12/15/25 7PM: Red Flags & Responsibility: Protecting Children in a Shifting Culture

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Now, before we went to break, we were talking about the most recent sexual misconduct and professional boundary violation that happened right here in Cudahay, Wisconsin.

Listen, y'all, this is like beyond shocking.

And in actuality for me, it's heartbreaking.

Because I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired of being sick and tired of seeing professionals take advantage of their role.

Now, let me give y'all the rundown really quick if you're just tuning in.

And thank you again for tuning in.

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You got this 28-year-old staff member that was charged with two counts of second-degree sexual assaults of a child.

Now, the victim was a 15-year-old student and checked this out y'all.

The incidents occurred in 2023 off school grounds.

That's right. Y'all read between the lines.

Now, the school district of Cudahay has placed this 20-year-old staff member.

They placed him on leave immediately after the report.

There is a pattern of professionals at schools, whether it's elementary, middle, high school, and even as we've seen with the University of Michigan football head coach.

There is a pattern of power access and trust issues with these professionals.

Why are so many professionals in roles of education, coaching, getting this access to vulnerable populations such as students, children, assistants, it goes on and on and on.

And I call it institutional betrayal.

And this is basically when institutions fail to identify or fail to prevent or even fail to respond to misconduct.

Because as far as Cudahay, this happened back in 2023.

It started allegedly in 2023 off school grounds.

Now, let me get into my editorial because again, I had two children that were in the public school system.

I'm not going to say which. I've said it before on the air, but I'm just not going to say it tonight because I just honestly don't want to.

As a single mom with two kids, I had to be both the protector and the provider and the nurturer.

So usually in a traditional two-parent household, traditional.

You've got two parents. One that primarily plays the role of the provider, the protector.

And then you've got another parent who plays the role of the nurturer.

Traditionally, that's been the father and then that's been the mother.

When you're a single parent, you've got to do all the above. It's difficult because there's no balance. You've got to make choices.

And so what I would do as a parent of two children that were give or take 19 to 20 years younger than me, which wasn't that big of a gap in terms of parenting.

I educated my children explicitly. There wasn't no birds and the birds and the bees in my house.

It was explicit conversations about the warning signs of when you are being what we call groomed.

Because he predators and perverts and people that are in powerful positions that are predators and perverts, they are very intentional.

It's a step-by-step process where they groom their victims.

Let me break that down in terms of what that is. See, the person is going to first find somebody that is very vulnerable, that needs validation and will present themselves as a mentor.

They target young people or vulnerable people that oftentimes demonstrate a need for attention, a need for love, a need for family, a need for community, a need for validation.

And they become emotionally vulnerable. That's where it starts.

And so if the predator sees any lacking of strong supervision or support, boom, that's a target.

And if they are able to create this dependency to where the victim sees the predator as someone of power, someone of trustworthy, this could be a teacher, this could be a coach, this could be an aide, this could be someone who presents themselves as a mentor.

As groomers often position themselves where access and authority already exists, that's where they start the targeting.

Then they go into building trust and connecting with their victim emotionally.

It could be an excessive amount of compliments or praise, like you're more mature than the other students, or you're more smarter than the other students.

And so then they become a confidant, or what is commonly known as, and I'm doing the air quotes, a safe person.

Then they start to talk about personal problems. Then they start to be revealing because they want to create that emotional bonding.

And this is often where it looks like mentorship or care. Parents, please understand who is considered by your child or your student, a mentor in their life.

Oh, yeah, Mr. So-and-so, yeah, he's my mentor. Oh, really, I need to meet Mr. So-and-so.

I need to have a conversation with Mr. So-and-so. I need Mr. So-and-so to know who I am.

The third phase of grooming is what we call isolation.

And see, this is where I would tell my kids, if any adult, including me, says something to you like, oh, this is just between us, or nobody else needs to know about this.

See, that's what we call encouraging secrecy, which is a part of the isolation process.

It creates a one-on-one time away from others. So that way, you're undermining the victims, parents, the teachers, or even their classmates, their peers.

And they frame themselves as the only one who truly understands.

Let me tell you all right now, isolation is one of the biggest red flags.

Our troop talking text line is 833-212-1017. And I don't pretend to be the greatest parent on Earth, but when it came to my kids at a very young and vulnerable age, especially when they were black kids at a predominantly white school, oh, yeah, we have these kind of conversations.

When we come back, we're going to continue talking about this because awareness is everything. And I hope that when we come back, if you do have a student within close proximity, tell them to put their AirPods on or headphones, whatever they listen to and tune in and listen to this right now, because this is a significant problem.

For the past 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 years has always been, we don't talk about that.

We don't, we don't, that's throwing up trouble.

To now, in 2025, it's becoming more visible. And a lot of it has to do with social media, other communication apps.

But with that being said, those same social media apps that have direct messaging or DMing, that also is a direct inlet to how what we call digital grooming takes place.

So again, stay locked in. I'm going to pick up where I left off when we come back. And I really want us to understand, when we talk about these types of issues that just infuriate me, we also have to pay attention in terms of why victims remain silent.

We have to get ahead of this to stop the abuse before it starts.

So stay with me. When we come back, we'll continue this conversation. I want to hear from you as well.

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Now, we've been talking about a top story out of Cut of Habe, Wisconsin, which I'm not even going to sugarcoat it.

It's disgusting.

And I'm sick and tired of sick and tired. I'm sick and tired of us seeing this pattern over and over and over again.

Where adults that are put in positions of trust.

Whether they're educators, mentors, head coaches, we don't get into that in a few minutes.

That are crossing boundaries that should never be crossed.

Why is this happening?

In a moment when we as society are supposedly, and I'm doing the air quotes,

more aware than ever before of the importance of safeguarding young people.

Why? The truth talking text line is 833-212-1017.

I am asking you, valued listeners, yes you.

Why are we, again, seeing these types of disgusting perverted behaviors

by people who are put in powerful positions, trustworthy positions, accessible positions.

And we have more awareness of how we can protect and safeguard our young people, and yet this is still happening.

And so if you're asking me, Denise, what are you talking about?

D.T. was going on.

A 28-year-old staff member was charged with two counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child out of Kuttahe.

So the school district of Kuttahe has placed him on leave.

Now the victim was, again, 15-year-old student, 15-year-olds of baby.

And the incidents occurred off school grounds back in 2023.

That's right, you do the math. What year are we in?

Now, for the past two segments, I've been breaking down how we as responsible, loving and caring,

and non-proverted and non-disgusting adults can protect our children.

Because you know, children are very vulnerable.

And they're usually the primary victims and targets of sexual exploitation and or abuse.

And let me be clear, these perverts that are put in powerful professional positions, this is very intentional and oftentimes strategic.

And oftentimes, hidden in plain sight.

So I want to break it down in terms of what I did with both my children.

We're attending public schools in Wisconsin.

I'm not going to say which school district.

That doesn't even matter.

But there are some truths that often get missed.

And so we're going to fill to that truth.

Let me first by saying this, number one, grooming is abuse.

Now, if you're just tuning in, thank you, brothers-y.

DJ, brothers-y, and for some respect on your name.

If you're just tuning in, I've grown down the first elements of grooming.

And I'm going to piggyback where I left off, but please understand that grooming is just,

if not even more part of the abuse, even before the physical contact occurs.

See, these are the key truths that, again, often get missed.

The second thing I want to call out as part of my key truths is that, and I want to say this for the people in the back of the room.

And I want to say this for the people that are being abused or having been abused.

You are never, ever, ever responsible.

I want to be clear, as a victim, you are never responsible.

Don't let somebody try to convince you, well, if you hadn't done this, or if you hadn't warned that,

or if you hadn't said this, shut up.

Victims are never responsible.

Another key truth that we need to understand is that grooming, it happens online, it happens in person, it happens both.

And it often looks normal to outsiders.

Oh, that's, that's little, that's little Serena's mentor.

Oh, that's Lisa's coach.

And it thrives in those type of environments that lack oversight or accountability.

Whether it be schools, churches, athletic teams, healthcare institutions, nonprofit organizations.

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You can keep it one on 1.7, that's true, because that's what I'm here to do.

Power plus access plus trust, it is a risk.

Do y'all hear what I'm saying?

And silence and reputation minus the protection enables the harm.

Grumming is not about attraction, it's about power, access, and control, and it doesn't start with sex, it starts with silence.

So let me pick up where I left off, because we were talking about what grooming entails, the targeting, the building, the trust, and creating that emotional connection.

Like, oh, you're more mature than the others.

Yeah, I want you to understand that you could talk to me about anything, I'm a competent, I'm a safe person.

You know, I'm going to start sharing some personal problems with you, and I want you to do the same thing with me so that we can create this emotional bonding.

See, that that often is perceived as mentoring or caring about somebody.

No, if you ever read or hear what your natural instinct deems as inappropriate, whether it's a joke, whether it's a comment or a question, that's a red flag, that's a black on the play.

If there's this like casual physical contact, you know, like a grace on the shoulder, a touch on the leg, that's a red flag.

They're testing you to see what you're going to tolerate, because if the boundaries aren't challenged, then guess what, the behavior's going to escalate.

I don't, there's no reason why any professional should be touching you, touching me, unless we have as adults a mutual understanding, and I wouldn't even do it at work.

It's not worth it.

Let's get into the other element of grooming, sexualization.

See, this is where grooming becomes unmistakably abusive. I want to repeat that. This is where the grooming becomes unmistakably abusive.

When sexual topics or imagery is sent, that's a red flag.

When framing sexual behavior as normal or educational or consensual, that's a red flag. It makes the victim feel responsible or complicit.

Then you get into, and this is where the person of power misuses and abuses their position, because then they get into controlling their victim through fear, through shame, or through guilt, maybe even all the above.

Threats. No one is going to believe you. No one is going to believe you. That's a threat.

Or just like the head coach of Michigan football, when he went to the victim's house and started pulling butter knives out the drawer and holding it up to his neck and saying,

you're ruining my life. You're trying to ruin my life. I'm going to kill myself. I'm going to unlive myself. See, that's what they try to do.

The guilt. Then you get into the shame. You wanted this too. It's called manipulation.

And this is why so many victims do not report the abuse for years. Because remember, the Cudahay case, where the 28-year-old professional was sexually abusing his 15-year-old victim off school grounds since 2023.

See, this is why victims don't report because you've got the control, the fear, the shame, the guilt.

And the key truths that often get missed is that, again, grooming is abuse even before the physical contact occurs.

And again, I want to emphasize, victims are never responsible.

Gruming. It's what takes place. And parents, please, please get familiar.

Because grooming is a deliberate, yet gradual process that is used by an adult to build trust.

Lower those boundaries that oftentimes we instill in our children and then they get access to that child or to that vulnerable person.

For the sole purpose of sexually abusing sexual exploitation, and again, it is intentional. It is strategic and is often hidden in plain sight.

You are listening to the truth unfiltered. What are your thoughts?

What questions do you have? I'm here for you. Because as, again, as a single parent, when I was bringing my kids up, we didn't have the birds in the bees' talk.

We had explicit discussions about the red flags, the flag on the plate, and what to do when that happens.

Because I wish somebody would have told my child, oh, nobody's going to believe you, or I'm your friend.

Try Jesus, but don't try me, y'all. That's all I'm saying. We'll be back when we come back when you get into.

I was a little hesitant because I wasn't going to talk about it.

But this is the truth unfiltered. So when we come back, we're going to get into former University of Michigan head football coach, Sherrod Moore.

What's celebrated for his rise as the first black head coach of an NCAA Division I? Why shouldn't say first? I should say first at University of Michigan.

At the helm of one of college football's most storied programs is now at the center of an unraveling that nobody saw coming.

So we come back when we get into this, and what I really want to get into since this is black talk radio, that race has been a factor.

Especially as it relates to black men who are in relationships with white women versus black women.

So we come back, I'm going to give you some facts, and I'm going to give you some opinions, or I should say perspective.

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I know you heard about former University of Michigan head football coach Sharon Moore.

Yep.

Okay. Now, there's been a lot of conversations regarding the race narrative here.

A lot of commentary on social media.

There's been some what I call the blame white woman narrative.

There's been some black women that have shared as well as a lot of black men share their perspectives about this.

So with all that being said before I get into the quick recap of facts.

Actually, let me do that first because I then I want to get into our opinions or our perspectives.

Now, here's a quick recap.

Former University of Michigan football head coach.

Sharon Moore was fired after the University of Michigan found that he engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a staff member.

Hours after his termination, he was arrested and charged with alleged home invasion, stocking and breaking and entering.

He has since been released on bond, but faces a legal process and obviously a severe professional fallout.

DJ Brother Z, what are your thoughts?

Yeah, that's that's a lot because I didn't know the guy before all of this.

And just hearing about it, hearing that he was married with three kids.

Like, bro, if you was just unhappy, you could have just left.

Like, I feel like there's just so much so many other ways you could have went about it.

And then just to, you know, break into her house and threaten her and then threaten himself.

Like, come on, bro, that's not player, bro.

You got caught, you just got to face the consequences.

Now you got to sit in jail when you really could have just been embarrassed in front of the world and to your family.

But the fact that you damn near a felon now, like come on, bro.

Yes, now let me ask you this.

And thanks for sharing your thoughts.

There have been some that have turned us into a racial victim tale.

And there have been others that have focused on which I believe is what you were focusing on his behavior.

Now, taking his behavior temporarily out of this conversation.

Do you feel that race should be a factor in this narrative?

No, it shouldn't just because like, okay, say his wife was black and say he cheated on his wife with a black woman.

Now it would just be about his actions versus like the women and the fact that like say and say he still, you know, threatened to kill his, the person that he had an affair with.

Now we're not looking at the actions and the, and the potential violence towards women regardless of race.

And we're just looking at this man's actions by being somebody that's unlawful versus this is a man that just threatened another woman to kill another woman regardless of race.

So a lot of what you said, DJ brothers, I wholeheartedly agree with.

Actually, I don't disagree with anything you said.

However, I do want to insert some elements that are specific to former head coach, Sharon Moore being a black man.

Now, let me just say this.

This is obviously not just about inappropriate workplace relationships.

As we were talking about earlier, from my lens, it's about abuse of positional power.

It's about violating boundaries.

And again, it's a pattern that we've seen across all types of people that are in positions of power, not just the fact that he's a black man.

So accountability definitely comes first. There's no excuse.

This was completely inappropriate workplace behavior and definitely another incident of abusing positional power.

The next thing I want to say before I get into my perspective as a black woman is the impact that this has had on black coaches and how black people in general are viewed as leaders.

Because there is a legitimate conversation to be had about how black leaders are judged and whether they're missteps get a harsher spotlight.

But again, that conversation, it has to stem from accountability, not blame shifting.

So I've seen again conversations where based on the reality that his wife is white and the alleged victim, his assistant is white, positioning white women as villains and Moore's fall.

It does a disservice to the deeper issues around workplace power trust and professional conduct.

Now I want to be clear, because again, I'm going to get into my perspective as a woman and as a black woman.

However, that does not outweigh or supersede the legitimacy of him being held accountable and him taking advantage, again, of his power as the University of Michigan head coach, the trust and the professional conduct.

I want to be clear.

Leadership is a responsibility and it requires at all times ethical conduct.

It's even more so when you're in that type of high profile position.

I want to be clear.

That's why when I tell people all the time, let me say that differently.

When I have conversations about being a leader and leadership as a whole, I always preface it with.

Leadership is not easy and it's oftentimes lonely because you're surrounded for the most part, you're surrounded by yes people.

And when you're surrounded by yes people all the time, that's where the abuse of the power comes into play because you don't have somebody pulling you to the side.

Now, as a leader myself, I am so thankful and grateful to the most high that I've been very intentional and somewhat strategic about making sure that I have groups of people around me that have no problem calling me on the phone, texting me, sending me a letter saying what are you thinking Denise or why did you do that Denise or you need to rewind and do that over again or you need to do this differently.

I love the fact that I have trustworthy caring people who aren't just around when the sun is shining.

But have actual measurable solid advice, even if I may not like it, but it's in the best interest of my leadership and my brand.

See, folks like Sharan Moore and Ditty and Arkelly and other people of power, they had what they call yes people, if you don't believe me, go watch a rewatch reckoning.

See all these people that were on the video documentary today, they saw it, they didn't say anything because again, you were grown and you were a yes person.

And so we have to start talking about leadership responsibility and ethical conduct in high profile positions, whether you're black, white, red, yellow, green, fluorescent, purple, whatever.

And the dynamics that allow unchecked power in college athletics, that also needs to be at the forefront of these conversations.

And how we as ticket holders, as fans, as consumers, how we support truth healing, rather than having these competing victim narratives.

I heard a quote from minister Lewis Farrakhan and they were playing it over and over and over and over again on social media.

And the first time that I heard it, I didn't really understand, but then after I sat somewhere and just thought about it and processed it because you know minister Lewis Farrakhan, he's a man of few words, but when he speaks, whether you agree with him or not, is powerful.

And he said, when a man falls, you don't laugh, you learn.

And if there's anything that we're going to learn from all of these cases and horrible incidents where people in positions of power are abusing innocent people,

grooming them to the point where they can't even make conscious decisions about their safety.

We have got to talk about leadership responsibility. We have to talk about accountability.

Now, with that being said, because some of these narratives, they're taking us away from what's the actual truth, they're distracting us from the actual truth.

Our truth talking text line is 833-212-1017.

I want to hear your thoughts. You can call in, you can text, because if we keep allowing social media conversations,

to focus on things that do not hold these people accountable or even teach people sexual discipline,

the responsibilities of leadership, the dynamics of unchecked power, especially in college athletics and professional athletics.

See all these communities? We've seen and witnessed the victim narratives.

And we've curated these victim narratives. And the thing is that we really have to focus on, how do we get here in the first place?

And what I mean by victim narratives is, and I'm saying this as a black woman,

I'm really trying to be careful with my words because all of these social media influencers,

they're amplifying these interpretations that more is downfall is about the interracial dynamics, especially because both his wife and the alleged victim are white women.

And what these commentaries or narratives do, from my lens in my perspective, is reducing former head coach Sheran Moore to a stereotype

and turning this into a racial victim tale instead of focusing on his behavior. And a lot of y'all did it with Diddy.

Oh, they're coming for the black man. Y'all didn't see the video where he was kicking, casting like she was up.

Y'all won't make me curse on love, radio.

I'm not saying that race did not play a factor in terms of the response.

But more importantly, how did we get here? Epstein.

Why, why sign? Why steam? Whatever his name is. Diddy, our Kelly.

Why is it that we focus on race versus focusing on the behavior and the victims?

Because when I was hosting or co-hosting, I should say truth be told with DT and Telly when the story first broke out about Diddy, I'm literally y'all.

I was so exhausted emotionally because there were so many callers.

After seeing the video of him literally kicking and abusing physically and assaulting, casting.

And then after watching Reckoning and hearing from people, the abuse that he perpetuated and conducted on them still.

Oh, y'all coming for the black man. Are you kidding me?

Oh, she got $30 million. Are you kidding me? So we come back. Definitely want to hear your thoughts.

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When we come back, we'll close this out. Thank you all so much for tuning in. We will be back.

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So DJ, Brother Z is definitely an exceptional DJ. Now closing out this conversation.

I just want us all to take a collective breath because what we're really talking about here

is bigger than one headline, one man or one viral take.

We are living in a moment where everything gets filtered through identity first.

And while identity absolutely shapes lived experiences, it cannot replace accountability.

Because when harm happens, when lines across and when power is misused, the focus has to be on the behavior and the people impacted.

Full stop. And what concerns me is how quickly some conversations will shift away from the actual actions

and toward who the perpetrator is. Their race, their background, the symbolism they represent.

And look, history, it matters. The context matters, but context should inform understanding, not excuse, misconduct, y'all.

And so when we center the race of the person who caused the harm, instead of the harm itself,

we unintentionally minimize the experience of the victim. We're turning real people with real fear, real trauma, real consequences into abstract concepts

while we debate the optics. And that's just not, that's not justice. That's avoidance.

So as people that is watch someone fall, especially when it's someone who represents our progress and possibility,

just know that justice isn't come from choosing sides based on identity. It comes from choosing truth over trial,

responsibility over reflex, encourage, over comfort.

That's not division, that's maturity, and that is leadership. And that's the conversation we should be braven up to keep having.

Love y'all much. If I don't talk to you prior, happy, happy holidays, very Christmas, happy holidays, happy vlogs,

just make sure that you spend time with your loved ones and get some closer of rest.

I love you. I love you so much. Peace out is the truth, unfiltered, on 101.7 of the truth. Talk to you soon.

Thanks for watching.