Bill Cunningham, the great American. Welcome this glorious Monday afternoon. In the
Tri State Reds baseball off today back out of tomorrow with Cleveland. When they
were losing yesterday like four to two in the ninth I said, they're going
to pull this thing out. I now anticipate victory instead of anticipating defeat.
But nonetheless they're in the mix, which is a great thing. Plus later
on either today or tomorrow. I think it's going to be tomorrow, might
be today. Then Mason, the high school boys champion baseball team is coming
in and I taught those guys how to slide. I taught those guys how
to throw curveballs in the slip pitch, and it had a measurable effect.
When their first state title in baseball, they beat Muller High School easily,
like four to one, and like the semi finals in March to glory and
for some the judgment seat of God. But that's going to be great.
Indians, or shall I say, the Guardians are in town Tuesday and Wednesday.
I should be smited for that, for even saying the word Indian.
I'm sorry. I'll go to re education camp. But they play Cleveland Tuesday
and Wednesday, then off on Thursday, then on to Milwaukee. But until
then there's been all this reporting about what in roads Donald Trump is making with
black folks, especially black males. And I don't think of Chris Chris Smitherman
as black, white, or otherwise. He's a man. He's a man's
man and a woman's man. I don't view him as black. I view
him as a great American, which is the way it ought to be.
But Christopher Smitherman, former vice mayor of the city and also head of the
NAACP, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. Christopher, can you tell
me if you can, because you are like a black guy, I think
at least you identify as one. Could I become black mail if I identify
as such? I'm not sure. But nonetheless, what is it in the
black community that's happening with Trump that has not happened since maybe the presidency of
Richard Milhouse Nixon. Well, you know, I'm the former president of the
Cincinnati n DOUBLEACP and the former vice mayor, and you and I have talked
privately and publicly that you know any comments I bring you know this afternoon to
your listeners. I'm one person. I don't speak for African Americans in this
country, but I'm going to take my best shot at what I see is
going on. So, you know, President Biden spoke at Morehouse University,
which is a one of the most prominent HBCUs, about three weeks ago,
and I think we can start there. And during that speech, the students
stood up and turned their back. That was not televised very well, but
the reality of it was, this is an African American all male school,
the Talented tenth meaning these are the best and brightest minds that are at Morehouse
University. And they their sister school like Seton and Elder is Spilman, which
is next door. So the girls, the women's school is next door to
Morehouse. And so those students were saying we are concerned, clearly by them
standing up and turning their back to President Biden, and his speech to them,
Willy Cunningham was one of victimization, one of uh, you know,
somebody has their their boots on the back of your neck and it's going to
be difficult for you to achieve in the in the country that you live in.
I'm gonna tell you that most of those students, will Willy Cunningham are
leaving more House. They're going to venture capitalist firms in New York. Uh,
they're going on to medical school. They're going on to work on their
nbas and their engineering. So this message wasn't a commencement speech that they were
used to for someone coming in and telling them that they weren't ready or somebody
was going to hold them back. Both of my parents went to historically black
colleges and universities. My mother and father met at Tuskegee. My mother was
was miss Tuskegee. Uh. My father got his PhD from how University in
DC, another great HBCU. The reason I raised this is that President Trump
was the president that made funding to HBCUs permanent. It wasn't President Obama,
it wasn't President Clinton, it wasn't President Bush. It was former President Trump.
Most universities when they came to the federal government, they would get funding
for extended period of periods of time. That was not true for historically black
colleges and universities. And President Trump said why are you coming every year?
And he did it. My point to you is that President Biden has a
record. Willie Cunningham, he was a senator for almost fifty years, and
during that time he worked and colluded with white Democratic Southerners, right, so
on bussing, he was wrong on bussing. As an example, he did
the eulogy for Senator Robert Burke. Can you imagine if former President Trump had
done the eulogy for a former Klukus Cran member who was a fitting senator and
died. Can you imagine what MSNBC, c NBC, and CBS we'll be
saying about former President Trump if he had done the eulogy like President Biden did
for Senator Robert Byrd, a former Klucus Cran member. My point to you
is that African Americans are understanding what President Biden's record was as a senator.
Meaning remember, I'll say one other point and their many I could bring is
President Biden was the one who criminalized crack cocaine over powder cocaine, which got
a lot of African American men locked up for extended periods of time. And
these two drugs retreated differently, brought to us by former Senator Biden. So
let's make sure that we are saying clearly Willie Cunningham that African American men who
are looking at President Biden and looking at his record have common sense, and
they're just raising concerns about his background. And just because NBC and CBS and
MSNBC aren't saying things like, hey, do you know that President Biden did
the eulogy for a former Kouklub Cram member who was a Senator, Robert Bird.
It doesn't mean that the men and women at Moorhouse and women at Spelman,
and the men at and women at Howard in places like Tuskeee and Central
State and Wilberforce don't know that these things happen. Well the issue. I
cannot imagine a Republican saying that I was a lifeguard and a pool, a
metro pool in which numerous black kids would come up and stroke the hair in
my hairy legs, and they act on all like little cockroaches. The little
black kids are like cockroaches, stroking the hair in my leg and then I
say three or four who were drowning. I mean, none of that has
any relationship to reality. Can you imagine a Republican calling a black child a
cockroach? Or can you imagine that he said he was raised in a Puerto
Rican household and went to black churches. After Mass every Sunday, he'd go
to a black church. No one can recall him ever going to a black
church. He said his uncle was eaten by cannibals. And I'm looking at
this guy, and I'm thinking, if you would hold the Republican standard to
Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, especially Joe Biden, he couldn't get a sniff
in the black community. But because of the pandering and the exploitation of black
leadership with lots of money, you pay the leaders a bunch of dough directly
or indirectly, and they will leave the flock, much like what China does
in a foreign countries. They buy off the leadership, then all of a
sudden they get entradeed to the diamonds and the jewels in that country. And
the same things happen with Democrats. And I would ask the average American,
Look what Democratic policies have done to Dayton, Cincinnati, Chicago, New York,
Atlanta, Washington, d c. Look, Look how black folks are
living under the Democrats, the rule of the Democrats. And I tell black
folks, you don't have to live like this there's another way of looking at
things, and you sent your kids. When I think of a black teenage
boy, I think about your kids, and I'm thinking they no more likely
would commit crime than Tony Benner or I would commit crime, or you would
commit crime. It's not a black thing to be a thug. It's not
a black thing to break into cars. It's not a black thing to beat
up kids in Washington Park. It's a human misbehavior that's encouraged indirectly by governmental
policies destroying the black family. Do you think this is the election when black
folks say, we don't have to live like this anymore. We're not going
to be pandered to and exploited then ignored, is this the election? I
don't think that the numbers are going to be fifty percent. No, I
don't think that this is going to be the election. What I do see
is that numbers will be in the high twenties, which will be enough.
And so you know the point that I'm making to you is that Africa mayor
Americans who are looking at President Biden, who has said, if you're you're
you're you're not black, You're not an African American. If you're not voting
for me, and so you know, these kinds of overtures that he is
making are so outrageous and so absurd. But understand, there are also many
African Americans who are looking at open borders. They're looking at things like other
Americans are looking at, like inflation, whether it's diesel, whether it is
gasoline. They're looking at their gas and electric bills at their home. They're
looking at their children who are graduating from morehouse saying I can't afford to buy
a house because of where interest rates are, and so inflation is crushing them
like it's crushing every other American. All the things we're talking about are just
layered onto it. What you're identifying is that often African Americans, like the
Jewish community, like many other communities, minority communities, have a sense of
voting the Democratic ticket. You're asking me, do I think that this is
going to be a crack in the armor. I think it absolutely is going
to be a crack in the armor. And it's because President Biden's record,
let me be clear, his record is being exposed, and because you have
the Internet, Willy Cunningham that can talk about these things. You don't have
to look at MSNBC or NBC to understand Biden did the eulogy for Senator Robert
Burke. Anybody listening to this, please look up Senator Robert Burke. You
won't have one person Willy Cunningham come come behind me after listening to this interview
and saying what Smithaman said isn't truth. Well, they're not going to say.
They might be mad about it, but they're not going to say I
lie to you and the American public. So let's never forget Willy Cunningham that
he has a record of working with white separatists, white Southerners when it mattered
to my mom and dad. My mom is eighty five years old, going
on eighty six. You've met her, I have. We're talking the generation
of our grandparents, my grandparents who lived in the South and great grandparents.
Right, You're what you're hearing right now is a complete frustration, right that
the Democratic Party is advancing someone who has a record of impacting African Americans in
a real negative way, and that record is becoming clear. Let me share
with your report from a housing authority. One is wondering, I know I
have to have peer of all I call them PG pure of all, with
a tongue in my firmly implant in my cheek that somehow we have to do
something about housing expenses and housing costs. He had a statistic the other day
that Cincinnati has had the greatest increase in rent of any American city. I'm
looking at these housing experts at say, housing costs or skyrocketing because we have
fifteen million new migrants competing for housing. We're not building fifteen million new units.
So when Joe Biden opens the southern border and brings in fifteen million illegals,
they either become migrants living on sidewalks or they move into apartments or homes
paid for by the federal government. We have no place to put them.
We have no place to put them, and the number is growing. Absolutely,
we have no place to put them. And to give you a little
statistic, since twenty nineteen, the housing costs have gone up twenty eight percent.
Because when there's a small supply and a large demand. As an economist,
you know that that means the rates are going to rise. So because
of the housing policy and sanctuary cities, that's why housing expenses are skyrocketing.
Because we have fifteen million more people or more competing for the same prices,
which mean landlords can raise the price and black folks and all people pay for
it. Also, inflation is caused by the six trillion dollars dumped into the
marketplace by Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi two or three years ago. That means
when there's more money in the marketplace and fewer products, the price is going
to go up. Try to get medical expenses. Try to call a doctor
and say I want to see you. Try to go to an er and
watch the one hundred and ten different languages being spoken when you go to Kroger.
Because of energy expenses, every product that we buy goes up. These
are policy choices that have failed, and those at the lower economic strata.
And by the way, the great majority of poor people in America are white.
They're not black. They're white and Hispanic, and they understand when they
go shopping. I went to McDonald's the other day to get me a happy
meal. It was about twenty two dollars, and I'm thinking, you got
to be kidding me. So and so, when you're a sanctuary city like
Cincinnati is, and you say come on down and we have a fixed number
of housing units. And here comes an additional in Cincinnati, maybe twenty to
twenty five thousand people seeking apartments or homes. Guess what the price is going
to go up? When a for sale sign goes in a yard. Within
a few days, it's sold because we have too many people chasing too few
products. And I think all of us need to recognize that Christopher's mother.
And when it comes to law enforcement, I know black kids are generally the
face of crime in Cincinnati, and I say, this is every chance I
get that the face of crime in Cincinnati is a young male black face.
But the great majority of young black males, like your kids, have no
relationship to crime at all except being victims. And so I think the more
literate a populace we have, the more likely it is we'll go to a
different track. And you know, Donald Trump is not the is not is
not great so to speak, in many areas. But I know one thing
he will stop what's happening on the southern border, which will benefit all people.
Now, lastly, Christopher Smitherman, what is your go ahead? Got
two minutes? Questions here? Too many? Let me just say this,
Why is it that President Biden five months out from the election, discovers the
African American community, meaning meaning we have to understand that so many African Americans
and voters understand that he's just pandering, Meaning for three and a half years
he's been absent. Now he has these different voices that he wants to say
he's been there. But you, all of us have to ask the question,
what is it about what's going on right now that has President Biden going
to churches, has been reaching out to historically black colleges and universities and giving
speeches of victimization, not commencedment speeches like he did at Morehouse. It's because
there's an election on November the fifth. If there wasn't an election on November
the fifth, we would not be hearing from former president our current President Biden.
And the public understands that, and the African American community understands that.
Willie Cunningham meaning meaning, let's make sure that we are saying publicly that African
American voters, like any other group of people, are smart, we have
common sense, and we understand what's going on in our country, and we're
just looking at a president that has not delivered the public policy that he said
he was going to do three and a half years ago. Well, thank
you for coming on, Chris. I want to get your perspective. We
certainly have. And once again I want to set up a lunch or a
dinner at that favorite joint of yours on the west side of town, Jim
and Jackson. We're going to do that. And once again, Christopher,
you're a great American, and thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.
Thank you, Christopher, Thank you, sir, God bless America.
Let's continue with more black folks. That's the message. Can you hear it
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