The NAACP's campaign urging black athletes to boycott predominantly white universities in southern states over redistricting concerns is criticized as shortsighted and harmful, as it threatens black athletes' NIL opportunities and financial prospects without offering real alternatives, while the campaign's logic is questioned given that black athletes already constitute approximately 90% of starting lineups at these institutions.
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>> Boom. Shaka boom. You're tuned in to the free range human show of choice. Your daily dose of reality radio. It starts right now. This is the Klay Edwards show. I am of course Klay Edwards coming at you LIV live here on the 50,000 megawatt blowtorrch 1039 WAB. We're streaming worldwide and live on the Mazda of Jackson live stream all across the world, even into the future in Australia. It's tomorrow in Australia.
You can check us out on all the big social and streaming platforms at SaveJXn on X, YouTube, Instagram, Straight Flexing, and Facebook. And then we're on Rumble and Twitch at Clay Edwards Show. We are not on Kick this morning. There was a reconnect issue and I did not have time to reconnect. So, it has I don't think anybody's been watching on kick anyway.
But hey, you just never know. You never know. Something may go viral one day.
You got to be there. Got to be there. If you ain't on the field, you can't play the game.
I think that's going to be kind of a theme to the show today. If you're not on the field, you can't play the game.
Oh, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats.
It's a bad day to be a rhino, too, isn't it? It's a bad day to be a panicking.
It's a bad day to be a beer. It's always a bad day to be a beer when Clay Edwards is around. No, I'm kidding. I love those shirts from uh the Saturday Down South folks. No, not Saturday Down South. I think it's from Old Row, which I think that's a I think that's a spin-off of of Bar Stool, maybe. I could be wrong on that.
Always assumed Old Row was a part of Bar Stool. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but they got those shirts that say it's a bad day to be a beer. Like, hell yeah.
Hell yeah. I'm an American, man. Real quick, happy 250th birthday to this great country. I mean, I know it's not July 4th yet, but we're just celebrating all year, right? It's a Freedom 250.
And I'm gonna tell you right now, do not do not expect a show from me on July 4th.
I'm gonna be celebrating America 250. 250.
I may take the whole week off. I may need the whole week off after uh after celebrating that July 4th.
So, going to be a good time. Going to be a good time, I'm sure. Uh speaking of that, I will not be here Monday for Memorial Day.
I'm going to be honoring our troops best way I know how. Making it a bad day for a beer around some swimming pool somewhere. Enjoying myself.
Absolutely. You know, well, real quick, the Ellis Autolex text line is 7692411944.
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Ellis Autolex text line. And hey, don't forget two big things this Friday night. I'm sorry, this weekend in Pearl, Mississippi.
I mean, I mean, it's so much going on.
It It really is. Just shout out to the mayor's office, Jake Wendham. Shout out to his staff, Stacy, the whole crew over there. Just the work they put in as a staff.
and they are bringing stuff to town free of charge, mind you.
Free of charge.
That is going to be so much fun. So, this Friday night, do I have any classic country music fans out there? Raise your hand. I raised my hand. Right there on Highway 80, Pearl City Park, they're bringing a concert series the next two weekends. You got a band Friday and Saturday night, both weekends.
So this Friday night, you got the Alabama tribute band, Boys in the Band, and I believe they play some other classic 80s and 90s country as well. So if you're a big Alabama fan, it's kind of like the Looking Buck Band from around here. They play a lot of Willie Nelson, but they do play some other classic country as well. I think that that's my understanding of what Boys in the Band is about. So that's free of charge. It's going to be out there. And look, they got the Almond Boys doing the production. So I know it's going to be good production. There's going to be cool lights, great sound, all that.
That's Friday night. Then Saturday night, they got Neon Moon and they're just a cl There's a 90s country cover band a lot like our friends over in Mustache the band. Same thing. They got a big production.
They they've been rocking the college circuit for a while. It's going to be great. So, this weekend is classic country. Then next weekend, Friday night, you got the Molly Ringwalds. And then next Saturday night, the Arena Rock Show. And it's massive. But you've seen the Mollies before. You've and you've heard about the Arena Rock Show. I mean, these guys are traveling with Mley Crew, poison 1989 levels of stage production, lights and pyro and all that. It's going to be insane. People have been reaching out as far as Texas getting details on this thing because they've been they've been wanting to travel to see them and they were going to go like waiting for him to play one of the casinos on the coast or something and they're like wait they're coming to Pearl Mississippi for free. So it's actually this is so big it's going to have a tourism impact on Pearl next Saturday night. So anyway, make your plans Pearl Mississippi this weekend. that hey, if the live music ain't your thing, right there at Pearl, not Pearl, right there at Hines Community College in Pearl Friday night.
Saturday night, I mean, I've had it stuck in my head that it's Friday.
Saturday, you've got bout time brawling.
My good friend Julian and his team bringing boxing to Pearl, Mississippi to Clyde Muse for their big uh Ptown Throwdown event. That's what I'm calling it anyway. It just sounds good. Ptown throwdown right there. Clyde Muse Center Saturday night. Tickets still available.
They've already sold well over a thousand tickets. Uh it could be a sellout. So go find B about Time Brawling. No G on the end of Brawling.
It's brawl. You know how we talk down here in the dirty dirty. About time brawling this Saturday night. Get your tickets now. And uh we're going to give away two pair of tickets to that today.
I missed giving away a pair yesterday.
So two pair of tickets to Bout Time Brawling. How about this? How about we give away a pair right now? First caller this morning, 601879002.
You want to win a pair of tickets, call and tell me why you love the Klay Edwards show or hate the Klay Edwards show. Either way, first person that calls and tells me why they love or hate this show wins the tickets.
We got a caller already. Hey, good morning. You're on the air. Before you say a word, why do you love or hate the Clay Edward show?
Hello.
>> Hey, you're on there with Why?
>> Hey, what's up, Clay?
>> Hey, what's up, brother? Tell us why you love or hate the show.
>> The show is is fantastic. I went to it in uh Brandon a couple months ago when they had it. Really had a good time. I was >> Oh, I was overly uh >> I was talking about the radio show, not the boxing, but that's great, too.
>> I was talking about me.
>> Hey, the radio show is great, too. You keep it real. You keep it 100. Uh, no strings attached, you know, it's just uh all gas, no brakes, and I love what you do.
>> Appreciate it. Who is this again?
>> This is David.
>> David, you want Do you want to text me your last name so I can leave you on the guest list?
>> Absolutely.
>> Yeah. You got my number?
>> Yes, sir, I do.
>> All right. Text me your last name. You have you plus one on the on the will call guest list uh Saturday night for about time brawling.
>> Fantastic. Thanks, buddy.
>> Yeah. Congratulations. Thank you.
Hey man, we got winners around here. We keep it simple. I've tried to over complicate these these contests and it just makes it just that complicated. Uh, real quick before we go any further, I want to send condolences out uh to a I can't say their name that I was asked to I don't know if it's made public yet, but it's my brother-in-law, my sister, my daughter, both my girls, my family lost a very close friend. I wasn't as close with him yesterday. I mean, I was close, but not close like they are. And just a close family friend just tragically passed away yesterday. And uh they'll be dealing with that for the next couple days, weeks, months, years.
Uh dealing with the loss of a close friend. Unfortunately, if I'm familiar with one thing, it is losing friends.
I've lost uh to only be 48. I've I've lost uh several like what I could call my best friends, my brothers over the years. There's a there's a picture of me and three other friends in it and I'm now the only one left in that photo that we took down in New Orleans about 15 years ago or so. And it just it's wild.
And I'm not not trying to make it about me, but I had to have a conversation with my daughter yesterday about that.
And I was just explaining she was crying. And um I was just explaining that, you know, when you lose somebody that you love or a close friend, same thing. And we love our real friends. Our real friends we have love for and we love them and they love us. And I was just explaining to my daughter that you you know it sucks right now. It hurts.
I said but the good thing that comes from losing somebody that you love and dealing with that hurt is it helps kind of callous you a little bit. It helps toughen you up a little bit. And as you go through life and you're dealing with a the chaos of a bad day at work of maybe a breakup, a divorce or or whatever, you feel like the world is against you. And trust me, I've doing this for a living the last few years and people coming after me and trying to cancel me and uh just everything that people have done trying to get at me the last few years. uh losing my friends over those years and knowing what real pain and real grief and real issues feels like.
I was able to compartmentalize that and look straight ahead like I'm doing right now and ignore it all. Just box it out.
And it just it wasn't nothing to me because what I knew was none of those problems on the outside could kill me.
None of them unless I let them. and I'm not going to let them. So, I was just telling her, just take this, remember this pain, bottle it, and just know, you know, over the next year, two, three, five, 10, whatever, over the next over the rest of your life, you know, as you deal with people, you deal with a bad day at work, a mean boss, a bad day in traffic, somebody cutting you off, whatever. you know, a disrespectful uh significant other, somebody trying to hurt you, a friend betraying you, that's all nothing compared to losing a friend or losing a loved one and knowing what real pain is. Uh so don't make it in vain. You know, remember the pain and use that to propel yourself forward. You know, I I I I carry the memory of several of my lost friends of me everywhere I go. You know, I lost my best friend in this world back in October, Cory McDonald. And you know, that was one I never saw coming. That was a guy that actually I did see us growing old together, sitting out on the front porch somewhere in rocking chairs telling old war stories about when we used to go out back in our day.
You know, all the run of the roads we used to do do and all that good stuff and all the hell we raised. What's that Jason Aline song? I think it's Jason Aline. Skid marks on this town.
Is that is it Jason Aldine had skid marks on this town? Anyway, that song I we uh we definitely definitely left our skid marks on this town as well as my friend that passed away prior to that, Kyle Bulock. Kyle especially left some skid marks, literal burnout marks all over Ranking County with his Dodge Viper truck and his Mustangs and all the fun toys that he had. But all right, look, let's take our first break. When we come back, I want to jump into this NAACP SEC stuff. If I want to jump into Big Daddy Trump dropping the hammer on Thomas Massie, man, I've seen some people that I got so much love and respect for disappointed that Massie lost. And we still friends.
I still love y'all. I just think y'all wrong about this Thomas Massie stuff.
That guy's a traitor. Something happened to that guy. I mean, Trump Trump endorsed that guy 20 in 22.
And I don't know if it's his wife dying.
I, you know, I don't know if it's just just lust for power.
I don't know who got a hold of him, what they got on him, because that's usually what it is, right? They got something on you to get you to flip like that. I don't know, you know, I don't know if it's just this anti-Israel stuff that's going across America right now.
It's so weird, too. You know how I feel about this. It's like if you're not anti if you if you're not anti-Israel, you're pro- Israel as far as they're concerned. And I'm all over here like I feel like I'm like, can we just not can I can I just not care? Can I can I not have a hard left or right opinion about Israel?
Again, I only know one Jew and I ain't seen him since the fourth grade when he cried when the space shuttle exploded.
the Challenger because he wore his little space camp outfit to school that day and they made us watch the shuttle go up and it exploded and he cried. I'm not saying anything wrong with that by the way, but that's like the my only interaction that I remember in my life with a Jewish person. So, I I'm just don't have hardcore feelings about the Jews, so to say. I'm not a rapper, you know. I I ain't got no beef with them on I ain't got no record label beef with them. There's not a Jew I'm in competition with for talk show supremacy here in the South. So, you know, I don't know. I just don't have any. They're just not on my radar. But anyway, I digress. I want to talk about that. I want to talk about Trump supporting Ken Paxton. I called that a while ago. I knew he would. Cronin's a piece of crap.
So, lot to talk about today. And uh here's our question of the day.
And I'm just hitting y'all hard this morning, man. Our question of the day, what is something that's not illegal that should be illegal?
And I'll give y'all the context to what I'm thinking about here before we go to break. I was listening to Patriot Radio on XM coming in this morning as I have been prone to do and the host suggested that we should get back to the times and he was talking about Ken Paxton and a lot of people trying to cry that oh my god he cheated on his wife he's an adulterer.
Well, look, I agree that adultering is bad.
Uh, but he said we should get back to a time when adultery was against the law.
And it just got me to thinking, what is something that should be against the law that isn't?
Y'all let me know. Drop me a text on the Ellis Autolex text line. 769-24119 FO 7692411944.
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Hey, coming up at 8:07, Shawi Young going to be chopping it up with me about this NAACP telling black players not to play football in southern states.
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. They must not know how roster numbers work. Y'all go play in the H.B.CU. Well, the H.B.C.U. got no money. They're going to follow the money just like the NAACP does. Just like the Southern Poverty Law Center does. We'll be right back. This is the Clay Edwards Show on a burner already this morning.
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>> WELCOME BACK >> TO THE Klay Edwards Show. Breaking rules.
>> HERE WE GO.
>> Breaking rules when necessary. Welcome back in to the Klay Edwards Show. the most incendiary show on the raio all throughout not just central Mississippi but the entire southeast all of North America and the globe via the Mazda of Jackson live stream. That's right. No matter where you're at, no matter what time of the day, it's always available for replay on demand or live at SaveJXN on YouTube x Instagram and Facebook and Clay Edwards Show on Rumble. Kick and Twitch, just no kick this morning. All right, real quick. Today's show is brought to you by our friends over at Mazda Jackson. Swing by, check them out today in person right there, I55 at Briwood Drive. Stop in for a quick test drive. Check out that CX90, the Mazda 3 and more. All today right there 55 at Briwood. Locally owned, locally operated. They got credit options for everybody.
interest rates as low as 0.9 1.9 at times with approved credit. And they have SP financing options available for folks that got bad credit. You know, you got you got to have a little money down.
Usually that in my experience, you can't have bad credit and no money down. So, just kind of be prepared. And if you got bad credit, have your stips with you.
You know, proof of income, proof of residence, driver's license. You got to be able to get some insurance before you roll out of there. And uh you should be good to go as soon as everything checks out. So, Mazda Jackson, you can shop them online, mazda ofjackson.com. And don't forget, every new Mazda comes with a year free basic maintenance. That's right. Oil change, tire rotations, all that. They got you covered at Mazda of Jackson. All right. I asked y'all, what was a law? What was something that you thought should be a law that's not?
Like, what should be against the law?
Like, you break this, you go to jail.
Like, we play monopoly here. Straight to jail.
Pass. Go. straight to jail. Uh Lindsey Beckham, host of the Lindsay Beckham show right here noon to 1 every Monday through Friday says, "Calling yourself transgender."
Lindsay is going to stay on brand if nothing else. She gonna stay on brand.
That's for sure. Let's see here. We got some breaking news. A deputy flown to hospital after multi-vehicle crash.
Let's see where this was at. It's from WLBT. If this is out in Tennessee or Kentucky somewhere, I'mma I'mma delete this app from my phone. All right, it was Mississippi. Uh [snorts] looks like down in Jackson County, Vladimir, Mississippi, uh says a deputy with the Jackson County Sheriff's Office injured following a multi-vehicle crash in Latimer on Tuesday. That was yesterday. Well, prayers for him, man. Prayers for him.
That's why I don't like doing a lot of the breaking news and why I don't do too many traffic reports and stuff. It it ages so quickly and we have so many people that go back and listen to this show after the fact. Sometimes we use them with red reruns. So, all right, let's read some of your answers here on breaking the law. Somebody text in just text on the Ellis Autolex text line and said, "Driving without insurance." Man, I could not agree more. Put them damn cameras up. Put those traffic cameras up and every single one of them riding around right here without insurance to jail. You go lock them up and throw away the key for at least three days. Treat it like a DUI.
At least three days. Get on out of here.
I mean, think about it for a second.
Like, this is serious. I know some of y'all think I turn into a Karen when when I talk about this, but or a bootlicker. I've heard that one.
You're a bootlicker. The hell I am.
If you're out here riding around without insurance and let's just say I'm on the struggle bus and all I can afford right now is liability insurance.
So that mean what liability means is if you hit my car or if I hit your car and it's my fault at least your car gets fixed but I'm still without a car. Now what if you don't have any insurance and you hit my car and all I have is liability?
Well, that just means I am S O L and I'm out of a car.
So, if I if I'm out depending on where I'm at in life, if I'm out of a car, I'm out of a job. And if I'm on the struggle bus and can only afford liability insurance on my paid for a car because you have a finance car, you're supposed to have to have full coverage, you know, so the car can be paid off if you have a wreck. But you should also have to have gap insurance, too, if you leave the lot with negative equity. But whatever, always buy the gap. I'm telling y'all, after 12 years in the car business, buy the gap insurance. They will negotiate it down for you. I promise you can you can jew them down on the gap insurance. So, buy the gap. But let's just say, uh, I only have liability. You have no insurance.
You hit me. You total out my car. I'm out of car. I'm broke. I'm at a job. I'm not in a situation most likely where my if I'm broke, my credit's probably jacked up right now. I ain't got no money down.
Now I'm probably gonna lose my house and everything. I'm going end up bankrupt, homeless, trying to get a pan handler permit so I can out there so I can sit out there and beg for change on the corner of Lakeland and 55 or Highway 80 and Terry Road or as y'all call it now, University Boulevard. to have me out there fighting an old black lady for their spot.
All because you riding around here with no insurance. You trying to bring hard times down on Clay Edwards. You trying to bring hard times down on Clay Edwards all because you didn't have insurance.
That's why I think you riding around.
You could ruin my life. And that's just to say that I don't get out of that I come out of that accident not even being hurt. Now if I get hurt and I take on hospital bills loud life in prison no parole if you do that to the clay mean the hard times down on Clay Edwards. Yeah, I take that serious.
#real talk. [snorts] Here's a text that we got earlier uh as the show just got started. I wanted to make sure I read unknown texture says, "When my one-year-old heard the show intro come through the car radio, she started clapping her hands and smiling. Happy Friday, Clay."
It's a happy Friday to you, too, but it's Wednesday. Have you Is it Has it been a bad day for a beer already?
You think it's Friday? Hopefully, that's just something you say for fun. But uh tell your one-year-old I said hey and don't be uh don't be making it a bad day for a beer at at 7:30 with your kid in the car.
Uh my cousin by marriage Keith says driving in the left lane going turtle speed like the person in front of me right now. That should be against the law. I thought that was against the law.
I mean I guess is it a ticketable offense driving slow in the left lane?
It should be if it isn't. Let's see here. Jimmy says, "Should be a law for stalking radio host caught slipping."
You know, you if you don't do anything when you catch the guy slipping, you didn't catch him slipping. Like in my in my history of like true meaning of the word caught slipping or phrase caught slipping, it's a you punch them in the face, beat their ass or something like that. If you're just putting a camera in their face and flapping your gums, you didn't catch anything.
Let's see here. He also says, "Fun fact, talking about my buddy Kyle, he says, "Fun fact, Kyle worked for the company I work with now when he was going to college. I didn't know him, but I was friends with Micah. We lost as well. The Edge days. Did you uh Did you know Micah actually sold car? Yeah, I saw Did I know Micah? Yeah, I knew Micah. We grew up together. We were roommates at one time. Me and Micah always got along until we didn't. You know, we were like brothers, but heads a lot, but Michael Barbara's a good guy. I hate that we lost Micah. Sad situation, of course.
Sad situation. Let's read a couple more of your text here real quick and we'll read you some of your live chats, too.
And we got to take a break. Uh, Bobo Pile says, "Taking on speaker, talking on speaker or FaceTime in public places 100% should be illegal. It should be illegal if you can prove a woman married a man to get pregnant so he could save her. Marrying a rich man should not be a life goal."
I mean, look, I don't disagree, but uh, first world problem. Rich men need to do a better job at at vetting their partners in my opinion. Put them on the struggle bus. Don't whine them and dine them. You know, don't don't don't spoil them and find out if they'll stick around. Don't let them know you're rich.
Don't let them know you're rich. And you know, people talking on a Bluetooth in public should be illegal, too.
Just don't don't walk around a gas station with that little Bluetooth concoction in your ear. I guess they have earbuds now.
There is nothing more annoying than somebody standing around in the gas station. You know, I hate gas stations anyway. I don't hate the gas station. I just hate the weird interactions in gas stations.
Don't stand in the gas stations talking to yourself and then look at me like I'm the idiot when I ask you what did you say? Because if you were actually talking to me and I ignored you, you say, "I tried to talk to Clay Edward. He was rude. Didn't even say nothing to me.
I'm sorry. I thought you run that little Bluetooth gadget in your ear." And most of the time they'll look at you like you're the bad guy. And they'll point to their ear like, "How dare you interrupt my conversation?
Meet me outside. Meet me outside."
Can't stand that.
Cannot stand that.
Uh unknown texture says I'm pretty sure this may be Andrew Gosser says Sharia law should be against the law. We are efforting that. I say we Mississippi is efering that somehow or another. There was multiple laws that should have passed this congressional session. Not congressional but this legislative session to ban Sharia law in Mississippi but they didn't.
Unless I'm mistaken.
Let's see here.
Uh, all right. That this is a really, really lengthy text here. No, no. Here's what it says. In public, you have no right to privacy. It should be illegal to video record a person in any business without their consent. Taping minors anywhere should be illegal. So, here's the thing about that. What if you don't know they're a minor?
like the girl that was dressed up as a cat in Walmart in Madison last week that Lindsay filmed and sent me and then I posted it.
You know, you can't ID everybody and somebody looks like an a-hole walking around and you film them.
I'm not going to ask you for your ID.
I'm just not.
It should also, speaking of which, should be illegal to walk around here dressed like a cat in public on any day other than Halloween. Let's take a break. We'll be right back. This is declared show 1039 WAB. Keep them coming in. What's something that should be against the law that's not? Ellis Autolex text line 7692411944.
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Let's leave some of your leave some of your chat read some of your chats there.
Uh uh let's see. Natal Natal.com says uh someone has me blocked in the chain or something. Anyway, says uh minorities uh being able to vote should be illegal.
Come on now. Come on now. We got there's some good minorities out there that vote the right way. They just shouldn't be able to vote Democrat.
Should I voting Democrat should be illegal, punishable by death. That'll probably get me kicked off the internet.
That's a joke. YouTube, that's a joke, Facebook.
Wink wink wink wink wink wink.
Uh Jonah says, "Watching big women twerking in public."
Yeah, that should be against the law for sure. But you know how I know it never will be? They have that Pride Jackson event downtown every year and [snorts] there's these drag queens dressed up very very provocatively to say the least and they take they twerk on kids.
I mean I've posted these pictures plenty of times before. I've gotten even put in Facebook jail for posting these pictures. Facebook finds it improper against community guidelines to post the photos of what goes on at these Pride events. I mean, probably for one or two reasons. Either it's pornography.
Um, it's borderline, if not actual SA against a child, or they just don't want people knowing what goes on at these events. Shut up, bigot. Shut up, homophobe.
Don't be exposing what's going on at these events. How can we ever groom your kids to be one of us if the police stop it if you keep exposing it?
It's probably that, right? That's probably why they don't want us posting pictures of it.
Uh Phil on Facebook says, "Driving and being on social media. I'm a truck driver. 90% of the people who pass by me are on their phone." Well, that is against the law.
It is in Mississippi anyway. Uh being on your phone, period. Texting and driving.
social media and driving.
So, let's see here. Uh Jonah also says, "Twerking in public restaurants." Well, that would get rid of all these loudmouth idiots in in the restaurants, wouldn't it? They think they can twerk.
Here's another one I think that should be illegal. You've been seeing all these graduation videos lately where all the little hood rats get their diplomas and they start twerking and jerking and doing all that weird crazy stuff. That should be illegal. Like I just don't know what Jason Whitlock's been on this a lot lately.
and they've been talking about the graduation videos, the overt celebrations after uh athletic achievements, touchdowns, whatever. There's some big controversy right now in Kansas or Virginia or somewhere where uh I guess some a black a team with some black people on it got they lost they got a penalty and it cost them the third straight championship or something or another because they told them no celebration and they still celebrated just it's just like they're going out of their way to to agitate folks and to be as anti- athoritarian and they're looking at authoritarian as being white. It's just like this big push to how can we piss the white people off as much as possible. We're going to do whatever the opposite of the the norms are, what the rules are, and like breaking rules is anti-white in their opinion.
And I mean, that's obviously what's going on.
And it's they're not doing themselves any favors, you know, but well, whatever. Uh, bourbon diplomacy says it is slower traffic. It is slower traffic.
Keep right. If posted by sign, it is illegal. Gotcha.
David Funches says, shout out David Funches says playing loud music at the gas station should be illegal.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Uh, Bradley says, "What about Old Miss?
What are we talking about? What about Miss?
Oh, Susan has a good one here about what should be against the law. Says price gouging on life depending medication.
Trumpx.com trumprx.com.
My goodness, the chat is getting salty.
I can't read all this on the radio. Uh Chris has got a good one here. Says paternity paternity fraud. A woman making a man pay child support for a child that is not his.
Absolutely.
But you know, here's something that should be a law that's not.
Everybody, everybody born, they should do a DNA test immediately.
That way the father is not having to ask and make it all awkward because he loves his baby mama. Never let her go.
the hospital should take the DNA test and just be like, "You're the father.
You're the mother. Congratulations." Or, "Hey, I'm afraid I've got some bad news."
Now, I know a lot of men out there, they'd be like, "That ain't bad news.
You just saved me 18 years. 18 years of child support."
That I again, I don't know why that's not a law.
I truly don't because it's just the further we go the more stories we hear about people who raised kids that ended up not being theirs.
I mean, and that's fine, you know, if you if you love you love your baby mama, you never let her go and you want to raise some kids that ain't yours.
It's like you just need to know they're not yours.
Because hell, I've seen situations where here in the last few years, a thing that went viral, right? A guy had been raising these kids, found out he wasn't his, and the judge still made him pay child support because he had been taking care of them for so long.
Yeah. Well, you know, you're still going to get to take care of him.
Congratulations.
I want to say it was three different kids that he found out weren't his.
I know of a crazy sit I can't tell you who, but I know of a crazy situation around here right here in central Mississippi. Some very prominent people found out their dad wasn't their dad and that they got a grown brother and sister. And I know all of them. Uh very very wild situation there. I mean, just I would never ever ever speak of of who they are, but I was shocked to find out who they were.
I'll just say this, money, mo money, mo problems, more money, mo problems. Uh just because you married to a rich man don't mean uh don't mean that those are his kids. Let's take a break real quick. We'll be right back on the edward show.
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>> Breaking rules when necessary. All right, coming up in hour two, top of the hour here at 8:07. When we come back, live uh internet. I'm staying with y'all for the most part through the break for the next seven minutes. But when we come back, Shawski Young, he was once a Democrat. He worked in the Obama administration.
He found the Lord and turned into a Republican. I'm playing. I'm playing.
He's always been a good Christian man.
Uh but he did turn into a Republican a couple years ago. And we're going to be talking to him about this NAACP.
putting out a notice asking all black players to avoid playing at predominantly white universities in the south. Uh Shawski's [snorts] got some very strong thoughts on it and uh shocker so do I. And uh we agree on that and I wanted to talk to Shawski. He reached out to me last night and asked me would I share a post. I said share it. Hell, come on the show and let's talk about it. Um because I would love to get a a black man's opinion on this.
I think it's hard to talk about that topic in an honest way without extending an invitation to a black man. And so I'm really excited to get Shawsk's thoughts and opinions on that and just how detrimental and selfish that is of the NAACP. How detrimental it is to the athlete and how selfish it is uh of the NAACP. All right, don't go anywhere.
We'll be right back here. 1039 WYB.
All right, let's uh let's read a few of your text and your live stream stuff here. And if y'all noticed, something looks a little different. The camera's moved.
The men's health banner is gone behind.
And I was trying to maneuver the camera because it looks kind of trashy back there behind me. And I just I couldn't get it right how I like it. I tried to put it in front of me where it face is straight and the camera and the flags right behind me, but the microphone blocks my face no matter how I get it.
Anyway, I will be efforting a better looking background by next week. And uh we are working on a new studio sponsor, too. So, it may just get may just look like that until we get a new banner back there. Anyway, I just wanted to mention that. So, let's uh go to some of your chats here.
Uh, man, you guys are on fire this morning.
You guys are on fire. I just start at the bottom and work my way up. How about that? Ss.co says, "I know the price of a SATA shirt and a monster. Get caught off guard with $4 butterfinger though, man. I have no idea what that means." But hey, there you go. Uh, let's see here. James Garrison on Facebook says, "Have you heard of the six cops in Clark County and all the stink about the sheriff?" I have, but man, I'm hesitant to go and report rumors, especially the rumors that I that I heard. Well, I'll just tell you what I heard. So, let me say this. Allegedly.
Um, and this is I was told that this is just this isn't this is I can't talk this morning.
This is just a drop in the bucket of some of the real things that are allegedly going on up there, but I have not had a chance to dive into it yet.
But six deputies resigned. One of them walked in and resigned during a public meeting on film. I shared that to my Facebook page, but they're saying that apparently the sheriff, let me phrase it, allegedly the sheriff um has been putting his hands on his wife one too many times and they're tired of they're tired of hiding that. And uh and to that, let me say this.
Uh one time wasn't too many.
I mean, I know you got a job and you're worried about revenge. If true. You got a job, you're worried about being fired, you got career, you got retirement, you got all that stuff, but I mean, one time wasn't enough for you to for you to say something, but multiple times now? I I don't know.
I'm conflicted on this. I One thing I'm very anti is putting your hands on a woman. I got two daughters, a sister, a mother. My grandmother's still alive. I got four aunts. I don't have any I don't have any blood uncles. I got my dad.
I was raised in a house full of women plus my dad. And I lived in a house full of women. I've always had women around, you know. I have a lot a lot of women in my life, you know, in my family and stuff that I love dearly. And like one thing I have never done, y'all can say a lot about Clay Edwards, I ain't never put my hands on a woman. Not in a way that she didn't want. And um you know, so I I take domestic violence.
That's something I am very I take very seriously and I will not tolerate that in my presence at all. At all. I won't watch a man rough house a woman. Um, I will get involved in somebody's personal business in public. I mean, I may get me killed one day getting up in the middle of somebody's domestic dispute, but I ain't going to watch a man put his hands on a woman. That's that that's a line too far for me. Uh, you know, which I find ironic, too. You know, if y'all been following me for a while, you know all those [ __ ] that run that that run that Brady list of Mississippi where they like to report cops and judges and, you know, people that they think have wronged them that are in law enforcement.
Every single one of those guys, every single one have been arrested and charged multiple times with domestic violence. Now, some have not actually got it on their record, you know, like have been found guilty because, you know, a lot of the times, like one of the guys, it was his wife three different times and she refused to testify.
So, you know, hadn't been found guilty of domestic violence, but you get arrested for domestic violence, not once, not twice, but three times. Bro, you've been beating a bitch's ass.
Ain't no ifs or buts about it. All right, I got to get my guy on the phone, Shawi Young. Y'all stand by. We We'll be right back in about two minutes.
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>> Good morning, Clay. How are you, >> man? I'm doing good. Thank you for uh bearing through my my ad read there, but man, I get to talk about food and I lose track of time.
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[laughter] >> I tell you what, this summer's coming up. A little Memorial Day is coming up.
A lot of folks are going to be looking forward to a great barbecue in the backyard with family and friends. So I'm I'm sure information's well taken. A >> absolutely. So man, look, you reached out to me last night and you've got a you you had prepared a statement on this NAACP stuff. Let me catch people up real quick. Kind of tell them what happened if they if they hadn't been paying attention. Uh this is just I'm reading you the quick little ESPN caption here.
Here it says the NAACP's campaign calls out Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and South Carolina as states to boycott, arguing that the athletic programs in those states flagship universities are especially reliant on black athletic talent and should protect black political interest. Um, man, I saw this and I thought to myself, >> you know, the headline is NAACP urging athletes, fans to boycott over voting rights. Nobody, nobody's taking anybody's voting rights, but talk about biting the hand that feeds you right here, the NAACP sitting over there. And you, you brought up a great point in your statement, but they are affecting potential generational wealth here that these kids are making in this short time that they're going to make it because, you know, all these kids ain't going to the NFL. This is their chance to make millions and then go off into the real world with a foundation that could last them a lifetime. And NAACP is saying, "No, you skip that. put your blackness in front of all that, you know, and then they sit here and pretend that, oh, they can just skip going to Mississippi State, Old Miss, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, wherever, and there's some other random school that can just afford to take all these players and still pay them the same money. That doesn't exist.
>> You know, there there first off, there's there's there's there's limits to how many people can be on a team >> to begin with. There's not enough there's not enough spaces available.
Anyway, I digress, but it it just it made zero sense. It wasn't thought out.
It's just a a headline grab to get some attention, try to scare people. Oh, well, hold on now. I don't want our black players leaving the state and now we better rethink this thing. Like, >> yeah.
>> Yeah. Come on. Asinine.
>> It's it's 100% asinine. And to be quite honest with you, Craig, you hear me?
Okay.
>> Yeah. Yeah, I can hear you fine.
>> Okay, great. It's 100% asinine. And and it's ridiculous to think that, you know, just because you want to get attention around what's happening in redistricting in the United States, that uh is constitutionally passed law, by the way, and somehow believe that it's great to just make our black players take a step back in history, put themselves at odds with their own families, uh their own financial interest, their own ability to even be seen to go to the league one day is absolutely ludicrous. And this this what do they call this? out of bounds campaign, you know, just the very idea of asking black athletes and their families and people who are alumni of these schools uh to uh withhold, you know, their athletic and financial support from a public university in the southern United States uh for the sake of saying that, you know, the these states are attacking black voting rights because the last time I checked, no one in Mississippi is having a right getting registered to vote or going to vote.
There may be some apathy around people going to vote, but that has nothing to do with people being able to vote. And what we're seeing in the second congressional district in in uh Mississippi is a district that needs to be redrawn because it is unconstitutional because it was drawn along racial lines. And that's what's happening across the United States.
>> Employed by the NAACP to just excite fear in black folks around the country.
And it's disgusting. Let me ask you, you know, James Meredith has got to be sitting there thinking, "What? What in the hell did I do all this for if y'all are going to sit here and play this nonsense?" just 50 years ago or however long ago it was, this man and the NAACP, I assume they were involved at the time, fought to get this man in college at these universities, had to bring in the National Guard. And now you're sitting here saying because of uh this Democrat Voting Rights Act that uh that now uh we should be boycotting these universities.
It just doesn't make any sense to me.
It's like y'all fought and fought and fought to desegregate >> these places >> and and now you're fighting to segregate them, to segregate yourselves.
>> That's exactly what you That's exactly what they're doing. And what makes it even crazier is you're not even coming with a financial interest for them to even consider.
The NAACP, the NAACP is not saying, "Hey, we'll give you, you know, $300,000 to go to Jackson State or Alorn if you don't take the $500,000 to go to Mississippi State." They're saying, "We're not we're not going to give you anything. We're not going to give you any money. We're not going to give you any help whatsoever, but don't go to those schools. withhold your support, uh, affect the money that's going to be coming to you and your family and your potential opportunity to go to a a school where you can actually get seen and hopefully play on Sunday one day, which is a very small minutiae of players in the first place. And they don't have the money to have this type of conversation with black folks. And it's just wrong to try to swindle black folks into thinking, oh, I'm somehow not being loyal to my community um, if I go to a PWI, you know. And look, I graduated from a H.B.C. ECU, you know, right here in Mississippi, Jackson State University. Uh my wife, uh graduated from MUW and Old Miss Law, you know. So, uh she went to a PWI, went on scholarship. Of course, she was a lot smarter than I am. And I'll tell you this much, both of us love college football and we neither one of us agree uh that this is something that uh the NAACP should have done. U I have a cousin that's here cuz we're burying a family member this weekend. He's an engineer. He graduated from Jackson State University as well. Works for Lockheed Martin. He's a big sports fan.
He is also appalled by the fact that the NAACP thought had the audacity to sit here and try to tell black players that somehow if you go to a a PWI, you need to stop going and you need to not go there um in support of this particular um campaign that they're actually putting forth with no plan on it whatsoever. They're just going to continue to run this throughout the year. is no different than I believe what's going to be taking place at the capital uh here in Jackson today uh with this rally they've been planning >> you know and if you really wanted to put some teeth in this thing and me take you serious for it you would say don't go to college in these states at all because it's I mean there's no there's no real difference here in whether we're talking about JSU or miss to be honest I mean you want to punish the state the entire state don't let them get any of that outside it don't let them get any of the tuition money let take all that money out of state all the uh the scholar Not scholarship money, but well, yeah, the scholarship money. Just take all the the grants and the student loan money. Take all that to another state altogether.
Don't just don't just try to punish what you perceive as predominantly white institutions or universities. Punish the entire state and and and leave. Go up north, whatever.
>> And you know what blows my mind, Clay?
You know what blows my mind?
>> What's that?
When we look at college football or we look at college basketball, it is not a secret that 90% of the starting lineup are black Americans. When you look at the TV and when you know how sports are going these days, you know, 90% of the starting lineup uh is African-American at these PWI schools most of the time.
And so who do you think is getting the money, the bulk of this NIL money across the board throughout all these colleges?
It's black folks.
>> And so you mean to tell me because you don't like what the Supreme Court ruling said and you want to kind of spin it in a way to uh incite black, you know, uh fear and incite black uh representation uh for voting uh to get out the vote.
You going to tell me you're willing to sacrifice the billions and billions of dollars that are coming into the African-American community. Many of which, by the way, were probably raised in a single parent household.
So, not able to help mom now, not able to help your community now, not a able to help yourself get out of, you know, whatever financial situation you were probably in prior before uh going to that particular school and robbing them of that opportunity. Because here here's the other thing. if they're at one of these uh PWI schools, which is division one where the NIL money is coming. That means not only have they excelled athletically, they've also excelled academically in order to even get into the school. So, he's going to rob them from all that hard work just for the sake of some political campaign. I think it's wrong. I think it's disgusting. And I think folks like Derek Johnson, who actually is the president of NAACP, that's Benny Johnson's uh good friend.
and he lives right here in Mississippi.
Uh are the folks who are behind this types of stuff. And neither one of them would tell their son or their daughter, "Hey, we want you to go to uh Howard and Jackson State to go play baseball or football or basketball or run track. Uh instead of going to, you know, Alabama, who has $ 38 billion of NIL money, by the way, uh where they can pay you 500,000 or a million dollars uh for actually coming there. So, >> they're not going to advise their own kids to do that.
>> So, I did a little little uh little groing while you were talking there.
Just kind of just and just looking at the SEC here with 16 schools. There's 105 roster spots per team. So, that's 1,680 players. And each team has 85 scholarship players on those teams with 20, I guess, walk-on slots. So, let's just say the the 85 scholarship players.
Now look, everybody ain't making the same amount of money, but >> yeah, >> we won't even discuss dollar figure here, but of those 85 scholarship players, I think it's safe to say at minimum 70 of them are black >> 100%.
>> You know, I think that's a safe number.
So, you're talking about 70 times, I'm pull my calculator out here. 70 time 16.
I should be able to do that off the top of my head, but I can't. Let's see here.
70* 16 1,120 black athletes across the SEC. And you're trying to tell these cats, hey, don't worry about that money. Don't wor about them at minimum 50,000, 100,000 kind of roster spot type money per per season.
>> Uh don't worry about that because hey, look, we need you to put your blackness in front of everything here. We need you to go play at Jackson State or go play at these other schools. Well, Clay, you know, they got spots out at Cal and UCLA and all these. you know, they ain't got the they they're not spending the money on their NIL that they are down here in the South. They don't, you know, the saying about the SEC, it just means more. We just pay more, too, because it means more. We pay more. And I look, I think this is going to fall flat. It's just an attention grab. Uh, you got time for another segment?
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We're talking about the NAACP stuff.
Shawaski, during the break there, man. I just saw me what may have been one of the dumbest takes that I've seen on this thing. SB Nation, which used to be a good sports site back in the day, uh, on X, says, uh, NAACP urges black athletes to reject recruiting in racially gerrymandered states. Well, I I couldn't help myself. I had to reply. I said, so they should have started rejecting uh rejecting these colleges years ago when they gerrymandered these districts black.
[laughter] I mean, if that if that's the criteria that we're using here, just just gerrymandering. Okay. Well, they they should have avoided these colleges a long time ago.
>> Well, I think that, you know, where we are today and and and just the total way in which this argument has has moved forward is is bringing the worst out of just people on the left. You know, I I think they see the ground shifting beneath their feet. I think that they know uh that they have put forth, you know, a campaign that makes no sense, is not going to go anywhere. Um, and they're just spending time to make money uh and get people to donate money so they can put in some more far-left uh programs across the country to try to come to progress >> so they can fund the KKK and all these other great institutions. They've been I know the Southern Poverty Law Center, but they just kind of all connected at the hip in my opinion. Uh >> yeah, >> man. Look, I hadn't had a chance to talk to you since that popped off. What are your thoughts on that whole Southern Poverty Law Center thing?
>> I think I was as shocked as anyone in across the country was shocked. Um, and also seeing it, of course, trending number one on Twitter for multiple days.
Uh, and actually, you know, um, I was in the car riding to the coast, uh, with my wife and [clears throat] her prosecutor's conference with her, uh, when that news actually broke and I thought I was I was reading, you know, a typo or something. at first I couldn't believe that you know dating back all this particular time and seeing that now our justice department um put forth the allegations and motives that actually showed what they were doing was in fact illegal and that they were in fact you know well you know they want to say penetrating you know white uh nationalist groups to bring back information to be used against them but in fact they were funding the operations and so I think it's a it's a task situation and I think it's an embarrassment to uh people who were legitimately trying to progress society at that particular time.
>> Well, you know, here's my thought on their whole penetrating deal. They're not you're not a law enforcement agency.
You don't need to be penetrating any anything. That's what law enforcement is for.
>> Well, 100%. [clears throat] You know, and you know, you look at they had these undercover agency eyes and things of that nature, and I think that, you know, it it was ridiculous. You know, it just get it just goes to show that, you know, they were willing to go far and beyond what the law [clears throat] would allow them to do in order to raise money uh to uh further their cause. And I think that they [clears throat] got caught red-handed and it showed how, you know, these particular organizations um can be um bad organizations.
>> Well, it turned into that they they made the meme real. The whole, you know, there's not enough there's not enough real racism. We got to go create some.
>> Create some Absolutely. They made it real. They made it real and it was and people, you know, were um just, you know, just stunned by it, you know, and I was like, "Wow, this is something that has really happened in our country. You think about what happened back in Charlottesville and they had a a hand in that as well, too." And, uh, how that, you know, particular moment divided the country along racial lines, uh, unnecessarily. And I think that, you know, uh, they should be held to the fullest extent of the law. And it looks like that's what's happening.
>> I can't I can't wait. I can't wait to see it, especially us folks that grew live down here in the South. And you know, you know, I speak for myself and I know people get on here, people hear me on here, and I know I can be divisive, but it's just me kind of playing, not playing a character. It's it's me trying to turn a mirror up and show people how ridiculous things can sound when the other side says the same thing that one side says constantly, you know, like, oh, it's racist when you say it, Clay.
Well, I'm just echoing what y'all say.
I'm just flipping the the races, trying to prove a point. So, I [clears throat] mean, we put a lot of effort. How old are you again, Schwaskki?
I'm 43.
>> So, we're we're close to the same age.
You're close enough to call you a Gen Xer. You grew up in the 90s. You know, I know and I can't speak for you and you grew up in Nshoba County up that way uh in in that area. I grew up down here in Jackson, man. I didn't see racism. Of course, I'm white, you know, so I I see things through a different lens, but I know that but I know like in my circle, man, we didn't look at uh at at our black friends and say that's our black friends. They were just our friends.
Like there was none of that. There was none of that in the 90s. It just wasn't not in my circle. I I want to be clear.
I'm not saying that you didn't see something else and this person didn't see something else.
>> But I know, man, we put a lot of effort into making it a point not to make it different to to try not to quote unquote see color or whatever, you know, phrase people want to use. And to like to >> to in the mid 2000s to have all that blown up in our face and have people like the Southern Poverty Law Center fund division, you know, it really I took it personal. I I really did. I took it personal and and when they started when Trump came down the escalator and it was uh >> the the the narrative was if you vote for Trump you're a clansman KKK all this stuff >> and I was like hold on now what what about our 30 years of friendship our you know everything you know about me >> you know but suddenly because I want to vote for this guy because he speaks to me I'm a I'm a clansman and hell y'all cosigned on Donald Trump for the last 30 years too by the way >> well well before the Republican conservative community did, you know, every rapper wanted to be like him in in rap songs. Uh, every actress in Hollywood and and people on TV want to have take pictures taken with him. Uh, Michael Jackson and and and and Michael uh Mike Tyson and uh everyone else in the industries of of sporting and entertainment were all there doing business with him, you know, uh and somehow, you know, when he ran for president, all of a sudden he became, you know, a racist. And that's just not the history of what represented who he was as a person, >> you know, and Tyson still Tyson still rides with with with Trump. I was listening to an interview he did with Ariel Hwani a few weeks ago and uh it got brought up in that interview and he said, "I'm not talking bad about it." He goes, "That man stood by me and has been my friend and helped me when nobody else would and all these other things and stood by me." And he goes, "I'm not he's he's like he basically he's my dog, you know." And I I really appreciated Tyson saying that. Well, he he did say that and people often forget, you know, uh the things that, you know, uh uh President actually before this president, but Donald Trump actually did for people in the black community. Like people often do forget the fact that he actually lent his plane to uh Nelson Mandela when he got out of jail to fly over. You know, people often forget when, you know, um, whether he kills you or not, you know, when Michael Jackson was going through his particular trial in the '90s that Donald Trump actually offered him financial assistance and helped him. People forget that, uh, he's done so much for folks within the African-American community, but, you know, somehow today, you know, because of u, you know, there's this automatic if you're a Republican, you're, you know, not thinking about the best interest of anyone except for white people. And if you're a Democrat, you know, somehow, you know, uh you can't understand your Christian values don't don't align with uh your particular policies. And I think the polarization of where we are as a country right now, uh we've earned that, you know, because we don't want to be honest with ourselves. You know, it's no different than a lot of folks in the African-American community right now are, you know, extremely upset with me because of my position on redistricting.
Uh and u putting a statement out on that. Clar Ledger actually wrote about it as well. uh that you know I thought that the that the Supreme Court should actually you know uh their ruling should be followed and I even said this back in October of 2025 in a magnet Tribune article that Frank Carter wrote uh well you know wrote on my behalf uh that you know I have put out my position on it and said that you know once this Cali decision comes out if it's shown that you know uh those lines are unconstitutional because they're drawn along racial boundaries uh then they should be uh redrawn and um I understand what uh Chairman Hurst and the governor have actually, you know, landed on as far as choosing not to redistrict at this particular moment for the 2026 uh election. Um citing time and uh legal fees in order to do so and things of that nature. Uh that's their decision.
You know, I won't buck them on that, you know. Uh however, I would have liked to seen it, you know, u changed before the primary because what that means to me is um >> Well, it' be before the general primaries have already happened, right?
>> Well, yeah. Pardon me. Yeah. part. Thank you, Clay. Thank you. Right before the general, uh, is that, you know, hey, that means that now we're holding a unconstitutional general election. If the primary has been deemed if the primary lines have been deemed unconstitutional, I don't feel that we should be moving forward with the results of that particular election going into a general.
>> This is great. Do you have time for one more segment?
>> I do. I do have one more time. Yeah.
>> You You got the hot hand right now, man.
I want I want to ride the hot hand uh to to to uh to 853. If you can stay with me to 853, man, you you're golden with me.
Uh we got Shawaski Young.
>> We can do that.
>> Awesome. Thank you. We got Shawi Young talking redistricting. And I just think the his voice matters in this. Uh he's a former Democrat. He's a black Mississippian. He's a Republican now.
You know, this is the black voice they don't want you to hear. And we ain't going to let that happen. We're going to we're going to amplify black voices this morning on the Clay Edwards Show. I'm loving what he's putting down. Y'all don't go nowhere. We'll be right back.
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That's what we're doing this morning, having these conversations they'd rather us not have. You think the Democrat party wants Shawski Young and Klay Edwards talking about this this morning?
It's like Pac and Biggie doing a song together in the 90s. They don't want this. They don't want you to hear what we got to say together. We are so much stronger together than we are apart.
We're going to skip the ad reads right now. We're going straight back to my friend Mr. Shawski Young. kind of stay keep a hot hand on this on this topic here. Um Shaw, >> yeah, let's do it.
>> Man, let me just ask you this just on just a personal level here, not political or anything like that.
>> You know, what do you like as a I said it like as a black man, as a former Democrat, as a Republican that's running for office here in the state of Mississippi, >> you know, like have have you had your voting rights taken from you? Did you get a memo that said you're not going to be able to vote anytime soon or you can't run for office? I mean, did y'all get a memo that the rest of us didn't get as a black man?
>> Well, well, according to the Democratic party, they sent it. Uh, I must not have been at home, but >> maybe it was certified.
>> Maybe. So, you know, I had to sign for it.
>> No, no, no. No, no ID required, of course, but signature required.
>> Well, 100%. You know, and look, I'm for stronger ID. I always have been, even though I was a Democrat and I didn't like it then, you know. But point is is that a lot of these people, >> you were able to find your way. you were able to find your way to the DMV because I was told it was hard for black folks to get a driver's license.
>> Look, it's ridiculous and it's insulting. I I talked about that as well, too. I believe on another station at some particular point. You know, the idea that, you know, black black folks don't know how to go get an ID. The idea that they're going to have a problem going to register to vote. And I I had a conversation um up in Lee County uh when I was speaking with some Republicans up there on the campaign trail uh and and there was a a young man in the room and he basically, you know, was like, "Well, listen, they're going to try to take our voting rights away." I said, "Let me ask you this. You know, uh do you get people registered to vote in your community?"
He said, "Yeah, I do." He said, I said, "How many people did you get registered in this last election?" He said, "Well, you know, just a few." I said, "Well, let me ask you this. Those people trust you, don't they?" He said, "Yeah, they trust me." I said, "So, you mean to tell me that you went into our community in the black community and rounded up folks and helped them go get registered to vote knowing full well that they were not going to get uh able to register to vote because their rights are going to be hindered?" He said, "No." I said, "Well, that's the point. That's what they're telling you. Your rights are not being uh trampled upon. Your voting rights are secure. Everyone in the state of Mississippi has a right to vote and access to vote. what they want you to believe is that you don't because if if they're if they're able to instill these fear tactics, then what they're able to incite uh black fear and that that keeps them jobs, that keeps them raising money. Uh and that keeps the same people like Benny Thompson in power uh who's absolutely done nothing uh for the black community in Mississippi uh from the time that he's been elected since 1993.
Uh and and and look, we we own a home here in Cleveland uh right down the street from, you know, in the D State community. Uh, and of course, you know, we have a home that's up in Choke County. Uh, and I'll tell you here, I'm over in the Delta, which is a lot.
Oftentimes, folks don't know about anything that Denny Thompson is doing because they don't see him. He doesn't visit here.
Uh, he doesn't talk to people here. The farmers don't know who he is as far as a person other than the voting record that he's putting forth. And he's trying to, you know, put people in a position to where, uh, everything is always about race, you know, and I think that's the sad part the Democratic party is pushing. Uh it's sad and they know that the policies that they are putting forth are going to keep people poor. They know the policies that they're putting forth are not going to empower people and help them get into the middle class. And they know the policies that they are putting forth do not represent the Christian values of the church. And that's why I actually left the Democrat party. In fact, I look at it the fact they left me because they went just too far left. And I think that it it's a shame, you know.
And uh I often talk to Republicans about this when I'm around the state uh going around uh you know campaigning for Secretary of State right now. We're doing really great. Uh just just out folks who are listening, you know, hey, our website is young for mississippi.com all spelled out. And you know, that's where you can read about policy, donate to the campaign if you want to. Uh we we would appreciate it. But I think this is also a problem that Democrats don't want to face in our community with what we're seeing which is affecting our economics in the state, our business climate in the state and just the pure morale in the state and that is crime. They don't want to face any of these facts because they know they are not willing to talk about the issues and tell our community the truth that we have to do something about crime and we know who is commit who are the folks that are committing crime. So from voting rights to to crime to economics, they don't want to be honest about any of these issues.
>> Well, Shawski, that's the number one thing that, you know, I know you listen to my show a good bit and we've talked, you know, at Nauseium is about stuff.
And, you know, you've been very open and honest with me about things that I've said, you know, that you may disagree with or your family may disagree with.
And I've been open and honest about how I came to these how I came to my feelings on things. And and and I'll say this open and honestly right now, it's the stick in the head in the sand by the majority of the black community. like Jackson and trying to tell me don't believe my lying eyes about this crime stuff that that makes me not take them serious about anything else they want to talk about until you can until you can be honest and have an honest conversation about the culture rot that's going on in Jackson and places like it inside the urban black communities particularly the crime and the the fatherless homes and look we got fatherless homes in our community too I don't I don't don't want to pretend that we don't but for whatever reason we don't have the we don't have the violence that stems from that in our communities to the extent that the black community does and until the community will just be honest about it. I'm not asking to wave a magic wand and say, you know, and expect everything to be fixed overnight, but let's just have an honest conversation about the problem and then let's address it honestly and come up with a quote unquote positive solution as everybody always likes to say. and and until like we can have an honest conversation about it and and not always blame it on this thing that happened years ago and say, "Okay, great. That was bad. That did put black people back, you know, however many footsteps behind white people." I understand that.
>> But moving what can we do to move forward past that and and try to come up with a good resolution to make everybody better? And I think that this voting I think kind of forcing some potential conservative leadership o on some on some folks in these districts will be a big generational step in that direction.
And it ain't got to be white. It ain't got to be white conservatives. I think you're what you're going to see is the rise of the black conservative in Mississippi. And I look I told you I can't wait for the day that I can go in and vote for for you on a statewide election as a black conservative. uh not just to prove a point, but because I think you're going to be the best man for the job, but because but yet secondly, I'm not gonna lie. I do want to be able to go in and vote for the best man. And that best man be a black conservative because I want to prove a damn point that the best man can be a black man. And it can be a conservative.
And white people will in fact vote for the black man if he's the best candidate. And you know, I think you're that guy. And I think you're going to see the rise of the black conservative.
I truly do. And I'm excited about it because I think these areas need it.
They need to see what that kind of leadership looks like >> uh in the Delta in these predominantly black areas. I think it's going to be generational. I know it's a controversial statement. I don't mean to cut you off there, but I said I said on record, I said this has got potential to be as big of a deal for, you know, as pro black, whatever people want to say as the Emancipation Proclamation was, you know, over hundreds of years ago.
that this is going to be gen potentially create generational change for the black community in the south. I truly believe that and I'm going to that's my heel to die on. Microphone's yours, my friend.
>> Yeah. Well, I tell you what, you know, one one of the things that I see across the state and I've been campaigning since last June, you know, so I've been to a, you know, at least about 12 or 13 different uh counties to Republican uh establishment folks, you know, at their meetings, mainly with the Mississippi Federation of Republican Women. Of course, a lot of folks know that I sit on the Shoba County Executive Committee and serve as secretary there. Uh have helped, you know, get, you know, Republicans elected in in our area. But I'll tell you this, you know, when folks actually hear the message, when folks actually hear someone from the black community talking the same way that they actually do, showing that we believe the same thing that we all believe as Mississippiians and our Christian conservative values and also talking about, you know, the the background that actually does make me qualified to be uh the person best uh to run the secretary of state's off state's office and excluding no one. I think that people are attracted to that message and I think people want to be able to see that message. I think that when I'm talking to law enforcement around the state and that's a big part of the campaign, you know, I go and uh any county I'm speaking to, I try to also meet with the sheriff and also with the circuit clerk, you know, and when I was down in Beluxy, um just a couple of weeks ago when my wife was uh at a prosecutor prosecutor conference, you know, um I met with, you know, the mayor of Beluxy, met with the chief of police of Beluxy, met with the assistant chief of Buxy along with the uh police department down there. got to see him, you know, actually put somebody in cuff for drugs and things of that nature because it was at night. And I'll tell you this, and I had a long conversation with, you know, the sergeants down there, the lieutenants down there, and we talked about these particular issues in the community that they have to deal with. And he he was a 18-year veteran, and, you know, he had a 19-year-old black son. He he was white, adopted kid, when he was like nine months old, he was white um and raised the kids and stuff like that. And he we we talked about, you know, the idea of crime in our state and across our state and why he liked my platform. so much and I was so important because and I also told him, you know, I said, "Look, you know, a lot of folks don't want to be able to say this particular point right here." And that point is, you know, when you're trying to blame, you know, white people for the fact that, you know, your economic situation is what it is or your social situation is what it is, you know, it's take into account not taking responsibility for yourself because white people have nothing to do with you being able to go and vote. White people have nothing to do with you being able to go out there and hold a job and take care of your family. White people certainly don't have anything to do with you going to a college and getting educated or certainly don't have anything to do with you out there going to commit crimes and shooting your own brothers and sisters in the street and then going on the run like a coward. You know, you one would think that if you have the audacity to actually, you know, shoot someone, you may just sit there and well the police to come get you instead of putting law enforcement in harm's way. And I think that these particular issues across the board are why I want to be able to say that we need to be able to see more uh money going into the Department of Public Safety so we can increase the amount of resources for law enforcement across the state. That means more um uh investigators in these counties, more assistant district attorneys like my wife Jamie uh in in these counties, more um MBI uh agents and more narcotic agents across the county so we can get these cases uh from the streets to the investigator's office into the prosecutor's office and get these people put in jail. And that's just the bottom line and and that's what some black folks don't want to hear. But that's the message that is going to make crime go down in places like Jackson, and places like the Delta, throughout these parts of the Delta, and other places in inside of Mississippi. And that's also the message that I'll be bringing uh at the Golden Nugget Casino uh in June on June the 19th actually at 4:30 when I speak before the Mississippi Chief of Police Association. And and I'm really happy that they have given me the privilege uh to come address them and their membership uh during their summer conference. But hey, they support law enforcement. All right, we're out of time. It's young for >> missippi.com.
>> Young formissippi.com. All spelled out.
That's right.
>> All right, Shawaskki Young. Thank you, brother. We're up against the wall.
Peace.
>> Thank you so much. Have a great day.
>> You, too. We'll be right back on the clip for show.
All right, guys. Appreciate y'all.
Um, I don't really have anything else to say after that. We're just going to end on a high note right there. Shawaski Young, he's running for Secretary of State. Man, I like the guy. I like him a lot. That's our fifth or sixth conversation at least on this show over the last couple years. And with Shad looking at uh bigger offices, whether it's governor, lieutenant governor, whatever Mr. Shad White decides to do, I think he's going to be a fine fine man to pick up the mantel of Secretary of State right here in Mississippi. pick up the torch, should I say? Just take the mantel. Pick up the torch. Make sure I get my sayings right there. [snorts] But y'all can check him out. Uh he's commented on the live stream. Uh Young Far Mississippi. Just go see what he's about. He's a good dude, man. He really is. Some I've heard some people suggest, "Oh man, he's just he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. He's just another Democrat trying to get office in Mississippi pretending to be a Republican."
You know, I may be proven wrong, but I that ain't the vibe I get that he's been he's been going at it too hard for too long. He's multiple years into this thing now, and he hasn't wavered. He, you know, like he has he has stood his ground on what he believes. And I believe him. I do. And uh you know, again, I've been wrong before. And uh I just don't think I am this time. I really don't. I think this is I think this is the guy. I think he walks it like he talks it. And uh man, I I I want to see some change like this in our black communities because our black communities are our communities, you know, like there's not like a black community.
We we're all way too desegregated here, you know? That's why I get pissed off at black people. They tell me, "Quit talking about our community." Well, y'all's community is my community. My community is y'all's community. Like there's not like this other side of the tracks crap. I mean, I know Jackson's worse than others, but you know, Brandon's damn near 5050 black white, you know? So there there is no black community, white community. That's that's that's [ __ ] Anyway, I digress. Y'all have a blessed day. I'm sure y'all will be seeing more of this face right here as the day progresses with videos and more. See y'all tomorrow morning. 7:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. right here. Same bat time, same bat
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