Speaker 1: KBLA Talk fifteen eighty we are talking politics. I'm so
pleased to have my colleague on board with me this morning.
He's a journalist and educator and he is KBLA Talk
fifteen eighties chief National Affairs Analyst. He's a podcaster, a
TV guy, and so much more. Doctor Nie Cordelaine Corte
can also be heard Monday through Thursday from four to
six pm right here, so that means he's doing a
little double duty today. Good morning, doctor Corte.
Speaker 2: Good morning dominiquea Prima.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for chapping in with me today.
There's so much going on it's making my head explode.
I don't know how you keep track of all these primaries,
and I try, I really do, but it's just a
lot to keep in your head right now.
Speaker 2: It's a lot going on, a lot to keep in
the head. But you know, a lot of odds are
going to be on Florida today because they're having their primary.
And you know, you got some pretty prominent black folks
that are going to be on the ballot. I'm talking
about representative GOP Representative Byron Donald's he's running as running
for the right. He's running for the Republican nomination for
governor of Florida. He has chosen not to debate anybody
that is also running for the Republican nomination for governor,
and so all eyes are on that race. Also, all
eyes are on the congressional race where State Representative Chevron
Jones is running for congress. This is a seat that
is highly coveted. You might remember Chevron Jones. Nador Jones
has been in the news recently because there were some
opponents there that had leaked a false story that he
was HIV pop and was trying to use that as
a bludgeon against him in this race. But if the
polls hold and the polls are in his favor, he
may very well, uh get the nomination for that congressional
seat we want to run.
Speaker 1: I mean, like as we started out, there's so many
different stories here. You started on Florida where they have
Donald's running for governor, but it seems like we could
end up with the slew of black governors, I mean
as possible. Right we have we just have won right now, right,
which is Wes Moore more. Yeah, but there's a bunch
of people running. You know. Keisha Lance Bottoms made it
to their runoff there in Georgia, and you mentioned Donald's,
but there are several others, so I don't some of
them Republicans. This is one of their new hats tricks, right,
running black Republicans for for governor. So we could see several.
I guess, uh, Aaron Ford is running in Nevada, Jermaine
Johnson in South Carolina? What how what do you make
of that? Do you think that is that significant? Do
you think it's a sea change or you think it's
just a cute strategy rephn Representative John James in Michigan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and also and also David Crowley who just won
the Democratic primary in Wescontint. That's right, you mentioned Keisha
Lance Bottoms in Georgia. I mean, you know this is
a sea change. I don't. I don't know how to
look at it any other way, you know. I recently
had an opportunity to to do a wide ranging sit
down interview with Maryland Governor Wes Moore, who also happens
to be the chair now of the National Governors Association,
the first black governor to be chair of the National
Governor's Association in one hundred and eighteen years and so
that also is significant. But I remember during that interview
he told me the story of a conversation he had
with former Massachusetts Governor Duval Patrick. He was the second
elected black governor in the United States, and there was
something that Governor Patrick said to him that really stayed
with him. He said, look, you know, his only regret
is that he didn't start to think about the third
black governor in the United States until after he was
out of office. And so that is a reality that
has motivated Governor Wes Moore to spend some political capitals
and to get out on the campaign trail and help
elect more black governors across the country. He has been
on the campaign trail supporting Keisha Lan's Bott in Georgia,
Jermaine Johnson South Carolina, Aaron Ford in Nevada, and will
likely be on the campaign trail supporting David Crowley in Wisconsin.
He is in high demand. You know, his endorsement matters,
and it's good to see not just more black folks
running for governor, but being competitive in their run for
governor and being supported by the only sitting black governor
in the United States, Governor Wes Moore.
Speaker 1: Right, And you mentioned deval Patrick there. You know, they're
Douglas Wilder back in the I guess nineties. There have
been very very few. I think it's like six or
five or six seven in all of US history, going
all the way back. And so if we end up
with a handful, that would be that would be significant.
And of course Keisha Lance Bonds would be the first
black woman to serve as a governor.
Speaker 2: Right, that's right, it's right. I'm also part of why
this is a significant dominique. As you know, there's so
much that's happening on the state and local level as
a check on the Trump administration and Republicans that are
considering federalizing the elections even though the Constitution says you
can't do that. But this president and Republicans are playing
foot see with the Save Act, which really is nothing
but a voter suppression bill. But you know, the counterweight
to some of the tactics and antics that we're seeing
coming out of this administration is on the state and
local level. Governor's matter, mayor's matter, especially when we talk
about sanctuary cities, sanctuary states, when we talk about getting
creative about addressing some of these deficits in funding that
are directly tied to the so called Big Beautiful Bill,
remember the cuts to Medicaid for example. Absolutely, well, it's governors.
It's governors have to figure out how to make those
ends meet. And so not only is the consequential that
these folks happen to be highly competitive black folks running
for governor, but they're running for governor at a time
where that office has probably never been more important in
our lifetime.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a fair point. I mean, especially we think
back a little further when Trump made those in his
first term, he made those Medicaid cuts, and then we
had these supplements to Medicaid which Republican governors were refusing.
And so it's, you know, it's how do they wrangle
the money out of the federal government and how do
they make do when you know, the money drives up
so many other issues. That said, although I'm happy to
see so many black folks running for governor, some folks,
you know, some folks the Byron Donald's of the world. Yeah,
we don't need a black governor that badly. Uh, doctor,
get me go ahead.
Speaker 2: No, I mean, you know, you're you're you're not alone.
And that's why a lot of people are gonna be
watching this race closely. I mean, he really is taking
so many pages out of the Trump playbook again, refusing
to debate even other Republicans in the race. I mean,
we've got to ask ourselves, you know, take take the
party affiliation out of it. Do we really want to
be electing people to public office that are unwilling to
debate some of the issues that loom large in our
every day.
Speaker 1: Lot, right, and surprise, surprise, I mean some of the
stuff he says is absolutely indefensible. So why would yeah,
why would he debate? You know, it's the kind of
thing you can you can say if you're the resident
of the White House. It's the kind of thing you
can say if you're by yourself on a panel with
a bunch of other you know, maga folks. But if
you say it with people who are fact based, it's
not gonna hold water. So of course he doesn't want
to debate. But does does he? I mean, how is
his polling? Is he gonna is? Does he have a
strong chance here?
Speaker 2: He has a very strong chance of not just winning
the Republican nomination, but but winning that seat his uh,
you know, Democratic opponent it's like David Jolly, you know,
made cruise towards getting the Democratic nomination. Last poll that
I saw, I think there was maybe a seven to
ten point differential, and so you know, Democrats have some
ground to make up in Florida. But Barra Donald's don't
underestimate his momentum.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Wow, we shall see.
Speaker 1: When was the last time there was a Democratic governor
in Florida? I'll google it.
Speaker 2: Uh so the Charlie I think it was Charlie Cris.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's been a minute. Uh. Doctor Nee Cordelai
Corte is with me when we come forward. I want
to get your opinion. Why is everyone suddenly piling on
the resident's girlfriend? I mean human printer, I mean senior advisor,
Doctor Nee Cordelai Corte, Dominique Prima for KBLA Talk fifteen
eighty your News right now with doctor Nee Cordlai Corte.
I feel like, doctor Corte, there's been this tradition, if
you will, in this country, of giving presidents grace when
it comes to their side chicks, you know, Democrat Republican
probably going all the way back to Washington, George Washington.
I don't know that I've tracked it that far back,
but certainly going back to Kennedy, these are open secrets
that the press tends to pass on and fellow politicians
tend to pass on. But now all of a sudden,
everyone's talking about Natalie Harp. And I don't know that
she's his side piece, alleged side piece, but some call
her is Binkie. That she prints out, you know, letters
to him, you know, glowing glowing articles about him and
reads them to him, That she prints out his truth
social posts, that she does the truth social post, that
she's written all these love letters to him. And when
we saw the who was left on the decoy plane
to possibly be blown up by you know, Iran or whoever,
and who got to stay with the president in the
sneaky plane. She was in the sneaky plane and Marco
Rubio was left to be exploded. Maybe that's why she's
come into the spotlight. But I noticed, you know, Senator
oss Off talking about her. There was an article in
the Huffington Post, several other political types have called it out.
What do you make of that?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I can't make much out of it,
As you know, I have reported from the White House,
you know, as a White House correspondent for KBLA. I've
been in the oval office of questioned.
Speaker 1: Trump and she's done a great job, by the way.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you. And I don't remember much about
Natalie Harp, and so I can't speak to any observations
that I've had in their presence, but I know that she's,
you know, a thirty five year old Californian, and she
really came to prominence with Trump back in twenty nineteen.
And so their relationship, their relationship working with each other,
didn't start with his most recent twenty twenty four presidential campaign,
actually precedes that. And I also learned that she battled
stage two own cancer, and she she claimed that both
the political and medical establishment had left her behind, but
the good Samaritan Trump helped her. So she's so so
this may even be a co dependent kind of relationship
where you know, she she sees Trump, you know, as
as somebody who you know, uh, stepped in and helped
her in her her darkest moment. And it seems that
she is, you know, she seems to be sort of
a security blanket for Trump, a Trump whisperer, if you
Will and so you know a lot of folks are wondering, well,
you know, why are you on the decoy plane and
all the people to pick you didn't pick Caroline Levitt.
You didn't take a lot of people. You picked her. Uh,
you know, I think it's because of some bond, some
trust that they developed, you know, whether it's more than that.
It's everybody else's guests. But I just wanted to make
sure that the audience has a sense of, you know,
the origin story as has been reported about the relationship.
Speaker 1: I mean, and she was on Fox News and she
was on Oam. You know. So he likes to find
people friends and people from his administration off of television,
and so she fits that. She's a you know, attractive,
skinny blonde, so she fits that description. So and you know,
her own brother says that their relationship is unhealthy, whatever
it is, you know, but it's interesting that she could
be so close to the president and have really gone
without a lot of you know, scrutiny, as you point out,
from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty six, and now all
of a sudden everyone is talking about her, even you know,
rival politicians. So it we'll see. But it seems like
is this a new is this a new thing now
where we're gonna start talking about all of the people
in these politicians' orbits and and speaking of that back
to the primary, I didn't realize doctor Knee Corday Corte
that they are they're competing to fill Eric Swalwell's seat
in northern California that is also on the primary agenda today,
and we have sort of a repeating theme. You've got
two Democrats who are you know, one is more progressive
and one is back by Apak and and pro Israel
dollars to a very large degree. This same conversation that's
been playing out and other in other states is actually
happening in California. For that fourteenth district, State Senator Aishawa
Hobb is running against BART board president Melissa or Nandez,
and apparently the American Israel Public Affairs Committee super pac
has spent more than two million dollars to try to
defeat w Hobb.
Speaker 2: Here, Yeah, I mean, and this is a this is
a trend that we're seeing in races across the country
where you know, you got big money, big special interest
money that is very active in these congressional races. We're
talking about a PAC money being one of the biggest
pot that's out there, AI money being another big pot
of money out there, Crypto being another pot of money
that's out there. And so those seem to be the
special interests that are are throwing down the most in
these congressional races. And you know, there are a number
of people that are quite concerned about what that means,
what that means to have you know, a packed you know,
looming large yet again. And in another race, you know,
we know that they spent millions of dollars on advertisements
to think Wahab's candidacy and boost Hernandez in the final
weeks of this race, and and uh and Ai and
an A and an a PAX affiliated group, the United
Democracy Project, they spent one point two million dollars on
the race in August in support of Fernandez and in
opposition to Wahab. That's according to a Federal Election Commission report.
Another group spent one point seven million dollars on the
race and so collectively dominate outside groups, they spent over
four million dollars on the race.
Speaker 1: That's insane. One house seat, that's that's right, that's just
it's hard for me to get my mind around that.
I always think of it as some kind of low
key wealth redistribution on the plus side, but on the
minor side. You know, that means that you cannot win
these races without big, big money, or can you. I
don't know. Abdullah say Ed was outspent right in Michigan
and still prevailed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean, look, the reality is is that
organized people always beat organized money, right. You know, the
organized money is really intended to buy the people power
right to buy the name ID. Right, But if you
have organizers on the ground on the job. I mean,
look at not just you know, mister l s a
Ed in Michigan, but you know, let's look at our
own backyard. Four years ago, when Karen Bass is running
from mayor against Rick Caruso. He spent over one hundred
and ten million dollars to defeat her, and he couldn't
in part because of the ground game that then candidate
Bass you know, had here in LA And so that
stuff makes the difference. And so just because you see
the big numbers, just because you see a lot of
the money pouring in, it doesn't It's not inevitable that
the person with the biggest pocketbook is going to win.
I would also note Dominique Wahab, who's an Afghan American
who is the first Muslim woman elected to the California
State Senate. She's called out the genocide in Gaza and
legislator from condemning it. And so that's a part of
what is animating the support of special interest in this race.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but sometimes that can that can backfire because voters are,
you know, on alert for being controlled by foreign interest.
Eight hundred and nine to fifteen eighty. If you got
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Dominique de Friema and doctor Nikr la Quarte. I'm KBLA
Talk fifteen eight. You are, and I have the pleasure
of talking with my colleague dot or knee Cordelai Corte.
Of course you see him, hear him, and sometimes see
him Monday through Thursday from four to six here on KBLA.
He is our chief national Affairs analyst and host of
a More Perfect Union, also television host and an author,
among other things, a journalist. We were talking yesterday, doctor Corte,
about you know, Steven A. Smith saying he's going to
war with the National Association of Black Journalists because they
gave him the Thumbs Down award. And my question was,
when were they not at war with him? I mean,
when was he not at war with the NABJ. What
did you think about that sort of threat by Stephen A.
Smith against the NABJ.
Speaker 2: Well, Dominique, as you know, you know, as a member
of NABJ, I was at the NABJ convention in Atlanta.
I just came back Saturday night, and so I missed
some of the fireworks at the gallo where they announced
the thumbs up and thumbs down. But it's it's interesting
NABJ and Steven A. Smith have a pretty long standing relationship.
In fact, I learned watching his response on his YouTube
channel yesterday afternoon that he got his start at NABJ,
like so many black journalists, he started at the Philadelphia Choir.
I think he got that job through a relationship at
the NABJ, and has been fairly active over the years,
particularly with the Sports Task Force at the NABJ. And so,
you know, he ran down a timeline of you know,
you know, you know, collaborations with the NABJ. You know,
all the ways in which he has supported other members
of the NABJ, you know, and to be that, but
be that.
Speaker 1: Isn't may doctor quarte. He has also gone in on
lots of members of the na a BJ. Black women
are his favorite targets, and so he can write all
that stuff he wants to, but it doesn't erase the
misogyny and anti blackness of his vituperative commentaries.
Speaker 2: I think I think that's fair, Dominique. I think there's
there's a lot to hold. And you know, even a
broken clock is right twice a day, right, and and
and and and I think that's part of what we're
seeing in the situation. Look, Aaron Haynes, the president in
a BJ, is a friend. We've worked together. We've been
on the campaign trail together covering Kamala Harris and other
sort of issues.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I know how she leads. She she leads with integrity.
Uh and uh you know she. I hope that that
that this marks the beginning of you know, a better
stephen a right moving forward. That's something that he certainly pledged,
or at least appeared to pledge in his video, responds
that I had a chance to look at yesterday. Everybody
else can take a look at it on their own
on YouTube and make their own determination. But you know,
when we have these these powerful platforms, Dominique, we have
to be responsible in terms of how we use them.
Do you using the punch up or do you using
the punch down? Right? You know? Do you use them
to critique fairly or unfairly? Right? And I think that's
a big part of what people are calling out, particularly
on the internet streets, is that he does not have
a track record of of acting fairly in his critiques.
Right when you have the president of the United States
that says that he's dumb as rocks, you know, and
he does not push forward with a response that is
as energetic and as full throated as what you might
say about you know, a Joy Read or a Kamala
Harris or you know or someone else. That is where uh,
folks believe that uh uh, he may be doing the
bidden of folks outside of our community, and so uh,
you know, I also want to mention in all fairness, Dominique,
that there were other folks that also got a thumbs
down vote.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about that. There quite a long list actually, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, including SEC chairman Brendan Carr. Uh for the folks
over at CBS, which, as you know, their editorial now
being led by Barry Wiss, has led to the firing
of a lot of black journalists. Right. And so while
Stephen A. Smith and and the tango with the NABJ
seems to be getting the most attention, I want to
remind our audience you know that, uh, the the work
of Brendan Carr and what we're seeing happening happening at
CBS is extremely consequential. Uh and is and and imposes
a significant challenge to the black press at a time
where we need a robust black press and a a
robust independent press that is clearly filling the squeeze in undertack.
Speaker 1: I mean to be honest with you, I thought that
was pretty bold of them to call out Brandon Carr
like that. Folks. Licenses can be on the line. We
see ABC today suing the FCC because the FCC is
threatening its TV licenses, and ABC is claiming that this
is retaliatory, right, that this is coming from Brendan Carr,
who is a Trump acolyte, and is unfair. He says
that the FCC is afringing on their First Amendment rights.
It's asking the court to stop them from going after
their licenses that they say can can pose an existential
threat to their operations. And I think, you know, we
know you call out Brandon Carr. He is the head
of the FCC. He is going after not just TV
but also radio licenses. One of the things he said
is he's going to end d EI and radio, which
isn't even a thing. And so I thought that was pretty,
you know, strong stance to take.
Speaker 2: I have a very strong stance, And I just want
to remind, you know, our listeners that, you know, it
even impacts us at KBLA. You know, when we interview,
when we interview candidates for public office, when we interview
elected officials, we actually have to fill out a form
that that tracks, you know, who is joining us on air,
what they're talking about, you know, and how long they're
on air with us. And you know, those reports get
submitted to the SEC right and so we feel it,
you know, in our everyday work at KBLA. And I
just want to remind folks, I mean that's the kind
of pressure you know, that journalists are under, particularly black journalists.
We saw what happened to black journalists like Don Lemon
and Georgia Ford, who, by the way, prought a case
and they are still having to go through the process
of clearing their name. Right. That's not cheap, right, And
so I personally, as a member of NABJA, I'd like
to see NABJA stand up a legal defense fund right
for independent journalists who may not have the resources that
Don Lemon has or the resources that Georgia Ford and
others may have been able to put together. Uh. And
you know that's that is quite possible under the leadership
of Aaron Haynes. I know this is something that she
is looking into, something that we have talked about offline,
you know, but I'm worried Dominique about the potential retaliation
as a result of these thumbs down. And we've got
to be making sure that we keep our eye on
the job security of black journalists across the country, particularly
in small markets across the country. You know, we cannot
allow uh, you know, these these major media companies that
are sitting on a lot of money right to to
scuttle the potential and the hopes and dreams uh of
black journalists, the commitment that black journalists have to the
tradition of the black press. And so I think NABJSON
a very strong message saying, you know that they're on notice,
each and every one of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, But I think that's a really good observation,
doctor Corte, because right now, you know, we see this
media consolidation, and we see the broligarchs, these billionaire tech
guys that are all supporting the Trump presidency at this point,
and the MAGA agenda buying up everything TikTok, and you know,
this massive consolidation with the Warner Brothers deal, and you
know which is followed in an already massive consolidation with
the Paramount deal. And so you know, even with the NBC,
these ABC stations, their licenses are not up for review.
Brendan Carr just decided to call for an early review
because he says that they're they're interviewing too many Democrats
and there's not equal time. Which is interesting because he
doesn't have the same critique of the Fox News stations
or o N or any of these other stations that
have almost no Democrats, almost no opposite perspectives. And I've
been a community affairs public affairs community action person at
a radio station, a big one and actually more than one.
And I know what you have to file. It's a lot, right,
You've got to prove that you're worthwhile in the community,
that you're being fair and all this stuff. But most
most stations don't even follow that anymore. As far as
equal time. I mean, we are really scrupulous about it
here at KBLA, but most stations don't even follow it.
So the idea that he would shut stations down or
takeaway licenses and then hand them over to these billionaires
for even more consolidation is a real concern.
Speaker 2: It is absolutely a real concern. And this is why
you know, we encourage people to you know, download the
KBLA asping bread the words right and support independent media
because otherwise, you know, there will come a time where
the brologarchs as you call them, are going to own
an even more substantial share of the media platforms that
we're on. And when they decided to change the rules,
when they decided to change the algorithm, for example, where
content that may be of political nature, content that may
be unapologetically black, that kind of content may be more suppressed,
and other content. We've got to be prepared for that
we shouldn't just be reactionary when it happened. We need
to be preparing for that right now. And so, you know,
the work that we're doing here at KBLA, the work
that Joy Read and Don Lemon and so many others
are doing on YouTube. You know, I think there's an
independent media revolution that is afoot, and it's on all
of us to tap in and more importantly, to support
and to lift up and to cite, you know, the
sort of you know journalism that is taking place in
the tradition of the black press.
Speaker 1: All Right, it's not too late to call us eight
hundred and nine to oh, fifteen eighty, eight hundred and
nine too oh fifteen eighty. We do have a lot
to talk about. You belong here. I'm Dominique Duprima and
I am joined this hour by KBLA Talk fifteen eighty
chief National Affairs Analyst, doctor nik Corlai Corte. He is
on this radio station Monday through Thursday from four to
six pm, and then occasionally when I can coax him
on the air with me, he has to do a
little bit double duty. Got a bunch of folks that
would like to speak with you. I want to go
to those phones. But I also want to quickly address
something we have not talked about, which you pointed out
to me, which is Oprah kind of pushing back a
little bit on her her legacy, if you will, of
doctor Oz and doctor Phil, two prominent TV doctors who
started out in the Oprah sort of Oprah's sphere, who
are both very much right wing. I wanted to say weirdos,
but that doesn't sound professional, like I don't know. Basically,
she's taking heat for their positions, and she's kind of saying.
Speaker 2: What Well, she's saying, you know, that everybody has their
own path in life and that it has not one
thing to do with me. That's what she's says. In
an interview with Emmy magazine. She says that she doesn't
have one thing to do with them, right, and so,
you know, this is probably the harshest language that we've heard,
most direct language. I should say that we've heard from
Oprah Winfrey about doctor Oz and doctor Phil, you know,
who have been in Trump's orbit for some time. I
remember doctor Oz had run for Senates uh in New Jersey,
I believe, and lost that race, and he ran as
a Republican and so you know, look, the reality is
is that you know, we may work with people over
the years. There are folks that I went to high
school with that are maga and we and there are
are friends I have, I have friends, I have friends
that went to more House that you know are are maga. Right,
And and so you know, just because you know somebody
may have had an affiliation a collaboration once time a time,
you're not responsible for someone's choices the rest of their life.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get that, But also, like, if you
have a pattern of elevating people that turn out to
be maga, do you think that you have to do
some reflection about why that is?
Speaker 2: Well, I is not maga, you know is not maga. Well,
you know, are a lot of people in Oprah's.
Speaker 1: Or I'm just saying, yeah, okay, and I get that,
you know, I have a family member that is maga.
But I'm just saying to act like you have nothing
to do with it. I don't know, doctor Corte, I
don't know. Maybe I don't know how many folks have
you elevated in the media space that turn out to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, you know, I don't have a great track
record on that front, and I'm not mad about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I've helped a lot of people over
the years. I call it the unofficial Dominique de Prima
school of broadcasting, and so far not one of them.
But I mean, I'm not saying it couldn't happen. It
absolutely could. I don't know. Maybe you're right, we're going
to leave that people. I think if you're Oprah and
you have the influence that she has, which few people
in modern history do, you know, and you're a spiritual
person like she is, that maybe some self reflection might
be in order.
Speaker 2: I mean, but but but Dominique, let me just let
me just put this in a little extra context. For
somebody who has a storied career in broadcasting has interviewed
over four thousand people over the years, myself included. Right,
we can focus on the handful of folks that are
in very prominent positions in our government and that have
gone full maga, you know, or we can look at
the breath of the people that she has elevated in
one form or another over the years. Right, And so
I think that's part of what she's saying is that,
you know, she can't be responsible for the path that
everyone takes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I get it. I get it. I don't.
I'm just not sure if a total lack of responsibility
is you know, is fair. But okay, I love that
she's pushing back and making her position clear. You know. Yeah,
let's let's go to Shon calling us from Long Beach.
Good morning, Sean.
Speaker 3: All right, good morning to you and your guests.
Speaker 1: How are you blessed? How you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing.
Speaker 3: I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Well, let's just just
get to just get to it. We got these midterms
coming up, got the twenty eight presidential election coming up.
You got a lot of Democrats who itching to get
back in power. They want to take over the government,
get it back from the mac Republican Trump treating the
Trump Traders scumbags that's in office now. My question is
what is the Democratic national platform when it comes to
things that are specifically specifically for black people. Not the
Rising Tide Raises all boats theory, because that's that's tired
and warning played out. I don't see any type of
national agenda that's on the Democratic platform. But any of
these candidates that said, hey, mister black people, miss black people,
you come in, vote for me and put me in office.
This is what I will do for y'all.
Speaker 1: And we're not talking about a platinum plan doctor knee
court lay like Quarte, do you have thoughts on them?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think this is a question that
comes up every election cycle, is what is the black agenda?
And who's going to be the greatest champion for the
black agenda? I can tell you traveling across the country,
you know, black people too are concerned about affordability. Black
people too are concerned about getting capital to grow their businesses,
to start their businesses, to scale their businesses. You might
remember CDFI's Community Development Financial Institutions have taken a huge
hit under the Trump administration. This is this has been
a major source of funding, you know, for black businesses.
So I think to your point, the people need to
hear Okay, we know this has happened. So Democrats, what
you're gonna do about it? And between now and November
that is the task of not just the Democrats, but
folks who are running in opposition to the MAGA Republicans.
And so you know, if you check out what the
Working Families Party is fighting for, you look at their agenda.
You look at the agenda of DSA, you look at
the agenda Democrats who are running right, You know there's
some there there. But to the point of the caller,
there's a lot more work between now and election day
to make it plain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and also I think it's also on
us to put out there what we want and put pressure.
The hour is almost upon us, though, scheon. Thank you
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