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You know I did already. No you didn't man. Clark, didn't I point? Thank you. Good morning. Welcome to Community Voice. I'm your host Keith Parris. I want to thank everybody for joining me live from Studio 2815. I hear it's hot outside. Man, listen man, I just saw Satan himself walk past the station with a 20 ounce.
A beer. Hot water. Hot beer. You don't want to be drinking beer outdoors today. Yeah, you're going to die. Bad idea. You need to go in the house and chill. What up, Clark Kent? Who you with? Hey, man, what's up, man? What up, Jermaine? Bishop, chairman of the board. Listen here, man. It's hot. And the old saints, or the saints of old, used to sing a song that goes like this. La, la, la, la, la.
Do you want to go to hell? Hell no. Do you want to go to hell? Hell no. Hell no. Hell no. Hell no. Do you want to go to hell? Hell no. All right, you got to go to hell. Hell no. Hell yeah. Boy, it feel like.
You know what, man, before we had air conditioning in a lot of our churches, and you'd be sitting up there just like in a sauna, it'd be so hot. In the old days to get up, it's a lot hotter than hell. You think, well, I ain't in hell right now. It is pretty hot. Listen, doctor, you come in there and look at like porky pig and leave out looking like a number two pencil. Right. And I always say, man, that you should leave worship a little bit different than what you came in.
Just the sweat up my little pink suit. She had a sweat spots all over bad. But boy, yeah, it's hot, man. So remember, there's a heat advisory after heat warning. And so, you know, take sure, make sure you stay hydrated. That's the most important thing. Stay hydrated. And let me say this, black folks, we do get sunburned. Yeah, we do get sunburned. So that whole myth about black folks and, you know,
Yeah, yeah, we might be people of the sun, but the sun, I was, I don't know, Michelle and I were talking about this. And I was saying that when you look at pictures, back in the 1800s, the formerly enslaved Africans, and you just see their skin looks like leather, you know, because they've been out in that, in that sun all day, man. That's crazy. Well, man, I'm here.
I don't know. Our last day. Yeah. Music month. Yes, sir. Last week my guy, Daryl Davidson, hit me up. He went to Howard, and he was talking about Go Go. So today, last day of Music History Month, we're going to talk about Go Go. And just so people don't know, Go Go is a percussion heavy. Fuck.
derived, generated, originating from Washington DC, known for continuous pockets of heavy drum beats, syncopated rhythms and audience call and response. It is, they used to call it, when I was there, they used to call it trash can because it sounded like the percussion they were beating on the can. And so they would call it trash can music. Now, the founding father of Go Go is of course Chuck Brown, right? And y'all don't know who Chuck Brown is.
I feel like busting loose. I feel like busting loose. Oh, yeah. And I can tell you, man. And I realized, you know, Marvin Gaye is from Washington, DC. And I was saying this, that got to give it up. It's really a go-go song. I can, all my DC classmates, man, that song, come on, those brothers would lose their mind. Or if you ever been in a club in DC, they might be playing, you know, the funk.
you know do a little parliament but it's a whole different vibe when they start playing like go go yeah me see man go go is big and uh it yeah it is that you need the cow building now yeah cow bill yeah it is so go go comes on and i know there was uh you know they're gentrifying DC i mean gentrifications on steroids now
and up northwest near Howard University, there was a record store. And I don't know if y'all remember back in the day how record stores would have a speaker out in front of the store and they'd be playing. So this particular record store was playing go-go and some of the new white neighbors were complaining. And someone had to point out to them, you do realize that this is indigenous native DC music. So shout out, Chuck Brown.
And then EU, everybody know EU, thank you Spike Lee, doing the butt. You know? Yeah, yeah, I mean, so people didn't know. So shout out to DC, shout out to all the folks, the purveyors of Gogo. You know, it's Black folks. When God created Black folks, he created some unique people. Yeah.
We are unique people and our ability to adapt and then to go from just adapting to then creating. When you think about jazz, you know, you think about blues, you think about gospel, you know, these are American created art forms and primarily by black folks in America. So I was watching, we were talking about little Richard and that whole thing about who is the.
who is the founder of Rock and Roll. And many people believe that it was Lil' Richard, Chuck Berry, people like that who put Rock and Roll on the map. Now, of course, when you had white folks coming out doing the music, then it has commercial success. It's like Pat Boone doing Tooty Fruity. And they had it in one of the Lil' Richard documentaries. He was like, this is a good song. I got out.
He sold a whole lot of, he sold a whole lot of records. So again, shout out to Gogo. There's Mr. Chuck Brown. I got a, I got a piece he did and a lot of Chuck Brown's recordings are live, right? It's not studio, it's live. And then there's the experience unlimited. Before they really, really hit it big, this would have been like 1979. Was in Washington, DC at Anacostia Park for Malcolm X's birthday.
Right there, that's where essence. But boy, I'm telling you. And you like to think that a lot of things like shutting stuff down is like a Milwaukee thing, wrong. It's all over the country. So next thing I know, here come the National Park Police on the horses pushing us out the park. So we never get a chance to hear EU. But again, if you've seen the movie School Days, when he put on the butt, man, that was a game changer. So again, shout out to Go Go.
um for all those folks there and uh certainly uh let's see the supreme court just upholds bans on transgender women and female sports all right so that means that men can't play women's sports you happy meach okay still waiting on the big one the big one is birthright still waiting on that one um to to come down the pike man i don't know if y'all been watching the world cup
Some of it man, I do do that Pyramiden Germany yeah, they play last night. Oh, man, it came down to the penalty kicks and Watching I'm gonna tell you something man. Whoo Pressure is pressure. Yeah, pray pressure Yes, I could tell you that those two guys that missed those shots for Germany
probably right now people in Germany are not being very happy about that. I mean, one of them was so, this dude was so nervous. I mean, he almost kicked the field goal. He kicked the field. So both of the games last night went into what they call extra time and then penalty kicks. I became, like I was saying, when I was growing up at Fifth Street, we just played soccer. So I've always been a soccer fan. And just to watch the level of play,
And soccer, you have to adjust because we're used to basketball. They're scoring a point every 15 minutes. Soccer is a little bit more deliberate and watching how people score and the strategies. But yes, it's been real exciting to watch the World Cup. So I have been doing that. OK, man, I didn't put it in there in the chat box. What's your point, Malik Beasley?
Well, with that, uh, somebody say five to 10 years, uh, he most definitely is guilty. And see, we was wondering what the deal was in Milwaukee. Now we found out. Yeah. And, and, and it, it explains some of these plays too, man. Like, you were like, man, what was that? Like you just let him run, run right by you or you really shot the ball like that.
Yeah, because I was certainly not cheering for the Dutch. Morocco, yeah, I was certainly not cheering for the Dutch. I just, boy, when you look at the impact that the Dutch has had on the African continent, you know, specifically in South Africa, no, wasn't, wasn't, wasn't rooting, wasn't rooting for them at all. So, man, what do you think about Ja going to Portland, man?
I don't care. But I'm saying, like, as far as the team makeup, man. I don't care. Why are we talking about the NBA, man? You got Cubs, man. We still got AJ, man. He's a shooter. I got all of that. So let me deal with AJ, like, in September. This is the off season, man. Yeah, but you know, other than, you know, NBA players going to jail.
Who was my guy down in Miami? Who got caught up in this whole gambling thing? Oh, Terry. Terry Rose here. Rose here. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and you don't know what it is that a person is thinking, you know, we think, well, these athletes make millions of dollars. And people tell you that, you know, papers, millions of dollars, but after everything is not.
people find themselves in financial distress and now they're more vulnerable to more vulnerable man to suggestion. See, but you coming up saying, hey, why are you doing this? And I guess he was just giving inside information on what he was going to do. But that's crazy, man, because the whole integrity of the game. And so now you sitting up there, if guys have the bad performance in the back of your mind, you're asking the question.
Is this new point shape? Well, I'm going to say this key. First of all, where the NBA, the NFL went wrong at when they accepted betting and gambling on the sports. But you know what? That's always been an issue, though, man. I mean, then Alex Karris back in the 60s, he got suspended for gambling. You have Pete Rose.
You know who was gambling a lifetime band. Yep. Yep, and I think that you have where people We bet on everything, you know, I mean everything knows wagers I caught a little bit of I'm sure George watched it or 60 minutes and they were talking about people get inside information on foreign policy and then go down making bets on it
So you had a dude who was part of the raid in Venezuela. He gets inside information. He goes out. He bets on it. I mean, it's yeah, but this I mean, but this whole thing is crazy because it's almost as if they turned everything into a game so you can bet who gonna be the president. You can bet the when we gonna go to war. You can bet the when they gonna capture the the dude from Venezuela like this is not a game. So for you to put wagers on
if we gonna go to war or when the war is gonna start, when it's gonna end as if it's like, okay, man, put your money in. Oh, well, I got that one. But man, people are losing their lives, man. Well, but look, man, people been doing game of chance since they've been people. And I think that you're right. But because it's a multi, multi-billion dollar industry now, it's hard to put that genie back in the bottle. Because, you know, people were wagering on games before it was legal.
You know, that's one of the reasons why they never wanted to put a pro franchise down in Las Vegas. Yeah, I get it. But now you got people making wages on life. Like life decisions, man. But you know what? The insurance company does that. Ooh. Think about it. You know, they put together an actuary. The insurance company is betting that based on all those numbers that they put in,
That you might live this amount of time you might live So is that why like even like with the mortgages and 30 year mortgages 30 50 year mortgage. They really bet on you to die No, they bet on you to live really for 30 40 50 years and if you because every year, you know the
the longer you extend the mortgage to higher the interest rate and they're getting more interest on that principle right so so now so now trump is talking about a 50-year mortgage thing so if you 40 years old and you're getting your house for the first time you get a 50-year mortgage you'll be 90 years old well it also talks around this whole issue around affordability right and how difficult it is for people to buy houses
But you know what? The one thing that I noticed is that houses are still going for sale. There's two houses for sale on our block. They just went up about three weeks ago. One is sold already. The other one is a duplex, and that one, you know, and the sister owns that. But not mad houses. I mean, there are people out there who have the money to buy houses. It's just more expensive.
So the fact that Trump has this little temper tantrum that he doesn't want to sound and look that housing bill could have gone a lot further but when you get this kind of bipartisan support for a bill like that then it's Issue of okay, let's get what we get so both sides when they both have something to go back and and run Because run on because they'll be going into summer session soon Nothing gets done and nothing will get done prior to the election
So nothing's going to happen for the elections. And speaking of which, I did get my ballot in the mail today. Rhonda got hers in the mail today. So I haven't looked to see who's on the ballot. But yeah, they're in today. What else did I want to do? Because I wanted to, and I sent you something in the chat chart to talk to you. And yeah, yeah, yeah. I sent you something. Booty tank, Clark. Because I had this question. And we're two days away.
Oh, by the way, thank you, WNLV Management staff for letting us off on Friday. You had the rubbity in me. You had the rubbity in me. DJ texts me yesterday saying we're working on Friday. I said, let me check it. It could have been no more than 15 minutes after I got the text. Devo called me.
asked me, he said, well, you know, the health show won't be working. Michelle, don't work on Friday. Did you want to do your program from home on Friday? No, it's a holiday. So I got to, so thank you. Thank you. Sorry, Michelle. They're gonna have to find another day for you. Or maybe, or just maybe, you know, make, make that, make that t-shirt a reality. Hey. Hey. Sounds like a P.
Yeah, buddy, so and let me shout out there was a brother I didn't get his name him and his wife was there yesterday at Him and his wife was at at I was at physical therapy yesterday and so when I checked in And I don't know if I have a distinct radio voice, but I said
One of them said, may I help you? And I go, hi, I'm Keith Parris. I have a 12, I don't know, 12, 15, 12, 30 appointment. And she checked me in. So when I said, now, he said, are you Keith Parris on the radio? I go, yeah, Keith Parris on the radio. And I said, oh, man, I listen, man. I'm going, oh. Then Rhonda came because Rhonda took me to therapy. And so I guess he sat out and he talked with Rhonda. So for all those folks that listen, I really appreciate you because you don't have to.
and you have to really put up with a whole lot. So I really appreciate that, but going places like that, I'm glad I wasn't clowning, but you know, you kind of go in and you'd be able to speak to folks. So thank you, thank you for all the folks that support the station. I want to get this call in and go to break. All right, call and welcome to the program. Yeah, good morning. Hey, good morning.
Yeah, I said you scaring the pot. Yeah, I know. Wait, what's his name? Who you with? Yeah, who you with? You on the right side. I heard you, yeah, you was getting on them. Well, I'm gonna let Michelle know in the morning. How you doing, Keith? Well, I'm doing okay. Messing with Michelle. Well, having fun, but I'm doing all right. I know. All right, I'll talk to you later. All right.
Yeah, so yeah. Yeah. So anyway, still waiting on Supreme Court decisions. One has come down. They have affirmed that trans men cannot compete in women's sports. I know for a whole lot of folks. Now, you know, it's a more complicated issue, but we can't really get into the complication of people really simplistic. They really believe they're only two genders. And so I'm not even going to get into that argument.
with folks about gender and gender fluidity and all those things. So that's not surprising that a conservative court would come out and not allow men to compete in women's sports. So when we get back, and we do have guests coming in this morning, when we get back, I just wanted to do a little thing on democratic socialism.
and the history of democratic socialism in Milwaukee. You're listening to Community Voice. We're going to take a break and we'll be right back.
It's 0.5 FM with your host, Keith Parris. All right, welcome back to Community Voice. Caller, welcome to the program. Caller. Hello. Good morning. Yeah, good morning, Keith. I was thinking about you were talking about ballots that caught my ear. They were having ballots here, too. And I was just thinking about Madami. He was there pushing this.
all across the country. They had all those people there were democratic socialists, wind office, and now they're trying to spread it across the country. And what you're filling on that as far as New York city, this one thing, as far as democratic socialists, because I've read some of the platform is pretty, pretty radical. And no, you say radical, what do you mean by radical?
Well, they talked about the government owning the economy government controlling their economy literally Now is that on the Democratic Socialist website or yeah, yeah, that's what they were talking about They had one running here where I live and I think she's a they want to get rid of ice They want to get rid of
Let me see what else they want to get rid of. They're not into Homeland Security. They're not into some other things, too. I guess they're for free immigration or whatever. But do you think that this is the New York thing as far as the Democratic Socialists? Somebody will call them very liberal. I mean, they're opposite of the
the freedom party or whatever they call it, the Republicans, they are... Lenny, how do you think that it's gonna play out in the rest of the country? I mean, it's like it's New York City, this New York City, where it's very liberal and everything, where the rest of the country, they may not be as liberal, and Milwaukee may not be as liberal as, or Wisconsin may not be as liberal as someplace like New York City.
They had one running here, one or two running here. I think that when people hear the term socialism, they equate it to communism. There are two different things. And democratic socialist is funny because in Milwaukee, we have a tradition of democratic socialism that goes back to 1910. And socialism, the American form of socialism was a response to capitalism.
and how we've just come out of the Gilded Age and the early 1900s, late 1800s, where the rich were getting richer and the poor were getting poorer. And when you look at that term socialism, I know a lot of times people say, well, the government owns, no, even though we do have a democratic socialist who's on the Common Council here who wants to see the utility company publicly owned.
Milwaukee would have its own utility company as opposed to being the standalone utility monopoly that utilities enjoy in this country. Let me do this real quick and maybe just answer your question. Milwaukee Democratic Socialism History is rooted in the sewer socialist movement of the early 20th century. This pragmatic brand of democratic socialism focused on municipal ownership, public health, and labor rights rather than revolutionary upheaval.
The first socialist mayor we had here was Emile Seidel. When he was elected in 1910, he made Milwaukee the first major American city governed by socialists. His administration established a public works department, the city's first public parks board and improved municipal sanitation. And then Daniel Hone
which the bridge is named after, has served for 24 years as mayor. He focused on honest governments, poor development and housing. He fought utility monopolies and expanded the city's world. We now have a park system to guarantee grease space for working class families. And then Frank Zeidler, he was from 1948 to 1960. He still lived in that area over there on First Street. The last of Milwaukee Socialist Mayor Zeidler navigated post-World War II growth.
heavily interested in public infrastructure and aggressively annexed surrounding lands to prevent the city's economic stagnation. Now that term sewer socialism was initially used as an insult by eastern radicals to mock the Milwaukee socialists focused on practical day-to-day municipal reforms rather than overthrowing capitalism. However, this fragmented the global order than tangible civic achievements.
building one of the most extensive public park systems. We're very, very proud of our park system here. Establishing city-owned waste and water filtration systems, prevent disease, back into creation of vocational education such as Milwaukee Area Technical College, and fighting for the eight-hour workday. Then it talks about its roots and labor unit.
these people live a little bit more the ones running in New York they want to uh they're talking about the thing going on with Israel and the Palestine and the uh I guess anything uh they they want to uh they call it genocide what they're doing and they're doing uh then they're talking about uh uh basically taking over the economy well I think what they want to do is make the economy fair
you know, when Meach called in talking about you worried about socialism, Americans always had this dual system, right? Where we had capitalism, but in order to blunt the negative impacts of capitalism, then you need something like socialism. So all the socialism that we just take for granted, and probably the greatest socialist bill ever in the history of America is social security, right?
Because prior to that, you had to take care of yourself if you were old. If you were a veteran, you didn't get any benefits. And certainly if you were a disabled veteran, if you were a child who had an absent parent, it was hard, especially when you talk about women in the home and women's difficulty to find work. So that socialism becomes important. And even that whole health department, my wife works for the health department, many of us can remember back in the day, they used to have visiting nurses. And so nurses will come out to your house until you were five years old.
Right that was part of socialism. So When people kind of here to give it a bad name taking over the economy and they're like yesterday, I find it amazing when business people Have a problem with socialism until they benefit from it. How many businesses Benefitted doing cove it where they were able to get the loans, right? What was that the TPP loans? They took all of the money that was given
So they don't necessarily have a problem. They don't have a problem with taking socialism. General Motors didn't have a problem taking the bailout when Obama offered them the bailout. AIG didn't have a problem because it was too big to fail being propped up by the federal government. So I think when people do it, they're able to do a thing where we'll take a turn, we'll make it very negative.
like we saw with CRT, right? Critical Race Theory. Critical Race Theory was just saying that throughout the American judicial system, races baked in. Well, talk to a lot of black folks who've had to go through the court system. They'll tell you CRT is real, right? Or we look at DEI. People can go in and turn something into, if it's a positive benefit from people, they will go in and convince you that you don't want to.
When the Affordable Care Act first came out and you had the Tea Party running against the Affordable Care Act, and they made people, oh, they're going to take your doctor. Oh, Obama lied. Well, OK, OK. Obama spoke out that you could keep your doctors, but depending on your situation, you might not. If you go into a different network, you might not be able to keep your doctor. But the overall program was a benefit, right? It's a benefit to all Americans that we have healthy Americans. So I pushed back on this notion.
that America is like, it can be capitalism on bridle because capitalism on bridle is everybody for themselves, right? Where socialism says that government has a responsibility to provide aid to certainly support the health of its constituencies, its citizens. What about yourself? Would you consider yourself a liberal, conservative, moderate, or what are you doing for socialism?
I hate titles like that because I don't know if politics is that linear, but I would probably be more if I laid anything towards being progressive. Certainly I am. When it comes to this idea of progressive, when it comes to rights of individuals, I'm very progressive when it comes to that. I know I run into problems here because I am supportive.
of LGD, LGD, LGTPQ, where'd the P come from? Rights as people, you know, that puts me in opposition to other folks, but certainly I do believe the government has a role in the health and welfare of its people. Okay, I was just curious, they were talking about some of them, Madani talking about freezing the rent,
And he's talking about, uh, uh, what he talks about having, they're going to be opening, I guess, next year in New York city, they're going to be opening up some city owned grocery stores in the York city. And, uh, that's what they're, that's the kind of, uh, socialism I'm talking about, but I did get a chance to speak to a guy from Denmark, the one they, they talk about.
And I said, explain to me how this work. He said, well, basically we're in McClure paying, I paid 60%. Now he was a project manager on a job. He's probably making 350, 400,000 a year. And he says, what if I ask him, what if he don't make any money? He says, everybody in Denmark pays 38%. So you make 10,000 euros, 20,000 euros, you're going to be paying 38%. But you will have free health care.
And you will have, you can go to college at your choice to anything else like that. Right. Well, you know, you hear when we were moving towards and look, they started trying, they've been trying to do a national health care plan after Medicare, Medicaid and 65 for years. And there are people pushed back, but look, major.
major insurance companies, health insurance companies, hospital groups, you know, they're a little worried about that because that begins to impact their margins. And so when people go out, I just think that is healthy for any society that, you know, sure, you know, you should be able to make the money that you need to make. But we realize that we live in an unequal, sometimes inequitable society. And I think the government has a responsibility to step in to fill in the gaps. Appreciate you, man. Got another caller.
Call and welcome to the program. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning to you. Listen, socialism, you talked about the social programs and things like that. And in some cases, it's needed. We're not talking about eliminating going away with anything that could be potentially great, but we're looking at things that could be potentially harmful.
You remember COVID-19, right? You remember that. That ain't been that long ago, right? Remember that? Yeah. Now, when the government mandated and pushed certain hours, certain movement, certain distances, you didn't like that very much, did you? I mean, whether I liked it or not, for practical reasons, but meat, meat.
There was a practical reason for that and I'm not saying that you had you had a virus that had never been part. No, I'm not missing the point. I'm saying that the government has a responsibility to protect its citizens and until they have more information.
It was better to err on the side of caution. So yeah, it made sense to shut everything down. Okay, brother, that's not my point. You cut me off before I could make the point. I'm making an illustration. Well, you bring up COVID. Once government tells you how you can't school to move.
If your movement can get somebody else's, government has a responsibility. You know what you're doing, man. You spend what you're doing is you keep going to the idea of the disease or the sickness. And that's not what I'm trying to illustrate. What I'm illustrating the government did, and I'm saying to you that government did what it feels when government has died.
Hey, when government has full control key, that's how it feels. Well, government does have full control. Government has no control when they mandate it. The only thing that you talked about is choices. The things that Michelle talked about, it's a choice to use the highway. It's a choice to go to the park. It's a choice to be on welfare. We're not in all cases. Okay, but did you travel city streets? Yeah. Okay, that's your socialism. That's a choice. No, but it's socialism. I'm talking about a mandate, brother.
Yes, but society has to mandate. There's an allowance in the Constitution where if America is in an emergency situation, you can declare martial law and suspend individual rights. And we should be very strong to do that. But if there's a greater societal good for it, then government has a responsibility then to step in and say, here's what we need to do.
And that's what we're doing right now without with the division zero across the country, right? It's for the greater convenience of it, but then there are other people who don't like the reckless driving and look Americans and are never satisfied. I got this little pamphlet the other day and it made sense because I have been saying it all the time. You know, this I've been saying this years ago when the first started, it can claim and it is.
is claiming more lives indirectly than record. No it isn't. The numbers are coming out. I hope you not getting no amulams and you got to go down that street and it's backed up into a one lane and the amulams can't go and they actually have to sit. You can't get into the other traffic. But you also have where there is no traffic. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Any time there's a red light and you have an emergency vehicle, you have cars at all three lanes. What I'm saying is that if she would have made it six minutes earlier, we could have stopped the situation. Y'all didn't get the fires yet. They all over the place, man. And I'm telling you,
that the number of fatalities are dropping, the number of accidents are dropping. But they ain't counting the ones that Grandma didn't make it in time because she had the plan at the start out. Grandma didn't make it in time. You know what I mean? Every jam. Grandma didn't make it because she would have got it if we could have got her here or we could have got that boy way out the way.
before he wouldn't have bled out. It had nothing to do with traffic. Man, you got to be naive to even look at that. I'm just saying that some things are brilliant, even though we don't, we don't necessarily like it. You have bought and purchased an idea that is more harmful to your butt and my butt. OK, I appreciate it. Socialism, when they come in your house, you see why they're going to put the magnetic meters on your house? Wouldn't it, hey, brother?
This is building up to something, but you understand that? I tell you, you use too much AC this year. And now you're never burning up for real. Because even more people would have died from COVID. The number of people that died. We ain't thinking about COVID. All right, man, I appreciate you. You ain't thinking about that. All right, man.
Peace. Hey, write out. You're gonna get fired, man. I'm just much more... I just said it four times. Yesterday was three times. I appreciate you. I appreciate you. We went over that in the production, but I appreciate you. Click. Oh, Lord. Yeah, you should, Joe.
I appreciate you, I appreciate you. And he's still talking, I can still hear him. I thought you were giving him a compliment, I didn't know. We got another caller, we good. Yeah, we got another caller. Caller, welcome to the program. Hey, how you doing, Keith? What's happening, man? Hey, man, let me tell you something. And not just you, but that stupid niche. You know that the police department is socialist,
The fire department is socialist. Remember the social center when you was a kid? Yes. That was all socialist, man. NYC. Anybody ever work NYC, work CEDA? Right. Yeah. What about, look, man, what about the Milwaukee County Hospital? Yes. Back in the day. Yes. I mean, these people brainwashed, man. Milwaukee was at one point one of the most socialist cities in America.
And you know government here because we had the industrial base in terms of that taxing that we could afford to socialism Right exactly right, you know, and I think the best the piece that we missed on that as the industrial base began to Began to diminish and then we began to depopulate when I was a kid there was a million people living in the city of Milwaukee Exactly me both same age. Yep, so
You know, and so you had you had that socialism that you did. I was they were talking about Detroit and one of the reasons why there were so many gifted musicians that came out of Detroit was this public school system and the investment that they made in music education, right? So people were able to so that socialism is a benefit. But look, since right since if the social security.
the new deal, all those things where Republicans have always pushed back on it. They pushed back on the Medicare. What about the eight hour work day Keith? Eight hour work day. I mean, you know, people don't even think about it was socialists that pushed. I think the other thing is socialism is a reaction to capitalism. I think that people now like the big beautiful bill, which is just capitalism.
you know, on super steroids, what did they do? They started cutting healthcare. Right. Because rich people don't feel like they should pay taxes to take care of the poor. What about Canada? Canada is a democratic socialist country. Yeah. You know, matter of fact, there's so many people retired from here that's trying to move up to Canada. Yes, sir. You know what I mean?
This is goofy, man. Well, I think it's also propaganda messaging. And when you hear terms, look, people use, we do intellectual shorthand. We'll hear a term, what's ever been attached to that term. That's what we run with. If you hear socialism, that's what you run with. If you hear communism, that's what you run with. Most people have not gone in. There's communism, and it's not the same thing. Oh, no, it's not. No, it's not. All right, man. Appreciate you up on the break. All right, bye.
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on WNOV 860 AM and 106.5 FM with your host, Keith Parris. All right, are we back, Jack? All right, man, appreciate you. You want to do this caller or what do you want to do? Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go and get this caller out the way. All right, caller, welcome to the program. Good morning. Good morning. I want to make a couple of points.
You're our favorite person who called this morning and took up about a half hour Being allowed to vent like that And capitalism communism and socialism nothing is pure
That's why we have oligarchs in China and Russia and America. Nothing is pure. Then they use these acronyms, CRT and other CRT and woke. They just put all those labels out and say they're negative and their person talking about it or listening.
Don't even understand it. So I have a task for you, Keith Perry and Ride Out. Teach our brother, Meach, how to communicate and avoid demissaggering and communication, dialogue, the difference between dialogue and monologue.
And y'all have a good one. I appreciate you. Yikes. Okay. Yeah, dude, you get me yelled at, man, because you weren't handling your business. I thought it was complimenting the brother. No, no, no. I thought you'd give it a compliment this morning. I didn't know. Yeah, I said it's time to go. It's time to go. Right here.
We have joined in the studios this morning. I'm sorry that I had ladies that I could not be there in person. I'm dealing with a little bit of an infirmity, but I'm good to see you. Yes, how you doing? I'm good, how are you? I can't complain. I'm beating the heat in your studio. So thank you for having me. OK. And take care of yourself. Man, I see you went old school with that. How's it pronounced? Is it phyla, phyla? Phyla.
Is it Fila? Yes, sir. And Ms. Tracy Wofford. Yes, good morning. Good morning. How are you ladies? Well, well, thank you for coming in the studio with us this morning. You know, I've seen African-American Roundtable. Can you give us a little background on the founding of the African-American Roundtable?
and there's operating principles. Oh gosh, yeah. So African-American Roundtable was as old as 2012. It's had many different iterations. At the time, it was a project of an organization that used to be Wisconsin Voices. And it was a convener of organizations doing democracy-based work.
Over time, it got further into policy work and convening different organizations who were supporting black and brown communities. After Don Troy Hamilton was killed in Milwaukee, it became an organization that focused a little bit on police reform, police accountability.
And I think that was sort of the root of us being an organization that helped to civically engage people outside of the electoral space. And so helping folks to understand what the fire and police commission's role was, that they were the oversight body for the fire and the police departments in Milwaukee. And eventually, you know,
the relationships with community and police changed circa 2019 and maybe a little bit prior. And then we became an organization that decided, you know, we wanted to branch off into our own organization and focus on developing black power, civility, engaging people around.
changing their own conditions in their communities. And so, yeah, we've been running campaigns since 2019. Folks might remember Libera MKE, which we sunset last year. And we've done a number of different things since then. We've started a Canvas program. We developed an asset map of Northwest Side Gems. We call them that.
the community felt met their needs and kept them safe. We started a youth organizing program a few years ago, but overall we're an organization that we organized, nurtured and developed black leaders to build power and service of black liberation. You used a term that kind of stuck out at being both of you can kind of respond to this question. When you said building black power, now growing up as a child of the 60s, black power,
meant a lot of different things. One, just embracing our true African spirit and being very chauvinistic about being black. When you use black power now, is that the same as it was in the 60s or is there a new, a new, what would be a new reiteration of that term, black power?
I wouldn't call us chauvinists exactly in this day, but I think what what is similar is that we recognize that when black people come together
We can achieve whatever we want. And I think, you know, folks like the Black Panther Party operated under that same principle of, you know, we can do, we keep us safe. We can do whatever we need. We can meet our own needs if we just work together to do so. And yeah, I don't know. I would love to invite Ms. Waffer to speak to her experience. She's been a member with us since last March, I want to say, of 2025. And yeah, how do you think we're showing Black Power as an organization? I would say that I look at it more as Black empowerment.
because we already know we have the power, but sometimes when you don't know what you can do collectively, you need to be shown that. You need to be taught that needs to be demonstrated. And I'm a child of the 70s, even though I was born on the latter 60s, I grew up in the 70s, but I grew up studying history and understanding that the Black Panthers were the foundation of a lot of the social programs that we have now.
Um, the, the breakfast programs and different things that they did to take care of the community. And I believe. Yeah, it's, it's a lot. It's a lot. I'm still learning about a lot of the things that they did, but a lot of things that they did were the foundations of what we.
we utilized and benefit from today. And it was not welfare. It was the community taking care of the community. And I have a strong appreciation for that. And so when I see the term Black Power, it's embracing the power that we already have as a collective. That's it. You know, the Black Panther Party, those started off dealing with
concerns that they had relative to the treatment of black bodies in Oakland, they called themselves a socialist group. They were really into this idea of socialism and the breakfast program was a great, something that America later co-opted now where in many public schools there's free breakfast. So is that what we're looking at now in terms of we were just having a conversation prior to you all coming on?
about the democratic socialism movement in the country. You see that as part of what you do? Well, I think what's first of all important to know is that African-American Roundtable, which is the organization that is has launched and is leading the Feed the Change MKE campaign. We're a non-partisan organization. So, you know, we don't subscribe to align with endorsed political parties or candidates. So, you know, we're looking at we used to talk about in
I want to say circa 2022 maybe, we talked about our work as transformative democracy, right? And so it's about just engaging people in democratic processes who typically will be excluded from those processes, right? So regardless of a party, regardless of a, you know, we've even moved a little bit away from policy in some ways.
just towards building people power, empowering people to come together and participate in decision-making processes. I don't know that we're looking at democratic socialism per se, but what we are looking at is the people in our community and what they're able to do and how can we support the visions that they have coming true.
Does that make sense? Well, you know, and I used the term democratic socialism. I wasn't I hope I'm sorry to be came across the sounding part. No, I was just talking about socialism in general. And I would think that, you know, because you do have social socialism operating in countries that are not democracies, right? Small D. So when but that that that idea that
government should respond to the needs of people. Is that kind of baked into what you do? Yeah, yeah, it is. And, you know, all the things, all the work that we've done over the years since we started running campaigns and since we moved away from being a project of the original fiscal sponsor we had have been rooted in the community. So, you know, community told us, you know, Circle 2019, maybe a little bit prior that police reform
is not the thing that they felt would keep us safe. They thought meeting our basic needs would keep us safe. Community told us that we need more opportunities to engage young people. We need more opportunities to teach young people to organize. Community told us that they wanted to see investment from the city and their food access, in particular for Feed the Change MKE, that looks like locally owned grocery stores, that looks like community gardens, that looks like farmer's markets, that looks like, I even heard people talk about delivery services.
and mobile markets and so many other new ideas have been coming up over time. But literally the visions that the community have here are how we set our priorities as an organization. We're also super.
proud to have a membership program for black people predominantly in Milwaukee. And we're 100 plus members in now, I want to say we have maybe 130 ish members now. And even inviting our members more deeply into our process so that they can shape the work and how it looks and what we do has definitely been like core to our work. Yeah, I'm a proponent of educating the people.
And that's one of the things that attracted me to work with art is to have a form where in a platform where they're involved in engaging the community and demonstrating things that they can do to take care of themselves. And she mentioned mobile markets, farmers markets. Well, I grew up in an age where that was was prominent.
you know, we could go to the corner store and they would have fresh fruits and vegetables there. There was a gentleman that I can recall growing up who had a station wagon and he was a gardener and he would load up his station wagon and drive through the neighborhood. So people didn't have access to being able to get to a grocery store. They weren't able to have a garden. They could get fresh fruit and vegetables from him.
It was really about being involved in the community. And the community took care of each other. The community was involved, connected. And that's the era that I grew up in. And that's what I'd like to see us get back to. And I see art as being a significant part of that. When you were talking about, and I want to get to feed the change, you know, Adler talks about, you know, those hierarchy of needs. One of them is eating.
And we are definitely, you talked about your experience growing up where there was a plethora of food outlets. And we're living more and more where people are living in food deserts. Is fee the change Milwaukee trying to address that issue of food deserts in the city? Yeah.
We are trying to be intentional about shifting the narrative away from the concept of food deserts, which can make it sound like happenstance that people live in places where they don't have lots of access to food. What we've been talking a lot about is food apartheid, which speaks to the systemic.
structural decisions made, policies in place, behaviors that make it so that people don't have food access. So things like the fact that in black and brown and impoverished communities, we see a lot of fast food chains or corner stores or gas stations. Even the fact that, you know, grocery stores are leaving our communities, right? As an example of like a systemic change that's making it so.
Yeah, we don't have as great food access as we want to. And so, yeah, addressing food apartheid is something that feed the change. MKE is up to again, rooted in those community visions that we heard folks say they want to increase their access. How would that I see one a million dollar investment? How would that work? What would that look like? Excuse me. Miss Wildford, you got an idea you want to share?
Part of it was STEM and education and access. We've talked about, in meetings, we've talked about what it would look like, farmers markets. And, you know, I remember Finding Mall, we used to call it the hay market over on Fond du Lac in North Avenue, but having more of those types of sites across
the city, and particularly in areas where the grocery stores are shutting down, or they have stores, but they're not stores with fresh and healthy food. Teaching people how to garden themselves. As a former classroom teacher for MPS, one of the things that I taught my students was to grow their own food. I talked to them about that. Just because you may be living in a rental situation, you can garden still.
is a thing called container gardening. So when you leave that property to go move somewhere else, take your garden with you. Just being able to educate people and that's it's not that people don't want to be able to do better. Sometimes they don't know how they don't know what tools are available to them and making sure that they understand teaching about nutrition.
I used to have students that their idea was breakfast was a bag of flaming hot center purple juice in the morning. And so teaching them about nutrition and teaching them how to use food as a way of having health. As someone who's had some health challenges over the years, I see that part of it was diet.
some of it was diet, some of it was biological, but food is critical. If you control the food, you control the person. And the thing that I'd add too is that, you know, what Feed the Change MKE is up to is trying to empower people, give people agency.
to meet their own needs and to meet each other's needs and so rather than relying on exclusively right because we there's a value obviously to to chain grocery stores right they've been in our communities feeding us for forever and
They they're not often people a dignified experience always and they can up and leave whenever they want and the food is not always fresh or healthy for you and by the time it gets to the to the grocery store sometimes it gets expired and and and and so the grocery stores that we have are not enough and so how can we ourselves to miss is why to miss what we're
How can we ourselves grow our own food? How can we ourselves get with our neighbors and say, hey, we're doing a grocery day today? What do you need? What can I deliver for you? Hey, Miss Glenda has a garden that she needs help tending to. Let's all go over there and help out one day and then maybe we can talk to her about harvesting from.
from from it at some point. Hey, there's a new local market, a new Asian market or African market or Hispanic market or whatever that just opened up the street and their food is healthier and fresher. Let's go. I'll go to that place. And so, yeah, empowering people to not only rely on outside entities to meet their needs, but also meet their own and help meet each other. Caller, welcome to the program. I was going to add. OK, go ahead there. Go ahead.
Okay, food preservation. We know in Wisconsin we have a short growing season and teaching people how to preserve the fresh food that they do have, canning, you know, freezing stuff, how to take care of and extend the food that they are getting access to once they have it. Call it. Welcome to the program. Good morning. I just have a request since she mentioned the old aid market.
Do anybody have an idea they're going to be open before the fourth? I haven't heard anything about, hey, market being open. No, but one thing I will share is that.
Starting in July, we're inviting community members to be in practice of what we want to be up to, right? So we just talked about meeting our own needs and meeting each other's needs. We don't have to wait for the city to invest a million dollars to start doing that, right? And we can often show them an example of what it looks like. We did that with our participatory budget and work a couple years ago. We ran our own process and then boom, the city said, oh, I see how it works. Let's do it. And so we are inviting organizations, individuals to do their own cultural events, community projects,
to show what can investing a million dollars into a localized food system look like. And some partners are developing a seeds of liberation garden tour to show some of the gardens and markets in Milwaukee and the surrounding area.
And on the 4th of July at the Founding Market, there is going to be a cultural celebration led by Alice's Garden. And I think Empower is working with them on that as well. On July 4th, I think there's like a drumming circle. There's like a stage play or a one woman show and a couple of other things happening at the Founding Market. So on the 4th, definitely make sure you head over to the Founding Market cultural celebration and check out our website.
aartmke.org. There's an events page on that website. More information about the July 4 cultural Salvation and the Seeds of Liberation tour will be uploaded there. I really appreciate your work. I understand that you've mentioned this. Go ahead. No, you go on. Oh, I understand it's a full desert in the inner city, but they may down pick your say.
is terrible. I mean, the line's all the way back to almost of the meat department. They got to improve on that because when I go around there, they have somebody, either somebody or two people bag in or whatever, just keep the flow going. But I mean, every time I go in there, you gotta wait these long lines. I know we need it, but they actually really need to develop a metro mart in there because of the volume of people probably they have with all these food businesses.
And I would like to say, we have to hold them accountable. They are a chain. They have a corporate office. And if you are seeing that kind of level of service or lack of quality in that store, speak up, write to them, call them, complain. They have the resources to improve that.
And it's up to us. We don't have to spend our dollars there because some for some people that may be the only access they have. But just because that's the only access doesn't mean that it's acceptable and they need to be held accountable. You're not going to travel out to Brookfield. You're not going to go to the south side of Milwaukee. You're not going to go out to Mekwine and see that quality in those stores because they're not going to tolerate it. It's up to us to hold them accountable.
And if you're going to spend your dollars there, because even if you have the ability to go somewhere else, but you're choosing to shop there, hold them accountable. Don't let them give you poor quality and continue to spend your money there. And it's crazy that we're even having this conversation because the other day I got some fruit from that particular store. And when I opened my fruit,
It was a dead roach In my fruit And I went up there to actually Talk with them and it was crazy because they got slick with me as if it was Like I'm like dude. I just broke the seal and I'm at work I open it up and the dead roach that's throwing up gang signs
It's in my food. Well, sorry. Well, you got to talk to management and that. And these are nasty. These are the undignified experiences that we're talking about, right? Like the the food is contaminated. It's not just not fresh, not good quality. It's contaminated, right? And then when you go to address it, you're not being met with like dignity and respect, right? And so that's not.
An experience exclusive to you or to the pick and save at Midtown. That's that's chain corporation grocery stores. And so imagine Going to there's like I think two Asian markets on the like 73rd and Good Hope, right? There's a J&S African market. I started getting some some like Can foods and dried foods and a little bit of like a fish from I'm pescatarian On a northwest side as well imagine shopping at like these local markets where people know you
They can treat you with respect. Oh, I'm sorry about that. Let me let me make let me make do a better job of my stock of my produce or let me address the situation. Imagine if you had community with the people who are running your store where you're getting your food from and how different of an experience that would be when you're trying to get your food and feed your family, you know. And even supporting some of the like she was saying that there's a there's a grocery store.
It's a small store, Sherman Park Grocery. I've been in there. Their produce is fresh. Their stuff is fresh. The owner takes care and pride in making sure that he's presenting quality products to the retail that comes in there, going to places like that. But let's start talking to the store level management and take it right to the top. Take it right to the top. Go, reach right on out to the
owners of that chain and I can't because they've changed hands so many times now, pick and save or whoever they are, go right to the top and let them know. Show them pictures. Like you've got that picture that they wrote, throwing up gangsters. Show them. This is this and just because you and our neighborhood does not mean we got to accept this. Right. Right. You know, because if you're not going to do what you're supposed to do, then
leave and let somebody else come in that will do what they're supposed to do by us. Yeah, absolutely. Call it. Appreciate you. All right. Have a good one. All right. I was just gonna say also looks like I don't have to. I don't have to shop with you. I don't have to spend my money with you. I can spend it with my people in my community. Yep. So again, if people want to learn more about the African American Roundtable.
or to be part of the feed to change MKE. Where can they go? Yeah, aartmke.org is our website. We also are on across social media. We're on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Blue Sky. So wherever you follow your social media folks, join us. We are African-American Roundtable or aartmke across those platforms. Check out our website.
I think our next upcoming events are, like I said, the July 4 cultural celebration that some community members are hosting for us.
We're also hosting one of our partners, the Millinette Urban Gardeners, hosting a gardening workshop. It's really exciting. Folks are going to walk away with their own starter kit for their garden. They're going to walk away with skills to be able to care for it. And so there's information about that on our website as well. And then we're doing a brunch on August 1st. It's free.
Folks are welcome to come and eat some good food with us be with good people Learn more about the campaign how it'll benefit them and how they can get involved. So again, check us out on our website or on social media for more information Or appreciate you miss right sure farmer miss Tracy Walker again of the African-American Roundtable is it you gave the website is their phone number?
There is, I always forget it off the top of my head. I think it's four, one, four, two, five, three, 33, 66. But yeah, the easiest way to reach us is probably through the website and social media. And let me do this real quick. No, I was going to say this. Thank you. I learned so much from that participatory budget piece. Oh, yeah. I never got a chance to thank you all for that. Thank you. Thank you. I'll send it back. I'm not on that team, but I'll send it back to the PB crew. We call them.
All right, appreciate you. And you're listening to Community Voice. We're going to take a break and we'll be right back.
Keith Parris. All right, welcome back. We have a caller. Yes, sir. Yes, sir, Mr. Parris. Mr. Parris, I have to ask a question. Are you okay? And where are you?
I'm in a bunker, right? I'm in a secret location. Oh man, that's hilarious. No, I'm okay though, you all right? Yeah, no, I'm dealing with an issue with my back at this point, so. Oh, are you kidding me? I'm not in the witness protection program. No, I'm good. Okay, you know, nobody's trying to mess with you.
I want to say this about, I think the ladies were called the AARP, not RP, right? This one about my old people joining me. Well, I wanted to say that they were most excellent about
with their with their expression about the concern of how people who are black and rich at our expense in the communities who are providing services that we can and should be providing for ourselves for the most part and that they should be held accountable because a lot of times when you're using a debit card at these corner stores they said
their own prices and they equate a debit card with a credit card. A debit card is just as the same as cash. It's an immediate deduction from your bank account or whatever source your revenue is coming from. So I think that's a great thing. More power to them. AARP, not AARP. You know what I mean? And Mr. Perry, you did better.
I mean, I love strengthening you, brother, and bring you back to the studio. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I feel I'm liking, brother. All right, liking so long. We have another call. Call and welcome to the program. Hello. Good morning. Yeah, I believe you locked in the basement. You must have messed up with a couple of checks.
So your wife got you down here working from the basement. Yeah When we turn into where's Waldo About two weeks ago
Red Kool-Aid. Who got the Red Kool-Aid? You know, we always used to say, well, those are favorite flavors and stuff. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I still live on. All right. All right. Appreciate it. Thank you. Wow. Yeah. I used to get the Kool-Aid and put it in a plastic bag and poke holes in it. And my hand is...
And it's red when you get off the school bus from Kool-Aid in your hand. This is probably more me and Clark, but we used to have those Kool-Aid straws. Yeah, you have to tear the top off. Yeah, and the straw would get all wet from you sucking on it. Dude, they actually stopped making those things. Or what about the ones that you would open and you put in your mouth?
And then start, you know, a fizzing in your mouth. It was like the little Yeah, the little fish now I'm gonna tell you what we used to do We used to go down to the lake and uh, so we'll take them little the little, you know physical things that you put in your mouth and a fish But we'll throw them out for the pigeons and uh
Man, they used to eat them things, man. They were so sour, man. They get to running around, man. We used to laugh so hard. How many cats did you kill during the show? Well, I did throw one over the fence, though. I did throw one over the fence. I wanted to see.
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But yeah, maybe we should go down to the lake to with them popper things man and give them to them birds, bro And you can see you know like the when the sour thing to hit them because they're it's like almost like the eyes that get big and they get to running around Yeah, and there was a myth out there and a lot of people don't do it anymore you're used to throw rice Oh, yeah at a wedding and they were saying that supposedly it would
exploding their stomachs, they found out that was just a myth. You know, just because they probably have some of their stomachs breaking, their asses breaking it down, in order for rice to expand in these moisture, usually water. Yeah. And so that's why I made some rice one time. And boy, you put in, like they say, put in a cup. And man, I put, I don't know how many cups I put in, man. I had so much rice. Sorry, Matt, did you add?
Would you add the water or milk to it? Add water. Yeah, so it was probably dry as a fool with all that rice. Yeah, let me, I did see, I was trying to get the breakdown when I was on break of what the, what the birthright citizenship vote was. It was 63. I'm sure Clarence Thomas, that, I'm sorry. Sorry, George.
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Man, though, he kind of remind me of that character. What was his name? Bigsby. The one they used to play, that character. No, I don't know what that was. And when he went to that, to that white power, he was like, white power. So what was his name? Bigsby. The white power. What did he do with that? Yeah. He was the one that used the blind. Yeah, that blind cat. Yeah, then he thought he was white. That cat thought he was white, man.
Okay, so it was a 63 vote. Roberts, Sotomayor, Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett, Katanji Brown Jackson agree with Mr. Trump's executive order violates the 14th Amendment Constitution. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote separately to say he believes the order violates federal law. And those who were in dissent was Justice Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch.
Man, I just don't understand how these cats can be old as Medusa and you still try to make decisions as if you can keep up with Everything that's going on like he'll like you can't even walk fast. Well, I don't even know was that he was thinking like this when he was young So this is not an onset. This has been ongoing. So, you know, I mean in terms of that Yeah
Wow. I mean, I can understand. Now, let me, Amy Comet, Coney, Amy Comet Barrett is very interesting. Everyone knew her position on abortion. She's part of this cult religious group. So she's anti-abortion. But the other thing about her, she's also very pro-business. And I think that people need to be mindful that abortion is an issue, voting rights is an issue.
But workers rights are an issue too and if any workers rights Cases come before the Supreme Court that being that they're going to rule in favor of corporations The other thing was I think there's another decision came down which allowed corporations to spend unlimited amount of money in politics so
You know, these are things out there where, you know, there are the big issues. Obviously, voting rights is a major issue. I think, you know, the idea that you would take away birthright citizenship, that's significant. You know, that's an important decision. But, and I know people said, we have no choice but to add to the Supreme Court after 2028. Well, I don't know if that's going to require
Certainly Congress would have to do it. So in order for that to happen and look FDR tried to do it And I think by expanding the court now you're assuming that you expand the court that you'll be able to put on the necessary votes You know to be able to blunt the conservative majority and it gets back to and people hate to hear it but Obama said this he said elections have consequences and
That's real. And so the people who decided that they were, for whatever reasons, going to sit out the 2020 election, or they could not see themselves voting for a woman, or whatever the issues that they had. So I think you have to be able to make some adult decisions. And nobody is going to be 100% of what you want on every issue. But you got to kind of weigh it out. What's in my best interest? And then, and what's in the best interest of the community?
So a lot of people think they'd be in deep. I didn't appreciate some of the rappers telling me, oh man, I ain't never voted. Okay, but you should, because that's kind of basic. And then just for us, man, I mean, people died. So the right to vote was respected and was codified. So I think that sometimes,
You know, we say we down for folks. You can say you down for folks, but being down for folks is usually a corresponding action showing that in fact that you're down for folks. So again, I was not surprised at the birthright. I mean, that one is just, you know, abortion is a bit more nebulous because there's nothing in the Constitution that really talks about one's right to privacy.
And I think that that was the argument that was hinged upon abortion, this idea of right to privacy that no one should be able to control someone else's body. Now, I find that interesting that Meach will call in and complain about government telling you what to do, but he doesn't have a government tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body. So it becomes one of those things where when it's beneficial,
For government to step in in terms of how some people might view the world and let's do it and then in other instances Then we really want to be libertarian and with me to ask me a question Here's the problem with labels, you know, I think that you give box then now again, I'm not By any stretch of the imagination running for any political office, but I think that when people can put you a comfortably in a box Then then they're able to define you if you don't control your narrative
So it becomes important that one controls one's own narrative and certainly don't put oneself in a box. My buddy used to say all the time, watch out for true believers, right? Were you just so absolute? Because guess what? And I know people hate to hear this, but sometimes truth changes, you know? I mean, and so what was considered a truth today might not be a truth tomorrow. And there are very few absolutes in the world.
So I think for us to kind of look like being libertarian in my mind. I really believe this, whatever you do in your bedroom is your own business. If you're not hurting anybody else, why should I or why should government even intrude in your bedroom or intrude in your home? It's when my behavior begins to have impact on other people that then society and or government has a responsibility to step in. People know no one really liked the lockdown.
But we save millions of lives because at that point we were not prepared to deal with COVID and It was just taking people out. You know people remember those refrigerator trucks in New York People tell you all they heard was amulets is going to the hospital You know so and then we sit up and think about a half a million people ultimately end up losing their lives now a lot of us believe that many of those lives could have been saved had we not had an inept
person who happened to be in the Oval Office at that point. And then let me get back to just kind of rerun back to this whole point of socialism. Like I said, it's all relative. You know, people don't have a problem with bailing out corporations, right, when they're in trouble. Those corporations don't have a problem, but they're the same ones who would turn around and tell you, I don't want to pay any taxes. You know, so that's kind of
Kind of where we are as we kind of wind up another what's today Tuesday today is Tuesday Okay Okay, and my name didn't come up with the funeral now. So it's with brother Frazier today. No, but didn't come up today Okay, cool, but I'm sure it might come up body in a week though. Yeah, let me also for the G co-croft Hutchins family certainly praying for them today we will We will celebrate the life of sister Phyllis Coleman
She was our church clerk there, Metropolitan. I joked how my people are from Tennessee and Kentucky, but that's my Mississippi family. They're those good folks. They're the G's and Nicole Cross and that's just so. Yeah, that that think that's about it for me on the program. Did I miss anything today? I don't think so.
Man, I turned the brewers off to so last night. Yeah, because they came back in one. They came back in one. I was like, oh, man, this this is over. Yeah, my impatience now, man. I mean, I'm going in. Oh, oh, oh. Commissioner's Cup tonight. Commissioner's Cup tonight. Liberty versus the Aces in New York City. Yeah. Free agency starts today at five. So it's going to be a lot of moving players. Free agents for what? The NBA? Yes, sir.
Free agency. Hey, man, I see Cam Johnson's on the market. We need to get Cam Johnson, man. They was actually talking about, and it's crazy that you just said that they were talking about since Prince just picked up his option. Gary Trent Jr. declined his option. I mean, at the Bucks, since they got some money that they can actually go after Cam with the exception. Oh, man, Cam Johnson.
Cam Johnson's been my guy since North Carolina. Yeah. Cam Johnson was my guy the year that the Bucks beat Phoenix. He was a rookie that year. I'm a big Cam Johnson fan, man. Let's get him to Milwaukee. I mean, we don't have Bobby anymore. Yeah, we don't have Bobby anymore. We don't have Ajax's gone, man. They declined to Andre Jackson. They declined this.
His team option, he's gonna get deep in the album again. Hey, nobody ever heard that cut. You say who? You don't really got deep in the album now. Yeah, man, cut five on the B side, man. Everybody heard him cut five on the B side? Your response, who?
Hey, but lowkey man, I'ma tell you how I really know. NBA 2K.
Well, I think before you you would have been a dude back in my day that had the trading cards. Oh, well, yeah, you are. Yeah, all of the cards. Yeah, all the cards with all the stats on it. Yeah. Oh, man. It's going like, who? Oh, yeah, man. Dude is cold. Like, he's the 27th man on the team. You know what I mean? Do they still do trading cards? No. No. Yeah, I think they do. Where is Milwaukee? Don't the bus? Yeah, I think you can still get tops. As a matter of fact, you know, trading cards, man.
that is that's big business. Well, I know that it was back in the day because like you can have somebody's rookie card and and it'll be worth some money. I think LeBron's rookie card is worth some money. Yeah.
Yeah. Anybody else that we don't know about on the team? I forget Chris was even on the team. Yeah, he didn't do much. He picked up his option, so he's dead. But you notice that the one protected dude on that team is number 20. Yeah, but check this out, Keith.
I'm hearing rumors, man, that they might be trying to move on, man. You be done, then. They got rid of Bobby. They got rid of finasses and not even an AJ Green. That'd be too much for you, man. Well, Keith, the Nazis, man, I think they threw them out. Like from that video I saw.
Well, let's see if he makes the heat. Well, you know, his other brother just went back overseas, so he went back to Greece. Right, because they only franchised in America that would hire that family to trade in their brother. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I think the Nazis is going to be in street clothes in the front row. Oh, I don't know, man. Those front row seats at Miami a little bit more expensive. Yeah, but when your brother
But when your brother is the main star and that's one of the main stars and bam, man, but it's always for them, man. Oh, man. It's always for them. You know, I was sitting up here looking at a potential trade. So AJ Green for them. Would you give them up for them? Would you give them up for camp? No.
B-bam? He's a shooter! He's a shooter! Man, I don't know, man!
I think I have to keep aging man. Oh man, I didn't want to mess up your day even having to consider that possibility. Hey, let me thank Ms. Tracy Watford. Let me thank Ms. Raisha Farmer of the African American Roundtable. Clark Kent, thank you, sir. Thank you, thank you.
Ah, Jermaine, thank you, Apostle. Yes, sir, Bishop, chairman of the board. Callers, we thank you. The good Lord willing, the creek don't rise. I'll be broadcasting live again from the cave, witness protection. Y'all take care and go for this place of peace.
