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This is the great volume boy Ray Nitty holding it down on the award winning 1017 the truth live from the American Family Assurance Studios DJ brother Z holding it down with the production and sound We talking about this American dream, y'all The Ron Taylor says minimum wage gives you minimum wage talent I agree So what dude $2 and 13 cents an hour talent

Get you.

What do that get you?

I don't know.

What does this look like in Milwaukee?

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Fact checked by.

Wisconsin Policy Forum, UW Madison Institute for Research on Poverty.

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And we talked about it.

on a pride show.

He says, I pay my staff that much because they're smart, courteous.

That's what I'm saying.

That's that's I feel like that's my point.

I feel like that's my point, like.

Why not just pay people because then you'll get more motivated people that want to come and work, you'll get a higher.

I'm assuming.

I haven't ran a restaurant business yet.

Educate me, Laurent, please.

I would assume.

Like the better you pay, the more quality.

Employee base, you would be able to attract.

Which would then mean you would be offering a higher quality of service.

To your customer base.

And it sounds like you got your program down to a dope situation to where you don't even have to have that many staff on hand.

So your overhead sounds like it's like, OK, I don't got 15 servers running around.

And we know that the restaurant industry lives off of very thin margins.

That's why a lot of people want to add liquor to their.

Restaurant menus because that helps with the small margins on the food margin.

We know alcohol is marked up 400 percent.

We know that for a fact.

And it depends on which state you in.

Because a bottle of a. Sirac.

In Milwaukee is not the same as Sirac LA.

or Vegas.

I remember when I was heavy out, you was getting a bottle for 160 plus 20% gratuity.

He was paying like 210 to 200, something like that.

But in LA, Atlanta, that same box.

Twenty six hundred.

Two G's.

I'm just saying.

The markup is crazy out here.

But.

Milwaukee's black home ownership rate sits around twenty seven point five percent.

less than half the white home ownership rate of 72 percent.

Home ownership is the single biggest lever for the kind of generational wealth the American dream promise depends on.

All right.

Marie that again, because that's a very, very important home ownership.

is the single biggest lever for the kind of generational wealth the American dream promise depends on.

And it's structurally out of reach for most black Milwaukee families.

Because of things like what, red lining, us not getting awarded loans.

us not even being allowed to buy properties or even back in the day when uh you know

They had lots and homes that they were selling to white people at $8,000, but they said, oh, do not sell these homes to black people in those homes.

Then grew into 300 and today, probably 400, $700,000 that they were able to just hand that generational wealth down, but we weren't able to participate in it back in the day.

So we were never able to pass that generational wealth down to our families.

We were blocked out from it.

And they pick yourself up by your boots.

Strap your boots up and pick yourself up.

The average white household nationally holds a net worth of 171,000.

Roughly 10 times the average black household, $17,150.

UW Milwaukee Economist Mark Levine has found the black Milwaukeeans are financially worse off relative to white residents today than 40 to 50 years ago.

Meaning the gap isn't closing is widening in the exact city.

This show broadcast from.

We've been talking about it.

We've been talking about it.

We've been talking about what.

Is your elected official?

What is the politician?

What is the governor?

What is somebody going to do for black families in this state, in this city?

Because it's one of the worst places to raise black families while it still has the narrative of being one of the greatest places to raise white families.

How could those two exist?

We should be ashamed that that's a real stat.

What up, Jazz?

We should be ashamed that that's a real stat.

Milwaukee's own reading crisis.

We already know this.

We covered it on this show before.

27% of MPS fourth graders test at even a basic reading level.

Worst around, Jesus, worst among major US cities except Detroit.

And my neighbors and my cousins, they can't read, they read worse than us down there.

Detroit.

is the front end of the same broken pipeline.

That's why I ask a question.

What does fully funded NPS look like?

What do it look like?

What do it look like?

What do it look like?

You gotta show me.

You gotta show me what it look like, dawg.

You can't just keep telling me.

Without real educational foundation, the work hard and get ahead promise never even gets a fair start.

The American dream is a lie, man.

This is the American trap.

It's the American trap.

While this country was made off of the.

Bags of immigrants, black sales, slaves, Caribbean.

American slaves.

But we were left out the most.

We were held out the most.

We were blocked the most, hated on the most.

When we tried to build up, they bombed it from the skies fell.

Burnt down, blew up Tulsa, Oklahoma.

We have my nephew on the show.

That's the American dream.

As a people who was forced into labor to build this country and was also forced to be left out of everything that could help propel their generations forward, we were left out of it deliberately.

Deliberately.

blew it up.

So when you say pull yourself up by your bootstraps and then we show you that we did and don't please don't think Tulsa, Oklahoma was just the only spot.

Y'all ever been to Central Park in New York?

You know the real story of Central Park?

It was a black town.

where free slaves have settled and then they took that land away.

Let's go back on Tulsa before we even get to Central Park.

They built highways through Tulsa.

To make it damn near impossible for us to rebuild.

And then now the things that are still around from Greenwood is hardly even owned by people that look like us anymore.

So imagine you live in a country that was taken.

The land was taken from Native Americans.

And even Native Americans got reservations.

They gave them land.

We got nothing.

We got told.

Right.

I couldn't hear you, Joe.

Hmm that educated me on that.

Well, I know an oppressed people got something.

They almost killed all of them.

They almost wiped all of them out.

And they just gave them land and said, go way over there.

But then they also was able to do things like own reservations.

own gambling places.

Potawatomi.

They get a lot of breaks.

But we don't, you know, they just close all the businesses around and blame it on niggas.

Nobody going to that damn strip club.

They had a lot of hair with that.

I'm just saying, y'all.

When we come back.

When we come back.

I want to talk about.

Why are American products cheaper abroad than in America?

And I had to look it up because I'm like, why am I paying less for all these American products in Poland?

And when I get back to America, it's like twice as much.

Stop playing with me, man.

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Man, we're talking about the American dream, y'all.

A332 on 21017.

That's the number to dial.

A 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 is the number to die.

Man.

Why are American products cheaper abroad?

Why do we have to pay more here for things that are made here?

Help me understand.

But they said.

It is.

documented confirmed via University of Chicago Health, Economics Research and Standard International Trade Economics.

This one's real and well documented is called International Price Discrimination.

And pharmaceuticals are the clearest example.

Americans often pay close to three times more for the exact same medicine, sometimes made in the exact same factory as patients in other wealthy countries.

What's the core reason?

Most other wealthy countries directly negotiate or cap drug prices nationally through their government health systems.

The U.S.

largely doesn't.

Medicare only recently got limited negotiating power.

Only recently.

So companies can charge whatever

The market bears here while accepting lower government capped prices elsewhere just to access those markets at all.

So they charging.

Like imagine living in a country.

That is knowingly getting you sick.

And charging you astronomically high prices.

for the cure.

Imagine that.

From the food, to the environment, to everything.

And then price gouging you on the cure for the conditions that they created.

A University of Chicago analysis found the U.S.

with under 5% of the world's population funds roughly three quarters of global pharmaceutical industry profits.

Meaning Americans consumers are effectively subsidizing lower drug prices for the rest of the developed world.

Think about that.

That's the American that's the American dream.

Right there.

All right.

The universe.

I'm gonna read it again, though.

The University of Chicago Analyst Fund.

Analyst found.

The University of Chicago Analyst found the US with under 5% of the world's population.

Funds roughly three quarters of the global pharmaceutical industry profits, meaning American consumers are effectively subsidizing lower drug prices for the rest of the developed world.

Sometimes I get a headache reading all of these insane stats.

Because it's unbelievable.

It's unbelievable.

The same basic patterns.

Charge what each market will bear.

Charge what each market will bear shows up in electronics, cars, and consumer goods too.

Companies priced to each country's competition level.

Consumer price sensitivity and regulatory environment.

Not to some fixed fair global price.

The Ron says, well, my medicine comes from Canada and India because it's too expensive to get from Walgreens.

How I would love for you to even educate me on how, how does one even qualify to even get the medicine from Canada, India?

I would love for you to educate me on that because that sounds like something Americans probably should be taking advantage of.

Why?

Is the American supposed to be the land of the free, the home of the brave?

All of these things, all these things that they propped up this country to be.

And it ties back to the segment three that we did directly.

This is one more concrete way the cost side of the American dream mass is stacked against the average person here.

Americans aren't getting the worst product.

They're picking up the tab other countries negotiated their way out of.

So when they when you got these foreign countries that negotiated whatever They raise it to make up the difference that they didn't get from Canada.

I'm assume.

I don't know However, the deals work and maybe we need to do a deep dive on that.

What does negotiations look like?

Because we program the spin spin spin spin spin spin spin spin

Over consume, over use, over eat, over everything, over indulge.

That's what's going on.

That's what's going on.

Why?

Why?

We got to start asking these questions.

We got to start asking these questions.

Why are we went to Poland?

I didn't even want none from the gas station, but I just ended up going to the gas.

Yes, I did.

I wanted something to drink.

But even.

I'll even say it like this.

The mini bar in the hotel.

You so scared to even touch anything in your mini bar fridge in America because you know that water going to be $12 if you drink it.

That beer going to be $15 if you drink it.

That little shot of Hennessy going to be.

$27 if you crack the seal on it We went through like three fridge fridge fools I don't even think it was $30 I'm telling y'all man.

I feel like This country is scamming us man

And we just falling for it.

We just busy focusing on everything else around us on all the viral taglines, all the dances.

And we don't realize we getting screwed.

We don't realize it.

We don't realize it.

How is American products, American made products cheaper in another country?

That doesn't.

That doesn't make sense to me.

If anything, it should be more in the other country because we have to export it to them.

All these tariffs, all these.

We are the ones eating the cost on these tariffs.

And they just raise our prices on every.

I just saw another article and.

They gonna hate me for saying this, but we energies getting ready to propose raising our bills again.

How do we determine these things?

Who who comes up with?

When is it?

Good to raise prices on energy.

I thought we just had one of those thought we just had an energy.

Rise.

When we come back, y'all, on the other side of this break, I want to talk about how far we still have to go.

How far do we still have to go?

Is this American dream attainable?

Don't go anywhere, y'all.

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We talking about the American dream today, y'all.

Is it a lie?

I think it's a lie.

I think it's a lie, man.

I want to talk about how far we still have to go.

How far we still have to go?

We talked about a lot today on the show, man.

We talked about what the American dream actually promised.

Talked about how it's supposed to be set up to where the kids make more than the generation that they came from.

We talked about the broken promises, right?

You're less likely to out earn your parents than ever.

We also talked about the math doesn't work anymore.

We even talked about population control and what it looks like in Milwaukee.

Then we also got into why are American products cheaper?

Then LeRion on our Facebook chat, Facebook, YouTube chat.

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He said he sends his prescriptions to India and Canada to get field.

I didn't even know that was possible.

And he says 70% cheaper.

He says, have your doctor sit.

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The views and opinions of the hosts and guests of this program are of their own and not a reflection of Milwaukee black media or one oh one seven the truth.

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right.

Now that we got that out the way, he said, have your doctor send a prescription to big mountain drugs in Canada.

I think that's the name of it, but your doctor will know the Canadian pharmacy will contact you then and then you provide them with a voided check so they can directly withdraw from your checking account and they will send you your prescription at probably a 70% saving.

He said, even doing it for three years.

These are some medicines that's probably made in America That he got to go to Canada to get it cheaper This is the American dream The American scan we should say he says this process also may take six weeks.

So don't wait until you run out of your prescription I Got to look into this I'm not on any prescription, but I'm getting at the age

Well, I might have to start thinking about getting some things prescribed Everything still works right now Still standing So I gotta look into this I gotta look into this y'all

But how far do we still have to go?

How far do we still have to go?

A promise that 92% of Americans could once count on is now a coin flip.

A country that ran and admitted

documented sterilization program targeting black women for 50 years.

A city.

Milwaukee we talking about.

Where the wealth gap has gotten worse, not better.

Worse over the last four decades.

So the honest answer to how far do we have to go?

I Don't know if it's just that easy of an answer But I know we got to go further than just one election Because as we stated They put this tipping thing in

after the Civil War, as a means to not have to pay newly freed slaves, blacks.

Now it's just here today as mandatory 18 to 25 percent gratuity.

is here today as a common practice that you get frowned upon if you don't tip.

But when do we start frowning upon not paying people a fair livable wage?

Yes, we got it.

We have a conversation that needs to happen about

Attitudes and service.

Terrible service.

I remember at a point where you could request to take the gratuity off of a check.

I remember that.

I don't I don't even think it's they put it on the bottom of the menu now like they doing you a favor like gratuity is mandatory and we don't split checks.

Well, excuse me.

So how far do we have to go?

I think.

The bigger question is.

How much more of this are we willing to tolerate?

How much more of this are we willing to tolerate and just be distracted about?

It's gonna have to be further than one election, one policy, or one generation is likely too close.

Chetty's own research says closing this gap requires a fundamental change in how growth gets distributed, not just more.

growth.

That's a much bigger ass than most political promises currently on the table.

Remember when we had the show and we was talking about Milwaukee doesn't have a resource problem.

Milwaukee has a problem how it distributes its resources.

The same usual suspects.

Get the resources all the time while people that are on the ground doing amazing work trying to transform the city keep getting the scraps keep having to fight over the scraps Still have a shortage and mentors needed for big brothers big sister program So waiting lists over 400 kids

I want us to think about these things.

How much of this are we still going to tolerate?

And I gotta choose my words wisely.

Because I don't want to incite nothing.

Meanwhile, nobody going to the courthouse or anything.

You know what I'm saying?

I can like the January 6 people.

Had to say to my accent to throw him off, brother Z. Meanwhile in Sight, no riot.

Before they see.

Amid the conversations happening on the truth, there was more.

Violence, so we have to close down more things.

I feel like that's the next wave of things we're about to see here now.

We're gonna see a closure of businesses and I just got an idea where said blame is gonna be put.

And we don't do ourselves no favors.

Let's be honest with that too.

As a community, we don't do ourselves no favors.

We don't.

We don't help them.

We.

We help push the narratives that's destroying us.

So I asked this question, how much of this will we tolerate?

How much will you start to demand in the future from your elected officials?

Speaking of elected officials.

So I saw Mayor Cavalier Johnson.

Is overhauling the flat cameras now.

I saw something like that just recently came out, so we'd love to get into that on tomorrow's show.

But.

It's because enough people.

have been putting pressure on elected officials.

It's been enough talks about the things that people don't want and what people won't tolerate.

And because you have humans abusing systems.

Taking advantage of systems.

That's how far we have to go.

Don't go anywhere.

Y'all when we come back We gonna close this thing out But I want us to sit with this and really think about what did the American dream mean to you?

What was it in your eyes?

All right Don't go anywhere.

Y'all is your boy Ray nitty on your award-winning one-on-one seven the truth

What up y'all welcome back welcome back.

It's your boy Ray nitty holding it down on the grapevine Man Look what I'm We talking about this American dream y'all And as we get ready to close this thing down We're closing with the question how far do we still have to go And we said it's gonna take more than just

One policy of one generation Institutions built these gaps through documented on the record policy choices All right They built these gaps through documented on the record

Policy choices and closing them is going to take documented on the record policy choices, too So that's why I was asking Miss Hong What was the plan for us?

That's why I was asking the importance of like getting stuff done your track record on getting stuff done because you have no documented

experience of getting nothing done.

So I'm I can't I can't send you to fight on my behalf.

But what I would like to see.

What I would like to see is once Crowley does win, Governor, because I believe that I would like to see him help her get some of her policies through.

Help her get some wins under her belt.

Then I love to see her.

I don't know run against Ron Johnson.

I think she went.

It's just my thoughts and they look and do it.

But anyway.

It's going to take a lot, y'all.

It's going to take a lot.

It's going to take new leaders.

And I hate to say it, but guess what?

We're gonna have to vote.

And I'm not just saying we gonna vote our way out of systemic racism.

Because a lot of the systemic racism that we suffer from is mental oppression.

That we carry ourselves.

As a community, we can't get out of our own way.

As individuals, we can't get out of our own way because we too dependent on substances, on crutches, on things of the government.

We too stagnant by social media, by all of these other things.

We too distracted.

We ain't locked in We too separated we too divided as a black people From our political views to even how we treat our men and women We're not even on the same page as a black race with our women That's one of the hugest problems we have to fix first Let's get on the same page with each other first

Then after we get on the same page with each other first we could then get on the same page politically Together as a strong organized voting block that's going to demand policy change People distributing resources evenly

demanding that policies are put in place to hold corporations accountable for poisoning black communities.

But we don't vote like that.

We don't vote like that.

We don't pay attention to things like that.

We don't.

But what our community did know,

is that dude that was faking like he was an NFL player.

We was all over that.

We was all over that.

And I'm gonna close with this.

I wasn't here when we was able to talk about the whole garage band, garage bar situation.

People thought it was about going back to the, I've never been, I don't care to go.

But when we allow people to label an entire group as one thing when it is not, that is where the dangerous things start to happen.

Cause as somebody who put time, effort, energy, blood, sweat, tears and money.

sacrifices into helping being a part, a small part of what this Milwaukee music scene has become and grown into.

Hell no, I'm not gonna sit around and just let somebody say all Milwaukee rap.

That's disrespectful to Ishtar.

That's disrespectful to Wave Chappelle.

That's disrespectful to Jazzy Blanco.

That's disrespectful to Classic.

That's disrespectful to the homies on the South Side doing hip hop Milwaukee rap.

It's a ton of artists.

So when you just lump everybody in and give this blanket statement, amen, say amen.

Yeah, I'm not gonna allow it.

No, you're not gonna push that narrative at all.

And then you got white people asking me what violent lyrics has machine gun Kelly said.

And then when you give them the lyrics, they disappear.

So no, it was like, oh, it was just about it was 40 hours.

Didn't say name under.

It says no Milwaukee.

We always allow people to play in our faith.

Do our community have issues?

Absolutely.

But let's talk about the issues of these bars allowing underage people in it drinking.

Overserving people that's already drunk, they selling them more bottles.

Multi-killer more Jaeger Meister bombs So yeah, if you got a traumatized community and you over serving them the trauma is gonna spill out And it don't just be us It don't just be us

So let's start demanding more as a community.

Let's start holding each other accountable.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Accountability does need to happen within our community.

100%, 1000%, but people also need to be accountable, held accountable for trying to place a blanket statement on an entire scene that has worked so hard to get to where it is today.

So how far do we have to go?

The American dream, right?

The American dream has seemingly been very closely tied to blaming Negroes for all of their problems Problems that they created conditions that they created conditions that they lobbied for Created policies for told

folks not to sell these $8,000 homes to Negroes that later turned into 7,790 K homes that they were able to hand down to their families.

We weren't able to participate in that generational wealth transfer.

We were deliberately held out of it.

They flooded our cities and turned them into lakes.

They took Central Park.

They took that black community and made it Central Park.

They bombed Tulsa, Oklahoma.

I could keep going, but I know Jazzy gonna go upside y'all head right now on this tap in.

So thank y'all once again for y'all time.

I see y'all tomorrow on the grapevine on the award-winning one-on-one seven to truth.

I'ma close y'all with this quote.

The function of freedom

is to Free Someone Else by Toni Morrison.

The goal was never just individual escape.

It was making the latter actually climbable for whoever comes next.

I'm out, y'all!

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Man, how y'all feeling?

I'm back from Poland, man.

Feeling good.

Feeling good.

I was surprised.

I had a good time.

Had a good time, man.

We just talked about my experience out there and some things that it opened my eyes to 833-212-1017.

That's the number to dial 833-212-1017.

That's the number to dial, man.

Have you traveled out the country?

How far have you traveled out the country?

And what was that experience like for you?

I want to know what that was like for y'all, man.

Because, yes, I've traveled out the country many a times, right?

But this was my first time going to Poland, Europe, and sides of town.

And my expectations was, I did not have high hopes.

I was not excited about Poland.

And I owe Poland an apology, dawg.

I do.

I was expecting to experience some of the most extreme versions of whiteness ever.

And I was wrong.

I was wrong, man.

And I don't know what other people's experiences are, so I don't want to negate anybody else's experience, right?

But mine was pretty damn good, man.

I went out there for my sister's wedding, so.

Congratulations to Rinell and Chris.

Got married in Poland, man.

Polish food was slapping too, Zach.

I ain't gonna lie, bro.

I was expecting hella sauerkraut, hella Polish sausages.

I didn't have any, neither.

Well, it was sauerkraut there.

It was cabbage.

And I tried it, but it was so much other food, man, that they had beef knuckle.

They had something on the plane called Beef Cheeks.

I was like, whoa.

These cheeks are tender.

It was so good, dawg.

It was so good.

I can't make it up.

Beef Cheeks.

I think I even got a picture of them.

That sound crazy, too.

But yeah, man, Poland was a shock, man.

And it brought me to...

The idea of you know, we've been lied to man like the American dream is starting to feel like a lie when you travel outside of your country Like the cost of living high as hell You know you got Inflation just all over the place Food extremely high why?

Why and I'm trying to find the right answers man.

I'm trying to find the real answers for why The American dream is a lie and why do it feel like we living in a scam man Where have you been where have you traveled to a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17

That is the number to dial eight three three two one two ten seventeen is the number to job in the is the number to dial Jesus Came back speaking Polish Man But yeah, man, we had a we had a extremely extremely extremely great great great experience out there in a

Like I said, food was good.

People was good.

We're going to talk about the wedding experience on the actual lunch break show.

So I want y'all to check that out.

Man, so just checking in, man.

It made me want to go and look into the American dream, man.

because I started feeling like, man, what's going on, man?

How did we get here?

How did we get here?

We talked about tipping in the last show and I wanted to do a deep dive into the American dream and some of the broken promises and what the American dream really promised.

All right?

So we're gonna talk about that.

Say, work hard.

Play by the rules each generation does better than the last home ownership Pension or retirement You know kids are supposed to be better off than their parents You know that's the deal that we were sold That was the deal that we were sold So

How did we get here?

We'll talk about the data on whether that promise is actually being kept.

And it isn't.

It isn't.

And it's real research qualifying exactly.

How much it's broken down.

So.

The real documented history.

Of reproductive control in this country.

What it looks like in Milwaukee specifically.

You know.

We want to we want to really get into.

We ain't going to be on here trying to overstate things to make, you know.

point.

Angrier than the data.

Makes it, you know.

The real numbers.

It's alarming enough.

On their own, so I don't need to add no.

Personality to it.

All right.

Where have you all traveled?

Where have you been outside?

Have you even traveled outside of the state?

Eight three three two one two ten seventeen have you even traveled outside of the state?

All right, we want to know we want to see what is going on what's really happened in here All right, we want to get into these things man because Poland opened my eyes It opened my eyes What I was expecting and what my reality was

was two separate things.

And if you listen to the lunch break show.

You would have probably heard

that I

wasn't too excited about getting over there.

Flight was, you know, flight is a long flight, nine hours.

So I'm like.

Well, what is good?

But my sister's getting married, so I'm going Met Chris family Chris has an amazing family man.

It was a great experience man merging of cultures We had Poland food served we had Caribbean food served Caribbean drinks inspired drinks serve they had the the moonshine man that they make out there Poland

His pops made his friend his pops friend made some moonshine.

They drink That's one thing they do out there boss They put it back you hear me and One thing I did realize is They might party a little harder than Americans They just might Wet and started at like two

This part of the American dream to write it say get married say get married all of these things Then the cost of doing a wedding in America is insane because we put so much expectations on it But they say a huge percentage of marriages fail because of finances within the first three years

But nevertheless Nevertheless man the American dream we want to get into it So today we're gonna talk about a couple of other promises that was broken Broken promise number one was you're less likely to out earn your parents than ever number two

The math doesn't work anymore.

Then I wanted to get into the history of population control.

In America.

Because.

I want to take a look at what that looks like in Milwaukee as well.

And somehow.

I want to tie it into population control into like

Why are all the seeds getting removed from the fruit?

Why are they regenerating the fruit to not have seeds, the vegetables to not have seeds?

Why?

Why?

We want to talk about that.

And then also I wanted to ask the question.

Why are American products cheaper abroad than in America?

Things that are made here cost us less out the country than here.

And if you an economist, if you got a degree to explain this, please call up.

I'd love to get educated.

I have my ideas.

But those are just ideas.

All right, I want to I got some facts and data that we gonna go up to go through and Then if we got time I would love for us to get to How far we still have to go How far do we still have to go and it's the American dream even attainable anymore

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We talking about the American dream, man

Have you traveled outside the country?

Let's go to our chat.

Laurent Taylor said 10 times in China, five times in Taiwan, India, going back for Christmas, Mexico, London, Ireland.

The American Dream is a lot of traveling, man.

Your passport game, crazy.

The American Dream is a lot of propaganda, but more than any other country America is supposed.

to give you the opportunity to be great.

It also gives you the opportunity to fail if I'm the best.

I don't need to keep telling you I'm the best.

You just already know.

All right, I feel you.

But yeah, man, the American dream, man, we want to get into this, right?

So broken promise number one.

You are less likely to out earn your parents than ever All right, and this is fact checked published in the journal science led by Stanford's Raj Chetty using de identified IRS tax records not survey estimates.

Okay, just giving you idea

This is the dream.

This is the American dream the American lie man 92% of children born in 1940 grew up to earn more than their parents did Adjusted for inflation for children born in 1984.

That's me.

That's me That number has collapsed to just 50% a coin flip All right, so that's my generation

The decline hit every income level, but the middle class got hit the hardest.

At the 50th percentile of parent income, the odds of a child out earning their parents fell from 93 percent for the 1940 cohort to 45 percent.

in the 1980 cohort.

So think about that.

About 20 years, 24 years later.

Huge, huge drop.

Hitting the middle class, even the hardest to where they say today, the middle class don't even really exist.

That's what they say.

Research found a decline is not mainly about the slower economic growth.

All right.

It's about where that growth goes.

Distributing today's GDP growth as evenly as it was distributed in 1940 would erase more than 70% of the entire decline.

So the money is still being made is just not reaching most families anymore Wonder why wonder why why?

Why is it not?

Let's say that again researchers found the decline is not mainly about slower economic growth It's about

Where that growth goes distributing today's GDP growth as evenly as it was distributed in 1940.

Would erase more than 70% of the entire decline.

The money is still being made.

It's just not reaching most families anymore.

The damage is heavily regional.

Okay.

Rust Belt States.

Like your Michigan and Indiana saw the mobility rate fall by roughly 49% points percentage points 49% Nearly double the decline seen in states like Massachusetts or New York Okay

So this isn't just an American story of shrinking opportunity.

It's an American exception.

Comparable countries do better.

Guess where?

Guess where, y'all?

About 75 percent.

of Norwegian children out earned their parents.

Along with 65 to 75 percent in Finland, Sweden and the UK.

The United States and Canada sit lower around 55 percent.

All right.

So my point is this lie, this promise that, you know, you out earn typically the next generation.

It's supposed to have it easier than a generation that came before them.

So they say, work hard and do better than your parents.

It used to be nearly a certainty, 92%.

92%.

Now it's a coin flip.

coin flip like 55, 50%.

And the data says that a choice, a country that that's a choice.

This country made about how growth gets shared.

Not an unavoidable fact or economic life.

So wealth hoarding.

Okay.

That's what I'm talking about.

The money don't come

They don't stay to our families because we are completely, we overtaxed.

Everything is overpriced.

Everybody is price gouging.

Even after the pandemic, everything went up.

The cost of everything went up.

And they say, oh, it was because of the pandemic, but now we're out of the pandemic.

Nothing came back down.

No, none of the prices came back that everything just even started going up even faster All right Prices started going up even faster Things that didn't go up People job pay minimum wage You still

can only seven states make it legal to where you have to pay servers the minimum wage.

Think about that.

We live in a country where as an entrepreneur, somebody that's deciding to open a business, you could pay somebody $2.13 an hour.

and then pass the charge on to your customer as, and call it, Gratuity.

I'm a business partner in this business now.

Because my Gratuity that you're charging me is going towards paying your server.

I got no problem with tipping.

Me and my wife, we have a thing, we feel like we tip on behalf of the black race.

Because we know

that our community is probably, we don't tip the greatest.

But after traveling abroad and experiencing a country where tipping is not a necessity, it's not a thing, it's not something that they rely on or hold on to or force upon its customers.

And if you're a business owner, please call in.

I love to have this conversation because I love to know why don't you just pay them the minimum wage?

Why does it cost so much to run a business in this country?

To where everything has to be passed off on the consumer?

Why?

Don't go anywhere, y'all, when we come back.

We'll get back into promise number two.

That's been broken.

The math doesn't work anymore This is the great vine your boy Ray needy holding it down.

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What up y'all welcome back welcome back welcome back since the grapevine your boy Ray nitty holding it down Brother Z holding us down with the production and sound on the award-winning one on one seven the truth Man, we talking about the American dream man Shouts out there everybody in the chat man eight three three two one two ten seventeen have you traveled out the country?

What was the experience like?

What did it make you realize about the country we live in today?

All right.

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All right.

It says South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, France and Germany.

I have all visited.

Some Laurent Taylor says sometimes I feel like restaurants should have no more tipping.

Right, you know, I'm getting better at that.

I was calling Laurenti for the first two months.

Laurenti Taylor, sometimes I feel like restaurants should have no more tipping.

Play pay their servers.

Play pay their servers $30 an hour like they would make if tips were allowed.

Then customers pay $25 for a four cheeseburger.

We gotta stop typing so fast.

Let's take our time, man.

I got me sounding crazy.

Remember the fight for 15 an hour?

I remember that.

I actually was out marched for the fight for 15.

We've been fighting for 15 a long time.

We've been fighting for 15 a long time.

For fast food workers.

You didn't think that Big Mac meal was gonna go up to 12, did you?

But here's the thing.

It's like.

They just.

Why was it just for fast food workers?

Why wasn't it 5 to 15 to just raise minimum wage in general?

And I think we just have to have honest conversations about it's a two part conversation we have here, right?

Employers should pay their employees, period.

Now, if my meal.

is a little higher or the product or the service that I'm coming for.

And also, I feel like tipping is like, man, that should be restricted to like, if I'm coming in and actually sitting down and getting a service, like I'm being served, you know what I mean?

That's why I feel like tipping it.

Not if you just walked up to a counter and ordered something to go, and then they put no, 18, 15, 20, like, yo.

I came up here and just ordered this, man.

Get this screen from in front of me, man.

What is going on?

But everything raised up.

The cost of living went up.

Nothing came down after the pandemic.

So we're getting into broken promise.

Number two, the math does not work anymore.

A recap from recent show that we had.

The US national debt crossed $40 trillion this year, about 118,000 per American.

While interest payments alone now exceed the entire defense budget.

That's crazy.

That's crazy.

Total US credit card debt sits around 1.25 trillion the average American with a balance owes roughly eight to nine nine thousand nine hundred dollars and two-thirds of Americans say they're currently in debt we talked about this We talked about it

41% of people carrying credit card debt say a medical emergency or unexpected expense, not overspending is what put them there.

People don't really admit to overspending though.

I don't think people really be honest with themselves about overspending.

There's so many things I overspend on and I'm working on that, especially since I came back from Poland.

Because there's no way that this five course steak dinner in Poland cost me 60 here 60 in Poland.

And then it's like 250 in America.

Then the flavors.

Poland was impressive, man.

Don't get into it.

We don't we don't we don't admit to.

are overspending in this country.

The human nature to overspend, over-consume, that accompanied by the capitalist nature of overcharging, over-pricing.

All right?

We create the demand.

When they raise the price, we don't fall back on our spending.

We don't curb our spending.

We don't say, no, we ain't gonna spend that no more.

We still buy it anyway.

So they say, okay, they still buying it.

That's what the consumer index is.

They still buying it, so we keep raising.

If people weren't buying it, the prices wouldn't raise.

LeRon Taylor says, there's a federal and state minimum wage, and there's also what businesses are paying.

There are also what called a livable wage, which varies depending on who you talk to.

100% correct All right But once again people will say its medical bills are unexpected emergencies that caused them to go into debt not overspending But it was a lot of overspending that happened before the medical emergency took place Because if we weren't overspending we'd have the money for the medical insurance the medical

Emergency and I don't think we had an honest conversation with ourselves All right, but that's another conversation Wages have kept pace with any of this wages haven't kept pace with any of this I should say I apologize All right the two point the two dollar This is crazy the $2 13 said federal sub minimum wage.

This is what I

LaRon Taylor is talking about, not LaRon Tay.

For tipped workers has been frozen since 1991, deliberately decoupled from future minimum wages increases by a 1996 law lobbied for by the restaurant industry.

So the restaurant industry lobbied to make sure that that $2.13 was frozen.

All right.

And if you listen to us on the lunch break, that is now permanent.

That is permanent.

Restaurant industry lobbied.

Lobbied to keep it at $2.13.

Subminimum wage.

for tipped workers.

That's why.

Because it's for tipped workers.

And then we got into where tipping came from.

How it got to America.

And people like to say, oh, you know, Shannon said it earlier.

They love to say, everything doesn't have to deal with slavery.

But then if you go and do your history.

America's brought it over shortly after the Civil War.

Why?

Niggas was free Slaves was free and We couldn't be slaves no more so they had to pay us so instead of paying as they said okay, we gonna tip them So they would tip Penny's nothing at times That's how Tip it start and that was just became a natural thing to where it's 20%

18%.

Yes, people deserve to get paid, but I think as a business owner, I think it's your responsibility to pay your workers.

When I open, I'm gonna say this here.

I'm gonna say it on this show.

Whenever we open our restaurant, we will not be paying people $2.13.

We're not gonna do it.

I hope you listen to Amanda.

We're not gonna do it.

We gon' pay people what they should get paid.

And I don't want, I would love to say that we ain't finna just be added 18% gratuity.

The crazy part about it is, you probably don't even gotta do it no more.

People so programmed and just thinking that they're supposed to give 18%, they just gon' give it.

Some might not.

But anyway, meanwhile, the cost of raising a child hit an estimated $303,418 from birth to 18 in 2026.

The first time that figure has crossed 300,000 up roughly 28% in just three years.

28% in three years.

This isn't one broken piece.

It's the whole system pointing in the same direction at once.

Record national debt, frozen wages at the bottom, household costs rising faster than paychecks.

Work hard and get ahead.

Assumes the math works right now for a lot of families.

It mathematically doesn't.

It don't work.

It don't work, y'all.

When we come back from break, we'll get into this next segment.

I want to talk about the real history of population control in America.

All right.

And this is real, not a conspiracy.

It's documented state policy, actually.

Would you be surprised?

The American dream that we have been told and sold is a lie.

All right.

So when we come back.

It was fact checked.

The historical sterilization program details below are extensively documented in state records, court cases and academic sources.

The Erwing County allegations are clearly labeled as disputed.

All right.

So don't go anywhere, y'all.

When we come back, we'll get into.

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American dream in y'all.

We getting into the real history of population control now.

We're getting into the real history of population control.

All right.

Documented state policy, North Carolina ran a state eugenics board form, 1929 to 1974 that forcibly, hear me out, forcibly sterilized over 7,600 people.

The majority was black.

It was us.

All right.

And increasingly.

So over time.

By the 1950s, fears of black population growth tied to welfare access explicitly drove the board's targeting, according to state record.

This is what they said.

Fears of black population growth tied to welfare access explicitly drove the board's targeting according to state records.

We're not even the heaviest users of welfare.

We're not the heaviest recipients of welfare.

You know who is?

White people.

White people are not us.

Maybe I'm wrong.

Well, last time I checked, it wasn't us.

All right.

Civil rights icon, Fannie Lou Hammer, coined the terms Mississippi appendix me, appendectomy, my bad, after she went in for a minor tumor removal in 1961 and came out having been given a hysterectomy without her knowledge or consent.

Cut it out.

A practice so common across the South it had its own nickname.

Okay.

Nationally, an estimated 70,000 plus women were sterilized under state programs.

Many at federally funded clinics.

A 1965 survey found roughly one third of Puerto Rican women aged 20 to 49 had been sterilized as part of US population control programs on the island.

They was doing it in Puerto Rico, not even in the States.

They like, I don't need no more Puerto Ricans leaving this island coming to America.

Taking advantage of they sitting citizenship neutralize them Stopping from having babies This wasn't hidden y'all this wasn't hidden Legislator said the quiet part out loud

I wish we had video of it in North Carolina State Senator pushing 1950 sterilization legislation stood up at a public hearing and told a black audience directly.

That the goal was to stop what he called illegitimate births in their country.

Senator did.

Who said it?

I got a Google who said it.

Don't just.

Give me half the meal.

Give me the whole thing.

Who said it?

I'll tell you who said it in a second.

I'll tell you who said it in a second.

They didn't fully.

And when you expect it.

California prisons.

You know, they do what they want to do in their prisons sterilized at least 148 incarcerated women between 2006 and 2010.

Many later saying they were they were coerced.

And as as recently as 2017, a Tennessee judge offered inmates a 30 day sentence reduction in exchange for undergoing sterilization.

Think about that.

That's 2017.

2017.

Ron Taylor says.

So most restaurants operate on 33, 33, 34, meeting food costs at 33 percent.

Labor and marketing are 35 percent and the owner take home 34 percent.

Roughly at certain times, those figures can fluctuate.

Chefs, cooks, bakers, dishwashers.

I paid a flat wage over $15 an hour.

Cooks are 25.

Servers are $2 an hour because they make tips.

Businesses that pay servers $15 an hour don't last.

In my shop.

We take your order.

Cook your food and hand it to you and I only have one person working at a time two at the most and they make $15 $18 an hour plus tips 80% of the people too So it's not like you got a fair model that works But I still would ask like okay, why not just pay the server the regular minimum wage The seven

25 or whatever that is So just just my thoughts man, we're gonna keep it we're gonna keep it going The We said it didn't fully end there California sterilized 148 incarcerated women between 2026 I mean 2006 and 2010

Many later saying they were course than recently as of 2017, a Tennessee judge offered inmates a 30 day sentence reduction in exchange for undergoing sterilization.

So essentially you get out 30 days earlier.

If you wave your right to ever reproduce again.

Think about that.

The whistleblower nurse alleged a pattern of non-consensual hysterectomies performed on women detained at Georgia's Irving County ICE facility.

This sparked congressional calls for investigation and a formal complaint.

ICE disputed the scale of the claims and an AP investigation was unable to independently substantiate mass hysterectomies at the facility.

Though it did find credible individual complaints report this accurately as a disputed investigated allegation from 2020.

So it's not proven still ongoing.

But don't it make sense if you got somebody in 1950 standing up saying that it told a black audience directly that the goal was to stop.

what he called then illegitimate births in their country in 1950s.

What do you think they'll be doing in ICE facilities in 2017?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I'm just, I'm just saying.

This isn't just an unproven conspiracy on.

Okay.

This country ran and admitted documented state funded program.

Of coercive sterilization targeting black and poor women for nearly 50 years.

They set it out loud in public hearings in the 1950s.

Acquisitions in 2017 of sterilizing people at ICE facilities.

State-funded programs of coercive sterilization targeting black and poor women for nearly 50 years set it out loud in public hearings and echoes.

of the same instinct, a judge trading a shorter sentence for stay.

Come on, man.

Come on, man.

I can't make this up.

This is this is here.

Showed up again as recently as 2017.

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It is your boy Ray Nitty holding it down on the grapevine when the award-winning 10170 truth live from the American family insurance studios Man, how y'all feeling?

I'm back from Poland man Feeling good feeling good.

I was surprised.

I had a good time

Had a good time, man.

We just talked about my experience out there and some things that it opened my eyes to 833-212-1017.

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Have you traveled out the country?

How far have you traveled out the country?

And what was that experience like for you?

I want to know what that was like for y'all, man.

Because, yes, I've traveled out the country many a times, right?

But this was my first time going to, like, Poland, Europe, besides the towns.

And my expectations was, I did not have high hopes.

I was not excited about Poland.

And I owe Poland an apology, dawg.

I do.

I was expecting to experience some of the most extreme versions of whiteness ever.

And I was wrong.

I was wrong, man.

And I don't know what other people's experiences are, so I don't want to negate anybody else's experience, right?

But mine was pretty damn good, man.

I went out there for my sister's wedding, so.

Congratulations to Reneal and Chris.

Got married in Poland, man.

Polish food was slapping too, Zach.

I ain't gonna lie, bro.

I was expecting hella sauerkraut, hella Polish sausages.

I didn't have any, neither.

Well, it was sauerkraut there.

It was cabbage.

And I tried it, but it was so much other food, man, that they had beef knuckle.

They had something on the plane called Beef Cheeks.

I was like, whoa.

These cheeks are tender.