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