Remembering George Floyd, Knowing the Real BLM & Staying Positive with Sherri Bell

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Okay, yell, I talk fifteen eighty Good morning and God
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bless happy Friday.
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By the way, I'm Dominique Daprima.
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This show is first things first and my very first
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thing every day, no matter what day of the week
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it is, is giving thanks to God, giving praises to
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the most High, asking for the blessings. I've got the
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ancestors and the elders, and then Mike.
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Check, let's go.
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This is how we do things on a Friedman Friday.
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Hour one, we look local. Hour two, we look at
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reparations we do every single week at this time seven
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a m. Pacific Standard time, we do a comprehensive reparations conversation.
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And then our three is kind of a grab bag.
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Today we've got thirty minutes of open phones. So all
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of those of you who are quite angry about something
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you heard on Friedman Friday last week, or quite inspired,
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which would be even great, you can call me then.
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But yeah, we got a great day in store for
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us today.
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Fam.
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We are going to be hearing from Corey Henry in
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the first part of the third hour Legendary R and
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B Career, and then we'll close out the week just
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chopping it up about whatever, and we'll have James Woodson
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joining me in studio. He's the executive director and co
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founder of the California Black Power Network. Get his take,
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their take on reparations and what they're doing about it.
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And of course it's every other Friday.
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So my homegirl, the Cowgirl Today is in the studio
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channeling Beyonce. She's a labor activist and a KBLA contributor.
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Sherry Bell.
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Good morning, Good morning, Dominique, and good morning everybody out
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there listening.
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Yeah, a lot of things going on, a lot of
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things going on, and we'll cover them, but not the
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least of those is this weekend on Sunday, mark five
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years since the murder of George Floyd during COVID. And
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so obviously I'm wearing my Black Lives Matter and if
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you you know, if you look down, it says grassroots, right,
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because there's the real Black lives matter, is Black lives matter? Grassroots?
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Just wondering, you know, as you reflect back, because Cherry
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Bell will go to a protest, Cherry Bell will march.
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She doesn't just get on the mic, she walks the walk.
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When you reflect back, you know, what do you think
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of May twenty fifth, twenty twenty, twenty twenty, moving.
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Forward, I think of people was sick and tired of
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being sick and tired. At that point, I was fortunate
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enough to attend Black Lives Matter grassroots action that was
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on Thursday, and you know, commemorating and continuing the activism
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and in the name of George Floyd. It's really good
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to c BLM grassroots still out there and able to
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continue this important work, still in the streets and blocking
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stuff off and letting voices be heard. You know. But
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when I think back to you know, twenty twenty, you know,
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it was just a time where it was immense sadness,
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right of what we were seeing wed like not again,
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you know, not another time. The you know, the young
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girl who filmed the the murder of George Floyd just
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like was so young and courageous and just just it
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created uprisings throughout the country, throughout the country and throughout
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internationally as well, just uproar. And you know, it was
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it was it was optimism in the fact that we
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saw some immediate change in regards to some like legislation
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addressing some of the racism that has been built up
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that led to this moment, and uh, you know where
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we're seeing a backlash of that now with a lot
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of the repeals of programs to address discrimination exactly. But
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in that moment, it was it was a it was
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somewhat of some small victories along the way, especially when
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we come when it when we talk about the sentencing
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of the officers that were responsible for the murder, Like
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they didn't get acquitted like Rodney King's criminal case, right,
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they got held accountable. And I think that is largely
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in part to the work of Black Lives Matter grassroots.
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Yeah, yeah, along with you know, the many sort of
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spontaneous organizing formations that happened across the country and so
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so much to to unpack thearon. And of course Keith Ellison, uh,
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the attorney general there in the state of Minnesota, who
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is progressive, the first Muslim member ever in Congress, who
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went on to be their attorney general, who prosecuted Chauvin
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and those officers, which is why even if the Trump
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administration pardons Derek Chauvin, as we're hearing a rumor they may,
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he still has to do time in state prison Oka
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the state. Yeah, they they Well, there was the federal
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Civil Rights right, So he's serving both of those sentences concurrently.
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And the Attorney General. I was actually on a call
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with a member of the Black Lives Matter Grassroots chapter
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in the Twin Cities, and she was saying that the
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Attorney General has made it clear to them BLM Grassroots
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Minnesota that even if he is pardoned, they are going
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to hold the line and make sure that he does
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his time in Minnesota, those states, those state charges.
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I mean, that is that is good to hear because
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I don't think he ever for one thing. I don't
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think he ever apologized or took accountability.
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He raised money. He was just like that Shiloh Hendrix.
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He was one of those ones with the GoFundMe right.
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So that is like kind of low key disgusting on
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that end. And then if part if Trump like actually
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goes forward with entertaining the parting of Derek Chauvin, which
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he tried to act like he didn't know anything about
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these rumors when asked, I think we might see a
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two point oh twenty twenty. I really do. I think
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that a couple with everything that's going on, I think
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that we are at another boiling point, you know, just
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thinking about all the events with the big ugly budget
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bill that was passed, and you know, just thinking about
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everything coming to a head, you know, with the government
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showing his hand when it comes to racism, really just
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showing that they it's they kind of really is demonstrated
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that they want poor people to just die, right and
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you know, like and working class for people quote unquote
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are the people that are fueling their wealth. A lot
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of these people's wealth fueling the stock market value. And
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it's really how can I say, uh like uh, illogical
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in the sense to to try to take money out
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of people's pockets. They you know, they claim you want
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to make America healthy again. Uh and you acknowledge that
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childhood life span and a lot of people are not
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even going to be able to fit enough to serve
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in the military at this point. But yet you're cutting
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back health care, cutting back access for people to buy food.
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So it's giving like the times that we're in are
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it's like it's giving like fall of an empire type
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of thing, you.
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Know, g e.
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Seriously, so it's very serious and you know, I mean
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hopefully and you know, things that take a turn, but
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at this point is just like things are kind of
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low key imploding and that part and will just like
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affuse with the fire.
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You know, it's funny you say that, because I have
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a couple of friends who are seriously saying to me
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exactly what you said. It's the fall of an empire,
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and let it burn, and let it burn. We don't
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care if they dismantle the Department of Education. We don't
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care if they dismantle dismantle away, which is counterintuitive because
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I feel like we need the Environment of Protection Agency,
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the Consumer Protection Agency. But they're like, fit, this country
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never worked for us anyway, Let it burn.
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What do you say to those folks?
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Holy moly, Well, when I think about when I think
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about America, I was thinking about this late last night
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because I could not sleep. But I'm like, when you
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think about America, it's like two Betty Whites and a
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Floyd Mayweather old, Like, you know, it's like it's two hundred,
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like roughly two hundred and forty eight years old too,
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Betty Whites and a Floyd Mayweather. Right, Well said, that's
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how how long we you know? This country been around
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since the Constitution beside, so during that time, you've seen
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a lot of things progress, regress history repeating itself, and
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a lot of these things are going to the head.
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I actually looked up what caused the fall of the
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Roman Empire, just a quick google while yes, exactly okay,
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And you know, one of them was like economic troubles,
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like overspending on military, over reliance on slave labor hinder
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economic growth, creating social divisions and limited opportunities for free citizens.
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Political instability, corruption within the government LEDs to a weekend leadership,
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and all these same things. You know, it's kind of
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scary to think about it, but you know I feel that. No,
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I'm not for the world crumbling. No, I'm not for
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let it burn, right, I'm for fighting to maintain the
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things that the American people fought for. We fought for
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these agencies to exist because they came out of tragedies
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on the job site with disease. You know, these these
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regulatory agencies were were put up to protect us against
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the downfall of corporate greed, the evils that it that
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these things create. So no, I'm not like, let it
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bar because you know then would right, So, no, I'm
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for the fight.
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Eight hundred and nine two oh fifteen eighty.
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If you're always invited into the conversation Sherry Bell and
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Dominique Dupremia four KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. All right, before
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I go there, go there, because we got some go there,
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go there type stuff happening right now. And also I
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just want to ask you do we have events for
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tracking or you know, is Black Worker Center stuff that
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because the LA Black Workers Center is one of the
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causes that you support.
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Oh yeah, yeah, I mean the social media LA Black
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Worker Center on Instagram has all the latest and greatest.
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I think there there's something coming up on June twenty eighth.
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It's a community like meeting. Actually it's a part to
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our political landscape discussion because we ran out of time
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so we had a great panel and then like questions
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were not able to be answered, so we're going to
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continue the discussion of what's happening politically and how it
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impacts black workers in particular black community.
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Okay, so twenty eighth, and you can go to LA
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Black Worker LABWC dot org.
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I think it is that website. Yeah. Yeah, it's going
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to be at ten am, so I'll be able to
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share more information about it next time.
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Okay, looking for save the date?
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No, absolutely, so won to start well, and following up
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on our conversation about George Floyd and the movement, a
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couple of things I want to mention. First of all,
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Black Lives Matter. There's Black Lives Matter, the global movement,
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which was just people hitting the streets right right. Then
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there's the actual organization black which ended up having two
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major wings which were under one umbrella, which is Black
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Lives Matter Grassroots and Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.
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When the Global Network Foundation stole the money and stole
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the social media platforms of the actual boots on the
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ground activist, it was really consultants working inside who took
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advantage of Patrice Color's mental health crisis that cost her
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to step down and grab that money, grab those platforms.
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So now today we have to understand that the actual
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Black Lives Matter is Black Lives Matter grass roots. It's
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not that hard. Just you know, global sounds like globalists, right,
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The Global Network Foundation are the grifters, and so it's
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important to know the difference. So if you're following in
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honor of George Floyd right now, which you can do
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if you're still following BLK Lives Matter, unfollowed them, right.
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Yeah, I just got that information at the the mayor's
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budget form, and I, like real life, I was still
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following them and I unfollowed them because basically, like what
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you said, like when you think about Black Lives Matter,
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which was known as Black Lives Matter Los Angeles at
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the time, I believe.
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That was the first formation. Yeah, yeah, first boots on
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the ground, right.
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Boots on the ground out here where it all started,
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where it all started out here in LA right after
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the murder of Trayvon Martin. You know that that that
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that formation of the community work and helped propel the
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organization to have these different chapters. And like you, like
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you mentioned, when the pandemic was happening, people were also
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feeling like we've had enough, right, the racism is just
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over the top. Us watching this man getting murdered on
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on live television, you know, uh via the young lady
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who filmed.
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Them, Darnella Frasier I think was her name.
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Yes, courageous young lady. People had enough. So all this
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money started pouring in, millions and millions of dollars and
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there was really not an for structure to hold that
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money because that you know, so that global network was
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founded and then these random people start coming in and
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like mismanaging the money and not disseminating the money to
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the local chapters that were actually doing the work. So
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it's like a classic, like you know, scenario that you
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can point back to in history, like you know, give
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them the Cadillac instead of the money, you know, like
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you know, it's that type of situation. So, yeah, Black
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Lives Matter Grassroots is the real Black Lives Matter, right.
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ten getting ready to onboard, which means that there could
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there could be by this summer more Black Lives Matter
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chapters than ever even in twenty twenty. So I think
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that's important. I mean, you were at the protest this week.
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I think it's important that even we remember that even
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though there's not millions flooding the streets, the work continues
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in lots of different cities. There are small formations of
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dedicated folks doing the work to make change, even as
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the Department of Justice has now ended the consent decrease
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with you know, on the anniversary, which I think is
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just demonic, to be honest with you, because these are
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things that came out of the murders of Breonna Taylor,
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and George Floyd. They have the Department of Justice under
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Trump has said that they're no longer going to enforce
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these consent decrees and that they are going to end
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all of these investigations that are going on into various
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police departments around the country. So get out of jail
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free card for killer cops in honor of George Floyd
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and Breonna Taylor, that's what we get. They are playing
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in ourf and faces right now.
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I mean, it's really a risk of public safety, lack accountability.
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of these actions, you know, upon them of George Floyd.
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We started to take a closer looking too, all the
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other corruption, not just the consent decree related things, but
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like the over ticketing in Ferguson, Missouri, in small black
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town right.
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Which we're supporting the police department. And then and the
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vicious cycle is the poor are paying for their own repression,
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right correct, It's given Roman Empire for sure. Yeah, I
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don't blame you for googling that in the middle of
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the night. But Paulice says, you know, the the burn
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it all down. People don't remember, don't know history, and
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when it burns down. Remember who'll be first on the menu?
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And Qwamel says or last rescues, last rescued. Tanya is
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saying all taxpayers should be up in arms about our
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federal departments being gutted because we're paying taxes for these departments.
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That is true, Tanya. And we're still paying those taxes,
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and we'll still be expected to pay those taxes. Somehow
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I missed this story. I didn't realize that young Darnella Fraser,
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I think she was like sixteen or seventeen when she
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took that tape of George Floyd being murdered, and I
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mean that was brave. You know, she could she could
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have run away. Yeah, she could have put down her phone.
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I didn't know she got a Pulitzerprise for that. WHOA,
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I'm on their website Pulitzer dot org. She got a
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special citation for courageously recording the murder of George Floyd,
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a video that spurred protests against police brutality around the world,
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highlighting the crucial role of citizens in journalists quests for
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truth and justice.
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because they're trying to erase every little bit of history
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that they can. Yeah, so I hope they're not funded
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by our federal government because they could keep that kind
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of recognition up so people don't forget. But yeah, well
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deserved because I'm sure they were telling her to get
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away and she well, I think she.
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Was kind of hiding out. But from what I remember
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hearing her speak of she was kind of hiding out
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behind a car or something, but terrified. Who wouldn't have been.
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she had gotten that.
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So now we're in a time period before you could
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like it during the Rodney King case, right, he doesn't
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get justice locally, so they would take it to the
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federal government. We would demand a federal investigation, not just
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for cops, but for you know, the integration of schools
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and all kinds of things. Now the Justice Department has
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made it clear they've gotten rid of the Civil Rights Department.
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Now they're getting rid of consent decrees and police oversight.
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They're making it clear, don't come to us, So that
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means we have to rely on our state. Yeah, is
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out so state and local. Of course, that's not gonna
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help in LA because we just elected many Mini Magami,
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Nathan Hankman. But and the work of our activists, right, yeah, you.
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federal government was the target to like advance civil rights
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because individual states were so racist, right that they could
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not be trusted to implement policies that address disparities and
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discrimination and whatnot. And now the power is being put
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back in the states. So it's like, you know, wondering basically, Yeah,
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it just like repealing everything, and it's troubling. I mean,
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California even though it is like increasingly being more conservative,
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and we're we're we're blue blue, but we're barely blue.
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putting a reliance back on individual states to maintain and
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enforce civil rights and anti discrimination provisions and shoot like
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accountability for murder, you.
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Know, yeah, accountability to the law that you're supposed to
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be upholding. It's nasty work, but the good thing is
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that people do not seem to be deterred. I mean,
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the protests are arising again. As you said, it's interesting
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to see. Well, we'll talk about it after news, traffic
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and sports. We only have thirty seconds here, but this
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fifty to fifty one movement, which is mostly a lot
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of white folks out in the streets angry about the
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Trump policies. But I still feel and I think you
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kind of made this point that one of the reasons
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why the Trump administration's first order or business, besides destroying
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Black Lives Matter, plaza and stuff, is trying to take
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down universities yesterday, taking away the right to even have
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international students, is because in twenty twenty we saw so
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many different so called races, ethnic groups, nationalities, people of
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all backgrounds and ages in the streets protesting against racism,
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and the Republicans realize that consciousness, wokeness, education makes people
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stand with black people, and so they decided to shut
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it down. We have news, traffick and sports, then more
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only right here. I do thank you, thank you for
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waking up with Dominique Diaprima, Sherry Bell, Miles Low What Yeah,
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Happy Friday, Happy How do you stay encourage You always
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got a smile on your face, You always got enough
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energy to go to the next protests meeting, organizing group
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in your But yet you consume the news. And one
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of I think my biggest challenges is to be an encourager,
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to be an inspirer, and not just spout doom and
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gloom all day for the next four years, because that's
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not gonna help. I mean, if we do need to
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understand the objective conditions, but we also need to stay
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encouraged and not get caught up in fear.
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Yeah, for me, I don't have a choice. Like you know,
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I was just thinking, like when I watched the news,
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I think of that Kendrick LaVar song, like turn that
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TV off, turn that TV off, Like y'all, I just
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want to turn it off, you know, because it's so much.
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to be optimistic and continue to fight forward, you know,
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for good things like values, for for affordability and people
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to be able to feed their families and and you know,
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be judged or get access to things that they deserve
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to have, like housing, Like everybody deserves that right, you know.
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And but it's either you believe in that or like
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you just be like, why am I here? You know,
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it's like you you either it's either you get to
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a point where you so low to be like some
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people might not even want to be on this earth
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no more nose kidding, Like that's how bad it can
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get for some people sometimes given when you look at
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the fact of like you look at their identity, you
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look how they're being treated, you look at the messages
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that people in power are sending them, and it's like
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either you you know, you fight back or you just retreat,
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you know, and or you get to a point where
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you're really really depressed, and like it's if you think
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about all this stuff you get you could get really
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really depressed, and so you just try to be like,
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if I continue to go down this rabbit hole, this
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is not gonna be good for me. It's not gonna
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be good for my mental health, it's not gonna be
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good for my loved ones. So it's like, you know,
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the other the other option is.
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What you know, Yeah, I also believe when you look
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at the great fighters, m like the Harriet Tubmans of
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the world, many of them they're spiritual foundation is so strong,
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and it's a commitment that's not a commitment to what
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they're against or what they hate, as much as what
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they're for and what we love. I mean, I think
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it was Chaygovar who says a true revolutionary is driven
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by a great I'm paraphrasing, is driven by a sense
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of love, right. And on the Sahara Ali side, it's
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the focus on what you want, not what you don't want,
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which is sometimes challenging when people are playing in our faces. Okay,
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so they're getting rid of the consent decrees and the
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new Confederate Republican Party is no longer going to be
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in the police reform business, but what would their version
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of police reform be anyway?
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So that's not what we wanted.
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And what we want is an active, engaged conscious humanity,
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human race, US citizenry, Black community, Latino community, Asian community,
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so that we can continue to create accountability and create
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a society where we don't get these outcomes.
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You know, I'm no scholar like that, but I do
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know a little bit about that book Wretched of the Earth,
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and one's familiar. Yeah, And one of the things that
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that book says is that the police are there to
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protect the colonizer. Right, So when you think about United
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States being colonized by white males predominantly from you know,
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from from British, from Britain, you know, Great Britain. That's
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their overall purpose. So of course they're gonna always maintain
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and do what's best to have. Let them have free
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power and ability to be there to oppress and have
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these rules to keep people down, right, and not really
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to protect the people. It's a false narrative, right, They're
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really there to protect the people who are in power,
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to keep their power.
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Right. We saw that unfold in twenty twenty and ends
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ever since as well, because protest does continue. It's interesting
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how the news lenses have pivoted away, but that there
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a lot of times are protecting the property more than
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the people. Oh yeah, you know, forget the people, let
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them die, like you said.
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That's what it seems like they wanted us to do.
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it's already happening. I think what I see is that
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the class consciousness, the class analysis of the popular culture
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is rising. You know that there has to be an
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understanding of class and race, not just race both correct.
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we see now than ever before is the role that
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money is playing in power politics and the way that
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organized money has popped up these puppet candidates to reinforce
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what this organized money has agenda is right, and you know,
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expecting people to do the right things. You know, how
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you're talking about revolutionaries having a sense of value, you know,
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wanting to do good, you know, believing in great things.
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You would think that these people had a soul right
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to to not want to take medicare away from old
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vulnerable people, or or school lunches away from children, or
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you know, people ability to even purchase food and you
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and you would think that, come on, y'all, time to
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stand up. But guess what, it's not happening because most
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of the people who are there stock options, they're getting bought,
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you know, they were backed by this money machine. And
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this kind of corruption is at a heightened level that
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we've never seen before, you know, from my vantage point
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in politics.
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Yeah, okay, well this is a tough one. When Deputy
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Mayor Brian Williams, who was a Deputy Mayor of Public Safety,
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was charged with accused of charged with calling in a
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bomb threat fake bomb threat to city Hall. You and
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I were right or die from mister Williams a long time.
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This was not his first job.
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He's worked with the county, He's worked in these types
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of jobs for decades. Well, we found out yesterday he's
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taken a plea deal. He has agreed to plead guilty
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to a single count of threats regarding fire and explosive
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maximum prison sentence of ten years. That he's going to
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appear in court in a couple of weeks. And of
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course this is your friendly neighborhood Bill A. Saley, who
483
00:28:57.400 --> 00:29:03.279
the fake reparationist assembly member who's now the prosecutor attorney
484
00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:09.240
for Trump administration here in this region. And they're also
485
00:29:09.279 --> 00:29:12.559
accusing him of being of anti Israel sentiment.
486
00:29:13.599 --> 00:29:16.720
Oh, because of the what it was in the texts. Man,
487
00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:17.759
I see.
488
00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:22.559
So this one, this one, this one floored me. I
489
00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:23.519
was not expecting this.
490
00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:27.279
You know, that's like when you think about that phrase
491
00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:31.079
the truth is strangered in fiction. But I mean, honestly,
492
00:29:31.079 --> 00:29:33.400
to tell you the truth, I don't know. I haven't
493
00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:36.880
seen the evidence what's caused him to take this plea deal.
494
00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:40.119
I don't. Does a plea deal mean that you admit
495
00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:42.000
to it? Yep, it does.
496
00:29:42.279 --> 00:29:44.359
Yeah, he's he's a Mintington man.
497
00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:46.799
I'm still trying to not believe it.
498
00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:51.480
Well, I honestly, I don't know why he made a
499
00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:53.960
plea deal. I feel like there's more than meets the
500
00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:57.160
eye here. Maybe he's protecting his family. You know, he
501
00:29:57.200 --> 00:30:00.559
does have a wife and kids. Maybe he's pret his
502
00:30:00.599 --> 00:30:05.559
reputation in other areas although he'll never work again. Probably
503
00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:09.000
not a news I mean, he's been in law enforcement
504
00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:10.640
oversight for decade.
505
00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:15.640
A Google voice, a Google voice for a burner number
506
00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:19.359
from your personal cell phone calling in and you don't
507
00:30:19.359 --> 00:30:22.759
think that could be tracked something like? Something is not
508
00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:25.000
adding up here. I'm not trying to say there's no
509
00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:28.799
implication of him being involved in any of this, but
510
00:30:28.920 --> 00:30:33.559
it's a lot of this is very strange. There's a lot,
511
00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:37.880
you know, I just how can I say this? I'm
512
00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:41.559
not gonna believe that that it's just cut and dry
513
00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:46.960
like like it's being presented. Nevertheless, it's sad to see. Nevertheless,
514
00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:49.480
his family that relied on him to probably be a
515
00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:53.880
provider no longer has that. And I'm just waiting for
516
00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:56.160
his uh, tell All book or something.
517
00:30:56.279 --> 00:30:58.200
I think you're right. I think there's more than meat.
518
00:30:58.759 --> 00:31:01.519
There's a lot of fishiness inside of fishing. Is sitting
519
00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:05.559
next to fishy smells yeah in this situation. But I
520
00:31:05.720 --> 00:31:09.119
believe there's probably there has to be a personal motivator.
521
00:31:09.160 --> 00:31:11.960
There has to be something we're not seeing that's forcing
522
00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:16.480
him to fall on the sword. And it's really sad
523
00:31:16.559 --> 00:31:19.400
and mister genius US Attorney Bill A.
524
00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:20.440
Saley says, we.
525
00:31:20.400 --> 00:31:23.079
Could not allow public officials to make bomb threats.
526
00:31:23.559 --> 00:31:24.759
Thank you, Captain obvious.
527
00:31:24.839 --> 00:31:30.359
Ah and wow, what a brilliant analysis. We cannot allow
528
00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:33.599
public We can't allow anybody to make bomb threats, idiot,
529
00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:37.119
Like sorry, I said, I don't know, but that you know,
530
00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:39.839
really this, that's what you had to say. A man's
531
00:31:39.880 --> 00:31:43.440
whole life is shattered, you know, on some bs, and
532
00:31:43.480 --> 00:31:45.319
it has to be there has to be more than this.
533
00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:47.960
I don't I wouldn't hold my breath for that tell
534
00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:48.680
All book.
535
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:53.799
Though, right. Woh okay, well yeah, but it's still just uh,
536
00:31:54.000 --> 00:32:03.200
it's strange, and it's it's it's unbelievable and it definitely
537
00:32:03.240 --> 00:32:06.519
doesn't make sense like we was talking about, like is
538
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:09.000
it a case of somebody snapping.
539
00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:13.240
Right, or does somebody have something on you, right, which
540
00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:16.839
makes you say, Okay, I'm gonna plead to this to
541
00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:18.359
protect my family.
542
00:32:18.880 --> 00:32:21.200
Or do it in the first place, like do this
543
00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:26.200
or you know, I don't know. It definitely like inexplicable.
544
00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:30.359
Apparently the plea deal does say that he never intended
545
00:32:31.079 --> 00:32:32.519
to carry out the bomb threat.
546
00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:37.319
What but okay, so that's not the charge. Yeah, that's
547
00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:40.400
not the charge, right, you're making it's a sound like
548
00:32:40.440 --> 00:32:43.279
a like a prank, like a swatting prank called type
549
00:32:43.319 --> 00:32:43.640
of thing.
550
00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:44.039
That.
551
00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:46.319
Yeah, and what you were referring to as the callers
552
00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:48.559
that he was tired of the city support of Israel.
553
00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:56.240
Yeah, that sounds very generic. And you know, I don't know, Yeah,
554
00:32:56.400 --> 00:32:57.720
not really much detail there.
555
00:32:58.079 --> 00:33:05.680
Yeah, I am, yeah, I just it just it hurts
556
00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:06.039
my heart.
557
00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:10.000
I hate to see people go down, especially a strong
558
00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:13.960
black man with the family, kids and a wife and
559
00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:18.519
a whole career and a thing. And that man raised
560
00:33:18.519 --> 00:33:21.039
in the chatty, says Brian Williams, is a very talented
561
00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:23.839
educated person who's not a DEEI selection this is interesting
562
00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:27.559
because man raised clearly a Republican who is an acquaintance
563
00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:30.400
of mine. I am totally shocked. Yeah, I was shocked too,
564
00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:35.920
and an Altadena resident apparently as well.
565
00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:40.559
Yeah, that's terrible, terrible, terrible. I hated it. Story of
566
00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:41.000
the week.
567
00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:43.440
All right, when we come forward, we don't find something
568
00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:46.799
inspiring and fun for you, We don't work this out.
569
00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:49.319
Well, Kendrick is on tour. There's that.
570
00:33:49.599 --> 00:33:51.440
We got something to talk about. We got a lot
571
00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:54.279
to talk about when we come forward. Cherry Bell, Dominiquedu
572
00:33:54.279 --> 00:33:59.200
Prima for KBLA Talk fifteen eighty alrighty Dominique, Daprima and
573
00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:02.119
Cherry Bell. We have our own conversations going on. Okay,
574
00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:05.160
what you want us to do radio? Okay, Miles whatever.
575
00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:06.400
No, but we were.
576
00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:09.280
Thinking up things to uplift you because we didn't want
577
00:34:09.280 --> 00:34:11.039
to be all doom, all gloom, all sad and it's
578
00:34:11.119 --> 00:34:13.440
and all tears. It is a three day weekend.
579
00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:15.079
It's a Memorial Day weekend.
580
00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:19.039
You know, it's the unofficial start of summer. Like you know,
581
00:34:19.159 --> 00:34:22.000
people out there that are listening. You can create your
582
00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:25.559
own joy. You can plan to be joyful. You can
583
00:34:26.239 --> 00:34:31.119
do a barbecue, take a beach day, have a water balloon, fight,
584
00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:34.559
go see a movie like enjoy life. It is not
585
00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:35.559
all doom and gloom.
586
00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:38.079
I do think it's a great idea to get outside
587
00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:40.719
and get some vitamin D. And most most Black people
588
00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:42.039
are vitamin D deprived.
589
00:34:42.519 --> 00:34:44.880
I am yeah, I just learned that because.
590
00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:50.320
We're melanated and that melanin it keeps the blocks out
591
00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:55.239
some of that vitamin D creation that the sun's rays provides,
592
00:34:55.280 --> 00:34:56.760
so we can spend more time outside.
593
00:34:57.039 --> 00:34:57.920
But look, if you just.
594
00:34:57.880 --> 00:35:00.320
Want to stay in your bed and stream net flicks,
595
00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:01.000
do that.
596
00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:02.760
If it brings you joy.
597
00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:04.800
If you want to do that, make you a nice snack.
598
00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:07.880
You know what I'm saying, Get your Netflix. I tenerary
599
00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:13.119
set up. Enjoy life. You have you have, We have
600
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:18.199
control and power over that. To be intentional about enjoying life.
601
00:35:18.280 --> 00:35:24.880
Yeah, that's true. We have agency. And also, if you.
602
00:35:23.639 --> 00:35:27.960
Can drink some water, yes, because you know it sounds corny,
603
00:35:27.960 --> 00:35:31.519
but that actually improves your mental health and your outlook, Like,
604
00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:35.280
staying hydrated is a real thing. Your brain functions better,
605
00:35:35.559 --> 00:35:39.880
your body functions better, and everything seems less dire.
606
00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:42.679
Yeah, I keep a gallon by the bed. People call
607
00:35:42.760 --> 00:35:45.679
me lazy because I keep the gallon. But I see
608
00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:48.559
a lot of these young gen Z people, they always
609
00:35:48.639 --> 00:35:50.599
got a water bottle. If you ever look at a
610
00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:51.960
gen Z person.
611
00:35:51.719 --> 00:35:54.119
Yeah, they have a water bottle and to end up
612
00:35:54.400 --> 00:35:58.880
as mile SIPs water. Look, this is this is tea
613
00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:01.760
with it no or anything dot. I drink every day.
614
00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:04.239
That helps me stay hydrated too, and it keeps my
615
00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:09.800
voice nice. But I think that we underestimate that. Dick Gregory,
616
00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:11.960
the late great that Gregory used to say the leading
617
00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:17.039
causes of death in America our dehydration, lack of sleep.
618
00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:18.280
And lack of exercise.
619
00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:22.159
Wow, three things that we can do all by ourselves.
620
00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:26.199
Just walk instead of drive. But yeah, they and they
621
00:36:26.199 --> 00:36:29.039
also say if you feel in thirsty, that's too you
622
00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:31.880
too late, so act quickly because you should not be
623
00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:32.880
feeling thirsty.
624
00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:35.239
If you're already feeling thirsty, you probably need something like
625
00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:40.119
watermelon or some cucumber to help the body take in
626
00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:43.159
that and then go to water because you might be dire.
627
00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:47.840
You know, people pass out and keel over from dehydration.
628
00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:50.480
It's like serious, right, serious business.
629
00:36:50.599 --> 00:36:51.960
And it's been hot around.
630
00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:54.559
Here, it's been super hot, So do that.
631
00:36:55.159 --> 00:36:58.360
Have some fun, Go to the movies, to.
632
00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:00.960
The movie with your watermelon and goeszip like bag and you'll.
633
00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:05.159
Perse right, because that popcorn they got his taxi.
634
00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:08.360
The fake butter is so bad for you.
635
00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:10.400
Oh no, I'm glad I don't pump it on there
636
00:37:10.440 --> 00:37:13.400
no more because it do taste buttery already. I used
637
00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:16.320
to like put extra butter. So you're saying we shouldn't
638
00:37:16.360 --> 00:37:16.599
do that.
639
00:37:16.760 --> 00:37:18.960
Yeah, I do it still, but you shouldn't.
640
00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:20.119
You shouldn't do it.
641
00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:23.639
You should get some homemade real butter popcorn and your
642
00:37:23.639 --> 00:37:26.440
purse with that water map. Okay, you know you can
643
00:37:26.559 --> 00:37:30.239
support them by buying their their water or their candy
644
00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:32.840
if you want, you know, don't stuffed milk does in
645
00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:37.840
your purse but raising nets. But that popcorn is taxic
646
00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:40.280
and I and Paul Lee, I am going. I am
647
00:37:40.320 --> 00:37:42.199
planning to go see Centers again this weekend.
648
00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:44.320
Oh wow, yeah, you know I might do it too
649
00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:46.920
if I can find it on Imax, the big screen.
650
00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:50.159
The first time I saw it on Vista, so he so.
651
00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:54.119
Ryan Coogler got on social media and talked about how
652
00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:58.000
he shot the film in two different film formats and
653
00:37:58.079 --> 00:38:01.679
one of them is Vista, and it's only five theaters
654
00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:04.639
in the country that show it on that wide screen.
655
00:38:04.679 --> 00:38:07.639
And I saw it. It's on the Sunset out here.
656
00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:09.519
That was where I saw it initially, and it's like
657
00:38:09.519 --> 00:38:11.039
one of them old school theaters.
658
00:38:11.079 --> 00:38:11.599
Oh wow.
659
00:38:11.719 --> 00:38:13.360
Yeah. So if you can get a chance to see
660
00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:16.920
it like on Imax or on Vista fifty five millimeters
661
00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:19.159
like he intended it, go ahead and do that.
662
00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:21.000
Oh that was my plan. I was gonna try to
663
00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:23.360
find Imax. But now that you said that, I didn't
664
00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:26.000
even know. I wasn't even tracking that the Vista. I'm
665
00:38:26.039 --> 00:38:28.000
gonna try to do that. See if you can do that,
666
00:38:28.239 --> 00:38:32.800
I need to see it again. Yeah, well, yeah, nice.
667
00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:35.360
And of course, you know, get out with the loved
668
00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:36.920
ones barbecue.
669
00:38:36.960 --> 00:38:37.760
If you're good at.
670
00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:39.719
That barbecue, relax.
671
00:38:39.880 --> 00:38:41.679
You can barbecue tofu corn.
672
00:38:41.880 --> 00:38:44.679
You don't have to get what was.
673
00:38:44.639 --> 00:38:47.440
That they got corn ribs? You know people do corn.
674
00:38:47.599 --> 00:38:48.760
When you said tofu, it.
675
00:38:48.760 --> 00:38:53.360
Kind of like, yeah, yeah, I look, I love vegan food,
676
00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:55.800
but I don't love tofu. Yeah, unless I'm at a
677
00:38:55.880 --> 00:38:57.920
Japanese restaurant. They know how to make it.
678
00:38:58.360 --> 00:38:59.920
You got to sneak that in somewhere.
679
00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:03.559
Corn ribs is a thing.
680
00:39:03.880 --> 00:39:06.519
Corn ribs is a thing. They like, cut them up
681
00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:09.159
in little pieces and put little season on the delicious.
682
00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:13.280
They have them at a wingstop. You can get corn
683
00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:14.519
ReBs really.
684
00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:18.840
Okay, Well I'd rather that than some kind of processed
685
00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:19.400
fake meat.
686
00:39:19.599 --> 00:39:20.599
I be honest with you.
687
00:39:21.840 --> 00:39:25.880
Yeah, most of those are terrible for you, but some aren't.
688
00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:28.199
You just got to read the labels. And I know
689
00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:32.559
that Black Lives Matter Grassroots is having a memorial, like
690
00:39:32.599 --> 00:39:36.480
a candlelight vigil memorial type thing for George Floyd at
691
00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:40.400
the Black Power Fist in the actual park on Sunday,
692
00:39:40.440 --> 00:39:41.800
which is the Angel.
693
00:39:41.519 --> 00:39:44.639
Versary, the actual day that he was murdered. So I
694
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:46.440
know that's happening.
695
00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:49.039
You can go to BLM grass I think it's bl
696
00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:52.679
MLA actually Black Lives Matter Los Angeles for that. So
697
00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:56.199
if you want to do something locally, you know, besides barbecuing,
698
00:39:56.239 --> 00:39:57.719
if you want to show up, stand up, I think
699
00:39:57.760 --> 00:40:00.480
that'll be beautiful. People will be bringing candles and flowers
700
00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:04.679
and praying and singing and doing all the things, probably dancing.
701
00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:07.800
Black Lives Matter Grassroots they like to turn up at
702
00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:08.440
their protests.
703
00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:10.880
I hear boots on the ground is quite popular.
704
00:40:11.960 --> 00:40:15.119
Yeah, yes, as it should be. And you're gonna need
705
00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:20.760
the fan anyway, So there we go. Yeah, and you
706
00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:24.960
know some people are are are excited about Kendrick Lamar.
707
00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:28.199
They were they did a show in la last night.
708
00:40:28.599 --> 00:40:32.840
They're all sold out. That's so far, that's amazing. Yeah,
709
00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:38.360
siss A, Kendrick. I guess Lizzo made a surprise appearance.
710
00:40:38.440 --> 00:40:42.079
They're all very three talented individuals.
711
00:40:42.280 --> 00:40:42.480
Yeah.
712
00:40:42.480 --> 00:40:46.239
I'm not the biggest Lizzo fan, but I love Sissa,
713
00:40:47.239 --> 00:40:49.159
love me some Kendrick, and I know a lot of
714
00:40:49.159 --> 00:40:49.920
people love Lizzo.
715
00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:53.159
So John, I'm wondering if they're gonna have some surprises
716
00:40:53.199 --> 00:40:55.519
because you know they're in La Oh.
717
00:40:55.679 --> 00:40:58.239
Yeah, hometown advantage.
718
00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:01.360
Interesting to see who shows up.
719
00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:04.119
I do not have tickets and it is sold out,
720
00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:05.800
so I will not be going in La.
721
00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:09.320
Oh. But you're going somewhere, Okay.
722
00:41:09.079 --> 00:41:11.320
I'm going Okay, gotcha, got yeah? I mean the tour
723
00:41:11.480 --> 00:41:14.559
goes a lot of places, right, I'll be going somewhere.
724
00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:17.199
You can go to multiple It's a Gemini.
725
00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:20.519
Season, baby, that's a good reason to be happy and
726
00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:21.079
joy us.
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We love our Geminis.
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Use your words. I saw an article yesterday. Your favor
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your favorite rapper is probably a Gemini.
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You know what when you think about Tupac and Kendrick, Hey,
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oh Kanye, Yeah, exactly, there's a lot more of them too.
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I'm not thinking of them off the top of my head.
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And that may Prince he's not a rapper, but you.
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Know, but he's our favorite.
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And people that hold microphones in general, I'll take that
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Gemini mantle on the microphone.
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Zoe Williams.
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His birthday is today, Happy birthday, so you know, show
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him some love today, Zoe Williams, our other resident Gemini here.
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Yeah, it's a thing.
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No, I'm happy. That's a time right into the summer,
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just melting right into the summertime.
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And I see, tell folks how to find you, Sherry.
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You can not literally find you, but find you online.
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Yeah, don't be.
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Starting, you know.
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Oh you can find me on Instagram to Sherry day
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I get to you know, I that's where you can
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find me. I might post something useful or most of
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the time not, but that's where you can find me.
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Ice Cube, Notorious, Big Andre, three thousand, Kodak Black, Lauren Hill, what,
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Kendrick lamar uh Tupac, Heavy d Gonna. It's a Gemini thing, baby,
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all right, News, traffic and sports and it's time for
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freedmen Friday. We are talking reparations. It's a comprehensive conversation.
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Thank you, Sherry. I'm Dominic da Prima for KBLA Talk
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