What up, y'all?
What up, y'all?
Welcome back.
Welcome back.
This is the lunch break with Ray Nitty and maybe Shannon.
Live from the American Family Insurance Studios, located in the heart of downtown Milwaukee.
Man.
Man.
We starting out hot.
I'm feeling great.
We at the top of our, uh, the next hour, the second hour with the lunch break.
Also want to give a special, special shout out to my father.
It is his birthday today.
Happy birthday,
dad.
Happy birthday, Pops.
I want Pops turn today, man.
Man, a hundred.
No, I'm just saying.
Let me
start.
Uh, look, I need, I need to...
You know,
Shannon don't hesitate to
age somebody.
Shannon
don't know
how
old he is.
I know what year he was born.
That's all I got.
But he'd be mad if he was like, you just put all my information
out there
on the internet.
He act like he a wanted man.
He'd be like, what?
What'd I say?
You know what year he was born?
Yeah.
So you know his age, Shannon.
You
know, that's what
you have to do the math.
I'm
not doing no math.
I'm yapping right now.
I'm
focused.
Chopping her chops
right now.
I'm playing the IT guy over here.
I'm yapping.
I'm not gonna do that math.
That math ain't math.
Touché.
Man.
How you doing over there, Ray?
Well, how you doing?
You need some emergency.
You know what you need.
I just read everybody needs to go get their masks from that smoke.
You know what?
That might be what my problem is.
I'm
serious.
I'm being for real.
Somebody said go to Home Depot and go get you an N95 mask.
Zach just gave me some emergency.
I'm not sick.
I'm struggling.
It's the smoke from Canada wildfires.
I'm trying to
help you out.
Emergency and the N95 mask just to cover all the fields you over there.
Yeah, you know what happened.
No, let me stop.
I'm
talking about these politicians.
When I start saying
what I was saying, it started glitching.
I'm
no conspiracy theorist.
They listen.
and they glitch
in my mic.
All
right, Shannon,
let's
get back serious.
So Rodriguez's team says the reconciliation work was still ongoing when she gave Monday's estimate and that the debt includes money owed for the very compliance and crisis work needed to.
What the hell?
Read that again, Ray.
Maybe
I
read this wrong, man.
Rodriguez team.
See, I'm saying her name right too.
You need to read.
Rodriguez team says the reconciliation work was still ongoing when she gave Monday's estimate and the debt included the debt includes money owed for the very compliance and crisis work needed to fix the original money.
So she's saying the debt.
Does it sound like she's saying the debt?
is because she had to fix the problem and that's why the debt exists.
But if you only had, if you end debt, that mean you don't have it, right?
And if
you only
have 30-something K on hand, I mean, you created another bill and didn't even have the money to cover that
cost.
Am I wrong?
Should I take credit?
No, I'm just stop playing that
Am I wrong chat?
She must be using J pay No opponent besides Brennan has explicitly called for her to exit the race Roy's and others are framing it as Trust issue for voters to what you think Not demanded.
She would why?
Can't trust her but
She could she could still run.
Get the hell out the race.
I mean, free will, I guess.
She been misstepping since day one.
Tony Evers.
You couldn't even put a sweater on from announcing he wasn't rerunning.
She's standing next to him in her campaign ad running for how you got money for that?
It was ready to go.
Anyway, moving on, we know who we not voting for.
She's out Hopefully by the end of the day she drops out this race and get out of grown folks business You gotta talk to her like your parents used to talk to you back in the day get
out the
kitchen.
Don't
you
see grown
folks
talking?
It seems as though she has a few other things to tend to these days because um
Man Monday's numbers were off by nearly a hundred and sixty five thousand dollars
I had to be off more than that because she tried to bomb million dollars worth of ads.
Is that a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 is a number to call.
I'd like to know is that a bookkeeping disaster or a credibility disqualifier?
And should she should be the one to decide if she stays in or should everybody be like, get the hell out?
I know my answer to that.
You need to leave.
I know my answer to that, Shannon, but.
We had Godfrey on we gonna get off the don't get off the devil's back right now, but You know we gonna pray for them church
right
amen everybody saying
prayers and Prayers and well wishes.
I wish a nice cold sale Yeah, but Godfrey We had a nice segue from Godfrey was talking about
to leave black people alone, right?
And...
Yeah.
He's
talking.
I think that's a lot of our favorite series from him, though.
That's hilarious.
Oh, yeah, I love seeing white people get the justice they deserve.
I love
it.
Sweet justice.
And I'm
somebody that's super against, like, you know, posting violence and, like, people getting beat up and just fights.
But some just feel good when I see that, like, oh, you never.
And then, you know, boom, they shaking like a dolphin.
And then
they just knocked out.
And they just served cold and sweet.
You know what I'm saying?
Like
a nice,
black-powered fist to the face.
But it brought up a... Oh, now you call for it.
No.
Right.
So it brings up a topic, Shannon.
A lot of those videos you post, it stems from...
you know, white people using the N word.
And then sometimes in anger, sometimes in rap battles, where they just feel comfortable or other races, right?
Let's let's have this conversation, too.
I use the word.
I use it.
I've been working on getting rid of the word out of my vocabulary, Shannon.
I'm working on it.
I'm trying to replace it with a healthier expression, right?
But.
It brings up a question.
Are we allowing other communities to use the word and, you know, who do we allow to use the word?
Who gets to pass?
Who doesn't get to pass?
That's what I like to know, Shannon.
I'm I'm going to pause for your thoughts on that.
So speaking about like.
I think I sent you the other day a video where it was a white guy, and he was using the word.
To some black guy, it didn't even seem like the black guy was arguing back at him.
I don't know what he was saying.
Maybe the black guy was just saying, don't call me that.
That's what it sounded like.
I think a lot of people have seen this.
It was the twisted T
that went to the side of
the man's head.
He kept saying, and he was barking at him.
Yeah, he was barking at me like, dude.
He flipped the camera.
He
flipped the can in his head.
R.I.P.
to him, too.
He
died?
Yeah.
No.
Ooh, the
guy that died.
Yeah, Twisted T died.
Twisted Ice T guy.
That hit the racist
T. Yeah, I think he died in a
car crash, if I'm not mistaken.
Damn.
Damn.
That's unfortunate, man.
Long live him.
But like, in the video, it sounded like, I know when I sent it, you was like, it don't sound like he was using the hard ER, but it sounded like he was comfortable using the...
N-I-G-G-A, right?
Like the slang version of this, right?
And the guy was saying like, hey, don't call me that and kept saying it.
Even the woman recording, I don't know what her ethnicity was, but she sounded white.
And she was like, you're not wrong, blah, blah, because like he kept asking him not to say it.
And he like just kept going, right?
Before he got hit with his twisted T. And in those situations, right?
It sounded like he was trying to explain, like, oh, I'm from this place, so I can say it.
People just feel way too comfortable trying to force others to accept that they got a pass to say certain things when you just don't.
Growing up, my mom counted that as a cuss word.
We couldn't say that in her house.
My mom, who is fully black, is like, don't say that word around me.
Like, that's a cuss word.
You don't say that.
That's not OK to say.
So it's like, you don't know who takes offense to that word.
You don't know who is comfortable using that type of verbiage.
So you really have to know your audience and know who you're talking to.
So I feel like, and I think a good comparison would be walking, me walking up to a group of girls, like, what up, BITCH?
I'm like, who is she talking to?
Who you talking to?
Like, hold on.
Like, I can't do that.
I'm gonna get jumped.
You
know what I'm
saying?
Like, you can't walk up to somebody and just expect them to be okay with being called whatever you call your friends or whatever you say to your friends.
Like, if you're gonna use it, use some discernment because me, as a black woman, I won't walk up to a group of older black people and just be throwing it around because I don't know them like that.
I don't know if they take offense to that word.
I don't know if they mind being called that, just like I wouldn't walk up to a group of females and just call them a B word.
Because I don't know if they take offense to that.
Do I call my friends that in conversation?
Sure.
What up, B?
What up?
Girl, no, no, no.
You crazy.
B, you crazy.
Fine.
But I'm not going to do that to an older woman.
I'm not going to do that to a woman on the street.
I'm not going to do that in a professional setting.
So I think it's just important that people choose their words wisely.
Period.
And as y'all see, I'm working on things here, even on the truth 107.
But we got other words that we could use.
Call them a biscuit eating bulldog.
Right.
You can call them that.
Man, I think, um, so historical case, right?
Obviously, we know the word was used for centuries to dehumanize our people, right?
And since then.
Our community has turned it into a phrase of endearment, which still provides some sort of debate where people are like, nah, we shouldn't be using that word.
And I agree.
I agree.
Why do we want to use it?
But I also hear people be like, well, it's our word now when we use it as a sign of endearment.
So here's my question too, right?
We have some communities that we rock with.
Or don't rock with it.
I don't know.
Everybody is different, right?
But, um, Latinos, the Latin community, they're average users of it, right?
And, you know, do people cringe when Latin people use it?
Or we just look at them like, you know, they niggas do.
You know what I'm saying?
Or we just like.
Because you hear so many stories of certain people.
Yeah, sure.
They say it.
And then, OK, perfect example.
the Latino young lady that was the police officer, right?
And, you know, you know who I'm talking about, the one in Texas.
I know exactly what you're talking about.
And,
you know, that would be a Latin person, probably use the word that may have came off of it as an endearing manner at some times amongst ourselves or her friends or whatever, right?
But now something happened where, you know, I'm assuming somebody did look like us.
probably stole something from her and, you know, that a turned into ER real quick.
And,
you know, it
went to, oh my God, it
just feels good to say sometimes, you know, when you say, oh, if that,
you know what I'm saying?
And she's like smiling and is like having so much joy from saying it.
And then recalling the story about basically abusing her power and it feels good to abuse them words.
You know what I'm saying?
And a lot of black people, I think we forget.
Obviously, I don't feel like all Hispanics are racist, right?
But there is a lot of racism in their community and any of them that's real, they will say that.
Not only is it racism in their communities, but there is colorism very deeply rooted in their communities.
So, like I said, be careful about who you give those passes to because they might be calling you the hard ER.
You know what I'm saying?
Behind closed doors and like when they use it in discussion with each other, I don't care what people do with each other.
But if I don't know your intent behind something, don't walk up to me calling me no B word.
Don't walk up to me calling me no M word.
I
don't know
you.
Like if you don't know somebody enough to know that's how we talk and this is conversational.
Why would I know that it's not meant to be insulting?
You
know what I'm saying?
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The lunch break with Ray Ninny and maybe Shannon.
Man, we got two hours now, man.
If y'all didn't know, if you just joining us, we got somebody listening from England right now.
Look at that.
Kitten Shir... Hey, y'all.
What's that?
Kitten Shir?
What does that say?
What's Shiray?
I mean, yeah, it's a third from England, maybe Shirei.
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Kitten
Sheree.
Sheree, me amore.
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about David, though.
Yeah, super unfortunate about David.
Somebody else, I think they're talking about Francesca.
She has passed legislation to assist school mental health programs in black and brown communities.
Check around what democracy looked like playing the fight against black and brown voter suppression.
What else they say?
I like that she wants to cap utility rates at 2%.
All of this is cool.
All of this is cool.
But.
I looked at the plan and it didn't specifically include brown people and needs of, I mean, black people and the needs of... What the hell was that?
But black people, hey, they listening, y'all.
It might be over with a shell.
You heard that, Shannon?
Or did they just take Shannon out?
Wait, what happened?
What happened?
Chuck!
Man, I thought they came and got us.
I thought they took the tower down, man.
I thought they took the antenna down.
Ladies and the camera go black and you don't hear nothing no more.
Just know they got me.
They didn't came and
got me.
Yeah, once again, I just think, you know, people were, we was just reading some of the comments and I just asked people to demand a little bit more for our vote.
The blanket statements is cool.
I could get behind a lot of the stuff that sound good.
But at what point do we demand people to have an actual plan for black people as if it is wrong to ask for it?
It's not wrong to ask for it.
We're like, yo, what's your plan?
And if somebody doesn't have one, I think we should practice a little bit of patience to see if this person will develop one.
Sure.
People love to lump.
Black is like some black issues in in a blanket statement, but we have direct issues That impact us and it would be nice to hear what those plans are not people insulting you and saying like off-the-wall excuses like okay 77% of her district is white.
So where could she develop?
like
That doesn't mean that you shouldn't care about the other 30% of the people in your district.
So what happens is when people say that, it's like you making excuses and you really doing damage to some of the amazing things she is probably talking about.
So I find a problem with people who, you know, just
Crap on you for taking a position, but then have zero facts or knowledge about the person that they support.
And so much so that their responses are, well, that's a good question.
I'm sure she has a responsive team.
You should go find it out.
Shouldn't you?
I'm like, well, if you convince me and I'm already convinced of where I stand, like the responses, you go find it.
I'm going to stick to the four blanket talking points that was presented.
on the website that I've already researched.
So that's my problem, Shannon.
Nobody has yet.
You know who presented a plan to me?
Sherwin Sherwin presented.
I
heard about his plan, you know, and he's going to talk about it more.
And, you know, I'm not saying I got I'm getting behind that.
But at least somebody was like, all right, Ray, you could be bugging and I hear you bugging.
But here's an alternative angle to look at.
And here's the strategic steps as to why we're looking at it this way.
Cool.
You know what I'm saying?
But to ask a question and it be met with, you know, that's foolishness.
You just need to get behind.
And, you know, we need to stop all this foolishness and get behind the next black man in line.
And I'm like, well, excuse me.
I'm like, well, man, that's not like
the most
foolish.
That's not like the most foolishness to me.
So it lets me know like we not even really that educated on the people that we support.
I've had to go do research and educate people on Francesca about things that they didn't even know because I asked questions and they couldn't tell me.
So I'm like, where's going on?
But but when they asked me about the candidate that I support.
And I could talk about the things that they've done and the work that they've, you know what I'm saying?
That the work they did, the things that they've shown that makes me support them.
And I could run that off.
But when I asked them to run it off, it's, oh, well, you know, you could go find it.
Oh, have you went to any
of the what's what does earning your vote look like these days?
It's like nobody want like.
We just get we so sweet.
We we.
Sarah can scam us all the way to the general.
Not if you want a case.
Right.
Not on duty.
Not on duty.
But anyway.
We ended up back on, we ended up back on that and we supposed to be talking about the N-word, man.
These N-words get driving me crazy.
But, shout out to Kitten Chere, Chere, that's in England.
We international.
Somebody said,
somebody said no sound and I get no sound in the chat.
But,
Yeah, Shannon the n-word we back on the n-word.
Let me let me stay on top of Shannon.
I apologize.
You're supposed to re-reground when I'm
My bad, I'll be letting you go look you be having something to say get off your chest.
We got two hours these days.
You're
we down we down to 30 minutes now We down to 30
minutes,
but um,
so what's your stance on it right like if you If you out in public and somebody walk up to you.
Oh, what am I doing?
How do you feel about that?
I said
how do you feel like if you're out in public and someone just walks up to you and says what's up my n-word Oh,
how do
you feel about that because I kind of was explaining that like when people don't know me like that I do feel like Uncomfortable if I had even a conversation with you or a few conversations like who is you like what are we doing here?
Like why are you comfortable enough to even talk to me that way?
And
like I said, it's the same way with women.
Like if I don't know you and we haven't had a conversation and you walk up to me, what's up B-word?
Right, I don't, it depends on who the person is.
You know, like at first glance, if it's, you know, I've never just had, you know, a white person just come up to me and say, what's up my Ian?
You know, I'd probably be very taken back, but.
Yeah, you like the man with
the, with
the cam.
What
is going on here?
What do you mean by that?
Right.
Exactly.
So, you know, I'd probably be a bit taken back.
Um, if it's somebody that looks like me or somebody I know, you know, I'd probably be like, oh, I'll say it back.
But I will say I'm working on, um, I'm working on trying to to.
Start with saying it less and eventually eliminate it, right?
Um,
yeah,
that's just that's just a personal goal.
I guess I'm working on Shannon.
What about yourself?
Yeah, you
have it avid user a
lot.
I'm really even an avid.
I'm not an avid user.
I will say that.
This is like I said, growing up, like it was a cuss word in my house.
But as we know, I like to cuss a little bit.
So I do use it.
And I just, I guess, lead by example.
So in environments where I don't care to be called that, I normally don't use it because I don't even want people to feel like, oh, yeah, I'm comfortable saying this.
Like, no, we don't talk like that around here.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, I'm really good at eliminating stuff when I don't want somebody else to follow suit.
If that makes sense because like I said, I do have different friend groups where like I hang with different people And if they said it I would a hundred percent be taken back.
So I'm like, I don't even want to open that door I don't want you to feel comfortable using it.
I don't want you to oh see me too You know I'm saying like I great like I'm like thankfully I haven't been in a situation where I felt like Somebody was using it and I was uncomfortable or like they use it and I'm like wait Why would you say that?
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah,
you never felt like somebody who
used it and like, you like, dang, I didn't get to check that in.
You ever let one slide?
You know what?
I ain't even dealing with this crap today.
I feel like I took, did I say this on the air one time when I worked at the hospital, the first time being called the hard ER to my face was a mixed child.
It was crazy.
I was super young.
23 years and.
Ray Ray.
Somebody said
it's my
favorite word.
The basement show.
It's my favorite word.
We got Al online, man.
How are you feeling today, man?
How do you appreciate you calling
in?
I'm all right, now if a person's on some way through the nonsense, I'll probably be like, I can't be what was raised into your family, or I can't be what your mother or father used to cheat on y'all with, that's a personal problem.
The majority of the time, I'm trying to keep it respectful, but it do be those times if you go to the other side and you behind closed doors, they say, be in work.
Then they probably take it out on your guts because you know they be in a euphoric state of mind.
But otherwise I always try to, you know, keep it respectful, boy.
If they say, oh, you just say in one, I say trust me, your throat, your throat is seen many, okay?
That's why your teeth is bone legend.
But I always try to keep it respectful, you know?
Because you don't not keep your mind.
You got someone who like that race play, you know?
So if you get them on their knees and make them bark like a dog, and they say, hi.
And then you
say, shut up.
But otherwise, I always try to keep it respectful.
But if you own some racist nonsense, you know, I'd probably say, hey, you know, hey, in word, I'd be like, well, you know, your momma and grandmother used to taste one.
That's why your granddad used to be the ass all the time.
But I try to keep it respectful.
And
when you make sure your comeback is and make sure your comeback is real hard That's why they daughters got IUDs because that's
all
that's what they always fantasize about take cinemax off your take cinemax off a Direct TV.
How about that?
Long don't come with an evil name and all devils is not dangerous Why do you think them daughters coming home with mixed kids?
Why you think them little white girls who used to be little little girls and they get with that black man.
Now they come home telling their mama go to hell and telling them that they used to rape them.
Come on now.
We ain't that bad.
That's why they really mad at black people.
Y'all have yourself a good day and always do something kind for yourself.
Bye bye.
And on that
note, I know that's right out.
Always do some kind for yourself.
We'll be back, man.
This is a lunch break.
If you see these dogs in your front yard, just know
upstairs I'm
going hard.
Bing bong.
One on one seven the
truth.
Can we eat on here, man?
I'm hungry.
I love snack.
You can.
I can't eat in this studio.
Oh,
that was like it.
You know what?
We're just
really gonna be out.
She got a mouthful of something.
Is that a donut?
What the hell, Shannon?
Cookie or something.
Is that it?
Something from Starbucks?
Like, what is going on?
A chorizo wrap.
We are at
work.
I'm Dutch, bros.
Y'all ain't even got Dutch, bros.
I
mean, she taking a lunch.
Look at them
bites that she taking.
She like, somebody says, is that a pop tart?
Yeah, that was my second guess.
Damn.
All right, well tell us what y'all eatin' on lunch today since Shannon eatin'
a
pop tart.
I got back and I looked at it and I was like, ma'am, that's what I wanted to do on my break.
I wanted to take a little bite.
I had to take the trip.
As a matter of fact, we probably can't eat it.
Sherwin ate a Mandela in here, pause.
That sounded crazy.
But that's what he calls peanut
butter.
Wait, what?
That's what he called peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches.
Exactly brought him.
Wait, what?
Zach brought him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
And Sherman was like, he brought me a Mandela!
I
just thought that was... Why do we all have that?
Wait, what
is that?
You remember when his campaign, you know, he was making a peanut butter sandwich, she was like, I'm Mandela Barnes.
You know the price of peanut butter is... Anyway, whatever this is, Zach gave me taste terrible, by the way.
Yeah, it's just because it's like medicine.
Oh, this was like an emergency thing.
It's not supposed to taste good.
I mean, it's a raspberry.
It's
supposed to heal you.
It's a raspberry.
They got a raspberry
emergency.
But it don't taste like raspberry.
You ain't coughed since, though.
I'm just saying.
Do with that information, which you will.
I haven't drank it yet.
I took it a little sip.
Somebody said,
great shirt impression.
That's what I thought it was.
Kool-Aid Jammer is crazy.
Man, it's important that we vote, y'all.
It's important that we vote.
Don't confuse my stance as me saying this is something you should do.
You should do your own research, which is something I have done, because obviously people don't know about the candidates that they just spew out.
But do your own research, man.
I've taken my position.
I also think Sarah Rodriguez should step out of the race.
The primary is August 11th.
Make sure y'all vote.
That's coming up real soon.
Real soon.
She needs to fall out the race.
100 percent.
She need to get at 35 to a nonprofit organization.
She need to give it to the truth because we the only ones telling it.
I was just gonna say give it to me.
I do, right?
Yeah, straight up.
Spin that
and Wisconsin is a swing state.
So the governor seat controls budgets, signing power, veto power over legislative maps, policy appointments across state agencies, and it touch a bunch of daily life in Milwaukee.
So that's why I am asking and demanding for like a plan for our community.
Here it is at the primary.
We have nobody that prioritized black needs.
in the city that like I'm not saying they don't they not think I'm saying I have not heard a identified plan for black needs in a state where it is the worst place to raise black families.
And we're not asking that question directly enough.
We allow in blanket statements to lump us in and that's not cool.
What do we want?
We don't want nobody to earn our vote.
What nobody cares about mass incarceration RIP to the homie chat It's just simple questions I'm asking y'all we supposed to be family We supposed to be a community we supposed to be on the same page with each other.
We supposed to be wanting resources to come
to our community and our families and change the trajectory of how the city has been going and it has not happened over time and time and time and time again and we continue to get the just wait the investment is coming just wait the investment is coming we don't went through different politicians we don't went through different governors and we've gotten the same results people would even say with Scott Milwaukee has gotten worse
So I'm wrong for not just flagrantly just man.
All right.
Next Negro in line getting my vote.
The Negro was in line already and we tried and I'm trying to I'm trying to like.
Fine grace, right?
But it's one person I I'm I'm considering.
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We need we need we got a we got some family business to handle man I don't think we handle in the family business right right now We got the family business all over the the place We just giving the family vote anywhere and then y'all mad at me for asking questions and they can't answer my question But I'm the one throwing my vote away
I'm the one throwing my vote away because I said I'm voting for the person that's on the ballot.
Sure.
He suspended this campaign.
He suspended this campaign based off of lies, elevated numbers, and being misled to believe certain things.
So, yeah.
I'm still voting for the person that I feel hits those knees until somebody else shows me different.
And I'm not just going to say, oh, yeah, you know, they root.
Yeah,
they're
raising the teacher's pay.
That's cool.
That's amazing.
It's needed.
I salute it.
Yeah, they fully funded MPF.
That sounds amazing.
What does fully funded MPF look like?
What does fully funded or struggling MPF looks like?
Anybody
say reform?
Come on, Shannon.
Well, they'll
say, oh, if it's fully funded, we could get rid of the lead.
How about we get rid of the lead first?
How about we do NPS reform?
We passed a referendum to raise our property taxes.
So NPS could get money.
And they said they weren't going to eliminate some jobs and positions.
And in the next day, they cut them down, jobs and positions.
It didn't wait.
They cut them right away.
And our property taxes is still raised.
But cool, fully funded, though.
Don't go anywhere, y'all.
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Don't go anywhere.
All I'm gonna
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All I want to say is that they don't really care about us.
They
don't give a damn about us, Shannon.
They don't really care about us.
I'm gonna tell you what's crazy though, right?
Keep that playing in the background.
No, I
played it long enough.
All right, cool.
We finna get fired.
Look.
You already owe a quarter to my piggy bank over there.
You gonna have to pay that fine.
You know, like my emergency.
Not giving you no beat.
But the number is verified for air, right?
These numbers is verified.
Black buying power.
This is why I'd say we need to demand more, right?
Black buying power.
I used to think it was 1.6 trillion.
But guess what it is now?
2.1 trillion in 2026, which is up from 1.6 trillion just five years ago.
At that scale, it would rival the GDP of entire countries.
Our buying power as a black community would rival the GDP of entire countries.
But buying power isn't wealth, right?
The median white hole.
White Household holds roughly 285,000 in network versus about 44,900 for the median Black Household per the Federal Reserve.
Spending big and on in little.
That's crazy.
The median household, I'll say it again, median household roughly for white people is $285,000 in net worth versus about $44,900 for the median black household.
So when I ask these questions, what is the black agenda?
And you tell me that raising the teacher pay, I would like to see how raising the teacher pay
Raises the $44,900.
I ain't saying don't raise the teacher, because you know people like to put words in your
mouth.
These are direct issues that I'm talking about.
$44,900 is the median income black household for the Federal Reserve.
What you think, Shannon?
I was going to start a pot, but I'm not going to start a pot.
Start a new start.
It's
lunchtime.
Start a box of food over.
Damn it.
It wasn't even serious.
I didn't.
I don't.
I, you know, I was going to say somebody said they going to help legalize weed, though.
Somebody did.
Somebody did.
But here's the interesting thing about that, right?
Yeah, it still take a Senate.
It still take, you know what I'm saying?
We still got to get through the way.
We gotta vote in demand more.
We gotta vote in demand more.
Off the sidestat is that a dollar circulates six hours in the black community versus weeks and other communities gets repeated a lot.
But say this honestly on air.
We saying this honestly on air, right?
Six hours.
That's how long a dollar will last in our community before we spend it somebody else.
Some people say this number is disputed, right?
Black owned banks, suppliers and retailers are a smaller share of where black consumers actually spend.
So more of that 2.1 trillion exits the community fast.
2.1 trillion dollars leaves our community in less than six damn seconds.
That's faster than Sarah Rodriguez spending.
She
can't count
it faster than she can spend.
Historical proof of concept shots out the banana in the building.
Tulsa Greenwood District, right?
We talking about circulating our black dollar and the black buying power, right?
Tulsa Greenwood Concert and this relates right to Milwaukee as well, because we know a lot of the people that own the businesses in our neighborhood do not look like us.
So not only is that money leaving our community, it's leaving our city, it's leaving our state, and it's probably even leaving the United States.
I don't want to hear that, though.
Historical proof of concept, Tulsa's Greenwood District, famously known as Black Wall Street.
circulated a dollar for close to a year.
Before it left the neighborhood.
Built on a self-contained network of black owned banks, groceries, theaters, professionals.
We had dentists.
We had doctors.
We had everything.
Before, guess what?
It was destroyed in the 1921 massacre.
The Tulsa riots.
They burnt it down, bombed it, rioted.
Killed, pivillage, pivillage, whatever the word is, dammit.
Thank you, Shannon.
Thank you, Shannon.
But when I ask who going to put our priorities on the agenda, I get looked at crazy and say, just, you know, support to get in line with the next black man.
What you think of that, Shannon?
You know, let me get out your way.
Man.
No, no keep preaching you saying some real stuff on man live on air on the truth you telling the truth That's all I can say about it.
I think we should uh We should bring this back tomorrow.
I know we don't got much time.
We're gonna talk about
Circulating a black dollar.
We want to talk about Greenwood more.
Maybe Shannon, we could get my nephew on.
Because guess what?
He actually works for the Greenwood Project out in Tulsa, Oklahoma, trying to get them their rights and the money that they deserve and the land and the businesses that were stole from.
To this day, we all know that this thing happened, but these people are still fighting to get what's rightfully theirs.
Close this out, Shannon, please.
No, that would be dope to have them on.
Let's work on that.
Let's work on getting if you on.
Yeah, I'm gonna call them if you.
But
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I am maybe Shannon and Ray Nitty.
Is that maybe?
Maybe Shannon.
He is at
Ray Nitty.
She just changed it to maybe Ray
Nitty.
I
feel like.
Right.
Right.
I'm going to change my Instagram name.
Maybe Ray Nitty.
That's like, y'all, that's
our time.
I'll be going into a flow, man.
That's our time, y'all.
Somebody said, is there a listing of all the black owned businesses in MKE?
It is.
It is.
It's an app for that.
Maybe we'll talk about that tomorrow as well.
Tomorrow, we're going to be talking about black buying power, Tulsa, Oklahoma,
Greenwood.
Just show that out real quick, though.
It's MKE Black.
Download.
MKE Black.
Download.
There you go.
I just didn't want to say
the wrong thing.
See how Zach is always on top of things?
MKE Black downloaded.
Check out the black businesses on there.
We're going to talk about black power tomorrow.
Black buying power tomorrow.
You know, I don't want nobody calling.
It ain't getting too black over there.
We out, y'all.
