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Monday, October 12th, 2026.
I listen to talk radio, probably not as much as I should considering that I work in the field.
But I like to get an assessment, maybe an understanding of not just.
the hosts and their perspectives because you know black people are different we're not monolithic we all have different experiences and we have different backgrounds I think for the most part culturally we may want the same things for our community because we look around and see other people's prosperity and other people are doing well I think that we want to share in that and then we may sometimes wonder as individual hosts or just regular old people citizens residents what are the barriers why do we see all these other people doing well or at least better I think there's
There's some struggle happening with pretty much every affinity group you can name, but it does seem like whatever category you look at where there is some kind of struggle that African American communities are doing worse, not just in Milwaukee, but all over the country.
It seems to be a commonality.
And then we as hosts, of course, when we talk about the issues in the news of the day, we may analyze the individual situation.
We might be, oh, there was an incident of gun violence or the teenagers are doing this and takeovers and all.
We'll talk about education because I personally believe that education is is foundational.
In communities.
That are doing better.
And where we have some of the deepest.
Most obvious disparities, I can say, well.
The young people weren't prepared.
They don't have a college degree.
They don't have a skill.
And maybe you're born with a skill, but even if you're born with a skill, you still need.
some kind of educational discipline to refine it.
And so that skill is marketable so you can get a job, you can make some money, you can buy a damn house, you can get some equity.
So when I listen, I listen for the different people's perspectives and how they suggest or how we, when we listen, when we chime in, when we call, when we text, how do we go about reducing some of the.
the disparity.
I'm not going to say eliminating problems because America loves a good social problem.
We love it.
We thrive off of them.
They become a part of the consumer economy.
You got to have a good issue that we can wrap our arms around and then we can get all bent out of shape and then we get to blame everybody.
We love to blame the politicians.
I'm going to pause on that for just a second.
There's a
A grand prognostication that I'm going to share with you today and it's going to disappoint a lot of you, but it's the truth.
And I think that we blow smoke up each other's John Brown hind parts because you know, we're all good people.
We're all involved in positive things.
I hope we're all in one form or another working to better our communities.
However small, maybe you volunteer, maybe you do things with your church.
Maybe you are a mentor to a young person.
Maybe you're a mentor to another business owner that's starting their journey of entrepreneurship.
I would like to think that folks that will spend their time listening for solutions and listening for talk radio are involved in positive things.
Doesn't mean you're not involved in negative things, but also think that.
You know, there are some good things you may be involved in because you see the conditions of the community.
And if you are like me, you're tired of all of these terrible things happening.
And why is it always happening to us?
And woe is me.
And what can we do?
Here's something I want us to stop doing.
Unilaterally blaming our elected officials because they are oftentimes elected, especially our local ones, because we love to blame them because they're closer.
And they see the same things that we see when we look out of our windows, they see the exact same thing.
So clearly it must be their fault because they were elected to fix what we see when we look out of our windows, they're elected to fix what they see when they look out of their windows.
I'm gonna give you a little news flash here.
They are elected by an exceptional minority of people.
Meaning they don't even have to have the full understanding and viewpoints of a larger community of, let's say, 54, 55, 60,000 people that live in an aldermanic district as an example.
So in some cases, 2,000 people elect an individual who represents 60,000.
All right?
58,000 people now let me also level set Some of those 58,000 people that did not vote to elect that elected official that alder person that everybody hates because they look out of their window We look out of our window.
We see the same crime and garbage and dilapidated housing and oh damn the potholes boy Do we hate a pothole up news flash?
the pothole on north 55th Street between Lisbon and center has been filled
I don't know if it was me complaining about it.
I don't know what happened, but that pothole had been there since the snow melted earlier this year.
So since March of 2026, that pothole had been there.
It is now October of 2026 and they have filled the pothole just in time for the pothole to be a pothole all over again.
Would you look at that?
Would you look at God?
Government works, doesn't it?
I'm a level set so you have 60,000 people in an automatic district pick one doesn't matter 2,000 people there's some where there's like 10,000 I think the 13th automatic district you know the white folks on the south side they vote but even then of 60,000 people or 55,000 people 10 to 13,000 people are deciding who is going to essentially be the little mini legislative mayor of that district the vast majority of people that live in those areas didn't vote
Now some of them can't vote.
Some of them are not registered.
Some of them are not eligible.
Some of them are on paper.
Some of them are in various states of confinement.
Some are babies.
Some are children.
Some are teenagers that are under the age of majority and are unable for whatever reason.
And other reasons too, why people can't vote.
So for us to blame an elected official on the problems that we see,
When we look out of our windows is It's erroneous because there are far more of us Than there are of them so I just I'm not saying that they don't have some responsibility and some culpability But they're never gonna make everybody happy because they're elected by such a small number of people and really all you have to do is Just provide constituent services to the people that you know
Participate politically if you just keep your handful of voters happy screw everybody else who get reelected now the overall condition of the community may decline But you can still get reelected, but I don't want us to just single-handedly outsource the responsibility to improve and to clean up
our community on a single individual that has 14 other colleagues at City Hall because they got a bunch of stuff.
They got to deal with a lack of federal funding, the impact of the Trump administration, the erase, the erasure of affirmative action and diversity, equity and inclusion.
They got to deal with the impacts of the fact that the city of Milwaukee Common Council technically owns the MPS real estate and they're trying to close schools and there's tax revenue, all these other things and crime and deferred compensation.
and the police department and the fire department and trying to balance the city budget.
At the same time, they're also responsible for picking up a Cheetos bag that's floating around in the breeze.
So we can't just blame them.
Could some of them do better?
That depends.
The people that we have representing us, whether you like them or not, these are the folks that are willing to do it.
Most people don't want to do it.
If I sit and just think about all the different programs that we have earlier in the season, you know, because, you know, summertime is usually one that is filled with all sorts of crime in the city of Milwaukee.
And we know it's going to happen every single spring.
Or we get that first, like, 50 or 60 degree day probably comes in February or March.
It gets earlier and earlier.
And we start thinking, uh-oh, when the summer gets here, gonna be a lot of shootings and gonna be a lot of climbing.
going to be a lot of burglaring.
Do you burgle?
I guess is that the is that the verb?
A burglar, a burglar burglars, right?
Is that?
I bet most burglars don't even know that the word of what they're doing is burglaring.
But we know when the weather gets warm, then the crime and all of the street takeovers and the young people and the kids.
So I went through.
The MPS recreation guide it was mostly a fool's errand and a waste of time because everybody gets the damn book several times a year and you guys get the same book that I get Part of your referendum money goes to print that book.
I bet you they spent millions of dollars printing that book And it's got a bunch of activities for people of all ages youth activities Adult activities you can learn the salsa dance speak Spanish play the guitar You can learn how to swim which is something I need to do at this point though What's the point
I'm 51.
I can't swim.
I haven't drowned.
Like now, I guess I would say I should avoid deep water, but I don't.
I spent probably half of my summer on my friend's boat.
And had I fallen out of that boat because I do not wear a life jacket, in fact, I don't even know where his life jackets are.
And by the time I'm flying out of the boat, what is a life jacket going to do?
I'll be at the bottom of Lake Michigan in 30 seconds.
However, I digress and so I went through all these different activities because one thing that I hear is oh sure when There's nothing for the kids to do and the kids are very bored and the kids when they're bored clearly they're gonna just steal and commit crime so in order to mitigate that and to Take my responsibility seriously of providing information I went through a bunch of activities in the recreation guy, which doesn't that doesn't matter because the good kids and the involved parents
don't need a damn recreation guide to involve their children in productive activities during the summer when the kids are out of school.
We spend so much money, ladies and gentlemen, I've even talked about this violence industrial complex where that's a multi-billion dollar industry to stop and to interrupt and to reduce violence and it does almost no good.
Or maybe I'm looking at numbers differently.
So if we have 140 homicides in one year, that's a lot.
And then the next year we have 120.
Oh, the mayor would just shout that from the mountain tops.
We've had a 20% reduction in homicides year over year.
But then when I think about, you know how much money we spent to reduce homicides by 20%, probably $3 billion.
And then the next summer, it's not like it's going to go from 140 homicides to 120 to 100 to 90 to 14.
It'll go from 140, one year, then down to 120, then the next year it'll be 170, and we'll spend even more money.
And it's a whole industry here in the city, and I talked about how much a non-fatal shooting cost, how much a fatal shooting cost.
I didn't even include how much we spend on all the other resources dedicated to mitigating and reducing the other types of crime.
Judges and juries and prosecutors and lawyers and victims.
services and restitution services it's so incredibly expensive and then I'm overwhelmed by all of this stuff that we have to talk about trying to figure out what the solution is and I came to a conclusion and some information has been made available that the federal government has just released I want to give you the details of this because I've been waiting for this
2025 data All year and it's finally been made available on October 9th it's a combination of like social data and census data and income and crime and it's aggregated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and a few other agencies and it paints a very very clear picture of the overall health
of the United States of America, socially, economically too, but socially.
And I have this huge list, pages and pages and pages of information here, of the disparities that exist between the African American community and let's just say everybody else.
And I think on this particular list, it's like 11 different things.
Of major disparities that we know have a serious impact on life, on health, on our future, on...
income, saving, investing, owning a home.
Like these are the things that are the barriers.
These are the walls that we want broken down.
And then I have, I had a question that I asked myself.
I'm looking at all these barriers and all these institutional roadblocks and hurdles that we want policymakers to at least lower a little bit.
And the question is very simple.
the intelligence that the African-American community has, all of our assets, all of our resources, all of our creativity, all of our money, our combined education, because there's a lot of really highly educated black folks that are out there.
If you add up all of our positive assets, including our raw numbers, our population, because we do have the ability to sway elections, ever so slight statewide, but majorly countywide and citywide.
And even in individual districts the black vote is nothing to shake a stick at so we do have some assets now I remember I listen to all these different radio shows and I read all of the news and all the headlines and I read all these terrible things that are going on and somebody getting shot in the Teen takeovers and in the water street in the Brady Street in the low educational outcomes and I'm searching for solution and here's the question that I have do we as black people as a black community and I use that term loosely do we have
the assets, the creativity, the know-how, the knowledge, the power, the influence, and the voter turnout to change our own situation without outside help and intervention, and the answer is no.
We cannot.
It's physically, fundamentally, socially, economically impossible, impossible.
We are ill-equipped.
To improve our own situation without help and without collaboration without communication without investment from all these other people in groups Here's what's crazy.
We hate them and they hate us, but we need them We need them more than they need us.
They can keep incarcerating us and they'll be just fine We need help and intervention and investment from the same people that we blame So I'm gonna take a break come back.
We're gonna unpack some stuff today, but I need you all to sit in this
And it's going to make some people mad and some people are going to disagree.
Good.
I want you to disagree.
Because every time there's a shooting, a fatal, a non-fatal shooting, and there's a robbery, every time there's an arson, there's a rape, there's a sexual assault, every time another person, a black person loses their job or drops out of high school or gets in trouble or whatever the case may be, we do not have the power.
collectively to turn our situation around to where we can eliminate these disparities.
We need help.
And I don't know if the help is coming.
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substantial historical economic sociological evidence supporting the argument that
The African-American community acting entirely on its own lacks the aggregate financial institutional and political resources necessary to eliminate the major disparities affecting it period Now this is tough for us because we believe that we have the ability To change our situation now let me not discount and discredit improvements that have been made I would argue even with all the stuff that's going on because it's it's difficult to see
a lot of the positives that are going on in light of all of the negative and this is sometimes where we as members of the media getting hot water because there's great things that are happening but great things are supposed to happen that should be the status quo because when I sit here and talk about oh this kid got a scholarship this kid graduated from high school this individual black family bought their first house then we make it seem like those are anomalies
like oh that's rare something good is happening that should be normal that should be standard oh a person did the right thing they got married and stayed married they raised their kids they have two incomes they're putting money away they're gonna have some investments in a 401k and their kids are gonna go to college that's normal stuff that like that shouldn't be abnormal but it's abnormal so far too many people so you're not gonna hear me
Being overwhelmingly rosy and Polly Anna ish and optimistic about normal stuff that's supposed to happen like why is that rare for black folks?
It's not I'm going to focus on the problems because the problems Get people emotional and we need some kind of emotion to create motion in order to rectify some of those problems So I can't have 14 people get killed and then I'll talk about oh look we had a neighborhood cleanup in the park Yeah, but outside the park 14 people got killed
I'm going to talk about the 14 people that got killed because that's going to be an issue for those 14 families.
It's going to put pressure on the criminal justice system.
It's going to cost us a bunch of money.
Families are going to be impacted forever.
Chances are more crime will stem from it.
I'm just using a round arbitrary number of 14.
It could be 114, but so many more problems will follow because of those 14 homicides as opposed to me just saying, yay, we had a neighborhood baseball game and the backpack giveaway.
A lot of backpacks get given away.
Kids can't read, but but they're going to have a new backpack every August.
We need help.
We need intervention.
This is a slippery slope.
Because that creates a vulnerability, but we don't control the institutions.
I look at the things that we do uniquely.
that other communities know.
I've never understood this.
I know I probably shouldn't say this, but it's like, I can't dance around this stuff anymore because what'll happen is there'll be a headline.
Black boy gets shot.
You pick the age.
They shoot somebody.
You pick the age.
We got to put the guns down, everybody.
Whenever a person says, we got to, well, here's what we need to do.
We never do any of that stuff.
Stop it.
We'll react to an individual situation.
Oh, somebody got shot.
Well, we're the parents that we don't know.
They have no parents.
Well if they had parents well, they don't have any parents The programs that y'all want to create because we often look at nostalgia.
Oh 50 years ago We didn't have to have all these programs 50 yeah 50 years ago You actually had parents that were involved in their kids lives when we when you all talk about we need more roller skating rinks Why y'all have a fetish for roller skating blows my mind because you know a kid can take a roller skate and beat another kid to death with it But for some reason we think well if they have more roller skating then they would be less violent
I could probably Google the ways you could murder somebody with a roller skate.
So stop it.
The reason why there was such a difference a generation ago, a lot of it was black people had to be tight knit because we couldn't go anywhere else.
We couldn't diffuse.
Black people are experiencing racism at a different level because some of.
Some black folks have made and they become successful and they've traveled to other places where black folks have never been before.
Jackson, Slinger, Hartford, West Bend and dealing with a kind of racism out there that they never knew when all the black people in the city of Milwaukee, when Vel Phillips was the first elected older woman, we all lived in one district.
We had to deal with racism just right there.
Then as you get successful, I try to tell you all this, but nobody wants to believe me.
The more successful we get, the more racist they become.
We are chasing.
I guess our own success trying to prove things to ourselves.
We want to, you know, be the person in our family that really did something special and spectacular.
And, you know, we're the one that moved out of poverty, et cetera.
And we believe that simultaneously by doing that and being the first person in your, your family to go to college and get a good job, because like those things are worth celebrating.
But we also think that while that's a personal accomplishment for us.
It's an accomplishment for our families and the lineage of our families.
You know, you make grandma proud because you graduated and you got a job or you're a nurse or whatever the hell you are.
We think simultaneously that mitigates racism.
No, it doesn't.
Opposite.
And I know it's unfair, but we're disillusioned that when we become successful, we think that everybody's going to celebrate our successes.
You know, the whiteness don't operate like that.
Whiteness is afraid for its life.
It believed it's getting replaced and demographically it is and I understand why they wanted to take away.
I'm not saying I agree with it, but I don't know if we even have a profound understanding of the country that we live in.
It hasn't been that long since we were a series of slave holding colonies.
Slavery exists and everything that came along with it, including just the dehumanization of black people.
Existed for a period of time and centuries and years and decades longer than any one human life.
I need y'all understand that if a person lives to be a hundred years old Slavery lasted two and a half times that person's age It is an institution and it's so bedrock and foundational now.
We've eroded some things we've reduced some things but also know
Through the policies and executive orders that have lowered some of those barriers Donald Trump can come in and put them right back up What he is doing Is Putting barriers back up that took generations To erode and now we're at a point We're okay.
We get a new president at some point get a new Congress at some point.
How much time do you think they are going to spend?
Putting back What Trump took away I tell you what I thought we were gonna get a George Floyd justice and policing bill guess what seven years later.
I wouldn't even talk about it no more So something that might be a paramount issue at the time like affirmative action in DEI and I can give you a thousand ways
how that has hurt funding and programs, how it's hurt black people.
Black people have lost something like 25% of our income between 2022 and 2025, when the rest of the country's income has gone up by 2%.
And I can trace that directly to policies coming out of this administration, okay?
How much effort do you think that they're gonna put into, oh, we gotta make black people hold?
No, they're not gonna do that.
They're not.
Take a break come back got a few more details.
I'm gonna share with you.
It's really really bad, but the bottom line is We need help We can't do it on our own because if we could do it on our own if we can improve Let me just leave you with this if we can improve our situation like dramatically improve it reduce crime reduced disparities and health disparities This is another thing that black folks do.
I don't understand this.
We do so much stuff.
None of it works
We're the only ones that have like public health fairs We're so sick that they have to create like a party and a celebrate and we're doing and we've always done it and I'm not I'm not shaming the people in the groups that do it I just want to call something out that is so unique to us like if somebody is sick like let's say you have prostate cancer right now You don't know it you want to go to a fair to find out that you got prostate cancer Isn't that a conversation that you have in a doctor's office?
With your spouse or your significant other or your children around you when you find out you have cancer Like we'll find out we have cancer and then when tickets to a concert That's the weirdest thing ever like health is private, but we have to do like big public events Why do people not have health insurance?
If you don't have the Affordable Care Act if you don't have health insurance through your employer because all of us are not unemployed You can't get healthcare through the exchange you can't get healthcare through badger care
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So the
data that I've been waiting for which will be the foundation of my program like when I give you guys statistics facts and stuff It's based off of what is called the survey of consumer finances And so in the year 2025 that data
Has just been made available actually on Friday October 9th, 2026 So a lot of our financial health were especially by race Where we compare are we making any improvements and I can also compare okay one presidential administration to another One era to another our black people at least on a steady
positive trajectory.
And if we are, let's say we are, let's say we make some major improvements.
We own more homes.
We own more businesses.
Our levels of entrepreneurship is up.
Our high school graduation rates are up.
Our college attainment degree rates are up.
Our participation in the trades are up.
I can then look at like, what is the climate?
What is the economic climate?
What is the economy doing?
Who was president?
Like what, what was involved in us making positive improvements?
And then I can discuss that and say, Hey, we need more of this because during this time.
Our high school graduations went up, poverty went down, crime went down.
You see what I'm saying?
So I need, I need this data so I can know where the hell we're at.
Otherwise we're flying blind.
The Federal Reserve released the 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances on October 9th, 2026, just three days ago.
It reports that.
Black families median net worth decline 25% between 2022 and 2025.
How, Sway?
We've lost a quarter of our net worth.
Ladies and gentlemen, wait till I tell you how much net worth we have.
We don't even have any as a people and we lost 25% of it in three years, but here's where it gets better.
Even as overall median family net worth for every other community increased by 2% and that's adjusted for inflation so inflation has been bad it's been eating up a lot of income and a lot of gains that we've made and you know the grocery prices are expensive because the gas prices are expensive because the diesel prices are expensive I Used to go to the metro market and I get these little fruit bowls
It's got the cantaloupes in it.
It's got the honey doing it.
It's got the pineapple in it and the watermelon in it.
And it's got the blueberries and the blackberries and the raspberries because I'm not buying all them berries.
It was $5 and it was a lot for $5.
Every night again, your boy likes to get some fruit.
I like to eat the fruit.
It's good for you.
It's healthy sugars and the energies and it's got the vitamins and the minerals and you got to have the potassiums.
Got to have potassiums.
Gotta have the vitamin C, gotta have the beta carotene, it's good for your face.
Or whatever.
My fruit bowl's $7.99!
When I started my fruit bowl was seven ninety-nine I let out an audible scream in the grocery store But I'm not the only one everybody's getting stick or shock used to get stick or shock Like if you go to a car dealership and you see a very nice car and I like this car I like this making this model and I like the color and I like the wheels and then you look at the sticker or Whatever sounds you may make I make that sound at a damn grocery store.
So with all of that being considered Every other racial group
has had an increase of their assets, their median income and their net worth while we have lost 25%.
Let me just pause for a second.
That is devastating to the black community because that also means tax revenue in our communities is also going to be down because if we have less money, if we make less money.
Then there are less taxes that can be collected.
In fact, it's gonna be the opposite.
The less money you make, the more of us are gonna qualify for an earned income tax credit, which is like negative income and revenue for our community.
Now, do you realistically think that some political party or apparatus is gonna say, hey, America, we have to stop and rethink how we do economic policy because
Black people have lost 25% of their average net worth in three years.
Ladies and gentlemen, I don't even know how that happened.
In three years, we lost a quarter of our median income.
The.
The worst part is that is going to unveil itself in years to come.
The lowering of our median average, essentially our money.
Is going to have a profound effect because there are investments that we're gonna want those programs that we're gonna want not gonna get them Because if we have less money and less tax revenue for our own neighborhoods and our own communities It's one thing if you live in a community where everybody's net worth is $250,000 on whatever taxes they pay and property taxes they pay and Sales and income taxes they pay they can invest and fund whatever they want.
They want to put a hundred million dollar addition on to the school done want to pay of all the roads done
want to clear the way for some development, want to tear down this old shopping mall and put up expensive condos, done, done, done, done.
They got the revenue for it because they got the income.
We don't.
We need revenue from them, and they hate our guts.
And to think, and I'm not trying to be overwhelmingly pessimistic, but what we need to even be sustainable, we as a community, as black people, and I use that term loosely, we don't have it.
We're losing money.
I can't necessarily put my finger on the why But I also know that there's gonna be a cultural impact.
There's gonna be a behavioral impact.
Poverty is a very unusual thing.
It's not a It's not dooming and damning But it does have measurable and tangible negative effects.
So with these numbers us losing 25% of our median Wealth and net worth
More people are gonna get sick Life expectancy is gonna be shorter There's gonna be less overall optimism and opportunity more people are gonna get shot more marriages are going to dissolve More single mamas and single daddies are gonna be created cuz I'm not done.
I'm not done.
There will be more child abuse.
There will be more child neglect
Children will do worse in school when the overall community has lost 25% of its median wealth and income in just three years.
So all those disparities are going to get worse.
And then here's the question.
There might be a rhetorical one.
Who do you think is coming to our aid?
Because I'll call them right now if you know who it's going to be.
Who is going to be?
Is it Jesus?
Jesus is kind of letting this happen when you think about it.
Haven't we suffered enough?
Jesus like nah Take 25% of the money.
They didn't have let's just reduce in three years You believe in Jesus now, I don't well You'd think that he would see these numbers be the woof.
I need I Need to help out a Particularly useful comparison between the lowest income and the highest income fifths of American households
The bottom 20% by income earned $35,046.
The top 20%, $150,342.
The highest income 20% spends approximately 4.3 times as much in total as the lowest fifth.
Yet the differences in the economic experience is much greater than the spending total suggests.
Housing, lower income households generally commit a larger proportion of their resources to housing.
particularly when rent, renting at market rates.
So I don't know if you guys have noticed and some of you have, rents have gone up and they're going to continue to go up.
Why?
Cause interest rates are up.
If you want a 30 year fixed interest rate cause you want to buy a house, stamina 8%.
That means the cost to borrow the, I don't know.
$200,000 you're gonna need to afford a decent house and a decent neighborhood with good schools has just gotten more expensive and people are not gonna be able to afford that especially black people who have mysteriously lost 25% of our median wealth over the last three years.
Where did the money even go?
Might have went to the homicides and the fatal shootings and the non-fatal shootings.
All I know is it has disappeared and if you are unable
to afford a mortgage and you are damned and doomed to rent.
Your landlord is going to raise your rent because he knows you can't buy a house.
Take a break, come back.
I do want to ask you guys about something fun and happy and positive.
It's not all going to be doom and gloom.
You celebrate Halloween.
Apparently.
A lot of you do.
Because I have an article here that's going to make any sense to me.
Halloween spending this year is going to be 13.5
billion dollars for for a weekend What 13.5 oh Americans are gonna spend somebody got money.
It's not us The other thing with Halloween and You're not gonna like this either.
I'm trying to be optimistic here.
We do have a YouTube poll Even though I've been broadcasting so far for 45 minutes and haven't even opened up YouTube yet I'll open it up in a second.
You'll be surprised by the results
I like to be surprised sometimes.
Don't don't don't don't hint.
Don't tell me.
I know you might want to give me a hint.
I don't want to know.
I also have an article that has all the different communities trick or treat times this year.
Halloween falls on a weekend.
Me and ghetto boys trick or treating Robin little kids for bags.
I'm not going to go into the whole song.
I'm going to sound racist.
I feel like I need to save my racism for the next segment because it's gonna sound I say it every single year.
It's
No, just keep it rolling.
No, I can't go through this segment
next segment and the one after
and
nine segments left in
my show I got plenty of segments to be racist but y'all are gonna but those of you that have been listening to me for a while I mean, you know, you're gonna expect it when I say things that The black people do that are just abhorrent
That's not me hating black people.
That's me shaming behavior that needs to be shame We need to bring shame back.
We just let anybody do anything act any old kind of way There is no community agreed upon standards for behavior and decency and it makes me sick because I remember when there was You want to act a fool act a fool at home?
Go home
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There's a list of the dates and times in which Halloween trick or treating will take place in a variety of surrounding communities in every single year.
I'll lament about this and I mean, some people get offended.
No matter what I say, somebody's going to get offended if I'm I'm not doing my job.
If somebody somewhere isn't getting offended.
I mean, last week I had a white guy email me.
He was upset that I did a I editorialized an article that was in the journal Sentinel about African-American docents at the Milwaukee Art Museum and when black tour guides are explaining an African-American historical exhibit
They do a much better job of unveiling the full character situation and circumstances of that artist they humanize the artist and When white docents in which so let me be clear.
There are 200 docents The Milwaukee art museum has that will give tours on various exhibits 80 of them are currently active So if we get like a special exhibit exhibit from like Egypt or something then they'll activate those docents who are knowledgeable on
Egyptian artifacts, right?
So there's 200 total.
There are 80 that are active.
There are two that are black.
And because there is a lack of African American history as compulsory in public education in America, white folks just don't know all they know about us slavery.
And so when a white dose, I literally got an email from a white dude on this.
He didn't like.
how I made it seem like white docents are not good at their jobs.
Maybe they are, but when it comes to us and our art, they're not because they don't see the huge educational blind spot that they have because if all you know about black people in black culture is like we didn't exist before we got here.
All you know is slavery, so a white docent will say something like, oh, this person was in bondage and they were a slave.
They couldn't read or write.
But oh my God, look how beautiful their art is.
It's on display here.
This was just an ignorant black that didn't even know how to tell time and their art is on display.
where a black docent will say, here's the family they came from.
Here are the other things that they did.
Here's when they obtained their freedom.
Here are the people in that family that sued to get their freedom.
Here are the people that taught themselves how to read and write, and therefore they created art as a process of them attaining their freedom.
See, the white docent won't do that.
So I remarked basically on that.
This is why I got told, sent an email to everybody here, Milwaukee Black Media.
I don't even know how he got the damn email address.
It's like, sure, when is racist?
I'm thinking of it.
And I didn't respond to him.
I'm thinking myself, oh, sir, if you think that was racist.
Oh, I didn't get that email.
You need to listen on more days.
But now the racism I'm going to talk about is this.
Stop taking your kids out to Hartford and Heartland and West Bend and Muskegon, McGowan to go to Trick or Treat.
They don't want your kids out there.
Stop it.
Stop it.
You're asking for something to happen.
You understand how much danger you put yourself in?
Now, I know you're probably saying something to yourself right now.
Sure.
When that's ridiculous.
Trick or treating is for the kids.
I see 15 16 and 17 year old black kids from our community that are driving themselves to these far out suburban enclaves and basically stealing candy.
Stop it.
It's embarrassing.
You know exactly what I'm talking about.
Packing up all the damn kids and somebody's minivan and going out to Wild With Toast and taking all them kids.
That is for the kids that live in those communities.
Look, I know.
I had trick-or-treat candy in my house.
I've been in my house 22 years.
I think I got candy one year and I got some Milky Ways because when I first moved over there, but there's a lot less children.
But there's no kids.
I don't see school buses on my street anymore.
I haven't seen a school bus in like 10 years because there's just less kids, which makes sense because the neighborhood school where I live sucks.
So I don't expect to see a lot of school kids and also people that live in my neighborhood.
There's one lady who's got she lives couple houses down who just like lets her kids go outside and play and just like closes the door on them And they always play in my driveway, which is weird But there's very few children so that year I Only got a couple of kids that even came to my door because I'm you supposed to decorate your house if you decorate your house for Halloween if you got the Halloween decoration If you got a pumpkin you supposed to put out a
Pumpkin you put out a pumpkin maybe you carve the pumpkin maybe you don't carve the pumpkin and you put the pumpkin out That's how the neighborhood kids know I'm gonna go to this house and do the trick or the tree because they got a pumpkin or they got a witch on a broom in a window like a paper witch You don't like to scare the kids
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Sherwin Hughes, the premise of today's program is to illustrate that we are ill-equipped as black people to rectify the situation that we find ourselves in with all these different disparities.
We need help.
We need to be involved in and participate in the overall American experiment.
We can't look at ourselves and our situation as separate.
We can because the help that we need
has to come from other people, other investments, other races and other cultures.
They have to see the disparity that exists within our community as a problem for them, but they don't.
Now, some of that is how we are raised, how we are reared, some of it is American culture, but some of it is us.
We love the idea of separating, don't we?
We always say, oh, integration was the worst thing for us.
We had more and did better when we were segregated.
Do y'all not?
Have that much of a blind spot in history?
We had no justice.
You couldn't buy a house.
Your schools were underfunded.
Now, we made the most of what we had, but also think about the jobs at the time.
They weren't technical.
They weren't sophisticated.
You were in an assembly line.
You were doing manufacturing.
Didn't take a lot of technical sophistication for that.
Discipline was stressed at home.
Discipline was stressed in school because when you're standing there on an assembly line, you got to have discipline to stand in one spot for 12 hours a day.
So we romanticized and said, oh, things were so much better back then.
We didn't have freedoms.
We didn't have a federally protected right to vote.
We were underrepresented in Congress, in state houses, and in local government.
No things weren't better.
And if we segregate, like now we'd be doing the rest of the country a favor.
We do not have the institutions nor the control of them.
We don't have the income We don't have the investment to rectify our own situation or even to improvement.
First of all, there's not enough of us We're only 14% of the population and of that 14% some are children some are incarcerated some are elderly some are sick some are just
overwhelmingly ignorant, so even though the 14% of the whole U.S.
population there we are, a much smaller share of us is even active, engaged, and participating.
And that small, single-digit percentage is not enough to rectify the situation that maybe 25 or 30 million black people may find themselves in.
Infant mortality, maternal mortality, health disparities, education disparities, income disparity, home ownership disparity.
You name it.
We got it There is substantial historical economic and sociological evidence supporting the argument that the African-American community Acting entirely on its own and independently.
So imagine if we segregated like some of y'all want us to do, okay?
I'm gonna paint that picture because some y'all think it'll be better The African-American community acting independently and entirely on its own lacks the aggregate financial
institutional and political resources necessary to eliminate the major disparities affecting.
And I want you to argue with me on this.
I want you to prove to me that we do have all of the resources and all of the income and political resources, financial, institutional, to change and rectify and to improve our situation.
Because if you believe that we do have all of those assets built in our community, then why don't we change nothing?
How have we lost 25% of our median net worth in just the last three years?
I'm gonna tell you what if that trajectory continues, okay?
So we lost 25% the last three years If that continues in the next nine years, we'll have nothing We'll be at zero as a whole community.
I mean Oprah still be rich Tyler Perry is still be rich a pop you laking
population can possess extraordinary human potential.
So we do have that.
I'm not discounting that.
While simultaneously lacking the resources, institutional authority and accumulated capital necessary to overcome disadvantages produced and sustained by systems larger than the population itself.
Bingo.
We are 14% of the population.
86% of the people in this country are not black, and I bet you half of them do not care one iota about us, but those are the very people that we need to see our problems as their problems.
The question is not whether black Americans can improve their circumstances.
We demonstrably can and have the more consequential question is Can a community that disproportionately lacks wealth prosperity Institutional control political influence and access to capital independently Correct the conditions responsible for the very deficiencies black people face economic reasoning and historical evidence suggest that for many
the largest structural disparities the answer is No The economic problem, can you solve a capital deficit without sufficient capital?
I'm gonna take a pause on that because I noticed something A lot of black-owned businesses a lot of black-owned restaurants selling plates Sometimes you're selling them out of your houses.
Sometimes you guys have a food truck Sometimes you actually have a brick and mortar building a lot of black-owned places where you can get some candy games in the collard greens and the catfish
and the shrimp and the grits and the macaroni and cheese there's many many places and I love it right it's entrepreneurship and somebody probably told you along the way that your food is really good and then you should sell it and the internet allows people to market and to advertise whatever it is they're selling in this case it tends to be food to many many different people I think personally we could be
At a point of diminishing returns because every time I open up my social media I see another AI generated flyer of plates for sale with oxtails 25 dollars with two sides Someone's got some barbecue.
Somebody got the best barbecue We got the best tips and the best ribs than the best shoulder
I see it all the time.
Same damn AI-generated flyers.
And here's what's crazy.
The pictures of the food that people have on these AI-generated flyers, it's not even the picture of the food that you get when you order it.
At least use real pictures of your food.
Don't have me thinking your macaroni and cheese is gonna be ooey gooey and creamy and steamy.
And then when I get the macaroni and cheese, it'll look nothing like the artificial intelligence macaroni and cheese.
I like macaroni and cheese, but exactly how much of it can you possibly eat?
Because I swear it's black people's favorite side.
I'm actually okay with I'll do the craft.
Velvita shells and cheese.
I'm cool with that.
I don't even need no damn bake macaroni and cheese.
You ain't I ain't got to have that or whatever.
Our food is so expensive.
It's so expensive.
It's ungodly expensive.
It's so expensive that it's non competitive with most other restaurants and here's what the problem is There's not a mindset of longevity When we start a restaurant we want money now need money now got debt now rent now bills now
Let's absolutely rip people off and make all of our money off of one customer right now.
Instead of saying, I'm going to start this business so my grandchildren will always have the opportunity for employment.
We don't do it that way because what we don't get, and I'm making a blanket statement, I want you to prove me wrong because you can't.
We don't even, we don't expect repeat customers because we don't even expect to be in business for 10 years.
If you don't expect to be in business for the rest of your life, if you just are trying to hustle, then sell dope.
No, don't.
Sorry, maybe I shouldn't have said that.
But it's the same mentality.
And people think, okay, I have a hustler's mentality.
I sold dope.
I can't do that.
Well, let me rip people off for a plate of oxtails, macaroni and cheese, some candied yams and collard greens, $37 for a plate.
We try to make all of our money off of a single customer instead of having repeat customers that come back.
forever that we don't have that that concept what's the most you ever paid for a plate not that much hell no it's gotta be if it's not reasonable because there's too much competition for food there's door-dash there's other food trucks there's restaurants there's hell if I'm really hungry I just ask home and blow give me a cousin sub I ain't gonna pay nothing for that I know right I want some more cousin subs I don't just support a business oh they're black well then I'll tell you what
Then why don't we do this?
I'll give you 10% of my income you give me your social security numbers And I'll claim you as dependents like I'm not going to just buy something Just to support somebody that's charity if I'm buying something I need value for my money because I got financial fluency I ain't that kind of an idiot.
Sorry no offense to people that do that, but you're not really helping that business if you
Saw a lot of that stuff during the whole George Floyd era these white folks like oh sure when point out a black business So I can go there one time and buy one thing so I can say I'm doing my part I'd say I'd rather you not I'd rather you invest in a scholarship fund to send black kids to college and support a black-owned business one time and never go back They treat us like charity cases And also ladies and gentlemen this needs to be said too in the modern era Having a black-owned business is not a selling point if anything there's a
Psychological psychological perception that it's going to be reduced quality and heavy expense and it's going to be supplementing somebody's poverty You might as well just give the person some money I would rather give somebody 30 bucks if they needed then to buy something for $30 from them.
That's not going to give me $30 worth of value I would actually feel better just giving you the money and not getting Something that a lackluster product in exchange here take the 30 bucks now same thing
I'm not coming back to buy another $30 plate.
I'm also probably not going to give you another $30 contribution.
I'm going to give my next $30 to somebody else.
But we try to make all of our money and all of our profit off of a single customer.
That's why we rip them off.
And here's the other part.
I've seen this before.
And I want to explain this in a way that doesn't sound incredibly offensive.
But we've got to get to the bottom of why our community is losing 25% of its median wealth.
Every three years because in nine years we'll have nothing and What we're gonna need to get money who we're gonna need to get money from other people that hate us.
So that's something we need to try and prevent a Woman might have six hundred dollars.
Maybe it's in cash Maybe it's in stamps and she wants to sell plates out of her house and let's say she's a good cook Got six hundred dollars and she buys supplies
And she buys the chicken and the oxtails and all the ingredients and the candied yams and the collard greens.
She spends all six hundred dollars, right?
And maybe things are She can't get the same amount of food For six hundred dollars and maybe she could I don't know a year or two ago, whatever So she puts together the plates some food gets wasted some orders get messed up, but at the end of the month
She's got three hundred dollars in cash now remember she spent six hundred She will literally tell people wow I have three hundred dollars in cash from selling plates and actually think that she made a profit cuz he has three hundred dollars in cash I'm not kidding you as ridiculous as that sounds Someone will take money that they have spend it all sell whatever it is that they're selling
Have 50% less money But they'll have it in hand and have it in cash and think that they actually did something because now they can walk around with $300 in cash and their purse or in their wallet I've literally had a woman say well sure when I did okay this month and this story comes from an actual person and I Inquired well, I got $500 worth of stamps and I got you know I use all that money because I'm gonna use that money to buy the food and I'm gonna make the plate and I got 297 out here look I was like what?
Yeah If you have $600 or $500 to invest in your in your food and your raw materials because you're going to sell a product
If you don't have fifteen hundred or two thousand or three thousand dollars from your six hundred dollar investment, you are going to go out of business because of that you got to pay utilities.
You might have to pay staff.
You might have to pay rent.
You might have to pay other expenses.
And you have to invest in advertising.
So one of the reasons why we fail at business is a lot of times we know we're not going to get repeat customers.
We know.
So I'm gonna charge them $42 and 19 cents for one plate and just Be happy that I got that because that person will never come back The economic problem can you solve the capital deficit without sufficient capital consider the difference between income and wealth income pays the bills wealth finances opportunity projects against emergencies generates investment returns
and transfers economic advantages to your kids.
According to the Federal Reserve's 2022 Consumer Survey of Consumer Finances, the latest Triennial Survey with comprehensive racial wealth figures are white families, median family wealth, $284,310.
That's on average.
Black families, $44,890.
The typical white family held approximately 6.3 times the wealth of the typical black family.
That difference has consequences extending well beyond bank accounts.
A family with $284,000 in accumulated wealth may be better positioned to finance a child's education, provide a home down payment, withstand unemployment, invest in a business or assist aging relatives.
A family with $45,000 has substantially less financial flexibility.
Now multiply that disadvantage across millions and millions of American
households.
The implications are significant.
A community with considerably less accumulated capital is being asked to finance solutions to problems that are themselves partially caused by insufficient capital.
So here's basically what we would need.
We would need white families in this country that have an average median net worth of $284,310.
Black families have $44,890.
We need to ask white people to give us their money.
We just, we need it.
give us in fact the 25% of Average wealth that black families lost over the last three years We need white people to just give it to us with like no strings attached and we can invest in an infrastructure and health care and education You see where the problem is?
They're not gonna do that But they have the money that we need now we can try to wrestle it away from them maybe with policy
I guess we can tax the millionaires and the billionaires, but that's only going to go so far.
This is what our fundamental problem is.
One group has the money, another group doesn't.
The group that doesn't has to get it from the group that does because the government is not going to give us any more money.
That's basically maxed out.
Here's the other thing.
With us having less income, we are contributing less taxes to the programs that we need.
If we go back to generation where you didn't need all these different programs Sharon we got to have more after-school programs and more roller skating rinks We got to have more things for the kids to do a generation ago You had actual parents that would create structured activities for those kids to do in the home outside the home Whatever the case may be but now because there is no family like there was a couple generations ago We need other groups agencies nonprofits and organizations to put together programs for our children
And that costs money.
Somebody's got to pay for that.
And the community that needs those programs to make up for lack of family and family activities is making less money and contributing less taxes for the programs that we need for the kids.
So we just need white people to give us their money.
Is there a polite way to ask?
Like how do we...
Sound like a socialist.
I'm just being factual.
Well, here's the thing.
They're not going to give us their money.
In fact,
The more they know we need it, the less likely they are to give it.
I'm just being objective here and saying one group has the money, one group doesn't.
That's not a solution.
White folks are not gonna say, you know what?
I'm tired of living an okay life.
Let me give a bunch of my money.
Screw my kids and their 529 and their college investment fund.
Ah, screw my 401k.
I just wanna give this money to blacks.
You think they're gonna do that?
Do you think that if we, as black people, when we get rich, you think we give our money to poor white folks?
We laugh at them.
Look at the pores.
Look how bad they smell.
Socialism is not an answer to a country that is living out the last bits, pieces and chapters of Project 2025.
Product 2025 was not the beginning of something.
It was not the initiation.
It was them completing something that they started in the 70s.
These are the last stages of it.
The fascism that it ends with Donald Trump.
This is the end of the American experiment of unity and community and coming together.
They wanted to undo everything in the civil rights movement and Product 2025 is the last piece of it.
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Black communities do not control the institutions that affect our outcomes.
That's it.
We do not have control over the institutions that affect how far we go.
Do another perspective on this.
What outcomes do black people and there's a lot of us and we have a lot of influence because they're always talking about us, aren't they?
Do we have any control or impact on the outcome for white people?
Do the things that we do and the assets that we have our culture and our creativity, how does it impact them?
Not I'm not gonna say that there's no impact whatsoever because they like our culture They emulate our culture, but at the end of the day do black people impact how much money?
White people make how much they have, how much they save, how much they invest.
Now we may change their migration patterns because when we move to an area they tend to move out, but what impact do we have that can negatively impact white people?
None.
Do we control white people's schools?
Do we control white people's elections and their school board races and their local races?
I can give you an example of how white folks will come in and have more of an impact on a black community.
the whole thing with the data center at midtown.
A bunch of white folks, a bunch of democratic socialists that just don't like data centers and did not want all the other development and the other tax producing elements that go along with it.
They came and they killed it.
Went into a neighborhood in which they don't live and killed a development where we are starving for tax revenue.
Midtown has not collected sufficient property taxes in probably 30 or 40 years.
And there was a development that was there and we got to take what we can get.
Like you're not going to get
Big old shopping malls and big old companies and big old corporations.
Just because we need jobs doesn't mean we're going to get them.
If we need jobs and I would argue that we do because our income, our median net worth and our wealth has gone down 25% in the last three years.
If you bring some big company here with all these jobs to pay $150,000 a year, who going to fill them?
You got to have a skill set.
You got to have a resume.
You got to have a technical education.
You got to be an engineer.
You have to have some kind of degree or specialty to fill those jobs because here's what's going to happen.
The company will come in they'll hire they'll pay people hundred fifty thousand seven hundred thousand two hundred thousand four hundred thousand dollars a year But the employees gonna come from Walker Shaw and they'll commute to Milwaukee.
They'll work at the job and they'll go back out to Walker Shaw So just because we need jobs don't mean that they're going to come and so the development that a midtown sat vacant for that Walmart closed in 2016 in the ten years that that Walmart sat vacant just to show you how lack of
How real the lack of investment is in black neighborhoods and black communities?
There was only two offers to even buy that Walmart the second of which Was recently accepted and this guy was like I need something's gonna produce some kind of revenue So it's gonna be a storage facility over there because apparently people are transient They need places to store their belongings when they're between houses or whatever the case may be And then there's gonna be a computer research facility where
You know, like banks and hospitals and other businesses and companies, they have to have computer servers to store all their data because nobody uses paper files and filing cabinets anymore.
All the information that businesses need, like our medical records, are stored on computer servers that are off-site.
But because people want to relate that to a big AI data center, a bunch of white folks came in.
that don't live in that neighborhood and killed the deal.
Here's what I really think they did.
They killed any kind of tax revenue that could come to the black community that at some point could be invested in that community so that we can be competitive.
And that's how they think.
They didn't get their advantage just to give it away.
Now, this is a very terrible thing to have to discuss and it might hurt a lot of people's feelings.
But if you have an advantage.
You don't give it away.
And if you can stop, because you also know this about black folks, if you give us just a little, we'll become incredibly successful.
You give us a little bit of opportunity.
You open the door just a little bit.
We'll kick that door open and we'll become president of the United States.
So if you can nip that in the bud by making sure that the education system is weak and lackluster, make sure there's heavy discipline, lots of cops, harsher sentences, longer confinement.
Then you can mitigate the competition from black people and project 2025 is the cherry on top They have been trying to undo the gains of the civil rights movement
Since the death of Martin Luther King project 2025 is the ending of that.
It is American fascism is removing affirmative action in DEI.
It is making people jump through additional hurdles in order to vote.
It's allowing the president to have unitary executive power.
The president can do whatever he wants if it's in the best interests of white people in this country.
If you think that this is a nation that prides itself on its diversity, travel to Chicago.
Go to Detroit.
Go to Cleveland.
Come to Milwaukee.
Go to LA.
We need them to give
us their money and to stop stifling opportunity when it comes into our community.
The structural problem, black communities do not control the institutions affecting their outcomes.
Consider the major institutions influencing socioeconomic opportunity.
Public education.
State funding formulas, school district budgets, curriculum requirements, and educational policy are controlled through public institutions, not through African-Americans and our culture.
Banking and lending.
Credit availability depends on financial institutions, underwriting practices, regulations, and capital markets not controlled by the African-American community.
Criminal justice, sentencing laws, prosecution, policing, and correctional policies are controlled by government institutions, not by the black community.
Healthcare, hospitals, hospital networks, insurance systems.
provider distribution and public health financing operate beyond individual neighborhoods.
We almost lost St.
Joseph's.
We had to beg St.
Joseph's hospital to stay on 50th and Chambers.
They were leaving.
Couldn't afford to be there no more.
Do you know how many more of us would be dead of St.
Joseph's clothes and having to go to Columbia St.
Mary's or St.
Luke's if we lost St.
Joseph's?
Some of the shooting victims can't make it to South 27th Street.
Some shooting victims can't make it.
To Lake Drive to Columbia St.
Mary's One of the reasons this is why I always stress filling out the census because for some reason black people think That if we fill out the census and really tell people how many folks live in our house that our landlord is gonna evict us No, your landlord is gonna evict you because you don't pay the rent and the census don't care about that stuff anyway But what the census does doesn't just count people It allocates money so the more population you have the more federal dollars you get
It's roughly $1,000 per person for health care, for education, for infrastructure, et cetera, et cetera.
The health care part is very important because hospitals get federal investment.
There's federal health care funding based on the number of people that live in an area.
It doesn't even matter if those people are citizens.
It's just based on raw population.
Because if you are a non-citizen and you have a health emergency and you need to go to the emergency room, that hospital needs to have sufficient resources and staff to take care of you regardless of what your status is.
And I am a person that firmly believes I don't care what your status is.
If you get shot in the face, you should be able to go get the bullet taken out of your face.
We'll worry about your citizenship later.
Let's get the bullet first.
Let's first get the bullet, then we'll worry about your papers.
So when we don't fill out the census, every person that does not fill it out,
loses $1,000 in investment and St.
Joseph's which gets a lot of its customers through your Medicare, maybe Medicaid, other subsidized insurance is not private pay.
They needed the federal investment that they get through census counts.
That's why St.
Joseph's Hospital had those signs.
They had yard signs like political yard signs.
Please fill out the census.
Fill out this.
It's census time.
You guys remember that all in front of the damn hospital.
It didn't make any sense to anybody.
Because they knew that if the surrounding community was not filling out at census paperwork or not answering the door when the census workers came that that hospital was going to close and guess what happened?
We got to go we're going to close and a bunch of community activists at Vaughn Maze was very much involved in keeping St.
Joseph's open.
We basically had our community had to beg them to stay open and they're operating at a loss.
But again, we don't we can have more control over our institutions by doing some very basic things.
And the other part is I'm no longer going to argue with black people.
About voting you have an election going on early voters gonna start October 20th like I'm tired And if we don't get it if we don't just look at our overall situation and condition One way in which we can intimidate the system to at least respecting us more is if our voter turnout numbers are substantial They're not nobody's gonna take you seriously if you don't vote They'll laugh at you and what are you gonna do?
What are you gonna do out vote them?
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The newest evidence makes the argument even more compelling and important update.
The Federal Reserve released its 2025 survey of consumer finances findings on October 9th, 2026, just 72 hours ago.
So just so you know, from this point forward, I'm going to use the data and the statistics in the survey of consumer finances to be the backbone of explaining.
the financial situation of different racial groups and affinity groups in this country.
It's very, very important data, because I want folks, especially heading into the midterm elections, because we need to know what to focus on.
Once I unveil in detail how poor we're doing financially, then maybe just maybe we can be more proactive when we communicate with those that we are going to vote for on the kind of economic policies that we need.
Now, I can do some of it, but I'm going to need a hell of a lot of help.
I can bring things to people's attention, but I'm gonna need the democracy itself I'm gonna need the body politic itself to be more active and to be more engaged because if we are not then no one will in our situation will get worse and no one will care The newly reported findings indicate the black families experience approximately 25% decline in net worth between 2022 and 2025 following significant gains during the preceding period
That figure should not be confused with the median wealth estimates shown on other charts and the underlying racial breakdown needs further examination.
Another Federal Reserve analysis found that black households accounted for approximately 11% of American households, but held only 2% of household wealth.
That is particularly relevant.
Because the aggregate resources available for community investment are limited relative to the size of the population So the more wealth your community has the more your community can invest in itself.
We have neither The cycle of disadvantage is as follows and it's and it's unbroken Historical exclusion from property education and capital plus
lower inherited wealth and fewer financial reserves plus reduced investment in housing businesses and education plus Lower earnings and reduced capacity to accumulate assets.
I want you to take all this stuff and mix it up in a bowl It also impacts people's behavior because when you have all of these deficits
and this lack of investment and the lack of capital and the lack of education, it impacts people's behavior to a way that it's hard to even recognize why people act the way that they do.
All of these things have a very real and human impact on people.
It impacts families, it impacts health, marriage rates, birth rates, cancer rates.
abuse rates arrest rates voting necessary but insufficient by itself political participation is a mechanism through which a community can influence institutions it does not directly control however
lower voter participation can and will diminish influence over public budgets, school boards, judicial elections, legislative representation, and economic policy.
And I got to argue with our folks on why they need to vote for a black governor.
David Crowley is going to get to this exact same information I'm presiding to you.
But if he doesn't get elected, he can't analyze this perspective.
In a way that makes sense to create policies They can help the communities that are suffering the most like he's gonna have some abilities to do some things nice.
He's gonna fix all the problems.
No Hopefully we have a democratic control legislature is that gonna fix all the problems.
No, but it will assist David Crowley and Helping the place that he came from and the situation that he came from because now he can analyze it from a political perspective Can he fix everything?
No, can he shed light on some things?
Yes
Can you reallocate some funding?
Absolutely.
Can he treat Milwaukee better than the Republican controlled legislature did than previous governors did?
We're still trying to undo Scott Walker stuff.
We also need major protections and inoculations from Donald Trump's worst impulses and this final stage, which is actually called project 2025.
That was not the beginning.
That is them finishing up what they started 50 plus years ago.
They're finishing.
This is the end of the cycle.
Product 2025 is like, all right, let's take care of these last bits and pieces.
No more affirmative action, no more DEI.
Those are the last bits and pieces that were outgrown the extension of the civil rights movement.
That's why they had to go.
The whole point, ladies and gentlemen, was never to bring the country together, was to, if anything, return to the Confederacy, which we never extinguished.
It also should be noted.
We talk about...
the great migration and it brought a lot of black african-american people from the deep south to northern industrial cities that's why there's so many black people in milwaukee that's why there's so many black people in the chicago and the gary indianer and the detois michigan and then the black people in the cleveland ohio's and the columbus ohio we had to get the hell out of the south south was not very nice
Couldn't go to the bathroom where you wanted to couldn't get a lunch at a lunch counter Couldn't vote very easily.
We want to get out of there plus there were jobs in the north The history of racism in the north while it existed.
It was different We could move about a little more freely in public and have more opportunity and especially get a job But here's what we discounted what we discredit The South had its economic system essentially flipped upside down post slavery
More white people migrated from the South than black people did you didn't know that did you?
more of them Migrate we migrated to But more of them came and guess what they brought with them their culture their attitudes and their vote Well, see we don't talk about that part.
We think though the great migration was just a whole bunch of black people leaving South white folks came up here, too
They wanted to get away from the deprived economics of the south and take advantage of Unions and industry you ever wonder why even some of these northern industries are so intensely and incredibly racist They're still southern and Confederate influence because white folks left Mississippi to the left Louisiana to the left Texas to and Tennessee and Kentucky and Alabama Both Carolinas don't even need to Carolinas, but we got two of them don't even need to Virginia's got two of those two
Black Americans constitute a majority of the national minority rather minority of the national electorate and political outcomes depend on coalition building geographic distribution electoral rules and the preferences of Other voters do I have this other?
My
other story Here we go Also a part of project 2025
Many GOP states have imposed new voting rules this year some mirroring Donald Trump's midterm proposals again This is all a part of project 2025 which was not the beginning of something.
It's them buttoning up everything They've been trying to do since Nixon since the southern strategy Nixon said I'm gonna take what used to be Democratic very blue
Dixie Cratt states and make them all Republican Nixon said I'm the president I can do whatever I want I can harm whoever I want Nixon said
I don't like the press.
I'm going to go after the press.
Nixon said I'm going to go after my political enemies and I'm going to have my people break into the Watergate Hotel where the Democratic National Committee had its hand quarters.
Donald Trump is doing the exact same thing.
Not that Donald Trump is a reenactment of Richard Nixon.
Donald Trump is just the continuation of something they started in 1968, the year Dr. King was killed.
And I'm going to need all y'all to know this because we think the project 2025 is new.
The thing is we've kept it.
Reduced and subdued because we've had policymakers that have always been aware of what they've been trying to do trying to return America to the Confederacy But for many many years we kept those impulses subdued now with the demographic shifts in America and why racism is much more forward and much more out front The demographic changes have told white folks you better do something.
You're not gonna have a country soon.
In fact Joe Biden getting elected in 2020 was such an interruption to what they were trying to do
They tried to overthrow the government.
That's what January 6 was It was getting in the way of them completing their tasks.
So guess what they had to do Trump had to get elected one more time to finally finish up the strategy.
They have been implementing since 1968 take a break come back Continue our little casual chitchat a very happy and optimistic things also I Don't know what this is on YouTube about people donating money now that the super chats
I'm gonna let y'all know if you donate the money.
I don't know where it goes.
I know what ain't going in my pocket
Yeah, technically we're supposed to shout out the super chatters.
That's Well,
can you see the super chats when you're in
yes, somebody gave $2.
Oh,
yeah, you're supposed to be like, oh, thank you for the $2 such and such and then you know
Oh,
no, it's
somebody give us a thousand I'm thinking for that.
Yeah.
Well, it's not gonna go to you It's gonna go to whoever's running the count.
So we doing like a telethon now
No, that's just how it goes.
Once a YouTube channel reaches a certain it's a certain criteria.
OK, once you go live, you automatically can receive Super Chat.
So it's not even us asking for it.
That
wasn't a thousand subscribers.
We got eight thousand.
So
I mean, I'm well, I'm somebody must have activated it.
Yes, or something, like I said, something must have
triggered it.
OK, all right.
Well, I mean, I can just give people my cash.
You know white folks here contribute to I'm a po-black man losing 25% of my wealth speaking of losing my wealth I Went to a party on Saturday all white party.
I got dressed up in all white very fun party So we had a table it was at an establishment downtown so I had a table There's a couple of us there at the table told a bunch of my friends to come they ended up showing up So I'm walking around talking to people taking pictures whatever I come back to so I started a tab
Right now walked away Stupid because when I came back to the table it was more people at the table and they're just ordering drinks We're having a good old time in the end of the night came And I got my tab It was my tab was so expensive that I like heard like
You know how you're like do music in a movie like when something's bad is happening like that music started when I saw it I just over 500 and I don't want to talk about them.
I haven't checked my Account statement yet because I'm scared.
I know what I signed I know the tip but some people actually left our server a cash tip So I didn't do the traditional 20% because I gave her a bunch of cash because it was really really busy, but I
Don't start a tab and walk away from the table.
Well just start asking for donations 50 or $100 cash preferred.
I think I might get in trouble for that if I'm asking my
gigantic and very wealthy audience to help pay for my bar tab, which I just should have been more responsible.
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Political participation is a mechanism through which a community can influence institutions.
It does not directly control.
Lower voter participation can diminish influence over public budgets, school boards, judicial elections, legislative representation, and economic policy.
So we already don't have control, full control over those things, but our voter participation can have more influence than it does.
So me wasting my time trying to convince people that we don't have influence, that we need more influence.
If I got to convince you of that, then just stay home.
However, even 100% turnout among eligible black voters would not give black Americans unilateral control of most American political institutions.
So it should be noted that if and when David Crowley gets elected governor, he can highlight the impacts that are disproportionately affecting the black community.
He can, he can do that.
He can add things to his budget.
He can work with legislators to create policies He can make sure that Milwaukee is doing better economically because if we as a city are doing better economically Then the city itself can rise and lift a handful of the boats He can reduce some of the barriers all of them know some yes, but remember black people don't need everything.
We just need something okay This state 79% white
But the voter turnout voter participation is 84% white David Crowley needs Caucasian folks to vote for him I think he's got some momentum I think he has the wind in his back because Republicans have made a fantastic mess out of everything the other part about the end stage of project 2025 is some working class and poor white people are gonna get hurt by that too I Think they're seeing that affordability is something that is now crossing party lines and David Crowley does come from a place in a space
where he understands better than the Republican nominee, Tom Tiffany.
I remember 84% of the voters in the state voter participation is white 79% of the raw population.
White people outperform at the ballot box.
They're above their actual population, which is fascinating.
Black people, our population, we actually vote at a lower number in representation than our population percentage wise.
If Tom Tiffany gets elected, he will.
He will represent 100% of white people's interests.
If David Crowley gets elected, he will represent the interests of African Americans, at least proportionate to our population.
And along with some of those policies will help working class, middle class, white families too.
That is not Tom Tiffany's priority.
So as I'm going through all these different institutions that black people have no control over, no influence over, it can get even worse than this.
Now, the speed, realistic and level set here to think that David Crowley is going to reverse the situation that black people find themselves in.
That is a pipe dream that is not, that's not realistic.
But there are some very obvious things and some very significant funding measures that he can implement that have been reduced or eliminated by the Trump administration or by previous incarnations of the legislation.
That being said, there's going to be three referenda on the ballot.
Vote no on all three.
If you need a detailed explanation, I can give you that on another day, but we do not want the worst impulses of a Republican-controlled legislature who are responsible for getting these three referenda on the ballot to permanently change the Constitution in three different regards.
We don't want Republicans to have control over the state constitution, even after Republicans lose legislative control.
What these referenda essentially will do from three different vantage points is maintain a kind of conservative ethos built into the constitution of the state that will impact people long after Republicans have fallen out of favor with voters.
Vote no on all three of them.
Now, if you require a detailed explanation, I can give it to you.
but you're gonna have to trust me on this.
Gotta have some trust.
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I'm giving everybody some really great news today Black people do not control and have enough impact and influence on the institutions that That impact our daily lives and to think that we can do it on our own is insane But there's also a lot of things that are working against us I recently come to find out that most of us didn't really understand project 2025 We thought it was something that just like came out of nowhere a document
That they published I think in 2023 or 2024 and they made this damn thing public like they're not even hiding Because they don't have to Because this is the final stage because they've accomplished so much already.
I mean I have to do this I got to give you guys the details because I was shocked and that people would say oh sure when we got a pushback on project 2025 it's too late a Lot of this system needs to be eliminated there has to be
a catastrophic political failure.
Don't panic when I say that.
Us losing the war that we're involved in, I think it's going to be, it's a necessary evil to show that American exceptionalism is a myth and that when we lose foreign wars like we have been doing, you're not going to get the full support of the American people in foreign policy and military entanglements when people in this country are not doing well.
Socially academically economic we're not gonna support a foreign war because how are you gonna tell me and this is a philosophy that I have or I sometimes butt heads with my very own producer How you gonna tell me we need to be more concerned about people over there and what they doing and how they're eating and how they're living and we got kids
right here in
this city that they can't read that are much Somebody in this city is much more likely to kill you than an Israeli or a Palestinian now that all that stuff going on over there is terrible.
However
I need to make sure that when I look out of my window, I am seeing substantial improvement and we only have a certain amount of money time and bandwidth and a certain amount of, uh, I guess opportunity.
Cause if we're spending that time and that effort and that bandwidth somewhere else, we're not focusing on what's here, which also makes a lot of sense because the intense focus that needs to be.
dedicated to the American people cannot be distracted.
I'm very much isolationist in that regard.
And Xavier, I know you got something very communist to say, so go ahead.
Well, you mentioned that black people don't have we're lacking funds and all stuff like that.
You know how much money we give the country of Israel.
Each year, then there are 10 million $10 billion per year that could be going towards
us.
That's not enough money.
I want to give you I want to level set with money.
The Wisconsin state budget.
We're just one of 50 states.
Our state budget is $100 billion.
If we give Israel 10 billion, that is a tenth of just our state budget.
So should we be giving Israel money?
Whatever.
That money is so miniscule.
If you honestly think that an investment of it might even be more than that with weapons and all these other
things.
Exactly.
Let's say it's $20 billion.
You think that that first of all, if we had that $20 billion here, black folks would get none of it.
We wouldn't get it.
We wouldn't get it.
It would just go to our military.
It would go to like the Department of the Interior.
Some of it might go to HUD.
Some of it might go to the Department of Education.
Some of it might go to that Department of Justice.
We got to stop thinking that, oh, all this money that's going out to the door to other countries is going to help black folks.
No, it's not.
For what?
And black folks are not voting in a number to where we are enough of a threat politically where they need to say, oh, we better invest this money in black people or we're not going to get reelected.
It's not enough.
I know that we use that as just like another sticking point of all of our money going out the door.
Here's what I'd say.
If we reduce homicides by 100 in the city of Milwaukee, I know tall task, we will have $200 million in the city of Milwaukee.
Now.
Should we be giving Israel 10 billion dollars?
I don't know.
Maybe we should should we stop murdering one another in the city of Milwaukee and have another I don't know all told half billion dollars just for our city probably Probably
The strongest historically defensible argument is project 2025 did not emerge suddenly in 2023.
It represents the latest expression of a conservative, political, legal and institutional movement that developed in response to the expansion of federal power, racial equality and social protections during the 1960s of 1970.
So I'm going to pause here.
I'm going to grab a phone call from Al, but I want y'all to know that that's why they were okay unveiling it because they're like, oh,
We're finally done now.
We're done upending the American system of fairness, democracy, and equality.
You know that they raided Ilhan Omar's house this morning?
You understand that?
A sitting member of Congress.
Hold on now.
There's been an American citizen since the year 2000 and federal agents raided her house.
When you have a presidential administration so deeply entrenched in fascism that they are using the Department of Justice to go after Democratic members of Congress, your democracy is lost because I'm going to let you in on a little secret.
The president is not supposed to use his or her power and the agencies that they control to go after their political enemies.
They raided her out pre dawn raid on a on American citizen who not just an American citizen.
She represents the people in the fifth congressional district of the state of Minnesota got raided by the Donald Trump administration.
Democracy is over.
Like that's not supposed to happen.
That's illegal.
But who's going to tell Donald Trump that something is illegal?
No one.
Let's talk to Al.
You're on one on one seven.
The truth.
How are you, Al?
I'm doing wonderful.
If black people want to be a bigger threat, all they have to do is do right by each other.
Black people can come together and open businesses, maybe two or three men or three women.
You just got to stop stabbing each other in the back.
Furthermore, for the black Republicans, you have to let them rot.
For the people in your community that you try to save and they don't want to do right, you're going to have to let them rot.
For the ones who keep bringing down your community, so you cannot get a Panera bread and you cannot get investments.
You're going to have to let them rock because there's a psychological warfare that's been put on black people to the point that the people who are the people who are creating victims is the one that they have more care for.
Okay.
When you look at other neighborhoods.
They don't care if this man and this woman got these bad-ass kids and they don't got nowhere to go.
They don't care.
But in our community, where they going to go?
You shouldn't give a fornicate undertone control knowledge where they go.
All right, but for some reason, we as Black people, we always have to save the people who look like us who choose not to take the free will to do right.
You're going to have to let them rot.
Black people going to have to come together.
I don't need whole hands and saying come by y'all, but I respect your people.
I respect and clean around your neighborhood.
The people who don't do right in your neighborhood.
Figure out a way to get them out.
You gotta let them rock because we have unnecessary baggage that's stopping from black people going forward for the black Republicans.
Let them rock.
If you see them getting their ass beat in the Klu Klux Klan rally, let them take that ass beating like a real good jump down hole, okay?
Let them rock.
For the self-hating blacks, let them rock.
For the people who tear down your community and you're trying to help them, and they're not doing their best, let they got their ass rocked.
So the black people can move forward, and they don't have to be.
sitting targets and furthermore, stop walking on eggshell.
Some people say, well, we shouldn't be talking about Israel.
Talk about them.
You shouldn't be giving them a goddamn thing.
They don't like you.
80% of them are racist.
They entitled, they keep, they money hungry, they lift their QX slaves, and they come moving your neighborhood.
And when they see you, they look down at the ground and look your dead in your face.
I know you're feeling good for sugar, honey, I see.
Y'all keep giving them all the ammunition.
Yes.
I was just
letting go.
Oh, we're still here.
I'm just saying everybody is trying to be the big stop being a bigger person.
You think these pack of words be a bigger person with you?
No, here go black people.
Well, I got to be kind.
No, you don't.
Start giving these black people the fire to get to the voting poll.
When you see your one black politician who say, get an ignorant, you don't sit up there and say, she get up there and vote.
God damn it.
Because y'all are trying to do all this and ain't helping y'all.
And Christianity is the most violent religion on earth.
So what you got to lose?
That's all I'm going to say.
He called you a best.
You said, yeah, you got a Catherine, and you and a goddamn damper.
Now what?
The racist people say, oh, you're an N-word.
Yeah, but you lay it on the back and let the same N-word, not in your vagina.
And you voted against your interests of your N-word babies.
What you got to lose?
You want courage?
You want to get people let the titles be seen and how you talk black man black woman and child Have a good day.
Thank
you.
All right.
That was a lot of stuff there
There is substantial documentary evidence connecting the conservative backlash against the civil rights movement to the rise of the new right, the Reagan Revolution, the Federalist Society, the Modern Heritage Foundation, and ultimately, Project 2025.
However, one important distinction is necessary.
It is possible to demonstrate continuity in political organizations.
personal ideology, policies and objectives without proving that every participant over six decades shared a single intention to reverse civil rights because some conservatives explicitly oppose racial integration, some oppose federal authority, some oppose affirmative action.
administrative regulation or race conscious policymaking on constitutional or philosophical grounds.
So those distinctions matter because the historical record is powerful enough without requiring an unprovable claim of one coordinated, interrupted conspiracy.
So conservatives have been working in pockets, but also in unison to undo our gains.
Product 2025 is not a new thing.
It is the end in the final stage.
If you look at the press.
Being kicked out of the White House if you look at a sitting member of Congress who just got their house rated if you look at quote-unquote immigration reform where just undesirable people are just scooped up and taken out of the country Even if you have the right to be here if
you're
speaking out against America speaking out against what Donald Trump is trying to do They'll just disappear you from the country and other things that I could name the start at the beginning
The Civil Rights Revolution, 1964 and 1965, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, dismantled major legal foundations of segregation and discrimination.
They also expanded federal enforcement authority over states, employers, elections and institutions.
1968 to 1972, the backlash becomes an electoral strategy.
Richard Nixon's law and order politics appeals to the so-called silent majority and Republican efforts to attract disaffected southern white voters helped reshape party coalitions opposition to busing and federal intervention became politically consequential
Then you have the southern strategy, which used to be democratic states then switched to Republican where they remain now 1971 and 1973.
I'm giving you the timeline that ends with project 2025 as far too many people think that that's a new thing.
No, the strategy is complete.
They've brought the Confederacy back right under our noses.
The next step is from 1971 to 1973.
The conservative infrastructure emerges.
Lewis Powell's 1971 memorandum urged business leaders to build institutions capable of influencing public opinion, universities, courts, and government.
The Heritage Foundation was established in 1973 to develop conservative policy proposals.
1980 to 1983, the Reagan Revolution.
Ronald Reagan's election brought conservative opposition to expansive federal government into the White House.
Heritage's mandate for leadership supplied detailed governing recommendations.
Back in 1981, the Federalist Society was founded in 1982.
In 1990s through the 2010s, the courts and states became central battlegrounds, conservatives challenged affirmative action, race-conscious school assignments,
federal regulatory authority and parts of the Voting Rights Act, Republican-controlled states advanced voter identification requirements and other election law changes.
You guys ever wonder why voter ID was never really a thing until it became a thing?
Because that was just the next logical step in them completing their strategy.
2013 to 2023, major Supreme Court victories.
Shelby County versus Eric Holder weakened the Voting Rights Act's pre-clearance system in 2013.
Students for fair admissions versus Harvard and companion UNCK sharply restricted race-conscious college admissions in 2023.
And then 2023 through 2026, Project 2025 and the second Trump administration.
Heritage's mandate for leadership, the conservative promise, provided an extended blueprint for a future Republican administration, including executive control, personnel changes, federal civil rights enforcement, education, and diversity initiatives.
The important pattern is the movement from electoral backlash to institutional organization to control of legal interpretation to detail plans for governing the federal bureaucracy and then also as a cherry on top African Americans in just the last three years have lost 25% of their wealth from 2022 until 2025 the African American community has 25% less money as an outgrowth and extension of
of the strategy that they started implementing in 1968.
And it's working beautifully.
But these are the things that are able to happen when Americans are uninformed and miseducated about what is really happening historically.
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This foundation admits Project 2025 is part of a decades old project.
This is not merely an interpretation offered by critics of Republicans and conservatism.
I got to go through this timeline and I'm going to put this to rest.
We'll probably talk about it again, but I just, I don't want people thinking like, oh, Project 2025 is this new thing they're doing.
No, they're done.
They've completed it.
The election of Barack Obama was a temporary interruption Obama's like well at least let me try and get people health care because they're essentially going to stifle the possibility of success for I don't know 249 50 million people at least let me try and get him some health care and because that was an interruption that nobody really saw it was also it was a weird convergence of Economic troubles home foreclosure crisis the banking crisis
Two wars that were going on because conservatives sometimes they drift off course and got involved in foreign policy entanglements that kind of took away from What their ultimate goal was but Donald Trump brought it back in line had we not gone to war with Iraq and Afghanistan had September 11th not happen This would have been like project 2010 they would have accomplished him much earlier But because we got involved in foreign policy and the Bush family had some weird stuff going on in the Middle East and some of their
business and family entanglements, you know the the bush family had some interactions and involvement with Osama bin Laden and his family since the 70s and maybe even before that when daddy Bush Bush senior was a member of the CIA and there's a whole bunch of covert operations to stop the invasion of Afghanistan from Russia as a part of the Cold War which diverted some of the project 2025 Heritage Foundation goals
Because the Bush was like, no, we got some business.
We got to settle with these Middle Eastern folks.
But that just slowed things out.
And Barack Obama was able to come in for a moment in time, two presidential terms, and try and bring some stability and civility back to American politics, especially because of where the economy was, home foreclosures, banks weren't lending.
Our car companies weren't producing and manufacturing anymore.
So Obama took advantage of a very unusual period of economic turmoil, got elected, got some health care out of it, and boom, Barack Obama is gone now.
But that was just a momentary interruption.
The most revealing evidence, the Heritage Foundation admits Project 2025 is part of a decades old project.
The Heritage Foundation itself.
explicitly identifies Project 2025 as the continuation of its original mandate for leadership and the final of nine chapters.
1973, the Heritage Foundation is established.
That also was the year of Roe versus Wade where abortion was never a political issue But Republicans and conservatives needed an emotional issue like you know abortion to add that into the conservative ethos before that Republicans totally supported abortion, but they made it a social issue as a way to hammer Democrats let me be clear both Democrats and Republicans both supported abortion before 1973 they supported it, but the Republicans are like, you know what?
Let's not support it
Then make the Democrats look bad for supporting and the Democrats at the time like what are y'all doing?
Everybody believes in a woman's right to choose the Republicans like not anymore.
We're gonna make you look like baby killers and it worked 1981 the heritage publishes its first mandate for leadership Containing more than 2,000 policy recommendations for the Reagan administration.
So this is 1981.
This is where they started 1981 Reagan distributes the document to his whole cabinet
Heritage says nearly half of its recommendations were implemented during Reagan's first year in office.
Fast forward to 2022.
The Heritage formally announced its project 2025 presidential transition project 2023.
Heritage publishes the project's 2025 mandate for leadership, the conservative promise explicitly describing its ninth and final chapter.
Heritage also claimed that the first Trump administration embraced 64% of its proposals in 2016 in the policy blueprint during Trump's first year.
These are Heritage's own estimates.
All right, that's enough of that.
So are we good now?
Do we know that Project 2025 ain't new?
That they're done with it now and they've ruined the country and turned it upside down.
Me also share this with you president Donald Trump has pushed Congress to pass a proof of citizenship law signed in executive order Seeking national voter ID requirements and try to limit mail-in voting through the US Postal Service None of those moves succeeded in time to affect this year's midterm elections.
It's a different matter in the states More than three dozen voting laws passed Republican controlled states taking effect for the first time this year many of them containing elements
of Trump's stalled proposals at the federal level, but states were able to implement them.
They included changes to what ideas are acceptable to register for the first time and requirements to show proof of citizenship and issue Republican presidents.
Republican presidents have tried but failed through Congress.
Quote, Trump's attacks on our elections are deeply damaging, but they are not happening in isolation.
says Sophia Lacken, a director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Across the country, states are also advancing restrictions that make it harder for eligible voters to cast a ballot.
Some new laws seek to make voting easier.
Others continue with trend in a Republican-controlled state imposing restrictive rules that began in 2021 after Donald Trump's false claims of widespread voter fraud in his 2020 presidential election lost to Joe Biden.
So they're still gonna continue with the nonsense Curly Q said ripped to be on the mic You guys can get together if you want to you guys want to get together meet up and just invite me but I'm not I'm not hosting too much trouble Can't do it too much too
much working out with the
fans.
I mean I see them everywhere I go
Everywhere I go when I see somebody that's the beyond the mic right there because you're all are seeing me beyond the microphone See me at the grocery store seeing me out here in the streets.
It's great We don't need to have some formal event It's also just not a good idea to blanket invite anybody who may be listening because there's some scary folks out there That they've gone to like I've had like at some events
People have shown up and for the most part everybody's great.
We're having a great time and you know, we're supporting a local business.
It's all good, but then I'll get like an inbox
Sure when I was too afraid to say hello to you, but I was sitting in the corner by myself I Want us I want to see you.
I want this.
I just wanted to touch you.
I want
Like that kind of stuff happens.
That's not cool.
And then we had the lady come to my house.
I'm like, nah, we ain't
We ain't just gonna blanket invite anybody and everybody it's all public telling everybody where we're gonna be what time we're gonna be there Can't do that and then there was one of the one location which I'm not gonna name Because when we announced we were doing Beyond the mics for I don't know May June July and August a number of businesses offered their Spaces and there was one because we would go and we check it out.
We look at the layout We try and figure out we're gonna have a special menu and drink specials and try to you know accommodate
The attendees would also work with the existing business because we want the business to do well.
Also, that's that was part of the point So there was one establishment that made like the shortlist it was between this place and Ultimately where we went for the last beyond the mic, which was mr. Bees So at the last minute we opted to go with mr. Bees just because it can accommodate Anything and everything that we need as far as posting an event
So the other place that we didn't choose was like a last minute decision.
There was a shooting a half block away that same night and at that moment I realized Even though it would have nothing to do with us if we held an event at an establishment a restaurant a lounge a bar whatever and there was a shooting or a shooting nearby and God forbid
One of our attendees got hurt.
I would not forgive myself and we were on borrowed time anyway.
Before something really, really bad happened because in the city of Milwaukee, like it's just a matter of time before there's a melee or a fight or something that happens, not even associated with us or what we're doing or the bar or the restaurant that we're at, but something nearby can happen.
So what troubled me was that location that we were considering.
had a parking garage across the street and had we had it at that venue and I'm glad that we didn't people could have been walking like leaving the venue or leaving you know our event going to their car or maybe going to another restaurant or going to another bar because we typically have our beyond the mics right around happy hour but obviously people will stay much longer and I could not imagine if somebody got hurt because I would get blamed for it
Radio host Sherwin Hughes has radio event three people get shot.
They blame me for that.
It's too much risk So I'll tell you what if you all want to have an event Go ahead Send your boy a invite I Come say hi cock.
I'm gonna have a drink with y'all, but I'm not sponsoring it 101 seven a true thing.
We'll need additional liability around here
I'll tell you what have Vivian King do an event.
I'll go to her event You know her show starts today.
I see somebody brought her congratulations balloon.
Yeah, very happy for her can't wait to listen I'm assuming you're gonna listen to why would you why would you not what do you mean?
Yes, you are gonna
listen.
Well, you know, sorry not on a one no excuse I'm here from you know early in the morning to the afternoon.
So I get all my radio in by 12
You
know what you probably do because you have two hours of homeroom Bailey Then you got three hours of me just having to fit about everything I'd imagine.
Yeah, you probably are done after my show.
Yeah, I'm done.
I don't listen to any afternoon shows.
No disrespect to them is just I'm radioed out But I will check in on occasionally on the Hughes views for one for on YouTube ain't nothing there, bro Not
done, but
Host in a show Now I had freedom and flexibility and it was fun, but also realized Doing a show five days a week from seven o'clock until eight o'clock in the summer like cuts into my life and to my social life and yeah, I suppose I could go do stuff You know after eight, but it was still another responsibility.
So I do a three-hour show here, which takes a hell of a lot of preparation Go home do whatever go to meetings have lunch rest a little bit and then have to put together a whole nother show
Uh-uh, I was too much and it was cutting into like I don't want to sit in front of a damn microphone all day long and I do appreciate all the folks that reached out and you know want me to continue it I Have to live somewhat of a life.
I can't just have a life in front of a microphone because I'm also starting to see what my sunset looks like I've been doing broadcasting in this city at a number of different radio stations for 18 years.
That's that's enough
Now I'm not don't plan on going anywhere yet, but I'm starting to see what because I don't want to be doing this so long Where time has passed me by and I'm not good at it anymore, but I just do it because I've been doing it I'm gonna be gone long before then If and or when I'm going to go out ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna go out on my terms I'm gonna go out on top not on the bottom Because that's what they'll remember though remember all sure when he stayed way too long.
He sucked
I miss calling in and
giving my own thoughts.
I had to block your phone.
How did you block my phone?
I only called like maybe three times.
How are you going to troll me?
Cuz I
and you pretend to be a transgender woman named Martha saying that we were going to protest
my show.
You
produced.
You believed it too.
You got too much time on your hand.
It was awesome.
You know, it was a prank call.
Yeah, it was just like, you know, I'm I'm unhappy to be on YouTube and I say, Oh,
I see your live thing, and I scroll, I click on your thing, and I say, oh, you're talking about, well, such and such, and I say, well, I just give them a call in to spice up his night.
You know?
Oh, you got mad because I went after the pink and purple hair
socialist.
How did you get mad?
You did.
You took time out of your evening to prank call me to make up a whole, like, identity.
But that's indicative of your generation, because y'all can reinvent.
Yourselves online and take on different personalities.
I just I found it weird and I just I didn't need
No, it wasn't that weird.
It was literally right It was it was super weird.
It was right after we did the we shot the thing at the Midtown Xavier you pretend
you pretend to be a transgender woman made up a name and a personality and Called my YouTube radio show to troll me bro
That's weird.
No, I thought it was fun.
Yes, I mean my barber when you called back.
I was literally in the barber chair when you called me back and I was doing the voice.
It was so funny.
So it really really
do a poll and ask people if that was weird or not.
You don't want them results.
You know, the people here don't even celebrate Halloween.
Why do I care about their opinion?
I'm just trying
to tell you would take my what I tell you with a grain of salt.
A straight heterosexual black man cosplaying is a transgender woman named Martha.
That's a Democratic socialist to troll me on my YouTube channel is weird, bro.
No, it was great.
Me and my barber and a lot of the producers, we had a great laugh.
It was so fun.
That also means that they're weird, too.
No,
I'm not saying
there's not a lot of weird people.
But if I do weird stuff.
Wouldn't want nobody to know and just because you wouldn't your barber and whatever thought it was funny.
Don't mean it ain't weird
No, it is weird to you because you got pranked and you're sitting here the next day You're waiting for Martha to come knock on your window and I just had to tell you hey, bro It was a prank.
They're not coming for you
if I cosplay as a Transgender woman I want all of y'all to tell me that I'm weird whether it's funny or not
And I just want y'all to be clear about this.
If Sherwin Hughes pretends to be a transgender woman named Martha, I'm gonna need one of y'all to check on me and get my medications refilled.
As funny as it may be, as a black man, another black man that does that?
Weird.
You're just obsessed with your illusion of masculinity.
See, I'm very comfortable in my masculinity.
I'm very comfortable in my mask cleaning.
I'm a very Alpha male presenting kind of male, you know, and you know,
I
can I can act a little goofy for a couple laughs and everyone in the They're laughing and I was laughing and you just weren't on the laughing end You're just waiting for Martha and all the people to come to prove you right and I was just like I just gotta let this
guy know if you want to cosplay of somebody in drag
Like, I got to accept that stuff as a part of, but what I think people will do, I'm a masculine, masculine alpha males will never cosplay as a transgender woman named Martha, but whatever, we ain't gonna agree on that.
So I'm gonna take a break, come back.
Gonna continue having a masculine conversation in which I'm not gonna cosplay as a woman named Martha.
Cause I think sometimes when people do that, that's who they actually like feel like on the inside.
If that's the case, like I'm all for that.
Like I want people.
I've long said I don't like when people have to hide and be in the closet because we're unfair to people That want to actually be themselves and because society has all these rules and we're very discriminatory and bigoted like I would rather I feel more comfortable Xavier if you came to work wearing a full dress a wig and
you would like that.
No, you're fantasizing about it now.
I just did a
changed my voice.
If that would make you were very good, too.
I was that
would make you like a more comfortable, like confident part like I would support that.
But what people do is they like they joke around with it like, oh, I just like when straight dudes like tell like gay jokes and stuff.
I
think
sometimes
they're
kind of flirting with the
idea of like, well, if I actually come out, how will people react to me?
But we're not going to solve this problem today.
But either way, I respect what choices people make if if.
They're being true to themselves because when people have to hide and mask who they really are on their true identity like that's when People get angry and they're on edge all the time.
I believe like a whole bunch of like crazy people like murders and mass shooters feel trapped In a body that they don't want to be in and because they can't realize who they really are they get angry and they get violent So here's what I say purple weeks for everybody.
You know what I mean?
All right, the truth was sure when Hughes will be right back
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We put
a poll up on YouTube asking about
Halloween I've always been told that you know Halloween is an evil and spooky Holiday in which religious people because it's anti-religious.
I don't see it as that I see it as it's a good time in which people can you know put on wigs and Explore different personalities.
I also believe this is a personal belief
The Halloween allows you to explore personalities and characters that you can't normally do any other time of the year, but that is the excuse like when women dress up and what I would say oftentimes are very inappropriate costumes because they actually feel like that deep down inside and Halloween allows people to express themselves without judgment, right?
I told the story many many years ago.
I think I was in seventh grade eighth grade.
Where myself and my my classmates we're all gonna dress up cuz we had a Halloween thing at school We're all gonna dress up as women We're gonna wear our mother's clothes and it was like I don't know nine or ten of us that were all going to You know wear wigs and makeup and blouses and all that and skirts and high heels and it was gonna be very funny I think we're in seventh or eighth grade at the time and My mother laid out an outfit for me
I got up that next morning.
I looked at the clothes and I'm probably 13 years old, 12, 13, maybe.
And I was like, ain't no way I couldn't do it, even as a joke, even to be funny.
I felt disgusting thinking about wearing women's clothes like I didn't see the humor in it.
And maybe, you know, was that was that homophobia?
I don't know what it was.
I know that I did not feel comfortable because when I saw the clothes laid out, I said, I'm not putting on a skirt.
Now, here's what was crazy.
All my other friends did and maybe there is, I don't know, maybe a stigma because they always try to make.
They've always been scared of the masculinity of black men.
If you look at the number of black.
Characters and actors and in sitcoms a number of black men that have dressed up as women and play women characters I think that there's something deep and psychological about that because the masculinity of black men has always been something that America has feared and maybe I internalize that I just know that I find it Uncomfortable at least for me to embrace
That kind of identity and I can't necessarily hide behind the holidays.
Oh, it's Halloween.
I'm gonna dress up like a woman I'd rather dress up like the wolf man or Dracula, you know what I mean or Frankenstein not Wanda So come to find out that Halloween spending is gonna reach
13.5 billion dollars nationwide.
So even though the number of people that responded to our poll, the overwhelming number at 68% do not celebrate Halloween.
Well, somebody is because 13 billion dollars essentially for a single weekend or a single day, which is Saturday, October 31st is a tremendous amount of money.
But then there's something else that I've noticed.
And we talk about this, you know, every year when Halloween comes up.
Trick or treating in different communities and neighborhoods and What I have found and have been told you know local news is gonna cover it and Trick or treating is gonna take place.
Sometimes they have night trick or treating which I never recommend a bunch of kids dressed up in Halloween costumes getting candy from strangers at night There's just something about that that seems unsafe, but I also remember the era
When parents had to go through with a fine tooth comb, their children's Halloween candy, because people were putting foreign objects in the candy.
I know you guys remember that if you're of a certain age, people would find needles and all sorts of foreign objects in the candy.
So you'd have to smash the candy and make sure there was no needles in it.
Like that's just frightening.
But what I am, maybe I'm the only one that has a problem with it, or I'm the only one who is willing to vocalize it.
Because I know that people that live elsewhere outside of Milwaukee have their thoughts and opinions about Milwaukee because you can read how they feel about us online You know whenever our mayor does something whenever there's a crime in Milwaukee in our local news stations that always have a social media component Post about a story or somebody getting killed or shot or you know these takeovers whatever they always have these really really horrible and negative things to say about the culture and the social climate
Milwaukee, right?
Why are you sending your kids out to those communities to trick-or-treat?
Why are we doing that?
I Don't know if we know understand or appreciate How hated we actually are I think it's very very tough because black folks see how we've been victimized but don't But don't look at the people that are victimizing us as the oppressor I'm gonna take a break when I come back.
I'm gonna give you
Probably shouldn't even do this but the trick or treat times in surrounding neighborhoods like y'all know what I'm talking about when a bunch of black kids go out to like Go to Burlington and Cedarburg
and Elkhorn and Elm Grove and Fox Point and Franklin and Germantown and Glendale and Grafton and Greendale and Greenfield and Hales Corners when we don't live out there, but we'll send our kids or we'll drive our kids out to these lily white suburban communities that fundamentally hate everything about us, but we'll send our kids out there to trick or treat like I just wish we would stop doing that because I'm actually worried for our kids safety.
I'm taking a break.
Come back.
Give you guys the.
Trick-or-treat times in surrounding neighborhoods.
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Let's talk to Ron.
Hello, Ron.
How are you doing?
Pick up my car, man.
I like the subject.
It's hard to leave, but when I was little, I was like five or six, man.
I didn't like how to leave that much, man.
I got assaulted when I had my cops.
You know, I got assaulted when I was five or six these girls.
It was always trying to pull on my snickers.
You know, and since I was like five or six, it was like fun size.
And I got a thought that I didn't like it.
But as an adult, I like it now.
And here's something that they're going to do.
Nature-to-treatment, baby, and walkers.
A lot of folks say they got nature-to-treatment.
And man, they give out the treats for the adults.
They give out pizza and all their stuff.
But I like Halloween now as an adult.
As a kid, I would commentize.
But thanks for taking my call.
Did Ron just call us and say a bunch of girls used to pull on a Snickers bar?
What is what's wrong with people?
I'm our producer Identifying as a transgender Ron is over here calling.
So what it?
This is why we can't have nice things this this is exactly Sometimes I wonder
If I was born at the wrong time, you know what I mean?
I think.
All right, here we go.
You guys want to go trick or treat in those communities?
I don't recommend it.
I think it's tacky.
I think it's disrespectful because.
Like the amount of complaints that we have because, you know, a lot of those people in those suburban enclaves are very racist and they moved like Milwaukee has lost population for a number of reasons.
But a lot of times people have moved out of this city to get away from us There's a whole thing called white flight whereas we moved here to the city from You know the South white families left they went off to suburb sometimes they even left the state It's a real thing But we'll send our kids to the same communities That don't want black people out there, but we'll send our kids like that just sounds like
unnecessary vulnerability to me All right Here we go Halloween is one of those holidays that everyone can enjoy in this story is brought to you courtesy of Fox six now.com and The Fox six now.com hollow Halloween headquarters was created to give you the upper hand on learning trick-or-treat times where the best haunted houses can be found
Provide you with some direction on finding that great costume this Halloween also noting that via our YouTube poll 69% of you when asked do you celebrate Halloween say no I do because this is a fun weekend for me in fact Because Halloween is on a Saturday.
Oh, I got big plans that Saturday.
I'm not dressing up I was gonna dress up in fact I was gonna have a whole Halloween party that fella that fell flat had some technical difficulties with that
But I'm gonna go out and enjoy the weekend for me It's just you know another day or another reason I supposed to celebrate All right Here we go Trick or treat times beaver damn all these are on Halloween.
So every community is having their trick or treat on Halloween
Beaver dam 4 to 6 p.m.
Bayside 1 to 4 p.m.
Brookfield the city of Brookfield 5 to 7 30 p.m.
Brown deer 1 to 4 p.m.
Bayview 5 to 8 p.m.
Burlington 6 to 8 p.m.
Caledonia 5 30 to 7 a lot of night trick-or-treating Cedarburg from 5 until 8 p.m.
This is all on Halloween all on Saturday October 31st cut it hey 5 to 8 p.m.
Delafield 5 to 8 p.m.
East, Troy
I'll be damned if y'all go out to East Troy and Trick or Treat from 5 until 7 30 p.m.
Elkhorn 5 to 7 p.m.
Elm Grove 5 30 to 7 30 p.m.
Fox Point 1 to 4 p.m.
Franklin 4 to 7 p.m.
Germantown 5 37 30 Glendale 1 to 4 p.m.
Grafton 4 to 7 p.m.
Greendale 4 to 7 p.m.
Hales Corners 4 to 7 p.m.
Hartford the city of Hartford 4 to 6 p.m.
Jackson 6 to 8 p.m.
Nope
Johnson Creek, yep 537 p.m.
Kenosha 4 to 7 p.m.
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