Speaker 1: La Talk fifteen eighty. Good morning, good morning, Welcome, God blessed.
I'm Dominique Daprima.
Speaker 2: This show is called First Things First, and my first
thing today and every day is prayer, given things given,
praises and asking for blessings from God, asking for the
blessings of the ancestors and the elders.
Speaker 1: And let's go. Got a lot to do, a lot
to talk about. So much going on around here. It's
a think dank Thursday. I really think we should have
our brains engaged every day if we can, except for
you know, if you can get out on vacation and
zone out, okay, but for the most part, let's engage.
We try to do that extra much, extra much on
Thursdays where we crowd source our wisdom to try to
solve problems and come up with solutions. And you know
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Glad you made it in. This is what we do.
Our one we look local as it connects to the world.
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don't think she calls herself that, but I do she
keeps better records than anyone I know she'll be joining
an hour or two hour three. We're going to talk
about huh is it enigma? Enigma, the quandary, the mystery
of Black Republicans in Maga America. Maybe he can explain
it to me. He's got a new book out, so
I'm sure he'll be telling you about that his venn
diagram of one. Lenny McCallister will join us an hour
three for a deep dive on the black Maga phenomena.
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we talked about a little bit yesterday the elections and
being upon us, and I stand corrected. Apparently the official
community campaign kickoff for Mayor Karen Bass's re election is
Saturday at Obama and Labrace. She'll be there. She'll be
there greeting supporters. If you are one of those, you're
welcome to go. Everyone is welcome to go. People will
be signing up to knock on doors and help get
out the vote. But you know, she officially obviously was
in the in the running as of the end of
the primary, whenever the tally showed that she was into
the runoff, which I think was on election day itself. Like,
I don't think that was ever in doubt for our
incumbent mayor. Whereas the official kickoff, the hooplah and such
for her opponent, council Member Nathia Rahman, that happened June eleventh.
One could argue that perhaps she's been campaigning so hard
that she hasn't been able to make those council meetings.
Some analysts claim that is why she lost her spot
leading the Housing committee in the La City Council, and
so say what you will, we are definitely ten toes
down in election season. I believe it's eighty days or
seventy nine days to go before we have to the
final day to vote. We talked about a little bit
yesterday about Javier Bessetta and how I said it's probably
an easy race for him. I doubt he'll take it
for granted because he's a seasoned politician. He is a
lawmaker who has held many different offices, and he knows
that you just there's no done deal until it's a
done deal. However, the latest Berkeley Igs La Times poll
is showing him ahead fifty five to thirty seven percent.
So that is definitely a kick your butt type of lead. Now,
of course, the Elon Musk money hasn't kicked in yet,
right the Peter Thiel money may not have kicked in
the ads. You know they are going to redistribute, redistribute
some of their wealth by tearing best part in whatever
way they can. I don't think he I could be wrong,
but I don't think he's got wild scandals in his
wood pile. But you know, they don't care, they make
stuff up, so we expect I expect that lead to
narrow once the hit pieces and terrible, terrible commercials get going. However,
as of right now, he's in stompamount territory. And of
course it is almost entirely along party lines. So if
you have Republican friends who claim they're voting for Bisseta,
the chances are they're not telling you the truth. And
of course it is the coastal strongholds, the coastal progressive areas,
which happen to be the population centers of California. Right
So you wonder why this big red area in the
middle of the state is so outnumbered every election season
and so outnumbered in Washington. Is because they're big geographic areas.
But there aren't that many people there, i e. Not
that many voters, Whereas if you go to Los Angeles,
San Francisco, San Diego, all of those areas have tons
of people. And that's where more of the Latino people live,
that's where more the black people live, and that's where
more of the Democrats live. And so that's the story
of our bipolar state. Those cities. According to the La Times,
it's San Diego, the Bay area and the coastal even
the coastal smaller cities this you know, the Santa Barbars
and such. That's where in La of course, that's where
Bessetta is strong. Eighty eight percent of dams are voting
for Bessetta. Ninety one percent of Republicans back Hilton. And
the reason I say it like that, like ninety one percent,
is because we always hear I don't know people who
call in this show whose name rhymes with head, or
other people who claim that they're not Republicans they're independent,
or Republicans who claim they're not MAGA ones, but yet
they are still going to vote ninety one percent of
them for Steve Hilton, who is a Fox News host
with MAGA talking points. I mean, he might have a nice,
smooth sounding voice and a cool English accent, he might
have a much much better vocabulary than the resident, but
he is in fact a MAGA Republican following the MAGA
talking points and their platform point for point. So this
idea of the kinder, gentler Republican is mostly just a
pr kind of thing. Really, ninety one percent of them
are backing Hilton. And interestingly, though, and this kind of
does contradict something I always say, but I hope that
it's right, is that the no party preference voters are
also leaning toward Bissetta, with six fifty eight percent of them.
So the ones that don't have a party affiliation, thirty
percent of them are with Hilton. That's what they're telling
the pollsters. I hope that is what is true, and
that they are not just Republicans in disguise, which is
what I often say. Eight hundred nine two oh fifteen eighty.
I'm Dominique de Prima, and you well, I'm pretty sure
you know where you are right now. So I'm a
question of Javier Bessetta, who may very well be the
next governor of the fourth largest economy in the whole
wide world. Mister Bessetta, I should have noted, is particularly
strong in his polling among women, younger voters, and guess
who else, black people. And so that's an interesting dynamic.
I think it makes sense. You know, he was part
of the Obama team, he was part of the Biden administration.
But also I don't we'll see, you know, I don't
see Steve Hilton appealing to black voters. So right now,
it seems like black black Calli is Team Besseta. He
will be, if elected, the first Latino governor of the
state of California, which is interesting because, I mean, we
have such a huge Latino population, voting population. Contrary to
popular stereotype. We have a lot of born and raised
Chicano Latino, you know, Californians. Not talking about people who
can't vote, not talking about immigrants. Some are maybe many
years back, but some as they say, you know, we
didn't cross the border of the border across US. This
used to be Mexico, and I get that it's not
anymore trust and belief, but you know, we have a
lot of Latinos and Latino Californians, Latino US Americans, and
the thing about that is that they have been called
the sleeping giant because they don't vote. Their numbers that
may be changing. We shall see. The other shift in
this way that we're seeing. In this particular we're going
to see in this election is Council District nine CD nine,
which is currently led by council Member Current Price, who's
done an amazing job. By the way, in that district,
he's everywhere, he always shows up. He's always doing events
and providing resources for the community. However, the two gentlemen
who are in the runoff are both Latino, so that
will be a change on the La City Council. We've
always had a black council member in that district, and
I would I would not be at all surprised if
that doesn't happen again. Maybe, but I don't see it now.
I'm not saying that to say that black candidates cannot
win in non black districts. It happens all the time,
including the mayor of this city. That's what coalition and
allyship is about. I mean, asked Tom Bradley, right, So
that's not what I'm saying at all. But I'm saying
that I think we are going to We are seeing
the emergence of the Latino voter as more of a
factor here in the state of California and beyond, and
hopefully this experience with the Ice debacle and the way
this particular resident is governing will move those that found
themselves leaving the Democratic Party. We'll move them back into
the common sense aile. You know, that is not guaranteed,
but we are seeing some evidence, some empirical evidence that
that's starting to happen. Jose Ugarte and Estuardo Mazariegos, who
are the two folks who are in that CD nine runoff,
and one of them, yes, one of them comes out
of the comes out of the CD nine current camp.
One of them worked with Council Member Price for many years.
But they're both Latino, and one or the other of
them is going to be representing CD nine after November.
And they are both, by the way, after the whole
spiel I just gave about US American born and raised
multiple generation type of Latinos, they are both. Not that
they're both, they were both born elsewhere and raised here.
Not saying that's bad or good, but that's what it is,
and so things are shifting. That's normal. I think that
people who believe that we can live as an island
and not have coalitions or not have at least alliances
are actually in denial. It's never really worked that way
in Cali to begin with. And you know, I think
that it's I know that we're in this era of
division even more than ever before, at least online, right
between black and brown and Asian and black and all
of these, you know. And I am actually as supporter
of the current de facto boycott, but alliances and coalitions
are necessary. You're not, and you know, it's rare when
you're gonna have that spot in your community, in your town.
You know, when the whole world is not Jackson, Mississippi,
And even Jackson, Mississippi, which has or Baltimore, Maryland, which
have majority black residents, they're still dealing with not Baltimore,
but in Jackson, they're still dealing with the state apparatus. Right,
And you're right, Paul. I see Paul in the in
the YouTube talking about how Latinos are moving toward a
Republican party. There's a couple of caveats to that, though, Paul.
One is that the Latino vote is not a monolith,
as they'd like to say about black people. So if
you're talking about Cubans or Venezuelans, they start out more
conservative because they are leaving running away from fleeing or
rebelling against social lists or communist governments. So the folks
that come that came here intended to be the richer
and wider among them, right among the people in that country,
whereas with you know, Central America and Mexico, that is
less likely. Depending on the Central American state right. Some
of them were ruled by right wing groups like El Salvador,
like Guatemala, like Nicaragua. And then when different governments take
over or we do something crazy with the drug trade,
those folks come here round Blue sevens as a bunch
of Zimmermans. But again it's not a monolith. A Mexican
or you know, or Central American. Latino is more likely
and certainly at Chicano US American born and raised here
is much more likely to be progressive. So I don't
it's you know, you can't just say, oh, they're all
moving Republican. And then the other thing is the resident
is pushing them back into the Democratic Party. And then
the final thing I'll say on that is there's a
gender split Latinas. In other words, Latino women are much
less likely to vote Republican Republican. I can't even say
it anymore. Then Latino men, we've got news, traffic and sports.
Then you're invited in as always, I'm Dominic Kaprima, and
this is KVLA Talk fifteen eighty asking Miles, Miles, why
is Russell Westbrook stepping down? He's an LA icon And
you said.
Speaker 3: It's about that time eighteen years in and uh, if
anybody give you a job offered, you know, might as
well wrap it out, go out and and you know,
with all the all your.
Speaker 1: Glory in text, Yeah I got I got you you
you know, happy retirement, mister Westbrook. I think what people
may not be clocking about is that he really does
a lot of stuff for the community behind the scenes.
He's not always out here beating his chest talking about it,
but he does a lot of stuff for his his community.
Speaker 3: Yes, now I hear about that. The community speaks very
highly of Russell Westbrook, especially around here. So shout out
to Russell Westbrook. Great career, may Hall of Famer, all
time triple double beast, you know what I mean, Like
one of the most athletic point guards of all time,
one of the funnest people to watch of all time,
motor on one hundred percent every game. I feel like
he's one of the ones you'd say gave us all
to the game for as long as he was out there.
So yeah, I love Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1: That's wrong with that. Back to do your best every day.
But yeah, no, I mean that's why you know, I
always say the streets know, the streets always know the
streets know that man right there is a real one.
So you know LA legend for sure.
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That's legendary. I think I feel like I could say
that anyway, Miles Low. Your show is ongoing, it's every Saturday.
I just want to make sure you know, I see
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We talk everything tech, AI, creative economy, health consciousness, all
that stuff, and also how to make money right now
using all the tools at your disposal. This week we're
gonna be talking about this AI music controversy. You know,
the artists are coming out saying they're using AI now
to make their music instead of kind of like keeping
on the tuck. So you know, I want to see
who really cares, who we really care? Let's break down
some numbers. Yeah, yeah, let's talk about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we had a behind the mike conversation
about that maybe a year or more ago. You were
talking about how Drake was using AI for some of
his using it to reproduce himself.
Speaker 3: Drake did it, Kanye West used on his last Bully album.
Him in Northwest has been using it. Timberland's been a huge,
huge advocate for it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're here now,
ladies and gentlemen. So I don't want to see and.
Speaker 1: If YA does it, that means people are going to
be doing it.
Speaker 3: I mean everybody. That means everybody has been doing it.
It's just saying that certain people except people have been
sitting in the tuck with it. Don't want to expose
it and say they're using it. But now R at
a point where it's the conversation piece. It's the centerpiece
of the combo.
Speaker 1: So yeah, the new plastic surgery. What AI is the
new plastic surgery?
Speaker 3: Bbl yo, No to Dominique. We've had people who come
in here and you know, when they start the hour,
asking what song you want to start with it, They'll
give me a song. Oh why has heard this, this, this, this,
and this, And I look it up and it's AI.
Speaker 1: Music right And the person doesn't even know it. They
just have a they just heard a song they like.
Are they hearing people anyway, tune into the Do Better Show.
I'm assuming folks are getting this music online. That's where
it's coming from. That's where they're coming in contact with it,
and then they're like, oh, I love this song, not
realizing that it's about it's.
Speaker 3: Getting caught up in a TikTok artists.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well yeah, so okay, thanks for that clarity. I
appreciate it. These things, you know, they come across on
the Black Information Network, which is a national network. So
maybe and of course Ray Richardson does our news and
our sports news, and he does a great job, but
that's one of those that lands a little heavier in LA. Yeah,
and yesterday we had a story that aired talking about
BLM sports. BLM sports is b S just FYI. More
on that later. We'll talk about it Monday when doctor
Mouline Abdullah will be in with me in our one,
so we can break that down in case you were confused.
That is the folks that took the people's money repurposing
it to something that is not the intention of the
people who donated to Black Lives Matter. They donated to
stop state sanctioned violence, and now these goofies have decided
to make it into a little sports club, sports booster club. No,
that ain't it anyway. Just for the record, So we
were talking about this, the Latino vote, the Black vote,
how it's all playing out, and how it's going to
come together or not this election season. I would say yes,
at least when it comes to Beseta, you'll probably see
a stronger Latino turnout I would imagine at the polls
in California, because the opportunity to have the first Latino
governor ever is got to be appealing to Latino voters.
You know, like I said, they don't always vote their
weight class. And Paul makes the point that Black people
as a whole do vote heavily Democratic, even though we
are not a monolith either, and that is true. But
all of these things are evolving. You know. We did
see some slippage over to the MAGA world. We'll be
addressing some of that in our three today. The mystery
of the Black Republicans under MAGA. I think a lot
of that is missing disinformation online. I think there is
definitely a gender component to that as well. Well. There
is because if you can look at the numbers, there's
ninety two percent of black women voted for Kamala Harrison
eighty five percent of black men. It's not terrible, but
there is a gap there, right. Ram Blue says, fun fact,
one out of every three black people born in Cali
is Latino. I have not seen those numbers, ram Blue seven,
but that would not shock and surprise me, just as
a lot of black people in this country now, and
a lot of the growth in the black population are
immigrants from Haiti, from Africa. It's a reality. I was
going to say, in new reality, but it's not really
that new. It's just more prevalent. And as the conscious
African immigrants say, it's because of the work of black
civil rights leaders that open the doors to any immigration,
just as the fourteenth Amendment opened the doors to birthright citizenship.
So all all immigrants and refugees definitely owe a debt
to Black Americans. That's not to say they have to
be our enemies. In fact, it's just the opposite, you know.
And I already dealt with a lot of misunderstanding around
this on the radio. My former husband is a black life,
He's Cuban, and so people say, oh, well, she's married
to a Mexican. Well, if I was fine, like, I
don't have a problem with that, but that just wasn't
the truth. The truth was my former husband looked more
like Sidney Poitier than Ricky Ricardo, and people have trouble
getting their minds around it. But what you need to know,
as someone who is married to a an Afro Latino
for almost fifteen years, they identify as black first, most
of them. I mean, I'm sure they have sellouts just
like we do. But the fact of the matter is,
if you're in Venezuela and you're black, you're still black.
If you're in you know, Panama and you're black, you're
still black. If you're in Costa Rica and you're black,
you're still black. What do I mean by that. I'm
not saying you have to pretend that they're the same
as Black Americans, But what I am saying is that
they're still dealing with racism in whites supremacy, just as
we have, and so there is an identification in an understanding.
Now that's a little different with Africans because although they're
dealing with colonization, and some of them have colonized minds,
but many don't. Many are revolutionaries, many are progressive, but
The difference is that if you're black and everyone in
your country is black, like let's let's say a Ghanaian
as compared to a South African. If you're a black
South African migrant, you come from a powerful and still
functioning system of white supremacy and white privilege. If you're
a Ghanaian American, you're still dealing with the vestiges of
a colonial mindset. But your president is black, your army
is black, your cops are black. It's black, any black,
all black, black black. So when they come here, they
have less of an understanding of what it's like to
function in the belly of the beast, of what it's
like to deal with white supremacy, you know, the original flavor.
So I mean, yes, there are nuances, but this idea
that one out of every three black people born in
California is Latino, that that's somehow a threat to black California,
I would put that in the not true category if
I with snoops, because most of those folks understand that
what's good for black people is good for them, what's
good for black children is good for their children. I mean,
it doesn't take a rocket scientist. It really doesn't. I
do agree we should be voting in higher numbers, but
we do as black people, as Black Angelino specifically, I'll
say we vote above our weight class. We are what
eight percent, approximately eight percent of the population, and in
elections we vary from fifteen to twenty percent of voters.
We vote above our weight class a high percentage of
US votes. Now that may be disproportionately elders, but it's
something we need to, you know, be proud of. Yeah,
you're right, Paul, it would we it'd be great if
it was at But we vote in higher numbers than
many most communities. And so I say that to say, yes,
we need to step it up, but also we need
to stop beating ourselves in each other up for being
the problem. We could do better, but we ain't the problem,
the apathy problem. The folks that don't vote problem, did
not civically engage problem. We're not the poster child for that.
And I'm not just talking about black women because we
like to say black women have saved the Democratic Party,
black women have saved America, and that is true, but
it's not just black women as black men too. Hello Hello, Hello,
so Bissetta, I'm sure is quite pleased that he is
doing so well among black Californians, and it explains why.
As I mentioned to you yesterday that the city council
woman who's running to be mayor of this city, who
is of Brahmin East Indian background, is now trying to
get into the black churches, skip the black microphone. Her
people told me she didn't have time to talk to me.
Maybe she will this time. Look, I will say this,
and I mean this. I'm very serious about this. When
politicians get on the microphone with me, when we do interviews, debates, interviews,
anything like that before, I will always always do my
best to be fair. Okay, not Fox News. I know
how to put on my news hat and read news
headlines and put on my opinion hat and say my opinion.
And there's a time and place for both. I know
how to do that. I am a trained journalist. Quiet
as it's kept, So should any candidate, whether I am
going to vote for them or not, step to this mic. Yes,
I will ask tough questions. I will ask everybody tough questions.
Red blue, left, coast right, coast, black, white, white supremacist,
so called revolutionary like, yeah, I'm gonna ask the questions
about your record. I'm going to ask the tough questions
and I'm going to ask the easy questions both. I
want to give you a chance to shine and show
who you are so that voters can make their own
decisions using their own head. They don't have to use
my had. They got their own. That's why we each
get our own head. We don't have to share one. Right.
So she remains invited. Every candidate who is in this
runoff election, Republican, Democrat, smart, dumb, tall, short, cute, not
so cute, They're all invited, and I will give them
a fair shake on this MIC. Tough questions and easy questions,
all are welcome. You can call me eight hundred and
nine to two oh, fifteen eighty. I am Dominique Diaprima
in this is KBLA Talk, fifteen eighty. Yeah, it's true
that the Latino voter is moving more conservative, but also
let's break it down state by stay. If you're in Florida,
you know that's that's Latino Maga land, Right. You got
all those Cubans there that ran away from communism in Cuba.
You got all of the dispots and dictators from Latin
America who found their retirement homes in Florida, the Monuel
Noriega's of the world. You've got all these conservative Venezuelans
who fled from the jav As government. You know, you
have that's a hotbed of right wing Cubans. Now, my
understanding standing is that even the Mexican population in Texas
is moving to the right. But if you look at
our our California Latinos, uh, they tend to be more progressive.
Now to some extent I'm going on, you know, my
own empirical experience. We know we have some conservative Latinos here,
but you also have this huge base of US born
and raised and some who are not US born and
raised who are social justice oriented. I mean, look at
the La City Council right, some of our most restive
members are Latinos ELNSI San Nandez Latina not at all conservative.
I don't think she's got a conservative bone in her body.
Ugo Soto Martinez very very progressive. You know. Those two
are are are two of the ones that tend to
hold the line when it comes to the ever expanding
ginormous LAPD budget. And those those I mean, and then
you could sell Isabel Hurrado, but she's not Latina, she's Filipino, uh,
Asian Pacific Islander. Two of our more progressive residents of
city Hall, right, our Controller Kenneth Mahea and council Member
Hurado are also Asian. That's why I think the thing
the saying Asians are not a monolith. Black people are
not a monolith. Latinos are not a monolith, is important
because it's true that you can't just paint the picture
of all Latinos this way. And I would say that
our Latinos, meaning Cali Latinos, are less conservative than those
in other states. So that's that is what it is.
It's you know, yes, we do. We We did see
Mexicans for Trump in Beverly Hills, Woo low information voters. However,
you know in the main that is not uh that's
not where where they land in this in this state,
the legislative caucus, in the Latino legislative caucus in California
has no Republicans. Latino legislation relative caucuses in Arizona and
Texas have tons. You see what I'm saying. So it
is a different story in a different history here in
the state of California and we benefit from that. I
wish that could spread. I wish that could spread to Florida.
And it's possible that the egregious actions of this resident,
and it's not just the resident, it's all the homies
of the resident, would turn the tide. But I don't know,
because when you talk about a Marco Rubio type, he's
the perfect Florida example, right, a guy who whose parents
come from Cuba and who has adopted his parents' politics,
having spent no time as an adult in Cuba, and
now is trying to destroy it. Right, That's that's the prototype.
And he doesn't just changed because Trump didn't include him.
And then when they escaped from Turkey and Trump got
in the catering truck to go to a different airplane,
they left Marco Rubio on the plane they were planning
to explode. Just because he clearly doesn't care about you.
That's not going to change his opinion because it's coming
from a family history of trauma and misinformation. And I
understand what you're saying, Selena. Black people are bailing because
they're tired of being used, But we're not always being used.
Many times, coalitions and ally ships create outcomes that actually
work in our favor. Right. Tom Bradley arguably was I
think the longest serving mayor in LA history. I could
be wrong about that, but he would not have been
elected without coalitions. The clear thing to Carl's point is
what are we asked for? You know, if we're backing Bessetra,
what are we asking for? And I think that's the
thing Selena Rix nine five six is in the chat.
That's the thing we have to do better at is
politics is all about quid pro quo, So what's the
ask and how do we follow up on the ask
and make sure that what was promised is delivered. We
are talking hip hop, women in hip hop and what's
going on today with the poet is aka Felicia Morris.
That's next and you're welcome in KBLA Talk fifteen eighty