Unpacking the Politics: AI Data Centers, Josh Glover Story, and Voter Engagement

Good morning. Good morning. What's happening, family? Welcome to the show. It is Michelle Bryan here at WNOV 860 AM 106.5 FM. You are listening to.

Hmm, the Jermaine's Question Wednesday show. It's about to be a long day show. I hate Wednesday show. How do you say, ah, I'll tell you. You know, I'm just saying. The Jermaine about to say something inappropriate show.

I'm just saying all of that. Welcome. Welcome. Strap up. Get ready for the ride this morning. A lot going on. Let me say good morning to one of the brothers in the studio. Watch this one. Because that's the one I like the most. What's going on with you, Clark? Who are you with? Oh, just you this morning. Just you. I wish, I wish, I wish. How you doing this morning, bro? Feeling good. Feeling good. Feeling good. Looking kind of spry over there like the old folks used to say.

Little pep in your step this morning You know and it's not easy because it's getting darker. It's dark when I'm coming out the house in the morning I'm not I'm just say all right. Well, uh, what's going on with you? What's your name? Say his name say his name

No one wants to say it. They don't want to play it. What's going on? Why are you always saying, okay, what you do is sound like church. It sounds like.

Church, you know, I can't get away from it. You know, I'll be I'll be out committing crime. I feel like something like church. You like having church. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is.

It took a couple days off, but he's back. You know, that's why the weather has been amazing because you were off. Yeah, you know, well, I'm back. We got accurate weather reports. Well, I got one. That's even better. Yes. It's over. Nice day to day. Very nice. You're gonna mess it up. It's supposed to be 75.

It's going to be a very nice day. You're going to mess it up, Jermaine. Get out. You're going to mess it up, Jermaine. Go to the flea market. You know, go shopping. Go wash your clothes. We're going out. We're going out. But do it while the sun is up, because when the sun go down, it's going to be a little cool. So have a good day today. Back to you, Bob. Well, you know, Shale. What? You know, the other part segment. What?

of my news guys. You know what today is. I don't. Today is someone asked a question. No one asked a question. And that someone is me. Yes. Well, who put it in the chat? Y'all late. You know what Al? Y'all late. Black people get on my nerves. Al, you know, Michelle had to have a police escort.

because that's how she really come to work every morning. I'm glad everybody knows. I mean, police escort, I mean, we open up the roof and just drop her into her chair. So, you got to be patient on some days. Thank you. You know, sometimes though, it takes time for that Ella, the helicopter to pull over the top of, you know, it was booking them ain't shooting at it. Or the client. Yeah. They heard my show. They heard my show. What's going on with Toya Sykes? Morning, morning, morning. What?

So if January to December is 12 months Why is it that December to January is only one month? Back to you

Jermaine And I don't understand why because let's just say together everyone in the car everyone

folks stepping out the shower who got listening to Alexa. Everybody, let's just say it together. I'm just saying, before you say it, think about it. So from January to December is 12 months, right? Right. So if I go this way is 12 months. So from December to January. So let's let's let's let's do it. Let's do it together, Greenfield. So January to December, there are 12 months. January is one.

June 6th, August's 8th, and so on. Now let's go December to January. No, no, there's no, no, no, no. We're not going backwards. December after December to January is forward. So that's only one month. There's no but there's no but Greenfield has failed again. There's no but.

And you literally say it too. Yeah, so two does not mean going backwards I should have explained it. No, but you know what? Listen, but I'm gonna tell you how cold she is because all of these jokes are really wordplay And she gets certain words. Yeah, that's in the joke. Yeah, so she heard that yeah, January two. Yeah

Okay It was really sneaky intelligence. It's word play All right, here we go December to January it's a new year

All right, y'all. So let's get into it. Take the player off the market and marry this man.

You know who said it. You know who said it. Happiness Donuts. You know who said it. And just so people know, Happiness Donuts is actually the name of a person listening on Facebook YouTube. Take this player off the market. Marry this man.

Look, here come Kim's subs. This is why Michelle wears out of time discussing the news every day. Kim told us I stop talking to him. She literally said, this is why we wear out of time every day.

Oh, y'all so, they so cold and ruthless, man. I can't stand black people. It's like, I like yeets who loves black people all over the world. I can't stand them. I can't stand them. All right.

Couple of things this morning. Uh, got guests coming in at eight o'clock hour. Yep. Can we go? We're not a time again. And, uh, let me say good morning to everybody checking in on YouTube, Facebook. I see one of my, my favorite people, Latoya Sykes. What's going on, girl? How you doing this morning? Hey, Solis. Hey, out of line. Uh, bring them back up, Clarks. I can see my people. Uh, a, uh, let's see who else is on there. Sub T C. See you. Uh,

What's going on? Look, Granny Franny, who is that? What's going on? That's the first time I've seen him there. Granny Franny. B.I. Fishin' 414. What's going on, Kelly? What's happening, y'all? What's up, Terry? Hey, Barbara, how you doing this morning, sis? And, uh, Orvana, what's happening? What's happening? I see some of my sorrows checking in this morning. Uh, and who, who was first?

You know, he was first. Da, da, da, da. E-Val, kid. Yeah. Good morning to you. All right, y'all. Let me jump into it. What's going on, Kelly? Good morning. Good morning. I know I got a call. Hold in, but give me a sec because I want to try to work through some things real quick. First of all, let me just say that Milwaukee made national news.

the story that we discussed yesterday regarding the person impersonating a substitute teacher was on world news tonight. I just want to say that and now to the point that one of the bros made in the building this morning, now she want to play crazy. At first I know what I'm doing. I was bored. I went up to the school to mess

with these kids that I don't like. But now you cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs and I'm gonna need, you know, a mental competency hearing because you're talking about, I mean, you're potentially looking at 21 years. Play stupid games. You get stupid consequences. You get stupid prizes. So that was one thing is that we made national news last night for this situation with the sister going up to King.

pretending to be a teacher. Another thing I wanted to mention, we have had a lot of conversation about the AI data centers. Oh wait, let me back up, let me back up, let me stop, let me stop, because I meant to start here. Let me acknowledge the passing of one of my favorite singers, Freddie Jackson.

Freddie Jackson was born October 2nd, 1956 in Harlem, New York, passed away a few days after his 70th birthday on October 5th. This brother's career spans some of the most fun years of my life. And his music was frequently the backdrop to a lot of my shenanigans and my good times at college.

And just many of the more, just like I said, amazing times growing up, learning who I am, what I like. And a lot of people had seen Freddie Jackson kind of over the years and noticed a tremendous amount of weight loss.

and that they knew that, you know, he had been struggling with his health. So he began singing gospel music at White Rock Baptist Church at an early age in Harlem. Started his career in the New York club scene, eventually making his way out west with the band Mystic. Merlin in the late 70s, he returned to New York and released his debut album, Lord Have Mercy, Rock Me Tonight.

1985, which made him an instant star. His sophomore album 1987 is just like the first time was also certified platinum. During his career, he contributed to the soundtrack. All dogs go to heaven. He continued to release music until 2019. In 2024, Freddie Jackson was diagnosed with kidney disease in a video that he actually shared on social media.

And he said, quote, this journey has had its challenges, but I've decided to face it with openness and resilience. It's important to me that I share this with you, not just as a part of my personal story, but a way to make a positive difference. At that time, Freddie Jackson revealed that he had partnered with the National Kidney Foundation to raise awareness of the disease. His family, when they talked about losing him,

on social media they said quote Jackson was a congenerous soul whose music was a soundtrack to our love stories celebrations and treasured memories uh so that's what we know so far about my man and um you are my lady i mean i don't care it's timeless

It doesn't sound dated when you hear it. It is timeless. I don't care. You're gonna tap. You're gonna, you're gonna move. You're gonna want to get up. And let me be clear, the famous broches. You know, Freddie Jackson, he's wearing broches. We used to mess with him back in the day. Yeah. But bros, it was a few bros that was rocking their pins the way Freddie Jackson.

This is where it appears. So, you know, don't want to let this brother's passing go unacknowledged. But somebody said, Freddie was definitely one of my favorites and the best. His music got me through a lot. Heavenly peace. I couldn't. Yeah, couldn't agree more. So I just wanted to acknowledge that that this brother has transitioned. So what I wanted to say.

Aside from that is we have spent some time talking about the whole flock camera situation and There is a Well before I even say the flock piece just AI data centers, let me start there the AI data centers and there is a meeting of the Common Council coming up next week in which they're going to be talking about

whether or not there will be moratoriums on the data centers for, you know, at least a year while they work out logistics, you know, in terms of either what kinds of rules they want to put in place, you know, environmental regulations, zoning laws. And so it was approved in the Milwaukee City Plan Commission. They voted unanimously, and I mentioned that before, to endorse the one-year ban.

on letting these AI data centers go up anywhere within the city limits. The Common Council is set to take a full vote on it on next week or next Tuesday. And you can watch that on the city channels if you don't choose to go down to City Hall to watch it in person. The reason this is top of mind for me is because in Memphis yesterday,

there was a vote on whether or not they would do a moratorium on AI data centers in Memphis. Also made national news. When I say punches got thrown, more than 200 people showed up, it was crazy. And they were like, what do you mean?

you not going to allow the vote so that this thing is put on hold and we can study this and we can get more information. So this is a conversation that is literally exploding all over the nation in terms of where these data centers are being located.

do we understand yet the health implications of having them in our community? You're talking about communities typically that are rural or either urban communities, the emissions, do they contribute to respiratory problems, asthma in children? People are trying to figure all of this out. And whether you have the industry itself, some of their people saying, hey,

We need to slow this train down a bit. They're talking about it for very different reasons, not environmental, but because of what is possible. With this technology and the way that they can do a work around human commands and go rogue, but.

It is good to watch what we are getting ready to do in the city of Milwaukee in relationship to this. I know that both of the gubernatorial candidates have been asked about, you know, where they are on this issue. The mayor has been asked about where he is on this issue. And a lot of us, while we are paying attention, Alderman Alex Brower, yep.

You are so absolutely correct. Happy to start us. Put that in there. Alex, who has come to this station has been very, very intentional about making sure now, you know, he didn't have to do it because we see so many other folks that don't do it.

but he had he had been very intentional about making sure he was going anywhere he could go to educate our community about some of the issues and the challenges we were facing. And so kudos to Alex Brower, Alderwoman Marina Dimitrievich introduced the legislation or the whatever they call it. I don't know if there's this call legislation, resolution to whatever is called the city, but she introduced it.

But it is something to be said for folks who go that extra mile. And Alex, while he came in, Alderman Brower came in, these other persons can easily pick up the phone and say, hey, I just want to make sure the community knows A, B, and C. It's so simple. And I understand that, you know, people got 100 things going on, but because I've worked in a legislative office, because I watched an effective legislator do it, because I know what it looks like, it's not like it can't be done.

And as opposed to a town hall meeting where you may reach 30, 40 people in your district, you can reach hundreds and thousands of people coming and calling into a radio station and doing that extra.

step to make sure people are informed and educated. I just don't understand. I just continue not to understand why people don't take advantage of these tools to reach the community and the constituents that they serve. It's asinine to me. And in your one hour town hall meeting, same people, same people.

But you you have an ability to have such a greater impact and do more to educate our community and people just just choose not to do it and it's so frustrating, but That is going on. So I'm up against my first break. So let me take that right now If do I still have a caller? I'll get let me get to the caller before I go to the break. Hey caller. What's happening? Thank you so very much miss Michelle What you JT how you doing this morning, sir?

I'm doing quite well, young lady. How about you? Cannot complain. And good morning to the gentleman in the house. How are you doing, gentlemen? Good morning, Jay Tizzle. Yeah, I like the harmony. Coordinating. Coordinating. You know, I like that. Hey, Michelle, quickly. I saw a channel Six of News this morning where I mentioned again about the young lady that went to Rufus King.

Yes. Did you talk about yesterday, uh, kind of a story about, um, her trying to also establish that she did help. She was suffering from a mental illness. And a matter of fact, after that incident, she checked herself into the, uh, I'm sure she did. I'm sure she did after that. Right. And what happened? She, uh, they delayed sending her medications to her. So she didn't receive her medication. I just ain't trying to hear it.

the stuff that that girl was saying in that room. I'm just not sure. I'm just not sure. That's what she said was true. What she told white kids. She can miss me. She can miss me with the mental health shooting. No. Even though she was suffering from mental illness, Michelle. She told truth. JT. She was talking about giving oral sex. Well, yeah, she got to that point, too, because for mental illness, the half the thing she said, Michelle, was true. JT. White people do go up into the schools and do mass shooting. JT. JT.

Come on. People have been separated. People have been separated from white JT. She was suffering from mental illness. No, sir. I know. I'm going to have to hear from some most specialists, not just what her attorney said. I'm going to need to see the doctor's reports because JT number one, it wasn't the first time she did it.

Well, because you suffer from mental illness, Michelle. She's been, she's taken medication. Okay. Well, I'll tell you what, we're going to let it play out and see what happens in court because right now I'm not convinced. Yeah, but we were right about one thing yesterday. I mean, the king did drop the ball. Then they're getting there in the first place. They should have some type of all monitoring because that's what I was going to say. They have all monitors.

to check the hallways and stuff to make sure people are not cutting in the screw and stuff like that. So, with this King did drop the ball on that. I mean, we can go right to the secretary because when she went into office and told somebody, I'm here for the sub position. Like I said, I don't know what the protocol is and the secretary or whoever greeted her may have done exactly what the protocol is. What's the protocol? Because I don't want to just hear the principal of King talking about, you know, we dropped the ball. Tell me what was the protocol?

So I understand how the ball got dropped. What was that woman or supposed to do when she got there, if she was a legitimate sub, what in fact were you supposed to do? Do you show ID? Do we check your name off against, you know, because again, in most of those back in the day, I went online and fielded out that I wanted to sub at the school that day. So when I got there, I gave them my name. They could see that I was supposed to be the sub.

What's the process? Because it was more than just a security officers at King that dropped the ball. Somebody in that damn office dropped the ball too. So when I used to substitute at Harande back in the 80s, I used to substitute as a, I was a substitute teacher then also. And I had to go to the office and check in. They said, let me just really, really walk into a classroom or something like that. So you're right Michelle, you have to go through some type of process and try to check in.

before you go to any classroom. So yeah, I appreciate what you're saying, because I also thought that too, as a teacher. And one more thing, Michelle, before I go. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. The most creepiest commercial. Hey, that Republican said, try to put out the Donald Trump. Now, this creepy commercial I saw, I'm looking by this, I've seen it yet. But it's a black and white commercial.

featuring Donald Trump, walking down some corridor somewhere. Yeah, he walked through the hallways. Right. Walked through a hallway talking about all the evil things he wants to do. That's Donald Trump. That's Donald Trump's own commercial. He produced that commercial. Yeah. That's the one he tried to charge taxpayers $20 million to run on TV. Right. And at the bottom going to say, uh, funded by the federal government, I say that's, that's, that was a lie. It was. They, they did pay, they pay for it.

And because it's an all commercial Donald Trump used it in his campaign. So it's a political ad. He then runs it again and then says it's a public service announcement and charges the taxpayers twenty million dollars in terms of paying to add the companies and television media markets to run it. And so now there's been so much backlash that he has finally said I will refund the twenty million dollars that was paid.

by taxpayers, but yeah, no, he created that commercial. That is his commercial that he had created for him. Yeah. The reason why I said it was so creepy because it reminded me of some of the old footage I used to see on PBS when they was talking about Adolf Hitler. Yeah. Adolf Hitler had the same type of propaganda commercials back in the 1940s that he did with that black and white commercial walking down that corridor. That's the first thing I thought about was Adolf Hitler.

And it's funny that you said that because when I first saw the commercial, I said to myself, man, this looked like a dictatorship commercial. But that's what he's been behaving like the whole time. I promise you on your own single handedly decide to tear down a third of the White House.

One of the most historic and iconic buildings in this country and quite frankly around the world when you start thinking about all the different landmarks around the world So and thank you JT. I appreciate the call this morning, brother But yeah, but he's been acting like you know This he's been doing it the whole time Yeah, the whole this man literally has been functioning in this way the whole time You know, I can't put my name on a building. I tear the damn build it down

Who does this? I'm going to take my ball and leave the park. Yeah, but you tearing up everything along the way. Let me do this. Let me take a quick commercial break, try to work some other things in before my guests get here. Michelle Bond, WNOV, 860 AM, 106.5 FM. We'll be right back, y'all. All right, family, welcome back to the show. Let me just take a second to flag something. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of being over at Marshall High School.

join the League of Women Voters in efforts to get students registered to vote. Doing that on behalf of Monster Rorty, Delta Sigma Theta, as a part of our efforts to increase civic engagement in our community. And one of the things that got flagged later in a conversation, because we were seeing a number of young students who do not have ID,

So first first plea if you are a guardian caregiver parent Family member of a young person 17 and up Please assist them to get a state ID card even if they don't have a driver's license Many of these young students could not register because they did not have ID I was actually surprised the number of students that don't know their social security number

Our parents kept a lot of our information. By the time these kids start turning 17, 18, it's time to make sure that these children know their own information or that these young people know their own information. I will say that. But the other thing that came up as a result of this conversation later, not connected to anything at the school, was something that I wasn't abreast of.

But many young people who are applying for federal financial aid, they are now seeing random checks that they have to provide a copy of their state ID or driver's license when they apply for federal financial aid. And until that identity is verified, these students may not be approved.

So this actually went into effect in 2025. Donald Trump and his immigration efforts and trying to, you know, figure out who belongs, who doesn't belong, who we can penalize, who we can hurt. They developed a new requirement to show a valid government issued ID.

Students that were going to school in the summer for first-time applicants, their applications could be flagged by the Department of Education for potential student aid fraud. Applicants had to show their ID in person or through a video call to prove their identity. The department cited multiple efforts from community colleges of mass fraud. It says cost states and federal government millions of dollars of aid.

as many as 125,000 students who filed for federal financial aid over the summer of last year, face stricter, I'm sorry, identification requirements. And so that was a soft lunch. It is in full blown gear at this time.

Many of you who went to college, who apply for federal financial aid, you know that this was not a thing. This was not a requirement. So there will be young people that are trying to do their paperwork to get ready to go to college, and they won't have those state IDs yet if they're not driving, which will hold up their process. They'll go ahead and take the information, but they're going to have to come back and do that verification piece on that student ID. I mean, I'm sorry, on their identity. So please.

If you got 17 year olds, definitely 18 year olds, go ahead and get those young people to the DMV so that they can start getting their IDs because this is also potentially something that impacts them when they are enrolling to go to college. Just wanted to make sure I said that. And then the other thing, since I'm on education, let me mention this. As of July 1st of this year,

There are a number of people who go to graduate school. You end up paying for graduate school yourself. You used to get something called the grad plus loan. Going forward, you will no longer be able to get a grad plus loan because of Donald Trump's ignorant, big, beautiful act. Remember, they went through and they changed, I'm sorry, they changed the rules about what was considered a professional degree.

So who could borrow, you know, more money, like maybe I think it was $50,000. If you were going to school to be a doctor or something like that, but if you're going to school to be a teacher or a social worker, you could only borrow to $25,000 in some of these programs. And a lot of people have to pay for their own education.

So what they did is new borrowers will become new borrowers people who are new to the table will be completely blocked from taking out grad plus loans existing borrowers if you already had a federal loan Before the July 1st went into effect. You are grandfathered in but only for three years or you hit Or you graduate so

If you take longer than three years to finish that program, you will not be eligible for grad plus loans after that third year. The program and access ends completely in June of 2029. I know that there are some people that are listening to this show that use this program to pay for their education. So make sure you understand those rules. You should have started getting letters in the mail reminding you, educating you that this was happening.

I have never seen an administration so hell bent on making access to education more difficult. And it becomes a situation of the haves versus the have nots because people who have traditionally had to scuffle and work and bust their behind to be able to pay for education. You've had to rely on student loans to help you do that. Many of those access paths are being cut off. We are going to begin to see more people being kept in a permanent underclass.

As folks have said repeatedly, my way out in a lot of circumstances has been education. My way out has been education. Yesterday, I was scrolling through the phone, saw a quick reel about two young brothers, their twins, who said that, you know, dirt poor.

lived in a house that had no running water, just all of the things that go with being impoverished. And they talked about going to the hospital with a family member who, um, I think has sclerosis of the liver and, you know, because of drinking. And they said they were 12 years old and the doctor who waited on their uncle was extremely rude and indifferent to their uncle's medical situation. Basically said, that's what he did. And.

you know, just dismissed the family and walked off. And the two young brothers at 12 years old looked at each other and said, now we could do better than that. And they set themselves on a journey to become medical doctors. They now run an emergency department at a major hospital. And it is only through loans.

that they are able to go and there's some academic scholarships that they're able to go to the best schools in the country. But it was education was the pathway out. If those resources are not there, there are many people who will not be able to go to school. So I wanted to make sure that I am flagging this stuff. We have got to figure out what are all the avenues and the ways that young people can pay for college. I have said before we tell young people

you know, get good grades while you in K-12 so you can go to school, get good grades, get good grades. These children get these grades and then when it's time to go to school, don't nobody have no money. Parents haven't been able to save enough money to pay for college. The government is restricting a lot of access to dollars and resources and eventually you will see many of those kids who could have gone to college making a different choice.

Because they are forced to not because they want to So I just wanted to mention that let me also take a moment since we're talking about education to tell you all Something that I just it just bothered me Working in former Judge Taylor then Senator Taylor's legislative office, you know, the Joshua Glover story was etched in our brain

Lena Taylor loved Ezekiel Gillespie and history and she loved the Joshua Glover story because it is about resistance and fighting for yourself and you know what it looks like when community shows up and using the letter of the law to be able to gain access particularly when it comes to voting and or your freedom. Okay so one of my colleagues went to an event that was basically a there's a short

movie that has been done about the Joshua Glover story called Liberty at stake. Okay. And he brought me back a copy of what looks like kind of, for lack of a better word, a prospectus, like they're trying to find additional funding so that they can make it a longer.

film and, you know, they talk about their distribution objectives. They want to get it on Netflix, PBS. They want to get it, you know, in our public schools, in our libraries. So there's this whole effort underway. OK. So as I'm flipping through, because I, too, love the Joshua Glover story, Joshua Glover fugitive enslaved person back in 1854.

5,000 people rallied to his aid, you know, to get him out of jail. Okay. So I'm flipping through and I'm looking at everything and then I get to this page and on this page, there are a plethora of Republicans. Ron Johnson, former Wisconsin governor, Tommy Thompson.

Scott Walker, education assassin himself, former speaker of the House, Paul Ryan. And I'm like, what the hell is all these Republicans doing in a story about Joshua Glover? So there's these two little black faces on here, what three? Because it's John Ridley, the filmmaker, Mayor Cavalier Johnson, and Robert Woodson, founder of the Woodson Center.

which is you know a history thing and So I talked to people because I hadn't seen it the clip at the time but I talked to people who had used it I mean had seen it and people walked away with

are not in their stomach because they felt like they had just watched the propaganda piece because the Republican Party keeps trying to figure out ways to connect themselves to black folks. So they put up the pictures of Frederick Douglass. They like to tell people that Martin Luther King was a car carrying member of the Republican Party. You know, they keep trying to convince black people we used to ride with y'all. But the reality is none of those people, if they were alive today,

would be bothered with the Republican Party at all. So I took a moment to do an op-ed in the Milwaukee Courier. I want to just take a quick second and read what I wrote because I need people to understand when we see stuff.

And I don't care if it's black faces connected to it or not. And I really wanted to ask the mayor, even though I know as the mayor, you know, there has to be some degree of neutrality, but I'm like, you literally allowed yourself to be a part of a partisan piece of propaganda by the Republicans trying to prop themselves up like they give a damn about black folks. So this is what I say in my article in the Milwaukee Courier. The title.

Message to the GOP. Joshua Glover is not a campaign prop. There's something profoundly cynical and irritating about using Joshua Glover to sell Black Wisconsinites a story about Republican, I can't talk cause of my teeth, Republican inclusion. Yes, tell the story of Joshua Glover and the nearly 5,000 Wisconsinites who rallied in Milwaukee in 1854 to rescue him.

Glover had escaped slavery and was being held in a local jail under the Fugitive Slave Act. Area residents risked arrest, violence, and imprisonment because they believed that slavery was wrong and that Glover deserved his freedom. But as the kids used to say, this ain't that. In a 12-minute documentary, Liberty Estates, the Joshua Glover story, Wisconsin Republicans have turned this courageous act into a Republican campaign commercial. The filmmakers

connected Joshua Glover's rescue to the birth of the Republican Party. Republican groups have been promoting the short film, enlisting black Republicans and local black leaders to be a part of the project and use black and brown children to help entertain unwitting attendees at an event that they recently held. I want to be clear, telling Glover's story isn't the issue.

The problem is Republican leaders using that history to suggest that today's GOP is the natural heir to that legacy. They have tried it before, trying out Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr. photos and invoking their names as proof that the Republican Party stands for freedom and racial equality. Again, this ain't that. None of these men would likely be welcome in today's Republican Party for their stance on racial oppression, discrimination, and unequal political power.

All three men in varying forms confronted racial oppression, demanded fundamental changes to America's political, economic, and social systems. To invoke their names while avoiding the substantive, I'm sorry, the substance of their demands is to sanitize their legacies and shield the changing values of the Republican Party.

Black folks are being asked to believe in the aspiration of a film rather than confront the realities of harm they face at the hands of Republican rhetoric, policies, and laws. Perhaps they want us to ignore the November ballot question that would prohibit state and local governments from implementing certain DEI initiatives. They're hoping we won't remember their work to gerrymandered districts, refusal to formally recognize Black history and efforts to denounce Black History Month resolutions.

A 12-minute film can erase recent work to diminish voting rights, steal elections, call black voters dishonest, and diminish the very tools communities have used to confront racial inequity. Our history is not a campaign prop that can be repackaged to manufacture political credibility. Joshua Glover was a human being fighting for his freedom.

The Wisconsinites who helped him were people confronting a moral crisis. The people who rescued him were not looking for black votes or credit. They were not trying to rehabilitate a political party. They acted because they believed something was wrong and they were willing to risk everything to make it right. That is the real lesson of Joshua Glover and it has been marred by Republican attention seeking and manipulation.

So I want to be clear. For the black folks that participated in the project, thought it was a great idea. You know, we're going to tell this amazing story. Understand, as far as I'm concerned, you was being used in a false narrative, used in propaganda, used to try to convince black people that these folks today give a dang about what's happening to you all.

used, used, and used some more. And then you used our babies, our children, over at Milwaukee High School of the Arts to help you push this nonsense. We have got to be smarter.

We have got to be more intentional. We have got to be thoughtful. You need to use that third I listen with that third ear and pay attention when people come Hawking their wares to you but anytime you open up a booklet and all these white Republican men who today core have done things to harm this community You got to ask yourself. Okay, so what exactly is this? What we doing I? Promise you

This is exactly how we go get in trouble on that ballot referendum because these people package this stuff in a way, you know, we got this handsome picture of Joshua Glover on the The little prospectus book they out trying to raise their money mail checks to our nonprofit fiscal sponsor living stories and in you know, you got all these people But this is some Republican nonsense

Trying to convince Black people, don't look at what we do to y'all every day with our policies to harm y'all community and cheat y'all out of political power and representation. Go back and reminisce about the good old time when the white folks broke Joshua Glover out the jail. Let me go to the phone line. Hey, Carla, what's happening? Hello? Good morning. Good morning.

This is Judge Taylor. Hey Judge Taylor. How you doing this morning? I'm doing well. I have heard that there was a question whether or not somebody called me to participate in potentially an interview about Joshua Glover. Oh, yeah, your name is actually mentioned in the book. Wait, let me turn it off. It's a lie. It's a lie. And I need everybody to know it's a lie.

I do not appreciate my name being used as hard as I've been working to stay in my new lane. In my new role in my new column, not to speak on vote, not to speak on issues, not to speak on things because in my new role, that's not what I do. And what I can do, especially on partisan issues. So I do not appreciate.

whoever has used my name and used my name and my image in that way, it's a lie and the people should know that.

All right. Thank you. That's all I called to say to make the record straight. All right. I appreciate it. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. And so for folks that are listening, what she's referring to, because as I said, this little booklet looks like a prospectus in which they go and they show it to funders to get support to be able to make this project a full feature length movie. And then they say subject matter experts and they say H. Robert Baker, Claybourne Benson, Lucas Weber,

And there's V ebb er. So I'm saying it right Any time I see Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty my hair is on the back of my neck stand up because I already know what they beyond Cavalier Johnson William Woolley and then it says perspective interviews so people we may talk to for the fuller fence feature length film Doris Kearns Goodwin Lena Taylor Joanne pieces either Joanne or Joan freedom Freeman Leanna Keith

And so, um, yeah, this what they're using to sell, you know, we want to raise money because we making this project. But I'm telling y'all, this is a Republican propaganda piece. Just like you go to their office and the pictures of Frederick Douglass is in there and the Martin Luther King stuff is in there. None of these people.

would be bothered with the Republican Party today in the current shape that it is in right now. As you cheat us and figure out ways to redistrict our communities so that you stretch down in Tennessee a representative's district across 13 counties.

You're trying to dilute black power, black voices, black people in the building at every possible turn. Do not fall for the okey-doke. Let me go to the phone line. Hey, caller, what's happening? Good morning. Good morning. I sent you a text entitled, How Talk About Hilton Hotel or Something.

in New York in 84, something like that, paid 400 and some millions for it and then went bankrupt for 3.25 and it shows all the details of how he became who he is without any money. I want you to look at that and present it as you presenting this stuff this morning.

so that we can become more educated. And you're ever gonna, I thank you as a mofo, I thank you as a mofo on the radio and the TV. All right. Appreciate it. All right, so let me take my break. I'll be right back. And we welcome back to the show. So I told you all that I had guests coming into the studio this morning. They have arrived. Actually, I think I got some gifts in the studio. Well, maybe not for me.

But for folks that are going to be civically engaged, there's a lot of work being done to get the community to understand a what's at stake in terms of voting and being.

you know, a person that takes advantage of the opportunity to weigh in, make your voice heard and be known, and a number of collaborations and partnerships have emerged in doing this work. And so I am pleased this morning to welcome in a person who wears like a thousand hats. I'm gonna let her tell us which hat she's wearing today. Wanda Montgomery, who we know is the Village Board President in the great city of Brown Deer, Village of Brown Deer. Oh, that's a nice bracelet.

I'm sorry, I got distracted. I got distracted. No, sorry. You know I love silver. We're going to need to talk about that bracelet. Okay. Good morning, Wanda. How you doing this morning? I am well. Good morning, Michelle, and to Mr. Jermaine and Clark Kent. Really? Thank you. You know, we have big knowledge all of everybody. Do we? Do we?

We should. Everybody. The big baby. Don't pull that mic down. Nobody would hear from you. Every now and again, you gotta show yourself friendly. Really? Show yourself friendly. That sounds inappropriate. That's what the people say in church. That does.

We also are joined in studios by another sister who gets it and does a lot of work

Yeah, I think working keeps you looking young because both of them looking amazing up here. What's happening today, ma'am? How you doing? I'm doing well. I'm doing well. I want to be here. Well, look, so let me start off with you because again, I don't know which hat, you know, because well, you know what? Tell me what we're doing today. It's our relatives. Everything I do is around really supporting families, children and families. But really, how do we?

get information out to our community. And if you want to get it out, and I heard you earlier, come into WNOV, you're going to get a lot more exposure than having a meeting here or there. And then people can pass the word on. But we are here today because we know that a lot of our people are not as engaged as they should be. So we have partnered Black Child Development Institute.

has partnered with the aka sorority sororities. I'm playing parenthood with funding from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation to do a campaign around get out the vote. I'm sorry. I need to end the interview. You said the aka. Well.

Let me guess, let me guess. I need to hear this. I need to hear this. Women, black women, and I know, and we're going to get to the doubt.

because I also now said, how can we all work together? We don't play. We don't play. We can get out to vote. And you know, we have, we've already talked. You know, I'm giving y'all a hard time. I mean, I was on the call with AK's every night. So, you know. I've worked with everybody. I'm not in any sorority. I'm not in any sorority, but I respect all of y'all.

So, so believe it, talk about this, this collaboration, this partnership, how you guys come to the table and why this is important to your organization as well. So, um, Bo Her Power Wisconsin is about recognizing and activating. Say the name again. So we Bo Her Power Wisconsin. Bo Her Power Wisconsin. I like it. Yes. Yes. Yes. So we are by recognizing and activating the political power of women, encouraging informed, meaning.

participation in the electoral process. And since we are Alpha Kappa Alpha, we're the women. See how you did your hard work? Did you hear it? So this work really, really does a line work.

So this work really aligns with the civic engagement piece and the advocacy piece of what we do. Now, your sorrows is checking in. Don't text me. Don't text me. All right, so look, tell me what this collaboration looks like then, because many of us, as a part of our mission statements, our core operating beliefs and values, it is about engagement, empowerment, civic responsibility.

translating that to on the ground and how we motivate people, get them interested. So what what does this collaboration entail? So let me just say this and then I'll defer to Felida. But I met a young woman who's an A.K.A. Her name is Gabrielle Gray. We met last year at Congressional Black Caucus. Okay. And what attracted me to her first was her last name because that's my maiden name. And then I found out she was from Milwaukee. And I said, let's

Let's see how we might be able to do some work together. And we begin to talk. Then I saw RFP come up at the Greater Milwaukee Foundation where they were giving up to $20,000 to local groups to get out the vote. And I contacted her and at the same time, she shared with me that the AKAs were looking to do something. So we applied for a joint.

proposal from Greater Milwaukee Foundation. So I say that because people need to know their organizations that will support the work you're doing, if it's for the greater good and a greater cause. And so they funded it. We've been working since June to get out the boat. We were at Juneteenth, and I got these beautiful bags. It says, boat is in the bag.

Vote like your bag depends on it or your voters in the bag your voters in the ballot Bottom line if you have not registered to vote and you get registered you can get one of these bags along with all the information we have available and Juneteenth, I think we gave out like 250

of the bag. Yeah, and people was walking all around and it was showing up at our booth to see if they could get a bag. But it's not just getting a bag, it's doing the work because we need everybody, everybody to vote every election. But this one is very, very important. So we need you out there. And Felida? So we were really, really excited when

Gabby approached us. I function and have been the chair of the Connection and Social Action Committee for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, which is the regional arm to the international arm. And like I said earlier, we are really, really, really into just being civically engaged. And so at our Boulay in July, National President Charlotte Wilson-Jax kicked off

the what is Empower 08 and what does that look like? And so basically in alignment with some of the goals that Wanda and Gabby have kind of laid out, we thought, hey, we want to get in on it. And so it was a way for us to really, really kind of bring home our civic engagement initiative, which is to educate eight.

which is to mobilize eight and to get out to vote eight. So simple. What does that last word you're saying? Are you saying eight? Like the number eight is that number? So when you say educate eight, like each soror is responsible for educating eight people. Yes. And what's the significance of the number eight? So the significance of number eight is, you know, we were founded in 1908. Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. So we're just pulling all of that into 13.

I just thought everybody should know what the eight was about. It just takes that a little bit closer to the mission of what we do, the founding of Alpha Kappa Alpha in 1908, and instead of thinking of civic engagement as something is something abstract.

We want to activate that. So we want people to pull in eight people, educate eight people. And this can go beyond Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Let's just be real clear here, right? This is something that we all can do. It is simple enough because as you know, this midterm is really, really important and the presidential, but this is an ongoing thing, right? We should just be doing this anyway, educating.

you know, the constituents about the importance of election. Well, let me just say two things. First of all, when I saw the bag, I kind of had to smile because the language, I was like, somebody young, younger, designed this bag because vote like your bag depends on it. You know, in the bag, the word bag is green. For a lot of young people in the community, when you talk about that bag, they talk about money.

You know, and so as you, who would Clark like? And so as you were trying to, like, you know, because there are all kinds of things that motivate people to show up at the polls. We talk about the historical aspect. They post die so we could be here. And there are some people like, Hey, that's not enough. That doesn't resonate enough. People are not connected enough to that history to appreciate that, that angle. So what else do we have? What are the other ways by which we have these conversations?

When I talked to some young people who were working with me on a voter engagement project They told me they voted for Donald Trump because he gave him a stimulus check. Yeah. Yeah Some people have been reaching out to me George Lawson texts me every morning Michelle Please talk about this $500 that Donald Trump is promising people because people think that they're gonna get money people heard the five thousand

dollars you know potentially if the Republicans you know maintain control this is not a partisan conversation this is just about that monetary and the money piece of it but when I saw that tagline vote like your bag depended on it because I'm talking about the whole bag right not I'm talking about health care

How much I'm paying for that? I'm talking about childcare. I'm talking about housing affordability, gas, food share. It's a huge bag. The things that we have to be concerned about, it is so vast and it impacts every single aspect. As I sat here, I'm looking at all three of us have on glasses. I was at a voting event yesterday and this woman was talking to me about my glasses that I had on.

We both laugh because we both go to the same place to get our glasses. And in that same breath, we both had a moment because we realized how much these glasses cost. And if you are uninsured, underinsured, and this isn't just about defying my prescription alone, we'll mess up somebody's pocket blank. And now I don't have a choice about the prescription. I got a choice about what the frame looks like. So when I saw that, I so appreciated that slogan.

vote like your bag depends on it, because it literally touches every aspect of our lives. But what have you all been seeing by way of response? Or are there numbers statistically that have said that why the focus on women is a women's role in the household, how they drive outcomes? Why the focus on women? Well, first of all, for us, for Black child development, we work with families.

specifically, we work on behalf of Black children and their families. For us, some of the things that are on the ballot this time are going to directly impact, you know, we talk about things that have already happened with the SNAP benefits being reduced, health care premiums going up. This stuff is real. And if you're not paying attention, the things that you thought you were, I mean, go to the grocery store now.

Stuff that you bought a few I was in there not too long ago, and I think I saw there was eggs are Off the chain look at gas All of this is impact our votes may make the difference and because of who we have currently in the administration They're making all kind of decisions spending money like

There's a hole in the bucket and we paying for it. We're paying for it. So don't be fooled by I'm gonna send you 500 if the Republicans or $90 for Medicare or Medicare. Here's the issue. If you can do it after the election, you can do it now because you in charge. So why do you gotta wait? That's what I'm talking about.

That part so if you can do it do it now right do it now, right? I like that Thank you, and it's just if I can just jump in there is just so much information misinformation that is out there right and Women Typically traditionally have been the ones have been able to come you know to correct the narrative if you will I recently had a procedure

talking about how astronomical prices, especially medical care can be, got a bill and a mail after my procedure in June and thought, my God, if I am underinsured or have no insurance,

How does this get paid? No, let me let me just say we and I've talked about on the air I know she doesn't mind your sorority sister location Myers when her mom was going through her medical situation We opened one of the bills her mom, you know time from MPS had you know great insurance, but that bill a million dollars Yeah, yes, and I am a million dollars. How do you do that? And how do you do that a million dollars?

So I mean, you know, and I and I've been lamenting the fact I got to go this morning to the dentist $5,000 for me to fix one tooth in my mouth that part uninsured. Yeah in terms of dental. Yes five green

You know, so these are real conversations in relationship to how we address that. I'm gonna take a quick break, but for people that need information, because one, I see you got vote writers, you got different things. We'll talk about what folks should understand, getting ready to go vote on November 3rd. Folks got ballots sitting on their tables. We're doing everything we can to educate people on the referendum questions, but we'll hear from these sisters on the other side. Be right back, y'all.

All right, folks. So I am so thrilled this morning to have a couple of minutes to talk to some organizations that have come together to figure out how to increase step of civic engagement, voter awareness, you know, talk about the issues that are impacting our community and the role that we all can play. And, you know, there will be times when, like, in this case, we're talking about her power. I talked on yesterday about

The effort that the NAACP a hundred black men and I think there's six Urban League six organizations that have come to the table and on October 24th They are doing a black man vote event, you know trying to get brothers all over the country. They were

you know, aiming for 100,000 brothers to go and vote on October 24th in their respective states. So, you know, we understand that constituencies will come together and form. So this alliance and who all is at the table remind people want to who the partners are in this effort. The partners are Black Child Development, a.k.a. sororities, Planned Parenthood, and our funder is Greater Milwaukee Foundation.

and an extension to Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Look, we all gonna get this work done. It is absolutely imperative. So before I went to the break, you know, just kind of raising some of the things that, you know, motivates us to be out here, why we do this work. I see Wanda, you got a document in front of you that mentions the SAVE Act. We talked about what's at stake.

Are there other things that you would say to folks to kind of help them understand why this is so important? Yes. So Michelle has talked about this before on her show, and I know she'll probably mention it again. But when we talk about voting, we know that we elect whoever is on the ballot that we believe is going to best represent us. And there are a number of candidates all up and down, all of these state offices, some local

campaigns might be as well as referendums. A lot of communities have school district referendums, and we know that there are three constitutional referendums for the entire state. We have information on that, how it might impact you, and what I tell people, if you don't understand something, it's kind of like you go in and somebody says, sign this, and you don't understand it. You don't understand it, don't sign it.

If you don't understand it, if you read it and you got to read it four times and you don't understand it, do not mark it. Or if you understand it and you know the impact, say no. I can't, I can tell you how I'm voting. No, no, and no again. And these are all the referendum questions. All the constitution, Wisconsin constitutional changes for the three referendums.

I'm voting no. If you hear me in the back of the room, y'all know who I am. You know my voice. Vote no. That ain't got nothing to do with Republican or Democrat. It's changing the Constitution. And you got to look at why you're changing it. When certain people in power, they want to change stuff to give them more authority. And we've seen it.

We've seen it happen before so we cannot be silent on this and when folks say there's no reason for me to vote. Yes it is. Yes it is. You don't realize it until you come up to get something or do something and you find out oh I can't do that no more. So we need to make sure that we are mindful of that. The other thing is this campaign is really to get people to register to vote, find your polling place and then

make sure that if you do an absentee ballot, if you do an absentee ballot, that you fill it out as soon as you get it, and then they say put it in the mail, I say take it and drop it off. I was in here earlier this year talking about the mail system. Don't take a chance.

putting it in the mail and it not make it to where you want and don't sit on it. Early voting in person starts on October 20th. I believe the date for online registration is that October.

October 14th. Yeah, is when that ends. Right. And they're even saying, if you do the mail in piece, you need to get that ballot in the mail by October 20th to give it at least 10 days to be processed. But don't play. I get it. Mark it immediately and send it back in. I'm going to defer. And when we say we're giving these bags, we also have information that can go in the bags, how to get a ride to the polls. It's here.

And we want people to be informed. So do not waste this opportunity. The other thing I will say is if you go online and register, and I'll let Felicia tell you, Felicia tell you the website, but if you go online and register to vote, what I will say to you is you can bring

documentation, even if it's on your phone, to our offices, 4295 West Bradley Road Suite 202. And we will give you a bag. And I think that, you know, to your point, Wanda, education comes before the mobilization piece, right? We've got to know what what the issues are.

We've got to know what that battle looks like. We've got to know who those candidates are and what those issues are. And so for us, the education piece is really, really, really important because in the beginning, I put out there that misinformation is so vast and it's so rampant. Misinformation is so vast and so rampant that we've got to do our due diligence in terms of knowing what we're walking into and to the extent.

that we can get as much information and want to just mention, you can come to her offices to get the office to get the information that you need. If there are questions, there are no questions that is too ignorant or stupid, right? Ask the tough questions. And I'm going to tell you, you know, the Delta's, we do a, we manage the Quentin Rolls polling site. This was,

my first opportunity, and I've never actually been able to be there all day because of the radio show. But I was able to be there for a portion of time to just kind of observe and help out. I was dropping food and stuff while for sorrow. I was in between my breaks. And one of the things that just broke my heart, it was an older sister who had come in and her friend, they were coming in to vote together, and they looked at the ballot.

As they were you know, they've been given your ballot. They were getting ready to walk towards the polling I mean the voting stand and they kept looking at the ballot and the sister said I Don't know who these people are because there were no D's and ours So there was no different because it was a nonpartisan right in august. Yes. Yeah. Well, that was the spring election spring election is not partisan And so there were no D's and ours

Now, this woman clearly was a faithful voter. She showed up, but had no idea what she was standing here. And she kind of looked around and, you know, we made it clear we are not able to help you, you know. And so that point about education first. Right.

You know, that's why so many groups, I'm so happy, you know, folks have been letting us come in the churches and talk to them. And you know, a lot of these groups have partnered and I'm thankful for funders who put dollars out there, you know, to help kind of spearhead this work because getting all these things printed up is not cheap. No, but I think right.

But I know when I was over at Mount Zion church this past weekend the referendum sheet that we had that gave the actual language on the ballot Explain what it did and then said if you vote yes, this is what happened if you vote no the number of people who said child This is right on time. Thank you, right?

I was I'm turning that ballot in tomorrow. I was going to vote, you know, and I wasn't sure this. I mean, so this stuff is really valued. It is. And you know, we have. And it's expensive. But we have people that believe if it's on the ballot, it must be true. Right. Yes. If it's if it made it to the ballot, it must be true. And and that is the furthest thing from the truth. And not just that. The thing that we've talked about, too, is that.

The way it's worded on the ballot, it must be good because it's worded in a way that says, um, you know, this is about non-discrimination. This is about, you know, and so you were saying, well, of course we shouldn't have discrimination. So we don't even understand that they have

brought in experts to help them craft the language to get people to vote against their own interest. And making sure that people understand that. So as we wrap, are there other things that we want to point out before you ladies? Get out of here. No, other than, I don't think we said this, the election is November 3rd. Absolutely. Now we know that you can go today up and register. But why?

when you can do it ahead of time. You definitely can. You can do it ahead of time. The other thing, remember what Felida said about the eight? We want people out there that are informed. Tell your kids and your grandkids, your brothers, your sisters, your cousins, your aunts, your uncles, your grandmama.

granddaddy your neighbors spread the word because some people don't listen to the radio they don't look at tv they don't pay attention because they're living in their own world and dealing with their own real life issues but this these elections impact you so we need you to pay attention and if you have a laptop pop that laptop open

Go into my vote, Wisconsin, my vote. W I dot gov to check to see if you're registered. Right. Right. Like we got to do that first. Check and see if you registered.

You can track your ballot if you mail it in. They'll let you know when that ballot has been received. You can go there to figure out your polling location if you don't know that. You can even look at that ballot. There you go. Take a look at the ballot. And you can do it all on your phone. Because how many people can do everything? You can do both. Like I said, we have more information at our fingertips than we've ever had before. Absolutely. And so I'm just going to say it. There's no excuse.

There's no excuse not to be engaged, not to be informed. If we can figure out ways to make time for things, we have to make this a priority. I understand we got a phone call, so let me go to the phone line. Hey, caller, what's happening? Good morning. Good morning. A point I wanted to make is most of these TV ads you see, the Republicans do not even say they're Republican.

And then they say also where you can hardly read it, not authorized by any candidate. Be careful of that. And as educated as I am, I have gone to election polls or whatever to vote. And I didn't know some of the people who were on there. That information needs to be allowed, especially in the district, like automatic districts and summer districts. The district should know

It should be a very posted everywhere who is addicted with the picture. And y'all have a good one. All right, thank you. I appreciate it, sir. I want to just take a second real quick, too. Because, like I said, when I was cheating and looking over on Wanda's, some of the literature she had, that whole thing that they're doing with the SAVE Act,

This is at the federal level, Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which is a crock. We're prioring proof of documentary proof of citizenship. There is actually a set of voters, and I'm trying to remember which state that I heard this morning that they may have to prove citizenship when they go in to vote.

And so that was something. Women, they said approximately 69 million American women have changed their last names after marriage, divorce or remarriage. Under the bill, they will need to present documentation that matches their current legal name with their birth certificate to vote. So when you talk about- Yeah, my name in on my birth certificate. Exactly. Montgomery in on my birth certificate. Exactly.

Exactly. So, you know, in some cases, you'd have to show up with the marriage license to be able to vote. So there, like I said, there will be times when it's appropriate for this to be a female lead conversation because the needs and concerns can be different from what brothers face when they show up to vote. Absolutely. We got another call, Jay. Let's go to the phone line. Hey, Carla, what's happening? Good morning. Good morning.

I just wanted to ask the ladies in the building, did they think about going down to the DHS building and reach out to some of the people there because when I was out trying to help register people because I was doing that and I want to do it again to

Did we go down to the DHS building over there on Silver Spring and out throughout the Wisconsin area? Because those are people that need to get the information as well and not hang up and listen. Mr. Ned, before you hang up, you said Silver Spring. What's on Silver Spring? To your Department of Health and Human Services building. On Silver Spring? Yes, where you go and you get your food stamps.

You go there and you process your premiums. I have to go over there sometime meet my case workers and things like that. Oh By greater new bars. Yeah, right there right there off of off of Silver Spring. You make that right on 60th there. Oh

Okay, you should be welcome to do no more on because I stand out there in front of the wealth of the no-no trustee and I say don't forget to vote don't roll with my flyers on my hand throw on the ground and the brother we go around the corner we hand out flyers and we give nothing we vote We can thank you. We can check into it and okay. Thank you. All right. Was that good we get

All right, y'all. So let me thank these sisters and the organizations that they are representing for coming in today. We are going to do everything because the clock is ticking. It is October 7th. We are less than 30 days away from not only voting, potentially making history in Wisconsin, but

when Felida mentioned the fact that these midterms and getting ready for next year is so critical and there will be folks that are sitting at home when things start happening and we complain about what's happening and we appreciate and understand you could have did something and you didn't. Don't be the person that has to sit at home and realize that you could have showed up and helped make a difference. And even if we succeed or we fail, but I try.

Yeah, you know, and I'm gonna keep fighting. I participated. It's worth go. So I'm gonna take a quick break. I'll be right back. Michelle Bryant, WNOV, a 68 year, 106.5 FM. And again, vote like your bag depends on it. And that bag is all in competency. We talking about all of it. I mentioned this morning that FAFSA, I thought about you wondering when I was talking about educating these kids and the idea that you need ID now.

to apply for federal financial aid because people want to come in and investigate whether or not you are who you say you are. All in an effort to clear immigrants from this country.

in the way to keep you. But only if you're a certain kind of immigrant. Yeah, it's clear. Fear, fear, fear. Let's be clear about that. All right, y'all, we go take a break. I'll be right back. All right, family, as I get ready to wrap the show for this morning, first of all, let me thank the guests that came in, Wanda Montgomery and Felida. Daniels, Ashley, I would say wrong. Is it Felida? Okay. So let me thank them. And then, you know,

Keith has lived up to his mantra that he loves all black people. Is it all around the world or all over the world? He brought Jermaine some medication. You know what, Cheryl? If I didn't get jumped by these dust mites.

No, I'm gonna tell you exactly what it is. It's just like a old 1976 Buick when the thermostat gets stuck and it overheat it shut down

That's what happened to my body. That's what your body is like. Yeah. My thumb is stuck. Well, I just, I want to just thank Keith. I think he probably did it to make his own life easy. You know, cause he be saying he love like people I love the world, but that's tongue in cheek. He's really, he really don't mean it. But he was like, you know what? If he give it her.

I got two hours to sit with him. You mentioned the white dude speaking at the black church. Yeah. Jake Lane? Yeah, he was talking about the black people didn't turn to go, but not the niggas. No, he was like, no, he said niggas, blah, blah, blah. Excuse me. Yeah. No, no. He said not the niggas. And then he said, excuse me.

Yeah, not niggas. That's what all you have black people like yeah And then I heard the pastor was like, you know, like threatening people like if you got something say because I had him up in here and blah blah blah and you ain't like Pay your salary partner. That's the one pastor they call his church member niggas The over the pulpit. I mean like it is amazing to me that people forget like who you think financed all this Like seriously

When you talk a slick to your congregants or you try and tell people what they're going to do, who do you think finance all this and make it all possible? Because them tithe buckets be empty. There is no church unless you get your money from, you know, white donors in the background who's trying to help you sell propaganda to our people. And we just don't know about it. But who do you think funds it? I've seen many instances when pastors be talking slick in the pulpit and you just like, huh, ain't that interesting?

You must have forgot. But it's I know you gotta go. Yeah. Why don't we pick it up? Okay. So let me wrap my show. He brought you some election here. You brought your name brain. Listen, that's because he loves you. That's because Keith. He loves you. Right.

I will talk to y'all later. Peace