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of different scattered sites, north side, south side, downtown have been open since Tuesday, July 28th, 2026.

So you could go during normal business hours and at some locations, even on weekends to cash or ballot in this upcoming very hotly contested Democratic primary election.

And because there has been so much drama.

So many people in of the in the race and out of the race and big name folks that are coming into town and all of the rallies and All of the national attention, you know Mandela Barnes the former lieutenant governor was in the race for governor Then he dropped out then Sarah Rodriguez had two million dollars.

Then she didn't have two million dollars Then she had six hundred thousand dollars.

Then she had thirty four thousand dollars Then she dropped out of the race and David Crowley dropped out of the race

David Crowley had three hundred fifteen thousand dollars.

He decided he was going to get back in the race and then Governor Tony Evers endorsed him.

It's exhausting, right?

I can't wait till this damn thing is over.

And so I have the the early voting number.

So one thing the city of Milwaukee does very, very well is they will report the number of people who have voted on each day.

Cumulative so all of the votes that were cast the first day of early voting which was Tuesday July 28th The next day was Wednesday the 29th and I have dates through This past Saturday so two days ago of how many people have voted at the different early voting sites throughout the city of Milwaukee now I went into this thinking and I had my preconceived notions which

You really shouldn't have when it comes to Wisconsin politics because what we may know and understand conventionally will oftentimes be upended.

And I will say I will begin with the.

The meteoric rise of a state assembly representative from Madison and her essentially her taking over this Democratic primary.

I would not have necessarily predicted that she brings a crowd.

They say better than 1500 people pack the auditorium at South Milwaukee High School.

I believe the rally was yesterday.

You had firebrand progressive podcaster and Twitch streamer Hassan Piker and they went on they did a

canvas.

You had Minnesota congressional representative and member of the.

progressive caucus in the House of Representatives, Ilhan Omar was in the house.

So that's a pretty hefty list of notable and widely understood and known progressive either activists or members of Congress came to campaign.

for Francesca Hong my producer Xavier was there he got some video footage that he is he's editing as we speak and going to put together a little I guess an expose of the of the rally looking forward to seeing in fact I may feature it on the Hughes views 414 YouTube channel assuming there are no copyright violations because you know Xavier does own that footage FYI mark your calendars

For August 11th, which your calendar should be marked already but starting at 7 p.m.. On August 11th myself and Dr. Ken Harris are going to be doing live online Stream of the election and election results beginning at 7 p.m.. So you are all more than welcome and we look forward to seeing you all on the Hughes views for one for YouTube channel We're going to broadcast the election results and also give commentary

It might even have a couple of special guests and to the best of my knowledge, we are the only ones who are doing such a live stream covering the election as the polls close and as the returns come in that is focused on the impact of Milwaukee.

So looking forward to doing that broadcast with Dr. Ken.

So I started the program talking about all of the ups and downs and the inconsistencies and the direction changes of this.

Democratic primary and I believe this is my preconceived notion that early voting would Would be robust because you have a Milwaukee candidate That is running David.

In fact, there were two at one point.

It's either with three technically with Joel Brennan and I figured because there's so much excitement it would seem in this race and just so much media attention on it not just locally, but even nationally

that early voting numbers would be through the roof.

Now, we also have to level set here because a high turnout midterm election, even though this is not a usual set of circumstances.

Donald Trump, of course, is back in the White House.

There is a Republican majority in the U.S.

Senate.

And the House of Representatives, not to mention the number of Republican controlled state legislatures and Republican governors.

And if you are all dissatisfied.

With anything.

With the state of our politics.

Maybe with the rhetoric, maybe you don't like what some of these politicians are saying and how they're saying it.

If you are.

Upset with the very low standard that we have.

For some of our elected officials if you are upset that they still haven't released all of the details and all of the names in the Epstein files If you're not happy about the economy If you believe that wages are too low and prices are too high if you believe that you are at all lied to about the price of gas or groceries maybe you were

Lied to when you felt slighted when one person one particular political party campaign pretty hard on no more forever wars in fact blame previous International conflicts that the United States found ourself in on a on a Republican establishment right either the George Bush administration would then shared some blame with the Obama administration, but maybe less because Barack Obama was president when we

Started our drawdown of troops in the Middle East and of course Joe Biden was there when the last of our troops ended that war on terror that lasted 20 years that let me be clear we did not win and so Donald Trump Was campaigning against those forever wars they cost too much we have to put America first and there were some people that actually believed that They believed what he was running on that he would put America first if you were disappointed

Or at all disaffected by the way immigration policy has been executed The people are being snatched up that are being denied due process and there are and have been people that have been killed and There are people who have every legal right to be in this country, but their legal rights of Visitation in the United States has been overlooked and they have been snatched up and deported to so if any of those things have rubs you the wrong way

Not to mention what might be happening in your community.

There are less dollars and less resources coming from the federal government to blue cities and to blue states because Donald Trump has said as much a doge which seems like a distant memory.

A lot of the funding that was allocated by Congress, that's a very important thing to remember that Congress allocates those dollars that would come to the city of Milwaukee for everything from youth programming to, I don't know, extended library hours and after school programs for kids.

A lot of that stuff was cut and I think that we are seeing the impact and the results of that.

So regardless of how far away the federal government seems, it really can have a measurable impact here locally.

So if any of those things rubbed you the wrong way and have you a little bit more fired up, you only have one political party to blame because they control everything and the Republicans control the Wisconsin state legislature.

So there's one political party that you can blame for all that.

And I named a whole bunch of issues and there's probably dozens and dozens more.

that impact even smaller constituencies of people.

But those were some of the pretty big ones.

OK.

And you would think that people would be so excited and so eager to change direction when it comes to political party.

Midterm elections are oftentimes about we don't like the party that is in control and in power because they are not delivering on their promises or it is setting us backwards.

And then people are excited to give the other political party a chance.

Milwaukee is a very democratic city.

In fact, somewhere near 20% of the state's population resides in southeastern Wisconsin, city of Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, et cetera.

And we're overwhelmingly democratic.

However, Racine has got an identity problem.

So does Kenosha.

They don't know what they are.

You know, I have spoken ill of Racine.

for a very long time and shout out to the people that are in racing.

It's not necessarily against you.

I mean, it's against some of you.

You have always offered to sell racing to the lowest bidder.

Anyone will just come take it away and just take it and just move it and evacuate it.

I've offered selling it to Chicago.

Chicago didn't want it.

Here's what I'm going to.

I got to sweeten the deal.

Selling racing.

It's trying to like.

It's kind of like rather getting a development to come in at midtown.

Nobody wants to do it.

So I'm going to sweeten the deal.

I'm going to go ahead and sell Kenosha too.

You get a package deal, you get a twofer, you get a buy one, get one.

B-Y-O, buy one, B-O-Y-O, Bogo, that's what it is, Bogo.

Buy one, get one.

Because they don't know what they are Democrat or Republican voting counties.

I said all that to say this I'm gonna take a break when I come back.

I'm gonna give you the early voting numbers thus far as Of yes, sir.

No Saturday, August 1st.

So all of the early votes that have been cast This is a very interesting election is getting a lot of attention.

I think that I I would think that that would translate into a lot of people going and voting

I'll give you the numbers on the other side.

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I actually did and I felt some kind of way about it Play weird music people looking me like I'm insane and rightfully so that's I mean, I just I accept I Accept all of the things that people throw at me

I'm really entertained by it because you know people listen to you every single day and they think that they know you The biggest one is so this is a new one.

So black church folks love to think that I'm gay Oh, that's huge absolutely, but Black church folks are some of the worst sinners and gossipers you will ever find and then they wonder why a younger generation doesn't attend

Black church services because we have social media to gossip on and so the black church was like social media before social media and it's crazy because you have all of these 70 something and 80 something year old black folks whose kids are failures and whose kids don't even talk to them anymore, but they get together and they And they gossip and they love to talk about me so Whatever I guess I say things.

I Don't think that I say very negative things about women.

I'm just honest with women in a way

that most men are afraid to be because those men who are married to women you got a lot of your wife three times a day at least you have to lie to her because if you're honest with her that's a problem we don't want those problems or if here's the best part if there's a legitimate problem or issue in the relationship and the man

Brings it up because the problem needs to be addressed She now is upset that he is upset forget the problem and then she'll make it a referendum on him and his tone and she'll feel attacked so she gets to escape accountability and the problem never gets resolved and then you wonder why your man doesn't talk to you anymore because there's no point

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so by me saying that apparently Makes me gay if that's the case give me a rainbow flag and a unicorn and a bag of glitter

Oh, okay.

So you're going to be dyeing your hair or your beard purple.

I'm not going to go that far.

Oh, okay.

I'm just always tickled by and also come to find out after doing this for a bunch of years.

People only understand what I say to their level of knowledge.

Right.

So if I say some real high level political stuff and some people

their political knowledge or intelligence is much lower.

They're only going to understand it at the level in which they comprehend, not necessarily at the level in which I say it.

And here's the thing, I don't want to dumb anything down because I think that harms people, black people in particular, because we can't afford to be dumb.

That's the luxury that black people do not have.

We don't have the luxury to be ignorant and to live in that bliss because if we do,

We are easy to outmaneuver and much easier to oppress if we are not fully versed in bills laws regulations and rules because we'll be out here breaking rules and laws and won't even know certain things are illegal next thing you know We're doing 18 months because we were ignorant of the law.

That's neither here nor there on Tuesday July 28th the first day of early voting and let me give you the the list of sites Because there's a bunch of

Good Hope Library Midtown Voting Center Tippie Canoe Library The Washington Park Senior Center The Zablaki Library and the Zeidler Municipal Building.

So those are the early voting sites.

So we're literally offering locations in which people can vote in this very

Hotly contested much talked about national news election cycle where a democratic socialist who was promoting a Specific form of social democracy is absolutely cleaning up in the polls.

The other thing I'll say about Franny pants Franny pants Can bring a crowd she can get a crowd which is very common for the democratic socialist types because I remember Bernie Sanders could bring a crowd too I don't know if Joe Brennan is bringing a crowd

I don't know.

Maybe Joe Brennan has a gigantic rally that fills the American family of baseball stadium.

Maybe.

Maybe Joe Brennan has a rally that's so big.

It's got to be in Chicago and Milwaukee at the same time.

Maybe just maybe.

And I'm holding out hope here that Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley has a rally that's so big that it fills Lambeau Field with 80,000 people.

And Michelle Obama comes.

And Barack Obama comes Oprah.

Why not?

They dig up Joe Biden.

They roll him out in a wheelchair or just like on a hospital bed.

He's got an IV.

Maybe they roll him out.

Negro, please.

You might even have to bring Mamala Kamala.

And you have all these people at Lambeau Field for David Crowley.

And there's 80,000 people there.

And women are showing their breasts because, you know,

It's a party.

Maybe I'm saying maybe that's all in the works because we only have one more weekend until the election actually starts.

You guys want to hear the early vote numbers?

Man, I thought they were going to be explosively high.

I thought we were going to break records on day one Tuesday, July 20th at all of those different sites.

Okay.

587 people voted citywide.

Five hundred five.

That's it.

I'll get more views on one of my YouTube broadcasts than voted on the first day of early voting.

Damn.

Day two, Wednesday, July 29th, 706 people voted.

At least it went up.

We're trending upward.

Thursday, July 30th, 750 people voted.

All right now, starting our uptrend.

Friday, July 31st.

Uh-oh.

624 voters.

Oh Darn it.

Okay.

What about Saturday August 1st?

You know a lot of people were during the week they have two jobs They got to work a lot of jobs because the wages are too low and everything is very expensive So they have to work another job.

So they'll go vote on Saturday because hopefully Well, they have the weekends off and that is when they were waiting to go and vote.

So I look at the numbers from

Saturday August 1st, I'm expecting this to be the highest early voting turnout day.

No, it's one of the lowest.

Only 344 people voted and that is the data that we have thus far.

Oh, I have yesterday's numbers.

Okay, here we go.

Yesterday at the Good Hope Library, 30 people voted, one voter registered.

Damn.

Midtown, yesterday, Sunday August 2nd, 45 people voted, one person registered.

Damn.

The the Tippi Canoe Library.

Forty seven people voted.

They had three new registrants.

We might as well play damn for

that.

And that the Zyler Municipal Building downtown, I believe they had the highest Sunday afternoon voter turnout with 54 votes.

But zero new registrants.

Damn

there.

So there you go.

So yesterday, 176 people voted.

This is not.

So all of these numbers, because I would assume that in the city of Milwaukee, even though the vote is going to be split a whole bunch of different ways, David Crowley is the county executive.

I'd imagine the higher the early vote totals are at these scatter sites in the city of Milwaukee, particularly at the Good Hope Library and also in Midtown, those votes would favor David Crowley.

But here, let me just do.

What is this?

Let's go to let's look at what was the highest day?

Thursday, July 30 at 750 people voted at the Good Hope Library They got of the 750 people that voted citywide they voted early at one of these different scattered sites the Good Hope Library Midtown Tippecanoe Washington Park the blocky library in the Zeidler Municipal Building So I would assume Washington Park the Good Hope Library in Midtown Boater turn out there if it's higher would favor David Crowley

So on the highest voting day since early voting started, the Good Hope Library saw 102 voters with seven new registrations.

Midtown saw 202 with 13 new registrations.

Tippy Canoe, 119 Washington Park, 35 Zablaki Library, 103 and the Zeiler Municipal Building, 189.

So that highest turnout day did see.

increase numbers of voters in areas where I would like to think that David Crowley would do well.

But what's going to happen is his polling numbers that a lot of folks don't want to believe.

And if you are a supporter of a particular candidate, you never believe the polls if the polls say that your candidate is down.

This is one of these delusions that voters have.

Well, I don't believe those polls because this is the person I'm supporting and they're very good.

There's no way they're at 5%.

You're a poll of one and see you the candidate that you prefer is polling at a hundred percent, but that's to you You think that they're great you think that they're gonna win you don't believe the polls, but here's what's crazy if Your candidate that you support wholeheartedly is winning in the polls.

Well now all of a sudden now those polls are accurate.

I Don't hear a single

Francesca Hong supporter and her supporters are just they're gung-ho They are can I say balls to the wall even though some of her supporters don't have balls?

Some of her supporters used to have them.

You know what I mean?

It's the it's the mixture of ball Okay, but none of them will say oh Francesca Hong is leading with 34% None of them are gonna say I don't believe that pole that pole is faulted like oh

the poles are more accurate than ever

So if you support a candidate and they're performing poorly in the polls you don't believe it But if you're if David Crowley all of a sudden spiked up to 62% support all of those people That didn't believe he was at 5% would absolutely believe that he was at 62 so I'm trying to level set here and reduce expectations This is going to be an exceptionally low voter turnout election and that is probably going to hurt

The candidate that is from Milwaukee where voter turnout was high.

I don't even know David will win Milwaukee County, I think But if he wins it, it'll be by a narrow margin because Francesca has been campaigning very very heavily in David Crowley's backyard So I'm gonna take a break when I come back We are gonna talk about the rally that took place at South Milwaukee High School, which is a very unlikely place because South Milwaukee is not known for its

Left leaning politics.

It's an old working class southern shore suburb of Milwaukee and the political proclivities of South Milwaukee are not.

As liberal as one might think, but but also keep in mind, the people that came to that rally weren't necessarily from South Milwaukee.

They could have been from all over the region.

This is just where.

They happened to have the rally in the auditorium at South Milwaukee High School and the turnout was it was fantastic.

And the line was very, very long.

And I think that shows at least the relative strength of Francesca Hong's ability to bring people together, even in a county where she is not currently an elected official.

So I'm going to take a break, come back, continue our conversation.

The truth with Sherwin Hughes will be back shortly.

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Linda says.

Sherwin and good morning, everybody who is joining us via the YouTube.

We appreciate you all very much.

Linda says Sherwin has a Milwaukee been a hot spot in politics.

I'm not sure why.

And will this and the presidential election depend on the black vote?

I don't think anything is going to depend on a black vote anymore.

I think that they're both Democrats and Republicans are looking for ways around it.

And so if just if.

Our democratic politics in the state of Wisconsin are being shifted to the left to where enough people think that democratic socialist policies and democratic socialist candidates are the adequate response to Donald Trump.

Then black voters are going to be excluded from that conversation because we are not robust in our support for democratic socialism.

We just were not.

And it's reflected.

In the core of their platform, it looks more at cooperatives and workers' rights and organized labor.

It does not get into the nitty-gritty details of racial disparity in black people, I think, see and understand that.

But also, it seems to be a much younger political cohort.

Even though there's some racial diversity in those who would consider themselves democratic socialists, it is still really, really super white.

From the pictures that I saw of the rally in South Milwaukee, it wasn't 50 50 by any means was there heavy brown people representation, but nobody is shocked by that.

So if if if black Democrats are.

Are old and stodgy and feeble and are establishment, then black voters are the reason why these.

Social Democratic policies are unable to take root because black voters are just so addicted to the corporate Democratic establishment.

Therefore, you black voters are in the way.

So if we can maneuver around you.

by engaging new people and new voters and young people who spend a bunch of money on college but are still working at the coffee shop making minimum wage and they can't afford their health insurance.

They can't even afford to buy a house.

They barely can afford their rent.

If you can get those folks who have, you know, essentially been disconnected from politics or they're too, they're focused on themselves.

taking care of their dog because you know this younger generation they don't have kids they have dogs and if you get to them all fired up and riled up and then you can engage a whole bunch of new younger voters you can tell black people to screw off that black fatigue is permeating its way through both political parties and if we are labeled as the establishment which is a slur it's not a very good thing

You are the establishment.

You are you're the you're preventing progress.

You're old and you're stalling where the Democratic Party needs to go and that's much further to the left to promote these policies.

And it's almost like you niggers better know what's good for you and the policies that we promote are good for you.

Now, we're going to not going to outreach to you directly, but you better know what's good for you.

You establishment sons of a bees.

That's what you are.

I posted some.

Very objective things on my various social media over the weekend I created a couple of YouTube shorts and I went in great detail in very unambiguous language Where democratic socialists do not get into the nuances of race and if we are concerned about disparities and we are Democratic socialists they just don't have a policy platform for that but also keeping in mind they don't need it because they're much broader on overall economic issues and the economy and

Corporate ownership of things, et cetera, et cetera, so they kind of overlook racial nuance.

And I posted that.

Here's the problem that I have, and I have many.

The strongest supporter, and I saw this with Bernie too, and I'm also gonna give you an example that is gonna show that history has mimicked this place that we are in right now.

History is going to be a really really good guide because there were there were factions of political parties either a faction on the left or a faction of the right that really wants to take over and they want to be the dominant force and voice in the political party the Tea Party in 2010 Obama gets elected in a way the Tea Party comes out of essentially nowhere They're very angry mostly the Barack Obama was president and they started attacking him on everything from oh, he's increasing our taxes to

Obamacare sucks and there was this movement where a whole bunch of tea party individuals got elected in that moment because the Republican Party went even further to the right and they called themselves the Tea Party.

Here's what they did.

They got some people elected to Congress because Congress is where the crazy people get elected because congressional elections are much smaller.

U.S.

Senate races are much more.

More centrist more moderate.

They are less politically extreme even though some of the people that Donald Trump has supported and endorsed for the US Senate tend to be more extreme voters oftentimes reject Extremes when it comes to electing a senator unless it's Mandela Barnes running against Ron Johnson in that case the more extreme Donald Trump endorsed and supported Republican did in fact Get elected.

I'm still scratching my head at that one

But the Tea Party was able to produce a lot of primary wins and some members of the House of Representatives getting elected but their candidates that they produce because they won a lot of primaries Failed in general elections.

So Barack Obama lost the House of Representatives in 2010 to a Tea Party uprising but maintained the Democratic majority in the US Senate because those same candidates

who got elected to the House of Representatives with Tea Party support, failed in the U.S.

Senate because the Senate oftentimes doesn't go for such political extremes because it's different if you are running in a congressional district, which is about the size of a mid-sized city, versus if you are running a U.S.

Senate campaign, which is statewide and takes into account the plurality of different political viewpoints, far left, far right, moderate, independent.

Etc.

Etc.

So we are in that moment right now where democratic socialism when I would argue is an extreme of the left may produce a primary win, but it is not Going to produce a general election win because you are catering to two totally different kinds of voters Primary voters are very specific very unique.

They can be exceptionally extreme

And so I posted some things just providing just objective fact that people are not looking at anymore.

I'm also trying to point to history that ladies and gentlemen, we have been here before and I can tell you what the result is.

This is the part that I'm most troubled by.

The most staunch democratic socialist.

are some of the most disrespectful and insufferable human beings you ever could come across because if I post something that as a matter of fact about Francesca Hong and why her policies may fall short in a general election contest, you're stupid.

You're an idiot.

You don't know what you're talking about.

They immediately go to what is called ad hominem.

They know that they don't have a policy debate, so they attack the person and it's almost universal.

They're insufferable.

Here's the problem.

I don't want them to be my political allies.

So if you are going to be disrespectful of someone who's trying to get you to think deeper about these issues, so you can be prepared for an overfunded Republican party.

And if I'm trying to share, like, hey, this is where you all are falling short.

Here is where you are excluding the core of the Democratic Party, meaning black voters.

They immediately tack you.

I got attacked so bad.

I was like, I better take this thing down because some of these nut jobs will have you swatted.

That's how insane they are.

And I don't think that they realized that that has an impact on people's voting behavior.

You may like Fran's policies, but if you hate her supporters, we're going to take it out on her.

Let's talk to the town.

You're on one on one seven.

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doing all right?

What's on your mind?

I was thinking about the race.

I was coming super fast and how.

It's not really a word out to like, you know, no, no drives, no, no voter drives or whatnot like that.

And I think, I think that's done, done on purpose.

You know, I think that's really done on purpose because like I heard that the Democratic Party, see the problem with it, see the problem with the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialist is that the Democratic Socialist is not using their money.

You know what I'm saying?

And like, you know, they doing it hang there on their own.

But like the, but the DNC, they have a fundraising problem.

And they got, they got a problem with getting money to the advertisers or whatever like that or whatever, how they do it or anyway.

But anyway though, this is what I think.

Black people, all black people, we got to stand on it and we got to play some chess.

All right.

And you know, I mess with, I'll be liking home policies.

Like you just said, I'll be liking what she say.

I like what she say.

You know what I'm saying?

But this is the preliminary, this ain't the finals.

Every black person should vote for the county executive.

Everybody.

If you black, you have to vote for Crowley.

Even if Crowley loses.

That way, when the numbers come up and when people, excuse me, can extrapolate the data, they're going to see,

man,

they're going to see what we always know.

Like, man, you can't get the state unless you get Milwaukee and the fat piece of Milwaukee being a Democrat.

Then we can go to Hong.

And we can tell her, because the main problem I got with Hong is, man, stop tripping.

What you going to do for black people in Milwaukee?

What you going to do for the economic engine of the state, the jewel of the state?

You know, we can come to her with them tough questions.

And, you know what I'm saying?

We can have her, have her like tweak her, tweak her message or whatever like that to be like, OK, let's talk about the brothers and sisters.

They may go through a lot in Wisconsin.

And you know the numbers about that.

So that's what I think.

If you if you black.

You have to vote for Crowley, no matter what, no matter what, because you voted in your best interest.

That's my time.

All right, thank you for your call.

I see where he's coming from with that, because if David Crowley has a robust showing from African American voters.

Then logic would say Francesca as she moves toward the general election would have to include Some of the issues or maybe do a deeper dive into the sentiments of black voters because she might want African Americans in her coalition I'm not seeing any evidence of that now.

So if I was her I would continue to do what she is doing because it is working

And if you can engage new voters because our turnout is going to be ridiculously low.

That's the other thing that really hurts us.

Like we want to be included and have our policy issues be front and center.

But we don't vote in very high numbers for a bunch of reasons.

Some of it is illiteracy.

A lot of us can't even read the ballot and we're too embarrassed to talk about that.

But we want to be overrepresented in political conversations and in policymaking.

But we don't vote even in like our smaller local elections like candidates.

Look at that.

So we have low voter turnout in county board supervisor elections and in aldermanic elections and we we refuse to vote in school board elections Then the candidate will say it's not worth my money To invest hundreds of thousands of dollars or millions of dollars in a black turnout operation when you're only going to get 10 15 maybe 20% of african-american votes where you can invest half of that money and get a 30 40 50% turnout in young white

in college or just out of college kids who were disappointed by the current system of government, right?

So you have to look at how how far is your money gonna go and I'm gonna push back on the town just a little bit He said the Francesca is not using her money.

Oh, yes The L. She is that rally that she did in South Milwaukee cost money her ads on social media cost money her TV ads cost money Oh, she's spending.

She's also getting a whole heck of a lot of earned media She's all up on Fox News and Fox Business News and CNN because they're all fascinated with her So that's money.

She doesn't have to spend cuz she's getting national exposure for her campaign.

I'm take a break come back

Grab another telephone call on the other side.

A little while ago, I read some of the early voting numbers coming out of the city of Milwaukee, and they are exceptionally low.

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Let's talk Hello Bob, how are

you?

We will be less safe if we don't have ice.

The people in this country do not like ice unless they change their tactics.

That's dumb.

I mean, you know, that is so dumb.

Good dumbest come.

And I also need to say, you know, that...

Wait seeing is okay.

It's okay.

You don't need to knock right and and showing I must always give Bob don't don't get

yourself in trouble now.

You're gonna get your feelings hurt now.

Don't do it

Watch I've been nice to you

lately.

I will attack

hurt you I must give you ice cream and cake, but I gotta give you some castle or two to keep you saying man

You know, I gotta give you some cash.

Oh, I don't Bob.

I don't

need

to help.

Hold on, man.

You better proceed with caution to help.

You know what I mean?

You know, I can't give you ice cream and cake all the time.

I don't just put it this way.

First of all, me accepting ice cream and cake for me was creepy and weird.

Don't offer it.

I don't want any ice cream and cake.

Just call the radio station.

Give your little comments and then just call it a day and then go on back to iron and close and making dinner.

That's all you got you ain't got to make it all complicated man.

Stay on the issue Stay on the merits of what we're discussing.

You just don't make it all weird now So you said okay, you

don't like

what the Republicans are saying and they're crazy.

It's Trump That's you could have left it right there and just be done and then everybody

I

don't like

how you talk about racing man.

It's okay.

This is Wisconsin man, you know, you talk about racing and Kenosha

Bob,

Racine

is a Trump is a

Trump voting county.

Didn't you just criticize Trump and Republicans a second ago?

In fact, when you call, you oftentimes criticize Trump and Republicans.

Racine oftentimes votes for the Republican candidate for president.

I find that to be problematic and also keep in mind that Donald Trump won the state of Wisconsin in 2016 and in 2024 with the help of Racine.

And all I'm saying is we don't need it because it's messing up the politics, man.

Now go lay down.

Let's go get you a little nap wake up by 12 o'clock start your little afternoon routine go get you a little rest.

Okay.

All right, then we'll talk to you Bob.

See that?

So all you got to do you ain't Racine votes for Republicans and we don't If you just sold Racine and Kenosha to Chicago because Chicago is very Democratic

In its political proclivities.

In fact, Chicago is so democratic, the entire state of Illinois is blue.

So what I'm saying is.

Just absorb racing in Kenosha.

Into Chicago and into Illinois and then racing in Kenosha can vote as Republican as they want, but it will not impact Illinois still being a blue state.

It's just the simple matter of electoral math.

So if there are states or counties rather in southeastern Wisconsin that are messing up the vote, just sell them.

And then we'll have more revenue for free badger care.

We'll have more revenue to fix the public schools.

A side note on that if the two term governor and two term former superintendent of public instruction.

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Let's talk to Al Hey Al, how are you?

Hope you had a great weekend.

What's on your mind?

Well, you know, I heard you

bring up the Jews.

Oh, the first thing I want to say is Don't nobody hate the Jews.

It's just they keep putting them on a high They keep putting them like they close to Jesus.

First of all, they exploit the whole cost

for feelings and everything is anti-semitic because they don't want to be criticized.

Well, stop doing government and you wouldn't have to be criticized.

You know, everybody, you know, and then what's so funny about the Republicans?

Y'all mad at black people, but y'all really the dumb asses because all the people who got the power ain't nowhere in the scene.

And they laughing all the way to banks.

They use y'all as niggas for you, for your violence and your ignorance.

and you don't own a goddamn thing or you got it's a skin color and to be racist that's it but they're still in the control they still in power so who's the stupid dumb albino monkey up in this mother suck up y'all walk around here kicking off all this stuff all this stuff with black people and migrants but when they hands all out there acting like a goddamn fool killing everybody burning everybody up raping everybody

They sat there and laughed at your white ignorant ass.

And y'all said they're looking stupid.

And they're not even real Europeans.

You're supposed to be the real European.

How you don't let somebody who's a converted European have more power than your European white ass?

And then you want to talk about black people and migrants.

Who's the dummy?

Who's the dummy?

That's what I don't get.

And then on top of this, when you look at the history,

They don't talk about all the evilness and delviment they did.

They sold black people.

They owned the ships.

But oh, but you can't say nothing about them.

And then on top of this, they don't even like it.

They don't even like your religion.

They make in front of your religion.

And you big bad Billy Bob Ford, John Wayne, Bobby F-350, driving animals with your AR-15s.

Y'all don't say a goddamn thing.

Y'all turned to a big old pussycat.

But now you got all that power when it comes to migrants.

You got all that power when it comes to blacks.

Y'all always want to get, pick on the other people, but you never go to the root of the problem.

You're mad at migrants, but you ain't mad at your white ass Ken folks who was flying them over here and not hiring your ignorant white ass.

And you seen here with a pad line, tail line, being racist.

You ain't gettin' mad at them Republicans that was highin' in my payin' bill.

Y'all see me here talkin' about, oh America first, America first, the hat you wearin' ain't not even made America, you dumb idiot, almost in the F-word.

And we in all this drama, because you're mediocre, you don't want nobody to live in peace, and then you feel your happiness comes from somebody else's suffering.

I'ma be honest with you, Mr. Hughes.

Oh please, be honest.

A lot of them was failed by their mother, because a lot of their mother allowed them to be raped and pimped out.

That's why they grew up to be sluts, little whores, duckies, and alcoholics.

Okay?

You were told all your life you was white.

And when you got down in this world where you ain't none but urine and a big old fat dookie turd sitting in the toilet.

And I hear how some of y'all call in.

And I said to myself, how are you going to have all this white privilege?

And you're still none but a piece of white nigga sugar on the ice tea.

And on top of that, when you look at a lot of these Republicans, they're like, they're bodice dickers.

They're another form of niggas.

Because that's how they act.

And

that's how they talk.

But they always find their Jesus moment when they can't swim in their own urine and they drown in their own boop when dook do.

But it's because they lack common sense.

You don't lose logic.

And y'all don't even live by the Bible of King James.

And the only reason you do that, because you know it's not an even player field.

Because it was an even player field.

Your racist, uncouped, low class, no class.

Don't wash your hands after number two.

These duality sleeping with all kids, rape and animals, no goddamn will.

You wouldn't do 90% of the stuff you got.

Let's go ahead and

let's let's head toward the runway.

Let's let's get ready to land

a plane We're gonna land a plane like this if you know a lot of people to live in peace and harmony Do you want to have this problem and stop giving them juice or this goddamn?

Highlight because they got a wife a quack of their ass like everybody else and they get a lot of them They too goddamn it now argue that have a good day

Opinions of the hosts and guests of this program are of their own and not a reflection of Milwaukee black media or 101 7 the truth

That'll get you canceled so to the whites it's we don't you not not all of you are bad some of

you

are fantastic Really fun to go tailgating with

He's just talking about I'm not I'm not speaking on behalf of him that those are Al's words.

So Let's talk to another Al Hello Al from Sherman Park.

How are you?

Hey, how are you sure one?

Good morning Yeah, I don't know where all this Jewish hate came from particularly in the black community

Because we would probably not have some of our organizations like the NAACP Without the Jewish community and Jewish attorneys that help black folks when they got in trouble

We're not as anti-Semitic as other whites are I think it's something that is Expanding in far left-leaning Democratic socialism because they're using a real obvious an old dog whistle to signal their hate for Jews.

I don't think it's us

It's other white people have had a beef with Jews that goes back several thousand years that ain't got nothing to do with us.

So yeah, I don't think it's black people.

Yeah.

So what that brings me to another point here about the Democratic Socialists.

Do you think the Democrat Party might be regretting the port of socialist agendas like Black Lives Matter, Tifa and free Palestine?

Black Lives Matter is not a socialist agenda Black Lives Matter is a statement which is very disappointing coming from well You're also a gay Republican.

So

well the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement were Socialists they would tell you that themselves,

but it wasn't a centralized like headquartered in Atlanta or DC Black Lives Matter was a statement that different places and cities used

to deal with things they saw in those unique geographic places like Black Lives Matter meant something different here than it did in Ann Arbor, Michigan than it meant in Indianapolis.

It just meant something different.

It wasn't a set of rules.

It wasn't a set of guidelines.

It was very much decentralized as a reminder that, oh, by the way, while all these black people are getting killed and police are not being brought to justice, hey, just so you know,

Black Lives Matter.

So I personally resent you as a black man trying to lump something that still means something to black people like, you know, our lives matter, your lives matter, and then calling that a socialist agenda.

I find that problematic.

So you mean that fighting and combating racism and be honest with us out.

You believe that fighting racism and wanting to rid this nation of disparities is a socialist agenda.

You think

the dr. Martin

Luther King that wanted fairness and equality and the rights to participate in public life You think the dr. King was adopting a socialist agenda dr. King mind you was very much a republican But you believe that the fight in the crusade for voting rights and civil rights and employment rights is a socialist agenda

So let's go back to patrice.

That's a yes or no.

Do you believe that the fight for racial equality?

which was led by a bunch of black Republicans starting in the 1940s is a socialist agenda.

That's a yes or no.

I don't need a background.

I'll get back.

No,

no, not as the public understands it.

But from an organizing standpoint, when you go talk about Patrice Colors and her partners, they use their socialist agenda also to form Black Lives Matter.

to get the organization up and running.

They use their principles, which is one of the things socialism likes to do is it likes to divide amongst race and class.

I mean, they really do like.

So let's let's let's separate out how some people may take advantage of Black Lives Matter for their own selfish political agenda.

But let's not cast a dark shadow.

over the original intent of the statement, which is black lives actually matter.

What you're doing is you're taking and cherry picking an extreme that took advantage of that sentiment and roll it into a socialist agenda.

That doesn't mean that the entire spirit of black lives matter is something that socialists.

I had enough of talking to him.

That's so disrespectful.

What do you expect?

I don't know.

Republican.

How does that even happen

very confused person?

You're not supposed to say that everybody has their own You can be whatever you want to be you can be a woman or a man You can identify as a kitten if you want to and get stuck in a tree You can you can wear cat ears.

You can wear a tail so you can't Because if he is confused so are some of they and Them that's confusing too, but you don't want to say that because those are your allies

People are confused sometimes I can announce that

yeah, but you're not supposed to say that because maybe they haven't more figured out than us Maybe we're all a bunch of they thems.

Oh, you're talking about that.

I Think some of those people they know exactly what they are

But you don't think so that the they thems aren't confused.

No, some of them but a gay black Republican I

would say some of the they thems are confused, but a lot of them know what they are and some of the black gay Republicans are confused

And some of them know what they are.

I think, but you know, that's my statement on that.

I better leave them alone.

Yeah, you bet.

Yeah.

Martha's going to be coming in here and protesting you soon.

Excuse me, ma'am.

I'm not a ma'am.

I'm a baby.

Don't you dare misgender

me.

Am I supposed to know?

Read my email signature.

That will tell you what you need.

Well, then fine I Apollo I don't want to misgender anybody but that's a lot of work on my part because I'm from the 20th century when life was a little more analog and It was different We play it outside We built snow forts

Learned gun safety by having a BB gun Very different back then they don't tell you this part about getting old at the world just It confuses you to where now The teenagers when they go to the formal events Even people in their 20s and 30s.

They were Jordan's with tuxedos.

Don't do that.

We're a nice hard

bottom

Didn't boys and men do that?

They wore Jean shorts and cardigans.

No, they didn't Yeah, they wore the Concord's one time with their tuxedos when they performed

that one time But their style don't compare 90s fashion, which was beautiful

by the way.

Don't compare it to now I

Got a damn how did I get cursed with a democratic socialist

producer?

And I Israel's on the phone.

I gotta take a break.

There's this is too much When is this election?

When is it?

Can we get this damn election over?

Can we reschedule the election day for tomorrow and just move it up a week and just get it over with I'm sick of it

Well, you're gonna have an interesting Decision to make coming

up.

No, I'm not.

Oh,

okay.

My decision is going to be it's simple.

So I'm too old to have my political

Viewpoints blow like the wind because I know who I am I know the work that I've done I know the progress that I want to see and I know over the years that I have been involved in this work I know where the progress has come from and I can't because something is exciting for a bunch of young people who don't have any real political skin in the game because it's exciting for them I'm not like if a bunch of young people had a party I wouldn't go to it because I'm not invited to that party and I'm too old to be there I am too old to have my political viewpoint switch because there's a fad

I don't like fads.

I like what is tried true and what is classic.

Some people who have loose political affiliations or none, they move with the wind.

Some of them will be Republican, some of them will be independent, some of them will be moderate, some of them will be Democratic.

They're like political whores.

They just go where they'll date anybody.

They'll date any political affiliation.

I tend to be a little bit more committed.

I am married to a policy agenda that has proven itself.

Now, I'm not trying to be out here being a little political hoe.

Like, oh, here come the Democratic Socialists.

Oh, they're sexy.

Oh, I like the way they look.

That Democratic Socialists got a nice walk.

I think I'm going to go with them.

I'm not.

That's not me.

But for other people that are a little more.

Loose with their political affiliations.

I get it.

It's new.

It's novel.

It's very sexy You got a small little Asian lady who's very small little Asian.

She used to own a restaurant.

She's she takes some boxes.

She's a single mother.

She's been divorced She's an agent lady from Madison straight, but you know It's just not me I'm not gonna forsake

The work that I've done and the effort that I put in to try and move the needle because you know I Want black kids to be able to read because I'm gonna need somebody to take my spot one day and I'm gonna need The majority of black people to be able to read real good because there's a lot of reading in this job so Anything that doesn't address that

I'm not going to vote for and I'm not going to be a person.

Well, we can just sidestep the black agenda for a couple of decades and we'll come back to it.

That doesn't work that way.

Take a break, come back, come to our senses a little bit.

And continue the conversation.

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Hello,

Israel.

How are you doing today?

Good morning.

Good morning.

Hello?

Yeah.

You said good morning.

Before I say what I wanted to say, we're kind of without discipline in society.

Like, you know, professional levels and just like interacting and everything, communication is just kind of terrible.

But the interesting thing is you've had these callers before this, like, you know, people's ideas and everything.

There's Crowley and Hong and like, you know, they're both promising like, you know, the thing for everybody and everything.

this issue with trust and then there's a certainty understanding with this contradiction like you know if Crowley gets elected like you know will he do things like help like the inner city and like poverty more and everything aka like you know you know what I'm saying and um issue with uh Hong like you know she's like has like parents who's not from the country and everything but she's born here and she has like a great deal of love and everything because it's just like

You know she's also promising great things and everything like that in between the black and white It is just kind of like okay, so you know we don't want to throw this up here for that could also be a way to look at it to like okay So you also have this whole others like you know scenario here, too Like you know and it's coming down to people's like you know personal like you know feelings trauma or pride or anything So what is politics now?

It is identity politics or if they're still rich and poor or if they're left and right with all this other stuff in between What is politics now?

Yes

Yeah, that's the answer.

Yep.

That's what it's what you said It's everything and everything in between isn't even a whole bunch of stuff that you didn't say but basically yes

And then so proposed like people are on the phone and everything right?

And the weather driving right there's a car accident and passenger loses their life and in this situation You know somebody was going 36 and a 30 but they have to write to the road

they had to ride away but somebody wasn't paying attention their phone rang they looked up at it for a split second don't know if it was a phone call or a text message but the accident happened and they both said i wasn't i wasn't looking at my phone i wasn't paying attention though would there still be an understanding or would there be like you know frustration because everybody's doing it

yes

yes

uh i mean that's that's the ant and what do you want you want me to give you a long paragraph of bs yes

Beyond there'd be frustration and the person shouldn't be looking at the phone It should be looking at the road and they're negligent if they took their eyes off the road and they were speeding and somebody died.

Yes

Which passenger to make a difference who was a passenger?

It doesn't matter.

They're dead.

It's not that's not an ideal scenario The passengers dead because of the negligence of the driver.

So yes, you have any other questions that I can answer yes to

So if a police officer pulls up and it's a situation and such and people can even explain it is that simple Would that make people's lives easier?

Yes

Are we that hurt?

Yes

Interesting

it is okay All

right Nothing else I got answers

Didn't know criminals didn't get into political rallies Have a nice day

Yes, they can they don't do a background check what is you left me on a cliffhanger right there Interesting I Answered his questions you did I don't know why everybody expects sure when they give you some long drawn-out soliloquy I don't have to give a thesis every time I answer somebody's question.

He had a question

I said yes I affirmed Whatever your answers were adequate they were you don't want to say too much I Don't want to use too many words because I don't want to you know run out of things to talk about Don't want to do that that'd be awful All right,

where are we at

here?

What's this here?

America's job market has a contradiction hiding in plain sight this one comes from ink

Companies can't find enough workers while millions of people are struggling to get hired.

Warehouses, hospitals, and factories are filled with now hiring signs yet qualified candidates are still being passed over.

The problem isn't a lack of jobs or a lack of workers, it's that the two are increasingly failing to connect.

Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence with good cause.

Will it take your job?

Will it replace your kid's first career step?

A bigger and quieter problem lies just beneath the surface.

The United States is heading toward what may be the largest labor shortage in history.

This is according to research from Lightcast Project, a gap of roughly six million workers

in the next six years.

Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce Projects, a shortage of 5.25 million workers with educations beyond high school, including 4.5 million who will need at least a bachelor's degree as retirements and job growth continue to outpace the supply of qualified talents.

I'm going to take a pause right there.

Come back and talk about the work or short is not here's there's an answer to this Either we encourage more people to seek higher education where they can qualify for some jobs that need at least a bachelor's degree Or we're gonna have to go get them from a foreign country But y'all got to figure out where you are on the immigration because if Americans don't have the necessary education and resume and skill set to fill these jobs and we got to go

Find the people somewhere else because we need the tax revenue.

If you're a democratic socialist, your political paradigm thrives on an economy that is explosive and is always creating jobs and always producing income.

because you need people to be working so you can tax their income and give it to the public good.

So democratic socialists have got to support a thriving economy and here's the problem.

Capitalism is the best way to get that thriving economy because you're going to need money to tax.

You're going to need wealth to tax.

You're going to need employed people.

You're going to need homeowners that are paying property taxes in order to take those taxes and redistribute that money to other people in society that need it.

So here's what I haven't heard.

I've heard what democratic socialists want to do as far as provide public benefit.

I haven't heard entirely the economic details of how they're going to have a thriving and robust economy.

And just by taking money from rich people and taxing them and giving it to the less fortunate doesn't create a sustainable economy.

It doesn't.

That means you're taking money from people that haven't and giving it to people that don't.

But how does that sustain job growth and job creation?

It doesn't.

But I'm just holding out.

For how democratic socialists who are now being very insufferable to the quote-unquote establishment how they're going to pivot their campaign to be more general election friendly including Bringing African Americans and our voters back into the fold also want to hear how they're going to create a robust economy where people are employed and With that employment comes income taxes and sales taxes and people buying houses and property taxes

Keeping in mind that democratic socialists don't have anything in their platform to increase African-American home ownership, which is one of the reasons why we still have this gap in intergenerational wealth.

But they're going to need black people to own homes because they don't need black people to pay property taxes.

So they have the property taxes in which they can distribute to poor people.

Do you see where I'm getting out of here?

The theories that they are coming up with politically have no merit.

It's like trying to hold water in a bag with holes in it.

You can put

water in it and it's going to leak out.

It's gonna look like you bead That's not pee It's policy is leaking all over the floor It's gonna

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What do we got going on here with the workers shortage ladies and gentlemen Georgetown University Center on Education and the workforce projects the shortage of 5.25 million workers with an education beyond high school including 4.5 million who will need at least a bachelor's degree as retirements and job growth continue to outpace the supply of qualified talent what would be a real good

political platform item is how we are going to satisfy this labor demand that we have in this country.

It really is a good problem to have.

But if we don't have the educated workforce, these workers are going to have to come from somewhere and we're going to need these jobs to be filled.

These jobs can't sit vacant forever.

These are some of the core foundational jobs that keep the country running.

And if these jobs are filled, then that's more people making money, more salary, more income.

more tax revenue and we need the tax revenue to distribute to the people that need the health care and the Medicare's and the Medicaid and need all of the things.

Can't let jobs go on field.

We got to find a worker.

Sometimes those workers are foreign, but y'all don't want foreigners coming here because the foreigners might be qualified to take the jobs that Americans are not.

But then Americans get mad because Americans don't get the job, but Americans aren't qualified to get the job.

So we don't want anybody to have it.

That doesn't make any sense because the job that is unfilled is salary that is not being paid.

And when salary is paid, taxes are collected and we need the tax money.

Democratic socialists need a robust American economy, probably more than any other political modality, because they need people to be working and getting a salary so that that tax revenue can be distributed to people that need it for services, for health care, for education.

So if there is no democratic socialist plan to use capitalism to build the wealth then what are you gonna

tax

I Can't throw this folder.

I need this You want to tax the wealthy that means you got a maintain well Okay, I get it the wealthy have too much money.

Let's get it.

Let's take some of it Take a piece of all the wealthy money.

Okay

But we have to still create wealth in order for us to have taxes that we're getting from the wealthy people Am I wrong if you're gonna tax the wealthy you need to continue to produce wealthy Can't tax them out of their own money because then we're gonna get the money from the tax the wealthy So you got to produce wealth and guess what produces wealth unlike anything else capitalism, so if you get rid of capitalism you are

You are getting rid of the system that produces the money and the income that democratic socialists need to tax so that all of their policy platform items come to fruition.

So you can disavow capitalism all you want, but not only do they need it, they need to support it.

They almost need to lower taxes on wealth so they can tax the taxes on the wealth.

It doesn't make any damn sense.

When you actually think about it, it's like a joke.

We hate capitalism.

We hate the wealthy.

Get rid of capitalism.

Tax the wealthy.

Capitalism gives you wealth.

And if you need the wealth to collect taxes off of it, then you have to support wealth.

Right?

Where are you going to get the money from?

You can't just print it.

That's going to make inflation.

A lot of business owners are asking back to the article from Inc.com.

If there's a shortage that large, what does it feel like when nobody can get hired?

Part of the answer is in numbers most people don't see.

The national unemployment rate is 4.2%, but labor force participation, the share of adults working or looking, has dropped to 61.5%, more than 25% of unemployed workers.

have been jobless for six months or longer.

There are now more open jobs than unemployed people to fill them.

So it's neither a shortage of open positions nor people.

It's a shortage of the right people in the right place with the right skills and a shrinking workforce as baby boomers retire and fewer young people replace them.

The mismatch is measurable.

The Society for Human Resource Management found that roughly a third of job openings can't be filled by anyone whose most recent job was in a related field.

Employers want very specific experience.

Job seekers, especially recent grads with general degrees, often don't have it.

The shortage will hit hardest in nursing and healthcare, skilled trades, construction,

Teaching and precision manufacturing.

These jobs require a physical presence, a license, or years of hands-on skill.

Work with AI cannot do.

This should sound familiar to almost any employer in any region.

Health systems are always recruiting nurses and clinical staff.

Manufacturers need welders, machinists, and electricians in logistics hubs.

warehouse and driving job sits empty, not because the work dried up, but because companies can't find enough trained, willing people.

So what's the solution?

For employers, the old quote post the job and hope the right resume shows up playbook won't cut it.

Instead, try partnering with local career and technical schools, investing in apprenticeships instead of waiting for fully formed candidates.

One striking statistic 93% of HR departments have zero recruiting programs aimed at workers over 65 despite a large willing workforce.

Wait a minute.

Why are you trying to hire somebody over 65?

Shouldn't it be done working by then?

I mean, I suppose I could do this job assuming I still have a voice at 65.

I'll get on the microphone and yell at people for three hours and talk to

Gay black Republicans and you know anybody else still do that Her job seekers especially recent grads the path forward may require looking beyond the obvious instead of waiting for the perfect role that matches a diploma Explore adjacent fields trade certifications or apprenticeships that can open doors faster The old certainty that a degree alone opens doors is fading

A degree still matters in many roles, but the paths opening up look a little different than before.

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Linda says I may have been busy when you answered my question I probably didn't answer your question Linda because I don't read the YouTube chat word for word cuz y'all type too fast But it warrants asking again and again how do black people hold other black people accountable for their actions versus the law It's not as easy as you may think the only black people you can hold accountable are those that find you credible So your friends and your family we also can have strong institutions that

that require a standard for full participation, but just thinking you can hold a black person that you don't know accountable.

Good luck.

You'll get shot first.

That's not how that works.

You can't even tell a black person they're doing a bad job of being a parent.

They'll kill you.

You can't discipline other people's kids.

They'll kill you.

So all we can do is have a positive impact on the people that are in our circle.

Somebody asked me a question.

On my YouTube channel they posted a comment And it's one of those comments that there really is no small or quick answer for like oh sure when how do we fix our situation?