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I don't care if you nine or 99, it's still your decision about the situations that you get involved yourself in.
Look into their taxes.
Look into this.
We talking about elected officials doing backdoor deals and somehow she still wanna blame immigrants.
That's what we talking about right now.
We following the money and you still wanna blame black people and immigrants and welfare and all of these things for policies and backdoor deals that put poor people in worse position.
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We had an event for weekend.
It's a lot to unpack about the weekend, but we gonna get into that a little later, okay?
And let me thank y'all in advance for hanging out with me, okay?
We are on the lunch break from 12 to 2 today, so make sure you guys lock in, all right?
This is my first show by my lonesome.
So we got a lot on my plate today.
So listen, I'm gonna give y'all a little rundown.
We gonna start with my weekend recap, okay?
And you know we had True Family Fest this weekend as well, right?
I also stopped by the Asian Street Food Night Market at Veterans Park.
I did.
It was a good time.
It sounds like I missed some other things, but we gonna get into that.
We gonna talk about a good time, okay?
Yeah, and we don't talk about some other adventures I had this weekend, but we don't get into that later like I said I've got a nice appetizer for y'all as well Right we gonna talk about what the internet is buzzing about we gonna talk about spider-man Spider-man put hands and feet on a Nazi this weekend.
I know y'all seen the video if not we gonna talk about I'm gonna give y'all a good description of it All right, and I also want to get your thoughts listen one of our legendary rappers basically
He did an interview, right?
And it sounds to a lot of people like he told us to stop dwelling on our history.
He was supposed to be talking about success and how black people can build success.
And I think he was basically hinting at the way you build success is forget your history.
That's what it felt.
We don't play the clip and I want to hear from you guys.
I want y'all to tell me what y'all think about that.
All right?
Man, we got a lot on our plate.
This is going to be a nice little show here, y'all.
Nice.
Ain't no broaches in here or nothing.
I ain't never been in a driver's seat.
Bruh.
Getting real comfortable up here.
I'm gonna kick my feet up.
It's like, where the water?
I got you.
Hold on.
yeah.
You thought you brought the bad weather.
I was super nervous.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I was like, it's going to rain us out of true family.
I thought for sure there was no way like the way it was coming down.
I was like, yeah, it's gonna rain all weekend.
It's over.
But.
True family fest was beautiful.
Y'all, we got to see so many people live and in color.
Our cousins from the YouTube chat that hold us down every single day.
They showed up.
We got a chance to meet some people that make this whole thing possible.
It was genuinely a good experience.
Brother Z missed it.
He was he was here though.
He was he was very busy in the studio holding it down on production and sound just so we can broadcast live.
All right.
And that's what we did.
It was actually really, really good.
Like everybody got a chance to talk and like interact with the audience.
And that was really dope.
I do know you guys got to hear some familiar voices I know some voices that y'all miss hearing Kyle being and more jumped on the mic We love to see it.
You know what I'm saying?
That was a good time And I also met an amazing woman y'all.
Let me let me tell y'all, okay?
Look, I talked about this last time, but listen I talked about it at True Family Fest when they put me on the mic, okay?
I met this woman and she was talking about she's come to True Family Fest every single year and she was like
What show do you work on?
And I was like, I'm on, I'm on, you know, the lunch break, 12 to two.
She was like, oh, you that wise young woman.
And she told me that I could be the bridge, you know what I'm saying?
That reaches our youth if they're willing to listen.
You know what?
I felt like Dr. King loved it.
I was like, you know what?
She had me gasped up.
That's where I'm mentioning it again.
That's the only reason.
So I was like, you know what?
I believe the children are our future.
That's what I felt like.
You know, I had to give y'all that.
But that's how I felt.
She really gassed me up.
And it was good to see people that are listening, that know what we're doing and that respect what we're doing.
And like I said, she was an older woman.
So it's easy for the older people to write us off.
And I really want to hear what we want to say sometimes.
It's easy to feel that way, right?
And to hear that, that's not what she was doing.
That was awesome.
Man.
So.
Special thank you, though.
I want to shout out some of our sponsors.
It was cool to see them there.
We had Educators Credit Union.
We had American Family Insurance, Milwaukee Public Schools, artists working in education.
Where that board at, Zach?
Do you know?
The board that we was signed in, remember?
The artist- Viko has
Viko got it.
I won it.
I signed it.
No, I'm just kidding.
We got all types of stuff.
City of Milwaukee was there.
AB Corcor was there.
Ascension, Tapping, MKE.
Shout out to our vendors.
And like those artists really showed up and showed out.
I'm not lying.
Like it was so dope to see some of these Milwaukee artists in person and hear them like just raw talent.
Like it's really cool to see that out in the wild.
Like you see them on Instagram, you see them on Facebook, but to see them in person perform, like it was amazing.
I met James.
It's cold, ain't it?
I met James is cold.
Like every single artist that we had, like.
I really was amazed by them.
Like, they showed out and they had such confidence.
And, you know, I like to consider myself a little older.
I think I'm really, I'm like, the kids was doing good.
They in their early 20s, not even my 30s.
I think I'm grown out.
So I'll be like, you know, to be young, young and full of life.
Like, I just, it's so cool to see people show up and show off their talents with such confidence and like such joy in their eyes because they love what they're doing, man.
Yeah, so Got to see that and then also I went to visit my grandma.
I visited my grandma this weekend She's been in the hospital for about a week when I got into town.
She had already been moved to the rehabilitation type center And you know that they just want to make sure she good before she had home, but um Visited grandma and she did tell me I put on some weight Love you grandma.
She she one of those grandmas that don't let you know they were shy away from that
Love her dearly, but she was like, yeah, you look nice.
Your face is full.
I was like, put on a few bouts.
She said, don't do it no more.
What do you mean by that?
Yeah, she don't care.
She'll tell you what she means.
She said, don't gain no more weight.
I'm getting big.
I'll say, all right, that's cool.
She also complained about not getting enough attention.
But she loves attention.
Listen, I ain't going to say.
She's a Jehovah's Witness, so she don't believe in this.
But she's an August Leo, whether she believes it or not.
She won't that attention and she gonna get it She gonna get it, but shout out to my uncle how he's been holding it down shout out to my mom Well, and when we get back I'm gonna talk about a few other things that I got into I really want to talk about Asian Street food night market because I went there too like I told y'all and um It was a good turnout it was fun, but I saw some clips on the internet was I throwing hands or was they throwing hands?
We don't talk about it when we get back
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But before we get into Asian Street Food Night Market, which I told y'all we was going to talk about because I went there.
I came, I saw, and I conquered.
I seen it.
I seen all the things with my eyes.
So I'm going to give y'all my first hand experience.
But before that, I got something on the menu.
Zach brought me the menu.
And I'm going to tell y'all what's on it.
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handle is on your right.
they only got tall
How
Really?
Yeah.
I didn't say that on there.
Don't worry.
I wonder if anybody else went over to the Asian Street Food Night Market because I headed over there.
It was at Veterans Park, right?
They had a
Turn out like veterans park.
I feel like it felt smaller because it was so past Yeah, those those lines were longer than locus.
All right in the prices, okay?
Bobby Brown ain't got nothing on them prices.
They was high.
Okay, so listen To try to get anything we gonna kick the story off by explaining to y'all how long these lines were
to get anything you had to divide and conquer.
Like I have some cousins in one line, some cousins in the other line.
We share what we wanted and we just waited in these lines.
And then for me, I was walking around looking for a shorter line just in case it was somewhere else.
Like it became the point where you don't even care what you're gonna get.
You're like, whichever line is shortest, that's where I'm gonna go.
Okay, that's exactly what we were doing at that point.
Well, I was, I was like, listen, if I find a shorter line, I'm buying whatever they got.
They can send me sell me Vienna sausages and Raymond noodles.
I don't care.
All right.
But to get anything, that's what you had to do.
And you were hoping to find like a shorter line.
Um, after all that, I did end up getting like candy fruit, which was like literally like grapes, strawberries, grape, strawberry dipped in like, like.
Sugar I don't like it was just
probably like melted jolly rancher literally
difference?
I'm not gonna lie.
That sounds disgusting.
Korean
Yeah, that's a... I don't think that's traditional, y'all.
But hey, I got it.
I was happy I got something.
It was a lot.
So it was so packed like I ended up actually leaving like after we got food because there's not a lot to do.
So if you're there looking for like the like, oh, I want to indulge myself in the culture.
Right.
You, you, you, it ain't going to be too much indulgent going on.
It's just a bunch of long lines to get.
TikTok food.
That's what I thought I feel like maybe the like maybe the real food like had longer lines and that's why I ended up where I was but Yeah, so that's what happened ended up leaving there's not much entertainment going on they had one entertainment stage where like people were performing I think they could just perform randomly, right and That was okay, but we left but it looks like After leaving a little drama
Kicked off I wasn't in it y'all like I said I'll let y'all know when we got back that if I was in it or not I don't I don't think I was in it But there was a little disruption and a video starts circulating on Facebook showing that fights was breaking out.
We do have the videos we we do We do have the video and Zach is playing it right now.
So if you're if you're available go over to YouTube
You can you can check out the video of what went down You can check out what went down at the the the market it was getting down them brothers was fast as lightning So yeah, man, it was gonna act if in look I don't know why people act like Milwaukee problems only belong to one community
I genuinely feel like all these communities got their own mess going on, as we see.
Look, they quick to be like, when the black people show up, stuff start going down.
That's how they act.
They be like, oh, the black people came to Asian Fest and now it's a fight.
But as you see in these videos, the black people was bystanders.
They just was eating Korean corn dogs and they overpriced fruit.
That's how we were doing.
We was like, this ain't got nothing to do with us, but we will watch.
We will observe.
What it mandated reporters they record they post online and they keep them moving we was doing all right Okay, we didn't jump in it was minding our business.
All right And it was it was a nice nice amount of black people in there trying to check out the vibes get some food and enjoy the culture But like I said every group has its own mess going on Look at it.
That was getting down And it got me thinking like as much mess
that goes on on Milwaukee's north side and all the grief that like black people get when we show up to these events or like they they act like we show up to the event of their goals in neighborhood.
I will say I grew up on the north side born and raised there went through straight off of Congress.
Fifty first to be specific.
That street y'all keep rolling down when y'all on a high speed chase.
Yeah, that one born and raised there.
I stayed there until I moved.
Right.
And I will say I went to Congress Elementary.
The very first kid to ever that I ever knew that had been shot was an Asian kid because his brother was in an Asian gang.
He was like 10.
Sounds pretty violent to me.
I went to Congress.
Y'all know what Congress is.
I went to Congress Elementary.
So you know, it's so like it's not very diverse, but the only kid that got shot
He was Asian.
The first shootout I ever witnessed.
Live and in living color, y'all.
Was at Neen Park.
Me and my mom, we went to Wendy's.
We was like, we gonna eat our Wendy's in the park.
We gonna have a little mother-daughter time.
My agent jumped out the car.
They was chasing each other around the park.
The N-word FU.
FU N-word.
We looking around like,
where the
They
They would talk about each other.
They pulled out a gun and started shooting at each other.
I was like, I don't think it's time to go.
I was really young then.
So like I said, every community has its issues, but too often the black community's mess is what gets highlighted.
It gets repeated and pushed out the hardest.
Sometimes, a lot of times, by people outside of our community.
Yeah, it's too much.
I feel like we also push out our own BS, right?
But then for some reason people is obsessed with our BS.
You know what I'm saying?
Our stuff spreads so much because not only are we pushing it, but other people from outside our community are pushing it too.
That's weird activity.
They love that.
Listen, they love us.
And I guess it makes me wonder.
Why is it that our mess is what's being pushed out?
Because like I said, all of the festivals this year seem to have a little commotion.
But something is like you would think, right?
Like, oh, Asian festival is going to be so peaceful.
And they was throwing hands and feet.
They was getting down in the videos.
And there's multiple videos.
It wasn't just one bite.
It wasn't.
Yeah, let me pull up this other one, matter of
Right.
Brothers are going to pull up another clip for us.
Because it wasn't just one fight, which is crazy to me.
It's one of those things where it really makes you think, why is it that we push this narrative that, oh, it's only the north side.
It's only the black people in Milwaukee.
They're the problem.
You hear that too much.
Brothers, you got the video clip over there.
But yeah, that's just what's on my mind today.
It was definitely a good time.
I had fun at Asian Fest.
Like I said, it was something to experience.
A lot of things are something to experience.
Would I pay $13 for five pieces of fruit on a stick again?
Probably not.
But I feel like they didn't have the price up either.
Did
they do that on purpose?
Of course, I'm going to give you my money for whatever you got.
They could have gave me a cup and one grape.
And I would have been like, you know what?
I waited for this.
I'm going to pay for it.
That's what I would have did.
So they knew.
But yeah, when we get back, is that going to play that clip for us?
And then we're going to move along and we're going to-
I'm going to play it as we're going out because I don't know if there's customers.
You already go.
He's
Why
are you doing this?
You guys are listening to the lunch break with Ray Nitty and maybe Shannon.
It's only maybe Shannon today, but y'all gonna be okay.
Y'all in good hands.
We got brother Z holding it down with the production in the sound.
All right, so even though Ray is missed, we got this, all right?
Listen, let's kick it to the chat before we get back into my weekend story and head into another conversation.
Y'all see why we was talking about playing at what we play.
Y'all
Long term long term storytelling is what that's called long term
I like that brothers.
Yeah, I like that So let's kick into the chat.
We got Dr. Robert B. Go Baker Shannon.
What's up?
What's so we got liquid?
I thought Shannon was from Baltimore.
Why would I be from Baltimore?
I ain't never been to Baltimore.
What do I look like I'm from Baltimore?
I'm from a walkie's north side.
I don't play like that.
Anyways
Liquid
He said put them hands down Can't do that on can't do that in on the radio, so I don't do it no more but any who?
One of ones that mission and fine every day OMG.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I try I try thank you liquid also said you want the Korean experience pay the tax, but we're paying tariffs
Pieces of fruit, it wasn't even like a mango and an apple, like a full piece of fruit.
I'm talking one grape, a singular grape, a single little strawberry, five stacked on a stick, candy coated, and I paid $13 for that.
That ain't no text, that's highway robbery
is what they call it.
Blink stare, blink blink, I'm just staring at the screen.
I was like, I guess I gotta pay.
I waited for 30 minutes for this.
Geez.
Anywho.
Yeah, RSC said OMG.
Not really a city girl.
What's up?
What's up?
I'm holding it down.
Solo dolo.
Shout out to Raido.
I know that's right.
But let's get back into my weekend story, y'all.
And how it ties into the next thing I want to talk about, right?
So after a long day, you know, after Asian Fest, you know, they, they, they.
was holding it down over there, knocking each other upside the head, but then I was gone and I was back in Brookfield.
And I decided I wanted a little drinky drink, right?
I wasn't looking for a party.
I was just looking for a cute little sip, sip, some calm, right?
And this is Brookfield, mind y'all, right?
I don't play in them people territory
too often.
Yeah, that's where the flock cameras be at.
That's where
the flock cameras at, and that's where the Tom Tiffany signs is at too, and I'm gonna tell y'all why I knew that.
Because I was like, let me find a small local bar.
That's all I wanted.
I was like, I'm going to go to a small, you know, bar off somewhere, right?
So the closest small bar I could find, the parking lot was real dark.
It was like two cars in there.
I was like, OK.
Then I was like driving around because I like to drive around before I park some places just to make sure I'm safe.
They was riddled with Tom Tiffany signs.
And you know, I was like, you know.
I could go in.
I'm just here for a drink.
I'm not here to make
no friends,
I don't care what y'all got going on.
But then I was like, I got my truth shirt on because True Family Fest was that morning.
I got the truth band that said Black Talk Media and all that.
And I was like, all right, they don't take kindly to that around there.
So I was like, I'm not going there.
Maybe not tonight.
That could be a conversation starter.
So I took my black toe over to Bar Louie.
That's where I went.
And it was more populated, of course.
It was pretty packed at the bar.
There's more cameras, more light in the parking lot.
So if I go missing, they can't say, oh, she went missing from the bar.
She might've hung herself like everybody else been doing.
Wait, that's what I think when I see stuff like that.
So I just did not go.
And I went to Bar Louie, where we gonna have eyes on me.
You know, I gotta be smarter, work smarter, not harder.
So I went to Bar Louie, and you know what?
Like I said, it was more popular.
And then sure enough, I ended up meeting people, you know, and like I said,
What I had on was a conversation starter.
It was to Jamaican sit next to me at the bar and I had my true first man on and obviously they're all black talk.
What's that all about?
And we start talking about it because they told me that they were pretty new to America.
And one of them start talking like about kind of how Americans have these stereotypes and prejudgements, right?
And he was like, I hope our conversation shows you like, we're not like how they make us seem blah, blah.
And of course that turned into a whole conversation about relationships and misunderstanding and like how African Americans and black people from other parts of the world view each other.
Because personally for me, I know what I think.
I don't think what I know.
A lot of them black, I know black.
I know African American.
They don't want to be African American.
They don't like us.
They be African, Jamaican, Puerto Rican.
Oh, but they love saying that.
They love it.
They love it.
puppy.
No, so black.
No,
Excuse me.
Misunderstanding about us because American media they're watching what?
American media is putting out and they have these pre judgments about us and in turn It's just a big misunderstanding and like while talking to him.
He did Bring up like I guess I don't know much about African-American history.
I don't know like why it is the way it is I don't know why y'all like be so mad about XYZ and I'm just like, you know me.
I'm a yapper
I'm going to run it down a little bit.
I'm going to pull up some TikToks for you.
I'm going to be like, this is the rundown.
That's why we do what we do.
And that's perfect because later on, I see a clip of Master P. And we're going to talk about him and what bothered me mostly about this clip is what I got from it, what I felt from it was that he was saying, forget our history.
And it's so important not to do that.
And we gonna talk more about that, but I'm gonna ask Zach to play the clip for y'all.
And y'all tell me what y'all got from this clip.
Let me know what y'all feeling.
You don't have to be the smartest person in the world.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist.
You just gotta have integrity and do good business.
And these doors will open up for you, building great relationships.
And I think that's the biggest thing for me, trying to get that.
Negative minds set out our culture because they still going back to who man slavery.
They did us this and I'm like You still hoping on that man?
I never hoped on that because I can't change the past but I can change the future and I think you got to get used to us being successful and I think a lot of us We block our own blessings because we don't think that we could do it because we're looking at a color
So, I mean, Muhammad Ali was a guy that, and I love, like, his story because he didn't care about that.
He just wanted to be around good people, but he did represent for the culture.
And I want more African-American-owned tennis shoe companies.
I don't want this just to be me.
I want so many different product brands owned by us, but making it for everybody.
Because think about it.
When other cultures make products, they don't make it for them.
They make it for everybody.
And so I want that mindset of our people.
If I could change that, that's the way we're going to bridge the wealth gap.
He encouraged black Americans to focus on building business, creating ownership and changing the future.
That's pretty much what he was saying.
But there was backlash and like I said it Masterpiece say he doesn't believe black people should keep going back to Slavery and harping on slavery and he argued that we can't change the past but we can change the future and That's where some people say hold on now including myself.
I don't know All right
Critics are not necessarily arguing against entrepreneurship.
Masterpy has spent decades preaching about ownership, financial literacy, economic empowerment.
He built No Limit Records independently and turned it into a major entertainment empire, which salute for that, right?
Love that.
I love that for him.
And yes, be successful, be financially literate, you know?
But a lot of critics said there's a difference between refusing to let history control your future and telling people to just stop talking about it.
Like when people say that it genuinely bothers me, you know what I'm saying?
Because slavery,
slavery
It was followed by Jim Crow segregation, redlining discriminatory housing policies, unequal access to education and employment and barriers to business ownership and wealth accumulation.
Those symptoms matter when we talk about weight, the racial wealth gap.
Look, I got a lot of rhyming words.
You know what I'm saying?
Those things matter.
We can't just be like, stop talking about it.
History, listen, history is bound to repeat itself if you don't know what happened.
That's all I'm saying.
Like, yeah, build your wealth, pop your stuff.
But what we ain't gonna do is just tell us to stop talking about our history when it genuinely matters right now today.
That's insane.
It's probably easy for somebody that's seen millions and millions of dollars.
Like, you know what?
Forget it.
Forget about it.
But not for the regular, regular person.
Not for us, right?
Federal Reserve data has shown a major gap in the median family wealth between white and black families.
That gap cannot be explained by individual efforts alone.
It also reflects generations of unequal access to land, housing, credit,
education, inheritance, and investments.
All right.
All right.
The history of housing is especially important for decades.
Government policy and private lending practices made it harder for black families to obtain mortgages to buy homes in neighborhoods where property values were later grew dramatically.
Right.
You couldn't even buy a house where you knew you was going to make some money off of it.
You don't get this one.
You can get this hut over here.
That ain't gonna be worth nothing tomorrow.
That's what you can get.
You don't get that.
But we don't get more, we don't get deeper into it.
After we come back from break, we gotta head off to break.
We'll be right back.
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a girl.
Wait,
We are talking about Master P in his latest interview where he described that he feels like to build wealth We need to start stop harping on the past.
We need to get over it
You know, I mean we need to Basically look up forward and not look backward don't get distracted by what was happening in the history and then oh Slavery did this and I don't don't talk about it.
Just get to work.
That's what it sound like to me And I'm asking y'all what it sounds like to y'all Right, and then I'm also giving y'all a little history lesson We talking about why it's important that we don't forget our history and why we are where we are today
Alright, we gonna kick it to the chat real quick.
We have Dr. Robert B. Biko Baker cooking and let it cook.
Yeah We also got Marty Gray He built no limit off drug money and and that's interesting too.
I mean, I don't know I wasn't You know what I mean, but what I can say
is it's easy to say just continue on when you build something off drug winning.
You don't need to ask for a loan.
You got the money.
You ain't gotta ask nobody.
You can just, you know, go under the mattress.
You ain't gotta get a line of credit.
You know what I'm saying?
You don't need to move into a better neighborhood to be successful.
Your neighborhood is where you're thriving.
off that drug money.
If that is the case, I haven't looked too deeply into that, so I don't know what he built no limit off of, but if so, I guess I could see why he could be like, you know what?
I don't think about all that slavery stuff, because I guess them dumping crack into our communities, he built his money off of that, but that's a whole other subject.
Here I go.
My bad.
Babar said, okay, Marty, but the country was built off of slavery.
and that puts us back where we was going, all right?
That part.
Period.
So, like I was saying before, the history of housing is especially important.
For decades, government policy and private lending practices made it harder for black families to obtain mortgages and buy homes in neighborhoods where property values later grew dramatically.
And home ownership is one of the biggest ways American families have historically
built and passed down well.
All right.
Black communities also built successful business districts, and sometimes those communities were attacked.
Tulsa Greenwood District, known as Black Wall Street, was destroyed by a white mob in 1921.
That never got back to where it was.
We had an interview on here talking about it.
how it could never be at its greatness, how it could never get back to where it was because they did what they did.
And it was so effective, right?
When we did try to mind our business and build our own, they said, ah, we don't like that.
Burn it down.
Somebody get a pitchfork.
Somebody get a tiki torch.
That's what they said.
They probably ain't literally said, but I think that's what they said.
That's how I envision those conversations going.
Somebody else said they need a white sheet, too.
get a tiki torch, and we gonna go to work.
That's what happened.
We wasn't in a community messing with that stuff.
We wasn't like, you know what, we gonna take over what they got.
We gonna integrate.
We gonna get in a, we went upstairs.
We tried to build what was ours.
And they got their tiki torches, they got their little hoods, and they got active.
And they tore us apart.
So back to what I was saying, Tulsa's Greenwood district, known as Black Wall Street, was destroyed by a white mob in 1921.
Rosewood, Florida was destroyed in racial violence in 1923.
So when people say just build wealth, some black Americans respond, build with what access, what protection, and what starting point, mind you, when we talked about what happened in Tulsa, I think the only people that got arrested were the black people that was trying to defend themselves.
Yeah, so what protection?
You know, build it, burn it down, and we're gonna be like, we gotta protect ourselves, and we're gonna go to show.
See, I was gonna get into that C'mon, right, Lil' Anthony stuff again, because you know, see what happens when you protect yourself.
Anyways, moving onward.
Moving onward.
And then there's the comparison people make to Germany's response to the Holocaust.
I feel like that's not even talked about enough, right?
I don't think that's talked about enough.
So Germany did not build its modern identity by pretending the Holocaust never happened.
The country developed systems of education, memorialization, legal accountability, and compensation for their survivors.
Right?
Germany's process by far was not perfect, right?
It was not perfect.
But the accountability did not happen overnight.
The remembrance became part of a national culture rather than something survivors
We're simply told to get over as when you talk African-Americans, we're told to get over it.
It was long ago.
My grandmother was born in the 30s.
She's still kicking.
She just told me off the fact the other day I told y'all that.
Damn.
She is still alive and well.
So she was born in an era where it was still very slave-like.
And you telling me to get over it, we're still feeling the effects to this day.
All right.
Anywho now we compare that with the United States Somebody said the 30 stop line my grandmother is 90 something years old that beautiful lady that beautiful chocolate drop They called me fat the other day.
Yes She's in her 90s very alive and very well.
She she been giving them people a she double hockey sticks up in there They said she she don't press the call, but she just yeah, hello
Hello!
But that's me going off on a tangent.
I'm talking about something else.
We can talk about my grandma later on.
But yeah.
Now compare that with the United States slavery ended in 1865, but the federal government never created a national reparation program for the descendants of enslaved people.
Congress has passed separate resolutions apologizing for slavery in Jim Crow.
But the country has never reached a full national consensus on repair or restitution.
Crazy, because I think the Asians got stuff like
everybody.
Like why did they deserve it?
But we don't like I don't I don't get it
like.
And if they acknowledge that what we did was wrong, they feel like it'll be a segue into us being like, okay, well, you owe us.
That's what I think.
I heard a while ago, right, that there are white families that have documents that could potentially like,
Place us with our other families because people were separated and sold and all the all those things That they have in their attics that show where who was sold to so we can be back with our families or kind of put pieces of our history together because a lot of black people don't know Anything past they grandma
that we can't do no and we can't do no ancestry
This is a great great grandpa.
We don't know that right so I do feel like
A part of it is them being afraid that we will want what's ours or we will want steak and what they family have.
Right?
And like I said, Germany did something different and that distinction matters because an apology is not the same thing as repair.
The effects of those policies are still measurable.
Enslaved people were denied wages and property, formerly enslaved people.
received little meaningful land after emancipation.
Black families were later excluded from many programs and practices that helped white families purchase homes and build assets.
So when black Americans talk about slavery, Jim Crow, redlining or racial violence, they are not necessarily refusing to move forward.
They may be explaining why the starting line was never equal.
And this is where I think both sides of the conversation can exist at the same time.
Master P has a point when he says constantly looking backward cannot be the only strategy.
He's correct.
That can be our only strategy, but I do feel like we can't erase our history or act like that's okay because that's what people want us to do.
Just forget about our history.
My bad.
The other takeaway though is like to not cater to just black people with whatever your business is.
Like cater to everybody.
So black communities need businesses, property, investments, intellectual property, political power and institutions that can pass assets to the next generation.
But his critics have a point too, and we'll get into that.
After these messages, we can be right back.
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We have RC creations.
America was built off.
Oh, I'm sorry.
America was built on a lot of things too.
Even drugs are somewhere within that story.
We've got, I know that's right.
Dr. Baker, Biko Baker said, hello.
Taji said, not fat.
Yes.
You know, grandma don't play.
She don't care who she is saw.
She been around
long enough.
And that's wild.
She don't care.
That's wild.
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We had an event for weekend.
It's a lot to unpack about the weekend, but we gonna get into that a little later, okay?
And let me thank y'all in advance for hanging out with me, okay?
We are on the lunch break from 12 to 2 today, so make sure you guys lock in, all right?
This is my first show by my lonesome.
So we got a lot on my plate today.
So listen, I'm gonna give y'all a little rundown.
We gonna start with my weekend recap, okay?
And you know we had True Family Fest this weekend as well, right?
I also stopped by the Asian Street Food Night Market at Veterans Park.
I did.
It was a good time.
It sounds like I missed some other things, but we gonna get into that.
We gonna talk about a good time, okay?
Yeah, and we don't talk about some other adventures I had this weekend, but we don't get into that later like I said I've got a nice appetizer for y'all as well Right we gonna talk about what the internet is buzzing about we gonna talk about spider-man Spider-man put hands and feet on a Nazi this weekend.
I know y'all seen the video if not we gonna talk about I'm gonna give y'all a good description of it All right, and I also want to get your thoughts listen one of our legendary rappers basically
He did an interview, right?
And it sounds to a lot of people like he told us to stop dwelling on our history.
He was supposed to be talking about success and how black people can build success.
And I think he was basically hinting at the way you build success is forget your history.
That's what it felt.
We don't play the clip and I want to hear from you guys.
I want y'all to tell me what y'all think about that.
All right?
Man, we got a lot on our plate.
This is going to be a nice little show here, y'all.
Nice.
Ain't no broaches in here or nothing.
I ain't never been in a driver's seat.
Bruh.
Getting real comfortable up here.
I'm gonna kick my feet up.
It's like, where the water?
You thought you brought the bad weather.
I was super nervous.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I was like, it's going to rain us out of true family.
I thought for sure there was no way like the way it was coming down.
I was like, yeah, it's gonna rain all weekend.
It's over.
But.
True family fest was beautiful.
Y'all, we got to see so many people live and in color.
Our cousins from the YouTube chat that hold us down every single day.
They showed up we got a chance to meet some people that make this whole thing possible It was genuinely a good experience brothers.
He missed it.
He was he was here though He was he was very busy in the studio holding it down on production and sound just so we can broadcast a lot All right y'all and that's what we did It was actually really really good like everybody got a chance to talk and like interact with the audience and that was really dope
I do know you guys got to hear some familiar voices I know some voices that y'all miss hearing Kyle being and more jumped on the mic We love to see it.
You know what I'm saying?
That was a good time And I also met an amazing woman y'all.
Let me let me tell y'all okay look I talked about this last time but listen I talked about it at True Family Fest when they put me on the mic, okay?
I met this woman and she was talking about she's come to True Family Fest every single year and she was like
What show do you work on?
And I was like, I'm on, I'm on, you know, the lunch break, 12 to two.
She was like, oh, you that wise young woman.
And she told me that I could be the bridge, you know what I'm saying?
That reaches our youth if they're willing to listen.
You know what?
I felt like Dr. King loved it.
I was like, you know what?
She had me gasped up.
That's where I'm mentioning it again.
That's the only reason.
So I was like, you know what?
I believe the children are our future.
That's what I felt like.
You know, I had to give y'all that.
But that's how I felt.
She really gassed me up.
And it was good to see people that are listening, that know what we're doing, and that respect what we're doing.
And like I said, she was an older woman.
So it's easy for the older people to write us off.
And I really want to hear what we want to say sometimes.
It's easy to feel that way, right?
And to hear that, that's not what she was doing.
That was awesome.
Man.
So.
Special thank you, though.
I want to shout out some of our sponsors.
It was cool to see them there.
We had Educators Credit Union.
We had American Family Insurance, Milwaukee Public Schools, artists working in education.
Where that board at, Zach?
Do you know?
The board that we was signing, remember?
Viko got it.
I won it.
I signed it.
No, I'm just kidding.
We got all types of stuff.
City of Milwaukee was there.
AB Corcor was there.
Ascension, Tapping, MKE.
Shout out to our vendors.
And like those artists really showed up and showed out.
I'm not lying.
Like it was so dope to see some of these Milwaukee artists in person and hear them like just raw talent.
Like it's really cool to see that out in the wild.
Like you see them on Instagram, you see them on Facebook, but to see them in person perform, like it was amazing.
I met
I met James.
It's cold.
Like every single artist that we had, like.
I really was amazed by them.
Like they showed out and they had such confidence.
And, you know, I like to consider myself a little older.
I think I'm really, I'm like the kids was doing good.
They in their early 20s.
Now that I'm in my 30s, I think I'm grown out.
So I'll be like, you know, to be young, young and full of life.
Like I just, it's so cool to see people show up and show off their talents with such confidence and like such joy in their eyes because they love what they're doing, man.
Yeah, so Got to see that and then also I went to visit my grandma.
I visited my grandma this weekend She's been in the hospital for about a week when I got into town.
She had already been moved to the rehabilitation type center And you know that they just want to make sure she good before she had home, but um Visited grandma and she did tell me I put on some weight Love you grandma.
She she one of those grandmas that don't let you know they were shy away from that
Love her dearly, but she was like, yeah, you look nice.
Your face is full.
I was like, put on a few bouts.
She said, don't do it no more.
What do you mean by that?
Yeah, she don't care.
She'll tell you what she means.
She said, don't gain no more weight.
I'm getting big.
I'll say, all right, that's cool.
She also complained about not getting enough attention.
But she loves attention.
Listen, I ain't going to say.
She's a Jehovah's Witness, so she don't believe in this.
But she's an August Leo, whether she believes it or not.
She won't that attention and she gonna get it She gonna get it, but shout out to my uncle how he's been holding it down shout out to my mom Well, and when we get back I'm gonna talk about a few other things that I got into I really want to talk about Asian Street food night market because I went there too like I told y'all and um It was a good turnout it was fun, but I saw some clips on the internet was I throwing hands or was they throwing hands?
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Man that was good, but we was did we was digging into something better.
I'm gonna call that meat and potatoes.
It was getting into it.
All right You hear me Listen, so we were talking about masterpiece in his most recent interview where he talked about Building success and believing that you can't build success by looking back at our history and harping on slavery We talked about
How Germany handled the Holocaust versus how America handled slavery we talked about why history matters Right?
We talked about how we understand what he meant But we also want to get into why the critics have a point to and I know brother Z brought up a good point when he said I wonder why they don't want to pretty much
Acknowledge this happened and this still affects us to this day because like I said I think it's still happening and we still have byproducts of what happened and that's why They can't admit it because they still doing it.
They still eating off of what they did.
I Remember that there was an episode.
I don't know if any of you guys watched Atlanta with childish Gambino, but there was an episode that basically like if they did acknowledge it and give reparations where they would come from and like how it would come from like
the families that pretty much.
Profited off of the backs of slavery and like it's some people that are like, yeah, it makes sense.
But then people losing so much that they were used to have and they were committed suicide and all this crazy stuff.
But it's a good episode.
If you guys.
Watch it, you'll you'll see why I'm referencing it.
So shout out to Atlanta.
Make sure you guys watch that.
All right.
But but let's get into.
Why his critics have a point to.
You cannot fully understand today's wealth gap without understanding the history that helped create it.
Remembering slavery does not automatically mean having a victim mentality.
Demanding accountability does not mean refusing to work.
And wanting economic empowerment does not require pretending that the past has no connection to the present.
Okay?
Maybe it's history and entrepreneurship, right?
Because you got to know your history to know where you're going.
That's why you got so many people stuck because you know something ain't right, but you don't know what's right.
You don't know what's wrong.
You know what I'm saying?
So it's important for us to
know our history so we can avoid the same hiccups that we've had in the past.
It's important to know so we don't get got the same way that we had in the past.
If we don't know our history, if we don't know where we came from, if we don't know how we ended up in this place as is, we can't get out of this place.
So like I said, maybe the better conversation is history and entrepreneurship.
Robert Lance say you talking that talk shit and thank you.
Thank you Robert.
Thank you.
Let me get back in it now What happened Understand how it still affect know what happened right and understand how it still affects the present demand honest acknowledgement and meaningful repair Then use that that knowledge to build something your children and get grandchildren can inherit because remembering the past
and building the future do not have to be opposites.
So, cousins, here's the question, y'all.
Should black Americans be told to stop talking about slavery and focus only on building wealth?
Or do we believe America should fully acknowledge slavery?
Jim Crow, discriminatory practices and policies that helped create today's wealth gap before asking us to simply move on.
Which I think Like I said, it's a lot.
It's a lot to unpack there.
We can't just look at that clip and be like, you know what?
Mr. Master P had he had a he had a he had a point there, right?
Look some of the comments that they call him mass of P now He tried to come back and be like well, that ain't really what I was saying But it's very important people with a platform with a voice
Talk about those things with a lot of thoughtfulness It's very important that you you watch what you say because I feel like somebody that's been rich for a long time It's very easy to forget, right?
It's easy to forget like the the leverage that you that you hold You know what I mean?
Like it's one of those things where it's like you just say things and you later on you like oh well Like this is what I meant.
No say what you mean and mean what you say say it right now Say it right then and there
They calling them mass-a-p.
M-A-S-S-A y'all.
But are we really expecting him to be politically correct?
I think it was a Forbes interview.
He's talking business and telling us stop harping on slavery.
Don't even bring it up.
That's what I think if you don't have you haven't really thought about something as
Thought deeply about something as fragile as that even when like I was talking to these guys at Barlu I was like this is a conversation for when I'm sober But we can get into it a little bit because I got some things to say because I'm a yeah, no matter what but I was like We really got to dig into this when we sober because I can only tell you so much right now in a bar He's like tell me educate me.
Let me know about African-american.
I'm like
Yeah, and
sold them,
Slavery's over.
I don't feel no way.
No hard feelings.
Go, go do you.
After they had to fight to not be looked at.
It's pets basically we were property We wasn't they friend helping them build something and then after that when they was like Giving us money.
It wasn't nearly enough like when they were paying us for our services And then we didn't have the education So we didn't know that we were getting got like yeah, if you work a million hours.
I'll pay you 10 bucks.
You might get an acre Them people was working till they died if we being for real
A lot of them people that were trying to do the right thing and like, you know what?
I'm gonna work and I'm not they don't actually look out for me Working day and night.
I remember my grandma telling me she remembers her dad used to yell in his sleep like he was working like the cattle like he used to like have dreams about
all like having nightmares or something just like talking in his sleep
I'm not gonna lie, I have a confession.
confession?
It's been a while, but there's been times where I've woken myself up out of my sleep, because I've been screaming, like, go to break!
Exactly!
work!
So, that's crazy.
So, when you think
That's how much they was working in them fields Like when you do something so repetitively and so often that's like all you think you can't even escape from it in your sleep That's crazy crazy crazy work But after this break y'all I want to talk about Target's Halloween costume backlash this this was all over the place Target is once again facing some criticism
from parts of the black community we can talk about why they were facing it before we can talk about all the things but now you know halloween coming up they facing it once again and i'm gonna tell y'all why i think they keep falling into these uh why they keep falling into these these situations okay don't go anywhere you are listening to the lunch break on the truth 101.7 with ray nitty and maybe shannon i'm holding it down today but
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What's good, black people?
Man.
We getting into some meat and potatoes, y'all.
We cooking over here.
We cooking.
Look, he didn't gave me the mic and I didn't took off.
We definitely, we already got into Asian Fest.
We recapped my weekend.
We talked about how I went to Bar Louie because I was discouraged.
I saw too many Tom Tiffany signs at the first spot I wanted to go to.
Couldn't do that.
But then we also talked about how I got into a conversation about African American history at Bar Louie.
We talked about Master P and how in his latest interview he pretty much said that black people need to focus on success to forget our history.
We talked about that.
We played the clip.
But now we won't kick it off to something else that's been pretty hot.
The hot conversation, okay?
That it's taken off.
I've seen people talk about it all day yesterday.
I feel like we're the first people live on air to talk about it.
I do feel like we're the first to talk about this.
Right.
Target Halloween costume backlash.
All right.
So Target is once again facing criticism from parts of our black community.
And this time it is over a Halloween costume that many people say disturbingly looks similar to a racist black face, menstrual image imagery.
All right.
And this is important to talk about because we was we was just supposed to be
We're supposed to be a boycott in that place People still up in there giving money.
I didn't seen a few videos on the internet of people being harassed and they like I knew I shouldn't have been in there That's what I get for sneaking off in Target.
This is what I get So we once again Target is back back in the headlines in the controversy controversy centers around a children's
glows under dark or I'm sorry, under black like circus clown costume.
The name too much.
Y'all know y'all have to know good.
And it's from Target online.
So after the images of the costume circulated online, critics pointed to the dark face covering an exaggerated facial features and said the design evoked historical characters that were used to demean black people.
Yeah So so we see in this Halloween costume.
We were like, hmm That looks suspicious that that reminds us of something, right?
So here's the bigger issue for some black customers.
This isn't happening Out of happen chance.
Okay, this isn't just happening out of nowhere because Target has already they already have a complicated relationship with us in the black community because following the murder of George Floyd
The racial justice protest of 2020 target publicly committed billions of dollars toward black owned businesses and expanded diversity and inclusion initiatives.
They was like, we got y'all back.
We got you, gonna put billions into this.
Don't y'all worry.
That's what they said to us.
They said they got our back, but in 2025, remember, remember they started doing a DEI.
Cutbacks and troubles.
Yeah, we ain't got to do that no more.
They said cool They would they was like, you know what we ain't like on the way anyways in 2025 target announced that it was rolling back major portions of the diversity and equity inclusion efforts So they took they they were back there was like never mind Right that this shit that decision sparked backlash and helped fuel boycott efforts
And other activists stood on business.
They was like, nah, we ain't doing that.
Y'all literally promised us billions.
Y'all promised to make us feel equal.
And in 2025, look, gotta hear my face.
Well, we ain't have to.
They said never mind.
But not every black business owner supported that boycott because some black owned brands rallied.
On target for access to millions of shoppers or rely.
I'm sorry.
They rely on target for access to millions of shoppers So there has never been one single black community position on the company But that history is why this Halloween costume controversy is hitting different Yeah, so I want
Want this video to play this is I'm showing the image right here Well brothers he is showing us the image of what people kind of think this looks like The posing and everything right that's what they had on their website It's insane the kid is posed just like the caricature and I'm gonna play this clip that I found online and I thought it was really good because it's
Two white people from a white person, but it's actually good for us as well because like we said before we have a lot of people That think we should forget our history and she gives a little bit of a history lesson So go ahead play that clip for us brothers.
Clown.
What's the problem?
Target put this children's Halloween costume on its website and black users on threads immediately recognized the imagery as reminiscent of historic menstrual caricatures Q white people in their comments saying I just see a clown so white person a white person Let's dive into why that reaction just makes you look like kind of a clown
Let's start with minstrel shows.
These were wildly popular 19th century performances where white actors would darken their faces and perform exaggerated racist caricatures of black people, portraying them as lazy, ignorant, hypersexual, any of the racist stereotypes they're still prevalent today.
What's interesting is that minstrel shows were particularly popular among working class white audiences.
By creating a degrading racist caricature of blackness, it gave white people who lacked wealth or social status a sense of racial belonging, racial
superiority, regardless of class lines.
And we still see that mentality reflected in today's politics.
But I digress.
One of the most famous characters to emerge from these shows was Jim Crow.
A character created in the 1830s by white performer Thomas Dartmouth Rice.
He's often known as the father of American minstrelsy.
The character of Jim Crow embodied the visual tropes we see over and over again in blackface imagery.
Exaggerated facial features like enormous mouths and smiles, prominent teeth and lips, and exaggerated body movements and poses.
After the Civil War, black performers also participated in minstrel shows, as they were one of the few avenues into theater and economic opportunity.
Black performers also wore blackface, and they performed the same exaggerated racial stereotypes.
That's how powerful this imagery became.
These racist images and caricatures were a visual language representing blackness in American pop culture for centuries.
Now we're skipping a lot here because this is short form video content, but this brings us back to Target.
When looking at this image, black people do not have the privilege of simply
simply seeing a clown.
They're recognizing a visual language that has been used to caricature black people for generations.
And we know that Target has spent the past couple years retreating from its DEI initiatives.
DEI was never about racial hiring quotas.
It's about having people with different lived experiences and cultural knowledge in the room when something like this is being approved who can say, hey, I'm not just seeing a clown here.
This is why DEI is important.
This is why knowing American history is important.
Because learning about racism,
crow, minstrelsy, white supremacy, and the way those ideas shaped American culture doesn't mean you hate America.
It means you understand America.
I just see a clown.
What's the problem?
Man.
Wasn't she?
So, like I said, in this role perfectly after Master P saying what he said.
because it is so important that we know the history.
I know some black people that will see that as well and just like, I just see a clown.
What are you talking about?
The exaggerated mouth, the exaggerated teeth, the black boys' pose.
It really hits a spot.
Those who know know.
Man, those who know know.
And like I said that history is why Halloween costume this Halloween costume controversy controversy is hitting differently Because of that history and because of targets history Getting rolling back stepping back.
They walked that back that DI stuff that they was talking about they said never mind and in my opinion This happened because of that
If there were more black people in the room to say, hey, I don't think this look right.
I don't know about that, y'all.
Y'all better get it together.
They probably wouldn't have fallen victim to yet again.
More backlash.
Because somebody would have been able to tell them what the history is.
Somebody would have been able to tell them something is not right here.
So somebody, they go through all these processes before a costume hits the shelf.
They don't just.
Go on Ali express and grab some costumes and throw them up on a website.
This is target.
We're talking about There's processes everything is strategically thought through the posing the models the the look everything so please do not think that there aren't a room full of people going over What is going to be posted on targets website?
You can't just get up on there and just post what you want to you can't just sell what you want to Erin is him said they do this every year some Bojangling costume the bar said so the sewing department and the factory didn't know this was wrong the sewing department probably ain't got much to do with it by bar They probably just get a design and they get the sewing they not in the rooms before it before they start sewing there somebody that drew this up
there's somebody that talked about how much it would be there's somebody that talked about the design there's somebody that talked about the model there's somebody that came up with this somebody saw a picture and was like you know what we should go off of this and then reassemble it this way and do this this way this image touched so many people before it got to the consumer that's the point I'm making and if they hadn't walked back that DEI stuff maybe somebody in the room would have been like yeah y'all might want to look at some history stuff maybe that ain't the best idea
Right and there is no evidence that I've seen establishing that target intentionally Design the costume is blackface.
There's no evidence obviously, but if you know, you know We know what it looks like and you know what the problem is like I said when you don't have these people in the rooms There's people that probably have put this stuff out there and just thought it wasn't a big deal
Like when you think of like Ali Express when you think of like these Asian companies I've seen a few times that they'll do something and they'll apologize just because they was like Oh, I just thought it was American I thought Americans just thought this was funny and they'll say something racist and they just don't know But they don't know because they don't know African Americans and they don't know anybody that can put them on game So maybe it came out and it was an oopsie didn't But if they had us in the rooms
Somebody would have told them something, right?
The question critics are asking is how did something that many people believe resembles a historically racist character?
Make it through the design and approval process, merchandising process, especially after everything has happened between Target and black customers.
So.
Target may be dealing with more than a Halloween costume controversy.
It may be dealing with a trust problem.
Let me know in the comments what y'all think.
Is it simply a bad costume that slipped through the cracks or does it say something bigger about how Target understands and listens to the community that it serves?
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We gon' have to break, but we gon' be back.
Then we gon' get into, somebody passed away yesterday and I, eh.
Whoopsie daisy, kinda like how the costume passed through the cracks.
That's how I feel about the death.
But we gon' talk about it when we get back.
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He's in Poland.
Having a good time without us.
He didn't left me in his act in charge.
We holding it down.
Brothers, he got the production and the sound, and we doing big things over here, man.
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Say it.
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I know.
Say I'm in charge.
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It reminds me how I'm in charge.
Man, y'all.
We talked about a lot today.
We talked about Master P and his secret to success.
He's there for get the past and focus on the future.
Get your bag.
We also talked a little bit about some costume drama that is happening with Target and and we we also left off with the question What do y'all think do y'all think that it was simply a bad costume that slipped through the cracks or does Target have a bigger issue and they just don't understand the community that they are serving We talked about how they promised us billions of dollars and all his DEI stuff and they was gonna support us They had our back and then they walked it back and now this stuff is happening
We talked about it.
We also talked a little bit about my weekend.
We talked about Asian Fest.
We had a good time.
But before I left off, I said we gonna talk about somebody that passed away yesterday.
And why I don't care.
Whoop-dee-doo, I feel how Target feel about that costume.
Oopsie daisy.
Let's get into it.
A major update in the Sonia Massey case.
Sean Grayson, the former Illinois sheriff deputy and convict the one that was convicted of killing Sonia Massey has died in prison at 32 according to reports.
You know and sometimes it's like you just you just he's not taking up tax money.
Good for him.
When I first saw that, I thought they got him, but I thought it was related to something else.
So one could only dream that they shank.
You know what?
You know that he went peacefully.
Right.
But for anybody that needs a refresher, Sonia Massey was a 36 year old black mother of two who called 911 on July 6, 2024 because she believed.
Someone might be outside of her home.
She called the police She needed help Right she called the police she was asking for help and Grayson Showed up to her rescue with another deputy.
They responded to her home Body camera footage showed that the deputies inside Massey's home.
Oh It showed
The deputies inside Massey's home.
At one point, Massey was near a pot of hot water.
Grayson told her to move the pot.
Massey picked it up and said, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus.
Grayson then drew his weapon and threatened to shoot her.
After telling her to move the pot.
She moved the pot and he drew his weapon.
Hmm.
Massey ducks under a counter.
and Grayson fired three shots.
One struck her in the head and killed her.
This mother called for help.
The deputies arrived, helped, helps on the scene.
Then help got scared by a pot of water.
The deputy was, he was scared for his life because she had a pot of water.
Wow.
That's crazy.
So he ended up killing her and Grayson argued that he believed Massey was about to throw this boiling water on him and that he acted in self-defense Prosecutors argued that Massey was complying and that the shooting was unjustified out.
It sounds like she was complaining to me Sound like she moved the pot of hot water ducked under the counter and still was killed.
She actually called the police for help Hmm how many times go hear that story over and over again you calling for help you end up dead oopsie
Oopsie daisy.
I just I just a baby.
That's kind of how they oopsie.
That's how they treat our lives didn't mean it my bad Hmm So Grayson was originally charged with first-degree murder in October 2025 a jury found him guilty of second-degree murder in January of 2026 a judge sentenced him to the maximum of 20 years in prison
Followed by mandatory supervised release.
Hmm.
Let's kick it to the chat.
Let's kick it to the chat.
Somebody said, now the real prison sentence begins in HE double hockey sticks.
Somebody else said, good riddance.
It sound like the community don't really care.
That's why I said it.
Woopsy daisy, whoopty doo.
Back to what we doing.
I saw some of the comments online.
They said, we smoking on that.
That Grayson pack.
Anyways, I want some from the gas station.
I don't think people mourn him, but I do think it's important to remember her.
That's why I'm telling the story.
Right.
So he was sentenced to the maximum of 20 years in prison, followed by mandatory supervised release.
But his health later became a part of the story.
Grayson had colon cancer and his attorney said it spread to his liver and his.
Oh boy, baby I am Happen to the best of us get over it right get over it like we got to get over our history.
He'll be alright Well, probably not now, but any who he saw early medical release from prison But the Illinois Prisoner Review Board rejected that request on July 31st, 2026 my thing is he ain't even he ain't suffer, you know what?
He was in her for two three years before he was like, you know what I can't I can't be
here.
I'm
dying y'all Let me free Yeah, I'm pretty sure she wanted to live a little longer too So he saw early medical release from prison now Reports say Grayson has died while incarcerated his attorney confirmed the death his exact cause of death had not been publicly
confirmed because he just passed away last night.
Although his advanced cancer had been widely reported.
And now a lot of people and I know a lot of people are going to have strong feelings about this update because of what happened to Sonia Massey.
Whatever your reaction is, her name should stay at the center of this story.
I think this is a day of remembrance for Sonia Massey.
That's what I think we should.
Stupid as day of remembrance.
She called for help.
She called 911 for help and she lost her life after law enforcement entered her home.
So.
Rest in peace to Sonia Massey.
And.
Sean Grayson.
I whoop, they do.
I don't know.
Hate to be you.
Whoop, they do.
Hate to be you.
That rhymes.
Hey, they said in the chat good luck in the lower room the lower room Y'all know they say the upper room but a RC creation says so this guy was on meds while working a job like that.
You know what's interesting About him working a job like that, right?
While I was doing my dig in my research and whatnot
He should have been working the job like that not only was he medicated, but he was fired from multiple places because of bad behavior.
I think that's more more More of a question mark than the medicine That's what I think He shouldn't he shouldn't never been there.
I think he was discharged from the military He had a long history of not needing to be working with people and then got the nerve to and when he when he
Submitted his appeal if I'm not mistaken Homeboy he still wouldn't admit that he killed this woman in his appeal I think that he mentioned that he was defending himself He still wouldn't accept that you weren't defending yourself.
You killed this one Right one of once had shaken my head the signs were there they were grown souls said I hope she
She was right there to press the elevator button going down.
I know that's right.
Hey, he was like, where are we going?
We're going down.
You ain't going to the upper room.
You going down below down below.
That's what you're doing.
So next on the news, now that we told Sonia Massie's Massie story and we mentioned that do die or whatever, Spider-Man versus the far right demonstrators.
I've been waiting to get into this.
Have y'all seen the there's a clip going around been on the news Spider-Man jumped into action this weekend.
There was some protests going on and Spider-Man wasn't having that he put hands and feet on a Nazi All right, so this is probably the wildest things that you're going to hear about today
A man dressed up as Spider-Man showed up during a far right demonstration in downtown Minneapolis.
And instead of standing on the sidelines, he ended up throwing some punches.
He was getting it in.
The confrontation happened during a rally led by far right activist Jake Lang.
Counter protesters also showed up and tensions escalated.
The video from the scene quickly went viral.
Before we get to the spider-man moment though, I Think it's important that we talk about why events like this attract so much attention y'all Right and we don't get into this after the break all right because I think it's important to give this a little more time to bake You know say we don't get back into we're gonna let it bake a little bit But we're gonna get into it why spider-man was throwing punches and and why things like this attract so much attention and I have a question for y'all then I definitely need to hear from y'all we on
the lunch break 101.7 the truth live in the studio if you want to join the conversation go over to our youtube join the chat the chat is chatting make sure you watch me live in studio i'm holding it down and we got brother z on the production and sound we're gonna get back into this after we come back from break don't go anywhere y'all
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It's buzzing out there.
People stopping in the window waving.
But that's neither here nor there, man.
We was just talking about Sonia Massey.
Rest in peace to Sonia Massey.
And then her killer passed away in jail as he should.
Wasting our time breathing, taking my good air up.
In Illinois tax dollars, but anyhow, he did.
Rest in peace, Sonia Massey, respectfully.
But after that, we got into Spider-Man versus the far right demonstrators in Minneapolis.
Am I pronouncing that right?
Minneapolis.
I always feel awkward saying that word.
So, quick recap.
A confrontation happened during a rally led by far right activist Jake Lane.
Counter protesters also showed up and tensions escalated.
The video from the scene quickly went viral.
And like I said before, we can get into the Spider-Man moment.
We gotta talk about why events like this attract so much attention.
Alright?
Extremist organizations often rely on a spectacle.
a small group can arrive carrying signs and symbols and then Counter protesters show up people that ain't playing that then you got the police showing up they creating barriers camera start start rolling and suddenly an event involving a relatively small number of people can reach millions and millions of people online brother Z is playing that video as we talk if you're not on YouTube head over to YouTube check us out
We got the video so you can see the sights and sounds.
You could really get the visuals on what we talking about.
All right, and you can join the chat and talk to us.
So.
That raises a real question, though, are counter protesters sometimes giving extremist groups exactly what they want, though, by showing up?
On the other hand, should communities simply ignore these neo-Nazis and white supremacists when they show up in public?
For many people that feels impossible and unacceptable Right because I don't know how I don't know how it handles seeing that or somebody being in Milwaukee.
Yeah, you know, it's a lot.
It's a lot to unpack there And I guess the harder question is how to respond when when these things are happening in your community Should the communities ignore these groups and deny not deny them the in attention that they are seeking look I got tongue-tied Joe
Or should people counter-protest peacefully with signs, chants, and organized resistance?
Or should people be willing to get active?
Should people get in the streets?
Should people throw hands and feet?
Because that's what brings us to Spider-Man's footage.
A video circulating online shows a person in a full Spider-Man suit climbing onto a vehicle and physically confronting people involved in that demonstration.
Yes.
The visual is exactly surreal as it sounds.
Yeah, it's just as crazy as it sound.
Yeah White supremacists Counter protesters police trying to manage the crowd and then spider-man comes flying into the scene Social media had a field day.
I know I saw him taking pictures before this with the protesters He was or the counter protesters.
Let me be clear.
He was he was chilling in the streets people like what is fireman doing here?
And then I see the video of him flying on the back of the truck and getting active.
He said, listen, I ain't your friendly spider, man.
I got hands and feet for this.
He wasn't playing and he kept his costume on the full time.
Then I saw him getting arrested.
I was kind of sad about that.
They should let him go at it.
But, but anyhow, some people are calling him a hero and others just joked that Peter Parker should be proud.
But here's where we have to separate that viral moment from.
The legal reality.
Someone can oppose white supremacy and still face those legal consequences for assault and other unlawful conduct.
The first amendment, it does protect.
Even it does protect deeply offensive speech, but it does not automatically protect violence, y'all.
So even though we proud of him for getting active, we got to think our boy might be in jail.
And at the same time, self-defense or defense of others matter legally depending on exactly what happened and who initiated the confrontation and whether someone was in immediate danger.
The short viral clip may not show the entire encounter, but all those things matter.
And beneath those jokes is a serious question about how communities should respond to extremist organizations.
Do we think denying them attention works?
Or do we, are we allowed to oppose?
Does peaceful protest send the strongest message?
Or does humor and extremists, or does humor make extremists look less powerful?
Because that was fun.
He's seeing Spider-Man down there and then he got active.
So we got humor we have physical confrontation which makes for a good viral moment, but do we think that's the right way to go guys?
cousins I Want to hear from y'all if a neo-nazi groups throws up in your city.
What's the best response?
What do we think?
Do we peacefully protest?
Do we mock them do we throw hands and feet?
Cuz spider-man got active he did it all he mocked them he used humor he had his costume he went in
Love that formula Man Listen I'm personally I Think more people should get active I do I hate to be that person but I also Do understand the part where it's like just ignore them and they'll go away like a little kid because that that is what they want They want people to show up like sometimes you see small small organizations, right?
They show up and they're like, okay, we don't we don't get out here and we don't Get people pissed off and they gonna start fighting with us and then we don't get all the cameras that they rely on the attention to keep growing So I do understand why people say just ignore them I do But I also just I Know how hard it can be to just ignore something like that and let people think that that's okay.
I know how hard it can be to
feel like, oh, they think they can come into our space and and kind of fully us around.
No, we don't we don't show them that you're not welcome here.
And I get it.
But I also understand why people say ignore these people because that's what they rely on.
That's what they that's what they want.
And sometimes they use those clips of people getting active and people getting getting a rise.
Then we get in the rise out of people and they use it against us a lot of times.
Feel like a lot of times they use those things against us and we might feel good in a moment We might feel good like you know what?
We did what had to be done and like I said watching that clip I was proud of spider-man even though he eventually got pushed and pulled off the little truck He didn't jumped on his start swinging on Hey, you know Took a little tumble went to jail.
He had a rough go but but in the moment it felt good
Like I said, I don't know if it's worth it.
He gonna go to jail.
He probably gonna get a nice little ticket.
They probably take his costume Man Rough but like I said the internet is is is talking about it because it's just so and like I said, it's a spectacle and And they love to be like oh the lefts are crazy.
They so crazy look at them They dress it up as Spider-Man now.
So it's just like how do we
How do we deal with that?
And I think that's a good question for us to sit on, man.
But I also wanted to talk about Damon Darling and Walmart.
If you've been on social media, you know who Damon Darling is, y'all.
He is a social media influencer and he recently got banned from Walmart.
He got banned from Walmart, y'all.
He is very viral.
He has over 10 million followers y'all Very very viral guy.
He started off doing comedy and pranks and things of that nature But since then he's grown in a viral social media Person like himself when he got a life man, everybody was buzzing Right.
So he has a massive following across all social media platforms
And the controversy starts because he recently posted a video from Walmart in Ohio where he was trying to buy groceries.
What he does is he helps people out.
He goes around and he, he offers help to the people.
He asks if they want him to buy groceries or whatever, or he offers money.
And like some people, you get that reaction like, oh, get away from me.
You know, he'll approach anybody, white, black, whatever.
And more often than not, like the white people are like, no.
because they think it's a prank they think it's a scam or something but he's actually buying groceries and doing good but after he left that day officers reportedly pulled him over and served him a lifetime ban in walmart yeah and naturally the internet went crazy people started saying wait walmart banned him for buying other people's groceries and some followers even started calling for a boycott of walmart
They said we all ain't finna get him out of there.
He's doing good.
Why are y'all pushing him out, right?
Walmart pushed back on that narrative The company said that darling was not banned because he was giving back or paying for people's groceries Walmart said that the decision followed after repeated policy issues and There is another piece of this story.
Darling previously did film prank videos and comedy inside of Walmart stores but
Those older videos of him were from years ago, and now he's doing good.
Man.
So here's the question.
Did Walmart go too far by banning David or Damon Darling?
They gave him a lifetime ban.
We can get more into this tomorrow.
I'm going to be back.
We got Brother Zeon production and sound.
We can get more into that story, y'all.
But it was nice rocking with y'all.
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We had an event for weekend.
It's a lot to unpack about the weekend, but we gonna get into that a little later, okay?
And let me thank y'all in advance for hanging out with me, okay?
We are on the lunch break from 12 to 2 today, so make sure you guys lock in, all right?
This is my first show by my lonesome.
So we got a lot on my plate today.
So listen, I'm gonna give y'all a little rundown.
We gonna start with my weekend recap, okay?
And you know we had True Family Fest this weekend as well, right?
I also stopped by the Asian Street Food Night Market at Veterans Park.
I did.
It was a good time.
It sounds like I missed some other things, but we gonna get into that.
We gonna talk about a good time, okay?
Yeah, and we don't talk about some other adventures I had this weekend, but we don't get into that later like I said I've got a nice appetizer for y'all as well Right we gonna talk about what the internet is buzzing about we gonna talk about spider-man Spider-man put hands and feet on a Nazi this weekend.
I know y'all seen the video if not we gonna talk about I'm gonna give y'all a good description of it All right, and I also want to get your thoughts listen one of our legendary rappers basically
He did an interview, right?
And it sounds to a lot of people like he told us to stop dwelling on our history.
He was supposed to be talking about success and how black people can build success.
And I think he was basically hinting at the way you build success is forget your history.
That's what it felt.
We don't play the clip and I want to hear from you guys.
I want y'all to tell me what y'all think about that.
All right?
Man, we got a lot on our plate.
This is going to be a nice little show here, y'all.
Nice.
Ain't no broaches in here or nothing.
I ain't never been in a driver's seat.
Bruh.
Getting real comfortable up here.
I'm gonna kick my feet up.
It's like, where the water?
I got you.
Hold on.
yeah.
You thought you brought the bad weather.
I was super nervous.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I was like, it's going to rain us out of true family.
I thought for sure there was no way like the way it was coming down.
I was like, yeah, it's gonna rain all weekend.
It's over.
But.
True family fest was beautiful.
Y'all, we got to see so many people live and in color.
Our cousins from the YouTube chat that hold us down every single day.
They showed up.
We got a chance to meet some people that make this whole thing possible.
It was genuinely a good experience.
Brother Z missed it.
He was he was here though.
He was he was very busy in the studio holding it down on production and sound just so we can broadcast live.
All right.
And that's what we did.
It was actually really, really good.
Like everybody got a chance to talk and like interact with the audience.
And that was really dope.
I do know you guys got to hear some familiar voices I know some voices that y'all miss hearing Kyle being and more jumped on the mic We love to see it.
You know what I'm saying?
That was a good time And I also met an amazing woman y'all.
Let me let me tell y'all, okay?
Look, I talked about this last time, but listen I talked about it at True Family Fest when they put me on the mic, okay?
I met this woman and she was talking about she's come to True Family Fest every single year and she was like
What show do you work on?
And I was like, I'm on, I'm on, you know, the lunch break, 12 to two.
She was like, oh, you that wise young woman.
And she told me that I could be the bridge, you know what I'm saying?
That reaches our youth if they're willing to listen.
You know what?
I felt like Dr. King loved it.
I was like, you know what?
She had me gasped up.
That's where I'm mentioning it again.
That's the only reason.
So I was like, you know what?
I believe the children are our future.
That's what I felt like.
You know, I had to give y'all that.
But that's how I felt.
She really gassed me up.
And it was good to see people that are listening, that know what we're doing and that respect what we're doing.
And like I said, she was an older woman.
So it's easy for the older people to write us off.
And I really want to hear what we want to say sometimes.
It's easy to feel that way, right?
And to hear that, that's not what she was doing.
That was awesome.
Man.
So.
Special thank you, though.
I want to shout out some of our sponsors.
It was cool to see them there.
We had Educators Credit Union.
We had American Family Insurance, Milwaukee Public Schools, artists working in education.
Where that board at, Zach?
Do you know?
The board that we was signed in, remember?
The artist- Viko has
Viko got it.
I won it.
I signed it.
No, I'm just kidding.
We got all types of stuff.
City of Milwaukee was there.
AB Corcor was there.
Ascension, Tapping, MKE.
Shout out to our vendors.
And like those artists really showed up and showed out.
I'm not lying.
Like it was so dope to see some of these Milwaukee artists in person and hear them like just raw talent.
Like it's really cool to see that out in the wild.
Like you see them on Instagram, you see them on Facebook, but to see them in person perform, like it was amazing.
I met James.
It's cold, ain't it?
I met James is cold.
Like every single artist that we had, like.
I really was amazed by them.
Like, they showed out and they had such confidence.
And, you know, I like to consider myself a little older.
I think I'm really, I'm like, the kids was doing good.
They in their early 20s, not even my 30s.
I think I'm grown out.
So I'll be like, you know, to be young, young and full of life.
Like, I just, it's so cool to see people show up and show off their talents with such confidence and like such joy in their eyes because they love what they're doing, man.
Yeah, so Got to see that and then also I went to visit my grandma.
I visited my grandma this weekend She's been in the hospital for about a week when I got into town.
She had already been moved to the rehabilitation type center And you know that they just want to make sure she good before she had home, but um Visited grandma and she did tell me I put on some weight Love you grandma.
She she one of those grandmas that don't let you know they were shy away from that
Love her dearly, but she was like, yeah, you look nice.
Your face is full.
I was like, put on a few bouts.
She said, don't do it no more.
What do you mean by that?
Yeah, she don't care.
She'll tell you what she means.
She said, don't gain no more weight.
I'm getting big.
I'll say, all right, that's cool.
She also complained about not getting enough attention.
But she loves attention.
Listen, I ain't going to say.
She's a Jehovah's Witness, so she don't believe in this.
But she's an August Leo, whether she believes it or not.
She won't that attention and she gonna get it She gonna get it, but shout out to my uncle how he's been holding it down shout out to my mom Well, and when we get back I'm gonna talk about a few other things that I got into I really want to talk about Asian Street food night market because I went there too like I told y'all and um It was a good turnout it was fun, but I saw some clips on the internet was I throwing hands or was they throwing hands?
We don't talk about it when we get back
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But before we get into Asian Street Food Night Market, which I told y'all we was going to talk about because I went there.
I came, I saw, and I conquered.
I seen it.
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handle is on your right.
they only got tall
How
Really?
Yeah.
I didn't say that on there.
Don't worry.
I wonder if anybody else went over to the Asian Street Food Night Market because I headed over there.
It was at Veterans Park, right?
They had a
Turn out like veterans park.
I feel like it felt smaller because it was so past Yeah, those those lines were longer than locus.
All right in the prices, okay?
Bobby Brown ain't got nothing on them prices.
They was high.
Okay, so listen To try to get anything we gonna kick the story off by explaining to y'all how long these lines were
to get anything you had to divide and conquer.
Like I have some cousins in one line, some cousins in the other line.
We share what we wanted and we just waited in these lines.
And then for me, I was walking around looking for a shorter line just in case it was somewhere else.
Like it became the point where you don't even care what you're gonna get.
You're like, whichever line is shortest, that's where I'm gonna go.
Okay, that's exactly what we were doing at that point.
Well, I was, I was like, listen, if I find a shorter line, I'm buying whatever they got.
They can send me sell me Vienna sausages and Raymond noodles.
I don't care.
All right.
But to get anything, that's what you had to do.
And you were hoping to find like a shorter line.
Um, after all that, I did end up getting like candy fruit, which was like literally like grapes, strawberries, grape, strawberry dipped in like, like.
Sugar I don't like it was just
probably like melted jolly rancher literally
difference?
I'm not gonna lie.
That sounds disgusting.
Korean
Yeah, that's a... I don't think that's traditional, y'all.
But hey, I got it.
I was happy I got something.
It was a lot.
So it was so packed like I ended up actually leaving like after we got food because there's not a lot to do.
So if you're there looking for like the like, oh, I want to indulge myself in the culture.
Right.
You, you, you, it ain't going to be too much indulgent going on.
It's just a bunch of long lines to get.
TikTok food.
That's what I thought I feel like maybe the like maybe the real food like had longer lines and that's why I ended up where I was but Yeah, so that's what happened ended up leaving there's not much entertainment going on they had one entertainment stage where like people were performing I think they could just perform randomly, right and That was okay, but we left but it looks like After leaving a little drama
Kicked off I wasn't in it y'all like I said I'll let y'all know when we got back that if I was in it or not I don't I don't think I was in it But there was a little disruption and a video starts circulating on Facebook showing that fights was breaking out.
We do have the videos we we do We do have the video and Zach is playing it right now.
So if you're if you're available go over to YouTube
You can you can check out the video of what went down You can check out what went down at the the the market it was getting down them brothers was fast as lightning So yeah, man, it was gonna act if in look I don't know why people act like Milwaukee problems only belong to one community
I genuinely feel like all these communities got their own mess going on, as we see.
Look, they quick to be like, when the black people show up, stuff start going down.
That's how they act.
They be like, oh, the black people came to Asian Fest and now it's a fight.
But as you see in these videos, the black people was bystanders.
They just was eating Korean corn dogs and they overpriced fruit.
That's how we were doing.
We was like, this ain't got nothing to do with us, but we will watch.
We will observe.
What it mandated reporters they record they post online and they keep them moving we was doing all right Okay, we didn't jump in it was minding our business.
All right And it was it was a nice nice amount of black people in there trying to check out the vibes get some food and enjoy the culture But like I said every group has its own mess going on Look at it.
That was getting down And it got me thinking like as much mess
that goes on on Milwaukee's north side and all the grief that like black people get when we show up to these events or like they they act like we show up to the event of their goals in neighborhood.
I will say I grew up on the north side born and raised there went through straight off of Congress.
Fifty first to be specific.
That street y'all keep rolling down when y'all on a high speed chase.
Yeah, that one born and raised there.
I stayed there until I moved.
Right.
And I will say I went to Congress Elementary.
The very first kid to ever that I ever knew that had been shot was an Asian kid because his brother was in an Asian gang.
He was like 10.
Sounds pretty violent to me.
I went to Congress.
Y'all know what Congress is.
I went to Congress Elementary.
So you know, it's so like it's not very diverse, but the only kid that got shot
He was Asian.
The first shootout I ever witnessed.
Live and in living color, y'all.
Was at Neen Park.
Me and my mom, we went to Wendy's.
We was like, we gonna eat our Wendy's in the park.
We gonna have a little mother-daughter time.
My agent jumped out the car.
They was chasing each other around the park.
The N-word FU.
FU N-word.
We looking around like,
where the
They
They would talk about each other.
They pulled out a gun and started shooting at each other.
I was like, I don't think it's time to go.
I was really young then.
So like I said, every community has its issues, but too often the black community's mess is what gets highlighted.
It gets repeated and pushed out the hardest.
Sometimes, a lot of times, by people outside of our community.
Yeah, it's too much.
I feel like we also push out our own BS, right?
But then for some reason people is obsessed with our BS.
You know what I'm saying?
Our stuff spreads so much because not only are we pushing it, but other people from outside our community are pushing it too.
That's weird activity.
They love that.
Listen, they love us.
And I guess it makes me wonder.
Why is it that our mess is what's being pushed out?
Because like I said, all of the festivals this year seem to have a little commotion.
But something is like you would think, right?
Like, oh, Asian festival is going to be so peaceful.
And they was throwing hands and feet.
They was getting down in the videos.
And there's multiple videos.
It wasn't just one bite.
It wasn't.
Yeah, let me pull up this other one, matter of
Right.
Brothers are going to pull up another clip for us.
Because it wasn't just one fight, which is crazy to me.
It's one of those things where it really makes you think, why is it that we push this narrative that, oh, it's only the north side.
It's only the black people in Milwaukee.
They're the problem.
You hear that too much.
Brothers, you got the video clip over there.
But yeah, that's just what's on my mind today.
It was definitely a good time.
I had fun at Asian Fest.
Like I said, it was something to experience.
A lot of things are something to experience.
Would I pay $13 for five pieces of fruit on a stick again?
Probably not.
But I feel like they didn't have the price up either.
Did
they do that on purpose?
Of course, I'm going to give you my money for whatever you got.
They could have gave me a cup and one grape.
And I would have been like, you know what?
I waited for this.
I'm going to pay for it.
That's what I would have did.
So they knew.
But yeah, when we get back, is that going to play that clip for us?
And then we're going to move along and we're going to-
I'm going to play it as we're going out because I don't know if there's customers.
You already go.
He's
Why
are you doing this?
You guys are listening to the lunch break with Ray Nitty and maybe Shannon.
It's only maybe Shannon today, but y'all gonna be okay.
Y'all in good hands.
We got brother Z holding it down with the production in the sound.
All right, so even though Ray is missed, we got this, all right?
Listen, let's kick it to the chat before we get back into my weekend story and head into another conversation.
Y'all see why we was talking about playing at what we play.
Y'all
Long term long term storytelling is what that's called long term
I like that brothers.
Yeah, I like that So let's kick into the chat.
We got Dr. Robert B. Go Baker Shannon.
What's up?
What's so we got liquid?
I thought Shannon was from Baltimore.
Why would I be from Baltimore?
I ain't never been to Baltimore.
What do I look like I'm from Baltimore?
I'm from a walkie's north side.
I don't play like that.
Anyways
Liquid
He said put them hands down Can't do that on can't do that in on the radio, so I don't do it no more but any who?
One of ones that mission and fine every day OMG.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I try I try thank you liquid also said you want the Korean experience pay the tax, but we're paying tariffs
Pieces of fruit, it wasn't even like a mango and an apple, like a full piece of fruit.
I'm talking one grape, a singular grape, a single little strawberry, five stacked on a stick, candy coated, and I paid $13 for that.
That ain't no text, that's highway robbery
is what they call it.
Blink stare, blink blink, I'm just staring at the screen.
I was like, I guess I gotta pay.
I waited for 30 minutes for this.
Geez.
Anywho.
Yeah, RSC said OMG.
Not really a city girl.
What's up?
What's up?
I'm holding it down.
Solo dolo.
Shout out to Raido.
I know that's right.
But let's get back into my weekend story, y'all.
And how it ties into the next thing I want to talk about, right?
So after a long day, you know, after Asian Fest, you know, they, they, they.
was holding it down over there, knocking each other upside the head, but then I was gone and I was back in Brookfield.
And I decided I wanted a little drinky drink, right?
I wasn't looking for a party.
I was just looking for a cute little sip, sip, some calm, right?
And this is Brookfield, mind y'all, right?
I don't play in them people territory
too often.
Yeah, that's where the flock cameras be at.
That's where
the flock cameras at, and that's where the Tom Tiffany signs is at too, and I'm gonna tell y'all why I knew that.
Because I was like, let me find a small local bar.
That's all I wanted.
I was like, I'm going to go to a small, you know, bar off somewhere, right?
So the closest small bar I could find, the parking lot was real dark.
It was like two cars in there.
I was like, OK.
Then I was like driving around because I like to drive around before I park some places just to make sure I'm safe.
They was riddled with Tom Tiffany signs.
And you know, I was like, you know.
I could go in.
I'm just here for a drink.
I'm not here to make
no friends,
I don't care what y'all got going on.
But then I was like, I got my truth shirt on because True Family Fest was that morning.
I got the truth band that said Black Talk Media and all that.
And I was like, all right, they don't take kindly to that around there.
So I was like, I'm not going there.
Maybe not tonight.
That could be a conversation starter.
So I took my black toe over to Bar Louie.
That's where I went.
And it was more populated, of course.
It was pretty packed at the bar.
There's more cameras, more light in the parking lot.
So if I go missing, they can't say, oh, she went missing from the bar.
She might've hung herself like everybody else been doing.
Wait, that's what I think when I see stuff like that.
So I just did not go.
And I went to Bar Louie, where we gonna have eyes on me.
You know, I gotta be smarter, work smarter, not harder.
So I went to Bar Louie, and you know what?
Like I said, it was more popular.
And then sure enough, I ended up meeting people, you know, and like I said,
What I had on was a conversation starter.
It was to Jamaican sit next to me at the bar and I had my true first man on and obviously they're all black talk.
What's that all about?
And we start talking about it because they told me that they were pretty new to America.
And one of them start talking like about kind of how Americans have these stereotypes and prejudgements, right?
And he was like, I hope our conversation shows you like, we're not like how they make us seem blah, blah.
And of course that turned into a whole conversation about relationships and misunderstanding and like how African Americans and black people from other parts of the world view each other.
Because personally for me, I know what I think.
I don't think what I know.
A lot of them black, I know black.
I know African American.
They don't want to be African American.
They don't like us.
They be African, Jamaican, Puerto Rican.
Oh, but they love saying that.
They love it.
They love it.
puppy.
No, so black.
No,
Excuse me.
Misunderstanding about us because American media they're watching what?
American media is putting out and they have these pre judgments about us and in turn It's just a big misunderstanding and like while talking to him.
He did Bring up like I guess I don't know much about African-American history.
I don't know like why it is the way it is I don't know why y'all like be so mad about XYZ and I'm just like, you know me.
I'm a yapper
I'm going to run it down a little bit.
I'm going to pull up some TikToks for you.
I'm going to be like, this is the rundown.
That's why we do what we do.
And that's perfect because later on, I see a clip of Master P. And we're going to talk about him and what bothered me mostly about this clip is what I got from it, what I felt from it was that he was saying, forget our history.
And it's so important not to do that.
And we gonna talk more about that, but I'm gonna ask Zach to play the clip for y'all.
And y'all tell me what y'all got from this clip.
Let me know what y'all feeling.
You don't have to be the smartest person in the world.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist.
You just gotta have integrity and do good business.
And these doors will open up for you, building great relationships.
And I think that's the biggest thing for me, trying to get that.
Negative minds set out our culture because they still going back to who man slavery.
They did us this and I'm like You still hoping on that man?
I never hoped on that because I can't change the past but I can change the future and I think you got to get used to us being successful and I think a lot of us We block our own blessings because we don't think that we could do it because we're looking at a color
So, I mean, Muhammad Ali was a guy that, and I love, like, his story because he didn't care about that.
He just wanted to be around good people, but he did represent for the culture.
And I want more African-American-owned tennis shoe companies.
I don't want this just to be me.
I want so many different product brands owned by us, but making it for everybody.
Because think about it.
When other cultures make products, they don't make it for them.
They make it for everybody.
And so I want that mindset of our people.
If I could change that, that's the way we're going to bridge the wealth gap.
He encouraged black Americans to focus on building business, creating ownership and changing the future.
That's pretty much what he was saying.
But there was backlash and like I said it Masterpiece say he doesn't believe black people should keep going back to Slavery and harping on slavery and he argued that we can't change the past but we can change the future and That's where some people say hold on now including myself.
I don't know All right
Critics are not necessarily arguing against entrepreneurship.
Masterpy has spent decades preaching about ownership, financial literacy, economic empowerment.
He built No Limit Records independently and turned it into a major entertainment empire, which salute for that, right?
Love that.
I love that for him.
And yes, be successful, be financially literate, you know?
But a lot of critics said there's a difference between refusing to let history control your future and telling people to just stop talking about it.
Like when people say that it genuinely bothers me, you know what I'm saying?
Because slavery,
slavery
It was followed by Jim Crow segregation, redlining discriminatory housing policies, unequal access to education and employment and barriers to business ownership and wealth accumulation.
Those symptoms matter when we talk about weight, the racial wealth gap.
Look, I got a lot of rhyming words.
You know what I'm saying?
Those things matter.
We can't just be like, stop talking about it.
History, listen, history is bound to repeat itself if you don't know what happened.
That's all I'm saying.
Like, yeah, build your wealth, pop your stuff.
But what we ain't gonna do is just tell us to stop talking about our history when it genuinely matters right now today.
That's insane.
It's probably easy for somebody that's seen millions and millions of dollars.
Like, you know what?
Forget it.
Forget about it.
But not for the regular, regular person.
Not for us, right?
Federal Reserve data has shown a major gap in the median family wealth between white and black families.
That gap cannot be explained by individual efforts alone.
It also reflects generations of unequal access to land, housing, credit,
education, inheritance, and investments.
All right.
All right.
The history of housing is especially important for decades.
Government policy and private lending practices made it harder for black families to obtain mortgages to buy homes in neighborhoods where property values were later grew dramatically.
Right.
You couldn't even buy a house where you knew you was going to make some money off of it.
You don't get this one.
You can get this hut over here.
That ain't gonna be worth nothing tomorrow.
That's what you can get.
You don't get that.
But we don't get more, we don't get deeper into it.
After we come back from break, we gotta head off to break.
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Yeah, y'all, Erie.
Hey, I could separate
a girl.
Wait,
We are talking about Master P in his latest interview where he described that he feels like to build wealth We need to start stop harping on the past.
We need to get over it
You know, I mean we need to Basically look up forward and not look backward don't get distracted by what was happening in the history and then oh Slavery did this and I don't don't talk about it.
Just get to work.
That's what it sound like to me And I'm asking y'all what it sounds like to y'all Right, and then I'm also giving y'all a little history lesson We talking about why it's important that we don't forget our history and why we are where we are today
Alright, we gonna kick it to the chat real quick.
We have Dr. Robert B. Biko Baker cooking and let it cook.
Yeah We also got Marty Gray He built no limit off drug money and and that's interesting too.
I mean, I don't know I wasn't You know what I mean, but what I can say
is it's easy to say just continue on when you build something off drug winning.
You don't need to ask for a loan.
You got the money.
You ain't gotta ask nobody.
You can just, you know, go under the mattress.
You ain't gotta get a line of credit.
You know what I'm saying?
You don't need to move into a better neighborhood to be successful.
Your neighborhood is where you're thriving.
off that drug money.
If that is the case, I haven't looked too deeply into that, so I don't know what he built no limit off of, but if so, I guess I could see why he could be like, you know what?
I don't think about all that slavery stuff, because I guess them dumping crack into our communities, he built his money off of that, but that's a whole other subject.
Here I go.
My bad.
Babar said, okay, Marty, but the country was built off of slavery.
and that puts us back where we was going, all right?
That part.
Period.
So, like I was saying before, the history of housing is especially important.
For decades, government policy and private lending practices made it harder for black families to obtain mortgages and buy homes in neighborhoods where property values later grew dramatically.
And home ownership is one of the biggest ways American families have historically
built and passed down well.
All right.
Black communities also built successful business districts, and sometimes those communities were attacked.
Tulsa Greenwood District, known as Black Wall Street, was destroyed by a white mob in 1921.
That never got back to where it was.
We had an interview on here talking about it.
how it could never be at its greatness, how it could never get back to where it was because they did what they did.
And it was so effective, right?
When we did try to mind our business and build our own, they said, ah, we don't like that.
Burn it down.
Somebody get a pitchfork.
Somebody get a tiki torch.
That's what they said.
They probably ain't literally said, but I think that's what they said.
That's how I envision those conversations going.
Somebody else said they need a white sheet, too.
get a tiki torch, and we gonna go to work.
That's what happened.
We wasn't in a community messing with that stuff.
We wasn't like, you know what, we gonna take over what they got.
We gonna integrate.
We gonna get in a, we went upstairs.
We tried to build what was ours.
And they got their tiki torches, they got their little hoods, and they got active.
And they tore us apart.
So back to what I was saying, Tulsa's Greenwood district, known as Black Wall Street, was destroyed by a white mob in 1921.
Rosewood, Florida was destroyed in racial violence in 1923.
So when people say just build wealth, some black Americans respond, build with what access, what protection, and what starting point, mind you, when we talked about what happened in Tulsa, I think the only people that got arrested were the black people that was trying to defend themselves.
Yeah, so what protection?
You know, build it, burn it down, and we're gonna be like, we gotta protect ourselves, and we're gonna go to show.
See, I was gonna get into that C'mon, right, Lil' Anthony stuff again, because you know, see what happens when you protect yourself.
Anyways, moving onward.
Moving onward.
And then there's the comparison people make to Germany's response to the Holocaust.
I feel like that's not even talked about enough, right?
I don't think that's talked about enough.
So Germany did not build its modern identity by pretending the Holocaust never happened.
The country developed systems of education, memorialization, legal accountability, and compensation for their survivors.
Right?
Germany's process by far was not perfect, right?
It was not perfect.
But the accountability did not happen overnight.
The remembrance became part of a national culture rather than something survivors
We're simply told to get over as when you talk African-Americans, we're told to get over it.
It was long ago.
My grandmother was born in the 30s.
She's still kicking.
She just told me off the fact the other day I told y'all that.
Damn.
She is still alive and well.
So she was born in an era where it was still very slave-like.
And you telling me to get over it, we're still feeling the effects to this day.
All right.
Anywho now we compare that with the United States Somebody said the 30 stop line my grandmother is 90 something years old that beautiful lady that beautiful chocolate drop They called me fat the other day.
Yes She's in her 90s very alive and very well.
She she been giving them people a she double hockey sticks up in there They said she she don't press the call, but she just yeah, hello
Hello!
But that's me going off on a tangent.
I'm talking about something else.
We can talk about my grandma later on.
But yeah.
Now compare that with the United States slavery ended in 1865, but the federal government never created a national reparation program for the descendants of enslaved people.
Congress has passed separate resolutions apologizing for slavery in Jim Crow.
But the country has never reached a full national consensus on repair or restitution.
Crazy, because I think the Asians got stuff like
everybody.
Like why did they deserve it?
But we don't like I don't I don't get it
like.
And if they acknowledge that what we did was wrong, they feel like it'll be a segue into us being like, okay, well, you owe us.
That's what I think.
I heard a while ago, right, that there are white families that have documents that could potentially like,
Place us with our other families because people were separated and sold and all the all those things That they have in their attics that show where who was sold to so we can be back with our families or kind of put pieces of our history together because a lot of black people don't know Anything past they grandma
that we can't do no and we can't do no ancestry
This is a great great grandpa.
We don't know that right so I do feel like
A part of it is them being afraid that we will want what's ours or we will want steak and what they family have.
Right?
And like I said, Germany did something different and that distinction matters because an apology is not the same thing as repair.
The effects of those policies are still measurable.
Enslaved people were denied wages and property, formerly enslaved people.
received little meaningful land after emancipation.
Black families were later excluded from many programs and practices that helped white families purchase homes and build assets.
So when black Americans talk about slavery, Jim Crow, redlining or racial violence, they are not necessarily refusing to move forward.
They may be explaining why the starting line was never equal.
And this is where I think both sides of the conversation can exist at the same time.
Master P has a point when he says constantly looking backward cannot be the only strategy.
He's correct.
That can be our only strategy, but I do feel like we can't erase our history or act like that's okay because that's what people want us to do.
Just forget about our history.
My bad.
The other takeaway though is like to not cater to just black people with whatever your business is.
Like cater to everybody.
So black communities need businesses, property, investments, intellectual property, political power and institutions that can pass assets to the next generation.
But his critics have a point too, and we'll get into that.
After these messages, we can be right back.
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One on one point seven.
You're listening to the lunch lunch break with baby Shannon and right now I'm only here today.
We're going to get to the chat real quick before we head out to break.
We have RC creations.
America was built off.
Oh, I'm sorry.
America was built on a lot of things too.
Even drugs are somewhere within that story.
We've got, I know that's right.
Dr. Baker, Biko Baker said, hello.
Taji said, not fat.
Yes.
You know, grandma don't play.
She don't care who she is saw.
She been around
long enough.
And that's wild.
She don't care.
That's wild.
Almost said a bad word, but I'm on points today.
Y'all ain't gonna catch me slipping.
Look, Raiden left me in charge.
I'm in charge.
You in charge.
I wanna hear you say that.
I'm in charge.
Say it.
I'm in charge.
You my partner.
I know.
Say I'm in charge.
I'm in charge.
That's how I feel, y'all.
But before we get into Asian Street Food Night Market,
Which I told y'all we was going to talk about because I went there.
I came, I saw, and I conquered.
I seen it.
I seen all the things with my eyes.
So I'm going to give y'all my first hand experience.
But before that, I got something on the menu.
Zach brought me the menu.
And I'm going to tell y'all what's on it.
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Whoo!
Man, y'all, I'm trying to get in this seat.
Look, my legs swinging and stuff.
I don't know how to adjust the chair up in here.
If y'all see me fidgeting, that's what I'm trying to do.
The handle is on your right.
It's all right.
I'm going to kick off my sandals.
I told y'all I was going to get real comfy.
Well, they've fallen off anyways, cause my feet swinging.
Look, they only got tall people up here, for real.
Feet ain't even touching the bar that your feet supposed to sit on.
But hey, who?
Goodness.
They gotta have to.
How short are you?
Okay now.
All right.
It's all about the heart.
It's not about the height.
Dang it.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
So.
I didn't say that on there, don't worry.
With that being said, I went to Asian Night Market, y'all.
I wonder if anybody else went over to the Asian Street Food Night Market.
Because I headed over there, it was at Veterans Park, right?
They had a turnout.
Veterans Park, I feel like it felt smaller because it was so packed.
Yeah.
those those lines were longer than locus all right in the prices okay bobby brown ain't got nothing on them prices they was high okay so listen to try to get anything we're gonna kick the story off by explaining to y'all how long these lines were
to get anything you had to divide and conquer.
Like I have some cousins in one line, some cousins in the other line.
We share what we wanted and we just waited in these lines.
And then for me, I was walking around looking for a shorter line just in case it was somewhere else.
Like it became the point where you don't even care what you're gonna get.
You're like, whichever line is shortest, that's where I'm gonna go.
Okay, that's exactly what we were doing at that point.
Well, I was, I was like, listen, if I find a shorter line, I'm buying whatever they got.
They can send me sell me Vienna sausages and Raymond noodles.
I don't care.
Damn.
All right.
But to get anything, that's what you had to do.
And you were hoping to find like a shorter line.
After all that, I did end up getting like candy fruit, which was like literally like grapes, strawberries, grape, strawberry dipped in like like.
Sugar I don't like it was just probably like melted Jolly Rancher literally kind of what it was and it was like $13.
I got five pieces of small fruit $13.
I felt like I did something good with my life though cuz I got it You know what I mean?
It took 15 to 30 minutes, but I got my candy fruit and then I got Korean corn dogs for the first time
What's the difference?
Listen, I personally feel like this is made up.
I don't know if they eaten that in Korea.
It was literally like the corn outside of a corn dog with mozzarella cheese.
And then when you got to the bottom, it was like a little Vienna sausage there.
I'm not gonna lie.
That sounds disgusting.
It was, it was, it was something.
And then they have hot Cheeto chips on the top.
I don't know if that's a Korean thing.
I feel like this might be a TikTok Korean thing.
Yeah, that's a... I don't think that's traditional, y'all.
But hey, I got it.
I was happy I got something.
It was a lot.
So it was so packed, like I ended up actually leaving like after we got food because there's not a lot to do.
So if you're there looking for like the like, oh, I want to indulge myself in the culture.
Right.
You, you, you, it ain't going to be too much indulgent going on.
It's just a bunch of long lines to get.
Pigtok food.
That's what I thought I feel like maybe the like maybe the real food like had longer lines and that's why I ended up where I was but Yeah, so that's what happened ended up leaving there's not much entertainment going on they had one entertainment stage where like people were performing I think they could just perform randomly, right and That was okay, but we left but it looks like After leaving a little drama
Kicked off I wasn't in it y'all like I said I'll let y'all know when we got back that if I was in it or not I don't I don't think I was in it But there was a little disruption and the video starts circulating on Facebook showing that fights was breaking out.
We do have the videos we we do We do have the video and Zach is playing it right now.
So if you're if you're available go over to YouTube
You can check out the video of what went down.
You can check out what went down at the market.
It was getting down.
Them brothers was fast as lightning.
So yeah man, it was getting active.
And look, I don't know why people act like Milwaukee problems only belong to one community.
I genuinely feel like all these communities got their own mess going on.
As we see, look, they quick to be like, when the black people show up, stuff start going down.
That's how they act.
They be like, oh, the black people came to Asian Fest and now it's a fight.
But as you see in these videos, the black people was bystanders.
They just was eating, they Korean corn dogs and then they overpriced.
That's how we were doing.
We was like, this ain't got nothing to do with us, but we will watch.
We will observe.
what it mandated reporters they record they post online and they keep them moving we was doing all right okay we didn't jump in it was minding our business all right and it was it was a nice nice amount of black people in there trying to check out the vibes get some food and enjoy uh the culture but like i said every group has its own mess going on look at it that was getting down uh and it got me thinking like
It's much mess that goes on on Milwaukee's north side at all the grief that like black people get when we show up to these events or like They they act like we show up to the event up there goes the neighborhood I will say I grew up on the north side born and raised there went through Straight off of Congress 50 first to be specific that street y'all keep rolling down when y'all on a high speed chase Yeah, that one Born and raised there.
I stayed there until I moved
Right, and I will say I went to Congress Elementary the very first kid to ever That I ever knew that had been shot was an Asian kid cuz his brother was in an Asian gang Sounds pretty violent to me.
I'm like, bro.
Like I went to a predominantly black school.
I went to Congress y'all know what Congress I want to Congress Elementary So, you know, it's so
Like, it's not very diverse, but the only kid that got shot, he was Asian.
The first shootout I ever witnessed, live and in living color, y'all.
Was at Neen Park.
Me and my mom, we went to Wendy's.
We was like, we gonna eat our Wendy's in the park.
We gonna have a little mother daughter time.
Asian's jump out the car.
They was chasing each other around the park.
N-word, F-U.
F-U, N-word.
We looking around like, where's N-words at?
Where they at?
No, it was them.
They were talking about each other.
They were talking about each other.
They pulled out a gun and started shooting at each other.
I was like, mom, I think it's time to go.
I was really young then.
So like I said, every community has its issues, but too often the black community's mess is what gets highlighted.
It gets repeated and pushed out the hardest.
Sometimes, a lot of times, by people outside,
of our community.
Yeah.
It's too much.
I feel like we also push out our own BS, right?
But then for some reason, people is obsessed with our BS.
You know what I'm saying?
Our stuff spreads so much because not only are we pushing it, but other people from outside our community are pushing it too.
That's weird activity.
It's weird activity, but they love it.
They love that.
Listen, they love us.
And I guess it makes me wonder why is it that our mess is what's being pushed out?
Because like I said, all of the festivals this year seem to have a little commotion.
But something is like you would think, right?
Like, oh, Asian festival is going to be so peaceful.
And they was throwing hands and feet.
They was getting down in the videos.
And there's multiple videos.
It wasn't just one bite.
It wasn't.
Yeah, let me pull up this other one, matter of fact.
Right.
Brothers he gonna pull up pull up another clip for us because it wasn't just one fight Which is crazy to me.
It's one of those things where it really makes you think why is it?
That we push this narrative that oh, it's only the north side is only the black people in Milwaukee.
They're the problem.
You hear that too much Brothers he got the video clip over there But yeah, that's just what's on my mind today
It was definitely a good time.
I had fun at Asian Fest.
Like I said, it was something to experience.
A lot of things are something to experience.
Would I pay $13 for five pieces of fruit on a stick again?
Probably not.
But I feel like they didn't have the price up either.
They do that on purpose.
Yeah, because I waited 30 minutes in a line.
Of course, I'm going to give you my money for whatever you got.
They could have gave me a cup and one grape.
And I would have been like, you know what?
I waited for this.
I'm going to pay for it.
That's what I would have did.
So they knew.
But yeah, when we get back, is that going to play that clip for us?
And then we're going to move along.
I'm going to play it as we're going out, because I don't know if there's cuss in it.
You already go.
He going to play the clip right now as we go out to our break.
Make sure you give us a call at 833-212-1017 if you want to share any thoughts, views, or opinions.
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Why
are you playing?
What?
You guys are listening to the lunch break with Ray Nitty and maybe Shannon.
It's only maybe Shannon today, but y'all gonna be OK.
Y'all in good hands.
We got Brother Z holding it down with the production in the sound.
All right.
So even though Ray is missed, we got this.
All right.
Listen, let's kick it to the chat before we get back into my weekend story and head into another conversation.
Y'all see why we was talking about playing what we play.
Y'all see.
Long-term long-term storytelling is what that's called
I like that brothers.
Yeah, I like that So let's kick into the chat.
We got Dr. Robert B. Go Baker Shannon.
What's up?
What's so we got liquid?
I thought Shannon was from Baltimore.
Why would I be from Baltimore?
I ain't never been to Baltimore.
What do I look like I'm from Baltimore?
I'm from a walkie's north side.
I don't play like that.
Anyways
Liquid
He said put them hands down Can't do that on can't do that in on the radio, so I don't do it no more but any who?
One of ones that mission and fine every day OMG.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I try I try thank you liquid also said you want the Korean experience pay the tax, but we paying tariffs
Pieces of fruit, it wasn't even like a mango and an apple, like a full piece of fruit.
I'm talking one grape, a singular grape, a single little strawberry, five, stacked on a stick, candy coated, and I paid $13 for that.
That ain't no text, that's highway robbery is what they call it.
That's robbery, and they didn't have the price up.
Blink stare, blink blink, I'm just staring at the screen.
I was like, I guess I gotta pay.
I waited for 30 minutes for this.
Geez.
Anywho.
Yeah, RC said OMG.
Not really a city girl.
What's up?
What's up?
I'm holding it down.
Solo dolo.
Shout out to Rado.
I know that's right.
But let's get back into my weekend story, y'all.
And how it ties into the next thing I want to talk about, right?
So after a long day, you know, after Asian Fest, you know, they, they, they.
was holding it down over there, knocking each other upside the head, but then I was gone and I was back in Brookfield.
And I decided I wanted a little drinky drink, right?
I wasn't looking for a party.
I was just looking for a cute little sip, sip, some calm, right?
And this is Brookfield, mind y'all, right?
I don't play in them people territory too often.
Yeah, that's where the flock cameras
That's where the flock cameras at, and that's where the Tom Tiffany signs is at too, and I'm gonna tell y'all why I knew that.
Because I was like, let me find a small local bar.
That's all I wanted.
I was like, I'm going to go to a small, you know, bar off somewhere, right?
So the closest small bar I could find, the parking lot was real dark.
It was like two cars in there.
I was like, OK.
Then I was like driving around because I like to drive around before I park some places just to make sure I'm safe.
They was riddled with Tom Tiffany signs.
And you know, I was like, you know.
I could go in.
I'm just here for a drink.
I'm not here to make no friends.
No way.
I don't care what y'all got going on.
But then I was like, I got my truth shirt on because True Family Fest was that morning.
I got the truth band that said Black Talk Media and all that.
And I was like, all right.
They don't take kindly to that around there.
So I was like, I'm not going there.
Maybe not tonight.
That could be a conversation starter.
So I took my black toe over to Bar Louie.
That's where I went.
And it was more populated, of course.
It was pretty packed at the bar.
There's more cameras, more light in the parking lot.
So if I go missing, they can't say, oh, she went missing from the bar.
She might've hung herself like everybody else been doing.
Wait, that's what I think when I see stuff like that.
So I just did not go.
And I went to Bar Louie, where we gonna have eyes on me.
You know, I gotta be smarter.
Work smarter, not harder.
So I went to Bar Louie, and you know what?
Like I said, it was more popular.
And then, sure enough, I ended up meeting people, you know, and like I said,
What I had on was a conversation starter.
It was to Jamaican sit next to me at the bar.
And I had my true first man on and obviously there were black talk.
What's that all about?
And we start talking about it because they told me that they were pretty new to America.
And one of them start talking about how Americans have these stereotypes and prejudgments.
And he was like, I hope our conversation shows you we're not like how they make us seem and blah, blah.
And of course, that turned into a whole conversation about relationships and misunderstanding and how African-Americans and Black people from other parts of the world view each other.
Because personally, for me, I know what I think.
I know what I think, what I know.
A lot of them, I know Black.
I know African-American.
They don't want to be African-American.
They don't like us.
They be African, Jamaican, Puerto Rican.
Oh, but they love saying that.
puppy.
No, so
No, so black.
I had an African friend.
She was like, why do y'all like Henny so much?
I'll be like, I got the Henny.
They don't like I think they have this misunderstanding about us because American media they're watching what?
American media is putting out and they have these pre judgments about us and in turn It's just a big misunderstanding and like while talking to him.
He did bring up like I guess I don't know much about African-American history.
I don't know like why it is the way it is I don't know why y'all like be so mad about XYZ and I'm just like, you know me.
I'm a yapper
I'm going to run it down a little bit.
I'm going to pull up some TikToks for you.
I'm going to be like, this is the rundown.
That's why we do what we do.
And that's perfect because later on I see a clip of Master P. And we're going to talk about him and what bothered me mostly about this clip is what I got from it, what I felt from it was that he was saying, forget our history.
And it's so important not to do that.
And we gonna talk more about that, but I'm gonna ask Zach to play the clip for y'all.
And y'all tell me what y'all got from this clip.
Let me know what y'all feeling.
You don't have to be the smartest person in the world.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist.
You just gotta have integrity and do good business.
And these doors will open up for you, building great relationships.
And I think that's the biggest thing for me, trying to get that.
negative mindset out of our culture because they still going back to old man slavery.
They did us this and I'm like, you still hoping on that man.
I never hoped on that because I can't change the past, but I can change the future.
And I think you got to get used to us being successful.
And I think a lot of us, we block our own blessings because we don't think that we could do it because we're looking at a color.
So, I mean, Muhammad Ali was a guy that, and I love, like, his story, because he didn't care about that.
He just wanted to be around good people, but he did represent for the culture.
And I want more African-American-owned tennis shoe companies.
I don't want this just to be me.
I want so many different product brands owned by us, but making it for everybody.
Because think about it.
When other cultures make products, they don't make it for them.
They make it for everybody.
And so I want that mindset of our people.
If I could change that, that's the way we're going to bridge the wealth gap.
He encouraged black Americans to focus on building business, creating ownership and changing the future.
That's pretty much what he was saying.
But there was backlash and like I said it Masterpiece say he doesn't believe black people should keep going back to Slavery and harping on slavery and he argued that we can't change the past but we can change the future and That's where some people say hold on now including myself.
I don't know All right
Critics are not necessarily arguing against entrepreneurship.
Masterpy has spent decades preaching about ownership, financial literacy, economic empowerment.
He built No Limit Records independently and turned it into a major entertainment empire, which salute for that, right?
Love that.
I love that for him.
And yes, be successful, be financially literate, you know?
But a lot of critics said there's a difference between refusing to let history control your future and telling people to just stop talking about it.
Like when people say that it genuinely bothers me, you know what I'm saying?
Because slavery, slavery did not just leave behind memories.
It was followed by Jim Crow segregation, redlining discriminatory housing policies, unequal access to education and employment and barriers to business ownership and wealth accumulation.
Those symptoms matter when we talk about weight, the racial wealth gap.
Look, I got a lot of rhyming words.
You know what I'm saying?
Those things matter.
We can't just be like, stop talking about it.
History, listen, history is bound to repeat itself if you don't know what happened.
That's all I'm saying.
Like, yeah, build your wealth, pop your stuff.
But what we ain't gonna do is just tell us to stop talking about our history when it genuinely matters right now today.
That's insane.
It's probably easy for somebody that's seen millions and millions of dollars.
Like, you know what?
Forget it.
Forget about it.
But not for the regular, regular person.
Not for us, right?
Federal Reserve data has shown a major gap in the median family wealth between white and black families.
That gap cannot be explained by individual efforts alone.
It also reflects generations of unequal access to land, housing, credit,
education, inheritance, and investments.
All right?
All right?
The history of housing is especially important for decades.
Government policy and private lending practices made it harder for black families to obtain mortgages to buy homes in neighborhoods where property values were later grew dramatically.
Right?
You couldn't even buy a house where you knew you was gonna make some money off of it.
You don't get this one.
You can get this hut over here that ain't gonna be worth nothing tomorrow.
That's what you can get.
You don't get that.
But we don't get more, we don't get deeper into it after we come back from break.
We gotta head off to break.
We'll be right back.
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the artist from the BS.
But I'm
going to
Wait, what did he do?
That was him.
I don't know what he did.
Zach, don't play with me.
I was going to start from the top.
Play that clip one more time, please.
Wait, what did he do?
Yeah, so we are talking about Master P in his latest interview where he described that he feels like to build wealth.
We need to start.
Stop harping on the past.
We need to get over it.
You know what I mean?
We need to basically look forward and not look backward.
Don't get distracted by what was happening in the history.
And then, oh, slavery did this.
And I don't don't talk about it.
Just get to work.
That's what it sounds like to me.
And I'm asking y'all what it sounds like to y'all.
Right.
And then I'm also giving y'all a little history lesson.
We talking about why it's important that we don't.
forget our history and why we are where we are today.
All right.
We're going to kick it to the chat real quick.
We have Dr. Robert B. Biko Baker Cookchin and let it cook.
Yeah.
I'm cooking.
All right.
We also got Marty Gray.
He built no limit off drug money.
And that's interesting to I mean, I don't know.
I wasn't
peddling
You know what I mean?
But what I can say is it's easy to say just continue on when you build something off drug winning.
You don't need to ask for a loan.
You got the money.
You ain't got to ask nobody.
You can just, you know, go under the mattress.
You ain't got to get a line of credit.
You know what I'm saying?
You don't need to move into a better neighborhood to be successful.
Your neighborhood is where you thrive in.
off that drug money.
If that is the case, I haven't looked too deeply into that, so I don't know what he built no limit off of, but if so, I guess I could see why he could be like, you know what?
I don't think about all that slavery stuff, because I guess them dumping crack into our communities, he built his money off of that, but that's a whole other subject.
Here I go.
My bad.
Babar said, okay, Marty, but the country was built off of slavery.
and that puts us back where we was going, all right?
That part.
Period.
So, like I was saying before, the history of housing is especially important.
For decades, government policy and private lending practices made it harder for black families to obtain mortgages and buy homes in neighborhoods where property values later grew dramatically.
And home ownership is one of the biggest ways American families have historically
built and passed down well.
All right.
Black communities also built successful business districts, and sometimes those communities were attacked.
Tulsa Greenwood District, known as Black Wall Street, was destroyed by a white mob in 1921.
That never got back to where it was.
We had an interview on here talking about it.
how it could never be at its greatness, how it could never get back to where it was because they did what they did.
And it was so effective, right?
When we did try to mind our business and build our own, they said, ah, we don't like that.
Burn it down.
Somebody get a pitchfork.
Somebody get a tiki torch.
That's what they said.
They probably ain't literally said, but I think that's what they said.
That's how I envision those conversations going.
Somebody else said they need a white sheet, too.
get a tiki torch, and we gonna go to work.
That's what happened.
We wasn't in a community messing with that stuff.
We wasn't like, you know what, we gonna take over what they got.
We gonna integrate.
We gonna get in a, we won't, what's theirs.
We tried to build what was ours.
And they got their tiki torches, they got their little hoods, and they got active.
And they tore us apart.
So back to what I was saying, Tulsa's Greenwood district, known as Black Wall Street, was destroyed by a white mob in 1921.
Rosewood, Florida was destroyed in racial violence in 1923.
So when people say just build wealth, some black Americans respond, build with what access, what protection, and what starting point, mind you, when we talked about what happened in Tulsa, I think the only people that got arrested were the black people that was trying to defend themselves.
Yeah, so what protection?
You know, build it, burn it down, and we're gonna be like, we gotta protect ourselves, and we're gonna go to show.
See, I was gonna get into that C'mon Right, Low Anthony stuff again, because you know, see what happens when you protect yourself.
Anyways, moving onward.
Moving onward.
And then there's the comparison people make to Germany's response to the Holocaust.
I feel like that's not even talked about enough, right?
I don't think that's talked about enough.
So Germany did not build its modern identity by pretending the Holocaust never happened.
The country developed systems of education, memorialization, legal accountability, and compensation for their survivors.
Right?
Germany's process by far was not perfect, right?
It was not perfect.
But the accountability did not happen overnight.
The remembrance became part of a national culture rather than something survivors
We're simply told to get over.
As when you talk African-Americans, we're told to get over it.
It was long ago.
My grandmother was born in the 30s.
She's still kicking.
She just told me off the fact the other day I told y'all that.
Damn.
She is still alive and well.
So she was born.
In an era where it was still very slave like.
And you telling me to get over it.
We're still feeling the effects to this day.
All right.
Anywho now we compare that with the United States Somebody said the 30 stop line my grandmother is 90 something years old that beautiful lady that beautiful chocolate drop They called me fat the other day.
Yes She's in her 90s very alive and very well.
She she been giving them people a she double hockey sticks up in there They said she she don't press the call, but she just yeah, hello
Hello!
But that's me going off on a tangent.
I'm talking about something else.
We can talk about my grandma later on.
But yeah, now compare that with the United States slavery ended in 1865, but the federal government never created a national reparation program for the descendants of enslaved people.
Congress has passed separate resolutions apologizing for slavery in Jim Crow.
But the country has never reached a full national consensus on repair or restitution.
Crazy, because I think the Asians got stuff like
everybody.
Like why did they deserve it?
But we don't like I don't I don't get it
I personally feel like they are still reaping the benefits of what we went through.
And if they acknowledge that what we did was wrong, they feel like it'll be a segue into us being like, okay, well, you owe us.
That's what I think.
I heard a while ago, right, that there are white families that have documents that could potentially like,
Place us with our other families because people were separated and sold and all the all those things That they have in their attics that show where who was sold to so we can be back with our families or kind of put pieces of our history together because a lot of black people don't know Anything past they grandma
that we can't do no and we can't do
ancestry
This is a great great grandpa.
We don't know that right so I do feel like
A part of it is them being afraid that we will want what's ours or we will want steak and what they family have.
Right?
And like I said, Germany did something different and that distinction matters because an apology is not the same thing as repair.
The effects of those policies are still measurable.
Enslaved people were denied wages and property, formerly enslaved people.
received little meaningful land after emancipation.
Black families were later excluded from many programs and practices that helped white families purchase homes and build assets.
So when black Americans talk about slavery, Jim Crow, redlining or racial violence, they are not necessarily refusing to move forward.
They may be explaining why the starting line was never equal.
And this is where I think both sides of the conversation can exist at the same time.
Master P has a point when he says, constantly looking backward cannot be the only strategy.
He's correct.
That can be our only strategy, but I do feel like we can't erase our history or act like that's okay because that's what people want us to do.
Just forget about our history.
My bad.
The other takeaway though is like to not cater to just black people with whatever your business is, like cater to everybody.
So black communities need businesses, property, investments, intellectual property, political power and institutions that can pass assets to the next generation.
But his critics have a point too, and we'll get into that.
After these messages, we can be right back.
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Man that was good, but we was did we was digging into something better.
I'm gonna call that meat and potatoes.
It was getting into it.
All right You hear me Listen, so we were talking about masterpiece in his most recent interview where he talked about Building success and believing that you can't build success by looking back at our history and harping on slavery We talked about
How Germany handled the Holocaust versus how America handled slavery we talked about why history matters Right?
We talked about how we understand what he meant But we also want to get into why the critics have a point to and I know brother Z brought up a good point when he said I wonder why they don't want to pretty much
Acknowledge this happened and this still affects us to this day because like I said I think it's still happening and we still have byproducts of what happened and that's why They can't admit it because they still doing it.
They still eating off of what they did.
I Remember that there was an episode.
I don't know if any of you guys watched Atlanta with childish Gambino, but there was an episode that basically like if they did acknowledge it and give reparations where they would come from and like how it would come from like
the families that pretty much.
Profited off of the backs of slavery and like it's some people that are like, yeah, it makes sense.
But then people losing so much that they were used to have and they were committed suicide and all this crazy stuff.
But it's a good episode.
If you guys.
Watch it, you'll you'll see why I'm referencing it.
So shout out to Atlanta.
Make sure you guys watch that.
All right.
But but let's get into.
Why his critics have a point to.
You cannot fully understand today's wealth gap without understanding the history that helped create it.
Remembering slavery does not automatically mean having a victim mentality.
Demanding accountability does not mean refusing to work.
And wanting economic empowerment does not require pretending that the past has no connection to the present.
Okay?
Maybe it's history and entrepreneurship, right?
Because you got to know your history to know where you're going.
That's why you got so many people stuck because you know something ain't right, but you don't know what's right.
You don't know what's wrong.
You know what I'm saying?
So it's important for us to
know our history so we can avoid the same hiccups that we've had in the past.
It's important to know so we don't get got the same way that we had in the past.
If we don't know our history, if we don't know where we came from, if we don't know how we ended up in this place as is, we can't get out of this place.
So like I said, maybe the better conversation is history and entrepreneurship.
Robert Lance say you talking that talk shit and thank you.
Thank you Robert.
Thank you.
Let me get back in it now What happened Understand how it still affect know what happened right and understand how it still affects the present demand honest acknowledgement and meaningful repair Then use that that knowledge to build something your children and get grandchildren can inherit because remembering the past
and building the future do not have to be opposites.
So, cousins, here's the question, y'all.
Should black Americans be told to stop talking about slavery and focus only on building wealth?
Or do we believe America should fully acknowledge slavery?
Jim Crow, discriminatory practices and policies that helped create today's wealth gap before asking us to simply move on.
Which I think Like I said, it's a lot.
It's a lot to unpack there.
We can't just look at that clip and be like, you know what?
Mr. Master P had he had a he had a he had a point there, right?
Look some of the comments that they call him mass of P now He tried to come back and be like well, that ain't really what I was saying But it's very important people with a platform with a voice
Talk about those things with a lot of thoughtfulness It's very important that you you watch what you say because I feel like somebody that's been rich for a long time It's very easy to forget, right?
It's easy to forget like the the leverage that you that you hold You know what I mean?
Like it's one of those things where it's like you just say things and you later on you like oh well Like this is what I meant.
No say what you mean and mean what you say say it right now Say it right then and there
They calling them mass-a-p.
M-A-S-S-A y'all.
But are we really expecting him to be politically correct?
I think it was a Forbes interview.
He's talking business and telling us stop harping on slavery.
Don't even bring it up.
That's what I think if you don't have you haven't really thought about something as
Thought deeply about something as fragile as that even when like I was talking to these guys at Barlu I was like this is a conversation for when I'm sober But we can get into it a little bit because I got some things to say because I'm a yeah, no matter what but I was like We really got to dig into this when we sober because I can only tell you so much right now in a bar He's like tell me educate me.
Let me know about African-american.
I'm like
Yeah, and
sold them,
Slavery's over.
I don't feel no way.
No hard feelings.
Go, go do you.
After they had to fight to not be looked at.
It's pets basically we were property We wasn't they friend helping them build something and then after that when they was like Giving us money.
It wasn't nearly enough like when they were paying us for our services And then we didn't have the education So we didn't know that we were getting got like yeah, if you work a million hours.
I'll pay you 10 bucks.
You might get an acre Them people was working till they died if we being for real
A lot of them people that were trying to do the right thing and like, you know what?
I'm gonna work and I'm not they don't actually look out for me Working day and night.
I remember my grandma telling me she remembers her dad used to yell in his sleep like he was working like the cattle like he used to like have dreams about
all like having nightmares or something just like talking in his sleep
I'm not gonna lie, I have a confession.
confession?
It's been a while, but there's been times where I've woken myself up out of my sleep, because I've been screaming, like, go to break!
Exactly!
work!
So, that's crazy.
So, when you think
That's how much they was working in them fields Like when you do something so repetitively and so often that's like all you think you can't even escape from it in your sleep That's crazy crazy crazy work But after this break y'all I want to talk about Target's Halloween costume backlash this this was all over the place Target is once again facing some criticism
from parts of the black community we can talk about why they were facing it before we can talk about all the things but now you know halloween coming up they facing it once again and i'm gonna tell y'all why i think they keep falling into these uh why they keep falling into these these situations okay don't go anywhere you are listening to the lunch break on the truth 101.7 with ray nitty and maybe shannon i'm holding it down today but
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Man.
We getting into some meat and potatoes, y'all.
We cooking over here.
We cooking.
Look, he didn't gave me the mic and I didn't took off.
We definitely, we already got into Asian Fest.
We recapped my weekend.
We talked about how I went to Bar Louie because I was discouraged.
I saw too many Tom Tiffany signs at the first spot I wanted to go to.
Couldn't do that.
But then we also talked about how I got into a conversation about African American history at Bar Louie.
We talked about Master P and how in his latest interview he pretty much said that black people need to focus on success to forget our history.
We talked about that.
We played the clip.
But now we won't kick it off to something else that's been pretty hot.
The hot conversation, okay?
That it's taken off.
I've seen people talk about it all day yesterday.
I feel like we're the first people live on air to talk about it.
I do feel like we're the first to talk about this.
Right.
Target Halloween costume backlash.
All right.
So Target is once again facing criticism from parts of our black community.
And this time it is over a Halloween costume that many people say disturbingly looks similar to a racist black face, menstrual image imagery.
All right.
And this is important to talk about because we was we was just supposed to be
We're supposed to be a boycott in that place People still up in there giving money.
I didn't seen a few videos on the internet of people being harassed and they like I knew I shouldn't have been in there That's what I get for sneaking off in Target.
This is what I get So we once again Target is back back in the headlines in the controversy controversy centers around a children's
glows under dark or I'm sorry, under black like circus clown costume.
The name too much.
Y'all know y'all have to know good.
And it's from Target online.
So after the images of the costume circulated online, critics pointed to the dark face covering an exaggerated facial features and said the design evoked historical characters that were used to demean black people.
Yeah So so we see in this Halloween costume.
We were like, hmm That looks suspicious that that reminds us of something, right?
So here's the bigger issue for some black customers.
This isn't happening Out of happen chance.
Okay, this isn't just happening out of nowhere because Target has already they already have a complicated relationship with us in the black community because following the murder of George Floyd
The racial justice protest of 2020 target publicly committed billions of dollars toward black owned businesses and expanded diversity and inclusion initiatives.
They was like, we got y'all back.
We got you, gonna put billions into this.
Don't y'all worry.
That's what they said to us.
They said they got our back, but in 2025, remember, remember they started doing a DEI.
Cutbacks and troubles.
Yeah, we ain't got to do that no more.
They said cool They would they was like, you know what we ain't like on the way anyways in 2025 target announced that it was rolling back major portions of the diversity and equity inclusion efforts So they took they they were back there was like never mind Right that this shit that decision sparked backlash and helped fuel boycott efforts
And other activists stood on business.
They was like, nah, we ain't doing that.
Y'all literally promised us billions.
Y'all promised to make us feel equal.
And in 2025, look, gotta hear my face.
Well, we ain't have to.
They said never mind.
But not every black business owner supported that boycott because some black owned brands rallied.
On target for access to millions of shoppers or rely.
I'm sorry.
They rely on target for access to millions of shoppers So there has never been one single black community position on the company But that history is why this Halloween costume controversy is hitting different Yeah, so I want
Want this video to play this is I'm showing the image right here Well brothers he is showing us the image of what people kind of think this looks like The posing and everything right that's what they had on their website It's insane the kid is posed just like the caricature and I'm gonna play this clip that I found online and I thought it was really good because it's
Two white people from a white person, but it's actually good for us as well because like we said before we have a lot of people That think we should forget our history and she gives a little bit of a history lesson So go ahead play that clip for us brothers.
Clown.
What's the problem?
Target put this children's Halloween costume on its website and black users on threads immediately recognized the imagery as reminiscent of historic menstrual caricatures Q white people in their comments saying I just see a clown so white person a white person Let's dive into why that reaction just makes you look like kind of a clown
Let's start with minstrel shows.
These were wildly popular 19th century performances where white actors would darken their faces and perform exaggerated racist caricatures of black people, portraying them as lazy, ignorant, hypersexual, any of the racist stereotypes they're still prevalent today.
What's interesting is that minstrel shows were particularly popular among working class white audiences.
By creating a degrading racist caricature of blackness, it gave white people who lacked wealth or social status a sense of racial belonging, racial
superiority, regardless of class lines.
And we still see that mentality reflected in today's politics.
But I digress.
One of the most famous characters to emerge from these shows was Jim Crow.
A character created in the 1830s by white performer Thomas Dartmouth Rice.
He's often known as the father of American minstrelsy.
The character of Jim Crow embodied the visual tropes we see over and over again in blackface imagery.
Exaggerated facial features like enormous mouths and smiles, prominent teeth and lips, and exaggerated body movements and poses.
After the Civil War, black performers also participated in minstrel shows, as they were one of the few avenues into theater and economic opportunity.
Black performers also wore blackface, and they performed the same exaggerated racial stereotypes.
That's how powerful this imagery became.
These racist images and caricatures were a visual language representing blackness in American pop culture for centuries.
Now we're skipping a lot here because this is short form video content, but this brings us back to Target.
When looking at this image, black people do not have the privilege of simply
simply seeing a clown.
They're recognizing a visual language that has been used to caricature black people for generations.
And we know that Target has spent the past couple years retreating from its DEI initiatives.
DEI was never about racial hiring quotas.
It's about having people with different lived experiences and cultural knowledge in the room when something like this is being approved who can say, hey, I'm not just seeing a clown here.
This is why DEI is important.
This is why knowing American history is important.
Because learning about racism,
crow, minstrelsy, white supremacy, and the way those ideas shaped American culture doesn't mean you hate America.
It means you understand America.
I just see a clown.
What's the problem?
Man.
Wasn't she?
So, like I said, in this role perfectly after Master P saying what he said.
because it is so important that we know the history.
I know some black people that will see that as well and just like, I just see a clown.
What are you talking about?
The exaggerated mouth, the exaggerated teeth, the black boys' pose.
It really hits a spot.
Those who know know.
Man, those who know know.
And like I said that history is why Halloween costume this Halloween costume controversy controversy is hitting differently Because of that history and because of targets history Getting rolling back stepping back.
They walked that back that DI stuff that they was talking about they said never mind and in my opinion This happened because of that
If there were more black people in the room to say, hey, I don't think this look right.
I don't know about that, y'all.
Y'all better get it together.
They probably wouldn't have fallen victim to yet again.
More backlash.
Because somebody would have been able to tell them what the history is.
Somebody would have been able to tell them something is not right here.
So somebody, they go through all these processes before a costume hits the shelf.
They don't just.
Go on Ali express and grab some costumes and throw them up on a website.
This is target.
We're talking about There's processes everything is strategically thought through the posing the models the the look everything so please do not think that there aren't a room full of people going over What is going to be posted on targets website?
You can't just get up on there and just post what you want to you can't just sell what you want to Erin is him said they do this every year some Bojangling costume the bar said so the sewing department and the factory didn't know this was wrong the sewing department probably ain't got much to do with it by bar They probably just get a design and they get the sewing they not in the rooms before it before they start sewing there somebody that drew this up
there's somebody that talked about how much it would be there's somebody that talked about the design there's somebody that talked about the model there's somebody that came up with this somebody saw a picture and was like you know what we should go off of this and then reassemble it this way and do this this way this image touched so many people before it got to the consumer that's the point I'm making and if they hadn't walked back that DEI stuff maybe somebody in the room would have been like yeah y'all might want to look at some history stuff maybe that ain't the best idea
Right and there is no evidence that I've seen establishing that target intentionally Design the costume is blackface.
There's no evidence obviously, but if you know, you know We know what it looks like and you know what the problem is like I said when you don't have these people in the rooms There's people that probably have put this stuff out there and just thought it wasn't a big deal
Like when you think of like Ali Express when you think of like these Asian companies I've seen a few times that they'll do something and they'll apologize just because they was like Oh, I just thought it was American I thought Americans just thought this was funny and they'll say something racist and they just don't know But they don't know because they don't know African Americans and they don't know anybody that can put them on game So maybe it came out and it was an oopsie didn't But if they had us in the rooms
Somebody would have told them something, right?
The question critics are asking is how did something that many people believe resembles a historically racist character?
Make it through the design and approval process, merchandising process, especially after everything has happened between Target and black customers.
So.
Target may be dealing with more than a Halloween costume controversy.
It may be dealing with a trust problem.
Let me know in the comments what y'all think.
Is it simply a bad costume that slipped through the cracks or does it say something bigger about how Target understands and listens to the community that it serves?
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We gon' have to break, but we gon' be back.
Then we gon' get into, somebody passed away yesterday and I, eh.
Whoopsie daisy, kinda like how the costume passed through the cracks.
That's how I feel about the death.
But we gon' talk about it when we get back.
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Having a good time without us.
He didn't left me in his act in charge.
We holding it down.
Brothers, he got the production and the sound, and we doing big things over here, man.
You ain't charged.
I want to hear you say that.
Say it.
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Say I'm in charge.
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It reminds me how I'm in charge.
Man, y'all.
We talked about a lot today.
We talked about Master P and his secret to success.
He's there for get the past and focus on the future.
Get your bag.
We also talked a little bit about some costume drama that is happening with Target and and we we also left off with the question What do y'all think do y'all think that it was simply a bad costume that slipped through the cracks or does Target have a bigger issue and they just don't understand the community that they are serving We talked about how they promised us billions of dollars and all his DEI stuff and they was gonna support us They had our back and then they walked it back and now this stuff is happening
We talked about it.
We also talked a little bit about my weekend.
We talked about Asian Fest.
We had a good time.
But before I left off, I said we gonna talk about somebody that passed away yesterday.
And why I don't care.
Whoop-dee-doo, I feel how Target feel about that costume.
Oopsie daisy.
Let's get into it.
A major update in the Sonia Massey case.
Sean Grayson, the former Illinois sheriff deputy and convict the one that was convicted of killing Sonia Massey has died in prison at 32 according to reports.
You know and sometimes it's like you just you just he's not taking up tax money.
Good for him.
When I first saw that, I thought they got him, but I thought it was related to something else.
So one could only dream that they shank.
You know what?
You know that he went peacefully.
Right.
But for anybody that needs a refresher, Sonia Massey was a 36 year old black mother of two who called 911 on July 6, 2024 because she believed.
Someone might be outside of her home.
She called the police She needed help Right she called the police she was asking for help and Grayson Showed up to her rescue with another deputy.
They responded to her home Body camera footage showed that the deputies inside Massey's home.
Oh It showed
The deputies inside Massey's home.
At one point, Massey was near a pot of hot water.
Grayson told her to move the pot.
Massey picked it up and said, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus.
Grayson then drew his weapon and threatened to shoot her.
After telling her to move the pot.
She moved the pot and he drew his weapon.
Hmm.
Massey ducks under a counter.
and Grayson fired three shots.
One struck her in the head and killed her.
This mother called for help.
The deputies arrived, helped, helps on the scene.
Then help got scared by a pot of water.
The deputy was, he was scared for his life because she had a pot of water.
Wow.
That's crazy.
So he ended up killing her and Grayson argued that he believed Massey was about to throw this boiling water on him and that he acted in self-defense Prosecutors argued that Massey was complying and that the shooting was unjustified out.
It sounds like she was complaining to me Sound like she moved the pot of hot water ducked under the counter and still was killed.
She actually called the police for help Hmm how many times go hear that story over and over again you calling for help you end up dead oopsie
Oopsie daisy.
I just I just a baby.
That's kind of how they oopsie.
That's how they treat our lives didn't mean it my bad Hmm So Grayson was originally charged with first-degree murder in October 2025 a jury found him guilty of second-degree murder in January of 2026 a judge sentenced him to the maximum of 20 years in prison
Followed by mandatory supervised release.
Hmm.
Let's kick it to the chat.
Let's kick it to the chat.
Somebody said, now the real prison sentence begins in HE double hockey sticks.
Somebody else said, good riddance.
It sound like the community don't really care.
That's why I said it.
Woopsy daisy, whoopty doo.
Back to what we doing.
I saw some of the comments online.
They said, we smoking on that.
That Grayson pack.
Anyways, I want some from the gas station.
I don't think people mourn him, but I do think it's important to remember her.
That's why I'm telling the story.
Right.
So he was sentenced to the maximum of 20 years in prison, followed by mandatory supervised release.
But his health later became a part of the story.
Grayson had colon cancer and his attorney said it spread to his liver and his.
Oh boy, baby I am Happen to the best of us get over it right get over it like we got to get over our history.
He'll be alright Well, probably not now, but any who he saw early medical release from prison But the Illinois Prisoner Review Board rejected that request on July 31st, 2026 my thing is he ain't even he ain't suffer, you know what?
He was in her for two three years before he was like, you know what I can't I can't be
here.
I'm
dying y'all Let me free Yeah, I'm pretty sure she wanted to live a little longer too So he saw early medical release from prison now Reports say Grayson has died while incarcerated his attorney confirmed the death his exact cause of death had not been publicly
confirmed because he just passed away last night.
Although his advanced cancer had been widely reported.
And now a lot of people and I know a lot of people are going to have strong feelings about this update because of what happened to Sonia Massey.
Whatever your reaction is, her name should stay at the center of this story.
I think this is a day of remembrance for Sonia Massey.
That's what I think we should.
Stupid as day of remembrance.
She called for help.
She called 911 for help and she lost her life after law enforcement entered her home.
So.
Rest in peace to Sonia Massey.
And.
Sean Grayson.
I whoop, they do.
I don't know.
Hate to be you.
Whoop, they do.
Hate to be you.
That rhymes.
Hey, they said in the chat good luck in the lower room the lower room Y'all know they say the upper room but a RC creation says so this guy was on meds while working a job like that.
You know what's interesting About him working a job like that, right?
While I was doing my dig in my research and whatnot
He should have been working the job like that not only was he medicated, but he was fired from multiple places because of bad behavior.
I think that's more more More of a question mark than the medicine That's what I think He shouldn't he shouldn't never been there.
I think he was discharged from the military He had a long history of not needing to be working with people and then got the nerve to and when he when he
Submitted his appeal if I'm not mistaken Homeboy he still wouldn't admit that he killed this woman in his appeal I think that he mentioned that he was defending himself He still wouldn't accept that you weren't defending yourself.
You killed this one Right one of once had shaken my head the signs were there they were grown souls said I hope she
She was right there to press the elevator button going down.
I know that's right.
Hey, he was like, where are we going?
We're going down.
You ain't going to the upper room.
You going down below down below.
That's what you're doing.
So next on the news, now that we told Sonia Massie's Massie story and we mentioned that do die or whatever, Spider-Man versus the far right demonstrators.
I've been waiting to get into this.
Have y'all seen the there's a clip going around been on the news Spider-Man jumped into action this weekend.
There was some protests going on and Spider-Man wasn't having that he put hands and feet on a Nazi All right, so this is probably the wildest things that you're going to hear about today
A man dressed up as Spider-Man showed up during a far right demonstration in downtown Minneapolis.
And instead of standing on the sidelines, he ended up throwing some punches.
He was getting it in.
The confrontation happened during a rally led by far right activist Jake Lang.
Counter protesters also showed up and tensions escalated.
The video from the scene quickly went viral.
Before we get to the spider-man moment though, I Think it's important that we talk about why events like this attract so much attention y'all Right and we don't get into this after the break all right because I think it's important to give this a little more time to bake You know say we don't get back into we're gonna let it bake a little bit But we're gonna get into it why spider-man was throwing punches and and why things like this attract so much attention and I have a question for y'all then I definitely need to hear from y'all we on
the lunch break 101.7 the truth live in the studio if you want to join the conversation go over to our youtube join the chat the chat is chatting make sure you watch me live in studio i'm holding it down and we got brother z on the production and sound we're gonna get back into this after we come back from break don't go anywhere y'all
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We are live in the Third Street Marketplace.
The beautiful Third Street Marketplace.
It's buzzing out there.
People stopping in the window waving.
But that's neither here nor there, man.
We was just talking about Sonia Massey.
Rest in peace to Sonia Massey.
And then her killer passed away in jail as he should.
Wasting our time breathing, taking my good air up.
In Illinois tax dollars, but anyhow, he did.
Rest in peace, Sonia Massey, respectfully.
But after that, we got into Spider-Man versus the far right demonstrators in Minneapolis.
Am I pronouncing that right?
Minneapolis.
I always feel awkward saying that word.
So, quick recap.
A confrontation happened during a rally led by far right activist Jake Lane.
Counter protesters also showed up and tensions escalated.
The video from the scene quickly went viral.
And like I said before, we can get into the Spider-Man moment.
We gotta talk about why events like this attract so much attention.
Alright?
Extremist organizations often rely on a spectacle.
a small group can arrive carrying signs and symbols and then Counter protesters show up people that ain't playing that then you got the police showing up they creating barriers camera start start rolling and suddenly an event involving a relatively small number of people can reach millions and millions of people online brother Z is playing that video as we talk if you're not on YouTube head over to YouTube check us out
We got the video so you can see the sights and sounds.
You could really get the visuals on what we talking about.
All right, and you can join the chat and talk to us.
So.
That raises a real question, though, are counter protesters sometimes giving extremist groups exactly what they want, though, by showing up?
On the other hand, should communities simply ignore these neo-Nazis and white supremacists when they show up in public?
For many people that feels impossible and unacceptable Right because I don't know how I don't know how it handles seeing that or somebody being in Milwaukee.
Yeah, you know, it's a lot.
It's a lot to unpack there And I guess the harder question is how to respond when when these things are happening in your community Should the communities ignore these groups and deny not deny them the in attention that they are seeking look I got tongue-tied Joe
Or should people counter-protest peacefully with signs, chants, and organized resistance?
Or should people be willing to get active?
Should people get in the streets?
Should people throw hands and feet?
Because that's what brings us to Spider-Man's footage.
A video circulating online shows a person in a full Spider-Man suit climbing onto a vehicle and physically confronting people involved in that demonstration.
Yes.
The visual is exactly surreal as it sounds.
Yeah, it's just as crazy as it sound.
Yeah White supremacists Counter protesters police trying to manage the crowd and then spider-man comes flying into the scene Social media had a field day.
I know I saw him taking pictures before this with the protesters He was or the counter protesters.
Let me be clear.
He was he was chilling in the streets people like what is fireman doing here?
And then I see the video of him flying on the back of the truck and getting active.
He said, listen, I ain't your friendly spider, man.
I got hands and feet for this.
He wasn't playing and he kept his costume on the full time.
Then I saw him getting arrested.
I was kind of sad about that.
They should let him go at it.
But, but anyhow, some people are calling him a hero and others just joked that Peter Parker should be proud.
But here's where we have to separate that viral moment from.
The legal reality.
Someone can oppose white supremacy and still face those legal consequences for assault and other unlawful conduct.
The first amendment, it does protect.
Even it does protect deeply offensive speech, but it does not automatically protect violence, y'all.
So even though we proud of him for getting active, we got to think our boy might be in jail.
And at the same time, self-defense or defense of others matter legally depending on exactly what happened and who initiated the confrontation and whether someone was in immediate danger.
The short viral clip may not show the entire encounter, but all those things matter.
And beneath those jokes is a serious question about how communities should respond to extremist organizations.
Do we think denying them attention works?
Or do we, are we allowed to oppose?
Does peaceful protest send the strongest message?
Or does humor and extremists, or does humor make extremists look less powerful?
Because that was fun.
He's seeing Spider-Man down there and then he got active.
So we got humor we have physical confrontation which makes for a good viral moment, but do we think that's the right way to go guys?
cousins I Want to hear from y'all if a neo-nazi groups throws up in your city.
What's the best response?
What do we think?
Do we peacefully protest?
Do we mock them do we throw hands and feet?
Cuz spider-man got active he did it all he mocked them he used humor he had his costume he went in
Love that formula Man Listen I'm personally I Think more people should get active I do I hate to be that person but I also Do understand the part where it's like just ignore them and they'll go away like a little kid because that that is what they want They want people to show up like sometimes you see small small organizations, right?
They show up and they're like, okay, we don't we don't get out here and we don't Get people pissed off and they gonna start fighting with us and then we don't get all the cameras that they rely on the attention to keep growing So I do understand why people say just ignore them I do But I also just I Know how hard it can be to just ignore something like that and let people think that that's okay.
I know how hard it can be to
feel like, oh, they think they can come into our space and and kind of fully us around.
No, we don't we don't show them that you're not welcome here.
And I get it.
But I also understand why people say ignore these people because that's what they rely on.
That's what they that's what they want.
And sometimes they use those clips of people getting active and people getting getting a rise.
Then we get in the rise out of people and they use it against us a lot of times.
Feel like a lot of times they use those things against us and we might feel good in a moment We might feel good like you know what?
We did what had to be done and like I said watching that clip I was proud of spider-man even though he eventually got pushed and pulled off the little truck He didn't jumped on his start swinging on Hey, you know Took a little tumble went to jail.
He had a rough go but but in the moment it felt good
Like I said, I don't know if it's worth it.
He gonna go to jail.
He probably gonna get a nice little ticket.
They probably take his costume Man Rough but like I said the internet is is is talking about it because it's just so and like I said, it's a spectacle and And they love to be like oh the lefts are crazy.
They so crazy look at them They dress it up as Spider-Man now.
So it's just like how do we
How do we deal with that?
And I think that's a good question for us to sit on, man.
But I also wanted to talk about Damon Darling and Walmart.
If you've been on social media, you know who Damon Darling is, y'all.
He is a social media influencer and he recently got banned from Walmart.
He got banned from Walmart, y'all.
He is very viral.
He has over 10 million followers y'all Very very viral guy.
He started off doing comedy and pranks and things of that nature But since then he's grown in a viral social media Person like himself when he got a life man, everybody was buzzing Right.
So he has a massive following across all social media platforms
And the controversy starts because he recently posted a video from Walmart in Ohio where he was trying to buy groceries.
What he does is he helps people out.
He goes around and he, he offers help to the people.
He asks if they want him to buy groceries or whatever, or he offers money.
And like some people, you get that reaction like, oh, get away from me.
You know, he'll approach anybody, white, black, whatever.
And more often than not, like the white people are like, no.
because they think it's a prank they think it's a scam or something but he's actually buying groceries and doing good but after he left that day officers reportedly pulled him over and served him a lifetime ban in walmart yeah and naturally the internet went crazy people started saying wait walmart banned him for buying other people's groceries and some followers even started calling for a boycott of walmart
They said we all ain't finna get him out of there.
He's doing good.
Why are y'all pushing him out, right?
Walmart pushed back on that narrative The company said that darling was not banned because he was giving back or paying for people's groceries Walmart said that the decision followed after repeated policy issues and There is another piece of this story.
Darling previously did film prank videos and comedy inside of Walmart stores but
Those older videos of him were from years ago, and now he's doing good.
Man.
So here's the question.
Did Walmart go too far by banning David or Damon Darling?
They gave him a lifetime ban.
We can get more into this tomorrow.
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We can get more into that story, y'all.
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Man that was good, but we was did we was digging into something better.
I'm gonna call that meat and potatoes.
It was getting into it.
All right You hear me Listen, so we were talking about masterpiece in his most recent interview where he talked about Building success and believing that you can't build success by looking back at our history and harping on slavery We talked about
How Germany handled the Holocaust versus how America handled slavery we talked about why history matters Right?
We talked about how we understand what he meant But we also want to get into why the critics have a point to and I know brother Z brought up a good point when he said I wonder why they don't want to pretty much
Acknowledge this happened and this still affects us to this day because like I said I think it's still happening and we still have byproducts of what happened and that's why They can't admit it because they still doing it.
They still eating off of what they did.
I Remember that there was an episode.
I don't know if any of you guys watched Atlanta with childish Gambino, but there was an episode that basically like if they did acknowledge it and give reparations where they would come from and like how it would come from like
the families that pretty much.
Profited off of the backs of slavery and like it's some people that are like, yeah, it makes sense.
But then people losing so much that they were used to have and they were committed suicide and all this crazy stuff.
But it's a good episode.
If you guys.
Watch it, you'll you'll see why I'm referencing it.
So shout out to Atlanta.
Make sure you guys watch that.
All right.
But but let's get into.
Why his critics have a point to.
You cannot fully understand today's wealth gap without understanding the history that helped create it.
Remembering slavery does not automatically mean having a victim mentality.
Demanding accountability does not mean refusing to work.
And wanting economic empowerment does not require pretending that the past has no connection to the present.
Okay?
Maybe it's history and entrepreneurship, right?
Because you got to know your history to know where you're going.
That's why you got so many people stuck because you know something ain't right, but you don't know what's right.
You don't know what's wrong.
You know what I'm saying?
So it's important for us to
know our history so we can avoid the same hiccups that we've had in the past.
It's important to know so we don't get got the same way that we had in the past.
If we don't know our history, if we don't know where we came from, if we don't know how we ended up in this place as is, we can't get out of this place.
So like I said, maybe the better conversation is history and entrepreneurship.
Robert Lance say you talking that talk shit and thank you.
Thank you Robert.
Thank you.
Let me get back in it now What happened Understand how it still affect know what happened right and understand how it still affects the present demand honest acknowledgement and meaningful repair then use that That knowledge to build something your children and get grandchildren can inherit because remembering the past
and building the future do not have to be opposites.
So, cousins, here's the question, y'all.
Should black Americans be told to stop talking about slavery and focus only on building wealth?
Or do we believe America should fully acknowledge slavery?
Jim Crow, discriminatory practices and policies that helped create today's wealth gap before asking us to simply move on.
Which I think Like I said, it's a lot.
It's a lot to unpack there.
We can't just look at that clip and be like, you know what?
Mr. Master P had he had a he had a he had a point there, right?
Look some of the comments that they call him mass of P now He tried to come back and be like well, that ain't really what I was saying But it's very important people with a platform with a voice
Talk about those things with a lot of thoughtfulness It's very important that you you watch what you say because I feel like somebody that's been rich for a long time It's very easy to forget, right?
It's easy to forget like the the leverage that you that you hold You know what I mean?
Like it's one of those things where it's like you just say things and you later on you like oh well Like this is what I meant.
No say what you mean and mean what you say say it right now Say it right then and there
They calling them mass-a-p.
M-A-S-S-A y'all.
But are we really expecting him to be politically correct?
I think it was a Forbes interview.
He's talking business and telling us stop harping on slavery.
Don't even bring it up.
That's what I think if you don't have you haven't really thought about something as
Thought deeply about something as fragile as that even when like I was talking to these guys at Barlu I was like this is a conversation for when I'm sober But we can get into it a little bit because I got some things to say because I'm a yeah, no matter what but I was like We really got to dig into this when we sober because I can only tell you so much right now in a bar He's like tell me educate me.
Let me know about African-american.
I'm like
Yeah, and
We were slaves, and then we weren't.
They're like, you know what?
My bad, everybody.
Oopsie daisy.
Y'all can go find your families after I raped your kids and your husband and your wife, tore them apart, cut some stuff off, sold them, did this and that.
Slavery's over.
I don't feel no way.
No hard feelings.
Go, go do you.
After they had to fight to not be looked at.
It's pets basically we were property We wasn't they friend helping them build something and then after that when they was like Giving us money.
It wasn't nearly enough like when they were paying us for our services And then we didn't have the education So we didn't know that we were getting got like yeah, if you work a million hours.
I'll pay you 10 bucks.
You might get an acre Them people was working till they died if we being for real
A lot of them people that were trying to do the right thing and like, you know what?
I'm gonna work and I'm not they don't actually look out for me Working day and night.
I remember my grandma telling me she remembers her dad used to yell in his sleep like he was working like the cattle like he used to like have dreams about
all like having nightmares or
in his sleep
I'm not gonna lie, I have a confession.
confession?
It's been a while, but there's been times where I've woken myself up out of my sleep, because I've been screaming, like, go to break!
work!
So, that's crazy.
That's how much they was working in them fields Like when you do something so repetitively and so often that's like all you think you can't even escape from it in your sleep That's crazy crazy crazy work But after this break y'all I want to talk about Target's Halloween costume backlash this this was all over the place Target is once again facing some criticism
from parts of the black community we can talk about why they were facing it before we can talk about all the things but now you know halloween coming up they facing it once again and i'm gonna tell y'all why i think they keep falling into these uh why they keep falling into these these situations okay
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What's good, black people?
Man.
We getting into some meat and potatoes, y'all.
We cooking over here.
We cooking.
Look, he didn't gave me the mic and I didn't took off.
We definitely, we already got into Asian Fest.
We recapped my weekend.
We talked about how I went to Bar Louie because I was discouraged.
I saw too many Tom Tiffany signs at the first spot I wanted to go to.
Couldn't do that.
But then we also talked about how I got into a conversation about African American history at Bar Louie.
We talked about Master P and how in his latest interview he pretty much said that black people need to focus on success to forget our history.
We talked about that.
We played the clip.
But now we won't kick it off to something else.
That's been pretty hot.
The hot conversation, okay?
That it's taken off.
I've seen people talk about it all day yesterday.
I feel like we're the first people live on the air to talk about it.
I do feel like we're the first to talk about this.
Right.
Target Halloween costume backlash.
All right.
So Target is once again facing criticism from parts of our black community.
And this time it is over a Halloween costume that many people say disturbingly looks similar to a racist black face, menstrual image imagery.
All right.
And this is important to talk about because we was we was just supposed to be.
We're supposed to be a boycott in that place People still up in there giving money.
I didn't seen a few videos on the internet of people being harassed and they like I knew I shouldn't have been in there That's what I get for sneaking off in Target.
This is what I get So we once again Target is back back in the headlines in the controversy controversy centers around a children's
glows under dark or I'm sorry, under black like circus clown costume.
The name too much.
Y'all know y'all have to know good.
And it's from Target online.
So after the images of the costume circulated online, critics pointed to the dark face covering an exaggerated facial features and said the design evoked historical characters that were used to demean black people.
Yeah So so we see in this Halloween costume.
We were like, hmm That looks suspicious that that reminds us of something, right?
So here's the bigger issue for some black customers.
This isn't happening Out of happen chance.
Okay, this isn't just happening out of nowhere because Target has already they already have a complicated relationship with us in the black community because following the murder of George Floyd
The racial justice protest of 2020 target publicly committed billions of dollars toward black owned businesses and expanded diversity and inclusion initiatives.
They was like, we got y'all back.
We got you, gonna put billions into this.
Don't y'all worry.
That's what they said to us.
They said they got our back, but in 2025, remember, remember they started doing a DEI.
Cutbacks and troubles.
Yeah, we ain't got to do that no more.
They said cool They would they was like, you know what we ain't like on the way anyways in 2025 target announced that it was rolling back major portions of the diversity and equity inclusion efforts So they took they they were back there was like never mind Right that this shit that decision sparked backlash and helped fuel boycott efforts
And other activists stood on business.
They was like, nah, we ain't doing that.
Y'all literally promised us billions.
Y'all promised to make us feel equal.
And in 2025, look, gotta hear my face.
Well, we ain't have to.
They said never mind.
But not every black business owner supported that boycott because some black owned brands rallied.
On target for access to millions of shoppers or rely.
I'm sorry.
They rely on target for access to millions of shoppers So there has never been one single black community position on the company But that history is why this Halloween costume controversy is hitting different Yeah, so I want
Want this video to play this is I'm showing the image right here Well brothers he is showing us the image of what people kind of think this looks like The posing and everything right that's what they had on their website It's insane the kid is posed just like the caricature and I'm gonna play this clip that I found online and I thought it was really good because it's
Two white people from a white person, but it's actually good for us as well because like we said before we have a lot of people That think we should forget our history and she gives a little bit of a history lesson So go ahead play that clip for us brothers.
Clown.
What's the problem?
Target put this children's Halloween costume on its website and black users on threads immediately recognized the imagery as reminiscent of historic menstrual caricatures Q white people in their comments saying I just see a clown so white person a white person Let's dive into why that reaction just makes you look like kind of a clown
Let's start with minstrel shows.
These were wildly popular 19th century performances where white actors would darken their faces and perform exaggerated racist caricatures of black people, portraying them as lazy, ignorant, hypersexual, any of the racist stereotypes they're still prevalent today.
What's interesting is that minstrel shows were particularly popular among working class white audiences.
By creating a degrading racist caricature of blackness, it gave white people who lacked wealth or social status a sense of racial belonging, racial
superiority, regardless of class lines.
And we still see that mentality reflected in today's politics.
But I digress.
One of the most famous characters to emerge from these shows was Jim Crow.
A character created in the 1830s by white performer Thomas Dartmouth Rice.
He's often known as the father of American minstrelsy.
The character of Jim Crow embodied the visual tropes we see over and over again in blackface imagery.
Exaggerated facial features like enormous mouths and smiles, prominent teeth and lips, and exaggerated body movements and poses.
After the Civil War, black performers also participated in minstrel shows, as they were one of the few avenues into theater and economic opportunity.
Black performers also wore blackface, and they performed the same exaggerated racial stereotypes.
That's how powerful this imagery became.
These racist images and caricatures were a visual language representing blackness in American pop culture for centuries.
Now we're skipping a lot here because this is short form video content, but this brings us back to Target.
When looking at this image, black people do not have the privilege of simply
simply seeing a clown.
They're recognizing a visual language that has been used to caricature black people for generations.
And we know that Target has spent the past couple years retreating from its DEI initiatives.
DEI was never about racial hiring quotas.
It's about having people with different lived experiences and cultural knowledge in the room when something like this is being approved who can say, hey, I'm not just seeing a clown here.
This is why DEI is important.
This is why knowing American history is important.
Because learning about racism,
crow, minstrelsy, white supremacy, and the way those ideas shaped American culture doesn't mean you hate America.
It means you understand America.
I just see a clown.
What's the problem?
Man.
Wasn't she?
So, like I said, in this role perfectly after Master P saying what he said.
because it is so important that we know the history.
I know some black people that will see that as well and just like, I just see a clown.
What are you talking about?
The exaggerated mouth, the exaggerated teeth, the black boys' pose.
It really hits a spot.
Those who know know.
Man, those who know know.
And like I said that history is why Halloween costume this Halloween costume controversy controversy is hitting differently Because of that history and because of targets history Getting rolling back stepping back.
They walked that back that DI stuff that they was talking about they said never mind and in my opinion This happened because of that
If there were more black people in the room to say, hey, I don't I don't think this look right.
I don't know about that, y'all.
Y'all better get it together.
They probably wouldn't have fallen victim to yet again.
More backlash.
Because somebody would have been able to tell them what the history is.
Somebody would have been able to tell them something is not right here.
So somebody they go through all these processes before a costume hits the shelf.
They don't just.
Go on Ali express and grab some costumes and throw them up on a website.
This is target.
We're talking about There's processes.
Everything is strategically thought through the posing the models the the look everything so please do not think that there aren't a room full of people going over What is going to be posted on targets website?
You can't just get up on there and just post what you want to you can't just sell what you want to Erin is him said they do this every year some Bojangling costume the bar said so the sewing department and the factory didn't know this was wrong the sewing department probably ain't got much to do with it by bar They probably just get a design and they get the sewing they not in the rooms before it before they start sewing there somebody that drew this up
there's somebody that talked about how much it would be there's somebody that talked about the design there's somebody that talked about the model there's somebody that came up with this somebody saw a picture and was like you know what we should go off of this and then reassemble it this way and do this this way this image touched so many people before it got to the consumer that's the point I'm making and if they hadn't walked back that DEI stuff maybe somebody in the room would have been like yeah y'all might want to look at some history stuff maybe that ain't the best idea
Right and there is no evidence that I've seen establishing that target intentionally Design the costume is blackface.
There's no evidence obviously, but if you know, you know We know what it looks like and you know what the problem is like I said when you don't have these people in the rooms There's people that probably have put this stuff out there and just thought it wasn't a big deal
Like when you think of like Ali Express when you think of like these Asian companies I've seen a few times that they'll do something and they'll apologize just because they was like Oh, I just thought it was American I thought Americans just thought this was funny and they'll say something racist and they just don't know But they don't know because they don't know African Americans and they don't know anybody that can put them on game So maybe it came out and it was an oopsie didn't But if they had us in the rooms
Somebody would have told them something, right?
The question critics are asking is how did something that many people believe resembles a historically racist character?
Make it through the design and approval process, merchandising process, especially after everything has happened between Target and black customers.
So.
Target may be dealing with more than a Halloween costume controversy.
It may be dealing with a trust problem.
Let me know in the comments what y'all think.
Is it simply a bad costume that slipped through the cracks or does it say something bigger about how Target understands and listens to the community that it serves?
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We gon' have to break, but we gon' be back.
Then we gon' get into, somebody passed away yesterday, and I, whoopsie daisy, kinda like how the costume passed through the cracks.
That's how I feel about the death.
But we gon' talk about it when we get back.
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If you guys are listening to the lunch break on 101.7, the truth, you are listening to maybe Shannon.
Normally, Ray Nitty is here, but he is neither here nor there.
He's in Poland.
Having a good time without us.
He didn't let me and Zach in charge.
We holding it down.
Brothers, he got the production and the sound, and we doing big things over here, man.
You in charge.
I want to hear you say that.
Say it.
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charge.
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go and it reminds me how many charge man y'all we talked about a lot today we talked about master P in his in his secret to success he's ever get the past and focus on the future get your bag
We also talked a little bit about some costume drama that is happening with Target.
And we also left off with the question, what do y'all think?
Do y'all think that it was simply a bad costume that slipped through the cracks or does Target have a bigger issue and they just don't understand the community that they are serving?
We talked about how they promised us billions of dollars in all this DEI stuff and they was gonna support us.
They had our back and then they walked it back and now this stuff is happening.
We talked about it.
We also talked a little bit about my weekend.
We talked about Asian fast.
We had a good time.
But before I left off, I said, we gonna talk about somebody that passed away yesterday.
And why I don't care.
Whoop dee doo, I feel how Target feel about that costume.
Oopsie daisy.
Let's get into it.
A major update in the Sonia Massey case.
Sean Grayson, the former Illinois sheriff deputy and convict the one that was convicted of killing Sonia Massey has died in prison at 32 according to reports.
You know, and sometimes it's like you just you just he's not taking up tax money.
Good for him.
When I first saw that, I thought they got him, but I thought it was related to something else.
So one could only dream that they shank.
You know what?
You know that he went peacefully.
Right.
But for anybody that needs a refresher, Sonia Massey was a 36 year old black mother of two who called 911 on July 6, 2024 because she believed.
Someone might be outside of her home.
She called the police She needed help Right she called the police she was asking for help and Grayson Showed up to her rescue with another deputy.
They responded to her home Body camera footage showed that the deputies inside Massey's home.
Oh It showed
the deputies inside Massey's home.
At one point, Massey was near a pot of hot water.
Grayson told her to move the pot.
Massey picked it up and said, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus.
Grayson then drew his weapon and threatened to shoot her.
After telling her to move the pot, she moved the pot and he drew his weapon.
Massey ducks under a counter.
and Grayson fired three shots.
One struck her in the head and killed her.
This mother called for help.
The deputies arrived, helped, helps on the scene.
Then help got scared by a pot of water.
The deputy was, he was scared for his life because she had a pot of water.
Wow.
That's crazy.
Hmm.
So he ended up killing her and Grayson argued that he believed Massey was about to throw this boiling water on him and that he acted in self-defense Prosecutors argued that Massey was complying and that the shooting was unjustified out.
It sounds like she was complying to me I'm like she moved the pot of hot water ducked under the counter and still was killed.
She actually called the police for help Hmm, how many times go hear that story over and over again you calling for help you end up dead oopsie
Whoopsie daisy.
I just I just a baby.
That's kind of how they oopsie.
That's how they treat our lives didn't mean it my bad Hmm So Grayson was originally charged with first-degree murder in October 2025 a jury found him guilty of second-degree murder in January of 2026 a judge sentenced him to the maximum of 20 years in prison
Followed by mandatory supervised release.
Hmm.
Let's kick it to the chat.
Let's kick it to the chat.
Somebody said, now the real prison sentence begins in HE double hockey sticks.
Somebody else said, good riddance.
It sound like the community don't really care.
That's what I said.
Woopsy daisy.
Woopty doo.
Back to what we doing.
I saw some of the comments online.
They said, we smoking on that.
That Grayson pack.
Anyways, I want some from the gas station.
I don't think people mourn him, but I do think it's important to remember her.
That's why I'm telling the story.
Right.
So he was sentenced to the maximum of 20 years in prison, followed by mandatory supervised release.
But his health later became a part of the story.
Grayson had colon cancer and his attorney said it spread to his liver and his.
Oh boy, baby I am Happen to the best of us get over it right get over it like we got to get over our history.
He'll be alright Well, probably not now, but any who he saw early medical release from prison But the Illinois Prisoner Review Board rejected that request on July 31st, 2026 my thing is he ain't even he ain't suffer, you know what?
He was in her for two three years before he was like, you know what I can't I can't be here.
I'm dying y'all Let me free Yeah, I'm pretty sure she wanted to live a little longer too So he saw early medical release from prison now Reports say Grayson has died while incarcerated his attorney confirmed the death his exact cause of death had not been publicly
confirmed because he just passed away last night.
Although his advanced cancer had been widely reported.
And now a lot of people and I know a lot of people are going to have strong feelings about this update because of what happened to Sonia Massey.
Whatever your reaction is, her name should stay at the center of this story.
I think this is a day of remembrance for Sonia Massey.
That's what I think we should
Stupid as day of remembrance.
She called for help.
She called 911 for help and she lost her life after law enforcement entered her home.
So.
Rest in peace to Sonia Massey.
And.
Sean Grayson.
I whoop, they do.
I don't know.
Hate to be you.
Whoop, they do hate to be you.
That rhymes.
They said in the chat good luck in the lower room the lower room Y'all know they say the upper room but a RC creation says so this guy was on meds while working a job like that.
You know what's interesting About him working a job like that, right?
While I was doing my dig in my research and whatnot
He should have been working the job like that not only was he medicated, but he was fired from multiple places because of bad behavior.
I think that's more more More of a question mark than the medicine That's what I think He shouldn't he shouldn't never been there.
I think he was discharged from the military He had a long history of not needing to be working with people and then got the nerve to and when he when he
submitted his appeal if I'm not mistaken.
Homeboy, he still wouldn't admit that he killed this woman in his appeal.
I think that he mentioned that he was defending himself.
He still wouldn't accept that you weren't defending yourself.
You killed this one.
Right.
One of us had shaken my head.
The signs were there.
They were grown souls said, I hope she.
She was right there to press the elevator button going down.
I know that's right.
Hey, he was like, where are we going?
We're going down.
You ain't going to the upper room.
You going down below down below.
That's what you're doing.
So next on the news, now that we told Sonia Massie's Massie story and we mentioned that do die or whatever, Spider-Man versus the far right demonstrators.
I've been waiting to get into this.
Have y'all seen the there's a clip going around been on the news Spider-Man jumped into action this weekend.
There was some protests going on and Spider-Man wasn't having that he put hands and feet on a Nazi All right, so this is probably the wildest things that you're going to hear about today
A man dressed up as Spider-Man showed up during a far right demonstration in downtown Minneapolis.
And instead of standing on the sidelines, he ended up throwing some punches.
He was getting it in.
The confrontation happened during a rally led by far right activist Jake Lang.
Counter protesters also showed up, intentions escalated.
The video from the scene quickly went viral.
Before we get to the spider-man moment though, I Think it's important that we talk about why events like this attract so much attention y'all Right and we don't get into this after the break all right because I think it's important to give this a little more time to bake You know say we don't get back into we're gonna let it bake a little bit But we don't get into it why spider-man was throwing punches and and why things like this attract so much attention and I have a question for y'all then I definitely need to hear from y'all we on
the lunch break 101.7 the truth live in the studio if you want to join the conversation go over to our youtube join the chat the chat is chatting make sure you watch me live in studio i'm holding it down and we got brother z on the production and sound we're gonna get back into this after we come back from break don't go anywhere y'all
don't go anywhere
Y'all rocking with the kid, all right?
All right.
Yeah, y'all let me cook today.
Y'all let me get in the driver's seat, nice and comfy.
Feet slanging, talking my stuff.
I like it in this scene.
It's comfy.
Man, you guys are back listening to the lunch break on 101.7 The Truth.
We are live in the Third Street Marketplace.
The beautiful Third Street Marketplace.
It's buzzing out there.
People stopping in the window waving.
But that's neither here nor there, man.
We were just talking about Sonia Massey, resting piece to Sonia Massey, and then her killer passed away in jail as he should, wasting our time breathing, taking my good hair up.
In Illinois tax dollars, but any who?
He did rest in peace.
Sonia Massey respectfully But after that we got into spider-man versus the far right demonstrators in Minneapolis Am I pronouncing that right?
Minneapolis.
I feel I always feel awkward saying that word So quick recap
A confrontation happened during a rally led by far right activist Jake Lane.
Counter protesters also showed up and tensions escalated.
The video from the scene quickly went viral.
And like I said before, we can get into the Spider-Man moment.
We gotta talk about why events like this attract so much attention.
Alright?
Extremist organizations often rely on a spectacle.
a small group can arrive carrying signs and symbols and then Counter protesters show up people that ain't playing that then you got the police showing up they creating barriers camera start start rolling and suddenly an event involving a relatively small number of people can reach millions and millions of people online brother Z is playing that video as we talk if you're not on YouTube head over to YouTube check us out
We got the video so you can see the sights and sounds.
You can really get the visuals on what we talking about.
All right, and you can join the chat and talk to us.
So.
That raises a real question, though, are counter protesters sometimes giving extremist groups exactly what they want, though, by showing up?
On the other hand, should communities simply ignore these neo-Nazis and white supremacists when they show up in public?
For many people that feels impossible and unacceptable Right because I don't know how I don't know how it handles seeing that or somebody being in Milwaukee.
Yeah, you know, it's a lot.
It's a lot to unpack there And I guess the harder question is how to respond when when these things are happening in your community Should the communities ignore these groups and deny not deny them the inner attention that they are seeking look I got tongue-tied Joe
Or should people counter-protest peacefully with signs, chants, and organized resistance?
Or should people be willing to get active?
Should people get in the streets?
Should people throw hands and feet?
Because that's what brings us to Spider-Man's footage.
A video circulating online shows a person in a full Spider-Man suit climbing onto a vehicle and physically confronting people involved in that demonstration.
Yes.
The visual is exactly surreal as it sounds.
Yeah, it's just as crazy as it sound.
Yeah White supremacist Counter protesters police trying to manage the crowd and then spider-man comes flying into the scene Social media had a field day.
I know I saw him taking pictures before this with the protesters He was or the counter protesters.
Let me be clear.
He was he was chilling in the streets people like what is fireman doing here?
And then I see the video of him flying on the back of the truck and getting active.
He said, listen, I ain't your friendly spider, man.
I got hands and feet for this.
He wasn't playing and he kept his costume on the full time.
Then I saw him getting arrested.
I was kind of sad about that.
They should let him go at it.
But, but anyhow, some people are calling him a hero and others just joked that Peter Parker should be proud.
But here's where we have to separate that viral moment from.
The legal reality.
Someone can oppose white supremacy and still face those legal consequences for assault and other unlawful conduct.
The first amendment, it does protect.
Even it does protect deeply offensive speech, but it does not automatically protect violence, y'all.
So even though we proud of him for getting active, we got to think our boy might be in jail.
And at the same time, self-defense or defense of others matter legally depending on exactly what happened and who initiated the confrontation and whether someone was in immediate danger.
The short viral clip may not show the entire encounter, but all those things matter.
And beneath those jokes is a serious question about how communities should respond to extremist organizations.
Do we think denying them attention works?
Or do we, are we allowed to oppose?
Does peaceful protest send the strongest message?
Or does humor and extremists, or does humor make extremists look less powerful?
Because that was fun.
He's seeing Spider-Man down there and then he got active.
So we got humor we have physical confrontation which makes for a good viral moment, but do we think that's the right way to go guys?
Cousins I want to hear from y'all if a neo-nazi groups throws up in your city.
What's the best response?
What do we think?
Do we peacefully protest?
Do we mock them do we throw hands and feet?
Because Spider-Man got active he did it all he mocked them he used humor he had his costume he went in
Love that formula Man Listen I'm personally I Think more people should get active I do I hate to be that person But I also do understand the part where it's like just ignore them and they'll go away like a little kid because that is what they want They want people to show up like sometimes you see small small organizations, right?
They show up and they're like, okay, we don't we don't get out here and we don't Get people pissed off and they gonna start fighting with us and then we don't get all the cameras that they rely on the attention to keep growing So I do understand why people say just ignore them I do But I also just I Know how hard it can be to just ignore something like that and let people think that that's okay.
I know how hard it can be to
feel like, oh, they think they can come into our space and and kind of bully us around.
No, we don't we don't show them that you're not welcome here.
And I get it.
But I also understand why people say ignore these people because that's what they rely on.
That's what they that's what they want.
And sometimes they use those clips of people getting active and people getting getting a rise.
Then we get in the rise out of people and they use it against us a lot of times.
Feel like a lot of times they use those things against us and we might feel good in a moment We might feel good like you know what?
We did what had to be done and like I said watching that clip I was proud of spider-man even though he eventually got pushed and pulled off the little truck He didn't jumped on his start swinging on Hey, you know Took a little tumble went to jail.
He had a rough go but but in the moment it felt good
But like I said, I don't know if it's worth it.
He gonna go to jail.
He probably gonna get a nice little ticket.
They probably take his costume.
Man, rough.
But like I said, the internet is talking about it because it's just so, and like I said, it's a spectacle.
And they love to be like, oh, the lefts are crazy.
They so crazy.
Look at them.
They dressing up as Spider-Man now.
So it's just like, how do we...
How do we deal with that?
I think that's a good question for us to sit on man, but I also wanted to talk about Damon darling and Walmart if you've been on social media, you know who Damon darling is y'all he is a social media influencer and He recently got banned from Walmart He got banned from Walmart y'all
He is very viral.
He has over 10 million followers y'all Very very viral guy.
He started off doing comedy and pranks and things of that nature But since then he's grown in a viral social media Person like himself when he got a life man, everybody was buzzing Right.
So he has a massive following across all social media platforms
And the controversy starts because he recently posted a video from Walmart in Ohio where he was trying to buy groceries.
What he does is he helps people out.
He goes around and he he offers help to the people.
He asks if they want him to buy groceries or whatever.
Or he offers money and like some people you get that reaction like get away from me.
You know, he'll approach anybody, white, black, whatever.
And more often than not, like the white people are like, no.
because they think it's a prank they think it's a scam or something but he's actually buying groceries and doing good but after he left that day officers reportedly pulled him over and served him a lifetime ban in walmart yeah and naturally the internet went crazy people started saying wait walmart banned him for buying other people's groceries and some followers even started calling for a boycott of walmart
They said we all ain't finna get him out of there.
He's doing good.
Why are y'all pushing him out, right?
Walmart pushed back on that narrative The company said that darling was not banned because he was giving back or paying for people's groceries Walmart said that the decision followed after repeated policy issues and There is another piece of this story.
Darling previously did film prank videos and comedy inside of Walmart stores but
Those older videos of him were from years ago, and now he's doing good.
Man.
So here's the question.
Did Walmart go too far by banning David or Damon Darling?
They gave him a lifetime ban.
We can get more into this tomorrow.
I'm going to be back.
We got Brother Z on production and sound.
We can get more into that story, y'all.
But it was nice rocking with y'all.
Thank y'all for rocking with me.
My name is Shannon, and these are my temptations.
No, I'm just joking.
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