Voter Registration Deadlines For 49 States And DC For Midterms; Rula Jebreal And Anti-Blackness

0:00I think what you're trying to ask is why am I so insistent upon giving out to them that blackness, that black power, that black pushing them to identify with black culture. I think that's what you're asking. It's, I have no choice over in the first place. To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world, black people. I mean, and I mean that in every sense, outside and inside. And to me, we have a culture that is surpassed by, by, by, by no other civilization, but we don't know anything about it. So again, I think I said this before in the same interview, I think at some time before, my, my job is to somehow make them curious enough or persuade them by a hookah club to get more aware of themselves and where they came from and what they are into

1:01and what is already there and just to bring it out. This is what compels me to compel them. And I will do it by whatever means necessary. The following episode of the Politicrant Daily Podcast contains foul language. List and discretion is advised. Welcome to the Politicrant. I'm Omar Maure. It is Tuesday, September 8th, 2000 and 26. On this edition of the Politicrant, voter registration deadlines state by state. I'll be reading those out to you plus anti-blackness in the progressive realm. I'll be talking about

2:07that as well and maybe more coming up next. I'm Dr. Brutee Sparing. I have a story that I have to tell. You have to listen. 600,000 black women executives were fired or pushed out of their jobs. It sounds like a number that is impossible. It's probably more than that. It actually echoes louder and bigger than you can imagine. Those 600 black women in those key positions were not just black women. They were the conscience of corporations and workplaces and federal places. They were the conscience of what happened, the workplace bullying,

3:10the policies that kept companies from doing things like sending sheriffs to your house over a credit card. They were the people who created an environment of engagement and belonging and purpose. They were targeted. They were targeted in an effort to keep black families from moving forward. It was a real deliberate and calculated thing. If you don't believe me, look into it. It's not just affecting black families. It's affecting all of us. I am an independent consultant as a result of those 600,000 and the other women who stand by those women and the men who were doing the right thing. I've lost about 85% of my work and it hurts at a time when my health is

4:10challenged. It hurts deeply. It hurts deeply because the attempt, the goal is to take away the hope, to take away the light, to take away the voice in that company that would say, we can't do this. This is not the right thing. It takes away the power to make sure children are fed, to make sure elderly are cared for. Those voices of hope that have been in those places for decades who knew how to run things quietly, efficiently and effectively are not just their loss, it's not just affecting black households, it's not just affecting my household, it's affecting America. We all should care, we all should see what's happening, the policies and the changes and enabling people to sue you

5:11for something to put in little binding clauses and places. There was some woman who had been there for a while. She was not only educated, but she was smart and she was cunning and she could see things coming and she would appeal to those others who knew how to do the right thing to get the right thing done, but that voice is gone. It's gone from those workplaces, it's gone from those forces, it's gone from the inside. That voice of hope. Here's the thing nobody counted on. This joy that we have, the world didn't give it to us, the world didn't give it, and the world can't take it away. We will rise, we will climb, we will keep moving through hardship and pain and suffering because our mothers and their mothers and their mothers went through so much more.

6:18We will continue to be the hope in our communities and in anywhere that we go. We will continue to lift others up and to say the right thing and to encourage people to stand together and to encourage people to walk together. You can kill our jobs, our means, our stuff, but you can't kill our voice. You can't kill our light, you can't kill our hope. I've been a target for a long time, but the ancestors keep whispering in my ears. Keep on dancing, keep on moving, keep on singing, keep on shining your light as this too will change and we are going to get there. Please share this message and make sure the one who needs to hear it can hear it. I love you.

7:20Greetings and salutations, dear listeners. Welcome to this brand new edition of The Political Heart Happy Tuesday to you. I do hope you're well. How are you feeling today? You're truly oh, mom, I'm here. Back in the building where you're off through a really good and relaxing Labor Day holiday weekend here in the United States for those of you who took advantage of it. I hope you did. I hope you had a very good restful weekend. I hope the holiday weekend was everything to you. If you listen to this inside the United States, if you're elsewhere, I hope you enjoyed your weekend and your Monday. Labor Day, man, in and out like a flash and you know summer is almost over. I know people tend to look at this day in the United States that we just had yesterday as the last day of summer, but it really is not. The last day of summer is the 21st of September and the fall begins, I believe, on the 22nd of September. Summer is still with us for at least two and a half

8:23more weeks or thereabouts, maybe two more weeks or thereabouts. Then we will just over two weeks and then we will get into the fall. It's great to be back here. It's been a while. I think the last time I did one of these was September the 2nd. It's been almost a week now, six days since the previous pop. Can't be easy for me to say. Previous previous previous previous previous. That's a new word. Previous podcast episode of this podcast, The Political Crap. Again, remember tough times do not last tough people like you always do and I would love for you to subscribe to my substack. That's popcornareel.substack.com. So please do that. Become a paid subscriber today. That would be really fantastic. If not, you can become a free subscriber. Both would be appreciated. Either one would be appreciated, I'd say. But again, if you're a paid subscriber, you get the benefit of free items, gifts, books, free books, free movies, free merchandise. I've been giving away some of that over the

9:29last week or so and lots more. Lots more giveaways coming, including of the Blu-ray for the film Jungle Fever. Spike Lee's film from 1991 starring Was These Knives and Alain Bella Shiora among others. That one is going to be up. So is the book by Jason R. Day, the memoir entitled Great and Unfortunate Things and also regime change as well as the book, Matt Bookers, because it's by Jonathan Swann and Maggie Haberman and the book by Vice President Kamala Harris entitled 107 Days, also giving that away this month into October as well. In fact, October, the 20th would be the birthday of Vice President Harris. So maybe I'll give away another copy of that book also on the 20th of next month. But anyway, before we even get to the 20th of next month, deal this. Of course, there was a lot that went on in the news in the intervening six days since the last one of these

10:31episodes that you heard. And I just want to thank everybody for listening. Those of you, if you are listening to listening, if you happen to listen to the previous episode, thank you for doing that. Thank you for supporting the podcast and thank you for supporting on Substack. But in the intervening six days since that, that September the second episode, lots has been happening across the world. And of course, I won't get into all of it now. I will talk not on this episode, but maybe the next episode of this podcast about what happened in Germany over the weekend, the state elections there. And I'll get into that, I think on a substack life, perhaps in the future too, on the I should say the RF Day, which is how it's pronounced in Germany, the AFD alternative for Germany, or as they say in Germany, alternative fear, Dutchland, they are the racist party. And everyone says far right now they're racist. They are the racist white nationalist racist party,

11:35Islamophobic party that wants to get rid of pretty much anybody that doesn't look like they do as white people. And certainly, want to get rid of people who are Muslim or who preach Islam or false study Islam and get rid of anybody who is black or brown or anyone like that. And so the AFD scored a huge victory in one of the state elections in Germany this past Sunday. I'm going to get into that none of this episode, but on another one, because I think it deserves a deserves a bit more time and a real careful explanation about just what happened there this past Sunday, which is really rock to Germany actually, that particular election result. But I'll get into that and I'll explain it and provide full context and everything else around what happened with the AFD victory, which was a near landslide victory quite frankly. And I'll talk about that sometime this week. So please stay tuned. But what I really want to focus on, dear listener, apart from mentioning about that particular

12:41situation in Germany is the situation we have before us here in the United States with the elections because of course the Supreme Court now received over the weekend as well. The notice of appeal that was filed with the Supreme Court to for the third time tried to allow for the block that a federal judge three different times has put on the Postal Service and Donald Trump implementing a system that would get lots of people, millions of people off the ballot from being sent any mail-in ballot, I should say at the post office. So we'll see what the Supreme Court does with this. I'm expecting that the Supreme Court is actually not going to grant him permission fully to do this. I think what they're going to end up probably doing is giving him a pathway to do some of this, but not all of this with the Postal Service. So I think that there, I don't, you know, I'll be shocked actually if they do outright say no, you can't do this. I mean, I'd be shocked. Now,

13:44you never know, you'll never see, but I have a feeling that the Supreme Court will still will modify the block on the Postal Service from doing what they're trying to do, but will still leave some of it intact. That's what I think is going to happen, which is still this voter suppression by any other name. All of this by Donald Trump and this regime is voter suppression, and this is why now I want to get into what I want to talk about for the first part of this episode, which is the voter registration deadlines all across the United States for the November 3, 2026 midterm general election. It's very important, dear listen, that you do pay special heed to this episode because I am going to bring you comprehensively all of the voter registration deadlines for the states in this country. There's one state North Dakota that does not have any voter

14:48registration at all. So you won't have to worry about a deadline date for North Dakota, but what you should keep in mind as I read these dates out to you is that there are some of these states that have same day voter registration, and even though they may have earlier registration deadline dates, they also happen to have same day registration. And this in some of these states applies to people who have never actually registered to vote before. And so the reason why I've been a little bit more hesitant to really emphasize that many of these states have same day registration is really twofold. One, the earlier you register to vote the better and two, potentially that can confuse people and you'd rather register early than go to a state thinking that I can just come

15:49in here and register. And then you realize that the rule is, well, you can only register on the same day if you are voting for the first time because some states allow for that. And then there are states that allow you to register on the first day, on the day of the election as you're voting, even if you had been registered before and then perhaps lost your registration. So my whole point is before I read these out, I want you to seek out. I'll say this again at the end of this segment as well. Seek out your board of elections in your county or seek out the Secretary of State's Board of Elections office in your state. So if you're in, for example, California, do a search, type in California, Secretary of State and then put the word elections next to it and you should come up with on your search engine results, the website for the Secretary of State of California. That would

16:54be Shirley Weber, W-E-B-E-R. Now, you may have to search a little bit. It might be five searches down your page 10 or 20 because again, these billionaires spend all this money to have their searches shop first on your search engine and quite often people don't really look for the .gov or the, you know, whatever it is, CA.gov or any other state with a gov suffix, they just go for the first search result that they see and they don't realize that that search result might be some website that gives misinformation. So I want you to be listening in the spirit of discernment, a topic that I wrote about back in February of this year, to be particularly careful about the website you're going to for information and just for the record before I begin giving you these dates for all these states. Every single one of the pieces of information that you are about to hear from me

17:56is based on my individual research calling up every Secretary of State's office and speaking to a clerk or to an official personally over the phone or by going to that official website for the Secretary of State's office in any particular state and getting that information right off that website. So that's where I got all of the information that you are about to hear from. That's where I got it from and I didn't get it from some third party site. I didn't get it from someone's uncle or someone's aunt. I got it from speaking to the actual elections officials in these states. So without any further ado, dear listener, I'm going to read out to you in chronological order by the date that the deadlines for voter registration. And I may provide some caveats as well, but I thought it best, dear listener, to rather than do

18:59the states in order and then give you the dates because the dates jump all over the place doing it that way, it would be better for me. I decided to just read out the dates on the calendar in chronological time order and then just list the states that appear under each date on the calendar. I think that's an easier way to register this information in your mind. So these are the earliest dates for voter registration. In other words, these are the deadline dates for voter registration to be specific for each of the states involved. Remember, North Dakota does not have voter registration at all. And keep in mind, some of the states I'm reading out to you also have same day voter registration. Now, again, for further details on all of these dates, please contact the website

20:01of your secretary of state in your state and give them a call, by the way, as well, or call your county clerk for the board of elections in your county. Give them a call, believe me, they would love to hear from you. I called a number of these people and they would only too glad to hear from you. And I'll tell you a story about one of them after I give out all of this information. So please, if you are listening right now, get a pen and a piece of paper and write down the information for your state that I will be reading out in the next few minutes. Now, the midterm election is on November the 3rd, 2026. That's less than 58 days from now. I think it's 56 days exactly from now. Starting off now with the October 4th date on the calendar, the last day to register to vote for the November 3rd, 2026 midterms, October the 4th in the

21:04following states, Alaska, Rhode Island and South Carolina. Those three states have October the 4th as their last day to register to vote. Now, in October the 5th, the very next day, you've got a whole list of states that count October 5th as their deadline to register to vote. Loads states. I mean, at least 10, 12 states. October 5th is the deadline to register the vote in the following states. Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas.

22:07Now those 12 states have their voter registration deadline for the November 3rd, 2026 midterms on October the 5th. Now, Louisiana also offers October the 13th out of deadline as a deadline for voter registration in person, okay? Just to keep you aware of that as well. Now, the October 5th date in Louisiana is if you're registering by mail. Next date will be October the 6th and that is the deadline to register to vote if you are in the state of New Mexico. The next date after that is October the 7th and that is the date for you to register to vote for the November midterms if you are in the state of Missouri, otherwise known as

23:11Missouri. The next date is October the 9th and that will be the last day for you to register to vote for the 2026 November midterms if you are in the states of North Carolina and Oklahoma. Now, the next date is October the 10th and that will be the date that you have the deadline in which to register if you are in the state of Delaware. October the 10th is the voter registration deadline date for the 2026 midterms in November if you are in the state of Delaware. October the 13th several states will be applicable here and that date of October the 13th is the deadline to register to vote for the midterms in the following states. Kansas, Louisiana as I told

24:17you that's in person voter registration, main Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, West Virginia and Washington DC. October the 14th is the voter registration deadline date for the state of Wisconsin. So if you are in Wisconsin and you want to vote in the November 3rd midterms election, October the 14th is the last day in which you can register to vote for that election in November. October the 16th is the last day that you can register to vote for the 2026 midterms in November if you are in the state of Connecticut. October the 18th is the last day for you to register to vote for the midterms in November if you're in the state of Illinois. October 19th is the last day for you to register to vote if you are in the following states.

25:22Alabama, California, Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Wyoming. Those seven states have October the 19th as the voter registration deadline for the 2026 November midterms. In California, there is same day voter registration, but once again, I urge you to take the earliest date between the two and that would be October the 19th. You do not want to be sweating, coming in, voting and registering to vote on the same day of the election. You just don't want to do this. Too much stress, something is bound to go wrong. That's why I picked the earliest deadline date rather than the same day voter registration date because I want you to be registered to vote as early as possible. Now, having said that the next date for deadlines is October the 20th

26:32and that is the deadline date to register to vote for the 2026 midterms in November if you are in the state of Nebraska. October 23rd is the deadline for you to register to vote for the 2026 November midterms if you are in the states of Idaho, Utah, Virginia. So again, if you are in those three states, Idaho, Utah, or Virginia, October 23rd is the deadline for you to register to vote. October the 24th is the deadline for you to register to vote if you are in the states of Massachusetts, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the state of New York. So if you are in those two places, October the 24th is your deadline to register to vote. October the 26th is the deadline to register to vote if you are in Colorado, Hawaii, Washington state.

27:40Now, Washington state also has a November 3rd deadline to register to vote in person, but as I said, you don't want to mess about with that. You want to register to vote on the 20 no later than the 26th of October for those midterms coming up the following week after that date. And those of you who do leave things to the last minute, I can tell you there's at least five states, maybe six states that offer this voter registration in person. There's probably more than six that do. I have not confirmed or verified that Michigan is one of them, but I do know, excuse me for a fact, that these following states are all states that you can vote to register to vote in on the same day as the election, but I again want you to call up your board of elections in these states and get that confirmed. Excuse me. Nevada, New Hampshire, Vermont, Washington state, and California all having same day

28:46registration in person. Listen, those are the states that I can confirm offer this, but again, I really would urge you to go ahead and register to vote as early as possible before the deadline dates that I have provided to you over the course of the last, what, nearly 20 minutes or so, last 15 minutes or so that I've been doing this. I want you to go to the website of your secretary of state or of your county clerk or just pick up a phone and call your local county clerk board of elections person and you'll be able to get to talk to them. I spoke to someone in Oregon. I spoke to many of the county clerks and people in the secretary of the state's offices and various parts of the country. One of the things that one of the people in Oregon said, she being a, her name is Kim Williams, one of the clerks. She was at Polk County in Oregon now. Oregon has 36 different counties and Polk County is in the north west in Oregon.

29:50An Oregon, as you may know, is a mail-in voting state, which is exclusively mail-in voting it has been since 1998. And so I called up the county clerk there and I asked her, Miss Williams, could you tell us, is there any work around in lieu of what might happen with the US Postal Service trying to curtail mail-in voting? And she said no. At this time we have no plan to change what we're doing. We're going to send out all these ballots through the mail, through the Postal Service. And if people don't get those ballots after they go out on October the 14th, if you don't get them in a week after the week after that or earlier, certainly any later, if you don't receive them by the 21st of October, she said, come into the local office where you are, come into the local clerks office in your county in Oregon and they will give you one right over the

30:52counter. And that is exactly what she said to me. She also said that they will be proceeding with exactly how they've always run the election in Oregon. Remember the lawsuits flying around? I've already told you about the Supreme Court as well, but all of these attorneys are doing massive challenges to all of this. So keep that in mind, people are actually challenging this. So don't think when you hear the historical and part of me for saying that, things, oh my gosh, it's crazy, oh my god, no, make sure you understand that there are armies of lawyers challenging this all the time. And our solution is to get out there and vote. Our solution is to organize, it's to strategize, it's to mobilize, it's to educate, and it's to turn people out at the polls in numbers that this country has never ever seen before. That is our remit and that is our mission and we must do that, dear listener. And avoid all the noise and the confusion that Donald Trump wants to so.

31:57We absolutely have to focus and be very, very intentional about what the job is and we must do that job. So I just wanted to revert that information as well. And again, for any further information that you need around the deadlines for voter registration for the November midterms, please again, contact your secretary of state in your state, either consult their website or actually make a phone call to their offices or better yet find out which county you live in in your state and search for the board of elections clerk, the county clerk in your state and get to speak to them, ask them about the election, ask them about any alternative dates that you might need to know about because again, these are all verified dates. Every single one of the dates I just gave you were verified by the actual people in these offices. So this is all factual information is accurate and

32:59factual. I spoke to the horses mouth in every situation. So all those dates are verified and factual. And like I said, for further information, please search online your board of elections clerk in your county or the secretary of state's state office, you know, the state, you know, whoever your state, whichever state you live in, just type in secretary of state elections and make sure you look for the proper search engine designation. It should have a dot gov that's a dot geo v suffix at the end of the website address. If you don't see a dot geo v suffix at the end of that web address on your search engine results, then the results that you're getting or then the website you go to is not the official one for the state. And you need to go to the official state website. Okay, I don't care what the other website say, get your information directly from the secretary of state's office or from

34:02your county clerk. Okay, please make that phone call to them as well. Find out who they are, make the phone call, talk to them. They are very easy to talk to and they are very generous with their time. So I spent nearly 10 minutes on the phone with one of the clubs. I spoke to several clicks around the country and they are very generous with their time. They are only too happy to talk to you and give you the accurate information. In fact, one of the clubs I spoke to, I think in Nevada, she told me that the information that gets sent out to the media, the information that's on social media that gets circulated is 90% of it is disinformation. 90% of it, disinformation. So can you imagine how confused some people will be? This is why you come to the political crack, Dea listener, because I give you the actual information, the factual information, the accurate information,

35:02and I verify my sources. So look, yes, information is important. Disinformation is the peril and we have to fight back against it by putting out the facts, which is what I have done just over the last 20 minutes or so. Now, in the forthcoming days, sometime maybe by the end of this week or maybe early next, I will be giving you early voting dates for every one of these states as well. I think it's very important that you get that information as well so that you know when to vote early in your state. Now, nearly every state offers early voting, not quite all of the states, but almost every one of them does. And what I am going to do is provide you that information in the very near future. So I've given you those dates. I will, and I do intend to do these dates again and show those dates to people as well in the near future on a future substock that I'm going to do,

36:07because I think it's very important that people know so that they get an advance word and get to registering to vote because believe me, October is almost here. I mean, we are now in the second week of September already. Just begun the second week of September. October will be here in the flash. And the earliest voter registration deadline is October 4th. That's only three and a half weeks from now. So it behooves you, dear listener, to really pay attention to registering to vote and doing it right now in your state. Do not wait for the deadline. Do not wait for same day voter registration. Okay, you need to do this now. And if you get a ballot, make sure if you happen to get about through the mail, make sure you drop it off at a drop box or drop it off at the precinct that you would be voting at or at the county clerks headquarters or office in your city because you cannot

37:11trust the post office. You really cannot. And drop boxes are even safer than the post office boxes are that you see on the streets in this country. So please, dear listener, make sure that you vote early, vote in person. Make sure you go down to the county clerks office if they're doing voting there early and make sure you go there. You can either take your ballot from them, pick up a ballot from them or and fill it out at home or you could pick up a ballot from them, fill it out at their office and then hand it back to them or hand it into a drop box. I think that is much, much better. Even if the post office isn't going to do what a whistleblower says it's going to do and isn't the process of doing, I was strongly advised you no matter what these courts say with this supreme court or any other court, no matter what they say, I want you to do listener to go to a drop box and drop off your ballot. I want you to do listener to vote early in person. I want you to do listener to go to

38:16your county clerks office, get a ballot from them, fill it out either in their office or at your home and then make sure if their drop box is available, drop off your ballot either at a drop box or hand it back to the county clerk who you got that ballot from in the first place. Because that's how you secure elections and that's how you prevent Donald Trump and these Republicans from stealing your ballot and the post office from failing to deliver your ballot back to the office. So again, I cannot stress this enough, dear listener, please please take heed of this, take this seriously. Vote early in person. Vote. I'm a choice is yours. Don't vote and the choice is theirs. Your vote could be the one that counts. Take a

39:27moment right now think about the election. What it can mean to you. Again and again a difference of only a few votes has decided elections. Vote and the choice is yours. When you vote you are making a choice of people and policies and plans. You are choosing forces that shape the future, your future, your children's future. Don't vote and the choice is theirs. That is the simple truth. If you don't vote the choice is going to be made without your influence. The choice is theirs not yours. Do you want it to be that way? Just one vote per precinct could decide the next election for president of the United States. It has happened before. Remember to vote and the choice is yours. Don't vote and the choice is theirs. Your vote could be the one that counts. When you don't vote you don't get to sit in the jury and determine the fate of those in trial. When you don't vote you don't get to help determine the judge that sits on the bench.

40:33So don't tell me you out here how are in black lives matter if you don't vote. Black lives don't matter to you if you don't vote. Don't tell me you're mad that Daniel Cameron has not indicted the police officers who killed Breonna Taylor if you don't vote because you ain't got nothing to do with it. How dare you not vote? When we don't vote we dismiss ourselves from being part of leveling the playing field of justice in the United States of America. Now over the past few days we've lost some people who I think are significant. We lost Cassandra Wilson this week. She passed away at the age of 70. Now Cassandra Wilson was a legendary

41:40jazz vocalist singer and she for decades had brought some really beautiful tunes to us including San Cofa among others and also had some terrific albums as well. I saw her in concert once quite some time ago now. She was very mesmerizing and you knew that she really reached your soul and that she was a deep deep person and her music was really affecting and uplifting and soothing. So Cassandra Wilson departing from us this week was a real shock to me. Now at the time no cause of death had been released and I do not know as of this moment whether that has changed but so far according to what I know she just passed away this week and there wasn't any cause of death

42:41given but Cassandra Wilson will be profoundly missed and I am really sad to know that she's in the longer whibbers. Rest in power Cassandra Wilson you will be sorely missed. This week we also lost a Titan in advocacy and women's rights. Gloria Steinem passed away at the age of 92 this week. Steinem was somebody who was on the front lines in the 1960s and 70s in particular for women's rights and became a constant force in that particular discipline. She inspired millions of women across the world and she was a leader and a statesman of sorts if you will. Yes she did work with the CIA for a period of time and it was in connection with youth

43:47organizations and events in Hungary that the CIA wanted to have more quote-unquote capitalistic forces in charge of rather than communist forces as some of those meetings in Helsinki and those youth organizations had been sponsored by and it was Gloria Steinem's job to facilitate a different path for those meetings while working with children. Other than that it was not nefarious. But Gloria Steinem had decades of inspiring women, inspiring us all and speaking truth to power. She was direct blunt and she was very clear about where she stood. I for one more Miss Gloria Steinem and I had occasion to read one of her books called My Life on the Road. During a long flight a few years ago I had a certain level of comfort and solace in

44:54reading that book and reading Gloria Steinem's accounts of what travel does and how she grew and I grew in the process of reading that book. Gloria Steinem, one of the titans of women's rights and advocacy in women's rights passed away this week at the age of 92. Rest in power, Gloria Steinem. This vote in November is not about the next four years, it's about the next 40 years. Let me take you back to Constitution and governance. The president of the United States has the authority to place men and women as judges all across the district courts, the Appellate Court and the Supreme Court. This current president in his four years

45:59has appointed more judges than every other president except Jimmy Carter. In four years, President Donald Trump has appointed 198 judges to the bench, two to the Supreme Court, some 50 plus to Appellate Court and the rest to district court and many of those appointees will sit as justices of judgment for the rest of their lives. 198 judges have been appointed by this president. Do you know how many of those 198 appointees are black? Do you know how many of the 198 appointees of this president are of color? Of the 198 judges that this president has placed on the bench, not one of them is black,

47:08not a single black face sitting as a judge under this president. 198 judges and not one of them is black. Let's stop filming. And what is the established democratic party? Hakeem Jaffrey by the name his name is Hakeem. Hakeem in Arabic is an Arabic name which means healer. He's not a healer, he's a diviner. He is bought and paid by a bag monkey with all the respect and I don't mean it in a racist way. He is just basically an errand boy and we're done and tired of that. I think we're done and tired with anti-blackness and dearest and welcome back. So many people

48:10exhibit anti-blackness and in Rulajibriil who is a Palestinian woman visiting professor at the University of Miami, a foreign policy analyst said the words you just heard there a few days ago now it would have been the 4th of September which I think would have been what this past Thursday or Friday on Wajahad Ali's substacks show and said what you heard there in regard to Hakeem Jaffrey's who is probably going to end up more than likely the speaker of the House of Representatives in a few months time. Now look, the representative Hakeem Jaffrey's has many things but he is not to be called those racist terms that you heard. Calling him a monkey, calling him and errand boy is

49:11unmistakably racist and the giveaway to Rulajibriil saying those words is well I don't mean it in a racist way. Well you obviously do because it is racist and you know it's racist if you're saying that you don't mean it in a racist way. A you know it's racist B you said it anyway and C if you don't mean it in a racist way in what kind of fuck way do you mean it? There is no other meaning to it when you're referring to a black man. Oh yes like we last checked the representative out of Brooklyn Hakeem Jaffrey's the congressman was a black man last time I checked. So why the heck would you call him those things and after you called him a monkey and a pack monkey you then said well I don't mean it in a racist way and then you double down by calling him an errand boy. Oh yeah that would boy. Oh yeah because that's not racist is it now

50:18so you actually double down with your racism. Now before we're going to further the day listen it will for say a context be helpful for you to know that on her account on social media on X she wrote the ruler Jibril R U L A last name J E B as a bravo R E A L the following words on an X post on September the 4th I am disgusted and horrified that Hakeem Jaffrey's is taking money from A pack amidst Israel's genocide in Palestine that said a term that I used to describe him was inappropriate and offensive and should never have been used I apologize unconditionally well dear listener I mean the apologies are well and good however it wasn't one term that you used ruler it was two it was the term A pack monkey and then the term errand boy there were two

51:24terms that were racist that were inappropriate and you don't even put the word racist in your apology so are you really sorry do you really apologize I mean obviously it's an apology and she said unconditionally which is fair you can't deny that but if you actually said as you clearly heard dear listener that you didn't mean it in a racist way how come in your apology there's nowhere where you're actually saying that what you said was racist you said that a term that you used to describe representative Jaffrey's was inappropriate and offensive and should never have been used but you never want say that the term was racist you never want say that it was two terms that you used that were racist you just said A term and then third of all you never say in your apology what

52:28you're going to take to make sure A that you never used that word again and B whether you're going to do any kind of internal work on yourself to ask yourself why in the living fuck you chose to use those two racist terms in conjunction with Hakeem Jaffrey's when there were lots of other things you could have said you could have called him a water carrier you could have called him a card carrying member of A-PAC you could have called him a million and one things but you chose two racist terms now dear listener I told you a week or two ago that Laura Luma is a piece of garbage and I told you that she was a racist and you know it and I told you that there are progressives who have racists among them whether those progressives are white or otherwise you have anti-black progressives

53:30out here and I think Ruliger-Brille is one of them and Laura Luma asked despicable as she is and she is a white Jewish woman who is absolutely bonkers and has no socially redeeming value whatsoever as bonkers as she is she even admitted that what she said was racist I mean at least she did that granted she didn't apologize but at least she was honest enough to say that what she said was racist and that she didn't care whereas Ruliger-Brille the so-called progressive and remember where you stand politically has nothing to do with whether you're a racist or whether you're not one because that supersedes any political party you may register with you may vote for it's got nothing to do with whether you're racist or not they're racist in the Democratic party they're people who

54:32are racist who vote for the Democrats they're people who are racist who are racist who vote for Republicans they're people who are racist who vote for third parties who are independent I mean stop defining whether you're racist or not by the party you choose to vote for or not that would be fool's gold and a real stupid thing to do but so many people in America do just that and so to me there's no daylight between Ruliger-Brille and Laura Luma now look there is obvious things at least Ruliger-Brille apologized and at least Laura Luma said and admitted that it was racist what she was saying Ruliger-Brille was being more dishonest when she said oh well and I don't mean that in a racist way well you do mean it in a racist way why would you have to even say you don't mean it in a racist way because if you have to say that you don't mean something in a racist way that

55:32means you do mean it in a racist way and that you know it's racist now one of the other worst things about all of this deal isn't is that you had her water carriers going out of their way to defend her and you had all these people revealing their bare asses unwiped asses oh all of you are conflating this with genocide how can you do that how can you conflate I mean all the people the Jason Stanley's of the world who I thought was above board but obviously is not the people on the young Turks who are a bunch of racist grifters and hostlers and the people you know on Wajahat Ali show like Joy Reid who has her own show and Joy Reid a black woman who's had her own run-ins with anti-Semitism shall we say and she's out there defending Ruliger-Brille oh she's an Afro-Palestinian woman like what the fuck Afro-Palestinian won my ass Ruliger-Brille has never

56:41defined herself as a black woman Afro my ass she's never defined herself on any program she's been on as an Afro-Palestinian not once she is said that she's a Palestinian and in fact as I say if you go to her bio on X it says visiting professor the University of Miami author Thorn Policy Alist it says nothing about her being a black woman or Afro-Palestinian and Joy Reid sitting there on her show doing cartwheels and basically you know going everywhere to defend Ruliger-Brille but not challenging her friend there now if you really want to because I know I would do this to her challenge somebody whether they a friend or your foe stand on business because racism is racism anti-blackness is anti-blackness and there's so much of so much of it about in this country and beyond

57:49and Ruliger-Brille instead of even saying that what she said in her apology even acknowledging that she said something racist has just said oh it's offensive and inappropriate but you know doesn't even look at anything introspectively beyond the it was inappropriate and she'd never been used fair enough fair enough she apologize unconditionally but that's not where this ends folks the people like the Jason Stanley's the world I know what your heart Ali has put himself in this category and he got dragged for filth over the last few days on social media dragged for filth and what your heart Ali has had to fend off attacks and then has now criticized a black person who is online and says well he's changed his identity so many times people are chameleons in any of these

58:49social media spaces you don't know who's who number one number two you can't trust anybody on social media Ali listen if you're if you're gonna sit there and and castigate some brother because he may have like he may or may not have changed his identity if the spirit of what the brother is saying is accurate who cares half of the people on social media aren't who they say they are anyway many of them are bots number of them are trolls and others of them are just you know full-time racists so I mean that stuff's in consequence of me now listen another thing I would say okay is that yes in the grand scheme of things I'm not gonna spend any more time on this than what I'm spending on it now and when Laura Luma said what she said a week or two ago about many black women who are in congress or in politics I said yeah she's a piece of garbage I'm not gonna waste too much time on her and I condemn her remarks and she needs to just crawl in a hole and just get lost

59:55it's pretty much the size of it for me but the bottom line here is that yes we have to focus on voting and just spent more than half an hour on that fact with the information and solutions that I provided and again you can check your voter registration by the way at iwillvote.com but the reason I talk about ruler jubrial in particular is because she is a so-called progressive and dearestner I have told you for years not just weeks or months or days and most recently just the last time I did this episode of the time before for years that there are progressives who are racists and that you can be a democratic party voter and still be as anti-black racist as hell and there is so much anti-blackness in this country and has always been and usually amongst people who are from places like India where they have a caste system and that system is racist as

1:01:01fuck as well so joy read a black woman who again has had her own brushes with anti-semitism over the years and her own brushes with homophobia over the years is now defending ruler jubrial on her show and now we as black people are supposed to just forget about it and just sweep it under the rug accept the apology and then just move the fuck along you know dearestner that if any one of us as a black person says something anti-semitic anti-jewish we would never be allowed to live it down and quite frankly that's exactly how it should be I've taken woopy goldberg to task for being anti-semitic absolutely I did it on this podcast several years ago you can type up her name in the

1:02:01search engine and type in the politicrat and you will see an episode where I spent a lot of time harshly severely criticizing woopy goldberg for anti-semitism same thing with nick cannon so I take on all comers baby I walk the walk and I talk the talk and so if I take on nick cannon a black man if I take on woopy goldberg a black woman and if I take on joy read a black woman you know very well that I'm going to take on a so-called afro-palastindian woman named ruler jubrial I've never seen ruler jubrial have conversations with black people on these forums I've never seen it doesn't mean she's never had any but I've never seen her ever in all the years that she has been an expert in the Middle East and policy and whatever else I've never seen her engage with

1:03:06black people in these kinds of conversations not once not once now again joy read would be an exception but I've never really seen her spend any amount of time talking to black people or talking with black people around these issues I don't care what you call representative hakim jefries but don't call him some racist name just because you may not like a pack and I may not like a pack ruler that doesn't mean you should be saying racist things about hakim jefries because that just shows me that you really are a racist human being no matter what your apology says there's no need to be calling him something racist and excuse well I let my emotions get the better of me and then she had a whole apology tour she got on the wajahat al-ish show or with joy read got on joy read show

1:04:10and then wajahat al-ish was there and joy read spending all this time sitting there and trying to accommodate some nonsense and you know again I on the fall I on subscribe from joy read I did and listen I did that several months ago and I stopped listening to a number of these other folks because I knew something was going on and I've got a pretty good instinct for a lot of this who the bullshit artists are who the grift is all on these platforms who are really doing it with their little click and cohorts and their coalition of people that are always on each other shows I've seen all of this I've seen all of this and rarely did they talk about black issues I don't hear them talking about voting nearly enough I don't know what the fuck they're waiting for I've been talking about voting here for six and a half years I've been talking about voting in these mid-tons for about a year I've been talking about all this stuff and I get it everyone does their show and their

1:05:13podcasts and their subs that differently I understand what I'm saying is is that our issues as black people are never made front and center with these people so obviously number one is left for us to do because if we don't talk about issues who the fuck will and number two we've got to support black owned media and we have to support black content creators yours truly would be one of them and there are many others Dr. Stacey Patton I can go through the whole list of them but Ruliger Breel is an example of somebody who harbors deeply deep seated anti-black racism that is who she is and I'm telling you this is widespread you've got this going on in white community you've got it going on in Latino communities oh my god you've got it going on in Asian communities of varying degrees and there's no excuse for any of this and if you add this to

1:06:21what Laura Loomis said if you add this also and again this is specific and particularly because she's citing a black man in power and so she seeks to strip him of his power by calling him some racist name two racist names to belittle and denigrate the man there's so many ways that you could belittle someone without resorting to calling them something racist and I said before you could have called him a card carrying member of APAC you could have called him that why didn't you you wanted to just call him something to de-empower him to designify him and to say what you truly felt which was your deep seated anti-black racist sentiment because if you can say something like that on the air of a show live on air what the fuck are you

1:07:26saying about black people behind closed doors that's what I want to know and so for me all these people out here whether it's joy read or well a jihad al-e or Jason Stanley professor up there in Toronto who's a Jewish white Jewish man who spends time writing some pretty good books and now he's coming out saying don't complete this don't weaponize genocide by trampling anti-black racism professor Jason Stanley don't do that to us we're not going to have it here as black people listening to that kind of nonsense from you oh you're complaining we're not complete we're not conflating shit what we're talking about is our dignity and self respect and that's non-negotiable and we're not going to allow anybody to trample on us to trample on our dignity or our self respect or our blackness

1:08:35and we don't have to love Hakeem Jeffries in order to stand up and say that we don't have to agree with every single freaking thing that representative Hakeem Jeffries does in order to tell you that you aren't to be calling him anything racist and that you I know you didn't personally say this professor Stanley but you defended it when you say things like oh well we shouldn't be conflating these things that's again where we as black people get erased and our concerns aren't looked at seriously and what we're having to say is getting trampled and weaponized oh you're you're conflating genocide with this give me a break you're just being dishonest when you say that in a post that you said it in professor Stanley you're being dishonest we can talk about these things

1:09:35and just because we talk about the anti-black racism we face every day and people like Rulah Jabriel who had no problem saying these words so casually and then even acknowledging well I didn't mean it in a racist way well fuck yeah you'd course you did we can talk about that and let that conversation get out there without you having to say oh well you're you're conflating this and that's how despicable you are when you do that and you're a white Jewish man what if I turned around and said something about the Hall of Course and say well and then you and then I say that you're being anti-racist and then all of a sudden I say well you know what you're conflating that within slavement that would not be honest of me that would be me trying to shut you down from asserting that you alleged that I said something that was anti-Jewish

1:10:37or anti-Semitic you see that's what that is that you're doing when we as black people have a legitimate concern about the anti-black racism of one of your buddies that you come out there and instead of just acknowledging what it is we're saying and instead of you challenging your friend you decide instead to do what you think is the expedient thing and that is to attack black people and to tell us that we're conflating this with the genocide and got really we know about what genocide is Professor Stanley we know very fucking well we don't need you or anyone else to trample and curtail our conversation or police our responses to what was clearly

1:11:39an anti-black racist statement by Rulah Gibral and if you fail to challenge that anti-black racism Professor Stanley and anyone else you two are just as guilty of it as she is Rulah Gibral apologized and I am pretty confident that she will not ever say those words again in public whether she says them in private or not anymore I will never ever be able to know but Rulah Gibral is just one of many of the people who call themselves progressive who call themselves pro-Palestinian who practice this anti-black racism or who pretend they aren't black people who are Palestinians or who pretend somehow that there aren't people who are black who

1:12:39are also Jewish and people who think that when they hear the word Jewish it only applies to somebody white when in fact Judaism is a faith and anyone could be Jewish whether you're Asian, Puerto Rican whether you're black, brown, whatever you are but yet in the western world especially here in America when you say Jewish you think of somebody white but that is not the only Jewish person that exists on this planet and so all these people dear listener who are working overtime to try to police a black person's response to what is obviously a racist heinous remark two of them by Rulah Gibral are the kinds of people you and I must discount and must label

1:13:42accordingly as the anti-black racist and apologists that they are and so dear listener I really think it is instructive for us to challenge people on their anti-blackness on their anti-black racism and I sincerely hope that Rulah Gibral will sit and reflect on what she said and ask herself why just why she felt the need to call the soon to be speaker of the house of representatives Hakeem Jeffries an A-pack monkey and an errand boy those words did not come out of her mouth by accident and they really do reveal dear listener a deep seated contempt that not only Rulah Gibral seems to have for black people at large

1:14:53but it also reveals a contempt that a lot of people who are white, who are Latina, and who are Asian also have towards black people and it also reveals an anti-blackness and contempt that some black people have towards other black people Rulah Gibral despite the apology has a lot of soul searching to do as do the people who sat there over the last few days defending her comment or the very least dismissing black people who raised critical questions of Rulah Gibral and her behavior and her comments enjoy read has something to answer for too no we're not blowing this out of proportion whenever black people make it very clear about

1:15:55someone's racism whether it's a white person's racism or Asian person's racism or Latino person's racism or someone from the region of the world from which Rulah Gibral hails we are always marginalized and trivialized during our conversation truncated distracted always the attempt to distract them both sides things always the attempt to conflate things always the attempt to weaponize something in order to shut black people up well you'll never shut us up i'm here to tell you that for one i'll tell you something for nothing mate you make a big mistake if you continue to justify and defend anti-black racists and so the next time you holler something about somebody else you might want to look in the mirror at yourself and stop apologizing for anti-black racism

1:17:03and stop defending progressives who say racist things about us and stop championing progressive movements that don't have nary a black person in them or who have a black token in them or who don't have any black leadership at all in these movements that they usually white-led we see you show your bear unwiped ass and it's butt ugly you you judge me by my deeds that's right Arthur Ash was here the late Arthur Ash and he said to me as he said one other place he said

1:18:04in a much quoted comment he said living with aids is easier than living racism it's a harder struggle against racism for me it is against aids what it meant to me is that there's no way for the rest of us to understand that daily encounter which brings me to my question do you still have that encounter do you Tony Mars and Pulitzer Prize winner successful honored in the halls of academia etc still have that encounter yes i do Charlie but let me i'll tell you that's the wrong question okay what's the right question how do you feel not you Charlie was but don't you understand that the people who do this thing who practice racism right are bereft there is something distorted about the psyche it's a huge waste and it's a corruption and a distortion it's like it's a profound

1:19:09neurosis that nobody examines for what it is it feels crazy it is crazy and it leaves it has just as much of a deleterious effect on white people and possibly equal there's a dust black people i always knew that i had the moral high ground all my life i always thought those people said i couldn't come in the drugstore and i had to sit in this funny place i couldn't go in the park i didn't i thought they knew that i knew that they were inferior to me morally i always thought that my parents always thought that you said your father was racist because you always felt like you always felt that's right he always felt superior and that was a form you know of a defendant of defensive racism but if if the racist white person i don't mean the person who is examining his consciousness and so on doesn't understand that he or she is also a race it's also constructed

1:20:12it's also made and it also has some kind of service ability but when you take it away i take your race away and there you are all strung out and all you got is your little self and what is that what are you without racism are you any good i still strong still smart you still like yourself i mean these are the questions it's part of it is yes the victim how terrible it's like it was wrong like that i'm not a victim i refuse to be one in the victim is the other person who is moral inferior that's what that's a serious question of course if you have to hold that's a work here's our own self-esteem and definition if you can only be tall because somebody's on their knees that you have a serious problem and my feeling is white people have a very very serious problem and they should start thinking about what they can do about it

1:21:14take me out of it then give white people some free advice they're all in my books you dear white people i need you to shut the fuck up and listen for a minute because i am exhausted by how many conversations around race and ever actually become conversations they become interruptions objections they become a courtroom where so many of you immediately begin defending yourselves against an accusation i haven't even made yet and by the time you finish proven to yourself that you're one of the good ones you've completely missed what black people were trying to tell you in the first place one of the things that continues to frustrate me is how difficult it seems to be for people to distinguish between talking about individuals and talking about systems i've spent years writing about capitalism patriarchy narcissistic family systems institutions

1:22:15religion and power in almost every single time i'm talking about a system somebody and system dragging the conversation back down to whether one individual person is good or bad as though that somehow disproves the larger pattern it doesn't systems don't become systems because every individual inside them behaves identically they become systems because they create incentives expectations protections and consequences that extend beyond any one person that's what i mean when i talk about whiteness i'm talking about the construct the culture the collective behaviors that have accumulated over centuries not because every white person shares the same heart or intentions but because history has shown us that communities often reveal themselves less by how they treat the vulnerable when it's easy and more by what they're willing to risk when protecting the vulnerable becomes socially expensive the conversation around Nolan Wells is a perfect example of why so many black people arrive at conclusions that seem extreme to people who

1:23:18haven't lived our experience when i hear black people say they don't want to be alone around white people i don't hear irrational paranoia i hear pattern recognition i hear generations of people trying to explain what it feels like to navigate spaces where the greatest uncertainty isn't always whether one individual intends harm but whether anyone else will meaningfully intervene if harm does occur that distinction matters to me because i've spent a significant portion of my life and predominantly white spaces i grew up playing soccer i grew up swimming i've worked in corporate america i've had white friends white mentors white colleagues people i've loved and people who've loved me my life has never been built around avoiding white people which is exactly why i think my perspective is worth hearing before it's dismissed my observations didn't come from standing outside looking in they came from spending decades inside those environments paying attention to what happened when race entered the room what happened when someone said something inappropriate what happened

1:24:21when someone black was treated differently and perhaps more most importantly what happened after what i kept seeing wasn't necessarily large acts of overt racism sometimes it was just silence it was discomfort it was a quick change of subject sometimes it was people deciding that preserving harmony inside the group mattered more than confronting whatever had just happened those moments accumulate they teach you that safety isn't only about whether that person in front of you intends to do harm it's also about whether the people standing around them are willing to absorb any personal cost to stop it i've realized over the last few years that this isn't actually unique to race once i started thinking more deeply about systems i began seeing the same dynamic everywhere corporations protect themselves before they protect employees political parties protect themselves before they protect constituents churches often protect themselves before protecting victims family sometimes protect the image of the family before they protect a person who's been harmed

1:25:23communities in general have an extraordinary ability to convince themselves that maintaining internal cohesion is more important than confronting uncomfortable truths and whenever that happens the people with the least power are usually the ones as to absorb the consequences that's the lens which i understand whiteness not as biological category but as an accusation that every white person is individually malicious as a structure that has historically rewarded belonging conformity and silence in ways that have often led black people caring risk that many white people never have to think about so when some white people hear me say that i don't automatically experience white spaces as safe and their first instinct is to respond well i would never do that i understand why they feel compelled to say it but also think it's the wrong first question i'm not trying to audit your personal morality i'm asking something much bigger than that i'm asking whether the communities you belong to consistently make black people safer whether you've ever challenged those

1:26:26communities when it cost you something whether you've ever been willing to risk your own acceptance in order to protect someone else's humanity because those are the moments that tell me far more than any declarations of innocence ever will maybe that's why so many of these conversations feel like they're happening on parallel tracks black people are often talking about accumulated experience historical memory and collective patterns while many white people immediately hear an accusation about their individual character those aren't the same conversation and until we can separate them will continue talking past each other i'm not asking anyone except every conclusion i come to without questioning it i'm asking for something much simpler than that before you defend yourself before you explain why you're different before you tell me about your friends your family or your intentions spend a little time sitting with the possibility that the people describing these experiences may have learned something from living them that you can never fully understand

1:27:27from observing them you don't have to surrender your judgment to listen but you do have to stop sintering yourself long enough to hear what is actually being said because if every conversation about black people's experiences begins with reassuring white people that they're not being personally attacked then we're never actually talking about the experience anymore we're talking about your comfort and that's exactly the pattern many of us have been trying to describe all along and thank you Phil belight B E L I G H T who recorded what you just heard there back on the 23rd of July of this year and he's actually on sub stack as well that was actually a sub stack essay that he read out in full during the course of those last six and a half minutes or so and he really hit the nail on the head and exactly the kind of thing that I wanted to talk to

1:28:31get to as well you know this idea it's not an idea it's a reality that what many white people do when we as black people are very clear about the white people in the world who continue to be asked to be anti-black racist and to perpetuate a system of whiteness where they absolutely discriminate participate in the racism and absolutely exclude black people despite black people being far more qualified in many since in situations than they are we're now being told that we've now offended a white person singular when we can communicate when we communicate with white people and we say hey look you know what white people at large have been doing this forever and we've experienced this and our lived experiences for all of our lives there's inevitably a black person excuse me inevitably a white person who comes up and says oh my goodness me I don't do that I don't do that my family is not racist I'm not racist I'm not that that that that fact I've had this conversation with

1:29:34various white people recently and the response is usually well I'm not like that I don't do that my and the thing is light fill just said in that six and a half minute clip you're talking about a conversation about you centering yourself and what I'm talking about is collectively what you do you collectively do and somehow somehow just like in the case that I mentioned with Rulujabril too many white people just decide that they cannot listen to a black person for long enough without somehow feeling guilty and really it's the white guilt that often forces a truncation of something a black person is saying by that white person and so there is no attempt to listen for one god damn minute to what a black person has to say

1:30:37about their own lived experience before a white person says well I'm not like that why the fuck do you feel attacked is the question surely it's out of your own sense of white guilt because if you really felt that you weren't like that you wouldn't have to reflexively defend yourself and say it you would just not be affected by the words that are spoken you would listen you would agree and you would say well here's what I'm doing to fight back against all of this anti black racism and so if you're white listening to me right now the next the next time a black person says to you but white people are this or that I want you to actually listen to what that black person saying instead of instantly responding and interrupting and showing that you are guilty as said and showing

1:31:42that you actually are racist listen and consider what that black person saying and actually you ask questions to show that you actually do care about being a so called ally and you know I hate that word actually invest in listening and empathy and understanding and ask well what can I do to be a better person in this struggle or say to them well look you know what I want to continue to fight here to make this world better and I want to challenge white people and I'm going to start doing and commit to doing it and actually do it instead of the well I'm not the racist person will my family is not racist this person doesn't like that person anyway and yeah and he's white but he doesn't like white people or this or that or the other instead of saying those things it is most

1:32:45helpful and instructive to listen to the black person who is talking to you about their lifetime experience and if you decide to choose not to do that if you insist in choosing to interrupt that black person well it says a whole lot more about you and your guilt and your internalized anti-black racism then it does about the black person that you are purportedly there to listen to you have no problem listening to a jazz record without interrupting it you have no problem listening to John Coltrane or Miles Davis or Shirley Horn or Lena Horn or Elephant Gerald without interrupting them so why would you interrupt a black person who happens to be expressing their whole lived experience

1:33:50to you if you interrupt a black person who is telling you about what white people do collectively on a daily basis to those black people what kind of ally does that really make you I'd say it makes you a racist ally and that really means that you're no ally at all you each hour here in this sacred land enables me to have a greater spiritual insight into what is happening in America the American Negro can never be blamed for his racial animosity he's only reacting to 400 years of oppression discrimination but as racism leads America up the suicidal

1:34:57I do believe that the younger generation will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will want to turn to the spiritual path of the truth the only way left in this world the world of the disaster that racism was surely lead to will this tremendous outburst now lead to a course of action Mr. Belafonte the now that is being spoken about is the fact that in a hundred years finally through whatever the causes have been in history and most of them have been because of oppression the Negro people have strongly and fully taken the bit in their teeth they're asking absolutely no quarter from anyone but I do say that the bulk of the interpretation of whether this thing is going to end successfully and joyously or is going to end disastrously lays very heavily with the white community it lays very heavily with the profiteers it lays very heavily with the vested interests it lays very heavily with a great middle stream in this country of people

1:36:01who have refused to commit themselves or even have the slightest knowledge that these things have been going on and their days is one of them when you wonder what your role is in this country what your future is in it how besides you're going to reconcile yourself to your situation here and how you're going to communicate to the vast heedless, unthinking, and cruel white majority that you are here I'm terrified at the moral apathy of the death of the heart which is happening in my country these people have rooted themselves for so long they really don't think I'm human I advice is on their conduct not on what they say

1:37:07and this means that they have become in themselves more monsters what is it you want to meet direct in time myself too I was born here almost 60 years ago I'm not going to live another 60 years you've always told me it takes time it'll take him my father's time my mother's time long old time and brothers and sisters and these are my nephews time how much time do you want for your progress it comes visibly out of nothing it comes from the auction block so it comes from things very difficult for people to articulate or to define or to face and it seems to me that it's I don't get paradoxical because the Europeans who became my here lost their identity and don't the generality have a way to improve the way they are whereas the back of America doesn't know who he is if you win the worst is being said

1:38:10he knows where he comes from he knows he's forced another language he's forced another music another identity he's raised his children and the future belongs to to him I was always talking about what's happening to black people you know the black problem but it occurs to me and he'll be clear in the next 14 years too it's not really a black problem we're not the problem it's a white problem I don't know I don't know if there's any difficulty in the white world all things can and white people don't occupy the center of my attention or feed my nightmares at all they're simply other people but a black person exists as far as I can tell in the white imagination in quite a way it's such an extent indeed that the person that's the facing the white man or the white man is facing is all but invisible as Ralph would put it because the image

1:39:15the white people carry around on their heads the black people you see what I mean the real panic in the world today is that is we've created by the apprehension the very deep apprehension but it's a real one that is black people are not the white people that said they were and they're not then the white people never said they were either and those are the reality threatened you know and that's the real panic in the world today the following episode of the Politico-At-Deadly podcast contains foul language less than discretion is advised she ate nothing but a low class white trash she probably didn't even finish high school girl you

1:40:17know that's the true that's what he left me for see I always thought Clipper was the ideal husband girl you can never tell they're all dogs I promise you they're all dogs you know what I'm not true I'm not they know what I'm not they're all dogs in jail pommos the good ones no ladies shit so they got a twin woman at a time even babies all over the place my mirror just wet it's fucked up the man is gone he's fucking some white bitch and I still believe there's good black men and the options what are the options you know what the other big a or see somebody who likes you no matter what Chinese black white or whatever wrong that your wrong is the day is long they're out there the problem is we're looking in the wrong places we're looking someplace I don't know where we're looking but we're not looking at bus drivers or truck drivers or garbage men and a lot of them are doing that and we just won't give

1:41:18them the time of day but they're good men how many men do you know black men who can effectively deal with a man who has more education and makes more money not many they freaking you know I'm telling you I know the fact remains is that we are losing our men that's the bottom line I look at this doesn't really so much have to do with the black men I know it does and I know we want to blame them and it is their blame but part of it is that these white bitches throw themselves at black men do you see the way they look at them you can't walk down the street with your men with about 29 white bitches coming on to them and they will give up the pussy because their fathers trying to keep it from them all their lives when they turn 18 and they leave home get that black dick they're gonna get it and it can be yours yours yours oh mine and they want it and they're getting you deal with the black man for a minute oh I'm not self-hago and I want to he can't deal with the sister yeah but I know how would you know you want to deal with the black man how would you know no no no I do date black men but I also they Chinese Latino Jewish the full spectrum that's not

1:42:21really a consolation for this particular I know you think I should date black men but I'm gonna date who I like give me a man regardless of the color of his skin who is nice to me who is sweet to me and who I strongly believe loves it's not a rainbow fucking cut it's not a rainbow yes you are the reading ring we know you do you ever make you happy honey I will make a pilgrimage to Africa the motherland and find myself a true tribe it's true azeitic black man with a dig down to his knees can't be happy for that oh zulu did that's right girl give me some serious zulu dig in the bush do any of you know what it is like not being thought of as attractive I can't believe you ever believe that drew is the kind of shit you buy into okay I was always the darkest one in my class and I know you know what I'm talking about all the guys right after the light skin girls with long straight hair and that left me out and it's the same kind of thinking that leaves us out when

1:43:24it comes to white women now back in the day brothers would get sisters that look like you drew in you fear you know but now light skin ain't even good enough today brothers are going for the gusto I mean the real mcgort that's why flippers gone white girls got it made this the whole thing everything we've been doing and everything in the society we just keep on doing the same thing open to you keep on telling ourselves and you getting ourselves our own value look at the brothers who are successful look at them most of the brothers who have made it got white women on their arms okay and order to go up that little ladder to success seems like you got the head miss thing on your eye their responsibility level isn't the same as I'm sure a question responsibility is just a fundamental disrespect disrespect for women I mean I don't care the best man I hardly understand no some pussy stand in the face I'm sorry I don't know that's been born let's go say no to you look around me nobody look at you go and hug her okay you want a committed relationship then you

1:44:24as a pussy be able to say no it's the art of no theory for me okay if you know that you involve with this person you have no business I don't know I don't know the thing is I mean you're gonna get turned on and on you will see somebody you want a fuck but your mind will tell you I have a committed relationship I have a wife I have whatever and I still the day to shut the fuck off tell the dude that's right there you know something though it doesn't even matter what color she is my man is gone and you heard that clip from Spike Lee's Jungle Fever as I said earlier in this episode I will be giving away a Blu-ray or DVD of that particular film from Spike Lee that was back in 1991

1:45:29entitled Jungle Fever that was the War Council scene I've played it at least once before on this podcast and I hope that you listened very carefully to it because those black women that you heard talking in that scene were telling the truth and not only that it was a completely unscripted scene in the film and it was completely ad-libbed by the women who were speaking and I hope that you do listen back to that clip from Jungle Fever again I'll be giving away a Blu-ray or maybe DVD things to me the Blu-ray the Blu-ray of that film I don't know if the DVD of that film is still available but I'll be giving away the Blu-ray of that film to one lucky pay subscriber at random in a future drawing as far as paid subscribers are concerned on my substack which is popcorn r-e-e-l dot substack dot com that will be that drawing will be sometime later this month look um I think at this point I'm gonna call it a day here on the political graph for this episode I do

1:46:32hope that you really did listen carefully to what I had to say and understand why I said it and understand why if you are white listening that this is the behavior you really do have to cure this feeling defensive and attacked whenever a black person speaks the truth about their lived experience because we don't feel attacked if you're talking about your personal lived experience I don't feel attacked if you do and even if you were addressing it to me I was certainly not sitting here feeling guilty or feel feeling hurt I would actually listen and then I would actually try to think about what I'm going to do to challenge the behaviors that you live through and experience I really would at this point in closing ask any white person if they haven't already done this if you haven't already done this do listener and if you're white listening to me I want you to start

1:47:34challenging white people in your neighborhood I want you as a white person if you are white listening to this right now to challenge white people in your family at your workplace certainly your friends at least if not in your workplace your friends your white friends I want you to challenge them on their own racism because you know as a white person that you have sat in polite company and have heard fellow white people say the most despicably racist things about black people and you know that you've sat there and you most of the time have not challenged them have not called them out have not said well I'm not going to be friends with you anymore have not said that this is wrong have not challenged them to be better you know it I want you

1:48:35to start challenging white people in your neighborhood in your family in your friend's circle in your environment challenge them to be anti-racists instead of anti-black racists and stop being so defensive when we're talking about a whole group collectively and systemically and stop centering yourself in order to obliterate what we are saying about you as a group on a daily lived experienced basis thank you very much for listening to this edition of the Pulitzer Grant

1:49:39I'm a more let me clear and not because of this show but because of I don't take a salary from this show because of my speeches and my books and what I do before I lost this show I could I could pack up and go to the country when I was vacationing Jamaica ran to a black woman would move there and been living there at eight years and she said artist came to it was happening in America but that is not our option the most black people in the last month I've been watching a lot of black people post on social media going to cans

1:50:42I'm a baby it's gonna stop the friends and I've seen a lot of videos of people having a grand time posting, being on the beach and shopping, great parties, restaurants, billers right now your social media is likely flooded the black people who are having a grand time in Martha's house folks who are renting homes for $10,000 for the rent rental cars costing to $3,000 for their parties and forays and fun razors and all these different events and I've been a Martha's vineyard three or four times and not them there probably and probably 10, 12 maybe 10 years and again I get it I get it it's of you if you look at that

1:51:53you can conclude oh hey oh my god things are going amazing no things are good for an extremely small number of them but they're perfectly frank there are a lot of black people who normally would be at Martha's vineyard this year or this month won't there because they got laid off from their corporate jobs if you you don't believe me I want you to call the executive leadership council and I want you to ask the ELC this is the black corporate organization I want you to ask the ELC how many of their members have been laid off in the past 18 months

1:52:55I want you to ask the question how many of them are now consulting companies because they can't get hired somewhere else the people who had two and three and four and five hundred and six hundred and seven hundred thousand and a hundred thousand million dollar jobs how many people how many black people were general councils of corporations and they got a whack in the past 18 months how many people were chief diversity officers or chief global diversity officers or he had a DEI how many of those people have lost their jobs they got kids in school they've got big mortgages they're carrying heavy heavy expenses the reason I'm saying this is that we cannot allow

1:53:55the image of a small fraction of our people living it up at 10s 31,000 who registered at invests best over the weekend going to mother's vineyard to obscure the reality that most of our community has been economically harmed by the policies of this administration and what you should be asking yourself is how many shows out there how many podcasts out there that you're watching that you're consuming are telling you exactly how we are being harmed economically I don't mind it I'm looking at sports entertainment health and beauty and all that sort of stuff but I'm

1:54:56telling y'all right now what we are watching is an economic calamity that is being thrust upon black America but real witnessing is a complete ever to debund black America and we cannot we cannot for a moment be silent about what is going on because the economic policies that are being established by the federal government is going to the states is going to the counties is going to the cities is going to the school boards and it what is doing it is choking us off from contracts and from opportunities and so when people say I'm not voting I want you to understand that voting is not I will say this

1:56:04again but people somehow just think I've never said it before I've long said voting is not the be all to end all but voting is a part of the weaponry that we must be using in order to defend our community and if we don't I am warning you right now at 702 Eastern on this Monday August 10th 2026 that if Donald Trump and Mac are in control of this federal apparatus all of it for another two years you are going to see a tsunami across this country especially black people

1:57:18what I am saying is not because some simple sign that look older you go be you try to scare us no I'm simply trying to be truthful and if you have to be scared straight so be it but I'm telling you right now it's happening it's not it's gonna happen no it's happening and they're executing their agenda you're not gonna stop executing their agenda until they're finished and we allow them to execute their agenda almost a thousand worth of thousand pages in probably 2025 we will be finished and I need every baby boy Jin Exord millennial Jin Z and Jin Alpha to understand

1:58:22that if you don't pay attention to what's happening now if you don't understand that this is Jim Crow 2.0 you better go pick up a book and you better read what happened with black people the 12 years after the construction you better realize the attacks that were happening on black people but you also better understand which we'll talk about coming up next you also better understand but in this moment on this day at this hour at this minute at this this second this is the moment this generation is going to have to accept a call to action previous generations accepted and if you keep talking mythically about black Wall Street now amazing it was I want you to remember

1:59:24that black Wall Street was created by black people who spent money with black people who built businesses with black people which means you're gonna have to answer the question or you want to know people who talk about spending money with black people and doing business with black people or you want one of those people who actually do it is good check time of black America you're watching more of my unfiltered on the black starting network support the work that we do you're not bringing the funk fan club you want to contribute believe you do so by cash we subscribe to our code you see it right here on the screen that's for checks and money orders as well checks and that's for credit cards I'm sorry checks and money order same to a bigot to roll and mark unfiltered P.O. Box 5 7 1 9 6 Washington DC 2 0 0 3 7 dash 0 1 9 6 paypal's armarten unfiltered

2:00:28Bimo R.M. unfiltered sale rolling at rolling S Martin dot com rolling at hollandmark on food to dot com will be right back 22 million black victims of Americanism are waking up and they're gaining a new political consciousness becoming politically mature and as they become uh develop this political maturity they're able to see the recent trends in these political elections they see that the whites are so evenly divided at every time they vote uh the race is so close they have to go back and count the votes all over again and that which means that any block any minority that has a block of votes that stick together is in a strategic position either way you go that's who gets it you're you're in a position to determine who go to the white house and who stay in the dog house you're the one who has that power you can keep

2:01:32Janssen in Washington DC or you can send him back to his Texas Canton fence you're the one who sent Kennedy to Washington you're the one who put the present democratic administration in Washington DC the whites were evenly divided it was the fact that you threw 8% of your votes behind the Democrats that put the Democrats in the white house when you see this you can see that the Negro vote is the key factor vote and the choice is yours don't vote and the choice is theirs your vote could be the one that counts take a moment right now think about the election what it can mean to you again and again a difference of only a few votes has decided elections vote and the choice is yours when you vote you are making a choice of people and policies and plans you are choosing forces that shape the

2:02:34future your future your children's future don't vote and the choice is theirs that is the simple truth if you don't vote the choice is going to be made without your influence the choice is theirs not yours do you want it to be that way just one vote per precinct could decide the next election for president of the United States it has happened before remember to vote and the choice is yours don't vote and the choice is theirs your vote could be the one that counts