The Black Perspective: October 20, 2024

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If my voice didn't matter, people wouldn't be trying so
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hard to silence me. And if my vote didn't matter,
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they wouldn't work so hard to take it away. So
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you know, on I'm voting this November because I know
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they don't want me to.
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It's Sunday, October twentieth and On today's show, Andrea Coleman
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talks to Mark Murrial about the passing of a New
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Orleans and civil rights legend. Vanessa Tyler talks basketball with
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some pioneer legends of the court. Morganwood talks to political
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strategist Nina Smith. Esther Dillard talks with the mayor of Enfield,
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North Carolina and the founding principle of Blackmail Voters Project
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mon Dale Robinson, and Doug Davis talks to the first
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Africa and American US MINT Director. These stories and more
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are coming your way on today's program, Welcome to the
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Black Perspective. I'm your host, Mike Island.
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Welcome to the Black Perspective, a weekly community affairs program
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on the Black Information Network featuring interviews and discussions on
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issues important to the Black community.
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Good Sunday to everyone, and welcome to another edition of
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The Black Perspective on the Black Information Network. The city
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of New Orleans and others are mourning the passing of
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a civil rights legend. Civil Heidel Moreal passed away on
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September fourth, Distinguished as New orleans first Black first Lady,
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missus Morel was also a civil rights leader. Her son,
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Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League,
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recently spoke with The Bins Andrea Coleman about his mother's
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life and how she helped to reshape the racial power
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structure in New Orleans and the state of Louisiana.
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I'm a mama's boy at heart and in Seoul, and
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my mother was my mother, my confidant, and my friend.
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Mark Morriel's mother was also an exceptional woman.
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She was an incredible mother, an incredible wife, a teacher,
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an educator, a civil rights activist, a city activist, a
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documentary movie producer, an author. The list of things she
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did was endless.
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The daughter of a doctor and a school teacher, Simple
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Highdale Morriel grew up among New Orleans's black upper middle
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class and was friends with children like Andrew Young, who
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would grow up to become an ambassador to the un
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and mayor of Atlanta. During her college years at Boston University,
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she met a dynamic young man by the name of
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Martin Luther King Junior.
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The black students who were at schools in Boston were
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very much a commune, and she was part of that
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community and always said that when they were in school,
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they would go to listen to Martin preach at various churches,
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and she always said he, even at that stage and age,
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was an incredibly gifted preacher orator.
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Somewhere along the way of what could be called a
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privileged black life, Sybil Hidale Moriel developed a heart for service,
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which her son says was indicative by the Jim Crow
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era in which she lived what led to her being
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so committed to others.
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Growing up in the thirties and forties, the black community
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in New Orleans was very self contained, you know, which
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meant that you could live in a very large and
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somewhat independent black community have very little contact like Lenians.
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You know, they were black doctors. There were black insurance companies,
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they were black owned grocery stores, black newspapers, black social clubs,
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black civic clubs, black churches. And you could grow up
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in a community that, even though it was segregated, was
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self supporting and nurturing. Because her father was a physician.
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They had a nice house. They always had food on
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the tape, right. They were able to dress nicely by
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the standards of the times. And my grandfather, who had
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grown up as a grandson of a slave and the
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son of a sharecropper, was able to by virtue his
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profession as a position and building a black insurance company
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to half by the standards of the time, some material wealth.
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I mean my grandfather, I never knew him to drive
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any other kind of carb the Cadillac. Always doing to
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wear really nice suits and nice clothes. You know. My
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grandparents were pecably dressed. They had a very nice house.
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Grandmother always said, do not go in my front room. Boy,
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that was my grandmother. That's the house.
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Don't go ahead, there's a company, but your diad going
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and you go through the side the day of the
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back and so I think, notwithstanding that, they were aware
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that the city was segregated.
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And of course her childhood friend was Andrew Young. Andrew
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young father was a dentist, My grandfather was a doctor.
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They both went to Howard. They were very good friends.
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Andrew Young's mother and my grandmother, Daisy Young and my
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grandmother Dora Hyghdel were very best of friends. And those
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types of black communities existed in Atlanta and New Orleans,
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and in Washington, d c. And Memphis and a lot
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of places where there was a self containment. Even though
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you were living in segregation, you could live in the
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community and you didn't have to have a lot of
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contact with the white people, so you were spared the
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daily indignity is unless you were a black person that
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worked for white people. And so a lot of black
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people still worked for white people or they worked in
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a white institution in those days. You know, they may
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have worked on the docks, or they may have worked
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in cleaning other people's homes, so you still had that.
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But for the children growing up, they went to an
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all black school, they were in all black clubs. They
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you know, there were no parks and playgrounds for them
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to go to. There were no fools to swim in.
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There were no amusement parks, so that had to make
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their own world, and that was a segregated world in
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the life of New Orleans. So my parents grew up
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committed to civil rights, and in those days it meant
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being committed to integration. And therefore, when it came time
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for us to go to school, we went to integrated schools,
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recently integrated schools, and we suffered at a young age
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the indignities have called the n word of being chased,
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being disparaged. You know, that side of the early days
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of integration created a toughness and a resilience in you.
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I got in a lot of little fights, you know,
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it just was the way it was. People call you
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a name, you defended yourself.
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Right.
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That was the world we grew up in, and the
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parents pushed us because we were like on that cutting
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edge of change, schools, being integrated, being able to go
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to integrated restaurants. So my parents made it a point
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to take us out to places that were recently integrated.
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Right while we lived in our neighborhood, which Punchtrain Park
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was an all black neighborhood, we ventured beyond the neighborhood
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to go to the integrated schools. And that was the
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reality of the early days of integration. There was a
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hope that those early frictions and tensions would level out.
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We know now racism does not die easily, and racism
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seems to be refueled and given new oxygen, and that
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you take steps forward and take steps backward.
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What was key to the change they made because just
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looking at the list of accomplishments, your mom, after being
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denied by the League of Women Voters in New Orleans,
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she founded the Louisiana League for Good Government. An author said,
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your father was his own radical revolution. Number first is
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like incredible. He was the first black graduate of the
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Louisiana State University Law School. He became the first black
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person since reconstruction to be elected to the Louisiana State Legislature.
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He was the first black assistant US attorney in New Orleans,
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the first black juvenile court judge there, the first black
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on the state's fourth Circuit of Court of Appeals.
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You're like almost falling.
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Asleep from this list. And this was all your father
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and your mother and what they accomplished.
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They were activists and they were pushing and they were
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determined and they would not be denied. And they were
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part of a generation of people who were just like them.
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They were pushing to knock the doors down. They understood
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how to work within the system and outside of the
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system simultaneous. They knew how to challenge the system. He
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had worked within the system. You know my mother when
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she started the Louisiana Legal Good Government, Yes, and it
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was an enormously successful organization. I remember they'd have these
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luncheons every year and they'd have speakers in from Barbara
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Jordan and Shirley Chisholm and all these great speakers would
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come in and how you'd go to the lunch and
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it seemed like there were two thousand people there. I
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remember the meetings of the Louisiana League and Good Government
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Board meetings in our kitchen, at our kitchen table. I mean,
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they met in people's homes and a lot of the
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women who were involved were my mother's friends who were teachers.
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You know, it was a lot of people they were teachers,
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They were members of the teachers' union. They organized. I
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remember going to voter registration rallies and motorcades right after
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the voting Rights Act. You know, my mother in law.
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They said, we have to, you know, help register people
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and help people get active and involved in the civic
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affairs of the city. So it was a time of challenge,
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but also a time of excitement. Right new found rights,
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new earned rights, and they were simply on a mission.
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Your remarks at her service, you gave her credit for
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your father's success. If I can quote you correctly, I
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think you said something like Dutch who's your was a
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bad boy, and he really was a bad boy, but
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he wouldn't have been anything without your mom.
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Explain that.
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How did she influence his success?
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I think in a lot of ways, my mother had
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entrained connections and part of the community that my father
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may not have. My mother had an innate common sense.
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She was a great read of people. I told the
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story of my father's first campaign when he was struggling
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to raise money and he trying to organize his fundraiser
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and the people who were going to organize the fundraiser
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hadn't really done anything to organize the fundraiser. When he
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came home frustrated, she pretty much said, get out of
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the way, let me kind of take this thing over,
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and I'll put the whole thing together right, and I
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remember that very distinctly. He was very frustrated. So she
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stepped in, you know. She was incredibly supportive, and she
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knew people that he didn't know, and of course he
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had connections, you know. And then she was a multitasker.
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She had the ability to raise children and have a job,
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and be a mother and a wife all at the
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same time. She's a multitask in a way that would
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probably frustrate and wear most people out.
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How did she influence your success because you've had success
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to You've served in the Louisiana State Senate, you were
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a two time mayor of New Orleans, and then you
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went on to either be the PRESIDENCYO of the National
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Urban League.
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I think it's the commitment that she was always active,
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always working, always doing something that influenced me. The sense
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of wanting to be good and excellent at things influenced me.
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I think the sense that you owe an obligation to
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the black community if you have opportunity, and we got
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the benefit of a good education, and with that, it
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was the sense of obligation that you had right and
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responsibility that you had to the community, to the notion
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of civil rights, that living a selfish material life. To
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my parents, that was sinful to just pursue materiality, you know,
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it was corrosive to them. It was empty to them.
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It was like, you got to be about something. You
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got to stand for something. No matter what you have,
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you got to stay we have nothing or something, you
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got to stand for something.
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What does it feel like to be a member of
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a family with such rich history. I mean, many of
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the accomplishments are historic.
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So I feel proud. But my family's extraordinary. But we're
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also ordinary. That's what our parents taught us. You were
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going to have your feet flat on the ground. You
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are not going to be arrogant, big headed. They were remarkable,
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but they were also you know, like their contemporaries and friends,
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you know. My sense is that they were all like this, right.
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They were people who tasted lived in segregation and then
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lived in integration. They lived before the Civil Rights Act,
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you know, and it's a rarity. There's only one generation
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that can have that. We don't have that do I mean?
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I remember segregation as a little boy, the bus on
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the screen on the bus, the colored only bathrooms. I
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remember it as a little You know till us five
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six years old as a young boy. Then it sort
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of became a different reality. That's why that generation they
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saw experience felt and new segregation. Also, you know, you
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could go back and they had grandparents that lived in slavery.
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So the connectivity they had, they could touch back to
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a grandparent who lived in slavery and reached forward and
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they were living in an integration. It's a unique generation
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of people, you know, the black people, the people born
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in the you know, the teens, the twenties, the thirties
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who were old enough to have lived in segregation as
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young adults, so they were conscious of it. But then
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they were part of a new post civil rights you know,
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integrated America, more integrated in America.
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How do you hope history will remember your mother.
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unselfish change agent. And my mother was extremely beloved, you know,
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she just had that way. And a lot of times
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when I campaign, I'd.
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Run into people, you know, older than me who'd say, oh,
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your mother was my second grade teacher. You know, I
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run into people from time to time you said, oh,
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you know, your grandfather delivered right, and that was very
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touching to run it to people. I still run it
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to some from time to time, who said, your mother
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taught me in second grade. Your mother was my you know,
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my counselor at Xavier University. And so you don't even
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know all the people she touched because she didn't talk
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about all of them.
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It's just who she was.
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It seems like we also wanted to add that Ernest Moril,
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Mark's late father, became the first black mayor of New
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Orleans in nineteen seventy eight and served two terms, and
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that means his lovely wife, Sybuheidel Moriel, became the city's
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first black first lady. The family asked anyone wanting to
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honor the memory of Missus Moriel to consider making a
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donation to the Xavier University Fund, the Almostead Research Center,
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where Missus Moriel, her late husband, and Mark's papers are
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being held, and or the Louis Armstrong Jazz Camp, which
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works with as firing jazz artists. In closing by in
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since its condolences to the Moriel family.
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And the New Orleans community in.
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The passing of such an extraordinary black woman.
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Mike, thank you, Andrea. If you would like to learn
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more about civil heidel Morele. You can find her memoir
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entitled A Witness to Change at most major booksellers. Are
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you a basketball fan? The players who grace the court
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today are far different than those who bounced the ball yesterday,
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but remembering who they are and what they sacrificed is
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part of Black history that should not be forgotten. The
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Black Information Networks Vanessa Tyler reports on the memories.
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A bound to experience as a full court press of
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the pioneers of basketball, wrapped in a love story.
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We were loving all day long. We held hands while
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we slept. I've done a mold of his hand. He
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was a very special man. He had great integrity, and
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they just don't come like it. They broke the mold
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and I was fortunate, God bless me to have him
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in my life.
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Her love basketball pioneer Carl Green and the tribute he
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just received brought out the legends of the game.
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Jared Monree start.
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There was a time back in the nineteen seventies when
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the crowd would go wild over the moves of Earl
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the Pearl Monroe. On this day in his hometown of Harlem,
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New York. He was not under the unusually warm fall
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day to talk about himself. This Hall of Famer was
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here to honor his friend, Carl Green, a former member
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of the Harlem Globetrotters.
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Call has been a good person for a long long time.
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And you know he went to my alma model instance
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alum for a while and we kind of like clutched
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onto each other for you know, early on, and we've
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been very good, you know friends. You know, you think
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of us as pioneers, and pioneers weren't the ones who
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really reaped the benefics of what it all got to be.
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So you know, here we are now, and you know,
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guys are reaping their benefics. And this was just one
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of those.
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Things pioneers did, put in the work, endured the disrespect
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and the blatant racism. What were those times.
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Like, Well, when he came up, there weren't any opportunities.
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It was the Globetrotters because you couldn't play in the league.
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They didn't have blacks in the league. So his whole
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basketball career was built around the Globe Trotters. In the
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Eastern League. They didn't allow black guys to play in
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the league. It was a tough situation, but he weathered
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it and came through to where he is today.
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That's Tom Hoover, former center for teams like the New
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York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers, and more. In the nineteen sixties,
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he also graced the court for teams in the American
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Basketball Association like Denver Rockets, Houston Mavericks. We heard from
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him at the top. Carl Green was also his friend.
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And what does his legacy mean for the ballers today?
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Well, if they know the history, it helps. But the
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problem is they don't really understand the history because when
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you're making twenty five thirty million dollars a year, you
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don't care anything about anybody else except myself. And as
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you see in this world today, every kid is on
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the phone. So what do they know. They don't even read.
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You get this center of a little bit of a
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broken heart. As I talked to these giants of black
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men about the past, the present, the future.
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Does it hurt it's life because man is indifferent to
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his own self.
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I'm not a happy camper today because it's a sad
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day that we're missing a man. Okay, Carl Green, Floyd Lane,
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Hilton White, Too many guys that meant to us, and
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people always say, people too many guys that mented us, okay,
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that are not here anymore. Who's taking up the slack?
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Who's taking up the slack? Where are our black leaders
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at now? Because they led us, Okay, they mented us,
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they advised us, and they gave us strength, They gave
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us encouragement, they gave us confidence. Okay, we had loyalty
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even though calling from Harlem. Okay, he was a trotter
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and his message was and I hear this from other
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glob trotters now they said Carl Breen was serious about
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his game.
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That's Nate tiny archibald. And if you don't know, you
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need to ask somebody. In nineteen ninety sixt he was
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considered one of the fifty greatest players in NBA history.
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He didn't play with the Globe Trotters that due to entertainment.
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He played with the Globe trotters that wanted the beach
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your behind and win games and stuff like that. So
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he was always serious about his demeanor, serious about building
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confidence and loyalty to anybody where he went. Okay, very
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soft spoken, very didn't say a whole lot, but when
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he did, you listened.
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See there was something different about Carl. He was the
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part of the team that didn't do much of the
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antics the globe Trotters are known for. He could do them.
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His approach was different, says his wife Judith Green.
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But Carl was the baller and that's you know, that's
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who he was. He could do some tricks now, but
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he was a boiler and I you know, to hear
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them referred to as clowns because honestly, that NBA exists
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because of them. In the beginning, the Globetrotters were the
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first on the billing, and after the crowd would see
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the Globetrotters, they would leave. So they had to switch
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it so that the Globetrotters were come at the end
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and the NBA players paid, you know, before them. That
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was the only way they could get the crowd to stay.
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And also, you know, at that time there was a
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quota system, and so the best ball players played for
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the Harlem Globetrotters.
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Carl Green died last year at the age of eighty nine,
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and on this sunny day, those who knew and loved
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him gathered in Harlem to honor him in one of
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the best ways they knew how On the.
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Three only okay, no Holo.
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Shook a street renaming forevermore.
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The corner of one hundred and thirteenth Street in Saint
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Nicholas Avenue in Harlem is.
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Now Carl C.
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Green Way. Hear more from these legends of the game.
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And in the end, this is a love story as
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only as Carl Green's wife Judith Green could tell the
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rest of this story on my podcast, Blackland. Hear it
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on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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I'm Vanessa Tyler with the Black Perspective. Mike back to you.
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Thanks Vanessa. The Black Information Networks Morgan Wood caught up
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with political strategist Nina Smith at the Democratic National Convention
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and she shared her thoughts on what it will take
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for Vice President Kamala Harris to win this upcoming presidential election.
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Joining me right now on the Black Information Network is
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Nina Smith, a Democratic strategists and we're here at the
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DNC in Chicago. It's the final night Vice President Kamala
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Harris is expected to accept the party's nomination. Nina, thank
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you so much for joining me.
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Thank you for having me. I'm really glad to be here.
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So talk to me about the strategy. What is the
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strategy you are you're the strategist. What's the strategy to
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get the votes and get Vice President Harris to the
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finish line and in the White House.
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Well, I think it's most important for us to continue
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what we've been doing, which is engaging people where they
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are and meeting them where they are, having real conversations
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about how to improve their lives right and I think
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that's something that the Democratic Party is best position to do.
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Right now.
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We have the infrastructure, we have folks who have been
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on doors since March. You know, we have gotten really
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smart about how to reach voters, and we've learned so
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much from twenty twenty in terms of like turning out
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people who allow of folks send to overlook. And so
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I think we're definitely ready to have real conversations and
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do so in very strategic ways because we have now
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the technology and tools to do so. And now we
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also have a candidate with an excellent record that we
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can run on and really help people shape their you know,
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their idea what their future can look like under her leadership.
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What is the idea of the future. I mean, you're
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talking about against strategy and different line items and different topics,
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key items, key issues, whether it be women's reproductive health,
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whether it be gun reform, gun violence. What do you
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think the future looks like with this administration?
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With this administration, you know, the future looks like that.
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It's a future where our freedoms are protected. It's a
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future where you know, we can talk about issues and disagree,
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but also find compromise and a way forward. It's a
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future where you know, folks who you know love who
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they love, or folks who you know are making very
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hard and some of the most difficult healthcare decisions in
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their lifetimes can do so without you know, their government interfering,
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you know. And so that's why I think that future
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vision around freedom is just so perfect, right, because that's
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what we're all looking for in our individual lives. And
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I think that's something that every American can relate to.
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Speaking of relating you yourself, a black woman in leadership,
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looking forward to having a black woman in leadership, chief
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commander in office. Talk to me about women in leadership.
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you know, there's been a decline in trust in women's leadership,
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and that's because it's difficult.
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That said.
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More of us. As we attain these positions, I think
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the world gets used to us and sees just how
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powerful we are and what we can do right. And
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I think that's what's made this moment so unique. People
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are hungry for something new, and this is new. Women
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don't usually get access to that type of power, and
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now we have it. And I think it's a great
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opportunity for people to understand how the unique experiences we
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bring to the table that can really transform this country
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into something that they've never seen before. Your message to voters,
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you know, I think to voters, I hope you take
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a hard look at the record of Democrats and what
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we've been up to over the last four years. We've
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been fighting every single day for working families. We've been
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fighting every single day to expand opportunity for more folks,
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to protect folks and their freedoms, and you know, you
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can expect more of the same and for us to
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continue having conversations about how we can grow and even
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serve better. And I think that's something that it's a
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conversation we're having internally, and I think it's exciting that
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we'll potentially have the opportunity to do that externally and
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at the highest levels of path I.
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Love to execute on those plans. Thank you so much, Nina,
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no problem, Thank you.
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Thanks Morgan. And now it's time for this week's segment
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of The Color Between the Lines. It's with Mondale Robinson.
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He's the founding principal of the Black Male Voters Project
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and mayor of Enfield, North Carolina. He spoke to Esther
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about how black mail voters felt talked down to by
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former President Obama and others. He was a super real
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talker with great facts on black men and their support
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of black women.
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Joining me is Mondale Robinson. He is the founding principal
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of Black Male Voters Project and mayor of Enfield, North Carolina.
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Thank you, Mayor Robinson for joining us on the BION.
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Thank you for having me. I appreciate you well.
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No doubt you've seen these latest attempts by both candidates
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Trump and VP Kamala Harris to reach out to black voters,
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and you've no doubt heard at least one polls at
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at least one in five Black men are leaning to
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a Trump. How in your opinion have both candidates done
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in the past few weeks leading up to the election
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to reach out to black mail voters.
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So let me let me start.
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That's a two part question for me, because one part,
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I'm a political animal, so I'm super excited to see
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a Democratic candidate get so much and so many things, right,
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So I'm super excited about that. But as a black
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man who engages black men politically for work, and not
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just those who are college educated, not those who are
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members of Divine nine, not those who are members of
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legacy organizations like the NWCP or the National Urban League,
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not those brothers, not the business owners or the wealthy
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class like d ol Hughley and Steve Harvey. I'm talking
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about the brothers at the Q and Steve Harley and
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Obama are talking down to. So it happens to be
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the majority of black men. Fifty of the ninth point
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six million black men that are registered to vote in
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this country have not voted in the last four federal elections.
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Not because they're misogynistic, because every candidate was not a woman, right.
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I speak to those brothers who are missing in the
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political space because the conversation is a middle class conversation
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that we have the lowest social markers of any demographic
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in this country, and those social markers are the real
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suppressors of vote.
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When people are poored, worried about food.
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In secure and housing, voting is not a priority to
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them because everything they're trying to do is survive.
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They're not living.
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So VP Harris has put out a plan that includes
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providing forgivable business loans for black entrepreneurs, creating more apprenticeships
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studying sickle cell and other diseases that disproportionately affect African
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American men. And from what you just told me, I
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don't know if that is something that would appeal to
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those who you're talking about that feel like they're being
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talked down to? Do you think it appeals to those
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black men?
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Are they?
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Is it changing their minds?
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Yeah? Let's be clear. I mean the plan.
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No one in this political space right now is doing
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a better job talking too and being in community with
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black men other than the Vice President Kamalari's uh so
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she so she's doing what she can, but the factors
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that she's facing are bigger than her. So let me
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speak to part of her plan. And you know I
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had an input on that. I I I try to
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assist where I can with the VP. And part of
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part of me existing is me knowing that you know
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there's there's a shortcoming of the political system. Black men
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don't trust political actors who show up for the first
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time in political cycles asking for their vote. That is
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because of the history of America and what it looks
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like to be black man and American. I will say
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that plan has that plan has great footing as a foundation.
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It cannot be what we all have to I what's
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all out there for black men.
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That plan left out a lot of stuff that's necessary.
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We definitely need the Vice President to get to a
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point where we're talking about reparations.
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We know she brought that part of the conversation up
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in the.
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Political space in twenty twenty and she says something about
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this cycle. So we just need her to be sure
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that that's going to be a part of what she's
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pushing for, because it is important to black men that
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we address the shortcomings of America and all.
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Of the bearers that's created for black men.
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We know that the child support system is broken, right
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there's not a.
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Stickler, a.
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Set marker on how people will be charged based on
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money they make, and they and where they live or
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how many kids they have. It's determined by whatever the
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judge feels you should be paying is what you're paying.
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So we need some consistency in the child support system.
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And I think that's the serious thing. That is not
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an issue that the Vice president created. It's an issue
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that she finds herself having to deal with if she's
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trying to reach black men. But I do think that
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the plan is a great first step. Nobody nobody, and
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she's done it in one hundred days. To put this
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plan out as fast is powerful because Donald Trump has
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been running since he lost this job and he's not
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had a plan for black men, and we definitely didn't
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so see Joe Biden put out a plan for black men.
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So to see a plan specifically for black men in
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this moment says a lot, especially when we, like I said,
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we've never seen a candidate say hey, this is for
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black men and then articulate what they mean. That is
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not lib service. So it would be remorseful on my
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part for me to pretend that this is small prize
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when it's not. But it also would be a sestind
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to the work that I do and the brothers that
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I say. I represent if I didn't say, it's the
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foundation and is not all.
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In twenty twenty two, you were elected the mayor of
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your hometown Infield, North Carolina, and where you defeated an
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incumbent by more than fifty three percentage points to become
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the youngest mayor in the town's history. Congratulations in that.
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I know that's a long long time ago when you
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think in terms of when that happened and where we
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are now. So you know a thing or two about
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being up against the odds. So what has your organization
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found that black mail voters really want that they haven't
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received from past candidates. What are they looking for?
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So, first of all, it's it's not simply messaging or
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issues that are going to animate black men in this
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election cycle or none. What we know, though, is the
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transactional nature of the way we place electoral politics in
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this country. It's a depth mail in the colfin of
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electoral work. Meaning when people show up, or I should
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say when people don't show up when it's not an election,
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but wait two or three months, it's one election cycle
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has start knocking on black men doors. It doesn't matter
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what you say to black men, even if you are
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right on the issue, you will not be seen as
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a trusted messenger, and therefore you will be ineffective in
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moving them or animating them to go to the poll.
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That is problematic for everybody that has not had a
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relationship with black men. So right now, those who are
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running ads, those who are those who are knocking on doors,
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those who are sending males to black men houses, it's
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going to be ineffective to reach these brothers because they
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don't have long term relationship.
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So what black men want is to be seen when it's.
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Not just for their vote, when the issues are plaguing
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them in off election years.
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They need people to.
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Be there to listen and also really be in community
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with them to help find solutions to stop what's plaguing
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us and really find an answer to the thing that
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we know is the white supremacy and the tolerance for
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the long suffering of black men in this country. So
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while the economy is extremely important to black men, while
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you know for a segment of population, starting businesses is
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extremely important, all of that, putting trades back in school,
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but it doesn't matter if you know these issues are
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important to black men, because if you're not a trusted messenger.
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They're gonna look at you like his cat.
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What is your organization doing to sort of change the
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tide on that and inform and encourage black men not
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to set out the selection because they're disenchanted.
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Yeah, So, I mean I need people to understand that,
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you know, the beauty of black men. Voter Project is
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our program. And while you hear voter in our name,
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so people automatically assume that our tactics are the same
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as other political organizations. But our program is based mostly psychology.
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Two types the lessons learned from mas Low hierarchy needs
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that says if people don't have their basic needs met,
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then they can't do things that seem and set self actualization.
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And the way that this country presents voting to black men,
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people who are living without there, who are not comfortable
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in housing, who are not comfortable and uh and in economy,
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who's not comfort comfortable in healthy relationships or even healthcare,
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and we're asking them to do something that doesn't match
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what they're suffering through. So, but Voter Project do is
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in off years all the time. What we're doing is
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trying to address the problems that are plaguing back men.
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So if they're coming home from prison.
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We're trying to be there to wrap our arms around
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these brothers and say what do you need, clothing, housing.
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Furniture, whatever.
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We try to assist them in those in that and
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if we can't assist them, we try to find them
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someone to stay, like even sometimes at my carib right.
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Uh.
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If if brothers need jobs and if we can't hire them,
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we're trying to find them jobs. We act as in
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an interview advocate sometimes meaning we go sit down with
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these brothers and take interviews for them.
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We we we.
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Do anything that address the barriers that keep black men
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from being whole in this country. So in election years,
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when we talk to them about voting, it doesn't seem
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transactional because they've seen us eleven twelve times a year,
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even if it was not an election. It is important
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that people understand that the reason Black Male Voter Project
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can talk to the you know, the fifty nine percent
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of black men who don't see themselves in traditional politics
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is because where they're addressing barriers, reaching these brothers eleven
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twelve times a year, even if it's not an election.
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So, final word, what would you want to say to
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those voters? Who are kind of sitting on the fence
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and saying, really, it's a waste of my time to
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go to vote anyway.
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Well, I mean I would. I mean, so that conversation,
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I don't.
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I don't think it's that many people that think that
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believe that their voters are wasting their time. I do
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believe that some people people forget that MIT came up
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with this science called habit loops, and it stays that
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people trying to form new habits are doing cost benefit
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analysis on every decision they make about that habit.
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When black men are doing cost benefit analysis about.
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Voting, they're comparing what's worth they're going to get for
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where they find themselves in America. And that is a
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hard sale for black men to believe that you're going
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to change what has been my situation, my lot in life.
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My grandfather's my father's father's fathers, so that's my great grandfather.
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So I think I think people have to consider that
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and not just think about it in the terms of
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people being apathetic about well a political because the truth
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of the matter is, the truth of the matter is
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black men show up in ways, And I mean in
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the last midterm, black people outperform white people for the
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first time in this country. Yet people still discount that.
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People still saying one in five black men are going
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to vote for Trump, even though there's no historical data
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to support that. Every since Donald Trump has been on
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the political scene, we watch black men become more progressive.
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In twenty twenty, Donald Trump got less Black men vote
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than he.
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Did in twenty sixteen.
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In twenty twenty two, I just told you about how
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black people turned out the highest number ever for Democratic candidates,
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and then twenty twenty three, black men did something that
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was super amazing.
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Without the monies of presidential campaigns.
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In Ohio, we watched black men outperform everybody, not.
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Excluding anyone, on women's right to choose.
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And the closest demographic to us were black was black women,
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and they were eight percentage points behind us. Black men
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voted eighty eight percent for women's right to choose and
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black women were at eighty percent. And then we even
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voted higher for women's right to choose than we did
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the legalization in marijuana. So that puts to bed this
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idea that black men are not out here supporting black
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women and caring about what they're living through.
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Even more than what the world.
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Want to sell us. So the world keeps talking about marijuana,
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and the legalization of marijuana is a big deal because of.
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The impacts that the justice system have has had on
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black men lives.
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But we also know that black men are in community
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because unlike any other men in this country, we woke
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with our women are more than anybody. There's nobody in
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this country to vote more with black women than black men,
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and it's not even close. And no other men vote
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with their women like we do, and it's not even
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close over there either. So the idea of this notion
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goes back to the lack of intimate relationship that the
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political space have with black men, and it's causing all
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this type of misinformation and also this frantic behavior from everybody.
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People put hair is on fire, worried about black men
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so much so that people are online bashing black.
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Men for something they've never done.
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Black men have never not supported black women when their
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name is on the ballot. If you go back and
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look at every black woman that ran for office as
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a Democrat, the second most support for her was always
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black men right behind black women.
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Well, thank you, Mayor Mondale Robinson You've definitely enlightened us
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with a lot of information from you are the mayor
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of Infield, North Carolina and founding principle of the black
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Mail Voters Project. We appreciate you joining us on the BION.
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Thank you so much for creating the space.
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Thanks Ester.
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Black excellence has led the federal government to appoint its
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first African American US Mint Director in its history, and
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she has made some major accomplishments since her appointment. Doug
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Davis as more.
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Doug, Hey, Thanks Mike. Is Doug Davis taking a pause
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on my normal segment Your Black Business to bring you
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the US Mint's first Black director, the honorable Venetra C.
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Gibson.
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She's here to.
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Talk about the Harriet Tubman Commemorative coins and its economic impact.
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Welcome to the BI and congratulations on your new position.
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Thank you very much, appreciate it.
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What inspired you to take on the role of us
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MEN Director, especially given you know the historical significance as
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the first African American appointed to this position since what
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seventeen ninety two.
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Seventeen ninety two is correct for the Men's existence, I
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certainly didn't start than just a few years after that.
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I love a humor.
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But anyway, I was about to retire from the district
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government in twenty twenty one and I received a cosking
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if I would be interested in this position, and I
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thought about it and the historical significance of such an
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appointment and the fact that I have always been in
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public service, and I saw this as yet another opportunity
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to serve the American people. And that is what led
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me to starting this role versus the deputy director. That
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was in September or October of twenty twenty one, and
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I was confirmed as the director by the Senate unanimously
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in June of twenty twenty two. So I've been at
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this going on three years when October this year amazing.
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The Harriet Tubman Remembrative coin program powerful tribute to the
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iconic figure in American history. Share some of the insights
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into the design process for these coins. What symbolism did
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you aim to capture?
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The symbolism we aimed to capture was in a three
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coin set, the gold, silver, and silver clad to one
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focus on someone who has who we've persevered and who
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we should honor as part of American history.
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And when we talk about.
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American history and why Harriet Tupman is so important, especially
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to African Americans, is what she did, what she sacrificed,
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what she put forth to go thirteen different times from
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Maryland and Delaware to Pennsylvania to free slaves, and she
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never lost one, She never let one leave, and she
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didn't let anyone give up. She made sure that the
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number she was going with was what she arrived in
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Pennsylvania ensured their freedom. The significance of this has to
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do with us as African Americans knowing that Black history
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is American history number one, number two, that we should
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always showcase our history in every form, and in this case,
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we captured literally the ninety four years of Harriet's life
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from one coin representing her commitment to freeing enslaved persons
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to the Kombahi River where she planned and organized the
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freedom of seven hundred and fifty slaves through by taking
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one hundred and fifty soldiers, by the nursing that she
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provided to our soldiers, and then the fifty four years
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following all of that that she gave to being an
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abolitionist and a suffragist and also a key member and
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contributor to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. So that
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is what we wanted to do and wanting our youth
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to see that, wanting our African Americans to see that,
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and as a part of our logo which is connecting
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America through coins, this was the way we saw of
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reaching out to the communities of color to ensure that
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we as a people know our history and know what
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people did to for as far as being trailblazers and pioneers.
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That's right, that's right.
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Coins available in gold, silver, half dollar denominations. How do
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you see these coins contributing to generational wealth for Black Americans?
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Well, I can tell you just from a personal experience
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with the gold coin relevant to Harriet Tubman, that when
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I looked at how much that would cost, I said, okay,
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I you know, it was seven hundred when it started
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out for sale, just for the gold coin. And you
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know how time gets away from you, time got away
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from me. And next thing I looked, it was up
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to eight hundred dollars. When I purchased the set, it
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was up to nine hundred dollars. So, you know, we
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try through financial literacy to build generational wealth. We try
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through educating about ways to invest by you know, consulting
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with financial analysts, and a number of them will do
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them as part of educational campaigns at no charge. But
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for US, gold is a way of investing in your
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own future if you like it's you know, you don't
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have to know the stock market, but you have to
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know where gold prices are. And if you want to start,
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you know, if you want to just tap that water
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a little bit to see if it's cool or warm,
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then you can start by just collecting gold coins and
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making initial investments in that and see how it does
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gold as you know that if it soars and then
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it stabilizes, then it's sores and it stabilizes, and it's
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just a healthy way to start if you're interested. But
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also in coin collecting, generally, a number of coins may
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have a lot of value to them if you can
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locate and identify the proper ones.
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Right right, right, So where do folks go to get
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these Harriet Tubman coins.
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A us MIT dot gov, and please make sure you
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do so before December thirty first, because the Commemorative Coin
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program for Harriet Tubman is congressionally mandated and they put
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a time limit on it and it expires December thirty first,
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and the US Mint will not be able to sell
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or make any additional Harriet Tubman coin, So that's very
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important to us. The other reason why we really want
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to make sure we push the message out to as
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many as possible, not only to purchase, but also to
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understand that the two organizations that got us the Commemorative
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Coin Act through Congressman Meeks and Congresswoman Rosen was because
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of the Underground Railroad for the Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio,
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and Harriet Tubman's Home in Auburn, New York. The US
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MEANT authorizes surcharges to those organizations for all of what
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we sell. They get so much for each coin, and
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in this case, we've been so successful. We've sold over
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fifty thousand dollars fifty thousand in coins and to the
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tune right now of lightly over a million dollars, which
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the Underground Railroad, Freedom Center and Harriet Tubman's Home will
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be able to split equally, and that will go to
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helping them rebuild, refurnish, or whatever they would need to do,
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educate and inform about Harriet Tubman and her legacy.
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Amen for that, Love you for that. Finally, as the
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first black director and beyond the Tubman coins, what other
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historical figures or events would you like to see commemorated
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through the US mint coins in the future.
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I would love to see the American Women Quarters program
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continue in one framework or another. And what I mean
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by that is we introduced in twenty twenty two the
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first African American on a quarter. Her name was Maya Angelou,
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and we have come full circle to twenty twenty five.
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Congress authorized that I'd like to see women become a
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part permanently, even though coining meaning the circulating coin Nicholas
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Dimes Penny's Quarters can last up to thirty five years
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being out in circulation, but I would like for us
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to have more opportunities to showcase women as we do
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other individuals men specifically. That is one thing I'd love
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to do. I'm looking forward and we're excited about our
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partnership with Warner Brothers and the characters of Superman, Batman
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and Wonder Woman as a trilogy that we will showcase
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on coins in twenty twenty five and then in twenty
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twenty six. It's the anniversary of the United States two
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hundred and fifty years and some of the exciting work
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we will be doing around that. That's what we have planned,
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separate from the fact of great news. Out of four
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thousand coins worldwide the United States meant after one hundred
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and ten judges internationally our gold coin one Coin of
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the Year and our other coin that features a beautiful
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tree one for gold for Coin of the Year two,
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So we won two awards internationally and that's a big deal.
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So that's something and for me connecting America through coins
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as a director, truly reaching out to our communities. That's
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why we've been so successful with Harriet, because we've really
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pushed our reach to make sure that our kids and
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adults and others who may not have had a clue
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that Harriet Tubman's there and we need to showcase and
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honor her by purchasing these beautiful, beautiful canvases of.
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Arc that's beautiful.
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US men's first black director of the honorable Venturacy Gibson.
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Thank you for taking some time. I'm out to share
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this amazing accomplishment here on the BI in. This is
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Doug Davis. You're listening to the Black Information Network.
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Great stuff as always, Doug, and thank you, and that's
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our program for this week. For more on these stories.
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Listen to the Black Information Network on the free iHeartRadio
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app or log on to binnews dot com for all
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of the latest news impacting the black community. Also be
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sure to follow us on social media at Black Information
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Network and on x at Black Infonet. I'm Mike Island,
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wishing everyone a great Sunday, and be sure to tune
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in next week at this time for another edition of
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the Black Perspective right here on the Black Information Network.
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It's not easy being a father. We don't always have
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the luxury of doing what we want to do. We
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do what we have to do. We do what we
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need to do to provide for and protect our families.
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And that's what the selection is about for me, as
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the results won't just affect my life, they'll affect my kids.
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So as a father this November, it's my duty to
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step up.
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Step up now at vote dot gov. That's vote dot goov.
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The opinions, beliefs, and viewpoints expressed in this commentary are
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those of the author and do not necessarily represent those
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of BN and its founding partners and employees.
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I'm Moe Kelly on the BIN with your two minute warning.
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The band Aerosmith was inducted into the Rock and Roll
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Hall of Fame in two thousand and one. Its lead singer,
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Steven Tyler, is known the world over, and more than
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just a few jokes have been made about the size
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of his lips over the years. His daughter, Live is
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an accomplished actress in her own right. While searching her
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family's roots, Live found out that she is part Black,
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and listen when she breaks the news to her father.
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Hell, I'm so excited that you came all the way
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here to be with me so I could share with you.
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We've always talked about your Italian side of all musicians,
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but you never knew about your mom's side. That was
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a mystery. So we traced the family tree back to
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my four times great grandfather, Robert Elliott, who is your
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great great great grandfather. Robert Elliott was part African American.
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I knew it. I knew it, Thank you God. I
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always felt akin to to to black people.
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Always did you know it?
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I had no idea, but I mean I felt it
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my whole life.
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Oh amazing. They sort of think that Robert Elliott Senior
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might have been an indentured servant. Wow, he or was
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in the War of eighteen twelve.
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Yeah, and he was a drummer.
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Oh my god.
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That's too good.
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And you were a drummer for was that your first instrument?
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So then Robert Elliott had a son named George Washington Elliott,
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and we found that he had enlisted in the Civil
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War and he signed up as a white man.
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Well, I guess this mean Steven that live can now
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come to the cookout or not. I'm mo Kelly at
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mister mo Kelly on social media and that's your two
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minute warning on the Black Information Network.
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The Third at Marshall College Fund or TMCF, is helping
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black students in the black college community achieve their dreams.
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Students like Brandon Smith, who is the first college to
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graduate in his family.
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It's a lot of pressure, but when you get through
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and you get to the other side, you didn't feel
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like you know, you're that person to your family where
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they can look at you and believe that you know,
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these things can be done even though they haven't been before.
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After graduating from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
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in May, Brandon now works as a global security and
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investigation associate at Fidelity Investments in Dallas, Texas. He gives
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partial credit for his success to the TMCF, which gave
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him a fifteen thousand dollars scholarship.
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That scholarship in the programs that I've been able to
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be a part of through TMCF have significantly increased and
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assisted me in graduating college not only you know, financially,
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but also like the networks I've built have made my
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college journey super smooth, stress free, and super insightful to
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the future.
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The Free Application for Student Aid are FATA was also
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instrumental in Brandon's college experience.
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Being black, students were always.
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Thinking that, you know, I can't pay for college, I
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can't go well, the FATA definitely opens doors to a
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lot of funding from various places, and a lot of
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institutions do require you to do your FASTA because without
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your FASCA, most companies also don't allow you to get
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outside scholarship opportunities.
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Brandon is now helping the TMCF and there finish fasta
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Find Your Future campaign which aims to get black college
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students to submit their application as soon as possible. He says,
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completing the FAFSA is worth the time and energy it
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takes to do so.
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It's a super easy form that has a lifelong benefit.
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It prevents you from having to pay back thirty forty
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fifty thousand dollars in debt by just simply completing that
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faster forms.
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Do your faster.
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It will change your life.
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Visit finish fasta dot com and get your FAFSA in today.
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You'll be glad you did.
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The opinions, beliefs, and viewpoints expressed in this commentary are
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those of the author and do not necessarily represent those
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of BIN and its founding partners and employees.
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I'm mo Kelly on the BN with your two minute warning,
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I'm not sure any minds will be changed from Kamala
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Harris's interview with Brett bhar on Fox News. But it
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was riveting television. It was contentious, and Bear was at
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times completely disrespectful, not allowing Harris to finish her answers. Ultimately,
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Harris demonstrated command presidents and did not wilt when Fox
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tried to clean up Trump's statements on the enemy within
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by not showing the actual clip of him saying it
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bait and switch.
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We asked that question to the former president today, Harris
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Faulkner had a town hall and this is how he responded.
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I heard about that.
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They were saying I was like threatening, I'm not threatening anybody.
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They're the ones doing the threatening. They do phony investigations.
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I've been investigated more than Alphonse Capponi was the greatest action.
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No, it's true, we don't but think of it.
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It's called weaponization of government. It's a terrible thing.
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Right, I'm sorry, and with all due respect, that clip
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was not what he has been saying about the enemy
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within that he is repeated when he's speaking about the
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American people.
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That's not what you just showed.
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He was asking.
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No, no, no, that's not what you just showed.
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In all fairness and respect to you, the question that
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we asked him, he didn't show.
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And here's the bottom line.
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He has repeated it many times, and you and I
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both know that, and you and I both know that.
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He has talked about turning the American military on the
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American people.
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He has talked about going.
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After people who are engaged in peaceful protests. He has
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talked about locking people up because they disagree with him.
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This is a democracy and an inner democracy.
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The president of the United States, in the United States
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of America should be willing to be able to handle
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criticism without saying he'd lock people up for doing it.
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Well done, I'm mo' kelly at mister mo' kelly on
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social media and that's you. Two minute warning on the
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