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Bill Cunningham, the great American.
Welcome this glorious Monday afternoon. In the

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Tri State Reds baseball off today back
out of tomorrow with Cleveland. When they

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were losing yesterday like four to two
in the ninth I said, they're going

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to pull this thing out. I
now anticipate victory instead of anticipating defeat.

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But nonetheless they're in the mix,
which is a great thing. Plus later

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on either today or tomorrow. I
think it's going to be tomorrow, might

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be today. Then Mason, the
high school boys champion baseball team is coming

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in and I taught those guys how
to slide. I taught those guys how

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to throw curveballs in the slip pitch, and it had a measurable effect.

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When their first state title in baseball, they beat Muller High School easily,

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like four to one, and like
the semi finals in March to glory and

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for some the judgment seat of God. But that's going to be great.

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Indians, or shall I say,
the Guardians are in town Tuesday and Wednesday.

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I should be smited for that,
for even saying the word Indian.

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I'm sorry. I'll go to re
education camp. But they play Cleveland Tuesday

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and Wednesday, then off on Thursday, then on to Milwaukee. But until

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then there's been all this reporting about
what in roads Donald Trump is making with

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black folks, especially black males.
And I don't think of Chris Chris Smitherman

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as black, white, or otherwise. He's a man. He's a man's

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man and a woman's man. I
don't view him as black. I view

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him as a great American, which
is the way it ought to be.

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But Christopher Smitherman, former vice mayor
of the city and also head of the

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NAACP, welcome again to the Bill
Cunningham Show. Christopher, can you tell

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me if you can, because you
are like a black guy, I think

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at least you identify as one.
Could I become black mail if I identify

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as such? I'm not sure.
But nonetheless, what is it in the

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black community that's happening with Trump that
has not happened since maybe the presidency of

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Richard Milhouse Nixon. Well, you
know, I'm the former president of the

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Cincinnati n DOUBLEACP and the former vice
mayor, and you and I have talked

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privately and publicly that you know any
comments I bring you know this afternoon to

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your listeners. I'm one person.
I don't speak for African Americans in this

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country, but I'm going to take
my best shot at what I see is

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going on. So, you know, President Biden spoke at Morehouse University,

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which is a one of the most
prominent HBCUs, about three weeks ago,

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and I think we can start there. And during that speech, the students

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stood up and turned their back.
That was not televised very well, but

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the reality of it was, this
is an African American all male school,

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the Talented tenth meaning these are the
best and brightest minds that are at Morehouse

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University. And they their sister school
like Seton and Elder is Spilman, which

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is next door. So the girls, the women's school is next door to

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Morehouse. And so those students were
saying we are concerned, clearly by them

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standing up and turning their back to
President Biden, and his speech to them,

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Willy Cunningham was one of victimization,
one of uh, you know,

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somebody has their their boots on the
back of your neck and it's going to

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be difficult for you to achieve in
the in the country that you live in.

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I'm gonna tell you that most of
those students, will Willy Cunningham are

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leaving more House. They're going to
venture capitalist firms in New York. Uh,

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they're going on to medical school.
They're going on to work on their

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nbas and their engineering. So this
message wasn't a commencement speech that they were

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used to for someone coming in and
telling them that they weren't ready or somebody

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was going to hold them back.
Both of my parents went to historically black

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colleges and universities. My mother and
father met at Tuskegee. My mother was

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was miss Tuskegee. Uh. My
father got his PhD from how University in

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DC, another great HBCU. The
reason I raised this is that President Trump

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was the president that made funding to
HBCUs permanent. It wasn't President Obama,

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it wasn't President Clinton, it wasn't
President Bush. It was former President Trump.

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Most universities when they came to the
federal government, they would get funding

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for extended period of periods of time. That was not true for historically black

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colleges and universities. And President Trump
said why are you coming every year?

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And he did it. My point
to you is that President Biden has a

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record. Willie Cunningham, he was
a senator for almost fifty years, and

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during that time he worked and colluded
with white Democratic Southerners, right, so

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on bussing, he was wrong on
bussing. As an example, he did

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the eulogy for Senator Robert Burke.
Can you imagine if former President Trump had

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done the eulogy for a former Klukus
Cran member who was a fitting senator and

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died. Can you imagine what MSNBC, c NBC, and CBS we'll be

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saying about former President Trump if he
had done the eulogy like President Biden did

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for Senator Robert Byrd, a former
Klucus Cran member. My point to you

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is that African Americans are understanding what
President Biden's record was as a senator.

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Meaning remember, I'll say one other
point and their many I could bring is

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President Biden was the one who criminalized
crack cocaine over powder cocaine, which got

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a lot of African American men locked
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these two drugs retreated differently, brought
to us by former Senator Biden. So

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let's make sure that we are saying
clearly Willie Cunningham that African American men who

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are looking at President Biden and looking
at his record have common sense, and

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they're just raising concerns about his background. And just because NBC and CBS and

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MSNBC aren't saying things like, hey, do you know that President Biden did

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the eulogy for a former Kouklub Cram
member who was a Senator, Robert Bird.

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It doesn't mean that the men and
women at Moorhouse and women at Spelman,

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and the men at and women at
Howard in places like Tuskeee and Central

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State and Wilberforce don't know that these
things happen. Well the issue. I

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cannot imagine a Republican saying that I
was a lifeguard and a pool, a

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metro pool in which numerous black kids
would come up and stroke the hair in

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my hairy legs, and they act
on all like little cockroaches. The little

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black kids are like cockroaches, stroking
the hair in my leg and then I

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say three or four who were drowning. I mean, none of that has

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any relationship to reality. Can you
imagine a Republican calling a black child a

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cockroach? Or can you imagine that
he said he was raised in a Puerto

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Rican household and went to black churches. After Mass every Sunday, he'd go

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to a black church. No one
can recall him ever going to a black

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church. He said his uncle was
eaten by cannibals. And I'm looking at

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this guy, and I'm thinking,
if you would hold the Republican standard to

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Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, especially
Joe Biden, he couldn't get a sniff

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in the black community. But because
of the pandering and the exploitation of black

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leadership with lots of money, you
pay the leaders a bunch of dough directly

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or indirectly, and they will leave
the flock, much like what China does

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in a foreign countries. They buy
off the leadership, then all of a

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sudden they get entradeed to the diamonds
and the jewels in that country. And

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the same things happen with Democrats.
And I would ask the average American,

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Look what Democratic policies have done to
Dayton, Cincinnati, Chicago, New York,

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Atlanta, Washington, d c.
Look, Look how black folks are

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living under the Democrats, the rule
of the Democrats. And I tell black

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folks, you don't have to live
like this there's another way of looking at

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things, and you sent your kids. When I think of a black teenage

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boy, I think about your kids, and I'm thinking they no more likely

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would commit crime than Tony Benner or
I would commit crime, or you would

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commit crime. It's not a black
thing to be a thug. It's not

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a black thing to break into cars. It's not a black thing to beat

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up kids in Washington Park. It's
a human misbehavior that's encouraged indirectly by governmental

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policies destroying the black family. Do
you think this is the election when black

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folks say, we don't have to
live like this anymore. We're not going

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to be pandered to and exploited then
ignored, is this the election? I

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don't think that the numbers are going
to be fifty percent. No, I

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don't think that this is going to
be the election. What I do see

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is that numbers will be in the
high twenties, which will be enough.

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And so you know the point that
I'm making to you is that Africa mayor

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Americans who are looking at President Biden, who has said, if you're you're

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you're you're not black, You're not
an African American. If you're not voting

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for me, and so you know, these kinds of overtures that he is

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making are so outrageous and so absurd. But understand, there are also many

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African Americans who are looking at open
borders. They're looking at things like other

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Americans are looking at, like inflation, whether it's diesel, whether it is

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gasoline. They're looking at their gas
and electric bills at their home. They're

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looking at their children who are graduating
from morehouse saying I can't afford to buy

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a house because of where interest rates
are, and so inflation is crushing them

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like it's crushing every other American.
All the things we're talking about are just

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layered onto it. What you're identifying
is that often African Americans, like the

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Jewish community, like many other communities, minority communities, have a sense of

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voting the Democratic ticket. You're asking
me, do I think that this is

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going to be a crack in the
armor. I think it absolutely is going

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to be a crack in the armor. And it's because President Biden's record,

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let me be clear, his record
is being exposed, and because you have

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the Internet, Willy Cunningham that can
talk about these things. You don't have

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to look at MSNBC or NBC to
understand Biden did the eulogy for Senator Robert

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Burke. Anybody listening to this,
please look up Senator Robert Burke. You

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won't have one person Willy Cunningham come
come behind me after listening to this interview

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and saying what Smithaman said isn't truth. Well, they're not going to say.

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They might be mad about it,
but they're not going to say I

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lie to you and the American public. So let's never forget Willy Cunningham that

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he has a record of working with
white separatists, white Southerners when it mattered

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to my mom and dad. My
mom is eighty five years old, going

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on eighty six. You've met her, I have. We're talking the generation

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of our grandparents, my grandparents who
lived in the South and great grandparents.

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Right, You're what you're hearing right
now is a complete frustration, right that

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the Democratic Party is advancing someone who
has a record of impacting African Americans in

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a real negative way, and that
record is becoming clear. Let me share

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with your report from a housing authority. One is wondering, I know I

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have to have peer of all I
call them PG pure of all, with

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a tongue in my firmly implant in
my cheek that somehow we have to do

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something about housing expenses and housing costs. He had a statistic the other day

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that Cincinnati has had the greatest increase
in rent of any American city. I'm

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looking at these housing experts at say, housing costs or skyrocketing because we have

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fifteen million new migrants competing for housing. We're not building fifteen million new units.

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So when Joe Biden opens the southern
border and brings in fifteen million illegals,

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they either become migrants living on sidewalks
or they move into apartments or homes

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paid for by the federal government.
We have no place to put them.

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We have no place to put them, and the number is growing. Absolutely,

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we have no place to put them. And to give you a little

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statistic, since twenty nineteen, the
housing costs have gone up twenty eight percent.

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Because when there's a small supply and
a large demand. As an economist,

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you know that that means the rates
are going to rise. So because

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of the housing policy and sanctuary cities, that's why housing expenses are skyrocketing.

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Because we have fifteen million more people
or more competing for the same prices,

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which mean landlords can raise the price
and black folks and all people pay for

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it. Also, inflation is caused
by the six trillion dollars dumped into the

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marketplace by Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi
two or three years ago. That means

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when there's more money in the marketplace
and fewer products, the price is going

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to go up. Try to get
medical expenses. Try to call a doctor

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and say I want to see you. Try to go to an er and

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watch the one hundred and ten different
languages being spoken when you go to Kroger.

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Because of energy expenses, every product
that we buy goes up. These

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are policy choices that have failed,
and those at the lower economic strata.

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And by the way, the great
majority of poor people in America are white.

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They're not black. They're white and
Hispanic, and they understand when they

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go shopping. I went to McDonald's
the other day to get me a happy

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meal. It was about twenty two
dollars, and I'm thinking, you got

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to be kidding me. So and
so, when you're a sanctuary city like

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Cincinnati is, and you say come
on down and we have a fixed number

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of housing units. And here comes
an additional in Cincinnati, maybe twenty to

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twenty five thousand people seeking apartments or
homes. Guess what the price is going

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to go up? When a for
sale sign goes in a yard. Within

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a few days, it's sold because
we have too many people chasing too few

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products. And I think all of
us need to recognize that Christopher's mother.

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And when it comes to law enforcement, I know black kids are generally the

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face of crime in Cincinnati, and
I say, this is every chance I

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get that the face of crime in
Cincinnati is a young male black face.

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But the great majority of young black
males, like your kids, have no

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relationship to crime at all except being
victims. And so I think the more

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literate a populace we have, the
more likely it is we'll go to a

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different track. And you know,
Donald Trump is not the is not is

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not great so to speak, in
many areas. But I know one thing

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he will stop what's happening on the
southern border, which will benefit all people.

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Now, lastly, Christopher Smitherman,
what is your go ahead? Got

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two minutes? Questions here? Too
many? Let me just say this,

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Why is it that President Biden five
months out from the election, discovers the

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African American community, meaning meaning we
have to understand that so many African Americans

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and voters understand that he's just pandering, Meaning for three and a half years

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he's been absent. Now he has
these different voices that he wants to say

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he's been there. But you,
all of us have to ask the question,

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what is it about what's going on
right now that has President Biden going

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to churches, has been reaching out
to historically black colleges and universities and giving

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speeches of victimization, not commencedment speeches
like he did at Morehouse. It's because

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there's an election on November the fifth. If there wasn't an election on November

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the fifth, we would not be
hearing from former president our current President Biden.

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And the public understands that, and
the African American community understands that.

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Willie Cunningham meaning meaning, let's make
sure that we are saying publicly that African

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American voters, like any other group
of people, are smart, we have

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common sense, and we understand what's
going on in our country, and we're

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just looking at a president that has
not delivered the public policy that he said

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he was going to do three and
a half years ago. Well, thank

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you for coming on, Chris.
I want to get your perspective. We

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certainly have. And once again I
want to set up a lunch or a

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dinner at that favorite joint of yours
on the west side of town, Jim

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and Jackson. We're going to do
that. And once again, Christopher,

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you're a great American, and thank
you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.

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Thank you, Christopher, Thank you, sir, God bless America.

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Let's continue with more black folks.
That's the message. Can you hear it

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on news radio seven hundred WLW.
Meanwhile, in the intreged forest, little

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Red riding Hood is heading to the
Three Pigs Place. That's right. The

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youngest one has a cute little tale. Aren't you supposed to visit your grandmother?

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You had a falling out. I
want to listen to Eddie and Rocky,

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and all she wants is to listen
to Metallica. I'm stunned. How

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many times can you listen to Edder
Sandman the Pigs like Eddie and Rocky.

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Let's just say they listen whole hah, Eddie and Rocky. This afternoon at

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three on seven hundred WLW. This
is great