Speaker 1: Today I want to draw your attention to some resources
Speaker 1: that are often overlooked for businesses in La City and
Speaker 1: La County. It is not easy to have a business
Speaker 1: here as you as you hear with just the whole
Speaker 1: struggle with the destination aka procrastination Grinshaw. It is not
Speaker 1: easy with the economy the way it is to have
Speaker 1: a business anywhere. But there are some resources that are
Speaker 1: meant to make it a little easier, and sometimes we
Speaker 1: overlook them. The County of Los Angeles has something called
Speaker 1: the Department of Economic Opportunity. Sounds vague and broad, but
Speaker 1: in fact it has some specific and very targeted kinds
Speaker 1: of help for you, the small business owner. They will
Speaker 1: help you get your small business certification and register you
Speaker 1: with the county, which can help you do business with
Speaker 1: the County of Los Angeles, a vast organization is bigger
Speaker 1: than many nations. And when you think, well, my business
Speaker 1: is too small, I can't contract with the county. That
Speaker 1: may not be because a lot of times you can
Speaker 1: work under a larger business as a subcontractor, or it
Speaker 1: might be a small contract. This is true for food service,
Speaker 1: for anything from you know, being a publicist or a
Speaker 1: communications specialist to laying down cement so they can help
Speaker 1: you get certified. They can help you find those contracts,
Speaker 1: and they have special webinars. They have workshops and trainings
Speaker 1: to help you get your business on track and get
Speaker 1: your paperwork ducks in a row. They also have VIP
Speaker 1: access to networking events and some discounts for small businesses.
Speaker 1: You can go to Opportunity dot LA County dot gov.
Speaker 1: That's Opportunity dot Lacounty dot gov. The giant, massive apparatus
Speaker 1: that is Los Angeles County has an Office of Small Business.
Speaker 1: I would wager that most small businesses have no idea
Speaker 1: that that even exists. You can get your first one
Speaker 1: on one business counseling session free in person or even
Speaker 1: on the phone. They have an Entrepreneur Center in East LA.
Speaker 1: Or they have a virtual small Business concierge. If you're
Speaker 1: not great online, you can call the Office of Small
Speaker 1: Business at eight four four four three two forty nine
Speaker 1: hundred eight four four four three two forty nine hundred.
Speaker 1: That's the county. These are services and resources that we
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about small business as I'm talking about BIPOP,
Speaker 1: but I'm also talking specifically about black owned businesses. Many
Speaker 1: times we just don't take advantage of them. We don't
Speaker 1: even know they are there. Now, that's the county. The
Speaker 1: City of La also has its own business office, and
Speaker 1: there's something called the Business Navigator. Go to business dot
Speaker 1: Lacity dot gov and they will help you apply for
Speaker 1: your business tax registration, certificate, your business license. They can
Speaker 1: also put you in touch with city contracts. Keep in
Speaker 1: mind that you probably live in both or work or
Speaker 1: have your business in the city and the County of
Speaker 1: La permits. They also can help if you need guidance
Speaker 1: around different things like different city business resources, disability compliance,
Speaker 1: what department you have to go to to do what
Speaker 1: all of this is. At business dot Lacity dot gov.
Speaker 1: Business dot Lacity dot gov. They can even tell you
Speaker 1: how to open a business if you've yet to do that.
Speaker 1: They have a concierge service. If you have questions about
Speaker 1: what your next steps are, you can register your business.
Speaker 1: They also have a Restaurant and Small Business Express program
Speaker 1: that will help you if you are a restaurant that
Speaker 1: is not a big chain, to streamline your process, your permits,
Speaker 1: your inspections, and all of these things. So I want
Speaker 1: to draw your attention to these places because sometimes as
Speaker 1: small business owners, and I am one of those, we
Speaker 1: get overwhelmed. It just seems like too much to keep
Speaker 1: up with all the paperwork and certifications and everything that
Speaker 1: we need. And there is some help whether you're managing
Speaker 1: an existing business or starting a business. You can go
Speaker 1: to business dot Lacity dot gov. And lastly, I want
Speaker 1: to invite you if you're interested, I am going to
Speaker 1: be MCing an event for tech Lamert their Creative Creative
Speaker 1: Pathways Social. Now. This is a program that is teamed
Speaker 1: up small businesses with tech experts and creators, the young
Speaker 1: people who are interning with these businesses to help them
Speaker 1: get their technology piece together because many times with the
Speaker 1: small businesses, we might not even have that aspect of
Speaker 1: our business together at all. That is taking place Friday
Speaker 1: the twenty first, this coming Friday. It will be from
Speaker 1: noon to two downtown LA And if you want to go,
Speaker 1: you can find the link. You can find the invitation
Speaker 1: at event right. It's TEC Creative Pathways Social TEC tech
Speaker 1: Lamert is always TEC and it would be just a
Speaker 1: great opportunity to network for your small business. I will
Speaker 1: be there, I will see you there. This is a
Speaker 1: vision Lab the Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, Tech
Speaker 1: Lamurd and the Brotherhood Crusade, And you can go to
Speaker 1: Creative Pathways La dot event, Bright dot com. Creative Pathways
Speaker 1: la dot event, Bright dot com. Come do a little
Speaker 1: bit of networking, an opportunity for your business to possibly
Speaker 1: get connected with yet another path to more business success
Speaker 1: and more thriving. So that's my take on wealth building Wednesday.
Speaker 1: For today. Hope you'll tap into some of these resources
Speaker 1: and opportunities because we want you to thrive. Phone lines
Speaker 1: are open now eight hundred nine to fifteen eighty, eight
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Speaker 1: I'm Dominique. The premium for KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. Conversation continues.
Speaker 1: You are invited in eight hundred nine to oh fifteen
Speaker 1: eighty eight hundred nine two oh fifteen eighty. So if
Speaker 1: you have something to say about the conversation that Paul
Speaker 1: Lee and Attorney Japerson Lynn put in motion about the
Speaker 1: black and brown question, you can call. If you got
Speaker 1: something else on your mind, you can call. I feel
Speaker 1: like this is something that I've talked about ad nauseam
Speaker 1: because it's not a static thing. It changes over time,
Speaker 1: as Jya points out right, So I come from the
Speaker 1: San Francisco Bay area, where the collaboration and I'll say
Speaker 1: allyship is much stronger than here in the Bay in LA.
Speaker 1: When I first came to LA, I took a lot
Speaker 1: of heat from people because I just assumed that black
Speaker 1: and Latino people were allies. That's how it is in
Speaker 1: the Bay. It's not even a question here. It was
Speaker 1: much more of a question. And I didn't realize that
Speaker 1: had a lot to do with a gang situation, what
Speaker 1: happens inside the prison system. And so while I do
Speaker 1: agree with Jaia that we cannot ignore where we are now,
Speaker 1: we cannot ignore where we are now with you know,
Speaker 1: the fluctuation and maybe worsening, I mean maybe, to be fair,
Speaker 1: maybe it is worsening. I think it's worsening because of
Speaker 1: the immigration debate and way the way the Republican Party
Speaker 1: has positioned black people, and then people like tariqu Nashid
Speaker 1: who have created a broader division between any you know,
Speaker 1: anyone American so called American, and anyone US American and
Speaker 1: anyone else, whether it be between African Americans and Africans,
Speaker 1: Black Americans and Africans or Caribbeans or people from Latin Americas.
Speaker 1: So they're is that and Paul I don't know if
Speaker 1: he couldn't stay or the call drop, but if you
Speaker 1: want to finish your point, you're welcome to do.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: The thing is that these these I think it kind
Speaker 1: of goes in cycles from what I've observed, because when
Speaker 1: I first came here, there was a lot of tension.
Speaker 1: We had what was going on, you know, the the
Speaker 1: problems in Hawaiian gardens and parts of la where Latino
Speaker 1: gangs were making it clear that black folks weren't welcome
Speaker 1: in those areas. And then we have had and we
Speaker 1: had some strong mandates coming out of the prison system.
Speaker 1: But yet throughout this time there's been lots of friendships
Speaker 1: and alliances. I point out when I talked about Via
Speaker 1: Ragosa and when I talked about Tom Bradley, that's just
Speaker 1: one small part of the story. The California State Assembly,
Speaker 1: we would hand off from black to Latino, to Black
Speaker 1: to Latino, Speaker of the House, Leader of the state
Speaker 1: Apparatus for Generations, right. That started with Willie Brown handing
Speaker 1: off to Antonio Villa Ragosa. You know who handed off
Speaker 1: I believe to herb Wesson who you know, and and
Speaker 1: and and it went like that. So I think that
Speaker 1: is uh, that is a parallel tract. Look at an
Speaker 1: organization like the Community Coalition where they have won major,
Speaker 1: major victories for black and Latino students who go to
Speaker 1: the same schools. Public schools I'm talking about like the
Speaker 1: you know, the A through G, the the advanced placement
Speaker 1: requirements that were not available in South LA schools. The
Speaker 1: only reasons those became available is because black and Latino
Speaker 1: parents and students banded together and challenged the school board,
Speaker 1: challenged the state, and we had reallocations of funds and
Speaker 1: now those are available. So it's a parallel tract. On
Speaker 1: the one hand, you've had this division in fighting and
Speaker 1: on the other hand you've had a lot of cooperation
Speaker 1: and allyship that has led to some real victories. If
Speaker 1: black people don't vote for Antonio Viegosa, he never becomes mayor,
Speaker 1: period full stop. If Latinos don't vote for Karen Bass,
Speaker 1: there's no there is no mayor Bass. That is those
Speaker 1: are just facts. So I think the division is real.
Speaker 1: To Jaya's point, and I do think we have to
Speaker 1: be aware of it. But also the unity is real,
Speaker 1: and I think we have to guard it and build
Speaker 1: it and foster it because that's the thing. And to
Speaker 1: pretend that isn't there doesn't benefit us either. I know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, we did redistricting. But what I'm talking and
Speaker 1: Paula is in the YouTube chat, but what I'm talking
Speaker 1: about is what Nuri Martinez, Gil Sadillo, Kevin de Leone.
Speaker 1: Those are the council members that were conspiring. And then
Speaker 1: you had the head of the La County Federation of
Speaker 1: labor ron Aerera. What they were talking about was moving
Speaker 1: the boundaries so that assets like USC would be moved
Speaker 1: out of those districts, and that plan that they were
Speaker 1: discussing did not happen. Spook says there is no black
Speaker 1: Brown coalition and that's just demonstrably not true. Look at
Speaker 1: the voting numbers. Look who voted for Barack Obama. Look
Speaker 1: who voted for Tom Bradley. Look who voted for Karen Bass.
Speaker 1: Look who voted for every black or Latino mayor in
Speaker 1: the City of Los Angeles. That coalition is there, It's functioning.
Speaker 1: You might not like it, and I'm not saying it's
Speaker 1: the answer to everything or the end all be all.
Speaker 1: But it is there and it is real, and it
Speaker 1: benefits both communities tremendously. Is their competition, yes, is their animosity,
Speaker 1: of course, especially when you talk about new waves of
Speaker 1: folks coming into this country that have been propagandized by
Speaker 1: the Hollywood anti black machine, and they come into this country,
Speaker 1: whether they're White, Latino, even other black people from other
Speaker 1: black countries, they come into this country with stereotypes about
Speaker 1: black people, with disparaging information about American black people in
Speaker 1: their brains, even British black people. We've talked about that
Speaker 1: on this show, right the David o'loyewo controversy where he
Speaker 1: kind of was saying that, you know, if you mix
Speaker 1: a British accent with slave and you know slow, you
Speaker 1: get the Black American accent. We know, But where do
Speaker 1: those attitudes come from. They come from the Hollywood anti
Speaker 1: black image machine. And I do think, yes, black people
Speaker 1: should look out for our own communities. But to say
Speaker 1: there's no coalition is demonstrably false. It's just not true.
Speaker 1: Maybe it fits your narrative of what Tarik Nashid says,
Speaker 1: or maybe it fits you know, a bad experience that
Speaker 1: you've had, and there are plenty to be had. We
Speaker 1: do have examples of Latinos keeping black people off job sites,
Speaker 1: and we do have examples of black folks, you know,
Speaker 1: jacking up immigrant you know, vendors. We have those examples.
Speaker 1: But to say that there's no coalition is just wrong.
Speaker 1: And Fahima is correct. Latinos were protesting in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: and continue to protest that Black Lives matter. Black Lives
Speaker 1: Matter is still a black led and run organization. But boom,
Speaker 1: you want to see, you see coalition. You can see
Speaker 1: it right there. So you know, I'm I feel like
Speaker 1: this idea that we have to say, oh no, you
Speaker 1: know that there is no coalition or as is saying
Speaker 1: in the chat, that we are on code and only
Speaker 1: looking out for ourselves. You know. Okay, if that's your perspective,
Speaker 1: live your reality. That's not my That's not what I
Speaker 1: observe as a resident of South Los Angeles for the
Speaker 1: past sheesh thirty years, That's not my experience. I have
Speaker 1: seen the haterism, I have seen anti blackness, I have
Speaker 1: seen anti immigrant sentiment, and of course anti blackness is
Speaker 1: the king of white supremacists, talking points, attitudes, actions. So
Speaker 1: I'm clear on that. I mean, you look at the
Speaker 1: hate crime data. It's always black people that are under attack.
Speaker 1: I'm clear on that more than anyone else, no matter
Speaker 1: what the headline says. You know, if this cycle we're
Speaker 1: talking about anti Asian hate, it doesn't mean there is
Speaker 1: no such thing as anti Asian hate. But we understand
Speaker 1: that Black people remain the primary targets. If this news
Speaker 1: cycle it's anti semitism because of you know, the media
Speaker 1: spin around Gaza, we understand that anti Semitism is real,
Speaker 1: but we also know that black people remain the primary
Speaker 1: targets of hate in this country. That is not in dispute.
Speaker 1: I'm not delusional, but to say there's no coalition is
Speaker 1: delusional because the facts, the data of the reality on
Speaker 1: the ground do not support that viewpoint. Let's go to
Speaker 1: a mean calling us from LA.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good morning, good morning. W e yes, sir, yeah,
Speaker 3: can you hear me?
Speaker 1: I do?
Speaker 3: Okay, good good. I'm not gonna act like I have
Speaker 3: the answer, but I want you to explain its faith
Speaker 3: to me. You know, I have a real estate a broker,
Speaker 3: but if our people don't have jobs, how can they buy.
Speaker 3: How and how can I you know, how can I
Speaker 3: make living?
Speaker 4: You know? And this is my question to.
Speaker 3: You passed by all these constructions, like these people are
Speaker 3: building these apartments all over, commercial buildings all over.
Speaker 5: And sometimes I just hope and pray when I drive up,
Speaker 5: I can see and.
Speaker 3: That's been American working. Yeah, we have a hard had
Speaker 3: on it, a big Please.
Speaker 5: Can you explain to me what is happening in this
Speaker 5: housing situation where almost look like for me, ninety nine
Speaker 5: percent of the people working all these buildings these other.
Speaker 3: Are Latino and I want your answers explain it to me.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean this has been this is one of
Speaker 1: the areas that I'm talking about where you have a
Speaker 1: lot of nepotism. You know, you've got folks who are
Speaker 1: on jobs. They help their families, their relatives, their neighbors
Speaker 1: get those jobs. That's part of what's happening. We have
Speaker 1: been Historically Black people have been shut out of the
Speaker 1: building trades. There are apprentice ship programs, there is the
Speaker 1: LA Black Worker Center, there are initiatives to try to
Speaker 1: counteract that. In fact, speaking of Mark Ridley Thomas, who
Speaker 1: I also still stand by Paul and current price you know.
Speaker 1: That's part of what they were doing was these agreements
Speaker 1: with the builders to force them to hire local. They
Speaker 1: call them local hire initiatives or project labor agreements. But
Speaker 1: they can't say you have to hire black people. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Ward Connolly. You cannot have affirmative action in the state
Speaker 1: of California. But what you can do is you can
Speaker 1: say you have to hire people that live within this region.
Speaker 1: Those are some of the remedies, but this is one
Speaker 1: of the areas that has been a huge problem. I
Speaker 1: don't know, you know what there is to explain other
Speaker 1: than have you been to the LA Black Workers Center
Speaker 1: to try to join with them to make sure that
Speaker 1: we are getting those jobs. Have you gone to an
Speaker 1: apprenticeship program that some of these building trades have, like
Speaker 1: ib W Local eleven has one that are are are
Speaker 1: you know organizations black led organizations like Second Call have
Speaker 1: pathways into Have you referred young people into them? I
Speaker 1: feel like we black people have to do better with
Speaker 1: the word of mouth, with getting our people in uh
Speaker 1: and with you know, advocating for our people and making
Speaker 1: sure our politicians do the same.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, as just a little spin off, then well,
Speaker 3: if if you're explaining something to me right now as
Speaker 3: a solution. All right, shouldn't that be our our goal?
Speaker 3: Our job to uh spread the word on how to
Speaker 3: solve these problems.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you what your job is, but if
Speaker 1: I think if we wait for someone else to solve
Speaker 1: black people problems, we're going to be waiting for all eternity.
Speaker 1: We've got news, traffic and sports then more on KP
Speaker 1: Talk fifteen eighty. Yes, indeed, eight hundred and nine two
Speaker 1: fifteen eighty is the number to call if you want
Speaker 1: to join the conversation. I'm always happy to see you
Speaker 1: and hear from you. Also, you know you can jump
Speaker 1: in on the YouTube chat, which a lot of people
Speaker 1: are doing right now. Fahima says black people are losing opportunities.
Speaker 1: This administration is dismantling. That is more of a threat
Speaker 1: to jobs than someone else has. I'm not quite sure
Speaker 1: why she puts it that way, but I know what
Speaker 1: she's talking about. She's talking about hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 1: black people, black women especially, who have lost their jobs,
Speaker 1: our jobs because of this administration specifically. And I do
Speaker 1: think it's interesting that Tarik now she doesn't have any
Speaker 1: smoke for them, but he's got plenty of smoke for immigrants.
Speaker 1: I also would say, Paul, to your point about redistricting,
Speaker 1: redistricting happens every time there is a census. So we
Speaker 1: will have another redistrict in twenty thirty and we will
Speaker 1: redraw the lines of the city council. I thought they
Speaker 1: were gonna get redrawn because of the Charter Commission was
Speaker 1: meant to create more council districts, but that appears to
Speaker 1: be going nowhere. We also got someone in this chat
Speaker 1: who's doing exactly what they do online talking about the
Speaker 1: La Jazz festivals saying the problem was it was R
Speaker 1: and B and that there was not one jazz person
Speaker 1: on the lineup, which is totally bs and not at
Speaker 1: all true. And I don't know where you're getting your information.
Speaker 1: It is true. We had Charlie Wilson, we had Parliament Funkadelic,
Speaker 1: we had others on the lineup that were not strictly jazz,
Speaker 1: like almost every jazz festival in the world does, by
Speaker 1: the way, but there was lots of jazz, and I
Speaker 1: clearly you don't know what you're talking about. Kenyon Dixon
Speaker 1: is not jazz. Chief a Jua's not jazz p. Descoveto
Speaker 1: is not jazz. Michelle Coltrane is not jazz, Like, what
Speaker 1: are you even talking about? I hate it when people
Speaker 1: do that. K Keon Harold is not jazz. Jason Marsalis
Speaker 1: is not jazz. What are you talking about? There was
Speaker 1: lots of jazz on here. And so that's the kind
Speaker 1: of thing I'm talking about. People go on the internet
Speaker 1: and they either repeat what they heard or they just
Speaker 1: make some stuff up and then they run with the
Speaker 1: talking point with no actual information. Yes, John Legend was there,
Speaker 1: Rafael sa Dik, Janelle Money, Charlie Wilson, Parliament, Funkadelic, And
Speaker 1: that is what a lot of jazz festivals do. They
Speaker 1: get jazz influenced R and B headliners and they have
Speaker 1: lots of other jazz artists, and that is exactly what
Speaker 1: was happening here. Tis Martin is not jazz. What what? What?
Speaker 1: What world are you living in? I think that that's
Speaker 1: the kind of stuff that is very unhelpful. And you know,
Speaker 1: and and I don't know if we're going to start
Speaker 1: segregating jazz festivals no R and B, Well, no, where
Speaker 1: are we driving the line? No soft jazz, only hard,
Speaker 1: straight ahead jazz. No avant garde jazz, you know, like, Okay, No,
Speaker 1: that wasn't the problem. Clearly. If you missed it, you
Speaker 1: can find yesterday's show on YouTube, or you can find
Speaker 1: it wherever you get your podcasts, as with all of
Speaker 1: our shows. Let's go to Fred calling us from LA
Speaker 1: Good morning, Fred.
Speaker 4: Hello Dominique. Yeah, three things you got the ninth District wrong.
Speaker 4: It may be mostly quote unquote Latino, but most of
Speaker 4: them can't vote because of the illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1: Number two, Fred, before you go on to your next
Speaker 1: talking point, where are you getting your data from?
Speaker 4: I live in Los Angeles all in my life.
Speaker 1: So every Latino that you see in the ninth you
Speaker 1: say are you a citizen? And you make them show
Speaker 1: you their papers. I want to know the source. No, No,
Speaker 1: you don't get to just say stuff like what where's
Speaker 1: the Where are you getting this information?
Speaker 4: I'm my own source. A lot of the people in
Speaker 4: the ninth District are illegal immigrants and they're not legally
Speaker 4: not allowed to vote. Now all of them are you.
Speaker 1: Know what, Fred? That is just factually untrue. Okay, what's
Speaker 1: your next point?
Speaker 4: Okay? I thought it was awful. Allowsy to tell this?
Speaker 4: Smiley didn't give you credit for getting the traffic straighten
Speaker 4: out on Crenshaw and the parking straight Now it was
Speaker 4: the traffic engineer that did it, and you should have
Speaker 4: got the credit.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean to be fair, the owner of this
Speaker 1: radio station has led the charge on the you know,
Speaker 1: the destination crunchaw or as he calls it, procrastination Crenshaw.
Speaker 4: I got all right, the last one. Solve homelessness. You
Speaker 4: can't solve homelessness unless you're willing to address the problem.
Speaker 4: So many of the people in their twenties and thirties,
Speaker 4: they don't want to work, they don't want to pay.
Speaker 4: You got free loaders. You yourself said you need a
Speaker 4: thirty five hour thirty five dollars an hour job to
Speaker 4: get an apartment.
Speaker 1: They don't, right, or two jobs. But look, let me
Speaker 1: ask you again, where what's your source? Like? Where are
Speaker 1: you getting these ideas that most of the homeless people
Speaker 1: are young and lazy, because, according to a really great
Speaker 1: recent article in the La Times, in fact, the opposite
Speaker 1: is true. The largest portion of people that we see
Speaker 1: on house right now are people older Americans who can
Speaker 1: no longer work enough to pay their rent.
Speaker 4: Now, that may be true, coming from the top side,
Speaker 4: but from the bottom side, it was the young people.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: I went, I went down the Crenshall the other day.
Speaker 4: I have to go that way. I lived. All of
Speaker 4: my people live in the neighborhood. I grew up in
Speaker 4: the neighborhood. And to take a look at see and
Speaker 4: I stopped at one of the restaurants. All the homeless
Speaker 4: people that came in there, and I'm going to call
Speaker 4: it harassed, And I thought it was intriguing. They were
Speaker 4: all young. And that's what I see in the neighborhood,
Speaker 4: and that's what I see all over the place wherever
Speaker 4: I go.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, so the young people really like you, is
Speaker 1: what I'm concluding. I'm not getting young crazy people really
Speaker 1: like you for whatever reason. Fred, I'm not concluding that
Speaker 1: that means all the unhoused people are young and you know,
Speaker 1: like to harass you. It just means those are the
Speaker 1: ones you're running into. The data show that more of
Speaker 1: the unhoused a huge proportion of the unhoused, and actually
Speaker 1: my eyeballs support that data. But maybe I'm just not
Speaker 1: hanging I should hang out with you, Fred, that the
Speaker 1: data show that more un housed at least Angelino's are
Speaker 1: older folks who can no longer afford their rent. And
Speaker 1: if you think logically, that makes sense. I'm working two
Speaker 1: or three jobs to pay my la jacked up high rent.
Speaker 1: Now I can no longer work because I'm not you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not well, I'm not healthy, or I'm too advanced
Speaker 1: in age to really be working like that, And so
Speaker 1: how do I pay my rent? That's what. But that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you don't want to work, That doesn't mean
Speaker 1: you're young and lazy. It means our system has failed
Speaker 1: because we do not have a proper safety in it
Speaker 1: to take care of the elders who have already given
Speaker 1: so much to our nation. That's why we're that's why
Speaker 1: we're electing democratic socialists. That's why people are ready for
Speaker 1: a real, substantial change instead of just this little tinkering
Speaker 1: around the edges between two parties. That's why there's the dissatisfaction.
Speaker 1: I think that's a big part of it. We need
Speaker 1: policies that support the greater good. We can't throw our
Speaker 1: older Americans away like trash on the streets. What kind
Speaker 1: of society does that?
Speaker 4: Can I give you a policy? Okay, they say there's
Speaker 4: seventy eight thousand people on the streets in the county,
Speaker 4: twenty eight thousand in the city. Mayor Bath says she
Speaker 4: takes twenty five off the street every day, but twenty
Speaker 4: eight we go to the streets every day. It would
Speaker 4: be much much better to concentrate on those twenty eight
Speaker 4: people that have gone on the street and even raised
Speaker 4: the number to thirty and stopped those thirty from going
Speaker 4: on the streets. And yes, they are some of the
Speaker 4: more older people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of them. All right, Fred, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. So the solution is get more people off
Speaker 1: the streets. Brilliant. I think we all knew that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't heard the mayor make that talking point, but
Speaker 1: I have heard Pete from uh why am I blanking
Speaker 1: on his name? From la CAN, the Community Action Network.
Speaker 1: He's the leader of that organization, and he has said
Speaker 1: that for twenty five, we take twenty five off, twenty
Speaker 1: eight go on. What that means is more people are
Speaker 1: falling into houselessness and are getting pulled out of houselessness.
Speaker 1: So the answer is get more people off the streets. Yes,
Speaker 1: I agree with you, Fred. The question is how, and
Speaker 1: that's where we differ. Yeah, this book is spitting some
Speaker 1: straight up trumpy Trump Trump talking points. The majority of
Speaker 1: FBA support Trump's immigration policy, and it's bringing back back
Speaker 1: black jobs. That's you know, if you want to live
Speaker 1: in the land of the Lulu, I cannot help you.
Speaker 1: But the fact is not bringing back How do six
Speaker 1: hundred thousand people? How have six hundred thousand black people
Speaker 1: lost jobs under this administration and you're still saying it's
Speaker 1: bringing back black jobs. What They're not even black jobs
Speaker 1: in the Republican parties unless you know, and I guess
Speaker 1: apparently unless you're in Florida. Yeah, no, that's actually not true.
Speaker 1: And I do agree with forensic. Nobody's illegal. They might
Speaker 1: be undocumented, calling people illegal immigrants or aliens. You know. Okay,
Speaker 1: we got folks on the phone. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: folks on the phone. Rebecca from Agora Hills. Is that
Speaker 1: what it says? Good morning, Rebecca, Welcome.
Speaker 2: Hi, good morning, Thank you, Thank you for the topic.
Speaker 2: You know, I have been thinking about so much lately
Speaker 2: because I attribute the whole scandal with the LA City
Speaker 2: Council members making the racist statements. I attribute that as
Speaker 2: one factor that led to the election of our current DA.
Speaker 2: The morally corrupt, evil Nate Hoffman, because if you remember
Speaker 2: some of the statements made or that George Gascone was
Speaker 2: with the blacks, but a lot people to remember that
Speaker 2: they also attacked George Gascon being brown people. And I'm
Speaker 2: a brown woman, by the way, and it was it
Speaker 2: was just such an embarrassing moment for me. But they
Speaker 2: attacked George Gascon also as a what decon from an
Speaker 2: area of Mexico, and you know, it hit a nerve
Speaker 2: for me because I've faced similar attacks. I'm part jacky.
Speaker 2: It's obvious to so brown members of the community that
Speaker 2: I'm yaking by my nose and I face racism attacked
Speaker 2: because of that, but my.
Speaker 1: Overall indigenous heritage, yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, And so my overall message is that racism is
Speaker 2: everyone's fight, and you know, we got to stick together.
Speaker 2: And I think that I think that Molina Abdullah has
Speaker 2: been just the ultimate leader in these struggles because she
Speaker 2: did what Black Lives Matter led, you know, the campaign
Speaker 2: against Kevin de Leone, thank God.
Speaker 6: Got him out of there.
Speaker 2: And it was also an embarrassing time for me because
Speaker 2: I remember the brown Berets are standing behind Kevin de
Speaker 2: Leon and I'm like what is going on here? The
Speaker 2: brown berets actually formed because they were alliance with.
Speaker 1: The black I mean, the fake new brown Berets. I
Speaker 1: don't you know, it's like everybody running around calling themselves
Speaker 1: black panthers. Where did where did you get your charter from?
Speaker 1: Is the question? But yeah, I mean you're talking about
Speaker 1: the complexities that happened behind the scenes and the ways
Speaker 1: that race and you know, even divisions within races, right,
Speaker 1: different indigenous groups or different black groups are pitted against
Speaker 1: each other to promote the conservative agenda. I hadn't heard
Speaker 1: that take on Nathan Hawkman that Gascon is with the
Speaker 1: blacks aka why because he was getting rid of some
Speaker 1: of these egregiously long prison sentences that were inhumane and unconstitutional,
Speaker 1: and that just so happened to affect a lot of
Speaker 1: black people, I assume that's why, but also affected Latinos.
Speaker 1: So it's so crazy how we are manipulated into voting
Speaker 1: against our own interests and now you know, you get
Speaker 1: what you get what you got. I do think we
Speaker 1: were also in a state wide wave of the old
Speaker 1: fashioned scare people into voting conservative with you know, law
Speaker 1: and order remembers, smash and grabs, were in the news
Speaker 1: every single day. It was the same footage over and
Speaker 1: over again. And even though crime was down, we were
Speaker 1: being told that we were going to hell in a handbasket.
Speaker 1: And so that, you know, conservatives always jump in. That's
Speaker 1: why we passed props. They passed Props thirty six. That's
Speaker 1: how we got a Nathan Hoffman.
Speaker 2: Right and why to remind people too is just it
Speaker 2: along with similar veins. You remember when when we were
Speaker 2: fighting for reparations a couple of years ago and Bill
Speaker 2: Esly who's now the Attorney general or you know win
Speaker 2: a Trump He's yeah, he's.
Speaker 1: A prosecutor for the Trump administration. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's an assembly member at the time, and he
Speaker 2: was helping to pass the reparation bill.
Speaker 1: No he didn't. He said he would, but he never did.
Speaker 2: Said yeah he had co sponsored.
Speaker 6: No he didn't.
Speaker 1: Even he did not. He did not co sponsor one.
Speaker 1: That's a rumor. He said he was going to. He
Speaker 1: tried to play black people against Assembly Member Isaac Bryan
Speaker 1: by saying he was going to. But Bill is Sale
Speaker 1: never passed a bill, he never co sponsored a bill
Speaker 1: because he's because he was in the Republican minority, not
Speaker 1: only that he was widely unpopular. He tried to say
Speaker 1: his name was Bill Ao to try to get black
Speaker 1: people to like him. Well, then why have you been
Speaker 1: going by Bill for the past twenty years? But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's the same thing. It's exactly the same
Speaker 1: thing that you're talking about, Rebecca, where people, you know,
Speaker 1: play our lack of deep knowledge and our own resentments
Speaker 1: and interpersonal community conflicts to mess over all of us
Speaker 1: right against the best interests of black people and Latino people.
Speaker 1: In that case, Rebecca, thanks so much for your call.
Speaker 1: She called me at eight hundred and nine to oh,
Speaker 1: fifteen eighty. I invite you to do the same. I'm
Speaker 1: Dominique de Prima for KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. The chat
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Speaker 1: get them wherever you get your podcasts as well. That's okay, Paul.
Speaker 1: We always the black Brown convo always goes on and
Speaker 1: on and on, especially in LA because that's where we
Speaker 1: that's where we live. We live together. Y'all can see
Speaker 1: what you want. We go to the same schools, we
Speaker 1: go to the same stores, hospitals. Not all of the
Speaker 1: same stores, not all of the same schools, but we
Speaker 1: be there. Let's go to Carolyn calling us from LA
Speaker 1: good morning, jombo o la hotep. What's up, Carolyn?
Speaker 6: How many call you blessed?
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 6: I'm blessed in regards to blacks doing their own thing
Speaker 6: and not including or you know, Latinos or whatever. Okay,
Speaker 6: what's wrong with that? You know, black people have got
Speaker 6: we have got to start. Uh. I'm I'm, I'm both
Speaker 6: I'm Native American and uh ancestry of of Africa. But
Speaker 6: and then let me tell you something. The only time
Speaker 6: that I've been called the in word in this town
Speaker 6: was from a Latinos. Okay, I have yes, I've had
Speaker 6: experienced that at least four times. Really okay, yes, and
Speaker 6: I have been in the hard or like.
Speaker 1: I mean they were and they were saying it as
Speaker 1: a slur. Obviously they were saying.
Speaker 6: No, no, it was not a slur.
Speaker 1: They were saying it with a not a hard R.
Speaker 1: Were they like, what's up my N word? Like how no?
Speaker 6: No, no, no, No, it was first time I was
Speaker 6: downtown Okay and into the and I went into the store,
Speaker 6: you know, the Story store, and so it was like
Speaker 6: about two young latinos there and they were marking, you know,
Speaker 6: so I was looking like, oh, now she's looking over there,
Speaker 6: but you know, why, why is she even in here?
Speaker 6: Or you know that kind of thing. I got you.
Speaker 1: So that is a slur that if they call you
Speaker 1: the N word, they mean it as in that context,
Speaker 1: they mean it as a slur. Are there racist? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Hold on, Hold on, Carolyn, Carolyn, Carolyn, Carolyn, Carolyn, Carolyn.
Speaker 1: I'm happy to listen, but you also have to listen.
Speaker 1: It's a conversation. We go back and forth. So I
Speaker 1: want to be clear. I was not saying that I
Speaker 1: don't think we should as black people have the right
Speaker 1: or the ability to do our own thing. I think
Speaker 1: it's great, you know, sweep around your own front door,
Speaker 1: organize your block, organize your community. Carolyn, I was never
Speaker 1: saying that. My point is that coalition has served us well.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean you have to do everything in coalition.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean it's the answer to everything, but allyship
Speaker 1: and coalition between black and brown has produced results. That's
Speaker 1: all I was saying. Go ahead, Carolyn.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, yeah, I agree with you on that. But
Speaker 6: so I mean, because all black people ain't good all
Speaker 6: white people that.
Speaker 1: What do you do when they call you that? Do
Speaker 1: you beat them up? Like? What do you do? What
Speaker 1: are you doing?
Speaker 6: I just you know, I just I just call them
Speaker 6: something else.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so you just threw a knock at him?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 6: Exactly?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 6: You know, yes, yes, you know. It's like one time
Speaker 6: I was I was in line, you know, but it
Speaker 6: was in we're in the cars, and uh so it
Speaker 6: was the person and in front it was this Latino
Speaker 6: man and behind him, I don't know who it was,
Speaker 6: but hours behind the other person. So I was the
Speaker 6: third one, and he gets out the car, you know,
Speaker 6: because I'm in a convertible, so now you can see,
Speaker 6: you know, and so he's like, you know what that
Speaker 6: shut up in word, you know, blah blah blah, you
Speaker 6: know that kind of thing. And another time, you know,
Speaker 6: there's these three I think it was four of these
Speaker 6: Latino young girls in a convertible, and so they're going
Speaker 6: to try to cut me off. Right I'm there, you know,
Speaker 6: and you have to get to a stop sign, I
Speaker 6: mean to stop light, and they're going to try to
Speaker 6: cut you. So I was like, hey, you know, just
Speaker 6: come down, young ladies. You know we got away for
Speaker 6: squell you in word, you know, and you can tell
Speaker 6: there were Latinos and you know, and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's unacceptable and it's bad and I you know,
Speaker 1: I've and and sometimes it happens when you might not
Speaker 1: even know it because they're gonna say mayat, which means
Speaker 1: the same thing in Spanish, but I mean white supremacy, racism.
Speaker 1: People would adhere to the illusion of white supremacy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: are there Latinos? Yeah? Are there are there Asians? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Are there white people? Yeah? Now you're talking about individual racism,
Speaker 1: and that's something that has to be tackled. I'm never
Speaker 1: quite sure how to respond to that myself. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: want to cuss somebody out, and I admit I have.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I want to go get the big homie and
Speaker 1: have them deal with it. But do we make our
Speaker 1: policies and strategic keyword strategic political decisions based on the
Speaker 1: fact that there are are racists present among a group
Speaker 1: of people. I would argue that strategy has to as
Speaker 1: a sahar Ali would say, be eyes not emotional. We're
Speaker 1: talking our well being next Oosa. Doctor Noel Reed joins
Speaker 1: us on kb LA Talk fifteen eighty