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A Democratic candidate in the Wisconsin State Assembly District 61 primary.
Eight days, y'all.
We got eight days before this election.
There's a lot of other things on the ballot as well.
She's one of three Democrats seeking a nomination with the winner advancing to face the Republican nominee in November.
Luanda, how you feeling?
How you feeling?
Welcome to the True Family.
I'm feeling great.
Thanks for having me.
Great place to start.
So District 61 includes Greenfield, Greendale, Hells Corner, Parse of Franklin, and Parse of Milwaukee.
Let's breathe into this.
Greendale, Greenfield, Hells Corner, Parse of Milwaukee, and Parse of Franklin.
It is a small sliver, just as it is in Franklin, just an apartment complex.
We are talking about Oklahoma.
We're talking about running to that border over to Howard.
So.
What?
That sounds like a very interesting district that you are running in, right?
What are you hearing on the doors?
One in talking to these folks and then.
what these voters and what personal experiences would you say have shaped your commitment to public service?
And then Shannon got some questions for you as well.
She gonna get into your campaign and division
as well.
Okay, so knocking doors, talking with my neighbors, they're focused on property taxes, healthcare.
They wanna know what we're gonna do about the education system.
My district is very unique.
We have a great deal of
people who are educators and Milwaukee County employees that live in my district.
So a lot of my neighbors love the idea of a fully funded NPS system and a great deal of them.
Love the idea of having choice schools.
Being in a purple district, I have a responsibility to make sure that I am hearing what my neighbors are talking about.
and setting forth solutions that are going to support what we need.
So they're also focused on mental health, which is a thing that we don't hear a lot of politicians talking about.
And I think that puts me in a very unique position seeing that I am a mental health professional who is a homeowner in their district as well as a small business owner.
owner of life wellness and counseling services, which is providing mental health, outpatient treatment, as well as addictions recovery treatment.
So I'm able to have a different conversation with them about how these issues also connect to their mental
Okay.
We getting into it, y'all.
We getting into it.
We have Luanda Chambers, if you're just joining us.
running for Wisconsin State Assembly District 61.
So if this is your district, you need to pay attention to the information that's out there and the people that are running for your support.
Shannon, I know you got some questions about campaign and vision.
Let's get into that.
Thank you for asking that question, Shannon.
This is about purpose for me.
I wouldn't have imagined running for a seat.
I've spent a great deal of my time in advocacy work, whether that be mental health, Alzheimer's, health care expansion, mental health care expansion.
I happen to be one of the only black women that sit on the statewide health care team.
And I'm also the co-chair of the state council on alcohol and other drugs where we are on a committee working in partnership with the board to legislate the substance abuse and mental health policies in the state.
I am not new to this work.
This is just elevating the work that I've already been doing and the relationships that I've already created.
I'm no different than any other person.
I'm a caregiver.
I take care of my mother.
I've been able to witness her take care of our family and uphold us.
And I've had to sit there and watch her change and be there to support her in those challenges.
And I think that's something that my neighbors also can connect to being caregivers and having to step up and support loved ones.
So a lot of my journey has been
the community work, but also the personal work of being a daughter, being a sister, being a partner, and helping people in my own family to have that support, which I don't think is foreign to my neighbors.
Mental health is something that we typically suffer in silence with, and we do not know how to navigate.
And you're talking to a systems leader who has had the ability to know how to navigate, find the cracks that occur in this system, and use those as blueprints to build success for those barriers.
the time.
Honestly, because sitting at the table or making a table or bringing your chair to tables that you were not always welcome to sit at or spaces where people may feel uncomfortable because you're there next to them has allowed me to have a balcony view.
as well as a bottom-up view.
Watching our legislators and understanding the civic engagement that has to happen for policy to be forward-thinking and have the support for that caucusing and building relationships with other legislators.
I have to be honest, I've been to that Capitol several days, so much so that people thought I worked there already.
And what I was learning was that we had to adopt a new strategy.
Okay.
Democrats have not had power for over 15 years.
Okay.
When you start getting into that history, you begin to recognize when you hear some of your neighbors saying, well, that politician isn't doing anything for us.
Not knowing how hard.
People are already working on your behalf and the strategy just has not been in our court to play offense.
We've been playing defense for 15 years.
This is the time to play offense.
This is the time to achieve a trifecta, understand what that strategy is, not only for legislators, but our community to know we have been stagnant.
I've sat there and brought up great legislation irritants like Robin Voss being our house speaker has kept us in this place of stagnancy.
Okay.
And so understanding that as a person who is a great at executing, that's one of my number one skill sets, getting things done.
And a part of that comes with understanding how things work.
And I just learned.
Our policies are not moving forward because we have been playing defense.
Now it's time to play offense and get the right people in office so that we can execute and heal our community, okay?
This is about healing the state of Wisconsin and understanding the trauma that those 15 years have brought over our state.
sure.
Because I think it's very important.
You spoke on the lack of power, right?
15 years, I feel like it could have, it feel like more, but 15 years, right?
And you said this is a good opportunity for us to complete the trifecta.
Could you just tell them more about what I feel like I know what you mean by when you say the trifecta, but just for our listeners that may not know what you specifically mean, could you break down the trifecta for?
You know what?
I'm gonna put something out there and say a super trifecta.
Okay.
Okay.
Let's do it.
And I'm gonna say that because we have a very important CD1 race and some CD4 races and our congressional district races are also important.
So I'm gonna make that super when I add the CDs.
races to the conversation.
We have a governor race.
We've had a lot of things going on around our governor race right now.
And I think that is making it a little bit challenging for people to understand that we also need to pay attention to our state races, which are assembly and our Senate races.
We need all branches of government to be in cohesion right now.
And when we have a great relationship with our governor, our state,
in our Senate, that's how we get the work done.
And I brought up super trifecta because when we have a relationship with our CD folks, we're looking at the cohesion around federal and local government being in alignment.
Okay, and I'll just give an example of why that's so important.
Healthcare is a top issue right now.
I don't know.
Anyone can that can really say the health care is working for them I'm a business owner I sign the front of checks and I am paying for health care for my team and They are making way over minimum wage Okay, and they still cannot afford health care the deductibles are too high the coinsurance is too high
The specialty co-pays are too high.
And then the bill that you receive in the mail makes you wanna holler.
Okay, so that's not working.
Privatization has been an issue.
We're looking at insurance and then we have to look at the other irritants in that model, such as hospital privatization and accountability acts that have to follow.
And I just use that as an example, because I know we can all, whether we're Democrats, Republicans, or independents, can say that health insurance is no longer working for us.
And we are working really hard for it.
And that is taking time away from our workforce, from our families, and from our own mental health as we think about, how are we going to cover the cost of our health care?
while covering the cost of our gas, our groceries, our rent or mortgage, our taxes, and then recreation.
Because if we have children, how are we taking them out to have fun events or anything like state fair?
I'm sure numbers are going to go down.
Not to mention childcare or even thinking.
Okay, about owning a home.
I'm the vice president of housing resources.
Okay.
I help people for the last 10 years access down payment assistance.
It's not about only getting a home.
It's about being able to stay in a home and build a legacy.
I bring that up because there are so many things that are pushing and pulling in society right now that are making those things far out of reach.
Now you may have a home for those who are listening to have homes, but those property taxes are going up.
And we need to think about the future because in the next three to five years to start a home is going to cost about a million dollars.
See, I'm running to make the American dream real because that was the promise.
But too many families right now are living in American nightmare trying to reach it.
And that should not be the reality for the folks in the state of Wisconsin.
We need to think about our future and how do we build legacy and economic development here where we live.
bit?
Sure, no problem.
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We got a we got our cousin in the building man cousin LaWanda I've been messing up our cousin names all Month, but we got cousin LaWanda chambers.
She is running for the 61st district and
I didn't even, I just realized who she was running against.
And I think y'all know this person very well.
She is running against Bob Donovan.
I know, right?
Correct.
So we're very familiar with Bob Donovan in Milwaukee.
He ran for mayor in Milwaukee as well at loss.
He ran against Chevy and lost and he had some wild policies really that I felt was extremely detrimental to Milwaukee.
Extremely detrimental to the creative community as well.
I'm a supporter of the art of graffiti.
You know what I mean?
And he took a super hard stance on graffiti.
I'm not a supporter of vandalizing people's properties, right?
But I felt like the stance he took, it was an attack against artists in the city.
So to hear that this is somebody that you are running against, because I'm going to claim it for you because if you, you know what I'm saying?
We're going to get you through this problem and we're going to make sure we get this super trifecta in place.
Shannon, I know you got another question before I just keep going, but I just wanted to set the tone so people know, okay, this is who she would be potentially facing in the general, because we are very familiar of the type of policies that comes out of that type of camp, if I would say.
But go ahead, Shannon,
That's a great question What I would say is that I am not a one-trick pony I Come to the table with lived experience professional experience leadership experience and
My skill set is people.
I went to Alverno College and got my master's in community psychology.
Okay.
And so when we're talking about doing work in a community, that is the type of leader a community would want.
Someone who has spent their time studying a discipline to learn how to not depower people.
And I can say, honestly, right now we're living in a time where people are so disconnected from politics.
And that's because they're not empowered to participate in it because they do not feel heard.
And so what I'm bringing to the table is experience, energy, execution, empathy, and eloquence.
That has been so lacking.
People in my race are focused on things that are disconnected from my community.
One of my opponents just moved here to run, okay?
And has not been transparent about that.
Move to my district.
They lived in Boston prior to moving to my district.
I want to be clear because I love to be accountable.
He lived in Madison prior to moving to Boston, then moving back here.
Either way, he has not spent time in the 61st.
I've been there just about 10 years.
Not to be correct.
OK,
keep that same
when I was.
But let me be clear.
I'm from Chicago.
I moved here at 14.
I attended Washington High School, where I graduated as a proud pergola.
OK, I've lived in five, three, two, one, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three, two, five, three,
when I talk about issues around housing, I'm thinking about that impact and how that racism and how that prejudice and that discrimination in the state of Wisconsin, specifically in Milwaukee has followed me and what those experience has brought to my front porch, the violence, okay, the lack of resources.
Buying a home in Milwaukee sometimes you think,
I'm building legacy.
Where is it that your home depreciates like a vehicle?
Okay.
Where is it that the resources are not plentiful, but we are providing the economic stability for state.
So when we think about the truth to threat the needle on society here, we must.
start with the truth and become grounded in it.
So then we can get to the healing.
Okay, we have already declared public health crisis is racism, right?
That's trauma informed.
All right, we have to become trauma responsive through our legislation.
And that looks like putting leaders in those positions who have experienced that.
So that can policy from a place of experience education and accountability All right, everyone has to be accountable here
the
That's correct.
and the only person of color running in this district.
Against three white men, one of them is Bob Donovan, who is not our friend.
I'll just say that I say the things people don't want to say out loud, but I'll say it.
You just talked about having to deal with the racism, all of these other things.
What is that like now?
You being not only the only woman in this race,
but the only woman of color in this race and in this district where, seemingly, we probably aren't the largest demographic, in that opinion.
So, because we've seen the work that you, I've seen the work that you've been doing, I've seen you out at the places.
I didn't even know none of these other people who they were that was running, didn't even know that's where Bob Baum...
I can't get this man out my head.
Bob Donovan was.
So what is that experience like?
How has that fueled you to be even more intentional about securing this victory here at August 11th?
So for me, it's about exposure and making sure I expose my neighbors to something different.
because a lot of the times people think they know you or they got you figured out.
So being able to knock on these doors and talk to my neighbors and help them to see who I am and get to know Luanda, you know, I don't come to doors pitching myself to people.
I feel as a black woman, I have to spend so much time explaining myself that that's not how I want people to meet me.
I want them to know who I am, what I represent, that I have business acumen, and that I am very articulate and educated and understanding and also have had to face such hardship to accomplish those goals.
That those things were not given to me and those were things that I earned.
So when I look at my opponents, I know that I'm already going to outwork them.
You know, I know that's a given.
I've already outworked.
Okay.
Well, you know.
I'm everywhere, they're never there.
that was our saying back
Back in the day when they tried to hit us for them tweets, they went out.
We everywhere, they never there.
That was our saying back in the day.
My bad Shannon, I got carried away.
She fired me up a little bit.
I know we got a couple more minutes with you all before we got to get to the break, but I know Shannon had some rapid-firing questions before we let you get back to the campaign trail today.
That's a great question.
on who those people are.
So I say you stump me with that one, Shannon.
I'm going to have to reflect on that.
But I might say they underestimate my power.
My community.
God in my journey.
first in everything that I do.
God, I always anchor myself back to home base.
That's my North Star and my husband.
Well, my husband's not black.
that's what happened
you were making an assumption.
No, no, no.
My husband's not black.
My husband's Palestinian and my life partner, I would say.
close
I would say be empowered to show up to the polls, okay?
This is our voice.
We're at a very pivotal moment in history.
And if you don't like what's been going on, this is an opportunity to make a vote that is going to push us forward and not step backwards into safety.
If you voted one way all the time, look at the values, look at the vision.
and understand how that is going to impact your family.
And what I would say to viewers, listeners alike, to follow me on Facebook, Luanda Chambers, I would say check out my campaign website, chambersforwisconsin.com, that's chambersforwi.com, and email me.
I would love to hear from people.
This campaign for me has been about being connected, understanding what our issues are, and being able to bring all stakeholders to the table.
I encourage my community to participate with me in a deliberate dialogue process so that we can get back connected to community when we're solving our issues.
so that I can truly represent them at the Capitol when I'm making those votes.
And those votes are not coming from my own understanding, but because I spent the time doing the work with you, and we've strategized, we addressed the bottlenecks and the strategies that need to come forth, so we can reimagine the state of Wisconsin together.
No, I just want to say I think it's very important that we pay attention to the other races that is on the ballot.
Like she said, it's a bunch of important things outside of the governor race that we need to focus on and we need to participate on because it does help make the governor's job either easier or more difficult.
So that's what she means by making sure we get this trifecta in.
And I had a whole lot more conversation that I would have loved to get into with United.
I found out your husband's
But maybe that's another topic because I would really love to get into that conversation, but make sure y'all vote for our cousin.
You could go right now.
Early voting is open or you could go vote for our cousin August 11th for 64th with a 61st.
I'm sorry, 61st, Wisconsin State Assembly.
Make sure y'all support LaWanda Chambers August 11th.
Thank you, cuz for popping in and sharing your story with us and hope you get this victory.
I appreciate you.
Thank you.
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We got a few comments on YouTube that we missed.
We did.
Man.
We missed a few guru was was was doing guru things was guruing But we also have both Lwanda chambers.
We got I Will vote for her does she have individuals that she endorsed her endorsement?
She is received in assisting with creating this super trifecta We got glad to see Lwanda on this platform.
My mama Renee Smith is one of her constituents when she would when she wins the race
The last two comes out.
No, you gotta
when finding out who her husband was, or the nationality of her husband, you know?
I feel like I want to be able to have the conversation from a place of being educated, right?
And taking
the emotions out of it because.
That's a it's a very, very, very, very touchy subject when people get into talking about Palestine and Israel.
You know, and we won't we won't make this show about it.
But at some point, I would love.
for us to get into a real educational conversation about what has been taking place.
And I'll save my opinions on that for right now because it could go way longer than I would intend for it to go
Western and other states include Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri and Wyoming.
Those are the states that still allow paddling, meaning human, disciplined, corporal punishment on students.
Now, when I moved to Wisconsin,
On Milwaukee rather, I was relieved to know that teachers weren't beating kids in school.
Cause boy did I, I got beat man in school in the Virgin Islands.
Yes.
And St.
Thomas did a beat us.
Did a beat us.
Look, my accent just came back out talking about the beatings.
But yeah man, Shannon, we
You know so We've uh, they would tape like two of them together
two yardsticks together and Beat you with it cross your your booty in your hand or they'll take like a regular ruler and Tape like three of them together and you'd have to hold your hand out and They would tear that hand up man, and you bet not be the student man.
I'm palm side and they would tear you up you hear me and
You would then go home and get beat again from your parents.
So I'm interested in, you know, where are where are we as a nation, I guess, on I feel like I know where we at.
But is it is a taboo to to beat, Shannon?
And it should be.
And it should stay taboo because you can't keep four inches.
and they will take them out.
They go home, kick they cat, go to school, beat the kids.
It just go too far.
As we see a lot of grownups don't have emotional regulation abilities to where they're only disciplining when necessary.
They disciplining when they having a bad day.
You know what I'm saying?
So I think it should be taboo.
Beating you with a yard stick is wild.
But I will say, in NPS school,
I ain't gonna say no names, but we had a teacher that was snatching kids about their seats in third grade.
Me and my friends would be on the phone like, I'm scared to go to school.
I'm sure that was illegal.
She used to snatch you straight out your seat by the collar.
She had us squatting, holding dictionaries.
I'm like, as an adult, I feel like I should have spoke up.
You know what I mean?
I remember in fifth grade, you know, when you're the goofy kid, you talk a lot, you play a lot, people blame you for stuff that you ain't even do.
You always the one, even when you trying to act right.
Look, I'm trying to get right with the Lord.
And in fifth grade, this kid did something or said something out loud when he was supposed to be having quiet time.
And a male teacher snatched me on my seat.
I told my dad he was up there the next morning.
Yeah, don't put your hands on my daughter.
Because I was like, all right now.
It was cool when our old girl was doing it.
Now we ain't going to do too much.
He was salty.
I wonder where he at.
And then the next day, this is crazy because he called me a title teller.
oh
I don't even think I didn't even really get whoop is drawn up to be honest.
Like that wasn't a thing.
Like, we barely got weapons.
Like, we got punished.
Like, we were on punishment and stuff.
And the only time my mom came out swinging is me and my nephew, which is also my little brother.
We used to fight, like, physically.
We used to be throwing hands.
She like, y'all not gonna hurt me trying to break y'all up there.
She would come in with a 2x4 and just swing.
Like, y'all gonna get off each other.
So,
ain't No,
Don't
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Man, that was a lot on the menu, Shannon.
Jesus!
Look, you got a full plate.
You can ride it by Tony Morrison.
Once again, if you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.
Meaning, I'm going to assume, don't push against things that could propel you forward.
Surrender, give it all up to God and watch how he carries you through this ride.
That's what I take from that.
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Man, Shannon,
A Democratic candidate in the Wisconsin State Assembly District 61 primary.
Eight days, y'all.
We got eight days before this election.
There's a lot of other things on the ballot as well.
She's one of three Democrats seeking a nomination with the winner advancing to face the Republican nominee in November.
Luanda, how are you feeling?
How are you feeling?
Welcome to the True Family.
I'm feeling great.
Thanks for having
Great place to start.
So District 61 includes...
Greenfield, Greendale, Hell's Corner, Parse of Franklin, and Parse of Milwaukee.
Let's breathe into this.
Greendale, Greenfield, Hell's Corner, Parse of Milwaukee, and Parse of Franklin.
It is a small sliver.
Just as it is in Franklin, just an apartment complex.
We are talking about Oklahoma.
We're talking about running to that border over to Howard.
Okay.
So what?
That sounds like a very interesting district that you are running in, right?
What are you hearing on the doors, one, in talking to these folks and then what these voters and what personal experiences would you say have shaped your commitment to public service?
And then Shannon got some questions for you as well.
She gonna get into your campaign and division
as
Okay, so knocking doors, talking with my neighbors.
They're focused on property taxes, healthcare.
They want to know what we're going to do about the education system.
My district is very unique.
We have a great deal of people who are educators and Milwaukee County employees that live in my district.
So a lot of my neighbors love the idea of a fully funded NPS system and a great deal of them.
love the idea of having choice schools.
Being in a purple district, I have a responsibility to make sure that I am hearing what my neighbors are talking about and setting forth solutions that are going to support what we need.
So they're also focused on mental health, which is a thing that we don't hear a lot of politicians talking about.
And I think that puts me in a very unique position seeing that I am a mental health professional who is a homeowner in their district as well as a small business
owner
owner of life wellness and counseling services which is providing mental health outpatient treatment as well as addictions recovery treatment.
So I'm able to have a different conversation with them about how these issues also connect to their mental
We're getting into it, y'all.
We're getting into it.
We have Luanda Chambers, if you're just joining us, running for Wisconsin State Assembly District 61.
So if this is your district, you need to pay attention to the information that's out there and the people that are running for your support.
Shannon, I know you got some questions about campaign and vision.
Let's get into that.
Thank you for asking that question, Shannon.
This is about purpose for me.
I wouldn't have imagined running for a seat.
I've spent a great deal of my time in advocacy work, whether that be mental health, Alzheimer's.
mental health care expansion.
I happen to be one of the only black women that sit on the statewide health care team.
And I'm also the co-chair of the state council on alcohol and other drugs where we are on a committee working in partnership with the board to legislate the substance abuse and mental health policies in the state.
I am not new to this work.
This is just elevating the work that I've already been doing.
and the relationships that I've already created.
I'm no different than any other person.
I'm a caregiver.
I take care of my mother.
I've been able to witness her take care of our family and uphold us.
And I've had to sit there and watch her change and be there to support her in those challenges.
And I think that's something that my
neighbors also can connect to being caregivers and having to step up and support loved ones.
So a lot of my journey has been the community work, but also the personal work of being a daughter, being a sister, being a partner and helping people in my own family to have that support, which I don't think is foreign to my neighbors.
Mental health is something that we typically suffer in silence with and we do not know how to navigate and you're talking to a systems leader who has had the ability to know how to navigate Find the cracks that occur in this system and use those as blueprints to build success for those barriers
the time Honestly because sitting at the table, you know or making a table or bringing your chair to tables that you were not always welcome to sit at
or spaces where people may feel uncomfortable because you're there next to them, has allowed me to have a balcony view as well as a bottom-up view.
Watching our legislators and understanding the civic engagement that has to happen for policy to be forward-thinking and have the support for that caucusing and
Building relationships with other legislators.
I have to be honest I've been to that capital several days so much so that people thought I worked there already and What I was learning was that we had to adopt a new strategy Okay, Democrats have not had power for over 15 years Okay, when you start getting into that history
You begin to recognize when you hear some of your neighbors saying, well, that politician isn't doing anything for us.
Not knowing how hard people are already working on your behalf and the strategy just has not been in our court to play offense.
We've been playing defense for 15 years.
This is the time to play offense.
This is the time to achieve a trifecta.
Understand what that strategy is not only for legislators, but our community to know we have been stagnant.
I've sat there and brought up great legislation irritants like Robin Voss being our house speaker has kept us in this place of stagnancy.
Okay.
And so understanding that as a person who is a great at executing.
That's one of my number one skill sets getting things done.
And a part of that comes with understanding how things work.
And I just learned our policies are not moving forward because we have been playing defense.
Now it's time to play offense and get the right people in office so that we can execute and heal our community.
Okay.
This is about healing the state of Wisconsin.
and understanding the trauma that those 15 years have brought over our state.
For sure.
Because I think it's very important.
You spoke on the lack of power, right?
15 years, I feel like it could feel like more, but.
15 years, right?
And you said, this is a good opportunity for us to complete the trifecta, right?
Could you just tell them more about what?
I feel like I know what you mean by when you say the trifecta, but just for our listeners that may not know what you specifically mean, could you break down the trifecta for?
You know what?
I'm going to put something out there and say a super trifecta.
Okay.
Okay, and I'm gonna say that because we have a very important CD1 race and some CD4 races and our congressional district races are also important.
So I'm gonna make that super when I add the CD races to the conversation.
We have a governor race.
We've had a lot of things going on around our governor race right now.
And I think that is making it a little bit challenging for people to understand that we also need to pay attention to our state races, which are assembly.
in our Senate races.
We need all branches of government to be in cohesion right now.
And when we have a great relationship with our governor, our state, and our Senate, that's how we get the work done.
And I brought up super trifecta because when we have a relationship with our CD folks, we're looking at the cohesion around federal and local government.
being in alignment.
Okay, and I'll just give an example of why that's so important.
Healthcare is a top issue right now.
I don't know anyone that can really say that healthcare is working for them.
I'm a business owner.
I sign the front of checks, and I am paying for healthcare for my team.
And they are making way over minimum wage.
Okay.
And they still cannot afford healthcare.
The deductibles are too high.
The coinsurance is too high.
The specialty copays are too high.
And then the bill that you receive in the mail makes you want to
holler.
Okay.
So that's not working.
Privatization has been an issue.
We're looking at
And then we have to look at the other irritants in that model, such as hospital privatization and accountability acts that have to follow.
And I just use that as an example, because I know we can all, whether we're Democrats, Republicans or independents, can say that health insurance is no longer working for us.
And we are working really hard for it.
And that is taking time away from our workforce, from our families, and from our own mental health as we think about, how are we going to cover the cost of our healthcare while covering the cost of our gas, our groceries, our rent or mortgage, our taxes, and then recreation, because if we have children,
How are we taking them out to have fun events or anything like state fair?
I'm sure numbers are gonna go down Not to mention child care or even thinking okay about owning a home.
I'm the vice president of housing resources Okay, I Help people for the last ten years access down payment assistance It's not about only getting a home
It's about being able to stay in a home and build a legacy.
I bring that up because there are so many things that are pushing and pulling in society right now that are making those things far out of reach.
Now, you may have a home for those who are listening to have homes, but those property taxes are going up.
And we need to think about the future because in the next three to five years, a starter home is going to cost about a million dollars.
See I'm running to make the American dream real because that was the promise But too many families right now are living in American nightmare trying to reach it And that should not be the reality for the folks in the state of Wisconsin We need to think about our future and how do we build legacy and economic development here where we
bit?
Sure, no problem.
All right,
Don't go anywhere.
They hollin' bag this and bag that Tell them get lightning, fuck you mad at it Tell them little boys that don't pass that They stuck in the city, let them have that I just been 20,000 on some cackas But these some chrome hard straight from Maddie What's on your reach, let me see what you're havin'
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Jasmine West, what up, Cous?
Brother Guru, Cousin Guru in the building.
We're not dealing with your mess today, Cous.
So keep it
But, you know, we was talking about the weekend, man.
And we went to the UNFC.
That was a dope experience.
Me and Brother Z went out there, shared with the people at Bronzeville.
We kicked off.
They had the, well, the King David event was the kickoff Saturday.
And then you had Black Arts Fest, MKE.
We did have that.
I didn't make it down to see David Hollister, man.
Dave Hollister.
It would have been like, all right.
Clothes of curtains.
Clothes of curtains on this guy.
But, um, yeah, man, it was dope.
It rained a lot to this weekend, man.
So it was a lot going on.
It was still good to see people still go out and support, uh, the events that was going on.
Yeah.
Um, what you do this weekend,
Man, man, that's what I'm saying.
Like I had actually like the weekend off.
Like this was the first weekend.
I truly did have like.
no work to be done.
So that was like, I was gonna go out Sunday, but yesterday I was feeling a little like, listen, I need to sit down, right?
Because Saturday and, yeah, Saturday and Sunday, I spent the whole day like just deep cleaning the house, washing and just getting things in order the way I want it to be in order.
And it was just like, I needed that.
You know what I'm saying?
Deep cluttering and doing all the things, deep cleaning brushes and just doing random stuff that, you know, like you, you go throughout the house.
Like, man, I need to do that.
That'll take five minutes, but you never get to it.
All the things you just want to get to, I was feeling real grown up.
Like, man, all the things got done, swept, mopped, all type.
Look, you look at the windex and wipe down the mirrors and stuff.
Like just the stupid stuff you don't pay attention to or just don't get to.
I did all the things.
I was going to go out yesterday and I was like, you know what?
I'm wiped.
I'm going to stay in the house.
And it was also wiped.
Who is that?
Dad.
Y'all never heard I'm wiped.
I'm wiped out.
No.
Man, anyways, I was tired.
What the hell slang is that?
I feel like that's the same.
Anyways, I was going to go out, but it's also hot as 18 double hockey sticks here.
We need some rain.
It is currently, it's like, what is it?
Here it's nine in the morning, it's 111 degrees.
It's been hot all weekend.
Just being like operating in that is too much.
So I think that partially was my reasoning for being wiped.
I gotta Google that, because I feel like people say that somewhere.
You know, like y'all ain't never heard that term.
Not even Gen Z.
man,
It was too high for that.
And I knew it would be when I made the appointment, I said, I ain't going to wrestle with this dog.
When I'm getting hurt somewhere, it's literally to the daycare, which is not far for a haircut.
Y'all just come here.
I paid a little extra pull up.
Then we had our Bailey's boot camp this weekend.
So I was like, you know what?
I need to be in one spot.
So my wife, I don't start messing up.
Y'all know how to connect.
If you ain't got a hot spot, but anyhoo.
nose.
will get
Thank you, Guru.
He didn't even
I don't want to hear that.
toes
as
You know what I'm saying?
That's a punishment.
Then there was on a more serious note, there was a shooting at In-N-Out.
And we just want to get into like, what do we know about it?
What was the motives and so forth.
Then we want to talk about an ex-NFL player O's comments resurfaced.
Obviously, I feel like we can know what that is dealing with.
And then...
Slim Thug made recent viral news because of his position or not giving money to homeless people.
So we want to get into that discussion.
And then we might not do that.
We might leave segment six off right now, Shannon.
See how far we got.
See how far we get, right?
But then we do want to talk about
adult reading levels in the black community.
I know we speak a lot about the children.
Reading levels, but we haven't really talked about, you know, the adult reading levels in our community and how important it is for us to, you know, it's one of our favorite hotkeys.
So.
But yeah, Shannon.
And then anything you want to chime in on or add on before you take us to break.
So when we come back, we're going to be getting into a lot of these topics, and especially the one about the 400 pound teacher standing on students backs.
because I would like to compare disciplines in culture because in the Virgin Islands, you know, teachers was able to beat us.
So yeah.
And that was all the way
up to a night.
back.
Big back, big back.
Yeah, my back is loaded up with snacks and different foods.
Squeezing to this tiny shirt, my big back has no room.
Big back, big back.
Big back, big back.
Big back, big back.
Hey.
Big back,
Damn.
you mean by that?
Oh, man.
Oh, my God.
like some
Exactly.
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Man, brother Z threw me off with the song, man.
I was like, all right, where we going with this?
For a second, I was like, okay, going into school, but then I felt attacked as I listened
to.
on Tondra,
launcher, lunch break
Because we want to highlight it, but I don't want us to... Because not a lot of information is out, and then we'll get into the 400-pound teacher who stood on the student's back, right?
So, for context listeners, if you just joining us, we're talking about the In-N-Out shooting and was trying to figure out, excuse me, what the motive was.
So, a gunman opened fire at a newly opened In-N-Out burger in Twin Falls, Idaho on Saturday, August 1st, around 2.30 p.m.
So, broad daylight once again, obviously we have probably already noticed a race that...
carried out this crazy crime.
Should we do a Guess That Race show?
We could do a game show called Guess That Race.
But killing three people and wounding seven others before turning the gun on himself.
Obviously, that is typically Shannon, the end result, right?
These cowards go and create these crimes.
And you know what they usually do, Shannon, in the end?
Help
I'd be like just do it do it to yourself Don't bring nobody else in it.
Don't be one of them people that jump in front of a truck like Why is you going into public torturing everybody else doing stuff that's gonna traumatize people around them and then you plan on leaving anyway?
Just take yourself out the game if you that miserable straight up gotta include nobody else Make it a one-man sound listen.
it for.
rare.
See what you all thought in the chat.
The race was of this heinous crime.
So 24 year old Chad Williams as of Sunday at the Sunday press conference the police chief Matthew Hicks said Investigators are confident that he acted alone But no motive have been established and his moments before the shooting are still being traced So they still working through like where was he before what was going on and seeing if it was any
I think it was ironic that Friday, our show, we were talking about the parents of young people who should they
And obviously, even when they in their early 20s, I bet I can bet money that there was there was.
Clues before he did this probably in his teenage years that he was oh He was a troubled youth and he was he was fascinated with school shootings and well, blah It was all these warning signs that y'all should have boarded him did a late abortion right then and there That's another story like and then he finally turned 18 and they just put him out in the world for everybody else to deal with Because that's that's literally what happened even with the um
I don't even remember these people name.
The guy that, that dismembered the young lady in Milwaukee.
Exactly and wait for things to go left when there's nothing but signs leading up to it Just because it happens or they break as a daughter or whatever it doesn't mean that this stuff hadn't been going on Since the teenage years and a lot of times that's exactly what it is.
They'll come out appears to be we knew he was a troubled soul Yeah, y'all should have been calling the police on that.
You know what I mean?
100% 100%.
So as of an off duty state trooper and an armed civilian bystander reported by the Idaho statesman as a 35 year old Jordan Jordan Salinas returned fire at the gunman, which police credit with driving him away from the crowded scene.
and preventing further casualties.
So it's the people that was busing back.
Some bicep.
100% 100% so The restaurant It had only been open about a week Located near busy shopping area described as having potentially hundreds of people nearby at the time One with witness described a wounded taxi driver shot in the neck and that taxi driver is still hospitalized so
Imagine if those civilians wasn't there with their firearms.
And I'm going to assume that this probably is either a concealed carry or potentially an open carry state.
I haven't looked into the laws
good.
Um, I just want to give, I just want to give a couple more like thoughts about the shooting that ended out.
Yep.
Go ahead, please, please share your thoughts.
So I'm saying, so I'm saying this as I'm saying this as a victim and a survivor of a school shooting.
People don't.
People, I think these people who do these things, like, like, like, like maybe said, like maybe said, if it's like maybe said, it's just.
Maybe this is the parents fault, but if the parents, but if he's been showing signs that he's been, that they've been like having problems, you're right.
They don't need to be on this.
They don't, you need to either call the police or like get them like help.
You shouldn't just like let them keep going.
I agree a hundred percent, Micah agree a hundred percent and.
We definitely pray for you and we're sorry that you had to go through that terrible situation.
We definitely will keep you in our thoughts and prayers and thank you for having the courage to call in and share your story with us and our truth family.
I think we, you know, and that caller just made me put something into perspective, right?
Because we
never know
We
saying
or
Let the community have to deal with it until it's too late.
And it's just not fair.
That's the part that upsets me the most because a lot of times, most times when this stuff happens, so many people knew.
So many people was like, well, this was a red flag.
And then they just like...
Stop at that and like just well, I don't got to deal with it.
That's not that's not okay And that's like every time I hear stuff like that and that's always the situation It just pisses me off because it's like y'all could have did something y'all should have put them on somebody watch list y'all should have fought for him to be looked somebody needs to look at this person but
What up y'all welcome back welcome back welcome back This is the lunch break with Ray nitty and maybe Shannon on the award-winning one-on-one seven the truth It's the lunch break crew DJ brother Z holding us down with the production and sound man Feel so good to be on lunch man.
What y'all eat?
Drop a sandwich in the chat or something.
Let us know what y'all eating on today, man.
I'm starving actually right now
Speaking of starving.
The 400 pound teacher, Shannon, who stood on the students back.
Let's let's get into
Oh, before I just quick reminder, too, before we play this video for you all, coming up at one o'clock, we have an interview.
We do have an interview coming up at one o'clock with Luanda Chambers.
All right.
who's going to be running for District 61 if I'm not mistaken.
And we will be talking to her at one o'clock about her race and, you know, some other things as well.
So make sure y'all stick with us for that in a few in our one o'clock hour with the lunch break crew.
But DJ Brother Z, let's get into that big back video.
Underwood Minnesota teacher is facing charges after deputies were called to an area hospital for a report of an assault.
Jason Rogers is charged with one count of malicious punishment of a child and is on administrative leave from the school district.
Deputies were called to Lake Region Hospital
for a
reported assault at Underwood school.
A sixth grader says that he was laying on his stomach during a lockdown drill when Rogers stepped on his back with both feet.
Court records indicate that Rogers
Roger's weighs more than 350 pounds and Roger's admitted to stepping on three students who weren't cooperating during the drill.
He is scheduled to be in court on April
My thing is sometimes I do feel like these people be thinking underserved communities.
They can do stuff like that because they know if all the parents were lawyers and doctors and all of this type of stuff, they wouldn't.
They would have been in jail right away.
They said this happened to three students, bro.
You probably just thought they parents ain't going to find out.
They ain't going to care.
Adjudication, my bad.
You need to read the state of adjudication, meaning if he completes probation, surrendering his teaching license, 90 hours community service, anger management, apology letters, the convictions will be dismissed entirely.
I don't know if that's
Notably, Minnesota is one of 27 states.
that expressly prohibits corporal punishment in schools.
This happened by that ban, which is part of why it became a criminal case rather than a personal matter.
So we want to get into discipline, school discipline, right?
And we might not get through everything on this break.
And then I know we have Luanda coming up at one o'clock, but we'll get into what we can for right now.
Right, Shannon?
Yeah.
So nationally, 17 states still legally allow teachers to paddle.
or spank paddle is crazy.
To paddle or spank students, and more than 100,000 students are physically paddled in US schools every year.
That's interesting.
I knew it!
At least one states.
We'll start with the states, right?
But physically paddling.
My bad, federal civil rights data shows black students made up 37.3% of all students physically struck by school staff nationally, despite being only 15% of public school enrollment, meaning black kids are disciplined physically at more than double their share of students of the student population.
So even in paddling, we getting beat twice as more.
We got one minute.
I'm gonna speed through this real quick on the parent's side roughly 50% of mothers and 40% of fathers spanked their three year olds and About one in six caregivers nationally reported spanking their child within just the past week in a 2024 peer reviewed study the American Academy of Pediatrics has taken a hard official stance against corporal punishment citing links to
increased aggression, worse long term behavior and negative cognitive slash emotional outcomes.
Only six percent of surveyed US pediatricians hold positive attitudes towards banking.
So when we come back, we'll get into this corporal punishment and paddling that still is allowed in.
What they say 27 states prohibited.
So just some just about under half of the country still got it.
So take us to break,
Man, make sure you guys give us a call at 833-212-1017.
You are listening to the award winning 1017.
The truth when we get back, we're going to have an interview.
Then we're going to get back into our conversation about corporal punishment.
Don't go anywhere.
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A Democratic candidate in the Wisconsin State Assembly District 61 primary.
Eight days, y'all.
We got eight days before this election.
There's a lot of other things on the ballot as well.
She's one of three Democrats seeking a nomination with the winner advancing to face the Republican nominee in November.
Luanda, how you feeling?
How you feeling?
Welcome to the True Family.
I'm feeling great.
Thanks for having me.
Great place to start.
So District 61 includes Greenfield, Greendale, Hells Corner, Parse of Franklin, and Parse of Milwaukee.
Let's breathe into this.
Greendale, Greenfield, Hells Corner, Parse of Milwaukee, and
Franklin.
It is a small sliver, just as it is in Franklin, just an apartment complex.
We are talking about Oklahoma.
We're talking about running to that border over to Howard.
So.
What?
That sounds like a very interesting district that you are running in, right?
What are you hearing on the doors?
One in talking to these folks and then.
what these voters and what personal experiences would you say have shaped your commitment to public service?
And then Shannon got some questions for you as well.
She gonna get into your campaign and division as well.
Okay, so knocking doors, talking with my neighbors, they're focused on property taxes, healthcare.
They wanna know what we're gonna do about the education system.
My district is very unique.
We have a great deal of
people who are educators and Milwaukee County employees that live in my district.
So a lot of my neighbors love the idea of a fully funded NPS system and a great deal of them.
Love the idea of having choice schools.
Being in a purple district, I have a responsibility to make sure that I am hearing what my neighbors are talking about.
and setting forth solutions that are going to support what we need.
So they're also focused on mental health, which is a thing that we don't hear a lot of politicians talking about.
And I think that puts me in a very unique position seeing that I am a mental health professional who is a homeowner in their district as well as a small business owner.
owner of life wellness and counseling services, which is providing mental health, outpatient treatment, as well as addictions recovery treatment.
So I'm able to have a different conversation with them about how these issues also connect to their mental
Okay.
We getting into it, y'all.
We getting into it.
We have Luanda Chambers, if you're just joining us.
running for Wisconsin State Assembly District 61.
So if this is your district, you need to pay attention to the information that's out there and the people that are running for your support.
Shannon, I know you got some questions about campaign and vision.
Let's get into that.
Thank you for asking that question, Shannon.
This is about purpose for me.
I wouldn't have imagined running for a seat.
I've spent a great deal of my time in advocacy work, whether that be mental health, Alzheimer's, health care expansion, mental health care expansion.
I happen to be one of the only black women that sit on the statewide health care team.
And I'm also the co-chair of the state council on alcohol and other drugs where we are on a committee working in partnership with the board to legislate the substance abuse and mental health policies in the state.
I am not new to this work.
This is just elevating the work that I've already been doing and the relationships that I've already created.
I'm no different than any other person.
I'm a caregiver.
I take care of my mother.
I've been able to witness her take care of our family and uphold us.
And I've had to sit there and watch her change and be there to support her in those challenges.
And I think that's something that my neighbors also can connect to being caregivers and having to step up and support loved ones.
So a lot of my journey has been
the community work, but also the personal work of being a daughter, being a sister, being a partner, and helping people in my own family to have that support, which I don't think is foreign to my neighbors.
Mental health is something that we typically suffer in silence with, and we do not know how to navigate.
And you're talking to a systems leader who has had the ability to know how to navigate, find the cracks that occur in this system, and use those as blueprints to build success for those barriers.
Honestly, because sitting at the table or making a table or bringing your chair to tables that you were not always welcome to sit at or spaces where people may feel uncomfortable because you're there next to them has allowed me to have a balcony view.
as well as a bottom-up view.
Watching our legislators and understanding the civic engagement that has to happen for policy to be forward-thinking and have the support for that caucusing and building relationships with other legislators.
I have to be honest, I've been to that Capitol several days, so much so that people thought I worked there already.
And what I was learning was that we had to adopt a new strategy.
Okay.
Democrats have not had power for over 15 years.
Okay.
When you start getting into that history, you begin to recognize when you hear some of your neighbors saying, well, that politician isn't doing anything for us.
Not knowing how hard.
People are already working on your behalf and the strategy just has not been in our court to play offense.
We've been playing defense for 15 years.
This is the time to play offense.
This is the time to achieve a trifecta, understand what that strategy is, not only for legislators, but our community to know we have been stagnant.
I've sat there and brought up great legislation irritants like Robin Voss being our house speaker has kept us in this place of stagnancy.
Okay.
And so understanding that as a person who is a great at executing, that's one of my number one skill sets, getting things done.
And a part of that comes with understanding how things work.
And I just learned.
Our policies are not moving forward because we have been playing defense.
Now it's time to play offense and get the right people in office so that we can execute and heal our community, okay?
This is about healing the state of Wisconsin and understanding the trauma that those 15 years have brought over our state.
sure.
I know you got another one in this segment, but she brought up something I want to just see if she could go a little deeper in, right?
Because I think it's very important.
You spoke on the lack of power, right?
15 years, I feel like it could have, it feel like more, but 15 years, right?
And you said this is a good opportunity for us to complete the trifecta.
Could you just tell them more about what I feel like I know what you mean by when you say the trifecta, but just for our listeners that may not know what you specifically mean, could you break down the trifecta for?
You know what?
I'm gonna put something out there and say a super trifecta.
Okay.
Okay.
it.
And I'm gonna say that because we have a very important CD1 race and some CD4 races and our congressional district races are also important.
So I'm gonna make that super when I add the CDs.
races to the conversation.
We have a governor race.
We've had a lot of things going on around our governor race right now.
And I think that is making it a little bit challenging for people to understand that we also need to pay attention to our state races, which are assembly and our Senate races.
We need all branches of government to be in cohesion right now.
And when we have a great relationship with our governor, our state,
in our Senate, that's how we get the work done.
And I brought up super trifecta because when we have a relationship with our CD folks, we're looking at the cohesion around federal and local government being in alignment.
Okay, and I'll just give an example of why that's so important.
Healthcare is a top issue right now.
I don't know.
Anyone can that can really say the health care is working for them I'm a business owner I sign the front of checks and I am paying for health care for my team and They are making way over minimum wage Okay, and they still cannot afford health care the deductibles are too high the coinsurance is too high
The specialty co-pays are too high.
And then the bill that you receive in the mail makes you wanna holler.
Okay, so that's not working.
Privatization has been an issue.
We're looking at insurance and then we have to look at the other irritants in that model, such as hospital privatization and accountability acts that have to follow.
And I just use that as an example, because I know we can all, whether we're Democrats, Republicans, or independents, can say that health insurance is no longer working for us.
And we are working really hard for it.
And that is taking time away from our workforce, from our families, and from our own mental health as we think about, how are we going to cover the cost of our health care?
while covering the cost of our gas, our groceries, our rent or mortgage, our taxes, and then recreation.
Because if we have children, how are we taking them out to have fun events or anything like state fair?
I'm sure numbers are going to go down.
Not to mention childcare or even thinking.
Okay, about owning a home.
I'm the vice president of housing resources.
Okay.
I help people for the last 10 years access down payment assistance.
It's not about only getting a home.
It's about being able to stay in a home and build a legacy.
I bring that up because there are so many things that are pushing and pulling in society right now that are making those things far out of reach.
Now you may have a home for those who are listening to have homes, but those property taxes are going up.
And we need to think about the future because in the next three to five years to start a home is going to cost about a million dollars.
See, I'm running to make the American dream real because that was the promise.
But too many families right now are living in American nightmare trying to reach it.
And that should not be the reality for the folks in the state of Wisconsin.
We need to think about our future and how do we build legacy and economic development here where we live.
bit?
Sure, no
Don't go in the back.
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Jasmine West, what up, Cuzz?
Brother Guru, Cuzz and Guru in the building.
We're not dealing with your mess today, Cuzz.
So keep it cute.
Kicking up the dirt.
In the sandbox, you're just throwing sand in there, everybody.
Man.
But yeah, Shannon, we was talking about the weekend.
I know you was on busy letting our cousin in, came to pick up some Kool-Aid or some sugar earlier.
But, you know, we was talking about the weekend, man.
And we went to the UNFC.
That was a dope experience.
Me and Brother Z went out there, shared with the people at Bronzeville.
We kicked off.
They had the, well, the King David event was the kickoff Saturday.
And then you had Black Arts Fest, MKE.
We did have that.
I didn't make it down to see David Hollister, man.
Dave Hollister.
I was a little salty.
I was salty at that.
Man, I know, right?
I missed it, Shannon.
It would have been like, all right.
Clothes of curtains.
Clothes of curtains on this guy.
But, um, yeah, man, it was dope.
It rained a lot to this weekend, man.
So it was a lot going on.
It was still good to see people still go out and support the events that was going on.
Yeah.
Um, what you do this weekend, Shannon?
Man, that's what I'm saying.
Like I had actually like the weekend off.
Like this was the first weekend.
I truly did have like.
No work to be done.
So that was like, I was gonna go out Sunday, but yesterday I was feeling a little like, listen, I need to sit down, right?
Because Saturday and Saturday and Sunday, I spent the whole day like just deep cleaning the house, washing and just getting things in order the way I want it to be in order.
And it was just like.
I needed that.
You know what I'm saying?
Deep cluttering and doing all the things, deep cleaning brushes and just doing random stuff that, you know, like you, you go throughout the house.
Like, man, I need to do that.
That'll take five minutes, but you never get to it.
All the things you just want to get to, I was feeling real grown up.
Like, man, all the things got done, swept, mopped, all type.
Look, you look at the windex and wipe down the mirrors and stuff.
Like just the stupid stuff you don't pay attention to or just don't get to.
I did all the things.
I was gonna go out yesterday and I was like, you know what?
I'm wiped.
I'm just staying in the house.
And it was so white.
I'm tired.
Y'all never heard.
I'm wiped.
I'm wiped out.
No, man.
Anyways, I was tired.
What the hell slang is that?
I feel like that's the same.
Anyways, I was going to go out, but it's also hot as double hockey sticks here.
We need some rain.
It is currently, it's like, what is it?
Here it's nine in the morning, it's 111 degrees.
It's been hot all weekend.
Just being like operating in that is too much.
So I think that partially was my reasoning for being wiped.
I got a Google ad, cause I feel like people say that somewhere.
I'm
Ma'am I'll come to you it was too hot for that and I knew it would be when I made the appointment I said I ain't finna wrestle with this dog when I'm Getting hurt somewhere.
It's literally to the daycare, which is not far
For a haircut, y'all could just come here.
I paid a little extra pull-up.
Then we had our Baileys boot camp this weekend.
So I was like, you know what?
I need to be in one spot.
So my wife, I don't start messing up.
Y'all know how to connection me out here in the streets if you ain't got a hot spot.
But anywho.
You know what I'm saying?
That's a punishment.
Then there was on a more serious note, there was a shooting at In-N-Out.
And we just want to get into like, what do we know about it?
What was the motives and so forth.
Then we want to talk about an ex-NFL player O's comments resurfaced.
Obviously, I feel like we can know what that is dealing with.
And then
Slim Thug made recent viral news because of his position on not giving money to homeless people.
So we want to get into that discussion.
And then, we might not do that.
We might leave segment six off right now, Shannon, see how far we got.
See how far we get, right?
But then we do want to talk about
adult reading levels in the black community.
I know we speak a lot about the children.
Reading levels, but we haven't really talked about, you know, the adult reading levels in our community and how important it is for us to, you know, it's one of our favorite hotkeys.
So.
But yeah, Shannon.
And then anything you want to chime in on or add on before you take us to break.
So when we come back, we're going to be getting into a lot of these topics, and especially the one about the 400-pound teacher standing on students' backs.
because I would like to compare disciplines in culture because in the Virgin Islands, you know, teachers was able to beat us.
So yeah.
And that was all the way up to a
back.
Big back, big back.
Yeah, my back is loaded up with snacks and different foods.
Squeezing to this tiny shirt, my big back has no room.
Big back, big back.
Big back, big back.
Big back, big back.
Big back,
Hey.
Damn.
do you mean by
that?
Oh, man.
Oh, my God.
I am not, but I am jealous of everybody who is, you know, experiencing good eats right now on this amazing lunch break.
Sounds like some Big Back activity.
Exactly.
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Man, brother Z threw me off with the song, man.
I was like, all right, what are we going with this?
For a second, I was like, okay, going into school, but then I felt attacked as I listened
Both
Tondra.
Because we want to highlight it, but I don't want us to... Because not a lot of information is out, and then we'll get into the 400-pound teacher who stood on the student's back, right?
So, for context listeners, if you just joining us, we're talking about the In-N-Out shooting and was trying to figure out, excuse me, what the motive was.
So, a gunman opened fire at a newly opened In-N-Out burger in Twin Falls, Idaho on Saturday, August 1st, around 2.30 p.m.
So, broad daylight once again, obviously we probably already know the race that...
carried out this crazy crime.
Should we do a Guess That Race show?
We could do a game show called Guess That Race.
But killing three people and wounding seven others before turning the gun on himself.
Obviously, that is typically Shannon, the end result, right?
These cowards go and create these crimes.
And you know what they usually do, Shannon, in the end?
Help us out right
why when people get the fucking that mess like I'm sorry I'd be like just do it do it to yourself Don't bring nobody else in it.
Don't be one of them people that jump in front of a truck like Why is you going into public torturing everybody else doing stuff that's gonna traumatize people around them and then you plan on leaving anyway?
Just take yourself out the game if you that miserable
That's my point exactly, right?
It's like, stand on it.
Stick around and stand on what you did and what you did it for.
Which is like, I feel like people don't stand on what they so-called believe in.
It's like, you that convicted that you will, and once again, we don't have any motives on this shooting.
And, you know, they very, very rarely stick around to say this is why.
Very rare.
Very rare.
They stick around to say this is why.
So Shannon police is they have identified the shooter as 24 year old Chad Williams.
Let's get that race.
If you had to guess, Shannon Chad Williams,
See what you all thought in the chat.
The race was of this heinous crime.
So 24 year old Chad Williams as of Sunday at the Sunday press conference the police chief Matthew Hicks said Investigators are confident that he acted alone But no motive have been established and his moments before the shooting are still being traced So they still working through like where was he before what was going on and seeing if it was any
I think it was ironic that Friday, our show, we were talking about the parents of young people who should they be held responsible for carrying out things like this.
And obviously, even when they in their early 20s, I bet I can bet money that there was there was.
Clues before he did this probably in his teenage years that he was oh, he was a troubled youth and he was he was fascinated with school shootings and well, blah It was all these warning signs that y'all should have boarded him did a late abortion right then and there But that's another story like and then he finally turned 18 and they just put him out in the world for everybody else to deal with Because that's that's literally what happened even with the um
I don't even remember these people name.
The guy that, that dismembered the young lady in Milwaukee.
Exactly and wait for things to go left when there's nothing but signs leading up to it just because it happens or they break as a daughter or whatever It doesn't mean that this stuff hadn't been going on since the teenage years and a lot of times That's exactly what it is.
They'll come out appearance.
We we knew he was a troubled soul Yeah, y'all should have been calling the police on that.
You know what I mean?
lovely person 100% 100% so as of an off-duty state trooper and an armed civilian bystander reported by the Idaho statesman as a 35 year old Jordan Jordan Salinas returned fire at the gunman which police credit with driving him away from the crowded scene
and preventing further casualties.
So it's the people that was busing back.
Some bystanders.
100% 100% so The restaurant It had only been open about a week Located near busy shopping area described as having potentially hundreds of people nearby at the time One with witness described a wounded taxi driver shot in the neck and that taxi driver is still hospitalized so
Imagine if those civilians wasn't there with their firearms.
And I'm going to assume that this probably is either a concealed carry or potentially an open carry state.
I haven't looked into the laws
But obviously a state that has some potentially gun friendly laws, which allow these citizens to, you know, draw their arms and fight back.
And it sounds like they prevented what could have been a.
or help deter at least what could have been a way worse situation.
Because dude, what I did see is dog had like a rifle or something.
good.
Um, I just want to get, I just want to give a couple more like thoughts about the shooting that in and out.
Yep.
Go ahead, please, please
your thoughts.
So I'm saying, so I'm saying this as I'm saying this as a victim and a survivor of a school shooting.
People don't.
People, I feel like these people who do these things, like, like, like, like maybe said, like maybe said, if it's like maybe said, it's just.
Maybe this is the parents fault, but if the parents, but if he's been showing signs that he's been, that they've been like having problems, you're right.
They don't need to be on this.
They don't, you need to either call the police or like get them like help.
You shouldn't just like, let them keep going.
I agree a hundred percent, Micah agree a hundred percent and.
We definitely pray for you and we're sorry that you had to go through that terrible situation.
We definitely will keep you in our thoughts and prayers and thank you for having the courage to call in and share your story with us and our truth family.
I think we, you know, and that caller just made me put something into perspective, right?
Because we never know who's listening to some of these topics, you know?
but you know, Micah we commend you for calling in and sharing your thoughts and he said he From what I gathered Shannon correct me if I'm wrong it sounds like
He's saying he agrees with you that, hey, if you do see these signs, we have to start getting people help right away and not letting it, you know, it's like, as if when people turn 18, we see these signs in people when they're 16, 17, or even younger.
But now they're 18, they just kind of get.
left off into the world because they're adults now.
But they're adults with these same problems, these same red flags that weren't ignored.
And it's just not fair.
That's the part that upsets me the most because a lot of times, most times when this stuff happens, so many people knew.
So many people was like, well, this was a red flag.
And then they just like,
Stop at that and like just well, I don't got to deal with it.
That's not that's not okay And that's like every time I hear stuff like that and that's always the situation It just pisses me off because it's like y'all could have did something y'all should have put them on somebody watch list y'all should have fought for him to be looked somebody needs to look at this person but Yeah, so when we come back on break from break we gonna follow up on our next topic
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This is the lunch break with Ray Nitty and maybe Shannon on the award-winning one-on-one seven the truth It's the lunch break crew DJ brother Z holding us down with the production and sound man Feel so good to be on lunch man.
What y'all eating?
Drop a sandwich in the chat or something.
Let us know what y'all eating on today man.
I'm starving actually right now Speaking of starving
The 400 pound teacher Shannon who stood on the students back.
Let's Let's get into it right.
Oh before I just quick reminder too before we play this video for you all Coming up at one o'clock We have an interview We do have an interview coming up at one o'clock with Luwanda chambers.
All right
Who's going to be running for District 61 if I'm not mistaken?
And we will be talking to her at one o'clock about her race and, you know, some other things as well.
So make sure y'all stick with us for that in a few in our one o'clock hour with the lunch break crew.
But DJ Brother Z, let's get into that big back video.
Underwood Minnesota teacher is facing charges after deputies were called to an area hospital for a report of an assault.
Jason Rogers is charged with one count of malicious punishment of a child and is on administrative leave from the school district.
Deputies were called to Lake Region Hospital
for a
reported assault at Underwood school.
A sixth grader says that he was laying on his stomach during a lockdown drill when Rogers stepped on his back with both feet.
Court records indicate that Rod...
Roger's weighs more than 350 pounds and Roger's admitted to stepping on three students who weren't cooperating during the drill.
He is scheduled to be in court on April
They can do stuff like that because they know if all the parents were lawyers and doctors and all of this type of stuff, they wouldn't.
They would have been in jail right away.
They said this happened to three students, bro.
You probably just thought they parents ain't going to find out.
They ain't going to care.
did.
Rogers pleaded guilty to three Mr. Mina assault charges, but received a stay on education.
Adjudication, my bad.
You need to read the state of adjudication, meaning if he completes probation, surrendering his teaching license, 90 hours community service, anger management, apology letters, the convictions will be dismissed entirely.
I don't know if that's
Notably, Minnesota is one of 27 states.
that expressly prohibits corporal punishment in schools.
This happened by that ban, which is part of why it became a criminal case rather than a personal matter.
So we want to get into discipline, school discipline, right?
And we might not get through everything on this break.
And then I know we have Luanda coming up at one o'clock, but we'll get into what we can for right now.
Right, Shannon?
Yeah.
So nationally, 17 states still legally allow teachers to paddle.
or spank paddle is crazy.
To paddle or spank students, and more than 100,000 students are physically paddled in US schools every year.
That's interesting.
Interesting.
Interesting stats here.
Ah, I knew it!
At least, at least with states.
We'll start with the states, right?
But physically paddling... Hold on.
My bad, federal civil rights data shows black students made up 37.3% of all students physically struck by school staff nationally, despite being only 15% of public school enrollment, meaning black kids are disciplined physically at more than double their share of students of the student population.
So even in paddling, we getting beat twice as more.
We got one minute.
I'm a speed through this real quick on the parent's side roughly 50% of mothers and 40% of fathers spanked their three year olds and About one in six caregivers nationally reported spanking their child within just the past week in a 2024 peer reviewed study the American Academy of Pediatrics has taken a hard official stance against corporal punishment citing links to
increased aggression, worse long term behavior and negative cognitive slash emotional outcomes.
Only six percent of surveyed US pediatricians hold positive attitudes towards banking.
So when we come back, we'll get into this corporal punishment and paddling that still is allowed in.
What they say 27 states prohibited.
So just some just about under half of the country still got it.
So take us to break, Shannon.
Man, make sure you guys give us a call at 833-212-1017.
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Then we're going to get back into our conversation about corporal punishment.
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