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Speaker 1: Mary Jay's got a she got a serious body of work.

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Uh and uh, she got hits.

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Speaker 2: But this is one of the funkiest hits that Mary

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Jay's ever put out.

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Speaker 1: I love this track.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Doctor West is here at Corneill West every Monday and Thursday,

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top of second hour. I never know what his walk

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on song's gonna be, but I did not see Mary

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j coming today, Doctor.

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Speaker 3: West, Well, brother, I tell you were living in the

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moment with us open season on the fineness of black people.

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And we have to be able to revel in our callings,

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revel in our prophetic utterance and witness, not in the

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spirit of self righteousness, but in the spirit of recognizing

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that the fineness will be under attacked. And listen to you.

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I just read that letter of the City Council president.

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It's week and three week boolid. It's pathetic, and it's

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nothing but a count It's nothing but an attack on

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somebody who's trying to raise the issue or the suffering

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other people. How can raising issue the sefing other people

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be profaned? How can raising issues of the sefing other

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people reviewed as a white supremacist attack on him? Please,

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he's got to get off the crack pipe. Now we

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pray for the brother, but he's not one of our

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finests at all. Where's his words about Mark really Thomas?

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Mark really Thomas is one of our finest. Where's his

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words in support of our finest crickets. We hardly hear

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a words from the brother so in that sense, and

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this is true even with our dear brother Jason there,

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and we'll talk about that as well in Cambridge. You

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know that we pray for his family, but he's not

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one of our finest either. But open season means in

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fact that he's still viciously attacked. We defend against that

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vicious attack, but he was never one of our finest.

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To be professor ed Kim, but it's not at all,

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not at all. That was a manipulation by the white

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liberals that bring in folk Court. Not part of our

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finance in that regard, and we have to lift up

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our finest as you as Mark really Thomas. The politicians,

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for example, people think Obama's Martin, Luther, King James, you know,

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get off the crack pipe. Martin is one of our finests.

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Obama's a fine politician. It's a whole different level. We

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have to keep our standards up and descend at the

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highest level of our energy, our finest and this is

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something that I'm going to my grade defending the finest,

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not that you or Mark or Martin. People say Kamala

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Harris is s Fanny lou Hayman's get off the crack pipe. No,

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Kamala Kamala Harris is not one of our finests. She's

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a mediocre politician who is very clever to do X

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and Y. We have to keep our standards up, and

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that's why we appreciate Mary Jay because Mary Jay is

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one of our artistically oriented finest ones of her generation.

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But she knows even she has to bow down to

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Sarah Vaughan, to Billy Holliday, to a Refa Franklin, to

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my Hey Jackson. We love Mary Jay. She understands one

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of our finests keeping up the greatest standards that we have.

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Speaker 2: Doctor West has set the frame when we come forward

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after a little more married Jay, I've got some questions

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for him. And in case you are not up to

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speed on this letter, he referenced that Markquise Harris Dawson,

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President La City Council, released on Friday. We'll talk about that.

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We are just about today to demand an apology from him.

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We're about to push this out momentarily demanding an apology

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from Marc Cuise Harris Dawson, what he said, the way

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he insulted and tried to gas light this community. We'll

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talk about that. It's a local issue, but it has

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national residents, I think, and we'll talk about, of course

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Jason our day. Doctor West mentions him the professor in

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Cambridge who was harassed so much that he killed himself. Great,

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you want to talk about Corneill West when we come

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forward here, I'm Tavis Smile, Cornell West, Glad he's here.

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And so he has raised two issues and we got

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a good almost twenty minutes here. We have some timer

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to unpack these two issues he has raised. His theme,

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his frame, essentially is that we have always seen and

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always will see the finest in our community under attack.

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Speaker 1: And there's no doubt about that.

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Speaker 2: And yet I said in one of my prior editorials

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on our station here in LA that it bothers me

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when certain black electeds hide behind their identity, their blackness,

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to avoid scrutiny.

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Speaker 1: They hide behind their identity, I.

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Speaker 2: Opined earlier, to avoid scrutiny, I don't like that because

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you black domain, you get a pass on being held accountable.

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And I don't like it when people play these Jedi

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mind tricks. I don't like it when they insult us.

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I don't like it when they gas light us. And again,

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for those in Los Angeles, you've been hearing for months now,

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actually us talking about what we call pro Destination Crenshaw.

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They call it Destination Crenshaw. This one point three mile

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corridor right in the heart of the black community in

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the Crenshaw District that is years behind schedule and as

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a result of the economic violence visited upon this community

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has stifled.

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Speaker 1: People and choked people literally to death.

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Speaker 2: They are businesses that have gone under it because they've

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dragged their feet so long on getting this project done.

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And so we have raised questions about accountability to the

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city council president in LA who happens to be black,

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also the person that represents this district.

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Speaker 1: And he's all up in his feelings. He's all in

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his feelings.

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Speaker 2: Now he's acting out in ways that are defensive that

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speak to his being in his feelings and his emotions.

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And that's not the definition of leadership. And so I

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guess he had enough of it, and on Friday he

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released a letter. The problem with the letter is again,

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it's full of gas lighting, it's full of insults, it's demeaning.

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It is grit everyday people, and we're not going to

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tolerate that. And so we are today in Los Angeles

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demanding an apology from Marquise Harris Dawson for what he

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said in this letter the other day. He lost his mind,

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lost his ever loving mind. Let me just read a

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couple of paragraphs, and this is what doctor West was

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essentially referencing. He mentioned he's read the letter. So first

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of all, in this letter, he takes credit for stuff

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he ain't done. Anybody seen Marquise Harris Dawson. You've seen

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the photos, You've seen the video we posted. When Karen Bash,

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the mayor, came to the Crenshaw Corridor, she walked the

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corridor with me and other stakeholders. We told her what

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needed to be done. She went to work. Marquise details

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all these things in his letter, but then acts like

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he did. So he's taking credit for work he didn't do.

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He didn't come to the town hall, he didn't come

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with Karen Bass when we walked the corridor. But in

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his letter he's acting like he in Destination Crenshaw did

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the work, stopping lying Marquise, you're lying, you ain't shown up,

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you ain't done no work, and taking credit for it

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in this letter. That's the definition of gas lighting. That's

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what he does in this letter. Then secondly he calls

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taking down the gates and the fences and the barricades,

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et cetera, giving back to parking. He calls that progress.

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No negro, that ain't progress. We back to square one.

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Remediation is not progress if we want to see progress

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on Destination Crenshaw, but we're back to where we started,

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so that's not progress. But then he says the following,

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and I want to quote now that doctor West do

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what he does. The two progress I want to read

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right quick, and then we'll move to Dr Wes commentary

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about Jason Arda. He says, I have to address the

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false claims directly. He's going after Cornell West here trust

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and believe he doesn't call it him by name, but

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if you recall the town hall what doctor West say he's.

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Speaker 1: Going to after Cornaill West directly.

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Speaker 2: I have to address the false claims directly, unsubstantiated accusations

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of corruption have been leveled at me and at this project,

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without a shred of evidence, in a moment of rising bigotry.

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Hurling baseless corruption charges at blackedected officials and community leaders

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is not just wrong, it is dangerous. We've seen firsthand

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how accusations are used to stifle progress, feed into the

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white supremacist desire to incarcerate black leaders, and how it

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not only harms the target but the whole community. I

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watched every minute of the recent town hall at Bethesda

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Temple Church, and I found it especially profane that a

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church sanctuary would be used as the backdrop for such

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lies and incendiary accusations. So, doctor West, he's calling you

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and me liars, he says incendiary accusations. He's calling the

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gathering at this black church this sacred space. He's calling

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that gathering and those who were involved in it pro

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And he says that we have leveled unsubstantiated accusations of

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corruption against him. And the part that really just just

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irks me is suggesting that because we are raising questions

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of accountability about him, that we are somehow advancing some

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white supremacist agenda of attacking Black leaders.

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Speaker 1: This negro has lost his mind.

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Speaker 3: He's lost his mind, he really has. He stands in

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deepney the prayer. But the first thing he needs to

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do is make a B line too. But there's the

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temple and apologize to Reverend Shorter. The Black freedom movement

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has been predicated and this city council president knows this.

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He went to more House. He wrote a thesis on

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the Great Mark Ridley Thomas's empowerment program. Can you imagine

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somebody writing a thesis on the empowerment Mark. Really, Thomas's

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project has been predicated on a profound respect and love

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for black people. But when you then have a church

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under the able leadership of Reverend Shorter that comes together,

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and what does it do? We start in prayer, we say,

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this is not about any love, This is not about

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personal attacks. You mentioned that in your speech. I mentioned

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that in my speech. And what did we say? I said,

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there are three options in terms of the present suffering

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of the people of Limbert Park Lahmer Park. One either incompetence.

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the mayor at that point, this is underperformance of black leadership.

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This is lack of execution and followed through. You don't

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have precious people locked into a situation for five years,

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and they raised their voices and you don't say anything.

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It was only the tenth week after you had been

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raising the issue that we got any kind of respond

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so with either incompetence or it's indifference. You really don't care.

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You don't give a damn about these people because they

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don't have enough money to sustain you and your next election.

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That's the second option, or the third option is corruption.

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It could be any one of them. That's not an

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accusation of corruption. That's an articulation of an option. Now,

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the fact that he went directly to corruption, I said,

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oh good, you're gonna have to work with having himself.

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That's got nothing to do with you. Ain't got nothing

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do with me, Ain't got nothing do with nobody else.

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He gonna have to work with that. But any time, though,

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Brother Tavish, you view people raising their voices because they're

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suffering as an occasion of profanity, reflects such a contempt

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for those people. He ought to be ashamed of himself

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to call himself a leader, let alone a black leader.

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Speaker 1: That's the right word. That's the road of the day.

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Speaker 2: I sense in what he had to say a contempt

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for black people, and that that's hard to swallow when

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you have a contempt for people raising their voices when

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you have underperformed, when you underperformed.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely, But this is not though, Tavis. There is

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a history of black folk who talk one game, but

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in the end have a contempt for the people on

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the ground because it's all about something else. I don't

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know now he'll accuse you and I have just personal

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interest and personal ambition. We're doing all of this based

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on personal ambition. Why because they figure Tavis Smiley wants

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to be the next mayor of la Please get off

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the track.

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Speaker 1: Let me read since you read there, just let me

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read this particular paragraph.

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Speaker 2: The Doctor's reverends can now Marquise Heir's president City Council

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writes this in his letter to the public, and I quote,

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it's no secret who's behind these recent and dubious attempts

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to sow division, and they are willing to put their

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personal interest and ambitions above those of the community they

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purport to represent.

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Speaker 1: Close quote. I don't know what.

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Speaker 2: Personal ambition he's talking about. On my part, I'm not

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running for city council. I'm not trying to be the

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mayor of this city. I got my hands full with

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this radio station and everything else I'm trying to do.

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But when he leans in to personal interest and ambitions

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as a way to try to push back on doctor West,

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critiku and MI critique and frankly not just calling the

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Western Tabismley, there were hundreds of people packed in this

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church and you've been hearing, you've been hearing on our

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local station here the voices of fifteen or twenty of

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those people that we run every hour. We wanted to

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be clear in case you missed the town all that

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there were people that got to the microphone and spoke

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their truth.

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Speaker 1: It's not about tap.

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Speaker 2: This is not a personal squabble up with Marquise Harris Dawson,

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Tavis Smiley, Cornell West to anybody else. It's about being

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held accountable to what you told the people you are

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going to deliver. So then to be all to go

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lowbrow with it and to act as if this is

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about some personal interest and ambition, that's just sick to me.

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Speaker 3: Doc, it is, and I just think that you know

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the brother's on his way out. We're gonna have to

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pray for him. He's gonna have to repent sometime down

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the line, because he knows deep down in his heart

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and soul that you can't just treat the people this

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way and be silent, and then in the end when

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somebody makes you accountable, all of a sudden, now you

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become one of those who are being targeted by white supremacy.

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There are many black people who are being targeted by

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white supremacist forces. There's no doubt about that. The black

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people keeping him accountable is not part of that open

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sea in activity. And if he can't see that distinction,

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then he thinks that everyday people in Los Angeles, especially

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black folk, are just blind sheep and gonna listen to

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anything he writes and says and follow him. Those days

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are long, long, long over, long, long long over. You

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got to grow up, You got to be mature. We

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got enough mess to be dealing with with the neo

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fascists in Washington, and these too often these neoliberals who

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continue to act like they support us, but as soon

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as things get hot, like the shift from George Floyd

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moment to the Antidei moment, look at three hundred and

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fifty thousand black women being targeted. That's open season on

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black folks. They lost their job well the Merk Park

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Black folk in some sense have been targeted by the

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disrespect and contempt in terms of how they've been treated

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for five years. And this is all he can come

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up with it attack you and I and others. Please heya,

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no grow up is right.

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Speaker 2: This letter is on our website at KBLA fifteen eighty

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dot com for those listening around the country and the

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city who haven't read the letter from Marquise Heris Tawson

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City Council President. It's worth reading for yourself. Don't take

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my word for it, don't take dot's word for It's

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on our website right now on the homepage. You can't

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miss it KBLA fifteen eighty dot com. He knows because

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we keep reminding you if he has until September the

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fourth the city does to respond to the demands made

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by the community in the letter we sent them on

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August to fifth.

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Speaker 1: Is our recalls. They've got into a September fourth.

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Speaker 2: Friday to respond in detail that the demands made by

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this community. We will see what happens on September fourth.

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And people keep asking me what happens if they don't respond,

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don't respond appropriately, And my answer is very simply, stay tuned.

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Speaker 1: That's all I can tell you about Ted.

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Speaker 2: I've got three minutes left, Doc, let's let's I'm sorry.

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Speaker 3: Our finers like Mark Really Thomas is targeted and he's

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talking about the charge of the corruption and incarceration. Mark

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Really Thomas is an innocent man who's been targeted. Where's

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your boy City Council President?

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Speaker 2: And for that matter, you know I don't need to

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It's not about beating my chest. But what this station

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has done locally is to defend standing the gap for

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Mark Whody Thomas. We've also done the same thing for

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same thing for current price. So you can't accuse us

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of running a white experiencist agenda. But we're the only

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media outlet in town who's standing firm behind the black

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electors who are being falsely accused.

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Speaker 1: So I'll leave that where it is.

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Speaker 2: I've got too many left to go, Doc, say a

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word then again to your point about our finance being targeted,

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about brother Jason and the ways in which he was

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so harassed and so targeted that brother took his own life.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Well it's a sad situation. You know, when

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he was up for the job, there were two black

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women who were really superb scholars, and the white advisory

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board chose Brothers Jason, and it turned out that Jason

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was not honest. It turns out that he was not

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telling the full truth about his history and so forth.

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He's a very wonderful human being, he's a sensitive human being,

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he's a kind human being, but he was not up

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for that job. When it comes to the kind of

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academic qualification, they're a whole wave of black people who

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meet the academic qualification, there's no doubt about that. But

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then when it came down so hard on him, the

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British press, especially the establishment, did it express a white

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supremacist contempt for not just him, but Black people as

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a whole, as a whole, And then you've got Nathan

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and the others. Of course, that's the white brother, the

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Jewish brother who believes in rape science, who believes that

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Harvard would have zero professors if it were based on merit,

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and Harvard would not have hardly any students if it

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was based on merit. What do they mean by merit?

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When was merit ever fully operative? In knee way, so

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that he believes in superstition. That's what rape science says.

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You might as well believe in Unicorn's defense war. But

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he's professor great science, so let him have his superstitious

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He's the one who was responsible for bringing exposing Jason,

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but Jason himself was open to this kind of exposure.

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We have black quaalter flight academics who could teach a Cambridge, Oxford,

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any city college, any state college, any university across the board.

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You I'll begin with my Alna Korenga, my dear brother

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who's been sitting out there doing magnificent work too often

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overlook major major boys. We got a whole lot of

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black scholars out there.

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Speaker 2: He Jason already, of course, is now dead. And the

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news about Nathan Jolas and Nathan Conference, who doctor Wes

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just mentioned, who brought these allegations against brother Jason. He

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has now been suspended by his university. So this thing

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ain't end well for nobody. Jason is deceased and the

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white brother Nathan Conference cognast has now been suspended by

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his institution. So this story continues to develop. But our

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thoughts and prayers go to brother Jason.

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Speaker 1: And his family.

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Speaker 2: Doctor west Uh, it's always you you. You bring it

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every Monday and Thursday. I thank you for what I

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love you man, Thanks for your time.

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Speaker 3: Love you, Love you brother, Stay strong man.

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Speaker 1: More tablished by When We Come Forward