Unpacking America’s Global Impact: From Iran to Reality TV

Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. What's up, family? Welcome to the show. Hey, boy, you can't be doing that. Almost likes. You can't be doing that. It is good to be back.

I see nothing's changed, but it's good to be back. You were listening to Michelle Bryant say something real here, WNOV 860AM 106.5 FM. And let me say good morning to the brothers in the building. What's up, Rod? How you doing this morning, sir? You know, it's Monday. It is. At least that's what they tell us.

Oh, here we go. No, but you know, it's Monday. The sun is shining. It feels pretty good outside. And every time the sun shines, I feel a certain way. I feel like I need to sing you a song, but I'm not going to do it. Really? Because I didn't rehearse. I didn't rehearse. But other than that, I'm feeling pretty good. Well, good.

had an extended weekend. An extended weekend? Yeah, it was. Did you do extended fun? Extended fun things? Well, Shale, you know, every weekend. Please, you'll use your boring life. Every weekend for me is fun, you know? At your house, eating sweet potatoes. You know what I mean? Did the extended day do anything for you? Did you go somewhere? Yeah. Did you invite some people over? Oh, wait.

Did you cook? I went to the gym. You do that every day. I went to the gym. You do that every day. So nothing. Your extended day meant nothing. I went and spent some time.

All right, I got you know polishing myself. Hey Clark, how you doing? Just you we have we have moved on

He was sitting there looking at the preacher like, come on, man. That's one reason why I'm going to church. Because I swear to God, I'd be scared I would scream out what I'd be thinking. Because I'm so used to doing it at home. And we're like, man, you're taking too long. Just imagine how I feel. And I'm on an organ. No, because the organ needs to be making the mess go longer than they have to. Because if y'all didn't start to try to amp them up, then it wouldn't go that long.

Because the organist can leave him hanging and just stop playing. Or just go real soft. But y'all be doing that, that holiness, you know.

I was looking at the organist, like, I swear to God, I wish I had an apple. I threw a straight in his head. You've noticed, dude, but standing up here too long with this? That's because we feel uncertain. Cats don't want to close the doors of the church because they ain't getting nobody. They go to, hey, bruh, ain't nobody joining today.

Close the doors. Close the doors of the shirts. There ain't nobody coming. And I believe people just get up because they're like, okay, man, somebody get up. Because if they don't get it, we can go home. Exactly. And he was looking like, did you like last month? And everybody be like, thank you, bro. Thank you, ma'am.

And somebody pushing little kids up here. Look, kids be mad. And they be like, man, I got to go. Yes, in day day. He needs to join the church. Look, I hope everybody had a great holiday. Clark, you cooked, right? Yeah, I had to cook. Me and Debo had cooked barbecue for Michelle. Oh, OK. OK. Thanks, though.

But I cook, you know, I wasn't playing on the cookie, but you know, once I got the grill, uh, well, once you cook these two slabs right here, man, I wish I had to know and I would've eased me some slabs over. You could do that at the house. I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I know, but I

you know they have all the rails and they had that that that slop mop with the vinegar water yeah just like oh that's gonna be good and then every time it started and then you know we run around playing and they were like give them a hot dog off the grill you know why they ran playing okay cool so then it was time to eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat

We were still getting hot dogs, but all the grown people was getting ribs. Yeah, we was getting the jakey pieces of meat. We was looking and it finally, my cousin, he said so. My cousin said. My cousin said.

My uncle said, nah, you gotta have a damn job. If you got a job, you give real meat.

If you have no job, you get what we give you. Oh, it was dying laughing. It's funny that that happened to y'all because I thought that that just happened to us. No! What in the world planned and just ribs it?

I mean, you just see. Come on, now. And they bop with the ribs. You're like, yeah, it's falling off the bone. Oh, you kidding? It's a barbecue. Hey, they used to say, hey, there's a baby in the potatoes. That's it. But they used to say, you know how, and I remember Bob was saying this so clearly, meat make you hardheaded.

Well, why y'all eating this? They're what it hurts. Meat make you hearty. So what do hot dogs make real meat? What you telling me, Mom? What's your fitness? Yeah, man. I just, I'm telling you, I had all kinds of memories of 4th of July. My brother, we was talking about that. We had different outfits for the 4th of July. We had the wake-up outfit that you just put on, you know, you just play in. Yeah.

outside, then we had to come in and take our bath, because the company was coming over outfit. So we had that outfit. And we all had the red light blue shirt set.

I'll tell you, it was cultural. It was cultural. You had multiple outfits for the Fourth of July. We did. It's funny because we all sit here, right? This is the first time we've ever had this conversation.

It to be so relatable amongst all three of us is crazy. Yeah. That's what we did, though. Yeah. We did the same thing. My wife, my wife and my kids used to do that. She had the morning, you know, they get up. Yeah. She had the, when the time of play, then she made them go to put on their play clothes. She had a different office for that. I'm telling you, you had to have multiple outfits for the fourth of July.

And, you know, watermelon everywhere, uh, we used to, we used to just set it off. So Jermaine was saying, you know, like this year, fourth of July, I felt funny. It didn't feel the same. And I'm like, you know, just say what it is. Donald Trump, they messed it up for everybody. As I say, everything he touched turns to crap. He literally has messed it up for like so many people. And even though folks forged ahead, you know, and still tried to have.

celebrations independent of the nonsense that was going on in DC. There are a lot of people that they had to find their own reason to celebrate. It wasn't because it was necessarily proud of what's going on in this country right now. And even I saw somebody had put out something that said, yeah, the country is 250 years old. Black people have only been free for 161 years of that 250.

And then what did that freedom even look like when you factor in Jim Crow segregation, all of the different mess that accompanied being black in this country. And somebody even did this piece about do black people hang flags outside of their homes. I know a lot of black veterans that are hanging their flags.

My mother hung a flag when my brother had served. My dad served. So my mother always had a flag outside of her house. And I remember her neighbor, when my mother was sick, the flag had dropped. The pole had kind of dropped down. And, you know, because it wasn't hanging the right way it was supposed to. And I had come home, you know, to take care of my mom. And I looked out the window.

And I saw her neighbor, this white guy across the street, he came and he readjusted the flagpole, took the whole thing down, you know, did something to the pole and rehung the flag. And he never said a word. He just just fixed it and went on back home. And I told my mom, I said, your neighbor came over here. She said, oh, yeah, he's a veteran.

So I'm not surprised that he did that but it just it felt funny it felt funny for a lot of folks and And I even passed by some because I was actually working on on the 4th of July Also, I was moving around a lot in the city and I passed by like celebrations and folks at the park because the weather was kind of janky too Yeah, you know it was raining off and on and You know, but again, it just it just it just seemed different

Well, you know, you bring us to a great point between the heat because the heat was like upwards to 107 degrees in the field like category. It was so bad, but then they got the severe storms. So they had to close everything down and then they sent people to area places in DC.

to shelter in place for potential tornadoes or storms. So all of the MAGA people, y'all know where they got sent, right? So the Freedom 250 crew got sent to the

Smithsonian African-American History Museum. Look at God. So all of the racists had to go. Oh, they were staring them in their face. I don't know. Because little me and Keisha was ribbing about this last night. Keisha said they should have had a sign on the door that said colored zone. Since y'all want to segregate and be racist, this building is for colored zone.

But yeah, they all had to be forced into the Smithsonian African-American History Museum. And so you, you know, sure, first time some of them had ever stepped foot in there. Well, probably never going there again. And there were a thousand of them because they had reached their capacity. So they couldn't let a thousand of them in. So they say stood outside of the race and say, we shall overcome.

Really, it was a version of We Shall Overcome. They were singing patriotic songs, but it was the equivalent of We Shall Overcome. Yeah, that's what they were doing. Boy, you know, black people was laughing all over the city when their pictures came out. And I said, I know Lonnie Bush them.

And the folks at the at the museum was just looking like oh they took pictures Look at the sister humor man of God and anything that happened between the weather National Earth system Trump didn't make his speech to almost midnight So I'm like who who up he didn't make his speech to almost midnight

But then they said he had had went on social media and had posted 67 times in two hours about just random nonsense It's something wrong with that man like mentally he is off and all these people functioning around him using him for whatever they can get out of him Before he finally just fall off the cliff Like Mitch McConnell has because as you all may have heard Mitch McConnell had a cardiac

arrest situation. And they said they had to bring Mitch McConnell back. But Mitch McConnell has been in the hospital for over 18 days. It's probably more like 20 days now. And there were questions. There were stories that actually in the title it said, is Mitch McConnell dead?

because nobody had heard anything or seen anything. His staff comes out, no, no, no. He's been working along with us on issues, blah, blah, blah. And folks like, y'all need to stop playing. Y'all need to stop playing. This man then froze literally at least twice on camera in full view of everyone having to be in one case whisked away by his staff. So he had a medical emergency.

And a lot of people believe that the good folks down in Kentucky and in his legislative offices are not being forthright about what is really going on. They have released very little information. But I just don't understand what I'm not. That's just ingenious. I do know, or at least I feel like I know why these people just don't go and leave office. When you started freezing on camera, you should you should have left office.

I mean, they just hold on to the long very bitter end even some of the black Because I think like max how it is Maxine Max Yeah, leave offers or use a door sale Maxine waters is 87 years old 87 87 Nancy Pelosi old as hell like

And I don't mean disrespect, because I know I got some 87-year-olds listening to the show. No disrespect intended. But there comes a time when it's time to let somebody else. And it doesn't mean you can't still be politically engaged. You can't contribute. You can't be active and supportive. But at 87, and I'm not saying you're not sharp no more, I'm not saying any of that.

What's the succession plan? What's the, what's the, what's the, the off ramp for you and how does somebody else be put in position? And, and, and so I'm Mitch McConnell. This is madness. Go ahead, Joe. You want to say something? No, I was going to ask you, do you, do you think that's partly because they are being selfish?

And they don't want 100% being selfish. You being selfish. Hey, can't nobody else. They need my experience. They need my, they can get all of that if you just agree to be a mentor. You can be a mentor. Yeah. So you don't have to be in the room to help lead and to help, you know, help guide people. You making $187,000. Some of these folks are still not completely set up right for retirement.

And so you still making money the proximity to power and access You know what kind of perks you get being a member of Congress? You know some folks they taking care of a whole family off that congressional check So I can't just leave because it's not just me that's gonna be impacted my family gonna be impacted there are a number of reasons why these people don't leave but at 80 and 85 years old man, it's time to go

And I'm not even that person. But I understand in the things that I do, there is a time to be grooming other people to come into these positions and these roles. And some folks just think that data only ones that can do the work, you not. Somebody was doing it before you got there, somebody gonna do it after you leave. But the way you set people up to be successful in the next iteration of this role is what's important. Go ahead, y'all. No, I was gonna say.

Because then at that age if anything happens Lord for you know forbid, but if anything happens There's nobody that's in place that can actually pick up the mantle and they haven't been grooming anybody Haven't been trying to nobody haven't been getting them exposed bringing them to DC Walking them through and I'm not saying that the congressional member should be the person that is you know Who's my heir parent? I'm not saying that but given people the opportunity like I know

that like this group of eight, nine, are most likely interested in my seat or this congressional seat and start to talk to people. But Mitch McConnell, this is nonsense. Dude, you froze on camera. You look like the 10 man. I mean, no comment. Just a ice block. And it happens twice.

You know tell her how many other times this happened just not in the view of the public. He should use Dorosell. Dorosell got that bunny playing the bass drum. He way past the Dorosell phase. He way past that. And so and then this this is interesting. The most significant legal development.

regarding Senate succession rules came in 2024 when Kentucky lawmakers passed House Bill 622. House Bill 622 repealed a bill

and replace Kentucky Senate vacancy process with a special election system under the revised law, the governor must issue a proclamation calling an election with the winner serving the remainder of the unexpired term. The legislation also established administrative deadlines for notices, candidates filing, blah, blah, blah.

Perhaps most notably the law eliminated the governor's authority to appoint an interim senator, meaning Kentucky no longer follows the succession model using most states because if something happens to a sitting member of Congress and they have to suddenly resign a dying office, the governor can appoint somebody to fill that role. In Kentucky, they changed it so that there has to be an election. But somebody got to start thinking about this.

Because this is madness to me. Your staff is making decisions. You're not making no decisions. Your staff is making decisions. So then we already have somebody pass away in office? Yeah. That seat was vacant for a minute, right? We've had at least three folks that have passed in office, and I can run their names back.

Hang on. I'm sorry. I just was looking at something. But yeah, I mean even what's his name's white, you know, because we got wives end up taking a husband's seat. Yeah, they can do that. They run for they run for and the community, you know, oh, I love John Lewis. I'm a elect his wife. You know, he'd be like and his wife is qualified to do what or oh, I love so-and-so. I'm a elect her husband. Yeah, we see that all the time.

Somebody said if Mitch McConnell is not dead. He's somewhere in the hospital under heavy guard Danny Davis James Crab one see this person named a lot of the older people And ironically because they got going more on here Maxine Benny Thompson and Glenn Moore of that group Let me see how does Benny Thompson and I just I want to be clear like I love these people but I Mean somebody on each side playing I'm coming

Benny Thompson age how old are you? So I said Maxine was 87 Just Jesus you three years from 90. So Benny Thompson is 78 and Who else did they name? Oh Danny Davis. How does Danny Davis Danny Davis? I'm just curious now being nosy 84

Even though I will admit when he was in the studio, he looked amazing and was sharp as I'll get out. But you can still be amazing and sharp and politically influential, but not in that seat. I just think that after a certain point in time, we got to we got to stop. You shouldn't be sitting there at 87. Damn, they're 90 years old. You refuse to leave. Like, come on, fan. All right, I got to take a quick break.

When we get back, a lot of other things to get to this morning. I did note and good morning. I didn't say that yet to the folks on social media. It is great to see you on YouTube and Facebook. I understand that there was a little bit of a conversation about who got here first this morning.

And, uh, Eval Kenyon was like, Oh, y'all thought I had seated my position. Y'all thought my number one spot was not mine anymore. Henry Peters, who had usurped that last week and had got in at number one, came in at number two. And then here comes happiness donuts. Am I first?

They quickly pointed out, no, no happiness notice. You are not. So let me just say good morning. Good morning to everyone. Thank you for joining us. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. All right, family, let me go local for just a little bit. A couple of things. Number one, I talked about the fact that

over in Granville in the area in which I live in, that they are not moving forward. The Granville bid is not moving forward with the business incubator project, and that may not be the official name for it, but that's basically the concept in which they were planning to create space for roughly 40 businesses in the Granville area to be able to be housed.

you know, have a brick and mortar spot by which to help run their businesses. And they're not moving forward with that. Some people confused what I said with that the Granville Blues Festival is not happening. Those are not the same things. Granville Blues Festival is happening. So I just wanted to make sure that I corrected that because a couple of people hit me about it and must have came in on the tail end of the story. Or maybe I just was not clear, but it was the Granville business.

improvement district, the space that was going to be utilized to house these businesses, that is not moving forward. You have seen the billboards for the Grandville Blues Fest, it is happening as scheduled. Okay, so that's one. Let me just take a moment and talk about the fireworks last night. Oh, I'm sorry, on July 4th, Saturday. So,

In our neighborhood, again, I'm in Granville. We didn't have anything that we could say we didn't have any fireworks. We've had them at the park before at noise park. We didn't have any fireworks. We didn't have a parade for 4th of July. We have nothing. And this is a neighborhood that traditionally has had all those things. We had a parade.

When all the woman then all the woman shanti loose became the older person She moved the parade off the route through the residential neighborhood and moved it

into like a business corridor where nobody out there early in the morning at the time that we would do the parade, just messed up the whole thing, moving that parade route. I remember people used to be able to come out on their porch in their pajamas with a cup of coffee, their grandkids running around in the yard, waving at the parade, because that would be the very, when I worked in Lena Taylor's Senate office, we did five parades a day. We did five.

and we started with the Granville Parade as early as 9 a.m. Then we went over to Glendale, then we went to Tulsa, then we went to Brown Deer, then we finished in Shorewood. We would do five parades in one day. So it was really sad just to realize everything that's kind of going on with Granville, but, and we knew we didn't have a firework show, but we are sitting in the house.

And me Keisha and her pops we sit there and we like these fireworks sound awfully close So I got up and opened the front door It looked like the Macy's Day fire a firework show was happening right outside our front door I don't know where people are getting these grades of fireworks that they're using But man when I tell you they are like

complicated looking huge. Not that little stuff that fizzles and goes up. No, this was, this was celebration worthy. And you know, we've heard some people, somebody said Senator Taylor always gave out freeze pops in the show with parade. She showed it. Sure, it used to be hot with Lena. And then little kids be like, you got my freezy pop. And then grown folks was asking for them. That's funny that somebody put that on there. But um,

You know did anybody else experience the fireworks in a crazy? Man, they must have brought the whole tent I swear I stood outside and look in the sky because I'm like this sound like

I racked. Sounded like a war zone, like the whole city was being bombed. Shootin' anything to see. It was, listen, it sound like Harlem Night's out there. But it was A, but they were D, D, uh.

They got brothers and sisters. They was doing their thing. It's all over the city. Man, it was lit up. It was so much smoke. We couldn't see it across the street. Because like our mailbox is across the street from the house. And just I was like, look, you can't even see across the street. It was so much smoke. I just and it was some people. A couple of people got their hand blown off. Yeah. Fingers blown off. Somebody face. They they.

They did now, you know, because of trying to handle these these professional grade seeming fireworks. It's like y'all airplane They believe got hit by fireworks. How because it flew into the whoever was doing it was landing and so the fireworks went off in the landing path of the airline and that's illegal So if they figure out who did it, yeah, you go to jail. Yeah, you go to jail

Somebody said, my dogs haven't slept well for almost a week because of dang fireworks. Somebody said, we was in Vietnam. I swear, man. It was like, pop, pop.

Man, I swear I thought about the movie Harlem Mike's like with our senior hall. Somebody said the best thing you can do is stay home and man your garden hose. That's the case. I'm touching because I'm telling you, it's so wouldn't where we stay. I'm like, man, this is not good. But because it had rained earlier that day, stuff was a little, you know, a little moist. But yeah, it was it was not feeling good. I was like, y'all.

It was pretty though. It was pretty. But I was like, man, where are these people getting these dang fireworks from? So hopefully, we should say a little Bobo. No, they get them from Big Bubba. That's who they get. Big Bubba pulled up in the van. As you know, as we will always say, how is it illegal to have these fireworks in the neighborhood, but you got stores that sell them? It makes no sense. It makes no sense. We got a caller. Let me grab them real quick. Hey, caller, what's happening?

Good morning, what's happening? Well, not really cuz it like what time did it start like at midnight? Where they supposed to let the fireworks breathe you know you hit one boom chill boom hit another one He was just booming the whole time where it was so foggy the next

day they had to have quick air control the next day because that's how messed that's how many you fired off back to back that's from so many y'all that you couldn't even see the explosion the prettiness of them because the smoke was too it was too many of them back to back I mean so the air was

So crazy. No, you are absolutely correct. I think that it was just because he's so busy and always trying to outdo everybody else. I had more. I had bigger. I had better. He sound like I ain't even gonna say a brother with a little man syndrome. That's what he sound like. But yeah, he did it. So like you said, to the point that you couldn't even appreciate what was happening because.

You're not given adequate time in between these fireworks for people to even see what's going on And they got pictures of the smoke the smoke was ridiculous And then and then he rambling on He rambling on about someone at the podium at 12 and guess what he do I'm gonna be sitting there watching the fireworks with you guys guess what he would do

Sleep like I'm a... He didn't talk to himself to sleep, only watched the fire. You know you can't stay up past 12, Paw Paw.

It is just scandalous the way he just hijacked that whole thing But yeah, thank you for mentioning that I appreciate it Look y'all because the other part that became you know relevant is people figured out how they stole his money for the America 250 celebration Donald Trump so Congress creates a committee comprised of Democrats and Republicans Years ago

to be able to put money aside and to plan what the 250th anniversary of this country's founding would look like. Donald Trump, being who he is, divisive all day long, he decides he's going to hold his own committee, and that's the Freedom 250. So money that had been put into the congressionally backed

America 250 celebration, Donald Trump reduced that money that was available to that committee. He took funds away and reapplied them to his committee and then donors, particularly corporate donors who thought that they were backing the nonpartisan bipartisan effort ended up finding out that their money was going

to Donald Trump's little 250 celebration. And the money that he raised was madness. It was madness. Like, I think the lowest sponsorship package was a half a million dollars. And literally, this guy is still in money away from the committee's money, the Congressional Approved Committee, to put it into his nonsense.

so that you can pay for eight hundred and fifty thousand pyrotechnics in terms of a fireworks display that ended up being just a clown show like I just you get stuck trying to understand why all of this is being allowed you you literally hijacked the country celebration and then he had banners

around DC that were three stories high of his face. The three story, and when I say story, y'all understand I'm talking about like the equivalent of an apartment floor, a first story building. Yeah. So take your house and put another floor on it and another floor on it. So from floor to ceiling,

on your three floors in your house. That's a three-story poster. He had posters that big all around DC, his face and George Washington's face, along with him going up to Mount Rushmore because they're lobbying, trying to figure out how to put his face up on Mount Rushmore. Let me tell you, like, these people are so crazy. It is beyond understanding.

It is just madness. It is absolute madness. So, he just met, like I said, everything he touches, he just mucks up. Everything he touches, it just ends up being disgusting. And it's about self and about him. It's not about this country. And then we see, and Carlos, I see y'all here, I come. The good old boys.

with a Confederate flags and they mask on their face. You don't want to wear a mask during COVID, but you don't have no problem wearing a mask when you're trying to like hide your face and, you know, and intimidate people with your khaki pants on. But they come to the city in DC, 400, 500 strong, you know, and march with a foolishness. So here you have the folks representing the group who lost.

in the Civil War. You lost the battle, but you swing in your Confederate flags as you walk through the National Mall area.

Um, the whole thing was embarrassing. It was divisive. Trump again figured out a way to get rich, making money off these corporations and stealing money directly from taxpayer pockets in terms of diverting those funds to fund his own, um, you know, his own ideology, his own initiatives. Think about that. Corporations, the minimum to get in was $500,000.

the highest package I think was around $10 million. All of that money could have been going to the country's celebration, not to this partisan, you know, just foolishness that this man did. Like, I just keep looking at folks like, so this was what y'all wanted? Y'all got it? Does it look like what you thought it was gonna look like?

Let me go to the phone line. Hey, caller. What's happening? Hello. Yes. Oh, good morning, Michelle. Good morning. Good morning. Okay. I have a I have a question. It might be stupid, but okay, let me just know such thing. Let's go. I got this United States census. Um, and it's saying your response is required by law. Usually I respond, but since that, um,

Damon is in office right now. I don't want to do anything that would like and encourage any of his shenanigans

Should I fill it out? Yeah, fill it out. Because what they're doing right now is random sampling of households. This isn't the 10-year decade count. So you don't have to. So this one, while they have all that language on there, it is not obviously our official census.

uh, count that we typically do. This one is called either the American Community Survey. Yeah. That's what it is. Okay. Yeah. And so they do say that, or an invitation, um, from the census test participation is mandatory by law. So I will say that for the record. It says it's mandatory by law. Um, but, you know, A.

I'll just, I'll just leave it there. It never came in the mail. I didn't get it. I was like, well, this is going to somehow help him. I don't want to do anything. It's not going to help him. It's definitely not going to help him, but they definitely are trying to take a gauge of who's in the country, what's going on. Um, I always cooperate with the census because when it's used in the way it's supposed to, that's how money comes to.

our communities for every individual that sign. I mean that you know that we can count that's roughly a thousand dollars in federal dollars that comes to the community.

And it is also how we can figure out who should have representation. That's how we all know it's 30% black people in the state of Alabama based on those census responses. So it is important to fill them out. It is tied to actual things that benefit our community. But we just know that unfortunately we have people that take good information for bad. Right. That's what I'm afraid. I don't want it to be used.

You know, yeah, but no don't don't use correctly. Yeah, just do your part. Don't don't worry about how it's called yet on the end Just do do your part do what you need to do with it. Okay Yes, man, you're welcome. Thank you. Bye. Bye. I Appreciate her call got another caller. Let's get them in. Hey caller. What's happening?

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I don't know if anybody saw them videos from Summerfest and these group of kids that was down there fighting

Man, y'all need to stop. Embarrassing. And it was a bunch of women, a bunch of girls, young girls fighting. You know, boys laughing, videotaping them, young men laughing, videotaping them. But this is my thing. If you know, you're prone to fighting. You're prone to a slick mouth. You're prone to altercations. Why you wear weave?

It was bundles all over the ground. People was picking up folks here because I guess it was Brazilian and they wanted to save because it cost $120 for a bundle. But why you wear a weave and you go into a fight? That's the dumbest thing I've ever done.

When back in my day when you knew you was gonna get to a fight These cats go into a fight dressed up like they go into the prom

with a weave and it's we didn't wonder her hair just looked a full mess after the weave got snatched off and I'm like ladies there are fight rules and fight etiquette one of which is don't wear weave if you think you're gonna get into a fight sale you know what we usually say back in the day

Oh, we were dirty Clearly the age difference between me and Jermaine Like the most we had back in a day and the kitchen just brought this up the other day Don't tell kitchen nothing cuz she remember everything you say but oh my god, dude, she can run it back to you word for word You just be looking at her like she a freak of nature. Um, but I had told her when I was

I was in like the fourth grade, the fifth grade. It was maybe the sixth grade, sixth grade. I had two girls in my class, Sandra Walker and Event Marible.

I'm like Ali Siddique. I say real names because these are true stories. And this big row had a wig on at school in like the sixth grade. And we was looking at her head like it's where it was. You know, we was kids when kids was innocent, you know, and.

You just didn't know a lot. Your parents protected you and shielded you from a lot of, you know, worldly street-grown kind of activities. And so she came to school and she had a wig on. And we was like, she got a wig on. And we were like, she got a wig on.

Like that was the scandal of my day that somebody actually had on a whole wing We just didn't know what to do. We were like, I mean, this is crazy. So, you know, as you may say, we were dirty. Oh, we were dirty. Yeah, we, we know about weed. And in the day, I'm like, y'all, y'all need to stop playing.

going down here getting into all this foolishness and you walk around with something somebody can snatch off your head because people will snatch the wigs off back in the day but you will have it braided down you have a little cap on you know but now and then some of y'all they're snatching it out with with the glue and on top of that shield

The wind was blowing, so it was like tumbleweeds. It was running down the street. And so, like, I was just walking behind a friend who had just got beat up picking up their hair. I was like, y'all have got to stop. And then, you know, people are like, man, people, I hate to see blanks coming. And somebody said, black folks hate to see them coming too. But we don't have to behave this way. Or y'all don't, because I don't behave like this.

Y'all don't have to do this. This is not entertainment. Why get dressed up to go somewhere and fight and get snatched up by security guards. And then there's one little child on the video screaming, let me go, let me go. Well, you shouldn't have been doing all of this. And I hope they promptly walked you to a police car. Yeah. And put your behind in the back and took you away.

Why y'all come mess up the good time for everybody else because I'm gonna tell you I said because These young people now are using social media To try to get famous you want to go viral, but I'm getting famous for fighting But that's the thing They have a fight house here in Milwaukee that people meet up a fight house It's a fight house in the city that people meet up in the living room house. It's a it's a house that

Like the way they have for people to fight dogs. Oh, just like how they have dogs. They have this TV show now that people are now trying to do a replica of. But it's a TV show that girls go to the house and you sign up to fight. So they have you in this house and you go in the living room and you pick who you want to fight and you score up and fight and they record it.

Well, here in the city, it's a fight house. I'm gonna tell you where's that on the air. I'll tell you. But it's a fight. That's crazy. Meet up and they film on Facebook to fight and they're standing around and they charge people to get in. So they they're paying the people that's fighting. So somebody charging to get in, you win a purse. You win. Yeah. You win some. So we got our own informal. Yeah. Yeah.

Pay-per-view fights going on in somebody's house, but this all this is madness from this TV show I forgot the name of the show not fight club This is this are young black women That's fight. What is it called bad bunny bad? It's called something but I find it for you soon as we go to To a break and show you and I'm gonna tell you I mean, but people are capitalizing. I think it's either it's easy

It's one of these television I'm looking let me see if I can find it, but I'm gonna tell you and I tell I sell this to Keisha all the time And this is the one area that me and LaKeisha part ways these hood ghetto What's the name of that mess um Atlanta housewives and this I don't watch none of that trash

because it is the precursor to these little girls fighting in the street. You can't get through a dinner without somebody getting called a bee, getting cussed out. They just, and these are educated women in most cases. And it's just the most ignorant, embarrassing thing. And you know, people, what's it called? Bad girls. You know, and people are, oh, it's a guilty pleasure. That ain't no guilty pleasure.

because listen to the conversation. She had it on in the house one day over this holiday break and they spent like 20 minutes on the show arguing about which bedroom somebody got put in at some little resort or something that they went to. 20 minutes grown women arguing about which room you got in the Airbnb or whatever it was they were staying in.

And I'm like, this ain't mindless entertainment.

All of these women disrespecting each other and showing that they can't you know beat together for five to 15 minutes before drama start and then one woman egging another woman on to go after somebody and then they want to sit and then these little young girls is watching this trash at home and then it helps to also because everybody rap music rap music nah We got women setting bad examples bad examples for young girls. I completely go ahead Jay. I completely just

agreement those shots. Okay, so it's it's crazy because the black version is called baddies. The white version of the white people going to the house and in the room to fight is called bad girls club. Yeah, bad. So it's crazy because you got networks that's actually picking this stuff up and showing it and our kids are watching it and they glued to this stuff.

and then you wonder why they acted before. Yeah, because I mean, it's the next, that's why I said these little shows, these housewives shows, it's just the precursor for a lot of the stuff that we see transpiring in the streets. And I'm just sorry, I'm like, I don't know how nobody that got good sense is educated, sit up and believe that this nonsense is entertainment because the level of ignorant profanity, slapping people, throwing drinks on people,

30, 40 year old women. But then they show their little family shots with their daughters and they want to, you know, baby their little daughters and oh, these are the sweetest little angels. Yo mama's a ratchet trifling, you know, fighting in the street.

In a restaurant, other people don't pay, and they always be an expensive restaurant. People be don't pay good money to come in here and eat. And then you create a whole commotion and disrespect everybody trying to eat. And the security got to pick y'all up, the camera crew and take you out because you're grown behind, don't know how to act.

There's nothing entertaining about that. I don't understand women who sit around and watch that kind of trash I don't understand it. I don't understand it because what an awful way an awful representation of black women on television

You ain't gotta come talking to me about what a rapper does to disrespect us We disrespect ourselves when we participate in stuff like that and you think cuz you put on a glittery dress with all your damn breasts hanging out That somehow you've classed the whole thing up when his wife folks getting rich a few black women acting a damn fool That's what I was about to say man. These networks are getting millions. They are getting millions

all of them. Adam, whatever his name is, Andy or whatever, whatever, Adam, this, I mean, these people making boo-koo money. And they tied in with the fans. And then like, okay, so the women on the shows may be making money, but look at the harm you were doing. And then you think, cause you own a business on the show or you got a clothing line or a drink line that you some type of business woman. No, you ratchet. I gotta take a break. I'll be right back.

Alright family, welcome back to the show. Got some callers that held through to break at least one of them was able to stay with us. So let me go to the phone line. Hey caller, what's happening? Hello? I can hear you now. Yeah, you were talking about some of the rapid mist that go on, you know, every Sunday I and I agree with you on the only reality TV.

Every Sunday, though, I did around the TV and I watched baddies. Right now we're on baddies USA and I can understand what you're saying. You probably will be more interested in the bad boys, the bad boys because I don't watch them because they got, they got, I mean, it's a bunch of homophobes. I mean, they be in that fight. I don't know what, but the domain was right about the White House because I know a friend of mine, a girl called Tim,

late one night, she tapped out. They was fighting. And we talking about, I don't know, see when these girls start giving them money to guys, excuse me, guys with tennis shoes and they quit paying alligators and locker dials, you know, and even a good fortune, start giving them money to these guys with the tennis shoes and thought they'd thank any player. Hey, they had this, they had a little house over in these guys, been thousands of dollars. Okay. So the girl mess around and tapped out.

And so what she said, she, I got to get some air. So she went to get some air and she run off on the young player and she called this guy up. He said, what part of the game is this? It's mad out here, but I watched Barry live with Sunday night. I got to see me. So Natalie Young and her a little crew that she got going. But at the same time, you're so right. You're so right. And guess what? It's not, it's a black network. Zoops, they on fire right now. Zoops is booming.

I mean, I guess they trying to build a network up into at least a 2B or something, but to subscribe to it is about $69 a year. But I'm sure that you would probably like the old bad boys' clothes. Because the women that grows over there, man, is saucy and sassy and they fighting like crazy. And I don't want to see none of that. I get enjoyment out of this every Sunday night is the real brawl.

And with that, I'm on land. All right. Thank you so much for your call. That's the dumbest thing. You know, no, see, I'm going to tell you, it takes all I can to watch a professional fight. And I think for me, because I come up in the era of Mike Tyson, I would watch Tyson fights.

And then I remember, you know, in my childhood, early teens, you know, the George Foreman, Muhammad Ali, what was the one, was it Walt Frazier? Was he a boxer? Frazier. You know, so I remember, you know, my house, people gathering around the TV to watch these fights, but I'm gonna be clear.

I'm not a huge fan of people beating up each other. It's just really not my thing. I think I was attracted to the Mike Tyson boxing era because of his hard luck story. This young guy, you know, trying to figure out how to get out of poverty, paying attention to how folks was using them, you know, to advance their own situations. And I was rooting for Mike to make it.

It wasn't, I wanted to see Mike beat the crap out of somebody. I was rooting though, if this was the avenue that you had to use to make it, I was rooting for him to make it. But I'm not a huge watcher of fights. I'm just not. And at least in some of these situations, it's structured. There are some rules. You can't hit after the bill. If somebody

gets a cut, opened up over the eye, you know, we can, we can stop the fight for that. There's things that you can immediately apply to, you know, contain the bleeding. There are some type of medical safeguards in place in those structured situations. But this, this other stuff that people just out here doing just free balling and fighting. No, no, that none of that's for me. None of that's for me. And I definitely don't want to see even when Muhammad Ali's daughter.

Was boxing I've never watched any of her fights Because just that whole idea of women fighting like that and let me be clear I'm off of whooping somebody's behind when it's called for 100% But for sport, I don't do that for sport. I Just I I am not somebody that takes great joy and people beating up on each other

And particularly when you understand, even though we've seen some colossal paydays for fighters, but think about this, if that's what they can afford to pay the winner, and the loser gets a nice little chunk of change too in these major fights, how much do you think the people putting the whole thing on is making? If I can get you a $20 million purse, how much do you think I'm making?

Like let that sink in How much are if if I can pay you 20 million I'm making 60 or a hundred million So now I'm each I wouldn't I wouldn't find any degree of none of that to be interesting to me I'm gonna catch this one other caller and then switch gears a little bit. Hey caller. What's happening? Good morning

Hey Listen, how you doing this morning? All right now All right, you know my dad was a golden glove boxer, okay And I'm so proud of him for that. He's no longer with me for many years, but He always talked to me and told them

Um, you know, if you use your hands and you fight you live You never to see another day. I mean all of them down the block. He said come on, you know, let's go in the backyard And I remember the day that my brother uh, he did he stole a car knowing that daddy had to go to work and He said, where am I going? He said, Joe Stole a car

You don't get it. You know, my brother did it himself. He jumped, he brought the car back, but he didn't come. My father went to get him, right? My father hit the wall. He said, I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you. And my father, and he broke all the fingers in his hand, right? And then he took me. My brother joined him.

Okay, he didn't come back. So he had to get out of town. Okay. So the second thing is though, we're really, I'm like you, my father didn't like fighting. He said, well, we are going to, I can't fight anymore because when my father was stopped him from fighting, he loved it. And I did too.

But, uh, we stopped him and said that he has to have a plate put in his head. And he didn't know it until he did the exercise. But yes, they had exercise back then. But he was back in, you know, all those fighters way, way back. Uh, and, uh, I didn't know that and they had to put a plate in his head and they said, well, that did it. But yes, Joe, for the great, was it Fraser? Muhammad Ali?

And I sit here, I didn't play with all, I just did fights and all the stuff he liked. And I wanted Joe Frazier to win. I could not. Damn, Muhammad Ali. I don't know why. I'm not mad. I love anybody but him. I guess he was just too... I don't know just... You know, I'm Muhammad Ali and... Yeah, that was just me. Everybody get mad at me if you want to, but not anybody.

Yes, man. Thank you. I love you, girl. I love all y'all.

You live to see another day. Maybe we can put a poster up there. And two kids, you know, a big old poster up on the sideline. You live to see another day if you use your this. Thank you for that. All right, thank you. Public service, for now. Thank you. Bye. Such things. God bless you. I think it was. I think it was.

I'm not sure I'm not paying attention to this thread completely But I think I saw a question about and why is that any different from any other sporting event football basketball baseball hockey? I'm not sure if we're talking about the whole fight fighting aspect of it But again, you know as long as it is controlled and organized so that we're ensuring that people are not getting killed And seriously, you know hurt

it doesn't have to be any different from other sports, even though I think hockey is way too violent and it's gratuitous violence. You know, you watch some of the stuff that's going on in these hockey rings and it's like, you ain't got to do all of that to play this game. And the crowd, you know, they're salivating when the, the, the swing sticks are swinging and the punches start being, you know, thrown. It's just like.

They just they lose their mind over it and it's just ignorant to me I just don't understand that level of engagement to have a sporting activity, but that's me. That's me. I'm a little bit different All right, so let me oh We got a caller. Okay. Yeah, I'll take them in. Hey, let me go to the phone line. Hey caller. What's happening? Hang on you got a son speaker your phone is is breaking up on us

It's still breaking up. Try again. Hello? Okay, they hung up. Yeah, your phone was breaking up pretty bad, but please feel free to call us back if we can make it work. We will. All right. So I need to just take a second because some of you may have saw that there was huge. I really wanted to kind of

mess with the speech that Frederick Douglass had given, what is the Fourth of July to the slave? But I don't think I'm going to do it. Because it was a lot. It was a lot. But the funeral procession that some of us have had a chance to see for

the Ayatollah Khomeini, which the crowds were crazy, okay? So if you have not paid attention, a lot of things are just, you know, people back in the day used to say stuff gets lost in the sauce. We have so much going on and coming at us that it's hard to keep up. I keep saying, we have a Venezuelan president in an American prison in New York and his wife.

And yet, you barely hear about these people. You know, we have Republicans who are vowing to introduce legislation to figure out a way to end birthright citizenship. We have folks saying that, you know, no, send people that are in protected class in terms of immigration policies.

temporary protective class status that they need to be sent back to Haiti, even though we know the civil unrest is Haiti is crazy, but we can bring over a plane full of white South Africaners because y'all got to give back land that your family members stole. I mean, it's just real interesting the situation that we find ourselves in. So you're trying to pay attention to it all. What story do I cover? Which thing do I talk about? What should grab my attention today?

I'm flipping channels and I see a new story regarding the funeral and burial being televised of Attila Khomeini. And, you know, remember, he gets killed at the onset of the war with the U.S. and Iran and Israel. He's killed out the gate.

His son who has since taken over but nobody has really seen his son so they don't know what's going on but thousands of people poured into the streets as they carry this man's body through Iran and neighboring Iraqi areas Okay thousands of people

Thousands of people so he was killed back in February like February 28th. So it kind of got me. I'm like Well, we didn't I guess there wasn't any real big ceremony or funeral or anything to commemorate this man's death From his people that supported him and I got to take a break But looking at that crowd it just reminded me of something that I say all the time

We didn't resolve anything in relationship to Iran Whatever this little conversation is and these peace talks and you know, we got a ceasefire going on right now if you think for five minutes That there are not people in those crowds young people coming up under the people that

supported this particular individual are going to forget what happened. And all will be right with the world. You got another thing coming, another thought coming. They do not forget. We can never sleep easy. One eye must always be open. And it's going to be worse than we even predicted. But see, these folks,

think You know Because I carry a big stick and I talk real loud and I got ignorant Pete Hex at that the microphone You know trying to act like he on some religious mission from God to wipe all these people out that we got favor We don't we don't

These folks will sit in the cut just like Republicans for 20 and 30 and 40 years until they figure out how to pay us back. That funeral was a stark reminder of just my belief on that. I gotta take a break. I'll be right back. All right, folks, welcome back to the show. So we got two callers. I also want to try to work into the conversation this morning just briefly. This is a moment I promise you.

think about Keon and talking about the brother who has been traveling with the Dominican Republicans soccer team and going into the stadiums and standing in a statuesque pose, paying homage and giving a nod of respect to the assassinated leader, Patrice Lumumba.

There are certain names that Keon would mention in talking about social issues, social justice issues all the time. And Patrice Lumumba was one of those. I want to talk about how he was denied access to the United States. He's been able to go all over the world and in stadiums stand in signature dress. This is a fan, but.

he stands in signature dress, sometimes with his hand raised and the defiant way in which Patrice Lumumba had been photographed. But the clothes, the glasses, everything is a clear giveaway to exactly who he is, exactly what he's doing. And he'll stand the entire time that the team is playing in this frozen state. I mean, his ability to do this is crazy.

So what would it sound for him to come to the US? All of a sudden there's a visa issue. There's a problem They don't allow him to come to the US and do it but a another brother from the continent Seeing that they don't allow this guy to come in and I'll mention his name and stuff after I get the callers He decides that's all right. I'll stand here for and so he darns

Don's the garb and you know holds it down and I just couldn't help but smile I was like see that's what it looks like when we show up for one another When we have each other's back it doesn't matter what part of the world you're from if you know you you know from the And I said the Dominican Republic, but I meant the Congo But it doesn't matter where you're from

that you look like me, somebody got their foot on your neck, or I'm coming to your aid, or I'm gonna pick up whatever the fight is that they're trying to shut you down on. But let me go to the phone line and I'll circle back on this. Hey, caller, what's happening? Good morning, Michelle. Good morning. Hey, good morning. Hey, I think when you talked about those crowds, I felt the same thing. To see most of us still remember 9-11.

That was that was anger and it was formulated over a year I mean those people were so angry that they were willing to learn to fly planes and do all the things you do as an American but yet their ultimate goal was to kill Americans which they be 5,000 or so and so that anger can be manifested in more ways than people think and you write when somebody has that kind of hate for you

it comes back at you in ways you never thought and it probably will you'll see it right in front of you. I mean I sat in the meeting the morning of 9 11 and we watched that second plane hit that that tower and it was just stuck to think that somebody would run up against a field of planes into the building and kill all those people and so it was so here we are now creating the same environment.

not necessarily for us now, but for our children and their their safety in the next 10 to 20 years. They created a monster and they want to be around to do anything about it.

No, thank you Tyrone for breaking that that connection and that correlation I think it's a great way to help kind of drive home that point because when the 9-11 Commission issued their report on what was the reason or the rationale that we were struck in that way some of the things that they came away with was people still mad about the US interventions and sanctions against Iraq going back to the 1990s financial support for Israel and the Palestinian conflict

also came up as a part of what went on with those strikes. Troops in Saudi Arabia. I mean, like, you know, people felt like American troops were desecrating holy ground in terms of, you know, when they were in these areas. So these people have a long memory. And I just, I just, I just looked at that, that visual of that. I was like, it's going to be a price to pay for all of this.

And then on top of that, they let them people off. Most of those people, they know what country they came from. They didn't punish Saudi Arabia. They didn't punish any of those places where they came from. And so now, this whole thing, we're wiping Iran off the map. I said, how? Have we been trained to deal with nuclear fallout? Nope. I mean, we were supposedly trained in the 60s.

when the Russian missile crisis in Cuba, you know, we had to go and do drills every day. We had water in the basement. They had rashes. We were trained to get ready for what was coming as when I was in 12th Street School back in the 50s, 60s. And so, so where do you go? There is no training in America for any kind of catastrophic thing, not even what they know what happens with a hurricane because you know it's coming.

But other things like we're talking about, you don't know they come in today here. Right. So it's just you create that kind of hate, you know, and so in the same way when, uh, when John Brown, uh, went after those, those, those slave folks and they thought they had created, they thought they, they haven't, they wanted him, but he went on to what he just wanted to kill people because he was so mad over slavery and the way people will be in treated. So sometimes.

hate can linger, but it also can have a due date. And so I'm scared for my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, and the future when some of these people suddenly show up to do things and they don't care. They don't care what your age is, what your race is, what your religion is, as what happened in 9-11. They just wanted to kill America.

Absolutely. Thank you, Tyrone. Like I said, that was a perfect way to illustrate the concerns I've raised. We got another caller. Let's get them in. Hey, caller, what's happening? Good morning, Michelle. Hey, good morning. Hey, just want to piggyback off of what this previous caller said. And then I want to go back to some things you were saying earlier. OK. You know, when you say that those people have a long memory,

is because they've been fighting for thousands of years. This country has it. You know, we've only been around, what, 400? And so, like he said, it's the kids and grandkids that we got to worry about being safe from them. And like he said, they'll all be gone. But what I want to get back to is when you were talking about the housewives of Atlanta and all that, it reminded me of something that Al Sharpton said a few years ago.

He said This just doesn't just doesn't have a domestic impact on America these shows they have an international and global impact right he said imagine if you were Say a middle-of-the-road person and you lived in Germany or you lived in France or you lived in China And you said you know they're talking about black people so bad Let me just look at one of these TV shows and see what they're like

They happen to tune in to love and hip-hop for the housewives of Atlanta and they see all that What do you think they're going to say? Well, they're just like the white people in America say they are look at them

I mean, but like literally it's funny that you would use that as the example because there was just a story on about these German folks that are in town or in the country for FIFA, for the soccer tournaments, and they were talking about they were scared to travel here because of all of the coverage on US cities and crime.

shootings and I know some of that was based on what they think and believe about black people living in this country so you're right and you know and in one fan he actually talked about like well I got here and you know people were actually very nice to me and you know I didn't run into what I thought I was going to but they they they said just what you're saying we were scared to come over here see and we don't understand truly

how America projects us to the world. This is what I'm saying. This is how America projects us to the world. And so when you see that and you see these shows and the white folks are making millions, hundreds of millions of dollars a year off of this stuff. And what do we get? We get the despiteful looks and all that stuff. And then we don't understand, then we get upset.

with everybody else about how they view us and how they they interact with us but you helping you you helping that nonsense those negative portrayals to be uh carried and so no I thank you because I yeah it's a perfect point it's a good point yeah okay thank you I appreciate you bruh got another caller let's get them in hey caller what's happening I'm good how are you this morning I'm good I'm good

Okay. When Arabs attack black people in Africa or non-black, if we want to call them that, Coptic people, Nubian people, everybody in North Africa or the other countries that the Arabs invaded in the Middle East, Armenians were slaughtered by the Turks. Did the Turks slaughter Armenians because we bombed them? Because we did something to do Arabs today?

kill each other and attack Africans in between. Let's have a little rape party in between killing each other. Is this because of something America did to them or the West did to them? Are you looking for an answer or are you just rhetorically asking what are you doing? Serious. Say what? Serious question.

So, John, I have to say this to you like a couple of times, as opposed to asking me the question, make the point you want to make, John. It's easier that way. The question is because I keep hearing a blame that we brought on everything and we caused all the stuff. So wait, so who is we? Who is we? America. America. Okay. The West. The West.

you know, intervene and so it's a complaint that America has brought on a bunch of negative stuff concerning who against us because we did something to them or Israel did something to them and that they're just innocent people who just are mad at us because we interviewed in their world and I keep trying to bring on to you that you got an empire over there because they're not

organized in a map that says, here's the Arab empire. Instead you see a whole bunch of little colors on it, on a modern map where it looks like, oh, there's Algeria, there's Sudan, there's Morocco, they're all disconnected, but we don't have a map, an old fashioned map that says, here's the Arab empire. But they have their League of Arab States, they have all of their, what they call the Arab street, meaning every single Arab country has its fighters, and their goal is Arab empire.

So they don't care. They're mad, of course. But John, there are people that understand the complex issues that center around Arabs, blacks. I mean, we actually have terms like Afro Arabs because of even the fact that there have been times when there have been peaceful existence, and these people have co-mingled, had children, and then also the insufferable violence that has also occurred.

But I think that the distinction is that particularly when black folks are talking about a lot of the issues that we see. No, we in here in America, we're not going back to grab the historical drama between Arabs, you know, blacks in the region. They're looking at what they see happening here in the states. And unfortunately, while it may be uncomfortable to hear a lot of it is white people.

A lot of it is some of the issues that they have with the way Israel is protected at almost all costs at the expense of everybody else, John. So they're looking at it through different lenses while you want to do geopolitical and there's nothing wrong with that and expand out, you know, like making sure that we understand a lot of people have had their hands in the pot.

And this mess that we get is created from a bunch of different, you know, players. But when we talk about certain things, particularly specific to America, then yeah, they go identify white folks. They are going to identify how Israel and the support of Israel has potentially helped to lead to some of those issues in those conflicts. So I think we got to also

understand the lens by which the listeners, the viewers, the people paying attention to some of this are looking at it. I'm not going all the way across the rest of the world to see who throwing trash in my front yard here on Capitol Drive. I'm paying attention to what's happening and the players on Capitol Drive. And I don't think that people are short-sighted. They just are trying to deal with what they got in front of them. Okay, okay. We just got through it before I called.

of a list of things that we've been doing to them over there, with them meeting Arabs and their Confederates. But John, is there a lack of truth in some of that stuff? Because one of the things that I think I don't frequently hear enough is acknowledgement that some of that stuff has happened, that there has been some targeted

You know, like i'm sorry. There's nothing that israel can do to make me feel good about the way they handle this latest issue With um, hezbollah and the folks that attacked them on october 7th and the way they killed all these uh, palestinian people and tore up everything they own You you came there's just not enough that you can do to help justify that even understanding the long-storied history of these arguments and these these fights i get it but

Okay. There has to be some deference made to the fact that there are times when these other groups have been wrong. Okay. Okay. I'm talking about connecting dots and the dots are there's an error of empire. Can you even say that sentence right now?

There is an Arab empire. Can you say that as opposed to any other empires? We got all kinds of empires. Why do I need to isolate out and specifically say there's an Arab empire? We have all kinds of empires job.

Because we're talking about the Middle East. We're talking about, no, it's not just we're talking about the Middle East. You keep making it about the Middle East. We're talking about a confluence of things. Americans have supported and propped up different factions that have helped to make these problems exacerbated from people in our country. So it's not just we're talking about the Middle East. We blew up the Nazi towns. We destroyed the whole country. We tore that country up.

Flattened it we bombed factories because we were on the right now the question is did we deliberately wait wait wait We did we did what we tore it up because we were in the right Hang on did you say because we were in the right because we just read yeah, we just read Germany because we're on the right wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait We destroyed an entire country because we were in the right you mean because we were in the more we were morally right

So, no, no, you don't get to say that to me. No, you don't get to say that to me. No, it's one thing to destroy a philosophy and an ideology and say, therefore, we get to destroy your whole people. Like when Donald Trump talks about the fact that we will blow Iran off the map, you don't get to do it with me, John.

No, that's why we have what they call rules of engagement. That's why, and people had to go and create those because the way some of these wars have previously been fought was fought wrong. I don't get to tear up everybody because some of y'all leaders are behind. John, what did I just say?

There were just like their rules. We break today just like their rules of engagement. We break all the time. We have abused people that we were not supposed to abuse. What should we have done? John, I'm sorry. The ends don't always justify the means. It does not for me.

I'm not, I'm not that. And that whole, we got the moral high road and we got the moral ground and we killing all kinds of innocent people who don't have nothing to do with what Hitler and his minions was trying to do. They just caught up. They the wrong pick. They in the wrong place at the wrong time. So we gonna kill everybody. No, John, I ain't with that. John, I'm not with it.

I'm not with it. You cannot make me ignore all of these people and everything that got destroyed in Palestine when these people were not trying to get into that skirmish or skirmish is a ridiculous word when they were not trying to get into this war with Israel. These people were just in the way. You blow up every hospital. You blow up every school. You blow up every every housing structure. You wipe them off the face of the earth. That's genocide.

In the name of, you took 1200 people from us, we're going to take thousands and millions from y'all. That's ignorant to me. How would you have fought the war? I would have fought it in a way that you seek to take out military capabilities and decentralized folks ability to come at you in the way that they did. I am not just saying I raise everything.

Or ooh, I suspect that there is, like them 200 kids that had got killed in that school that America is said to have been responsible for. It's the school. Oh, we believe it may be some activity underneath the ground. So you're gonna blow up that school with 200 babies in it that don't have nothing to do with this?

Are you saying that the Iranian government put those kids next to the Iranian building? Let me just tell you some, John. And thank you for the call. I appreciate it. But let me just say this before I wrap my show for today. See, we have, particularly in the black community, up until recently, we had cults that governed the way we engaged with people we had beef with. We didn't kill children. We didn't kill women, because most of the time women didn't have nothing to do with it.

And we didn't blow up a whole neighborhood. It was targeted. We came for him. We caught him. In fact, we would let him leave the house so we could catch him by himself and blow his head off. But we wasn't going to tear up the whole family to get him. Things have changed over the years. But John, that is why

military, strategists and countries had to come together and think about we cannot damage and tear up everything in the course of trying to exact whatever revenge, retribution, you know, defense that we feel we have to to protect ourselves.

Israel don't get to do all the damage that they did in Palestine. And now, you know, basically trying to do the same thing in relationship to Iran and claim, oh, because we got to protect ourselves. Your life ain't no more damn valuable than nobody else's. But you don't lose 1200 people and they think it's OK for you to kill and displace millions of people that it just don't work for me. I'm not that kind of person.

But they're there I agree you got to understand a lot of the story and there may be details We don't talk about on a regular basis But you're not gonna get people not to talk about what they see and what's in front of them

The US and had their hands is so much damn dirt both domestically and abroad that has backfired on us is crazy They have given arms to people That shouldn't have them because they thought they were gonna get you know Whatever they wanted from that country overthrow leadership, you know get access to resources and so they are flood the zone With arms

And then when the mess go off the rails, the people they tried to put in power end up either getting in power and being more ruthless than the folks they tried to take out or a civil war breaks out, then the US want to stand back and throw their hands up like, oh, we didn't do that. Just like this nonsense with drugs in the black community. That's the United States government that floods black communities with drugs, that flooded black communities with drugs. Two finance wars abroad.

When it was going after some of the Arab countries they use black folks bodies and black folks lives to finance wars abroad So if you're looking for a friend that's gonna talk with this, you know talk about this to a degree of you know, they're always blaming us you talking to the wrong people Black folks ain't about to be no damn ally on this

You're talking to the wrong people. All right, I gotta go. Family, I appreciate y'all. Everybody that waited on Facebook, I appreciate you and all the callers, every single one of them. That makes the conversation happen because that's how we learn and get educated. I appreciate it. I'll talk to y'all tomorrow. Peace.