WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:04.719 Yes, indeed, it is that time. Doctor Webs and I 2 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:07.440 cannot get enough of our little theme opening. It is 3 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:11.199 so jugling, it just makes you on the rock. It 4 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:14.439 is time, always, time to make that change for justice. 5 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:18.359 You are listening to Truth Time with doctor Corna West 6 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:21.320 and Nina trying to recount it all joy per usual 7 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:25.359 that we are all here together today, so much to cover. 8 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:30.800 We got Mayor Bass and acts a curfew. Congresswoman Monica 9 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:37.000 McKeever was hit with federal charges. They're charging her for 10 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:41.600 saying that she assaulted assault chargers. So we'll talk about that. 11 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:47.039 And then you know how this president is using military forces. 12 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:48.479 I mean, it goes on and on, and this is 13 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:52.799 going to continue to be a very big story as 14 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:56.560 we move into Saturday, which is Flag Day, which is 15 00:00:56.600 --> 00:01:01.520 President Trump's birthday, and how he's bringing haink seeing and 16 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:05.239 military equipment being flown in from all over the country 17 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:08.840 to the tune of one hundred and well that's forty 18 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:11.680 million dollars, and then what he's doing in California is 19 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:14.640 one hundred and thirty four million dollars. And DoD gotta 20 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:16.760 tell you just reminds me of some of those the 21 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:20.840 authoritarian regimes that we see in places like Russia and 22 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:23.439 China to have this kind of this full display. And 23 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:28.879 as Republicans are being asked about the parade itself, they 24 00:01:28.879 --> 00:01:31.879 can barely justify it, especially when you've got a homeless 25 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:35.840 in house population among veterans. So we're bringing this to 26 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:38.239 you because all of this stuff is happening in real time, 27 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:41.120 and Doctor West and I always want to remind you 28 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:44.159 that even though we understand what is happening, we must 29 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:48.239 never lose hope and determination to change things. And so 30 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:52.439 the eruptions that we see, or the use of the 31 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:55.120 First Amendment to assemble and petition one's government, because I 32 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:58.359 don't want to say eruptions, but the bubbling up of 33 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:01.159 people that we see all over the country is really 34 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:05.719 in response to how this government is comporting itself and 35 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:08.520 how people are just fed up, Doc, And they cannot 36 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:12.000 no longer say that this is happening because of one 37 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:15.080 political party or another. I mean, this really has nothing 38 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:17.159 to do with the Democrats. Democrats couldn't pull nothing off 39 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:19.800 like this. If they try. They just ain't got the 40 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:21.319 They ain't got the they ain't got the hooks. But 41 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:23.280 to do it, they ain't got the nerves to do it. 42 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:25.520 I believe that this is truly a bubbling up of 43 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:29.759 people who are disgraced by what they are seeing, and 44 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:32.919 some who also voted for President Trump. They did not 45 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:35.479 vote for this. But here we are, doc you are 46 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:38.599 in the house. What is on your heart, your soul, 47 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:42.719 and your mind on this day one? 48 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:45.400 I just love your salute to the Whinings and this 49 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:50.240 magnificent song that's been introducing us now for nearly six months. 50 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:53.879 They represent the best, so much of the best of Detroit, 51 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:57.960 is so much the best of black music and black culture. 52 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:03.280 Because we have to keep our joy, we have to 53 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:07.879 keep our sense of memory, and we have to keep 54 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:12.919 our love and courage under all circumstances. 55 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:16.240 Says, yes, circumstance. 56 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:19.280 I would go as far even to invoke the fifth 57 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:23.159 Chapter as their Salonians, where my Bible tells me one 58 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:28.280 should be thankful in all circumstances. That's what it means 59 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:30.599 to pray unceasingly, which is to say, that doesn't mean 60 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:33.919 you deny the ugliness, deny the hatred, deny the terrory, 61 00:03:34.039 --> 00:03:37.560 deny the trauma. Now it just means you counting your 62 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:41.560 blessings because you glad you still have a self that 63 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:49.879 is struggling, fighting still loving against the hatred, against the oppression, 64 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:55.439 against the trauma, against all the lies, against all the crimes. 65 00:03:55.960 --> 00:04:00.240 And so when I think of where we are. 66 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:03.520 Right now, especially in beloved at Los Angeles, I say 67 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:07.120 to myself, what is it about LA? You know, it 68 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:12.479 was August nineteen sixty five that really turned the corner 69 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:13.639 on the sixties. 70 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:22.439 That's Los Angeles. Yeah, Rodney King ninety two, Los Angeles 71 00:04:23.399 --> 00:04:27.600 twenty twenty five, that's Lost Angelus. 72 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:29.600 And there's so many things in between it. 73 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:33.240 Now, somebody grew up in Sacramento, you know, I got 74 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:35.600 a bias toward California. But I've been on the East 75 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:39.439 Coast for fifty years, living in Harlem now for many 76 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:44.120 many years. But LA is still the center of the 77 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:47.839 empire when it comes to keeping track of the new 78 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:52.519 tendencies and development. And I think very much like are 79 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:57.879 witnessing actual genocide and real time in Gaza and not 80 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:02.000 being able to stop it. Right now, we're witnessing the 81 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:08.600 implosion and the explosion of the US Empire, and we're 82 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:11.439 going to see whether we can we can stop it 83 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:15.920 or at least transform it in a much more progressive direction. 84 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:20.639 But when you see Trump just out of control, the 85 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:25.600 gangsterism just running a mark, and it's not just in 86 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:30.480 Los Angeles, La again becomes the center point. But you 87 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:34.120 got what's happening in God's what's happening in Sudan, the 88 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:39.079 military rism all around the world, militarizing that's at home, 89 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:43.000 the corruption of the elites across the board, the helplessness 90 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:46.000 of the citizens, so many young people not able to 91 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:49.040 gain assets to the best of who they are and 92 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:51.560 what has gone into them in terms of their own tradition, 93 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:55.759 in terms of their own history and heritage. It reinforces 94 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:58.279 the worst in human beings, which is always the greed 95 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:01.600 and the hatred, the coward late and it's always the 96 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:04.560 envy and resentment rather than the courage. 97 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:07.399 To compassion, the vision, the service to others. 98 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:09.600 And highlighting the plight of the least of these, of 99 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:14.079 the vulnerable and the weak, the oppressed, colonized and subjugated. 100 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:17.879 And so where we are now is in so many 101 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:21.959 ways just so undeniable in terms of what is happening 102 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:26.319 before our very eyes. And Saturday is going to be 103 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:29.319 a bigger manifestation of it. 104 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:31.360 It really is. Doctor You know if I were one 105 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:34.279 of them, I would just be ashamed of myself. But 106 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:40.120 they are too unaware to be ashamed of turning other 107 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:47.439 Americans against other Americans or against immigrants. Regardless, Let's deal 108 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:51.519 with a border. You know, security, We can deal with 109 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:52.879 all of those things, but you don't have to deal 110 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:55.800 with those things this way. And what President Trump is 111 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:58.160 doing is not making America any more secure. As a 112 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:01.040 matter of fact, it makes us more vulner honerablebleok that 113 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:03.600 that is really what he's wreaking havoc and listening the 114 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:05.879 truth time, doctor Cornell West and even Turner. When we 115 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:10.079 come forward, we will continue. Yeah, do not forget that 116 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:14.040 the four year anniversary for this networks called it the network. 117 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:24.000 This this this magnific sense pro black, pro progressive network 118 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:27.600 that I want to know the brother Tavis Smiley has created, 119 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:32.759 along with the amazing team, about to celebrate four years, Doc, 120 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:35.040 and you are going to be there in the celebration, 121 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:39.879 so will Jesse Jackson Junior is going to be in 122 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:43.319 the house and a whole host of folks celebrating four 123 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:47.439 years of magnificence and four years of bringing the news 124 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:51.800 in a way that very few networks or radio stations 125 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:52.360 will bring it. 126 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:53.800 That's the truth. 127 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:59.040 And you can see that year after year after year 128 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:03.439 having carriage to speak against the green Sometimes that even 129 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:06.480 includes having to criticize black folk and black leadership. 130 00:08:06.519 --> 00:08:08.360 But it's in deep black up. 131 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:12.759 It has a lot to do with just human beings 132 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:17.279 across the board being in need of critique and correction, 133 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:22.279 in ourselves being open to being critiqued and corrected. 134 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:25.800 That is it, and showing lots of love to the 135 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:31.079 two communities in need. The Alta Dina outreach and coverage 136 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:35.639 by far going deep and not allowing anybody to forget 137 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:38.759 the residents of Alta Dina, and they are about four 138 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:42.320 events happening. Please make sure that you go and sign up. 139 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:47.799 And for the Juneteenth celebration, the barbecue part of the celebration, 140 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:52.440 please bring a gift card of any amount if you can, 141 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:55.720 and those gift cards are going to be shared with 142 00:08:56.480 --> 00:09:00.519 the residents of Alta Dina who are still suffering. Even 143 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:03.720 though the media is not taught, other media outlets are 144 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:07.159 not talking about it as much, the pain is still 145 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:09.879 there and the promise is still there as well in 146 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:13.159 terms of rebuilding and doctor West again. I gotta give 147 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:16.679 it to brother Tavis and others in the greater community 148 00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:19.799 who have come together to make sure that those residents 149 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:22.840 have what they need, their basic necessities, and that they 150 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:25.480 are not forgotten about. So as much as this is 151 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:31.200 about the four year celebration or anniversary of KBLA Talk 152 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:35.120 fifteen eighty, it is as much about giving back to 153 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:36.240 the community as well. 154 00:09:36.759 --> 00:09:40.679 Absolutely, I know they got Brother James Barr been doing 155 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:44.399 the magnificent job keeping track on the ground what's happening, 156 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:47.799 always in touch with the humanity of those precious black 157 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:50.720 folking out to Dina, no matter what the mainstream media 158 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:51.320 has to. 159 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:53.960 Say, no matter what they have to say, And that 160 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:56.879 is why it is so important that we have our 161 00:09:56.919 --> 00:10:00.679 own media outlets in the tradition of the black press, 162 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:03.679 where oftentimes it is the only place that you can 163 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:07.759 go to get news that is seen through the lens 164 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:15.039 of the black experience. Exactly right, Happy anniversary KBLA Talk 165 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:19.000 fifteen eighty. Bait. We love you. We love you, even 166 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:21.080 you know, putting the little license on that doc. You 167 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:24.279 and I are here, but that love expands beyond us 168 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:27.679 having truth time. So please please please join in and 169 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:32.039 support the network, support the radio station. So doctor the 170 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:38.679 New Jersey Democrat Congresswoman Lamonica McIver was indicted on federal charges. 171 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:42.159 This particular reporting that we've been looking at the news 172 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:45.679 articles with this one in particular coming from CBS News 173 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:48.720 and they're saying that she's being charged with assault on 174 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:52.879 federal law enforcement officers doing a clash. This happened last month. 175 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:57.000 We covered this. Mayor, the mayor of New Jersey was 176 00:10:57.039 --> 00:11:00.000 there the Congress. So let me back up. Congress members 177 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:04.399 do have a right to inspect federal facilities or facilities 178 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:08.480 operating under the auspices of the federal government, and they 179 00:11:08.519 --> 00:11:12.360 do not have to get the permission of the President 180 00:11:12.440 --> 00:11:14.639 to go visit. They are supposed to be allowed in. 181 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:18.159 They don't have to make an appointment. The tensions are 182 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:21.960 so thick that these facilities are not operating the way 183 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:24.679 that they should and congress members are being treated like 184 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:28.480 they just average people off the street. These facilities are 185 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:31.440 not adhering to the rules and what is supposed to happen. 186 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:34.480 So there are about three congress members and then Mayor 187 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:39.000 Roz Baraka was there and the congress members were trying 188 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:43.279 to protect him. People may remember he was arrested. Chargers 189 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:46.440 were filed on him as well. Those charges have subsequently 190 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:51.519 been dropped, but now they are charges against the congresswoman, 191 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:57.559 saying that she assaulted agents of Homeland Security. Now she 192 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:01.120 has come out and says she's to plead not guilty 193 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:05.080 and that this is an overreach by the Trump administration 194 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:08.480 and what they are doing is meant to intimidate her 195 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:11.759 and also send a chilling effect to anybody else that 196 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:16.000 does not have an extra special title. Now the charge 197 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:20.559 is being filed by Hobba, and she is a coach 198 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:24.320 Trump ally, and it's important to understand that she also 199 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:30.960 served as his personal attorney in his New York criminal trial. 200 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:34.080 So you can connect the dots, you can follow the 201 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:38.440 breadcrumbs and ask yourself the question, is this fair or 202 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:41.039 is this political revenge? 203 00:12:42.759 --> 00:12:48.360 Yeah, I'm thoroughly convinced that it's a mobilizing and weaponizing 204 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:51.279 of the Department of Justice. 205 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:53.519 The targets certain folk. 206 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:57.600 And I was just with brother Rosborock twice in the 207 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:00.639 last two and a half weeks or so, and I 208 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:03.759 hope he did marvelously yesterday. I still got to check 209 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:08.759 and see in the election running for governor. But he 210 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:14.440 as well as the fellow congress sister were in no 211 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:20.080 way involved in any kind of assault or attack. We've 212 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:24.919 seen the video. You see, it's just all intimidation problem. 213 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:30.200 Brother Tavis's wonderful interview with the mayor this morning. Sister 214 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:32.759 Karen Bass when she talked about in the sixties they 215 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:38.960 had these agent provocateurs who are always embedded within certain 216 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:42.600 contexts and try to get people to douce and say 217 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:47.039 certain things, try to provoke them, try to intimidate them. Well, 218 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:50.759 now with the trumpet, administration seems to have its own 219 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:57.600 networks of various agents of provocation and intimidation, and this 220 00:13:57.759 --> 00:14:00.519 is certainly one. I'm glad she has the curt tell 221 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:02.919 the world does she knows she's not guilty. I just 222 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:04.440 hate that she has to go through all of this 223 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:07.480 in the very fact that she's a congresswoman. 224 00:14:08.279 --> 00:14:13.639 Yeah, you know, good God Almighty, you know, it's just 225 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:18.279 trying to set people up, at examples, to keep everybody 226 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:21.879 else so fearful and scared and intimidated. 227 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:25.720 That's exactly right. And even if she prevails, the amount 228 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:30.360 of time actually and money she has to spend money 229 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:34.840 to defend herself. So the interim New Jersey US Attorney 230 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:38.159 Alena Habba because only said her last name at first, 231 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:40.879 I want to put her in context. Is the one 232 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:45.759 that brought these charges against the congresswoman, and she is 233 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:49.480 the one that served as a personal attorney for President 234 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:53.879 Donald J. Trump during his New York trials. Now, certainly 235 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:56.480 not out of the ordinary for a president or political 236 00:14:56.519 --> 00:14:59.799 figure to elevate people who have been in their orbit. 237 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:04.000 It's not out of the ordinary. So doctor Weston, I 238 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:07.480 would never say that what is out of the ordinary 239 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:09.600 or no, I won't even say it's out of the ordinary. 240 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:14.360 What should not be accepted for political figures to use 241 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:19.320 their position to seek out revenge in this way against 242 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:22.879 people who may hold different political views. And the reason 243 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:26.200 why I corrected myself, Dot, and we're centering Donald J. 244 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:28.120 Trump for what he's doing right now. He has to 245 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:31.559 be responsible for his actions. But we certainly know throughout 246 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:35.360 the course of American history that both Democrats and Republicans 247 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:37.679 have weaponized their power. And that's why I kind of 248 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:39.879 stepped back, because you and I have never been one 249 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:44.399 of those. It is a systemic failure, it's a human failure, 250 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:47.559 you know, the human need to be puffed up and 251 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:52.799 to seek revenge. And Number two it is absolute power, corrupting, 252 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:58.240 absolutely and that just that expands beyond the Republican side 253 00:15:58.320 --> 00:15:59.480 of the political legend. 254 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:00.960 That's exactly right. 255 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:03.600 I mean, the Democrats have done have their own versions 256 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:08.320 of weaponizing Department of Justice and targeting various people of 257 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:10.519 high quality, tremendous integrity. 258 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:13.279 We we know that that's just a fundamentication. 259 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:15.919 I won't even get into that when it comes to 260 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:16.960 Los Angeles. 261 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:20.039 So we've seen this on both sides. 262 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:24.600 Of the political spectrum in terms of political parties. But 263 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:27.120 the thing is that we want to be morally consistent 264 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:29.159 and we want people to know that when people are 265 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:33.080 not guilty, they're not guilty. When people are weaponizing, they're 266 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:36.879 weaponizing no matter who they are, is wrong. It's unjustice 267 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:40.000 and moral and we will not put up with it. 268 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:43.320 Not at all. We're going to tell the truth here 269 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:45.840 on truth Time. So to the congresswoman and her team 270 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:50.240 lifting them up. Please, if you have family and friends 271 00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:53.759 in New Jersey who maybe even the congresswoman represents, you 272 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:55.799 know you guys, show show some love. If you utilize 273 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:58.600 social media a lot of times, that energy. It might 274 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:01.039 not be anything that you can do as an individual, 275 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:05.359 but collectively we can be prayed up. Collectively, we can 276 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:09.799 send positive energy towards her collectively. There are things that 277 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:12.200 we can do to let the congress Woman know that 278 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:16.279 we know exactly what's going on in this situation and 279 00:17:16.279 --> 00:17:18.119 that people are just not gonna stand by and let 280 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:20.559 this happen. For every action, there is an eco and 281 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:23.920 opposite reaction. And I do believe doc And we play 282 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:26.160 this clip all the time a lot of times in 283 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:29.440 the intro outros of our show. You know that really 284 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:33.000 truth crushed down to the earth, it will rise again. 285 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:35.599 It's just a matter of time. Sometimes it rises quickly 286 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:40.079 and sometimes it rises slowly. But make no mistake about it, 287 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:43.319 it will rise again in this moment in our collective 288 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:48.559 American and world history, we'll be exposed for what it is. 289 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:52.240 That's exactly right. I mean, the flip side of what 290 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:55.200 you did said it is. No lie can live forever, 291 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:08.079 No no set of crimes can remain hidden forever. Soon later. 292 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:11.640 You're gonna have to come to terms. Put it, God, 293 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:15.279 it not mark what. 294 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:23.720 Just so? Shall you read amen to that? Yeah, I'm 295 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:26.200 not just absolutely disgusted by it. I think people should 296 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:28.759 be disgusted by it. We just can't sit back and 297 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:33.400 allow these kinds of things to happen without being discussed 298 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:36.400 by it. So speaking of discussing thing, what also is 299 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:39.240 in connection with us we again as we move into 300 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:45.759 Flag Day on Saturday, President Donald J. Trump's birthday, and 301 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:49.279 how he is utilizing the power of the people again 302 00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:55.160 to stoke more fear, to show his authoritarian nature by 303 00:18:55.200 --> 00:19:01.799 having all these tanks and military weapons and through are 304 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:04.720 the capital of the United States of America, which is 305 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:08.880 the District of Columbia. Not only is it a total 306 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:15.000 waste of money, doctors, there's a deeper message that President 307 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:20.880 Donald J. Trump is sending, I believe, both internationally and domestically. 308 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:26.400 And part of the message that Trump doesn't even realize 309 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:33.720 he's sending is his conception of greatness has ninety eight 310 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:38.440 percent to do with military might and ain't got duly 311 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:44.680 squat to do with moral substance. And if all you 312 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:50.160 can depend on is your military might, then it's clear 313 00:19:51.319 --> 00:19:58.079 that your empire is falling. Because if you don't have spirit, 314 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:03.920 if you don't have if you don't have spirituality, if 315 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:09.079 you don't have legitimacy, then all you can fall is 316 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:16.519 brute force and raw power, and raw power never ever 317 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:18.119 is enough. 318 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:23.200 Yeah, it has. It has its limits, even though it 319 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:26.799 doesn't feel that way in the moment. You're listening to 320 00:20:26.839 --> 00:20:29.400 Truth Time with doctor Cornell West and Nina Turner. When 321 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:32.119 we come forward, will continue to talk about what is 322 00:20:32.119 --> 00:20:36.559 happening in la across this country and the impact that 323 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:40.359 it has on all of us. Indeed, and we are back, 324 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:42.400 how do we keep our joy in the face of 325 00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:46.079 all that is happening in our nation and in our world. 326 00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:48.759 We're keeping you up to data and sharing our thoughts 327 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:53.000 about what is happening, the authoritarian nature of what President 328 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:56.000 Donald Drake Trump is doing, how it is impact in 329 00:20:56.039 --> 00:21:01.400 both us individually and also collectively, how the chilling effects 330 00:21:01.400 --> 00:21:05.640 of absolute power are used against citizens, even those with 331 00:21:05.799 --> 00:21:09.160 extra special titles. Docet. It just so aproposed that we 332 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:13.240 always wrap up by saying titles are good, but purpose 333 00:21:13.319 --> 00:21:16.240 is better, because we're seeing that this president is coming 334 00:21:16.279 --> 00:21:18.440 after people who have some of the highest titles in 335 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:23.640 the country that cannot shield them from him really being 336 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:26.839 a bully and his ego. It's just all over the place. 337 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:29.240 I mean, he's worse than a toddler, and that's an 338 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:31.839 insult to toddlers. Let me just back up and say 339 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:36.480 to all the toddlers of the world, I mean no harm. 340 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:41.720 Me I ain't mean no harm, but this, this is serious. 341 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:44.839 In this wake up call, I hope that as people 342 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:47.599 are waking up to this brute in our face forced 343 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:51.960 that we understand collectively that there always been flashpoints in 344 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:56.759 the history of this country where some president has comported themselves, 345 00:21:57.359 --> 00:22:01.440 maybe not exactly this way, but certain has abused power 346 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:06.319 to uh to to to cause people to have fear. 347 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:08.680 I mean, even when I think about the Iraqi War 348 00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:12.039 and some of the tactics that were used against people 349 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:14.960 who wanted peace, and I think it was a congresswoman 350 00:22:16.119 --> 00:22:19.839 was it, Congresswoman Bass At the time, only one congress person, 351 00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:28.359 guess voted against it. I remember when the Dixie Chicks UH, 352 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:32.119 a female singing group, spoke out against it and their 353 00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:36.400 their their sales, their concert attendance, the sales of their 354 00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:40.400 songs went down. People called them traders and all manner 355 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:43.640 called them women everything but y'ad of God because they 356 00:22:43.640 --> 00:22:48.160 had a courage of foresight. And now turns out that 357 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:51.000 they were absolutely right. So again, I mean, do we 358 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:53.480 can give I don't know what other examples come to mind. 359 00:22:54.039 --> 00:22:56.880 We're sharing is just to say, even though this moment 360 00:22:56.960 --> 00:23:00.400 is troubling and heavy, it is not the only time 361 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:05.519 in our country's recent and especially past history where intimidation 362 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:09.960 and political power and brute force. Don't get us started 363 00:23:09.960 --> 00:23:12.839 about talking about the nineteen fifties and the sixties, because 364 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:16.759 any black folks raise up to fight for liberation, we 365 00:23:16.759 --> 00:23:23.359 were always met with government force every time. 366 00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:27.920 Every time and co and tell probe meant that they 367 00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:32.680 were willing to send some bullets targeting some of our 368 00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:38.799 beloved folks. And so it's very clear that that kind 369 00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:42.440 of repression goes hand in hand with the history of 370 00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:46.160 the country. So we shouldn't be surprised by these contemporary 371 00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:51.039 forms of repression to take the form of intimidation and provacation, 372 00:23:53.400 --> 00:23:57.160 manipulation and lives and of course, in the end just 373 00:23:57.319 --> 00:23:59.160 vicious physical attacks as well. 374 00:23:59.240 --> 00:24:02.559 I'm sure that those will escalate definitely. 375 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:05.319 But you know, the thing I think it's also important 376 00:24:05.359 --> 00:24:08.960 to keep in mind we think of where we are presently, 377 00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:15.680 is that there is a consistent and constant cloud of 378 00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:19.559 witnesses who are willing to pay the price and bear 379 00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:22.799 the burden and tell the truth and seek the justice 380 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:30.359 and the zero in on their work, their witness, their service, 381 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:35.200 their willingness to sacrifice more than any time. 382 00:24:35.359 --> 00:24:39.599 We need to zero in them. We really do, Yeah, 383 00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:39.960 we do. 384 00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:42.240 And there's some incredible folks out there. Even in the 385 00:24:42.279 --> 00:24:46.759 face of all this, even Congressom of Lamonica, knowing full 386 00:24:46.759 --> 00:24:49.720 well what could happen, you have people who have taken 387 00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:54.200 to the streets and they're doing so peaceably, knowing that 388 00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:56.839 there could be a consequence. For we certainly have seen 389 00:24:56.880 --> 00:25:02.440 footage of police. Unfortunately, you know, they carried a militarization 390 00:25:02.720 --> 00:25:05.599 spirit as well. Doesn't have to be military force to 391 00:25:05.680 --> 00:25:08.720 have a mentality of shooting rubber bullets and all that 392 00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:11.440 kind of stuff. But people are still out there lifting 393 00:25:11.480 --> 00:25:14.359 their voices and talking about making it clear that what 394 00:25:14.440 --> 00:25:16.960 is happening in this country right now is wrong. I 395 00:25:17.079 --> 00:25:19.160 want to go to our chat on the tube. Doctor. 396 00:25:19.839 --> 00:25:24.160 We got b bel of bad dog Bullies, lunch and 397 00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:29.720 liberation time. Good afternoon, Truth Warriors, Good afternoon, b BL, 398 00:25:31.559 --> 00:25:37.160 blessed peace, Baker in the house. Greetings and much love warriors. 399 00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:40.720 Selena Rix, where you've been, Sister Selena. I haven't seen 400 00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:44.039 sister Selena in our chat doc. We missed her. So 401 00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:48.160