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Truth Nation, it's time for a special edition of Truth Unfiltered with Dr. Ken Harris and

Denise Thomas.

So I mean, like, what happens when you enter the barboard, do they like, okay, everybody,

get out, Dr. Ken is in the building, or everybody, don't talk, kids, shut up.

You ever been in a blank barbershop?

Where it's where it's like structured chaos?

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a situation if more than once, where you were passed up for a promotion and when you inquired

why you were passed over for the promotion, but you were told, Dr. Ken, just be patient.

It was the grading and the promotion process where, and let me give you a very specific

example because I had a person that was on the committee in the room.

Truth Unfiltered starts now on the award-winning 101 7 the Truth.

Here's D.T. and Dr. Ken.

You're listening to Truth Unfiltered.

The next time is Dr. Ken Harris, hey, want to remind you, listen on Friday is Truth

In The Afternoon with me, Dr. Ken Harris, during Black History Month.

So the first, second, and third week, you're going to not just get questions, you're going

to get Dr. Ken's Black History trivia, it's about culture, facts, they don't teach you

stories that matter.

So first, we just gave away, we had a winter last Friday, we'll have a winter this Friday,

we'll have a winter next Friday, and then the following Wednesday, I'll be giving it

away because I'm out of here on the Thursday and Friday.

Where you going?

I didn't tell you where I'm going.

And see?

I got some work I got to meet you.

I understood what he said, even though that wasn't English.

I got to hear some work, that's because I already told the way I was doing that.

Anyway, see Contest Rules at GoodcomberBrands.com, Dr. Ken's Black History Month trivia, make

sure you are here.

So here's what I do.

So I say, hey, call, and we load up the lines, and I asked the question, this, this, this,

is it this, this, this, this, this, you get four, and if you get it wrong, we scratch the

question and we go to the next caller, ask them a new question.

To our my fellow public school graduates, remember, in multiple choices, you either always

select B or C, that's how I got through school.

You just select B or C, you don't create D student, wasn't you?

I was a phenomenal D student.

You know what, some mentees might be listening.

I was not a D student, you know.

We know you weren't a D student.

Well, I don't want them to think that, you know, because I mean, you know, you got education

to get degrees.

I'm sorry, I thought these get degrees.

Yeah, they do.

You just got to have some A's, B's and C's to go with them.

Just we'll talk offline DJ.

Thank you for letting me hang out for the first hour.

You're going to leave me now?

You did tell me that.

I mean, I'm not going to act brand new.

You did tell me you were leaving.

And I'm so appreciative.

I get treated.

That's how I get treated.

I so appreciate you being here, because at first you were like, you got this on your own,

which I was ready to do.

Ladies, you know, we can do this.

What's wrong?

Why I was going to make an agenda thing?

Because I can't.

He says with his voice.

Because I'm going to voice deep.

I'm going to take something.

This year, don't, don't come at me talking about, I said something inappropriate.

I'm saying you said anything.

No, I know you didn't.

I'm just saying.

I am leveraging.

Next week from our commander in chief, Black women, I wish somebody would tell us, you

can't say that.

Black people.

I'll be like, oh, really?

Excuse me, you need to take that picture down.

I find that a fit.

I'm going to find everything.

Oh, actually, let's see.

Now we're talking.

Now we're cooking with peanut oil.

I find that offensive.

I find that offensive.

It's like what Dave Chappelle said.

It's called leverage.

It is.

It is.

And if you didn't see his latest on Netflix, it's good.

He's a great, you know what, he's one, the reason why I like Dave Chappelle, it's not so

much that he's hilarious.

It's, he's a great storyteller and if you just follow him, but here's a kicker.

You can't jump in in the middle.

You have to listen to the whole story from the beginning.

But you don't want to stop listening.

That's a great storyteller from the time that he opens his mouth.

He's got you just like, I just need him to stop smoking.

That's none of my business.

That man.

Well, some people can tolerate it.

It's not people can.

And.

Well, I don't want to smell it.

I don't want to smell it.

I don't want to smell it.

I don't want to.

I just want to want to go in that bottle.

Hey.

Hey.

Water.

All right, job.

Well, let's get into it.

I know we've been talking a lot about tonight, the, the, the super bold.

Let's get into something a little bit closer to home.

It's a little deeper than headlines.

And it's actually a very important subject matter, which is healthcare.

Okay.

We're talking about your healthcare.

We're talking about your benefits.

And quite frankly, your family's security.

So let me break this down plainly because again, y'all, I'm public school.

I'm not, I'm not like Dr. Ken and Sherrin.

They're highly intellectual, three plus syllable word using.

So let me just break it down to my people the way that I can break it down.

So more than 5,000 Milwaukee County employees.

So these are the folks that plow our streets.

Is it a folks that process our paperwork, staff, our clinics and our, and serve in

our court system woke up this week to find out that their healthcare contract expired.

More than 5,000 Milwaukee County employees woke up and was like, huh?

So when I say expired, it's exactly what it sounds like.

Not renewed, not renegotiated, expired.

Let me say it again, not renewed, not renegotiated, expired, like a coupon, expired, expired.

No, the commercial, expired.

So this is what gets me.

The only reason why we know this is because somebody finally said, wait a second, who dropped

the ball?

Resulting in the Milwaukee County benefits director getting fired.

So now you've got the Milwaukee Health Department.

My Dr. Ken, love you.

You got the Milwaukee Health Department scrambling.

You've got a $90 million contract that gets rushed through in a 13.5 vote.

And this is what we were told.

Don't worry.

Everybody was still covered.

Okay, cool.

But here's my question.

I appreciate the fact that everybody is still covered.

But this reminds me, there's like a pattern here.

How in the BB King?

Do you let $90 million of public contract just slip through the cracks?

Not show netflix subscription, not show gym membership, but your health care.

Because what I'm trying to understand, because first of all, this is not just a paperwork

issue.

We're talking about people's health care, whether it's insulin, chemo treatments, mental

health therapy, your kids inhaler, your mama's prescriptions.

This is life.

And when you have a government that is saying oops, my bad with health care, guess who pays

the price every time.

So I want to be clear, I'm not here to play politics.

I'm not here to endorse or oppose, whether Democrat, Republican, independent, I honestly,

I do not care what the color of the jersey is when it comes to health care in this country.

If you are responsible for our trust as tax paying residents, you don't get to go oops

when it comes to health care, especially when it comes to health care.

That's people's health.

And so it also, you know, let me be real about something else.

This hits different when it's our community.

Okay, so let me speak, this is Milwaukee Black talk radios.

Let me talk to the black and brown folks for a second.

Historically, and I'm not saying anything that you don't already know, but let me just

indulge with me for a second while I land the plane, as sure when he says.

Black folks and brown folks, we already, generally speaking, have a lot of distrust when it comes

to our health care system or the health care system, it most certainly is not ours.

We already fight insurance denials.

We already work jobs where we're benefits are everything.

A lot of us work so that we can have benefits, stop me when I'm lying.

We already know what it feels like when institutions say you're covered until you're not.

So my only concern, or I guess pushback is when leadership says everything is fine, nothing

to see here, move along.

See here at the truth, we were like, nah, we don't have to ask some questions.

That's what we do here.

We unfiltered the truth.

And we in particular have black and brown people in mind when we're unfiltering it.

Because I don't like to see grown folks do that with tax dollars.

And then what really got me and DJ Brother Z, do we still have that audio because we're

going to hear from County exec David Crawley as he was responding to this because I know

he probably was like, I need to smoke right now.

I do not pretend to know what it's like to be County executive, especially in a vulnerable

city like Milwaukee.

And when I say vulnerable, you know what I mean.

Many state where based on the population of black men has a double digit percentage

and has the highest rate of mass has the highest rate of incarcerated black men.

I got to do a little bit of further, further digging.

All I got to say is this, I don't know what it's like to be in that kind of highly

visible, impactful role, especially when you're trying to run for an even higher, higher

visible role such as governor.

And this is to all elected officials.

If there's one thing that we meet, we need as black folks, black voters, black taxpayers,

more than ever before is transparency.

And when it comes to healthcare questions, we need to understand it.

We need explanations.

We need to know that it's being fixed.

We know that there's measures being put in to prevent it from happening again.

And we deserve that because it might not be your benefits today, but it could be your

benefits the next time.

Those kind of mistakes, they hurt the bus driver, they hurt the case worker, they hurt the clerk,

they hurt the social worker, they hurt the grandmother that is doing her best to raise

her grandkids, regular people, us.

So do you think, or let me ask this, true nation, and our truth talk in text line is

833-212-1017.

How do you feel about the responsiveness and reaction?

Because again, this was a $90 million healthcare contract, $90 million.

And it was like, my bad, I forgot to.

It laps, it expired, my bad.

And I do apply county exec, David Crowley, for terminating or firing the board director.

And so if you're wondering what we're talking about here, if you're just tuning in, the Milwaukee

County Board approved a new contract Thursday providing healthcare benefits for more than

5,000 of their employees, but they had to scramble into action upon learning that the county's

benefits directors just let the contract expire, $90 million.

So Tony Mays, who was now the former benefits director, was immediately fired after news

of the debacle became public, county executive David Crowley, who is one of the leading Democratic

candidates for governor.

I don't know if I want to use the word defended, it's kind of opinionated.

But I will say that county executive Crowley did terminate the benefits director.

Now a lot of people are saying, well, yeah, once it became public, I'm just here to give

you all the facts and sprinkle a little bit of my opinion, which I've given, that's what

I led with.

Do we have, okay.

So here we go, we're going to hear from county executive David Crowley, who again is one

of the leading Democratic candidates for governor of Wisconsin.

And a lot of people, again, they want to know, like, how do you miss a contract that is

going to basically be how 5,000 employees receive healthcare?

And the cost of the contract is again $90 million.

So a portion of which will be paid to United Healthcare to cover administrative costs, while

the majority is in estimate of how much the county will pay out in claims as the county

is self ensured.

So again, a lot of people are trying to understand, like, how do you miss a $90 million contract

that's directly tied to 5,000 employees, healthcare benefits?

Here is a sound bite from Milwaukee County executive David Crowley in response to this.

There's now some resolution to the mess surrounding a new healthcare plan for the people

who work for the county of Milwaukee.

Yeah, late this afternoon, the county board approved a new healthcare contract for its

employees after the previous one lapsed at the start of this year.

AJ Biopor joins us live from Milwaukee County Courthouse where that vote just happened this

afternoon.

AJ.

Good evening.

Within the last hour or so, the county board has approved a new healthcare contract that

roughly $90 million policy establishes that coverage will continue for a little more

than 5,000 people who work for Milwaukee County.

During the conversation, during the Saturday afternoon's board meeting, there was certainly

plenty of questioning about whether this is the best plan for the county moving forward.

However, the majority in a 13-5 vote ultimately believes the county should not wait and needs

to adopt a plan now.

Workers were still covered during this month after the last contract had lapsed, but

most on the county board did not want to risk having United Healthcare walk away or have

the talks get even more complicated.

Now, the county's benefits director has already been fired over this mess.

A common theme on the floor today, though, was the county still needs to get answers about

what the heck happened and why healthcare policy for those workers was not renewed on time.

So, we're going to take a break.

We've got to take a break.

When we come back, Truth Nation, 833-2121-017, when you hear leadership says no harm done,

we're good now.

We're moving on.

He's fired.

Let's just keep it moving.

Do you believe that?

And it's important to ask that question because quite frankly, a lot of the candidates

that are running for governor listen and engage in the show.

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Now, see, why would I think that those kind of lyrics would be the kind of leader that

I expect to impact legislation and government?

I'm just saying, I love Cardi B, but I love her for what she gives me and that's entertainment.

That's it.

I'm not looking for Cardi B to come in and solve a civil rights crisis.

We were talking about that early if you're just tuning in.

That's all I'm saying.

You are tuned in to the Truth Unfiltered with DT and Dr. Ken.

Dr. Ken was here with us.

He just left.

I'm going to bring us home for the rest of the show, which is about 30, 36 minutes.

Now, prior to break, we were talking about the Milwaukee County Office as of, I believe

last Thursday, under the leadership of Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, had to terminate

his benefits director by the name of Tony Mays after it became public that the contract

that provides health care benefits for more than 5,000 employees in Milwaukee County had

lapsed.

90 million.

My bad.

Since then, recently, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, who is one of the leading democratic

candidates for governor of Wisconsin, responded, so let's play the audio from Mr. Crowley and

let me get your reactions because, like I said before, I don't pretend that I know what it's like.

To be mayor of Milwaukee or county executive of Milwaukee or sheriff or police chief or fire

chief, alder woman, alder man, I have no idea.

So I try not to speak from an expert lens or a subject matter expert lens when I've not

walked in their shoes as a matter of fact, I think it's quite unfair.

Now, on the flip side, I am a stakeholder.

As someone who lived in Milwaukee over 20 years, I still do a significant amount of

partnerships here.

I mean, I'm here right now.

I left 73 degrees, y'all, yesterday to come be here with y'all.

That's how much I love you because I promise you, DJ Brothers Z. I was on my rooftop.

What was that? What's today? Saturday night? No, Friday night.

All my rooftop outside. Just Friday night.

Having a nice nightcap watching movies outside.

So I care about Milwaukee. Milwaukee will always be home to me.

And I'm just trying to understand like as a Milwaukee resident native, how do you feel about this?

So let's check out the response for a Milwaukee County executive.

Also candidate for Governor of Wisconsin.

As he responded to the media's questions on, how did you miss a $90 million?

And not him in terms of you.

But the Milwaukee County office, here we go, check this out.

Look, we have employees who are responsible for doing their jobs.

And so learning that this person did not follow the ordinance, the correct way.

We took swift action as we needed to do. What do they do wrong? Do you know what?

Do you know what went wrong here again?

So that's David Crawley.

And here's the thing. As a leadership strategist and coach, I will say this.

Leadership ain't easy. I'm not excusing anyone.

But I wanted to say that it's easy to sit

and watch this and say, well, you don't just walk away.

You don't just do, I don't know what was going on.

I don't know how County executive Crawley was even, it was even brought to his awareness.

I don't know.

And I'm sure, I shouldn't say sure.

I'm confident that County executive Crawley will address this at some point.

Because one thing I do know is that whenever you speak into the mic,

your words can either be used to support you or to hurt you.

And as an elected official, you got to be re-occalculated on what wind, how, and who you speak to.

Because many will interpret this as Mr. Crawley just walked away. He didn't respond.

And Milwaukee, if we go and hold this, I'm just keeping it real.

If we go and hold certain elected officials accountable

for whether or not you interpreted them as being dismissive when they walk away,

you make sure you hold all elected officials at all levels and entities.

They're accountable the same way.

Because I know of a particular elected official who gets asked questions all the time

in response in ways that I'm like, are you kidding me?

So let, let, if we're going to be forgiving, because we always are.

And if we're going to give grace, that same grace should be even stronger

with elected officials who look like us.

You make your own mind up, but all I'm saying is that at some point,

county executive Crawley will need to address this, because my only thing is this,

we just want to know, like, how that happens.

And he's not responsible necessarily for those kind of decisions in terms of, look,

he's an adult, he had a responsibility, and I want to be clear, I'm not,

I'm not making excuses. I'm just saying again,

how does that happen?

And maybe the question could have been presented in a more, I don't know, dignified manner.

I mean, I'm not saying that the journalists who asked the question of the reporter

wasn't being dignified, but again, it was timing.

Because county executive Crawley, I don't know if y'all watching this on our YouTube,

he did not look happy. He looked like he had just got that news and was like, you fire it.

And now I got to go and clean this up. It's a lot, but we do need to know why and how.

Because I think we're just tired. We're just tired of feeling as though we've been taking

advantage of or bamboozled, especially when it comes to our health care, especially when it comes

to access to quality health care. Because right now the math ain't math and when it comes to

health care in this country. So again, I just, county executive Crawley,

you probably don't hear it enough. But I know this is not easy.

And you got a lot going on. You're trying to run for governor. And these types of,

and I'll use the word distractions. Because man, it's like, dude, you have one job.

You're the benefits director. That's like the core part of your 90 million dollars.

You know what was coming? Make it make sense. What exactly went wrong?

So again, this definitely needs to be further investigated, which I'm sure it is.

The firing for me, for me, that wouldn't be enough.

Because it's kind of like, people aren't disposable. I mean, like in that kind of role,

when you fire them, okay, well, then now what are you bringing somebody in that's going,

it reminds me of a certain school district over and over the revolving door.

And the babies are the ones that are impacted the most. But I'm not going to go there,

which I'll know what I'm talking about. Because one thing I am for sure about when it comes to

leadership and that's accountability. That's all I'm saying. Our true talking text line is 833-212-1017.

DJ Breathers, I'm going to say this and it's just kind of hurts, but I'm going to go ahead and say it.

Football's over. Football's over until September. I don't count preseason. That to me is like,

that's like a warm up. Football is over. Y'all like, it's Monday. What do you do on a Monday night

when football season is over? I'm just curious. 833-212-1017. Can y'all help me out and give me

something to do? Because when I leave here in about 20 minutes or so, I'm like, there's no Monday

night football. There's no more professional football or a football for that matter until the fall.

And it's just February. So please, y'all, help me understand how do I shake this bug of not having

football for a whole, what, six months? That just sounds bad saying it out loud. But in the meantime,

we do have another interesting headline. And it just, this falls down again. It's like, come on,

leadership. What are we doing? Now, the Milwaukee County Board has adopted a new measure as of

last Thursday aimed at regulating how immigration officers, also known as ICE, could operate in Milwaukee

County. So the board, the Milwaukee County Board, voted to approve a new ordinance requiring

law enforcement agencies to get a permit before using any Milwaukee County parks as a staging

area. That's right. Milwaukee County parks. So while it applies to all police agencies,

supervisors made it clear. And there were marks that they believe it's a necessary precaution

in case ICE or any other federal immigration officers are sent to Milwaukee in large numbers.

We got a, we got a sound bite for this too, right? Okay. So let's listen to this sound bite.

And when we come back, because I'm just trying to understand, do you feel safer?

Or do you think that this limits law enforcement too much? And here's the real one. Who really gets

protected when policies like this aren't in place? So let's take a listen. We'll take a break.

And then when we come back, we'll get into hearing for you because I got a bunch of questions.

I want to ask you out, Truth Nation. Yes, you. I want to ask you something. So let's listen to

this first and then we'll get into the dialogue. County Board adopted a new measure aimed at

regulating how immigration officers could operate in the county. The board voted to approve a

new ordinance requiring law enforcement agencies to get a permit before using any Milwaukee

County parks as a staging area while it applies to all police agencies. Supervisors made

clear in their remarks. They believe it is a necessary precaution in case ICE or any other

federal immigration officers are sent to Milwaukee in big numbers. We have seen federal agents

absolutely out of control with no regard to the law or basic human decency.

I equate this right now this moment to preparedness, to developing plans when we know that there's

something coming. Under the ordinance, not getting a permit would lead to a ticket for unauthorized

use of a county park and that comes with a fine of up to $5,000.

All right, we'll be back. More of the Truth unfiltered with Denise Thomas and Dr. Ken Harris is

next on 101 7 the Truth, the Truth app and 101 7 the Truth.com. You are listening to the truth

unfiltered with Denise Thomas and Dr. Ken Harris on 101 7 the Truth, the Truth app and 101 7 the

Truth.com. The Milwaukee County Board just approved an ordinance that says the following law

enforcement agencies including federal immigration officers also or that includes ICE,

the immigration and customs enforcement must get a permit before using our county parks as

staging grounds. If you've been watching ICE coverage, they'll be up in the park staging getting

ready. So what this means basically is that they can't just roll up deep, unannounced and setting up

shot in our neighborhoods like it's a military base. I mean, not anymore. I mean, if they want to,

they got to have they got to be brave because if they do and they don't have a permit, that's a

$5,000 up to I should say up to a $5,000 fine. Now, let me just say this clearly so folks don't miss

this. This applies to all law enforcement, all law enforcement. Okay, so let's, we're unfiltering

the truth here. This is truth unfiltered. Let's let's unfilter this truth about what's really

being addressed here because supervisors said the quiet part out loud. They are preparing in case

ICE, again, the immigration customs enforcement agency or any other type of federal agents if they

decide to come through Milwaukee heavy. Because we've all seen over the past several months what

looks like in this country, the separation of families, communities that are that that are terrorized

and and folks scared to go to school, scared to go to work, scared to go to the grocery store,

scared to go to any public place and rightfully so. One of the supervisors said something that

that stood out to me, they said, and I quote, we've seen federal agents absolutely out of control

with no regard to the law or basic human decency. Wow, and my thing was when did elected officials

start talking like that, I'm like, okay, that I mean that that tells you something for a county

supervisor, and I quote, we've seen federal agents absolutely out of control with no regard to

the law or basic human decency. So let me frame this for us, truth nation. This is not anti-law

enforcement. I want to be clear. This is not anti law enforcement. This is accountability.

This is transparency. This is do not come into our house without knocking first.

And even if you knock, unless you have something that proves that you have a right to enter my home,

that don't even mean that I'm required to open the door. Parks are where our kids play.

Let me let me let me let me let me paint the picture. This is where our kids play ball. This is where

you see us having our morning walks. The aunties I should say are elders and I see it all the time.

I can't read the name of the park. It's right on plankington. Is that plankington?

It's where man, what's that restaurant? Benihanas. It's like right across the street from Benihanas.

And I see elders just sitting out there talking because my son used to live over there,

and I'd walk earning. And sometimes you know, I would engage if they looked like they wanted to,

you know, have a younger person talk, but I'm saying like we end the parks.

This is where our festivals happen. A lot of us had our first kiss in a park.

Parks mean some DJ brothers. He's like Nana school bus. Oh, you had your first kiss on a school bus?

Yep. Okay. Shout out Jessica. Hey. I mean, seriously, this is an area.

Parks mean something to us in our community.

So we go have our cookouts sometimes. You know, we got five minutes of summer here in Milwaukee,

so we'd be outside. Parks are not staging areas. They're not tactical zones.

They're not they're not fear factory. So why?

And what I love about this move from Milwaukee County Supervisors,

shout out to y'all because it's about time. And this is proactive. I get so sick of us being

reactive. This is proactive. We didn't wait for it to hit the fan. We didn't wait for chaos.

Milwaukee County said, look, we see what's happening nationally.

So let's prepare now. Thank you. Thank you. We get it. That's leadership. That's strategy.

That's how you do it. You get ahead of the curve. That's grown folks. Governance. That's what we do

when we are true adults in leadership. Because we see what's happening. And the last thing we

didn't know is we didn't think it happened here in Milwaukee. Hey.

So based on this, do you feel safer? Do you feel safer knowing that

this ordinance is going to make sure that people just don't come here in a uniform

and terrorize honest people, including children.

So again, the Milwaukee County Board just approved an ordinance that says, and I quote,

law enforcement agencies, including federal immigration officers must get a permit before using

our county parks as staging grounds. And again, that means you ain't going to just be rolling up

in Milwaukee unannounced. You ain't going to be just setting up

terrorizing shops in our neighborhoods. Got to get that permit first. A332121017.

Does this make you feel safer? Does this make you feel more confident in our leadership?

I think this is a good move because again, it's proactive. It's not reactive and it's not waiting

on something to go down, which is what I appreciate about this ordinance. A positive anything is

better than a negative nothing. So that's how I feel. How do you feel? A332121017

because we're always talking about our elected officials doing the right thing.

Where was the government? Where was the legislators? Where was the lawmakers? We knew what was

coming. We knew what was happening. Well, here you go.

The ordinance bottom line basically says that Milwaukee County parks belong to the people.

Not unchecked power. And that is worth talking about.

You are listening to truth unfiltered. Thank you so much for tuning in. I see y'all in the YouTube

message or chat room. I see y'all. Thank you for the love. Appreciate you. You could have been

anywhere in the world and you chose to be here. When we come back, I'm going to wrap things up.

Happy, happy, happy, happy Black History Month. We got like 19 days left, y'all.

But it doesn't stop on the 28th because Black History is American History.

However, for the next 19 days, let's maximize this month in honoring, especially those unsung Black

heroes and heroines. Let's make sure that we do that y'all because Black History is American

History. And for those that are opponents or object Black History, okay, well, let's take everything

that you utilize that was invented or innovated by a Black person. And let's see what's left

for you to use if you don't want to honor and celebrate Black History Month.

You're listening to the truth 101.7 FM Milwaukee Black Talk Radio. This is your girl DT on the

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DJ, brother Z. So I'm going to do my closing monologue now. And I'm just giving you a special

shout out. So that way, if it's something that moves you, because I need some publicity here.

Let me get on 101.7 the truth social media tomorrow. Okay, I'm going to try to do my best

to bring it home. If you're just too need to and thank you so much, if you've been with us since

six o'clock, thank you, thank you, thank you. As we mentioned, Dr. Kin and I did a special edition

of truth unfiltered live here in our studio inside Third Street Market Hall, the American family

insurance studio. And I'm always thrilled to be back here in Milwaukee live in the studio. So

thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. We've been talking a lot today about

leadership. And before we close out tonight's show, number one. And I don't know if Gary is still

listening. I think it was Gary. It might have been either the Gary or the caller. But one of those

two gentlemen, one of those two kings made a great statement about leadership starts at home.

And I and I so just want to piggyback off of that as part of our closing today. Also a quick note.

I don't like to say when I say on that, I'm allergic to that. I get mad at myself.

I will be on the Sherwin Hughes show tomorrow. Beginning 11. No, yeah, 11 o'clock.

The last hour. And we're going to show Sherwin some love because as he had mentioned day on his show,

I don't think he knows that I know, but I know he's being recognized. Very well-deserved recognition

as part of the 28 days of black history here in Milwaukee. So tomorrow,

make sure you tune in all day, starting with the morning show.

Homer, Dame, Bailey. Then we go on to Sherwin. I'll be on from 11 to noon.

The Tori Lowe, Dr. Ken, it's always consecutive hours, 11 consecutive hours of black talk radio

because you deserve it. Now, I just want to leave you with something regarding what we've been

talking about leadership. Leadership, especially in our community, it's shaping the next generation.

And I'm not saying anything that you don't already know. But I do want to talk to my people for a

minute. So just bear with me as I talk to my fellow black and brown families. As I talk to my

fellow Milwaukee black and brown families, folks who love this city just like I do,

we have got to start having a real conversation about who we call leaders.

Because somewhere along the way, as Malcolm X stated so eloquently that we played earlier,

1963, can you imagine doing the same thing? For 60 years, we've started,

not, no, let me not say started. We have been confusing fame with leadership, our community,

just because your famous does not qualify you to be a leader. We are confusing visibility.

Thanks social media with credibility. Don't get me started on that.

We're confusing followers with wisdom. Oh, so because they have 20 trillion followers,

that makes them credible. Just because somebody went viral does not qualify them to be a leader

for our community. Just because somebody can dunk a basketball, just because somebody can throw

a football, just because somebody could drop an album or trend on social media that does not

qualify them as a leader does not mean that they can lead a community. It doesn't mean that they

understand policy. They don't understand economics. They don't understand how the system works

because they never had to, but yet we're holding them that in that regard. And it definitely

doesn't mean that they're capable of fighting for your grandma's health care or your child's future.

So let entertainers entertain. Let's let athletes compete. We can celebrate them. We can applaud

them. We can buy the jersey. We can stream the music. But leadership, that's something different.

That's a whole not a level of sacrifice and service. And it's showing up even when people aren't

clapping or liking your post. Leadership is sitting in those long county meetings. Reading those

200 page budgets, being transparent to the people that voted for you and put you in that seat,

organizing neighborhoods, registering voters, mentoring our future black and brown

or leaders, protecting the rights, civil rights, that's leadership. So don't get mad.

When they disappoint you because you can't be mad at somebody who never committed,

but you want to base that off of how many likes and stop. We got to do better, y'all. I love you so

much. Tune in tomorrow morning, starting at 7 a.m. and just stay locked in because this is the only

station that's going to bring you 11 consecutive live hours of black talk radio here in Milwaukee.

Have a great night. Make it a safe night. Make it a warm night. I'm going to bed, y'all. I'm tired.

I'm not an early morning person. I've been up since four. So stay locked in more to come tomorrow

all day live. You deserve it. You deserve the truth. And that's what we're going to always give

it to you. Brother Z, thank you, my brother. Peace out.