ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT SHOULD BE THE BLACK COMMUNITY'S #1 PRIORITY

0:00 Nolan Wells, a grand jury said that there was no grounds for legal prosecution of any, of anybody connected to the case.

0:12 So obviously we don't, we don't have.

0:16 Inside information of what the autopsy or what the grand jury saw, but this is.

0:20 A legal, this is a blunt force trauma to the back of the head.

0:23 This is an important part. You know how we need financial literacy. Obviously that's something that we brought to the forefront, right?

0:29 Yep.

0:29 And we think that financial literacy should be taught in every school because kids should learn about financial literacy.

0:36 What's also important, and maybe it's equally important, is civic literacy. We need to teach.

0:43 The average American does not have any civic literacy as far as voting, who does what, what is the difference between a congressperson and a senator, your local elections, mayors. school board, a grand jury.

1:05 So important.

1:06 So many people don't even know what a grand jury is. And this is part of the legal system that doesn't get talked about a lot. Where literally a grand jury has the power to actually bring a case forward or not. So who's on a grand jury? Nobody's ever asked this question. Nobody really asks this question. Where does this grand jury come from? Who is a grand jury? How do you get on a grand jury? So many different things happen.

1:38 We just hear a grand jury. Every once in a while, we just hear about a grand jury. But I will say this. Obviously, I don't know what happened.

1:50 But.

1:51 We know blunt force trauma to the back of the head happened, and when the autopsy was done.

1:56 They removed his throat. A blunt force trauma.

1:58 They removed his throat, you said?

2:00 That's the report.

2:02 Who removed his throat? The coroner? Allegedly? I'll tell you this.

2:09 Some very disturbing things have been happening or has happened for 56 years. Longer than that in the state of Mississippi. The whole entire state needs to have a federal investigation. You got people hanging from trees.

2:24 It's insane, bro.

2:28 Mississippi, the state of Mississippi, their whole structure needs to be gutted. Because this shit, it keeps happening. It just keeps happening. And like I said, you can say, okay, one time, but this is.

2:46 Historically, it's been happening for hundreds of years.

2:51 It's heartbreaking.

2:53 Praise to the family. I can't give my real thoughts about what should happen next. But at some point, as a community, we're going to have to take some other actions to get some of this resolved.

3:09 Got to have some pushback. And then you see they posted the picture with their new black friend on IG today?

3:14 The kids?

3:15 Yeah. So... To all of my parents, keep your kids safe. Pray over your children. Watch over your children. Be careful.

3:35 I pray none of us tonight ever have to go through a situation like this because I know some of us would throw our lives away if this happened, including me. God rest that boy's soul. But something has to be done. As far as Mississippi, though, nothing's going to change. If anything, they're going to, they got away with it. They're going to double down on it.

3:57 What can, what can be done?

3:58 What can we, how can we, this is, so when Angela and watch the latest episode of native land podcast, myself, myself and Troy, we got asked this question and I think it's a three part process. I'll give you the abbreviated version. If you want the long version, watch the episode. We need to have economic empowerment.

4:19 Okay.

4:20 As a community at a very high level. Then we got to have organizational empowerment. We got to have, the problem is that we train so much to just, we don't trust each other. So whenever something comes out, look at Black Lives Matter, how they just tore that apart.

4:43 Well, that's a layered conversation too, because why did it get tore apart?

4:47 No, but what I'm saying is that We don't trust anything. So we don't have any organization, okay, that we really can look forward.

4:57 But Morgan talked about the Sun Breakfast Club.

4:59 There's a.

5:01 Cohort that is paying to tear down any institution.

5:05 And I'm not just saying because our involvement in it, but when it's like, okay, attack on InvestFest, then it's attack on Afrotech, any positive black institution, Even in a response to Umar, I know he was misguided, but a constant attack on every brand that's trying to do anything for anybody black, that's not by design. It's too much money and the talking points are the same across all of the internet internationally to think that's a coincidence. So I agree that we may not trust a lot, but it's a lot of media and PR put into not trusting us.

5:40 And it's psychological warfare. It goes back to COINTELPRO. For sure, it goes back to COINTELPRO, and there's been a lot of... You know what's so crazy? Somebody wrote COINTELPRO in the YouTube chat, and it was hidden.

6:05 Interesting.

6:06 They.

6:07 They.

6:11 Blackout. They.

6:14 So I think it's a deep-rooted psychological issue that a lot of us have as far as Black leadership, Black organizations. We have a deep-rooted hatred, distrust of Black leadership.

6:36 Why is that?

6:39 Why do we have a deep-rooted... Mm-hmm. It goes back to.

6:44 I don't even want to say that word because it got hidden. It goes back to the 60s. It goes back to slavery, actually. It goes back to slavery where they made people turn against other people.

7:03 Willie Lynch.

7:06 And it really goes back to the 60s when.

7:11 Strategically, every black leader was taken out. Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Mega Evers, Fred Hampton. And if they didn't kill you, they found other ways. Like QEP Newton, Bobby Seale, or even before that, Marcus Garvey. So, Every black leader, for the most part, has either been discredited.

7:51 Or killed.

7:51 Yeah. Publicly persecuted.

7:54 Publicly humiliated.

7:55 Yeah.

7:55 Publicly humiliated, discredited.

7:57 Damaged financially, attacked and killed your family.

8:00 Mayor Marion Barry.

8:01 Yeah.

8:02 Now, you could say, okay, well, yes, he did obviously make a bad choice.

8:09 He was not the only one.

8:11 And he got set up. Yeah. Why would they set him up?

8:16 He made two black billionaires, Robert Johnson, Bob Johnson and Don Peebles.

8:25 Yeah.

8:27 District of Columbia.

8:28 Yeah.

8:28 But you always got to be worried about the setup, drugs, women, uh, bad deals. Be careful. Any deal that's too good to be true. Usually it's.

8:37 Usually a hundred percent.

8:39 So I think, um, I don't know how we get past that. Because what organization do we trust? Like I said, I mean, somebody made a good point. Even before all the stuff with Black Lives Matter came out, we still didn't trust them. Like, when I say we, I'm not saying about me. I'm just saying as a community at whole.

8:57 Kamala ran for president. She's not black. She's Indian. She locked up more black men in California than anybody.

9:07 Man, they talked about her more than they talked about Trump. Whether you like her or not, What I.

9:13 Saw was more vitriol hate from Black people, especially Black men, towards her than for Donald Trump.

9:24 But how much money was put into tearing her down? And then there's other conversation we have to have one day, but when we're like 90, there's a Democrat who.

9:33 Helped line her up.

9:35 Who are blue MAGA who are not supportive of any candidate but them potentially winning.

9:41 Allegedly. Olivia Pope calling.

9:45 All right.

9:48 All right. What's the answer? I pray no parent that's pushing this situation up.

9:55 But what I saw, like I said, when you see other groups, right? And I'll take when i was a financial advisor right and i worked in the office and pretty much everybody in my office was jewish and i learned the valuable lesson is that you don't have to be a billionaire these people wasn't billionaires but millionaires you know they was doing upper middle class, lower class wealthy, but they would have functions and they would fundraise $ 7 million.

10:28 They would fundraise $ 7 million at the Black Tide Center with no billionaire. No billionaire there. They would fundraise $ 7 million for the state of Israel.

10:40 Six hours. For the state of Israel. No, no, no.

10:44 It's not controversial, but I'm just saying this is just a fact.

10:46 That's what they would do. Okay, so that's one thing. They have enough financial economic empowerment.

10:52 Then they have enough education to know no matter what you believe, because everybody don't agree on the same thing, we have a common united goal. It's been taught since they were little children. You don't got to agree on everything. You might be super religious. You might not be religious at all, but We are going to come united for this one particular thing. Then they have structures in place that can collect the money. Then they have political power in place that can do the super PAC thing and can lobby the politicians. So it's actually like a pipeline.

11:33 It's money, organizational skills, then political pressure, power from an organizational standpoint.

11:39 And then you got a muscle underground.

11:41 So that's how you really achieve things. It starts with money, by the way. It starts with the economics. Then it goes to the education, core structure, who you are as a person, why it's your obligation as a black person to help black people.