Hey, I thought it was all over.
Okay, hey, you are tuned in to 92.7 FM WMDX, the black conversion show with your
girl Brandy Grayson, the woman in Dane County, y'all love, love, love, and hate, hate, hate,
hate.
Okay, but I love that you hate me and I love that you love me.
Okay, period.
Today, we have another special guest, my mother Rita, a dare, a long time leader, phenomenal
woman in a Dane County in the Madison area.
She's been around for a long time.
How long is none of your business, but she's done some profound work and now she's shifting
up right now.
Okay.
And she needs your support.
Rita, a dare, tell us about you, who you are and what are you up to?
Hey, Brandy.
It's so excited to be here next to you.
Well, call the mic a little bit closer.
I am wrong.
There you go.
Period.
Back in Madison, after being gone for a few years and I came back to be with family and
I decided to open up a bar.
It's called Bernels.
It's a woman centered sports bar that will have blues and soul food served.
It is a bar that's a legacy for Bernel Hooker.
Bernel Hooker was my wife who deceased a year ago and her career was that she owned
the Milwaukee Aces Woman's Professional basketball team.
She was a coach for over 20 years.
She owned IOU Sports, which teaches the business of sports.
She was all about athletics and sports and took a lot of pride in the work that she did.
And one of her dreams was to open up a woman's sports bar.
So when I thought about her legacy, I thought this is a good thing to do.
Yeah.
So you're doing it because Bernel was your partner and crime and she passed away from cancer
and she was known in Milwaukee as the woman's basketball coach, a leader, influencer in
the sports arena.
And now we want to open up a bar locally.
You already have the location.
You're already doing the work.
Where's the bar located?
It's located at 25, 13, C. Firth Road.
It's off of Stoughton and Flam, it's the old Red Rooster.
Yeah.
You guys remember the Red Rooster?
It just closed down because we're not even going to talk about the history.
But anyway, tell us what you need and how do we support the work.
Okay.
Madison, a license now cost about $10,650.
And that's an unexpected cost that I didn't plan for it.
And some other legal kind of clean-ups and rehabs that are required for inspections.
So I need about $16,000 right now.
And I need it now if I don't have it by October 7th, I'll probably have to close the door.
Oh, my goodness.
October 7th, that's like tomorrow.
Yeah.
Okay, so how can people support you and have you been in contact with
like WEDC and other small business places?
Yes, yes I have.
Yes I have.
Okay.
They've been very helpful, but not able to do everything I need.
Yeah.
So I'm continuing on a private fundraising campaign.
They can donate to Zell and with my phone number, 608-213-1200, in my name, Rita Adair.
Or they can also go on cash app, which has a dollar sign, the number three, and it says
Adair.
If you look on Facebook, you'll see it.
Okay, so look up Rita Adair, R-I-T-A-D-A-I-R.
On Facebook, you'll see her layout sponsorship offers for investing in the business to get
this first woman's bar open and up and running.
It'll be the first of its kind.
And as y'all know, opening businesses are already quite expensive.
But getting a liquor license in Dane County in the Madison areas is trice's expensive.
And it's because they have limited number of liquor license, and if you don't get that
number, then you missed the opportunity, then you got to pay more.
I mean, that sounds like capitalism to me, just about around it.
So thank you again for visiting us.
Anything else you want to share?
Why does it want to say that I'm proud of the community that when I can reach out and
get help from this community, it feels really good.
Yeah.
And tell us what you, what are you known for that, like who are you?
Because I mean, you open in a bar, but take a minute and tell us what you've accomplished
in Dane County as a leader.
Well, I worked for the county for 30 years as a community manager and community social
work.
So I did a lot of ground work, where I worked on L.I.
Drive to address all the issues that were there.
I did a Katrina project and bought 30 families to Madison after Katrina.
I also was a co-coordinator of the main woman march in Philadelphia.
I've raised over $1 million for the boys and girls club to help get built on L.I.
Drive.
Yeah, don't do that again.
All right.
Mind your business.
Mind your business.
Mind your business.
Mind your business.
Okay.
So you've been around a lot.
You're a leader.
You've accomplished a lot.
And you've taught me a lot, right?
Like, so I was part, my work in community work and justice work started actually on L.I.
Drive with my mom as I was a community support specialist hired at the time through Neumaya.
Well, y'all know, I have a long history of nonprofit work.
And I think I was like 19 or 20, and I'm like 45 now.
So yeah, I'll just know I'm seasoned.
Okay.
So don't forget to support.
Don't forget to look her up on Facebook.
This is an amazing opportunity for a woman's center sports bar.
One of its kind.
And you know, I don't know.
You have any closing words you want to share Alex about anything.
Dairy Drive.
Charlie Kirk.
White people.
Um, I think just, I think there's a lot of sports happening in the city.
So think a little bit outside the box when we're looking to fund things like Bernels.
If you have sports connections, talk to the coaches, you know, talk to university sports
folks.
Yeah.
There's tons of people out here that are in athletics, whether it's high school or at
the collegiate level.
So talk to folks that could tap into some of that funding because the money's there.
We just have to be able to talk to the right people.
So I know y'all know the people.
So, um, yeah, check out Miss Rita.
Let's support her the best we can and get this bill.
A man and from my people who are not used to listening to the black conversion show
and you're new, I'm just know that when I talk about white supremacy and people known
as white or black, I talk about it from a framework to make people uncomfortable
because the being uncomfortable helps us push through the facade, the illusions, the
delusions.
Right?
No, I'm not anti white.
No, I'm not against white people, but we must understand the civilization in which
we exist.
The colonialization, there's prototype of humanity that's allowed a Charlie Kirk to
be exalted, to allow people to be fired from ABC, Kimball has been fired a couple other
people have been fired.
America is rooted on free speech.
That's what is rooted on, right?
You guys can call up to civic media and tell everybody that you're mad because of the things
I say, but they got my back.
They actually mess with me, you know what I mean?
Because they are white people here that mess with me and because of it, um, we've been
covered.
But what I want to say to y'all is get uncomfortable and practice being uncomfortable and not just
in conversations about politics or race or racism, but in your life because we have to
understand the way that we survive this and thrive is through relationships and relationships
are formed through communication and hard conversations.
So thank you again for joining me, Brandy Grayson and my guest today, Rita Deere, Alex on
92.7 FM and until next week, peace, love and hair grease, bye.
