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Announces a groundbreaking initiative to address Health Access disparities among black veterans we’ll be talking with the va’s per secretary to discuss the pack act black family in Texas face tear of the hands of police officers who mistakenly accused him of driving a stolen vehicle we’ll show you the chilling video highlighting the racial
Disparities in law enforcement in the urgent need for accountability Democratic party finds itself at a critical juncture grappling with internal divisions over the path forward for voting rights litigation the lead of the 2024 presidential election we’ll speak with the founding partner of his strategies to unpack also how the
Democrats must focus on black voters and how they must change their language and strategies in doing so also I talked with a Teresa runstandler but professor of History a professor and historian of race in the sports at American University about her new book black ball Korea new Jabbar Spencer Haywood and the
Generation that saved the soul of the N B A also folks uh we will share with you uh what took place at the Alpha Phi Alpha convention last week where General Brown the brothers who buyed the tab to be the chairman Junctions of staff was honored by his fraternity it is time to
Bring the funk a roller back unfiltered the Blackstone Network let’s go back [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] One more time folks in the Department of Veteran Affairs of a new agency it’s called Uh new agency Equity team called idea standing for inclusion diversity equity and access idea councils established last month to ensure the VA delivers on his promise to provide world-class care and benefits to All Veterans their
Families caregivers and survivors regardless of their race age if it’s any gender religion disability or sexual identity some of that includes the most significant health care and benefits expansion in the history of the VA it’s called a pact act which was signed to law by President Joe Biden last year it
May benefit veterans exposed to toxic burn pits since the law took effect officials because they have received more than 744 000 packed related claims and 103 000 enrollments Terence Hayes the Department of Veteran Affairs press secretary uh joins me right now to discuss this uh
This was not easy to pass you had a lot of initially Republicans who were opposing and got people who were running after talking about they love the military unless fight for veterans but they were fighting against this and so folks who don’t know what does it exactly do how comprehensive is the path
To act Roland this could uh potentially impact more than six million veterans six million more than six mile Bettors and survivors so it’s we’re talking Vietnam War veterans we’re talking Gulf War veterans we’re talking post-9 11 Veterans like myself uh those who may have come in contact with agent orange
Uh burn pits or other toxic substances because of their service so this gives us a VA the opportunity to really get more folks enrolled into our health care System where they will receive better outcomes but also there’s benefits due to many of these individuals and that’s what we’re doing a full court press
Right now to inform and educate as many veterans as possible so what is a burn pit what is that burp it is anything that you know I was in Iraq myself and it’s where we dispose of anything you can name of you’re talking about food waste you’re talking about garbage
You’re talking about feces you’re talking about jet fuel all of those things go into this burn pit to burn it away and unfortunately it’s on the camp that many soldiers and service members reside on so as a place in there are burned and as we see that photo there go
Back to the photo that you actually and then those toxins obviously in the air and they end up going across the bay absolutely absolutely so again this is critical that we ensure that on at the VA that we deliver on our promise to give care and benefits to those veterans
Uh potentially impacted by those burpes and their survivors now you talk about this in Roman period is it uh is it a set number of years uh is is there a cutoff date no there’s no cutoff date uh the great thing is that you can apply for Pac deck benefits today 10 years
From now 30 years from now that’s not going away however there is a sense of urgency where we have we’re approaching the one year anniversary of when President Biden signed the bill until our last year and it’s it’s important that veterans impacted and survivors please enroll or actually excuse me
Apply for benefits on or before August 9th because then you’re potentially eligible for back data benefits to win President Biden signed the bill last year so that’s 12 months worth of monetary benefits on top of other benefits that survivors may have as well I’m talking about education benefits
Stuff like that now when you say survivors uh so let’s say uh the the family member has someone uh they just passed away can they apply exactly spouse children if you know that your loved one your veteran passed away because of any of those conditions and you can find those conditions at our
Pack that website if anyone passed away because of any of those conditions we are encouraging them to stop where they’re doing apply today there’s benefits due to them uh let’s uh the question is my panel I’m drama Dr Julian Malvo she’s a Dean ethnic studies at California State University
Lecture School of International Service at American University uh glad to have both of you here Julian your first sure brother first of all thank you for this information it’s very important information uh I think how does this especially affect black women I know that we have significant numbers of
Black women vets who are very often overlooked can you talk specifically about this packed Act of black women absolutely as a matter of fact I was just in Boston this past week at the NAACP convention where we signed an historic uh memorandum of agreement to
Where now the VA for the first time will collaborate and work alongside the NAACP to figure out better ways to ensure that we’re delivering world-class care and benefits to Veterans specifically black and brown veterans the NAACP will help us be able to look at ways where we can
Bring in more black and brown Physicians clinicians nurses front line workers we know that when you go to a doctor and that doctor typically looks like you you have better outcomes so again that’s one of the things that we are doing and we’re hoping that we can collaborate
With NAACP to do better at that to ensure that we women veterans specifically women Veterans of color come to VA that they have a doctor that they can trust and that provides them the actual care that they deserve I’m a Congo well first of all thank you sir for this
Incredible announcement and the wonderful work that you are doing my question is about Outreach you talked about how people have until August 9th to be able to get you know to have file back claims and the like what is it that you all are doing one as relates to the
Outreach to getting to people who already feel like oh the VA is not doing anything for me and already stopped and gave up on even filing claims so they may not get this information and what can the rest of us do out here to help spread that information great question
Uh that’s one of the things we’re challenged with and you know the VA of old would have just you know put the information out there and hoped and prayed that you know veterans would find that information but what we’re doing now is we’re going into the backyards of
Those veterans we’re going to where veterans are to ensure that they have that information so they can apply for these benefits and then another thing that we’re doing we’re trying to earn and many times re-earn the trust of veterans who may have been denied in the past the beautiful thing about the pack
Act is that because of now what’s called presumptive condition and if you have a presumptive condition the burden of proof is no longer in the hands of the veteran so if you have any of those conditions because of that basically all you need to do is sign up apply and it’s
Automatically assumed that that condition is because of your service in the past it would have been very difficult so to any veteran out there who may have been denied multiple times I’m encouraging you as a veteran myself a black veteran to please apply today give us another shot to get to yes
You know a lot of people uh you know really don’t understand um again if you may not have someone uh with a family member uh but many of our organizations uh really uh focus on our black veterans you speak of the NAACP they have an annual luncheon there this
Year uh go to my iPad this was the first year the alphas had a military uh luncheon uh General uh Charles Q Brown Jr uh he gave the keynote speech he of course is the chief of staff for the Army uh this was they had a long long
Photo line he couldn’t get everybody so he said I’m gonna go down the line do fistballs with everybody uh but uh but that’s the thing so many of our black organizations uh they have veterans initiatives rainbow push and so many others uh and unfortunate and unfortunately our black veterans uh
Don’t uh you know are not as connected to many of the organizations out there so that’s why reaching out to these entities is critically important Roland I take it a step further uh you know several years ago you and I made I’ve even had this conversation you know but because President Biden’s determination
In in you know telling us that we will be a transparent VA that’s why we’re having this conversation that’s why we’re partnering with organizations like the NAACP that’s why we’re looking into Data that shows that we are having disparity issues in delivery of care and benefits to Black veterans versus white
Veterans we’re gonna we’re dedicated to getting this right for our veterans and and specifically to our black and brown veterans because this is personal for me but uh secretary McDonough is totally committed to ensure that all of our veterans get the benefits and care that they have earned see this is a thing
That is interesting so you all know disparity is there uh and uh and you have folks on the other side of the aisle uh who are who fight diversity Equity inclusion uh they’ve been attacking the military they’ve been attacking uh secretary Austin and the Pentagon uh saying all these things are
Not needed but the reality is we we know what’s there in terms of that disparity uh individuals who have been fighting for this country uh again not necessarily um uh you know getting the same level of respect so people love talking about oh how things are equal but it’s not equal
When it comes to treatment right absolutely we and and while we are getting better you know we are nowhere near where we need to be you know and again we have openly acknowledged secretary McDonough has acknowledged on record multiple times that there has been institutional discrimination when
It came to the benefits of black veterans again we’re dedicated because of these new teams that you mentioned earlier the idea Council to be able to uh basically peel the onion back determine why these disparities exist and totally eliminate them um again earlier you said six billion uh impacted
Do we know if there’s a breakout number for African-Americans uh we don’t know we don’t know how many but again we know that historically many African-Americans have served in our military so again this is this is vital that anyone who knows somebody who may have been impacted by these toxic substances and
Served this country please tell them so they can get the benefits that they’ve earned all right then again tempos where they can go you can go to va.gov pact you can also call us at 1-800-698-2411 to find out information about the PAC deck again this is critical we have an
August 9th time frame so you can maximize the amount of benefits that’s due to you so please take advantage of it again this is the website folks va.gov p-a-c-t uh you go there uh you see all the information uh and again you see right here it says there’s
No deadline to apply for packed act benefits but if you file your packed act claim or quickly submit your intent to file by August 9 2023 you may receive back data uh benefits backdated to August 10 2022 so don’t wait to apply today and so all the information is
Right there uh on the website uh questions uh all kinds of things here uh support where you’d actually go to you see a sales says Gulf War era and post 911 veteran eligibility Vietnam era veteran availability and lays out getting benefits and all information that you will need so please go there
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Whether real or symbolic there has been but Carol Anderson at Emory University calls white rage as a backlash which is the wrath of The Proud boys and the Boogaloo boys America there’s going to be more of this there’s all the proud boys guys this country is getting increasingly racist in its behaviors and
Its attitudes because of the fear of white people the fee that they’re taking our jobs they’re taking our resources they’re taking out women this is Whitefield [Applause] [Applause] thank you hey what’s up it’s Sammy Roman hey it’s John Murray executive producer of the new Sherry Shepard talk show it’s me Sherry shabra and you know what you’re watching Roland Martin unfiltered thank you folks The Frisco Texas Police Department they’ve released body camera footage of a black family being racially profiled
And terrorized Jefferson officer mistakenly accused them of driving a stolen vehicle the video has been circulating on social media folks and it shows you but black folks have to contend with and what’s crazy about this story is that it all start started because the officer typed in the wrong letter of the
License plate watch this [Applause] car from the outside yes yes [Applause] hey move your car back move your car back bro I don’t want them to hit me open up your car door and step out of the car unlock your car unlock your car exit the vehicle face away from us
Face away from us face away turn around turn around it’s okay turn around do not face us everybody in the car heads outside the window hands outside maintain your hands outside [Applause] Hey listen this is my wife’s car we just a bat in a basketball tournament yeah Can I explain to you we ran attack the attack came out stolen but it was the wrong State [Applause] yeah not too long ago bro we put our we we didn’t care that’s about it’s a terrible experience though I mean I understand y’all got to do your job man but we all legit bro I know we all legit bro [Applause] Jesus Christ [Applause] all right so
Looks like I made a mistake so I ran it easy for Arizona [Applause] [Applause] no we’re so sorry if it happened like this we had no intent on on doing this you know we’re humans as well and we make we make mistakes right I’m not justifying anything I’m just saying
Like it wasn’t a computer that read it it was our human error that did this and so please forgive us I made a mistake whatever happened I’ll deal with that I’m sorry man [Applause] for now oh man we I’m gonna be honest man being on the scene being on the scene knowing
That children were involved that’s why we were moving so slow we were apprehensive brother you know I mean we weren’t trying to like be all fast and stuff that’s why [Applause] he’s just going through the whole emotions of like you know what it could have been yeah [Applause] sorry again
This is a statement from The Frisco Police Department due to recent burglaries and vehicle thefts first of all let’s be clear establish from Little Rock Arkansas the family was not speeding the family was not engaged in any wrongdoing what happened was these cops I mean everybody listen to me
Very clearly these cops go back to the statement these cops saw the vehicle pulling out of a hotel parking lot and they noticed and out of state license plate quote due to recent burglaries and vehicle thefts in which Chargers are frequently stolen an officer conducted a computer check
Of the vehicles Arkansas license plate however when entering the information the plate was mistakenly entered out of Arizona the error resulted in an incorrect registration return leading the officer to believe that the vehicle was possibly stolen goes on to say they were pulled out quote about that time a Frisco Police Sergeant arrived
The sergeant realized the mistake and immediately ordered officers to stand down and ended the high risk stop Fresno Police Chief David schilson said they made a mistake quote in our department would not hide from its mistakes okay here’s the problem and we have done numerous numerous numerous numerous numerous stories on black people
Who have been shot and or killed in traffic stops when we had the story just last week the brother who was tased he had an incorrect mud flap on the truck a mud flap we have covered stories but black people have been shot because they had an item dangling from the rearview mirror
And the cop said oh that was obstructing their View why was that that was a grown black man who was crying like a baby that was a grown I need people to understand if you want to understand why black people die early because of stress that bro there have been people who’ve
Had heart attacks in situations like that that man was in tears because in a split second he literally saw that he and his son could become the newest hashtag and that was a black female cop in that video y’all see this is where people need to understand
It’s not a question of we talk about the blue is that a question of always white in Black this is a black female cop who says oh I made a mistake this black female cop could have cost them their lives you heard the white officer say that’s while we’re taking our time
Taking it slow get brother his wife and his son are lucky because we’ve seen other cases where cops from three seconds to 20 seconds would open fire mistaken the cell phone for a gun oh my gun accidentally went off I mean I could go down the line like
Literally y’all as I am sitting here talking I am thinking about the number of stories that we’ve done like this dating back to when I was on TV One and those black people are in cemeteries right now it’s not enough I’m a Congo to say we made a mistake
And the reason is not enough because we’ve heard before where the cop said my bad and we’ve seen we’ve seen where even when they admitted mistake they weren’t charged and that black family is left to bury somebody that this is not something just to easily move past
To listen to that grown black man crying because he knew he could he was that close to being a hashtag I’m a Congo you know there was a Harvard study that came out early this year or late last year that talked about the community trauma of a police shooting where it’s
Just not the the family that deals with it but the entire black community for a radius of miles can feel the after effects but with social media and everything now it’s the entire nation all of us all of our hearts raced watching that because we know easily
That it could have been us and you talked about the fact rolling that sometimes people can have a heart attack on situations like this happen the brother didn’t have a heart attack then but it can happen later yep we all know what it’s like sitting in our rooms
Thinking about how we just barely missed getting shot barely missed just getting tased barely missed I also thought about those sisters uh who were coming back I believe to University in Delaware coming from the south who are athletes on a bus that we talked about in this that psychological trauma that can last
Forever you know we’ve seen situations where family members die after their child gets killed or their mother gets killed they can’t live in the homes anymore and the cops just Pat you on the back and say oh we made a mistake go about your day you think they got they
Were able to play effectively that day what was that car ride like for you know we’re putting that mindset of inferiority and that anything we can take your life at any moment into the minds of our youngest into the minds of our youngest and as a father myself there’s nothing that that
Father did that I would not have done begging pleading for my child’s life not even talking about my own right in front of these people for the world to see so now he’s traumatized forever that child is traumatized forever and there’s more extra video out there where the
Mother is is is is losing it and if you had played that part role and I probably would have lost it here as well um people need to understand that this is real for us and like I said it’s not just black versus you know white is when it comes
To the cops it’s Black versus blue let me um I’m gonna pull this we’re gonna pull we’re gonna show that video but but I want to show y’all something I’m gonna go back to this story here while they were talking to the father and the son go back to my iPad
It says another officer interviewing the female driver of the vehicle who identified herself as a mother traveling with her husband son and nephew so that were three black men tells police that a registered gun is inside a locked glove box in the vehicle quote occupants in the car leave
Your hands outside the car we know there is a gun in there the officer with the loudspeakers heard saying after learning that information if you reach in that car you may get shot so be careful do not reach in the car about three minutes later that officer’s
Colleague tells him the wrong tag was written this isn’t a stolen vehicle Julian the the reason that is important because I think of philando Castile yeah with philando Castile told the cop that he had a concealed handgun that cop quickly fires and kills philando Castile that mother likely is losing it because again
By her saying there’s a gun in the glove box she also saw we could all be end up dead you know Roland this this is a family that has been unfairly traumatized there have their happy consequences you just can’t do that I know I’m looking at my keyboard right now because she said
She put in a Z as opposed to AR but Z and R are not anywhere near each other on the keyboard if you said it was a the AR as opposed to a t that’s not state of course but you know I would say okay maybe she made a mistake her finger
Twitch no I’m not saying it was deliberate it was careless it was stupid and basically this sister needs Beyond counseling she needs to be suspended without pay for at least a year uh the white boy oh we sorry we saw a human I don’t want to hear that you human will
You reduce my child and my spouse to tears I don’t want to hear about your Humanity I mean your humanity is incidental to the fact that we could have been killed I think Richard Wright years ago said when there’s a lynching in Mississippi I can feel it in Chicago
And what he was talking about was a universal trauma that black people experience when we see these kind of things happen I don’t know how many other little black boys who learned about this felt themselves at risk of that Danger watch their felt their own stomachs not up I don’t know how many
Sisters um seeing their man uh being treated this way and crying and crying I mean we know Brothers don’t let loose like that too often yeah he was holding a lot in and I don’t know how many people are sitting saying spit that could have been me yeah and so these little speechless
Apologies and I mean specious they’re necessary it should never have happened there must be consequences and this is a racial trauma not a family trauma we are all feeling this yep absolutely folks hold tight one second we come back uh Democrats are looking at trying to hold
On to the White House in 2024 as well as hold on to the United States Senate black voters will be a key but it is a Democratic party and it’s white strategist listening to black people or are they going to be stupid again and end up costing themselves the White
House and the Senate we’ll break it down next a roller button unfiltered on the Blackstar Network up next on the frequency with me D Barnes our special guest Alicia Garza one of the founders of the black lives matter movement we’re going to discuss her new book the purpose of power how we
Come together when we fall apart we live in a world where we have to navigate you know when we say something people look at us funny but when a man says the same thing less skillfully than we did right right and everybody boxed towards what they said even though it was your idea
Right here on the frequency on the Black Star Network oh on a next a balanced life with me Dr Jackie how are you being of service to others doing for someone beside yourself is such a big part of living a balanced Life we’ll talk about what that means
The generation that missed that message and the price that we’re all paying as a result now all I see is Mama getting up in the morning going to work maybe dropping me off at school then coming back home at night and then I really didn’t have any type of time with the
Person that really was there to nurture me and prepare me and to show me what a life looked like and what service looked like that’s all on the next a balanced life with me Dr Jackie here at Blackstar Network University Creator and second producer of Fat Tuesdays and air hip-hop comedy
But right now I’m rolling with Roland Martin unfiltered uncut unplugged and undamn believable you hear me right all right folks welcome back to rollermark unfiltered on the Black Star Network Washington Post dropped a story today uh that those of us uh in blackout media well look we’re quite familiar
With uh and that is um the struggles uh that are existing in the party when it comes to attracting black voters so now let me be perfectly clear black women are the largest voting Bloc and Democratic party black men are number two yet will we have seen over
The past uh 10 to 12 years has been a decline if you will uh in uh black voter participation now you look at also what happened uh you do see this uptick if you will uh of black uh voters namely black men supporting Republicans it is not
Um major but it is still insignificant now the reason this is all important is because it’s always been sort of this one size fits-all strategy reaching black voters but as black black older voters get older and become ancestors fewer African-Americans self-identify as Democrat even though they may end up
Voting Democrats but they don’t self-identify as Democrats and so the story in the polls which we talk about all the time we’ve been talking about for years is nothing new for us the question is will the party leaders listen Terence Woodbury is the founding partner of his
Strategies one of the top pollsters in the business he joins me now from Washington DC uh and Terence we have talked about this on so many occasions and I’m going to say and I tweeted all of this earlier I’m going to say what the Washington Post would not say and what not right
And what the New York Times will never write and what CNN will never discuss and what all these people never say the fundamental problem is white campaign strategies first refuse to hire no let me take it further white candidates refuse to hire African-Americans to run campaigns black candidates oftentimes don’t hire black campaign
Strategies they ghetto eyes Black posters and if they do hire folks they don’t listen to them and then what they do is those white strategists put all that money in television when you saturate the air and then it just becomes a waste of money because that’s how they get paid they don’t put
Money on the ground they aren’t putting money in Black owned media and then a week before the election when look at polling data they freak out and they start trying to figure out how to go spend money with black people and now it’s too late so I pretty much summed it up
I mean that is you know that that’s a lot of the problem that we’re dealing with here Roland we have uh uh you know black voters are acutely aware of the role that they play in the body politics specifically the role that they play electing Democrats they know exactly the
Role they play Not only electing Joe Biden but nominating him they know what role they play delivering the house and the senate in 2020 and black folks in Georgia damn sure know the role that they played delivering the first black and I’m sorry a black man and a
Millennial to the U.S Senate against securing the the control control of their house for Democrats the problem is now they just don’t see enough progress on that agenda despite Democrats and despite the Biden Administration achieving many of the things that black folks were demanding we have not done a
Good job connecting folks to the progress that’s being made I keep telling a lot of my friends in the Democratic party legislation doesn’t necessarily equal progress it’s the ability to access the things in that legislation at equal progress and that’s where we got uh some work to do ahead of
The next election cycle so let’s unpack that because we spend a lot of time on this show explaining what’s going on and walking people through and the reality is what you just laid out there are a number of things and you’ve done the data you’ve had the focus groups where people said this
Didn’t happen this didn’t happen this didn’t happen this didn’t happen and then when you present well actually this happened this happened this happened then they go wow I didn’t know that correct I mean I’ll take you I’ll take you even further than that man you know we did a
We created a Black Agenda with black with Alicia Garza and the black future Labs that that actually took an account of what black folks wanted to see done on their top five issues on things like Criminal Justice Reform Economic Security climate change um uh uh Public Safety Not Just which
Issue is most important but what do they actually want to see done and when you look at something like Criminal Justice Reform the top five things on that agenda have all been achieved by this Administration Banning no knock warrants Banning uh um um choke codes mandatory body cameras National registered police
Misconduct this is I want to be clear this is not just us giving credit to Democrats this is us as a movement taking credit for the things that we demanded that we marched for that we protested for that we lobbied for those things are getting done and stating
Facts so this ain’t like hypotheticals it’s like this happened you say you want this this happened and as to your point that’s what we fought for that’s right this is our progress and we need the movement leaders from black lives matter the color of change and campaign zero
And the rest of them to start taking credit for what there you go is achieving because as long as black folks look this was an NAACP survey I conducted last year that showed that 7 out of 10 black folks said that their lives had not improved since Joe Biden
Became president 7 out of ten Roland if that number is true in November of 2024 if 70 of black folks cannot tell you how their lives have improved Democrats are going to have a problem the thing that uh look we we talked about all the time you take a messaging
And here’s a perfect example last week Christian Clark because before the cameras and announces patterns and practices investigation against the Memphis Police Department this this Biden Harris Department of Justice has launched eight or nine of these investigations that’s right one during the Trump years one are we seeing the doj
Putting wardens Corrections Officers in prisons convicting people of hate crimes uh convicting officers of abuse and sending them to prison and y’all don’t even put it you don’t even discuss it at the White House podium you’re not giving any attention to what they’re doing and I’m sitting and I’m
Going hello this is basic how hard is it to stand there and literally say because again I get the press releases the doj is making the announcements and I’m like why are you not taking Victory laps if Kareem Jean-Pierre is saying that anybody is saying that sprinkling in a
Speech you consider and say we are holding people accountable that’s right they not doing it they are holding people accountable they just aren’t talking about it as much as they need to and so look this is the this is the real problem about how when we wait too long to start these
Conversations it enforces and reinforces the cynicism that people feel because you know when you when you look at some of this economic agenda tax credits and uh and and um insulin being capped at 35 an hour housing vouchers uh the the work that’s been done when we present that to people
In focus groups the list of progress that’s been made you know what happens I I’ll never forget sitting across from a young black man in Philadelphia who started getting pissed off as he was reading the list of how much progress we had made and I had to stop and say wait
I’m showing you the money that is being distributed the resources that are being distributed you just said you needed why is that pissing you off he said because I can’t access any of this I can’t access these tax credits I can’t access these housing vouchers I can’t access these jobs created by the
Infrastructure Bill and so if we don’t connect them to these resources now and instead come around next year and tell them how much we’ve done for them that they weren’t able to access it just reinforces their cynicism and when we say we say um connecting we say those things
Yeah go away go ahead go ahead let me very specific Roland when we needed their votes in 2020 and in 2022 we put in the palm of their hand click here to access your ballot click here to find your polling place click here to commit to sign this pledge that you’re going to
Vote well now they need to click here to apply for those tax credits click here to apply yeah you got some jobs created by the infrastructure Bill and and the example that I often give is Obamacare look passing the Affordable Care Act was one of the most uh significant
Legislative achievements of the Obama presidency but he didn’t stop at passing it he spent millions of dollars connecting people to it counselors you know uh stop gaps websites apps all types of ways of connecting people to the health care that they needed because just passing the legislation uh was was
Not gonna was not gonna well I mean that’s that’s why I’m just going to use as an example that’s like me sitting here going hey I need y’all to support Roland Martin unfiltered and the Black Star network but I never give out the cash app I never give out uh I never
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Because folk died for it they ain’t feeling that but when you say your vote could be the difference that’s right that speaks differently and resonates with black voters explain that’s right you know we did we’ve done a lot of work around uh around messaging and narrative uh with black voters which
Is where which is where a lot of the challenges it’s not as much a governing problem as it is a messaging problem in some cases and one example of that is the way we talk about uh voter suppression efforts right we found that using that language voter suppression it it incites
Um uh a uh this expectation that that is something that we’ve dealt with before that was something that we that we marched for in the 50s and 60s that was a civil rights Challenge and in fact there’s just a distraction from the real challenges that we have today uh but but
Instead when you talk about efforts to make it harder for just enough people to vote to make the difference that is something that’s familiar to people and you gotta be specific you’re downstairs say they are closing voting locations that’s what you say instead of voter suppression that’s exactly right that’s
Right voter suppression sound like something from the Civil Rights Movement but when they’re when they’re when they’re just trying to make it hard enough for just enough people to vote by doing things like closing a few locations by uh um by by um uh ending early voting periods that
These are things that people are familiar with and they know people that have been impacted by it and then they become more resilient they become uh we call voter vigilance right they’re expected to overcome those barriers another example Roland I think is going to be very important in this next
Election because in 2022 defending democracy was the second biggest issue that Democrats spent money on second only to abortion the second issue that we spent the most money on was defending democracy I expect those two issues to rise to the topic in this this cycle the only difference now is that we can’t
Keep expecting from folks that have had mixed results from democracy that don’t always win from democracy that those may not be the people that are most likely to defend it the simple language shift that we have to make here is from defending democracy to fixing democracy and fixing democracy includes a bunch of
Things that Democrats agree with anyway getting big money out of politics and reforming the Electoral College and automatic voter registration but what it does is acknowledge us to folks that we know that there’s something wrong with it and we’re not asking them to just stand in line and defend the status quo
But that we need to fix it through some of these uh Common Sense Democratic reforms I laid out a series of things that I think need to happen and I’ve been very vocal about this on the show uh and this is what I was saying right now this is the end of July
This is in August 2023. I believe that right now we are in what I call the education period that’s right so I so I I sort of in television we use a phrase called uh back timing mean you build a show from the end of the show
Backwards so if I’m building this from the election from the election year backwards uh election day it’s how I’m looking at this whole deal that’s voting before before voting I got to get you registered before I got you to get you registered I got to educate you I
Believe what they what they should be doing the CBC is doing some of this uh they’re not well attended town halls I was at one when we were at Essence it wasn’t well attended um in fact Friday uh Congressman Terry Sewell hit me up just just today uh and
She asked me uh to uh moderate uh the one that’s happening uh in Birmingham on um Friday I’ll be in Birmingham uh beginning tomorrow uh for nabj uh and she asked me to do this when I’m gonna show you graphic in a minute and hopefully that’s going to be well
Attended but you have to walk people through you have to teach people and I think what you’re talking about and what I’m talking about there should be literal Town Halls voter engages voter engagement low propensity High propensity it should be micro targeted there should be specific conversations with black men specific conversations
With black women specific conversations with black entrepreneurs specific conversations with different groups because you have to tailor messaging to those different people I experienced it when I was in a Georgia there was a black woman who a black woman who owned a coffee shop who supportive of Roe v Wade but she
Said her number one concern was tax policy and she was listening to Hershey Walker so you can’t look at her and just go oh talk about the dive decision she was like no I’m looking at I own a business I’ve got employees I’m looking at taxes and that’s the kind of micro
Targeting Democrats that better understand that should be happening right now these constant engagement conversations and not always going to the damn barber shop in Beauty Salon that’s exactly right Roland you know I I appreciate you brother because you are doing a lot of the civic education that
We need and when you start to disaggregate the black community you know we’ve created these clusters amongst black voters that really begin to put them into these categories of groups of black voters Beyond just age and gender right because when you when you start to break them out there’s a
Very cynical group of black voters that are closest to the pain that haven’t felt like they the the democracy has been working for them for a lot of them they are choosing to withdraw they are choosing to not participate in a system that does not seem to work for them but
Then there’s another group that’s equal the exact same size 30 percent that is not cynical in fact they if when you ask them they say they participate in every election but the record shows that they didn’t miss a few that’s just a lack of information when I talk to them folks in
Focus groups they actually get pissed off that they missed the last election well there’s a different intervention for the cynic that says this doesn’t matter that voter in fact needs to be persuaded to re-engage while this other voter this uh this lower information aspirational voter that thinks they vote in every
Election they need to be informed and empowered and so we got to make that difference and the last thing I want to you know as we talk about this language shift and I’ve been I’ve been responsible for some of this is I’ve been trying to close the gap between
Black men and black women we have to stop talking about the problems with black men because it seems to imply that they’re the problem yep instead of talking about the barriers that have been erected against black and there are barriers that we need to start tearing down and it ain’t black
Men’s fault that they’re there but it’s our it’s our fault if we’re not there then we and we don’t start I’m gonna start before I go to Juliana I’m a Congo here’s the other thing that you also got to do you got to get black man credit
Doug Jones but he won when he won the election it was very interesting all of these stories nearly every story and let me let me be real clear I don’t put a bunch of sisters on the air I have higher Heights named and so can’t nobody sitting and try to question uh my
Creatures to come to black women but damn near every story black women elected Doug Jones because it was 96 percent it was 92 percent for black men that’s right and so what happens is and this is a very what I’m about to say right now is a very touchy subject
Because I’ve seen it play out and uh Siobhan was on the panel with us at the alpha convention where she where she talked about this here this pitting of black men and black women but the reality is and I’m gonna say this and brothers y’all can act as fool you want to
It we do have to acknowledge ego we do have to acknowledge misogyny we deal with acknowledge sexism internalism but there is this sort of thing where brothers are voting but folk act like they ain’t important that’s right and so psychologically for a certain group of black men when all they hear is black
Girl magic and black women this and black women that and black women listen black women that and they never actually hear black men being a firmed politically then they go well what about us out of hell with this we ain’t interested and that is also where Republicans are seizing on that’s right
And because the other the other side of only hearing black girl magic and black women deliver which they are both delivered and Magic the other side that black men hear a lot is toxic masculinity you know and the and the and the problems uh with with with uh sexism
And chauvinism and and look I got to remind a lot of Democrats often that not all masculinity is toxic and we cannot allow Republicans to claim these values that are so inherent to who black men are black values like family like masculinity like Jesus not just God
But also Jesus is critical to a lot of the foundation of of who a lot of black men think they are I mean believe that they believe they are and and far too often we’ve seeded those values to Republicans and that’s how they’re starting to make progress also wealth creation and Independence
You know not all black folks is poor this ain’t always about reducing there you go yeah it’s about creating wealth hey I look I was asked by the White House after President Biden State of the Union speech and I said they said hey what do you think I said yeah it was a
Good speech I said but y’all need to focus on business creation and building scale I said I’m telling you right now I said the numbers are real and see people don’t want to own up to some stuff look I’m I’m I found a school choice is the black Choice Andrew Gillum learned that
In Florida nobody can explain why 18 of black women voted for Rhonda santis because he was talking about opportunity scholarships it’s a whole bunch of black women want to make sure their kids get educated and school choice is one of those issues it’s a lot of Democrats who oppose Charter Schools they oppose
Vouchers but guess what it’s a big percentage of black people but that is important and if you go so hard against that they like yo I’m a single voter issue and so these are the nuances of the 21st century black voter that that these white campaign strategies and
Candidates don’t seem to understand is happening in real time that’s right robin look man I am I I appreciate you giving these platforms to voices that that just have an alternative perspective because look I there is an opportunity here to really mobilize and catalyze the progress
That’s been made I think we have to check we gotta do a few things different change some of the language uh we got to change some of the messengers not just the message but change some of the messengers we need us telling us how we have made our lives better
Through by voting that’s not always going to be because of some hero in Washington sometimes that’s going to be because you and I stood together and voted last cycle we were able to do XYZ but we’re not done yet and that’s a very different message than just trust these politicians and keep
Voting for them and they’ll fix your life it was a young man in Florida who told me rolling in a focus group my hood didn’t get any better under Obama it didn’t get any worse under Trump so what does Joe Biden have to do with me and
For that young man his cynicism is based in his proximity to the pain the best thing we could do for him is not a message the best thing we could do for him is relieve that pain and the thing here and again I’m coming
To you I’m a Congo Julian trust me I am when I talk about black black owned media the reality is so here’s a perfect example we’ve been talking now for 34 minutes MSNBC Fox News definitely Fox News but CNN ABC NBC CBS they ain’t dedicating this type
Of time to the Nuance of walking us through that and what these and what these white strategies are gonna have to do is respect black owned media and they should be sitting here going okay you’ve got black podcasters you got black black owned media sources and they’ve got to
Stop the game of saying we’re going to throw them some celebrity influencer money no you’re gonna pay out of the Media budget that experience where and I had a member of Congress said Roland Martin owns a media company why is he why why are you trying to pay
Him out of celebrity influencer money when you should be paying him out of the Media budget where you’re running spots like everybody else and and that’s the thing and they can’t nickel and dime us I told two campaigns to go to hell in 2022 where they came to me with some
Small amount of money to run ads and this thing and everybody listening as well this is not just a message for Jamie Harris and the DNC it is for Senator Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Senate uh uh Congressional committee the dscc it’s for the D Triple C it’s for the Democratic governance Association
But it’s also for all these Progressive packs and Progressive groups it’s for the environmental Lobby is for the Reproductive Rights people uh it’s foreign I’m sick I’m sick I’m sick of these folks sitting here spending all this money out here and they’re not including black people
And then when our asses get in trouble they didn’t want to come come to us and play Superman and Superwoman and save the day and when I and I said this when we were in Atlanta together all these Progressive groups the number is very clear they should be putting a
Minimum of 500 million dollars into Progressive groups on the ground to drive black voter turnout in at least 10 to 15 states that’s just that’s just Grassroots that ain’t black owned media and I’ve said this to the body to the Biden folks that look that little nice
Announcement 2016 uh or 2020 oh we’ve a six million dollar historic uh investment in Black owned media Fat Joe said it yesterday’s price ain’t today’s price I mean listen I I I’m glad you’re making some demands here because uh we gotta there are some voices and some trusted
Messengers uh that are going to be necessary to have in this conversation otherwise we’re going to keep engaging the same folks the folks that are already watching CNN and MSNBC as opposed to the folks that are tuning in here that are in touch with the community that know that there that
There is that their civic education Civic awareness that there’s things that we need to be on information that we need to be armed with so that we can we can get correct the record on some of these things I’m happy to come on anytime and continue these conversations
I’m a Congo your question for Terence so one of my questions and thank you for all of your incredible work I I’m wondering if you are fearful that as we get closer to the election some Democrats are going to intentionally try to play the middle which will lead to
Them ignoring more black voices and basically end up what happened with Tim Ryan and and JD Vance in Ohio where he tried to play the middle and basically said you know like something could affect the whole bomb was wrong which immediately lost him a lot of black
Votes do you feel like that’s going to happen people are going to try to even ignore more black voices by trying to play towards the middle and some attempt to get more white Independence or white conservatives uh you know unfortunately I think it takes um unfortunately like like Roland said
He’s been having this conversation for a very long time long before I headlock in the Washington Post today about the need to prioritize black voters but unfortunately I do think it takes that headlines like we saw in the Washington Post uh to to jar people’s attention to get them to realize that
The key to success is to mobilize your most loyal voters I mean this is what Republicans have figured out we we know Donald Trump isn’t reaching to the middle he’s not trying to persuade some mythical swing voter he’s trying to juice his base everything he says every
Stage he walks on every headline out of that campaign is to juice his base and it’s it works he surges the right and we have an opportunity to Surge the left I think that a lot of the surge that we saw from the left in 2020 was a response
Was was a response of the movement a lot of that was the black lives matter uh um uh protests and the the Groundswell that we saw from the from young people and in 2022 a lot of that was from the reproductive Justice movement well this time either we have to recreate those
Movements or we have to find new ways harnessing that energy that is oftentimes coming out of young people and multiracial coalitions Julian uh first of all Mr Woodbury thank you for your work um yeah thank you for your work I think you’ve created nuances here that we need
To pay attention to at the same time I’m just going to put a say this to y’all both the all Brothers um I love my black men always have always will but y’all got to back up off of some of this stuff with your own sexism you know I I appreciate what you
Said but let’s be clear there has to be a conversation among black men bringing people like Siobhan to the table to say Siobhan the sister who’s head of ncnw to say how can we talk about getting out of this because they’re sisters who are walking around with their mouths poked
Out they believe they’re wrong but they believe that black men cost Stacey Abrams the election that’s an example of that and we as black people but we as black people refuse to talk about sexism in a way that’s calm holistic and Forward Thinking do you have any
Thoughts you seem to have a lot of ideas which I appreciate I wish I could talk to you a little longer the Roland gonna cut me off he has a bad habit of that but how we have this holistic conversation and I’d love to talk to you more about how
These folks you used to talk about energizing the base or surging to the base how can they search the base where they’re so paranoid about blackness yeah you know a part of that is it and this is a part of what we’ve been trying to do is is use data to correct the
Record right the gender gap that exists between black men and black women and levels of turnout or levels of support for Democrats it’s not unique to black folks there’s a gender gap amongst all racial groups women vote more than men of every single race women vote more
Democratic than men of every single race now that is a little it is more concentrated amongst black folks and that’s a part of where we got to crack the code but but that’s a part of what we have to do is just start correcting the record and the second way we do that
Is to stop talking about the problems within our community the problems with black men are the problems with black Millennials and start talking about the barriers that have been erected to make it harder for these groups to participate in the same way and with the same and with the same conviction well
We also got to do Julian your question though is we got to be honest about what is actually being said talk about when you talk about Georgia there were many people literally a year before the election who was saying to Stacey Abrams and her campaign there is a black male perception problem
What’s your strategy and many ways in many ways stuff wasn’t done see so when we talk about these things we got to recognize there’s there were people who were who were giving those warnings hey this is what we’re seeing on the horizon y’all may want to address that that was actually happening
But Roland let me just I’m sorry my brother for interrupting you Roland this black male perception came out of nothing but massage in Noir I mean it came out of black some black men I’m not saying all but some black men absolutely hate we’re seeing black women yeah
Position power and so yes hey you have a black male problem no black men had a problem with the powerful black women no no let me walk you through you say there’s a portion of that you’re absolutely right but it metastasized and what I am saying is when black men like
Myself and Terence say stuff a year in advance you might want to listen to us so and then so what is the perception what do they say perception is sometimes folks reality so the perception then doesn’t become the reality that you actually counter it beforehand this is
Part of what we’re talking about what happy hold on Julian I’m telling you and I’m seeing I’m speaking from experience I know black men who reached out said hey y’all we’re seeing this rumbling let’s counter this very early folk didn’t listen to him and that’s what what we’re talking about here we’re
Saying Listen to Black men Listen to Black women talk to them before it’s too late Terence if I could just respond from the data you know what we saw after the 2018 election was that had black men voted for Stacey Abrams of the same rate as black women she would have been
Governor and Stacy Abrams was very acutely aware of that statistical fact and where I might disagree a little bit I think that she built a campaign to address that what Stacy has always done build data driven strategy and so she saw that Gap and that gender gap between
Black men and black women in her first campaign she made Investments and and and and programmatic shifts to address that and not just in barber shops but and but in actually recruiting and and and and and enlisting uh a team of black male surrogates uh and and and
Strategists to go out and pursue those those black men and the result was that Stacy closed the gender gap well the the trends that we saw in Georgia bucked all national Trends amongst black voters so I I don’t speed bump that so all of this he’s in mainstream media where black men
Not supporting Stacy no yes the data shows that was a lie empirically I can prove it in the data it is a lie Stacy closed the gender gap between black men and black women smaller than it was anywhere in the country the gender gap between black men
And black women was smaller in Georgia than it was anywhere in America so it’s a lie also it’s also a lie when people say if black men had voted in 2022 she would have won folks are putting that by saying that black man caused her the election you
Say the data is clear that’s also a lie it is clear in the data that the gap between because I I did a deep dive to figure out what was the difference between Warnock and Abrams who were those voters I I almost suspected that it was going to be some black men in
That difference that more black men supported him than supported her it is a lie they ran even amongst black men they were an even amongst black women the Gap the gender gap that Stacy experienced with black men was the exact same as Warnock the difference in the margin of
Victory was in moderate white voters that Warnock was able to convince uh that Herschel Walker was an existential threat and we did not do the same with Brian Kemp we did not disqualify him and connect him to the crazy of Donald Trump and the crazy of Herschel Walker we let
Him distance himself from that and appear moderate and appear sane and that worked with white moderates that’s where the Gap was and what Brian Kemp also did was Brian Kemp didn’t do what other Republicans did he actually showed up at various black events and so that blunted or what
Typically happens is oh you can’t even show up he actually showed up he actually had it wasn’t a huge one he actually had a black strategy that’s right he was formidable he was a formidable candidate and in many ways and I I’ve said this on the record I
Don’t think Stacy lost that race I think Brian can won that race he did formidable politics appealing to the right appear appearing to stand up to to Trump while still maintaining Trump’s base I mean he did what I did not think was possible okay and he defied a lot of
What what I expected to be the the conventional Norm which was if you do not capitulate to Donald Trump then his base will make you pay a price for it and then last in the last one here what you just laid out and this is part of
The problem when you rely on mainstream media mainstream media mainstream White media ran with that story blacked me out a problem blackmail the problem black men are the problem black man on the problem and people start thinking well black man the problem and you know who they were not listening to Black on
Media where we were actually saying y’all that ain’t the problem on this show we laid out of the things that Stacy Amos was doing in terms of reaching black men but you had some brothers all uh it was too late dude was there the whole time but that’s what
Happens when you let white on mainstream media set the agenda final commentarians uh you know we we this is one that we’re gonna have to continue to correct the record on both within our community and and to folks that that claim to serve our communities uh we do have to correct
The record on the gender gap between black men and black women you’ve heard me say this Roland the one that I’m even more concerned about is the generation gap yep between younger black voters and older black voters I say all the time black singers are my favorite voters
Because we know they’re going to vote and we know who they’re going to vote for that is not the case of black voters under the age of 50. they need to be convinced to vote and more and more frequently they need to be convincible for Democrats absolutely Terence
Woodbury hit strategies we appreciate it brother we’ll have you back again thank you brother uh we come back I’m gonna pick up on that particular point there talk about it with Oma Congo and Julian uh we come back right here in Roland Martin unfiltered on the Blackstone Network I’m from L.A and this is the culture the culture is a two-way conversation you and me we talk about the stories politics The Good The Bad and The downright ugly so join our community every day at 3 pm Eastern and let your voice be heard hey we’re all in this
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Hello we’re the credit fixers I’m Dr Bernard Hodges and I’m Dr Terence Ferguson and you’re tuned in to Roland Martin unfiltered thank you 2012 2016 2020 2022 2018 we are on this my TV one show this show I often would show people various studies when it came to Black voters the point that Terence Woodbury is making at the end there people need to understand the folk who gonna show up 65 Plus
I remember uh National Coalition on black civic participation had their um phone Banks and um I think they were calling Florida and so they reached this one household it was a sister she was in like her 70s and 80s she said baby let me be clear with y’all
My son is picking me up tomorrow at X time and taking me to the polls to vote y’all need to stop calling me because I got my voting plan call somebody else it was too funny when they really relayed that story to me and so the numbers are there
They are going to turn out I say to millennials and gen Z constantly you may have the numbers but you’re not maximizing your numbers I said the exact same thing to Latinos in Texas there are two million eligible but unregistered Latinos in Texas there are 700 000 eligible but unregistered Latinos in Texas
A study was done in 2022 the exit polls show at 75 of all Texans under the age of 30 did not vote 75 percent and so when we’re talking about what’s happening now this is where the voter education comes in we’ve got to have real conversations about two young voters to explain to
Them you sitting out elections means that those who are Gen X or baby boomer they’re the ones who are deciding your future so you can’t complain about the old folk decide our future when you’re not showing up which means that and I say this all the
Time Juliana mccongo I said all the time how we got to go back to Schoolhouse Rock 2.0 3.0 and literally walk folks through basic civics not saying well y’all stupid but I’m saying you never actually was taught these things because that’s really a fundamental problem here uh I remember
2016 I’m a radio show black woman she was in her 20s she called into the show and she said I ain’t feeling Hillary I ain’t feeling Donald Trump at all uh so I’m not voting in the presidential election I’m focusing on state issues I said where you from
Again I think she was like 23 or 24 activists engaged so you would think what I’m about to tell you she knew she said uh I’m from North Carolina I said okay I said um what are the what are the three issues that you plan on focusing on
It’s a sheep through the three issues out I said okay I said and you said you not gonna vote in the presidential election right she’s absolutely not I’m not feeling Hillary or Donald Trump I said are you aware that your two U.S senators have blocked two black women who President Obama
Nominated for the federal it was Tillis and uh uh bar so are you aware of that she says no I’m not I said she said my number one concern in North Carolina voting rights I said interesting I said are you aware that it’s federal judges who have ruled against North Carolina’s
Voter suppression bills I said so if you’s telling me that voting rights is your number one issue in North Carolina but you’re sitting out the presidential election then you’re sitting out the person who picks federal judges um then you’re sick then you’re sitting out the U.S Senate race where they confirm federal judges
I say so sister I’m I’m confused how can voting rights be your number one issue and you’re completely ignoring the individuals who play a direct role in the issue that you say is your number one issue Julian she was stopped I said sister I said sister you’re not connecting the dots to how
Federal policy has a direct role on what’s happening in your state she would she was she was blown away but you know one of my favorite stories that I’m told not to repeat is of a young lady who told me she she could not vote for Hillary and she got very
Emotional at the 16 um Democratic Convention I had played some role in her getting there so you know I was a little fried when she jumped up there she could not vote for them so I stopped speaking to him two years later passed here we got ghost
Worship and Kavanaugh baby girl calls me Doc and she’s all emotional again what are we gonna do about our abortion right should I say baby girl I’m over 60. I don’t have abortion rights but what you have is a problem because you did not have Forward Thinking politics are not
Personal this is what our young folks need to say you don’t have to like the person you have to look at what their uh what their platform is I think it was a bill clay senior said no permanent friends no permanent enemies just permanent issues and that’s what our
Young people need to understand I don’t care if the person is charismatic I mean if Trump had a brain and he was pro-affirmative action well I can’t say I would vote for but I might but I had a lot of ifset if he had a brain but but
In any case you know you can they have got this stuff so personalized and you said something earlier about to uh what is it school how School House 2.0 or three Schoolhouse Rock those of us who grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons they had Schoolhouse Rock and
We be watching cartoons and they would have all these Jingles uh teaching you about politics how bill becomes a law yeah yeah that’s a one there’s only a bill it was only a bill it was sitting on Capitol Hill with a nice little we don’t have have any of that anymore
Somebody needs to do that Roland Martin you got a lot of stuff to do maybe you can do that too well the thing the thing is uh um again uh here um I’m a Congo it’s not saying y’all ain’t nothing y’all ain’t trash y’all dumb y’all ignorant it’s literally
Acknowledging that the problem is there is an education Gap that no longer exists that teaches people these things I had a brother uh he and I went at it on Twitter today and he goes bad ain’t done nothing for about about the national minimum wage and nothing about student loan debt
I said I said brother first and foremost Congress has to pass a bill to increase the minimum wage before buying consignment two Biden did cancel student loan debt the Supreme Court overruled him I said they’ve used other procedures that have canceled billions of dollars in student loan debt
But what was crazy to me on my Congo I’ve had some people actually say even with the limited cancellation ah this some it’s only ten thousand dollars right only I mean you have some people who are mad that Biden has only canceled ten or fifteen thousand student loan
Debt that’s 10 15 grand your ass ain’t gonna pay back that’s right that’s right man it’s it’s it’s sad and it’s scary you talk about the information Gap and one of the challenges is that we have people who are filling that information Gap with a lot of misinformation and a lot of
Disinformation so that education that you gave that woman who called you or you know earlier they’re not getting that in other places even outside the Schoolhouse Rock and places like that we have in social media spaces you know Tick Tock and YouTube and all of these places people who are
Influencers who are out there talking about yeah I think I may just sit this one out Biden hasn’t done enough they’re uneducated they don’t even have the knowledge and so they’re really helping create a generation of people who are going to feel like they don’t need to get involved unfortunately until it’s
Too late when I teach at American University one thing I did last semester was I asked students from January I started asking them every month how many rights have we lost in this country are we about to lose and it kept growing every month and then the other question
I would ask them is what have any of you done about it and you know having contacted a congress person have you funded an organization that does voting rights and you know fewer and fewer hands would go up and I’m saying this is why the problems exist is because of
Your lack of Engagement you know you have this idea that you’re invulnerable things aren’t going to bother you even if some legislation does happen it might affect poor members of our community in the United States versus you you think you got resources and the like but it’s
Just a matter of time before they’re coming from you and so when I think about those students who are majority white I’m thinking and what’s happening with with the black students what’s happening with the black youth where are they getting their information from who’s filling that void we haven’t seen
An uptick from the hip-hop community that we saw when like Obama was running and the like we haven’t seen people embracing black lives matter and black voters matter and other organizations like that in the last three or four years like they used to right or like it
Did I would say seven eight years ago and those types of things are problematic and so like you said this is education time this is education period where we got to listen to Mr Woodbury listen to you and start really generating the information systems again because they already exist we just got
To revamp them so we can handle this thing come next year uh here so again so folks out there who don’t know what we’re talking about when we say Schoolhouse Rock now listen they probably gonna they probably gonna put put a strike against us on YouTube so we
Probably gonna have to edit this out later but again for the people out there who think I’m making this up y’all this was actually real watch this thank you gonna have a three-ring circus someday people will say it’s a fine one son gonna have a three-ring circus someday
People will come from miles around the Lions Tigers acrobats and joggers and clowns welcome Walkers Pony Riders elephants and so much more guess I got the idea right here at school felt like a fool when they called my name talking about the government and how it’s arranged divided in three like a circus
Judiciary Circus step right up and visit ring number one the show’s Just Begun meet the president I am here to see that the laws get done the ring Master of the government All right somebody just posted on YouTube watching this with a big ass bowl of cereal on Saturday morning again as kids growing up you sit there you’re going okay president Congress judiciary this is how our bill gets done we were seven eight nine ten that thing
Was real and there really is Julian a a really a colossal Gap today I can’t tell you I traveled this country and I I have conversations I have conversations with people with Advanced degrees with with undergraduate degrees High School grad so people might be thinking and women
Think about man you talking to people who don’t know no it’s a lot of people ain’t got a clue how government works and who has power and how they use it that’s absolutely the case roller it’s very frustrating we’ve taken Civics education out of our high schools where
It used to be uh Reverend Jackson of course as you know has constantly pushed for having high school seniors when you graduate you also get a diploma so that’s a great thing but we’ve taken Civics education out and so when it’s out you have people who know anything
About how government works they have assumptions like the young man you said hadn’t done anything for him well bikes done a heck of a lot more you know Maxine Waters used to also always say to me when people talked about the Congressional Black Caucus and people say oh the Congressional Black Caucus
Hasn’t done anything and she says well you may not have seen what we did but you also did not see when we prevented from being done when people understand the way that government works they understand both aggression and prevention and so I I you know we this
Is it’s really a call for us to go back to our Saturday schools first because as a curriculum right now is under attack not only do you have those fools in Florida uh trying to change the way you teach black studies but you have uh state legislators who are cheap trying
To take certain things out of the curriculum so Civics has been one of them in many other ways which also affects the long-term body psychic music and arts have been taken out in some schools where young men are able to get rid of some of their aggression see I
Think about brothers every now and then Sports have been taken out and so you know we look at it they want to go down to three R’s and the three R’s does not serve the long-term development of a civil society uh I’ll take one second can’t go to break we’ll be right back
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Going to get well let’s just say even more interesting we are going to see more violence we’re going to see more vitriol because as each day passes is it it is a nail in that coffin the one and only Roland Martin on the next black table right here on the Black Star Network
Hello I’m Paula J Parker Judy proud of The Proud Family I am Tommy Davidson I play Oscar on Proud Family louder and proud hi I’m Joe Marie Payton voice of Sugar Mama on Disney’s louder and prouder Disney plus and I’m with Roland Martin on unfiltered no all right folks welcome back to Roland
Martin unfiltered here on the Black start Network so uh last week I was in um Dallas and Houston for the Urban League convention also for uh the alpha alpha Fraternity Incorporated convention and um I flew back from Houston early uh on um early on uh Saturday morning because
I want to be at our first military breakfast and uh the guest speaker was uh General Brown he of course was named by President Biden uh to be uh Secretary of the joint excuse me head of the junction staff one time in tuberville uh stops screwing things around
And uh General president uh Lawns are presented him with uh the highest honor in alpha alpha and I can tell you I’m sitting in the front row uh and here you see this 38-year military veteran uh just tear up uh and began tears beginning to get in his eyes when he was
Uh given the highest honor of the fraternity until I just want to share some of that with you folks great privileges thank my predecessors would agree and this is one that I value because the decision to award you the alpha Award of Merit was mine I was not even Pinson about it
Makes sense you are deserved what I love is maintain your commit to Alpha Phi Alpha as all Alchemy encourage so today by The Authority invested in me by the general Constitution and bylaw as the general president I am Honda to present to you the alpha Award of Merit the highest
Award the highest record at any initiated Alpha Fire for man and receive D from his return because Investing we thank you for your service to our nation and your love for our Brotherhood and your commitment to take time out of your skin as the leader of all animals in this world in the United States and your soon to be jobs as what she speaks yeah congratulations
You know Barry also will receive uh of course anytime you see the folks in the military uh they love to have these challenge coins and so I was able to get uh one of the one from General Brown I got a whole collection here uh these uh
Uh it says on one side United States Air Force uh and the other side says General Charles Q Brown Jr with the four stars csal 22 that stands for Chief of Staff of the Air Force uh first African-American Pro Chief of Staff of the Air Force and now he’ll become if
Confirmed once the Republicans figure out what time in tobyville getting out of the way uh he’ll be the second African-American ever uh to be head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff this this is the moment that we’re living in right now is it is is is is historical moment
Um I’m a Congo because you have again if the confirmation and it will just go back to the general go back just let me say thank you I’m uh of what a lot of work is going to happen I am so old I’m standing here before you today as an album
When the folk when folk when folk talk about um something’s a performative under this President is Vice President for the first time an African-American as Secretary of the defense retired four-star general uh Lloyd Austin um I give him credit he’s an Omega but whatever uh then you have of course uh General Brown
Uh will be um uh once confirmed cheers of staff and for the first time uh you also have uh a four-star black General uh who uh in the U.S Marines I think he’s Omega two uh and I think yeah I think he’s a mega with a loud proud voice okay well first
Of all uh that’s that that’s a little youth group but uh but but again so for people who understand again black folks on the Congo we’ve been fighting in this military since day one and it’s important for us to recognize when African-Americans are ascending uh to these type of positions
Absolutely and you know we commemorate 75 fifth year of the military being integrated but without it being integrated you know even before that have been fought in every war fighting for the promise of Freedom that never came and you know a lot of times younger people talk about you know they see
Their their parents who are veterans or grandfather fought and they say why do you hang up that American flag in our yard and so on and so forth is it because it’s our flag we fought nobody fought harder for this country to be free than us and we are still making history today
Excuse me no we go go ahead just go ahead okay and so and so even and even to this day we we are seeing that and I’ll be very honest and I think we can admit it I mean I we can talk about tuba very understands on abortion but we know
There’s some racism behind it and all of the Blackness that’s the leadership there why the secretary you know uh the Secretary of Defense the counterpart and China won’t even pick up the phone and talk to secretary Austin we think some of that is there as well but every
Single day we have to stop and recognize these moments and furthermore going back to our last discussion we have to recognize the person who is making this possible every night we can talk about things that Biden could be doing better but like you said we say rolling all the
Time you do good imma talk about you do bad imma talk about you either way I’m going to talk about you and so we have a very distinguished history of service in this country and it’s we have to continue honoring it Blackstar Network and everybody else because the humility
That we bring to the military is only comes in second to the pride that we bring in making this country better by our service uh this is a photo Giuliano General Michael Langley the took place in August of last year his family pitting that fourth star taking off and
Putting that four star again becoming the first African-American four-star general ever uh in the U.S Marines that all of this has happened under a black secretary of defense under President Biden vice president Karma Harris now people have to give president abide in the credit that he’s doing I think I
Don’t understand why people feel so reluctant to do so he deserves credit these are victories I mean there are undeniable victories I’m an anti-militarist quite frankly but I still stand up and applaud these victories this is such an oscillating moment in history for black people on
One hand we have this enormous you know this Pride these brothers and sisters who are sitting into these military positions that they could not have gotten 50 years ago a hundred years ago I mean the military just being integrated under President Truman at the same time this pride has sparked a
Backlash that you’ve written about that others have written about with these hateful people who see this progress and so resent this progress that they take over the capital that they um go against affirmative action that they basically want to put us down the Congressional Black caucuses press conference last
Week when they talked about a I forgot what they called it but it was race and democracy I make I don’t know anyway they they talked about the attack of black people the systematic attack so if so so we must be doing something right if if they feel like they have to double
Down an attack because frankly as uh General Howard said when he wrote about Howard University tell them we are rising no matter what they have do tell them we are rising and that’s the that’s the praise story we’re Rising uh indeed all right folks hold tight one second
I’ll be right back uh final break be right back and roll about unfiltered on the Blackstone Network yeah on the next get wealthy with me Deborah Owens America’s wealth coach the study showed that Millennials and gen xers will be less well-off with than their parents what can we do to make sure that
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Um start with the money mistakes that you have made but don’t just tell the mistake right tell the lesson in the mistake that’s right here on get wealthy only on BlackStar Network Next on the black table with me Greg Carter we welcome the Black Star Network’s very own Roland Martin who joins us to talk about his new book White fear how the Browning of America is making white folks lose their minds the book explains so much about what we’re going through in this country
Right now and how as white people head toward becoming a racial minority it’s going to get well let’s just say even more interesting we’re going to see more violence we’re going to see more vitriol because as each day passes is it it is a nail in that coffin the one and only Roland
Martin on the next black table right here on the Black Star Network hey what’s up y’all I’m Devon Franklin it is always a pleasure to be in the house you are watching Roland Martin unfiltered stay right here All right folks welcome back to Roland Martin unfiltered on the Black Star network uh we talked earlier about a Washington Post story dealing with black voters but there was another story today uh that I found to be quite interesting uh and that that was in axios uh that
Dealt with uh this split if you will uh between uh the Biden campaign the DNC and uh attorney Mark Elias he is the one of course who’s been leading in many ways these strategies uh fighting uh voter uh these these voter laws uh and it has been um really really interesting reading
This story about how uh Bob Bauer who is a top attorney for Biden also is the husband of Anita Dunn uh who is a top uh official for Biden uh how they’ve been disagreeing with Elias and being his aggressive strategy suing everyone saying oh the story said that Babar has
Been saying that he needs to be more understanding of these conservatives of the federal Judiciary uh it’s all sort of you know you know you know backroom drama this was a tweet that Eric Holder put out uh the former Attorney General Psy here’s the deal the party and the
Nation Oh Mark Elias a great deal I’m proud to work with him in defense of our democracy and of course he’s talking about uh this axial story why Biden’s team soured on dim’s Election lawyer now they say that well they hire other lawyers for the DNC he that Elias his
Law Firm represents uh the dscc and other Democratic organizations but here’s what’s what’s it and I tweeted that this was no stupid this is real clear what I said here uh omakongo and that is this here Mark Elias and it’s not this Market lies would be very clear
Is Mark Elias uh it’s uh NAACP ldf is Lawrence committed to civil rights under law professor woman Justice Coalition a number of people they have been very aggressive and with what they say in the lives is one of those folks who says you sue everywhere you do not give an inch
Every law that is passed by Republicans running these states he does it all the time he says if they pass this law we are going to sue we will see them in court and what’s been killing Republicans is they hate Mark Elias because he’s been winning and look Lou
Dobbs was even the one point when he used to be on Fox Business he said Republicans can y’all go raise 500 million dollars and just hire this guy he’s been kicking butt and I’m sorry I disagree with anybody in the buying orbit you must have a all-out war fighting for voting rights
And this is part of the problem you know one of the things the article talked about was how Biden and Barra wanted to be you know more strategic and going after certain cases as slow as this justice department has been as slow as the Biden Administration has been it
Took what 14 months or something before the doj decided to actually go against Trump for the Insurrection you can’t do that they move too slowly right now and so Elias and others that that you mentioned as well you have to Target them you have to have Republicans and these Governors spending their resources
Trying to keep up with this legislation because it also helps put them on blast he would he was the one helped win the case with the Alabama situation that the Supreme Court decided on and now Alabama is saying that the governor saying we’re not going to listen so these types of
Cases it puts them on blast this is put ego a time aside time this is kind of what we talked about in the last segment this is why I asked Mr Woodbury that question because I’m fearing with decisions like this they’re making a decision to kind of go towards this
Middle of the ground stands this temperate approach and Republicans do nothing in a temperate manner right now so people can say Elias had an ego and all this other type of stuff you know ego engine goes out where edging goes out by putting him out like this and
Really this is a mistake by the Biden Administration and you talked about those internal politics you know them better than most but really we have to put the Eagles aside and keep the eyes on the prize and Elijah should have stayed part of that process well this is
One of the tweets that Mark Elias just put out um this tweet went out uh let’s see here um almost a couple of hours ago uh the Elias Law Group sued Wisconsin elections commission alleging that a 2022 Wisconsin Supreme Court decision prohibiting the use of drop boxes in the
State violates voters rights now Julian wise it’s important because tomorrow guess what the Wisconsin Supreme Court flips to Democrat majority 4-3 so by suing them it now will go before The Supreme Court state supreme court can invalid the previous ruling and declare drop boxes to be constitutional
There you go you know I I think Oba Congo is absolutely right about this whole issue of ego um we need pit bulls the problem with Democrats is they don’t want to be pit bulls they want to be nice that was uh President Obama’s problem he wanted to
Get along with everybody well how can you get along with everybody if you are taking the food off my plate I’m not going to say would you please remove your hand I’m going to take my fork and stab you uh I mean literally so we Democrats want to play nice white
Democrats are afraid of alienating the white middle and that white middle will flip to their own convenience this guy’s a pit bull Democrats need to lift him up applaud him keep him going and the fact that we don’t do it is why we had that orange man as a president and why people
Are now worried about whether or not uh President Biden can have re-election but without getting President Biden needs to just get a backbone I mean I know he 80 and maybe if you haven’t had one all this time you’re not going to get one now but if you want to keep this
Position and lift up the values that you have believed in all your life then you need to start put some boxing gloves on dude and let’s start fighting if Democrats don’t fight we won’t win well uh again this was what tweet uh lies responding to Michael Steele still had a
Tweet from a story said there’s a big problem waiting us at polling sites in 2024 for example North Carolina wants to allow observers appointed by County political parties to move freely around polling locations record record poll workers and stand just five feet away as voters cast their ballots alive says and
He does this all the time if this is enacted into law North Carolina will be sued you’re absolutely right Julian pit bulls are needed and so sometimes you got a rebel feathers and you know what everything can’t be done quiet sometimes you got to be noisy now Mark alive
Spends a lot of time going on MSNBC we’ve been trying to get him on the show so Mark come on over to rollermark unfiltered trust me uh don’t only talk to MSNBC come talk to us as well you represent black voters matters and a lot of other groups and so come holla at
Black folks as well because we think what you’re doing is right but it’s also important for our audience to hit directly from you so we’re going to keep inviting him to the show Juliana I’m a Congo I appreciate y’all joining us on the panel today thank you so very much
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Could not take photos with everybody but he wanted to be sure to give a fist bump to all those military brothers who attended the lunch and so we’re just going to close the show out uh with that showing that brother some love oh six I’ll see y’all tomorrow foreign let’s see here
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