This video argues that Black Americans have been systematically failed by their political representatives and the Democratic Party, which prioritized other constituencies over Black interests despite Black voters being the party's largest voting bloc. The speaker criticizes the weakening of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which was allowed to happen despite multiple opportunities for Democrats to strengthen it, and argues that Black political power has been diluted through gerrymandering and performative activism without substantive results. The video also addresses issues of cultural erasure, including debates about Black British actors taking American roles, and corporate exploitation through H-1B visas that disproportionately affects Black workers.
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Hey, give it up for my moderators in the building. Black Mamba, Ebony, Bug Beauty. Thank you.
I appreciate you coming through.
Tim Blackpack in the building, man.
Thank y'all for doing what you do on a Friday, which is not be here.
No, I'm I'm joking. I got some people here tonight.
It's tough on Fridays, man.
Can you believe there are people that go out the house?
[laughter] I know. It's like what?
when they start doing that again.
I was in a I was in a Target today.
I walked in there with my head out head high.
That's right.
Go the hell out Sharpton.
Walked my ass right up into a Target for some black people's stuff.
Sorry, Nina. [laughter] I love Nina Turner, man. Shout out to Nina Turner and her beautiful family.
Yeah, man. It's got some cool ass sisters, too.
You treated me nice when I was in Ohio, man. It was cool with me and my family.
And no jokes. No jokes.
So I went up to the Target today and I said, "Ah, you know, there was a sister in Target had a mask on to yank that mask off her face.
If it's still out here, it's going to get you, too. That bug is still out here."
She wouldn't do live forever.
You know how you luck living forever being all soft?
[snorts] She may have been protecting me, huh?
Got to look at Got to look at it that way. Why is it nobody looks at it that way? Maybe they know they sick. They trying to help your ass. Maybe that's what they're doing.
Bunch of Russian limb bars.
All right, Johnson. So, tonight is the Tim Black show. Uh, Friday. Uh, it's going to be a lot of BS detectors tonight.
Yeah, man. I got the BS detector loaded up, ready to go tonight.
If you're new to the show, you picked a good night.
Yeah, Johnson.
You picked a good You got good picking skills.
Good picking skills.
Shout out to Isaiah Carter.
I'mma be on his podcast, The Apostle. Apostle Podcast.
Isaiah Kat, he's on X.
Um, that's in a couple. I'll let y'all know.
I'll let y'all know.
I'm going to uh Jesse Lee Peterson has a clip out. I was [laughter] Yo, y'all know I did the Jesse Lee Peterson show like 10 years ago, right?
That's how long I've been doing this content thing.
[snorts] Like 30 pounds ago. [laughter] All right. I just remember that I had a certain I had a certain suit jacket on, right? Sports coat, and I'm like, I can't fit that no more. That's So I did a segment with Jesse Lee Pearson and he put it out on his channel. Um, and it just made me laugh because Jesse Oh, Jesse. Oh, Jesse.
Jesse. Jesse.
It's just funny.
I mean, I did my thing. You know what I'm saying? I was me. I I did my thing.
I stood up. I did my thing. You know, I did a lot of controversial [ __ ] I mean, people forget I did Jesse Lee Peterson.
um debated him. I did Tom and Lauren, debated her on Blaze TV. Um I did Alex Jones, debated kind of debated him, but told him at the top of the show what I thought about him and the whole Sandy Hook thing. So people, you know, there are people that been doing a lot of dumping on a brother. They haven't been on any shows. They haven't done any tours.
They just, you know, they want to go out. It's okay though, man. Hey man, good publicity.
It's better than no publicity. So, go ahead and do your thing, brother. Go ahead, do you. I know. I feel you.
I feel you. I feel you.
So, tonight's show is going to be a humdinger.
It's going to be a humdinger, family, because we got a number of content uh segments that are going to really rattle the cage. And you had to pick what side you're going to be on.
You have to pick what side you going to be on cuz tonight is not going to be for playing the fence. So, all you fence sitters are about to get busted up cuz you ain't going to be sitting on that fence long.
Yeah, it's it's that type of show tonight, fam. Uh um Damn.
Yeah, man. I got to I just thought about something I had to do. I had to cover this. Dave Chappelle sitting down with Michelle Obama. Uh, I'mma get to it. I ain't go. This not tonight. Tonight is civil rights cosplay.
The civil rights cosplay and uh cultural eraser and cheap forgiveness.
Yep.
Yeah.
And all three of those segments are here tonight.
It's going to be good. It's going to be good. So, now's a good time, guys. Hit the like button if you got it handy. You should have it handy. Let the algorithm know that you're watching the most dangerous show in America. You're watching that. And uh maybe they'll send us out to more people. Let us wake some folks up.
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Everything. My party is good. Good party. This is the good one. Yeah, we need to need to reprogram all those people. Just reach through the screen, grab them all by the forehead here, and just shake like this, like a etch of sketch, and erase [laughter] shake them real hard. Erase that nonsense.
That's what we going to try to do tonight on the on this show, on the Tim Black show. We do this Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
It's tough on Friday cuz people have lives, but we make up for it by being something that you could drink a drink, too.
Yeah.
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You make the show possible. And you make this show more interesting, which is most important. You make it informative, hard-hitting, and bold, and courageous, and dangerous. Johnson, with that, let's get into the show, fam.
Let's do it. First up, I'm not going to tell you. It's a surprise, Jazz. It's a surprise. You'll get it.
Next up with Tim Black.
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>> You stupid mother.
>> Justin J. Pearson and I'm running for president of PSG. There are a few reasons that we're running this campaign this year. One has to do with representation. How can we represent all voices in a conversation? I want to do this by partnering with organizations from the Boden Democrats to the Boden Republicans. I want to bring together different voices, dissenting voices, voices that may be more liberal or more conservative in order that we can reach a point of sort of the radical middle here. You've had three strike laws, mass incarceration, denied us of who we are, and we are still here. And today, you'll take the only majority black district from us. But I want you to know, and I want my nephew, sons, and the future to know, no matter what you do, no matter how much you try and break us and make us bid and make us quit, we will still be here as well than what he did out there in the hallways with that state trooper.
you know, this discount Malcolm Luther the King, I mean, he needs to go somewhere and sit down, frankly. You know, this performative campaign ad speech, I mean, it's so embarrassing and especially for someone, you know, a person of color, as the left would say.
I mean, this does not represent the black community. This is this is it's it's performative. It is a political stunt and Our hands- [cheering] Hey our [cheering] house.
[cheering] >> Hey, state representative. State Representative Justin Pearson kind of coming in hot, ain't he? Now, what's going on there in Tennessee is uh there's a redistricting that's going on.
Doesn't really affect him. At least it hasn't.
Not directly. He's a House representative, as I stated. He's currently fighting that plan because it it may eliminate the majority black congressional district he was planning to run on or run for in 2026.
So that's the backdrop of this. They feel that they're being dis disenfranchised.
Pearson had recently announced a primary challenge against incumbent US Representative Steve Cohen for the ninth street ninth district seat. The new map effectively eliminates that district as it currently exists.
So they filed a lawsuit and the Tennessee Democratic Party filed a lawsuit to block these new maps from being used in the 2026 elections.
Protest and arrest. A special session was marked by heavy protests during the proceedings. Pearson's brother, Kashan, was among those arrested by St. Troopers for refusing to leave the gallery.
Pearson remains a serving member of the Tennessee House representing District 86, a position he won in 2023 after being briefly expelled by Republican lawmakers for participating in a gun control protest.
Now, Voting Rights Act.
Yeah, fun stuff, right?
First thing I want to do is say to Mr. Pearson, respectfully, we hear you.
All the theatrical [ __ ] that makes a lot of real people tune out.
In fact, this is not just for Mr. Pearson, but for all of the Democrats who think that they are making the right type of noise, this is the right type of trouble or what have you.
family, people.
Many of you, many of you expect us to get behind you and support you, but you haven't got behind us and supported us. Many of these people are cosplaying.
They're cosplaying like they're revolutionaries. And you know what they do? They get in the office and they do the opposite of actually fight for us.
That's a problem. That's a problem we have with the number of the Democratic representatives that people are saying we should be fighting for. See, we got a we got too many We got too many black folks.
There are too many black folks who don't know what their representatives do. They don't know what their representatives haven't done, which is most important.
And they just think cuz they black that means we want something.
Here's my thing.
Pearson, obviously you learned this is the way to get the black people on your side. And I want to apologize for you being misinformed.
I really do.
Now seriously, I feel I'm sorry that somebody led you astray, young man.
Somebody convinced you that theatrics was the way to get what you want out of life.
Substance is the way to get it.
Here's my thing, Johnson.
Many of the people that are making big noise about this, about the voting rights act, about the changes to section two, they can't name a damn thing that those representatives have done for their districts. We got districts with kids who can't read anywhere near grade level.
Black women dying doing something as simple as giving birth to children.
We got black women dying at the same numbers. actually higher rates than third world countries. You know, when Trump calls certain countries [ __ ] countries, we got black women dying at rates that rival their deaths in those countries.
I mean, when you have no grid, you know, some things are kind of expected, but in a country like America where we got how many flavors? 32 flavors.
We had 132 channels, 532 channels.
We can't make sure that people have healthc care enough to keep them alive.
And if they do have it, they got racist ass doctors who don't respect their pain and don't check them out thoroughly cuz they think they just want drugs.
We got districts where black men are being displaced from their jobs in droves by new people coming into the community that somehow need work more than we do. Though we pay taxes, though we built this country, though we are citizens of this country.
So we got black people that are losing their minds right now because they've been told now it's time for us to act up. Now, it was our civil rights movement. What I'm saying is we should be acting up all the time because the problems that we've been having, we've been having way before this section two debacle.
This is nothing compared to what we've been going through the last 60 years. Have you looked outside? Have you looked at the numbers? Black America is at the top of everything bad and at the bottom of every list that's good in this country when it comes to wealth, health, and opportunity.
But now y'all want to be upset cuz your jobs might be at risk.
Well, I'm going to be someone some digging into this tonight. It's amazing how disgruntled these representatives get when it looks like they may lose a job. What about all the jobs I've been reporting reporting on regarding black men?
Well, I know what it is. They're the wrong kind of black men. See, when I talk, I'm talking about workingclass black men. Black men like my father who work construction his whole life.
Black men like his father.
Black men like my brother who drives a bus.
Bus driver.
Now it's Now it's a train. What up, Keith?
Black women that nurse.
See those types of black people that are losing jobs, you ain't fighting for them. You ain't lighting fires of Confederate flags in state houses.
You're not risking getting locked up for people that are losing their jobs all across this country. Instead, you you work for a party that's fine with bringing in people by the droves, sending them, giving them plane tickets to come in and be competition to people that go to shitty schools that are underfunded in districts where you kick your feet up, go on golf outings, hobnob.
Hoping you can run into Ricky Smiley and Steve Harvey at a benefit. Go golfing with Roland Martin.
Maybe get a glimpse of Oprah at an event or something. You know, it's good to see that y'all have a post up. Yeah, you awake. I thought you all were dead. Yeah, I thought all these elite blacks were dead. All it took was for a couple of your friends who are political operatives to might have to either move into a district that exists or find another line of work. That's all it took.
Let's be clear here, black America.
All of the sub the majority of what we're going to discuss tonight is not about you losing your rights. It's about them losing their goddamn jobs. Cuz if it was about you losing rights, we should have been storming a castle a long time ago.
We lost our privacy back when Obama was president. Hell, under Bush.
They threw our privacy in the trash can.
We threw our democracy in the trash can with the Citizens United.
I mean, where you guys been? We haven't had rights. We've had our rights stripped away going now going on now two decades. The only time I'm hearing CNN Abby Phillip, I'm I'mma get to you, Abby. The only time I'm hearing y'all be be truly outraged is when rich black bougie bougie bougie bougie blacks might not be able to go to Sachs.
[laughter] You know what? I get why they upset.
They ain't used to a hard day's work.
None of them, most of them didn't get it out the mud. They only know what it looks like. They're allergic to doing [ __ ] for themselves. I get it.
Come from families with a little bit of paper.
And however they got here, maybe some of them did get they had to do some work on their own, but that was a long time ago, right? Clabber, right? Representative Waters, Jamie Harrison. I mean, some of these people, what have they done for us lately?
So, [snorts] yeah, it's going to be some people out here, they're going to feel some pain, but it's nothing like the pain working class folks been feeling.
And like I said, I understand why they're upset cuz they ain't used to having to do [ __ ] But it's the broke black people. my broke black Americans that are caping for them that has me wondering what the hell is going on.
You know, we pride ourselves on being, you know, street smart.
We pride ourselves on knowing what time it is. Y'all don't see when y'all being played.
The unemployment rate for black people is always twice as long for than for white folks.
And working class black folks been catching hell and being undermployed and over overpoliced and underpaid and disrespected and now y'all talking about pulling fire alarms.
Notice that when Jamal Bowman when Jamal Bowman wanted to pull the fire alarm, it wasn't because black people pro black people were struggling.
It was for some floor vote for some government [ __ ] they wanted [laughter] for.
And what Cy Booker won on his filibuster, you know, when he did the 25 hour speech, did that have anything to do with us working-class black folks or was that some inner party [ __ ] I mean, was he really fighting for anything spec particular? So, where was he back when I don't know [snorts] where was he back in 2020 when the filibuster they weren't trying to filibuster for the voting the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. They didn't want to he didn't want to he didn't want to do it then, huh? That wasn't a good time to do his Spartacus routine.
And like I said, I understand how these cushy ass soft ass elite blacks who ain't used to a hard day's work, I understand why they be upset. They're they're allergic to having to get it out the dirt. But I'm trying to figure out what your poor ass, what your working class ass, what your lower middle class ass is doing caping for that.
As if these people been fighting for you. Now, if you had all of this, all these great things your representatives were doing for you that somehow skipped your neighbors, there's always going to be some negro going to come out the woodwork and tell me about how you don't know what you talking about. Roland said, and this person said, and this other one said, and they've been doing this, they've been fighting for us. Yo, they've been fighting for you like this. Did you see Justin Pearson talking to that cop like that?
That brother wants a job, sir.
Was he talking like that about you?
Oh, you're not dumb enough to think that's for you, are you? You don't think You're not that naive, are you? You're not that naive.
I just told you where we are.
The home floor foreclosure rate, the home foreclosure rate, the homeless rate. You could just add those two columns together. If they ain't been running around with the hair on fire doing those with those two issues, what are they talking about?
And if they ain't been willing to crash out on your behalf until now, that don't tell you everything you got to know.
Really?
Look, man, you don't get to be old being no fool. But some people are being foolish right now. You have to be able to see through this. This is some performative hijinks. This is disrespectful.
It's not about Republican talking points or supporting gerrymandering.
We going to get into some more specifics about the demolitioning of section two, my good friend. We'll discuss it further in depth so that you can report back to Roland.
But at the end of the day, at the end of the day, fam, all we talking about really is people that ain't done a whole hell of a lot for us to begin with, who weren't willing to crash out. Don't tell me it's because of white supremacy in these systems. I don't want to hear that.
Hey, look, man. Whether you're Republican or Democrat, most of them take donations are funded by some of the same special interest groups. big farmer, big tech, prison industrial complex. Oh, and also the military industrial complex. There's four of them. Okay, that's what it is.
It doesn't really matter what side.
Okay? And unless you willing to crash out and be a one-term whatever, a one-term representative, one-term lawmaker, then what good are you?
Cuz that's the type of energy you got to have going in. You got to have balls to the wall energy like he had, like Justin Pearson just had, but not for himself.
Not cuz he think he not going to get a job. He should have had his balls to the walls all this time.
for for all of the issues that I've been r that I've been naming in this monologue, they should have been just they should have been more more ex more energized about what's been happening in these communities.
I keep telling y'all the corruption goes deep and it goes far and the only way we going to turn it around is if we keep waking people up.
So, I'm not here I'm not here to dump on you, but I gotta say, we gota we got to stop being naive. It's time to be super selfish.
So, you know what's going to be beautiful about this?
What's going to be beautiful? When this redistricting really hits, y'all going to be hardest. Y'all going to be hardcore on the white on any white representatives that serve your district. You going to go in there, you ain't going to be compromising. You going to be very blunt about what you want cuz you going to see them as the enemy.
So you have a false sense of comfort by looking at a black person. They use the same hair products, watch some of the same shows, no even some of the same music, have some of the same playlists, and you get lured to sleep like a lullabi cuz you both share melanin.
You know what's deeper than melanin?
Your ass live in a capitalist society?
Paper power.
So what's going to happen is inevitable.
And I feel bad for these representatives cuz what's going to happen is [snorts] some of these black folks that are very upset are going to find themselves in a predicament where they're going to realize pretty quickly that putting foot to ass to some of their new representatives if that's what happens. I'm not I don't know what's going to happen. But in some of these districts, I can only imagine there's going to be some changes and those changes may actually result in better performance.
I hate to say it, but a number of black folks who serve black folks don't always serve black folks so well.
I mean, [snorts] just been an an observation that that happens from time to time. Not all the time. Not all the time. But ask Kef Lee.
Some of the restaurants he went to, some of them were not as hospitable as you would think they would be. And then when he called him out, what did they do?
Threatened to meet him on the road. So what's what I imagine is going to happen?
I imagine it's going to be some reluctantly satisfied, more satisfied, happy uh citizens, black citizens, black Americans, who ain't going to had a guts to say it.
But do me a favor when that happens. When you realize, yeah, when being cut and dry, treating this [ __ ] like a business, because that's what you going to do when it's going to be some Latinos and Asians and or white folks in that office and they got and they they running, you going to be very you cut the [ __ ] What's what's on the table? You don't want to hear about the time you was with Patty Le. You ain't going to want to hear you ain't going to care what's in their playlist. You're not going to care what books they watch. Did they go see the new the new movie with the with the Did they see the Did they Did they say that? Did you catch the new Tuby movie? You ain't going to give a Shut up. You're going to be like, "Get to the point. What you going to do for my community?" It's going to be what it should have always been, a transactional relationship.
Cuz see, you're dealing with you're dealing with we're dealing with we're dealing with we're dealing with the remnants of this country and what it's done to us. And it has punctured it's punctured a lung. You know, it's it's deformed us in ways [snorts] where we don't always see as clearly. We don't always think as clearly about our self-interest and we are willing to accept less when we need to demand more and not less and we overcompensate for it. In Democratic party, the machine itself takes advantage of that.
takes the advantage of you, me, us, [snorts] and um in ways that we won't allow the Republicans to do.
That makes sense.
It's a shame.
It's a shame. It may come to that, you know. It's a shame. I wish it wasn't. I wish we could have wake up. We could have woke up before this without this, right? and got it. But whenever we would say, "Hey, what's going on in Memphis?
What's going on in Baltimore? What's going on in Chicago? What's going Why are you bringing that up? Why you dump it on a brother? Why you dumping on a sister?
Why you Well, you know what? You ain't going to have to say that no more. You won't say it. You'll be like, "Yeah, give it to him, Tim. Get on them. Hit them, Tim.
Cuz they won't be black.
It's a shame that it's going to take that. It's a shame. It's a shame we couldn't hold ourselves accountable to the degree that we need to hold ourselves accountable to make that party get off its ass.
You understand what I'm saying?
to make that party put up a shut up or get to step in and pack it up. We should have been that way 20 years ago. It's been 60 years of getting 90% of our votes every election and you are willing to go another 40 being mistreated and undervalued and outplaced, replaced by a whole another influx of people. and you're willing to let that happen to be nice cuz somebody look like you or remind you or your cousin or your nephew or your your ex-wife or your or they cute or look at the shoulders.
He's tall. I love the way he talk. Look at Justin Pearson. He done remade himself into a whole different person for you.
grew out a fro and start talking like Malcolm Martin Sharpton X Umar cuz of you to fit whatever he thinks you want him to be when all we needed him to be was effective and go crazy on our behalf for our issues. Crash out for us, not for yourself.
So when you talk about this segment and when when when [laughter] they because you know they going to come for me and it's cool. I work for myself. They can't fire me. When they when they label me all the horrible [ __ ] they going to label me. I've been called everything except a child of God by these people.
Just know I'm fighting for us.
And if these people were willing to buck their party, they were willing to tell their party to kiss their black asses and do what needs to be done for their people, then maybe it wouldn't have come to this. And maybe I'd be riding with them and for them. But if they're not willing to ride for me, I don't ride for them.
Simple.
I come from a time Gen X stand up. We go to the club together, we come back together and we don't come home. But these people, they went to the club because of us.
And then when [ __ ] got then they, you know, when things got bad, they just left.
Now we not selling out. And they're not selling out. They never brought in.
They always been for self.
that Democratic party made them get their heads right quick because being for us would have cost them their jobs and they had to make a choice and they chose wrong and now that's going that's going to cost them and and before I close let me just say this before we go to the next thing let me just say this [snorts] there is a piece of me that knows I understand the system is set up in such a way where it cuts both ways it's a it's It's a catch 22. You know, you're between a rock and a hard place. If if you defend and fight for black Americans, then you're liable to put yourselves in a position where they get rid of you. You set yourself up. They I get it. Here's the [clears throat] thing. These are hard choices.
These are hard choices.
There's this Russian saying that I just learned. [snorts] Let me see if I get this right.
Those that don't take risk don't drink champagne.
And some of these [ __ ] are going to have empty glasses.
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>> I think we also have to understand that black Americans have faced barricade after barricade after barricade in front of them forever for voting. So to take a majority black district like Memphis and split it up, pull it into three se sections so it goes into right rural Tennessee. If you aren't familiar with the state, they're taking a black district and stretching it out so that the white voters overtake the black voters in those three districts. That's deliberately trying to make one party have no representation. It is an abuse of power. We should say that this is not just a black voter problem because if anyone thinks their vote should count, this is a problem. This is starting with black voters, but it'll carry on to all of us. The bottom line is Trump and the mega Republicans are losing. People are not happy with how they are running the country. So, they are desperate to control the outcome of elections by stripping away their opponent's power piece by piece.
Yeah, we got to talk about um we got to talk about white lady.
Let's have a conversation about politics girl. I've been seeing her for a while and and I saw when they were like putting her in stuff and making her a thing.
There's there's a couple of these. Um that's your DEI right there by the way.
Yeah, that's your DEI work. That's that's liberal media's DEI work. You think it's Tiffany Cross and Angelai and No, it's her and the other one and the girls on the View. Listen, um it's not good form for this to persist where they pretend that they care about these, you know, black issues and now now it's like, oh, they're strangling. Here's the thing. Black Americans are voting for the Democrats 90% of the time. You don't you really don't think that has to do with it? That Yeah, jerrymandering is bad. I'm telling you, I agree. Jerry mandering is bad no matter who does it and both sides do it.
Surely she'll never admit that.
But that's exactly what the Democrats are trying to do now to combat this.
Want to do their own jury mandering more and more and more. It just got shut down here in my state of Maryland.
So the idea that it's just Republicans doing it is [ __ ] But when you vote 90% for Democrats and they're trying to split Democrats, then yeah, splitting black is Yeah, cuz of 90%, you know, cuz you vote for the Democrats 90% of the time. So that's But I'm not saying it's good, but I'm saying it's kind of obvious that that would happen if you're 90% of something. 90% of you do that. So, it's cuz we're so held captive by the one party. I mean, we all captive to one party.
It's one party with two names. I forgot who said it, but whoever said it, they were right on the money about that, man.
It's one party with two names. Dr. West said it's two wings on the same bird.
My brother.
Yeah. But I don't know, man. just comes across as, you know, disgusting.
The things that they're doing to the black people can't take away their representation. What representation?
If they're not fighting to make sure our schools are funded to the point where our children right can read at grade level, what representation do we have? I'd rather we didn't have I'd rather you be able to say we haven't had any representation and now we're going to get some.
Here's the thing. We've had representation and this is where we are.
This is where we are. We got some black folks that did well, but they're the people that got the jobs.
What about the people that don't work in government?
What you hear? That's what they complained about. All the black people that work in government who lost their jobs. What about the people that lost their jobs because of the way we run the government?
Because and because of these political parties? What about the policies that made it so the rest of us lost jobs?
Industries that were once dominated by black men, for instance, that we don't discuss cuz that makes us white nationalists when you talk about black men and their jobs going away. Just to admit black men have jobs. Now you can admit black women have jobs all day, but you say black job as in black men job, then it's a problem that don't exist.
So yeah. Um yeah, if the representation was there to begin with and it was effective in a positive way helping us, then that would be different. Just to say you have representation is adding up. It has to be effective representation.
That's the problem. That's what we need to remedy. Let's keep going. This is pretty much too in line with the earlier conversation. I feel like I'm going to be repeating myself, but I wanted to put a clip in anyway because well, damn it.
She deserves to be looked at and examined for traces of keresque [ __ ] The only black people that respond to what she's saying are the ones who don't need anything from the government. For them, it's all superficial [ __ ] bragging rights. For people that need government to work for them in their communities, they ain't on that.
And the ones that are are operating in a fantasy where black actually meant having their back. But that ain't true. It's just not happening that way.
They were their minds are stuck in the 70s and the 60s. Well, maybe that was true. Maybe there was that cohesiveness.
That's God. It's been replaced by money.
Money and and and power and opportunity and and not having to come back to the black neighborhood at all, going to a private gated community, and they can feel really bad about it, but they get over it. They make new friends somehow someway.
and that corny guy that couldn't fit in.
That corny black brother and that corny sister that couldn't fit in with the public school kids from their neighborhood they grew up in. Now just live around white people and they are considered the cool blacks cuz there are no other blacks but them.
Sometimes the best way to have a best house on the on the street, the best black house or the coolest black family on the neighborhood is to make sure you're the only one. And that's what's been happening. So we got her a politics girl championing for something that only those that are uneducated are living in a fallacy, a dreamland perpetrated by narratives that are being spun by the same people that have been benefiting.
So we can't talk to the people that have been benefiting from this the narratives. We got to talk to the people that have been suffering under the narratives.
But it seems y'all want to spend all day listening to people that whose jobs like Charles Blow are to perpetuate the narratives that these things are good for us.
They're not. And [snorts] you know what?
Ironically, there's a couple It's a I got a couple clips coming up that y'all not going to be ready for this.
Let's go. Let's keep going. Now, hit the like button, y'all. We still rolling. We still going.
I got a couple clips I want y'all to check out. Here we go.
to have a a district.
One of the maps looks like we won't have any district.
So, there's no black representation.
Louisiana is the third black and we deserve two African-American seats in Congress.
And I'm upset.
I'm upset people who say that they believe in God.
The very ones who talk about prolife, it must be just prolife for them cuz it's damn sure not pro-life for us.
>> Next up, >> I forgot I put that one in. Damn.
>> [sighs] >> Can we have a moment of silence for the sister with her heart in the right place but her head up her ass?
It's a lot of sisters like this. A lot of brothers, too. Heart in the right place, head up her ass.
Yeah, man. Tough love time. Tough love time. [snorts] If your political party gave a [ __ ] about you, you wouldn't be sitting on the bottom.
The infito end of story.
This idea that they've been fighting for you is [ __ ] If you had AOC, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Jim Claburn, uh the Congressional Black Caucus, Al Sharpton, everybody black from every and every Democrat, liberal, all fighting for you for the last 50 years, and you ain't won yet. What's that tell you?
You think it tells you Republicans are so amazingly strong and so super duper racist they've been able to stop him any progression for us? That's what you think that is so juvenile.
You know, it's a system and they both allow [ __ ] to be as bad as it is or it be better.
You really think? I mean, we go into countries and level them.
America goes into countries and we level them. It was a country there before we came. We leave, it's a bunch of rocks and [ __ ] You don't think they couldn't fix Chicago if they wanted to?
You don't think they couldn't fix whatever town you talking about?
Louisiana. Oh god. You don't think they could fix that? If they really wanted to, you don't think they could fix that [ __ ] You really think we just can't come up with the ideas of what we need to do? We just Jesus.
I'mma keep going, man. I don't want Look, this way of thinking, this way of thinking must be the must go the other way.
Spit bubbling like >> [sighs] >> What's her name, man? Somebody. What's her name? I want I always want to say Alfred Woodward. Woodard or Octavia Spencer, Shirley Ralph.
None of those people blowing blowing snap bubbles. Blowing snap bubbles. crying about people having a job.
A job. Johnson.
A job.
Black men.
Black American men used to be 70% of construction industry.
We're now seven%.
That's a lot of jobs.
And um you know what I didn't see?
I did not see the Democrats crying about this [ __ ] Instead, they kept it moving.
But you all right?
What's the name, man? Who Who was who was in fences? Mark Lamont, too. On Mark Lamont, he was blowing snap bubbles.
You know, I love when these incidents I love when these incidents occur. These situations present themselves. That gives us a perfect opportunity to see people for what they really are. Mark Lamar Hill, I guess, you know what? I'm not surprised Mark Lamar Hill is upset now.
Well, in a way, I am. I mean, because it doesn't involve people outside of the country being suffering, you know, because that's usually his MMO. And black people in America, [ __ ] them. Let's talk culture and sports and, you know, hip hop, but you know, be some [ __ ] over there in the Middle East. He's all balls to the walls. He's jumping out the gym.
Yeah.
Yeah. But yeah, it's it's good. I appreciate you though, man. Yeah, I know. I know. Let's keep going, guys.
I'm sorry. Little tangent I got on. I I just Mrs. Black knows who she is, Miss Black. Who's this lady?
Who's the lady I'm talking about?
Yeah, man. If you um last, what's the closing words we could be for this sister, man? And for people for the people that are who feel like this this sister who feel like, oh, they're taking away black representation. insisted, you are putting your hopes and your trust and your feelings into the wrong things. If you said they're taking away the afterchool program for my grandchild, my grandchildren. If you said they're removing, you know, the the program to keep us in our home so we can get the lower interest rates so that we could we can afford to buy our first home. Then then I'm with you.
I'm with you on that [ __ ] And I'm upset and I'm appalled and I I'll yell as I I will get in their faces. I would meet them outside.
And that's the words for Mitch McConnell. But fam, you upset about black representation.
And that's not even a thing.
There's no direct line between you having a black representative and you having a better outcome.
That's my problem because you're part of a party that's not invested in it.
That's the that's the bottom line. The party is not committed to you having that better outcome. Do you get it? It's not just the person. Maybe this is good that I'm that I'm here. Look guys, it's not just the politician. It's the party directive. It's not you.
What else is it going to take, fam? The president of the the president, the vi at the time, the vice president. He said this [ __ ] while running for office. He looked into a camera and said, "The future are the immigrants, the Latinos."
Are you Latino?
Are you Latino?
Joe Biden looked into a camera on a stage with a bunch of Democrats. The question was about your people, reparations for black Americans. He said, "You know what? I'm glad you asked me that about reparations."
And he proceeded to tell all of black America what he thought of you.
Us. He proceeded to tell black Americans what he thought of us. He said, "We need to focus on immigration.
That's what makes us the country we are is our immigration. We cherrypicked the best of the people to come to America and they work like the devil."
He was thinking about you. The question was about you. Reparations.
He switched it and made it about Latinos and then proceeded proceeded to tell the world we need to focus on them, never turn our backs on them and give them everything they need because they are the future of this country. And you sit there crying about black people being to get into a party in the government to represent you in a party that doesn't give a [ __ ] about you.
Then you get mad at workingclass white people [snorts] who looks at the Democrats and feel that they're a party that doesn't give a [ __ ] about them. And they're right.
They're right. He didn't just say that about black people just and disown and dis disrespect black people and move to another topic. He did that with white people, too. They don't care about workingclass white folks or workingclass black folks. They told you who they care about. You would hear those white people make these claims, but you don't they don't register because you just call them racist. And then when black people tell you the same thing, you call them sellouts.
So [snorts] nobody wants to hear the [ __ ] truth. They don't want to accept the party's focus is not black Americans, working-class black Americans, or working-class white Americans. That's just it. That's it.
You You thinking that changes something, even if you have a great black person who wants to do really well, they get into that party, they going to get their head right or they going to get bounced.
And that's the problem.
And the only way we're going to influence that party if less black people think like this sister and get all emotional and crying cuz more people don't get to get into that party and get that good government job. Yeah. That's going to benefit that sister who gets elected in her direct family. But what about the rest of us?
The gains that we had, the gains that black people enjoyed in the 60s were due to the collective.
The gains that we're experiencing now in 2020, the 2020s are individual gains.
Jay-Z, Tyler Perry, Rihanna, Beyonce, Isay, you know, Kanye, whatever. These are individual gains.
Not the same thing, right? All right, let's keep going, fam.
I don't want I'm I'm I don't want to make tonight's show just a Tim Black talking [ __ ] show. But damn it, Johnson.
We We gota We got to have an understanding here cuz I can feel it, man. I got sisters. It's like, "Oh, no.
Why you be so mean to that sister?
Nothing else is going to like I'm not calling her names, but I got to call her out on her [ __ ] She's got to know what I'm saying." And then compare that to what she's on.
Somebody's telling her that that black woman is going to go in there and stand up for her. And I'm telling her she is not.
Or that black man is going to go into that Democratic party and fight the hella high water and risk getting thrown out of that party on their head to fight for her. And they are not going to.
That's the problem.
They going to go in there and the first thing they going to do is pick up the phone and call somebody to get them some money so they can stay there.
And by taking that money and getting into that system, what they say about their voice, they started off like this and fighting for you is going to suddenly somehow get tampered down and be a lot different and all of a sudden become uh sounding like how you doing? Hi, hello.
I don't want it to be this way. I just I just accept it for what it is. I don't sugarcoat it.
I wish it was different.
What Marlo say?
You want it one way, it's the other way.
Let's keep going y'all.
We all right >> with Tim Black. Democrats can't just say the Republicans are so bad so therefore you got to give us a shot. Not if we're going to sit there and be impotent. Like people need leaders that understand literally the fierce urgency of now and are willing to do every single thing that they can to make sure that they are preserving our democracy and building upon it instead of tearing it down. And we are here. Yeah. Because the Republicans like put us here. But I'm gonna be perfectly honest. I don't know that the Democrats did enough to defend against it.
And I get why people are frustrated and decide to sit on the sidelines. And I must say I miss the trail every when I was on your show in 2021 and 2022 begging the Biden administration to do something about court expansion to expand the number of justices on the Supreme Court. This is why this is what I was screaming about.
>> Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Ellie. I'm sorry, Ellie. I'm sorry, Ellie. You were screaming for Biden, the Democrats, to do what the Republicans in Utah did where the Utah Supreme Court ruled against them and created a Democrat congressional district. And the Republicans said, "Oh, damn this. We are adding Utah State Supreme Court justices." And the legislature approved it. Governor signed it into law.
I was begging the Democrats to protect the Voting Rights Act. If for no reason other reason than out of self-preservation, right? I if for no if if you can't do the do it on the moral grounds and you can't do it on the legal grounds, do it for self-preservation, Democrats. But they didn't. I was begging them to pass the John Lewis uh Voting Rights Act, which would have restored a lot of the previous issues with the Voting Rights Act that the Republicans had taken away. But oh, we can't kill the filibuster, so what can we do? Joe mansion >> was the answer that you got. And so now to quote Al Gore, we are living in a time of consequences. This is what >> suspect.
I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that Democrats first of all Jasma Crockett that has not been you. [snorts] Jazz Crockett talk a good game. That is she not going to be in office.
Yeah, you weren't talking like you was you going to fight the machine for black folks. You sitting here with all them black folks talking about now fighting the machine.
If you've been talking like that, you might have beat Terico with his Charlie Manson looking.
I'm just saying you weren't [sighs] misst [snorts] Yeah. Voting rights. Voting rights. He's right. I Yeah, he's right. He's right that the Democrats didn't give a [ __ ] They had opportunity to do something about this before it happened. That's why I say I think they wanted it to happen so they could run on it. I feel the same way about abortion rights. I feel like they let that do that. It gives us something to run on.
I mean, you can't have the beauty of a pandemic every couple of years. is you got to let other things bad things happen so that you can do like Rahm Emanuel and never let a tragedy go to waste.
Got to take advantage of your tragedies, your catastrophes.
So, okay, here we go, man. Let's do this. Let's do this for people that need to know this information. We did this in another show. Let's do it again. Let's let's look at four things. think I got at least four things that opportunities the Democrats had to stop it from getting to this point on section two.
And what is section two? Section two, what changed the section two? It makes it a lot harder for you to say, "Hey, they're jerrymanding this. They're jerrymandering this district to hurt black people and to take away our representation."
Now, you have to show intention.
Okay? So, that's what happened. They didn't give a section two. They weakened it. Can't just bring a lawsuit and say we think this, we feel this, and this is this effect. Therefore, that's the problem. And now we can sue. No. Now you have to say, do you have the intent? How can you prove that's what they want to do, and that's what they mean to do.
And that's a high level. That's a high bar to get to in order to get these uh districts redistrict or redrawn to get the lines redrawn. So, do we all get that part? You know what I'm saying? Is that clear? That's what this is all about. We talking about maps. We're not talking about your right to vote. You can still go down there and vote for the same old Democrats you've been voting for, not even knowing who it is, and just hitting DD. You can still do that [ __ ] It just may not be the deeds you want.
It might be, you know, it may not matter.
Sorry.
So, here goes some miss and blown opportunities the Democrats had to make sure we didn't get to this point. It wasn't Tim Black that made us get to this point. It wasn't Neo Brown.
He was a horrible neighbor to the people in the Sanford arms or in that tower.
But it wasn't his fault that this happened to section two. Nor was it Nick Canon or Chile or Killer Mike or Nina Turner, Dr. Cord West?
Who the hell is Vic Mener? And why is he cosplaying like he a black America? Sit your ass down. Always with an orange or some [ __ ] Go pick some more oranges and stop. I'm sorry.
Sorry guys, I just I just keep seeing this guy.
What? What? So you live around trees?
The 2006 voting rights reauthorization was reauthorized by 25 for 25 years with overwhelming support. Okay.
Uh this happened under Bush. However, Congress left the outdated coverage formula.
This directly enabled Shelby County verse holder in 2013 which struck the formula and gutted preclarance weakening the overall voting rights amendment framework and shifting more burden to section two.
So it started many moons ago. Okay, that's a couple decades ago where the Democrats could have got in there and did something to shore up section two, changed the language a bit, updated from the 70s or some some 60s.
Then there was uh 2009, 2011 Democrats trifecta. They had the House and Senate.
They had the majority briefly under Obama after the 2008 elections. Democrats had full control and could have updated the coverage formula or strengthen section two preemptively.
The Supreme Court had already said, "Hey, the language in here is kind of weak." They were warned.
They did not prioritize or pass voting rights amendment legislation despite the warnings. This period ended without action, paving the way for Shelby. This is why I say family, I'm not an idiot.
You're not an idiot. We're smart people.
We're smart people. The doc says you keep eating that sugar. We going to take that foot. You keep eating that sugar, we going to take that foot. You keep eating that sugar. We going to take that foot. When they take the foot, you don't get to go and say, "I wish somebody would have told us."
It's racist that they took my foot.
So after Shelby 2013 all the way through to 2018, [snorts] the courts explicitly invited Congress to update the formula. After the court explicitly invited Congress to update the formula, Democrats introduced the bill, the voting rights advancement act.
The House Dem control 2019, Democrats controlled it in 2019, passed HR4 in 2019, which have created which would have created a new coverage formula and bolstered enforcement. It died in the Republican Senate. Earlier versions also failed under GOP House control 2013 to 2018. Not totally their fault, but were they willing to do anything to get it done? Were they willing to go all out, crash out to get it done? You know, because you keep telling me this is for black America. You keep saying we going back and change now because of this.
We're their number one constituency.
We're their primary. We're their most supportive, most loyal constituency and they show no prioritization that you would be represented fully and I got you crying.
You know what I haven't seen? I didn't see politics girl crying blowing snot bubbles like Vivica Fox.
Damn it. Who was who played who played Man King? Who played the Man King? Man King. Uh the movie uh who played in Fences opposite Denzel Washington.
Viola Davis. Thank you, son.
I did not see Politics Girl blowing snot bubbles like Viola Davis.
>> [snorts] >> But I do see this sister earlier in that segment. I'mma put it right here. Crying because of representation. And all I'm telling you is the Democratic Party did not feel that you were important enough then.
But suddenly we are.
When you needed them, you weren't important enough.
We were not important enough. Then they just missed it too. like this, you know, it's an accident. It's kind of I guess they did hear it.
2021, 2022, Democrats, they had the trifecta once again. This is like the third time. They had Biden presidency.
They had the House majority and the Senate with VP tiebreaker, right? This was arguably the clearest recent opportunity.
The House passed John the John R. Lewis.
John R. Lewis. John Lewis, rest in peace. Voting rights advancement act in the broader for the people act.
The Lewis bill specifically targeted section two and the vulnerabilities.
They knew all about it. Check it out. It would have codified the original Gingle Senate factors test for vote dilution claims. It would have strengthened the standards against discrimin discriminatory effects countering Bronovich's narrowing. It would have protected the coalition districts and restored modernized pre-clarance triggers based on recent violations.
It would have did all the things necessary to avoid this or at least strongly support section two and and undergurt it so that it would have had a more surviving chance that we could keep that framework in place.
It failed to send it due to the filibuster requiring 60 votes. Democrats lack the votes to overcome it or reform the filibuster rule for voting rights bills. Senator Joe Mansion and Kristen Cinema opposed changing the filibuster for this purpose. No alternative budget reconciliation workaround or narrowing bill passed.
And for anybody who wants to make excuses for that, here's the thing.
I wrote a book. It's called presidentialimpact.com.
This is what presidents do when they try to get things done, even when they don't have Congress.
Biden had Congress, but he had a couple people, and you want to call them traitors, I think they were going according to what they were told to do.
I believe, see, I'm I'm crazy like that.
I believe people do bad things and I think people do things in cohorts. And I think that Mansion and Cinema were told to do whatever they did because if you were messing up, if a president really wants to get something done, they can make life very uncomfortable for you. Instead of making life uncomfortable for Joe Mansion and for Crush Cinema, they were like, "Let's be polite to them. Let's be really nice.
We're really friendly." They weren't like, "Go camp out on their lines.
meet them in the streets.
Do you think Joe Jo does when you go against his wishes?
What does Joe Biden do for us for voting rights act of building? Did he did he threaten Joe Mansion? Did he threaten cinema?
I mean, he has a bully pulpit every day.
He could have been on TV every night, running them across the coast, making it unbearable for them to be in the United States Senate, to actually live in the country for that matter. He's the president of these United States. And you know what he did? It's close to zero that you could do without doing totally zero. That's what he did. And so now here we are. We are here.
When the Democrats had unified control of House majorities, legislation to modernize the Voting Rights Act, including showing up section two.
It stalled.
They stalled. It stalled. And they did not have the guts, the will, the statisticular testicular fortitude to get it done.
They did not prior prioritize you, us, their party, the black voting block. They just didn't. But now everybody's upset.
Everybody's upset. Everybody's angry.
I'm not buy it, fam.
I I I don't buy it. I just don't.
Johnson.
So that's the section two in a nutshell.
Democrats had the had what they needed a number of times. It wasn't just one time. It wasn't just they slipped and fall. They slipped and fell and couldn't get up.
They left the they left the oven on over. No. This to me this was in my opinion nah let's go stronger let's go all out the Democratic party did not want to get it done therefore it was not done they kicked the can down the road and I think they did it for strategy and now you're going to lean extra hard on your black neighbors to go do what? Go vote Democrat on your black folks. And there you go. That's the intention.
They thought it would get Hillary elected and it didn't work.
But you know, maybe it'll be different now cuz now they brought out the big guns. They brought out a black issue and they hearkening back to water hoses and dogs being sicked on us. Yeah.
You feel disrespected enough yet? You feel like maybe this is a little further. Do you imagine the Democrats would even stoop even for them? This is low. Yeah, I hope you do.
We are now about 16 months into what has been from day one a concerted and intense targeting of black Americans specifically by this president and by this administration. [snorts] On his first full day in office, he proclaims war on diversity efforts not only in government but in any institution in the country over which he can exert leverage. everything from schools and universities to law firms to private businesses of every stripe. He then immediately started firing some of the highest profile black public officials in the whole US government, seemingly regardless of any other thing about them.
My bad, guys.
Damn. Yeah, that hasn't happened in a long time. I guess it was due.
You know what I have a problem with? I have a problem with Rachel Matto, but I have a problem with a lot of people. But I'll say the reason why I got a problem with Rachel Maddo is she says things but she doesn't have to prove them.
Joy Re used to do this too. They just say it.
DI did not benefit black Americans. And I just wanted to slide this in just to just to remind people that if you're not the primary beneficiary and not even a majority beneficiary of a policy that goes away, the Democrats should not be able to use you as a poster child for that policy. They should be using LGBTQ and new immigrants and white women for these policies cuz that's really who they were for.
Diversity is everybody except straight white men. And it includes white guys if they are disabled.
That's what diverse means. And it's like this is like it it's real bothersome because [clears throat] it bothers me because there are black people I know they know what a dictionary is and they understand they understand terms and they understand what diverse means many different things. It does not mean black. And you realize all of the [ __ ] I went through the last year or so is I was it seemed like I was a voice in the wilderness saying this is [ __ ] Fam, if there was a policy that helped black Americans, you don't think I would support that?
I've been on supporting black Americans policies for Daniel 15 years.
But you listen to some shifty progressive who ain't been on that ever.
Some blockhead liberal who hasn't champion for black people other than when black people get shot. That's the only time.
And it's only certain shootings that they give a [ __ ] about.
Anyway, I just thought [clears throat] that would I know it just it's just it just I don't know. It's just starting to really irritate him. It's like it's like nails on a chalkboard hearing like Rachel Maddi and he's hurting black people.
Yeah. You know, there's a lot of inefficiencies in the government. I'm not clapping for Doge, but as a as a former government contractor, we used to work our ass off as a government contractor.
And there'd be people that work for the government sitting here chilling, going to get drinks.
And I'm not saying it's everybody, fam.
I'm saying I saw some things. That's all I'm saying.
playing pinball and bat gaming and [ __ ] and checkers and chess and tunk and y'all.
So, I don't know, man. Maybe when it was time to cut some people, some people got cut. I don't know. But the inefficiency of our government which is what it is in the in the schemes and scams that are run not just in government also in you know these organizations these non-government organizations that collect all this money and and do next to nothing.
I mean it's just a bunch I just want you to know it's a bunch of [ __ ] all the way around.
Um, I have a hard time feeling bad for it. Of course, an individual person, I could feel bad for them, but the system itself, cuz what's a person going to do? They work in a department and that department, they're just that very, they're not busting it out. They're not working hard. They're doing just enough to get by. And that's good enough. And then you had these people coming around with this white glove test and saying we can lop this off and lop that off and get rid of this and get rid of that and uh yeah, that's not good. But I I don't you know that's that may seem that's bad, right? That can seem bad, but I'm reminded I'm reminded that the entire system is that way. It's bad. and it'll swing back the other way and all these, you know, you get another Democrat in there and they will open up a bunch of useless ass programs that don't do anything to get to the root of the problems.
But a lot of people will get jobs and a lot of people will benefit who are close to those people will get appointments and the money falls and will run again.
All right. Anyway, it is what it is, fam.
It never applied for people losing their jobs.
But Rachel Mad, give us a break.
Never full of [ __ ] We know how better than anyone else to move and operate in this moment. But the challenge is we have to first start serving each other better than we have in the past. And that is really what I would love to see us do, which is collectively how do we get together? How do we start talking? How do we start mobilizing and strategizing together? I was recently on the phone this morning with the CBC asking what are they doing about the VRA?
>> And you've probably heard this too.
Their point is that we got to, you know, pass the the, you know, the uh John Lewis uh voting rights bill. We've got to, you know, reform the Supreme Court, right? We've got and it's like, well, that all sounds great, very abstract, very long term, but what are we doing in the short term, right on the heels of the most devastating law that's been undermined um post sort of affirmative action? What are we doing in this moment to awaken black uh black um mobilization to awaken black people to this moment? And if I had to be a little self-critical of myself in the Democratic party and Democratic leadership, I remember when I was working in the Obama White House and came back after Trump won in my first meeting with Nancy Pelosi was I was going to run the opposition to Trump.
She said you can have it. What are the messaging frameworks? And this is like again two months after he took office.
One of the messaging frameworks was that he was going to undermine American democracy. Right? That was one of my frameworks. She was like, "All right, give me a strategy on how you're gonna make that cement in the minds of the American public." So, we hit it. We hit it. We hit it hard. We ran on an anti-sort of Trump under a threat to American democracy for four or five cycles in one. But we never talked about undermining black political power as part of the undermining of democracy. We never even talked about the VRA. Now that I think and I just thought about that this morning like we talked about everything else. We talked about Supreme Court. We talked about abortion rights.
We talked about we never ever I don't recall mentioning the Voting Rights Act potentially being undermined as one of the most devastating impacts to black political power as a motivating factor to turn out black vote. I don't think we ever did that. So anyways, >> the reason but Ashley, I I mean I I appreciate you and all of us who are in leadership, especially who don't mind admitting we're Democrats, um taking ownus and responsibility, but there are some things in this country that have been so sacri there there were many of us who thought surely this can't happen. Okay, well this happened, but surely this can't happen. Okay, this happened. But this is long settled, right?
suspect.
>> You know, I played that clip the other day and I I don't know. I just thought I'd take another bite at the apple on it. My mic is on, right? Jesus. Can't believe I didn't have my mic on earlier.
We talked about this the other day. I thought I'd come back and get another swing at the, you know, swing at the ball. See if I can hit this one out.
Here's my thing. I'm noticing a lot of black folks like this Monnique Presley. I don't know the other lady's name, but a lot of these I guess she's a political operative. I remember when she was working with Bill Cosby, was it she left the Bill Cosby case and look guys, um they're going to be adopting a lot of the language of grassroots cuz they, you know, they're around to hear us talking. You know, I heard Roland Martin use the same term, black power.
Yeah. They're trying to get as close as they can to, you know, some of the, you know, what the kids are saying, what the what the movement is online that they're, you know, opposed to.
And I'm just saying that's not going to be good enough. Yeah. You adopting some of the language, using a couple of the uh some of the vernacular, it's not going to be enough because at the end of the day, fam, at the end of the day, they're not going to stand on it.
I mean, if you're calling the Congressional Black Caucus, asking what they going to do, you already said who you are. You work for Obama, do you call it them? How you going to call the people that responsible for letting this [ __ ] get where it is to ask them what they going to do to fix it? You know, if you drove a car in a ditch, you're drunk behind a wheel. I don't want you to drive me home.
You know, let's get somebody else in the seat. But see, that's what I'm saying.
It's all team ball. These people don't really care about the car getting out the ditch. Now it's about who can they throw under the bus and sacrifice to blame it on them while the rest of them look like heroes for pretending to be of the unwiped, unclean masses who are upset. They continue as they pretend to be as appalled as we are.
and tap into angry blackness, the the black folks that feel disenfranchised and feel like we lost something.
So mobilizing and strategizing and trying to get black people to to fight to keep the voting rights, we still can vote.
And a lot of people that hear it, they don't hear anything else. That's all they hear is voting rights. They think we can't vote. They think some people are not being able to cast their ballots.
They know what they're doing.
Family, they are very deceptive. They know what they're doing with the language that they're using.
She worked for Obama.
her job when she got out when she left the Obama presidency, she worked with the anti-Trump movement and Trump is undermining democracy.
Trump is trying to stop democracy, fam.
All the [ __ ] they talk about Trump, all if Trump is Hitler and Trump is a neo-Nazi and Trump is white supremacist and super racist and all these things you say, why would you think he would not roll back Voting Rights Act with the help of his Supreme Court? Why are you surprised?
I'm just saying if you're saying the guy is all these negative things, all these racist bigot every second, every every time I turn around, I got a Democrat on TV telling me how Trump is all these things. David Duke's cousin, Margaret Singer's boyfriend, I don't know, you know, King Leopold.
all these they label Trump all of these labels and then they say but I didn't expect he said mean things he did this see it's like it's all contradictions of themselves you're contradicting yourself all the way across the board and at the end of the day I mean if Trump was these things, you wouldn't be talking.
Yeah, Char really was this person that they say they would be quiet. Most of these people are cowards, Johnson.
They don't know what hard work is and they damn sure ain't ready for no real fights. They ain't trying to sit in jail for real, for real. They ain't doing no freedom rides that's going to put them in harm's way. They might get them buried in an unmarked grave. They're not out here risking [ __ ] except followers on Blue Sky. Okay, that's about it. And or invitations to the next uh reunion for Stephanie Mills and Johnny Gil, right? Come on, man. Let's We going to be real and be real.
Hoping they can go to Sierra Russell Westbrook's next anniversary party.
was some [ __ ] John Legend and this unbearable wipes next get together. I mean, really, what are we talking about?
These people are not focused on the [ __ ] we're focused on. And this all this hyperventilating over over Trump is just if you can't see through it, I mean I mean I got to wonder, are you trying to see through it?
But now these these two sisters here they're they're performative and and it's not going to work. I mean I'm sorry f we are for them ladies. We're way past this [ __ ] stage you still suck on where you can just come up here and say we we don't really like the way things are going and things been going bad a long time for you now to wake. Oh [ __ ] Well this is Yeah. I didn't expect that.
Let's get in gear. Black power.
Sit your entire ass down.
Yeah, I know you black. Sit your black entire ass down. We ain't going for it.
Look, fam.
The freedom fish.
Yo, see this is why I really don't know what he said at the end of this. I don't think he knows what he said either. Look. [laughter] >> Oh [snorts] god, man. Stop, man. Stop.
Stop. Stop. [laughter] All right. All right.
and shotguns pulled up to their home and pointed weapons at the children.
>> Okay, guys, it's going to be a hard We're going to do a hard pivot. Here goes the section of the show where we're talking about the forgiveness part.
Okay, let's get to forgiveness. I spent so much time there. It's going to be a long show tonight, but we got to get to it. This is an important segment.
[ __ ] Should I get there?
Here we go. Let's do it.
>> Shotguns pulled up to their home and pointed weapons at the children and the other people at the party. Here's what she said.
>> I do accept the possibility.
I know I was in the wrong, but I want you all to know that that is not me.
That is not me.
I would never walk up to you and say those words to you. And I'm so sorry if that happened to you.
I forgive you. You forget all of you.
I forgive you.
I'm sorry.
I have any hate or anger in my heart. I should look at I don't have time in my heart for anybody.
Now, Judge William Mlan noted before sentencing uh that given the nature of the language used, heavy use of the n-word uh directed at the people and children at that birthday party. He said that there was no doubt that this was a racially motivated crime. And he also said driving around town in a convoy of pickup trucks with Confederate flags and waving weapons was seen as a threat not just to this family, but to many people who ended up calling 911 that day. He said that is why he felt like the defendants had to be held accountable.
There were other people who were charged in this case. They pled their serving uh two to four years. We'll have much more on this story coming up tonight on Fox.
full of [ __ ] I I this story I think this story is actually old story. Okay, it's about a racist assault at a child's birthday party long prison terms in Georgia. Okay.
Kayla Norton, 25, and Jose Joe Torres, you know, the Brown Coalition, Black Brown Coalition, [sighs] was spent a combined 19 years in prison for the rolling group's racist rampage at an 8-year-old's birthday party. I just saw this clip and I just the words of the mom, I feel really bad.
I forgive you. I don't have room in my heart for anger resentment.
Your honor, I do. I have room in my heart. Room in this size 12 Timberland boot.
Yeah, I got room. In fact, I'll make room. I'll make more room here.
Everybody back up. We'll make room right now.
They call babies nwords. They wave shotguns at a birthday party.
They throw people's lives with guns.
And all the tears in all the years.
Tears to fears.
Shouldn't change it.
I don't know why this thing came back, man. I just realizing how old it's like 2017, Johnson.
It's like 2017. I He probably didn't serve all the time. You know, you know, somebody's going to feel bad. They see a white lady crying. They going to feel bad. And oh, we can't put her can't give her 20 years. Goodbye 19 years.
>> [snorts] >> It's just it just sits with me in a way because in order for us to go where we need to go as as a community, right, we got to be more we have to be more selfish and sometimes people need to pay for what they do.
They need to pay for what they do to us and they need to pay us and they need to do right by us. These are things that have to happen. And if so many of us who are allow who are able to get microphones, who are able to speak get to come out here all docel and and uh forgiving and sympathetic.
I'm just so tired of it. That's all. I'm just tired of it.
It turns my stomach. It does. It turns my stomach every time I see it. I know it's probably an old story. Like I said, it occurred in 2017. I don't know why it's floating around now, but when I saw the white lady crying, uh, the husband crying or boyfriend or husband, I don't know if that's her husband or not. And then I saw the black woman crying almost as much as the woman that's going to jail who threatened her child. I'm like, well, what the hell is going on here? What's wrong with this?
You know, people cry when they get sentenced to jail. It doesn't mean they're sorry they did what they did.
Maybe they're sorry they got caught.
They got a lot of time cuz they did not plead guilty and get this [ __ ] over with. They didn't want to give you any time. They didn't want to be held accountable. They thought they could beat the case. Other people took the number, the year or two or whatever it was, and went and sat their ass down.
But that Kayla and Jose Torres, they were like, "We ain't got to do that. We ain't going to do we going to be fine."
And just so happened on that day, they got the wrong judge who wasn't going for it. And then here you come. Doop.
I see. It's not just It's not just his sister doing it. I saw a brother do it.
But the brother did it when the the cop killed his his his grandson. Same [ __ ] right? Oh lord.
Oh lord. I'm sorry this happened to you.
I'm sorry. What happened to my my grandson? And I'm sorry that this is happening to you. What?
We [snorts] we cannot be this accommodating. Some of y'all need to go back into a time machine.
For real. Some of some some people need to go back into a time machine and go back to Bell & Cotton. I'm serious, man.
You'd have been more well suited for it.
Be honest. I'm being real. Cuz some of y'all are still stuck there. No. When black people do you wrong, you don't have that. When black people, if a black person came up to her birthday party and threatened to kill her and her kids burning flags and with gun, she you think she'd be crying cuz they might get some time. No.
I mean, be honest. Do you think she would be crying cuz they about to get they about to get punishment for that?
No, she would not be crying. Oh, I forgive you. I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry. I can't believe the Lord is a They did the same thing at Emanuel Baptist Church. Same thing.
Black people forgiving cold blooded serial killer knowing if it was a black serial killer, you would not be forgiving his ass.
I'mma keep going, guys. Let's Let's keep going.
I don't know why this bubbled back up.
Somebody Somebody posted it and it started getting more hits.
It's all over Instagram and Reddit, but it's old. Let's keep going, fam. We're not done yet. You tune us to the Timber Show. Remember, we're the most dangerous show in America for a reason. Because we don't we don't cozy up to these parties.
We don't play the party game. Okay, we play party games, but not political party games. Okay, so let's while we're still young, let's get to the rest of this.
>> The H-1Bs right now are not going to ship builders.
>> Can't build ships here.
>> Well, yeah, but also because if you're building Hold on. If you're building ships for the US military, you're probably not doing it on an HB. That's the first thing. But the second thing is they're trying to sort of like shoehorn this policy into uh their their sort of their tariff policy and it's really not that. I do think the H-1B program needs some attention. It needs some degree of reform.
>> Abby, do you want the next Einstein to come to America or to Shanghai? What do you want?
>> It's about fighting for talent. But people are brilliant.
>> I'm not fighting against an H-1B visa, folks. I'm the daughter of immigrants.
Both my parents are naturalized citizens of this country. So you should be for bringing people here.
>> I am saying there are real concerns that people have about companies that abuse the system.
>> We're talking about genius bringing 65,000 geniuses to America.
>> Kevin, you know that it is not just geniuses. Sometimes they're they're abusing the system and and sort of bringing in medium to low wage workers to to >> How many of them are at Meta or at Microsoft or at or at St. Children research hospital are in the inerson where they have >> I'm not arguing against HIVs.
>> I'm just saying the percentage of those visas that go to life sciences is 1.9%.
Mathematics and physical science is 2.9%. 4% go to medicine and health.
>> Right. But what percentage of the economy is that? It's probably I bet you it's pretty close to that.
>> 65% of H1B visas go to computer related jobs.
>> Yeah. What's wrong? technology.
>> All I am saying is that actually I think you're right. Maybe there is an argument to be made that more of those visas should be available for rural hospitals, should be available for people in the life, should be available [clears throat] for researchers, should be available to the geniuses in other fields.
That's their argument.
>> Oh, damn.
you.
>> All right. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
Don't No, no. That's That's my last one.
All right. We We good. We good. Okay.
Abby. Abby. Abby.
Abby, I'd love to come on your show at least once.
H1B visas.
It's amazing, fam.
It's amazing. Listen, the same argument that I have for workingclass folks, I have the same argument for middle class folks.
H-1B visas hurts middle class workers.
It hurts us in the text tech industry, for instance.
Of course, Kevin Oly and Barney Rubble, they're going to be cool with it.
Yeah, it's hard to get H-1B visas to hurt their fields.
You know, it's sort of like all suddenly you got Democrats upset because their friends, their political friends might not have jobs. Same thing. You know, Kevin Ory, it's corporate. It's corporate center. He's corporate centered, right? They want the corporations to be able to pay less for talent.
That's all it is. You know, they pay H-1B visas. their their personnel get paid 17% less on average than American citizens.
See this see the through line here, guys? See the through line? The through line is the corporations make more money hiring anybody other than you.
They do it with middle class workers and uh tech IT workers using the H-1B visas.
They do it with working class blue collar, right? Unskilled labor they call it. So I hate that term because everybody's got skills. But skills you ain't got to go to school for, you know, skills you can learn in apprenticeships on this job.
They do that through immigration.
Same thing. They underpay them.
Abby sitting there, she told you straight up, "Look, man. Hey, my parents came here.
They came here on visas.
So, I'm not a part of that group that would be upset about that. In fact, I'm happy that immigrants get to come here and take America jobs. But gosh, do they have to do it so much? And because it's Trump, I want to say something negative about it.
But really, all you got to say negative about it, it's right there. It's very plain. Three things. Number one, wage suppression.
On average, H-1B visa workers earn about 17% less compared to US-born workers with the same education, age, gender, and occupation.
That's according to a new NBR analysis.
Not Tim Black's numbers research.
Now, displacement doing play during layoffs.
Major tech firms laid off tens of thousands of Americans while simultaneously sponsoring thousands more H-1Bs.
So no one talks about that. No one talks about that. They lay off American workers and they go get other people with cheap for cheaper pay H-1B visas.
They bring them on instead.
No one talks about it.
Uh, Americans have reported being forced to train their H-1B replacements.
See, everybody that goes postal doesn't just go postal because they have uh a mental issue. Some go postal out of righteous indignation. They do it in the wrong way. There's other ways to get this out, but I'm just saying they wrong.
They're wrong. It's wrong. But I'm trying to explain that some of the things that have been going on in these corporations are just downright dirty, disgusting, and they get the wrong person on the wrong day, and then we end up with a tragedy that other that the co-workers have to pay for.
And number three, outsourced model abuse.
Over half of the H-1B visa employers are IT services outsourcing companies.
They exploit the prevailing wage loopholes and the old lottery system.
This undercuts mid-tier natives who aren't the absolute top 1% but are solid, experienced professionals.
So, American workers get hit on all sides. It's all corporate driven. And when I say this, when I here's here's the kick in the ass, fam.
When I when I when I use this argument for workingclass folks, nobody wants to hear it. Nobody wants to hear it at all.
They'll call me racist against xenophobic is what they call me. I'm xenophobic and a white nationalist when I point out how blue collar workers, particularly black blueco collar workers, are being displaced due to this corporate driven endeavor cuz that's who's hiring. They don't hire themselves, but they don't even want to acknowledge, hey, we got a point. They don't bring on goofy people to try to discredit my point. The same thing is happening with IT workers and in other professions at different levels. Middle class, mid-tier workers, they do the same thing. They're bringing in, but they use the H1B visa lane to do the same exact thing. It's happening across the board. And you know what else is going on across the board?
We're getting screwed.
Now, I wonder if they're going to call me racist or xenophobic for pointing that out about not black people, but about just Americans in general, IT workers.
Anybody can be an IT worker.
It's most diverse. Well, we're diversely diversifying getting screwed over by corporations and parties are quiet. You hear them complaining about it? Do you hear them going all out? You hear them crashing out over it? No.
[snorts] So, it's just ironic that it's the same [ __ ] on both sides of the fence. That's all.
It's the same argument.
So, it exists at both levels.
And it's not about demonizing people that come over on H-1B visas. They're looking for opportunity.
They can make more money here. Even though it's less than what we would get paid, it's more than probably what they obviously it's more than what they would make at home in their home country or they wouldn't do it. Right. Right. So that's why they do it.
And in the market, the market is happy to take them because, you know, the corporations don't have to pay as much money to a native born or American citizen.
So, it's a win for them. And that happens in all levels. And that's it.
Anyway, I just want to point it out that we have similar problems going on at different levels and it's being duplicated and they just find a way to make it work for them against us.
And the voices that have the guts to call it out get trashed for talking about it and the people that are the people that are upset. Now now don't get it twisted.
Let Jimmy Kimmel.
You mean let you know when it comes to their people, right? Let their people I mean the amount of [ __ ] I had to hear about Don Lim losing his job. Oh no.
The all the [ __ ] I hear to hear about Joy Reid. Oh, with Joy V. They fired Joy. I can't believe this.
Look what they're doing to Jimmy Kimmel.
What about Stephen Coar?
Nobody care about Dwan.
Nobody care about Harry the computer guy.
You know what I'm saying? Nobody cares.
No one gives a [ __ ] No one cares about you either, Jorge. If you're an American citizen.
Jorge, off the boat. Oh, cool. Jorge Jorge, you know, just off the border, not American citizen. Fix him up. Give him a EBT card and a place to stay.
Let you be an American citizen born born in the Bronx.
Ah, get him out of here.
He's a He's a He hates his own kind.
Imagine that. He wants to pull the r pull the ladder up. Now you just want to put a couple steaks in the freezer, that's all.
Just want to keep the roof overhead, that's all.
Yeah, Jamal Hill did a segment where she accused Latinos who didn't who wanted immigration control is pulling the ladder up behind themselves as if they couldn't have been born in a country.
But I'm xenophobic.
for pointing out how construction workers and drywall workers and landscape workers used to be jobs black men did.
I'm racist to point that out. But they won't they won't do segments about Hill basically saying any Latinos that thought we should have a border that had a lock on that [ __ ] was basically a sellout and a [ __ ] That was fine though. And notice Doc, there's Dr. whatever his name is. Dr. Lamont Hill and Dr. Bale, whatever. And uh what's that other guy's name? The uh jackass. The Rainbow Jill Stein.
He's not a doctor. He's just a just sick in the head.
He used to like him, too. He's just a pain in the ass.
Who was that ran? Who was Who's that guy that ran with Jo son?
Barack Obama. No, Baracka. That's it.
Baracka. Yeah, that [ __ ] Um, they got no smoke for Jamal Hill calling on the It's just funny, man. It's just It's just hilarious, fam. It's just hilarious what they're doing, you know.
Yeah. But but let let there be let it be somebody that they care about.
Let them be the group of people that they somehow affiliate themselves with.
What if overpaid podcasters who who can't finish sentences like I first uh who who have the jitters and I like Mark Lamont Hill when he's can't make a [ __ ] point. What if they start losing jobs? Then he'll all of a sudden have a backbone to be able to speak about it without demonizing anyone else. You know what I'm saying?
Like he'll pretending to be cut off because you don't have anything to say that will be helpful to your argument. It's obvious, fam.
Right. [laughter] I don't know, man. Look, man. I'm the wrong person to come at throwing stuff cuz at some point I will swing back and I will say things that are mean but truthful.
I mean, but I'm meaningful. All right, let's close out tonight's show in the Hano family. Juski is a funny guy. I hope they allow me to play this whole segment. Hope he doesn't have a bunch of music in this segment cuz I got to get this one out cuz I got to talk to Idris Ela.
Yeah, ladies love Idris.
Y'all ready?
If you have not hit like on this on this uh broadcast so far, you got to do it, fam. Come on now. This live stream broadcast, hit the like button on your live stream. Please, please share it.
We're closing her down, but we're going to go out strong here with this one.
Drew Ski's latest his latest comedy thing. Uh, very funny.
>> That's technology.
>> All I am saying is that actually I think you're right. Maybe there's an argument to be made that more of those visas should be available for rural hospitals, should be available for people in the life, should be available for researchers, should be available to the geniuses in other fields. Let me go back. I think that's a fair argument.
>> You promise you go with me now.
>> Rudy, stop talking like that. You ain't going no big city. M ain't going to let you.
>> Yeah, I'm going with or without you.
>> Rudy, stop talking like that. Hey, what are you doing over there? Get out of here.
>> Get out of here.
>> Hey, what are you doing? [screaming] >> And cuts. Fantastic.
>> I need more American slave. Okay.
>> And struggle.
>> Yeah, the struggle.
>> Sort of like the dialogue like the back and forth banner.
>> Absolutely. Yes. See, this role was sort of a bit cheeky. I got a little bit out of my comfort zone, you know. During the filming of this role in this character, I felt oppressed, like an American slave, like a lot of struggle. I studied the art.
>> A fantastic turnout on the red carpet tonight.
>> I'm just arriving. We have Samson Dubois at the American Guild Awards.
>> Samson, you look great tonight. How hard was it for you to change your accent?
>> As a little boy from Manchester, I think I struggled a bit with the dialect, right? But to really get into character for this quite astonishing road that I took on. To say the least, I I put it all on the line.
>> All right. 3 2 1 action. I'm telling you, [ __ ] If you [ __ ] with my [ __ ] I'll kill you, [ __ ] You'll be [ __ ] up. [ __ ] >> family.
>> Ain't no [ __ ] family in this [ __ ] We have family, [ __ ] [ __ ] family.
>> Hey, cut. That's the word.
>> That was stunning. That was stunning.
>> Great performance.
>> Working with a good London boy and I I I bother him all the time. I had a call with that director. It was kind of quite quintessential to the role and great character development behind it.
>> I put this [ __ ] bullet in your head, [ __ ] I laugh because I'm I'm pimulous and a bit quite surreal. A bit quite surreal.
>> Samson Dubai. Samson Dubai. Samson. Yo, who's the girl? Who's the girl? Sam [laughter] Dubai. Samson. Yo, do you think your British accent gets you all the black roses in America?
>> Sam, bro, are you serious, bro?
>> Do you think you're better than them?
>> Better than who, bro? Black people.
Stop. Stop.
I feel like people always want to hear from you talk about how black Brits are doing in Hollywood. Obviously, we just recently had that spikely uh comments about black British actors taking a lot of American roles and whatnot.
>> You know, well story I went to America to work. Feels like it just fuels >> okay >> the debate. I don't think there's a debate.
>> There's no debate. Like come on. You know acting is for the stage. you the stage is made out of wood. It's not made out of ethnicity and neither is any story. It's made stories are made from culture. So if I tell you a Chinese story, does that mean the story is less poignant?
>> Because I'm not Chinese. It doesn't make any sense.
>> So I try not to get into that debate.
That's like, you know, lions thinking about what goldfish are thinking. I ain't doing that. I'm not on it.
All right. So, um, Idris, we got Idris Ela. So, obviously the Juski skit is amazing skit and Juski's back at doing what he does. I'm love I love to see him put out more content. And this once again hits home and yeah, you know, it it plays into something that we've been saying on this channel. I've been saying on this channel about the real the delineation, right? So the delineation is black Americans are accepting some black Americans are accepting you know what we are black Americans and we have to protect what we have cuz the delilution of our culture is not to our benefit and the opportunities that exist in this country that we fought to try to get other people are taking advantage of it and this everybody black is not working for us. is in fact works better for everybody except black Americans.
That's the problem. And nowhere is it more evident when you hear a guy like Idris Ela.
And you know, I like Idris Ela's acting.
I think he's a talented brother. And I've watched many of his performances and thought, way to go. Good stuff. But we going to keep it real, Idris.
Are we going to keep it real?
You benefit from playing us. We don't benefit from playing you. And as long as that's the situation, you need to listen to what the hell we got to say about it.
It's easy to say, "Oh, it's just a roll." When it's that you losing them.
How many black Americans go to Britain, go to the UK to make it?
How many of you come here to make it?
Case closed. Face closed. So [snorts] yeah, it would behoove you to say some [ __ ] like every role is just a roll and it's all acting.
Yeah, right.
Whatever, dog. Whatever. Right.
It's sort of It's sort of like I was watching this show. I talked about this in an earlier video. Watching a show on Netflix.
I forget the name of was a cooking show and in the cooking show there were it started off with 21 participants and and if you look at the casting you'll see five of the five or four five or four of the participants look to be black but only one of them were black American the other blacks were from other countries Nigeria Ghana um somewhere in the West Indies uh and it is what it is But of the 10 white folks from America, they were white Americans.
[snorts] And coming from the group of people that have been the most discriminated in this country, black Americans, I don't think we got four and five slots to give up. You know what? It was an opportunity to win. I think it was $500,000.
$500,000 was on the line.
Yeah, it's a lot of money.
And I'm not saying that these other these chefs couldn't cook. I'm sure they all could cook. In fact, I know they all could cook. They were all good chefs.
They were all practicing chefs in kitchens and they had this opportunity.
But there's a difference culturally. There's a difference and there's a difference in opportunities in this country. And when they dilute and bring in you guys, you eat out of our plate. You're not eating off the white plate.
Eating out the black American plate.
Okay? And we already are are are behind the ball when it comes to roles and opportunities in this country. Hence, they use us to try to create these programs.
So, it's bad enough that we're up against it, that we need the representation in these fields. We need the opportunities in these fields to pull ourselves out of being on the bottom in this country. And then we get you guys coming from your country. And then you go and then what do you do? You assimilate right over there. And then you go and you look black, but you're not black American. So, you ain't going to really be down for our struggles like that.
Yeah. USA where we go through unpipy oh we go through we go through problems too yank wanker in our own countries yeah I'm not sure it's the same johnson I'm not sure it's the same and if you do go back there and fix them yeah because I got a problem when you're being condescending is if you're above the conversation you're not above enjoying the accolades You're not above the money. You didn't say, "Hey, well, you know what? You're right." Or, "You're wrong, and I'm not taking your US money. I'mma stay here and tough it out, mate. Right here in the good old America."
[snorts] And that's my problem.
[snorts] And with that, with that, Lord have mercy. And with that, I guess we'll end it.
[laughter] Ladies and gentlemen, that's my problem.
I think it is.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
What do we have? Do I have anything here I can go to?
>> [clears throat] >> I really don't >> Brits are doing in Hollywood. Obviously, we just recently had that spikely uh comments about black British actors taking a lot of American roles and whatnot.
>> You know, well story, I went to America to work. Feels like it just fuels >> okay >> the debate. I don't think there's a debate. There's no debate. Like, come on. You know, acting is for the stage.
The stage is made out of wood. It's not made out of ethnicity. And neither is any story. It's made stories are made from culture. So, if I tell you a Chinese story, does that mean the story is less poignant? Because I'm not Chinese. It doesn't make any sense.
>> So, I try not to get into that debate.
That's like, you know, lions thinking about what goldfish are thinking. I ain't doing that. I'm not on it.
>> I'm not on it.
>> Yeah. Well, I could be wrong. I could be wrong, but I feel that uh I feel like Iris misses a point. And the point is that the opportunities that are here that exist are opportunities that were hard fought for. And we're not finished our fight. And I get that you, you know, that you're just acting, but that is always in the back of the head of any artist and anyone receiving opportunities in this country who earns them. And I'm not saying that they're just Elbert hasn't earned his opportunities. What I'm saying is when you have a limited amount of spots [snorts] and you have people that have their own country and their own spots and they're easily part of part of this culture is the establishment doesn't want to deal with the social issues. and you know some of the some of the issues or things that we might bring up when we're in these positions and if they can have somebody that will be a little bit more pliable, a little bit more agreeable, not a stickler for certain things because they don't culturally relate to them in the same way. You may look like us, you may be able to adapt for the role, but you're not the same. You didn't have the same upbringing. didn't have the same um influences domestically here, grew up with them in your environment. So, it's different and I think that's like part of it. It doesn't mean that Dampson Idrris and Idris Alba and many other great actors and there's so many I can't name them.
It's a lot of them. It doesn't mean they're not talented and and hell I can get lost in their in their acting as well.
But when you nonchalantly dis dismiss it like it's beneath you to have that conversation, it's almost like you're out of tune with us. And which further I think kind of proves the point, don't it? Cuz you don't even know what the hell I'm talking about.
[laughter] Which is the point, man. You don't get it. Like you not getting it just lets me know that I'm right cuz you should get it.
Well, you would get it if you were you were us. All right, folks. My name is Tim Black. Thanks for tuning in to this long ass broadcast.
Uh, my nose exploded, but I'm okay now.
Uh, uh, thank everybody for being here. Um, we'll be back on Monday with more Tim Black show. remember, join the mastermind, be a part of putting this show together and and um we, you know, and have direct access and we have these conversations. Um I'm going to be having an only stream for those people uh for the for the mastermind group coming up soon. I'm looking forward to it. We're having a we're on a good run, guys.
Let's keep the run going. Thank you to the moderators if you're still here. I know it's the latest sale, but um I appreciate y'all.
And yeah, that's it. I think that's it.
Let's go to comments. Anybody in the comments that uh Yeah.
Yeah.
Who would have played Stringer Bell better? Oh god.
Yeah.
It's not about who would have played Stringer Bell better, sir. It's not the point.
Hey, Nigel's back.
Hey, you're back.
It's not the point at all.
Anyway, anyways, guys, u Somebody Black tell Nigel what the point is. My name is Sim Black. I thank you guys for being here tonight. Look, do me a favor. Um, share this content. Come back, watch a video over the weekend. Share with friends. I would appreciate it. The channel appreciates you. Thank you VIPs.
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All right. You know how to reach me.
I swear, fam. I swear. I swear. [snorts] That's it.
Now, everybody's got reasons for doing what they do. Here goes just a few of my reasons, fam. And I'm sticking to it.
Much love.
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