The Power of Community and Sacrifice: A Deep Dive into Social Issues

Good morning. Good morning. What's happening family? Welcome to the show. It is Michelle. Brian here. WNOV 860 AM 106.5 FM. You are listening to say something real and what do I want to say first? Do I want to say good morning first or do I want to complain first? Let's complain first. Debo, I know you listen.

Your new logo thing you made for me. Why is my picture the smallest thing on the whole little flyer thing? I'm not doing my show this morning in protest I mean I look like a dot on the whole page Yeah, show everybody anybody that's watching on YouTube look at this nonsense. I'm way down in the corner

This little afterthought. Don't be making stuff for me. All right. Now that I got that on my chest. Good morning. Good morning. What's happening, y'all? What up to the bros in the building? What's going on right now? How you doing this morning, sir? I'm going to cover you last night. You should have put too late. The sun is shining. I feel good. I feel good. You know, like James Brown, we did that interview.

Living in America do I just saw a whole soul train clip. Oh, James Brown. Oh, baby King and Bobby Bluebland on stage on stage. I saw that and James Brown look like the rookie. Yeah. Yeah. Like you could tell James Brown into the game. He was enamored being on the stage with BB King and Bobby Bluebland. It was like, because you know, I know all James Brown.

Right, you know, and even young James Brown was super confident and I'm the man. He was like he understood. I'm standing between Michael Jordan and Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan and Wiltshaven. I mean, like it was Dr. J. It was crazy to see his face, but I'm sorry. Go ahead. What's going on? How you doing this morning? I'm doing good. The sun is shining. Listen here. It's kind of cool. It's a little brisk.

I feel like a refrigerator outside a little bit. It's like a refrigerator. Chili Willy. You know what I'm saying? We was going to have like 20 days of 60s. I know. Ain't that crazy? The record is 22. That is crazy. I saw that this far. Yeah, in the 60s. So that means when you get up, it's going to be, whoa, so many timbers. But you know what I'm saying? But today is the middle of the week. It's hump day.

I thought you were going to forget. Someone asked the question. And that someone is me, Seth. All right. What's your question for you? Well, you know, Shale. Here we go. Just say, come on. Brace yourself. I've been trying to play these things because, again, I've been at home by myself. Talk to myself when there is no one to talk.

My question. It might be to him, but I guess I gave him. It might be to her. First question. If I can buy a head of lettuce at the grocery store, where do I buy the body? Wait, if you can buy a head of lettuce at the grocery store, where do you buy what? Where do I buy the body? Where do you buy the body?

Okay, well if Monday through Friday is considered weekdays

Do that me that Saturday and Sundays are strong days Back to you Bob Oh boy, I'd say I'll be a boy night thinking about these things

your teacher is gonna put you out the classroom yeah you know I was just wondering you know if you can buy a head of lettuce at the grocery store where do you buy the body it was bad the first time I mean we got you okay

But I don't know that as a man, I would go on the radio and say where do I buy the body? Because it's depending on when people come in to the show. Buy the body. It's Jamaican listening on air. You know, then we got our FCC license being challenged.

Robert you are so right. It just did not sound good at all. And I actually I would have distanced myself from it. Let me let me help you go to Clark.

Hey, Jay Wicker. Hey, Jay Wicker. Had a lack of sleep. Hey, Jay, you after too much A&J, you start looking for the box. Where's the body? Who our kid? Who in what? Man. I can be with the jail visitation program. How you doing this morning, bro? Oh, my stomach hurts. You had a ruffling. You had a ruffling? Yeah.

You all right? Well, I'm glad I was able to celebrate my guy's birthday yesterday. So that's all I got to say. Oh, wait. I was about to feel sorry for you. But you was out in these streets partying. Oh, no. You know, you be, uh, I'm good. You stayed out all night. And then your mama tried to get you up in the morning.

She's like, I don't know. He was out in the streets. He thought you were going to church. You come home from college, you got kicked in hard in the mud. Although my mama was janky because she would be like, um, hey, do you see a red bug in my front window? I'm like a red bug. This ain't, this ain't that kind of house. The dough's locked up in here.

at one a.m. I was like, at one a.m. I am grown. She said, well, you gonna be grown staying somewhere else tonight? Yeah. Because the dough's locked in here at one a.m. I said, Ma, I have a key. She said, not to the deadbolt. Not to the deadbolt. And she stood on it. I had to spend the night at my son's other grandmother house because we would be out for five, six o'clock in the morning. I mean, Magic City.

In Birmingham, Alabama. Oh, come on now. You stayed out all night. In fact, we was getting our car washed. Before we went to the Waffle House. So good old days. All right. Look, I was about to sing. Back down memory lane. All right, family, a lot to get to this morning.

Just so folks know, we are going to try to roll through this day, update you on a couple of things. But the first thing I want to do is just say, I know that there are people that are sending in their mail in ballots or you have received those. So there are some places if you are a little shaky, janky on the mail that you can drop off the ballots.

So those places would be the Good Hope Library, UWM Milwaukee, or sorry, UWM, Zalazo Center, Midtown Voting Center, Clinton Road Senior Center, Washington Park Senior Center, Zeiler Municipal Building, the Metro Street Library, Typical New Library, and American Serb Hall. So you can drop ballots off as well.

Oh wait, those are early voting centers. Drop boxes, there are significantly more. So all of those libraries, in fact, Good Hope, Villa, Capital, Accasin, Martin Luther King, Center Street, Washington, East Library, Mitchell Library, Bayview. So all of the libraries, it looks like you can drop off your ballot and then downtown and Zyla Municipal Building. The other places I identified, those are the early

voting location. So we'll continue to make sure that you have all the information that you need. Folks are already casting ballots. Somebody texted me at least once a day to ask about the referendum questions. So I'll make sure that I address those again as well. We've got a couple of colors that have already tapped in this morning. And let me say good morning to the folks on Facebook and YouTube.

What's happening family is good to see y'all. What's going on barber? Curly Q. See you Robert. We already laughed at your comments Who got in first? And what is this about see me church? Let me see I think I got in first. Oh, I'll got in first this morning All right, okay, what's going on Al and I see go down to Martha love

Uh, Mark, love tapped in this morning. She wanted to remind people this Saturday. Uh, community brainstorming is over at St. Matthew's CME church and they are doing yesterday, uh, on Keith's show. I spent a couple of minutes with him as he was talking about the article by Hannah Nicole Jones regarding the choices she made in sending her, uh, daughter to a underperforming school.

because she was trying to do it for the culture and, you know, we're a well resourced family and we can bring some of that to bear in this lower performing, you know, school and elevate, you know, the situation for other children only to find out that later.

her daughter would question, why would you have me in a low performing school? And then there was a question about, did you sacrifice your child for the good of the community? The discussion at community brainstorming this Saturday centers around education. And so Dr. LaKeisha Myers is going to be, I think, moderating this panel.

but they've brought together some incredible people. Let me see if I can get LaKeisha on the phone so she can tell you more about it. But it is a conversation that resonated. I don't care what outlet I turned on yesterday, people were still talking about this article. And I heard on Karen Hunter's show over on Serious, this one sister who said, you know, if you have privilege and you have options, you need to exercise

all of that privilege and all of those options. You can bring other people along. You can create an opportunity for someone else. But of course, you take advantage of your privilege and your options. And I kind of just sat there listening to her and appreciating that everybody got their own approach. That's not my approach. There's plenty of times that I have privilege and I have options that I don't take advantage of it.

because I understand there are other people ahead of me in line. I understand that there are other situations going on. And just because you can does not mean you always should. So I just kind of smile while she was talking because it's not just that, you know, I got into a grade school and so I'm gonna do a referral and make sure somebody else gets into a grade school. I'm still looking over my shoulder.

because I'm concerned about the children that are not at the grade schools that may not get in, you know, and how do we collectively make things better? So I just, you know, I just kind of had to smile because in my household, we take shorts all the time to help the community. In fact, we take them to the point that sometimes they are indeed harmful. But when she said, you know, sacrifice your child or you don't,

to put your child out there. I always think about Ruby Bridges. That so little black six year old girl who was the first black student to integrate a school district so that your kids could sit up now and go to white, you know, white, predominantly white high schools. But it was a little black girl whose parents actually sacrificed. In some cases, this child's mental health potentially.

So that you get to sit up on your behind now and say you ain't sacrificing your child That you're taking advantage of all the privilege But you don't appreciate that somebody had to sacrifice a child first or somebody had to be You know willing to endure all that would come with Integrating the school so your privileged child could go to the school in the first place see how that work and I I have my finger

You know, but I was at the dentist yesterday, so these people get my tooth together. But I just want to say $5,000 later. Not having health insurance in terms of being able to pay that dental piece, $5,000 insurance. I mean, $5,000 is why I got to pay for this tooth. But that's a conversation for a whole nother day. But I just listened to this woman.

You know, talking about what I'm not going to do for my child. I'm not my child won't do this. And I'm like, so you understand other people's kids was in harm's way and real harm. Not academic harm in physical harm. Can you imagine?

We've seen the photos of Ruby Bridges walking through and the U.S. Marshals got to come out and protect this child and white folks spitting at her and jeering at her and throwing rocks at this baby. And then she ends up sitting in a classroom for an entire year alone to help integrate, to move forward, integration. So somebody had to sacrifice.

They they're family safety and security so the choke black behind can now sit up on your perch talking about what you won't do. I just got irritated. So I said, don't pick up the phone, Michelle. Let this this intellectual, you know, who talking her yin yang just leave her alone. But I thought about that. So you don't know who Ruby Bridges is. You don't know who any of all these other kids. I can do this right here in Milwaukee.

The people that in the 70s had to be the first to integrate and whatever they went through.

That's why it kills me. So you can't sacrifice yours, but people may sacrifice us all along the way for you to be here. People put themselves in the line of fire, you know, knowing that it wouldn't necessarily always benefit them and theirs, but that overall as a collective, we would benefit. But you got the nerve to sit up and say what you can't do and how you can't be impacted and how your child can't go through nothing. But everybody else suffered so that you could.

Take you behind out to Lily Whiteville and go to school. I'm sorry. I had a moment. I'm sorry. I just sometimes want to ask people like, do you hear yourself? Do you hear yourself? Do you hear yourself? I gotta take a break. I need a break. I'll be right back.

And I had to say this about one of the forms that I did. Everybody can tell me what you can do for us. You're not telling me what you will do with us in terms of hiring, in terms of positions, any of this. So y'all gonna have some real difficult days ahead. Some people and some people not. You already know who you're voting for, but this is not a done deal for me.

It's not and I've been hearing some disturbing things like since David quality is out of the race There you know, like all of everybody's expected to line up and vote for the black guy in the race. Yeah, that ain't how this work Because I'm still asking people about your track record. I'm still paying attention to what you're doing I'm still paying attention to who the hell you hire

And if you keep figuring out a way to come up with all Lily White teams and you can't figure out how to get no diversity, no people of color, why am I talking to you? Because you're going to keep me in the same position that I've been in. So I am encouraging people to be smart with your votes.

And everybody's going to be like, well, can so-and-so win? Can so-and-so win? Can so-and-so beat Tiffany? And y'all need to be more pragmatic. And y'all need to, you know, I'm done with the greater good. I'm done with it. Because don't nobody be worried about black folks greater good, including some of these damn black folks. I'm done with the greater good.

And I'm not dumb. I'm not stupid. I'm not politically immature. I understand all the things we have to do to try to position ourselves to get some of these people out of power. I work for government and it's almost a reflex action to circle the wagon. I deny, deny.

You know, it's just reflexive. Denied, denied, denied. I got frustrated sometimes with our leadership as opposed to addressing what's causing the error. They immediately went into defensive mode. Okay. Now, when you really own some BS, the first thing you're going to do is deny, deny, deny, deflect, right? And then lie, right? Now, let me say this. A lot of times it's not the original sin.

It's the cover up that does the. But what was cool is that there were 150 young black and brown, young men, high school age, all dressed in black suits, these beautiful red ties, and they had come in from New York, Florida and Cali. And there was this moment.

And they all sat together in this one section. They walked in together. It was really, really powerful. But there was this moment when King Carter's father, the six-year-old who had been killed, you know, like 11 years ago, when his father said to the young brothers, he said, how many of y'all are 17? And a number of them raised their hands. He said King would have been 17 this year. He would have been out there with y'all.

And one of the kids, it was just like crazy because it was, you know, it was quiet. And one of the kids yelled out, he is here. He's with us. We are him. And the father, I thought the father was going to just be gone. I mean, he thanked the young brother. He said, thank you so much for saying that, bro. But it was just this really, really powerful moment. We knew what this dude did and what he was up to in his first term.

How anybody thought that somehow an old leopard could change its spots It's not true and and for the people who you know, the evangelicals and all those folks who You know, we go in and that truck was sent by the Lord Alright family, welcome back to the show. Let's go to the phone line. Hey caller. What's happening?

Hey, Michelle. Hey, good morning. I'm doing this morning. I'm good bro. How you doing? I'm doing good, man. I found my phone was broke for a minute after it's been years since I was all home and was still able to hear what you were speaking about. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. Oh man, I didn't miss any of that. And you know, Michelle, I thought it was political stoop. But thank you for that Ruby Bridges moment, man. It's been a long time since I even thought about that. So thank you for

George? No, whatever's happened, I still hear your segment in my ears, so I'm gonna try to ignore it. Okay. But I'm gonna start off a beast of it, and then I'm gonna come and get a little bit serious if you don't mind. Go ahead. Hook your single friends up with your baby, got too much damn time.

Why would I do that to my friends? I'm not afraid if I do that to them. No, you didn't. Now, they're so, so sisters.

I'm happy to hook them up.

this bothered me all day yesterday and then after I heard the mayor come on yesterday and in the times that we live in there, he asked it for more money. I know services are bad and I know we got to find a way but have they ever thought about, it's a lot of brilliant smart people in this city, have they ever thought about doing a writing campaign about how we can maybe make some money but always

We're always taking money out of the people's pockets. There's a lot of stew people in this time of the year that thought about maybe doing something like that. So just so we're clear, when you say the mayor was asking for money, can you be more specific for people that don't know what you're referring to? When he did his address to the people yesterday and he's going up on overnight parking tickets, parking at the meters, going up on taxes for your while they're getting a pay increase though.

Exactly. Well, they get the pay increase. But go ahead. That really bothered me. You know, it's just like you can't, you can't keep coming to the world. The world is running dry. You know what Brenda said yesterday? And if the world is getting dry, brother, you know, we also security. I mean, we might get our little pension and stuff, but we also security. Guess how much money you probably get every year for Social Security is about maybe two to three percent a year. That's not even keeping up with inflation.

And y'all almost ask it for 10%. Come on, mayor. Love you, mayor. And I know you're trying to do your best, but, and then how much money they want for the police department? $38 million. And all of it, and all of this started, do they realize we're acting and then letting the police officers leave the city of Milwaukee? You can work for the city of Milwaukee.

But you could take your money other places to make one at New Berlin. That was Republicans. That was the state that the local folks can do that. And but this is my thing, which I think frustrates me the most is the things that they were talking about that they're going to be raising the prices. So parking ticket fines going up by $10 overnight parking permits doubling from $55 to $110 annually. These are things that primarily impact people of color.

Black folks in particular, like we the ones who least can afford these increases. Because a lot of people got parking garages, you know, they got apartment builders where they can park. But I know a lot of people on the east side are going to get hit. But you know, I'm like the people who least can afford some of this stuff is the folks that's going to be this is getting passed along to while you stand here and say.

My eighty nine thousand dollars needs to be bumped up to, you know, or my it's like, y'all, at what point do we champion the needs of this community in a way that people feel like you really fighting for? This is frustrating. And what would you just say, Michelle, about the sacrifice? Y'all, come on, y'all, if y'all, Michelle, if I wish being friend could make ninety thousand dollars a piece.

Man, you know, we'd be sitting on Easy Street right now. I mean, I ain't gonna tell you the lie, but sure, we'd be sitting on Easy Street. The second thing, let me just run off the two other things that really pissed me off yesterday. I know y'all said in another channel, beautiful, channel 12 came on yesterday, too, and talked about these tablets. So how can Tom Chiffordine sit up and tell a blatant lie like that?

on David Crowley, and they get away with this stuff. And the third thing I want to say is that, what the hell is wrong with the, we were struck that yesterday, I'm sorry, I'm not sure about that. At the UN? At the UN, and said, I want to be careful, because I know Samir ain't gonna probably listen, so I want to be careful with my language, that he can say in front of United Nations, that he can annihilate a country, a whole country,

babies, grandmothers, he's just gonna say, I can annihilate, and that's, and they showed the camera of the guy that I forget what he is doing to Iran, but he had to know to stand in front of the whole wall that he's gonna annihilate a country. And nobody called him out on that, Michelle. It's madness. It's madness. But he did it last time. This wasn't the first time when he was at the US speech last year.

He did something similar in which he you know He talking about annihilating and getting rid of Iran and talking crazy like none of this is new But you're right to the point and then you'll see Republicans come on and justify these statements Try to make it sound like let's see The the folks from the UN is cool because I kept trying to think about like what would I do? Well, I get up and walk out

when he talking crazy, would I have stood up and be like the hell you will? I mean, like because you realize the position that folks are in and then I'm in these folks, you know, country. So let me try to figure out how I want to play this. But I just thought, you know, it has exceeded disrespectful. It sounds crazy and insane. Let me just say this last thing, Michelle, and I'm going to get off the phone.

We are lying right through the... Now I could be wrong and I'm gonna leave it up to some people that know better than me, but Michelle, I try to do my best to research stuff. We actually started this stuff when I went and they... I went and started this with us. We started this stuff by getting in their business and trying to change their leadership over there. That's how I was hoping I started, Michelle. Well, the most recent skirmish is we get drugged in because of Israel.

and what they had going on. You know, and I know I get from the beginning. I forget. Yeah, no, but I'm just saying this most recent situation because we didn't have to be in this situation we in right now. If we had just let Netanyahu handle his own business.

But, you know, Trump is so malleable and so easily influenced, you know, and like I said, you know, the reports come out now that the Natalie woman who he gave the $40,000 bonus to is the one who lets him know how negative the press is. And then, you know, I don't know if you were trying to impress her, your little thin skin can handle it. You ban all these stations.

Now you can get embarrassed because all these stations are going to be unbanned later today when this mess goes before the judge. But thank you, George. I appreciate the call. Got another caller on the line. Let's get them in. Hey, caller, what's happening? Morning. Good morning. Good morning. You know, I was listening to you and I was in the car with you earlier and you started going another way. I jumped out that joint fast. Listen, you talk about sacrifice.

in the movie Bridges deal and that was uh I think her parents did a did a great thing uh you know you know that that's that's that's up for that's up for discussion but looking at when we were at today I guess it would have been a good thing you know integration is really really good a number on this as a matter of fact if you just look at uh Fannie Lou Hamer she demanded to be seated in that democrat party as a delicate down there they didn't want a period

she broke into it. And as a result of that, many of us cannot shake it aloof right now and use the voting process. I wonder where she was staying at today or years, years later, when she say, hey, y'all, we need to flip, we need to flip flop like everybody else do, opposed to being like gang bangers, you know. But anyway, George was saying, George was just saying something about the mayor.

And we all should be appalled and angry at what's going on down in that city hall. That's another means of sacrifice. Listen, the sacrifices that have been paid have laid the pavement for many of us to keep sacrificing at the same level that's already been conquered is what you call insanity. Listen, these people are downtown raising the prices now.

They went in a gamut on us because along with that school, I've got to go back to that school board tax. That's a sacrifice, okay? Believe it or not, now George just said something. He said his fixed income for being retired will not increase at the rapid speed of what the annually, what this school board tax is going to do. So I want to sacrifice Michelle for not to sacrifice.

our kids and I want to ask you a question. What was the answer to the girl that said, mom, you sacrificed me to go to that school when you had means and we don't know what means. She might have didn't have the money at that point in time to get that kid to a private school or get us to school in the suburbs. What was the answer to the parent? Did they ever give up the answer? What did the mama say? Her mother said that she tried to explain the concept of

greater good collective empowerment, you know, everybody not being able or needing to abandon these school districts. If all parents of means leave and there's no one left there to fight for those other children, then what happens to those kids? So that's what she used to try to explain her decision. And what did the girl say? I mean, she is 18 year old young lady.

She was frustrated, but she still got into a good school. She got into school. Made it. That's good that she made it. I mean, my kids went through the public school system. I went through it, you know, so, you know, I just want to know what the question, but are we willing to sacrifice money for downtown trying to get some more money along with that money? They want to increase. I'm soaking. So I keep hopping on that on that on that on that real estate piece.

because I understand what people go through to become owners and own something they think they own and we think we own in it. And guess what? Annually, it will increase. It's not going to save so many dollars per hundred. It's going to increase the next year and the next year and the next year after five years, man. Don't don't don't get no special assessment on your taxes or mess around here. Let a water bill drip over into your taxes.

You won't have a home, Michelle. That kind of sacrifice, we don't need because that's what's going to happen. We're going to be sitting up. No, not us, but our people, our kids going to be sitting down. But one of the things that we got to be realistic about is the way the state ties the hands of the city and these local municipalities to raise the dollars.

in different revenue streams to be able to manage these cities. That lousy police pension deal is also one of the things that puts us in a trick bag that we are in. So it's not just about local city officials not doing their job or doing a better job in some circumstances. We got to understand the way like for property taxes and thank you for the call, but I appreciate it.

but um property taxes. I show me that. Please talk about the property taxes. No, because I'm not getting ready. I'm thank you for the call. I'm not getting ready to go into depth on it. But what I will say is that in southern states, in many states, um

the situation that George identified, we have done our part. We have paid at the top of the scale in terms of taxes while we were both working and engaged in that way. We've retired. Our money is not going to grow unless there is a one to two percent little annual increase on Social Security or our retirement plan. I don't know. But for the most part, our money is now set. It's stagnant.

other states have taken that into consideration and said, so when you reach 70, when you reach 75 or whatever that age is, you no longer pay property taxes. We don't want you to be priced out of your home. We know your income is not rising. We tried to address that here in the state of Wisconsin and we were told that because it's in the Constitution that nobody can pay a different tax rate than anyone else.

that the Constitution has to be changed. The only way we can change the Constitution is if the legislature brings forward a referendum. Well, guess who won't do it? Guess who won't do it? So I'm not gonna do the whole property tax thing, but we just gotta be real clear. All of this is not on city leaders. The way they get money is dictated by the state, which limits those revenue streams. Let me take a break. I'll be right back.

All right, family, welcome back to the show. Got some callers on the line. Let's get them in. Hey, Caller, what's happening? Hey, I'm glad you called Dr. Myers a couple of reasons. Good morning. I'm good. I'm good. Um, brought up the community brainstorming conference panel discussion this weekend. Yes. Can you take a second and talk about that for me, please?

Absolutely. Community brainstorming will be discussing the topic of literacy this Saturday at St. Matthews CME Church. So we're inviting everyone to come out to join us in this discussion. The theme is bridging the gap, closing the literacy divide in our community. And a lot of times, Michelle, when we talk about literacy, we always attack it from the K-12 standpoint. Oh, what are students learning? When do students learn how to read?

What is your child supposed to know when they go to school? Who is supposed to teach them how to read? All of those things. But we wanted to give it a broader scope, not just talking about it from the student perspective, but also talking about how literacy, you know, impacts our everyday lives. With the advent of social media, you know, I made a joke about it with you the other day, talking about some, you can see some of the divide, the slide that exists because of comprehension.

when you look at social media, how people cannot comprehend information. So we're going to talk about that from the adult perspective as well. So we have an excellent panel that will be joining us on Saturday morning. So we have Micael Bleco from the Literacy Services of Wisconsin. They specialize in adult literacy services in the city. Latoya Newsom Harris, who is a professor at Mount Mary University in the nursing program, will talk to us about how she's had to

basically reinvent courses sometimes for students who are having accessibility issues with literacy. When you talk about it at the higher ed level. And then we have Dr. Chrislyn Frederick's family, who is the immediate past president of MAFSE. She'll be joining us as well on the panel this Saturday at St. Matthews. And Angela Harris as well, who is, you know, WNLV listeners know her as well. She's our resident educator and chief.

that comes in to talk about all things education. So we'll be at St. Matthew's seeing me this Saturday. So we encourage everybody to come out and engage in this conversation with us about bridging the literacy divide. And so when we talk about, I was going to say, and when we talk about literacy, just so people understand, because at one point, at the most simplistic

you know, way of discussing it, the ability to read and write. But you said some other things in here to identify, understand, comprehension, communicate, create, compute. All of those things actually factor into literacy. I read it, but now can I go back and tell you, you know,

pull out and extract the major information from it to demonstrate comprehension, to talk about next steps, to identify main characters or what I was supposed to pull from this information after I read it. That's the part I think that blows me away to. It's people that can do the mechanics, but you can really see that the light bulb is not going off and they're making a connection between what they just read and how they apply it.

in life or, you know, how that translates. Calling words is not reading. You have to be able to comprehend information, understand that, you know, what was being said. How do you interpret that information? So all of these things. And I think when you put it in a life skills perspective, which is what we're trying to, you know, pair this down to, that makes a big difference in what we're talking about and how it impacts.

the workforce development piece when you talk about, you know, our city and our state, you know, talking about the average reading level for adults in the United States falls between 7th and 8th grade. The average reading level? Yes. For adults in the United States falls to the 7th to 8th grade level. And one time I thought it was 10th grade. It was. I was actually trained as a public speaker that when you create presentations and you're doing your public speaking,

Frame them to go to the average tenth grader. So now you're telling me is lower than that. Yes, ma'am. I am. OK. So when you talk about most adults reading at a middle school level, I mean, they can handle standard text, but they may struggle with complex or can't be period. So again, this is why I'm saying this is a real issue. So when you talk about literacy crisis, yes, not just in the schoolhouse at the workplace, you know, in all of the spaces that we occupy.

You talk about how forms are written at the doctor's office, being able to understand what your doctor is telling you and to explain it well. You know, all of these things, you know, are impacting us on our daily lives because functional illiteracy is an issue as well. So you have people that have low reading proficiency, but then you talk about people who are functionally illiterate. And then that's approximately 20 to 21, 23 percent of the adult population.

They perform at the lowest literacy rate, meaning they struggle. In 2026. In 2026. Because my grandfather was functionally illiterate. He could not read, learn to sign his signature late in life. I actually taught him how to sign his signature. But built his home, owned property, went to work every day, provided for his family. But to that point about literacy,

We read for him. We did. We, you know, and I don't know what it was like. I think my mother in him did a lot of it for him growing up. And then as grandkids, we took over. But that is crazy to think about back then. And today you're still talking about a quarter of our population. Yes. Absolutely. Just a real conversation. So we are inviting people to come out to community brainstorming this weekend.

on Saturday at St. Matthews to meet their heritage campus, which is located at 2944 North 9th Street. So 2944 North 9th Street breakfast is beginning at 8 a.m. to 8.45 and the program will begin at 9 a.m. And I will say the breakfast is always good. They do have good cheese grits that can be a good breakfast.

Look, all right. And then, uh, one other thing I know we are getting ready to pull out on Saturday. We are. Fundraiser. Yes. So there are tickets that are still available. If you are trying to go to, uh, here, the fifth, you believe fingers, the Grammy award winning disc. If you believe fingers, we need you to be with us this Saturday in the, uh, Saturday evening to do that. So you go to community brainstorming in the morning, get you a little break there in the middle of the day.

and the bus will be pulling out at 4 p.m. from the base of a parking lot. If you are interested in attending the event, please give me a call. The number is 504-814-0664. Once again, 504-814-0664. Tickets are still available for the event. They still have a few VIP tickets that are available for the event as well for the reception.

but we want to make sure that we support the students that are here that are coming from Tennessee to help the Milton House as our only certified underground railroad location that's open for tours in the state of Wisconsin. So I encourage everyone if you want to attend that trip as well to make sure that you are with us and if you already got your ticket for the Milton House and you said I'm already scheduled to be there.

And you don't want to drive. Give us a call. We can make sure we put you on the bus as well. So, you know, we're traveling as a community together to go support this, to support this wonderful effort. All right. Well, thank you so much. I got one more thing. What's that? Letting people know when you talk about it is budget season. Yes. If you don't know for every aspect of our community, it is budget season. There have been reports about Milwaukee public schools and.

the possible closure of schools, I shouldn't say the possible closure, the inevitable closure of schools and shifting a program. The district has created the Great Schools Committee. The next meeting of the Great Schools Committee will take place. I wanna say it is Monday, September 28th. So we're asking folks to go to those meetings so they can hear and see the presentations of

what's happening at the Great Schools Committee. The committee itself has already been created, but they are asking the public to come and be at the committee meetings. There's an opportunity for public comment at the end of these meetings. The meeting will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The next meeting is on September 28th at Storm Discovery Learning Center, 2035 North 25th Street. We know that the Perkins Eastman, if I'm not mistaken, their audit talks about

closure of at least five schools, most of which are in the central city. So looking at how to shift those programs, what the population shift looks like in Milwaukee Public School, folks need to be aware of that. So you turn around and your community school is closed, you need to understand why and understand what the process was to get there. Oftentimes we are reactive in the community. We say, oh, they're trying to close such as that school, but we weren't

at the table and understanding what the logistics were for that. So please pay attention to your local public school system. You mentioned earlier talking about the city budget, remembering that Milwaukee is the only city in this state that does not own its own public school building. So there's a secondary issue that we talk about when we talk about property. The city of Milwaukee owns NPS school building. We're the only school district in the state where that is the reality.

And it's state law that allows us to have vacant school building. We can't readily sell those buildings. So there's pressure that needs to be put from our school board onto our state legislature to change some of these laws as well. So I'm asking folks to start paying attention to the school board.

All right. Thank you. I appreciate the call and I will reiterate that great committees meeting information as soon as I get off the line with you. I appreciate you. Thank you. Okay. All right, y'all. So just once again.

And yes, people have been talking about it. Five schools that could close the recommended schools, our Avenue Clark Street School, Hopkins Lloyd Community School, Keith Avenue, and Seaford Schools. The Gray Schools Advisory Committee is making recommendations of its own as well. And some other schools that have been recommended.

Investing into the following schools, Brown Street, Andrew S. Douglas, GT Jackson, early childhood and elementary school and storms where this next upcoming meeting is being scheduled. So just so folks are aware, as a part of the $355 million spending, NPS could build three new schools.

which would account for about 150 million. The committee said it could spend another 50 million to modernize 20 existing schools. They could spend 86 million on deferred maintenance projects, 30 million on air quality and energy projects, 17 million on program enhancements, 17 million on athletic fields, pools and playgrounds. Five million would be allocated for green schools. Five million would go towards new food production kitchens. And this would be spent over the course

of 10 years. So this meeting happening on September 28th at what time is it? I think it's at 6 p.m. and then I'm looking at the agenda that they pulled up and on the agenda they're going to be discussing the criteria for closing or merging schools so they'll be looking at the data

and the methodology and what the different scenarios look like. And then they'll talk about the candidates that are being considered, the schools that are being considered for closure. So this is all happening on this meeting on September 28th. And thank you, LaKeisha, for making sure that you flag that and put that on folks agenda. If you want to see more, there's a great committee's advisory committee

site that I'm on that gives the long range facilities plans. Just a ton of information in relationship to how this process is working and what folks are looking at and considering. So I just want to make sure that people have that information as well. Let me go to the phone line. Hey, caller, what's happening? Hello. Hey, how you doing this morning?

I'm feeling good. How are you? Oh, hey, Angela. I'm good. I'm good. Yeah. Thank you so much for the visit. It really lifted my spirits and made me feel a lot better. Not a problem. And I'm following up on the other piece for you as well. OK. And hello, George. I heard him when I was there this while ago. It's funny. Somebody put in the chat, too. Where's Angela? So it's kind of funny you called in.

Yeah, well, I'm here everyone. I'm doing okay. Just going through a little depression moment, but I'm here. I'm fine. So everything's all right. But I'm just coming in to say hello to you all. Let the world know I'm better. Day by day, I'm getting there. There you go. 100%. But I'm getting there. All right. Good. Good to hear your voice, Angela.

Yeah, and I love something here for you and right out I have not forgot about you. I know our birthdays are gone, but I got you Friday

Angela the bus driver is listening. She told me to tell you hi

All right, take care

Yes, ma'am. Call me and let me know when you open that. Okay, I will. Okay. Thank you, Angela. All right. You're welcome. All right. All right. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Let me go to the next caller. Hey, caller. What's happening? Hey, how you doing, Michelle? I'm all right. How you doing this morning, bro? Okay. I have a question. It may be out of context to your program. You okay? Go ahead. When I first came here, I was like the outsider.

Why do they name the streets by number and not by name? I've been to many other states and cities. They name the streets by the name. This is the only state I've been in, only named the streets by number. That is where the outside are lost, because they're going to be wondering, you know, like 24, 19, not 9th. 9th and what?

Um, but like you got like numbers and names because you have like ninth and chambers. Um, 12th and capital. So they do a combination. You, you, you know, it just depends on where you are, but you get numbers and, and, um, names. You get both. Yes. Yes. We're just on and she just named us three only by the number. I'm sitting here wondering, uh, when she said 24, 90, not nine. Ninth and what?

Well, see, okay, that's just for directional purposes, but like the church 2944.

What is it 2944 north 9th Street, but yeah, it's often 9th and locus Okay, bro Yeah, no, but no they do have they do have the cross streets are typically names, you know

Galena Concordia, so we have them. It's just about how and I think it's also impacted by like where you're from how you talk about some of this stuff Because you said you're not from here. Where are you from? Okay, and so, you know, some of it is just regional like down in Georgia like

I'm glad we don't have streets. They got the same name 17 times. Like peace tree, peace tree lane, street, way, drive. It's ignorant and peace tree drive can intersect peace tree way. It's absolutely ignorant. So, you know, so this regional, uh, they'll do anything weird in St. Louis. No, no, they have, they, they, they have revenue to meet just some of those.

of St. Louis, but it was stunning to me because I came here in 1976. And I was totally lost by the directions of people saying from the name of the city, they only direct me to the numbers. And I'm thinking like...

the number of what? Yeah, over on 15. 15th of what? Like, I got you, bruh. Let me just say, I went to school in Kansas, and I went to school with plenty of folks from East St. Louis. And when I used to go to East St. Louis, I was like, no, sir, y'all can have all of this. Oh, yeah, East St. Louis. Y'all can have all of this. But thank you, fam. I appreciate the call this morning. You do know when walkways are made by Germans. I do. I do. Yep.

All right. All right. All right. Yeah. He said, look, what's wrong with y'all here? Like, man, that's not like one of my questions. Yeah, it does. It does. It does. Hey, yeah, it's like, if mosquitoes can fly, why can't fly mosquitoes? Like, what? What? But I mean, like I said, it just appears to where you are because when I first moved to Georgia,

That was the most irritating thing on the planet. And it's still irritating. Why would you name all of them damn peace tree? Hold on. But you know what? If you go east, going east, there's no number. It's like Humboldt and got what? Like Palmer, like Humboldt. Yes, there's only name. Yeah. Yeah. It's name going east. Yeah. But then going west, going west is about numbers. But then, but then when you get farther west,

Still it changes from numbers because the numbers get so big. Yeah. Yeah, it's just be you're like they're missing in my nominee for I mean, I still got like some little name at the end of numbers. Yeah, but after you What are my listeners she sends me cards and

In fact, I just dropped the card in the mail for her yesterday. And it's the W-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D

What's happening? Hello? Hey, good morning. What's going on? How you doing this morning? I'm I'm hanging in there. You know, I wanted to address that caller. I got family. Everything named a name. You got G Street in Kansas and Pennsylvania and all these other.

But the bottom line is I'll share with him that number streets run north and south and main streets run east and west. And once you go so far south, the numbers start from the bottom and start raising back up when you're looking at addresses. And the further you go more, the higher the address numbers get. Milwaukee is one of the easiest

cities in the world to get around. It is because as somebody said, Milwaukee is on a grid system. Most cities in the country are like, I found it to be easy to get around. The only thing I got thrown off a little bit is when you got the streets that cut through like an Appleton or a Fond du Lac, you know, trying to get used to like where those breaks are. But no, you absolutely right. And then we got on the south side, you got all of the states.

Um, streets are on the south side. Yeah. No, but like Kansas, um, yeah, they're on the south side. So, like, so yeah, you're right. It's actually a pretty simple layout. You just got to get used to it. But thank you for saying that, bro. I appreciate it. Look at y'all being, uh, all, all of, you know, information. Got another caller. Hey, caller, what's happening? I'm good. How you doing this morning, John?

Pretty good. I'll take you in that voice like George. I would get all high and squeaky. But anyways, you know what I said about Iran yesterday with their involvement of Sudan? Uh, yep. What'd you get out of it? What did I say? John, let me tell you about trying to do quizzes, man. Just go ahead and say what you gotta say. Okay, well, what I said was there's a direct involvement with the Iranian government and...

Okay, so it's always different individuals that we thought the newspapers, well, they're, they're all fighting each other. It's kind of like saying, Green Bay hates Chicago, Chicago hates Green Bay in sports. And that's in kind of jest, but it's sort of real, but it's in jest over there. It's individual to individual and these little sectors saying that I'm different, I'm the best, like somebody, somebody wrote that.

that Hamas was fighting with Islamic jihad or something like that or one of those type of groups ISIS and Hamas hate each other because one of the guys says you shouldn't be doing local you should be doing the whole empire and the other one is saying well we gotta start local so you got all these differences but they're not differences they're just differences of personalities and yes they fight with each other meanwhile the common enemy is us and places like Aberdeen so last Howard first fired the idea that

Everybody is being distracted from the actual goal, which is to take over Africa. And it's going all the way to the Central African Republic. And Iran's always involved. All of these governments are always involved. And yes, they have rivalry, but their goal is an empire. And in response to George's talk about that, 1950s read queer sinister things and you'll see something completely different. Our right wing is just as

of absent from the argument. Everybody says, I apologize for what we did in the 1930s. We have nothing to apologize for. The people were being advanced economically. The British play hardball. That's the way they do it. And we know that already about the British. So I'm not trying to make excuses for Britain or anything like that. Most of them took over, destroyed the economy. The middle management, they tried to say, we need to bring the British back. His economy tanked 90%.

Shaw was never kicked out. He had some medical stuff and everything that it's a constitutional was a constitutional monarchy, but I want to dwell on that Read Christmas to things, please. Okay So what I said is the Iranian government has had installations with the Sudan government while the Sudan Arab government was waging war on Africans simultaneously In between the Palestinian government had its

factions, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PFLP, GT, General Command. They loved airplanes. This has nothing to do with 9-11. This has to do with these guys working with the Soviets, working with the Sudan Arab government, while the Sudan Arab government was fighting a war against the Africans.

It all seems complicated because we're seeing it as a bunch of different isolated people. It's like David Duke one minute calls himself a Nazi, the next minute he calls himself Klansman, then he invents this national association for the Bansor White People, NWAWP. He's still the same guy. He can change his name a zillion times and we know who he is and his colleagues. So over there they change, the Arab fighters is the jitter, they'll go anywhere. The leaders

It protected one of them by Saddam Hussein. He will protect the guys in the rain. He will protect the guy. It's connected to the guy who assassinated Saddam. It's connected to the World Trade Center. They are connected. When people think they're all isolated, they're not isolated. So John, let me do this. Let me do this. So for the broader point that you want people to take away from your comments, make that a two to three sentence statement. All right.

Okay, so there's a living empire, but it's not on the map, but you could look up leader of states and see a map recommend that and then look up the organization of Islamic conference. No, no, no, no, no, I want you to make us. I want. Okay. What is it that you want people to walk away with from your comments? Make it two to three sentences, especially even the four, but what is the general point?

Um, because for some of some folks, this is really in the weeds and trying to follow it. I got to go do research. I got to, you know, figure out these pieces and these players. So 30,000 foot view. What is it that you want people to understand or take away? That's a good phrase. 30,000. Okay. Please look at a map of the League of Arab States and you'll see a giant empire expanded to the organization of Islamic conference states and the new version Islamic.

cooperation states, also called the Islamic summit. You see a giant empire. That's the goal to have an Arab and Islamic empire. There are dissidents who agree with me and they don't want an empire. They want to live as normal people, but they're not allowed to live as normal people. So each of the countries where they conquered have minorities everywhere to be called minority. They would be recognized as indigenous people. So we have an empire.

It doesn't show in a normal map. You have to look these things up. We need to develop states and organizations of Islamic cooperation states, the OICS. OK. So is that what we need people to take away? Is that right?

Yes, okay. That's a good start. That's a good start. That's why I said John and just for the second time And I got some other colors, but I wanted and I got to go to break But I just wanted to make sure so top line is the expansion of this empire. Is that correct? Okay

No, no, that's okay. And we'll continue to educate along the way. Thank you, John. I gotta go to break. All right, y'all. Michelle Bond to be in a VA 68106.5 FM. We'll be right back.

All right family, welcome back to the show. So a couple of things I want to walk in this morning. I know we got some collars, but So I again, I'm trying to make my way back to some sports. I have not done sports like you know, I have traditionally I grew up on sports. I play sports Love sports, but you know, I've been struggling

For a while and just have not been really able to to bring myself to engage like me in NFL Yeah, it's probably a wrap on that. I don't I don't I don't know if I ever go back to NFL And every other sport suffered because of my beef with the NFL But I have I pay attention on the fringes and so the brother Ryan Clark who got fired

by the NFL live on the air during a commercial break So former ESPN NFL analyst Ryan Clark you doing the show They go to commercial break they fire you While you're on the air on commercial break. So that's me sitting in the studio doing my show the execs come in

and say, hey, Michelle, we letting you go while I'm on commercial break. What the network said is they did it that way so that the news wouldn't leak online and he would find out on social media before management could tell him. Pull it right there. But it was already leaked to how does how does any of that leak if you don't want it to leak? Well, somebody told because it was.

It was leaked to a company that one didn't like Brian Clark. And why did people like Ryan Clark? Because he was outspoken. He was outspoken and he said the truth on air. So he used his platform and he was on air. They went to a commercial break. He got a text message saying, Hey, call the boss. He want to talk to you. So he called and the boss said, Hey, you know, such, such, such, but they are letting you go.

So he in return said, well, who are they? And it all came out. But then right when he found out was when I forgot the name of the company that had the story and they released the story right then and there. Yeah. So and he said he believes it was done to humiliate him. It was done on purpose. You didn't do anybody else like that. So you could have sent it to Sports Illustrated. You could have sent it to the real sports outlets.

And that does sport news. But this and this is the reason why I wanted to bring it up. This is the reason why I wanted to bring it up because Ryan Clark. Has started his own thing. And I don't know if you've had an opportunity to see. It's called the pivot podcast. And well, he had the pivot podcast back in twenty twenty two, but the show is called a pivot.

Okay, but when I say the set for this show money and synapse Do you hear me? The ability to have somebody try to count and people I'm mentioning it because bruhs and sisters follow sports support this man's platform Help this brother. You know

show these people that you can silence voices. You know, cause Stephen A Smith can act a fool and clown, Kamala Harris and clown black women. And you know, you pay $28 million a year to show your behind and tap dancing, go over to Fox News. Somebody else that's saying something different, we're going to silence you and we're going to embarrass you on the way out the door. Go ahead, Jermaine. Not only that, but Shannon Sharp and Chad Ocho Seiko.

Um spoke about this Macklemore thing and his whole concept and He it just now came out that he's been black for who shannon shark shannon shark. Yeah, look it up But Shannon stayed in trouble because shannon was always in trouble when he was at Green Bay That's why he was one of my people. Well shannon shopper called a spade a spade in a minute Yeah, so so they was actually talking about how

How this was out of order and how Macklemore really didn't say nothing. He didn't say nothing hateful anything at all. But now he can't get people on to his podcast because he's been black bar and agents will not respond to, you know, him reaching out, trying to get people on the podcast so they blacklist. And so and this is the reason. And thank you for bringing in the Shannon Sharp piece because Sharp said he, you know, he had been speaking out.

against a group of wealthy and powerful people that allegedly blackballed Macklemore, obviously for his propalicide comments, and now they're doing it to Shannon. Shannon is calling out the double standard in a way that the group moves, saying that the group likes people to remember their atrocities, but tells black people to forget about atrocities that happened to them.

on his YouTube podcast with Chad, Ocho, Johnson. Sharp addressed the rumors that certain agents are blocking clients from appearing on his podcast. And he's calling it out.

So this is the thing, y'all, that I said, like, you know, I appreciate, like, Don, let me go start his show. Joy wouldn't start at her show. Obviously, Roland Martin led the way. You know, when you try to ice me out of a platform, I go create my own platform. But we have to make sure we are.

supporting these outlets and these network, you know, and these, these, these efforts because this is what I keep telling y'all. We haul way more power than we will ever, ever fully understand and appreciate. So I am now going to be, I am committed to watch and do because I want to see him succeed, you know, and especially when people are trying to say stuff that helps us.

that shines a light on what's happening to us. Go ahead, Jack. Yeah, you know what? This takes me back to hearing people say, well, why do black people have their own day? Why do black people have their own colleges? Why do we need our own radio station? Well, for the simple fact that y'all exc-

Y'all exclude us out of stuff. And when we start our own and you see that we don't need you to stand on our own, now is the issue. Right. Now is what? Why they got their own? Well, we wouldn't have to have our own if it was equal. If it was fair, if it was fair, you know, and trust me, the what the Jewish guy did on the Macklinmore tour and then you call up all your NFL buddies and stadium owners to black bar people.

all of that's come in our way and and this is the thing again to the point that Shannon Sharp made but see Shannon Sharp had problems when he was in green back because Shannon Sharp was 10 toes down even then and they didn't like that um you know play shut up and dribble that whole mentality and so we cannot

We have to and I gotta go and I know I got all the woman Taylor. She is calling in but I just want to say this. I watched the old clip last night from the David Letterman show when a black baseball player was talking about Jackie Robinson and he was saying how

Jackie Robinson wasn't used to the blatant racism, you know, overt in your face. And he said they had played in the town and went to get gas. They was be traveling on this big bus and went to get gas. And the gas station owner, oh, you boys played a good game and it was great and blah, blah, blah. And Jackie Robinson went to go to the bathroom and the guy told him, he said, hey, you can't use that bathroom, boy. And Jackie Robinson said, what?

And he pointed to the side, and why it's only. Jackie Robinson said, take that pump out, that our bus. Take the pump out. And Dewey was like, what's going on? And he said, because one side of the bus had 50 gallon gas tank, and the other side had 50 gallon gas tank. And so the white dude standing there holding gas pump, when Jackie Robinson said, take that.

Take that gas pump out of that bus. I can't use the bathroom and we bought 100 gallons with the gas up in here. Take it out. And so the guy thought about it. When are you going to sell 100 gallons with the gas in one day to one customer? Well, just don't stay in there long. Y'all can use the bathroom. Just don't stay in there long. You see how money talking to everything else, Walt?

You see how you see how that work? Using the leverage and the platforms that you have But these other people today act too scary to do that and the thing that the brother said to David Letterman He said and it changed everything we no longer would eat in places or go to places to pick up food that we couldn't eat in We wouldn't we wouldn't go to venues that didn't allow us to stay there. He said

That one act literally changed how all of them me and got down for the rest of the you know of their tenure in baseball like no Jackie Robinson showed them that I'm listening a hundred. I mean, we're on a hundred gallons of gas and you're going to tell me I can't use your bathroom and pull that pump out of there. Let me take a break. And then all the women Taylor, if you can hang on, I'll get you as soon as I get back. Be right back, y'all.

All right, family, welcome back to the show. And thank you. I meant to say Sterling Sharpe Green Bay Packer is my dude or was my guy. I like Shannon too. But Sterling was the one that the Packers always had the problem with. I understand we got Alderman Larissa Taylor on the phone. Hey Alderman Taylor, you there?

Yes, I'm here. Good morning. I know it's been a struggle trying to get in this morning, so I appreciate the tenacity and trying to get through. You got something going on in the district this morning? Oh, yes. Well, it'll be Friday morning, and it'll be from 9 to 2.30. And I first want to say how much I appreciate you two.

for always having the issues for, you know, at the forefront on your show. I appreciate that so much. But yes, on Friday, we want all business owners throughout the city to come out and get as much information as you possibly can to help your business. So we have three panels, four discussion that's going to talk about having a growth mindset for how to grow your business.

We're also going to have a panel on how to get funding for your business. And then we have a panel on using AI to grow your business. So, I mean, we're going to have something for everybody. And then the top it all off, our keynote speakers are going to be Mark Wade and Robert Pyle, Pastor Pyle. So they're going to be the keynote speakers. They're going to share

a lot of good nuggets on how to help your business grow and to be a success. So I really wanted to just call in, make sure that people know I need them to register. So if they register on my website and then just come out, we're going to provide consulate to breakfast, we're going to provide lunch, but we just want to provide as much information as we can.

so that we can help our businesses throughout our city just be successful. So, Auto Woman Taylor, where is the event being held? So, thank you so much. It's being held at direct supply. That's why we have to register because direct supply requires that everybody is on a list so you pass through the security checkpoint. So, direct supply right off of 76 feet.

Uh, just come come in off of 64th and meal road down to direct supplies. Okay. And so they can go to your city website to register. Yes. Uh, and what is, what, what, what should they just do? Just go to, um, city of Milwaukee and you'll find your name and click on your name or how do they get to? Yes, they can go to city of Milwaukee, find my name. Um, on there is a QR code, scan that QR code.

and then just putting your name, your business, your phone number, so that you can be registered. All right. I'll work with our team here and see if we can get the QR code and put it up on our screen.

so that on tomorrow, people have the ability to be able to register that way. When you get a chance, all the women, I would love to have a conversation about the recent pay raise and the proposals in the city budget regarding increasing some of these fees for some of the concerns that folks have raised this morning about some of those actions. So if I can get on your schedule, it would be great to have that conversation as well.

I sure will. And just so you know, there are going to be a number of listening sessions, a number of community outreaches that are going to be happening. I'll make sure I post those with the dates and times too so that the public can make their way out and so that they too can have those discussions.

But I definitely will connect with you so we can talk about that. All right. Thanks a lot. All the woman, Louisa Taylor. I appreciate the call. All right, family, I got to get ready to get out of here this morning. I'll mention this again because it's happening on Friday. So I got time to bring it up tomorrow and tell you a little bit about Mark Wade and Robert Piles and why his keynote speakers is one home.

you know, grown to an extent, Mark Way, and the Robert Piles who, you know, McDonald's, Mark, entrepreneurship, what, you know, the work he's done out at the airport, African World Festival, different organizations he's connected to, car dealerships. So we'll talk about that you are actually hearing from brothers who have had to walk the same journey and have been successful. All right. So let me wrap the show. I appreciate the brothers who helped make it go. Clark.

I appreciate you. Jermaine. Debo. I'll talk to you tomorrow. Peace.