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It's your boy Ray Nitty on the grapevine.
On the award winning 1017, the truth.
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Shout out to Cece.
Both of them.
Shout out to Cece, both of them.
Man, we having a great conversation, man.
We talking about the legal slavery.
in the city, in our country, and so forth.
And we we we have in this conversation, we talking about our responsibility, you know, somebody said poverty, like Al called in and said, you know, we got to stop using poverty.
I agree with everything Al said when he called in.
And I don't think poverty is an excuse.
I think it's a real tool that they're using to.
Keep us where we are and it ain't just about us because as we said the numbers are showing It's about women.
It's about Latinos.
It is about black people Some progress is real and we said we want to name some of the things that was worth naming this disenfranchised population has fallen 31% since 2016
as 26 states plus DC has expanded voting rights for people with felony convictions since 1997.
Over two million Americans have regained.
The vote as a direct result.
So it's some.
But we got a lot of work to do still.
We got a lot of work to do still.
We have to vote.
We have to vote all of these things that we just talked about from the lunch break to right now.
We're squeezing grapes Guru said I ain't got the answers sway I'm from the move states But I do want to see the city win and that's the thing we can't move away from this This ain't something you just move or go to Detroit then
Go see what Zeke and New Era dealing with out in Detroit.
Trying like actually doing work.
To get the really out in the streets.
Doing work, protecting communities, protecting women, bringing resources.
To neighborhoods in Detroit.
The work don't just stop in Milwaukee because we move someplace else.
Now, maybe you ain't talking about moving to Detroit.
But I know in this country with these laws, where there's a neighborhood of black people.
There's a high chance we're going to find some of the similar issues in other impoverished states.
Now, you can find some some very affluent communities as well.
You said I was just about to say if you go out west or you go to Baldwin Hills and you in Black Hollywood or Inglewood.
But even then Inglewood has a set of problems as well, too.
Shouts out to Miss Dixon running for mayor in Inglewood.
She been running for mayor for a while.
This would be her second.
I mean, I said a while like it's just been 10 plus years.
I think this is our second time running.
So, yeah, we can't just move away from the problem.
What are we going to do?
What responsibility are we going to take as a community?
Did we give up on the village?
Are we so far gone as a society that we only care about ourselves and ours?
Barely our our our own people own family.
We've gotten so selfish that it's just Minds just all minds me me me me me We gotta get back to the community Don't forget we got the African-American round table that's gonna be joining us today as well
You know, I would love to talk.
I'm excited to talk about them as we are actually talking about this topic right now.
We're going to be talking to Raisha Farmer.
I hope I said that name right.
I'll be butchering people names over here.
Forgive me.
And Tracy Watford.
I want to get their thoughts.
They got some amazing things going on.
We're going to be talking about the African-American Roundtable Feed the Change MKE campaign.
I'd love to know their thoughts.
Very interested in knowing their thoughts.
Guru said I was doing that here, was told to keep my head down, can't do too much standing up for the people by a local black leader.
Oh, oh, it runs deep and I'm.
Man, I get it.
I get the struggles.
I've watched people that deserve to get the support and resources that is doing great work in the city have to always do the most with the lease.
So I get that.
We've always had to do the most with the lease.
So I understand that frustration.
But I think a lot of times we allow that frustration to.
Leak over into us having animosity towards our communities.
So we easily get frustrated with our people and our communities, and it's easy to give up on one another.
When it feels like all the work that you've been doing over the years is like.
I struggle with the thoughts like, am I doing this in vain?
I've asked people numerous times, do you think the work we ever do that all this work that we're doing, is it going to ever change anything?
Is it going to have any real impact?
And I remember brother Amir called in yesterday and.
You know, he talked about that.
about feeling like, man, you know, I just don't know if I'm having... And I said, you may not even see the impact in somebody right away.
It might not even be for a few years.
I'm seeing the impact that Urban Underground had in my life.
And I'm 42.
I was in Urban Underground when I was 17.
So we can't give up.
No matter if we don't see the fruits in front of us.
Loran said the United States is the strongest capitalist society in the world.
You are in competition with everybody else from birth.
If people can eliminate you from competing, they will.
You could also eliminate.
Absolutely.
Use that vote.
The ones that can't fight should fight.
We should be fighting for the folks that can't fight.
We should be voting for the folks that can vote.
Get well informed.
Stop just listening to what we see on Facebook and getting rather.
I was getting rather by some of the ignorant stuff people were saying as well.
You got people talking as if they's political strategists and what should happen in this election and how things should go about in this election and they don't know the difference between Mayor Cavalier Johnson and County Executive David Crowley.
Journal Sentinel still confusing them.
You know how many articles I see when they say County Executive David Crowley and it's a picture of shit.
So you don't even know what the hell the article about is it about the man in the picture or the title on the article?
We got to get better informed We get so emotional I get emotional too I'm learning to navigate how emotional I get about these type of topics
because it's frustrating trying to have an educated conversation with people who already ain't listening to you because they think you are just an entertainer and what can you say you made by?
They want you to present all the facts as the entertainer while they just spew nonsense and ask you for evidence.
And that's another conversation, Guru.
Why do we lose our talent?
To the Las Vegas's, to the Chicago's, to the Atlantis, to the out West.
We don't do a good job at retaining our talent.
That could help impact our communities.
We let them go.
We beat them up.
We disappoint them.
And then they leave the city with resentment because it wasn't an environment here where our talent could thrive.
Feel like they have value, feel like they have importance, feel like they have something to offer to the change that's needed in the community.
So I hear you.
But sometimes we got to remember people leave because they had no choice.
Now it's one thing to leave.
It's one thing to leave.
But let's remember the ones that are reaching back.
Some people leave and just disappear.
But it's a lot of people that relieve and reach back.
Don't go anywhere, y'all.
When we come back, we'll keep this conversation going.
on your award-winning 1017, the truth of Ray Nitty on The Great Vine.
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Welcome back.
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You now tuned in to The Great Vine with Ray Nitty.
We having a real amazing conversation today.
Who's talking about the prison labor pipeline and the exploitation of the exception in the 13th Amendment that allowed this legalized slavery to take place in our country.
But we have the African-American Round Table in the building with us.
Thank you all for joining us.
We have Raisha Farmer.
I said it right.
And Tracy Watford.
How y'all doing?
How y'all doing?
How y'all doing?
Thank you for joining us.
Thank you for joining us.
We look forward to hearing about the African-American Roundtable.
And I had some extra questions that wasn't on the, you know what I mean?
Just because we're having a big conversation and I think it is important to get you all's take on some of these things affecting our African-American table in this.
community.
Um, but we want to know more about the feed to change, uh, MKE campaign you all have going on and the importance of that.
And I just want to tell our listeners about who you all are.
So Raisha Farmer is one of Milwaukee's proudest natives on down to her roof.
Is I had a ration and a dancer already?
I did chaos.
Let's just get through it.
We got more important things to
You know how hard it is to read it?
Look, look, look.
See what I got to deal with?
That house spear.
On down to her Rufus King blue and gold.
They even put the blue and gold in there to be spiteful.
Wow.
Like that's play spiteful.
Adoration in the dance.
Riverside.
Shout out Riverside, man.
Y'all know how we get down, man.
I'm a lady tiger myself.
Hey, still not talking about.
There we go.
Need a tiebreaker in here.
Rufus Green, Ms.
Tracy first.
Oh, man, but no.
Raisha is one of Milwaukee's proudest natives on down to her Rufus King, Blue and Gold, as well as a DJ, writer, organizer, and more.
She's facilitated community conversation and arts program with Stillwater's Collective and the Zedler Center.
worked in the fields of candidate and party electoral campaigns and built power on issue campaigns for the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Campaign, and now the African American Round Table.
As their community program manager, Raisha leads the team of African American Round Table members and far northwest side resident leaders, predominantly for automatic districts five and nine.
who run Feed the Change MKE.
Clap it up for Ryazan, man.
Okay, journalists be doing something.
Y'all be doing
something.
A little
Appreciate that from a Rufus King general.
Ms.
Tracy.
Tracy Watford is a retired teacher, writer, traveler, former journalist, and current entrepreneur in the Automatic District 5.
Tracy became a member of African American Roundtable after attending a visioning session
where residents were able to express their support for a Northwest side led food access campaign in 2025 and since has shared brilliant ideas about educating families through the campaign and has also committed to supporting the campaign through African American roundtables, social media, blogs, radio, interviews and etc.
Thank you all for the amazing work that y'all do.
Appreciate y'all for this.
Absolutely.
So we want to talk about the African-American Roundtable.
Let's give our audience a rundown of African-American Roundtable, what it is you all do, and some of the things you all are looking to accomplish, and then we'll get into the Feed the Change campaign.
Sure.
I can start, and then I would love to toss as many questions as possible to Ms.
Watford, who's
the campaign.
The African-American Round Table is a black lit organization.
We're based on Milwaukee's Far North West Side.
Our office is on 69th and Brown Deer.
We root it in the area to begin building power with black people on the Far North West Side, knowing that Far North West Side residents are often left out of conversations, decision-making processes, civic engagement opportunities, yada yada.
And so our mission is to organize, nurture, and transform Black leaders to build power and service of Black liberation.
What that means is we're trying to get Black people together to activate the power that's already within them, develop their skills, and allow them to lead the change in their communities that's going to give them better material conditions and allow them to thrive.
So we run a number of campaigns.
We have a number of programs for young people, for adults, for black people.
Our campaign work is not exclusive to black people.
We invite folks across the city, regardless of racial demographics, to participate in campaigns like Feed the Change.
But we're rooted, yeah,
on the Northwest Side to develop black power.
And Ms.
Waffer can probably tell you more about her experience with art, since she's become a member.
So I stumbled upon art.
And I heard about a community meeting they were having and I went and I was interested in what they were doing.
So I wanted to see when I got to the meeting, my mind was blown because they were actually discussing issues, but also not just venting and complaining.
They were actually brainstorming for solutions.
And that's me.
I don't want to just hear the problem.
I consider myself a problem solver, and I wanted to align with the organization that really was doing what they said they were going to do.
And so they were giving people an opportunity to share their ideas, to share their concerns, and that got me.
So what I learned about Feed the Change, and I'm learning and involving in my knowledge of Feed the Change, but it's a campaign to empower our community to be self-resourceful in having healthy food options.
That's something that I'm passionate about.
As a classroom teacher when I taught social studies when I taught life skills I talked to my students about food deserts a lot of them didn't know that that existed but I taught middle school primarily and when I would see my students come in in the morning a lot of times their breakfasts would be that they thought was breakfast would be a bag of flaming hot Some kind of purple orange or green juice that they could grab at the gas station, but it was nothing healthy
And it was nothing that could feed the mind and the body.
And so that's something that I'm very passionate about.
And so I started talking to them about food deserts and what that meant.
And so feed the change for me was an opportunity to help become part of the solution to resolve that.
Give our community healthy options.
Farmers markets.
grocery stores that actually sell fresh food, not just processed foods, something other than a gas station.
Snacks are okay, but snacks don't feed the body.
I was guilty of it.
When I was at the greatest high school ever, Riverside University High School, you know, we used to, it used to be a centuries over there.
And we used to walk over there.
And I remember it like, I get a strawberry milk.
I get a glazed long John donut and a bag of flaming hot and that was breakfast.
Let's see.
I don't know.
I don't know what era you were in.
I remember the century, but I was grocery shopping.
I was a latchkey kid
for years we didn't have transportation.
The bus was our transportation.
So I would go after school with my two book bags on my shoulder.
And I would have a list of groceries that we needed to get for the house, especially if it was getting ready to be a snowstorm.
And I would be big girl shopping and carrying that stuff on the bus.
And so, yeah, it wasn't no flaming hots now.
Popcorn is my snack.
And we didn't do the microwave.
We popped the real popcorn.
So those were things that I like now.
I like Doritos, Cheetos, all of that.
But that wasn't necessary.
I mean, I don't know too many people who don't indulge, to be honest.
Like, even as we're building a campaign, first of all, food access is a new issue for African-American Roundtable.
So we're learning as we're
going.
But, you know,
we're
everyday people, like everybody
that's
listening, who...
are also learning to reconnect with land and soil and healthier foods and how to prepare different types of meals and we're all learning.
But like Mrs. Wofford said, it's definitely about resourcefulness or self-determination, as we call it, and not relying on corporations or outside entities or SNAP benefits or all these other things that haven't always worked for us to meet our basic needs for food.
which we also know is tied to our safety if we're
full and if we're nourished and
if we're taken
care
of, then our communities are in better position to be safer.
And so, yeah, it's just about giving people, especially on Northwest Side, their vision coming to life in terms of what it looks like to grow and prepare and have access to your own food and not be relying on somebody else to give you that through community gardens, through locally owned grocery stores, farmer's markets.
et cetera, et cetera, the list goes
terms of what we heard from residents.
But this is stuff that the people said that they wanted for themselves.
OK, well, let's go and get it.
Feed the Chant is about.
We are live with the African-American Roundtable.
We are talking about Feed the Change MKE, a campaign that they are launching to help address the food disparities in our local communities.
When we come back, I want y'all to tell the folks.
I think it said District 5 and 9.
So just kind of give the people an idea of where those districts are.
Don't go anywhere, y'all.
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What up y'all welcome back welcome back to the grapevine with Ray Nitty on the award winning one on one seven the truth we getting into the vines y'all talking to him african-american round table and We're talking about the feed the change MKE campaign Addressing the food disparities in our local communities
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We are talking with Ms.
Raisha Farmer.
and Tracy Watford.
See, I got the names right today.
Appreciate it, man.
So we just talked about feed to change.
And but I want you all to give a snapshot, a snapshot.
See, I'm from the island.
So sometimes my Caribbean accent, like slip out.
So if you hear something that just a little, what
was that?
Right, right, right.
You're right.
Yeah, so we do work across the city, but we're building power in automated districts five and nine.
The alder folks for those districts are Lamont Westmoreland in automated districts five.
That's where Ms.
Watford lives.
And then Larissa Taylor is the alder for Automatic District 9.
That's where I live.
Yeah.
OK.
But hey, hey, neighbor.
But, you know, the cleanest way, because there's a bunch of different ways you can define automatic districts, you can give zip codes, you can give lines.
Sometimes the lines are not always clean.
But I like to give streets, because I think, you know, Milwaukee folks, we get down by streets.
So I think between 76 and capital.
through 124th or County Lion Road and Brown Deer.
That's where the bulk of our like Far North West Side work is happening.
There's a little bit of outlier.
I think Lamont Westmorelands District goes a little bit more south and east, but that's the bulk of where we are.
Well, for me, I think
the education component of getting the word out about what art is actually doing and how people can have a voice in seeing how the money is spent for the budget, for
the
city, the participatory budget.
And I first learned about that with art, and I honestly didn't start paying attention.
to a lot of that conversation until art, because I was of the mindset, well, they're going to do what they want to do anyway.
I had started getting a little cynical about politics.
And with working with art, I felt more hopeful.
And so some of the goals for me would be to increase community engagement and participation in the
process
and letting people know what the process is and how the process works so that they can have their voices be heard.
I would like to see more food access.
For me, that's big.
I'm part of the aging community.
And so even though I can drive myself to a grocery store and have options for what I'm buying, there's going to come a day where I may not be able to drive out my neighborhood.
And
so I need to have those options available to me if I'm able to still walk or whatever.
And there are people who
Right now, they can't drive somewhere else.
And so I want to see more options for them in our community.
You know, Midtown.
You know,
Midtown
used to be capital court.
And it used to be a thriving area.
And now I look at it and, you know, it's heartbreaking because it's just not the same.
You know, the option is there is very disrespectful, in my opinion.
and I want to see better investments and commitment to correcting those things in that area in our district.
They just had a brewery credit union open up and the Alderman was very proud of that work.
I'd like to see that same pride in recommitting to correcting some of the issues in that grocery access at Midtown because it's not there.
had
Asian,
you
Yeah, ultimately, you know, Miss Wafford talked about she's talking about the pick and save in midtown.
Yeah.
We were on a different rodeo show and we heard about I'm not even gonna repeat just something discussed in terms of the quality of the food.
We continue to hear about the quality of the just the experience when you walk into the pick and say blah, blah, blah.
All of that shows us.
which leads into our core message, we can't rely on corporations.
We can't rely on grocery store corporations to meet our needs.
They're gonna come and they're gonna go according to profit, unfortunately.
And we've been dealing with the same issues with some of these grocery chains for years.
And so ultimately, people have to take charge for their own grocery access.
And what that looks like, Ms.
Waffer was talking about it a little bit earlier, is through the city budget process, let's take one million of the city budget dollars, we learned that
Mayor Johnson said there's at least 685 million that's currently unaccounted for.
And so set aside a million of that is our goal to invest in people being able to start their own grocery stores, farmers markets, community gardens to access their food, delivery services to access their food, and also educational programs for food providers so they can sustain.
and for community members to have like nutritional education so they know like how do I work with healthier foods how do I preserve these things where are other places I can access them because sometimes it's not about something new it's about like there's this thing in this community that you don't even know exists and you don't you don't you know engage with there's a lot of like African markets on the northwest side speaking of Asian Asian markets on the northwest side that we could be getting healthier options from
And so, like, give the people the money to be able to, like, increase awareness and marketing, access more of these things, start their own community gardens, et cetera, et cetera.
We can't keep relying on the grocery stores.
That's not it.
That's not gonna be the end-all, be all.
That's not the only solution to food access.
I'm just telling you, hey, I can share the link.
I'm just telling you what the mayor put out in his video, educating folks about how the city budget process works.
There are 685 million of like a, I think there's like a two billion, two billion dollar budget.
I might need to be fact checked on that.
I think that's how much the city has to allocate every year.
And there's 685 million that like is not reserved for something else already.
And so we're saying of that money, let us get a million.
And that's a, that's a small.
A drop in the bucket.
That's a small fraction.
Right.
But if
you're feeling good, give us two or three more minutes.
I mean, if it's
at
time, and he said, I want you to tell me how to spend it.
That that type of money is available to be used to improve conditions for our community.
And, you know, we saw Pick and Save on 35th and North Avenue closed down.
We saw...
Honestly the centuries on Appleton was getting ready to close
down
So this is a very very troubling
issue in our community when it come down to healthy food access.
Because we know so much of healthy food impacts how kids operate a school, how their moods are, the behavior that they are exhibiting, and so forth.
And the same with the parents and aunties and cousins that are grown.
And
a green or purple juice.
You speak into the safety piece of it, right?
Like we talk about safety at art from the lens of like basic needs because when a person has food on their table, a roof over their head, you know, they feel like they can they can move through their community in a way where.
They're neighborly and they don't have to worry.
They're not gonna trip as much.
You know what I mean?
Like just, you know, and I'm no scientist, but I can understand how, you know, on days when I, you know, they talk about women being angry.
Okay.
If I ain't had a meal, I'm not myself when I'm hungry.
What's the snickers commercial say?
Or just, you know, you know how you behave differently when you're, when you haven't had enough to eat or you haven't had anything nourishing to eat.
You behave differently, right?
And so we talk about, you know, how young people behave.
Like that's that's one of the things that can impact their behavior in our community safety.
Even their energy level, you go into a classroom and you see kids that are, you know, tired.
They're
physically exhausted.
It's not
always just because somebody at the house was turning up the night before.
It's not having energy.
Food is fuel.
And if you haven't had food or you're not, you know, you're hungry, it's hard to concentrate.
And unfortunately, even speaking to the breakfast programs that a lot of schools are offering the kids, that's not healthy either.
So we really have to do something to equip them.
And you made a good point.
They're in environments that they did not ask to be brought into.
If you're in a community where you have a corner store or a gas station, that's the only access.
You're hungry.
You may have a couple of dollars, and you're going to get what you can get.
Give them
No, it definitely makes me think a lot, right?
Because we talk about so many of the statistics in the city.
But when we come back from break, I want us to go a little deeper into that, right?
Because so many kids aren't even going to school because they...
You know, they don't have the right environments at home, but don't go anywhere.
Y'all will be right back and we'll get deeper into this conversation on the award-winning one-on-one seven to true.
What up y'all welcome back welcome back to the award-winning one on one seven the truth.
This is the great vine with Ray nitty We got the African-American round table in the building talking about the feed the change campaign Feed the change campaign we trying to eradicate these food deserts in the city um We was having a little off the off the air conversation just about
You know, we hear about all this money that's available and Raisha Was talking about how we always come from the place of lack when we speaking on our communities and I think that fuels a narrative that is so false and creates a mindset that Perpetuates that lacking mentality right that we don't have the resources
But we just said it's over 600 unaccounted million dollars.
That don't sound po to me.
It's not like we got po execution on how we distribute resources in our city.
Not just and that's just the food budget we talking about.
It's so many other things that we just constantly give the same organizations.
Respectfully that aren't as effective as organizations that have to do the most with the lease So we lose our creatives we lose our amazing people because they're going to places and making their food deserts disappear because Those places are investing in the people that's actually out and doing the work not just perpetuating a cycle of giving resources where
they shouldn't
go
So in my district I'm I'm near Midtown and I know that there's been a conversation about a data center being placed in that In a space that used to be retail and look what organizing
did shut that down Mm-hmm, just that right on
down, but I want to say that I have an idea for that space Now I visited Atlanta who hasn't been to Atlanta, but one of the things that blew me away when I went there
Probably in my 20s.
They had this huge the cab County farmers market indoor and I'm thinking Yep, you know that other places right over there, you know being very disrespectful to us But if they're not gonna do right why not convert that space to an indoor farmers market for our community?
You know bring in bring in different types of fruits and vegetables that different
types of produce, different types of things that could sustain the community in terms of food.
Use the space for that.
We don't need technology.
I'm old school.
I don't even think we need a data center.
We don't need something using up all of our water.
That's another conversation.
But think of something else we could use that space for that would actually serve the community and be beneficial.
long term.
You know, if we want to be metropolitan, let's be metropolitan.
Let's do some of the things that some of the other metropolitan places are doing.
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do
saying?
We
Well, you know, that's what I love about art because they're given opportunity for voices to be heard.
So you're not just listening to the same people spread out the same excuses or the same ideas or, you know, you got to think out of the box when you dealing with a crisis and food justice is a crisis for
You have to think outside of the box.
Yeah.
And I don't think, you know, not to I'm not trying to correct you.
I don't think there's a lack of creativity.
I think the visioning session that Ms.
Waffer came to is a perfect example of this.
People don't realize that they're not the only people being creative.
They're not the only people who want to do something about the issue that's happening.
At that session, another one of our members who's helping to lead on the campaign, Delisha, interviewed some people who attended and she talked to so many people who were just excited to see that there were other people in the room and the room was packed at
Church.
There were so many people who were like, I didn't know that you were doing this.
I may have known you, but I didn't know that you were doing this work or maybe I didn't know you.
There's a host of people in this room that I didn't know who cared about this issue and weren't working on it and had ideas.
So
I think like that's the power of, of building power, right?
That's
the power of organizing, of coming together and figuring out together, how are we going to tackle this issue for ourselves?
That's what organizing is.
And I just don't think people have enough experience with organizing or like realize that all you got to do is get together with some people and you can make some stuff happen.
And now I'm.
one of those people I didn't know.
It was a conversation that I had been having, but I didn't know that there were actually people trying to address the issue.
And that was when my eyes got open.
That's why I fell in love with art.
I hadn't even heard of art at that point.
But when I got to that meeting, I was like, you know, people are actually talking about
and it's real.
And not only are they talking about it, they're talking about actionable steps with timelines and everything.
And
That was amazing to me.
The education that I got from that one meeting and the education I've been getting from every meeting that, you know, I've participated in since then.
I wasn't trying to, I promise.
No, no, no.
I am way not away.
Like I am not beyond being corrected, right?
And.
to expand on what I was saying, like, yes, you are absolutely right.
We don't lack creativity as the people that bring the ideas.
Where the lack is, is the leadership.
Having the creative mind and vision to be like, yo, we have some people that are bringing some amazing ideas.
So it's a lack of investing in the creative ideas from our leadership.
So that's what.
Thank you for making me say it how I wanted to say it and not sidestepping
it.
I got you.
That's what we here to do.
And you know
that.
I want to even address that, though, because sometimes we look at people and where they come from and we prejudge what they have to offer in terms of leadership and ideas and getting the work done.
And you
make that judgment and you miss out and you lose out on having people who actually are close to the situation, have knowledge and expertise.
But because they don't come in the package that you think they should come in, you're not listening to them.
Because the YNs and the party girls, they got it.
They got the energy, they got the time, they got the passion, they
ideas, they got the
They just need a place to put it all.
Don't forget the plaid button up shirt.
You know, if they not developers, you know, I say this all the time.
It is amazingly easy to redevelop buildings that we want to put people in to live.
We grade at it.
What we need to get better at is how we redevelop our people.
We need to get better at redeveloping people.
We have
the African-American Roundtable joining us with the Feed the Change MKE campaign.
We got a couple more minutes.
Please share with our listeners anything that we didn't get to touch on.
I know I asked some questions that took us off topic just a little bit, but please go ahead and take these last couple minutes to share any important information.
Yeah, I think you went, I think you went all the places you need to go.
I would just say, you know, check out our website.
It's aartmke.org.
ARTMKE.org to learn more.
We have a couple of events coming up as we're wrapping up for the budget season.
They're about to make decisions about the budget process in November, and we need to tell them in the process what we want.
And so check out our website so you can learn about when they're having budget hearings that you can testify at, how we can help you train to testify, et cetera, et cetera.
That's why for any last word.
I just want to encourage you, if you think you don't know what to do,
connect with art so you can get the training on how to do it and how the process works and get out there and make your voice be heard.