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They live in suburbs together, they live in the city together, they hang out together,
they all in the same family.
We're the only idiots that fight because we want our voice to only be on one side.
Like does that even make any sense?
And when the side loses, you lose everything.
They, on the other hand, have a voice no matter what,
because somebody that looks like them is always in control.
Frank, candid and straight to the point.
Well, it's just a skewed system.
Of course it is.
It's a lot of adjustment.
But, but answer my question up there.
Should we let people go?
Should we let people go?
Like, let's just forget about bail altogether.
And if your neighbor commits a homicide and kills people up there.
If you kill people and they next to you,
and you just let them come back and live right next to you,
they can live upstairs from you, let them come to your house.
Frank, candid and straight to the point.
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Now, these are the mayor of the city of Milwaukee.
He's a young man, give him a chance.
I only complain about things that I care about.
What I want you to do is pretend like I'm in St. Louis.
And all I'm asking the mayor and the Coma Council president and the Coma Council.
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Say 3, 3, 2, 1, 2, 1, 0, 1, 7 is the number.
If you would like to talk about anything, it is today Monday.
It's Monday already.
Wow.
I woke up this morning.
I didn't even remember what day it was.
I was like tooling around everything.
Hey, you know you got to go work today.
Oh wow, today is what is today?
It's Monday.
Oh, okay.
So here I am one day more than yesterday.
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So you'll have a good time.
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He's not beautiful.
But I'm just kidding.
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Come on.
The air.
So here we are.
We're hanging out.
So far, everything is going as planned.
Everything is great.
It's a little cold outside to me though.
I'm not really working with this cold thing.
It's been driving me, you know, a little crazy.
I got to wear long sleeves plus I'm getting old.
So, you know, 60 degrees from me.
60 degrees from me is cold.
Oh my gosh.
I'm getting cold, you know.
So at least I admit it, right?
I'm going to, I can't use those words because I can't stand when people say it.
I'm going to lean in.
Don't you hate lean it.
Lean in is a dumb phrase.
I'm going to lean into that particular thing as it relates to, you know, being an elder
in the city of Milwaukee.
Don't tell anybody I said this.
If you know anybody from Chicago, do not tell them I said this, okay?
I like it here.
I enjoy being in Milwaukee.
I really, really do.
I've met some wonderful people.
I've met some interesting people.
Truth Nation is off the chart.
Love all y'all.
I'll jump in the YouTube chat in the, in the tuck and text line a little later.
But I wanted to know, most people have done it.
No, most people have said it.
I have been seen it on the news per se because I haven't been watching the news.
I've been scouring the internet and on CBS 58 and Fox six now and WISN and the root and
the Rio and black honor, you know, all the, looking at what's going on in the black community
all over the country.
And I was notified this morning that Milwaukee lost a witness.
Well, what does that mean?
Milwaukee lost a witness to what black people had to overcome.
Actually lived through it.
A witness to what black people built anyway.
And when I talk about this, I want you to think about 101.7 the truth and all the other
black entities in Milwaukee, a witness to what black people built anyway, a witness to
time when being qualified, didn't necessarily mean accepted, being educated, did not mean
being respected and being a medical doctor still did not mean a bank in Milwaukee with
long human.
The William Finlayson delivered generations of babies in this city.
I have not met a person and I don't have a big crowd of people I know, but I have a
met a person who's Gen Z or older millennial, whose mother did not have Dr. Bill Finlayson
as their OBGYN.
There was a report on Fox six that talked about how he opened a clinic at Titanium Nash
helped bring countless lives into the world.
I don't think you could count the amount of babies he probably delivered over time.
But his life and his legacy and his story was never just about being an OBGYN.
It was about access.
So as OBGYN, he gave mother's access to quality care.
It was about dignity.
It was about what happens when a black professional with a professional degree, a medical doctor,
runs into a locked door and decides to build another door.
I'm going to knock a hole in the wall next to where there's a locked door.
I'm building my own door.
When he couldn't get fair access to credit, even as a medical doctor, medical doctors
have been pretty well paid.
It's not great because you be trying to live and keep up with the Gen Z's because everybody
else is living large.
You live in large, but you're not really, because if you rock in 90, 95% of your income
is going out the door, you're not living that well.
I don't care how much money you make.
He helped launch North Milwaukee State Bank.
In Milwaukee, that matters because banking is not just about money.
It's about belief.
People believing in you is about whether an institution believes you are worthy of investment,
whether not the black community was worthy of investment.
It's about whether your dream gets funded or forgotten.
I know a lot of people don't capital to drive and in that neighborhood who got funded all
over the city.
Because in black Milwaukee, too many dreams were not rejected because they were bad.
They were rejected because you were black.
Think about that.
Go through life knowing that you have every single pedigree that every other person has
and you've exceeded their pedigree, attended Florida A&M University, graduated from More
House College, went to my Harry Medical School, did internship in residency in Minnesota,
came to Milwaukee, built a house, a life of career, a family, and still get rejected.
Not because you don't have the grades, not because you don't have the degree, not because
you don't have the work ethic.
You are rejected because you are black.
Have to fight to get privileges out of hospital and then in Milwaukee, they would only give
them privileges to one hospital and so everybody that's black went to that hospital.
So I started asking around, well, how's before you born in this one, this one, this one,
this one, this one, the same hot, I'm like, what, yeah, why, because that's the only place
they would give black doctors, privileges.
But if you look at Milwaukee today, Bill Finlayson delivered babies, but he also delivered
possibility.
He's built institutions, clinics, banks, education, culture, community, all that.
Unfortunately today too much of what was built in Black Milwaukee has either been closed,
named, sold, forgotten, absorbed, or just kind of left decaying, and it's only a memory.
We celebrate pioneers after they die.
The black community's issue was we don't always protect what they built while they're alive.
The company included and for us today at 10 minutes after the hour, that is the challenge.
Because legacy is not just applause, right?
We lost things because we didn't maintain things.
You talk about losing stores, you talk about losing groceries and all these things in a city
we cry and complain about houses and all that, losing it, but we don't support each other.
We don't maintain hours.
We give it away, we sell it, and you can't bash people for making money for their legacy
and their children and grandchildren.
And the only way to do that is maintenance.
Black people need to maintain their own community.
If the city won't give you money, you develop the money, you put it together, you go through
the only entity as far as I know that the city can accept money and through the library
foundation and you target that money and you tell them this money is for that.
Fix the road, build this, do that, and you tell them what you want.
You maintain the legacy.
Legacy means keeping the clinic open when they want to close it, keeping the bank strong
when they want to close it, keeping schools accountable.
And they want to close it, keeping the library funded when they want to close it, keeping
the museum that we don't have built and alive.
You know, at some point we're going to drive through Milwaukee.
We're going to have a lot of brown signs, neighborhoods.
And the only way you keep a memory alive is with a brown sign because you rename the
street after that person.
Yet we never teach black kids, who is that person?
You got stuff all around city named after Vell Phillips.
You got a street named after Bill Finlayson.
But I guarantee you, most people in the 40 couldn't tell you who he was.
Bill Finlayson died at 101 years old.
He lived long enough to see four to five iterations of change in Milwaukee.
But I wonder what he thought when he saw some of the doors that he helped open and build
began to disappear.
Those same clinics, his own Milwaukee North, North Milwaukee State Bank, all the grocery
stores today and much of the opportunity.
And then as we are today, we're losing access.
And then we lose trust.
And then we'll get to a point where nobody will know their name.
Nobody will know the family name, Finlayson.
That's the name I heard when I first moved to Tahoe.
Do you know Bill Finlayson?
Who is that?
Don't matter.
Do you know him?
No.
You need to meet him.
Huh?
You know John Daniels?
No.
You need to meet him.
Why?
Don't worry about it.
You need to meet him.
We used to be in a place where somebody knew their story.
And that they were worth serving.
I'm not going to honor Dr. William Finlayson by just saying, oh, he's great.
I'm honoring him by asking, what are the building?
What are we building?
And what are the buildings that should still be here when we're gone?
We know what's not here, now that he's gone.
What are we building that'll be here when we're gone?
Because he didn't just make a living.
He and his wife Edith, who was profound in her own way, made room.
They made room for black babies.
They made room for black families.
With all the scholarships, they made room for black students.
Now, every time I pass a clinic, don't care whose name is on it.
Every time I pass a library, every time I did that today, driving in, every time I
passed a clinic or a library, it reminded me of Bill Finlayson.
And fortunately, the only word it conjured up was closed.
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The height of the day was 50.
The load tonight is about 38.
It's close enough to freeze and to get me up out of here.
Hey, you want to tune in to the award winning 1017 The Truth's Community Spotlight this Wednesday
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We'll be speaking with Nicole Loreno, she's a 2026 chair for March for Babies.
She'll be discussing how March for Babies brings families and caregivers together to support
healthier moms, stronger babies, and life-saving NICU, that's neonatal ICU, care through the March
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The community spot like this Wednesday with the March of Dimes at 357 on the award winning
1017 The Truth 19 minutes after the hour, 47 degrees, it's been chilly all day long.
I ran across the story the day on CBS 58 that I got to applaud, I have to give Governor
Evers and the legislature, Republican legislature, a high five.
Governor Tony Evers, Assembly Speaker Robin Voss in the Senate Majority Leader, Devon Lemue
announced today, they have reached a bipartisan agreement to spend a portion of the states
surplus on K-12, property tax relief, and direct payments to working families.
The package, the part of it includes more than $600 million for K-12 schools, the largest
increase in state special aid reimbursement rate in state history, bringing the rate
to 50%, according to the Governor's Office, also includes $300 million in general school
aid and $550 million in additional property tax relief through the technical college system.
Under the deal, Wisconsin residents who filed individual tax returns for 2024 with at least
90% of income from Wisconsin sources would receive $300 while Mary Couples filing jointly
would receive 600 with the announcement noting that over 3 million Wisconsinites would
be eligible.
The agreement also eliminates state income tax on cash tips and overtime pay.
That is remarkable.
The package is set to go before the joint committee on finance tomorrow with full legislative
votes expected on Wednesday.
Governor Evers said in the announcement, he anticipates sign of the proposal as early
as next week.
How you feel about that?
833-212-1017 is the number.
Are you in agreement with this decision?
Or no.
I happen to think.
I happen to think, well, I'll tell you later, you tell me first, are you in agreement
with this decision?
It's tax relief, right?
Not along with Trump saying that he's considering cutting the gas tax for a limited amount of time
to save people money.
That may go far, too.
Although I don't know, well, let me, let me, well, that's why I'm sitting here in front
of Google.
Let me as well check.
What is the federal gas tax amount per gallon?
And right now, the gas tax is 18.4 cents per gallon and 24.4 cents for diesel.
And so let me see, let me ask another question.
What's the average size of car gasoline tanks?
It's just the average, it's just the average, between 12 and 16 gallons.
So let's say 14 gallons, right, let's, let's say 14, let's, let's say 14.
So if you got 14 gallons on average, you fill up your car and you're paying 18 cents,
18.4 cents per gallon, you're saving about $2.57 every time you save up your car.
Now we say, well, there's no little money.
No, it isn't.
Need only $2, what was it, $2.47, something like that.
Need $2.47, $2.57, need that, don't have it, and then see what happens.
I'll take whatever amount I can get, whatever amount I can get, and some property tax relief.
And some, it's not a lot, but it's enough for those of us that pay more.
I'm just saying, what are your thoughts, a 3-3-2-1-2-1-0-1-7 is, is this a good idea?
Matter of fact, if we can just throw that in the YouTube chat, I'm interested in seeing
whether or not people agree as to whether or not do they agree with this decision, this
bipartisan deal to save taxes and give money to special education.
If we can give money to special education, we can get more teachers, we can get more teachers,
we can remove those students out of other classrooms where they might notice, they might
be disruptive and give them one-on-one care and better care from assistants and special
teachers.
I think that's something that could be done.
That's what I think.
And somebody asks, SC asked in the YouTube chat, what happened, who was that?
I'm sorry, Mao asked.
Dr. William Finlayson, for those of you who hadn't heard, 101 years old, passed away this
morning.
And, of course, we're going to keep his family and friends and everyone in our prayer,
so.
All right, all right.
But it's just, it's a point where we're going to be able to send money to schools, and
that should help out in PS.
It should help people be able to take care of their kids, make sure that the schools get
a little extra money.
It's going to be spread out throughout Wisconsin, so it won't be a lot.
It might end up being maybe 5 million, maybe 10 million for NPS, but with a budget deficit
of 46, that just might help them not having to cut teachers or spread out there, cost
a living increase, being able to give it to them in the fall, instead of giving it to
them in January, or cutting it half in the fall, half in January.
That's what I'm talking about.
I think it'll help.
Are you able to take that money?
There are a lot of things and a lot of flexibility that NPS will now have, that the Wisconsin technical
system will have that will relieve debt for us, that will relieve taxes for us, so that
we'll have a little bit more.
But all those together might end up being another 100 bucks, 200 bucks a year that we don't
necessarily have.
Is it a lot?
No.
Will it help our children and schools?
Yes.
If you got comments about it, 833-212-1017 is the number.
I'll wait for any calls and I'll go through and on the YouTube poll, if you're at 101.7,
the truth on YouTube, is do you agree with the bipartisan decision?
It's money that we got from the federal government.
It's been sitting there.
He's only wanted to use it for schools and schools alone, which I think is idiotic.
But, and notice I said, the action is idiotic, not Governor Evers, he's a probably smart guy.
He made it to Governor.
But at some point, this is what I like to see.
Republicans sit down with Democrats, horse trade, give and take.
What is what government is supposed to do?
We have to sit down and compromise.
You want some stuff?
I want some stuff.
We both get what we want.
We just don't get as much as what we want.
And I think that's something that I like to see.
That is why I don't like government that's all Republican and I don't like government that's
all Democrat because then they will dismiss what the people want and they'll just do what
the party wants.
That's a problem.
Now you got people on both sides saying, I want money for education.
I want money for tax relief.
I want money for gas relief.
I want money for this for that.
And they had to come together and say, you know what?
Yeah.
Commit terms.
None of us might be here.
That is true.
That is very true.
Ms. Carolyn, you're on the award winning 101 7 The Truth.
Well, Dr. King Good evening, and how are you doing this?
Stay.
I'm doing wonderful.
I came in on the tilt end of this conversation, but my thing that I've been hearing a lot
about is MPS warning a lot of money, right?
So I'm just like this.
Say that again.
You believe about that?
I'm stuck in my head about how they need all this money, right?
And I'm like this.
And call me crazy or whatever.
First of all, if you're in such a death as cold, why would you bring a superintendent in
and pay her a salary like she's a 0,500 ball?
That right there, I didn't understand to get with, because you're broke.
So you're going to bring this lady in and give her what I think I heard 300,000.
400,000.
400,000.
It's 400,000.
That's ridiculous.
That's ridiculous.
That's ridiculous, okay?
That's ridiculous.
Why is it ridiculous?
Because first of all, you are already in a budget hole and then you're going to bring
somebody in from out of town, no doubt, and pay them a fortune, 500,000.
Why not?
No.
And then why not?
If you had a company and it had 10,000 employees and you had a budget of $1.1 billion,
wouldn't you want somebody that had the experience and was able to handle that on a professional
level?
First of all, from what I've been hearing about her track record and stuff, was she really
the right candidate?
Well, we're not talking about track record.
We're talking about today.
We can't change the past.
So talking about that.
But it doesn't.
I wouldn't.
I would pay her that money.
I just wouldn't.
I think it makes no sense at all.
I wouldn't gave her that money.
Would you pay somebody if they worked out a fortune, 500,000 company with 10,000 employees?
Would you pay them that much money?
Because they're there for profit.
This is a non-profit important thing.
Only person for profit out of this is our children.
We need to stop going through life thinking like that.
That's why black people don't have anything.
You make what the market is there.
You make what the market will be there.
So you said that I'm talking about this educational piece.
That's what I'm talking about.
That's what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about profit.
Well, I don't see none profit.
There's no such thing as profit and non-profit.
If you want me to keep the place going, keep the lights on and keep the thing moving and
keep the ship floating.
You got to pay me for that.
I don't care if it's non-profit, for profit.
You get paid for what you're worth.
You're saying that if you work in education, you should have it.
So why are the teachers fighting for more money if they don't feel like they're worth.
They feel like they're worth more.
Why wouldn't a superintendent want that?
First of all, just like those teachers, they have to prove themselves.
This you bring in a person and you pay them that kind of mind and money.
No, I'm sorry.
That doesn't make sense.
I know I'm old school and whatever, but I still.
Nobody's going to start over every single time they start a job.
I'm not going to make 250 and then go back down to 100 and then go back work my way to 250 and then go back.
My experience over time, you pay for that.
But that's what they want the teachers to do.
So why is it fair?
No, they don't want to do it.
The teachers don't want to do that.
They just want that money.
They don't want to, but we've been here in this mess about, oh, you can reapply for your job and this, that's not.
That's the nature of education.
No, no, no, no, no, no, that's the nature of education.
That's just how education works.
You can't, you can't apply.
I don't care what you're talking about.
Okay, go ahead.
These kids, these kids have not had a good shake in Milwaukee.
I'm not a Milwaukee, but I've been here for 20 years and I've been watching this.
But that's not her fault.
With all due respect, but that's not her fault.
She came into this mess to fix it.
She came in early to fix it.
But I'm saying, you could have found somebody that would have took the job because they heart was in it and known that this school district is.
Are you making an assumption that because she gets paid for her $100,000 her heart's not in it?
My heart would be in it too if I'm getting paid $400,000.
But that's not what you just said.
I'm pretty sure they can find somebody just as educated who would have said, oh, we're in trouble.
How many people did they interview?
And they interviewed a number of people and they whittled it down to three people.
And then they had public input and then the board voted.
That was the process.
We followed the process here.
And then I went to some of them or me and some of them or me and stuff was part of the calamity.
So how do they still get three board members?
I don't know.
They got voted in.
Because the teacher is pushing the post nonsense.
And they got voted in.
And that's why I say these people out here better get off of they first time because they taxed there because I feel full.
But here's my question.
We don't get up here.
But why don't we complain about that stuff with business?
Why don't we complain about that stuff with fortune 500 companies here and here in Wisconsin?
We let people walk over us.
And then the lowest hanging fruit is NPS.
And now you want to bash the leadership.
At least give them a year or two to fix it.
Let them try to fix it.
Because I sit back and I watch and you write some of these companies here and stuff.
I'm just amazed at how people would just take credit from them.
They're like, oh, I got to go there.
No, I don't have to do anything to be black and dyed.
And that's it.
I don't have to buy your product.
If you're not treated to be in my family, right?
No.
I can go across the board if I want to.
That is true.
But they don't take that initially.
They take stages for take.
People shouldn't stop them and throw.
I guess I'm just so fed up with seeing it because from seeing the kind of person
where I travel around the world, I've never seen nothing like this.
I'm like, what is we doing?
Just what?
We're doing it.
That's all I'm going to say.
All right.
Well, thank you much.
I appreciate it.
Thank you, Dr. E.
All right.
I'm going back.
8332121017 is a number.
We got more calls.
We got talking text.
The YouTube chat is blowing up.
I think I might have caused a little trouble.
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39 minutes.
39 minutes.
See, I could count.
I went to public school.
39 minutes after the hour.
Our poll for the day would do you agree with the bipartisan decision that the governor
and the Republican legislature made 67% right now say yes and 33% say no.
Speaking of no, Al, you're only award winning 1017 The Truth.
He says no about everything.
Hey, what has been easier just to close the MPS down for a year so they can reconstruct everything
they send in here to like, you know charter schools.
I know she's just coming into this situation.
And even before the situation was always issues with, I mean, things that I nature.
But when it just been easier just close MPS down for a year.
No.
And then just reconstruct it.
No.
No.
You're going to have to drive the car and repair it at the same time.
Okay.
Or what the parents need to do is you think it's out of the MPS.
And then you're going to shut down an entire system where other parents can't afford to send
their kid to a private school.
And so they'll.
Well, it's not.
Well, I don't want to say it's about the other parents is about what the parents can do for their kids.
Exactly.
That is exactly my point.
And if the kids is not getting that accurate, you know, the right education being you get a second job worth
her job so you can get the right education.
But I as a parent may not have the education and wherewithal to go get another job.
Well, I want to say I've asked there if you can make it to church.
But wait a minute.
You got to see it.
You can't come up with a solution and then not look at all the barriers to the solution.
I know there's an I understand there's barriers, but when it's one, but when parents want something that's not important,
they find a way to get it.
That's all I'm saying.
There's a lot of these kids be getting that's not important.
But if I wasn't taught that way, but if I wasn't taught that, I don't know that.
And I don't and we have a generation that doesn't want to listen to anybody.
And that's fine.
But then I have to make you susceptible to your decisions.
And if you make a bad decision, you'll have to live with it.
Unfortunately, you're capable too.
Well, we know all these people are bright, smart, and intelligent.
Sure.
And you have to free wheel.
So if they don't use the free wheel, then that's on them.
But don't cry about it.
If they're not getting the right thing and you're not trying to do the best to make sure they get to get something better,
because I understand peers might not have everything.
But when it's something that's not important, they always find a way.
That's all.
All right.
But have yourself a great day.
You too.
Bye-bye.
It's much tougher than it looks.
But because we've generated a society and a generation where we don't generate the generation.
Anyway, it's kind of redundant.
Created the generation where we have not allowed them to go through anything or struggle with anything.
They don't have the intestinal fortitude.
That's why we have men who literally don't know how to be men.
We have boys who don't know how to be men.
That being a man and being strong and honorable and character and trustworthy has nothing to do and doesn't denigrate women in any way.
You shouldn't push women away.
Women have made remarkable strides and they need to make more and should make more.
But that doesn't take away from men being men.
We've just generated a generation that just trashes men.
And part of our issue is we trash men.
And it's time to step up and be a man and do it right and do it the way you're supposed to be.
Not a LeBron James, not a a a a musk, not a rich famous rapper, but just who you are in terms of being able and having enough ego and testosterone to take care of what you're supposed to take care of.
It's just, it's just basic.
But we've ripped that out of boys and men.
Now we got lonely boys and garages went on a tangent.
Now we got lonely boys and girls sitting, well boys, sitting in basements, lonely men sitting in basements.
You know, I heard a statistic that men that on average, a good 60, 70%, 80% of men who are between the age of 18 and 25 have never approached a woman individually to actually say,
hey, how are you doing? I'd like to get to meet you.
Think about that.
And women wonder why they can't find a good man.
There's no such thing as toxic masculinity.
But yet we follow it to the tee.
There's something wrong with you being abusive.
There's something wrong with you being mean.
It's something wrong with you beating people.
It's something wrong with you hiring people.
It's something wrong with you not to carry your responsibility.
But that's not toxic.
Because if it's toxic, you throw the whole thing out.
And that's exactly what we're doing.
We're throwing men out.
Me being a man does not take away from any other woman being a woman.
And I reject when people argue that every time you say something that a black woman does wrong, you're attacking black womanhood.
That's a lie from the pit of hell.
Sometimes, just like men, black men, you're wrong.
And if I can get called out, you can get called out.
That's all I'm saying.
But we have a generation where they take everything as an affront.
You're just wrong.
You're just literally wrong.
Just like you'll tell us every single time except today men just roll over, okay.
And I don't get it.
The problem is it starts in school.
And so in that instance, Al is right.
We need to get into the schools and figure out what are you teaching these boys?
About not being boys and not growing up into strong, responsible men and taking care of families.
And I mean family as an older than you and younger than you.
Where are we going?
All of those things that we threw out that we thought were passing.
And I'm going to talk about it later about being politically correct, choosing those politically correct things that don't work for us as black people.
And then it's destroyed our entire culture, our community, and everything.
And we're just supposed to just roll over and just, you know, take it because it is.
I say no.
It's time for men in Milwaukee, black men to step up and do their job and become the leaders and the providers.
Well, wait, if I don't want a man to provide for me, then don't have him provide for you.
Step off.
Bye.
But if you do, he needs to be ready.
Educate it.
Practical.
But understanding this is what it takes to be a man.
Beating women is not a man.
Taking advantage of women is not a man.
Human trafficking women is not a man.
You're trash.
I'm just saying.
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Do you agree with the bipartisan decision that Governor Evers on the Wisconsin Republican legislature made today?
62% say yes.
38% say no.
I wonder why.
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Let me go back to the beginning.
Hey, what's up, Kwanda?
How's everybody?
What's up?
What's up?
S.E.
What's going on?
Mal?
Willie?
Hey, what's going on?
Willie?
77.
Why is it like that in our culture?
I don't know.
Oh, because that's what we were taught.
Or we weren't taught certain things.
So Sincere said, hope you're weekend and Monday went well.
Yeah, it was OK.
Sincere said, been in call to on for two days and can't complain because I heard it's cold
there.
I thought, where you at, Sincere?
Where you from?
S.E. said, thank you.
Had a wonderful mother.
Yeah.
Hope you all had a wonderful mother's day.
Let me see.
Thank you, Mal.
Prayers and condolences to the family of Bill Finlayson.
Mal said, I don't know about the decision.
The future will give better outlook on the outcomes of that decision.
I think I was talking about all sorts of things in my open.
Sharon said, doctor, listen to who you're speaking to.
Notice the cadence.
Just stop talking.
Well, here's your problem.
And here's what you don't understand, Sharon.
There's a delay between phone and caller.
And so sometimes people speak over each other.
No one's being rude.
That's just how it goes.
And sometimes you pause and they pause and then they think the other person isn't talking
so they're talking it goes back and forth.
Don't get all up in arms about it.
I'm not going to stop talking.
They're not going to stop talking.
Sometimes we interrupt each other.
It's called a conversation.
I'm just saying.
Aaron said, you will be the willy, the post worker, and still be a real man.
I don't know what that came from.
Mal said, Dr. Ken, schools are not the reason why some people act out of character.
They're influences from the web podcast and entertainment.
Some of it is.
And I'm not saying school is the reason why.
But there were things we were taught in school that we're not getting taught today.
Because those things built confidence, like reading and writing and arithmetic
and the better you could do, the better you can go, the farther you believe you can,
like all those things, those things.
We've changed and dumbed down so much of stuff because we thought our kids couldn't do it.
Because teacher expectation is the number one reason why kids do well in school.
Parents can tolerate you until you blew in the face.
But when you go to school for six hours a day in your waking life,
you spend more time in school than you do at home awake, right?
You wake up in the morning, hour, hour and a half, you're going to school.
You come home, you're up three, four hours, you go to sleep.
But those six, maybe seven hours you spend in school, think about that.
You spend Monday through Friday, you're waking hours the longest time in school.
They have a significant impact on who you are, who you become, who you can become.
So if a teacher says you're great and you believe you're great, you'll be great.
Even if it's average, you'll at least remain average.
A C student can graduate just like a student, like all those little things.
And we forget about that.
We forget that public school was created.
So people can keep control of your kids.
Oh, we need to give them public education.
Yeah, but somebody else gets to tell what the public education is, not the parent.
So the parent has to pay attention.
The parent has to counter those things that are anti-culture, anti what you want them to know.
And at least expand the story, give them all of the information.
We don't even teach slavery in schools anymore.
We don't teach it in the way that it should be taught like root, watching roots.
We don't teach that stuff anymore.
And I think it's insulting.
But our parents weren't taught that.
So they don't know.
And it's not their fault.
We keep wanting to blame parents, but when parents weren't taught something,
and then the kids weren't taught something,
it's incumbent upon the community to make that information available.
Which is why we have Milwaukee Black talk.
Where even if you disagree, you still have a conversation about it.
You can still go, I disagree.
And then we okay, we cool.
We got to get over this.
Everybody in lockstep unison and agreeing and being cum biocos, you know what that does?
Yeah.
That stops people from having an alternative conversation or an alternative idea
from seeing the light of that.
And that's what we try to not do.
People were always at that person talk because they have an alternative thought.
They think about it a little different.
And maybe they just might be right.
I'm just saying.
I'm just saying.
That's why we're here.
That's why we want to remain here.
Because we want to give you the opportunity to speak your mind
and give the community something they don't always have.
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