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October 15th, 2026.

The days are all running together.

Let me tell you why the days are all running together because I'm very excited when I get excited.

I kind of lose track of time.

Oh, the Brewers are going to the World Series.

You make no mistake about that.

One went away.

From going back to glory the last time they were there in 1982.

I was just a wee tot.

And I think the city needs this.

We need the.

Injection of optimism to where we're all rooting hopefully for the same thing Every so often it's real good for a city to have a common collective purpose and if it sports so be it so shout out to the Brewers for Getting a win on the road against the LA Dodders.

I'm thinking sweep quite honestly just like they swept us the Dodders swept us

Last season we might be returning the favor and that concludes the sports broadcast portion of my program I got other things I want to share with you.

Also, let me shout out Homer and Bailey I Joined them on their program this morning for probably longer than I should have but it's always good to chat with them See if they just ask me nicely I will come down and spend a little time with them, but I want them and everyone else to understand

that during their program is my preparation time for this program and there's a lot of information I need to collect and gather and read and digest and dissect so I can keep this jet engine fueled up for three hours because I can't reach a cruising altitude with this program let's say at hour one or hour two and then run out of gas because then we're gonna have to make an unexpected landing and we don't want to do that.

So I do make a little bit of a sacrifice.

What does Homer do to this microphone?

The microphone needs Viagra.

We did talk about when I was with Homer and Bailey, police interactions, and we're such hypocrites in this community.

I'm gonna give you some crime information today where overall it appears the crime is down in the city, but I don't...

I don't put a lot of weight in those statistics because if somebody feels unsafe, the math doesn't matter.

If I say, oh, homicides are down 22% from this time last year, but you just experienced someone in your family or a friend who was killed, there was a victim of homicide, then the statistics don't matter.

It's about people's overall personal, subjective feeling of safety because if you feel safe,

and the understanding of the city, the perception of Milwaukee is safe, then people will come here and they'll spend time here, they'll go to restaurants here, they'll spend more money here, but I don't know if the overall perception of the city of Milwaukee is a safe place.

And when crime might be going down, but if people don't feel safe, here's what happens.

People that don't feel safe decide that they want to get guns.

That is a complicated subject matter.

I know a lot of people want to oversimplify things because that's what folks like to do Oh, I don't feel safe.

I'm gonna get a gun Statistically, you're not gonna use it on some criminal breaking into your house.

I Know we watch a lot of movies And you know, we see these things play out on television like oh person broke into the house and hero homeowner shot him that doesn't happen now if you want to pay attention to statistics statistically you are much more likely to

Shoot your spouse much more likely for a child to find that firearm and you are much more likely to die by suicide if you have a gun in your house and also Concealed carry does not make this world safer.

I'm gonna give you just a real quick example on this and I hope you agree We sometimes have police that don't know when they should be Discharging their service with and maybe they should be de-escalating maybe they should intervene in a different way

And every so often, thank God it's not every single moment of every single day, a police officer pulls that trigger when they probably shouldn't have.

And these are folks that we believe are trained in a variety of different scenarios and they go through tactical training and they go through all these different situations where they should and should not discharge their firearm.

Do you think that a regular average citizen who only gets concealed carry training, which isn't very detailed?

On the variety of situations you may find yourself in, and most people that have guns, if you don't go to the range regularly, you're probably going to be a bad shot.

I know having a gun makes you feel safe in a city where the perception of crime is very high, even though the numbers and the statistics are telling us that crime is going down.

If people don't feel safe, people are going to get guns, and the more guns that we have in our society does not make anything better.

Because people won't know when to shoot don't know who to shoot at and if they miss if you fire at somebody and you miss and you injure somebody else You got a whole host of legal troubles that are going to follow you for the rest of your life And then at that moment you realize I probably shouldn't have gotten a gun in the first place Crime has gone down overall in the city, but there's a very unusual caveat.

There's an asterisk Next to these crime statistics and that is what I want to discuss today also

Today is the day we found out that that youth detention facility out there on 76 and Good Hope, you know, the one that used to be a vehicle emissions testing station, you know, the one that cost 80 million dollars to build, you know, that youth detention center that is in the community in the neighborhood, the far northwest side of the city.

I call that area the land that time forgot because when Northridge mall closed almost a quarter century ago.

It took almost that entire neighborhood, that whole ninth Aldermanic district with it.

Not much has moved in.

Hell, even the Walmart moved out of that area when you lose a Walmart.

And that was that Walmart closed back before we had this current rash of closing of grocery stores and retail stores, etc.

Even that Walmart was like, we can't be over here anymore.

If you lose a Walmart, that's now it just moved a little bit further east To brown deer, but the point is still made if development consists of government buildings and prisons and detention centers That's not the kind of economic development that we want even though the government buildings and prisons and jails and detention centers Yes, that is economic development.

Yes, there's

people that are hired to do the construction.

And yes, absolutely.

There are people that are going to work in that facility.

There's going to be doctors and nurses and correction officers and all of the people.

Problem though, it's a net negative for us because all of those people and all of those jobs and that $80 million detention center, they are all being funded by tax dollars.

So revenue.

Isn't being generated plus the incarceration of a youth is exceptionally expensive.

I believe it's somewhere between 90 and 100 thousand dollars per year So that is a net negative on our tax income speaking of tax income.

I got to make mention of this I Did hear Superintendent of the Milwaukee public schools Brenda Cassellius you join my colleagues

Homer and Bailey and she said something that was exceptionally political and I don't want People to miss the political statement that she made so first she made a pitch to voting She wants everybody to vote because I think the superintendent knows Where she was that she knows this radio station a majority Democratic listening base now we got some Republicans out there, but the majority of the people that soon into us are probably Democrats of her first

thing that she said in this regard.

She's a political lady because her job is politics because there is a board that appoints her.

The MPS school board directs her.

She actually works for them.

They approve and sign her contract.

They authorize her salaries.

They essentially structure the curriculum that is going to be implemented and she is the executive that executes said curriculum.

Obviously, the superintendent is political.

Here's what's crazy.

At the same time we're building a youth detention facility, we had the superintendent of NPS on because the two are pipelines to each other.

So I find these things very interesting and ironic.

And so she encouraged people to vote, which of course, whenever you are talking to the black community, you always got to tell us to vote because for some reason we don't like to do it.

We got to be reminded.

I believe she is hoping that there is a democratic governor and a democratic legislature.

But here's what the superintendent said.

There was overly political and she essentially told us if you were listening carefully enough, a referendum is coming.

She already knows it's coming.

I think it's going to be $330 million.

They probably already have the language sketched out because they want to renovate some of these buildings because the buildings are old, which she also said in her interview.

For every $100,000 of assessed value of your house Your property taxes are going to go up with this next referendum is going to go up an additional $120 per $100,000 of assessed value So if your house is assessed at $300,000 you are going to pay an additional

an additional three hundred and sixty dollars per year on top of the like two hundred and sixty or two hundred seventy dollars you are paying in additional because of the previous referendum it just keeps stacking up but the superintendent told everyone to vote which means she is hoping that we get a democratic wisconsin state senate and a democratic control wisconsin state assembly both of which are real possibilities

but also a Democratic governor in which she then said the state has $4 billion in surplus, which it does.

I think it's a little bit less than that now.

And inflation has probably eaten some of that money up.

The superintendent basically said the legislature needs to do its job and take some of that $4 billion surplus and invest it in education.

That is not going to happen.

In fact, MPS probably needs all $4 billion of those dollars.

And that is money for all 72 counties and all 1851 municipalities in the state of Wisconsin.

And to think that MPS is going to even get a piece of that money is ridiculous and outrageous.

But here's another thing that I'm seeing people are doing.

David Crowley is going to be set up for failure because the black Democrat that gets elected to governor and it's looking very good for him.

Now, of course, anything can happen.

But it's looking good.

It's also looking good that the Democrats are going to get control of the legislature.

And they're going to immediately say, David, you need a fully fund public education.

You need to take some of that money, that surplus money.

You need to give it to MPS.

Or if you don't, David, David, if you don't, if you don't give us the surplus money, not only are we going to increase taxes, we're going to do it in your name because see David Crowley, all the education people and the teachers and the teachers union people who are very political.

They said, David, if you don't give us some of that money for MPS,

We're going to put a referendum on your people.

So what's going to end up happening is David gets elected.

He's probably going to say screw you.

We've got a whole bunch of other priorities in this state.

I can't just give the $4 billion surplus just to education.

And they're going to say David Crowley as governor in his first term, major property taxes go up.

I'm going to take a break.

Come back.

Should Milwaukee have gated communities and before you jump to a damn conclusion I want you to actually give it some thought and that's our YouTube poll question of the day You guys have it been to a city that has a gated community.

It's actually kind of nice.

It is.

I'm serious not inconvenient They're checking everybody that comes in door Dasher uber eats pizza delivery your mom and your cousins and then when they want to come and visit you They got to check in at the gate, but you know who is coming in

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They may go to Extraordinary measures so that they can get a good night's sleep You might put a security system in your home and that's recommended.

Anyway, it's just a good rule of thumb and also it will qualify you for a discount in your homeowners and or renters insurance So it's just a good rule of thumb to get a security system.

But if you hear about

A number of break-ins, maybe on your block, maybe in the general vicinity, maybe in the neighborhood, that could impact your subjective feeling of safety and you might want to be proactive and go and get you an ADT system where a very unusual person will come to your house and install the security system.

But it'll make you feel safer or some people just take the shortcut I'm gonna get a gun don't know how to use it Don't know how to load it don't know how to disassemble it don't know how to clean and oil it But they're gonna have a gun because just having that firearm makes them feel safer.

So there are things that we can do Maybe there's a policy solution, but I think we've tried a lot of policy solutions

Maybe there are some community solutions.

Hell, maybe there are development solutions because we want people to feel safer because if they don't feel safe, they're going to do things to make themselves, however arbitrary, feel safe.

There's another thing that I notice.

So our interactions with the police.

are very interesting because depending upon the day and whatever the topic may be, some of you want more police.

You see a lot of reckless driving.

You hear about crime.

You saw crime being committed.

Maybe some of you even called the police and you got very slow service.

We will want more police.

If something happened, we want more police.

That's usually a default setting.

People will even call over her this over the years Oh, sure when I'll go an entire day and I won't see any police anywhere at all.

I don't see any patrolling I don't see any cops walking around I don't see police officers on motorcycles or bicycles side notes on Bicycle cops.

Why do they wear Daisy Dukes?

They were the shortest little shorts

Why is it that police officers that are on bikes shave their legs?

I don't know why they do it is a department policy You know damn well them legs be so smooth and they'd be all lotioned up lotioned up cop legs How can you take that police officer seriously and I listen you're supposed to take the police seriously, but if there is a cop wearing some Daisy Duke shorts on a bicycle Because he obviously doesn't have a siren How do you get pulled over by a bike cop?

Slow down hold on and they're pedaling like real fast, but they're not going very fast But their legs are moving like really fast you ever seen them before on a bicycle cop.

I would just outrun.

I'm going seven miles an hour Pull over Sherwin, please my legs are getting very tired

My legs are also very shiny and glistening and shaved, and I never see women bicycle cops.

Have you ever seen a woman bicycle cop?

I'm just going off of what I see, ladies and gentlemen.

Jeez, relax.

So we'll want more police.

Because we want to feel safe, and maybe if we have more police, even though we are mandated by law to have at least, if I'm not mistaken, 1,650 police officers in the city of Milwaukee on active duty.

by a certain date.

And if we do not reach that threshold of 1,650 police officers active and on duty in the city of Milwaukee, we will lose a portion of our shared revenue.

Now, that ordinance, that law very well could get amended if, in fact, we get a Democratic governor and a Democratic legislature, because it's very difficult to meet that number.

Because at the end of the day, we may want more police.

We may want.

More subjective feeling of safety, but let's be clear.

Nobody wants to be a cop If you talk to a young person and you ask them what they want to do because back in the day you ask a young person Oh, I want to be a doctor or a lawyer or a cop or a firefighter.

No, I don't know what they want to be I think they want to be Steve the stoners and Do dances in public?

They look semi gay Not hold on relax not entirely gay, but just like 42%

Don't know what young people want to do, but they don't want to be cause they don't want to be teachers and these are foundational vocations that we need to create a society that is much more economically prosperous and safer I Said all that to say this I Did watch the I think it was cell phone footage.

I have not seen the body camera footage of It's a Milwaukee man That was handcuffed

thrown to the ground by three Milwaukee police officers and then punched repeatedly when it did appear that this individual was subdued and maybe that bleeds over into excessive force.

I know based upon what I saw and it's only 35 seconds.

It's not the entire incident.

It looks pretty bad.

But please know something.

That if we get the police that we want more police and if we meet that threshold set by the Republican legislature of 1,650 police officers, which is probably 200 more than we have right now You're gonna see incidents like this and I'm not putting blame on anybody because I don't know the details of it.

I can just comment on that video But this hypochondrasis

That African Americans have African American men in particular When we see situations like a cop using excessive force We believe that that happens every day all the time and it's going to happen to us Even when it does not happen every day all of the time and does not happen to us.

Let me clarify

Whenever there's an officer involved shooting where we believe it was not Justified it doesn't matter where it happens it can happen in a city and in a state that you have never been to in your entire life But when black people black men in particular

see an officer involved shooting that on initial inspection doesn't appear to be justified.

Oh my God, we think that it's going to happen to us next.

The next time we get in our car, we're going to get pulled over by the police and the police are going to beat us up and the police are going to shoot us when we're totally innocent, even though it has never happened to us.

And I can't remember what the specific situation was, but it was some years ago.

Where there was an officer involved shooting and it wasn't even in Milwaukee was somewhere else But it did make national news and this was some years ago And people were calling into the radio show I was on WNOV at the time and they were complaining about how terrible the police officers are and all of the police officers are racist and they're you know the police started as slave patrols all that is true all that is true

And they were just so angry that these police officers are so incredibly racist and every time they interact with a black man, they shoot us and kill us.

They would really have you thinking that every time we get pulled over by a cop, we need to get our affairs in order and get out some life insurance because we gon' die at the hands of the police.

But then I asked the people that were calling and I said, it was mostly black men.

A couple black women called in.

Now that's a whole other story because black women call the police on us.

I think more than white folks do.

I want you to sit with that.

They'll call the cops on us don't have a brother be on probation or parole And he lives with his woman and she can use the criminal justice system to control her man She don't like her man out there in the streets and she'll tell him if you ain't home by 11 o'clock I'm calling your PO and guess what she does And now they're coming to arrest him.

Oh, we can have a whole weeks worth of conversations on that So somebody had called in and they were obviously very upset about this officer involved shooting that took place somewhere else

And I started to ask the people that were calling in what kind of interactions they had with the police.

Because they were very emphatic about how racist law enforcement is.

I said, well, brother, when was the last time you got pulled over by the police?

I got pulled over last week.

Well, what happened?

I got let go of the warning.

Huh.

Fair enough, somebody else called it.

Can't believe these police officers sure what all they doing is killing us black men.

We're innocent victims.

They just murdering us left and right.

OK, brother, I understand you're very.

Emotional over what you saw in that body camera footage of a black man getting harmed by the police in a far away state in a far away city.

Hey, brother, when was the last time you had an interaction with the police a couple months ago?

You want to tell us about it?

Yeah, and I will never forget this.

This brother said that he was drunk at seven o'clock in the morning and hit a school bus full of kids.

And it was a white cop that responded.

He said that cop let him go home.

The cop was like, oh, is your car drivable?

And the guy was like, yeah, it's dry.

But he's like, OK, get on out of here.

What I have found is that a large number of African-American men have like this hypochondrosis.

We think that if a black person somewhere, anywhere that we don't know.

in a city in a town that we've never heard of can't spell the name of it and can't find it on a map.

If a black person is harmed by the police in anywhere America, we think it's going to happen to us, even though it has never happened to us.

And it's unusual because the city of Milwaukee has that minimum 240, 250,000 black people.

And if it was really that bad, they would be offering like 10 of us a day.

But they aren't I think more often than not the police are just letting us go or they just don't even care so when I look at this incident of this handcuffed man being taken to the ground and punched by the police and I can't remember the last time there has been a similar situation we have to admit that these situations are in fact rare now they probably never should happen

But never is a very specific kind of term when we want more police and we do because people don't feel safe

these kinds of situations are going to become more common and we do hope that if a person was wrong that they can receive some semblance of justice but we got to stop psyching ourselves out and thinking that this kind of stuff happens every day because a bunch of y'all are driving around your one moving violation after another you're speeding your license plates aren't registered your windows are tinted too dark and you're driving around through the city smoking a blunt

And then when you get pulled over for any one of those things, of course, the cop is racist.

Stop it.

And you got to wear your seatbelt and you got to have proof of insurance.

So we can't have it both ways.

We can't want more cops and demand more cops.

And then when there are incidences that take place, when it appears that a cop is using excessive force, we can't then all of a sudden play the victims.

Because if I ask some of y'all.

What you would have done to some of these criminals in our community, especially reckless drivers, some of y'all, if given the power and the authority of the police would be more, would use more excessive force than the cops actually do.

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JD the poet says He has friends that are in the city of Milwaukee That live in gated communities I'm unfamiliar he says the River Place lofts and walkers point and The ones across from Presidio off of 55th Street, so like gated there's a gate

where there's only one way in and one way out and there's a person who is checking the identity of anyone entering.

So apartments and condos that's different.

I'm talking about like homes that have wrought iron gates where the neighborhood is encapsulated in that gate.

There's only one way in.

There's no walking paths into that community.

There's no biking paths.

I am unfamiliar.

I'm not saying that those places don't exist, but I know that there are cities.

So Memphis is a great example.

There's plenty of gated communities in Memphis.

Let's say there's a crime that gets committed somewhere in the city.

A big one, a bad one.

People get very angry.

We say the whole neighborhood is bad, and then people will get nostalgic and say, you know, 60 years ago, it wasn't this bad.

We didn't have these kinds of problems 60 years ago.

And then immediately it will turn on poor people and it will turn on people that are receiving section eight because they are the ones responsible for the crime.

And I'm not going to get into the details of that.

But if I talk about that long enough, talk about whatever incident of crime took place and people get angry and I take some of your telephone calls and we have a call right now.

I'm going to take in a second.

Ultimately people will say we want those people out of here.

We don't want them to live here.

We want to deport them somewhere We want to get rid of them.

We got around these people up I'm sure you guys have heard our many conversations about whatever crime took place and then immediately After me discussing what that crime was we got to say these bad people need to go they need to go back to Chicago We need to remove them from the city and I also express how difficult that is and also it's kind of like ethnic cleansing or not kind of like it is

And then you may wonder where this brand of fascism comes from that we're experiencing right now in this nation politically.

There are undesirable people that we blame our problems on and we want those people gone, not depending upon who you are and what the issue is.

You may think that immigrants are coming over here and taking your jobs and that's why you're under or unemployed.

And so you want those immigrants to go back to where they come from.

Same with African Americans if we believe that a certain element, maybe it's a poor element, maybe it's an element that gets sectioned and gets welfare benefits.

If we believe whether it's true or not, whether we believe it, that's all that matters.

If we think that these are the people that are destroying our neighborhoods and committing all this crime, we want those people eradicated and removed from our neighborhood.

Just like some Trumpers want illegal immigrants and Mexicans shipped across the border, there is very, very little difference.

And I try to explain to folks, well, you can't just do that.

You can't just say, hey, you look poor.

I don't like you.

You need to go somewhere else.

That's not really how that goes.

But maybe what we can do is gate a community, but I want to take it a step further.

I want to share with you guys some of the crime numbers how they're down in some areas of the city But they're but they're moving to other areas like Sherman Park is experiencing an unprecedented uptick in violent crime But the Harambe neighborhood the crime is going down and it's just a matter of where the crimes are committed It's rarely the people that live in those neighborhoods.

It's just when the crime occurs We mark the neighborhood.

It doesn't mean the whole neighborhood is bad.

It just means that this is where the homicide took place

Now we can't just pick people at random and remove them or you can't say poor people can't live here.

That's illegal unconstitutional and violates a whole bunch of stuff.

But what if we had gated communities?

But we took it a step further because I want people to feel safe.

Crime is down.

Statistically, but the subjective feeling of safety is also down.

So people are not feeling safer and we're not.

If we are not feeling safer, then more people are going to go and get guns and that compounds the problem.

What if we had a gated community where to live in this community, whether you owned or rented, we can do a little experiment.

We'll call it Sherwin Village.

To live in this community and it's going to be crime free.

You understand it?

Not a bike is gonna get stolen.

No homes are gonna get broken into there's not gonna be any armed robberies or strong armed robberies There's not gonna be any homicides.

There's not gonna be any kind of assault aggravated assault There's not gonna be any battery not entirely sure what battery is but it goes right along with assault Well, there's not gonna be either one of those in the Sherwin Village It's gonna be a gated community where if you want to live here.

We'll accept your section eight

Sure, come on in with your section eight, but you're gonna have to pass a background check No criminal record whatsoever and and and every person that you want to come and visit you in the Sherwin community Sherwin Village, they got to pass a background check too.

So guess what your cousin and no that's got an armed robbery conviction which in that

Unfortunate that he, you know, got in trouble, but he paid his debt to society.

Well, you still can't come into this community.

You can't even visit your baby mama if you got a criminal background.

Can we do that?

I think we can.

But first, let's talk to Linda.

You're on one on one seven.

The truth.

How are you?

Good morning.

Good morning.

It's a good day in Milwaukee, sir.

Yes, I thought that I should come in on this conversation because.

Yeah, you're you man.

So many great things are happening.

You're talking about two things.

One is investing in communities.

And yes, there are gated communities and Milwaukee.

One is on 91st.

10 years ago, I discovered that.

of that gated community is educators, principals, and all of that.

And I was like, oh, no, I don't want

to go there.

91st and 91st and what?

Like an actual physical wrought iron gate?

Yes.

It's an

upper class gated community of home owners of principals and teachers.

91st

and what?

Linda, I need to know where it is.

You can't just say

91st.

I don't know the exact sharing, but just keep going.

And it's just before.

brown deer.

But let me say this, there's a difference in the middle class upper-scale gated communities and the organized neighborhood communities, you know, neighborhood watch communities like Bridge Builders, like, you know, Amani and Sherman Fiends.

These are different.

These are working class communities that want to be gated.

if you want to use that word because we want to uh we are homeowners and we are investing in our you know landscape our communities and we are um what i should i say you can't regulate a person's heart you can't heal wounds you know but we can set a social and a societal standard for these people who do not love themselves in our

of behaving out of wounds and baby that goes not just for the least amongst us because Linda is learning baby a lot of these leaders a lot of these gatekeepers are behaving out of their wounds and suppressing uh people like myself that want to you know see progress in the black community and these people are holding us down hello black crab mentality but anyway

We're talking about communities.

This is the only way that Milwaukee can get back some black pride in our communities by taking ownership and investing in where we live and recognizing that we have to shun those people, those elements, those minutes to society that do not respect or love themselves.

We

hold standard.

I know we have to, but how do we do that?

Do we kill them?

Do we ship them off to Mexico because we keep talking about the bad element and there's nothing we can do about them and you got to hurry up and say this because I gotta take a break.

Okay.

Here's what the bridge builders do with the seventh precinct and the Alderman.

We, you know, let them know.

We give them citations.

We let them know.

You are a problem in our community.

Okay, and that works.

We give them a ticket that they're not going to pay.

All right, fair enough.

Yeah, once you start involving the law, once you start applying financial accountability, baby, yes, they do.

And this is why I called the the MPB and I told them that we need to start getting tough on team negligence and how they are doing because I think we should detain these teams, hold them.

And to the parent come and if the parents don't come tell somebody CPS because a lot of these parents out of town don't know what their child doing but know that their child is not Responsible, let's

leave it there Linda because I got to take a break, but I appreciate your call Did you guys hear that detain the teens you got to just run them up just grab them because they're doing something I supposed to do I need you to understand that that is a mentality that really exists

in our community, but also keep in mind, what if you're the teen being detained?

What if you don't want to be detained?

What if you literally didn't do anything wrong?

And what if you're a teen of 18 or 19, you're actually an adult and a cop comes and detains you because that is what the community sentiment is.

And let's say that that person, that teen, that 18, that 19, that 17 that's being detained, doesn't want to be detained.

And then they don't want to be handcuffed.

They don't want to be taken down to the precinct.

And now they're resisting arrest.

And now somebody that cop punches that 18, that 19.

in the face all of a sudden oh my god the police are killing us so I want us to listen to how hypocritical we can be we want to get rid of them we want more law enforcement Linda said give them citations you honestly think they're giving a poor person a ticket is going to change their behavior giving a poor person a ticket is going to put a poor person further into debt because they're not going to pay it they're going to put food on the table they're going to pay the rent they're going to pay whatever expenses they're going to put gas in the car they're not paying that ticket we'll talk more about this on the other side the truth with Sherwin Hughes will be right back

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I cannot find any gated communities in Milwaukee.

And when I Google it, apartments and condos are all that the search results are returning.

That's not the same thing.

I'm not saying that there aren't any.

I just, I can't find any.

And when I asked Linda where the gated community was, she said, oh, 91st.

91st runs the complete length of the city of Milwaukee.

So where on 91st?

Or she said just before brown deer trying to pick.

I'm familiar with that area.

So somewhere between Vincent High School.

There is a little enclave back there, but I don't know if it's gated unless the gates are new.

But you can't just have a gated community.

I think we need to take it a step further.

Let me give you.

An example that makes sense.

Have you all ever checked.

The sex offender registry.

for the zip codes you live in or your neighborhood, you will be astonished.

Now, I thought that neighbors and residents had to be notified if a sex offender was moving into your, like you're supposed to get a letter or something or somebody knocks on your door and is like, Hey, just to let you know, pervert is moving in on Wednesday.

I thought that there was like a committee of people or something that I know around Halloween time.

at trick-or-treating time the sheriff's department goes and Like they make the sex offenders like leave their houses or something you guys from know you with this because they have it on the news known sex offenders because their name is on the list as a registry and neighbors and community members are supposed to get an Alerts or some kind of notification that a sex offender is moving into your neighborhood But there's also a website and so

Haven't checked the website in years because I just it's very disappointing Each sex offender is noted on a map with like a little purple dot.

Okay, and I looked at Just the north side of the city of Milwaukee.

There were so many purple dots The entire north side of the city of Milwaukee was literally one big purple dot They are on every block in every single street

Now, I was under the impression that the community had to be notified.

I know that I haven't been notified and there are some that live in the vicinity of my house, but I don't I'm not worried about it necessarily because I don't I'm too old for a sex offender and also.

I mean, I'll kick your ass if you try to get some of my sweet chocolate, right?

But there are children, though, that are in in our neighborhood.

And I wonder if those parents know.

That's our sex offenders on the block.

So there's legal precedent where you are supposed to and can identify offenders and tell the neighbors What if we took it a step further because right now?

Sex offenders are on a registry.

We know where they live.

We know all the details of these people We know the details of their crime when they were arrested all that if you click on one of these little purple dots It'll give you the person's picture all of the things, right?

But what if we did that for other offenses?

So sex offenders included.

But what if somebody had a drug trafficking case or a human trafficking case or burglary or armed robbery?

What if we knew what if the neighbors and the residents were made aware?

Hey, somebody who committed a homicide is moving into your neighborhood.

And what if the residents said.

We don't want them here because there used to be these huge town hall meetings.

If a sex offender was going to move into a neighborhood, usually Oak Creek or Franklin, there'd be a town hall meeting and the residents would rise up and say, no, you can't move into our community.

And then they would have to find somewhere else for that person to live.

And I think it's the state's responsibility to locate and relocate sex offenders.

But when the community is alerted, the community can say, no.

Because of the crime that you committed, we don't want you to live here and the state will find somewhere else for them to live.

And I feel like the state is dumping those sex offenders in the black community because again, nobody cares if black children get sexually assaulted or black women get raped, okay?

But what if we could do that?

What if you knew for an absolute fact that each and every one of your neighbors had a clean record?

no criminal background whatsoever.

Would that help improve your subjective feeling of safety to where you wouldn't need a firearm to protect yourself?

If we can list someone on the sex offender registry and we can look up their whole criminal background and read the details of their sexual offense, probably against a child, okay?

Why can't we do that?

with other crimes that people committed because isn't it the right of the people to feel Safe at home and in their neighborhood and in their community and if you think that the police are gonna be there all of the time and catch every single You know burglar or attempted armed robbery.

That's we can't rely on the police like that There's not enough of them even if we have the number of officers that we're supposed to have legally in a city of Milwaukee 1650 there's 570,000 people in this city

over almost 100 square miles.

1600 cops is not going to do it.

What if we could take more proactive measures?

And I'm using a precedent that has already been set because if someone's a sex offender, we know who they are, we know what their crime is, and people in a community can reject that person from living on that block in that particular house.

What if we could do that with people who committed other crimes?

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Yeah, we can't find any gated communities in the city of Milwaukee.

Somebody else in the YouTube chat said they looked and they couldn't find any either.

Condos and apartment buildings don't count.

I'm talking about homes, actual houses, single-family houses, and maybe duplexes where there's a physical wrought iron or some other physical barrier that prevents people from going into that community.

I mean one way in,

One way out.

There's no bike path in.

There's no walking path in.

There's one central entrance and exit, and there is a guard that only opens that gate for people that are on a list, people that are residents, or people that were otherwise pre-approved.

I am unfamiliar.

Now there's like little tucked away enclaves, but there's a public road where anybody and everybody can drive right in.

I'm talking about something that is manned.

I guess or woman 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

And if someone forces their way into that community, law enforcement will be called immediately.

I am unfamiliar with a place like that in the confines of the city of Milwaukee.

Suburbs may be different, but I'm talking about the city.

So if we don't have them, should we consider a gated community?

But let's take it a step further.

Because if someone is on the sex offender registry, the entire community is alerted, or at least it's noted somewhere on a website of that crime, that sexual offense that that person has committed.

What if we expanded it to other crimes?

Maybe you don't want somebody who's broken into houses before, who's a burglar, who's maybe you don't want somebody who has shot somebody.

Committed a homicide.

What if you don't want them in your neighborhood?

And this is another interesting thing that I see because you always have somebody saying oh sure

Give people a second chance.

No And it's always a woman and this is not to offend the women But they're always so quick to forgive if you have done something where you harmed your community

Your community should have any community should have every right to say, yeah, we know that you committed a crime a long time ago and sure you went to jail, but we don't want you here.

That's the only deterrent.

If somebody knows that if they commit this crime, it may prevent them from living where they want to live for the rest of their life.

Now, is that going to be a complete and total deterrent?

No.

But if if you're a kid growing up.

And you witness like your uncle and your aunt having these struggles because of crimes they committed where they can't get an apartment here They can't buy a house here.

They are excommunicated from this community here.

Maybe that has an impact on that child Forgiveness is for Jesus and women, you know, they say a woman always Forgives but doesn't forget.

I'm under no obligation to forgive anybody and if I do so Consider me a really nice person, but when it's an adult

Committing another offense against another adult.

We don't have to forgive you.

That's the other problem with black folks and not that I want to judge my people.

Dylan Roof walked into a black church and had Bible study with a group of black people for 45 minutes and then open fire in the first press conference you saw with somebody said, we forgive him.

What?

We're a conquered people.

We forgive every goddamn body.

We need to stop because where is it getting us now?

I'm not saying you're cold and harsh, but we need to have a hard line that does not get crossed if you commit an offense against anybody, especially your own people.

They don't have the obligation to forgive you.

Let Jesus do that.

We don't want you in the neighborhood because I've listened to y'all.

Over these years, hey Sherman, we don't want these people in the community.

We don't want these youth in the community.

They're causing all this trouble.

They're doing all the street takeovers.

They're causing all the crime.

We don't want these welfare people in all these section eight people.

Okay.

Well, then let's get rid of them.

Let's say they can't live in certain neighborhoods designated by the quote unquote good people.

Told y'all about when I saw Milisanda to grocery store She said sure when the good black people need to walk around with an X on their forehead So that people know that we're the good blacks and not the bad because they can't distinguish us I was like that's a little excessive, but I guess I see your point Whether we want to publicly admit it or not

We are fed up with these same black folks that everybody else is fed up with.

And I'm not going to speak to the white folks because white people need to be able to handle their own mess.

I'm not going to delve into their problems because I don't want their problems, nor do I want to give solutions to their problems because their problems are of their making.

This is their country.

I'm worried about us.

If neighbors have the legal right and authority to deny residency.

To a sex offender and they do Now there's a federal law involved in that so maybe we need Congress to act Shouldn't residents maybe on a limited basis Have the same ability to deny residency to people who have committed let's keep it limited to violent felonies Why should we welcome those people with open arms and here's the thing it's not even That they would commit the crime again

But we don't know that all we can do is look at their past and say you know what?

There are things in your past that indicate a tendency toward Criminal activity and a lot of times it's not just one armed robbery.

It's not just one non fatal shooting It's a whole rap sheet shouldn't residents who are tired of paying all this money and increasing taxes and paying all this money

for increasing police costs and public safety costs that are paying all this money to incarcerate these people.

Shouldn't folks be able to live in complete and total peace?

Here is where this idea of Sherwin Village might run a bit of foul of the law.

I have a feeling that such communities where you're doing this very strict background check where if you don't have

You can only apply to live in this community if your background is squeaky clean.

I'm talking juvenile and adult.

I got a feeling that black people might be kept out of those neighborhoods.

They might all of a sudden become lily white.

But then don't we always fantasize about segregation?

Black people always say, oh, when we integrated, this is what messed everything up.

OK, I'm going to hear you when you say that.

But maybe we need to segregate from other black folks.

Or do you just see every single black person as just a part of your family?

I don't Nor should I feel obligated to because I promise you this not all Latinos and Hispanics see each other as family in fact some of them hate each other You don't believe me find a local Mexican and call them Puerto Rican and stand back and watch those fireworks Why do we think I'm just being realistic here?

Because we always have these grand fantasies of black people coming together the reason why we can't come together Because there are some black people that are content on killing harming and stealing from other black people.

Why do you want to come together with them?

And I think her name is Sherita in the YouTube chat.

She says oh, yeah, it is Sherita That's messed up sure when everyone makes mistakes and they deserve a second chance

and not to be judged by their past.

Can I make this personal for a second, Sharita?

And I'm not picking on you specifically, but you're the one that made this comment.

This man punched you in your face repeatedly.

He didn't like your attitude.

He smacked you around a little bit.

He might have been drunk.

He might have been having a hard day.

Maybe he's going through something, but he's beating you up.

Don't forgive him.

Probably.

But that's on you.

There's another woman.

They get smacked around by a man.

She's not gonna forgive him.

She ain't giving him a second chance But I think we suffer from that affliction.

We let people harm us and the excuse is well, I know they love me or well They're my family.

I still gotta forgive them.

No, you don't We do too much forgiving and where is it getting us?

What do you think you getting into heaven?

By giving my suffering by forgiving somebody who is content on hurting you because when you continue to forgive somebody That's permission for them to do it again because guess what they gonna come to you crying They gonna say that they're sorry and you gonna forgive them and where does that get us?

It gives us and gets us black eyes and broken ribs We don't have to forgive people You got a criminal conviction on your background now, okay, you committed a crime you and I'm not trying to be

Overwhelmingly harsh on people but there needs to be a standard that is set somewhere because we just let any old thing happen Let people do any old thing you can harm your community dramatically and we'll just welcome you back.

In fact, here's what angers me There's less time and attention and effort paid to victims than to offenders and I say that because If you're an offender and you did God knows what they don't give you a skill in prison

You're gonna get your GED if you want it.

You're gonna get your high school equivalency diploma if you want it.

You can get associate's degrees if you want it.

You can get skilled in a trade in prison.

You can build a set of skills in prison.

You can have a job in prison and build a resume in prison.

And come out and then there will be companies that will be given tax credits because they hired you because you were in prison.

And we need to hire our offenders because, you know, we're so scared of them offending again.

We let offenders hold us hostage in our own community.

We do things for offenders that we don't do for victims.

The victims get nothing.

Maybe the victims have a restitution fund.

And that's why I was glad I had the Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Call in studio, because one of the things the state attorney general does is they monitor and maintain a victim restitution fund.

So sometimes if you're harmed by somebody and maybe they go to jail, maybe they don't, but maybe there is.

Some monetary damages that you are owed the state attorney general make sure that you are paid but more often than not these offenders are Indigent they don't have the money and so victims get nothing, but the offender gets a skill gets a diploma gets a job and the Company that hired the offender they get a break on their taxes and the victim got nothing that is fundamentally unfair

We're doing too much forgiving and here's the thing.

It's not making our community safer.

So this is just an idea that I came up with but It could be considered harsh.

I know the black folks are very quick to make up excuses For some of our worst behavior because it's gonna get to a point Where we can't blame white folks anymore because the world is running out of them

And what the hell are we going to do when there is less and less and less white people and the impacts of white supremacy is mitigated.

Now it's going to exist.

OK, but it might be so reduced that it can no longer be used as an excuse for complete black misery and failure.

Then what are we going to do?

We got to make some tough decisions now.

And we might have to start with, let's say.

By reducing or eliminating all this damn forgiveness for people who have in fact committed crimes against their own community if you've harmed black people you don't deserve to live around them and it's not too harsh to say like if you've harmed a child Right, you don't deserve to live around children.

We agree on that don't we if you've sexually assaulted a child you don't have access to children anymore and that's something that we consider reasonable if you've harmed a member of your own community doesn't that community have the right to say yeah, we don't want you here anymore Are you gonna listen to them plead their case?

Well, I didn't like the way this person was dressed and I've robbed them because I didn't they had too much attitude and I robbed them.

I'm sorry.

I robbed them.

OK, cool.

You're not going to rob anybody else because we don't want you over here.

The central finding Milwaukee is becoming safer overall, but not every neighborhood is benefiting equally.

Milwaukee's latest third quarter crime report released October 14.

So yesterday.

shows substantial citywide reductions in homicides, non-fatal shootings and carjackings.

However, Sherman Park has experienced a significant increase in gun violence, demonstrating how citywide improvements can conceal neighborhood level deterioration.

Overall, reported serious crime fell 4% through September.

This meaningful progress, I don't think 4% is meaningful progress for less crimes out of 100.

This is meaningful progress according to the article, but it does not establish that every north side neighborhood experienced a comparable reduction.

The most recent independently verified neighborhood specific comparison from January 1 through August 10, 2026.

Sherman Park had a 50% increase in homicides.

Sherman Park had a 140% increase in non-fatal shootings.

The Sherman Park neighborhood had a 114% increase in fatal plus non-fatal shootings combined.

And the Sherman Park neighborhood had a 44.8% increase in aggravated assaults.

What if the people that live in that beautiful historic neighborhood said enough?

We're putting up gates.

And if you want to live here, you're going to have to pass a background check and meet the approval of the people who have invested here for years, who have mortgages, who are paying ridiculous amounts of property taxes.

Is that so wrong?

Again, I'm going to use the example of the child sex offender.

If you offend each against a child, you don't get to be around children anymore.

In fact, if you've offended a child, you don't get to be around your own children.

And we accept that, like, oh yeah, if you've touched a child or heard a child in any other kind of way, we don't allow you access to children.

But what if you have done something to an adult?

That adult has the right to say, I don't want you around me.

And then a collection of adults in a neighborhood, in a community that take crime seriously, because I don't think we take it serious.

I think we laugh at it.

I think we point our fingers at our elected officials.

Trust me when I tell you, there's not much they can do.

They can pass a bunch of ordinances.

I believe the David Crowley has a chance of getting elected governor.

He can sign a bunch of new bills into law making a whole bunch of stuff illegal.

But if people are content on breaking the law, the laws on the books don't matter.

Ladies and gentlemen, laws are for the law abiding.

Only for the law abiding.

If you're going to break the law and you're going to commit that crime, you don't care what the law is.

Do you honestly think that there's someone who's going to murder somebody probably this weekend?

You think they're saying, well, you know, murder is illegal and I probably shouldn't do this because I'm going to face life in prison.

No, they're going to pull the trigger.

They know that murder is illegal.

They know people that have been murdered.

They know people that are in jail for murder.

Trust me, they know.

And they're going to do it anyway.

Now, most regular normal people, oh, I don't want to murder because I don't want to sacrifice my freedom.

I want to be able to go to Summerfest.

And I want to be able to go and hang out at the restaurant and at the bar.

I don't want to murder because I'm not going to like prison food.

I don't want to murder because gravity will be my worst enemy because if I'm in the prison and I happen to drop something, I got to be careful of who's behind me.

So law abiding people are like, you know what?

Maybe I'll just walk away from this volatile situation and won't do any murdering.

Laws are for the law abiding and we think that we need these tough on crime people.

We're tough on crime.

We are.

Now we also have to be careful as black folks because we put ourselves in another damn catch 22 we want safer neighborhoods We want safer communities.

I I agree, but then if black people commit a bunch of crimes and let's just say black people do I'm not You know saying we're the only ones that commit crimes But let's just say there's African-Americans that commit crime and they get convicted for the crimes that they actually committed.

Let's say they confessed Yeah, I did it.

I committed the crime and then they go to jail

And then we add up all the black people that confessed or were found guilty of their crimes.

And we see that there's a large percentage of black people that are in jail or committing crimes that they actually committed.

Okay.

We then are going to call the criminal justice system racist because black people that committed crimes got convicted for committing crimes and are serving time in jail.

They have criminal records and we're going to say, oh no, the criminal justice system is racist because look at all the black people that are in jail.

But wait a minute, didn't.

Didn't we want safer neighborhoods and safer communities?

Didn't we want tough on crime politicians?

Don't we want people to serve out their their whole sentences?

Well, yeah, but what if some of those people are black?

Okay.

Are we going to then call that racist?

Yes.

But but black people actually committed the crimes and statistically they committed those crimes against other black people.

Do you agree?

Uh huh.

And they went to jail for committing their crimes.

Do you agree with that?

Oh, I certainly do.

But the criminal justice system is racist because there's a bunch of black people in jail for committing crimes Some of which they confessed to some of which they was on body cam.

I Saw they got a little thing here right on Fox six now It's feels racist But it's Black woman walking out of target on camera And they published her picture they published the surveillance footage of her she stole a hundred and

$50 some worth of merchandise and they put a little thing on the Fox six Now website black woman large build wearing pajama style clothing, but she actually did it Would somebody call that racist?

I mean, I think it's funny.

She's wearing a terrible

wig she should have stolen a better wig if you ladies oh my god if you're gonna commit a crime get a nice wig take a break come back we'll talk to Tracy Tracy hang on don't go nowhere Tracy I'm gonna take a little break we're gonna come back and talk to you the truth with Sherwin Hughes will be right back

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Here's what Sharita said.

This is the person that said oh, we got to forgive people when they commit crimes whatever Here's what she said in the YouTube.

I swear YouTube chat just has the best comments ever She says now I'm a felon for shooting this man in the ankle For beating his girlfriend and almost killing her

She says I served nine months in jail and I'm on probation for three years due to my action.

Hang on.

She read it.

Did you shoot?

This man in the ankle while he was actively assaulting this woman because I'm confused because legally in Wisconsin, you can intervene.

Well, there might be some stipulations, but you can intervene with physical force like you can use your firearm to protect somebody else even if you don't know legally you can do that But I almost want you to call in She said that's why I said some people do deserve a second chance But I have to live with what I did and I'm okay with that because I saved someone from almost losing their life

So you intervene in an active domestic violence situation, or did you find dude later and blast him?

Also, were you legally qualified to carry that firearm?

Whose gun was it?

Was the gun stolen?

Like I need answers.

I'm very curious about this.

In the meantime, let's talk to Hot Tracy.

Thank you for holding.

How are you?

Good morning.

Thanks for taking my call.

Sure.

What's on your mind?

About the gated community.

I was thinking about something totally different, something radical there.

Do you know of any gated communities in Milwaukee?

Because I can't seem to find

any.

I haven't looked, but I got a radical idea that's called workers point.

Workers point?

No, workers point.

Now you got, now you got different properties up here that you know that accept Section 8 and low income and stuff like that.

What if we had a community called Workers Point where people with jobs would get the same benefits that the people that don't necessarily work?

You see what I'm saying?

Where you would have a community full of workers that would still, you can get help from the government like everybody else because even people that are making $30 an hour.

They still need help with food stamps and other bills and stuff like that.

We actually work and pay taxes into that program, but a lot of us never get to utilize.

So we had a community called workers point where you would have low income housing for people with jobs, like real, you know, like really good jobs, but still need help with

housing.

So subsidized housing.

for low like low-income housing for people that have high income

I Wouldn't necessarily say high income but those who don't qualify for the benefits because we make too much But we still need food stamps.

We still need stuff like that But we we don't qualify because we are over that threshold But if I could get food stamps right now, I would use and I make good money, but I still need

because of the rent.

See, the rent is high.

You see what I'm saying?

So that eats into the food and stuff like that.

So instead of just having low income, maybe you should have some people that are actually working that can live in a community where the rent isn't that high, but still qualify even though you have a good job based on the situation of the economy.

Now that's a fairy tale.

That's just you know, but who knows what this point it would Okay, well

you keep saying it and keep developing that idea, but I appreciate

you know You just never know you have a good morning.

Okay you too Tracy All right, let's take a moment shall we?

If you make $30 an hour me use round numbers here, that's about $250 a day

In a five-day work week that's 1250 a week That is 2,500 every pay period that's $5,000 per month and I get it because your rents could be quite honestly half of that your rent could be $2,500 a month and before taxes you're bringing home 5,000.

Okay, cool So if we adjusted some kind of scale to where because I can see people that are making

What on paper looks like decent money, but they are still financially struggling.

Let's just let's take a look at this just for a moment He said he would get food stamps if he could qualify for let me let you know some traces I assure you there are ways you can get your hands on some stamps You might go to jail, but you can get you can get some stamps at a very steep discounted price If we allow people this is an individual now

that are making $60,000 a year because that's Roughly $30 an hour.

That's 1250 a week.

That's 2,500 every two weeks.

That is $5,000 a month times 12 months That's $60,000 for an individual if we allow those people to qualify for a housing subsidy Because housing is getting more expensive mortgages are getting more expensive interest rates are rising rent is gonna rise to

Because when landlords know that people can't afford to get a 30 year or a 15 year fixed mortgage, they naturally are going to raise the rent.

And just in general, everything is getting more expensive.

If we allow people to make 60 grand a year as an individual to qualify for these subsidies, we would probably quadruple the number of people that are receiving welfare.

Who in the hell is going to pay for it?

Because right now you have the folks who are making the $60,000 a year.

Their taxes are subsidizing people.

that are unemployed and people that are making $10 an hour and $7 an hour.

So if we increase the dollar amount per hour that you make and allow you to qualify for housing subsidies, who in the hell is going to pay for it?

And stop saying millionaires and billionaires because eventually millionaires and billionaires will hide their money to where we won't have any access to taxing it whatsoever.

And there's ways in which they can do that.

If you continue and I know y'all hate rich people, but it's crazy that we all want to be a rich person, but we hate them probably because we're not rich if a Company a multi-billion dollar company a Walmart as an example or CVS or whatever locates in a community

And that community is unsafe and workers are having their cars broken into and workers are being robbed and people don't want to work in that location and let's just say that people are stealing and They're shoplifting and the shrinkage is very very high Let's say the shrinkage is even internal because people that live in that neighborhood might also work at that Walgreens that CVS that Walmart and they're stealing that multi-billion dollar comic.

What's it gonna do?

It's gonna leave Think of a very wealthy person as the exact same thing if they're in a place in a space in a community

Where they don't feel comfortable.

They don't feel safe.

It is not a conducive place for them to be wealthy.

They will go someplace else.

And if we think that we can just siphon money off of wealthy people, and it's crazy because most rich people, like you can't be too mad at Jeff Bezos when the last 37 things you purchase were from Amazon.

It's like, whoa.

give our money to these people, these companies and these corporations, and then get mad that they got rich off of our money, but there has never been any conversation about us reducing our consumerism.

But then get mad at the people that we make rich because they have products and services that we want.

I'm not mad at Netflix.

Now, I don't have the top tier Netflix.

That's too much.

It's like Netflix is damn near 30 bucks a month.

No, thank you.

And there's only a few times a year that.

Decent movies and documentaries are on Netflix anyway.

I'm not paying that kind of money for the Netflix I got the cheap Netflix the 899 Netflix that has commercials in it Which is fine because if I'm watching something on the cheap Netflix because I'm not paying $30 a month for Netflix I shall do no such thing Because when they play the commercials in the cheap version of Netflix, that's when I check my phone so that works out fine for me I Did a brief

Trial of YouTube TV YouTube TV is crazy expensive.

It's like 90 bucks a month.

So they give you like a 20 minute trial of YouTube TV and you can spread your 20 minutes out over Whatever period of time.

I think it took me Probably three or four days to utilize all 20 minutes because I check this or I'd see if they have this sports game on or I check this and I check that ain't no way I'm paying 90 dollars a month for no YouTube TV

But for the people that do pay $90 a month for YouTube TV, you can't get mad at the CEOs of Google for being multi-billionaires because you got got for $90 a month watching the YouTube TV.

Tracy had a novel idea, allow people that make $60,000 to qualify for some of these subsidies.

But here's what we do, Tracy, instead of doing that.

We'll just give tax breaks to or income tax reductions to or property tax reductions to Middle-class working families.

That's what we call that so instead of subsidizing their housing We just take less money out of their checks so they can have a little bit more cash that they can spread around and help cushion them for upturns and downs downturns I should say in the economy but to have them qualify

for food subsidies and housing subsidies.

Ah, that might be a bit much because think about how many more people we will have on the welfare rolls if poverty is now $60,000 a year.

I mean, you could make that case.

You're probably better off asking for universal basic income where everybody, no matter what, gets a thousand bucks a month just no matter what.

And maybe that's an AI data center dividend if an AI data center comes in your community.

Part of the deal for them to get the land and the water and the electricity is they got to give every resident $1,000 a month where you can buy anything with that $1,000 a month help offset you You know your debt pay your bills buy a little cocaine what I would buy whatever you want son of our business The truth with shirt when Hughes will be right back

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Sherita says she's gonna call in.

I'm waiting on your call, Sherita.

I want you to explain this situation.

She says, earlier in the program, I was talking about how we are too drunk on forgiveness for people who have committed crimes and committed offenses, especially against other black people.

And if people are fed up and they're tired of this, shouldn't those people who are fed up and tired have the ability and have the right to live in a neighborhood and live in a community where there are no criminals whatsoever?

Listen listen, I know it was a situation where you had to shoot somebody you had to rob the bank Okay, but we don't want you to live over here.

Go live with other bank robbers You can't then you can't harm people hurt people and then beg those same people for access to them and If I take the situation with children it makes a lot more sense If someone has offended a child and has harmed a child we no longer give them access to children and we're perfectly okay with that

If somebody has committed another kind of crime and you've harmed an adult, that adult would say, I don't want you around me anymore, even though you did go to jail.

Shariata says she shot a man in the ankle because he was beating his girlfriend and she served nine months and she's on probation because of that and she is now a felon.

You didn't go to jail, Shariata.

You went to prison.

Just would love the details of that because legally unless unless there's other factors that you are Sharing with us and if that's 99% of the situation when someone says oh sure when I did this I went to jail for 30 years and I shouldn't have yeah, but she also didn't tell us you had 17 pounds of heroin in your truck Let's talk to Sandra.

You're on one on one seven the truth.

How are you?

I'm just fine.

How are you?

I'm good.

What's on your mind?

Hmm, a lot of stuff.

Cause I listen and I, you know, I read and I'm, I'm going to read even deeper, especially about the criminal justice system, because like I told you before, I had a son stayed 22 years in prison and he died in 24 in prison on the ground.

But anyways, I'm just

wondering, I

can't say exactly, but they said he did.

Well, the law when he went to try because instead of him pre bargaining He went to trial and you probably should have pre bargaining and you might have been almost out But you know how they do they so smart they want to but do we try to go did he

commit the crime though?

You

don't know if he come in you said he should have taken a plea for a crime that you don't know if he committed Was there like evidence DNA?

Cuz really bad so I don't want you to say it cuz you're gonna lose

a lot of

sympathy if you tell people what the crime is but his crime was Really bad, but if you think you did it was it was his word against somebody else's that what

we're trying to say

Just climb down when you're locking people up that you say are criminals You got a president.

That's the biggest criminal plus this aren't a right But yet the crime is still high to the sky.

We got to be scared.

We are living in a gay-gay community over here where I am ain't no house Ain't nobody they just now started tearing down houses that's been boarded up for 50 years I was watching the documentary the other day they were showing the whole city of Milwaukee to show North Avenue the raggedy buildings how these

People that ran stores, like American Motors, now it's a Walmart over there on the east side.

They run the stores and then they leave.

They start offshoring the dial so they can make more money.

So we want too much money.

And that necessary thing is cheap, it falls apart, can zip up, zippers break, buttons fall off.

And the raggedy homes they're building are not made of real stuff.

I mean, you can look at it so cheap, like they throw it up with a snap of a finger.

But as always, we get mad at the rich.

I'm not mad at the rich.

I'm mad because they can pick us and we're not smart enough to know it.

We get pimp not the right.

Especially black people.

We buy tickets to games because we spend a lot of money to these people.

They say our money don't stay in our area for one day.

If we spend money, they're getting rich to me.

Okay.

What do we stop spending money with them?

Just stop spending it.

Don't use trouble.

Why are

we blaming the people?

that we are giving our money to.

Isn't that a discipline problem with us and where we spend our money?

Well, that's what we need to learn.

Get in the back door, teach our people, just like they did.

They came up with 2025.

Wrecking crew, how they're going to wreck up America.

And by the way, who almost America don't seem like Americans on America.

No way.

We like the Russians and everybody else on it.

But no, just get our kids in the back.

Just do like they do.

You don't know every move they make until they do it.

Sounds like we're just

generally we're

just generally mad at the system right now We're mad at the companies for leaving and going overseas and not paying American workers what they want

you can't pay American workers that

kind of money because American workers are terrible and you know that

Okay, so

we don't say it again

about the building

with them

What can we do with them?

I suggest that we could donate we donate everything else and then we can fix our community

This might say well, we pay taxes you shouldn't have to donate

So wait, what are we doing with the board of buildings now?

We're donating them They're just standing there looking

at us and then they follow the park cause nature take them back.

They rust out like a Detroit car manufacturers They're on the weather channel all this stuff is rust out it falls apart and

We're not teaching our kids or whatever how to attain all of this success.

So that's our fault.

And we talk about it, but we need to get a school.

Because

we're not teaching our kids that's on us, right?

And if there's a building sitting vacant or a house sitting vacant in a neighborhood,

What is stopping us from pooling our money together and hiring some people in the neighborhoods to do the drywall and the HVAC and to do the roofs?

Like what's stopping us from buying that

house?

Waiting for somebody

waiting for Superman as Black people?

Somebody told me it's against the law.

You know, legal things you got to go through to get this done.

It's against

the law to

buy a house.

It's against the law to put money into trying to redo this city.

Like I said don't we donate to every society?

Don't don't don't listen to that person

again That was me saying can't we donate we donate to other stuff can't we donate they say it's against the law, but I never checked into it But it's not bad thing to break our people we got to wake them up and stop saying we're criminal cops when you say criminals with black face, of

course

Because what'll happen is Black people

will

commit the

crime.

Sandra,

can we have a conversation about Black folks hurting other Black folks and us improving

our community?

I

always receive our crimes.

Sandra,

can we have

a

conversation about...

Us our people and our community without bringing in the president of the United States and say oh he's a criminal too because what you're doing is you're justifying bad behavior of black people by saying Donald Trump

No,

can we have a conversation just internally without including white folks or is that even

possible?

We've exhausted the conversation I gotta take a break now

I think we're too obsessed with white folks.

And the obsession that we have with them, because we get mad that they can do a bunch of crazy stuff and illegal stuff and they can break the rules and break the laws.

And instead of us saying, wow, let's not be like them.

We want to be like them.

But their most sinister impulse is, well, how come the white people get to commit all these crimes and get away with it?

How about we don't question that?

And how about we don't commit crimes?

Because if we as black people commit crimes, we're committing them.

Against one another and here's what I'll say to all the shooters and all the killers Y'all this real tough ain't you but when it comes to shooting the races you ain't got no bullets left Oh, you'll shoot somebody to live right next door to you somebody your own community disrespecting you But when it comes to shooting the bigot are going to a clan rally and regulating all of a sudden you don't know how to aim Y'all need to chill.

I think we're scared of white folks unnecessarily because they're scared of us

What am I even talking about today?

Look, I feel like we're going backwards Got Linda in the YouTube chat talking about black people that are successful Don't want other black people to be successful successful black people want everybody to be successful now Maybe we need to address this whole idea of gatekeeping Stop it.

You know damn well You can't tell certain people about certain things that you have that you discovered because the ruin it if you give certain people a connection

If you give certain people an opportunity, they will exploit it and they will ruin it.

You got to keep some secrets now.

You mean to tell me that all the things that you have learned and what you have discovered through your hard work and your discipline, you're just going to give that away.

It might have taken you 40 years to arrive at a certain point.

You're just going to give that away.

Now, some things like knowledge and conversation you can share freely.

But if you work to obtain something, you know you can't give it away to somebody who's undeserving because they won't know what to do with the opportunity and they'll ruin it.

I have introduced people to other folks and I regret doing it.

Sherwin, why did you introduce me to them?

They ended up ripping me off.

Sherwin, why did you introduce me to them?

They ended up lying to me.

And here I am thinking like, oh, I don't want to be a gatekeeper.

I'm going to share all of these connections that I have with people that seem to be deserving.

You know, dammit, you can't do that.

You need the gatekeeper.

That's why we need gated communities.

Sherwinville.

No criminals, no felons, no sex offenders, no armed robbers, nobody that shot somebody in the ankle.

You can't live here.

Go live somewhere else.

Live off a green field.

Oh Lord Melisand is calling.

We're about to get extra racist I'm take a break come back and talk to her on the other side The truth with Sherwin Hughes will be back in a couple minutes

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During the commercial break, I got a little curious about the price of Brewer's World Series tickets, because they're going to the World Series.

The tickets start.

So this would be game one of the World Series.

Brewer's have home field advantage during the World Series.

This is going to be fantastic for the city.

Regardless of how you feel about baseball, I think we need this.

The tickets start at $1,322.

And on this scale,

They go up to 6,053.

They're going to be more expensive than that.

Six.

Oh, Lord.

I can't breathe.

$6,000.

I hope they can subsidize.

Can we get welfare for Brewer's tickets?

Can I qualify because of my income to get a subsidized Brewer's ticket?

$6,053.

Can I pick the section?

Nope.

Oh, here we go.

What is the section one?

One twenty six.

Three thousand twenty seven dollars and fifty cents.

It's an outfield seat.