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Thank you so much for tapping in today.
If you are just now joining us, I am talking about the federal lawsuit, civil rights lawsuit that has been pushed against Milwaukee public school system based on reporting over the past two years of over 100 instances to where black students were treated unfairly when it comes to being expelled and suspended in comparison to
their peers, their white peers.
And I was given an example of the reason why it's important for the leadership, the staff, the teachers to be of the demographic that they are serving.
because a lot of what's happening with these expulsions and suspensions could be prevented had they had someone who could relate to them.
Now let's be clear, I'm not necessarily just saying it's all white leadership because we do have some Oreo Ken folk who don't understand or who are extremely far removed so much to the point where the children can't relate to them either.
But a lot of situations and scenarios could be
None.
It could be none.
It couldn't exist.
It wouldn't exist.
Had there been someone in place that the student trust worker relate to and they are allowed to de-escalate the situation.
I'm not saying that's the situation for everyone.
I'm just saying that majority of the time this is the issue.
When I was growing up, I had some prominent black women who were my teachers.
Dr. Onick was my principal at Samuel Morris Middle School.
We had Mr. Hooker and Miss Stafford at
Hartford Elementary School.
We had Ms.
Bowden and Ms.
Seifus at Juneau High School.
Everywhere I went, the majority of the staff and the leadership was people of color.
It was black women and black men.
Mr. Ingram, Ms.
Willard, right?
Ms.
Locklear.
There were so many prominent people who, Ms.
Pugh, who pulled us in and made sure that
They were relatable, that it literally was an open door policy.
They had this nurturing spirit where you can tell that you meant something to them and that they love what they do and they was doing it because they love what they do.
That is not the case in today's society.
A lot of the reason why our babies are being suspended and expelled outside of
Other things that we have discussed before, we know about the beefs, we know about the back and forth, and we know about, you know, the youth, everybody talks about how the youth don't want to listen and so on and so on.
But the adults have to have some accountability in this.
And the suspensions and expulsions don't come strictly just from behavior, it comes from somebody making an executive decision saying, hey, we need to suspend or expel
this child or this student based on, you know, whatever the case may be.
Point in case there was a situation.
If you guys go back through the shows I've done over the past three months, I had one of my former students who just graduated Torion G on.
Torion is 18 now.
But when I met Torion, he was 17 years old.
He was a senior.
By the age of 17, he had been shot at the age of 14.
arrested and sent to the juvenile detention facility.
He had been through all types of experiences outside of school and in school.
A lot of trauma, not based off of being neglected because he has some great parents, he does.
But based off of him just being a young black male living in the city of Milwaukee.
And what happens is a lot of our babies,
And I call them babies because no matter how old they are, they are still our babies, right?
A lot of our babies go through traumatic situations and they use obviously weed and other, you know, substances to kind of cope with whatever it is that they're going through, but they don't know that they're going through it.
And we don't, we just think that they're just smoked out because that's what all these kids do.
They're trying to find a way to get out of their head, not to mention they deal with death a little bit more than we do.
So it takes a special type of educator to see something in the student when no one else sees something in them.
When all they see is paper, right?
And this, again, for context purposes, this is important.
When I say we have to have the demographic
who we have to have people that look like the demographic that they're serving in these seats in these positions because when they look at the paperwork, they're not just going to see numbers.
They're not just going to see altercations.
We have a way to look under that to try and figure out the core issues at hand.
And there was a situation 30 days, literally 31 to be exact.
30 days before he was set to walk across the stage and graduate after being shot at 14 after going to juvenile detention facility after getting into a fight a month before that in which he did not start He ended up having like gummies like we gummy rappers in his book bag and There was a search conducted, right?
Now they claim they smelt it, but I don't know how if it's if it's if it's a gummy, right?
And they ended up putting him up for expulsion 30 days 31 days before he was set to graduate and it bothered me so much because I'm like Do y'all not understand what's about to happen here?
Do you not understand that if you send that boy?
Back out to the to the streets.
That's where he's going to stay It was a defining moment and oftentimes That is the reality, especially when it comes to the young black men in the educational system It doesn't matter what happens how many times it all it takes is that one defining moment Where they say, you know what?
I don't even want to do this no more.
I'd rather be out in the streets doing whatever so I don't have to deal with this
So I wrote a letter and I broke down everything that Toriyan had been through right We're talking about a 17 year old boy who was shot at 14 got the scars to prove it In the streets out the streets in the streets out the streets in and out juvenile detention facility Got into an altercation that he didn't start but it still was an altercation then this happened and you telling me that There is no other solution, right?
How hard did he fight to get here to get 31 days before graduation?
his senior year and He's being put up for expulsion and actually being considered to be expelled So I wrote a letter I wrote a letter breaking this down at some point the adults in these positions
have to hold themselves accountable because ultimately we are the ones who has the deciding factor on whether or not a child is going to be successful.
And what ended up happening is a solution.
Hey, how about this?
Instead of expelling him 31 days before he walked across the stage, how about we make music that encourages.
Him not to use or students not to use substances something that's uplifting some type of project Right and it worked My letter worked me breaking down what would happen if he was expelled and How this could potentially save his life worked?
And I didn't do it because of any reason other than the fact that I believed in him and I seen his heart and he is such a great kid man
Despite of whatever circumstances he been through, he is such a great kid.
And we ended up doing a project.
30 days later, I'm at the graduation, he walks across the stage.
After that, he said, Miss Jazz, I'm just, I'm out the way.
All I wanna do is go to work and stack my money.
I don't wanna be in no, I don't even wanna be in this, right?
He's still going to make whatever type of music he make.
But now I'm listening to the lyrics and he like, man, I'm tired of being in the streets because I'm tired of bailing on my men's out.
I don't even want to pop no pills or do none of that because I can think when I'm sober.
This situations like this change the thought process of these babies when they feel like somebody got they back.
Now, obviously this is not the case for everybody, but majority of the time a lot of these students.
If you pair them with the right person, they will listen.
They will listen.
There are some students who won't.
They're unruly.
There's nothing you can do about it.
The only way that they'll learn is by being expelled or suspended.
But the deciding factor always boils down to someone looking at paperwork almost like when you go to jail.
You're under investigation.
And expulsion is nothing other than being under investigation.
Hey, we need to take a look at your history and see how many times you've been suspended how many incidents you have how many times Are you absent this this this no one's saying why?
No one is saying what's causing this they're just looking at the file and Then make a decision because it's easy, right?
Okay, let's let's hurry up and expel them because we got a long waiting list of other students that's looking to get inside this school
That is the truth Let's expel these babies and I'm not talking about This school in particular.
I'm talking at this point.
I'm talking about the school system If it's too much and there's a record I don't even want to hear the story.
Let's just put them in for expulsion
And then we'll just because we have other families who can fill these seats up faster and the goal of the school system Milwaukee public school system charter schools private schools the goals is numbers data numbers That is the reality
We are talking about the discrimination civil rights lawsuit.
I'm sorry not the discrimination the civil rights lawsuit against Milwaukee public school system We got to go to break when we come back.
Let's finish this conversation.
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If you are just now joining us, we are talking about the lawsuit against Milwaukee public school system.
Shout out to the chat.
Jazz West said I had a lot of older black teachers and did not play with us, but also taught us old school.
Clara Barton Elementary, Mac Middle School and Rufus King.
Yes, indeed I am.
I still talk to my teacher to this day.
The only person I'm trying to.
Hey, I have a PSA.
Before I hop back into this, I am looking for Dr. Rogers, Onik.
If you went to Morris Middle School, you know exactly who I'm talking about.
He was the principal.
He was like the principal on lean on me, like working for him.
And he ran that school system.
He ran that entire system, a strict program, but it worked.
I really, really, really would love to see Dr. Onik.
I feel like he is old.
a tremendous amount of flowers because he played a huge part in the success of a lot of students, a lot of us in the city of Milwaukee, just based on how he conducted Sammy Morris Middle School.
Again, if you are just not joining us, we are talking about the lawsuit that MPS is currently facing.
According to Wisconsin Public Radio, the U.S.
Department of Education has launched an investigation into the Milwaukee Public Schools' discipline policies.
In a statement Tuesday, the department said its office for civil rights has started federal Title VI investigations into whether MPS policy requires staff to take race.
into consideration during disciplinary decisions.
The same announcement said a similar investigation has been launched into policies in the school district in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
The announcement comes after new guidance from the department aims to ensure that students are not treated differently based on race color or national origin in matters of discipline or otherwise.
And it's crazy we're talking about this because it's 2026.
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, education leaders derided facially neutral school policies after reflecting systematic witnesses seemingly encouraging school officials to consider race and disciplinary practices, the federal statement said.
About 65,500 students attend MPS.
According to the most recent state data, about 48% of students in the district are black, 29% Hispanic or Latino, 9.3% Asian, and 8.7% white.
About 81% of students who attended Milwaukee Public Schools are economically disadvantaged.
The Department of Education's new guidance included a Dear Colleague letter.
Said schools that receives federal funding they have an obligation under the title six of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to treat students equally regardless of the students race color or national origin including when they administer discipline that came after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in April of 2025 Directing the US Department of Education
to issue guidance to local and state school agencies about not engaging in racial discrimination when it comes to discipline.
The Trump administration has targeted school diversity, equity, and inclusion programs since he has been in office.
Kimberly Richie, the Department's Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, notified NPS Superintendent Brenda...
Castle.
Casselius.
Casselius.
Thank you, Brother Z. Of the investigation in a letter Tuesday, a study four years ago found black students face disproportionate disciplinary action at MPS.
The district also had a past settlement with the officer.
For civil rights, after data from 2011 and 2012 school year showed, black students represented 84% of those receiving in-school suspensions, 82% of those receiving out-of-school suspensions, and 85% of the students expelled, when black students at the time made up about 56% of the district's students.
So not only has this been happening the past two years,
But apparently this we went through a similar situation in 2011 and 2012 so I just want to reiterate those numbers so that you guys can like this into your mind where we're talking about how many babies of our black babies this is affecting in 2011 and 2012 50% 56% of the students were black out of 56% of that of them 82% of those
them were receiving out of school suspensions and 85% were expelled.
I mean, the numbers don't lie.
During the investigation, OCR is neutral.
OCR will collect and analyze the evidence in these in order to make a decision about the district's compliance with Title VI.
The Department Office of Civil Rights.
Also started an investigation into the Green Bay Area Public School District last year after a complaint was made regarding discrimination against a white student.
That complaint was made by the conservative law firm, Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, or WIL.
In a Tuesday statement, WIL praised the investigation into MPS.
Cory Brewer deputy counsel for wheels said the investigation will hopefully uncover the racially discriminatory school discipline policies at MPS.
So again This this isn't new We have been dealing with this We've been dealing with this for quite some times time.
The only difference is The investigation piece right I'm interested interested in figuring out how come
It wasn't blasted all over the news as far as the former investigation.
So typically when a journalist covers a story like this, and the reason why I'm bringing this up is because it's prevalent to a pattern.
This is the first article that I've seen who had mentioned that this has happened in 2011 and 2012.
And I could be wrong, but what I do know is that
Whether they investigated or not, we the parents know, we the educators know that it happens.
And what do we do about it?
How do we, so I'm not into changing systems that was never meant to benefit us to begin with.
That's any system.
What I am into is finding solutions that work for us because it's happening to us.
And at the end of the day, I'm not only a parent, I'm also an educator.
I am one of the educators who don't solely believe in just going to suspension and expulsion as the first solution.
And the fact that this has proven majority of the black students in MPS
Not once, not twice.
I'm eager to go back prior to 2011 to see how many times they have been investigated for this means that there needs to be some type of accountability.
That means that they need to go back and look at every single suspension, every single expulsion for the past 10 to 15 years and see if there are any more biases.
It needs to be a full-fledged investigation, not fluff.
Why?
Because there are so many students, so many young black boys and girls who have been impacted by being expelled or suspended.
And if in fact there are numerous of situations where your child or someone else's child was suspended or expelled based off them being discriminated against nine times out of ten,
It plays a part in whether or not they're going to go to college or how successful they'll become So my call to action is Okay, y'all said this has this is an investigation y'all noticed over the past two years a hundred, you know over a hundred students They said it's sixty five thousand and you telling me that only a come on now.
You mean only a hundred was reported
You mean only a hundred was reported not that it actually happened.
We don't want the fluff We don't want this.
We don't want them to scale past this very easily No, that's not what we're asking.
I Am saying what needs to happen is they need to go back the past 15 years And really pay attention to Exposions and suspensions
and where those students are now.
And if indeed those suspensions and expulsions disqualify them from furthering their education.
Laurent Taylor says, so when you see these young kids acting up on Water Street or Brady Street at State Fair, you think they started that after high school?
I don't know what you're talking about, but we ain't talking about that right now.
At the end of the day, there needs to be an investigation.
much broader than what they're presenting.
Because far too many times, when we're talking about students being discriminated against, this has happened in the Milwaukee public school system.
And parents, please listen to me when I tell you.
Now, I know that there are students, if you know your child, you know your child, nobody knows your child better than you.
We know that our students our children can make stuff up over exaggerate all of the above when it comes to why they got in trouble or whatever the case may be But sometimes we have to pay attention a little bit more when it comes to situations like this and listen to what they're actually saying if they're constantly coming to you telling you that there's a specific teacher
Who consistently targets them it feels like they're being targeted?
Listen to them because nine times out of ten they are And it doesn't necessarily mean it's coming from a white teacher It could be coming from black teacher black leadership black staff staff as well But we should be paying attention to this This is something that
You may have, this is a situation where you may have to take a couple of hours off of work and go up to the school to figure out what exactly is going on.
And then begin to talk to other parents to see if it's happening to their students as well.
We're talking about the investigation, the civil rights investigation in the Milwaukee public school system.
We got to go to break when we come back.
Let's finish this conversation.
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Milwaukee Public Schools and I was holding the adults accountable because ultimately we make the decisions on whether or not these students are expelled or suspended and obviously not every student is going to be the student where you have to make some type of decision to say no I'm not going to do that.
There are some students who are extremely difficult.
You know, it's almost impossible to assist and you just got to do what you got to do.
But when we're looking at the numbers, you can't tell me that 86% of these students are deserving of being expelled and suspended.
It doesn't make sense.
We got a caller on the line.
What's up, CC?
What's up?
What's up, Dad?
So we are here live from the Mary Ryan Boys and Girls Club.
Let's go.
And I have some of our boys and girls who have been tapping in watching you live from YouTube and they just wanted to say hello.
So give me a moment.
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My name is Tyler.
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Thank you, CC.
Thank you.
Peace.
That just made my day.
That just made my day.
And it goes to show.
Again, it's not scripted.
It goes to show.
that these kids are extremely intelligent.
A fifth and sixth grader, they said, Black Lives Matter and I don't support Trump.
Come on now.
So you mean to tell me you don't think they understand what we be talking about when we be having these conversations?
All you have to do is listen to them.
That's it.
They're going to tell you what they feel and how they think.
And all you have to do is listen.
Again, thank you so much, CC, for allowing them to tap in.
We're going to have some
some great events and learning about the radio at the Safe Summer site at Mary Ryan.
So if you have any youth who is interested, we will be there.
I will be there in person today at 732.
Work with the youth on how to read commercial scripts and if they're just interested in radio overall, overall, um, assisting them with learning how to amplify their voices and utilizing their platforms for conversations like this.
So again, thank you so much to CC for having them tap in.
Before we went to break, we were talking about the situation with MPS.
And I was saying that obviously we know every student, you know, you can't say we get it.
But at the end of the day, when we are looking at these numbers, there is a huge problem.
When we're looking at the numbers, there's a huge problem.
Why are the numbers so high when it comes to suspension?
and being expelled.
So I want to talk about the school to prison pipeline.
I want to connect this entire show, right, to the school to prison pipeline.
That phrase describes policies and practices that pushes students out of educational environments and increases their likelihood of contact with juvenile and criminal legal systems.
So it doesn't mean suspended on Monday, incarcerated on Tuesday.
We are talking about accumulated risk.
We are talking about exclusionary discipline, lost instruction, disengagement, chronic absence, academic failure, dropping out, police contact, juvenile justice, adult criminal justice.
Now, not every student follows this path, but when you look at the numbers, you understand why people are studying this.
So let's go back to the MPS numbers.
Black students were involved in about 54% of disciplinary incidents in 24-25 school year, yet accounted for 78% of suspensions and 86% of expulsions.
which means that not only are the black when it comes to MPS, majority of the students who attend Milwaukee public schools are black, but they are also the highest percentage to be expelled and suspended.
Right?
Now let's zoom out to the Wisconsin youth.
So recent Wisconsin public health reporting has shown that black youth arrested
are arrested at more than three and a half times the rate of white youth while native youth were arrested at nearly three times the rate of white youth.
Let's zoom out again into adulthood where Wisconsin's racial incarceration disparities become even more dramatic.
So I'm not putting those numbers next to one another and pretending one to prove the other.
I'm saying we should be curious about what happens between the numbers.
It's always about the numbers.
What happens between the child who is repeatedly removed from class and the teenager who becomes disconnected from school?
What happens between the teenager who is disconnected in the first police contact?
Where were the interventions?
Where were the mentors?
Where were the mental health support?
Not even word are where are the arts?
Where are the jobs?
Where are the adults?
who saw something in that child other than a problem.
Because if we only become interested in human beings after they enter the criminal legal system, we are arriving extremely late.
If school to prison pipeline was never a thing, we wouldn't be researching it.
And granted, we see there's a lot of police presence inside of the school system.
And I know the first thing y'all gonna say is, yeah, because these kids, I get it.
I work at a school, right?
Luckily, I'm at a school where it isn't as bad.
But you have some schools where students are coming, pulling up with firearms.
Parents are acting just as ignorant, right?
There's riots breaking out, huge fights.
Um, some students, you've seen videos on social media of students attacking teachers, all kinds of nonsense.
So I get it.
But at the same time, in the same breath, are we really conditioning them to become used to the authority of having in the presence of having police officers around while they are learning?
We're conditioning them again.
Shout out to big bro Brad Fax.
He was on here the other day.
He is someone who was incarcerated from 15 until he was in his mid 30s.
He did 17 years.
And he was speaking about institutions.
When you look at how a school is built, when you look at how a jail is built, when you look at a prison or a college, it's all built the same.
It's still a system.
It's still an institute.
It's still brand similar, right?
So imagine being a child.
For a lot of us who grew up, we never ever experienced having officers inside of the school system.
Imagine being a child going to school.
You have all of these rules and regulations, right?
On top of that, there is not a lot of leadership or people or staff around that you can relate to.
Not necessarily just with color, but just experiences, right?
There isn't really nobody you trust.
You may or may not have issues with certain students based off of whatever beef y'all have.
Sometimes it's over boys and girls.
Sometimes it's because kids get bullied.
There are students who are homeless.
There's so much happening with so many different families that attend this school.
And every day you walk through the hallways and you see a police officer.
Then when you walk outside of that school building, because it's in the inner city,
More than likely you're gonna see a police officer again then when you go home if you live in the outer city I Said inner city, but y'all know what I mean when I say outer city because we're left out of everything when you go home in the outer city You see another police officer When you're driving down the street in the car with your parents you see another police officer.
I Don't know if y'all notice when you travel
But when you go to different cities and states, it almost feel like a relief.
Even if you aren't doing anything wrong because I rarely ever see such heavy police presence.
And I understand what's happening in the city and I understand all of that.
But what I'm trying to get you to understand is how we're conditioning our babies.
We're conditioning them to become immune to that type of authority.
That is...
the reality.
We got to go to break.
Coming back to research, what do long-term studies actually find out about suspension in school exclusion and later justice system contact?
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Before we went to break, we were talking about the school to prison pipeline.
This all stemmed from a civil rights and federal civil rights investigation into the Milwaukee public school system where the 24 through 25 school year investigators have found that over 100 students who are black.
were not being treated fairly when it came to suspensions and expulsions.
And not only that, they have investigated MPS in 2011 and in 2012 for the same reason as well.
And I was stating that my call to action will be to open a full investigation.
Don't give us the fluff of just 100 people, right?
That's just 100 reports.
How many times has this happened and it wasn't reported?
We need to get to the bottom of it and figure it out because it matters.
As far as a school to prison pipeline, let's stay disciplined with the research because a lot of people like to say that this is a conspiracy theory.
A lot of people don't believe in it.
I do.
I first learned about it about 15 years ago and I've been researching it and studying it ever since then and being in education, depending on public versus charter or private in which location, meaning which school you're at.
More than likely you will be able to see exactly what I'm talking about when it comes to the school to prison pipeline.
So studies have found that young people who experience suspension and expulsion are more likely to later experience arrest, probation or incarceration.
One analysis followed youth after a first suspension and found elevated justice system involvement years later.
even after researchers accounted for a large set of characteristics that existed before the suspension.
Other research has found that students exposed to schools with higher suspension rates can experience worse educational and criminal justice outcomes later.
So what does that mean?
That means that even if a child is not being suspended, let's say it's your child, they don't get suspended or expelled.
but they're in an environment where their peers are constantly being suspended or expelled.
Obviously, we know based off common sense that their experience even, you know, educational wise is going to be a little bit worse.
So when they say other research has found that students exposed to schools with higher suspension rates can experience worse educational and criminal justice outcomes later, to me, this is point at the educational piece.
This is saying that a lot of times when students are When the rates are higher for them to be suspended or expelled is because they lack Education not because they aren't paying attention not because they don't understand but because the educational piece overall the systematic piece that is being taught is Horrible So suspension does not sentence a child to prison race does not sentence a child to prison
Poverty does not sentence a child to prison and trauma does not sentence a child to prison.
Risk is also not destiny and that matters because the whole point of intervention is that your life can change in the blink of an eye based off of one decision.
A counselor can matter, a coach can matter, a teacher can matter, music can matter, a job can matter, a community program can matter.
One adult deciding, I'm not giving up on you can matter.
So when we discuss the school to prison pipeline, I don't want us only studying how young people fall into it.
I want us asking question, where was the exit?
Where do we interrupt it?
And are we finding those exits with the same urgency that we find punishment?
Are we truly setting
Our youth and our babies up to be prepared to go to prison by the way of school When you look at the school lunch that they're being served we all know you've heard it a million times it looks like jail food When you look at the disciplinary acts see now we can't just go based off of Ideology or what our own thoughts now we have actual proof we have actual actual evidence
in research based off of a federal civil rights investigation.
And that is just a small percentage, 100 out of all of the black youth that attend the Milwaukee public school system.
That is just a small percentage.
That is just a small percentage because not every incident is being reported.
Are we are we setting our babies up for failure?
Not us as parents, not us as the community, but the school system.
I'm not asking this because I'm slow and I don't understand.
I'm saying it's really a statement.
It's a question, but it's a statement that we all know the answer to and the messed up part about it of it all is that we don't really have a choice.
You have alternative options like private schools as well as charter schools, but they can only hold so many students because of the funding.
And then which you are forced to send your children to public school.
And this isn't an attack on public schools.
These are facts.
I come from a public school.
I went to public school.
My children have been in the public school system as well.
But based off of this investigation, it's telling us that something is wrong.
Even though we already knew something was wrong, it's telling us now on paper.
actual evidence that something is happening.
And everybody is just going about their day saying, hey, I gotta go to work.
I don't have time for it.
I don't have nowhere else for them to go.
I get it.
But at some point, we have to sacrifice a little bit of our time and what we have going on to begin to get to the bottom of ask these questions.
Ask your children, even if it's not happening to them.
Hey, do you notice this at your school?
Have you ever experienced it have your friends ever experienced it?
I promise you I have when I have conversations with my children or with my students You'd be surprised the information I receive, but you won't know unless you ask They don't think that we care.
They don't think that no one is going to believe them or listen to them So they rarely ever just come out and say something Right
You have to ask these questions you have to ask their experience you have to make sure that they can Remember and go back and think about scenarios and does this happen to you like get the information So that we can get to the bottom of it The school to prison pipeline in my opinion is a real thing Whether y'all want to believe it or not It indeed is a real thing
And I do believe that there is a system set in place somehow some way.
How do you why do you think this jazz?
I mean, look at where we are.
We're talking about the whole public school system is funky, is stank, is is failing.
The empire is falling.
Every year is getting worse and worse and worse.
You see it in the news lines the headlines you see when you drop your students off to school and obviously that is not every school we know that It's not every school is not every leadership we understand that But that doesn't mean that you get to ignore it.
It doesn't mean that it's not happening because it is happening It's a real thing
And when you add the suspensions and expulsions into the equation, then it starts to make more sense.
Then it begins to make more sense.
And I know that certain students are targeted because they aren't understood or because I'm not talking about the students that we, that's out of control.
I'm talking about the students that just need, again, for an adult to say,
No, I'm going to intervene and step in because I see something good in you.
I want to help you.
We got to do a better job.
We have to do a better job.
If you feel something in your gut that says something ain't right, I'm talking to the youth, please tell your parents, tell an adult, tell somebody and parents listen to your children.
Sometimes they not lying when they're talking about.
They're being treated a certain way or they feel like they're being targeted sometimes they are not lying and Children stop lying so much so much to the point or over exaggerating so much to the point that when a real situation happens Nobody's going to believe you because you over exaggerate and you be out here acting a fool in school This is part of the reason why we need you to
Act a certain way on your best behavior so that when real life scenarios that super serious arise, people will believe you.
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If you are just now joining us before we went to break, I was talking about the school to prison pipeline.
And this is all stemming from the recent civil rights investigation into the Milwaukee public school system where they have recently discovered that over a hundred cases of black youth being expelled and suspended, which defers from their white counterparts.
So.
There's a lot of people who say there's no such thing as school-to-prison pipeline.
A lot of people believe that we are not conditioning or programming our children to become used to being inside of an institute like this, hence the police presence that's inside of the school.
Again, this is not taken away from the fact that educators, students, family, staff needs to feel safe in these environments.
We know that there are situations.
We've seen it many times, especially inside of the Milwaukee public school system that requires police presence, law enforcement presence, right?
But it's not about that, it's about what happens before we get to that point.
So for those who, the critics who like to say it's conspiracy theory, you can actually go to OJP.gov.
The Office of Justice Programs, that's the US Department of Justice and if you click on their website and you research defining and redirecting a school to prison pipeline You will see that this has been published since 2003 ladies and gentlemen That means that everything I have said is not a conspiracy theory it can't be if
The United States, the government is telling you that is not a conspiracy theory.
And the fact that this was published in 2003, that's not saying that it's been happening since 2003.
It's saying that not only do we need to pay attention between that timeline, but we also need to look prior to 2003.
How long has this been happening?
What happened leading up to 2003 that made the US Department of Justice write a seven page article about how to Dismantle and redirect the school to prison pipeline.
We have a caller on the line Brandon.
Are you there?
Yeah,
I'm doing well.
How about yourself?
I do.
Um, I was, uh, I guess rather unfortunate enough to go to a number of Milwaukee public schools and, uh, most of the ones that were serving majority African Americans also had within them sort of, uh, ad hoc police facility.
Um, so things like a typical lunch room fight.
would turn into individuals being charged in almost every instance that I myself have went to jail.
It was directly from a Milwaukee public school facility.
And for activities that, you know, I would call maybe, you know, typical activities that go on in a high school like a fight where no one is severely injured.
I'd also like to say that they also had policies that seem to kind of turn you over to the wolves.
For instance, when I went to Bradley Tech,
If you arrived to that school after about 8.35, you were given a pendant suspension and forced to leave the building.
And this satisfied MPS's requirement to dock you as having come and then kind of get the money for you arriving.
Yes.
But not actually have to provide education for you.
And the only way around that is if your parent was present.
So almost every day,
There was a contingent of usually African American men that were turned away and they would then get picked up by a police force.
I think at a time was known as tabs.
Um, and then, and then I'd also like to add that when I did go to jail, one of the things that really jumped out at me, um, was how similar it was to my Milwaukee public schools.
The bells were the same.
The lunches were the same.
just so many of the routines felt eerily familiar.
So that prison, that school or prison pipeline is not just real, it's an engineered situation.
Brandon, I truly appreciate you for tapping in and sharing that information because believe it or not, it is extremely difficult to get our people in particular to understand, right, without thinking in a subjective manner.
but thinking objectively that this is a real thing and that it has been happening for quite some time.
So thank you again for sharing that information with us and hopefully our people will be able to take that and begin to research it a little bit more.
Absolutely.
Take care.
So prior to Brandon calling and again, shout out to Brandon for that testimony.
I know that that's not everybody's experience, but what he is saying is true.
I've worked in education.
I've been a part of the public school system as well as my children and I can confirm that that most definitely is true.
Prior to Brandon's call, we were talking about the fact that there are people who still believe that the school to prison pipeline is a conspiracy theory.
And if you go to the U.S.
Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs, you will see a seven page document that was published in 2003.
titled New Directions for Youth Development, meaning that this has been going on for quite some time.
So, according to this document, the public school system in this country is plagued by vast inequalities that are frequently defined along lines of race and class, and recent policy trends appear to be intensifying these inequalities.
Students in high poverty, high minority schools are routinely provided fewer resources, qualified teachers, and advanced level courses than their affluent white peers which can lead to lower rates of high school graduation, lower levels of academic achievement, and higher rates of college attrition.
A related trend is also seen in school discipline and the criminal justice system.
with minority youth being overly represented and subjected to more severe sanctions.
The racial disparities within the two systems are so similar that educators, advocates, and observers have begun describing these dual trends as the prison track or the school to prison pipeline.
Despite the strong relationship,
between troubled educational histories and subsequent arrests and incarceration, the specific ways in which schools may either contribute to or prevent the flow of students into the criminal justice system remains largely unexplored.
In May of 2003, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University sponsored a conference on the concept of the School to Prison Pipeline.
The major findings from these studies include the failure to provide appropriate behavioral interventions, maybe contributing to the frequency among students with disabilities, following removal from school.
Many students experience enormous difficulty in re-entering school and effective interventions and programs that reduce risk and enhance protective factors for youth at risk for delinquency exit.
These students clearly suggest that the school-to-prison pipeline is preventable, but harnessing the political will to do so is difficult.
This is
coming directly from the U.S.
Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs in 2003.
2003.
23 years ago.
That's how long this article has been out.
And again, we're not even talking about prior to 2003 because
Something had to happen in order in order for this article to be written to begin with So you got a lot of people that like to troll and they like to say things like Well, what if the students?
deserve to be Suspended and da da da da da obviously we're not talking about those students.
We know that we can't save every child But at the end of the day when we are looking at these numbers we have to pay attention
and understand something.
I hate to bring politics in this, but everything is political.
This conversation has come up multiple times about funding Milwaukee public school systems.
Do they need more funding?
Yes, but to Brandon's point, in the event they obtain more funding,
Will they then continue to suspend and expel majority of the black students and get paid for them without having the accountability or responsibility to teach them and make sure that they walk across that stage?
That means that they are obtaining funds, regardless if our babies stay in school or not.
Once they get the money, it's a wrap.
They then don't care or they decide whether or not it's easier for them to say, hey, you can move on up out of here.
These are conversations we have to start having especially we're talking about MPS needs more money They don't need more money to mistreat our babies that's for damn short We got to go to break we're gonna continue this conversation when we come back in chagrille jazz Tyler 101 7 of
truth
You are officially tapped in.
If you are just now joining us, we are talking about the School to Prison Pipeline.
Shout out to everybody who is tuning in.
Shout out to the chat.
Mark Reed says, if we don't have bad behavior from the students, we wouldn't have to worry about prison pipeline kids.
Got to understand, we are not like everybody else.
Black children, black adult, aim higher standard.
And you know what, Mark?
I agree.
That is the reality.
The reality is that if we don't have this behavior, then we won't have to deal with it.
However, that's similar to saying if people stop killing, then nobody would die, right?
We're in a society where every, you gotta have the, it's the yin and yang, it's balance, right?
There's gonna be good and bad.
We understand that.
But to your point, what I want, what's most important about what you said, Mark, is that our kid, our youth,
have to understand that we are not like everybody else.
Oh my gosh, that's probably the best thing I've heard during this entire show, other than the testimony from Brandy, primarily because the reality is they don't understand.
They don't understand that we are not like everybody else.
I just had this conversation with my oldest daughter.
I helped her move herself into her dorm today.
Huge shout out to my daughter Kennedy.
Uh, she started college.
We moved her into her dorm today and I was telling her why you're here.
Be careful.
Especially when you walking around at night, watch what you say, watch what you do, right?
You walking around like, Hey, where my ninja so and so at?
Hey, you're at an all white Catholic college university.
I mean, they're not going to treat you the same way in your basketball player in your black.
The eyes are already stacked up against you parents if you don't do anything else Please educate your child Enough to where they understand that we as a people are not the same as everybody else and Obviously this civil rights investigation into the Milwaukee public school system is showing that The the facts and the proof are in the pudding the document from
the U.S.
Department of Justice that was published in 2003 states a related trend is also seen in school discipline and the criminal justice system with minority youth being overly represented and subjected to more severe sanctions they're telling you the government is telling you that we are not the same so to our youth
That's listening.
Shout out to our youth at the Safe Summer Site that tapped in earlier from the Boys and Girls Club, Mary Ryan.
If you're listening, I want you all to know first and foremost that you are beautiful.
You are beautiful young black, brown, young ladies and young men.
Your hair is beautiful.
Your skin is beautiful.
Where you come from is beautiful.
Doesn't matter if it's rough.
You are a beautiful in the being in human being and you matter Your safety matter your education matters But baby you are not the same as everybody else.
We are not the same.
We are held at a higher standard We have to work twice as hard in every room we walk in not just when it comes to the opposite
Ethnicities, but even our own people sometimes our own people is the worst Shout out to the chat What's up, Marty?
Thank you so much for tapping in He said no more Nolan Wells miss Jenkins raise your kids to be smart woke alert.
Hello Black is different in all colors exactly So this document is saying
A related trend is also seen in school discipline in the criminal justice system with minority youth being overly represented and subjected to more severe sanctions.
The racial disparities within the two systems are so similar that educators, advocates, and observers have begun describing these dual trends as the prison track or school to prison pipeline.
Despite
the strong relationship between troubled educational histories and subsequent arrest and incarceration, the specific ways in which schools matter either contribute to or prevent the flow of students into the criminal justice system remains largely unexplored.
That means that although the government, the people, the civil rights federal investigation has
Proving that there indeed is a prison track aka school to prison pipeline For some reason They still Have not put enough research into this.
Why haven't they put enough research into this jazz?
Yes, I'm talking in third person Because they make too much money off of us acting a damn fool It's all fluff it smoke and mirrors they're not going to
Take us out of poverty and give us what we need and give us adequate food inside of the schools because that's another thing.
When you go in the school system and you see the food that they serve, it looks like food in jail.
And this is the very thing that your child is in taking at school and you wonder why they don't know A from B.
Help is a huge part of this as well on top of the environment that they're in especially if there is a heavy present of police Why would they help us when they make so much money off of us acting a fool It's a game that is the harsh reality which brings me to my next point again.
We are responsible We can't keep trying to change systems
that was never meant to serve us, our people to begin with.
All we can do is prepare.
Proper preparation prevents poor performance.
The five Ps.
That's what should be being explained to not only the youth, but the parents.
Proper preparation prevents poor performance.
And we all fall short.
I couldn't have these conversations with my two oldest children until
I was older because I had them at 18 and 19, 19 and 20.
I was still growing up.
So a lot of this information I wasn't privy to, which means that I got a late start, which means that I have to give myself some grace.
And so do you.
We only know what we know.
But if you are somebody who understands and you still refuse,
to properly prepare your child, you are the problem as well.
Yes, we can hold them accountable.
Yes, we should be holding them accountable.
Yes, we should be holding people in office accountable.
Yes, we should be fighting for this and fighting for that.
But if y'all haven't learned one thing by now, people gonna do what they wanna do, especially people who control these systems.
And MPS continues to fall by wayside.
So much to the point that over a hundred cases have been investigated because black children have been being mistreated when it comes to being suspended and expelled compared to their white counterparts.
And sometimes there's nothing they can do about it.
Sometimes it has to happen.
Wisconsin, let me tell you something.
I had an event and I brought a celebrity here a couple of years ago.
And as we was driving in from Chicago Airport from O'Hara right through downtown, the first thing he said was, what is that?
Said, that's MSDF.
What is MSDF?
A 23 hour lockdown maximum secured prison.
What is that over there?
The Milwaukee County Jail.
Do you understand that as soon as you step foot into the city of Milwaukee and you rock?
past that bridge.
The first thing you see is a 23-hour maximum security prison across the street from the county jail.
And then you drive your way on up to Keith Avenue in Port Washington, and you see a women's prison right there.
Then you go down a local street to find a likeness, a halfway house right there.
Then you go on over to Watertown Planketon Road, and it's the juvenile detention facility right there.
Not to mention the one that's being built on Calumet Road in District 9.
Hello.
How many prisons did I just name in the inner city of Milwaukee?
Any mini Monimo, catch a tiger by his toe.
If he holler, let him go.
Any mini Monimo.
We have basically they're saying y'all can pick one.
It's enough for everybody.
We got women prison, youth prison, men's prison, adult prison, all in the inner city of Milwaukee.
And think about how small this city is.
Not to mention the prisons throughout the entire state.
I don't know why when I just said prisons like that, it sound like Trump.
Oh, Lord.
Not to mention the prisons throughout the entire state of Wisconsin.
But seriously, this is the first thing that we see when we enter the city of Milwaukee.
And to me, we don't see, again, you have to imagine this.
You have to envision this.
You are riding past the bridge from the south side, not the Hogan Bridge, but the bridge from the south side going towards Green Bay.
And you're riding through downtown, the Oscars, and you see this.
This is the first thing that you see.
How welcoming is that?
If I had never been here and I never lived here and I was just visiting.
And I drive in and see that child got a 23 hour maximum security prison across the street from the county jail in the downtown, baby.
That's big business.
They are telling you that's big business.
And guess what?
They want to keep those institutions filled because that's how they make money.
The more they lock our babies up, that's free labor.
That's free labor.
So again, if we sit here and think that this is not by design, you are sadly mistaken.
You are sadly mistaken.
It indeed is by design.
How do we know this?
The 13th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution officially ended slavery, slavery enforced labor across the entire United States, making it illegal, illegal to own another person with one specific exception.
It allowed forced labor as a legal punishment for a convicted crime.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Slavery still exists, people.
Slavery still exists.
The prison is slavery, not to mention the mental slavery.
Why do they keep suspending and expelling our babies because they are grooming slaves?
To go to prison and work for them, making 10 cents on a dime.
Pay attention.
Let's finish this conversation when we come back from break.
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If you are just now joining us, we are talking about the case.
The federal civil rights investigation into the Milwaukee public school system surrounded the fact that they have been suspending black kids and expelling them more than white kids or any other race.
And before we went to break, we were talking about the fact that no one is going to stop or assist you with your issues when they benefit from it.
What do I mean by that?
When you pull into the city of Milwaukee, the first thing you see is MSDF in a county jail.
When you go and keep, you see a women's prison, you go and find it like you see a halfway house, you go on Watertown Plankington Road and there's a juvenile detention facility as well as the one that they're building on Calumet.
Which means that that's big business and also that they're making money off of it.
And we're talking about the school to prison pipeline.
The fact that they are putting our babies
in institutions and environments, preparing them to go to prison.
Is this a conspiracy theory?
No, because it's on the US Department of Justice website.
It was an article published in 2003.
And what are they doing?
So what are they doing?
They are grooming our babies to be slaves.
Will slavery end it?
No, it didn't.
The 13th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution has two main sections.
It officially ended slavery
And involuntary servitude everywhere in the United States are less used as a punishment for a convicted crime.
What does that mean?
The loophole.
Forced labor is still legal if it is used as a punishment for crime.
The condition a person must first be formally charged, put on trial, and filed guilty by the court of law.
Modern impact.
This exception allows prisons to legally require inmates to work for a little to no pay slavery.
They are literally grooming our babies to be slaves and to the brother's point earlier mark if we don't start Making our youth understand that we are not like everybody else and that we have to work twice as hard to make sure that we don't put ourselves in situations that could potentially land us in prison or In a casket then they're going to continue
To groom them to be a slave This is the harsh reality not to mention MPS MPS you're asking you're saying you don't have money.
Why will we pay you to mistreat our children?
Why are we paying you to mistreat our babies?
Brandon earlier caught in and said hey What they do is get the money for you
And then when you, you know, have an issue, they don't try and intervene or provide solutions because they already got paid.
They just gonna see your black ass on out the door.
Gotta go, don't matter, we got paid.
Whatever happens, happens, but we got paid.
And then turn around and there was another investigation conducted in 2011 and 12 by the Civil Rights, Federal Civil Rights Department.
on the same issue.
So how many times has this happened in the public school system in Milwaukee?
And it was not, no one was aware of it.
Not to mention, I'll keep reiterating it.
I don't believe that it's just 100 cases.
I believe that's how many cases was reported.
If we have 65,000 youth who are in attendance at the public school system,
You can't tell me that only a hundred of them have experienced this.
Not even just Milwaukee public school system, Greenfield, Brookfield.
Come on, let's talk about it, the surrounding areas too.
We have to pay attention.
We cannot just continue to allow this to fly past us and say, oh, we read it in an article, we're knowledgeable about it.
But and then that's it.
Just because it may not be happening to your child, just because your child may not be the child who continuously ends up suspended or expelled doesn't mean that it's not affecting them.
Because based on research, it states that even if it's not happening to them, them being in that environment alone is still affecting them.
Everybody has to play a part in a role in what's happening with the education system because the education system it has now and Has been for quite some time the very thing that is assisting with leading our babies into prison Does education matter absolutely but what matters most is where you receive it from How you receive it
What type of institute are you receiving this education from?
Who works there?
Who runs it?
Who's on the board?
Going back to the point earlier, adults, staff, we have to do a better job at putting people in position who understand our demographic.
Not just white people because it's some black people out here too who don't have a clue about nothing they they're so far removed It don't make no sense If you run into a situation with a student of color And you see their record and you know that they have things going on help them
When the system comes up against them and say hey We need to suspend them or expel them before you allow them to do whatever you do challenge them and And just to play advocate here.
I'ma be honest Another reason why a lot of staff don't is because of retaliation If you don't fall into line, they will fire your black self.
I promise you they will
Because it's about the numbers in political agendas and money.
These are our children's lives that we're talking about here.
We have to do more than just go to parent-teacher conference.
We got to do more than showing up to basketball games.
When your baby call you and tell you something ain't right with this teacher and they feel targeted you better listen I don't care how many times they didn't act it a fool before that they are telling you for a specific reason I've seen with my own eyes Educator treats certain students a certain way And you will be a fool to believe that adults don't like children y'all know the saying when we was growing up My mama always told me if they don't like me down like my kids It's the same thing with some of these adults
Who are in these positions?
So again if you have not or if you are interested in learning more and doing more research all you have to do is go to the US Department of Justice and look up the school to prison pipeline article that was That was published in 2003 Show this to your child Show them the 13th Amendment as well because they don't teach the amendments in school
They don't understand the amendments, the Constitution.
Hell, they even stop teaching cursive.
They don't know how to sign their name.
Help them understand.
I don't want you to be a slave.
What are you talking about?
I ain't no slavery in it.
Did it?
Go look at the 13th Amendment, because if you go to jail, you become a slave.
I didn't make it up.
The Constitution said it.
You could be mad at me or you want to say, I think I know it.
I'm telling you facts.
The Constitution says, yes, it was abolished.
However, if you go to jail, if you go to prison, then you are considered a slave.
So why do they keep putting our youth in situations to end up in prison?
They know that if you, any, it's common sense, any adult knows.
When you have a child who you know gets expelled or suspended they're gonna have a hard time getting into another school They're gonna have a hard time and nine times out of ten some of them just gonna be like f-school I don't even want to do it.
I'm aware and they're going to turn to alternative options and That's how they end up in prison So if you are an educator Please do me a favor
Work a little harder at making sure we can try to save these babies and I get it Not all of them can be saved not all of them will listen but try Just try These these youth have it so hard in today's society And we're all to blame but one things for show two things for certain I Cannot contribute to
Any youth becoming a slave under my watch.
I can't do it.
I won't be a part of it.
You have to figure out ways.
And if you feel like you're going to be retaliated against for speaking up, then find a loophole.
Talk to the parents.
Do something, but something has to happen.
Marty said, number games.
Numbers game they will fire you for sending kids to the office too many times my kids mom made sure my kids know who they are we all should We all should shout out to my brother von maze he has the building He was just obtained given a building and he obtained a building on MLK And we're going to be doing some programming out of there and one of the program The trays that we'll be doing is civics Where we can teach stuff like this
Where we can pass this information along to the youth to help them understand Not all of them are going to pay attention to it and we can't just gather the teams We have to start while they're young and educate them on this.
Hey, I know in school They taught you that slavery was over but when you look at the Constitution it states otherwise So when mommy tell you or when daddy tell you to be on your best behavior is because I don't want you to end up in prison
Or did but show them facts you can't just tell them based off your feelings you have to show them facts So they can know what they're up against and whether they understand it or not by the time they become of age to where they can grasp and Understand what you're saying.
They're going to appreciate it When I was little my mama told me about the 13th amendment I ain't know what she was talking about but now I'm in high school.
I get it it matters
Let's finish this conversation when we come back and show girl Jaztah the 101-700 truth.
one-on-one seven the truth is your girl Jazz Tyler we are live and direct at the award winner one-on-one seven the truth we have been talking about the lawsuit against MPS when it comes to how they choose to discipline our black babies as well as the school to prison pipeline if you are just now joining us before we went to break my call to action was to the brother's point of comment we have to make sure
that shout out to Mark Red, we have to make sure that we explain and teach our babies that we are not like everybody else.
Not just the negative side, but the positive too, right?
Why are people afraid of us?
Why do people view us in a light that they do?
Because there's something about black people in general that no other race on this earth can do or touch or see.
We know this.
So we're always targeted, but most importantly, we're not only targeted when we are walking down the street, we are targeted when we are at school, at our place of work.
And now they've been targeting our babies, but now there's more evidence that's coming out.
And we can't just let it fly by.
I don't want to hear about no hundred cases out of 65,000 students when we know that there's more, especially when there has been an investigation prior to this in 2011 and 2012, uh, uh, pertaining to the same thing.
So MPS, you better believe we're going to get some answers because we're not, you keep asking for money, but we're not going to pay you to mistreat our babies.
Period.
If you think.
I came here to play around with you.
I did not.
I promise you.
Because we're not going to allow you to groom our babies to be slaves based off the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution.
No, we're not doing that.
Our babies will not be a part of your agenda to make money off of, because we all know.
that they love making money off of us because we act a fool.
So let's do something different.
Let's show our babies the 13th Amendment.
Let's show them the school to prison pipeline document that was published in 2003 on the Department of Justice website.
Help them understand what is happening so that they can then begin to make their own conscious decisions.
Whether they grasp it.
And whether they're competent enough in this very moment doesn't matter because at the end of the day, they still need the information.
You are lacking as a parent, as an educator, as an auntie, uncle, grandmother, grandfather by not giving them this information.
It is our responsibilities to make sure that they understand.
They're not going to tell them because they are the very people that's leading them down this pipeline.
No, they're not going to preach to them about slavery no more.
No, they're not going to show them the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence.
No, they're not going to teach them how to write in cursive because they don't want them to sign their names.
Pay attention.
They removed these things from school.
The DEA, all of this stuff, black history, they're trying to erase it all.
And we just sitting here having conversations about it, but what we gonna do y'all know we can't change systems that wasn't put in place to help us to begin with start at home Start at home Mr. Owen said every school needs a PTA absolutely they do and I'm so glad you said that Because it sound real cute the PTA right but when you really get in it and you understand the politics
And the board and the funding, everything becomes a little bit more clear.
We do need more parents involved in whatever.
Let me make this clear, too.
You cannot bash parents who don't have the availability to go to.
the school to check in and do pop-ups because they don't have the flexibility they have to work.
Therefore, if you are a parent who have that flexibility, then you need to, it is your responsibility to go.
So you can then go back and report to the other parents about what's going on and y'all figure it out and come up with a game plan.
But you have to be involved.
Anybody at MAS can tell you that I took a job there when my daughter went there.
I was on a parent-teacher ambassador team.
I was at every basketball game.
I was doing pop-ups.
I had personal relationships with the staff just to make sure my daughter had the support since I'm in your business.
Not to go against you, but to assist you so that I can understand and become more aware about how this system works and what exactly it is that we're dealing with because my daughter has to deal with that too.
Whether it impacts her directly or not, her environment does.
That is the attitude you have to have when it comes to your child's education.
Stop constantly going to MP.
We want this.
We demand this.
Guess what?
They're not going to give it to you.
They're not going to give it to you.
People are going to do what they want to do, especially people in power.
All you can continue to do is educate your peoples, your family, your children, your students.
So to the educators out there, we know that currently in the school system, they don't teach black history like that.
They don't teach the amendments, any of these things.
So when you get a quick second with the black student, whether it's a young man or a young lady, have these conversations.
Hey, come let me talk to you.
I'm going to put some in here right quick.
I see you doing a good job.
Stay on track.
I'm going to send you this so you can understand what's happening because this is what's going to happen if you don't.
That simple.
That's it.
Drop a gym that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
Marty says, put the weed down and check on them kids.
Stop going out and check on them kids.
Half of the parents don't even understand.
Or have better yet read the Constitution, let alone know the 13th Amendment.
Because it sounds boring to them.
I don't want to hear that you don't want to hear it So would you rather hear it now or do you want to be the person who end up in prison?
And now all of a sudden you reading all these books when you could have just did that before you went in At the end of the day the bottom line is MPS is out of order for a multitude of things a for a continuously seeking funding
knowing damn well that y'all been mistreating black children for however long.
Y'all giving them this horrible food and then you're making money off of them and then suspending them and expelling them because you got paid.
You are hiring staff.
Y'all seen that article a couple weeks ago that they went to the Chicago
They went to Chicago to recruit teachers.
Come, Milwaukee, come.
Oh my gosh.
How do we paint this more clear?
They went to Chicago.
Everybody know the state that Chicago has been in for quite some time.
They know the environment.
They know how these children are being raised up.
They know what they're involved in.
which means that they have to be built a certain way.
They teach a certain way.
It's a different type of climate.
And Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.
voice, it's a different climate.
These are the teachers that they are currently recruiting to bring over to Milwaukee to teach our children.
What does that say?
They are comparing our babies to the babies in Chicago, A and B.
They still are refusing to hire a demographic that serves our demographic We got to do better We have to do better Is is laid out I laid it out for y'all.
That's what I'm here for I gave y'all facts.
I gave you on my personal opinion I gave y'all facts based off research.
I gave y'all facts based off of the
as the U.S.
Department of Justice, I gave you all facts based off of the 13th Amendment in the Constitution.
Everything I have given you all today has been facts.
That's all I can do.
It is up to you to take this information, to pass it along to not only your peers, but to the babies and figure it out.
Whatever it looks like in your life, I don't know your schedule, but whatever it looks like in your life,
Please make it a part of your life and make it a part of your child's life so that they can be aware.
And begin to have these conversations so that they can understand why you're telling them this to begin with.
Thank you so much, Milwaukee, for tapping in.
Be sure to pull up tomorrow, Monday through Friday, 4 p.m.
to 7 p.m.
with your girl, Jazz Tyler.
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Have a safe evening.
Peace.
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It's your boy Ray Nitty holding it down on the grapevine.
DJ BrotherZ holding me down with the production and sound.
How y'all feeling, man?
We talking about that money, man.
We talking about that money, man.
LaRon Taylor says six years ago he made over $150 being in the national dominoes commercial.
He says I spent maybe 30% of that paying off debt and blew the rest.
What an idiot he says.
I say, man, you at least had the thought process to be like, let me pay off some debt.
Somehow, there's somebody in this world, LaRon.
That may have gotten a hundred and fifty thousand dollars with debt They got that and did not pay off the debt just went further into that.
I know it is I know it is But we was just talking about Moderna how that shot up shot up over It just shot up from twenty two dollars was the low at some point this year to now it has a high of hundred and seventy six
So each share, if you got in at a nice price, let's say you got in at that $22 mark, that $20 mark, each share you had, you profit $150.
But here's the thing about stocks, that's why you gotta be careful, and I am not a financial advisor, so do not make any financial decisions based off of anything I'm saying up here today.
Stocks go up and they go down.
So as fast as Moderna shot up to 176 yesterday Somebody who hasn't got the right mental fortitude or the right training to be like Let me just Let me wait See what's happening.
They might be like they might have that FOMO fair missing out so they're gonna jump in They might jump in at 150
160 You know It's like oh man it got up to 176 I got to get some of that So now they done bought a hundred shares at 150 160 thinking they bought the run back up But today Moderna is back down it's still up from where it was at yesterday But if you bought in at the high spot
It's down to 133 today.
So you would have lost money.
And that's why I just prioritize purchasing high quality companies.
Microsoft, Google, Apple.
And a few ETFs.
But.
Learning when to get in these companies is what's important.
Because you don't always want to buy at the high point.
You're going to lose money every time.
All right.
So let's keep this going y'all.
We talking about the real gap.
We talked about the 401ks.
We talk about how many of us actually invest in stocks.
It says only 53 to 58% of black Americans own stocks at all compared to 61 to 70% of all whites.
I thought that number was pretty high for us.
So we making some progress y'all.
So here's the upside participation among black investors.
Investors under 40 has been closing the gap fast.
68% of young black adults now invest compared to 57% of young white adults in the same recent survey.
So we getting there.
We getting there.
We still got a generation of us that don't trust things like banks and the stock markets.
Still got a few of our boomers that's bury in a cash or hide in a money under a mattress or shoebox.
And black first time investors are three times more likely than white first time investors to have started during a recent market entry point.
Bar says because.
They invest dumped the system Wait for people to hop on the bandwagon and those big investors going to drop out the stock and take your money.
Yep Yep Yep, they prop up the market and they crash it they put a whole bunch of money into certain companies certain stocks or they pull it out
and we get left holding the bag.
That's why it's important to understand what you're investing in.
So why this all connects, y'all?
I only got a couple more minutes here with y'all before we got Jazzy stepping into the booth.
A credit Suzy study found that even among the wealthiest 5% of black households, they're still more likely to hold safe assets, real estate, bonds, life insurance, and stocks.
Meaning even black families who've built wealth are building it more slowly than white families with similar income because of what they're invested in.
I told y'all we just don't trust certain things.
Life insurance protects your family if you're gone tomorrow.
Investing grows what your family has 20 years from now.
Most people only have one of the two.
Which one you missing?
833-212-1017.
833-212-1017.
Which one are you missing?
Do you have both?
Life insurance and investing in stocks?
I just wanna know.
We gonna bring this home.
Bringing it home, wrapping it up, I promise you.
And this is fact check confirmed via Wisconsin policy for UW Madison's Institute for Research on Poverty and the Wealth in Milwaukee 2025 report.
Milwaukee's black home ownership rate sits at roughly 27.5%.
That's less than half the white home ownership rate at 72%.
Wisconsin as a whole has one of the widest black-white home ownership gaps of any state in the country.
And that's why I ask of politicians, what are you gonna do for black Wisconsinites?
I'ma keep it going, I only got a couple more minutes.
Nationally, the average white household has a net worth of $171,000, about 10 times higher than the average black household, 17,150.
Mark Levine, a UWM economist, has found black Milwaukeeans are actually worse off financially today.
relative to white residents that they were 40 to 50 years ago.
So we worse off today.
A black household in Milwaukee earning over 100,000 a year is twice as likely to live in a concentrated poverty neighborhood as a white household earning under $10,000 a year.
Meaning income alone doesn't buy the same neighborhood access.
Black-owned employer businesses in Wisconsin generate an average of just 42 cents for every dollar generated by white-owned businesses.
A direct reflection of unequal access to commercial lending and capital.
We talked about this.
Somebody said it in the chat.
This ain't just history.
It's still actively happening.
Black households continue to face higher mortgage loans.
Denial rates and higher interest rates than White households with comparable income and credit.
And this is according to the UW Madison housing researchers.
So the $40 trillion national number, y'all, the credit card debt number, the life insurance investing gap.
None of it exists in a vacuum.
Redlining, lending, discrimination, lower ownership access in Milwaukee, specifically compound every single one of the national trends this show covered today.
I felt like we was teaching today.
I felt like we taught something today.
So local groups like ACK Housing, Take Root, Milwaukee, specifically help Black and Latino families
Navigate the home buying and credit building process.
So just in case anybody is looking for somebody to talk to, holler at them.
All right.
And I'm going to share this black pioneer again.
We shared this of the day.
Today's black financial pioneer is Maggie Lena Walker.
1864 to 1934.
In 1903, Maggie Linen founded St.
Luke Penny Savins Bank in Richmond, Virginia, becoming the first black woman to charter and serve as president of a bank in the United States.
Born to a formerly enslaved mother Walker built the bank specifically so black families could access mortgages and financial services white owned banks refused them by 1924 it had helped more than 700 black families by their own homes All right, I Would read some more man, but I gotta make some way for Shannon let us have a bank that will take
I mean, not Shannon.
Jazzy.
Let us have a bank that will take the Nichols and turn them into dollars.
Quote by Maggie Lena Walker.
Don't go anywhere, y'all.
The tap in is next.
We'll miss Jazzy.
Jazz Tyler.
We are live and direct if you are just now joining us We are talking about data in our students, right?
So as an educator and as a parent and as someone who has health issues and had health issues I have had my share of data breaches and data leaks quote-unquote.
I Personally believe that our data
is always being sold.
And somehow they say that is being leaked.
And then we end up with some type of lawsuit.
And then they say, hey, fill this form out so you can receive maybe $90 in the mail.
So basically it's like a two to $5 million lawsuit.
Everybody who was affected got to bust it down and you get $90 because your data was sold, even though they tell you that it was leaked.
So apparently IREDI, which is a technology platform, educational technology platform that is used in school, apparently has been utilizing and using students' data without the proper permission from the parents.
And before we went to break, we were also talking about a similar situation with Life Touch, which is one of the country's largest school photography companies and how they became subjected to viral claims, connecting them to Jeffrey Epstein.
The viral theory grew from a corporate ownership connection involving a Shutterfly Apollo Global Management and Apollo's former leader, Leon Black.
whose financial relationship with Epstein has been documented, right?
But the timeline matters.
Um, so apparently Apollo managed funds.
acquired Shutterfly in September of 2019, which was after Epstein died.
In some school districts still cancelled or reconsidered picture day arrangements because parents were alarmed.
So again, it's not saying that they had anything to do with it, but it's the fact that the person who owned these platforms, right?
Shutterfly, Apollo, Global Management and Light Touch.
The fact that he had any type of financial ties, ties period when it comes to Epstein is insane.
So again, going back to the data piece, when we're talking about the I Ready, right?
The way that is presented to us as parents is, hey, we have a educational technology platform that we utilize in order to teach our students, in order to teach your child.
So we'll provide you with the username and you have to create the password.
We'll give you the student ID, blah, blah, blah.
We want you to sign on and your student has to use this.
Remind you, this is not an option.
This is not an option.
They're not saying, um, hey, similar to shots.
You don't want to, your children don't take shots.
You could just fill out this form, blame on our religion, whatever the case may be.
You have an option.
They can still be enrolled but with technology is not an option Why because this is what they have adapted to use in order to teach and now that means that our babies are subjected as well as our information It's subjected to be being leaked and sold and released without our permission and it's scary because when you
When you really realize how much information on you is out there, right?
So if you are a person who like to freeze your credit or, you know, have credit alerts to make sure your information is not on the black web and so on and so on, you understand how serious it is for us as adults when we're talking about our information and.
The search engines we put into what we look up on the internet when we have our personal information stored in our iPhones from our addresses to our full names to debit cards, credit cards, health, everything is tied to technology.
So if it's happening to us as adults, you got to know that it's also happening to our babies.
And obviously there's.
Kind of like nothing we could do about it But what we can do is become more informed and start asking more questions and these questions Again should be raised.
These are questions that the superintendent should be answering that the teachers and principals should be answering, right?
And I know that they you know, they'll say have you have to sign off on it and so on and so on but At the beginning of every school year there should be some type of policy set in place
to where we have full information, terms and conditions, everything that the school receives when it comes to these educational technology platforms.
Who owns them?
Again, I talked about this a few weeks ago, right, when we're talking about the school.
Who sits on the board at the school, right?
Who owns the corporate, who's making the decisions?
It has to be the same thing when it comes to these platforms that our children use.
Just like we do it with Roblox and everything else, we have to do it with this.
Who owns these companies?
Who's calling the shots?
Who's obtaining the data?
And what are they using the data for?
So there has been quite a few incidents, right?
There was a Canvas LMS incident.
The hacker group, Shine Hunters, claimed to steal up to 275 million records across nearly 9,000 educational institutions.
Instructure, acknowledge, and intrusion affecting names, user IDs, school emails, and internal messaging through total third party extortion claims, right?
Power school breach.
Power school.
This is something that we use here in the state of Wisconsin.
massive breach exposed records tied to roughly 62 million students excuse me compromise data varied by district ranging from basic enrollment and contact facts to limited medical notes and in a fraction of cases social security numbers right so that means that there is at least one for sure because I know for a fact that power school is used here in the state of Wisconsin right we know
that there has been one out of the three educational technology platforms that I just mentioned that has records, right?
There was a breach, roughly 62 million students.
Not just basic information, not just basic enrollment, but medical information.
Social security numbers, right?
Basic information includes full name, student ID numbers, and school issue email addresses.
Communications includes internal course messages, teacher feedback, and system notifications.
Sensitive details in specific district platforms or high impact breaches, limited medical alert special education markers like the IEPs or government identifiers have been at risk.
So,
Our babies' information are at risk every single day.
Anything we do with technology, obviously, is gonna be at risk.
But again, the fact that our students, our children' information is being exposed, right?
And we don't have any knowledge of it.
Not only that, whenever there is a situation regarding breach, a breach when it comes to our kids, our children' information,
with the school educational technology systems.
It is indeed the school's responsibility to notify the families.
So the fact that we're sitting here talking about over 62 million students, our children, information has been spreaded without our consent and not anybody from the school system sends out a letter, sends out anything.
If you're just now joining us, I mentioned before break.
If you have, you know, if you go to certain hospitals, you might receive emails that say, hey, there's a data breach.
If you went to that, there's a data breach.
Fill out this form.
There's a lawsuit.
You'll receive a certain amount of money.
Right.
So we know that it happens.
It's happening with our children as well.
But the point is, at least we're notified.
The fact that this has happened.
And it continues to happen every year with platforms that our children use and utilize and we're not notified properly.
That is a problem.
That is a problem, right?
We already have to go above and beyond to protect them from games like Roblox and all of the other whatever plan online, you know, all of all of the technology, social media, YouTube, everything.
And now we have to make sure we protect them from the educational technology platforms that the school system use.
So I'm not blaming the schools, right?
They're not the one hacking the information.
But it is, again, their responsibility.
It is, again, their responsibility to make sure that they make us aware.
Pivoting.
I want to talk about something that I've seen online.
Milwaukee Auderman Lamont Westmoreland posted an image Tuesday night that appeared to show a vehicle crushed under a fallen tree after a severe weather storm, right?
Not just any vehicle.
The Super Mario
The Super Mario Kart.
And it looked mad real, and guess what?
It was not.
This is the same Ottoman who a couple of years ago made a comment about weave tumbling down Lisbon Avenue, right?
And I took that personal, like taking shots at black women, right?
So to see that he created a AI picture for whatever reason.
is not surprising to me.
It is not surprising.
Apparently Fox Six reported that the image was AI generated.
Alderman Westmoreland acknowledged that it was fake and later.
added a disclaimer.
He said he used it to grab attention while sharing real information about reporting the damage from the storm.
And there's context behind the object that he chose.
So Westmoreland has criticized the cost of the moving city vehicle, which is tied to Milwaukee's vision zero effort.
So yes, there was humor and political commentary in it, but.
I'm interested in the larger problem.
And we're going to talk about that after the break.
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If you are just now joining us before we went to break, I was talking about this fake AI-generated post that an alderman in the city of Milwaukee posted according to Fox 6 News.
Autumn in Lamont, Westmoreland's initial Facebook post went up at 11 26 p.m.
On Tuesday after severe weather watches and warnings expired It included a fake image of the art car crushed Underneath a tree with the caption that stated looks like the big bad wolf came through Milwaukee tonight He huffed he huffed he puffed and he blew quite a few trees down tonight storm has left
down down in damaged trees throughout the city.
Westmorelands Post then provided information on how to contact the city about falling trees and debris followed by a reminder for residents to please stay safe and use caution around downed trees and branches, particularly if power lines are involved.
I mean, I don't even know what to make of this.
I don't.
I don't understand the logic behind being an elected official, creating a false picture of a fallen tree smashing a car.
It kind of puts me in the mind frame of like, was he taking shots at the city?
Was he trying to say that they
Don't work fast enough when it comes to moving debris and so on and so on again.
I don't it doesn't make sense
But I'd be a shot at the car
Um, I just I don't I don't know if it is proper for an elected official to post anything that is unauthentic because then it begins to raise questions about
Validity, you know, can we trust what you say now?
You have a history of talking about tumbleweaves rolling down Lisbon right taking shots because your wife don't wear weave Right talking about the trash, but we never see you out there picking up nothing and now he's posting fake AI generated pictures So we are now living in a period where?
Photographic evidence is no longer automatically evidence think about
How quickly that happened, right?
Our parents told us, don't believe everything you hear.
And the internet taught us, don't believe everything you read.
AI is teaching our children, don't automatically believe what you see with your own eyes.
So today it's a fake tree falling on an art car, but the same technology can be used to create an image of a politician somewhere.
They never went a person committing an act.
They never committed disaster damage that never happened or a public figure standing beside somebody they never met.
And once the image gets shared, screen-shotted and reposted, the correction has to chase the original around the internet.
So again,
I think that's why public officials, journalists, schools, and institutions need to think seriously about labeling synthetic media, not because every joke is a national emergency, but because trust is.
If we, the people become conditioned to assume everything could be fake, eventually real evidence loses some of its power too.
So Fox Six News asked Alderman Westmoreland about the posting image via email on Wednesday morning.
And less than an hour after the inquiry, he responded and added a disclaimer on his Facebook post.
He then shared the same disclaimer in response to the email.
The car wasn't actually crushed by a tree.
The image was created to grab people's attention, remind residents to report down and damaged trees, and make sure they know how to report them to the city, he wrote.
And yes, I purposely used that car.
For those who remember, I was pretty vocal about the taxpayer-funded car when it was rolled out as a way to bring attention to reckless driving.
I thought it was an embarrassment.
and a wasteful use of tax dollars.
So when I needed a vehicle for this photo, there really was only one choice.
It felt like perfect opportunity.
The treat damage is real.
The car damage, not so much.
So what car are we talking about and why is it a big deal?
What is the Mobile City art car?
The moving city was meant to highlight the dangers of reckless driving and it cost Milwaukee 88,000.
It was part of the city's vision zero goal to eliminate traffic deaths by 2037.
So reducing traffic issues is about in all of the above approach, having creative things that captures the public's attention and start conversations and bring people to us at events to talk about why we put a speed bump in their neighborhood and why they might be seeing a different project is a real positive.
And this is according to the vision zero policy director As far as her response.
So basically he had an issue with the fact that it cost 88,000 for this project including this art car and he decided to Pretty much take a shot My opinion that's what he did.
He took a shot at them by putting the car he said under the tree He said that the the tree damage is real but the car
Um, wasn't real, you know, all in all, I just think is, is, is tacky.
I think it's tacky.
What is wrong with the simple post?
There was so much video going around, uh, about real incidents, right?
But don't use things that people are really going through for your own political agenda.
That is the purpose of me talking about this.
You have a political agenda against this project because they use 88,000 of taxpayers dollars to make us aware about something they were trying to do to combat people from dying when it comes to road rage and speeding and During a time where there were people who were really affected in major ways.
We talk in trees falling on houses We're talking trees falling on cars being uprooted by the roots
power outages, flooding.
People are really, you know, we're really going through it or experiencing some type of issue.
And you chose to utilize your platform to take the severity of a natural disaster to attack an issue that you have politically.
That's foul, period.
That's foul.
A better post would have been a picture of the tree by itself.
wishing and hoping that everyone was safe and okay, right?
Yet you are posting a fake AI generated picture where the car is fake, but the tree is not taking a shot at the project and telling people to make sure that they call DPW.
Not, hey, all of the citizens in my district, are you guys okay?
Do you need help?
Do you need me to do anything?
How can I assist you?
Instead of using the platform to say and do that, he chose to use a fake picture to capitalize off of the natural disaster.
And again, that just speaks to his character.
And I don't know the man.
So I don't dislike him.
I'm just saying that this is I've seen multiple things similar to this.
And again, it's just it doesn't make sense to me.
Um.
I want to talk about moving on from this because I don't even want to give that too much of my time.
I want to talk about a story that is far more serious.
Milwaukee Public Schools is under a federal civil rights investigation involving race and discipline.
and the numbers explain why this story cannot be reduced to just a headline.
So if you guys have not been paying attention or if it didn't come across your newsfeed, the U.S.
Department of Education Office for Civil Rights announced an investigation into the Milwaukee Public Schools system this week.
Federal officers...
say they are examining whether race is being improperly considered in student disciplinary practices.
MPS is one of two districts named in this announcement.
So MPS said it received notice and needed additional information before it could appropriately respond.
Now, here is the history that makes this complicated.
A previous federal civil rights investigation pushed MPS
to reform its discipline practices after finding more than 100 instances over a two-year period in which black students were expelled while white students were suspended for similar infractions.
Now look at the more recent Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction data reported by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Services.
During the 24 through 25 school year,
Black MPS students were involved in about fifty-four percent of incidents that resulted in disciplinary action.
But Black students accounted for seventy-eight percent of suspensions and eighty-six percent of expulsions.
So let's run that back, right?
Forty-four percent of Black students were disciplined.
Sixty-eight percent were suspended.
86% were expelled.
So when people say, why are we talking about race?
That is why.
Race is a part of the discussion.
At the same time, the current federal government isn't arguing that schools cannot treat students differently based on race in an effort to correct the disparities.
That creates a real policy tension.
How do you address racial disparities without assigning different consequences because of race, right?
I want to see conduct.
I want to see consequences.
I want to see comparable cases.
I want to know whether teachers are supported.
I want to know whether students receive due process.
And I've actually experienced something similar to this with my son.
And he was only in fifth grade at the time.
He was going to Nisgarah, which is a Milwaukee public school.
This was about 10 years ago.
And there was a boy who kept bothering him, consistently bothering him in the classroom.
So much to the point, like my, my children, well, I'll say my son, cause my oldest daughter, that's a whole other beast right there.
But my son, my son is not the type of person that bothers people.
Um, you know, he don't start anything, but he will finish it and stand up for himself.
And at this time he was nine years old, 10 years old, and this, this boy kept bothering him in the classroom.
So one of the things that I do teach him is stand up for itself.
Obviously, just like y'all don't allow nobody to put their hands on you.
They can talk crazy, whatever, but don't allow nobody to put their hands on you.
They get into a fight.
They're 10 years old.
The teacher decides to jump in front, I'm sorry, in the middle of both of them.
The boy he was fighting was not a young black boy.
He was a boy of another ethnicity.
She jumps in the middle of them while they're fighting and then proceeds to say that She was hit purposely by my son He's trying to fight the boy you jumping in the middle breaking up to fight anybody adult or child knows that when that happens you're bound to get hit and The document and the words she used
against my son versus the other one blew my mind.
We're gonna talk about it when we come back from break.
This your girl Jazz Tyler, do not touch that dial, one on one point seven to truth.
You are officially
If you are just now joining us, we are talking about the federal civil rights investigation.
with Milwaukee Public School.
A previous federal civil rights investigation pushed MPS to reform its discipline practices after finding more than 100 instances over a two-year period in which black students were expelled while white students were suspended for similar infractions.
Now look at more recent
uh, Wisconsin department of public instruction data reported by Milwaukee neighborhood new services.
So I was explaining to you all that 44% of the disciplinary incidents were, uh, pertaining to black students.
68% of black students were suspended and 86% were expelled.
Um, and I was also given a testimony to my own experience with my son when he was 10 years old, about 10 years ago.
Um, there was a situation where he was.
Having an altercation with the boy of another ethnicity who was not black kept bothering him to the point where I just told him, you know, if he runs up, whatever you do, if he put his hands on you, defend yourself.
And that's what happened.
His teacher, who at the time was white, decided to jump in the middle of the fight to break the fight up, which she's supposed to, right?
But as an adult, you know that whenever you come in between, especially young men,
No matter what color they are, there is a chance that you are bound to get hit.
She was not hitting her face or anything like that.
She just jumped in while they're in the middle of swinging blows and got hit.
And obviously we know who she blamed and said that my son intentionally hit her, right?
Now at this time, their principal was a black older gentleman.
And I asked him to use his common sense.
In the event there is a fight and you choose to break up the fight, there is a probability that you're going to somehow be affected, maybe or maybe not, right?
And we're talking about 10 year old boys.
They're not fighting like adults where they're trying to kill each other.
They're just passing licks because they're, you know, frustrated and angry with each other.
And she utilized verbiage in the document that lets me know that
Well, not let me know because I've been new, but confirm the school to prison pipeline.
What are you talking about, Jazz?
I'm talking about words that goes inside of a jail report.
Words, mind you, she pushed for an expulsion.
Words that could have potentially caused my son to not go to a good school or because of her jumping in it, right?
Meanwhile, the young man that he was fighting.
He didn't even get rolled up or suspended.
He was the one who started the incident.
I immediately pulled my son out of that school, but most importantly, I was so disappointed and frustrated with the principal at that time.
There is no way that a black man in that seat, in that position, who comes from the inner city of Milwaukee, should not have defended him to some degree or defended the situation and made it fair.
Making it fair is yes, they both are suspended.
They both were a part of it, even though the other boy started it.
Just make, just suspend both of them and call it a day.
But for whatever reason, she felt like targeting my child and wish it wasn't the first time, right?
It's like she always had an issue with the little black kids.
She don't treat them the same.
There's no nurturing whenever I would encounter her.
How do I know?
Because I'm an active parent.
I do pop-ups.
I'm going on field trips.
I'm sitting on the parent advisory boards.
I'm calling.
I'm doing everything.
Parent-teacher conferences.
I want to see how my child responds to this environment and the person that is teaching him.
And when I seen it, I immediately pulled him away from that school.
I took him out of that school.
I have no problem with removing my children from schools that don't serve them.
I promise you I don't, especially when we're talking about...
A teacher who purposely put something in this report that could have gotten my son expelled, right?
So I want to be clear, right?
I do understand that teachers deserve safe classrooms.
Students deserve safe classrooms as well.
A student who harms somebody or seriously disrupt learning may need consequences.
Hello, yes.
Suspension, right?
Not all, no.
I'm a little biased because I don't always feel like a suspension is necessary.
And what do I mean by that?
When you get to a certain grade, they're in when you're dealing with certain students, you're able to have conversations with them to figure out the core issue to try and solve it.
Now, that's not the case with everything, but you have to discern.
You have to use your discernment to figure out which one you should and which one you should.
You can't just.
Apply this protocol to every situation because that one time you apply it, maybe that one time that make that child feel like they want to give up and don't want to come back, right?
All you see is, hey, they're fighting whatever the case may be and then that's it.
No one's talking about the underlying issues.
No one's talking about what's going on outside of school.
No one's talking about what's happening in school, right?
And a lot of our children are not going to confide in some teachers because they don't feel that their relationship is strong.
So accountability and exclusion are not automatically the same thing.
Research has repeatedly found an association between excluding somebody based on discipline and later contact them being contacted or involved in the justice system.
So one study comparing suspended youth with similar non-suspended youth found that years later, the suspended group had higher rates of arrests, repeated arrests, imprisonment, and probation.
And researchers tried to account for dozens of factors that existed before the first suspension.
Other economic research has found that attending a school with a higher rate to suspend students can be associated with lower educational attainment and greater adult criminal justice involvement.
That does not mean suspension automatically causes incarceration.
A child can be suspended and go home, go on to become a doctor.
A child can never be suspended and later be incarcerated.
Human beings are not equations.
That is the point.
But if exclusion from school is consistently associated with worse long-term outcomes, then we should care about what happens after we send a child home.
What instruction did they miss?
What happens if the home is unstable?
What happens after the third suspension?
At what point does a child stop believing school is a place where they belong and That is what I want y'all to think about today Accountability and exclusion are not the same thing.
Yes, you can correct behavior without deciding a human being is disposable and I am not shocked by
the allegations of over 100 students being reported within a two year span in the Milwaukee public school system that they were being treated differently.
My daughter finished her last senior year at Hamilton High School and she went through some things, her dad went through some things and she was affected by it and they began to treat her a certain way, right?
Again, the story with my son, being an educator, I see it.
The truth of the matter is majority of these schools have leadership of people who do not serve our demographic.
That is the truth.
They don't understand where we come from.
They don't understand what we go through.
All they see is numbers and money and politics.
Everyone is using their own agenda on off the backs of the babies.
And when they have real life scenarios and situations.
No one wants to deal with it No one wants to deal with the child who is acting a fool all the time and constantly being suspended because For whatever reasons nine times out of ten is something that's happening outside of home, but again the bigger picture is that the leadership a Lot of the leadership in these schools, especially in the public school system are coming from people and teachers who do not serve our demographic
They don't even live in the city of Milwaukee, and if they do, they don't live around the demographic that they serve.
What demographic am I talking about?
Our black babies.
Our black babies.
If you can see the way that some of them are treated, right, one of the reasons why I sent my youngest daughter, Callie.
Callie is nine, she's entering into the fourth grade.
And Callie has been homeschooled the past couple of years.
She's been to other schools as well because of the line of work that I was in.
I had to travel.
I had to travel so much and I had to move around.
So homeschool became easier, right?
And when she was in a school setting, she was around a diverse environment.
But when we got back to Milwaukee, safety was my main concern.
So I wanted her to go to a school where the teachers and the staff were predominantly black.
I wanted her to get that experience because I needed her to understand that there are teachers that care, that look like you.
Majority of, not majority, all of the teachers that I had that impacted me, except for one, which is Ms.
Jacqueline, she's white, but Ms.
Erie-Cautwell at Hartford Elementary.
Ms.
Brenda Harvey, Ms.
Pamela Bolden, right?
These are Ms.
Aziza Islam.
These are teachers that I've had from K-4 through elementary, Ms.
Jacqueline Middle School, Ms.
Bolden in high school.
Other than one, these were prominent black women.
They understood, they used to come do house visits.
When we were younger, we used to get house visits from our teachers.
And they impacted me in such a major way.
And that is part of the reason why I am successful today, and that's what our babies need.
Let's finish this conversation.
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If you are just now joining us before we went to break, I was talking about the school to prison pipeline.
And this is all stemming from the recent civil rights investigation into the Milwaukee public school system where they have recently discovered that over a hundred cases of black youth being expelled and suspended, which defers from their white counterparts.
So.
There's a lot of people who say there's no such thing as school-to-prison pipeline.
A lot of people believe that we are not conditioning or programming our children to become used to being inside of an institute like this, hence the police presence that's inside of the school.
Again, this is not taken away from the fact that educators, students, family, staff needs to feel safe in these environments.
We know that there are situations.
We've seen it many times, especially inside of the Milwaukee public school system that requires police presence, law enforcement presence, right?
But it's not about that, it's about what happens before we get to that point.
So for those who, the critics who like to say it's conspiracy theory, you can actually go to OJP.gov.
The Office of Justice Programs, that's the US Department of Justice and if you click on their website and you research defining and redirecting a school to prison pipeline You will see that this has been published since 2003 ladies and gentlemen That means that everything I have said is not a conspiracy theory it can't be if
The United States, the government is telling you that is not a conspiracy theory.
And the fact that this was published in 2003, that's not saying that it's been happening since 2003.
It's saying that not only do we need to pay attention between that timeline, but we also need to look prior to 2003.
How long has this been happening?
What happened leading up to 2003 that made the US Department of Justice write a seven page article about how to Dismantle and redirect the school to prison pipeline.
We have a caller on the line Brandon.
Are you there?
Yeah,
I'm doing well.
How about yourself?
I do.
Um, I was, uh, I guess rather unfortunate enough to go to a number of Milwaukee public schools and, uh, most of the ones that were serving majority African Americans also had within them sort of, uh, ad hoc police facility.
Um, so things like a typical lunch room fight.
would turn into individuals being charged in almost every instance that I myself have went to jail.
It was directly from a Milwaukee public school facility.
And for activities that, you know, I would call maybe, you know, typical activities that go on in a high school like a fight where no one is severely injured.
I'd also like to say that they also had policies that seem to kind of turn you over to the wolves.
For instance, when I went to Bradley Tech,
If you arrived to that school after about 8.35, you were given a pendant suspension and forced to leave the building.
And this satisfied MPS's requirement to dock you as having come and then kind of get the money for you arriving.
Yes.
But not actually have to provide education for you.
And the only way around that is if your parent was present.
So almost every day,
There was a contingent of usually African American men that were turned away and they would then get picked up by a police force.
I think at a time was known as tabs.
Um, and then, and then I'd also like to add that when I did go to jail, one of the things that really jumped out at me, um, was how similar it was to my Milwaukee public schools.
The bells were the same.
The lunches were the same.
just so many of the routines felt eerily familiar.
So that prison, that school or prison pipeline is not just real, it's an engineered situation.
Brandon, I truly appreciate you for tapping in and sharing that information because believe it or not, it is extremely difficult to get our people in particular to understand, right, without thinking in a subjective manner.
but thinking objectively that this is a real thing and that it has been happening for quite some time.
So thank you again for sharing that information with us and hopefully our people will be able to take that and begin to research it a little bit more.
Absolutely.
Take care.
So prior to Brandon calling and again, shout out to Brandon for that testimony.
I know that that's not everybody's experience, but what he is saying is true.
I've worked in education.
I've been a part of the public school system as well as my children and I can confirm that that most definitely is true.
Prior to Brandon's call, we were talking about the fact that there are people who still believe that the school to prison pipeline is a conspiracy theory.
And if you go to the U.S.
Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs, you will see a seven page document that was published in 2003.
titled New Directions for Youth Development, meaning that this has been going on for quite some time.
So, according to this document, the public school system in this country is plagued by vast inequalities that are frequently defined along lines of race and class, and recent policy trends appear to be intensifying these inequalities.
Students in high poverty, high minority schools are routinely provided fewer resources, qualified teachers, and advanced level courses than their affluent white peers which can lead to lower rates of high school graduation, lower levels of academic achievement, and higher rates of college attrition.
A related trend is also seen in school discipline and the criminal justice system.
with minority youth being overly represented and subjected to more severe sanctions.
The racial disparities within the two systems are so similar that educators, advocates, and observers have begun describing these dual trends as the prison track or the school to prison pipeline.
Despite the strong relationship,
between troubled educational histories and subsequent arrests and incarceration, the specific ways in which schools may either contribute to or prevent the flow of students into the criminal justice system remains largely unexplored.
In May of 2003, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University sponsored a conference on the concept of the School to Prison Pipeline.
The major findings from these studies include the failure to provide appropriate behavioral interventions, maybe contributing to the frequency among students with disabilities, following removal from school.
Many students experience enormous difficulty in re-entering school and effective interventions and programs that reduce risk and enhance protective factors for youth at risk for delinquency exit.
These students clearly suggest that the school-to-prison pipeline is preventable, but harnessing the political will to do so is difficult.
This is
coming directly from the U.S.
Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs in 2003.
2003.
23 years ago.
That's how long this article has been out.
And again, we're not even talking about prior to 2003 because
Something had to happen in order in order for this article to be written to begin with So you got a lot of people that like to troll and they like to say things like Well, what if the students?
deserve to be Suspended and da da da da da obviously we're not talking about those students.
We know that we can't save every child But at the end of the day when we are looking at these numbers we have to pay attention
and understand something.
I hate to bring politics in this, but everything is political.
This conversation has come up multiple times about funding Milwaukee public school systems.
Do they need more funding?
Yes, but to Brandon's point, in the event they obtain more funding,
Will they then continue to suspend and expel majority of the black students and get paid for them without having the accountability or responsibility to teach them and make sure that they walk across that stage?
That means that they are obtaining funds, regardless if our babies stay in school or not.
Once they get the money, it's a wrap.
They then don't care or they decide whether or not it's easier for them to say, hey, you can move on up out of here.
These are conversations we have to start having especially we're talking about MPS needs more money They don't need more money to mistreat our babies that's for damn short We got to go to break we're gonna continue this conversation when we come back in chagrille jazz Tyler 101 7 of
truth
You are officially tapped in.
If you are just now joining us, we are talking about the School to Prison Pipeline.
Shout out to everybody who is tuning in.
Shout out to the chat.
Mark Reed says, if we don't have bad behavior from the students, we wouldn't have to worry about prison pipeline kids.
Got to understand, we are not like everybody else.
Black children, black adult, aim higher standard.
And you know what, Mark?
I agree.
That is the reality.
The reality is that if we don't have this behavior, then we won't have to deal with it.
However, that's similar to saying if people stop killing, then nobody would die, right?
We're in a society where every, you gotta have the, it's the yin and yang, it's balance, right?
There's gonna be good and bad.
We understand that.
But to your point, what I want, what's most important about what you said, Mark, is that our kid, our youth,
have to understand that we are not like everybody else.
Oh my gosh, that's probably the best thing I've heard during this entire show, other than the testimony from Brandy, primarily because the reality is they don't understand.
They don't understand that we are not like everybody else.
I just had this conversation with my oldest daughter.
I helped her move herself into her dorm today.
Huge shout out to my daughter Kennedy.
Uh, she started college.
We moved her into her dorm today and I was telling her why you're here.
Be careful.
Especially when you walking around at night, watch what you say, watch what you do, right?
You walking around like, Hey, where my ninja so and so at?
Hey, you're at an all white Catholic college university.
I mean, they're not going to treat you the same way in your basketball player in your black.
The eyes are already stacked up against you parents if you don't do anything else Please educate your child Enough to where they understand that we as a people are not the same as everybody else and Obviously this civil rights investigation into the Milwaukee public school system is showing that The the facts and the proof are in the pudding the document from
the U.S.
Department of Justice that was published in 2003 states a related trend is also seen in school discipline and the criminal justice system with minority youth being overly represented and subjected to more severe sanctions they're telling you the government is telling you that we are not the same so to our youth
That's listening.
Shout out to our youth at the Safe Summer Site that tapped in earlier from the Boys and Girls Club, Mary Ryan.
If you're listening, I want you all to know first and foremost that you are beautiful.
You are beautiful young black, brown, young ladies and young men.
Your hair is beautiful.
Your skin is beautiful.
Where you come from is beautiful.
Doesn't matter if it's rough.
You are a beautiful in the being in human being and you matter Your safety matter your education matters But baby you are not the same as everybody else.
We are not the same.
We are held at a higher standard We have to work twice as hard in every room we walk in not just when it comes to the opposite
Ethnicities, but even our own people sometimes our own people is the worst Shout out to the chat What's up, Marty?
Thank you so much for tapping in He said no more Nolan Wells miss Jenkins raise your kids to be smart woke alert.
Hello Black is different in all colors exactly So this document is saying
A related trend is also seen in school discipline in the criminal justice system with minority youth being overly represented and subjected to more severe sanctions.
The racial disparities within the two systems are so similar that educators, advocates, and observers have begun describing these dual trends as the prison track or school to prison pipeline.
Despite
the strong relationship between troubled educational histories and subsequent arrest and incarceration, the specific ways in which schools matter either contribute to or prevent the flow of students into the criminal justice system remains largely unexplored.
That means that although the government, the people, the civil rights federal investigation has
Proving that there indeed is a prison track aka school to prison pipeline For some reason They still Have not put enough research into this.
Why haven't they put enough research into this jazz?
Yes, I'm talking in third person Because they make too much money off of us acting a damn fool It's all fluff it smoke and mirrors they're not going to
Take us out of poverty and give us what we need and give us adequate food inside of the schools because that's another thing.
When you go in the school system and you see the food that they serve, it looks like food in jail.
And this is the very thing that your child is in taking at school and you wonder why they don't know A from B.
Help is a huge part of this as well on top of the environment that they're in especially if there is a heavy present of police Why would they help us when they make so much money off of us acting a fool It's a game that is the harsh reality which brings me to my next point again.
We are responsible We can't keep trying to change systems
that was never meant to serve us, our people to begin with.
All we can do is prepare.
Proper preparation prevents poor performance.
The five Ps.
That's what should be being explained to not only the youth, but the parents.
Proper preparation prevents poor performance.
And we all fall short.
I couldn't have these conversations with my two oldest children until
I was older because I had them at 18 and 19, 19 and 20.
I was still growing up.
So a lot of this information I wasn't privy to, which means that I got a late start, which means that I have to give myself some grace.
And so do you.
We only know what we know.
But if you are somebody who understands and you still refuse,
to properly prepare your child, you are the problem as well.
Yes, we can hold them accountable.
Yes, we should be holding them accountable.
Yes, we should be holding people in office accountable.
Yes, we should be fighting for this and fighting for that.
But if y'all haven't learned one thing by now, people gonna do what they wanna do, especially people who control these systems.
And MPS continues to fall by wayside.
So much to the point that over a hundred cases have been investigated because black children have been being mistreated when it comes to being suspended and expelled compared to their white counterparts.
And sometimes there's nothing they can do about it.
Sometimes it has to happen.
Wisconsin, let me tell you something.
I had an event and I brought a celebrity here a couple of years ago.
And as we was driving in from Chicago Airport from O'Hara right through downtown, the first thing he said was, what is that?
Said, that's MSDF.
What is MSDF?
A 23 hour lockdown maximum secured prison.
What is that over there?
The Milwaukee County Jail.
Do you understand that as soon as you step foot into the city of Milwaukee and you rock?
past that bridge.
The first thing you see is a 23-hour maximum security prison across the street from the county jail.
And then you drive your way on up to Keith Avenue in Port Washington, and you see a women's prison right there.
Then you go down a local street to find a likeness, a halfway house right there.
Then you go on over to Watertown Planketon Road, and it's the juvenile detention facility right there.
Not to mention the one that's being built on Calumet Road in District 9.
Hello.
How many prisons did I just name in the inner city of Milwaukee?
Any mini Monimo, catch a tiger by his toe.
If he holler, let him go.
Any mini Monimo.
We have basically they're saying y'all can pick one.
It's enough for everybody.
We got women prison, youth prison, men's prison, adult prison, all in the inner city of Milwaukee.
And think about how small this city is.
Not to mention the prisons throughout the entire state.
I don't know why when I just said prisons like that, it sound like Trump.
Oh, Lord.
Not to mention the prisons throughout the entire state of Wisconsin.
But seriously, this is the first thing that we see when we enter the city of Milwaukee.
And to me, we don't see, again, you have to imagine this.
You have to envision this.
You are riding past the bridge from the south side, not the Hogan Bridge, but the bridge from the south side going towards Green Bay.
And you're riding through downtown, the Oscars, and you see this.
This is the first thing that you see.
How welcoming is that?
If I had never been here and I never lived here and I was just visiting.
And I drive in and see that child got a 23 hour maximum security prison across the street from the county jail in the downtown, baby.
That's big business.
They are telling you that's big business.
And guess what?
They want to keep those institutions filled because that's how they make money.
The more they lock our babies up, that's free labor.
That's free labor.
So again, if we sit here and think that this is not by design, you are sadly mistaken.
You are sadly mistaken.
It indeed is by design.
How do we know this?
The 13th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution officially ended slavery, slavery enforced labor across the entire United States, making it illegal, illegal to own another person with one specific exception.
It allowed forced labor as a legal punishment for a convicted crime.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Slavery still exists, people.
Slavery still exists.
The prison is slavery, not to mention the mental slavery.
Why do they keep suspending and expelling our babies because they are grooming slaves?
To go to prison and work for them, making 10 cents on a dime.
Pay attention.
Let's finish this conversation when we come back from break.
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If you are just now joining us, we are talking about the case.
The federal civil rights investigation into the Milwaukee public school system surrounded the fact that they have been suspending black kids and expelling them more than white kids or any other race.
And before we went to break, we were talking about the fact that no one is going to stop or assist you with your issues when they benefit from it.
What do I mean by that?
When you pull into the city of Milwaukee, the first thing you see is MSDF in a county jail.
When you go and keep, you see a women's prison, you go and find it like you see a halfway house, you go on Watertown Plankington Road and there's a juvenile detention facility as well as the one that they're building on Calumet.
Which means that that's big business and also that they're making money off of it.
And we're talking about the school to prison pipeline.
The fact that they are putting our babies
in institutions and environments, preparing them to go to prison.
Is this a conspiracy theory?
No, because it's on the US Department of Justice website.
It was an article published in 2003.
And what are they doing?
So what are they doing?
They are grooming our babies to be slaves.
Will slavery end it?
No, it didn't.
The 13th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution has two main sections.
It officially ended slavery
And involuntary servitude everywhere in the United States are less used as a punishment for a convicted crime.
What does that mean?
The loophole.
Forced labor is still legal if it is used as a punishment for crime.
The condition a person must first be formally charged, put on trial, and filed guilty by the court of law.
Modern impact.
This exception allows prisons to legally require inmates to work for a little to no pay slavery.
They are literally grooming our babies to be slaves and to the brother's point earlier mark if we don't start Making our youth understand that we are not like everybody else and that we have to work twice as hard to make sure that we don't put ourselves in situations that could potentially land us in prison or In a casket then they're going to continue
To groom them to be a slave This is the harsh reality not to mention MPS MPS you're asking you're saying you don't have money.
Why will we pay you to mistreat our children?
Why are we paying you to mistreat our babies?
Brandon earlier caught in and said hey What they do is get the money for you
And then when you, you know, have an issue, they don't try and intervene or provide solutions because they already got paid.
They just gonna see your black ass on out the door.
Gotta go, don't matter, we got paid.
Whatever happens, happens, but we got paid.
And then turn around and there was another investigation conducted in 2011 and 12 by the Civil Rights, Federal Civil Rights Department.
on the same issue.
So how many times has this happened in the public school system in Milwaukee?
And it was not, no one was aware of it.
Not to mention, I'll keep reiterating it.
I don't believe that it's just 100 cases.
I believe that's how many cases was reported.
If we have 65,000 youth who are in attendance at the public school system,
You can't tell me that only a hundred of them have experienced this.
Not even just Milwaukee public school system, Greenfield, Brookfield.
Come on, let's talk about it, the surrounding areas too.
We have to pay attention.
We cannot just continue to allow this to fly past us and say, oh, we read it in an article, we're knowledgeable about it.
But and then that's it.
Just because it may not be happening to your child, just because your child may not be the child who continuously ends up suspended or expelled doesn't mean that it's not affecting them.
Because based on research, it states that even if it's not happening to them, them being in that environment alone is still affecting them.
Everybody has to play a part in a role in what's happening with the education system because the education system it has now and Has been for quite some time the very thing that is assisting with leading our babies into prison Does education matter absolutely but what matters most is where you receive it from How you receive it
What type of institute are you receiving this education from?
Who works there?
Who runs it?
Who's on the board?
Going back to the point earlier, adults, staff, we have to do a better job at putting people in position who understand our demographic.
Not just white people because it's some black people out here too who don't have a clue about nothing they they're so far removed It don't make no sense If you run into a situation with a student of color And you see their record and you know that they have things going on help them
When the system comes up against them and say hey We need to suspend them or expel them before you allow them to do whatever you do challenge them and And just to play advocate here.
I'ma be honest Another reason why a lot of staff don't is because of retaliation If you don't fall into line, they will fire your black self.
I promise you they will
Because it's about the numbers in political agendas and money.
These are our children's lives that we're talking about here.
We have to do more than just go to parent-teacher conference.
We got to do more than showing up to basketball games.
When your baby call you and tell you something ain't right with this teacher and they feel targeted you better listen I don't care how many times they didn't act it a fool before that they are telling you for a specific reason I've seen with my own eyes Educator treats certain students a certain way And you will be a fool to believe that adults don't like children y'all know the saying when we was growing up My mama always told me if they don't like me down like my kids It's the same thing with some of these adults
Who are in these positions?
So again if you have not or if you are interested in learning more and doing more research all you have to do is go to the US Department of Justice and look up the school to prison pipeline article that was That was published in 2003 Show this to your child Show them the 13th Amendment as well because they don't teach the amendments in school
They don't understand the amendments, the Constitution.
Hell, they even stop teaching cursive.
They don't know how to sign their name.
Help them understand.
I don't want you to be a slave.
What are you talking about?
I ain't no slavery in it.
Did it?
Go look at the 13th Amendment, because if you go to jail, you become a slave.
I didn't make it up.
The Constitution said it.
You could be mad at me or you want to say, I think I know it.
I'm telling you facts.
The Constitution says, yes, it was abolished.
However, if you go to jail, if you go to prison, then you are considered a slave.
So why do they keep putting our youth in situations to end up in prison?
They know that if you, any, it's common sense, any adult knows.
When you have a child who you know gets expelled or suspended they're gonna have a hard time getting into another school They're gonna have a hard time and nine times out of ten some of them just gonna be like f-school I don't even want to do it.
I'm aware and they're going to turn to alternative options and That's how they end up in prison So if you are an educator Please do me a favor
Work a little harder at making sure we can try to save these babies and I get it Not all of them can be saved not all of them will listen but try Just try These these youth have it so hard in today's society And we're all to blame but one things for show two things for certain I Cannot contribute to
Any youth becoming a slave under my watch.
I can't do it.
I won't be a part of it.
You have to figure out ways.
And if you feel like you're going to be retaliated against for speaking up, then find a loophole.
Talk to the parents.
Do something, but something has to happen.
Marty said, number games.
Numbers game they will fire you for sending kids to the office too many times my kids mom made sure my kids know who they are we all should We all should shout out to my brother von maze he has the building He was just obtained given a building and he obtained a building on MLK And we're going to be doing some programming out of there and one of the program The trays that we'll be doing is civics Where we can teach stuff like this
Where we can pass this information along to the youth to help them understand Not all of them are going to pay attention to it and we can't just gather the teams We have to start while they're young and educate them on this.
Hey, I know in school They taught you that slavery was over but when you look at the Constitution it states otherwise So when mommy tell you or when daddy tell you to be on your best behavior is because I don't want you to end up in prison
Or did but show them facts you can't just tell them based off your feelings you have to show them facts So they can know what they're up against and whether they understand it or not by the time they become of age to where they can grasp and Understand what you're saying.
They're going to appreciate it When I was little my mama told me about the 13th amendment I ain't know what she was talking about but now I'm in high school.
I get it it matters
Let's finish this conversation when we come back and show girl Jaztah the 101-700 truth.
one-on-one seven the truth is your girl Jazz Tyler we are live and direct at the award winner one-on-one seven the truth we have been talking about the lawsuit against MPS when it comes to how they choose to discipline our black babies as well as the school to prison pipeline if you are just now joining us before we went to break my call to action was to the brother's point of comment we have to make sure
that shout out to Mark Red, we have to make sure that we explain and teach our babies that we are not like everybody else.
Not just the negative side, but the positive too, right?
Why are people afraid of us?
Why do people view us in a light that they do?
Because there's something about black people in general that no other race on this earth can do or touch or see.
We know this.
So we're always targeted, but most importantly, we're not only targeted when we are walking down the street, we are targeted when we are at school, at our place of work.
And now they've been targeting our babies, but now there's more evidence that's coming out.
And we can't just let it fly by.
I don't want to hear about no hundred cases out of 65,000 students when we know that there's more, especially when there has been an investigation prior to this in 2011 and 2012, uh, uh, pertaining to the same thing.
So MPS, you better believe we're going to get some answers because we're not, you keep asking for money, but we're not going to pay you to mistreat our babies.
Period.
If you think.
I came here to play around with you.
I did not.
I promise you.
Because we're not going to allow you to groom our babies to be slaves based off the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution.
No, we're not doing that.
Our babies will not be a part of your agenda to make money off of, because we all know.
that they love making money off of us because we act a fool.
So let's do something different.
Let's show our babies the 13th Amendment.
Let's show them the school to prison pipeline document that was published in 2003 on the Department of Justice website.
Help them understand what is happening so that they can then begin to make their own conscious decisions.
Whether they grasp it.
And whether they're competent enough in this very moment doesn't matter because at the end of the day, they still need the information.
You are lacking as a parent, as an educator, as an auntie, uncle, grandmother, grandfather by not giving them this information.
It is our responsibilities to make sure that they understand.
They're not going to tell them because they are the very people that's leading them down this pipeline.
No, they're not going to preach to them about slavery no more.
No, they're not going to show them the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence.
No, they're not going to teach them how to write in cursive because they don't want them to sign their names.
Pay attention.
They removed these things from school.
The DEA, all of this stuff, black history, they're trying to erase it all.
And we just sitting here having conversations about it, but what we gonna do y'all know we can't change systems that wasn't put in place to help us to begin with start at home Start at home Mr. Owen said every school needs a PTA absolutely they do and I'm so glad you said that Because it sound real cute the PTA right but when you really get in it and you understand the politics
And the board and the funding, everything becomes a little bit more clear.
We do need more parents involved in whatever.
Let me make this clear, too.
You cannot bash parents who don't have the availability to go to.
the school to check in and do pop-ups because they don't have the flexibility they have to work.
Therefore, if you are a parent who have that flexibility, then you need to, it is your responsibility to go.
So you can then go back and report to the other parents about what's going on and y'all figure it out and come up with a game plan.
But you have to be involved.
Anybody at MAS can tell you that I took a job there when my daughter went there.
I was on a parent-teacher ambassador team.
I was at every basketball game.
I was doing pop-ups.
I had personal relationships with the staff just to make sure my daughter had the support since I'm in your business.
Not to go against you, but to assist you so that I can understand and become more aware about how this system works and what exactly it is that we're dealing with because my daughter has to deal with that too.
Whether it impacts her directly or not, her environment does.
That is the attitude you have to have when it comes to your child's education.
Stop constantly going to MP.
We want this.
We demand this.
Guess what?
They're not going to give it to you.
They're not going to give it to you.
People are going to do what they want to do, especially people in power.
All you can continue to do is educate your peoples, your family, your children, your students.
So to the educators out there, we know that currently in the school system, they don't teach black history like that.
They don't teach the amendments, any of these things.
So when you get a quick second with the black student, whether it's a young man or a young lady, have these conversations.
Hey, come let me talk to you.
I'm going to put some in here right quick.
I see you doing a good job.
Stay on track.
I'm going to send you this so you can understand what's happening because this is what's going to happen if you don't.
That simple.
That's it.
Drop a gym that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
Marty says, put the weed down and check on them kids.
Stop going out and check on them kids.
Half of the parents don't even understand.
Or have better yet read the Constitution, let alone know the 13th Amendment.
Because it sounds boring to them.
I don't want to hear that you don't want to hear it So would you rather hear it now or do you want to be the person who end up in prison?
And now all of a sudden you reading all these books when you could have just did that before you went in At the end of the day the bottom line is MPS is out of order for a multitude of things a for a continuously seeking funding
knowing damn well that y'all been mistreating black children for however long.
Y'all giving them this horrible food and then you're making money off of them and then suspending them and expelling them because you got paid.
You are hiring staff.
Y'all seen that article a couple weeks ago that they went to the Chicago
They went to Chicago to recruit teachers.
Come, Milwaukee, come.
Oh my gosh.
How do we paint this more clear?
They went to Chicago.
Everybody know the state that Chicago has been in for quite some time.
They know the environment.
They know how these children are being raised up.
They know what they're involved in.
which means that they have to be built a certain way.
They teach a certain way.
It's a different type of climate.
And Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.
voice, it's a different climate.
These are the teachers that they are currently recruiting to bring over to Milwaukee to teach our children.
What does that say?
They are comparing our babies to the babies in Chicago, A and B.
They still are refusing to hire a demographic that serves our demographic We got to do better We have to do better Is is laid out I laid it out for y'all.
That's what I'm here for I gave y'all facts.
I gave you on my personal opinion I gave y'all facts based off research.
I gave y'all facts based off of the
as the U.S.
Department of Justice, I gave you all facts based off of the 13th Amendment in the Constitution.
Everything I have given you all today has been facts.
That's all I can do.
It is up to you to take this information, to pass it along to not only your peers, but to the babies and figure it out.
Whatever it looks like in your life, I don't know your schedule, but whatever it looks like in your life,
Please make it a part of your life and make it a part of your child's life so that they can be aware.
And begin to have these conversations so that they can understand why you're telling them this to begin with.
Thank you so much, Milwaukee, for tapping in.
Be sure to pull up tomorrow, Monday through Friday, 4 p.m.
to 7 p.m.
with your girl, Jazz Tyler.
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Have a safe evening.
Peace.