Unveiling Hidden Black Histories: From Fisk Singers to Cassius Clay

Good morning. Good morning. What's happening family? Welcome to the show. It is Michelle. Brian here at WN O V a 60 a.m. 106.5 FM. You are listening to say something real and you know, you careful how you, how you handle people yesterday. I was clouding your Mac. Oh, no, you know, you're never here at the last minute. You know, today he clearly beat me here.

He looked fresh. So fresh and clean. He looks like he had, you know, some time to get up and move around this morning. Got him some water. Got him some water. Now, while I did get some water, I just want to say that I walked out the house at 6.38. No, I won't. No, I looked at the clock at 6.38. I walked out the house at 6.42. When I tell you.

All the way down here. I was like, see you should have been talking that mess about your man yesterday. You didn't even get five minutes before it came back. You should have left that boy alone yesterday and just started the show. But you know. So if I had it to do over again, I would still talk stuff. But let me say good morning to the bros in the building. Ah, what's up with you, Clark Kent?

Who are you with? Man, that's a little strong this morning. I'm with you, bro. You good? Yeah, I did the same thing like you did. You must have been here a little late this morning. Yeah, it's rough. It's rough. But you made it. But I mean, why were you running behind this morning? I took a playing field last night. No.

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Since the sun is shining a little bit, I feel like I feel like God is peeking through the cloud. It's a little bit of sunshine. It makes my day.

And it's Tuesday, at least that's what they told us. Thank you, Jermaine. And these updates are amazing. Meteorology's made no commdella. Today, you provide the most amazing information. Today, you know, can't get it nowhere else. You know, I had to do a lot of research for this information. Let me not interrupt you. Go ahead, bro. You know, today, it's going to be kind of cool outside. Ooh, listen to you. So if you got heat in your car,

In your what? In your car. In your car? In your car, yeah. Can you spell car? See, you got joke, okay. Anyway, make sure you got enter-freeze in your car. Sounds like a mix of Boston and Memphis. I don't know. No, I didn't live on the East Coast for a few, and then I just picked up the... No, bro. Yours is country grammar. I don't know what happened, man. It's country grammar. Yeah. But it's a little bit of, you know...

Something else going on. Well, you know, speaking of country, grandma, you know, today I woke up happy. Yeah. Okay. And I wrote a song when I woke up. Really? Yeah. It go like this. Okay, I'm ready. The name of the song is if I can't love her from the front, I just love her from behind. This is how I go.

La la la I was so scared. I was so scared. I was so scared. This sound inappropriate. This sound like some FCC stuff. La la la. I'll tell you, as soon as you said it. My heart skipped a beat like this boy about to go to jail. All right, here we go. From Baha. From Baha.

Can't love her from the front. I just love her from behind. Does that mean like she's leaving and walking away? I love her more. I love her more going than I do coming. I mean, I'm just saying. It sounds like you're saying. I just love her from behind. I would love her as she walks away. See, once again, Jermaine coming with his

I need the couch. Yeah, you know, sometimes I use WNLV for therapy. You know what? And I'm gonna need to start charging. I am. When we went up to, when we went up to go see the fifth singers, one of the sisters on the bus, her friend was the next to her and she leaned over her friend and said, Hey, Michelle, you got the couch. Because we got issues going on right here.

And how much y'all charge you? I love our listeners. Yeah, you got that couch. I'm like, look, and I appreciated Keith's recap of yesterday regarding Fisk. I didn't do a ton, you know, other than talk about that they had on pantyhose. So, you know, you got to appreciate the substance, the substantive difference between Keith, you know, giving his spin and me giving mine.

But I will say this, I was glad that he mentioned real briefly the kind of the history behind the fifth jiggly singers because when you listen to the person that was in charge of the choir, the director, when he talked about the fact that this school had been

up and running for five years, founded in 1866, one of the first American universities to offer a liberal arts education to students of color. And that by 1871, the school was facing financial ruin. So within five years of it starting, the school was about to go under. And the individual who was the music professor and the treasurer for the school

His name was George L. White. And he organized this nine-student choir, left campus on October 6, 1871, without permission. And it took a few dollars so they could pay for their little, you know, way around. And he went to raise money through singing. Now, at that time, they didn't raise as much as they needed. They raised about $20,000. But think about that. This teacher

or this, you know, teacher and treasure for the school takes these nine kids on the road. They raised $20,000. So what they were able to do with that was to purchase land for the university. He takes another set of kids out. They add two more kids. So this time it's 11 kids. When they come back, they had raised $150,000.

Can you imagine what a hundred and fifty thousand dollars was back in 1875 1873 even 20,000 But a hundred and fifty thousand in fact, let's let's do the math What would 150 K in 1873 be worth today

It would be the equivalent of $4,187,250. That's what these people were able to go do. And so as a result of that, there is a building on the campus on a yard called Jubilee Hall. And they performed for, you know, President Uless's grant. They traveled to Europe. They sung for Queen Victoria.

So the history is crazy. They've won a Grammy either once or twice. They've won a Grammy Award most recently in 2020. So I appreciate it because I meant to say all of that yesterday and I forgot and I'm glad I forgot because he ended up doing it on his show. But for people that might have missed it, I just wanted to recap that because I thought that that was super, super cool. And if I could for just a moment before I get into

The rest of the show, I want to share something with you that I heard on yesterday. I'm gonna just share from my phone, okay? Let me see.

I'm not the only one that's never heard the story of the slave owner's son that started an anti-slavery newspaper. He was born into one of the wealthiest slave holding families in Kentucky. He went on to study at Yale and while at Yale, he attended a speech by William Lloyd Garrison. In his speech, Garrison spoke out against slavery. This kid was so inspired that he returned home as an abolitionist and began preaching emancipation.

His name was Cassius Clay. When his parents died, Cassius immediately freed all of the family slaves. He eventually went on to be an advisor to Abraham Lincoln and convinced Lincoln to sign the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. In 1845, he started an anti-slavery newspaper called The True American that was based in Lexington, Kentucky.

He received so many threats that he equipped the office with two cannons and powdered kegs, and he always carried a knife on him. In 1843, he was shot in the chest by a guy named Samuel Brown, but he survived the shooting because the bullet bounced off the knife that he was carrying. Cassius then took his knife out, assaulted Brown, and he was charged with mayhem.

Cassius Clay hired his cousin Henry Clay to defend him in court, and he was acquitted. His cousin Henry had a son that owned a slave named John. John went on to have a son that he named Herman. Herman went on to have a son that he named Cassius Clay after the abolitionists. That Cassius Clay went on to name his son Cassius Clay, and that man would later change his name to Muhammad Ali. And this is a dope story to me.

Is that not crazy? Is that not crazy? Yeah, I mean as soon as you hear it you like I know where this is getting ready to go, but The fact that you know and Keisha's listen she was like yep Cassius clay

Who was Muhammad Lee was originally named for this guy and both of them are from Kentucky like When I tell you that piece though about how many of us walk around with these last names And these names are the names of the people that formerly enslaved our families and to see you know that deliberate breaking of you know Cassius Clay because of religious purposes, but he changes his name But that whole story itself because the name Cassius Clay is unique in and of itself, right?

But you don't go back to 1840 something 1830 something with this name. You're not even thinking about that. And so just how it's all intertwined, you know, it just got the best of me and that he was named for somebody who was an abolitionist who fought against enslavement. And then you think about the way Muhammad Ali lived his life, you know, fighting it, you know, taking a stance against the war, speaking out against, you know, racism.

segregation, unjust practices. So, even though I know, you know, he shared that name, it's kind of crazy to understand the type of dude he was and the guy he was named after, what those things look like. So, it just was a cool, interesting thing. I thought about all of that when I was rehashing this whole thing with

and just real quick, Clark told me this morning, he said, hey, I had a chance to check out a different world. So just real quickly, Clark, any comments? What did you think? Man, I'm like you. I can't wait till next season. It's good. I mean, it is a learning experience.

a real good learning spirit. I mean, it hit everything like Michelle said, everything. Well, I definitely appreciated it. And, you know, one of the things, and I'm going back to look at it now because over at this website called The Griot, they talked about all of the different black owned brands that were featured

in a different world. Now, I saw Actively Black right away. The young brother that's a football player, he had that shirt on, I think had on the Actively Black hoodie yesterday. But there were so many things in there that I did not miss so tell far, which is a brand...

and it is a bag, a backpack, and it's made by Black folks. They make earrings, necklaces, jewelry, and so that brand was featured in the movie. There was Capital City Mambo Sauce, which was featured in the movie. There was, and I was trying to figure out what that picture was, because it had got away from me, but remember the picture?

Uh, it was from Lovin' Basketball with, uh, Senaya Layton's picture and what's his name? Um, oh, um, I can't think of his name. Um, Omar Epps, their picture was on one of the t-shirts that one of the guys had on, uh, Lovin' Basketball. There was pattern beauty hair care. There was another product in there made for locks, uh, locks, lock spray when the brother was getting his hair together. Um,

black girl vitamins was featured in the the series and what else did they have because it was sitting on the dresser I saw the black girl vitamins piece actively black as I said Koi corn go gourmet popcorn I had I didn't see this placement but it is

It's in there. So there are some of these brands I said I wanted to explore and mention to people. One called Vontail Eyewear, V-O-N-T-E-L-L-E. Oh, that was the flip shades. So remember, his daughter, yeah, when she flipped her shades, those shades were made by a company called Vontail Eyewear, a black owned company.

I like the sweat, the sweat, the shirt, the sweatshirt, you know, minding my black business. Oh, baby. That's one of my favorite things. That's one of my favorite. A product that we have actually advertised here at the station and help people become aware of true laundry detergent. It comes in that bag. We did it for one of the the business. Oh, I can't.

I don't know if it's called Minority Business Council, but we advertised and we featured their detergent. So we had done that. And then there's this one, some clothing and it had like what looked like a W or A. It kind of looked like the New York Met's logo for a minute. It's called Wisdom of Age. It was just great.

So we have got to go and look for some of these products, support these companies. But I love the ability for all of these products to be showcased. It's nothing like when you control the decisions, what you're able to do to help your community along the way. Yes, Jack. I was going to say, dude, that's so dope that you watched the series and pinpointed all of those things that you just shared.

So I didn't see all of them. I saw a lot of them, but then I saw this, the article in the Grio and the Grio went out and say, oh yeah, if you got yourself some, it's even more. But, and just think about how many times do black products get that kind of product placement? And that's what I was about to say. Like normally you wouldn't see it like that when, you know, when you have the big corporate people. It's super expensive to do it.

You know, when you see that can of Miller sitting there, people are paid for that can to be sitting on that table or, you know, they eating that Popeye's chicken or whatever. It costs crazy, crazy money. So to be able to see all of these black companies, be able to get featured, get shout outs, get product placement, kudos to the folks who put this whole thing together.

Yeah, uh, Keisha Wayne and she was like, yep, it was super cool to see that product placement was real. Oh, mambo sauce is out of DC. Okay. So I'm a little guy's like, I have to go online and see if I can find that. Um, it looked like it was some type of like hot sauce or something like that. Oh, yeah. So, um, but we will, we will look for it. Let me say good morning to everybody that is on Facebook and YouTube. Who got in first this morning?

Henry Peters. Henry Peters got in first. What's going on with Peters breaking down them dough? What's happening family? So look y'all, I need to take my first break in the morning. A ton of things to get to. Excuse me. But I am just super super amped about some of the show information this morning. I will say this though.

Somebody says, should we watch the original series if you've never seen it? Yes, you need to. So you can catch up on the history. You understand. You understand the history. And I'm going to tell you it was crazy because so we were watching the new reboot in the front family room.

Keisha's dad was watching the old different world series in the back So we laughing because I'm going back and I went back to go watch with him when Freddy discovered the underground railroad spot You know in the basement of the school

And so just to go back and look at the characters deal with now understand the stories The connections all the different people that worked on the set. It is incredible. So if you have not please Somebody said to Sheena Arnold should have won an Academy Award for her role. What was it? For her where to go? Okay, hang on. I'm coming. I Just lost the comment. Okay, I'll find it but

If you haven't seen it, support it. This is how we continue to bring Black content to major outlets. People go to work. The number of people, and I loved real quickly, one of the things that they said, the folks that put this together, they talked about all of the Black folks that got hired. So the production assistants, the costume designers, the set designers,

Everybody that could touch some paper some some money coins whatever y'all want to call it this this money was passing through black hands And it was they said it was one of the most who said that it was the blackest black black black Production that people have ever been a part of but again when you can control stuff when you can make decisions But and and I'm gonna have this conversation for just a second too because

It's so much stuff that we have created in our community whether it is stores that we have built radio stations that we have you know started newspaper outlets Companies and I think about every time I see My man whose folks was Malone wasn't Malone plumbing Yeah, I almost said his name day every time I think about you know

the stuff that is legacy in our community that we don't always appreciate. I'm watching how your park flip to become more white than almost black when you understand the history of how your park. And you kind of get sad because some of those houses didn't stay in the family. But those houses and their proximity to downtown make those houses extremely valuable.

And if you look at the suburban layout of how your park, it's a great neighborhood. We have got to do better protecting legacy projects, legacy buildings like the way Claiborne Benson fought to protect the work of this black architect here in Wisconsin. We have got to do better and we don't respect

sometimes what our people have built, what our people have created, and we turn it over to black folks who don't even mess with it, who didn't know nothing about it, who didn't even support it, and then they end up making decisions and you were never even at the table. We have got to do better in protecting, I think about what went on with BET, and you know how MTV

Came the folks who own MTV came in and they just began to gut aspects of BET and you know Bob Johnson Yep, you got your paper you went on you left, but that was something incredible that got built and we don't own it anymore We do not always that we were supposed to find people or people were supposed to step up and say let me take that over and keep that going

Because we got black people who could have afforded to do that rather than sell it to MTV. MTV got it. They don't appreciate the history. They don't appreciate what the nuance of some of those things mean. And I'm seeing it over and over and over again in our community where we have not been valuing what we've built. And we let other people get it. And while there are some well-intentioned people, it's not the same, y'all.

It's not the same. Let me go to break. I'll be right back. Good morning. Welcome back. Welcome back. Committee members to take up the use of e-bikes in East Scooters, Milwaukee County. What's going on? They're trying to ban them? Dude, be responsible. Learn how to ride a bike, man. Like, these bikes are in every major city. Why would you remove them? Like, come on, fam. Anyway.

Okay, I'll look at it. I'll look at it. All right, so I'm just going to just wrap my statement on that piece and just say, look, we need to do better succession planning. And sometimes that does not mean that the businesses are homes, whatever it is, we're trying to protect.

We want to see lasting to the future. You may need to identify somebody outside of your family who has taken an interest in your business. There are people all the time that like legitimately earnestly will love your business and love what you've created the same way you do. And so there are times when you have to like say, you know what? I looked around the landscape. Nobody in my family is willing to do this. So I know so and so been working for me for years.

They can be trained, but we have got to protect legacy projects, legacy work, legacy neighborhoods, legacy buildings. We've got to do better. Other people will value our stuff sometimes more than we value it. Or we don't show enough concern about it. That's why other people have no problem getting rid of it. We've got to fight more. Let me go to the phone line real quick. Hey, Carla, what's happening?

Yes. Good morning, Ms. Michelle Bright. What's going on, JT? How you doing this morning? I'm doing quite well. Thank you and yourself. I'm good. I'm good. And good morning to my black brothers in the studio. Mr. Jermaine, right out. Jane Tizzo. Mr. Clark Kent. Who you with? You. You, too. Hey, Clark. I heard you when you explained, gave the depth of mission, right? I think it was, uh, keep parents that ask you what it had meant when you spent

Uh, who you with? Yeah. Yeah. And you know, you know, you've mentioned one of the, uh, hostels you built a 50. Yeah. Right. Rain CK. Yeah. Yeah. I forgot about that till you mentioned it yesterday. Thank you for bringing back memories, my brother. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And Michelle, uh, just want to say I tried to get in yesterday when, uh, Jermaine was talking about Jasmine Guy. Uh huh.

Because I want to add to that. Jermaine, we just talked about Jasmine Guy yesterday. I was going to say that before she became an actress, she was a dancer on Soul Train. Yeah, she was one of the Soul Train dancers. And you remember when the original Dippin' World came on, they had like shadowed dancers. That was the Soul Train dancers also along with Jasmine Guy.

doing those shadow dancing when the show first came on. And I found that out when I interviewed Don Conegna some years back. He had mentioned that about that, the different world and the dancers that was on there, that Jasmine Guy danced with this show before she became the actress. Shall I just start with that little bit here, Michelle? No, that's perfect, JT. Thanks for dropping that history.

And one more thing, what you were saying yesterday, everything you had said yesterday about what's going on, about these regular, massive Republicans trying to take away everything about black people plus, well, that's just the definition of ethnic cleansing. That's exactly what they're engaged in, ethnic cleansing.

So I just want to just repeat that again. But thank you, Michelle, for taking my call again. You have a wonderful day, everybody. All right. Thank you, JT. I appreciate you. All right, y'all. So I'm going to try to run through a couple of brief little stories or brief little things. So one, remember the other day I talked about the fact that in Detroit, I don't know why I started laughing because it's not funny. In Detroit, the family went to go to their mother's funeral, their loved one's funeral.

And when they looked in the casket, the woman that was in the casket was wearing the clothes that the family had brought. But when they looked at the woman, it was not their mother. It was not their loved one. So they talked to the funeral home like, what's going on? Who is this? Why are they in the clothes we brought for our mother or our loved one?

funeral home says, oh, it must have been a mistake. Your mama's body is upstairs. Some crazy. And then ultimately, they have to end up admitting that in all likelihood, they have cremated this woman by mistake. So the vice president of operations of this funeral home is called Hutchison Funeral Home in Detroit has been found dead.

Now, you know, that's the same one after this happened. He did the interview with the news. So he was on the news during the interview. Yeah. Talking about how, you know, they was going to get down to the bottom of this and all this other stuff. Yeah. Well, the one thing though, that they are saying, because as soon as people heard the vice president of the funeral hall was found dead, there was like, oh, they're going to kill this man. What they're saying is, is that it looks like it may have been suicide. Yeah.

a person who was checking, doing a wellness check, checking form. He was found dead 8 p.m. at the apartments. Sources indicate evidence at the scene was consistent with self-harm. The Detroit police stated that foul play was not suspected and the official cause of death has not been released yet from the Wayne County medical examiners. So, you know, I'm sure that had to be immense pressure.

Uh, and the lawsuits, jail time, you know, not to mention depending on whose family it was, because everybody not going to let this ride with a lawsuit. So I just wanted to put that out there that what they're saying is that most likely the family or people that cared about this woman did not harm or harm, did not kill this man that in all likelihood, he most likely killed himself.

All right, let me bring it, let me bring it local for just a second. Got tagged in a post last night. I wanted to make sure I mentioned it this morning. A lot of people may be familiar with McCann and Brown homeless sanctuary. The work that is done over there is phenomenal in terms of being able to... Dang, did I lose it just that quick? Where did the mask go? Seriously, let me pull it back up. But the work that's done

is phenomenal and you know there are many times when I see people that are homeless and it's cold or like I saw a man down on East Capitol a couple of days ago I went to get some gas and he was standing at the gas pump and this man had um like garbage bags wrapped around his feet with towels and I didn't know what was going on I'm like

Like are these like make sure The new hafties Are these make sure shoes are your feet in trouble, you know, like what is happening, bro? And I mean

But he had him fully, you know, taped up, duct tape around his feet. And you can tell he had like a bunch of padding. I didn't know what was going on. I was like, you know, and then being out in these conditions, your feet easily can get messed up. God knows. And so I was like trying to like, but he seemed like he was also mentally ill. Cause I was like, bro, do you need some shoes? Because I will go get you some shoes right now.

Like I'm literally down the street from Walmart. I will go get you a pair of shoes something to put on your feet right now So you see people and you wonder how folks are making it. It's a guy that I've been paying attention to I see him sleeping on the side of This building off a 90 first in capital all the time I Had an extra blanket in the backseat of my car

Uh, no, maybe about a week ago and I got out and I said, Hey, fam, can you use this? You know, and he was appreciative because he was just in his jacket. But I noticed he's been sleeping on the side of that building at night because it's on my way home when I'm coming from different places. So in any case, I wanted to highlight and now I was sent. I don't see the post. Okay, I'm coming. Um, but.

Pastor Walter Lanier had posted that McCann and Brown Sanctuary, who does a lot to assist the homeless, put out a plea to say that they are seeing record usage of their facility. Oh, here we go. Thank you, God. I was looking for it. OK, go back. All right. I don't know why it's so hard trying to bring this post up. This is so crazy.

What'd you say to devil? Trying to get these people out. Okay. Here it is. I'm sorry y'all, but I want to make sure I say this. Okay, so One more time This crazy Okay, so McCann and Brown homeless sanctuary they say quote our supplies have never been so low

Please collect items and drop off for the weekly distribution of food and essentials at the sanctuary based on recent closings of Walgreens at 27th and North closings of the family dollar stores. There is a minimal retail presence for residents where we serve to purchase essentials. The majority do not have cars for disabled and elderly persons handling several bags on buses is challenging.

who are the 100 plus persons who come to our weekly Tuesday doorway ministry. So they're saying they see 100 plus people every week that they're Tuesday doorway ministry. They include children, disabled and elderly persons, persons representing households of six or more, persons in all kinds of living situations, some live in abandoned buildings, some live in cars, some are living under roofs. Our team,

You know, has been trying to serve these people. Everything we give out is free. Among the items we are in urgent need of are blankets, sleeping bags, mercy mats. Now I don't even know what a mercy mat is. I gotta look that up. Our supply of hygiene and grooming products is unusually low. We are in urgent need of deodorant, large shampoo, lotion,

toothpaste, Vaseline, lip balm, nail clippers, body wash, African American hair products, razors, feminine products, diapers. We have an ongoing need for toilet tissue, bleach, spray cleaner, disinfectant wipes, paper towels, dish soap, laundry detergent for our guests.

When it were to drop off donated items, an ideal drop off time is Tuesdays between 1030 and 1pm on Tuesdays or on Saturdays at the front door of the sanctuary. That address is over off of 24th and center, 2461 West Center Street. They say please approach going eastbound on Center Street. You'll see signage. Friendly security volunteers will assist you or you can call them at 414.

for zero four zero six hundred with questions to make other arrangements if neither of those times work for you. If you prefer to order supplies online and you can have them shipped to McCann and Brown Homeless Sanctuary in care of Stacia Hickey and that address 7510 North Santa Monica Boulevard in Fox Point. But y'all this this facility.

is primarily helping our folks. And when people have nowhere else to go, you know, I tell people all the time, folks like, they asked for some change to get something to eat. And I told them I bought some food and they didn't want it. So, you know, that just show you it's a scam. And I have to tell people all the time, sometimes it's easier to ask for some money for some food than it is to say, can I buy, get some money to get a roll of toilet paper?

Because I'm out here on these streets and a lot of these bathrooms are locked It's less embarrassing to say because I need to be able to buy toothpaste Or I need to be able to buy deodorant or I need to be able to buy sanitary napkins I Don't know what all the needs are but if you or somebody and you got an extra $5 and you can go buy a couple of sticks of deodorant or you got you know some extra dish soap

And you want to and it don't have to be no big thing, you know like oh, you know Michelle It don't have to be a big thing. I got five extra bucks and I Want to you know, just take it instead of buying a Starbucks latte today or you know, whatever I'm doing I'm gonna go buy Roll a four pack of toilet paper If you don't have time to drop it off drop it off here. I'll make sure that it gets down to the sanctuary

but I just appreciate anybody and it's a ton of people doing this work. I know there are, but I know the number of people I come across that have had to go to McCann and Brown. I have seen them. I have talked to them when I've been out doing other work. So, you know. So, let me call over there and I'll find out if they take clothes.

You got like clothes and I mean, but we need to make sure that we give in clothes that makes, you know, since two. Some of us say Mount Mariah gives to them on a regular basis. They have cones set up for the drop off and unloading your items. We push for the toiletries. Thank you. So my sorrow sent this to me. They push for the toiletries. Yep. So again, and look, and if it's not McCann and Brown,

If you've already got someplace you support and continue to support them, if you have no place that you are supporting and you can, don't hurt yourself, don't put your own family in situation, but if you can do something, y'all, this is, we in a situation right now where people need help and it's not coming from the federal government.

it is not coming from the federal government. In fact, speaking of the federal government, or not the federal government, but speaking of needing help, somebody had called in, so I'll go ahead and mention it, that Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Oh, someone said they do take clothes. Oh.

This is Rhonda, key swipe. She said they do take clothes. I donate there. Thank you so much, Rhonda, for that information. So, yep, Jay, you got your answer. Yep. And like I said, if y'all can't get it there, bring it up to the radio station. I'll get it there. I do it by the radio station. She's like, thank you.

Because when we did the the van for the hurricane people, oh my god We had the whole back room just the hallways everything was full But everybody the station just smiled and walked by and me and Keira was laughing like they gonna throw us out this building So yep, so do you know, let's let's see if we can do anything to help Thank You Pastor Lanier for tagging me in that post and for putting that out there

Um, okay. Oh, somebody said mercy mat. Oh, mercy mats are used to sleep on. Okay, so is it like some of you sleep on the outside or something? Hang on, y'all, because I have never heard of this. I want to look it up real quick. What's called mercy mat? Mercy mats. Um, hang on. I've never heard of it. You neither.

Mercy mats are durable waterproof and pet resistant sleeping mats, pest resistant sleeping mats, hand crocheted from recycled plastic grocery bags to support individuals experiencing homelessness. Oh my God. Each are three foot by six foot mat that requires 500 to 700 recycled plastic grocery bags.

Volunteers flatten and fold the bags, cut them into strips, and loop them together to create plastic yarn called plarn. Crafters use a large crochet hook to turn the plarn into a sturdy sleeping mat that keeps individuals dry off the ground and deters bugs. Every finished mat takes roughly 100 hours of volunteer work and multiple weeks to complete.

Local groups, active volunteer groups, such as Mercy Mats, West Alice, gather community members to sort bags, make plarn, and crochet. Completed mats are donated to local organizations and shelters in the area, including Repairs of the Breach, Street Angels Milwaukee Outreach, and the McCannon Brown Homeless Sanctuary. Oh my God.

So I will look at that plastic bag because we keep plastic bags at you know Our house for other stuff that we have to do but you know even think look at thinking that This is gonna be used for somebody to make a mat so that people don't have to sleep on the beer neck and ground That's crazy

No, everything is free. So you got people donate the bags, I'm assuming. Or, you know, they may be buying the bags, but they make the bags and then you got volunteers cutting them, sorting them, tying them together to make the long yarn kind of like situation and then volunteers that's crocheting them. Everything is volunteer.

They said a hundred hours that sound like a lot of work, but it's well worth and you know just You know to be able to help somebody else have something It's well worth, you know, but just the fact that somebody thought to do that But there and there's actually you can go on Facebook. There's actually a whole little video of it, but mercy mats And it's actually pretty it's not it's not hideous looking

It is actually nice looking. Um, if you go lower, they got tables and tables and women sitting there crocheting. Jesus Christ. So they got like pick and save bags. Yup. Bags from everywhere. Walmart just bags for any plastic bags it looks like. And, um, they just posted this 11 hours ago. And it's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 15, 15. At least 15 women sitting here sorting, cutting.

and making these bags. Thank you to the women over in West Alice who have. Oh, so this is happening locally? Yeah. Really? Yeah. I just see they gave them the bags to prepare for the breach. Yeah, but no, they're being made locally. Wow. And then somebody just said Pastor Lanier is the new president of MICA. Congratulations, Pastor Lanier. I need to talk to y'all because.

I need a pastor's meeting about these referendums. So, okay, let me take a quick break. I'll be right back. All right, family, welcome back to the show. Let's go to the phone line. Hey, Collin, what's happening? Hello. Hello. Good. How are you doing this morning? Well, let me, let me not supply cake because I feel missing yesterday. Okay, all right.

He heard. Okay. Mr. Rideout, you, Michelle, right? Listen, Michelle. Yes. Got a correction. Okay. I called in yesterday. Uh-huh. Talking about the ad that's running on... Oh, down in Tennessee? Yeah. Yes. Yeah, future governor. My man.

When it's just when when the person text you or whatever that said something about algorithm I Want to think it I Speed those commercials ran for my YouTube channel. Gotcha. That makes sense And my my YouTube channel was created in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There you go. That makes sense so

So to the person that said that, hands up to you for being on top of that, it made me dig a little deeper. And that's where it comes from. All right, there you go. And I appreciate y'all so much, Michelle, to your whole team, to the WNOV team. And I just want to briefly talk about, real quick, when you was mentioning about carrying on, we're selling out

When I moved, we moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1968. And there were black, old stores. Yes, it was. Mr. Bellamy, Mr. Roth, and there's a couple other stores that was black-owned. We're not even talking about the service stations, which is what they call them at the time. And they're all gone now. And we don't have these black business to carry on. And now,

All the stores that I was familiar with when I come to the walkie, the Walgreens and the leaners and those kind of things, they're going as well. And if we don't care at all, then we have a desert in our community. And then we're forced to go and spend money. So that was a good thing that you mentioned. And I appreciate hearing about it. And I think we should be doing better. And it would be a great thing if we did.

find some people that would invest in our communities and then build it up and then for generations and generations we can pass on our business to our children. Absolutely.

I love y'all very much. Thank you, bro. I appreciate it. You know, he made me think about it because when the gas station on, um, Ackerson changed hands again and that was considered a black and brown owned gas station. Uh, you know, it made news because it's the last one in this whole state of Wisconsin. It's the last one. It's the last one. You made me think about that when you said that, that literally our lack of businesses made the news.

Right. Made the news. So, Michelle, is it an often wondered incident if one of our awesome listeners can help me with this? Is it the money that they often do when they come in here? I'm sure. And in some cases, you know, folks tired, they kids not.

you know, helping with the business or the kids doing something different and, you know, people ready to go. And then, you know, God for Benefits in an area where it may be some crime or something going on and people like, I've done this for 40 years. I'm ready to, you know, I'm ready to go sit down. So it's a whole bunch of reasons that play into it. But like you said, though, these were important institutions in our community.

And these services are still being offered. We're still paying for them. We're just not paying for them with us. So we got to do better. So thank you, Brad. I appreciate the call. Can I get one more? Oh, yes, of course. Go ahead. You had a genuinely call last week. Very important to me. I think I've heard it before, and he was given a rundown of the balances of things that, like he mentioned, he mentioned the graffiti that's being painted.

in the tree line and in a certain neighborhood. And I remember, Michele, when we moved on 26th in Melbourne, between Melbourne and Vienna, 5306 baby, there were trees. It was just gorgeous. You get out there in the summertime and you got your thing and then you go in certain areas and you get your front chart. And then it came to our neighborhood, Michele, and put these...

stickers or tags on our trees. Right. And that's me, you know, they come all down, Michelle. Right. Nope. You absolutely right, bro. So all our trees down. Now we got these areas, you know, and it's just hot, you know, and, you know, we ain't got no tree. And it was growing outside just like here in Tennessee. These areas that I've been growing in Tennessee by Michelle, and I'm just amazed of the things that they have for the community.

And then in certain areas that I go to in Tennessee, and it's just, it's like night and day, you know, and we need to be more supportive. And it's amazing. Taking up enough of your time. Love you guys. Thank you. Appreciate you. And there are a lot of people that were listening to this brother.

So one person said Russell's on first and Burla was a full service with the full meat section. Hold on, wait a minute now. Russell's on first and Burla was a full service with a full meat section, black on grocery store. And then somebody else tapped in and they said the trees had Dutch Elm disease in some cases. I know one thing though, this was going on when then.

Senator Taylor was in office. These companies were coming in and they were, I don't know if they were running some type of lines, but they were cutting the trees in a V shape. Remember that? And so we could see trees with the whole middle cut out. And they were like, why would you do these trees like this? Either lower the height of the trees, but you just got.

trees with the whole center cut out for these power line whatever it was it was and people raised a whole bunch of hell about the way it looked in our communities but you know we know that agriculture and caring about kind of like the the aesthetics of a community can frequently fall by the wayside but again we can do more to you know that's why I say like

They should never let me get on the comic council because the first thing I'm doing is imposing rules about what these stores can look like. I can't stand all them party lights in your store and all that signage and you know, I don't need pictures of furniture to know you sell furniture. I thought all of that drives me crazy. Okay, let me stop because I'm gonna go down a rabbit hole. All right, I want to mention this real quick before I get into some of this, this politics stuff. The story that is everywhere.

Relating to Milwaukee, it's in the New York Times. It's in the HuffPose. I've seen this everywhere this morning about the artist David Drake, the artist David Drake. So the Milwaukee Art Museum is expected to announce and they have, they announced today because it was supposed to come out on Monday.

that it was returning to historic jars in its collection by an enslaved artist whose name is David Drake back to his descendants. In doing so, it joins a growing list of museum and private collections turning over Drake's work to family members who have been on a quest to reconnect with their heritage.

Drake made and inscribed ambitious stoneware jars while enslaved in South Carolina in the 1800s, despite punishing conditions, anti-literacy laws that prevented teaching enslaved persons to read. The Milwaukee Art Museum subsequently bought back one of the restituted jars signed day. Now think about this. You weren't supposed to be able to read right when you were enslaved.

1855 he is inscribing his work, Dave, which was dated 1855 for an undisclosed price. The arrangement was inspired by a similar restitution agreement in 2025, reached between the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the descendants of Drake. The second return vessel, larger but unsigned, will remain at the museum on loan from the family.

And so the family has said that the museum, and this is the great, great, great grandson of Mr. Drake. His name is Jabba Baker. He said the museum was a great partner to work with. We're excited about the fact that they're not just acquiring a pot, but developing school programs to extend the Dave's story. The Milwaukee Museum was one of the first in the country.

to bring Drake's work to national attention, starting with a 2010 home, I'm sorry, a 2010 homage to Drake by the Chicago artist, De'Ester Gates. So I just need to just take a moment and acknowledge the folks at the Milwaukee Art Museum, A, for doing the right thing, B, for purchasing this piece, one of those pieces from the family.

you know, to show that it was valued this work, not just because I can get something for free and display it, but I'm willing to pay for that. The institution, the Art Museum created an ongoing display called the DAVE Project showcasing these works of art. And it was in the American Art Wing. And then the vessels were on loan from the Chipstone Foundation, a Milwaukee based nonprofit that studies and promotes decorative arts.

So the family actually reached out to the Art Museum last year and to Chip Stahl saying, look, we need restitution for these artworks, man, or we need his work back. The foundation turned to the Museum for Input and the new director of the Milwaukee Art Museum, Kim Sajet, helped broker the deal, securing the donation of the jars from Chip Stahl to the museum this month, which made the restitution possible.

Again, just extremely, extremely proud of our folks at the Milwaukee Art Museum. We need to go down and support the museum. If we haven't seen these works, we need to make a trip. There are free days for the museum when you can go as Milwaukee County residents to either Milwaukee City or Milwaukee County, one of our residents to be able to see some of this work, hopefully.

And this woman who brokered this deal, she used to be the director of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. And her resignation there followed a tweet by President Trump, where he said he was terminating the employment of Kim Sajed, in which he described her as a strong supporter of DEI. So think about that. We have someone at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

who was working for the Smithsonian. And Donald Trump went to social media to proudly proclaim he had fired her because of the work that was being done in what he said, she was a strong support of diversity, equity, and inclusion. And here we get what

It means to have her now at the Milwaukee Art Museum and that she has helped this black family, descendants of an enslaved individual, to have reparations, if you will, regarding his work, paying for his work, valuing and respecting his contribution. So while I'm sad that the Smithsonian Law State Champion, I am extremely happy and proud that we have her here in Milwaukee.

and that this is something that she has been a part of. And again, we got to appreciate the significance of artwork from 1855 signed when anti-literacy laws meant that it was illegal for this man to even know how to write his name. And he etched other things.

into his pieces. He put poems in there. He put biblical sayings on some of the vessels. And they were actually practical. They were actually used to store food. So one of the last surviving jars called poem jars. They set a record for American pottery when it sold at auction. Now this is think, listen to what I'm going to say. For $1.56 million.

to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Do you hear what I just said? Do you hear what I just said? And when that was sold, it wasn't owned by the family. That's one of the things that galvanized his family's decision to get out here and fight for their family members' work.

and to get reconnected and to understand. So they later established the Dave the Potter Legacy Trust and ever since then they have been actively working and going around the country and in some cases the world to be able to get museums to do right by this this artist's work. So again we have a direct connection to Donald Trump's attack on diversity equity and inclusion.

right here in Milwaukee, formerly of the Smithsonian, running our art museum who brokers this deal. Go ahead on, Cam. We will be sending a letter to thank her for helping this family to protect their legacy. We'll be sending a letter. Let me take a quick break. I'll be right back, y'all. All right, family, welcome back to the show. Somebody said,

Audie Dotson owned a wig store shoe store and a record store on the same block just west of the old Sears building on North Avenue. Audie Dotson had it going on. I need I need to see what that money was looking like. Uh you said yep. Clark, you remember it? Yep. All right. Let me catch these callers and try working in some politics today. Hey, call it. What's happening? How you doing today, John? Real good.

Hey, do you know this on AI? If you ask a certain question, it'll actually answer no if you say something that it's not correct. Have you found that yet? AI will do what when you ask a certain question? If I ask a question and it's adamantly no, if I think something's.

something security says, no, it's still people like that. It'll say no, if it's a wrong answer. Have you had that experience yet? Nope, haven't had it yet. I know, you know, gotta be careful with the AI stuff, because obviously it's only as good as the information that's poured into it. And I know that I've seen situations where AI has been wrong about information that is given. I know in the early stages, if you said something critical of Donald Trump, it would not let you say certain things.

Um, it would encourage you to say it differently. It was crazy to me. I said, yeah, you can see some of the human influence on AI because you have literally, uh, you couldn't say something negative about Trump, but go ahead. Yeah, I think it's, it's, it's trying to be like super political correct on both sides because I've tried it the other way too. I can see what you're saying. Well, I've been doing some deep diving into it and, uh, I wanted to know.

Is there other money going with the old Black Wall Street? Where was the money coming from? So then I said, it can't just be going around in circles. There must be some fresh money. And they said it came from oil industry right next door in the Oklahoma field. There was a lady, a Black lady that got really wealthy and she became superstar. I can't remember her name right now.

And so a lot of the guys would go back into town and they'd reinvest in the town and then they'd go back out and work in the oil fields. I was kind of surprised. There was a nice story. But that also over the last couple of days, I was thinking, especially after Keith said something about the after the Clinton era, we had enough money to cover our deficits and all that stuff. So then they lost it. So I started looking at it. I wanted to call up and ask.

bought it but anyway so so I started looking deep into it I wanted to know all these cultures say you have tithing you know it's like supposed to be something like 10% so I said is this the actual what it means and how much does each culture take out like in the Bible or the Quran or stuff like that so it's like 10 or 20% maybe 30% for government and welfare both you know like for social services and government.

So then I said, well, does it come out at the beginning, at the end, or all through, is it like a VAT tax? Nobody has a VAT tax. You don't value added tax. So Europeans officially have one, but it's very controlled. We have all kinds of little multiple taxes that we don't officially know about, because it's so conglomerated. So one day I was asked, well, how much time do we spend on our taxes in terms of dollars? I've heard it's $200, and it is. It's really huge. So what I was thinking,

If we do it like simple, one tax, they have to Chicago Merchant Exchange because everything has to go through the Merck because it's the raw materials. If you get it there or at the consumer, there's better at the Merck because the cops can go over and look at its gigantic growth. There's no privacy intrusion. Then you just pay for it. Then everything filters through the system. You save tons and tons and tons of money that could go into whatever

We're debating schools, health care, and so forth. We're just evaporating it to accountants pockets that we're trying to make accountants rich. That's fine. You follow me? I could see some of what you're saying. I think that, you know, for me, it's a little bit more nuanced and complex than that. But that's certainly, you know, one way to help go at the issue. But yeah, I could see some of what you're saying. Good. And then I was doing some other research. So Tim, it's both the Koreans. It's Judaism.

They old oriental like the aromatic cocktail churches the Buddhist do it So they only tax it once they have any of these little intermediary taxes. It's almost illegal in the crime. He said no Intermediary taxes just do it the front or at the end Buddhist do it the Taoists are really they're really libertarian, but So just wanted to mention that and I thought it was really cool cool about the black wall street that they got the money So much of it was from these young guys that make huge Google bucks over in the

oil fills. That's a kick out of that. No, thank you, John. I appreciate that. And I will just simply say this. So remember, the oil comes a little bit later, though, because a lot of it originally started with land ownership and land, you know, because that that land was king. That was, you know, yes.

One of the precipice for even being able to vote in this country was that you were a landowner. So many of the foundational wealth aspects of black folks came from actually that they had been given land allotments through the Dawes Commission, which was, you know, some people didn't get it, but enough did that they were able to do that. And then we get into.

that 40 acres of land that's purchased by O.W. Gurley back in 1906. But you have made no mistake that land did play the initial early foundation for the founding of Black Wall Street. And then the oil comes in, the Tulsa oil boom happens, and then we're able to see more dollars. But even before... Did the woman ring the bell? Say what? Go ahead.

Did that woman roll a bell with you because I couldn't remember her name. She became real big superstar. And yeah, I do know and I'll have to go back and pull her name, but I know exactly who you're referring to because she was out in the Greenwood district for sure. Yeah, real big, real big star. I can't remember everything she did because I've only read it several times. I'm bad with memories. Me too. We in the same boat. Thanks, John. I appreciate the call this morning. You too have fun. All right. Any other college we get?

One more call. Let me go to the phone line. Hey caller. What's happening? Hey, how you doing this morning? Okay

But that's one of my other landmines. We're going to start with the barbecue place over there on Walnut. Come on, have you out with us. Speak, Queen. Speak, Queen, barbecue. The bone alone. Yeah, there's another one. And then we're going to start with the place that I work there. And that was here Christmas and home.

Now they're no longer there, but that was one of them that stayed around a long time. And, you know, these are places that were black-owned, black-operated. And of course, I know that they had their problems with Evergreen Cemetery. They were black-owned and black-operated. So, you know, when we talk about some of our legacies, they were passed down.

And of course, Mr. Malone, he was still my friend since then. He was such a beautiful person. He came over here and did a professional job. So I just want to give him my flowers because they were out there. I went in and I used them as their services. And when I had my wedding,

I use every single black business I could, from the Clinton Rose Center, the blues, by Tasha, I had a black man to give my husband tuxedos. Everybody is black. There you go. There you go.

All right. And I love you for, thank you for taking the time to do those institutions. And I love you for you all. Have a blessed day. All right. Thank you. I appreciate the call. Bye-bye. All right, y'all. So let me try and work in a couple of these stories. I said we had somebody call that said, you know, did Michelle see the whole thing on Sarah Huckabee? I did. I did. So for folks that are paying attention, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

And it's even funny just saying Huckabee because I still get irritated because when Sarah Sanders Huckabee Sanders was the press secretary for the Trump administration Donald Trump was beefing with her family member Mike Huckabee and so Sarah Huckabee actually stopped using the Huckabee name

Which literally was the one thing that was opening doors for her because she was a huckabee But you so busy running up in behind Trump's tail that you stop using your family name to curry favor So anyway, I don't know what the heck goes on how these people elect this crazy chick to be a governor But she becomes a governor and so she's running for reelection down in Arkansas so Sarah runs a ad which um

is doing the usual Republican attack people on welfare, attack people who receive safety net services. So in this ad, which is about the state's new Medicaid welfare to work requirement, okay? So in the ad, there's a younger white man whose name is Brad, and he's kicked back on a beanbag with snacks and video games while Sanders is narrating. She says, quote, Brad has turned relaxing into a full-time profession, but you

You actually work hard. You pay taxes to cover welfare for guys like Brad who choose not to work. That's why I launched the welfare to work requirement. And then she goes into this whole thing about welfare to work requirements. You know, because that's that's where it meets for for, you know, Republican base, because they swear to God, they the only damn people on America soil that go to work every day for real. When we know this country was built off free labor.

in great part by black folks. But anyway, I want to go down that road because it just frustrates me to know in that they can brand everybody else lazy, but you actually have somebody else breastfeeding your damn children, your nasty, stank people. But anyway, I won't, I won't, I won't because it's so irritating to hear everybody be characterized as lazy. Evidently, a lot of white men in the Republican base could not take it that they were being called lazy in these ads.

They couldn't take it that somebody would imply that they receive welfare. And so there's been all this backlash against Sarah Huckabee Sanders because how dare you imply, how dare you say, how dare you want to add that shows white men getting welfare. Let me break it to white people.

Let me break it down to white men. You all receive 35% to 45% of all welfare benefits in this country. Go to white people. Everybody else get the rest. So, 55% of welfare benefits, snap food benefits in particular, go to every other racial and ethnic group. Mexicans,

you know, Hispanics who identify as non-white, indigenous, Asian, Hmong, Pacific Islander, whatever, black, we make a 55%. But the group that has the largest percentage of SNAP benefits and welfare and make no mistake, welfare was actually created for white women. It wasn't created for everybody else. It was created for white women. So you got white men who want to get hot under the collar, like how dare you portray us

is not working in lazy. Hey bro, the statistics say, but this is the sad part. You don't appreciate that there are people who go to work every day and still qualify for food share because we got a minimum wage in this country of $725 an hour. There are people that go to work and bust they butt every day, every day, but they still qualify. So,

It's OK when you imply that black folks lazy and Mexicans is lazy and these folks is lazy. But how dare you imply that a white man could be lazy? How dare you? So now her own base is eating her up. I got to take a break. I'll be right back. All right, family, welcome back to the show. So before I get off to Sarah, her could be thing down in Arkansas. Let me just say this as well.

The population of Arkansas is 75% white. It's 15% black, 10% Hispanic, and 5% two or more races. So who the hell you think getting the majority of welfare in Arkansas? So how was folks upset because you portray somebody getting met, you know, some some food share benefits in Arkansas, not to mention the poverty rate.

in in the great state of Arkansas. Let me see if I can get that pull that real quick. They have a 15% poverty rate in the state of Arkansas and who has the most poverty is black folks. 28% Hispanic, white, teen or 19% indigenous folks, 16% Asians, 10% whites, 13%. But I'm just saying. Stop playing with people.

All right, we got some callers. This is my early day. So I don't have a lot of time. So I'm telling you, all right, right now, if you can hear me before I pick up the phone. Somebody said, Powell's gift shop. Lord have mercy. I remember Powell's gift shop. And he's in Taylor's gospel shop. Beautiful. Yep. But I had been meaning to mention real quick this t-shirt that I saw when I was at Greater New Birth Church on Sunday. And I made the lady style so I could take a picture of it. Her t-shirt said,

You can't shack up with the devil and expect God to pay the rent. I just want to say that one more time. You can't shack up with the devil.

and expect God to pay the rent. When I tell you that mess had me cracking up at church, I said she walked to church Jesus. Jesus was like, I don't know what's wrong with that. Every day, there's some folks in the church needed to mess it. Oh, let me go to the phone line. Hey, Colin, what's happening? Hello? Yes, hello. Good morning. Good morning.

Yeah, I was listening to you. First of all, you're talking about some of the magazines that we've had in our city. And I've been playing with you. You got it so speaker, it's our Muffle Man. Come on, man. Do you do this every, come on. On a late, on a late, on a late, on a late, on my early days. Listen to this here. Anyway, I want to ask you a question, too.

When you talked about you talked about Huckabee down in Arkansas, which you know, a daddy was the governor down there as well. And Bill Clinton was the governor down there, right? Right. But you know, this welfare reform deal, you got to remember some Tommy Thompson set that in plate right here in Wisconsin. Wisconsin was the template for that. Then Bill Clinton came in and made it nationally here in our country. He made it a national welfare reform by using Tommy Thompson's template.

It's work for right, it's work for wealth that thing. So it's not like it's a new thing. I think it was called, what was it called? The personal responsibility work, something like that, the RPW. But then nobody's arguing whether it's new or not. What we're laughing at is that white men have the nerve to be offended because somebody portrayed them as somebody receiving welfare. That's what the whole gist of it is. Nobody's arguing the merits of what's going on.

She's telling the truth. She's really cosplaying. She's really cosplaying. She's saying that to the people that ain't going to see that ad and look at black folk like that. Anyway, I want to ask a question. I bring facts to the platform sometimes. Really, you don't. Okay, see, that's what I want to say.

What do you have against me personally? Is it because of me? Great! You know what? Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't play. Don't call here playing. Because I don't, I don't, you know Dan Willow had an ambition first. Outside of politics, outside of politics.

I saw you irritate my soul right down to my toenails. I don't have no problem with you personally. You see me out in public. We chop it up. We dap. We say, hey, we have, you know, done some stuff for some other things. So don't go ahead crying. Outside of my political, I just want to ask you a question, babe. Outside of my political. Because you're asking a BS question. I'm partisan. Bye, Mitch.

Bye. You know what? You ask me to be his question and you know what he is. You just want some... You just let the tension make... One more time before I get out of here.

You talk, you talk about giving away our legacies that NOV don't gave away our legacies. You better be careful for most of our, you know, jobs in the land. Let me be clear, player. I don't want nowhere where I can't say what I want to say. And that's when the black man owned it. So let me just be clear. You heard what I said. I don't want nowhere where I can't say what I want to say. The minute I came, it's time for me to go through something else. Me and Gerald Jones had the same conversation. Thank you, Meach. Don't play with me as you tap dance with them damn Republicans on a daily basis.

boy, hang up on that boy. You know, it's just so funny and hilarious. You just are an attention seeker because Mitch knows when he seen me out in public, it ain't no drama. It ain't no beef. When we was up in that baby, Mitch gonna bring money through like everybody else gonna come through. All this is attention seeking.

All of it is attention-sinking, you know, but it will say nothing else today. Everybody that know me must be real, real clear. Don't nobody own Michelle Bryan voice, but Michelle Bryan. And the minute I don't own it, I'm gonna move around. Because number one, I'm responsible with my voice. Shut up, Keith Parris, company man. Damn you.

You want to talk crap out in the hallway? Let me just go here. Who prides himself for being a company man? I'm a Michelle Bryant man. That's who I am.

Mr. Jones told me to

a neutral voice. I'm the company guy.

See, I wouldn't even say it then, but he wanted to start. He wanted to start irritating me. He's so irritating me. Oh my God. I like to see Bobby at his legs cross while he was sitting out there. Here we go. Here we go. I'm wearing the bra today. I am the bra.

I'm like, oh, he might be so sick. Here she go again. This independent is so dislavering.

I'm happy being in the house with the other house Negroes. I'm a happy house Negro. These black field slaves always want to keep up.

Say something real.