The Power of Voting and Community: A Deep Dive with Michelle Bryant

It's not a registered voter. Okay. Why not black man? You got the legal ability to? Yeah. Okay. They take your money every time you go to the store, don't they? Then why would you let somebody take your money every day and not decide how you spend? Well, they do it every time.

I think they do that because we're gonna participate in the numbers that we got. You know, you got 70,000 black, 65,000 registered black voters in Shreveport. In the last Mayors' race, y'all had 24,000 black people go vote. You can't win like that, right? If you got the man, the key part to that is, it's only 50,000 registered white voters. 65,000 registered black, 50,000 registered white, but the whites had 26,000 to vote.

We had 24,000 a vote. So who gonna get the resources? The people with the most numbers that show up, you know what I'm saying? I came all the way from Baton Rouge to come knock doors and try and get this black woman elected because I think the majority of black cities should have black males. Communities like Moortown ain't never gonna get no investment from people who don't have a fundamental understanding. She just told me that her great-grandmother helped build houses in this neighborhood, right? I think that that matters.

A lot of these houses look old and run down and everything. It's time to make the communities look old. Make communities look like white communities. Indeed, indeed. But that requires investment, right? What does it say right there? Invest? Okay. You know what I'm saying? We're getting off of investment, but you know what I mean? We don't get no opportunities. So what I got to do to get you to register the ball? Well, I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it.

All right, I will send somebody to come get you to do it. All right? 3833, all right? You can do it online. It's the GoVo app. You go online, you just gotta have your driver's license, and you log on to app to register the vote. How old are you? I'm 41. I got involved in politics when I was about 30. You look me up online, my name's Gear Chambers. I ran for the U.S. Senate, lost that race.

but I stay engaged because ultimately it's too much money. The city of Baton Rouge got a $1 billion budget, right? Black people make up 56% of the city. We got 2% of city payers contracts, 2%. So what does that mean? That mean if the white dude on the company, even if he got a meth head cousin, he could give him a job. If the black man on the business, if we give him 2% of the contracts, do I have the same opportunity to give my cousin a job? No.

because I'm not getting that same opportunity that other folks are getting, but we don't get it if we're not in power. We don't have the majority on the council. Now, to benefit to y'all, y'all have the majority on the council here in Shreveport. Black people run the council. But the mayor got to be progressive in thinking in the right direction. The mayor got to be somebody that care about all the people. And the benefit, you know this from knowing any black woman, they care about everybody.

They're not going to exclude this group or that group. They're going to take care of everybody. If any little kid come in the house, it ain't got to be my kid. We're going to feed this kid and take care of this kid, right? And that's the way that, that's the way I think that we look at it when we're in leadership. We take care of the whole community versus other folks. They just going to take care of their kids, right? That's it, man. What's your name? Anthony. Good to meet you, Anthony. All right, now, Stormy, he's going to do the thing. I need somebody to register.

I need somebody to register. There you go. Good to meet you, Black man. I appreciate you, brother. I appreciate it, man. Yes, sir. I just came up here to show you before I talked to Mr. Anthony. Mr. Anthony is about to get registered to vote after that conversation. And if you heard that conversation and it resonated with you, I'm asking you what you're going to do, what you waiting for?

We can't hope change happen. We got to make change happen. And our community is never going to get the investment if we don't put people who care about us, who think like us and prioritize us in office. That's Commissioner Stormy Gage Watts for mayor. Let's go to work. All right, y'all. Good morning. Good morning. What's happening, family? Welcome to the show. This is Michelle Bryan here at WNOV, 860 AM, 106.5 FM. You are listening to Say Something Real.

The voice that I opened up the show with, that is a brother by the name of Gary Chambers who actually ran for US Senate. He is a brother that I follow on social media because I appreciate the boots on the ground work that's being done down in Louisiana trying to educate, you know, brothers and sisters about why it's so important to be engaged. I wanted to open up the show this morning with that.

because I gotta be honest, that's where I certainly am right now in relationship to the state of Wisconsin in terms of the political climate of the country overall. If we don't stop playing around, if we don't begin to understand that we are in a fight, that this is serious, and that we got people standing on the sidelines who don't understand the value

the significance or the importance of them being engaged, y'all, if we don't. Before I say good morning to the bros, I just want to mention this. I had the privilege to go over to Nova High School yesterday. And members of my sorority Delta Sigma Theta have been working with the League of Women Voters. They've been going out to various high schools, helping to make sure that young people are being registered to vote at the age of 18.

Dr. Myers invited me over to Nova High School her and I think Miss Buds is a doctor too, but I was over there and I talked to a group of 18 year olds Some of the questions that these young brother because it was more boys and girls or young men than young girls or young students but

They were asking questions and they were asking questions like isn't Wisconsin a blue state I looked at the young brother. I said explain a blue state to your colleagues and One little girl. She smashes at colleagues. I said tell them what colleagues me so He he runs it down. I explained why some purple state not a blue state other questions were being asked that were great substantive Some of these young people are paying attention

Only one child out of the group ended up having their ID and he was like my mama on it You know, I wouldn't got this I wouldn't got that and he was like I'm good to go. I'm going to vote I'm ready to participate the other students and I love this about what Nova Was doing they making sure those kids go get their IDs they making sure that those young people had information because you're getting ready to be unleashed into the workforce you're getting ready to be unleashed into the community and

The overwhelming message was that y'all, we need y'all in the game. And so I was asking questions, do you know who's running for governor? Half of them did, half of them didn't. Half of them knew Carly, half of them didn't. One young brother, he said, hey, everything I hear about Carly is negative.

because he sees all of the ads that's being run by Tom Tiffany. So I said, and this was nonpartisan. I'm not, you know, telling kids to vote for anybody. I'm asking them how aware they are of the issues and what's going on around them and what's on the ballot in November. And one of the young, um, the young brothers who said that all I know is the negative stuff that I see on TV, uh, on the commercials about David Carly. So.

It was Ms. Butts who said, do you realize David Crawley used to work at COA? David Crawley is from Milwaukee Public Schools. David Crawley from your community. And you can see some of the kids like say what? And he running for governor. And so that was happening. But I told the young brother, I said, so let me just ask a question. When you see stories that pop up in the media,

do you just believe what you say? I mean, what you see? Or do you take the time to go Google around and try and find additional information? And he kind of just looked. I said, this is what this is all about, is that we become as informed and as educated on these issues as possible, because people will tell us anything. When you listen to these ads, and again, not being partisan, just being truthful,

the people that's running those ads against David Carly calling him incompetent and this and this and this. All of these are just tactics and strategies, you know, to try to win an election. Now it's interesting that you see the black face and the words we use are incompetent because you don't see incompetent used a lot when people are going after each other in attack ads. So I love that that was the word that was chosen because people always want to try to paint black people mentally whether we're capable

up to a job. So I had those conversations, but I'm telling you right now, if you're not having these conversations with young people in your family, in your household, some of you would be very surprised at what some of these young people know, the questions that they have, the things that they are confused about. But what is clear is that, so I was talking to them about when

we all got the right to vote. So I said, who got the right to vote first? So they kind of, you know, was hedging on that a little bit. So we got to establish white men got the right to vote first. And white men that were landowners got the right to vote first. Then we went through, when did black men get the right to vote? Then we went through, when did white women get the right to vote? And I said, when did black women and other minority groups get the right to vote earnestly unencumbered?

because when Delta Sigma Theta marched in 1913 in the women's suffrage movement, we knew we were marching. My founders, my 22 founders, they knew they was marching and they wasn't going to benefit from women being given the right to vote at that moment. But we lay in the seas because we're going to let everybody know, A, we was in the fight from the beginning, and B, we coming for ours. We understand the ignorant racial climate we in right now.

But we come in for hours and you know white women was like we'll walk in the back of the line and the deltas and Other sisters that was there was like tell your mama to walk at the back of the line We walking in the front and Mary church to rail and folks made their way right up to the front of the line you tell that to somebody else and You know other folks was like well, is he gonna be a lot of violence? We scared we ain't coming deltas. It was like we coming we coming and so as

I talked to these young people and I said, so when did I, as a black woman, get the right to vote in this country unencumbered? No poll taxes, no tests, none of that. And the kids was like, what you mean? What are poll taxes? What kind of test? In the room that we were in, they had a jar full of candy sitting on the conference table. I took that jar and I said, imagine this jar is full of jelly beans. And I put it in the middle of the table. I said, so I'm gonna let everybody in here vote. But before you vote, you gotta tell me how many jelly beans is in this jar.

And one of the kids looked at me and he was like, say what? I said, that's what black folks used to have to go through to try to cast a ballot. I picked up a book. I said, I need you to memorize the first three pages of this book and then you can vote. And they was like, huh? Yeah, they wanted you to memorize and preamble to the Constitution or certain passages of the Constitution before you could vote. Even though legally you had the right to vote, but they were still throwing a roadblocks to stop you.

And so when I finally said that the first year I was born, that was still going on. You could see all of the kids A trying to figure out how old I was. And you know, they mind just clicking. And this one boy that was sitting next to me, he just said, damn. And I was like, exactly. Exactly. My lifetime. When I first came into the world, this was still a policy.

So we're not telling these kids. We're not educating our children. We're not telling our stories. We're not sharing our history. We're not helping them understand what we had to go through to get here. And we're not telling them and helping them understand how they are impacted every day. And I'm going to stretch it to other areas. We'll talk about that going forward. But y'all,

We can't afford to leave nobody on the sidelines while we are out here fighting. And this young crop of young people coming up, they have the talent, the ability, they got the access to all kinds of things that we didn't know how to do stuff in a quicker amount of time than we used to. I mean, the ability to organize is right here on your cell phone, on your cell phone. You can organize a whole rally.

You ain't got to sit out. You ain't got to print up no flyers. I mean, you can do everything right here on your phone. So I had to open up with that because what we are seeing while we are on the ground.

going in these schools. It's nothing short of amazing. The talent that's out there and these kids are hungry for information. They hungry for real conversation and they hungry for people to tell them what's really going on and be willing to listen to them about the things that are concerning to them. Don't leave these kids on the field. Don't leave these children out of the fight.

We do ourself great disservice when we're not educating our babies. So now let me say good morning to the brothers in the building. What up, Mr. Ryder? How you doing this morning? Man, after all of that, I don't even know. I'm just saying, man. I mean, yeah, you hit it right on the head, man. I was going to start off jokingly, but I'm not even going to do that this morning.

Oh, we can always do the Wednesday question there. Well, one there was rain and it's gloomy. I don't know. Now you say it's sad. You're probably cloudy with chest and meatballs. I don't like meatballs. I mean, you hit it right on the head. Since you said it.

I guess I'll do it. Who you with? Guess what the day is? I don't mean hot day. What day is it? I don't want to ask the question. No one has the question. No one is me. You know, Shale. Yes, sir. I've been contemplating this a couple of days. No, right? Spill contemplating. Go ahead.

You know when I'm at home, things happen. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Y'all can answer this but this had me stumped. Okay How is it that the brain can forget something but then remember that it forgot it? I Don't understand it. Maybe you can hear me Lay it out again. How is it that the brain can forget but then remember that it forgot?

So this is why paying attention in school For all you young people that are going to school this morning This is why it's important when you in class and you in biology and then talking Instead of passing notes to your people or now you know y'all texting you will hear when your teacher says that

separate parts of the memory system are stored differently. So storage and retrieval happen in separate parts of the memory system. So what I remember is in one area, and so let me give you an example. When you forget something, you walk into the room, you forget why you came in.

It occurs because your brain successfully retains the general context or the outline of the event but fails to activate the specific neural pathway needed to pull up the exact detail. So you got two different pathways and you know, it's almost like that thing when you talk about something's on the tip of my tongue. And eventually you're able to recall hopefully what it was you were trying to remember. That's because of where

this information is stored in our body. So again, it's two different functions that produce that outcome. And we are able to tap in to those two different functions. So yes, Jermaine, this is where you have to be paying attention. Yeah, I think I got kicked out of class.

be sending boxes to about check. Yes, if you like me, check. I think that's what I was doing. You know, when this part is being explained. Somebody said this way, they were legalized. They need to legalize. And somebody was like, Michelle, can you just say synapses? Yes. The memory is stored.

in what are called synapses. So yes, people like that, you get all of the science nerds coming out like synapses synapses. So yes, Jermaine. I mean, it's a legit question. It is because it's like, wow. And they actually covered it when you was supposed to be in school. That's what happened. They covered it. I think I was in the principal office. They covered it. They covered it. As soon as I walked in, it was like, right out.

I know. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. So are we good now? I think I feel a little better next week. I have something else for you. Okay. Well, I mean, like I said, you give us something to think about every time. Because I think about it a lot. Yeah. I don't know why. Starships and rockets. Okay.

All right, let me hurry up and go to Clark Kent. Clark Kent! Who are you with, man? Anybody but this camera. Oh, you waving. Hey, Clark, you on camera. They get to see you, sitting over there in the dungeon. What's happening, bro? I'm good, I'm good. You good? Yes, yes, yes. Was you out here in these streets yesterday? Because you know you stay busy. No, I was not. It was good. I want to watch the game. What game did you watch yesterday? New York, New York.

New York and uh, but baseball yeah, yeah Baseball. Yeah, okay. Um, watch the little bit of I ain't watch all of us. Okay. All right. Well, I know one thing I've been, uh, watching highlight reels from all these different baseball games. Boy, when I say he's casting showing up and showing out, I have a renewed interest in the game of baseball a renewed and

way too many fine players on the field. I'm like, I keep doing the replay and you know, I'm just looking at their face like, oh, okay. That's how they look in the league now. Cause I don't remember it by being fine at baseball. They look, they look Andy Griffith OP.

But they got the bros up in there. And the swagger. The catch that old boy did, was he from Cincinnati who had the locks?

Oh my god, when them locks went to flying in the wind, I was like, oh, look at this sexiness right here. Oh, wait. For folks that can't see YouTube and Facebook, this boy is bouncing the locks in the back of his head. I'm telling you, and then I had to laugh because I saw dudes little bling around his neck, you know, kind of swing. I said, ah.

Yeah, we just, we just look so special when we show up. Yes, yes. So look, I got to take my first break of the morning. Let me say good morning to everybody checking in on Facebook, YouTube. We appreciate y'all. What's going on Shelby? I saw you tapped in. Somebody said Republicans.

God, black people going around putting Tiffany Flyers on our doors. I told him... I told him Blake's to stay away from my house. You know what? Who wrote that? Who wrote that? Oh my God, 616. He said, I told him, really, I'm still... Oh my God.

You know what they don't they they try to build that relationship with black people so they got other blacks doing the No, they didn't pay. I get it. I get it. But listen though. I don't care how much money you pay me if I don't believe in the what you're doing. I'm not gonna

And I'm gonna say this and I'm gonna say this no and yeah, cuz I'm gonna say this so doing the voter registration stuff that I have been doing the first I mean this summer One of the things that became clear because the number of people that I was interviewing to work with me I'm asking questions like are you registered to vote yourself? Because before we have you out here talking to other people about registering to vote. I want to make sure you're good

Have you ever done this kind of work before? And the number of black people that applied to work with me who said Yeah, I canvassed for Donald Trump campaign and I said you did what now I Canvassed for Donald Trump and you know my face obviously just I didn't have to say nothing my face was so toe up And I remember one sister. She was like man. I was trying to keep from getting evicted

I was trying to pay my rent. Yeah, you know And the money they was paying it was good money, but that's what I'm saying And so I'm just saying that there are people and then you know two or three of them was like, of course I didn't believe none of that but they paying 25 $30,000 an hour just like what Trump and then well a girl said cash Well, listen just illegal. We'll go here. No, just like the what Trump is doing now. Well, if you vote

for us to give you five thousand. So if you starve the people, you starve them and then you give them crumbs, of course they gonna jump over you. But that's why I just wanted to be clear though, that I have learned to never say never. I'm sure there was people who never thought that they would engage in, you know, some of these things that they do to be able to eat. Whether it's selling narcotics, selling themselves. Yeah, I told myself. Boy, shut up. To be able to eat.

Um, but yeah, yeah, fam. I feel you. Uh, it is sad though. When you, you see us, um, carrying water for people that you know, these people don't mean you no good whatsoever. Don't mean you no good. You know, just like you said, no good. You know, you, you have to eat. So if I starve you long enough and then give you crumbs, I'm going to follow the because again, you never bite the hand that feeds you. Right. So if you feed in me.

Okay, I'm a rock with you. Yeah. And that's what they doing. And it's like people don't see the loopholes in these things. Yeah. And I mean, well, like we don't see them because other people, it's all about design. Yeah. It's all about design to your point. So let me, let me take my break over my time. So definitely let me take my break. I'll be right back family.

I hear the vote. I've been in line for about four hours now. I'm hungry myself. I'm tired. My mom's tired. I have my little brother who is at home with my grandma waiting for us to come home.

I tried to vote and they snatched the ballot out of my hand and almost like ripped it and they were like you can't vote and they tried to take my ID to try not to give it back to me at the registration desk and I was just really confusing like what's going on like I hear the vote I've been in line for about four hours now I'm hungry myself I'm tired my mom's tired I have my little brother who was at home my grandma waiting for us to come home and I'm trying to have this big story and

they told us we couldn't vote and so I put my, I heard from my ballot technically in and they were trying to like take it out like trying to open the machine take it out and I was like you can't do that and then the guy who was running it was like giving your ballots I'll just take all y'all's ballots and everyone started blowing up and they're like you can't do that that's you're not taking my ballot because what happens if you take my ballot and you vote for me.

And it was like a big, it was huge problem. And it was this Haitian guy, I remember, because he, they tried not to let him vote because he had an accent. He tried to claim that he was an illegal immigrant, but he wasn't. He had the proper documentation and everything. They didn't let him vote and they waited so long for him to vote that nobody could vote. They closed it down, they kicked us all out and people were crying on the corner because they couldn't vote. They didn't, they felt like their rights were taken away. They felt like their choice was taken from them.

that was that was that I and I fortunately I got to vote because I put my ballot in and I clicked it and I just went with it I don't know if it went through because it was like so late it was really it was insane I was just like and it really was discouraging because it's like if this is the the country I'm supposed to vote and I have a choice to vote but you just take took it we've been in line for hours y'all told us that we could vote and then took that choice away too and it was just like everything's being taken from us and

I just think my mom, because she was with me the whole time, like telling me right from wrong, do not give these people your ballots. Do not let these people stand up for yourself. And my mom, she's like my big, she's my rock, she's my everything. So that's why I'm like, it's really important to go out and vote, because it's like, if you don't vote, stuff like this happens. And it's like, we need to make a change in our community. We need to make a change in our country. And if by doing that, we vote. All right, so that was the story. And Jermaine had flagged that for me.

that had come out of Texas. This goes back to their spring primary. This happened in March. And it's one of those things though that you didn't see on the news. You know, in terms of national news, it was covered on some local media outlets because they were talking about how poll workers who were from the Republican Party who had gotten, you know, the ability to be able to be poll workers, election inspectors,

and how they were treating African Americans when they came into these polling locations. How they were treating black people when they came into these polling locations. You sound like you have an accent. You're an illegal immigrant. We're not letting you vote. Even though you got all your ID, your name is actually in the poll book. So you are a rulebook, so you should be able to vote. And then this young lady who was talking, first of all, this baby is only 18 years old. This was her first attempt to vote.

This that's why she said my little brother was waiting at home because I'm going back home with this great You know experience and this great story to be able to tell him. That's what she was talking about That's our first experience So she so she tried to vote in and now her first experience because you can never get the first back from anything right? So your first experience is people trying to snatch the ballot out your hand people telling you you can't vote you putting your

your ballot in the machine and they opening up the machine trying to take it out. Why are you doing all of this stuff? Like what? Why are you trying to suppress my vote? I mean, because I think we will, we absolutely know why because you trying to maintain a certain degree of power and control certain people in office. But that's why I was selling, you know, some folks I was talking to yesterday. I don't care what folks are saying. We need to be prepared as we go into the November 3rd election. Yeah.

And it gets worse from there as we get ready for the next 20-28 presidential. So next year is going to be a hot mess. We need to be vigilant about paying attention to those environments. I'm telling groups like 100 black men accused of Alphas brugs. Y'all need to be at these polling locations just, you know, in the parking lot around, just watching, making sure, because most of the polling locations are run by women.

or older men. And they try to come in and intimidate the elderly or the women. Exactly. And so, yeah, we need a presence as some of these areas. And look, you know, I didn't say, you know, come strap, come ready to fight all that. I'm just saying we need to come and be paying attention to what's going on in our community. That's what I'm saying. It needs to happen because it's, can you imagine how that goes off the rails? Somebody trying to snatch the ballot out my hand.

Do you understand how ignorant this goes? And that's why paying attention to the conversation about deploying ICE to the polling locations, because what did this young lady say? The man sounded, he was Haitian. So he had an accent. Now you're talking about hearing a legal immigrant. So you call ICE, who's outside the location, come in. We believe we got somebody. And then ICE ended up carting this guy away. And then you got to fight to prove.

excuse me, you an American citizen like the way they left that black man bleeding in the street in Chicago last Sunday. So when do you so when has it ever been when you go vote? Because I have never really had a conversation with anybody unless you know, they ask you are you on the thing? Do you show me your ID so you really don't have to talk? So when when when did that become? Okay, let me hear you talk. Okay, well, you sound like you're not from here.

You know, do you sound like a legal immigrant? So let me put you on Trump. Don't sound like she from here. It's a whole lot of people. That's all I'm saying. I'm like, so the way I sound dictates my citizenship. All of that's nonsense. So this is why vigilance is required. This is why vigilance is required. Let me go to the phone line real quick. Hey, caller, what's happening? Good morning. First thing I'm going to say is we definitely got to go and vote.

And I'm definitely going to vote, but to nobody be snatching them from anybody, go snatched from your mouth. You feel what I'm saying? But what I have noticed is with these like Republican people, some of them always look like they come from struggle, like the office on MLK. They never go for the working class.

People, they either go for somebody who got all their car windows busted out, or somebody got on a bad weave, or somebody didn't pop three pills, or a case or two or 11 still reserved with the kids as tall as a duplex. They never go for the working class people. So for those people, we can't do nothing for them. We gotta let them rot.

No, no, no. No, we don't. No, we don't. No, we don't. Because the goal is to always continue to educate and try to bring as many people along as possible. Their life circumstance is what makes them easy to prey upon, because that's what these people are doing. They're praying upon people who are downtrodden, who have hit rock bottom, who feel like they have nowhere else to go.

I'm never a proponent of saying, just leave people who are in that place, just leave them there to rot. I would never say that. I want to always give you a lifeline to get out. Now, go ahead. So what if they choose to be there and their lifeline is taking your lifeline?

And so, and I appreciate that. And what I was about to say is I always give people a lifeline. At the end of the day, it's a choice to use it or not. But you won't write because I made a decision to let you write. You're going to write because you made your own decisions and your own choices. We got too much going on. And there are people that have been able to turn it around.

with the right support, encouragement, people believing in them, they've been able to turn it around and actually go on and contribute. So I'm just saying, I'm not going to close the door on your face. You're going to have to close that door yourself. Well, I kind of look at how so many things have transpired, but they didn't help with the things transpiring. They helped pulling certain things down. So I feel if you like it, I love it. That's why I never give people money.

when they ask for it. Can I have some money? I say no. Just want to tell me yesterday that could be Jesus. I feel like that nigga is going to be hungry today. I've been with me. Well, you know what? And thank you for the call, bro. I appreciate you too. But I'm going to just say this, you know, I always encourage people just to remember you don't never know.

You'll never know what your life circumstance or situation may be who will come in and step in to help you I often think about when we did African World Festival one of the young brothers that was involved in some of the melee that went on down there that led to a shooting That actually was one of the the things that you know set the the precipice for

To some extent the failure of African World Festival because people began to you know label it as unsafe And that young brother who was a decent young kid? He just was doing something stupid with other people and it wasn't even his beef and his drama We later learned you running with somebody else and get pulled in but that young man When we redid the festival in 2000 what was that 10? Was it 10? I think that young brother

came to the festival. Somehow or another, we ended up meeting him and he came to the festival and he made a public apology with his children. This man is now a father and got his kids standing next to him and he made a public apology for that whole situation. So no, it's enough people willing to write us off without us doing it ourselves. The door is open.

If you decide you want to walk through it, it's open. It's open. And I think about a Malcolm X. Malcolm X was a straight thug and a criminal. What was his name? Something red? He was a straight, I mean, like by all accounts.

Nobody should be talking about you got a three-hour, you know movie about Malcolm X and he on everybody T shirt and he the leader that we all look to and he to buy beans any means necessary man This dude was pimping women and out here in these streets tricking off and just a straight the Now he wasn't the hardest criminal, but he was doing enough criminal activity to get a brother put in jail

But you flip all of that you turn all of that around. What if I say and let him write? We would have never get him and everything that he impacted that he touched we never get him There are there are many stories of people who started off wrong and right at the ship I'm sorry me like personal testimony Man listen, I mean I was raised right but I drifted away and I did

I'm not giving them none. You know what? I'm just I'm gonna be honest. I have been in situations where I was in some crazy places. Um

In some part because of the work I used to do in terms of being in social services and the places I would go the houses I would visit the communities I would move through I have been in some unsafe places and I have had some young brothers who I know were criminals Make sure that I was safe Make sure that I got moved out the way Make sure I remember one time I had to sit and wait in somebody's home until some drama, you know

subsided. They didn't know me from Adam, but they knew I was in the community trying to help these kids and figure out why these kids won't go into school. And they made a decision to move me out the way. You never know who is going to come to your aid. I had some slick looking cats. I'm like, girl, you're going about to fall on the ground. And it don't look like you can still carry on. It don't look like your paperwork is in order. But they was like, you need me to change that tire.

You know, since you are right, you'll never know who will help you. So don't get so damn high and mighty with your behind on your back that you think you better than everybody and nobody else can be can be benefit from your help. The people that I see I even asking for change. I mean.

Teeth rotted out, hands and skin just dirty, black, sooty looking. You don't even want to hand them the money because you think like, oh Jesus, if you touch my hand, I'm gonna die. Because you know, I'm a clean fanatic. So I'm like, I'm gonna die. Because I don't know where your hands be. And you know, here, let me give you this one. But everything in me gets steady because that's a human being.

And I'm going to treat you like a human being. I don't know what put you on the streets. I don't know if you lost your mind because somebody sexually abused you as a child. I don't know if you got abandoned. I just thought about this the other day and I got to take a break. But I thought about this was yesterday on the news. I heard that a second baby in the last week had been placed in one of those little safety

box things where if you make a decision to give up your child in the first 30 days of life, you can leave them at the fire department or the police station. And there's no questions asked, no harm. Nobody will come to arrest you. And I thought about when I was in the kitchen, moving around, and they said that a second baby, and I'll look for that story real quick, but that a second baby had been left in one of those things.

and I just thought about some this how this child start a life being given up being left you on your own and now you in a situation where don't nobody know who you connected to who you belong to in that single act you just got cut off from your whole family lineage because these people now they got to build a life for you everything for you

Some kids they're gonna be better for Because I don't know what that person situation was who gave you up in the first place But you don't know what puts people out here on these streets You don't know and I'm saying this is somebody who was 18 years old whose mama got pissed off when I got pregnant and my mama told me you won't be grown you gonna be grown and I had to I had to figure out by myself at 18 how to take care of myself

I tell people all the time when you see me doing stuff for people in this community It's not because I'm the nicest person on earth and I got the biggest heart and I'm the sweetest person. It's because I damn old Because when I couldn't people looked out for me And make sure that my when I'm helping that girl with her child. It's cuz somebody helped me with mine

It is no way you are the beneficiary of these things and you don't turn around and remember to do it for somebody else Wow and you know what and you can tell you can tell and I'm a living witness because I sit here with you and I've seen The stuff that you have done for for people and you can tell that it's a now I didn't know your story

But you can tell that it's a passion behind what you do. Because when you do it, you don't do it out of need. You do it out of love. Love, yeah. And that's the difference. Like, OK, you see somebody need something, whatever. But if I love you to the fact that, OK, I don't want to see you struggle. I mean, I want to help. So I'm doing this out of love. It's a different kind of response than it is, OK, well, this person needs

or whatever, I go get it whenever I get a chance. When it's the love behind it, it's right away. Let's get it done right away. Yeah. See what I'm saying? So, that's the difference. Yeah, she don't, she don't, she don't hesitate. She jump right into it. Yeah. That's that's her heart. You know what I'm saying? Because she be like she said, she think about how people helped her back in the day. You know what I'm saying? So, you gotta pass that on. You know, and the other part of it is, I just don't forget you look like me. Yeah, that too.

You you are a part of my broader family I got on the bracelet right now and then we gotta go to break but I don't embrace it right now and I mentioned this when I first got back from DC because I've seen this brother I didn't know this was a whole little movement a whole little thing but I had seen the brother before and

So when I'm walking down the street, coming out of Convention Center in DC, I see this brother in his bad convertible Mercedes. Oh, he was, oh, car was clean. He was clean. He was fine. So I had to look over like what's going on over here. But on the side of his car, it was wrapped with the phrase, I love black people dot com.

But all I saw was I love black people. I didn't even see the calm piece because it's written on an angle So it looks like a design more than calm, but it just said I love black people And so he saw me he saw me, you know connect with the car and he saw me reading it and then I made I looked up I made eye contact with him and I said that's what I'm talking about

And he said, I feel you sis. So he reached in to a bag that he had on his passenger seat and he handed me this bracelet that says, I love black people. And then that's when I really, I put it on right away. And I said, thank you, bro. I said, I saw you last year. He said, I'm out here every time they do it. And I put it on. And then when I was putting it on, I said, oh, that's a dot com. So LaKeisha, I told her about it. She goes to the website, go to

I love blackpeople.com website. And I'll talk about it when I come back on the other side. But Al, I want to be clear. I don't see a bomb in the street when I see these black folks out here struggling. I see an uncle. I see an aunt. I see a cousin. I see a neighbor that has lost a way. And I'll be damned if I'm the person that's going to continue to spit on you when you down.

I ain't gonna give money to everybody I see. I don't have it always to give it to everybody I see. But a dollar out of my pocket ain't making or breaking my day at all. At all. And that whole, what they gonna keep doing drugs, whatever gonna go on with them people, they gonna go on whether I help them or not. But what I could stop potentially is them hurting somebody else to get what they trying to do. But I wish I would look at black people with the degree of disdain and ugh and get away from me and you ain't, I will never do that.

I gotta go to break. I'll be right back. All right, family. Welcome back to the show. So I said I was going to tell you real quickly about this website. I love black people dot com. Um, and when you look it up.

a global digital safety platform and modern safe places app designed to protect black people from racism xenophobia and Afrophobia worldwide. I didn't even know Afrophobia was a word. The modern green book basically is one of the ways they talk about it inspired by the Negro motorist green book. The platform functions as a crowdsourced survival guide and network for travelers and locals.

It empowers Black communities economically and physically by discovering, sharing, and vetting Black-owned and Pan-African-friendly spaces globally. The co-founder Christopher Montpardera and Sinclair Skinner, and so it features tens of thousands of community-recommended businesses across more than 160 countries. Safe places span eight main sectors, education, legal services, healthcare, accommodation, and housing.

finance, beauty, transportation, food and dining. Includes team chat communities, daily African history quizzes, weekly Saturday Pan-African calls. But this whole idea is that we are moving through a world, not just through a country, but through a world in which you are seeing the resurgence of white nationalist groups, KKK, adjacent.

type organizations, we're seeing what is akin to the Republican Party getting strongholds and major governmental agencies or entities across the world. And, you know, people are feeling more emboldened to say and do racist behavior towards communities of color, black people in particular. And so this app is like, look, we know we global.

So we're gonna talk about when you in Europe safe places to go, you know

We're friendly environments where you should pay attention to because so many of us get on a plane. We fly. We with our girls. We just kind of trust in, you know, we got the tourist itinerary. Many of us try to stay on that main path. We don't venture off into, you know, like, and I'm a venturer. I venture off into the side. I duck off, you know, so I'm like, no, take me to where the locals are. Take me, you know, I want to shop where the black businesses are. And they're usually not going to be in the mall.

um louis and jamaica i'm shopping in this little off the roll dingy looking you know a little spot unfortunately where the black entrepreneurs had day spaces but i bought the most beautiful stuff from them that i bought on the whole trip so this app is

Like, I just think it's cool if you go anywhere in these 160 countries that they have, you get information from black folks who will be the travel there, who live there, who are locals, who can tell you, hey, when you in the meal, this is where you go. This is where you tap in. This is where you are, you know, you need to pay attention. This is a sundown town. This is, you know, someplace that, uh, yeah, not, not that friendly to us. Cause I just had this conversation with my brother.

Because of him being a truck driver, my brother drove all over the South. He going some crazy places and I told him he was talking about this place. He went in. He was like, I knew the lynching was about to happen in 10 minutes because of the way these white folks was acting in this restaurant. I went in. I told you about walking up in these places, not understanding and appreciating where you are.

It can be 2026 all day long, but the mentality and the thoughts have in some cases not changed or they're reverting back to another time when it was not safe for you to move around like that. I get on him all the time about where he is and making sure he's doing a location sharing so I understand where you are when you are here moving around. So that's the I Love Black People app. Let me go to the phone line. Hey, Collier, what's happening?

Hello. Yes. Hey, good morning. Hey, good morning. I'm talking about voting. Okay. So, why are we getting, what's that sound that Jermaine plays when there ain't nobody saying nothing and making sense? Yeah, yeah. Why are we getting crickets from the mayor, from the common council?

and the police chief in terms of all this stuff is coming and they're just sitting back like they're just having a tea and looking what's going on with that can you get them on the show to tell us how the police are going to serve and protect the citizens during voting what is the common council's plan what is the mayor coordinating i mean we need to hear this

You know what I will do and I'll make a point to reach out today. And I know that the mayor definitely has folks that listen to mayor listens himself. So we are an I'll text him as soon as I get off the air. I'll text chief Norman as soon as I get off the air to ask him because I know that there have been meetings that have been happening.

I know and for over a year that they have been talking about safety at the polls, response plans, you know, paying attention to what's happening at the federal level if they think ICE is really going to be deployed here or not. So those conversations are happening. We just don't necessarily know all of the information. So I will reach out to those entities and ask people to the extent that they can share information with us. So please come to the show and do that. And I promise you I'll do that today.

Yeah, because here's what's going to happen. You know what's going to happen. Soon as they come up in there talking crazy to us, hey, we ain't going for it. Nope. And the news media is going to make it look like we started it all. Right. Absolutely. You know, that's definitely how it's going to go down. It'll be nationwide. ABC all of them and say, oh, riot broke out. See, when they use the word riot, that's a color code.

Yeah, nope, you know, that's the color right broke out at polling places in Milwaukee You know black people just did this and that that the observers were there and they were just doing their job You know, so we need to avoid all that we need to know what our city leaders are planning to do to protect us All right and fair enough. I'll make sure I reach out to them today. Thank you. You're welcome Got another caller. Let's get them in. Hey caller. What's happening? Good morning. Good morning

I want to speak on some things that you've already mentioned. And you used to say something about when people are bedded, I always engage them. Even if they're white because I remember on 27th Street in Franklin and Wal-Mart Park a lot, a white man was running around asking bedded,

and I called him over and asked him what he needed. He said his wife was in the hospital, he was homeless, he needed something to eat. And I always engage people like that. I told him to go into Walmart, get whatever you want and I come in and pay for it. When I went in, he told me never mind, he had some food stamps.

He has bought something and I told him, still get you something. And that's, that's just a humane thing. And whenever I see a young person, special black person, and I engage them and they're talking sort of like they have some sense, some intelligence, I ask them about their educational status. Another thing is,

Myself, I had no experience. My father was born in Greenberg, Georgia. They own a big farm and I think they still own it. He was never poor. He came to Atlanta, he bought up Atlanta, bought up the neighborhood, bought up built houses, and he had a lesson of full great education.

I went to assistant data schools and all of my teachers were masterpieces at educating. I got a full financial scholarship, academic scholarship to wherever I want to go. Because of the school I went to, Henry McNeil Turner, the council and the teachers put me in that and I had a 1.9 grade one average.

It put me in an accelerated class and gave me a full scholarship. My point is, I engage anybody who's down, right? When you're talking about today, we're talking about the Republicans and the races, they are down on the vulnerable people because they're so gullible. We need to learn financial literacy. And I call it money handling.

because most people who have bad credit came by car and came by house because it got dulled alive on the car and all around the house. Anyway, my point is, I believe I have a son in prison for murder, for life. And he has taken all the college courses, all the education courses they have provided.

and they don't do that anymore. At least where he is, he's in racing now. But anyway, the money that they speak here for education should be tied to the person. When the person doesn't go to school and goes to prison, give his education to the right man to the prison on his name. I'm going to let y'all go. All right. All right.

Yes, sir. Thank you for the call. All right. Uh, let me let me get this last caller. Hey, call it. What's happening? Take us off speaker. What's going on player? How you doing today? Okay. About two years ago. Okay. I did 150 hamburgers and hot dogs down at the home.

And people found out where I worked at that I did it because I had a couple people I work helping me. So it found out further across the hospital. Two months later, this goes back to what I said. Two months later, the news station and all the head bosses came to me. It was on the news. I sent you the link. It was called Pay to Pay Forward. They gave me $500 back for doing that. So you never know who's watching and who's going to pay it forward.

So don't say don't give it to somebody. You might come back a couple times more than what you fucked. Absolutely. Absolutely. And I saw that come through. So I'll definitely check it out. I saw the link come through. Yeah, so don't say you're not going to get them back. They're looking for nothing, but it came back.

Like you say because you never know who paying attention and the number of things that I have went in To do thinking I'm helping them and ultimately I ended up being helped or something Amazing happened for me only because I did those things that never would have happened had I not stepped up or volunteered or helped out That part is never lost on me. It's never lost on me and I

I tell them because if I see someone in the room and I got tired, I can work and change their tire because one day you ain't going to have the tools to change their tire. Somebody come pull over and do the tire for you because it's you because you did before. And you don't know when it's going to happen to you.

Absolutely. You never know. You never know how help will come, when it will come, and if you will need it. You never know. So, I move through life, understanding, you know, there's a way to treat folks and I look out for people in a way I hope people would look out for me if they ever saw something going on with me. Thank you, bro. I appreciate that. Oh, go ahead. I'm sorry. One more thing. I'm going to say this though. Okay. I'm kind of funny like that, but I will give color people some money.

but I'm never going to give a clear person some money on the side of the road because you have more chances than I did and you use your chance not good enough. The only thing I'm going to say, and I appreciate your view, but the same thing applies, brah. I don't know what, when I worked in child welfare and I worked with kids up at Saint Emily Lakeside, I had children from every color. And one of my young guys, I always think about him.

um his dad was making him have sex with animals and the way we get this boy is because one of the animals locked on that boy's penis and the fire department had to be called and when the fire department came child welfare got involved and that boy was brought from uh this area up near black earth wisconsin he was brought from up there to us

down here in Milwaukee. And I remember going at it with his daddy who was a stomp down racist about that child. You tell me how a boy like that easily could end up on the side of the road begging because you have been messed up. So even clear for you. You don't know. I understand. But why would you bring somebody that's up there that don't like people down here? Keep your people up there. So I don't understand why.

Why do people get messed up? They want to bring it to the industry to get fixed. How can you fix out there where you was at? Well, one of the things, one of the reasons why they moved him was because of the safety risk, because it was a small town area. Dad knew a lot of the people around there. And like the man had threatened to kill a judge. That's how crazy his dad was. And so they tried to move him to another part of the state where, you know, he wasn't as likely to show up, but he came. And it was funny because when he came, I was waiting on him.

Well, it is like that on corrections. Unfortunately, our kids get in trouble here and we would jail them.

in northern Wisconsin, and we had to fight with Milwaukee elected officials and Milwaukee business owners to be able to bring our kids back to Milwaukee. Tom Barrett and them was the ring leaders. Alderman Taylor, you know, was talking about folks in her district. Didn't want the juvenile prison facility in their district because it was being treated as a dumping ground. And while I understood all of that, one of the things we said over and over, Senator Taylor, state representative Myers,

County executive David quality was a part of this conversation as well. Um, those are our children and you sending them three hours away. Making other folks have employment, 60 70,000 dollars a year, 100,000 dollars. Well, over time, family, some important jobs, those kids are being counted in those areas for the purposes of the census. All of that money out there, but this is getting money out there. They could be getting that.

All right. Thank you. All right. But yeah. No, to his point, we was happy to have our kids somewhere else. We didn't want everybody. None of my backyard. None of the damn kids. None of my backyard. None of my backyard. And we had elected officials who did not want to see that youth juvenile facility come to Milwaukee.

And that facility is here and they ain't bothering nobody. You ain't heard a peep out of them. No, no crime. No, all they gonna bring you up. You ain't none of that. We've heard none of that. You forget us here now. You'll forget us here. But, you know, direct supply. They was raising holy hell. Our people don't want to drive past nothing. That's why you got a whole damn gated fence blocking in your facility because you scared of the neighborhood that you're working in. Over there off of Titonia.

Well, where they was originally looking at putting it was over offered to Tonya and direct supply was one of the main companies who came out crying. We don't want that facility over here because we don't want our employees to have to see that. Most of y'all employees drive past this community and drive back today suburban communities. If we don't just tell the truth. All right, now that I've lost a sponsor, let me let me let me.

because it was just frustrating. Like I said, you got the big prison black gate going around your property because you're scared of who's going to come on your grounds. I'm at every company doing it because we got to keep our employees safe, keep our parking lot safe. I'm not mad. I understand it. But to be vocal about we don't want something in the community because we don't want to drive past it. We don't want our workers to have to see it. They get the hell out of here. I'll be right back, y'all. All right, family. Welcome back to the show. So a couple of quick things.

Before I move on, let me just say this. I'm also going to say, when these people approach you, use your discretion. Pay attention to if you're safe. Jermaine talked about somebody came up and asked them for change. And the woman said, no, goes into the gas station when she comes back out. It was three people. They ended up stealing her vehicle and she ended up getting shot. Use your discretion. Don't be no fool.

If it doesn't feel right, seem right, you uneasy, get out of the situation because people can be desperate. And I never want anybody to get hurt because I'm not paying, I'm not reading the room. Read the room. So let me, speaking of reading the room, let me jump over to the Senate Judiciary Committee meeting in which the former prosecutor, Jack Smith, who had gone after Donald Trump,

in relationship to taking national security documents out of the possession of the White House and to his personal residents at Mar-a-Lago after he had left office, he basically stole these documents and had he not run for president, Donald Trump would have been looking at real charges and potentially jail time.

He can't because the minute he ran for president and he won it dropped everything because now you know Those prosecutors have all been either fired let go Moved around the DOJ drops the charges drops the investigations So everything changes one of the people one of the things that people honestly say they believe that he ran for president for Was not just because he wanted a second term but was to shield him from pending prosecutions so

Jack Smith is on the hill. He testifies everybody know the story. I don't even have to do no whole deep dive, but There is a Individual who thinks that he may be the running mate to JD Vance in a potential bid for the presidency after Trump

You know leaves the White House and he is leaving I'll care what y'all say and how scared and how nervous I'll get Trump is going to leave the White House, but a Congressman Representative Eric Schmidt You know he he thought he was about to have his five minutes in the light

Got your moment. Got Jack Smith here. We getting ready to show you up Call a man a dirtbag and I was telling Jermaine. I'm doing a break. I said, you know, I It just don't never be me Because call me to Congress to testify and let a member of Congress call me a dirtbag I'm gonna look directly at the committee chair and be like now look here. I don't have no problem coming up here testifying

answering questions before this committee. But if you can't manage your people, you can wrap this up right now. Because well, nobody be calling me on Monday. And the fact that and this ain't nothing but this nasty filthy Donald Trump presidency that has created this culture where people think that they can talk to people like this in the workplace because you had work. None of you can go to your job right now.

Unless you work for Eli musk and I'll talk about that in a minute can go to your job and cost your your your Subordinate or somebody that's in your interview process and call them a dope bag and keep their job And not have consequences But because Donald Trump has made you know is sport a matter of just doing business you calling female reporters pigs Piggy and you calling

People stupid and you calling people this and so all of this five-year-old and it's not and it's a disrespect to five-year-olds all of this juvenile name calling That these old white men think is okay for them to engage in And you ain't gonna bust a great if somebody catch you on the streets. That's the part that killed me Eric Schmidt. You ain't gonna bust a great Donald Trump

Definitely ain't busting no grapes. If somebody walk up on you all like, you know how people, you know how we do. Oh, all that yin-yang you was talking. Yeah, let's handle that right now. No, no. Cause you said, no, no. Cause you was bad when you was, you know, standing there with your secret service detail. You was bad when you were sitting behind the committee, you know, desk in front of all your colleagues. Yeah, we are here on 35th and capital. Talk that now.

and you're going to get a different response. So Eric Schmidt, and this is the other thing about having effective staff around you. There's no way our team staff and Lena Taylor would have had Lena Taylor got have a moment in which she is questioning somebody and gets tripped up.

and embarrassed the way Congressman Schmidt got embarrassed when he was trying to basically draw this line between Jack Smith and Fonnie Willis and say that they in some way were colluding on prosecutions of Donald Trump and he tried to place Jack Smith in Atlanta and for a purported meeting with Fonnie to collude

about how to go after Trump and he said and you know, basically he was saying because while he was down here, you were so stupid. He went to Atlanta Hawks game and you know, we got text messages that confirm he was down there, you know, for the game. And he, so he begins this line of questioning and he sets it up even by telling the congressman, you know, I want you to think about your answers before you give them with this little, little, little, you know, smarty grin on his face.

Because we don't want you to purge yourself, you know something to that effect. I'm paraphrasing, but that's the gist. Jack Smith sitting there like what you talking about? so the congressman goes down this little line of questioning and He infers or directly, you know, trying to say that Jack Smith was in Atlanta for that a hawks basketball game and Jack Smith was like When was this February 24? Yeah, nah, I was at the Maryland

game that Caitlin Clark was playing at against Iowa and they're called the Hawks, the Hawkeyes. And so they had the big board up with the text messages. This was about to be his moment. He was getting ready to make Fox News and all the little major conservative networks. He was getting ready to dump his chest because I got you. I caught you in a lie. Or yeah, you was down there scheming and it all blew up in his face. And I'm looking at the staff like

Somebody's supposed to get fired up in that room because it was your job to make sure all of this was in fact factual. It's already ignorant and ridiculous that they're trying to draw this line and we still having this conversation because nobody can deny Donald Trump calling people and saying we need 11,000 votes so I can be Joe Biden in Georgia. The Republican Secretary of State at the time who was dealing with the elections was like, no, bro.

I'm not doing that for you. I'm, uh, I ain't catching no case for you. So it's well established that Donald Trump was trying to scam and come up with 11,000 votes to beat Joe Biden in Georgia. It's well established. We saw the boxes being taken out that Donald Trump and the Mexicans, because you know, for somebody who had immigrants, he got plenty Mexicans working at Mar-a-Lago.

The Mexicans on staff was saying, oh, yeah, we was moving them boxes back and forth from the bathroom to the ballroom to the back closet to the here. Nope, they weren't under secure lock and key. Nope, anybody, I mean, yep, anybody had access to them and they know it was classified documents that wasn't supposed to leave. There is no argument here. You're just mad because somebody tried to hold them accountable for it. Think about that for a second.

your beef with Jack Smith who don't know Donald Trump from a can of paint. I don't have no reason to have beef with this dude. I'm doing my job representing the American taxpayer and you want to haul me in front of this committee then like you get ready to embarrass me and what they say when you dig a hole from somebody else dig too. Smith ended up falling in his own hole and you got

Cats who don't even follow with stuff laughing in the barbershop this morning like did y'all see that food Schmidt up at the here in DC? He'll know the difference between the Hawkeyes and the Hawks. He'll know the difference between college ball and the NBA Man, who's this dumb? I mean like but he is supposed to be trying to be the vice president Candidate on a ticket with JD Vance potentially to run for president

The Iowa Hawkeyes versus the Atlanta Hawks and Jack Smith just sat there looking like all y'all stupid This is what we have. This is what passes for leadership in this country right now This is what y'all think is important. We can't get health care passed in terms of you know doing something responsible about health care We can't get affordable care act subsidies, you know, we all stuff that's not getting done But y'all got time to have a meeting about what we already know to be true

is that, and Jackson said it, he said it over and over again in that committee meeting. Donald Trump, there was clear evidence that Donald Trump broke the law. He said it over and over again. Y'all can tap dance, boogaloo, shake it fast, watch yourself, you can do all of that. But it does not change the fact that Donald Trump broke laws.

and I'll go and say the rest that he didn't say and had that Joker not run for reelection and been successful, Donald Trump would most likely be behind bars right now. Let me go to the phone line. Hey, Caller, what's happening? How are you doing? I'm good. How are you doing this morning? I'm doing pretty good. I've named two things real quick if I know you're right out of time. Okay, go ahead.

The first one in a good back to the homeless people. What do you think about the homeless person that's picky? The homeless person that's what? Picky. Picky? Yes. Okay, go ahead. I've met a young lady, you know, she's walking down the street. She's already got a bundle of bananas under her arm and she's walking up to me asking for some money. So I reached out in my pocket and gave her some change. You know when she replied, that's not enough for me.

You know, so I just put that back in the hospital. And then I just, they heard a problem and they completed to a one of her stories about me. Okay. Yeah. The second thing about Trump. This is the second time he's met the White House in an important document.

That's all connected to the same case. He, Jack Smith is testifying on stuff that happened in that first time. Okay. All right. Thank you. Um, so, and let me just say this real quick. Being homeless does not mean that you can't be stupid too.

Yes, I've had somebody ask me for money. And when I handed them a dollar and this lady, she's so crazy. Oh my God, she'd be cracking me up. She said, you ain't got five. And I said, I do not. So you welcome to this dollar or you welcome to wait and ask somebody who might give you five.

You know, she just said I say think about it because the light about the change I got all day But just because you homeless don't mean you can't be stupid. It don't mean you can't be silly. It don't mean you can't be you know Unreasonable Homelessness does not mean that you have clarity of thought and the same way we got ignorant people that they're not homeless But we know them and you do some form

And they're not appreciative. Thank you so much, D. I appreciate you. You do something for them. And they don't. I mean, we got people in our family like that. So just because you homeless, it don't mean that you are not going to have the not thankful gene or the thankful gene. We got people like that every day. It's just that's just human nature. And you can get some jackasses that's homeless all day long because they're ready to be cracking me up. She's like, you ain't got.

No, ma'am. I do that and I do remember one time she made me sell because I see her all the time I feel all the time and she had made me so mad when I Handed her I think I had like two dollars. She was like that's it I Said girl give me my money back as a you know what I came up with you today Like I got a relationship with some of these homeless people. Let me go to the phone line. Hey caller. What's happening? Hello

Hello, Michelle. Hey, how you doing this morning? Hey, I'm blessed. Thank God. He woke me up this morning. I ain't got no complaints. Good. Good. I see right on yesterday. I was on my way to the doctor and I'm like, hey, right out. And it was you that yelled from the car. Yes, that was me. The one and only. The one and only. I knew somebody was there from a distance.

I know you were speaking on how these people are on these islands and you know, we need change in this and the third.

I see this elderly lady over there by the little prison that the ladies got on access to. I felt so my heart just dropped because I looked at her. I said, I know that somebody's my mom. Because she was looking just as old. I said, somebody's my mom. I didn't have any money to give her. But I felt so bad. I said, if that's been my mother, I know she got somebody out here that belongs. Now, where should be? Oh, they don't see.

Six of key. Oh, yeah, right there on key. She was a elderly lady. Yes. Yes. And she'd be out there asking for change. Yeah. She was yesterday and I have anything to give her, but I felt so bad. Man, that's crazy. I know she got some kids somewhere, somebody. Well, I'm gonna tell you sometime the kids be doing just as bad as them. My grandmother, I wouldn't have let it happen. You know what I'm saying? I felt so bad for that lady.

And I understand what you said because not everybody out there is out there doing what you say. I'll say they don't darn you out. But yeah, you know, don't do that out because that could be you. Yeah. No. And I mean, and I think about there are several callers to this show that I know personally who have told me personally that they have experienced bouts of homelessness and being down on a look and needing help.

And, you know, I listen to them now and they sound, you know, amazing and they contributing and they doing a thing and they got back on track. You just can't. I give to some of those people when I can because it could have been me in the lifestyle that I live back in the day. That could have been me still. All right. All right. But I just, you know, just it just made me feel so bad for that ugly lady.

But anyways, I just want to say this real quick, Michelle. Yesterday was my oldest granddaughter birthday. She turned 26. Happy birthday, Cantaria. Of course, she snuck down. I love you. All right. I love it. I love you all. Y'all have a blessed day. And Michelle, call me soon. Yes, ma'am. I got you. And Elise. So, Elise, thank you for asking about me. I appreciate it. And hey, peace to you, Al.

and George and everybody. Y'all have a good day. All right. Thank you, Andrew. Appreciate it. Bye-bye. All right. Bye. All right. Let me, does she sound better? Yeah. Voice sounds stronger. Yes. Um, so let me do this real quick. I wanted to make sure I mentioned this and let me just tell folks, I am going to be sitting in for the first few minutes or so on Keith Pearce's show this morning. Uh, he'll be here, but he has to do something. So I'm going to, um,

I think I opened up a show for him and then he'll come in and he'll join and and take it over from there. So I'm going to talk about him real bad in the first. In the first. And you know what? Let me just say this because I heard the lady yesterday who, you know, after we had teased Keith about being a company man and the call a car key show, she was like, I like the company man. And I was like laughing to myself for shaking my head. And I just want to say to people, let me be clear, you need all types.

You need all types. You need the company guy that can go and sit down and speak with management. You need the person that will protest management and will, you know, push back on management. You need Pookie who will cut management ties if they...

We'll cut you right across your neck. So let me be clear, none of this exists in a vacuum. There is no, like they tell you, it's more than one way to skin a cat. And sometimes you have to employ different strategies. Middle of the road will always get you what you need. I don't care how you think it works. It won't.

And because people were like we always talk about people dealt with Martin because they didn't want to have to deal with Malcolm Malcolm for a long time was that pressure That they was worried with galvanized folks to come kick some dogs in So it was easy to deal with that preacher At least they thought because they didn't appreciate that mouth. I mean that Martin Luther King was willing to die for what he believed

But there's more than one way. So, you know, I chuckled, I smiled at myself and I heard her call in, you know, like anybody messing with Keith, you know, y'all ain't gotta protect him. He thought he a buster. So, you know, but I just, I tell people, you'll be amazed at how things work.

because somebody is out front being a middleman and smiling and you know, able able to facilitate conversation and it's other people standing in the background right behind them. Like, don't sit there and talk to them. Don't walk with them and see what happened. Mess around and find out. That's the way this system works. Whether we appreciate it or not. Um, what I gotta do? You got two calls and then we gotta get up out of here. All right. Let me catch this call. Hey, Carla, what's happening? Oh, yes.

Hey, good morning, Phil. What's going on? How you doing this morning? I am doing great. You know what? I am so glad you keep me real. I'm trying. What's going on? You're doing more than trying. I want to find out. Did you see the information that Elon Musk's girlfriend, former girlfriend, has stated that he cheered on the pre-war election? So what?

I hadn't been able to do is to see it in like some reliable sources enough to be able to really talk about it. But I'm actually going to open up Keith show talking about Elon Musk and the use of the n word in a workplace and what they said in court. So I'll bring what she said in since I'm going to be talking about him. I'll bring that in and we'll discuss it. Yeah, but like she's saying that he used cell life to change the voting machine. And look, none of that is impossible.

None of that is impossible. And some of these companies, in fact, many of the companies that own the voting equipment are Republican, allied, aligned companies. And so people don't trust some of the stuff that we see coming from some of these polling companies. But that equipment is not owned by progressive people. It's owned by Republicans. Yep, it is. We're in trouble.

We're in trouble. I know. Yeah. You guys, you guys stay on. All right. Nice talk to you. All right. Thank you, bro. I appreciate the call. I've got another caller. Let's get to me real quick. I see y'all going crazy over Sendix. Sendix got the shopping in the grocery store. That's upstairs. That's upstairs. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, so I look, I'll talk about it. Let me get this caller. Hey, call it. What's happening? Hello, y'all. Good. How you doing this morning? I'm all right. Thank you. Good.

You know when you said that the dollar is not going to make or break you. That's exactly what my mama used to say. And I agree. So to this day, I give money to whoever I can give it to. I carry snacks around, water. I do that. And in the wintertime, I have care packets with gloves, my little protein bars. My girl.

like that and I give that away as well. Thank you Lord. Lord bless you child. Thank you. You just touched my heart because and I and it just happened organically. I never woke up and said, oh, I'm gonna start carrying snacks around. Oh, I'm gonna do whatever. I had stuff in my truck that was for something else and ran into a group of people that were homeless and you know, we're hungry and I said, look, I don't have no money on me but I got

chips and stuff in the back. I said, would y'all like that? They were like, yeah. And from that day on, I realized I needed to carry certain things around with me to be able to help people. So thank you for saying that. Thank you. You're welcome. All right, y'all. All right. I got to wrap the show. I am going to, like I said, sit in for my man to open a piss show. So please stay tuned if you can. But I want to thank everybody that made

this episode of Say Something Real Go. Jermaine. Clark Kent. Love you, boys. Love you, too. Wait, I'll be back. All right, family. I'll talk to y'all in 15 minutes. Bye.