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But listen.
Okay.
What it is is this and understand it.
Things that may be considered offensive to certain groups of people, whether it's Latinos, whether it's white people, whether it's African American black, you know,
caramel colored brown or Italian.
There is certain things that they will do the little off their chin and say it to each other.
And
them.
So
that
Milwaukee's black talk that's saying you people and may be referencing black people.
It's a different inflection.
I'm trying to explain that part.
to people.
It's a different inflection.
Yes, we've taken a word that was used in a negative connotation to describe us and we've patterned it to where some people are comfortable with saying the word.
But of course, if you are like last night, me and brother Z shout out to DJ brother Z. You know, we are all in the truth.
Nation and one on one seven FM seating section.
And when the songs were coming on.
and it was like everything in everything in the white people didn't care who they were around and it was predominantly white people they didn't care who they were around they were singing it lyric for lyric
Lyric for Lyric.
But we were looking like, oh, okay.
I'm like, take pictures.
Take pictures, brother Z.
We're bringing them all up on
them all up
and I'm
know what I'm saying, but
yeah
Yeah,
Yeah
Even if he says it mm-hmm sure one is usually using it as a Teachable moment mm-hmm, you know people do this again when it's in your regular conversation like it's nothing to you and you just say it and That means that it's ingrained in you and that's a part of your life and that's part of your reality Mm-hmm talking about you people.
Yeah, you know
because
yes,
Yes.
of
if
or the
Yes.
Things that
Yes.
Right.
Yeah
because when the DEI and all of that, that that's what that sounds like.
Right.
So maybe Melody, you can explain different, but do you think that the Orange Band was right when he said no more DEI?
Do you think that him removing all black mentions out of government parks and buildings and all of those things?
Do you believe that none of that has any kind of racist?
undertone to it or blatant
right
That's
Yeah,
Well, my truth is, is everybody got the big lighter and the silver spoon?
And everybody got the crack type, but don't nobody got no dope.
Because everybody see what they want and hear what they want.
Put it like this.
You're mad at the migrants, but he got rich off of hiring migrants, okay?
Y'all mad at the migrants because the migrants come from another country.
They outperform y'all and you get mad because you think your white skin color supposed to be it.
Some of y'all get mad at the migrants and our races because you know you're mediocre, but you still climb in the bed with black men and black women.
And just because you sleep with black men and black women, nobody gives a hoot.
You're still a racist.
Some of y'all are like women with the better women's syndrome.
She feel it's her job to get her ass beat.
So you're going to stay with this person no matter what, even if you got to look stupid.
All right.
But here's the thing is,
This race is which white men still look at you as a po-ass n-word, okay?
Whether you're black, white, Jew, whatever you want to be, you could be the same color as you in size.
Whether you're like, if you ain't that model logo, you probably drive a Buick, you probably live in the inner city, not Bristol Compines, not River Hills, you're probably shopping that galaxy, you're probably living from check to check and you're on a goddamn budget.
So once you go on and just get up,
vote and stop being mad at people who are living their lives.
Because the real reason you're mad is because you're mediocre.
And you're looking at your white skin and you're trying to figure out, why is I'm not where I supposed to be?
You're not where you're supposed to be because you didn't work hard enough.
Okay, so buy you a new mattress.
We need find you a guy We don't care what got you go and ask yourself why I am where I am and that's all with self now Have a great day.
Have a cheers to you and stop drinking cheap beer.
Bye.
Bye.
Thanks.
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Greg, great morning.
Love you.
Appreciate you.
You hear the conversation.
What's your truth?
Yeah, I'm kind of playing devil's advocate in a way, but I'm the I'm the whole orange man.
We're moving black from, you know, public parks and all that.
Do we want to be black?
Black Americans or Americans?
Do we want to be the question?
Yeah, you know,
There you go.
Okay, good afternoon.
Yeah,
As far as being a citizen, being a citizen, right?
You go and fill out job applications they want to know your ethnicity or how do you say it?
just dawned on me like do we really want to be...
Segregated like that or we're classified as as black or we didn't
it great
great
They always yell out go black to Africa They always put things in place to where we don't have a chance to be fair if things were fair and balanced in this country.
It's kind of like what I was saying about the 15 at the time 16 years old now that ended up
of getting sentenced, you know, if we, if we had everything that the free America is supposed to have, then yes, I would be able to say yes, we're Americans.
And we were actually here
Absolutely.
Yeah, I just thought I thought I was out here as a frame of thought.
You know what I'm saying?
I agree with it.
I
devil.
I
you want
too far.
Yes.
They caught.
No, you said free.
No, I'm gonna stand on business.
So that that's that's, you know, just trying to, you know, really break it down to people to kind of like understand where my narrative is, you know, America, all of the things you're supposed to be able to do.
There's always been, in my opinion, a ceiling for black people.
Yeah, always been a ceiling.
Yes, like you can only go so high.
Mm hmm.
And this
That's my opinion on it.
I really do.
He's trying to, when make America great again, when it was white people that ruled everybody, black people, Latino people, everybody, white people were the superior.
White everything a white cat.
Oh, that's beautiful.
Look at fluffy a black cat.
Oh Don't you go by that stop
Let's give Ray take care of some bills
because
black
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Yes.
From my life around.
that part.
I can't
page.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, so there's some kind of conversation, but we're talking about You know, it ain't what you say is how you say it and you really do have to be where we're just in a day and age where
Again, it's a sensitive world.
Yeah.
It's a very sensitive world.
Yeah.
And things that you wouldn't get in trouble for black then.
Let's see.
I was just gonna try to read it.
You know, I don't know sometimes with some of the ads pop up on YouTube It's like, okay.
I was about to try to read it and then it jumped up But yeah, you know you you do and When you are trying to and that's why I go through great depths of trying to explain What I'm talking about because it's very easily misconstrued
to be something else.
Right.
So you have to be, in my opinion, very intentional when you are saying things.
It's just like if you're, well, I've got a maid.
But now there may be something that happened in your home to where it may need extra attention.
So be like, look, I know what you normally come in and do, but I need to let you know that there's a great juice stain.
Right.
Right.
Right.
To make sure that we get that stain.
Yeah.
You have to be intentional.
Yeah.
And if you're not, people will be able to say that's why I was saying with the it's free.
Don't say it's free.
And then there's some caveats like,
And if
Absolutely.
It
I'm
a
That's why I've
yeah, I'm sure that there are people that feel like she was feeling hate you know and I think there was a lot of you know missteps maybe uneducated comments
that she let out there, but that's her truth.
That's how she feel about it.
And we did want to let her say her truth because that's what we do.
But the thing is, when you stop listening to us and we can't have an adult conversation.
to
And we are the host of the show.
So we are in control of the decorum of how the show is going.
So we try to give people that fair and balanced opportunity.
But again, when you are not, you're talking and you're not listening, then that becomes an issue.
And
we
so so where you're going with that again so now now you wanted her it wasn't like oh well she she she could have hired all black people no
I don't know no damn company that everything is just totally, totally, totally black somewhere.
Yes.
There's some fair and balance.
Somewhere.
Yeah.
White widow.
There's some fair and balance.
That was not a hard question to answer.
You like answer with the exclamation.
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Welcome black to truth in the morning on the award winning one oh one seven FM to those who feel, um, what is she end up saying?
I want to make sure Oh, she said, but in here is the kicker about it.
But again, just in being fair and balanced.
All right.
Uh, white widow Melody, uh, Matt and said, called passion with anger.
This station and host do nothing for the black community.
That's
You know what I'm
If we're not doing anything, why are you here?
You said we do nothing, but you're here.
You feel what I'm saying?
That's a, that's a oxymoron.
like you're here, but we don't do anything.
Why would a person want to stay somewhere where the people are not doing anything?
They're not being productive.
Listen, we're not going to even bother to run down just our resumes, but we got a whole team and
You
if
But the Wauwatosa Common Council approved a $95,000 workers compensation settlement for former police officer Joseph Mensa over a PTSD claim post-traumatic stress disorder
Mensa, who was never charged by prosecutors, fatally shot three people over a five-year period before resigning from the department in 2020.
The settlement adds to a previous $125,000 separation payout while Mensa actively pursues a separate state duty disability claim.
So nearly six years after he left the department the controversial former Wauwatosa police officer will receive one more payout from the city this time through a workers compensation claim The city said Benson who filed the claim a few years blacklisted PTSD as a reason for seeking the claim Wauwatosa mayor Dennis McBride a former lawyer
So Fox six, the claim will be paid through the city workers compensation fund, a bucket of the budget set aside for this very reason.
I described it to clients as a contract that nobody likes, but both sides can live with, you know, it's always between zero and whatever the plaintiff or the claimant is looking for.
And this was decided as a reasonable settlement to put the matter behind us.
McBride said.
In 2015, Mensa shot and killed 29 year old Antonio Gonzalez, after police say Gonzalez was drunk and carrying a sword, which he refused to drop despite officers' commands.
A little more than a year later, Mensa shot and killed 25 year old Jay Anderson Jr.
in a city park.
Mensa told officers he saw Anderson, who had been sleeping in his car, reach for a gun in the passenger seat.
Then, in February 2020, police responded to Mayfair Mall after a reported domestic disturbance in which someone saw a teen carrying a gun in his bag.
Eventually, security guards and police chased after the teen, who was later identified as 17-year-old Alvin Cole.
Mensa told police he saw Cole point his gun at him and open fire, killing him.
The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office declined to charge Mensa in every case.
Kimberly Motley, who has represented the Anderson and Cole families, she told 5-6 Tuesday she wasn't surprised that Mensa sucked this compensation.
Based on our experience and just life and being a human being, certainly being involved in three shootings within a five year time period as the only Wauwatosa officer to do that.
Yeah, certainly.
I think everyone can agree.
It would be unsurprising if that person did not have any type of mental health issues.
Motley said the families of all three sought compensation through federal use of force lawsuits in May.
The parties reached a settlement in the cold case after judge dismissed the Anderson.
case.
Motley says she was she's still waiting on a decision to their appeal.
She said it's sad the families have to pursue justice through the legal system
McBride distance what happened from this claim in an interview after Tuesday's meeting.
Whatever happened in 2020 or earlier, that's actually a different matter.
So although I understand the feelings of the Cole family, it's really an unrelated matter at this point.
McBride said, sorry, kind of goes on.
know what
I think
On the opposing side, you're so used to being able to call in and speak with steel.
My friend, my brother, I've still had him on my show here on the truth.
One on 1.7 FM when I've been filling in and had him come in with me and sit in for a segment or two.
Tori Lowe.
So you're so used to and Tori Lowe does his great work.
so in your mind you can discredit me you can discredit anybody else that you choose to but just know that it's in your mind you know because everything that's being done doesn't need to be spoke about and if you listen to your own mentor
My brother and friend Tori Lowe, he says it all the time.
I don't see everything I do,
I'll be on vacation.
She got to worry about me.
Let's jump let's jump in here.
Yeah real quick off the truth talk tech time P Hank said if I could recall I think white widow received an award at the first annual truth award ceremony But now she's saying the truth doesn't do nothing for the community I'm