And I see him moving on, and I'm begging to come back home.
And every night, I turn the TV on, and...
All right, y'all, you two back here.
I say why.
Why?
We're gonna die.
Come back home, Obama.
So come back, we're up.
Come back.
You're tuned into 92.7 FM, WMDX,
with your girl Brandy Grayson on the Black Conversion Show.
I think that song might've got us blocked on Facebook.
I just got a warning in your video.
Oh, no.
Sorry, SNL, yeah.
Look, they're strong, and they were quick, too.
It was like 30 seconds.
I'm gonna say that was fast.
Yeah, you're out of here, buddy.
I think he was blocked.
This was probably one of my favorite SNL clips of the entire...
Like the last decade.
Like, there's been some decent ones, but this one was just...
Chancellor Rapper just does a phenomenal job.
Chris Red, Keenan Thompson.
Oh, amen.
Hold areas.
Have you not seen the whole video?
Go check it out.
I'm gonna link it to the show notes as well, but...
Okay.
This was one of my favorites.
Yeah, we missed him.
He just made sense.
I don't know.
Nothing makes sense anymore in this world.
We have channel, national platforms of local platforms of tech...
Let's move on.
Okay, let's go ahead to the video with...
Obama's speech is like 2.5 minutes.
I would love for us to hear it.
He is talking about the values.
And the importance of values.
And before break, we talked about the values of white supremacy
and the things that we focus on that got us all screwed up,
which is like power, dominance, and using race as an excuse,
and using it as a way to, you know, disunite us,
and dehumanize us, and to put people on top of people.
Let's hear it from Obama.
What this election is about.
What politics and democracy is always about.
It's values.
What do we care about?
What do we believe?
What do we prioritize?
What are our core convictions?
You know, a lot of people have asked me lately
whether I'm surprised by the direction the country's taken.
And even though I am the hope and change guy,
I try to be honest with him, so I say yes.
There are things I am worried about.
I am worried about how quickly basic democratic rules
and norms have been weakened.
I'm worried about how willing Republicans and Congress
have been to surrender their role as members of a co-equal branch
of government refusing to buck the President
even when they know he's out of line.
Even when a lot of them will privately admit that power is being abused
in ways that will hurt their constituents and hurt the country.
I'm worried about a Supreme Court that so far at least
has shown no willingness to check this administration's accesses.
Even when those actions break legal precedent and seem to defy
the bedrock principle that no one is above the law,
I'm worried about the growing concentration of economic power
in this country.
We're just a handful of mega billionaires and companies
that we see and what we hear.
And I'm worried about how much that economic power distorts
the political process.
I'm worried about how readily, not just business leaders,
but others with influence and law firms and universities
have been willing to bend the knee to this President's autocratic impulses
to avoid retribution or protect profits or simply to avoid controversy.
And I worry sometimes how we've come to accept this is normal.
All right, that was the end of it.
I didn't pick a good one.
I thought I picked a different clip.
I didn't like that one.
He had some good or OK, I apologize.
I told you I had to bring it for today, but it's OK.
But part of the values that he was talking about is how do we center
our laws, our systems, our structures,
and like, justice.
I don't know where we're going as a country, Luke.
I don't know where we're going as a community.
I know that this week we had some good turnouts in elections.
We have the mayor of New York who won.
Thank God he won.
What's his name again?
Mama Dut.
Mama Doney.
Mama Doney.
Mama Doney.
Mama Doney.
Mama Doney.
This man has Asian, have African.
He's for health care.
He's for the working class.
He is exactly who New York needed.
Am I wrong?
No lie detected.
No lie detected.
Yeah, no lie detected.
34 years young.
34 years young.
I think it's very much a symbolic passing of the torch when it comes to leadership.
Yes.
There was a lot said going into this.
And I think as he campaigned on making New York City more affordable, I think voters
that that message resonated with voters in New York.
And I think there were there was some really great news coming around the country,
not just out of New York City this week with the elections, but just the the overwhelming
kind of refuting of what's been going on over the recent months with the results
from New York to Virginia to New Jersey to even places like Alabama in Georgia.
Yeah, California.
And California is going down.
I think it's really going to in the next few years is going to be our local municipalities
that's going to push us forward.
Just like the Dane County Board of Supervisors, just like the mayor, like the mayor of Chicago,
Brandon Johnson.
He's been showing his bucket, but he's not, he's not, he's not folding.
And we need more people in our local government not folding.
We need to stand for the people by the people.
Even if you disagree, even if you're not all on one accord, we just need to center those
who are most vulnerable.
And if we do disagree, let's do it in a humane way and still shake hands and still collaborate
and still get the job done because the people that are most vulnerable are the ones that suffer
the most, our elders, our homeless folks, our single mothers, our people with chronic diseases
and chronic disabilities.
Those are the people that urban triage serves.
And I think the image of who we think is vulnerable is actually not the people that are vulnerable.
But we really need to educate ourselves.
So shout out to Dane County Human Services.
Shout out to Madison 365.
Shout out to our people who are doing the work behind the scenes.
I appreciate y'all.
We care for y'all.
We urban triage ain't going nowhere soon.
Ha ha, my jaw gon' maybe run away though.
Oh, my mama.
Ha ha ha, all right.
Peace, love and hair.
Grease.
Thank you for tuning in to the Black Conversion Show.
Here on 92.7 FM WMDX.
I'll see you next Saturday.
I put that on my mama, on my hood.
I look fly.
