This video examines how systemic inequality affects public health outcomes, using the Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce outbreak as a case study. The outbreak sickened over 5,000 people, far exceeding the typical annual level of 200-1,000 cases, and was linked to a $1 million political donation from Taylor Farms to the Make America Great Again campaign. The hosts discuss how corporate interests and political cycles can undermine food safety regulations, particularly affecting marginalized communities. They also explore broader themes of food deserts, where geographic location determines access to nutritious food, and how systemic structures create barriers to healthy living for Black and African communities.
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>> Welcome out. Welcome out. This is the remix morning show do >> right here on Black Liberation Media. In case you didn't know, I go by the name of the doctor. coming to bring you some of that hardcore dinosaop all that right to your front door. But let me introduce you cuz we got more in store. You know the brethren and his name is Evan Evan. Evan Evan Ev.
>> Yes. And ain't no stopping when she come through stomping. Her name is Rene.
>> I took Renee back home with that beat right there.
What's so funny is I went to a a thing over the weekend and that song played and everybody went nuts.
>> What was >> Yes, I'm with my people.
>> Oh man, >> man. Speaking of uh Thursday, I ain't put the thumbnail up yet, but we going do a classical breakdown on uh dance hall classics. So >> Oh, wow. Bunch of different ones.
>> Oh yeah. Yeah. Bunch of different dance hall classics that had you hitting the wall.
You don't know nothing about that yet.
Evan, you ain't been in no real dance hall where they hitting the wall. Wall sweating and everything.
>> You know you if you if you say it you say it, Dr. >> I was I was I was looking I was thinking to myself I you might be incorrect about this. You're not there.
>> I mean, he is in DC.
>> DC ain't ree like that.
>> I beg to differ.
>> Yeah. Go. There go.
>> We have both. We have both. You know, very similar, you know, similar.
>> But he's young.
>> I mean, dance or >> are you that young that they don't do?
No, >> I'm not that young, Renee. Of course.
>> 90s 90s was the last of the great era of dance halls when it came.
>> Yeah, but all they do is just play it all now.
>> Yeah. Well, now they make it with afrobe. Afro beats. The new reae scene.
>> No, no, no.
>> I was not when I was coming up. It was more reggae dance off for sure.
>> Yeah. Afrobies wasn't I mean I guess maybe in college it was really popping but yeah >> anyway >> funny walls are a sign of a good of a good party to my recollection.
>> Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. A lot of lot of spliffs drinks and stuff going around. Beautiful time. Sound like a cookout I was at almost this weekend. Oh man.
I DJed all Saturday. Uh, I did a back to school event in the morning and then did a barbecue at night outside in the heat.
I'm done. Done.
>> Dang. Do you do your whole setup and breakdown by yourself or your doctor?
Like bring all your stuff and and >> that's why you got to pay me.
>> And then uh we had Black Man. I went to Black Man live yesterday. It was a real good turnout. We had the sisters from Black Woman Lab come over too and we was talking about the importance of music and um what messages are in the music.
So it was a nice nice discussion. How about you Evan? How was your weekend?
>> Pretty cool. My weekend was pretty chill. Had some family stuff I had to do. Um you know so nothing uh nothing particular to to talk about. But you know the comrades were outside. You know, I know the finals of the World Cup are this weekend.
>> Um, >> yeah. So, you know, commerce are outside, but not not I not I I was I was pretty locked down this weekend.
>> Locked down. Was you cuddling? What did you lock down doing?
>> No, family stuff. What did I just say?
>> Oh, I I wasn't listening. I was trying to get something together. Renee, help me out. Listen.
>> You know what's that meme of the dude just like talking to the brick wall just like Well, Rene's not here. That is my experience.
Like do something off screen. He's like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
>> Like, what just happened? You had a whole conversation. Your doctor wasn't listening to any of it.
>> I was I was filtering.
>> That's a great That is a great replacement word for ignoring you. I was filtering. I swear >> I was filtering.
>> I heard I heard implement.
>> We're gonna start using that actually. I like that. I was filtering.
>> Trust me, men do it to women all the time.
>> Oh my god. It's just you, doctor.
>> He started it. He started it. Listen, true.
>> It's true.
>> Anyway, let me not get in trouble this morning. Uh, >> Renee, how >> was your weekend? How was your weekend?
Save us.
>> It was good. I um we had Samantha and Dre on on Saturday to talk media and movies.
We talked a little about a little bit about Masha and the Bear, which >> I've never heard of that cartoon until y'all were talking about it. I was like, I had no idea what y'all were talking about. It's such a fascinating like this whole soft power thing when you really think about the high level of the UK is an annoyance to Russia and that like the bear is Russia and the little girl is the UK and all she does is irritate the bear and do dumb shit and every time he's trying to just live his life and make a plan and do a thing Here she come >> to do something to jack it up. It's like the perfect metaphor. I was like, what a perfect metaphor. It's the perfect metaphor.
>> But Dre, I also discovered Dre has a a level of I hate this thing so much that I want to dissect it in every way that I just wasn't really anticipating. So like the whole I read the book that was like the baseline story for for one battle.
>> Yo, >> like that whole I was like >> he went through the whole thing. I was like >> he went through the whole thing.
>> And I was like I I just hated the movie.
Like I was not about to read the book.
That was So that's a whole like other level of hate that I wasn't really anticipating.
>> That's nice.
>> But I'm for I'm here for it. I appreciate I appreciate the detail and the the research like I >> So the book was better than the movie.
>> No. So it's really hard to know if one is actually better than the other because apparently the movie was also w like a wild ride. The book was also a wild ride. And so, you know, I mean, the the movie is so terrible that the, you know, the overall storyline I would imagine for the book would not be so great either >> just cuz the general storyline of like this whole it was just weird. Like the whole thing is just too weird for me. But it was a great conversation.
>> They got another um black movie coming out from a book.
There's a bunch of royalty looking people in it. Good cast. I forget what it's called. Something about the bold black or black some >> I know. I'm like I'm like okay.
>> I know the chat room I know the chat room got my back. Uh yeah. It's a a book and it's coming out I think like the beginning of next year. It look very royal.
>> Your doctor is giving us the most minimal of content.
>> The most minimal but it's it's okay.
>> Blood and bone. Thank you.
>> Blood and I have >> That's right. Yes, that is coming out.
Yes, that is coming out.
>> Yes, I have heard of that book before.
I' I've heard good things about the the like um the book series.
>> The books The books are actually very well written.
>> They're very well written. And I I've read the whole series. I met the author.
I took my my son loved the books. And when the so there was like the first book came out and then I think like a year and a half the second book came out and then it was like five or six years before the third book came out because she got really the author got really sick >> and there was a whole um there was a whole thing um it's an interesting I've you know it's been a while since I've read them um and this was a couple of years ago now um since I read even the third one and so I I I probably should go back and listen to them again.
I'm sure that the movie will not do it very much justice, but she was very excited when when she did the book talk for the third book when we went they had just they had just signed on to release as the movie. So, >> it's been one of those things that I've been waiting waiting to see. But the the books the books are actually pretty good. But it's, you know, it's it's it's actually magic. It's like um >> it's uh it's >> black magic.
>> It's these clans who have magic and this whole storyline about >> class and magic and who gets to use their magic. again.
>> So, I have to I have to reread it with a a non-colonial lens and see if I still like the books as much, which frightens me because I know there's a chance I won't like the books as much, but I you know, >> no, not you not liking something, Renee.
>> Stop it.
>> I mean, apparently there's some beef happening. Apparent Claudia Ankura, the author, blocked because of problematic casting, apparently.
>> Yeah, there was there was a lot of stuff happening. She um >> she there was like an argument about who was going to play the like the main role and >> it's some it's somebody who's like not not well known and the you know the story line is is um >> the the girl the main character is a young girl like a a I want to say like high teens and And the between the three books, she goes into her adult years, I think. But >> I thought it was back and actually read it.
>> I thought it was the girl from one battle after another.
>> H >> I thought it was the girl from one battle after another.
>> No, >> thought that was her. Okay.
>> No, I don't think so.
>> I know.
>> Apparently, there's no more boy from Snowfall in it.
>> Oh.
Oh god. What's his name? So Mega said she was actually in support of the casting at first. It's embarrassing. I wish he'd address it. Okay.
>> All right. So, I'll have to I'll have to do some I haven't I actually have paid no attention at all since since the books came out.
So, but somebody said like black har it's not black Harry Potter. It's not it's not it has nothing to do with the school. It has it's l it's it's it's just not it's not it's not at all.
>> I think it's just I think I think there was like the black magic part.
>> Yeah. No, I know. But it I just want to make it clear like it's not at all.
>> It's not Idris. Yes. Damon Idris.
>> Damson. Damson.
>> Damson. Oh, okay. See, I can't see that.
Good. And your girl from Wicked, the black uh >> Oh, what's her name?
>> Which?
>> Cynthia.
>> Yeah, Cynthia. Blah blah blah blah blah.
Yeah, her.
>> Oh, boy.
>> Oh, boy. I'm just making it. Oh, what a weekend. Uh I guess there's a lot of things went on in the world we can get to. Yes. Uh I did I did uh get to watch some football yesterday uh Sunday with my kids and um as you can see uh my man right here Williams Jr. did his thing. Did a header into the other guy. got the uh the goal, but he kicked one in by itself and they ain't giving a point and it was some bull. Yo, so many people do not like Argentina. It is real. And one of the dudes from Argentina got kicked out the game, got the red card. Everybody was like, "Yo, they racist. They don't like Argentina." So, everybody was like, "Go Spain. Go Spain."
So, it was a it was a hell of a uh hell of a uh it was a long kneel game until the end, but uh it was at the end to see that goal. My kids jumping around like ah >> so amazing >> for Spain.
>> They they just like Well, they like soccer. They like soccer football.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, and they don't like Argentina. They say they racist.
So, that's why I'm saying a lot of people was on some fuck Argentina shit.
So they was mad happy that um this happened.
>> I heard that. I I mean I know there was a a ton of you know nonsense with the with the calls a bunch of like just open >> you know and I will say is and no argument right against Argentina being you know having that uh um having that uh what am I trying to say that reputation and I just don't know that Spain you know what I mean? Like, so you're going to go with the like original OG concussadors over the >> I just >> I'm like I'm like the fully colonized of the colonizers. I don't like I don't know. I >> Yeah. Yeah.
>> You could watch almost any sport and get that.
I mean, let's be real. Corporation over corporation, colonizer over colonizer.
That's all sports.
I mean that is the point right like sports as a as a as a as an activity is completely captured right so it's it isn't the it's supposed to be the people's game but you know we see how this is playing out I don't know if >> that's that's when it doesn't become the game when when hip hop was straight for just doing it on the block it was for the people started put money in it corporations took it sports all this stuff for the people then people come and put money in it say we can take this money and then everything else happened.
I'm glad y'all didn't get diarrhea over the weekend.
>> Oh, yoza.
>> Yeah. No, I see it.
>> I see y'all haven't I see y'all haven't been eating your vegetables.
>> Hey, y'all eating your lettuce >> or or >> right or perhaps we're watching our lettuce.
>> Yeah, bag lettuce from Taylor Farms.
That is where they say it came from. So, we'll get into all that.
>> I want to know if this is the same farm where this happened the last time.
>> That's that's what I'm that I need to do some >> I need to do some digging because I'm curious.
>> Who's back in this farm?
>> Right.
>> We'll get to it right here. Make sure y'all stay and keep your channel locked in as we unveil the mystery right here on no other than the Race Morning Show.
Let's go.
Welcome out y'all. Welcome out. Thank y'all for tuning in. This is the remix morning show. I am the air doctor and yes, yes, we have one of the best shows you going to ever hear in the morning in case you didn't know. Now you do.
Anyway, let me get right to it. Let's get to the weather. Uh I hope y'all had a great weekend. Ain't get too rained in wherever you was at. Uh too hot. With that said, uh, let's start at ATL. They got a high today of 89 degrees. Next, let's take it to DC. DC got a high also of 89 degrees. Going to see a little bit of rain up there. Chicago, 82.
It's pretty hot in Houston, though, you talk about 98. And in Venezuela, they have a high of 81 degrees. And last but not least, in the Car Synagal, they have a high of 88°.
Very nice. and warm, but it's pretty all right. Listen, I didn't do any uh extra uh story. So, that's it for the weather.
Let's get back to it right here on the Remix Morning Show. Yeah.
Oh, shit.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
>> That was a That was a quick break here, doctor.
>> It really was. I'm like, I didn't even get my get enough time to get my coffee started. But >> my my bad. I usually >> Good thing we dodged the cycle of sport.
Otherwise, that wouldn't have been a long enough break.
>> We had to make a short break because we know that you exited early. So, we wanted to hurry up and get back to the news.
>> Just want to say you you miss me and you really want to make sure. I get it. I get it. Your doctor's fine.
>> Exactly. What can we do without you, Evan? Matter of fact, let me give you more.
>> Oh, Lord. Oh, wait. Hold on.
Hold on. Hold on. Let's slap the map first.
>> Oh, let's do it. Toss the saddle.
Welcome back. Okay, I'm going to try it.
I never do it, but I'm gonna try.
Welcome. Welcome back to the Remix Morning Show. I'm Renee. This is Evan on Black Liberation Media. Please do like, share, and subscribe. Share with your friends and colleagues and neighbors and all the other folks. Be sure to like and share. Thank you very much for being here this morning, especially to our undefeated chat. Look, look, look, look, look. I'm learning.
Who Who says you can grow?
>> Excellent. Excellent work. Excellent work.
>> Yo, the stills does that. Oh, I can't stand you. They killed me.
>> One of those I think brought us into our first story. You wanna you wanna you wanna um make fun of this fool Van Jones?
>> Oh, please do.
Please do. Let us let us do let us do.
>> Found a video. So, there's a there's like a description of what he said, but it's a it's it feels like it was slightly different from the video. So, I don't know. Maybe we can just watch the we just watch the video. It's fine. It's fine. He's He's terrible. Just let him be in his natural habitat.
>> Not in his natural habitat.
>> All right. A quick message to my friends on the far left. Quit pooping in the Kool-Aid Bowl and telling us that the turds are ice cubes. They're not ice cubes. And I want to talk about >> Van Jonesack.
All right, guys. I got some stuff I want to get off my chest. I am tired, tired, tired of a set of people on the very far left in the Democratic party, my party, telling us that in order for us to be progressives, we now have to believe ideas and support ideas that are completely nuts. I am a progressive Democrat. In other words, everything that's good in our party, I believe in, have been believed in for a long time.
Do I want universal health care, Medicare for all? whatever you want to call it. Absolutely. If you are sick, you should be able to go see a doctor.
That's a good idea. I want free education for everybody as as long as they want to keep learning. I think that's a good idea. The Green New Deal.
I'm the author of the Green New Deal.
The Green New Deal is my phrase from my first book in >> No, he didn't. No, he didn't.
>> Nobody more committed to criminal justice reform than me. Ecological solutions, the whole deal. These are our ideals as progressives. We should fight for them. We need them now more than ever. But what does that have to do with supporting Hamas? What does it have to do with putting up candidates who say we should have no police, no prisons, we can't deport anybody, even if they commit rape or murder, Israel shouldn't exist. These are terrible ideas. These are awful ideas. Where did these ideas even come from? If we want people to join this party, when people come to the party, you want to give them a wonderful punch bowl of wonderful ideas like this.
Who is putting the poop in the punch bowl?
>> Why these ideas in our punch bowl? These are regressive ideas. How do you know?
Look at the ideas on this side. If you lived in a world where everybody could see a doctor when they got sick, if they didn't have a penny in their pocket, if everybody could get an education as far as their learning and and desire could take them, if everybody had clean air and clean water, if you didn't have ice running around hurting people for no reason, would that be a good world or a bad world? It'd be a great world. We need to progress toward that world.
That's called progress. That's called progressive. Now, if you lived in a world where there were no police and no prisons. Yeah.
>> So that in your neighborhood any gang member, terrorist, pedophile, clan member could do whatever they wanted to.
Is that progress or regress? If you lived in a world where we said, "Well, you can be a terrorist if you want to, as long as you feel oppressed, and anybody get blown up at any time and people make excuses for it." Is that a better world? Is that progress? Or is that regressing to a lawless chaotic state? If we lived in a world where people could literally get elected to office with the only qualification being that they went and celebrated a mass murder of Israelis if all elected officials celebrated mass murders. Is that a better world or a worse world?
These are not progressive ideas. These are regressive ideas. And I'm old enough to know the difference. And you're smart enough to know the difference. Ideas that make the world better, that help us progress to a better place. Those are the ideals of the Democratic Party. If you were not born rich, lucky, or famous, you need the Democratic Party.
That's what we're for. That's what we're about. Ideas that are literally insane, nutty, morounding, dangerous.
>> I think I've heard enough now.
And they should go.
>> People in the chat talk about I tap, I tap. It's enough.
That was that was unnecessarily unreasonable. Evan, I want everyone to know that was Evan's idea.
>> It was I just wanted I just wanted us to hear him in his own words. I don't want us to I don't want anyone to say that we put words into his his mouth, you know, framed him inappropriately. I want you to hear the nonsense that he said himself. And I apologize that we had to I had listened to it already once and it was it was real rough. I don't even think I don't even think that Erica I think Erica in her note said she she couldn't even listen to it. She had to put it on 1.5. But >> I'm I'm really so I'm almost speechless. I So >> I had to write notes because there are so many things.
So, I have not seen this whole thing.
And I I did I you know, sometimes when people present these things, I'm like, I just don't want to do this. Like, I don't I just don't want to. And it's probably one of those things that should be discussed in full. Like, I might have to I might have to text text jab and see if he's watched this. We might have to >> Oh my god. like this might need like a this might need like a Patreon time level stuff, but >> so so I think what's the most I don't even know what the word is to use. The thing that that tracks for me the most is this like blatant blatant contradiction of talking about terrorism and not equating what Israel is doing to Palestinian people as terrorism, right?
um talking about, you know, dropping, you know, it's to drop bombs on people but not be talking about Israel, right?
Right. Like it's very, you know, and then this this whole like we don't want ICE, but we want police as if they're not the same thing. Like as if they're not working for the same overall structure.
um to speak about lawlessness as if there isn't a huge percentage of crimes that are perpetrated by law enforcement officers, right? Like there's some wild I guess I'm going to have to watch it.
Was it How long is that? Is it long? Is it like a long Is it long?
listening to you like come to come to the awareness like I got to watch this thing and try to like be like how bad is it going to how long >> how like how much do I have to how much do I have to to sit through >> I think it's less than four minutes but it's it's a long four minutes >> that's a long four minutes but uh but you know what at the same time right >> no one should be surprised by this >> no >> right I mean it's Van Jones Right.
>> Yeah.
>> So there should be no level of >> I mean the hubris to be like I came up with the Green New Deal is also wild but okay.
>> Um you know but I >> what what do your notes say Evan? I want to know I want to know I want to know about your notes.
>> First off there just there's so many things so you have to just unpack it piece by piece. First off the dims are not on the left. It's like the first thing, right? And there's ways in which like the narrative that he's spinning is trying to like trying to already kind of put the like set up the cone, set up the barriers, right, of like the acceptable argument that he wants to make. So he starts with this live like the nims being on the left, right? And him being on the left. None of these neither of these things are true. Um he talks about Hamas, right? And to your point, right?
He does the which I thought which I thought was kind of played out at this point or has been played out at this point. the whole Hamas terrorist thing.
Fully solely focusing on October October 7th, nothing before, nothing after, right? Um like that's disgusting, right?
But also not a surprise for him. But this idea that um to kind of you have to like focus on on Hamas, right? And not focusing on decolonization, right? Or occupation, right? Or genocide. You can't focus on any of that. You just have to focus on Hamas, right? Because if you did have that analysis, it'd be very easy to understand why decolonization is related to all these other things that are supposed to be in the punch bowl that he's talking about.
So, but he can't analyze it in that way, right? He has to kind of bring it down to this very base level of just kind of focusing on the boogeyman.
um he wants to talk about all these things that could happen if the left Democrats that he or the Democrats that he's, you know, supposedly talking about, the imaginary Democrats that he's supposedly talking about, um all the things that he said, you know, could happen would have to you'd have to challenge capitalism, right? And we we both know that he's not going to do that. There's somebody paying him a lot of money to say this nonsense, right?
He's definitely not not about to do that. I also wanted to dig into this piece about this is progressive, this is not progressive, this is progressive, this is not progressive, right? And I'm pretty sure it was it was last week. Um, uh, the remix show, uh, you know, Lor was was talking about this. Um, but it's important to know what the actual definition of progressive is, right? So like, yes, let's go to the Black Liberation Army, right? Um, that glossery is always helpful. uh they define it as a person, organization, action, movement, phenomenon or train of events in moving, raising the human, social, economic, political, and scientific level of society. That which moves people forward into the future away from the past, right? So that's how the BLA defined it, right? And I think that's how a lot of people think about it. However, it's important to note the liberals describe this idea, right?
They've completely bastardized that, but they've described this idea as like the first they're willing to go. So when you hear progressive, what you should hear is that is like the left possible imagination, acceptable imagination for any Democrat or liberal, right? And that is what he's describing in these things, right? He's descri Oh, wouldn't these things be nice, right? But there because he's still a liberal, there's no real interrogation about how to get to those things or how to challenge capital or how to challenge empire, right? Or imperialism. None of that is, you know, in the analysis, right? Yes. To kind of wipe all that away to make it just this good, bad, punch bowl, poop in the punch bowl, right? This nonsense analogy he's trying to make. Finally. Finally. And this is why it's forever. Fuck Van Jones, right? What is regressive is to make a joke out of the innocent children that have been murdered during a genocide. Because it was Van Jones that made that that joke on whatever whoever's night show he was on.
That'sressive.
>> Yeah.
>> Right. Don't come in here talking about you care about human beings and progressivism, all that other stuff. We remember what you did, right? We remember who you are, who you showed yourself to be. So for me, that's that's it, you know, that's it. That's that's the most important thing to kind of remind people about.
>> Yeah. Yeah. And I just wonder sometimes about, you know, I like to remind people when when these people, these black faces pop up with these nonsensical storylines, right?
>> Like that you could actually I just like he actually threw up pictures of of a protest with Palestinian flags. and said, "But if you support Hamas, like it's such a total >> it's such a it's total like Go ahead. Go ahead."
>> And then later connects that picture to a picture of white nationalists with with swastikas, right? That right like he >> he like anchors it on the Palestinian flags and he comp then next time he talks about terrorism, he's talking about those those swas flags, >> right?
>> Sorry. Right. Keep going. And so, you know, so there's that there's that conflation that's happening, but also the fact that he the fact that he is allowed space to to sit up there and basically say like just cuz you're oppressed doesn't mean you have a right to like fight, which is also some wild ass shit to say out loud. But like this whole premise that he has of well this is why we have to go with the old school Democrats.
Like that's basically like his his end line. like this whole thing, his endline is basically like, well, this is why you have to go with the old school Democrats cuz these new ones with their crazy ideas is I mean, >> these new ones that still, mind you, are fundamentally still liberals are fundamentally still not >> that part >> imperialist, right?
>> Capitalist, >> but still too, you know, too far a field for him, right? Um, >> and this is this is why there's this is why I have such issue with like this whole the left classification because I do think that he sincerely thinks he's on the left, right?
>> Yeah. I Yeah.
>> The problem is the bar of what is in the center is gone. So you just need to be to the left of the Republican party >> and people will say that you're on the left, >> right?
>> But if we're on a scale from one to 100 and we're saying 50 is the neutral point, right? And the Republicans at 85 and you're at 80, you're still on the right >> of the neutral point, right? And so it's some wild stuff.
>> It is. It is. But all that has to be wiped away. That's what I'm saying. Like all that has to be wiped away so that he can make this argument because any honest interrogation of that type of political kind of uh landscape would would highlight how where he actually is. So he has to do he has to kind of play this game, right? Um it but it's Yeah, but it's disgusting. There's also the the also the clips that he's showing. I mean, it could have been, and I think this is something that I mean, it's all they've always been doing this, right? Like, Democrats have always fear-mongered around crime anyway, so I don't want to make it seem as though it's just a Republican thing, but the images that he was showing or those little clips that he was showing felt very, very like right-wing coded like um lock your doors like you know, open border like scare like that. I mean, he literally was saying that, right? So like it's the way that they're playing into these same narratives is also fascinating, right? And and to your we we we clocked it a while ago talking about how you know this framing about ICE being the bad guys and cops being the good guys, right? You really need them to keep like it's just it's it's complete nonsense, right? And it's brainworms, right? And he should be, you know, truly embarrassed and like just go into, you know, a hole and never come out again. But >> but he's not. So this is the this is the other thing, right? Like >> and this is this is where I honestly feel like people have to start being people have to start shaming each other about stuff, right? So like like I don't when I'm walking down the street and people wearing costumes and guns like try to address me like they're friendly, I ignore them.
>> Right.
>> Right. like I don't I don't speak back.
We not friends. Go fuck yourself. Like that's that's my thought on it.
>> And admittedly, I always think to myself like you're not like you're not embarrassed to be standing there wearing this shit like and like but I'm not going to go that far because I don't want to get arrested, right?
Like truthfully, I don't want course. And so, but like I feel like we have to start shaming people.
You know what I'm saying? Like we have to start like people have to start making it clear like we don't respect that this is the path that you chose.
>> Right? We don't appreciate this path. We don't respect it. We don't love it. We don't think it's the cool path to take.
And and I don't know.
I think we have to all, you know, we have to go back to making sure that people understand that this this idea that law enforcement is there for something for some positive outcome for any community is a false narrative. Mhm.
>> And so I still I still live in this space of how do we how do we get people to understand that everything that they have been told and that has been regurgitated and that has been shown via movie, TV, media, news, all these things about what law enforcement does is all propaganda in an effort to keep you in this belief that they're there to do something positive within a community. And so I think of all the things him one pretending like Israel has a right to exist is is definitely up there. But so is this whole like we want to get we want to get rid of the police. We want to close jails. What are we talking about? And like, you know, and I just wonder like has he has he read any anything like I mean does he does he have any does he know that the the Philadelphia Police Department took out an entire like neighborhood to kill black people? Like >> actually what's actually disturbing about him is that I think he does know that kind of stuff.
>> Like given where he was supposedly on the political spectrum previously, he would he would theoretically know about that stuff or was with people who knew about that stuff, right? So like I to me this makes it so much worse, right? That the fact that he does have this um history of being an activist and being, you know, ostensibly on the left and identifying as being on the left, right?
Like now that he is here, I Yeah, I I mean I would assume that he >> and I you're right. And I so and so this >> this makes it all worse. By the way, >> it's not even that it makes it makes me it really makes me wonder about about how these things happen, right?
>> Like what makes what makes a Van Jones a person who is found, elevated, and then paid to do this right >> now? Is he from the beginning the work that he's doing from the beginning is actually all part of this constructed personality so that they can then say well look he used to do this thing right or do they discover him as he's doing this prior thing right >> and saying to themselves that's somebody we have to curate >> I'm very curious curious as to the point of discovery with people like this. I'm like I'm I really want to know what is the point of discovery. Is it >> is it before?
And so all of this is all part of the making up of this personality in order to make people think, well, he used to be an activist.
>> Or is there something about him as he's participating in any of these projects that gives like this inkling like this is the motherfucker that we can turn, this is the person that we can get.
>> And I really don't know.
>> Yeah. Yeah. I mean, who who knows, right? Like at one on one level, right?
It's not necessary to have that apparatus in in in that explicit of a way, right? Because all of the, you know, interests, right, of existing under capitalism are going to lead him in that way, right? If you want to get into like broadcast journalism, right, like you know what I'm saying? Like there's there's going to be one path, right, to success and to getting more eyes and more views, right? And it's going to pull your if you don't have any other base, right? If you don't have an organization that you're a part of that's that's exerting some kind of organizational discipline upon you, right? like you're just going to go where the where the money is, right?
Like I So I'm not even So that's the the first thing, right? Like that that that the inertia, right, of of capitalism and how it functions, right, is already pulling people in that direction. And then there is an element of he's a part of the blackness leadership class, right? So and we see this all the time, right? If you have a certain type of educational pedigree, right? Like I think that is enough, right? to kind of put you on that train having enough connections, right? And people are constantly um validating you, right? So, look, at every turn, he was being validated by someone, right, who's kind of giving him like, yeah, like he's safe, right? To your point, Rene, like, yeah, he's we'll give him a chance. He he has he has a he has a good head on him, right? Things like that. And and it continues on, right? But I don't I don't know that it's a you know, I mean, at certain point, right? Yeah. of course like there's like you know in terms of a media apparatus like there there are you know people very much like choosing and putting people in place right but at the point of like what we're talking about where where he was ostensibly you know what I'm saying this this this um activist right I don't I don't even think it was necessary at that point right it's just you have the kind of general inertia of living in a cap living in uh living in the belly of the beast right so >> yeah and I don't I honestly don't know too much about I've heard people talk about like the work he used to do I guess when he was in college maybe or just after college or what and I'm so I don't I don't honest I've never I've never researched him in any sincere way to fully understand his his background.
>> Yeah.
>> And so I just I don't know. I I just I don't know. I'm not I'm really I'm really I'm really stuck. I'm really stuck because I'm curious about it, right? And it goes, it's the same on the other side. Like, >> how do they find Charlie Kirk walking in a hallway at a community college and decide they're going to give him millions of dollars to start to start that organization, right? Like, what is it about him that they found to make him be the the one that they were going to make the mouthpiece? So, Chitty says, "Empire has all sorts all sorts of psychological data on us. I'm sure they know how to identify certain types that will become useful >> for sure."
>> Which I, you know, I tend to agree with, right? Like I look at the people who um like to me Obama falls in this category, >> right? Because if you even listen to his story and his background and the decisions that he made, the intentionality with regarding to, you know, deciding to date and marry Michelle, like all of these things, right? Like when like when does the planning start?
>> But that's what I'm saying. It happens.
So in my experience, it happens very early. It happens in high school, right? It happens with these programs. It happens with your relationship, right?
>> But that's So, does that not mean that Van Jones went into his quote unquote activist period already having been selected as the next person as one of the people who's gonna Right.
>> Yeah. I possibly entirely possibly right. That's what I was going to I was like, we need the next time Camo is on, we should have him, he needs to explain the backstory of Van Jones again so that people can get given all his connections. But again, I think it's as much as I think it's as easy as certain schools, certain social circles, right?
And you're being validated in that way continuously, right? And even if he has if he's expressing these types of politics or was when he was younger, that's all part of it, right? They're like, "Oh, well, you know, he's in school, right? So, he's going to be a little bit more radical, but he's going to he's going to he's going to get it, you know, like he's he's going to get it, you know, when he when he gets older." And like, so I don't even I think there's like even a level of kind of like um political activism that is that is allowable even in that in that framework.
>> Right. Right. But that's just what I'm saying. Like I, you know, and this is just me just me thinking out loud as I've done some research on various things like you know there's this there was this group of really rich black people that used to meet in in the Hamptons >> to discuss like who they wanted to elevate next, right? Like this was this is like a thing, right? And so I just, you know, I Dre, you could be right.
Some are chosen and some are paid to switch. I I honestly like I just don't know. It's I just feel like it's worth asking the question and being mindful that we don't we don't fully we don't fully understand the the track of these people unless you've been a participant in this process. Right.
>> I don't know that there's any way to I don't know if there's any way to figure out like really like how this all >> how this all works unless you can find there has to be something. But I just don't know what it is. I'm curious. But you have to go early.
>> I do. I do. I do. Um I want to do I do do want to do one more story if we can.
>> Sure.
>> Sure. Um because I thought this one was really interesting and had a lot of elements that I thought were that we could kind of pull on. Um but this story rural NY school district will be one of the first to bring humanoid robot into classroom. So that's happening.
Um starting this fall, Salamanca High School will deploy a a humanoid robot and avatar teaching assistant. Like I said, there's a bunch of elements here, but you can see the uh seated robots engaging the children. Um, okay. So, I'll just I'll just start reading from the top. When students return to school this fall in Salamanca Central City, I'm sorry, Salamanca City Central School District in Western New York, a new kind of teacher will be ready to greet them. The small rural district located in on the Cica Nation reservation, that's the first thing, is said to be one of the first in the country to put a humanoid robot in a classroom. It will not replace the classroom teacher, but is programmed to provide learning support to both students and educators. First thing, right, the fact that this is being tested tested on a reservation, right?
>> That part that part >> we talk about being colonized, right?
We're not the only ones that are colonized. Africans are not the only ones that are colonized here, right?
Indigenous people are as well, right?
these reservations are are part of that system. Um, at the board meeting last month, the Kataralgus County School District agreed to purchase the robot from Robotics, a tech company, along with an artificial intelligence teachers assistance program, allowing the students to interact with an avatar of the robot on laptops.
Uh, okay. Okay. There's another piece I want to get in here.
Um, the female robot named Sally will have a lielike appearance with silicon skin, silicone skin, and long brown hair, Keull said in an interview with New York Focus. It will be a stationary, it will be stationary in a seated position, but have a wide range of upper body movements and facial expressions.
Um, students will use a unique identification code when interacting with the robot during class, allowing it to access their learning data and provide personalized support based on their past communication with an avatar.
Keele said they'll be able to say, "Hey, I'm student number 1 2 3 4." And then the robot will be like, "Hey, we were talking about this yesterday. Do you want to continue the conversation?"
Later on the article, it says that this is not information that will be stolen or or shared or tracked. We know all that is a lie, right?
>> I was about to say, "Oh, did they say that?"
>> Say that. So, consider all this information about these children, right?
All this is going to be monetized in some way. Otherwise, it's not worth it for them, right? it's not worth it for them to do this if if they're not going to be able to have access to some kind of data set after the fact that they can then monetize. Please keep that in mind.
Um, let me see. Okay. So, there's another piece that I know that Rene you're going to you're going to think is just downright hilarious.
Um, okay. Oh, this is also a piece. The product cost the district $57,590 according to the contract attached to the school board agenda. Keel said the price was discounted. The company's website list the MC series robot, the model purchased by the district, a starting price of 95,000. Oh wow. Okay, so they couldn't find another use for that $57,000.
>> How about they could have paid a whole live person?
>> I was just about to say that's a whole salary for a teacher. More for something. Yo, the Salamanca is the only incorporated city in the United States located entirely within a Native American reservation. The school district serves roughly 1300 students, including 32% who identify as American Indian or Alaskan Native and 79% who are economically disadvantaged. Why are they going here to test this? Why are they going here to this population in particular to test?
>> You just read why. Right.
>> And what's the name of this robot?
Sally.
>> It's called Sally, but I'm trying to get >> I'm so mad at you.
>> Um, >> yes, of course. Of course. And I know this is a longer article, but here's the uh uh uh I think we're getting here. I think we're getting there.
>> Classroom marks a new venture for robotics. a Toronto-based robotics company formerly known as tokens.com that helped customers use cryptocurrency to rent to rent digital land in the metaverse. In April 2024, the company acquired Simulra or Sim Simulra, the Las Vegas parent company behind Real Doll, which has spent decades creating hyperrealistic SEX that remain on the market today. Yes, I told you we were going somewhere with that. I told you. And there it is.
>> I wasn't muted.
>> Wait, wait.
>> So, these are left.
>> Don't worry. I know. I know. I know that's concerning. In a statement to New York Focus, a spokesperson explained that over the past two years, Robotics has built a new team focused on education, healthcare, and wellness applications, and that robotics and real doll do not share employees payroll, physical locations, or technology. She said, "Real Botics is pursuing a transaction with a NASDAQ listed company that is intended to separate the business at the ownership level."
>> NASDAQ, not NASDAQ, not NASDAQ expected by September. So, don't worry.
Don't worry. They're separating it. You know, they're separating it out so it'll be nice and clean. Right. Of course, I'm done. That's all. That's all.
>> That's some wild >> clean robots, huh?
>> That's wild, y'all.
That's >> Yo, if that robot step up in my classroom back in the day, we had that robot rewired singing rap songs. Stop playing.
>> So, on that note, I will uh that's the last story I'll leave y'all with. Um before I go, >> nice to digest right there. That is widow.
>> Thank you, Evan.
When I was reading it, when I was reading yesterday, I was like, there's no way. As I because when you because when you see the doll, I was like, this doll looks familiar. I've seen this doll before and I know why.
>> I just want to point out that that's probably something you should not have admitted.
>> No, no, no, NO.
>> I was perusing the internet and I was like, wait a minute, that one looks familiar.
that can be so taken out of context. I remember >> I remember these creeps on social media talking about like there are these um things like, "Oh yeah, I'm marrying my I'm marrying this doll, my companion.
>> It's the same doll that looks exactly the same as it wasn't. I I didn't really mean it to be. I was just >> I know. I know you did.
>> Come on, man. Go ahead and give a good joke, Renee. That was Don't pull it back."
>> Excellent joke. That was an excellent joke.
>> I WASN'T I wasn't pulling it back. As I was saying, I don't got time for the phrasing. I don't got time. We gotta get to it.
>> Oh, that's >> Anyways, >> all right. So, are we just Do you Do you want us to drop this link? Do you want to tell tell the folks something real quick before we drop?
>> Um, as always, right, uh, y'all know on schedule, Sasha, Popular Education is coming up for uh, PAKA Pen African Community Action. This week's theme uh or topic is toxic water, neglected communities, and the need for community control in Southeast DC. It'll be Wednesday, this Wednesday from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. the 22nd. Uh the link is in the chat. Please uh if you're in the area, come by in person. Uh if not, please attend virtually. But um if you've been following anything about water and resources, right, you you're you probably have heard about a sewage bill that happened recently. We're going to be talking about that in the DN DC region and really talking about like what this could look like uh if people if the community controlled our resources as opposed to the way they're controlled now particularly water resources. So that's what I wanted to leave with y'all. Um always appreciate the time and sorry I have to leave early.
>> It's all good man. Go get it man. Make things happen. A good day at work, Evan.
>> And we will come back after this break right here on the Remix Morning Show.
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All right, Renee, it's just me and you.
I literally just now was like I I hope he's staying because I despite I and this is this is too much happening. I broke my computer.
>> Oh.
>> Yeah, man. And and I gotta say there's not very much that I appreciate about having an Apple device, but they overd delivered.
>> And so I brought it in. He was like, "It might be a couple of days before you can get because you have to order the part."
They had to replace my whole screen.
>> I got a computer guy if you need a whole new uh >> No, it got done. No, it's done. It's fixed now.
>> I know. But it was supposed to be like a seven, eight day process and it was like a three-day process. And so >> I got my computer back quickly. Although all of my stickers are gone, which hurt my feelings a little bit >> because they had to replace the whole cover. But so when Evan let us know that he wasn't going to make it, I had no computer.
>> Like it just my computer wasn't working.
So all my energies that I probably should have put into trying to find somebody so you didn't get trapped up here.
>> None of that happened. And so >> we just gonna have to hang. air doctor.
I don't >> Oh, so I need to pull up stories and stuff.
>> Yes.
>> Oh, okay. That's what that all was.
>> If all of this would leave you, you can't leave cuz I don't like pulling up stories.
>> Why would I leave? Come on. You can't be serious, man. I'm I'm I'm here. I'm the I'm the anchor of this shit. Stop playing. I'm I'mma be here forever and ever. Forever and ever. Hey, uh make sure y'all tune in this Thursday once again. As I said, be doing a classical breakdown on Dance Hall Classics. Yes.
So, all those joints that you can remember that was banging be rocking. I got a special guest uh host, you know, uh Kim is on her break, so um yeah, I got I got some backup, so should be dope.
>> I should I should text Kim and make sure she's good. I know she I know she's taking a like a planned I need a break break, but >> yeah. Uh what do they call it in a professor's uh >> a sbatical?
>> A sbatical. Yes.
>> She's taking a sbatical.
>> I need a sbatical. Uh okay. Let's I guess we could go to this whole Taylor Farms joint.
>> Sure. Because I'm And thank you Ashley in the chat said that the last time it was not it was not this same thing. It was E.coli. the last time Taylor Farms was poisoning people. So, >> E.coli. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, and then you know what it had me thinking about the whole uh thing with uh how the black farmers just got some money.
>> Yes.
>> And how that could just be like, oh well, let's throw some shit out there now. All a lot of people ain't going to be buying from farms for a second. You know, my just my my deep thinking.
>> Anyway, you said, >> I mean, listen, I would not be I would not be shocked, but that was one of those stories that I thought about, >> you know, when you the amount of money they were talking about is that really a substantial amount of money when you think about what a farm needs.
>> So, I am curious about all of that as well >> because it had people be like, "I ain't eating no vegetables. I ain't eating no vegetables. I ain't trying to get sick."
I was like, "Really?"
>> Right.
>> All right. So, uh, let's check this out.
All right. What to know about Taylor Farms, the produce giant tied to the What is this outbreak called again? I'm sure you know how to say it. Psycho Spora. Psychospora. We'll go with that.
>> Cycllospora.
>> Yeah. Uh, produce giant Taylor Farms is under renewed scrutiny after voluntarily recalled iceberg lettuce linked to the nation's unusually large psychospor outbreak. Food safety experts say that that while recalls are inevitable for a produce supplier the size of telearms produce supplier size of teleforms the current outbreak is unusual because of its scale and number of people sick sick sickened more than 5,000 cases of this shit has been reported far from exceeding the typical annual level of roughly 200 to a thousand cases because these psychospores can cause severe diarrhea lasting for even weeks. Some consumers are avoiding leafy greens and other fresh produce commonly associated with the parasite while investigators search for the source.
All right. Uh shall I continue? Nothing about this outbreak is typical. Jennifer McIntyre McIntyre. I said McIntyre. McIntyre, founder of the food safety council, hold on. Counseling firm, food safety strategy, told CBS News, "When you see something of this magnitude is surprising even to those of us who are accustomed to working with outbreaks. This is not normal and is not acceptable." So, that's what Taylor Forum said.
Uh, >> it's interesting because there's there's all this conversation now because um Taylor Farms donated money.
>> Yeah, hold on. Hold on. I got it for you.
>> I got it for you. So, why does Newsweek have so many popups? Good lord. Um, >> so they donated money to get out, try to get out.
>> So, and and and now, so of course now the the Trump administration is trying to deny the facts, but you can't, you know, once something's on paper, you can't really act like it didn't happen.
>> Wow.
>> So, first of all, whenever the current administration calls something fake news, you should definitely be sure that whatever is being reported is probably facts. Um, so they've denied colluding.
However, Taylor Fresh Foods, the parent company of Taylor Farms, made a $1 million donation to the Make America Great Again in March of 2025, according to the FEC filing. Um, so they're according what really got them got people going is because there was apparently a meeting recently in which Taylor Farms was at the White House and there So now that that is now that this is all coming out, >> oh this collusion, >> it'll be it'll be interesting to see it'll be interesting to see like what you know if there's actually anything that that that clarifies itself, right?
Because >> people are also saying in the chat that they're backing off from Taylor Farms and saying that it might, you know, it was an investigation, but it might not be them. But if they made a million dollar donation, like, how would we know?
>> So, you make a million dollar donation so that they can FDA can come around be like, "All right, that's over with.
They're good. You can go back and shop with them." Is is that what it >> Well, you make the donation so that you can play a role in the decisions that are getting made, right? And so if the decisions for the FDA, which is already a bad combination when you consider how we regulate food in this country, if you have companies that want to profit more, and the best way to profit more is to spend less time cleaning and doing the things that you need to do to make sure that your food is taken care of before you give it to other people, >> then that's where that plays the role.
Cuz I was hearing that >> I was hearing that there was like suppliers for like Taco Bell and stuff like that, >> right? And Taco Bell, I think, was mad because >> they said because they didn't want to be named and all this stuff. Iceberg lettuce, >> listen, ice, first of all, iceberg lettuce is like the worst kind of lettuce anyway. So, >> goodness, no.
>> No nutrients. It's all water. And so, I don't um >> part of the reason I wasn't super concerned is because I don't eat iceberg lettuce anyway. And so, But >> those usually be the ones at the restaurants they give you that iceberg lettuce and stuff.
>> Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know this whole this whole thing all just triggers back to the reality that we live in a place that is not about maintaining or supporting a healthy lifestyle for its citizens and so for its people for people who live here. I don't even want to say citizens because that's a useless terminology in my opinion. But yeah.
>> Wow. That is uh and it's funny. I just ran into uh Kofi the farmer yesterday.
He came to the black man lab and um yeah, go support your local farmers, y'all. Cook your food if you can and uh yeah, get organic if you can. I don't know that we are we are we are pretty much under their whatever they want.
>> We are we're we're we are we are definitely we are definitely living under the boot of a capitalist system.
So, I don't have I don't really know.
I don't have a good I don't have a good answer for people, right? Because this is where we live. And so, you're you really are bound by the structures that exist around.
>> Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
>> Look at that. We got some uh A-Rod said, "I sprouted my first batch of micro greens because of Kofi. It was like magic." Glad I fell out where it fun.
That's dope. That's dope.
>> I know. I saw I actually saw a micro greens company at uh one of those markets and I was like, "Oh, I should buy some of those." But we didn't have time. I had we had to go. But so I don't know. We gonna have to figure something out. We really We're going to have >> Well, that's what we've been trying to say. Like we gotta do our make our own garden. We gota we got to find our local farmers. So we ain't got to go to these stores and continue to if the stores is all about capitalism and they just like, "Yo, just give me the cheapest shit y'all got." And they don't give a fuck, then we got to stop giving a fuck about shopping at these stores, >> right?
>> So I mean, I know it's hard as fuck for certain items.
>> It is. It is.
>> And even have access to sometimes you you don't have access to good stuff. It just depends on It really does depend on where you are, which I think is the part of it that's most problematic for me is you can literally predetermine what you're going to have access to based on your zip code.
>> Yeah, >> literally.
>> That's what that's what I was saying about certain stores. When I was saying the other day, I was like, yo, certain stores you cannot find >> healthy things in them. you just got to go to the white area and be like, oh, and right and so this was the conversation we were having like >> it's e it I think it's much easier to tell people you should be doing better, you should be eating better foods, all these things if you don't understand how this whole system is structured in order to really prevent those things from being a possibility. And so if you don't live in a place where you can easily access a supermarket or a a fruit stand or you know whatever like I can walk >> I can walk to a farm from my house where they sell the stuff that they grow there right like I can walk to that but >> I live in the suburbs amongst mostly whites like not you know so it's a different >> I have I had access. I will never forget watching and I it was so long ago.
There's a there's a documentary about food deserts and I want to say they were in Michigan and there were children who could not identify certain fruits. Like they'd never seen the fruit before and these were teenagers and they were like, "What's that?" And all I could think to myself was, how is that like, how is that reasonable that at school age you don't know what a plum looks like?
>> Like you've never seen a plum in real life, so you have no idea what a plum is.
>> That's real shit right there.
>> That's wild.
>> Yeah, >> it's wild.
>> It is. And and then like you think about you can't even find a mango. You go to some places, you go pick a mango straight off the tree. It's >> right.
>> And it's a whole different, you know, when I was grow I spent a lot of time in Jamaica when I was a kid. My mother used to send us for the summers. Like school would end and like a week later we're on a plane.
>> And my grandmother had mango trees. She had bread fruit trees. She had gin trees. So I used to just, you know, I ate fruit.
>> Like I climbed a tree and got a mango.
If like I'd be like, "Grandma, can I mama can I go get a mango?" And she'd go on go outside and I'd climb the tree and get my and get a mango. Like it's a whole different.
>> Should there be any hunger in places like Jamaica?
>> There should not be. But when you consider that they are under the same imperialist structures that have decimated things here, >> people are not. It's the same thing. you have you have the same structural systems.
>> They'll knock down the the they'll they'll pretty much seal off the land that's growing the mango trees and be like, "All right, now if you want these mangoes, you got to pay for them."
>> Or what they'll do is they'll buy the land >> and you are, you know what I'm saying?
And now and and when you live in Jamaica and you are a resident of Jamaica, they're so many places you're not allowed to go. Right.
>> Yeah.
>> Like you can't >> I heard about that like they really privatizing beaches, buying the beaches and Jamaicans is like damn we can't even go to the beach now.
>> Yeah. and all of those, you know, like people go to these all exclusive and this that and the other thing and people don't I don't think people understand how like how those things came to be like you bought up land and you basically exercised all the people who live there from the land and you built up this space where if you are a Jamaican you can only go and cater to other people who have money like that's the only like tourism is the largest Yeah. I was about to say it's like a prison sponsored by tourism, >> right?
>> Right.
>> That's fucked up. God, >> it's crazy shit.
>> It's crazy shit.
>> You had some nice shit. They'd be like, "Oh, this is a little too nice for all y'all. Let's uh let's go take this land and and make some money off of it and push y'all inside. We'll take all the beaches, all the water where people are going to come." That is wild.
>> This is dope. Detroit has over 2,300 community and urban gardens. We're feeding ourselves. That's dope. I don't know. I don't remember where. I don't know that the the documentary I saw was actually about that. It was I want to say it was somewhere in Michigan. I don't know specifically that it was Detroit. So, I'd have to I have to go back and find it because this was a long time ago. And I just remember being like, "Wow, that and I don't I think it was a strawberry the kid had never seen before. It was but it was one of those fruits that I was like, "What?
>> What?
like you've never seen what what do you Huh?
>> So >> yeah.
>> Well well sticking speaking about health uh we got another story looking like uh let me see public health improvement stall amid Trump's DEI crackdown.
You hear anything about this?
>> Oh yeah, I saw I did see that headline and I'm not shocked to hear that.
Okay, let me see if I could blow this up a little bit. Uh, welcome out to the Remix Morning Show, y'all. I'm the ear doctor. That is Renee Johnston, known for Saturdays with Renee. If you haven't checked it out, go check it out on Saturdays. What time is that? 11, >> 11 Eastern, every Saturday. Although, you know what? I just lied to y'all. We about to start early this week.
>> Oh, really?
>> Start at 10 this week. Yeah, cuz we the guest the guest asked if we could adjust our schedule.
>> Boy, wow. This must be a hell of a guest. They making you adjust your schedule.
>> Listen, I'm I'm about bringing INFORMATION TO THE PEOPLE.
>> OH, TALK THAT SHIT, RENEE. It don't even matter.
>> It don't even matter. That's what I'm talking about. All right, let's uh get to this public health story. All right, p public health improvement stall amid Trump's DEI crackdown. The predominantly black neighborhood in Thomasville, Georgia faces blight and health cha challenges. Blight really got to look that one up. Thomasville, Georgia. As Earl Williams drove through a historical black neighborhood known as Dewey City in his hometown, he hardly recognized what he saw. Homes that once get this out of homes that once belonged to friends, family, and neighbors had siding covered in mold. Some were boarded up, others had holes in the roofs. Black churches once used a quintaqu creek, which runs along the border of the neighborhood to baptize their congregants.
Today, uh, fecal bacteria and other contaminants have made the water unsafe due to a aging wastewater system.
Sometimes you get the feeling like you're in a third world country, William said. After three decades of Washington DC, he returned four years ago with a mission to revitalize communities such as Dewey City, which he said are part of what makes Thomasville Thomasville. A 19.8 million community change grant from the Environmental Protection Agency was supposed to shift the tides of the neighborhood Williams grew up in. But guess what y'all? That did not happen.
The city in Thomasville Community Development Court where Williams served as community development director applied for the grant in 2024 as part of a two billion effort uh under the Biden administration to help disadvantaged communities address environmental health risk and create clean energy and climate uh resiliency projects. But three months after winning the grant, Thomas became one of the 80 communities across the community from Hawaii to Alabama to Massachusetts to see the funding stripped as priorities shifted in Donald Trump's second pre presidency. All right.
>> I mean, no one should be surprised by any of that, right? I mean I mean >> this is not news that that would be >> Was she washing the dog?
>> No, the dog was >> Listen, we be we having all kinds of drama here this morning.
>> The dog was barking. Then the dog was crying. So then I tried to take the dog out front because that's as far as I can move with the computer before the internet starts wigging out.
>> But then he just wanted to sniff outside and now he's back in the house laying down. So I don't know what he want. This is the problem with having animals.
>> So what is it?
>> So what is it? Whenever you have some type of it seems like whenever with DEI if you have some type of black in your name or if they see it's going to black community like is there do we need to start tricking them with the words? Uh what?
>> So >> white pictures up or I mean cuz it's like all this DEI shit is just getting stripped. They like oh no no that's going >> so so the pro so you know I go back to the problem with relying on governmental structures to support things that they inherently were not created to support is this is always going to be the inevitable path. right? It's just a matter of time before they decide like, "Oh, we don't want to give y'all this anymore, so you can't have it." Right?
Like that's literally what happens.
>> And the thing about so many DEI programs were they were checkboxes. like, you know, we'll we'll say we're doing this thing, we'll create this program, we'll fund this thing, but in the end, none of it is actually beneficial to the to the material conditions of the general population of blacks and Africans in this country. And so it was all nonsense to begin with, right? And so now we go through this process where they're saying, "Oh, well, DEI, it's reverse racism, you know, whatever whatever white people say whenever they decide that like my lesson depression is like a problem for them."
>> Um, we're going to take it away. It's reverse racism. It's this, it's that. So then it it creates this situation where people are like, "Oh, how dare you?" But they're literally fighting about something that wasn't actually beneficial, >> right? And so I feel like I I often feel like all of these things are intentional. Like there's this intentional creation of these false flag programs that give people an idea that something is happening.
It's all representation, right? It it's not really at the core of it. It's not really materially sound. And then when they decide to take it away, it gives it gives that same group of people something to then focus on. And while they're focusing on complaining about DEI and DEI and DEI, no one's paying attention to the fact that DEI didn't actually work for the majority of black black people in this country. And so like >> what are we doing, right? Like what are we doing?
>> It's it it just reminds me of the whole reparations debate. This is like uh why would they help you to become whole? Why would they help you to improve your situation?
>> Right?
>> Especially if it's somewhere that I'm hoping your situation never improves, >> right?
>> So, >> right. There's no there's no benefit there's no benefit to this country in actually repairing the harm that has been done to black communities. there's no benefit because they have to have they have to have a population of people that they can continue to treat like this that they had like you know and I think I think one of the biggest downsides for me of things like social media and all these things is people people really have they have like this this almost like sense that they can say and do whatever right I'm I'm on a screen I'm behind a computer I can say and do whatever. No, you know, like what are you going to do?
And I this is why I think we should just go back to punching people in the face, right?
>> Ah, take it back.
>> Like just take it back. And I saw a thing about they were talking about Gen X. And the girl was like, "Leave Gen X alone." They grew up during a time where there were no computers, no internet, and when they wanted to insult you, they did it to your face.
>> That's right.
>> And I was like, "Facts.
>> Facts.
>> That's right." Like that's such a fact.
>> You could you couldn't pop off who would show up.
>> There's no right cuz you like people would literally show up at your door.
>> Yeah.
>> And so I think we need to get back to >> punching people in the face.
>> I know I say that, but I know that's not really a viable solution. I I recognize it's not a viable solution, but I do also firmly I do also firmly believe that there's a lot of stuff that would get stopped if people understood they were going to get punched in the face.
Like I just, >> you know, like I just can't I don't have I don't have the patience or the tolerance for people's nonsense.
And I I've said this on on Saturdays before. I don't know if I've ever really talked about it here, but like I'm when I put on sneakers, I'm six feet tall.
>> Talk that.
>> So there's no And I'm a heel wearer on top of that. So a lot of times I'm 6'2 and I am not a lightweight. Like I'm not sk like I'm not skinny. And so, >> you know, for me, I think I think a lot of people think twice >> Oh, yeah.
>> when they see me doing like, you know, so that's why I have no issues wearing my Palestine Palestine sweatshirt or my Israel's the colony swe because I I I wish you would.
>> You look like I really wish you would.
And I think people look at me and they're like, I ain't let me not let me not go there.
>> I wish you wouldn't.
Yo, big up to brother J sending in99 the remix morning show. I can't folk bring the news and keep it a bean. Love y'all.
See you in Brooklyn.
>> Oh, J. You coming to Brooklyn when?
>> Okay.
>> I want to meet brother J.
>> Yeah. Uh, actually I uh ran into uh Brother Von Muhammed last night. We was talking about Brother J. You can check him out. He did an interview on the Rockwell uh radio show. So yeah, good brother right there. Um, so Brooklyn, you going to what? You having a something in Brooklyn?
>> No, but I can get on a train and get to Brooklyn whenever I want to.
>> Oh, okay. I thought y'all was having a popup or something.
>> No, but he just he just said Brooklyn in his thing. That's what he said.
>> Yeah. No, I thought y'all was having a show or something. You know, >> No, that don't have nothing to do with me. But I mean, if Bronna be Oh, that's right. The one man play. So I have Okay.
Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, now I gotta figure this out. So, >> I did get the popup from Jared that there's a oneman play that Brother J is involved in, but I haven't watched it yet.
>> Wait a minute. Brother J is a man.
>> Sounds like it.
>> What?
>> Sounds like it. So, we gonna have to do that. All right. All right. I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to do that. I'm all >> I'm have to see if I can get a spot in this play, man.
>> I'm all in. I'm all in. So, I gota I gotta I'm gonna find that. Brother J.
And don't when I roll up on you and say hi. I just I just want a hug. That's it.
>> I I got some acting chops over here now.
You know what I'm saying?
>> I could do great behind thescene voices.
How dare you?
>> Did you ever think about doing voice recordings?
>> I was thinking about it. I gota I gotta talk to uh Dr. Erica Brown. She got people that do that. I gotta see. I gotta see about that. I could That would be fun. I think I should start doing something like that on this channel.
>> I I have actually thought about how like how hard is it to get a job reading books?
>> I was thinking about um actually doing a reading kids books on here >> so you can have something for the children and you can just throw it on while you got your kids in the room and they fall asleep and they can hear my my voice doing other voices. That should be fun.
I could see you doing that. Actually, >> I can see me doing that, too. I think that'll be dope. All right. Well, well, let me get some uh a list. I'll put in my email and give me a list of kids books anybody out there, they know I should be reading that has some good morals and stuff like, >> have you ever heard of the Anansi Tales?
>> Yes. My son played a Nazi in that play >> back in the day. Yeah. Nazi. I will I will uh I actually have a a a whole book of a Nansi tales dope. That's a that's a Jamaican thing.
>> Okay. So, I should Okay, I could I could just go pull those up and start reading those.
>> Yeah.
>> All right. All right. I like it. I might have to use some AI for visuals. I hope y'all don't get mad at me.
>> They definitely going to get mad at you.
>> I mean, when they when don't they get mad at me? Shit. All right. Uh, here's what we going to do. We going to go ahead and take a quick break and we going to come back with some more. See if we can pull up another story for y'all right here on No other than the Remix Morning Show. Let's do it like this. Yeah.
Welcome out y'all. What you listening to right now?
>> I got the record player playing.
>> Talking about Betty, right?
>> Yes. My first time around.
So, >> tell you a little bit about Betty Wright real quick, in case you didn't know.
>> Betty Wright actually put this song out when she was 14 years old, also known as Bessie Regina Norris. And um she's a soul R&B singer, songwriter, and background vocalist, beginning her professional career in the late 1960s as a teenager. She rose to fame in 1970s770s with hits like cleanup woman and tonight is the night. Wright was also prominent in her use of the whistle registry that yeah when you lot of times when you would hear like uh uh what's her name?
What's her you know um god damn why I can't remember her name but uh like Mariah Carey and stuff that whole high pitch right there. So big up to this sister. Just wanted to rock out real quick on one of her first songs right here at the age of 14. That's right, Betty. Wright. All right, let's get back to it right here at the Remix Morning Show.
>> Yeah, Renee, I pulled out the record player now. So, that's part of the part of the remix morning show. Now, we gonna drop some vinyl.
>> I like that. I like that. I'm a >> You hear that? You hear that?
>> The crackle. Yes. Yes. Yes. My Listen, my brother was a DJ.
>> Um and so he used to do, you know, basement parties and all that stuff.
>> Okay.
>> And my husband was also a DJ and we have literally hundreds >> hundreds of records downstairs.
Hundreds.
>> So when I when I come up your way, I'mma bring my bag. Just leave me in the basement for a minute. Go get me Go get me a nice uh ginger beer while you upstairs.
You missing a couple albums. I'm just saying.
>> Yeah, you and him can fight about it.
Yeah.
>> Word.
>> He's got He's got so much stuff. He's got so much stuff.
>> You see my album's in the back. I got to get some more crates so I could put them in right now. But uh yeah. So uh All right. Where we at now? We got about uh 30 something minutes.
>> So, do you want to So, where where should we we can go two places? So, two people have passed. Do you want to go?
>> Okay. So, we can >> first.
>> Sure. Go to Clara Esther.
We can go to her. Clara Esther. What an old school name. Do I need to pull that up?
>> Uh if I mean, yeah.
>> Okay, you don't mind.
>> No problem.
I got you.
Uh, CL Esther only Esther I remember is from uh Oh, damn. I got all these things in the way.
I don't know. I don't know.
>> Pop-ups, man. I can't I can't >> Yeah, it's too much on here. I got too many popups.
>> Is it just a place to see? Okay. Well, I just got this right here. I can show you this because this other stuff ain't even happening. Uh, let's go. Activist Clara Esther activist Rush Martin Jr.
after he was shot dies at 78.
Uh let's see Clara Esther activist who was as rest of the Martin Luther King side when he was shot has Esther who died on July 9th at the age of 78 was among the few remaining witnesses to King's assassination and its immediate aftermath in Memphis with the passing of the Reverend Jesse Jackson senior February Esther this month. King's aid and former UN ambassador Andrew Young is believed to be the last surviving eyewitnesses to the shooting. Esther grew up in Memphis attending uh United Methodist Church where pastor was civil rights leader Reverend James Lawson. We used to joke about colored water being Kool-Aid and the water white water just being water and so that satisfied us as children.
Esther told the Associated Press in 2018 around the 50th anniversary of King's death. But until you see the racism, until you see what's been withheld from you because of your color is what started to really truly anger me. And I knew if there was a moment like that could help change any of that, it had to be in it.
All right. What Esther We can't take nothing seriously.
You should have started me this morning.
You should have started me this morning.
Rene fucked up now.
>> I clocked it too. I was like, "What?
what is happening right now. But you know, okay, it's cool. It's all good.
It's all good.
>> Um >> I do think >> I do.
>> Why is this a story?
>> I I think just because she was she was one of the witnesses to >> the murder of Martin Luther King. So, is it was just I I'm not I'm not actually I just saw the title and I noticed that it was one of two people because there's also a story here about somebody I don't know bigger ranking.
>> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a uh DJ here promoter here in the south that put people on like Rick Ross TI and certain people. I don't really know the story behind him like that. I but you know that and as you can see uh we tal Howal Williams that was another person uh who was on 227 that we'll be >> yeah actually um let me see I put him on the cover for Thursday.
See if I can pull that up real quick.
How Williams. Yes. And we'll be talking about Yeah. right in the middle at the top. The father of 227. Yeah.
>> Oh, really?
>> Yeah. So, I think we'll talk about that a little bit on Thursday. Talk about the the the importance of shows like that.
You know what I'm saying? When we first got our first looks at a whole black cast, black families, sitcoms, and stuff like that. I think that'll be a little something we could explore.
>> Yeah. It's a all these shows.
So when I was in college, I remember writing a paper about the problem with black TV shows and I think I had focused on um Oh man, what's the living single?
>> Living single. Oh, with the four sisters.
>> Yes. With it was Kim.
Kim, uh, >> Queen Latifah, >> Queen Latifah, Erica Alexander.
>> Yeah.
>> Right. And so there was, um, there's an interesting dynamic about how these shows became a part of like the TV the TV span >> and how there always had to be there always had to be a buffoon.
There always had to be, >> you know, the person who, >> you know, was like bougie. There was there was there were all these characteristics >> of black people to kind of like identify like to kind of split black people up into these characteristic groups >> that I always found to be very very fascinating. Very very fascinating. And I have not, you know, when you're when you're younger and watching these TV shows and you're just like, "Oh, look, black people on the screen." And you're not really thinking about what they're teaching you about what black people are, right? And the like the real inherent dangers in those things. Like it's >> it's wild. I think that 227 was one of those shows that was one of the first to have a all black family that was actually like everybody was in the house besides Okay.
Cuz you had good times. You had the Jeffersons. Then you went from there.
Then you went to give me a break with Carter as the the the butler or whatever.
>> And and then you went to what's happening. what's happening was that family but they didn't have the father in the household >> right >> so when yeah so then like 227 was like one of the first where you had a complete family in the household was like oh shit this is and then Cosby show and uh what was it a family matters and all those other shows but like this 227 was one of the first shows to show a whole black family together and shit >> yeah I think I think you're right yeah >> yeah so it was very important and it had morals to it. It wasn't a bunch of, you know, you had your funny part in there, Mary, you know, with Jackie, you know, it was it had all the different pieces in it.
So, I I say that was a good show, >> but um yeah, we need more like that shit.
>> Ralph is about to make my head hurt.
>> Living Single and The Parkers are actually the same. I can't Why Why you do this to me?
>> What? The Parkers Parkers was uh for me the Parkers was too uh man tannanish.
Am I wrong if we're saying that? Rock show was good. Yeah, the rock show was good. Definitely. But that that uh that Parkers was too man tannanish for me. I couldn't I couldn't >> I don't I don't think I ever watched the Parkers.
Like I I know what show you're talking about, but I don't think I've ever I don't think I've ever seen an episode.
>> Yeah. Yeah. It was It was a lot. It was a lot. But >> yeah. Uh your doctor's assessed with two parent uh household representation. It's concerning. Really? Why would you be concerned by that? Uh the fact that they like to see us not have I well when I say one of the most revolutionary things is a black family and having everybody in the household kind of is one of the reasons they plotted on destroying the black family cuz it's so it's strong. It's a strong unit. So the fact that they're showing that on TV is is pretty strong. you know, we had to watch what Claudine back in the day was another single mom raising a family and different things like that. So to see that together on screen is a powerful thing. My bad for, you know, wanting to see that.
>> It's just the way you respond sometimes.
I don't even know where to go with that one. I uh I think I think that families I think this construction of there has to be a mother and a father without understanding of like generational families, right?
>> Without understanding of like their different situations in which you may end up with one parent in a home, right?
So like I was nine when my father died and although my stepfather came along eventually my mother was a single parent for a while >> and it wasn't her choice and she did her best and I think I came out okay. So you know I think I think there's a lot of I think there's a lot of room to to navigate where where strength really is. Like I think part of the reason that me growing up with one parent is because we lived in a building where all the families cared about each other, right?
>> And so it was a six apartment building.
If my mother had to go to the hospital to go see my father, she would knock on my neighbor's door and say, "I have to go to the hospital. Can you watch the kids?" You know, we all played together.
We had each other. So is there's there's also a different dynamic when when there's actual community that allows for this whole this this real boxed in version of what a nuclear family has to be >> can can be examined a little better.
>> I mean and that's one of the things Esther Ro fought for even doing good times was that they have a a father in the household. So she was like, "You got to have James almost. He got to come over here and be on this."
>> So that was like a fight cuz they wanted to do it again. Another black woman raising kids. And I would say this, even through my studies and seeing it. Um I as a father, I do bring the discipline. Sometimes when I see um a mother raising kids, it's like she has to be the nurture nurturer and the disciplinarian. What I've seen was has worked and seems like it it's a good thing is the father could play the disciplinarian, the mother could play the nurturer. And that usually works because when I see the mother doing both, I'm like, well shit, she don't she shouldn't have to play. But I've and I've seen families where it's the exact opposite and the father is the one who stays home and is the the nurturer and the mother is the disciplinarian. So that's what I'm saying.
>> Balance.
>> Yeah. I'm just saying there there's there's room to examine >> what a quote unquote family actually meet is, right?
>> Yeah.
>> There is room to examine whether or not you have to have a quote mother and a quote father, right? Like you could have >> a two women who were raising children and one of the women is the disciplinarian and the other is the nur.
Right? So there's >> I think >> I think to me what I've what I've seen is children always fare best when there are multiple people around them to provide nurture, education, support, all those things. And I think where I think where we see the most struggle is when there is only one person. And when you say it's a single parent, it's literally one person trying to navigate all of these things versus if you have a single parent who lives in right who lives in a community, who lives close to their other family members, like all those things. It's a whole different, >> you know, it's a whole different dynamic. So, >> this is a I I I'm I'm definitely open to having to looking into this a little bit more because I'm I am always curious about this this structured determination that there has to be a mother and a father that people kind of stick to, which I think is also just part of part of what happens when you live in a system that is trying to tell you all the time how things have to be. So you don't end up having you don't end up having the I like these ideas that it doesn't have to be this particular structure that the goal really is to make sure that children have enough support and people around them to balance out all the things that they need to grow into responsible and loving human beings.
>> It doesn't necessarily have to be specifically determined.
>> See what brother Jamal has to say.
Perhaps a family would benefit from having a nurturing disciplinarian and a disciplined nurturer.
>> I'm not mad at that.
>> Yeah. I mean, you it's got to be I just feel like certain roles need to be played and I see sometimes one person having to play both and then they don't know how to switch one off to the other and they just like well I got to be a disciplinary disciplinary and then they the child grows up and be like I never was told I was love. It's like, well, shit, I had to discipline you because you was whing and so I ain't had time to go back to the nurturer and be like, oh, I love you and blah blah blah.
>> And see, and then you have to ask the question of so what came before that, right? So my son is both afraid of me and knows how much I love him.
>> You know what I'm saying? So like there is there is a there is a point of I think I think trying to isolate the role >> is maybe not I I don't I don't agree with isolating the role specifically. I because I I do both. I feel like my husband does both.
>> Um I don't know.
I think depending on this situation, my son goes to whoever he feels like is going to be the one who's going to be most supportive in that specific situation. So like he'll go to my husband for some things and he'll come to me for some things. We'll both yell at him to take the garbage out depending on who notices first that he hasn't done it. You know what I mean? Like >> so >> but it does it feels like the role more and more of this society is to not have two parents or two uh guardians in a household and it's more like okay I I'll even pay uh when it comes to sisters having kids like you could get more money not having a man in the in the household when it comes to getting certain benefits. I remember seeing that part on uh that clawette with uh Earl, what is it with?
>> Well, yeah, because that that was part of the whole thing with um with Good Times is that technically I thought I I believe in some housing projects you cannot have two parents. It has to be a single parent. And so >> there's also that dynamic. But again, this is also part of our a larger systemic structure creating the dynamics in which people are told that they can live, right?
>> And so if you don't if you live in a place where families just get supported because people should have basic human abilities to live, breathe, eat, you know, all those things. There's no need to construct these boxes in which you have to live in order to survive.
>> Yeah.
>> So, >> I had I had to play both. I had to be the nurturer and the disciplinarian cuz my uh kid's mom didn't hear I love you.
She's a Caribbean and you know sometimes you don't never hear that shit. He was like, "Nigga, I feed you. What the fuck is you talking about? I love you. I ain't got to I ain't got to say that shit. It's It is what it is. I'm showing you." And I get that part, too.
But I my kids now I tell them I love them all the time. I don't get off the phone without my daughter without saying I love you. So now they say that to their grandmom and their mom now. So now it's more like okay well we getting to hear you know this whole nurturing side of saying it out loud instead of just being like I'm feeding you. What are we talking about?
>> And I wanted that because I was like I didn't really hear it from my parents. I didn't hear it. I heard it from my mom, but she passed when I was 14. So my pops, he wasn't saying that. So it was just like, well, damn. Let me make sure I say it to my kids so they don't have that excuse later in life. I never You never said you love me. I was like, not going to have no excuses. So >> interesting. Interesting.
>> Yeah. All right. So, uh, we are about to wrap it up for another, uh, let me see.
Leia Bogs has something to say.
here doctor. The family can be more than just a just a man with his with this thinking. If a man and woman are married but don't have children, they are not a family. Do you understand that?
>> Um, me neither.
>> I missed it. Sorry. I was trying to see if we could pull up one more story. So, I was letting >> I didn't Sometime I'm one of those people that I have to actually read something in order. Sometimes I can't if I'm reading something else, I can't listen to somebody reading something. I I can't hear it. And >> Oh, that's no problem. Sorry.
>> So, you wanted to hit another story >> if you don't mind. Just very quickly, there's a a story on line 14. Moms of black babies more likely to be flagged to police over >> alleged pregnancy drug use.
>> Let's get it.
>> Um, and only because of the path we were just on.
>> Okay. this story um kind of struck me as interesting and you know we take it all with a grain of salt because it is CBS News. This is >> Sorry, Miss Bobs if I didn't read your thing right. I do that sometimes.
>> I can't stand you.
>> All right, let's see. Moms with black babies more likely to be flagged to police over alleged pregnancy drug use.
You want to read this or shall I?
>> You can read it because you you can move it as you pull it up.
>> All right. The mothers of black newborns are more likely than those of white newborns to be referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy.
According to the Marshall Project's new analyst of child welfare data from eight states, the referrals are often the result of unreliable hospital drug tests performed at childbirth that are easily misinterpreted and produce false positive results as much as half the time, which can prompt incorrect reporting to child welfare and law enforcement authorities.
Medical centers can report claims of pregnancy, substance use to child welfare agencies, which can then refer to the cases to law enforcement. Using birth rates in eight states, the Marshall Project estimated that black babies are around two and a half times more likely than white babies to be flagged to law enforcement over claims of substance exposure in the womb. The analyst is the first to measure the over representation of black newborns among those these referrals and this proportionated impact they have on black families. Get that wrong. So I'll keep going during >> No. So, so, so this is basically this is basically they're just now realizing that that they they over overp police black women when they're giving birth. Is that is that the basics of it?
>> Is that the general the general gist of this situation that somebody finally paid attention and did a study and noticed that they did this like >> pretty much.
Oh, I mean this whole the whole situation with CPS, which is nothing but the police, you know, under a different name. Um, okay. So, this is all nine. So, this is this is somebody finally paying attention to something that people have been saying out loud for a really long time and putting it on paper. Got it.
>> I'm for the day.
>> Noted.
Noted.
>> Oh my goodness.
>> I don't know. Sometimes these these like I don't you know I I feel I I'm familiar very very vaguely the name the Marshall project is is >> ringing a bell >> and that's that's who was behind this particular um data >> and so I don't know I don't really know too much about the the organization itself but sometimes I wonder like you know, you have you have this group of people who they're doing these surveys and this research to, you know, point out that the sky is blue. Like, cool.
>> Oh, we'll take that money and let you know it's >> Captain Obvious, >> right? Like I'm like there is there is no system in the world that is beneficial. There's no system in this country and most countries that is going to be actually beneficial to the material needs of black people. That's just not something that exists. And so I'm just trying to, you know, I know I know these data points are helpful for when you want to tell you want to explain to people like this is what's happening. Mhm.
>> But then at the same time, I get really frustrated, I think, with with this whole process of nonprofit organizations collecting money to do these projects and data collections and all these things so that they can present evidence of something that like I don't know that anybody doesn't know is actually happening.
You know what I mean? Like I just don't >> That's what I was over here trying to figure out.
>> I'm sure it's helpful, but I don't know.
>> Over here trying to figure out what I can data research.
Anyway, >> anyway.
>> Well, all right. So, um, what we got coming up this Saturday? Do you know yet?
>> We we do. I listen. We I try my best actually to plan out pretty far ahead, but we have a group of folks that are coming on who have done they did a trip to Kuba. And so there's Oh, I just lied. I think it's actually Bolivia. You know what, y'all? Give me a second. Let me make sure I'm giving y'all the right >> Bolivia, Cuba, South America.
>> It's Bolivia. I apologize, y'all. I had Kuba on the brain. I apologize. Um, but they did um an international solidarity press delegation in Bolivia and uh a young lady Zoe reached out and they wanted to come out and talk about, you know, talk about what they did and what they learned and the work that they were doing in Bolivia. And so we're going to have them on the group of people that did the delegation. Um, and we're going to have to start at 10 because we're trying to make sure that we can get them get them on and and have them for the duration of the two hours. So, that was the best way to do it was to start earlier.
So, that is that's the plan. That's the plan. And >> yes, >> I don't like anything. I don't >> We know that Renee says, "You know what? I like that's going to be a hell of a day.
>> I like food.
>> That's it.
>> I like food. I'm a foodie. I like food.
>> Okay. Well, I know you going to take me to the best restaurant when I come up there. I know you know some vegan vegan spots and stuff.
>> I actually do. I actually do.
>> I can't wait, man. I miss going to good places to eat. I'm so tired of cooking all the time for myself, I tell you. And then when you live out somewhat in the food desert where you can't get no, you cook all the time. I'm just like, "God damn, I'm not going to spend 20, $25 for a plate at Stop." So, um, other than that, >> thank you for keeping me company, air, doctor. I appreciate >> keeping you company. What do you mean keeping you company?
cuz you could have had stuff to do this morning and then I would have been out here like >> I never leave a part a teammate by theirself.
>> Check me out on check me out on Wednesdays. Check me. Trust me. Get left >> to do uh both breaks and be here as an on air personality. So, I'm used to it.
No problem. I'm here. Team work make a dream work. Uh make sure y'all tune in Thursday. Like I said, we'll be doing a classical breakdown right here. Um, and I got a special guest that's going to come through for that. So, we going to talk about some of the joints that really got the people on the dance floor and stuff like that. Um, and tomorrow we'll be back at 8:00 a.m.
for some more talking about Fight the Power. They got some ice stuff going on in DC. I'm sure Jackie will be here to let me know what's going on. And possibly Cloudia also. So >> cloud.
>> Yeah, tune back in for that. And uh thank y'all for tuning in. Big up to all the remixes. Um big up to all those that drop fine coin in the chain in the uh chat room like my brother Jamal right here. You can do the same. Continue to support us and we shall support you at the same time. All right, that's Renee Johnston. I'm the air doctor. This is the remix morning show and you're tuning in to Black Liberation Media. Thank you once again and we are out this peace.
Peace y'all.
Rise so we can organize so we can rise.
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