Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Controversial Win in Florida’s Black District

Good morning. Good morning. What's happening family? Welcome to the show. It is Michelle Brown here at WNOV 860 AM 106.5 FM. You are listening to say something real. And I really want to start the show the way P.D. Green started. I really want to be able to yell the way P.D. Green wake up.

And then there was a swear word behind it. I really wish I could start the show like that. Because that was funny. It's fire to me. Oh my God. I watched it again because it was just so. I mean, but just imagine if P.D. Green was around now in the internet.

Oh my god a beast he would be a beast he would be he would have been a beast And I'm telling you I had to watch it again Because and then I had to go back and actually do the real deep dive on this brother. Just just skills just crazy skills But good morning everybody. Welcome to the show. What's up to my folks on Facebook YouTube? I see even out in you like show me playing show me playing you see me

Somebody tell us where you at. Look at that. Great morning, great Wednesday. Yes, it's good to see everybody on this morning. Let me say good morning to the brothers in the building. What's up, Ryder? How you doing this morning, sir? Well, sale! Yes, sir. Today is Wednesday. It's a beautiful day outside. The sun is shining.

I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired.

Sing it, sing it, Clark. Sing it loud, Clark. Sing it. And then someone is me. Uh, okay. You know, Shale. Yes, sir. I think I might have you on this one. I'm listening. Uh-oh. Now, if piano players are called pianists, and if a person that paints is called an artist,

What is race car drivers? If a piano player The person that paint is an artist What do you call a race car drive?

They're just called racers. They're not called racists. They're just called racers. Well, yes, Jermaine. Piano, pianist, art, artist, racer, I'm sorry, race, racist. And Bubba, what's his name? Wallace, might say.

It's a few of them so but they're called racers. Oh, they're called racers. Yes. Well, she got me on that one. Actually, this one says I missed a couple of weeks of asking my questions. Yeah, it's part B. Okay. So if a person is taking a test,

and dies while they're taking the test. Do that meme that they passed.

So, so technically, no, it does not mean that they passed because they may not have finished the test, which means that the test would go ungraded.

So, you know, there is no score because the test came up with a second question. I'm actually not to encourage.

I've asked you not to encourage. Somebody sent me a whole bunch of laughing faces crying and said, no, these are for Jermaine. OK, I guess that last one just really got people. Laughter is good for the soul. Somebody said cold.

You stupid. You stupid. Yeah, you got you got issues, bro. You got issues. I had a lot of time to think this morning as I was making my way downtown to work. Yeah. A lot of time. I'm just going to say yeah.

I won't say why, but I'll just say yes. Yeah, you did. And, you know, a little special. Just, man. Hey, Clark, how are you this morning? Hope you like this guy. Who are you?

Yeah, quite a few somebody said right on Jermaine. That's that 50 kickity. Not right on Jermaine. Right on Jermaine. Y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all be encouraging us.

what you say parking we gonna let you slide today you do it all right otherwise oh you sound yeah

Yeah jokes didn't help My questions help to uplift your spirits You feel sick

Chills me sick boy. I got a show you know what?

I'm caught troubles. I gotta be a Japan product. I cannot afford to miss my mother. Spread it like solid gear. Spread it like solid gear. Oh, like, now I got all kinds of blights on particles in my throat. So you got coronavirus. You know what? Coronavirus. I can't die. See what I said? It's hard. I hit four pimp. You ain't playing. You are not playing.

So, okay Clark, it sound like you you sick man. You getting a chills me something's happening. Okay, well, I hope you feeling better. Yeah. Hey man, drink some wine. So he just did.

So did I. Well, tell me how you feel. Look, it's probably landed all on the top of my cake. It wasn't even sprayed. Dude, it was going this way. You sprayed it towards the AC, which blew it back this way. But the AC ain't blowing it hard. You know what? Stop talking to me. Stop talking to me before I go to jail looking here. Stop talking to me. But threats. We go in this segment of talking to y'all in the morning. And really, just you.

We go in a segment of talking to you. There's no need to include you in the morning banter. We're going to end this today. It's sick of you. We're going to end this today. Today. All right. Let me move on. First of all, had to wear the baseball cap. In honor. In honor. In honor.

You know what I wanted to tell you what I wanted you to do is to find an instrumental to let him know by TI. That's what we needed this morning. Because when I say it didn't make no sense how the Brewer's handled the Seattle Mariners 22. Come on now. Even the one guy in first home run, even he got a home run. Yeah, look.

And some of the Mariners players was looking like this. They was almost laughing like, yeah, it's a clown show. The one brother that played for the Mariners, he was like, hey, man, it was not day to day. It was not day to day. So we turn on the news.

Me and Keisha both sit at the kitchen table laptops up, you know, I work and do it everything and then I said, oh, I want to catch the news So I turn on the news I ain't even thinking about the game because you know We done dealt with the imminent threat of danger of the tornado cell phone warnings our alarms in the house was going off You know because on your home security system it gives you the alarm for the tornadoes and you know weather alerts so

House out like you know like the fire station ding ding ding ding ding just everywhere So I said well, let me turn on the news and see what's happening So I turned it on but I didn't look at it. I just went to like TMJ for somewhere I just went to the news and just turned it off Kisha looked over there. Hey, you know Kisha can't see Kisha the TV she said And she's been down low and was squintin. She said does that say 22 to 0? I was like what you talking about?

She's like, the score in the game. I was like, come on now. It doesn't say 22 to 0. Man, I looked over there. I had to go online because I just refused to believe what my eyes were saying. And it was like, no, ma'am, it was 22 to 0. Oh my god. Hadn't been done. Sister. When I tell you that game was rough.

And I said like y'all don't have no no rules about when to just chill like after 12 y'all couldn't just chill But like they got five in I mean five runs and two innings back to back and in one inning they caught nine runs So dude was a player. What kind of mess was that? No, if I was a player on Seattle Mariners, I would have ran it on the field yell at the umps

stop this man. I was like, you know how they throw that towel in? Somebody should have threw towels on the field. Like, it was rough, yeah. Throw it in the towel. It was rough. In that fight with the sister, Clarice Shields. That was a good fight. They was like, throw the towel in on that fight because when you reflect that girl,

Come back there was a you was supposed to call this fight and then they you write they threw the towel in my three times like man throw that She dropped like 30 pounds for that for that match man, but I'm like Yeah, somebody was supposed to throw some towels in but today credit and this Seattle got to do come back tonight. It's a three. It's a three game series So they got to come back man

It must have been like the manager or like the water boy or something. Yeah. But but yelling, hitting it, doing it for that three run homer. Boy, I had to go back and look at it all. I was like, ooh, this was nasty. But Christian Yellish, but he was in the slow.

I think he's the oldest player on the team now, too. Which is crazy. Like, you were the slump in this show, Night Man. Yeah, it was, it was, it was a shutout for y'all. Woo. So I gotta go buy me some new bro hats. Tonight. Yeah, they got them tonight and tomorrow. They playing Atlanta after that. So it's like.

You want me doing that down in the lap? Not at all. You want me doing that with the Braves. But I thought about you. I only have, I got two Brewer's hats. I got two Brewer's hats. But I thought about you, man. I said, dang, you man got some cold Brewer's hats. So I said, yeah, I got to go give me some new gear. So now you have inspired me to go find me some Brewer's caps. All right.

Let me also say that when somebody posted in the chat, I appreciate the way y'all stay on top of, you know, just looking out, thinking about black folks interests. Nolan Wells, the young brother who came up missing and ultimately was found dead after a weekend, Fourth of July weekend of hanging out with friends. And now people trying to get to the bottom of what happened to him today.

It's his birthday. Today is his birthday. He would have been 19 today. And so I think about his parents. One of the things that's crazy. Somebody said, I'll get to that in a minute. Hold on. Let me let me stay focused. I'm going to come back. Please. I'm going to circle back, but I'm going to stay focused on knowing where else for a second because I saw what they say. But, you know, the thing about this whole situation.

with Nolan Wells, is that, you know, racists just don't know how to just go somewhere and sit down. There was an attempt, his mom is a nurse, is an RN, and there was an attempt to try, and I think she's actually like a nurse practitioner, so that's like the highest level you can go, or something like that. But,

There was an attempt by someone to get her license taken. In the midst of everything this woman is going through with her family grieving the death of her child, an anonymous complaint led to a professional misconduct review by the Mississippi Board of Nursing.

It was closed, you know, fairly shortly after it was opened, after drawing public backlash and widespread support for her. So it was just crazy that Mississippi would even like fall into that and act like they was going to legitimately pursue going after this woman from an anonymous complaint. So let me just be clear, because you know some hateful racist white folks that did that.

I just believe that, that in the midst of everything going on with her child, you got to have your employment license investigated because of an anonymous complaint. So thank you for the person who put it in the chat. I did realize that it was the baby's birthday and somebody also had put Carmelo Anthony's name in there, young brother who, you know,

defending himself and they they have given this boy a conviction and you know so you got folks fighting for him as well so thank you thank you for referencing those those young people I appreciate that um all right so somebody said stop bragging on the brewers they trash so I'm gonna just say this I'm gonna say this

because, and I don't know who else I get into this argument with, but number one, the use of the phrase, they trash, I hate that phrase. And people said all the time, and I know it's sitting just, sometimes, you know, it's people serious because some people really play badly, but you don't get to that level in professional sports because you're trash. And particularly when you play in a team sport,

you know, all kind of things gotta be in place for things to go well. Now, what I'm talking about is one gang. So if I wanted to congratulate them, give big props, because they made history last night, whether you think they're a good team or not, they made history last night. So you can't take that from people. And this is the thing, be able to be balanced. You know,

I talk about people and issues and things all the time, but when it's time to give a nod and say, you know what, but by the way, I do need to compliment X, Y, and Z, you got to do that man or woman. Be able to be balanced. They don't normally play good, but last night they was a fool.

They, they showed out or see, you know, Seattle really sucked. I don't know, but I really just, man, just, I hear people do that all the time. They trash. I think I get into my brother about that. They trash. And I'll be like, and you play where, Negro? Who paying you some money to play?

You make how much money playing basketball? None? Oh, OK. I just want to check. What high school team did you play on? Wait, wait, none? You know, like, all of that just irks me because I'm like, come on, y'all. This ways to talk about people not being good is they trash. It's just a minor pet peeve of mine. Go on, Jay.

And whoever said cuz I know you love that work. Yeah, I know you don't take my word trash is my word And whoever said that the brewers are in first place And people are definitely hit me then they're saying make sure sis

the Brewers are top of the division right now. Just saying, you know, so I'm just like, so you can't be trash on top. Yeah, I'm just saying, man, you know, they they they have had seasons where it looked like they was going to pull it out. We was going to get this World Series championship and then, you know, stuff happened. But they they they not trash. They not a trash team. They not they not. That's my word. They not they not.

That's Carolyn out here tearing up stuff. Don't know how to come into work. She upset with somebody. Didn't have no pancakes this morning. Haven't had to say something before about Carolyn tearing up out there. You know, I just, I don't understand. And she yelling and screaming when it's going, I feel unsafe. Can you shut the door? I don't, I don't, look shut the door.

I don't feel safe. I don't feel safe. Alright, so look, I gotta take a quick break. Call us y'all to be first up when I come back. And who is this? Wait a minute. Oh, they want to. Okay. Well, okay. If the Mariners is a bad team, they're bad team. They're still good though. They're 59 and 67.

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All right, family, welcome back to the show this morning. A couple of quick things. Let me just take one second. We had a caller yesterday who called to the station and the caller was frustrated. I think that they said that there seemed to be a lot of breaks on my show. And the young lady who answered the phone attempted to explain, you know, that.

Those are commercials that are running people have paid for that time And I just want to just do a disclaimer particularly as we are going into the November election So I don't take breaks on my show just to take breaks If I'm taking a break on the show it's because a there are either commercials that are supposed to be playing during that break time Which people have paid for which in terms help to pay my salary and everybody else's salary here for us to even be able to have a radio station

Or I need to come off the air to take care of something that's going on in the studio. I may have a guest that came early or there was a situation that I wasn't aware of. So I just want people to understand and know that going into November, there will more than likely be even more breaks. My breaks are usually like I have three per hour. I'm only on for two. And some of those breaks can be long because of the number of commercials that are being run.

I'm going to say this while frustrating. Be happy that folks are buying ads with us. Be happy that we got that as a problem because that means that we're generating revenue, which means that we'll be able to stay on the air. You know, because we have times when the revenue was slow. And, you know, you you trying to make ends meet.

So I just wanted to explain that for people that you know get frustrated because We tuned in to hear Michelle and hear what she got to say, but it's so many breaks. That's because we pay in bills y'all and Particularly during election season that helps us when there are no elections and when it's slower and people are not Advertising because those are the things that keep the lights on and the doors open and the mics running

So I just wanted to flag that because somebody talked to me about it after I had got off the air and I understand the frustration and I'm glad that people care enough about the content of the show and what's being said to say, hey, you know, what's going on? But I just need you to hear from me that that's what's happening is that people want to advertise during this time slot.

We're doing everything we can to make sure that these lights and staying on in these doors open. We have seen way too many black radio stations go under. And many times they are going under because they don't have ad revenue. They cannot figure out financially how to make it make sense. So that's my little piece on that. All right, let me go to the phone line. These people have been holding for a minute. Hey, caller, what's happening?

Only for a minute. Only for a minute. You know what? You'll be all right. Good morning, Miss Michelle. Hey, JT. How you doing this morning? I'm doing quite well. Thank you. How about you? I'm good. I'm good, sir. And obviously, good morning to my other favorite people in the studio this morning. Good morning, gentlemen, and I hope you're doing well. Yes, sir. Good morning, JTizzle. Good morning. And Michelle,

The reason why I'm calling, it seems like every time we turn around, those, uh, constable, Nazi, ICE agents is, you know, they have car, everybody, well, I understand they have car blanched from the most, from the monsters we have in the control of the White House right now. But I just, I was just checking out this article from a month me, Bayo, there's AMA and I, I think I've been out in person there correctly.

The person right for the Columbus Dispatch USA Today Network. And they had an article indicating how the Haitian immigrants is subject to monitoring. I say, what would the ICE agents are allowed to do in Cincinnati, Ohio and other cities in Ohio? They have the Haitians to come to their offices and they place

Monitoring ankle markings only only next right. Yeah, they take a passport But I think they happen to download a app where they can be monitored through the study or phone I say wait a minute now. They haven't come in at any crime But you're gonna force them to wear ankle monitors. I mean, you know, it seems like they They test seeing what they can get away with how they treat the Haitians sort of

so they can do it to us a little later on. But it's just a shame how they're treating the Haitians and not also rare where the Haitians, you know, they were obviously there, they're meditated, they mad, they pissed off, they're being treated like that. But it reminds me of that time in Shell when they were trying, when these commitments, when it's coming across the lake and those Haitians, and what was that, the border agents, they was on horses with quips trying to stop the Black

patients from coming across the river some time ago. Right. So, yeah, this is, this is, uh, it just seems like these, they have a hard branch to do what they want to and it's just getting crazy, so crazy. So I hope we do come out in November and try to get back to control of this country because it's just, it's just giving me this, making those people wear monitor, ankle monitors. I'm sorry. So I'm sure you're here about that. I just wanted to.

just mention that with a piece and thank you so much for taking my call and everybody have a good day. Thank you JT and I certainly appreciate you highlighting what is going on primarily in Springfield Ohio definitely has saw this situation you know it's a mixed bag because when the courts came in and said that it was okay for the Trump administration to remove the protected status that Haitian

individuals in this country had had in terms of the temporary protective status. That meant that anywhere from 330 to 350,000 Haitians immediately became eligible for deportation immediately. Because they don't have the ability to deport that many people at that time, at the same time,

You saw them go to a system of saying they are going to wear ankle monitors. They have limited the amount of miles that they can travel. I think it's like up to 75 miles. They can't, you know, go beyond that. So they couldn't even go from here to Madison.

Because that's an 89 mile trip. You have to have permission to go further than 75 miles. And they did take their passports. Ultimately, at some point, the goal will be to remove all of these people. And they are in negotiations. They've actually been talking to some other African countries. And I'm trying to remember, I just read two days ago, where one of the countries had agreed to take these immigrants.

So we're going to see these mass deportations beginning. So this is what they did in the quest to be ever just ignorant and racist in the way they are handling and treating this particular population of people. What else can we do to degrade and dehumanize folks? But yes, it was in response to what the Supreme Court did, which was to allow

that temporary protective status to be removed. And so now all of these Haitian people are vulnerable and potentially being set to be removed from the country. So, yep, I was aware of it. And, you know, I saw the guy on the news story when he lifted up his pants and he showed the ankle monitor and it just, it just is disgusting. It makes you sick because you realize there are so many people in this country.

They're in this country illegally have overstayed visas have over, you know stay work permits tourist permits that That are not black not people of color and they get treated very very differently, but so yes JT. Thanks for flagging that all right

So a couple of things, first of all, if we got any folks down at the city listening, I don't know if you all have gotten to it yet, but because of the storms last night, we know that there were downed trees, electrical lines and different pockets of the city and the broader municipalities surrounding communities. Some people had talked about whether or not they thought they saw

tornado activity as close as West Alice. But we know that, like I said, the phones were going crazy. Your alarms are going crazy. They even showed it at the Brewer's Game trying to give people the safety because they were so worried about a tornado touching down in the area. So we've gotten a phone call that on Sherman and Fond du Lac Avenue, there is a downed tree.

that is making traffic through that way difficult. People can't pass, and so I'm not sure, but a number of folks have said they've reached out to the city, they've called them about what's going on, so it just depends though on what else is happening around the city.

that may be bad in terms of that tree being in the area. And folks are saying they've been calling since yesterday. It just kind of depends on what else is going on around the city that we may or may not be aware of. So I just would flag that for people. But if you have reached out, cool. And I will also make a call from the station before I leave this morning just to check on the status or to see if they've gotten an opportunity to get to that tree. All right.

I said real quick, I was going to and oh, I know a lot of people were without power yesterday somewhere between 30 and 40,000 folks. A lot of those folks have been turned back on, but even Carolyn, who is out in the office for us, she said her power didn't come back on until 430 this morning. It had been out since 730 in the evening yesterday. So we know that there are folks that have been functioning and getting around with our power this morning. It looks like.

A lot of it is being either addressed or it has been taken care of but again a little bit of patience as people are trying to figure this whole thing out.

You know, you got workers work working at breakneck speed to get people turned back on so I would just encourage that Somebody just said let's just say the city has a lot to do in front of my house Not only did the tree uproot it took out three and a half slabs of concrete with it including all the grass on my curb well, okay Okay, there it is

So just wanted to flag that for folks. All right. So yesterday I talked about Milwaukee public schools and I talked about the need for an audit and there were people that flag for me that Michelle there have been some audits done and Hang on one second. What does it say?

Okay, I'm gonna get to that. I see it. And that was on my list to talk about yesterday. And I'm glad you said that. Thank you for flagging that. But let me do this real quick. So I talked about Milwaukee Public Schools, this whole issue with them overpaying Aisha Carr.

or paying her after her tenure with the school board had ended, they claim for three months. She says it was a one month payment and she paid it back, hand walked the check to central office to cover it and that she alerted them that they were sending her payments.

Not the other way around they didn't catch the error. She caught it. She said it happened in July and So there's a discrepancy about whether or not they paid her three months after she left and

If they ever received any payment for any of it versus her saying, no, you paid me once in July after I left. And I, I called you all not once, but twice. And I brought in a check for the repayment of that money. So I'm waiting to hear when they finally have their day in court because they have sued her for this $5,000. Some dollars, what this is going to look like. But when I talked about the fact that there needed to be an audit, I had a couple of people send me copies of the audit.

And I'm going to just say this. The audit is not good. But it gives some reads. It gives, you know, like simple, you know, like recommendations that are, you know, by size recommendations that you can excuse me infer X, Y, Z from. But I'm looking for the data that was used to create the audit, the raw data. So.

I would like to know how many times the Milwaukee Public School District has overpaid an employee. Or that they're, you know, like, has this happened five times? Has it happened 25 times? Because one of the things that the audit said on the business side of NPS is they talked about

The the outdated systems and that the department's working silos and they don't communicate well together So something is going on in this department But the folks in the other department that need to know about it that information isn't getting to them Either at all or in a way that's timely enough for you know the process to work seamlessly So the audits were not good. Let's just be clear. They were not good But it's still not telling me

As I brought up that particular issue about the overpayments, how often something like that is happening? Like, I would love to see the raw statistical data about some of the issues that are being flagged. So while I read the audits, the audit still didn't get that from me, that broader, I'm sorry, that more intensive.

in the weeds, minutiae, detailed information that I would like to understand that's going on with the district. And I would love to be able to ask my school board director, hey, can you tell me how many times NPS has overpaid an employee and how much money that has cost us? And did we go after every employee who we overpaid and have all those dollars been recouped? Is their money still outstanding? What's the longest amount of time that somebody

You know how to overpayment. Did we go to court to pursue money against everybody that we overpaid? Like I want answers to that. And a school board member should be able to answer those questions because those are the questions that they should be asking. So while I saw the audit, still not satisfied. Still not, still not feeling it, still not satisfied. So I'm just going to say that. Let me, let me do this too.

Somebody said on social media yesterday, if what went on at XYZ University had happened at an HBCU, all hell would be breaking loose.

And they called Penn State University, Snowfall University. They called it Snowfall University. Because when you talk about 14 people, including a parent of one of the students, is caught up in this drug trafficking scheme that extends across state lines from New York and Philly.

Back to Pennsylvania I'll be back to where the school is located that this is crazy The amount of drugs they were moving The kind of money that they found here the cash the drugs in the safe I mean a whole operation and it was like you know if this had been a HBCU They will be talking about trying to figure out how to close the HBCU because you're trafficking drugs

And they talked about Adderall, Ritalin. The kids were buying that to stay awake, to study for exams. Weed, obviously. And then, you know, cocaine. They had some everything. Like, it's a little grocery store. What you need? What you need? We can get it. What you need? We got it. And you looked at who was doing the running.

And the amount of information that we're getting out while we got the big headlines, people are like, no, going to the weeds, talking about who their mom and daddy is, talking about their childhood. The same way you do black folks, when you get into our business, we need all their business industries too. We need all of their business industries too. So people couldn't help but think about and talk about the difference in how these two conversations are being had.

Let me go to the phone line. I want to circle back to NPS because I also meant to mention on the front page of the paper this morning that the feds are investigating NPS. And I'll tell you why. Let me go to the phone line though. Hey, caller. What's happening? Good morning. Good morning. This is the Reverend Dr. Andrew Ward. Yes, sir. Hey, for my veteran brother, Jay Keith.

and heard from him in too long. He was very proper soil in this presentation. And you are a masterpiece at what you do. I was very happy to hear that you get paid. I was trying to subsidize you, but I found out that you get paid. Another thing too.

you mentioned the school board and all the things. The whole big issue with MPS has been for too long the finances. They were holding holding withholding money from the state and we're not getting our accounts up today. And very coincidentally, when the past superintendent retired,

the accountant retired also. And whoever that was should be brought up and paid much more attention to. I don't know who the replacement is, but we need to make sure we have a good person handling the money. And I'm gonna close now, but y'all have a good one. All right, thank you, sir. I appreciate it.

So I said I wanted to circle back on NPS, and this is why, because I also noted this morning that there is a front page article in which the Department of Education, the feds are coming in to quote, unquote, investigate NPS around issues of race in disciplinary decisions. So many years ago.

It was found that MPS seemed to be having inequitable treatment in the way they handled student behavioral issues between students of color and white students. Okay. So yes, MPS has been a predominantly black school district for a number of years. And so when you look at the suspension weight ratings,

Exposure numbers automatically it's going to be more black kids suspended and expelled because more black children go to the district. So their numbers are going to be to some degree disproportionately higher. But when a deeper dive was taken and they looked at the treatment of students.

of different races, but who had committed the exact same offense, the exact same school record, the exact same circumstances that the black child tended to be treated harsher than the white student. So there had been, through the Office of Civil Rights, a while ago,

policies that said we needed to look at, you know, how these kids are being suspended, what these suspensions look like, and look at it through the lens of race. We want to understand if black children are being treated more punitively than their white counterparts. So now with the racist administration that we have in and all the black Republicans who love these people, they're going back and saying, no,

You can't take a look at race. You can't talk about if kids are being disproportionately impacted because they're black. All we care about is that everybody is treated the same. But we already know because people can bring their own bias into what they do.

that these kids can be treated differently. I got to go to break, but it reminds me of when I was substitute teaching and I had a young child in that I had had these kids for almost a whole semester because their their teacher came to school one day and realized he couldn't cut it and didn't come back. And so the kids had like 13 subs before I became their sub and I took them through the end of the the

through the through through December through the end of December From when school started and we got this new teacher young white female teacher who had come into the classroom and I was going transitioning out of the classroom and There was a and this was I think first or second grade I always forget which grade it was but it was either first or second grade and this white female teacher

Talked about one of the kids that I had worked with for three months or so and talked about that this kid was so aggressive and so this that she was afraid of his baby and They wanted that child expelled But she made it sound like this boy was 14 years old six foot tall 220 pounds and she was just terrified of him

He was a he was a baby. He was six years. It was first grade. He was six years old. But the way she talked about him and made him sound like he was menacing. So she was not being fair in the way she engaged his boy and the discipline that they wanted for him because she was afraid of him. But you could see it coming.

So I gotta go to break but there is validity when you can have a district and I'm not saying that these are the numbers for NPS I need to pull them. I haven't done it in a while, but if you got 65% white teachers 50% black student body and you notice disparities in between how white kids or an NPS only got like 9% white kids 9% Asian 28% Hispanic I believe those was the last numbers I saw

But you know to say difference and I'll and I'll say this going to the break I just saw a segment literally last night before I read this article the comedian Tommy Davidson Who used to be on a living color Y'all think about it y'all know who Tommy Davidson is Tommy Davidson must have been adopted by a white family and was raised with a white family and he talked about him and his sister a white female

Going to school and both being late For the same reason they mother dropped them off. They were late His white sister was sent to class. He was given detention and His white adoptive mother came up to the school and was like so wait a minute How is it that my white daughter was just sent to class? But my black son was sent to detention

And so Tommy Davidson talked about this white adoptive mother, taking him away from school, taking him to the park and sitting down and talking to him about the fact that you are going to be treated differently in life. And I need you to understand what's happening, why it's happening and how you deal with that. I just saw that it was on club Shea Shea. He was on Shannon Sharpe show and I just saw that interview.

And then here is this story today where you got this racist administration who wants to come back in and tell people, I don't ever want you to consider race as a reason for why something is happening in the school. We're not going to talk about it. We're going to ignore it. We're going to ignore history. Move on. Nothing to see here. I got to take a break. I'll be right back.

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I'm Jim Playset. I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward. Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways. We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia. They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them. It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water. MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.

We have been in business here for 14 years. I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been. We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards. People are happy to be here and it's growing every year. We love our partnership with Violia. They help the kayak company grow. I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD. Clean water is essential.

The work we're doing at Viola is absolutely bringing access to the water for people. To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing for my time. It feels good. You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in. Waters are our greatest resource. We all need it to survive. Viola is 100% doing great work.

Alright family, welcome back to the show. So let me just finish that piece out I'm and I also got word that yep the tree is still down over offer Sherman and Fonda lack so again Hopefully they will be able to get to a soon But if we are seeing the amount of damage that it looks like it happened, you know, some neighborhood is just Fortunate, you know, it did not happen to you Jermaine just looked up tree nearly missing a car. I mean, I saw huge trees

from the root laying down on the side. And we are somebody, um, and one of the last storms, we had a tree come down in our yard. And, uh, the, you know, but it was on private property didn't impede anybody. But man, that tree came up by the roots. I'm looking at the roots of this tree. Like this is crazy. So just so you know that that's going on real quick, ending up that piece on NPS.

uh and this investigation now that the feds are doing they're also doing uh they said they were going to be looking at another school in I think um Fayetteville uh Arkansas because they you know don't want to see the possibility that there will be anybody thinking about the impact of race in the way people make decisions about discipline we've already seen all the studies

Black children can be crying and people will be less empathetic to them They treat black children like grown-ups instead of babies and little kids I talked about the thing that Don Quixotas did on one of the the TV shows his little what would you do segments and he showed a little white girl standing there crying by herself in the mall and all these people

No, I don't even think she was crying. She was just standing there by herself in the mall and all these people of every racial background, black, white. Are you okay, sweetheart? Is everything okay? They had a little black girl at same age, same bill, same height, same situation. Didn't nobody come check on that black girl, not even black folks. Barely even black folks came to check on that baby.

But the little white girl everybody came to check for her what we see when we talk about You know who's who's our story gets told on a missing person white women you missing You know called Jesus because everybody got to come and you got black folks at work girl. That's the shame We're having that a little white girl and da da da da black women missing. You don't know nothing about it

They had to create a whole task force been trying to create one in in Madison for years about missing black women and girls Because we don't get the media coverage because we're not in the newsrooms We're not the one driving the decisions about which stories get told and so for people to act like and I want y'all to know former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker His organization

What was it called something young American some crap? He was one of the organizations that was behind what they call this campus bias tip line and People could call in and say if they felt like white people in some way was being discriminated against Scott Walker started that mess Scott Walker led that organization and started that and then I think his son may have come in and taken it over has something to do with it I don't remember that part explicitly, but

This is people we looking at every day. This is what we are looking at every day. And people want you to act like you don't see what you're seeing. I refuse to believe that if George Floyd had been a white man that Derek Chauvin would have sat there.

almost cussed whistling Dixie while he had his knee in that man's neck and that man was begging for his life and Begging for his mother. He I just I refuse to believe he would have sat there with his knee in a white man's neck like that But black people are dehumanized and seen as nothing That our lives don't matter

And people are not honest about the way that they use color or they use race to make decisions on how you are viewed, treated, talked to, punished, advanced, dealt with. That's why I was so outraged with this mess with the Office of Safety and Wellness that a white murderer could be given a six-figure job.

over black people who ain't never committed a crime, advanced education and degrees, advanced experience, you'll claim the fame because you killed some damn body, and sat in jail forever, and then you got some education while you was in jail, and you come out and can get a six-figure job before black people who are qualified, ain't never committed a crime.

and with advanced education and experience. But in this case, your experience as a murderer was more important. And you had black folks jumping up and down trying to justify that. When Lenard Wells was a part of the group that looked at a study that had been done before that talked about a white man with less education and a criminal record

could get a job before a black man with no criminal record and better education. And they had the data and the statistics to back them up. So when you got somebody like what they're doing now and flipping the office of civil rights on their head to like talk about white grievance and oh, are white people being discriminated against? Do you know what kind of head start white folks that had on discriminated against black folks in this country?

And now you want to pop up in 2020 and act like, oh, yeah, none of that happened. There's no remnants of slavery left. But you got white boys walking around with khaki shorts and tiki torches talking about we won't be replaced. The rise of the Klan, the rise of hate groups, the proud boys is through the roof. And you're trying to act like race is not a factor anymore.

Let me go to the phone line. Hey, caller, what's happening? Hello? Good morning. Good morning. I saw I'm making tea. Thank you for taking my call. I was trying to put my shoe on. So I could stand up properly. I'm listening. I was listening to you and you were on the menu about all of this with regard to MPS.

And I'm thinking like, as far as I can remember in the 90s, when we were in high school, and especially at, gotta say my school was Vincent, when they started bringing the cops into the schools, they were giving us disorderly conduct tickets, and people were getting into fights, they would get a song battery ticket, these are, you know, we were children.

fighting each other for whatever reason. Some stuff came from the streets and it carried over into the school. The roads just fighting each other over for whatever reason. People were fighting. And then so what it did and what it has for me, what it established as concrete evidence, the reality of the high school or the prison pipeline from school.

to the penitentiary for the most part because then when I was there, they started putting up these giant gates that they have built into the school in Vincent and they were treating us like we were incarcerated. And nothing has changed and it goes even further back than that with regard to segregation and all of those other stuff where black people were trying to

and all of the things that they had to experience, which was more brutal with regard to the physicality of it. So nothing has changed. And I'll go with this. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said that the mask, M-A-S-K, excuse me, the mask of civility will come off.

and that the layers of the onion will be peeled back and the brutality of the Caucasian will become, you know, will be front and center for the most part. And then I was listening to another person, a brother, he was saying how the current occupant of the Pharaoh who's in charge currently.

has brought what we thought no longer existed, right back into our faces so that we probably could be shocked back into reality that, as they say, the more things change, the more they stay the same. We are of the despise and the rejected, yet we are the inheritors of the hereafter.

if we accept our own and become ourselves or be ourselves, I hope that makes sense. It does. It does. And I've heard this sentiment expressed before and thank you for for for bringing that up on the show today. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. All right. Look, y'all, what's happening out here is real.

and you don't get to act like it's not being framed in reference to race. You know, when Christopher talked about the school to prison pipeline, and they were making determinations on prison bids off third grade reading and testing scores, that the worse your educational outcomes were, the more likely you were to end up incarcerated. But if we got other systems in place that

or penalizing children differently based on race, then we're putting you into the pipeline. We're helping you. I remember talking years and years ago about a six-year-old running around on a school campus. I think it was over here off of 76. I think that school is called Browning or whatever that school is called. And kids were stuffing leaves in each other's pockets.

and a little black boy stuff leaves in the pocket of a little white girl. And a teacher saw it, told the principal, the principal called the police. The police came and got that six year old little boy. And I think the story said that the baby might have been handcuffed and took him and sat him down into a police room or something at the district station. The mother,

who had a neighbor who would get her son, when he would get home from school, the neighbor called, because the neighbor was like, did your son not go to school today? We haven't seen him. The mother starts calling all around like, where's my baby? Calls the principal, is able to track the principal down. The principal said, oh, we had an incident at school. The police got called and your six year old kid is at the police station and nobody had called the mother. We get treated differently.

In the story, we do. Let me go to the phone line. Hey, Carla, what's happening? Hey, good morning to you. Good morning. I definitely agree with you. It's just, we do see the difference. That's what we want to be left with, exactly like the day we got to. Never be late at least, why not to be late when we're not writing so much? Okay.

The deal is just right here. He said that there was a white man with a hat. He needed George Floyd. Now listen, George Floyd, there was a terrible incident. I think it was maliciously done. I think he did that on purpose. He did it. It was a murder. Because if I would have did it, they would have tried. We were manslaughterers. But there was a white boy. There was a hunky that was killed in Texas the exact same way as George Floyd. Now, don't you understand something?

George Floyd's movement. His family come back and go watch the video. They were slapping Tony to my wake up Tony after they put me in his neck for 14 minutes. Okay, they took it with the video. She filled me up. Listen, they didn't just Tony Kipper do in Texas, but they me on his neck. Now through George Floyd, his family came back and got a million dollars for the murder of that boy. And he called the police on his cell. He got so high, he called us on his cell.

And they can't even jump on it. And they did the same technique. And they were slapping them out. Tony, what happened tonight? And slapping them with them. You know, the Crackles just do many things. I mean, they just do many things when it comes down to the border control. A lot of them people that was working on our Asian criminals. They were Hispanic. There was Mexicans working at the border. There ain't many white boys in the world that white Hispanics working in borders. Guess what?

And we got nerve enough to jump in line and fight for them and talk about keeping people leaving, people calling on them. People don't give a dog on about me or you or nobody else. And then when we come back to the school board, we constantly want to allow these school boards, a school board, to please us for our capital and for your world, your belongings that you worked for 30, 40 years for. We better bag up and let the school board get their mind right. And if you're being, I'm not in support of them.

and the prison, the pipeline. Yes, they said the school board, the school sets it up. Okay, we agree with that. Here's one that really is the prison, the pipeline. That dirty, nasty, toxic system that I fight so hard for, that to get abolished with them, the way they got it set up. That's your real prison, the pipeline. Because once you put a kid in the system, he starts to understand what county is, wrap around what it is, which is probation officer,

not really, but they begin to understand standing line for count, wake up, are you here, Jarius? Jarius? Where you at? They begin to be institutionalized as a baby. That's the real prisoner pipeline. That dog on foster care says, I don't care what people say, I don't care if it's on foster care, I don't even know about that. Maybe you're a good one, but it's a whole bunch of balance and you're programming a child. When they come out of same child with little babies and little six year old boys, they probably suck them a same child.

Yes, well, when you come out of it, when you start hanging out in them place, we've been exposed to other things and public ventures. We've got mad class going on here, and we think it's a great thing for us to get. No, and guess what? I hate to say this, but you've been a really good man. If you go back and see when that policy came, it's been in effect for years, probably a hundred years, but it went crazy and mad doing the Bill Clinton deal. And you know what he did? He sold it to us people. No, he sold it to the bank.

But the insurance program is kind of like insurance. It's insurance that the child will be in a safe is taken care of. But we thought it was health insurance. We didn't want kids going to get some insurance. We did. We painted ourselves into what we put ourselves in an angry lion's mouth. And you can hardly get the babies back out, man. And with that, I'm going to get on with it.

All right, thank you so much. Got to take a break, but I do want to be clear. The CHIPS program, the Children's Health Insurance Program, we're talking about kids being able to get routine checkups, immunization, doctors visits, prescriptions, dental vision, emergency services. These were for uninsured children under the age of 19 who lived in households that basically were at the poverty level. So, you know,

There's something good and bad in just about everything we can look at. But make no mistake, a lot of kids did get help by the CHIPS program. Let me take a break. I'll be right back. When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Viola. The result, the new Viola EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community. Connecting students to schools,

People looking for work with employers, the community with parks. Thanks to our partnership with Veolia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before. Those are Milwaukee values. I'm Jim Playset. I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward. Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways.

We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia. They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them. It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water. MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.

We have been in business here for 14 years. I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been. We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards. People are happy to be here and it's growing every year. We love our partnership with Violia. They help the kayak company grow. I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD. Clean water is essential.

The work we're doing at Viola is absolutely bringing access to the water for people. To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing for my time. It feels good. You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in. Waters are our greatest resource. We all need it to survive. Viola is 100% doing great work.

All right, family, a couple of other things I want to try to work in this morning. Number one, I don't know how many people heard about the story because it's been going on for years. I don't think I've ever talked about it on my show. There was a person at Harvard University whose name is Cedric Lodge. And Cedric Lodge is a brother.

At least from all the videos and pictures, he looked like a black man. And he managed the morgue at Harvard University, Harvard University, not unlike a lot of universities around the country. They have a cadaver program in which human bodies are donated to science by families for study to help, you know, mankind. When I went to UWM.

I remembered coming to class and, you know, they wheeled in a little metal case, long metal case, and they removed the top and then somebody started cranking the side handle and then up out of the mile to hide. Whatever mixture it was, was this elderly old woman. And we were able to pick up

lungs and our heart and everything as a part of this biology class that we had. So literally, I've been in the classroom at UW-Milwaukee in which a cadaver was used in the club. Was that at Milwaukee at Wichita State? I can't remember. I think it was at Milwaukee, but anyway. So this is not uncommon. But what is uncommon is that this morgue manager decides

That he is going to be a part of selling body parts to collectors So he and his wife Denise You heard what I said he and his wife Denise Was selling body parts to quote collectors not the other medical research

I don't know what you're doing with the collections, but they said to collectors. So this goes back to 2022, at least when I remember people first started talking about this, the story and what was happening. So he got fired in 2023. He got sentenced to eight years in prison for trafficking and stolen remains. And so families are donating their

family members bodies for scientific research and then they are taking body parts and they said they had been doing it since 2018 that they could track back. So now a settlement and this is why it's back in the news is because Harvard has reached a settlement agreement to pay $53 million to the families that were impacted by what these people did. But I'm sorry.

I was like, this a brother? Wow. Wow. Because you had some stuff and you be like, no, that ain't us. It looks like this was us. Disgusting. But they were selling human remains for a profit. Yes, your man. OK. Yeah.

Okay, so you selling body parts on the black market? It was on the internet. It was on the internet. You didn't have to go. It was on Instagram. Well, he was selling on Instagram. There was this store called Cats Creepy Creations and the store was in Salem, Massachusetts. And on their Instagram page, it said that they quote specialized in creepy dials, oddities and bone art.

If you're in the market for human bones hit me up. Okay. That was on this woman's Instagram page. Okay. Well, here is the first problem But those of you that have watched movies scary movies in the 70s 80s in the 90s most of the killing that have taken place have taken place in Salem So Anybody that's offering anything in Salem you should run

Demonic but to actually have a store that you're looking for parts What are you gonna do? Are you gonna put it on a mannequin? Are you they said collectors? But why are you collect so you just gonna have a room full of arms? I mean just whatever yo come on now, you know people got sick stuff I get it fetishes What they used to do the black people's bodies they kept black people body parts. Yeah, but that was for like trophy

But no like the lady that they used to call the hot and top Venus who had the big posterior and You know Why folks so enamored because you ain't never seen a big button to smile and they wanted to put it in a glass and Display her behind that's cuz they couldn't know I'm just telling you so there are all kinds of creepy crazy people Wow, and I just wanted to flag that because I thought it was crazy

Wowzers the the other thing I will say I got to take a break. Yes, ma'am. Okay, I got to take a break. Wow. But when I come back, I have to hit on one something. It just irks my soul because I talked about it with Debbie Wasserman Schultz, member of Congress, who was drawn out of her district, made the decision to hop over in a black district.

to run for a congressional seat in that district. This is the same district that Luke, Uncle Luke was running in and four other or it was a total of four black people running for this seat. It is the only black leaning district. It's like the fourth congressional district here in Milwaukee or in Wisconsin. It's the only predominantly black leaning district in which you got a chance of sending

a black member to Congress. Broward County, and I forgot what the other county is down in Florida. These black folks could not get on the same page. They split up the vote, and Debbie Wasserman shows who does not live in that district, who carpet bagged and moved into that district so she could go after a seat that she know had traditionally been

You know set up so that black folks can have representation on the hill She just won that primary last night And I'll talk about when I come back be right back When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes we turned to viola The result the new viola eco pass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community Connecting students to schools

people looking for work with employers, the community with parks. Thanks to our partnership with Veolia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before. Those are Milwaukee values. I'm Jim Playset. I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward. Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways.

We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia. They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them. It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water. MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us. We have been in business here for 14 years. I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been. We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards.

People are happy to be here and it's growing every year. We love our partnership with Veolia. They help the kayak company grow. I definitely don't think we would be here without Veolia and MMSD. Clean water is essential. The work we're doing at Veolia is absolutely bringing access to the water for people.

To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing for my time. It feels good. You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in. Water is our greatest resource. We all need it to survive. Fiolia is 100% doing great work.

All right, family, welcome back to the show. Before I tackle the 20th Congressional District down in Florida, somebody reminded me, I've talked about this before on this show, but somebody reminded me of the story of a black man by the name of Eugene. Back in 1929, this body was found.

in a ditch near a road in Sabina, Ohio. And they could not figure out who this man was. And so his body went unclaimed. So someone who worked at the funeral home had the idea to dress up this black man's body in his suit. They had embalmed him and everything. And they put him in a picture window in this little building that set off from the mortuary.

This man's body sat in that window for 30 years. 1964 is when it finally was removed. But over the course of that time, college students would steal the body and have it at Ohio State University at Halloween parties. People would steal the body and put it in people's houses. They'd always, you know, return it, give it back.

but for 30 years this black man's body sat in this little window unclaimed. They had a book and they had estimated that where people could sign in to come by and see Eugene's body. 1.2 or 1.5 million people are estimated to have come through this town to just see this corpse of this black man. So when people talk about what folks will do, you

thought it was funny to steal this corpse of this unidentified man and have him sitting at your Halloween party on your campus. I just so that was just a side note. But let me hit up the 20th congressional district down in Florida. So I talked about this a lot when it was first happening that because of redistricting and the effort to try to

get rid of Democrats in office and to get rid of black representation specifically in office. Republicans around the country were drawing district lines that either pitted black legislators against one another like they did in Texas or they stretched a predominantly black district halfway across the state or to the other end of the state like they did in Tennessee. And down in Florida, you know, going after

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who's a Democrat, they redistrict her area and drew her out of her district. So she would have either had to run against a fellow Democrat who's already serving in Congress, so one of her colleagues, or she would have had to run against a Republican. Well, Debbie Wasserman Schultz didn't want to run against one of her own didn't want to run against one of her own colleagues. OK, she won't do that. She didn't want to run against a Republican.

So she didn't have a problem Hopping over into a black district and running against the black folks who wanted to run to represent this predominantly and the only Predominantly black district in the state of Florida So just think about this Because this Gwynum colleague in DC and I really want to know how black congressional members look at her and be cool with her that

you get drawn out of your district and instead of running against one of your colleagues in another Democratic district or running against the Republican, you come over into the predominantly Black district and run against the Black folks in that district and you say, hey, I've got 20 years of experience plus.

So I'm going to be able to better represent you than any of these black people that's running. Now, on some hand, she was right because there were four black folks running in that race. Former Broward Mayor Dale Holness, activist Elijah Manley, former Congresswoman Sheila Shurfless McCormick who under investigation and Luther Uncle Luke Campbell.

Luke should've got his butt out the race. 9,000 votes is what he got. The Congresswoman, you know you under investigation, it's a scandal, probably should've got your butt out the race. The mayor, the activist Elijah Manley, there was supposed to be a pact made amongst these four black folks that

Three of them would get out of the race and one person would move forward to try to coalesce black voters around that candidate because Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Who goes on to win the 20th congressional district because these black folks couldn't get it together and get on the same page and decide which one of them would be the candidate.

She only got like 47% of the vote. The majority of the vote went to all four of the black candidates. So that seat likely would have remained in black representation had the four black people not been tripping, not been arrogant, not been on ego, not been on whatever they was on and said, all right, y'all.

Who do we think got the strongest chance of the four of us? We gonna bow out, encourage our people to support them so that this district can remain in a district in which black folks are representing this district. Too much like right. Too much like right, too much like right, too much like right. But for me, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is not off the hook either.

Because this is the thing that frustrates me. How white Democrats can be your friend until they need what you got. Not in all cases, but in some cases. It is amazing to me.

how it's more important for you to be returned to office than it is for this segment of the population to have a representative that looks like them, that may understand their challenges and situation a little bit better than you do as the white Democrat, but you jump over NAC. And you got black folks that cosign for.

Just like black folks cosign for Fred Kessler, remaining the representative in a district that was created for black representation. I ain't gonna never let it go. You're gonna get sick of me talking about it. I ain't gonna never let it go. Even though Fred Kessler is no longer with us. God rest his soul. I ain't gonna never let it go. I ain't gonna never let it go because the seat was created because they looked around in the state capital and said, damn, it ain't no black folks up in here.

But we got majority leaning black districts. So we could do what's right and fair and create these district lines so that black folks can have representation since they make up such a huge number of the population in this area. And that's what the seat was created for. And when Fred Kessler gets drawn out of his seat on the east side of Milwaukee, him and his wife, they move over.

to the north side, northwest side, so they can run in that seat. Because it was more important to keep Fred Kessler in the building than it was for black folks to have representation. And Democrats go along with that. And black Democrats go along with that. So when a little black girl shows up to say, hey, this is my district. It's a predominantly black district. I'm running for that seat. You had good old black Democrats who was like, I don't think so.

And we've seen it in other situations. The district that Evan Goyke represented was a predominantly black district created for black representation. Sandy Pash, same thing. Same thing. And so here we are, because all likelihood says that Debbie Watson Michels will win in the general election.

So we lose representation. We lose, we lose a black person, black face in Congress and considering we've already taken hits because of what was done in other states or we will be taking hits and everybody okay with it. But I damn sure wish I was a member of the Congressional Black Caucus when Debbie Wasserman shows come lost on her butt back up in that room. I would love to be in that meeting because I'm sorry.

I like you. I appreciate your work. I appreciate the grind in the hustle. I don't appreciate this. Don't appreciate it. As congressional black caucus membership and their numbers continue to drop because of the systematic efforts by white Republicans to get rid of black representation and then you got white Democrats helping them out. I don't appreciate it.

I don't appreciate it. I don't care who like love Debbie. It was out of order. But more importantly, it couldn't have happened if black folks have been able to get they behind on the same page. We give up power every day when we don't vote, when we don't show up, when we don't support candidates, we give up power every day. We put ourselves in positions every day to get messed over.

And that's what happened down in Florida. Didn't have to go that way. It wasn't 100% guarantee that a black person would have won, but the likelihood was great that that's exactly what would have happened. And so congressional black caucus will lose another member. What they say, sometime it'd be your own people.

In this case, your own black people who was silly and couldn't get it together and your allies who know you getting ready to come in and you don't have your term. You've been in Congress for umpteen years. Let somebody else have a term. But no, you're the savior. You Jesus is, you know, little sister and they need you to come in and say to people nonsense to me.

Nonsense. And yet we don't ever, as black people, go in white districts and run in those districts and try to take them seats. That's the show for the day. Carlos, I know you all was holding. I'm sorry, but I needed to work those three things in. Bros in the building. I appreciate you, Clark. Go to the doctor. Make sure you're feeling better. Family, I'll talk to you all tomorrow. Peace.

Good morning.

Good morning.

What's happening family?

Welcome to the show.

It is Michelle Brown here at WNOV 860 AM 106.5 FM.

You are listening to say something real and I really want to start the show the way P.D.

Green started.

I really want to be able to yell the way P.D.

Green wake up.

And then there was a swear word behind it.

I really wish I could start the show like that.

Because that was funny.

It's fire to me.

Oh my God.

I watched it again because it was just so.

I

mean, but just imagine if P.D.

Green was around now in the internet.

Oh

my god a beast he would be a beast he would be he would have been a beast And I'm telling you I had to watch it again Because and then I had to go back and actually do the real deep dive on this brother.

Just just skills just crazy skills But good morning everybody.

Welcome to the show.

What's up to my folks on Facebook YouTube?

I see even out in you like show me playing show me playing you see me

Somebody tell us where you at.

Look at that.

Great

morning, great Wednesday.

Yes, it's good to see everybody on this morning.

Let me say good morning to the brothers in the building.

What's up, Ryder?

How you doing this morning, sir?

Well, sale!

Yes, sir.

Today is Wednesday.

It's a beautiful day outside.

The sun is shining.

I'm tired.

I'm tired.

I'm tired.

I'm tired.

I'm tired.

I'm tired.

I'm tired.

I'm tired.

I'm tired.

I'm tired.

I'm tired.

I'm tired.

I'm tired.

I'm

tired.

I'm

tired.

Sing

it,

sing it, Clark.

Sing it loud, Clark.

Sing it.

And then

someone is me.

Okay.

You know, Shale.

Yes, sir.

I think I might have you on this one.

I'm listening.

Uh-oh.

Now, if piano players are called pianists, and if a person that paints is called an artist,

What is race car drivers?

If a piano player The person that paint is an artist What do you call a

race car drive?

They're just called racers.

They're not called racists.

They're

just called racers.

Well, yes, Jermaine.

Piano, pianist, art, artist, racer, I'm sorry, race, racist.

And Bubba, what's his name?

Wallace, might say.

It's a few of them

so

but they're called racers.

Oh, they're called racers.

Yes.

Well,

she

got me on that one.

Actually, this one says I missed a couple of weeks of asking my questions.

Yeah, it's part

B. Okay.

So if a person is taking a test,

and dies while they're taking the test.

Do that meme that they

passed.

So,

so technically, no, it does not mean that they passed because they may not have finished the test, which means that the test would go ungraded.

So, you know, there is no score because the test came

up with

a second question.

I'm actually not to encourage.

I've asked you not to

encourage.

Somebody sent me a whole bunch of laughing faces crying and said, no, these are for Jermaine.

OK, I guess that last one just really got people.

Laughter is good for the soul.

Somebody said cold.

You stupid.

You

stupid.

Yeah, you got you got issues, bro.

You got

issues.

I had a lot of time to think this morning as I was making my way downtown to work.

Yeah.

A lot of

time.

I'm just going to say, yeah.

I

won't say why, but I'll just say yes.

Yeah, you did.

And, you know, a little special.

Just,

man.

Hey, Clark, how are you this morning?

Hope you like this

guy.

Who are you?

Yeah, quite a few

somebody

said right on Jermaine.

That's that 50 kickity.

Not right on Jermaine.

Right on Jermaine.

Yeah, yeah, that'll be a courage to die.

What'd you say, Clark?

Who wins?

We're gonna let you slide today.

We're gonna let you

slide today.

You doing all right otherwise,

though?

You sound,

yeah.

Yeah jokes didn't help My questions help to

uplift your spirits

You feel

sick

Chills me sick boy.

I got a show you

know what?

I'm caught troubles.

I gotta be a

Japan product.

I cannot afford to miss my mother.

Spread it like

solid gear.

Spread it like solid gear.

Oh, like, now I got all kinds of blights on particles in my throat.

So you got coronavirus.

You know what?

Coronavirus.

I can't die.

See what I said?

It's hard.

I hit four pimp.

You

ain't playing.

You are not playing.

So, okay Clark, it sound like you you sick man.

You getting a chills me something's

happening.

Okay, well,

I hope you feeling better.

Yeah.

Hey man, drink some wine.

So he just did.

So did I. Well, tell me how you feel.

Look, it's probably landed all on the top of my cake.

It wasn't even sprayed.

Dude, it was going this way.

You sprayed it towards the AC, which blew it back this way.

But the AC ain't blowing it hard.

You know what?

Stop talking to me.

Stop talking to me before I go to jail looking here.

Stop talking to me.

But threats.

We go in this segment of talking to y'all in the morning.

And really, just you.

We go in a segment.

I'm talking to you.

There's no need to include you in the morning banter.

We're going to end this today.

Today.

Today.

All

right.

Let me move on.

First of all, had to wear the baseball cap.

In honor, in honor, in honor.

You know what I wanted to tell you what I wanted you to do is to find an instrumental to let him know by TI.

That's what we needed this morning.

Because when I say it didn't make no sense how the Brewers handled the Seattle Mariners 22.

Come on now.

Even the one guy in first home run, even he got a

home

run.

Yeah, look.

And some of the Mariners players was looking like this.

They was almost laughing like, yeah, it's a clown show.

The one brother that played for the Mariners, he was like, hey, man, it was not day to day.

It

was not day to day.

So we turn on the news.

Me and Keisha both sit at the kitchen table laptops up, you know, I work and do it everything and then I said, oh, I want to catch the news So I turn on the news I ain't even thinking about the game because you know We done dealt with the imminent threat of danger of the tornado cell phone warnings our alarms in the house was going off You know because on your home security system it gives you the alarm for the tornadoes and you know weather alerts so

House out like you know like the fire station ding ding ding ding ding just everywhere So I said well, let me turn on the news and see what's happening So I turned it on but I didn't look at it.

I just went to like TMJ for somewhere I just went to the news and just turned it off Kisha looked over there.

Hey, you know Kisha can't see Kisha the TV she said And she's been down low and was squintin.

She said does that say 22 to 0?

I was like what you talking about?

She's like, the score in the game.

I was like, come on now.

It doesn't say 22 to 0.

Man, I looked over there.

I had to go online because I just refused to believe what

my

eyes were saying.

And it was like, no, ma'am, it was 22 to 0.

Oh my god.

Hadn't been done.

Sister.

When I tell you that game was rough.

And I said like y'all don't have no no rules about when to just chill like after 12 y'all couldn't just chill But like they got five in I mean five runs and two innings back to back and then what in and they caught nine runs

So

dude

was a

player.

What

kind of mess

was that?

No, if I was a player on Seattle Mariners, I would have ran it on the field yell at the umps

stop this man.

I was like, you know how they throw that towel in?

Somebody should have threw towels on the field.

Like, it was rough, yeah.

Throw it in the towel.

It was rough.

In that fight with the sister, Clarice Shields.

That was a good fight.

They was like, throw the towel in on that fight because when you reflect that girl,

Come back there was a you was supposed to call this fight and then they you

write they threw

the towel

in

my three

times like

man throw

that

She dropped like 30 pounds for that for that match man, but I'm like Yeah, somebody was supposed to throw some towels in but today credit and this Seattle got to do come back tonight.

It's a three.

It's a three game series So they got to come back

man

It must have been like the manager or like the water boy or

something.

Yeah.

But but yelling, hitting it, doing it for that three run homer.

Boy, I had to go back and look at it all.

I was like, ooh, this was nasty.

But Christian Yellish, but he was in the slow.

I

think he's the oldest player on the team now, too.

Which is crazy.

Like, you were the slump in this show, Night Man.

Yeah, it was, it was, it was a shutout for y'all.

Woo.

So

I gotta

go buy me some new bro

hats.

Tonight.

Yeah, they got

them tonight and tomorrow.

They

playing Atlanta after that.

So it's like.

You want me doing that down in the lap?

Not at all.

You want me doing that with the Braves.

But I thought about you.

I only have, I got two Brewer's hats.

I got two Brewer's hats.

But I thought about you, man.

I said, dang, you man got some cold Brewer's hats.

So I said, yeah, I got to go give me some new gear.

So now you have inspired me to go find me some Brewer's caps.

All right.

Let me also say that when somebody posted in the chat, I appreciate the way y'all stay on top of, you know, just looking out, thinking about black folks interests.

Nolan Wells, the young brother who came up missing and ultimately was found.

dead after a weekend, fourth of July weekend of hanging out with friends and now people trying to get to the bottom of what happened to him.

Today is his birthday.

Today is his birthday.

He would have been 19 today.

And so I think about his parents.

One of the things that's crazy.

Somebody said.

I'll get to that in a

minute.

Hold on.

Let

me stay focused.

I'm going to come back.

I'm going to circle back, but I'm going to

stay focused on Nolan Wells for a

second because I saw what they say.

But the thing about this whole situation with Nolan Wells is that racists just don't know how to just go somewhere and sit down.

There was an attempt.

His mom is a nurse.

He's an RN.

And there was an attempt to try, and I think she's actually like a nurse practitioner, so that's like the highest level you can go or something like that.

But there was an attempt by someone to get her license taken.

In the midst of everything this woman is going through with her family grieving the death of her child, an anonymous complaint.

led to a professional misconduct review by the Mississippi Board of Nursing.

It was closed, you know, fairly shortly after it was opened, after drawing public backlash and widespread support for her.

So it was just crazy that Mississippi would even like fall into that and act like they was gonna legitimately pursue going after this woman from an anonymous complaint.

Let me just be clear, because you know some hateful racist white folks that did that.

I just believe that.

That in the midst of everything going on with her child, you got to have your employment license investigated because of an anonymous complaint.

So thank you for the person who put it in the chat.

I did realize that it was the baby's birthday.

Somebody also had put Carmelo Anthony's name in there young brother who you know defending himself and They they have given this boy a Conviction and you know, so you got folks fighting for him as well So thank you.

Thank you for referencing those those young people.

I appreciate that All right, so somebody said stop bragging on the brewers they trash

So I'm going to just say this.

I'm going to say this because and I don't know who else I get into this argument with.

But number one, the the use of the phrase they trash.

I hate that phrase.

And people said all the time and I know it's sitting just sometimes, you know, it's people serious because some people really play badly.

But you don't get to that level in professional sports because you trash.

And particularly when you play in a team sport, you know, all kinds of things got to be in place for things to go well.

Now, what I'm talking about is one game.

So if I wanted to congratulate them, give big props, because they made history last night, whether you think they're a good team or not, they made history last night.

So you can't take that from people.

And this is the thing.

be able to be balanced.

You know, that's, I talk about people and issues and things all the time, but when it's time to give a nod and say, you know what, but by the way, I do need to compliment X, Y and Z. You gotta do that man or woman.

Be able to be balanced.

Like they don't normally play good, but last night they was a fool.

They, they showed out or see, you know, Seattle really sucked.

I don't know, but I really just, man, just, I hear people do that all the time.

They trash.

I think I get into my brother about that.

They trash.

And I'll be like, and you play where, Negro?

Who paying you some money to play?

You make how much money playing basketball?

None?

Oh, OK.

I just want to check.

What high school team did you play on?

Wait, wait, none?

You know, like, all of that just irks me because I'm like, come on, y'all.

This ways to talk about people not being good is they trash.

It's just a minor pet peeve of mine.

Go on, Jay.

And whoever said cuz I know you love that work.

Yeah, I know you

don't

take my word trash is my word And whoever said that the brewers are in first place

And people are definitely hit me then they're saying make sure sis

the Brewers are top of the division right now.

Just

saying, you know, so I'm just like, so you can't be trash on top.

Yeah, I'm just saying, man, you know, they they they have had seasons where it looked like they was going to pull it out.

We was going to get this World Series championship and then, you know, stuff happened.

But they they they not trash.

They not a trash team.

They

not they not.

That's my word.

They not they not.

That's Carolyn out here tearing up stuff.

Don't know how to come into work.

She upset with somebody.

Didn't have no pancakes this morning.

Haven't had to

say something before about Carolyn tearing up out there.

You know, I just, I don't understand.

And she yelling

and

screaming when it's going, I feel unsafe.

Can you shut the door?

I don't, I don't, look shut the door.

I don't feel

safe.

I don't feel safe.

All right.

So, look, I gotta take a quick break.

Call us y'all to be first up when I come back and who is this?

Wait a minute.

Oh, they want to.

Okay.

Well, okay.

If the Mariners is a bad team, they're bad team.

The rules

are still good

though.

They're 59 and 67.

It doesn't change the fact.

It was zero to 22.

Let me go to break.

I'll be right back.

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right, family, welcome back to the show this morning.

A couple of quick things.

Let me just take one second.

We had a caller yesterday who called to the station and the caller was frustrated.

I think that they said that there seemed to be a lot of breaks on my show.

And the young lady who answered the phone attempted to explain, you know, that.

Those are commercials that are running people have paid for that time And I just want to just do a disclaimer particularly as we are going into the November election.

So I Don't take breaks on my show just to take breaks If I'm taking a break on the show it's because a there are either commercials that are supposed to be playing during that break time which people have paid for which in terms of to pay my salary and Everybody else's salary here for us to even be able to have a radio station

Or I need to come off the air to take care of something that's going on in the studio.

I may have a guest that came early or there was a situation that I wasn't aware of.

So I just want people to understand and know that going into November, there will more than likely be even more breaks.

My breaks are usually like I have three per hour.

I'm only on for two.

And some of those breaks can be long because of the number of commercials that are being run.

I'm going to say this while frustrating.

Be happy that folks are buying ads with us.

Be happy that we got that as a problem because that means that we're generating revenue, which means that we'll be able to stay on the air.

You know, because we have times when the revenue was slow.

And, you know, you you trying to make ends meet.

So I just wanted to explain that for people that don't you know get frustrated because We tuned in to hear Michelle and hear what she got to say, but it's so many breaks.

That's because we pay in bills y'all and Particularly during election season that helps us when there are no elections and when it's slower and people are not Advertising because those are the things that keep the lights on and the doors open and the mics running So I just wanted to flag that because somebody talked to me about it

After I had got off the air and I understand the frustration and I'm glad that people Care enough about the content of the show and what's being said to say hey You know what's going on?

But I just need you to hear from me that that's what's happening is that people want to advertise during this time slot We doing everything we can to make sure that these lights and staying on in these doors open We have seen way too many black radio sessions go under

And many times they are going under because they don't have ad revenue.

They cannot figure out financially how to make it make sense.

So that's my little piece on on that.

All right.

Let me go to the phone line.

These people have been holding for a minute.

Hey, caller.

What's happening?

Only for a minute.

Only for a minute.

You know what?

You'll be all right.

Good morning, Miss

Michelle.

Hey, JT.

How you doing this morning?

I'm doing quite well.

Thank you.

How about you?

I'm good.

I'm good, sir.

And obviously, good morning to my other favorite people in the studio this morning.

Good morning, gentlemen.

And I hope you're doing well.

Yes, sir.

Good morning, JT.

And Michelle.

The reason why I'm calling, it seems like every time we turn around, those, uh, constable, Nazi, ICE agents is, you know, they have car, everybody, well, I understand they have car blanched from the most, from the monsters we have in the control of the White House right now.

But I just, I was just checking out this article from a month me, Bayo, there's AMA and I, I think I've pronounced the name correctly.

The person right for the Columbus Dispatch USA Today Network.

And they had an article indicating how the Haitian immigrants is subject to monitoring.

I say, what would the ICE agents are allowed to do in Cincinnati, Ohio and other cities in Ohio?

They have the Haitians to come to their offices and they place

monitoring ankle markings only on the next

right

Yeah, they take a passport.

I think they happen to download a app where they can be monitored through the study or phone.

I say wait a minute now.

They haven't committed any crime But you're gonna force them to wear ankle monitors.

I mean, you know, it seems like they They test seeing what they can get away with how they treat the Haitians sort of

so they can do it to us a little later on.

But it's just a shame how they're treating the Haitians and not also rare where the Haitians, you know, they were obviously there, they're meditated, they mad, they pissed off, they're being treated like that.

But it reminds me of that time in Shell when they were trying, when these commitments, when it's coming across the lake and those Haitians, and what was that, the border agents, they was on horses with quips trying to stop the Black

patients from coming across the river some time ago.

Right.

So, yeah, this is, this is, uh, it just seems like these, they have a hard branch to do what they want to and it's just getting crazy, so crazy.

So I hope we do come out in November and try to get back to control of this country because it's just, it's just giving me this, making those people wear monitor, ankle monitors.

I'm sorry.

So I'm sure you're here about that.

I just wanted to.

just mention that with a piece and thank you so much for taking my call and everybody have a good

day.

Thank you JT and I certainly appreciate you highlighting what is going on primarily in Springfield Ohio definitely has saw this situation you know it's a mixed bag because when the courts came in and said that it was okay for the Trump administration to remove the protected status that Haitian

individuals in this country had had in terms of the temporary protective status.

That meant that anywhere from 330 to 350,000 Haitians immediately became eligible for deportation immediately.

Because they don't have the ability to deport that many people at that time, at the same time,

You saw them go to a system of saying they are going to wear ankle monitors.

They have limited the amount of miles that they can travel.

I think it's like up to 75 miles.

They can't, you know, go beyond that.

So they couldn't even go from here to Madison.

Because that's an 89 mile trip.

You have to have permission to go further than 75 miles.

And they did take their passports.

Ultimately, at some point, the goal will be to remove all of these people.

And they are in negotiations.

They've actually been talking to some other African countries.

And I'm trying to remember, I just read two days ago, where one of the countries had agreed to take these immigrants.

So we're going to see these mass deportations beginning.

So this is what they did in the quest to be ever just ignorant and racist in the way they are handling and treating this particular population of people.

What else can we do to degrade and dehumanize folks?

But yes, it was in response to what the Supreme Court did, which was to allow

that temporary protective status to be removed.

And so now all of these Haitian people are vulnerable and potentially being set to be removed from the country.

So, yep, I was aware of it.

And, you know, I saw the guy on the news story when he lifted up his pants and he showed the ankle monitor and it just, it just is disgusting.

It makes you sick because you realize there are so many people in this country.

They're in this country illegally have overstayed visas have over, you know stay work permits tourist permits that That are not black not people of color and they get treated very very differently, but so yes JT.

Thanks for flagging that all right

So a couple of things, first of all, if we got any folks down at the city listening, I don't know if you all have gotten to it yet, but because of the storms last night, we know that there were downed trees, electrical lines and different pockets of the city and the broader municipalities surrounding communities.

Some people had talked about whether or not they thought they saw

tornado activity as close as West Alice.

But we know that, like I said, the phones were going crazy.

Your alarms are going crazy.

They even showed it at the Brewer's Game trying to give people the safety because they were so worried about a tornado touching down in the area.

So we've gotten a phone call that on Sherman and Fond du Lac Avenue, there is a downed tree.

that is making traffic through that way difficult.

People can't pass, and so I'm not sure, but a number of folks have said they've reached out to the city, they've called them about what's going on, so it just depends though on what else is happening around the city.

that may be bad in terms of that tree being in the area.

And folks are saying they've been calling since yesterday.

It just kind of depends on what else is going on around the city that we may or may not be aware of.

So I just would flag that for people.

But if you have reached out, cool.

And I will also make a call from the station before I leave this morning just to check on the status or to see if they've gotten an opportunity to get to that tree.

All right.

I said real quick, I was going to and oh, I know a lot of people were without power yesterday somewhere between 30 and 40,000 folks.

A lot of those folks have been turned back on, but even Carolyn, who is out in the office for us, she said her power didn't come back on until 430 this morning.

It had been out since 730 in the evening yesterday.

So we know that there are folks that have been functioning and getting around with our power this morning.

It looks like.

A lot of it is being either addressed or it has been taken care of but again a little bit of patience as people are trying to figure this whole thing out.

You know, you got workers work working at breakneck speed to get people turned back on so I would just encourage that Somebody just said let's just say the city has a lot to do in front of my house Not only did the tree uproot it took out three and a half slabs of concrete with it including all the grass on my curb well, okay Okay, there it is

So just wanted to flag that for folks.

All right.

So yesterday I talked about Milwaukee public schools and I talked about the need for an audit and there were people that flag for me that Michelle there have been some audits done and Hang on one second.

What does it say?

Okay, I'm gonna get to that.

I see it.

And that was on my list to talk about yesterday.

And I'm glad you said that.

Thank you for flagging that.

But let me do this real quick.

So I talked about Milwaukee Public Schools, this whole issue with them overpaying Aisha Carr.

or paying her after her tenure with the school board had ended, they claim for three months.

She says it was a one month payment and she paid it back, hand walked the check to central office to cover it and that she alerted them that they were sending her payments.

Not the other way around they didn't catch the error.

She caught it.

She said it happened in July and So there's a discrepancy about whether or not they paid her three months after she left and

If they ever received any payment for any of it versus her saying, no, you paid me once in July after I left.

And I, I called you all not once, but twice.

And I brought in a check for the repayment of that money.

So I'm waiting to hear when they finally have their day in court because they have sued her for this $5,000.

Some dollars, what this is going to look like.

But when I talked about the fact that there needed to be an audit, I had a couple of people send me copies of the audit.

And I'm going to just say this.

The audit is not good.

But it gives some reads.

It gives, you know, like simple, you know, like recommendations that are, you know, by size recommendations that you can excuse me infer X, Y, Z from.

But I'm looking for the data that was used to create the audit, the raw data.

So I would like to know how many times.

the Milwaukee Public School District has overpaid an employee.

Or that there, you know, like, has this happened five times?

Has it happened 25 times?

Because one of the things that the audit said on the business side of NPS is they talked about.

The the outdated systems and that the department's working silos and they don't communicate well together So something is going on in this department But the folks in the other department that need to know about it that information isn't getting to them Either at all or in a way that's timely enough for you know the process to work seamlessly So the audits were not good.

Let's just be clear.

They were not good But it's still not telling me

As I brought up that particular issue about the overpayments, how often something like that is happening?

Like, I would love to see the raw statistical data about some of the issues that are being flagged.

So while I read the audits, the audit still didn't get that from me, that broader, I'm sorry, that more intensive.

in the weeds, minutiae, detailed information that I would like to understand that's going on with the district.

And I would love to be able to ask my school board director, hey, can you tell me how many times NPS has overpaid an employee and how much money that has cost us?

And did we go after every employee who we overpaid and have all those dollars been recouped?

Is their money still outstanding?

What's the longest amount of time that somebody

You know how to overpayment.

Did we go to court to pursue money against everybody that we overpaid?

Like I want answers to that.

And a school board member should be able to answer those questions because those are the questions that they should be asking.

So while I saw the audit, still not satisfied.

Still not, still not feeling it, still not satisfied.

So I'm just going to say that.

Let me, let me do this too.

Somebody said on social media yesterday, if what went on at XYZ University had happened at an HBCU, all hell would be breaking loose.

And they called Penn State University, Snowfall University.

They called it Snowfall University.

Because when you talk about 14 people, including a parent of one of the students, is caught up in this drug trafficking scheme that extends across state lines from New York and Philly.

Back to Pennsylvania I'll be back to where the school is located that this is crazy The amount of drugs they were moving The kind of money that they found here the cash the drugs in the safe I mean a whole operation and it was like you know if this had been a HBCU They will be talking about trying to figure out how to close the HBCU because you're trafficking drugs

And they talked about Adderall, Ritalin.

The kids were buying that to stay awake, to study for exams.

Weed, obviously.

And then, you know, cocaine.

They had some everything.

Like, it's a little grocery store.

What you need?

What you need?

We can get it.

What you need?

We got it.

And you looked at who was doing the running.

And the amount of information that we're getting out while we got the big headlines, people are like, no, going to the weeds, talking about who their mom and daddy is, talking about their childhood.

The same way you do black folks, when you get into our business, we need all their business industries too.

We need all of their business industries too.

So people couldn't help but think about and talk about the difference in how these two conversations are being had.

Let me go to the phone line.

I want to circle back to NPS because I also meant to mention on the front page of the paper this morning that the feds are investigating NPS.

And I'll tell you why.

Let me go to the phone line though.

Hey, caller.

What's happening?

Good morning.

Good morning.

This is the Reverend Dr. Andrew Ward.

Yes, sir.

Hey, for my veteran brother, Jay Keith.

and heard from him in too long.

He was very proper soil in this presentation.

And you are a masterpiece at what you do.

I was very happy to hear that you get paid.

I was trying to subsidize you, but I found out that you get

paid.

Another thing too.

you mentioned the school board and all the things.

The whole big issue with MPS has been for too long the finances.

They were holding holding withholding money from the state and we're not getting our accounts up today.

And very coincidentally, when the past superintendent retired,

the accountant retired also.

And whoever that was should be brought up and paid much more attention to.

I don't know who the replacement is, but we need to make sure we have a good person handling the money.

And I'm gonna close now, but y'all have a good one.

All right, thank you, sir.

I appreciate it.

So I said I wanted to circle back on NPS, and this is why, because I also noted this morning that there is a front page article in which the Department of Education, the feds are coming in to quote, unquote, investigate NPS around issues of race in disciplinary decisions.

So many years ago.

it was found that MPS seemed to be having inequitable treatment in the way they handled student behavioral issues between students of color and white students, okay?

So, yes, MPS has been a predominantly black school district for a number of years.

And so when you look at the suspension weight ratings,

Exposure numbers automatically it's going to be more black kids suspended and expelled because more black children go to the district.

So their numbers are going to be to some degree disproportionately higher.

But when a deeper dive was taken and they looked at the treatment of students.

of different races, but who had committed the exact same offense, the exact same school record, the exact same circumstances that the black child tended to be treated harsher than the white student.

So there had been, through the Office of Civil Rights, a while ago,

policies that said we needed to look at, you know, how these kids are being suspended, what these suspensions look like, and look at it through the lens of race.

We want to understand if black children are being treated more punitively than their white counterparts.

So now with the racist administration that we have in and all the black Republicans who love these people, they're going back and saying, no,

You can't take a look at race.

You can't talk about if kids are being disproportionately impacted because they're black.

All we care about is that everybody is.

Is treated the same, but we already know.

Because people can bring their own bias into what they do.

that these kids can be treated differently.

I gotta go to break, but it reminds me of when I was substitute teaching and I had a young child in that I had had these kids for almost a whole semester because their their teacher came to school one day and realized he couldn't cut it and didn't come back.

And so the kids had like 13 subs before I became their sub and I took them through the end of the the

through the through through December through the end of December From when school started and we got this new teacher young white female teacher who had come into the classroom and I was going transitioning out of the classroom and There was a and this was I think first or second grade I always forget which grade it was but it was either first or second grade and this white female teacher

Talked about one of the kids that I had worked with for three months or so and talked about that this kid was so aggressive and so this that she was afraid of his baby and They wanted that child expelled But she made it sound like this boy was 14 years old six foot tall 220 pounds and she was just terrified of him

He was a he was a baby.

He was six years.

It was first grade.

He was six years old.

But the way she talked about him and made him sound like he was menacing.

So she was not being fair in the way she engaged his boy and the discipline that they wanted for him because she was afraid of him.

But you could see it coming.

So I gotta go to break but there is validity when you can have a district and I'm not saying that these are the numbers for NPS I need to pull them.

I haven't done it in a while, but if you got 65% white teachers 50% black student body and you notice disparities in between how white kids or an NPS only got like 9% white kids 9% Asian 28% Hispanic I believe those was the last numbers I saw

But you know to say difference and I'll and I'll say this going to the break I just saw a segment literally last night before I read this article the comedian Tommy Davidson Who used to be on a living color Y'all think about it y'all know who Tommy Davidson is Tommy Davidson must have been adopted by a white family and was raised with a white family and he talked about him and his sister a white female

Going to school and both being late For the same reason they mother dropped them off.

They were late His white sister was sent to class.

He was given detention and His white adoptive mother came up to the school and was like so wait a minute How is it that my white daughter was just sent to class?

But my black son was sent to detention

And so Tommy Davidson talked about this white adoptive mother, taking him away from school, taking him to the park and sitting down and talking to him about the fact that you are going to be treated differently in life.

And I need you to understand what's happening, why it's happening and how you deal with that.

I just saw that it was on club Shea Shea.