this culture in college sports and Athletics where they will hold players accountable for

Activities or in this case an assistant coach for activities they do particularly against women on campuses well in this particular ization it wasn’t getting Juan Dixon as they had to coach was at Joplin state for about six years I think three years ago the um the basketball team was

Um the conference um Champion so you’re right they haven’t been winning as much lately but it was also very notable that Juan’s wife Robin Dixon who comes on the Real Housewives of Potomac which airs on Bravo um she mentioned publicly using that platform that Juan handled the situation

Well and with integrity and the exact same way she would wish a coach would handle it if her sons were in that type of situation I would have to largely disagree because it doesn’t look like Juan um handle that situation to the best of this ability and on top of that

We’re in a country that values winning and when you start to lose and all of a sudden those scandals start to stink a bit more and Scott kind of on that point you know we’ve seen the scandals at University of Alabama basketball uh with one of the players there and his involvement with

What led to being a shooting and a young lady lost her life um we have the case of UGA with the football player who’s going to be a high draft pick who is street racing while drunk with somebody and they resulted in the loss of life a woman’s teammates and another young lady

In that case how can we get out of this place where it seems that we protect and kind of condone this bad behavior instead of really trying to root it out and making sure we’re producing not just great athletes but great young men also I don’t think we’re protecting it or

Burying it I guess those are the cases that we don’t hear about I guess they may have been protected but in both of the cases with Jalen Carter and the other basketball player from Alabama it was a pretty high profile matters the ball player hasn’t been charged although

He may be an unindicted co-conspirator or he may be a key material witness in that case I think with the endorsements that come now with college athletes they can get paid with it excuse me comes great responsibility an additional oversight you know remember these kids are between the ages

Of 18 and 22. they’re going to do some things wrong they’re immature immensely talented maybe even super bright scholarly athletes but they’re going to do bad things because you do bad things when you’re immature when you have peer pressure right so the supervision piece in my opinion is really really important

Parents send their kids to college you turn your kids over to college whether it’s University Alabama or Morehouse College right and you expect proper supervision and to protect them but kids are going to do bad things and stupid things hopefully not so bad where they can’t recover from it but I think it

Takes school officials parents the community and and even alumni despite the Excellence of these student athletes to put your arms around them to supervise that and to lead them in a way that they’re going to accept your leadership and choose to do the right thing whether an athlete or not you hold

You instill the values in these kids your own kids right so that they make the right decision when you’re not around often they don’t make that right decision and so they’ve got a lot of growth to do as a result whether you’re athlete College athlete the weather you’re you’re anybody’s child

But but Scott just on that point you really don’t think that these athletes get uh covered for me in these situations I mean just look at the the case of the Alabama basketball player he’s still playing in the tournament despite perhaps being an underdited co-conspirator in that case uh if you

Look at the back when Florida had Tim Tebow pretty much the whole team were criminals uh that were often you know he had Aaron Hernandez on that team who ended up going to prison for murdering people you had a you have a lot of these players and because they can run fast

Jump high get wins for the school make the coach 100 million dollars they have a culture where very much you are covering up and you’re trying to sweep these things under the rug and I think as long as you maintain that you’re going to end up with situations like

This where Juan Dixon had won a championship this year is very unlikely he would have been terminated just for the actions of this coach against another individual well wait a minute let’s unpack all entary yeah prosecutors decide to stop criminal or not you I don’t and the ball player from Alabama he not

Charged with anything we’re going to suspend him for suspicious of being taken part in the murder of a of a of of the young lady you can’t do that what do you think we’re in a police state so I’m not sure you’re protecting these athletes come on you’re really showing

Your conservatism now stop stop okay these people they’ve got rights like everybody else well they do they have rice like everybody else look if he if he was a chess team and accused of being part of something that resulted in the death of a young woman I

Think they would just say well you can’t play chess until that’s worked out but because Alabama is the favorite team headed into the uh head into the uh March Madness well then yeah we can kind of forget that and so much so that even after he was uh accused of being part of

This shooting he was doing a pat down celebration entering the court with one of his uh teammates would Pat him down as if he was looking for a gun these kids don’t take this till seriously because they know the school and the coaches will cover for them

To pass a rule that says they can’t play you can’t make up the rules as they go along a kid hadn’t been indicted on anything and with Juan Dixon that’s an administrative piece that he should have just turned over to the dean of that school and focused on basketball he may

Have knowledge he may even have uh failed in communicating or reporting if you will but that doesn’t get you fired that’s a judgment call we’ll get you fired is not winning games and so the whole issue of cuddling or coddling these athletes who engage in bad

Behavior I just don’t buy it I think the pressure to win is really important which is what you’re really getting at and if you turn a blind eye to bad conduct or even illegal conduct then you’re absolutely right but we never find out about the cover-up until later

These are very public cases you’re talking about and these kids have rights just like you have a constitutional right to a lawyer and to be innocent until proven guilt let’s not walk away from those principles because you want to put some performance standard on kids

And that the NCAA just goes soft on them because they want to win games and generate Revenue well that’s true or not there’s no empirical data to support that and I think you ought to stop saying that look let’s let’s just have an important across the board rule that

If you are perhaps indicated in a young woman’s death for whatever reason car racing uh bringing but he hasn’t been implicated we’ll shoot somebody those sorts of things then maybe you don’t do sports for a semester you don’t do an extracurricular activity for a semester so you can clear those things up and

Perhaps help to uh the great stuff people who have died because just give me the rules to protect the person that’s not how the person who died and you’re still out here give me the room celebrations at the game the baby the rules give me the rules baby

Give me the rules because we just assumed that people have the type of moral and values that will result in you not having to pass a rule to say that because I bet if it was a cheerleader they probably already have a rule about that didn’t the Alabama student get suspended

At first and then kicked off the team um I thought it when this happened in late December that student was um dismissed from the team at first so wasn’t there something that happened but also I just want to point out what happened at chopping state is completely

Different here you had two coaches and you had a coach who specifically is accused of sexual harassment sexual assault and blackmailing a student to doing more exploit of sexual acts once that once that student had pictures taken of him that was then sent to other team members was accused of doing

And so Scott do you do you think in that situation maybe you should have a rule that you get rid of the coach or maybe uh the head coach you know doesn’t do that for a while you know I just feel you know we’re putting in place a system

Where as long as you win you get excused from whatever else it is that you do societally well then with compensate they weren’t winning and from an HR standpoint you don’t need a new rule that violates their handbook if you will no one should be shaken down and taking pictures and

Exploiting young people like that they should have been fired without a doubt and if Juan Dixon knew about it and did nothing about it then Ron Dixon ought to be fired too you don’t need a new rule for that that’s just good HR employment law and it’s in and it’s uh NCAA rules

If you will you can’t exploit anybody as a college student so I’m trying to understand your complaint because it seems like a lot of conjecture not based on facts or based on reality my point is that we should start injecting into our public discourse this common decency and common understanding

And then maybe it’s not a good look for the University it’s not a good look for the NCAA they have somebody who’s accused of being part of the death of a young woman uh part is one of the faces of college basketball and one of the faces of the tournament going forward

Particularly with their parents and her family have to see this on a daily basis knowing that there was some involvement just comedies but like there was a rule we’re at a time we’re way over we’ll be back after the break you’re watching Rolo Martin unfiltered streaming live on the Black Star Network

Hatred on the streets a horrific scene a white nationalist rally that descended into deadly violence So now we pro-trump mob storm to the U.S Capitol we’re about to see the last what I call White minority resistance we have seen white folks in this country who simply cannot tolerate black folks voting I think what we’re seeing is the inevitable result of violent denial this

Is part of American History every time that people of color have made progress whether real or symbolic there has been but Carol Anderson at Emory University calls white rage as a backlash this is the wrath of The Proud boys and the Boogaloo boys America there’s going to

Be more of this there’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 fee that they’re taking our jobs they’re taking our resources they’re taking out women this is Whitefield Thank you we’re all impacted by the culture whether we know it or not from politics to music and entertainment is a huge part of our lives and we’re going to talk about it every day right here on the culture with me for Raji Muhammad only on the Black Star Network

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Hey I’m Amber Stevens West yo what up y’all this is JLS and you’re watching Roland Martin unfiltered And tonight’s Tech talk segment we’re talking about the reading Revolution and 2019 National assessment of educational progress found that only about 18 of black fourth graders could read uh at grade level uh additionally 15 of eighth graders were found to be proficient at reading and we all know that after the

Pandemic after Zoom School in a couple years of uh social distancing and isolation those scores have dropped by as much as three percent uh because of this the creators of the web-based reading Support Program reading Revolution online uh have created a program that helps children build reading skills confidence and cultural

Identity development by equipping them for success in school and life a TKO Chua the creator of reading Revolution online joins me from Atlanta Georgia TK how are you doing this evening I am blessed how are you today I am outstanding so talk a little bit about

What led you to the development of this product because of this program because we see so many children we’ve all heard the statistics saying that they built they decide where to build jails and prisons at based on third grade reading score what really inspired you to develop a program to help young black

Students read well it started when I was a language arts teacher and a reading specialist when I noticed that you know many of our students were not doing well and in my uh area as a reading specialist they sent all the students to me who had not

Passed the state test and reading so every day I would write up a brief reading selection about a black hero or Shiro ancient or modern and then I would add 10 multiple choice questions that would simulate how they would experience this content on the state reading test

Because it was supposed to be similar to the structure the difference is the content was about our history and about our culture that I knew that they were not getting in their other classes and so in the process of doing that over time we began to take that information

And then put it into a book called reading Revolution that book did very very well nationally and internationally but in 2018 we began digitizing the content and then we recently released reading Revolution online it’s an interactive multimodal platform so for each of the reading selections about a black hero or Shiro

Ancient or modern there’s also a caption video there is a vocabulary activity there is a Grammar and Writing activity because we want to make sure that our children are proficient in all of those different areas listen we know that our children are brilliant beyond measure and that those low scores that you cited

A little bit earlier are not an indication of their intelligence or their capability what it is is it’s an indication of the access and opportunity gaps that our children don’t have access to Quality teachers and to Quality programs like this you know throughout the show kind of the

Theme has been this attack on diversity Equity inclusion uh in education particularly in Florida which has been uh kind of the the Cassius Bella of the the show did today uh can you explain why it’s so important to present education in a form that is culturally and ethnically and language-wise a

Minimal and digestible by students and why it’s important that to have books and programs with topics and with figures that reflect them and they can see themselves in so important to have culturally relevant material because when information is irrelevant then students begin to check out we know almost 100 years ago Carter

G Woodson told us about the damages that miseducation causes when children are given an education or type of schooling that doesn’t speak to their reality or life as they will face it but then in Wally mubaruti says miseducation leads to diseducation and this education is an anti-learning psychology what does that

Mean it means you’ve lied to me so much now I don’t want to learn anything so I have just mentally checked out even though I haven’t dropped out of college out of school I have opted out so so many of our children are mentally checking out but reading Revolution is

Changing that for our children our children are more engaged they’re learning the truth about their history and their culture and their loving engaging in these activities and it’s done in a manner that stimulates their intellectual and academic and cultural growth all right I want to bring the panel in

Um there’s nothing we lost Scott but uh Rebecca did you have questions about the reading Revolution online yes Dr akua even before um kids get to school what are tips that parents could do to engage their children and help them develop develop a love of reading

One of the best things that parents can do with their children is to read with their children every single day and that can start from a very very early age one of the things that that does is it increases reading fluency it increases reading comprehension it include it increases vocabulary development so

Simply by choosing books that are reflective of the culture and the values that we want our children to have and reading those books to our children every day can dramatically increase reading and literacy scores Had a follow-up on Rebecca’s question because I want you to talk a little bit why it’s important to uh to make sure that the curriculum is something that the children can know understand and digest and uh and be able to remember because the way as you said the way my

Parents taught me to read was we read the Bible every night so I read the King James version of the Bible all the way through before kindergarten so when I get to kindergarten to my ye therefore thou arts and stuff uh they look to be a

Little bit crazy so if you talk a little bit about how about how having relative subject matter is important yeah the relevant subject matter is so important and hey shout out to your parents because they did expose you to that and that’s great and I’m sure it improved your comprehension and reading

Fluency skills but we want to make sure we know that our children are again well really for making friends yes I’m sure I’m sure but we know that our children are brilliant beyond measure but one of the things that we have to do is we have to take

Responsibility and bring them up to speed reading Revolution online is being used in a number of schools and school districts around the country and even internationally however we cannot wait for the public schools to get a clue and this is why it’s so important that we have this movement where we’re going

Directly to parents and making it available to them so that they can utilize us with their children at home you can use it at home you can use it on your smartphone your tablet your laptop you can use it while you’re driving around running errands and your child is

In the seat next to you they can be doing the reading Revolution activities and gaining and tremendously uh by engaging in these different activities all right Joe did you have a question about the reading Revolution online yeah sure Dr Kula how does I remember when I

Was little you know for those of us at the old school we had that physical Library we had a library on Crenshaw uh in in South Central and Miss Cohen I specifically remember because when I brought books late she would take the card out uh so that I didn’t have to pay

My 10 cents a day for the book being late being brought back tell us about the connection with the physical Library okay that’s still perhaps in somewhere else um uh the cheapest resource or the cheapest way to connect particularly at some places uh some communities where internet is not as good as prevalent

Sometimes people use the library for internet Etc is there an encouragement or or connection to the library uh now is it more difficult because of uh you’re trying to make sure that uh culturally sensitive materials and things that they’re going to embrace proliferate there and maybe that’s a

Little bit harder to find and are there other connections related to other online or low-cost resources that will allow families to build on what it is that you’re doing with this program yes so let me say first of all that having physical books at home I believe every

Black family should have a library in their home every black family should have a library in their home of physical books but we wanted to make this accessible in a multimodal platform also in a way that children could receive it and what we found is that because it’s

Visual there’s a caption video for each reading selection they’re also hearing it they’re watching the words go across the screen and so they’re being impacted on several different levels that allows them to digest the material even better so I’m not saying don’t have the physical books please do but with this

You can have it wherever you go in addition it tracks your child’s progress across all across 90 different reading selections and four activities for each of those 90 reading selections all in an interactive platform that parents can log into and so that’s why we highly Rec recommended

In about a minute can you tell us it’s kind of the nuts and bolts of how this program works and how kind of differentiate from any of the other things on the market sure one of the things that differentiated first of all is the cultural content one of the challenges

That we’re facing is that you know our children are exposed to a culturally irrelevant curriculum even in the few places and spaces where African Americans are mentioned it’s not an authentic representation of our culture in addition when our history or culture is talked about they start us at our

Lowest point in slavery or they’ll start Us in civil rights and while those periods of time are very very important our history and our culture is so much more than just slavery or civil rights you don’t start a people’s story at their lowest point and so that’s why

We’ve taken it all the way back to Africa to make that African cultural connection so that people understand why we’re called African-Americans and that we have a rich tradition that’s worthy to be respected but we have to be the first people to respect it and we have

To do as our ancestors said we have to gain knowledge of self and in gaining that knowledge that self you know I think we’ll see our students begin to pull their pants up I think we’ll see them begin to press towards Excellence I think we’ll see them take their

Schooling and their education a lot more seriously in addition to that they will treat their peers differently because of the values and the character traits of resilience and self-determination and faith and unity that are embedded and woven into every selection in the reading Revolution online curriculum and

So that’s one of the things that distinguishes this from any other resources we’ve had educational leaders and principals say Dr akua this is exactly what I was looking for and I didn’t even realize it my students were engaged at a higher level but here’s the other thing

Teachers and leaders are telling us I’m learning new things about African-American history and culture that I didn’t know so parents as well as teachers and leaders love reading Revolution online because many of them didn’t get these lessons coming through school so it’s a win-win-win situation across the board

Well we want to thank you for everything that you are working on please keep us updated I think it’s an outstanding resource I really wish I had when I was a child uh thank you yes for everything that you’re doing uh that’s the show one

Last thing can I add go ahead and I have one last thing for those that go to reading Revolution I’m sorry for those that go to readingrevolution.org if you click on parents we have a special uh that we’ve made available for Roland Martin unfiltered when you go to readingrevolution.org click on parents

And put in the coupon code read r-e-a-d and you will get a special discount if you pay upfront the whole thing just put that in you get a special discount if you want to pay monthly put read Mo standing for monthly and then you’ll get a special discount and that discount is

Tantamount to really paying a dollar a day and I have to ask is your child’s future an academic success worth a dollar a day if it is right well thank you go to readingrevolution.org all right thank you so much Dr Chu I gotta thank our panel for joining us today

Thank rolling for letting me sit in for me he’ll be back tomorrow thanks to the control room making all this work and as I say the end of resource guilds got a hair no matter the content you gotta hold on to your dreams hold on to your dreams America

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