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and I'm your host, ramses Jah

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me me welcome back to the show. It's been a while,

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have you been.

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I've been amazing. How have you been.

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I've been flourishing. I'm having a fantastic

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morning and I am excited to share

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the news with you and get your thoughts.

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So let's not keep the people waiting. First up,

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big news Wendy Williams.

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She's has a new diagnosis

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and now we know a little bit more about what's

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going on with her. This comes from People. Wendy

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Williams is publicly addressing her

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primary progressive aphasia

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and fronto temporal dementia

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diagnosis for the first time. In

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a statement exclusively obtained by People

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on Friday, Williams fifty

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nine thanked fans for their overwhelming

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support in the hours following the news quote.

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I want to say I have immense gratitude

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for the love and kind words I have received after

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sharing my diagnosis of aphasia

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and frontal temporal dementia, she

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said. She goes on to say, let

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me say wow, your response has been overwhelming.

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The messages shared with me have touched me, reminding

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me of the power of unity and the need

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for compassion. Further

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along the way, she says, I

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hope that others with FTD may

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benefit from my story. I want to

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also thank the Association for Frontal

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Temporal Degeneration for their kind

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words of support and their extraordinary efforts

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to ways to raise awareness of FTD.

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I continue to need personal space and peace

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to thrive. Please just know your

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positivity and encouragement are deeply

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appreciated. So, yeah,

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it's sad news, but you

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know a lot of people were speculating that something might

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have been wrong. So you know, how did this

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one hit you?

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You know, this one is

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so layered for me.

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I want to start out by saying, I've had the opportunity

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to work with Wendy. I come

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from a Fox affiliate in Los Angeles

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and UH Fox eleven and

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we often worked with Wendy hand

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in hand. Whenever she was in LA or

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she had to do a

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talk back, she would also she would always come into

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our station and I would always work with her and producing

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capacity. This very last

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time that I worked with her, she was getting her star

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on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and I'll

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never forget she was so excited and talking

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about this was the day she dreamed of ever

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since she was a little girl. And you know, say

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what you want about Wendy, she was a trailblazer

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and she opened the door for so much of

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what we see right now.

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And this this.

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What's happened to her. Her Her condition is

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sad, you know, it's it's very

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sad. And I think, I

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think, what's happening here?

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There's you know, there's there's two sides to

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this. You know, we have a diagnosis of what's

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going on with Wendy, but there's also

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the revelation that this

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guardianship is very reminiscent

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of what went on with Britney Spears,

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having the bank control

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your guardianship paperwork and decide

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where you live, who you can talk to. Her

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family has no access to her. They

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can only talk to her when Wendy calls

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them. It feels

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it feels like there's

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something going on here

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that shouldn't be going on. They

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did say I believe it was

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the guardianship was triggered by her son

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his spending. I think it was like one hundred

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thousand dollars in uber eats, one hundred

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and twenty thousand on a party, in eighty thousand

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dollars in rent. The bank thought

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that he was taking avantage of her and

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her mental state

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and things that were going on with her. But

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she had other family members, a sister, a

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niece, everyone who has been fighting for her,

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and it just seems like for some reason, she

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is back in New York.

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I think I feel like I'm skipping a little bit. But she's

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back in New York. Her she her

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family's in Florida. She I

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guess the question is why isn't

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she with family versus being

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forced to live in New York when there's nothing

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for her there, instead of being surrounded

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by family members.

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So I just think there's a lot of questions.

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There's also this two part lifetime documentary

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that's called Where's Wendy.

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Williams said it aired this weekend.

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I think that you know, so many

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more questions than answers from

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that documentary. And so, you know, I don't

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think we've seen the last of this. I think it's still going

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to continue to play out.

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There's a lot.

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Going on here with Wendy

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and overall,

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I mean, and if you can just summing up in one,

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one, one word, it would

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just be sad.

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Yeah, you know, there's

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you know, I had no idea that a bank

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could step in and take control

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of someone's life like that. I'm curious what gives

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the bank the authority to do that. It's not the

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bank's money, you know, and it's not you

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know who knows. But one of the things

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that I realized

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about Wendy Williams is that I

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really only got one side of her story,

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and based

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on what I had gotten over

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the years, she was

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always kind of the villain. And

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this this was before, you know, I used to watch

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Box eleven when I was little, so this was before

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I ended up kind of getting into like

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heavy, heavily into music. And

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I remember there were lots of rappers

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that really had a problem with Wendy Williams.

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One in particular was method Man, who comes

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to mind. There was tons, but I remember

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method Man having

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an issue with her because

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she sort of exposed to his wife's

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cancer diagnosis or something like that,

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and that his wife was wearing a wig or

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something something like this, and it

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was very hurtful because method

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man was saying, I signed up for this, she

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didn't, you know, and you

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know, he's just very very upsetting,

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and that type of story time

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and again with a lot of people, and

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so she was always the bad guy. Well, recently,

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obviously because of the press

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surrounding her, I

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started to kind of take a look at who

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she really was, and I you know, you started

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off by saying she's a trailblazer, and I think that

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that is as appropriate a

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term for her. So maybe she was

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controversial, and I'm sure there's some

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people that are saying, Okay, she's getting what she

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deserves and you know whatever. But the

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truth of the matter is that, as you mentioned it,

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it's very sad. And

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just another footnote from from

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what I understood is that the

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timing of the

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documentary and the announcement of

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the diagnosis,

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I think it's just coincidental. I

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don't think that that was planned, because

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I believe the whoever

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the guardian is the guardianship filed

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to block the documentary

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from airing

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and Lifetime ended up

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winning, and so it just happened to

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time out, you know, because they didn't want her to be

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embarrassed. I suppose. I don't know.

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I don't know the stories there, but it's just interesting.

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I think. I like how you called it layered, and

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I hesitate to because I don't want

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to talk bad about her. I don't know her. She's

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never done anything to me, but I just know

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one version of her, you know, and songs

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and you know, over the years, and it's just, you

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know, I've never heard anyone speak positively

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about her because of you know, I

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was just kind of getting one side of it. You know, I was a

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you know, backpacker, hip hop you know that

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sort of guy, and you

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know, again getting the other side of

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this story, kind of knowing that what she had

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to go through to get to where she is and

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to be a successful agent and to make her name matter,

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to get a star on the Walk

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of Fame as a black woman, that's

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you know, you can't ignore that. So

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so yeah, it's it's it is a sad story.

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So you know, here we are moving

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on. This comes from the Black Information

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Network. A judge has ruled that a black student

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supervision sorry on black student suspension

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over his locks hairstyle doesn't

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violate the Crown Act. And I remember we covered

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this story on the Bion heavily,

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especially me because I have all this hair anyway.

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On Thursday of last week, State

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District Judge Chap Cane the Third

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said the dressing and grooming

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policies set by Barber's Hill Independent School

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District in Texas don't violate the Crown Act,

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which prohibits race based hair discrimination

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at school, work, school, and work

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for NBC News. The ruling comes after

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Barber Hill High School student

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Daryll George was initially pulled from the classroom

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in August of twenty twenty three after

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school officials said his locks were out of compliance,

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falling below his eyebrows and ear lobes.

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George's family argued his punishment

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violated the Crown Act, which became law in Texas

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in September of last year. The school

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claimed that the Crown Act doesn't address hair

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length. George, a junior,

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has remained an in school suspension

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or at an off site disciplinary program since

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August. His family filed a formal

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complaint with the Texas Education at agency,

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and a federal civil rights lawsuit against

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the state's governor and attorney an

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attorney general along with the school district.

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The district also filed a suit in state court

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requesting it clarified whether it's stress

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code policy or hair length violates

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the Crown Act. Thursday's ruling align with the district's

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claims that its policy doesn't discriminate against

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George for his locks, but merely prohibits

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him from wearing them at a length that exceeds

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the dress code. Quote. The Crown Act does

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not render unlawful those portions

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of Barbaros Hill dress Code, Kane said

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Thursday. Candice

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matthew, is a spokesperson for George's family,

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said the verdict left George in tears. Quote

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all because of my hair, George said, according

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to Matthews, quote, I can't

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get my education because of my hair. I can't be around

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my peers and enjoying my junior year because of my hair.

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Matthew said the family has vowed

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to not quote lay down, they

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would continue to fight unquote, and they

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are planning to appeal the decision. So

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I think I can imagine your thoughts, but here

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borrow it.

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I mean you know, this is this is what we

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mean by institutional racism.

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You know, it's it's it's.

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This is the thing that

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caught me the most is a

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literal definition of so

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the Crow the Crown Act. So

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when you when you look and you do more

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research about the Crown Act, about the

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Crown Act, it does not

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mention length.

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It is it is implied.

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I mean, anyone with natural hair knows that,

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you know, the the if you can

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twist it or if you can you know, lock

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it up, whatever it is, it has

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some some length to it. And I

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think there are just

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some people in this world that are going to

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look for what they

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can find in order to.

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Undo something.

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So, you

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know, it's

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it's this gets

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me so upset.

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I'm so sorry.

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It just gets me so upset because black

11:51

people, we deserve to show up as our full selves

11:54

without punishment, without criminalization. You

11:56

know, this young boy just wants to go to school

11:58

and here we are talking about his hair. I

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think that, uh,

12:04

you know, they want to talk about the length of the hairstyle

12:06

and that it's inappropriate.

12:08

But it's it's,

12:10

it's, it's it's it's implied

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in the Crown Act.

12:13

And so I think when we as

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black people, when we're when we're when we're crafting

12:17

these laws, we have to be careful. And

12:20

it's sad, but we have to be careful and that we account

12:22

for everything, every loophole that

12:24

one could find. And instead of inferring

12:27

about length, you maybe there needs to be a line about

12:29

length, because I think that there are people who are

12:31

going to go looking and digging to find

12:34

the loophole in which that they can create

12:36

problems like this, you know.

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And so that's where we are with this. This is this

12:40

is this is clearly a violation

12:42

of the Crown Act.

12:44

But this is this is clearly also

12:47

again a way of you know, our racism

12:49

today in twenty twenty four is very different.

12:52

You know, we may not be you

12:54

know, in the fields or or

12:56

you know, picking cotton, but we

12:58

are still very much tell to certain

13:00

standards. And this is this is

13:03

what we call institutional racism. This is the

13:05

way for them to continue to try

13:07

and hold you back from learning, or try to hold

13:09

you back from being all that you can

13:11

be by finding the one loophole

13:14

in in the law.

13:16

Basically, yeah, yeah, so it in

13:19

other words, it ignores the intention the

13:21

law and focuses

13:24

more heavily on a technicality, and I think

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that I think though, that there's

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I don't disagree with you, not at all,

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but I think there's probably

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another element

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here worth considering m H.

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Black history and

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black pro black

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education, I'll call it

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that doesn't really exist

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in the formal education

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channels in this country which

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most people go through, and

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as a result, you end up with blind

14:08

spots in

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your values and

14:12

in your interpretations of the law.

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And it is very

14:19

easy for someone to make

14:22

it all the way to you know, a judge

14:24

right to that position and

14:28

rule against

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someone who is

14:35

wearing a natural hairstyle because they

14:38

have blind spots due to their lack

14:40

of education. So this judge

14:42

who passes down this ruling is

14:45

not perhaps aware of

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the

14:52

significance of locks,

14:55

right. This judge may not have

14:57

been educated about

15:00

Rastafarianism right. And

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as a result, this judge might make

15:08

a judgment with

15:10

a with a gaping blind spot, something that we can

15:12

all see and appreciate, but the judge

15:14

cannot right. And so it might be ignorance

15:19

and it might be hate it, and it might be

15:21

both right. But I'm thinking what

15:24

I want to do is propose because it's it's

15:26

like it's Texas, you know, and these people are like anything

15:29

they can get away with. I'm sure, but

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for me, I want to I want to air on

15:34

the side of caution, just in case it's ignorance.

15:36

I think that this makes a case for black

15:39

studies critical

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race theory. Really, it's American

15:44

history, you know. In fact,

15:46

I learned about the significance of black

15:48

hair and braiding styles and braiding

15:50

patterns

15:53

because I was taught American history

15:55

and there was a focus on black history,

15:58

and then we had to figure out

16:00

some of the connective tissue between

16:02

Black Americans and Black Africans,

16:05

and different tribes

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would braid their hairs in different patterns and

16:10

that would symbolize what tribe they were from,

16:12

things like this, Right, So that's just one

16:14

thing, but there were lots of things, includingly, that

16:17

suggested that these

16:19

things were more than just a

16:21

cool hairstyle. These were cultural. Right

16:25

Now, I wonder

16:27

if this same judge would

16:30

have ruled against a Sikh person

16:32

the same way. Right,

16:35

A Sikh person is

16:38

a person that doesn't

16:40

cut his hair. I believe it's you

16:43

don't cut your hair in your lifetime, right, So

16:45

Sikhs have beards and long

16:47

hairs, and they wear them usually they're wrapped

16:49

up on the top of their head. I

16:53

wonder if this, if that would violate

16:56

this school's code of conduct.

17:00

And I wonder if I would,

17:03

right, you know, this is the Land of the

17:05

Free, right, and my hair

17:08

if I let it down. Bear in mind that George's

17:10

hair was worn up. Okay,

17:13

it was worn up, it was not It did not fall

17:15

below his ears. My hair

17:17

does not fall below my ears, right,

17:20

But if I pressed

17:22

my hair, let's say, I had to wash it and

17:24

press it and go through it and take care of

17:26

my sisters. Do this for me. From time to time. My

17:29

hair goes past my shoulders. It

17:31

doesn't look like it, but it really does. It's you

17:34

know, I can tell yeah, yeah, yeah, it just it

17:36

just I look like I got pictures.

17:39

Anyway, I wonder if I would

17:42

violate this

17:44

act because my hair is meant

17:46

to be worn like this, but indeed

17:48

the length is longer than that. And

17:51

if they're teaching these kids, if

17:53

they're teaching these kids how to grow up and work

17:55

for somebody, how to grow up and conform, and

17:58

they fly the flag in front of the school

18:01

of the Land of the free, and I think

18:03

that they have a personal conundrum that they

18:05

have to deal with on their own. It sounds

18:07

like you want to jump back in.

18:08

Please I have to say this, and I don't.

18:10

I was trying to look for but I cannot find it.

18:12

But the principle of a school

18:14

said something about him not being

18:16

American and if he wanted to be American,

18:18

then he.

18:19

Needed to go reform. Yeah, yeah,

18:21

with you know, America.

18:23

And for me, when you bring up America and you talk

18:25

about black people, you are saying you need to

18:27

be you need to do it like we do, you know, basically,

18:30

And so for me, I

18:33

think, especially in Texas, whenever you invoke

18:35

the word American, you know, and we've

18:37

got the judge, you know, we don't

18:39

know, you know, you made a good point. We don't know you

18:42

know his thought process. But I think

18:44

anytime anyone is judging from an American

18:47

standpoint and that American standard,

18:49

you know, how Trump can how Trump can

18:51

you know, rally up the troops by

18:53

using the word American. You know, you

18:56

you you you put yourself in in

18:58

a box of what you think or

19:01

they think America should be. And

19:03

look like this young boy

19:05

said that they don't do this to anyone else. He

19:07

said, they don't do it to the Mexicans, they don't do it

19:10

to Indians or

19:12

anyone else. He did say that, you know, he

19:14

said it was just him. So I'd

19:17

like to summarize. You know, if

19:19

it were you, you know, you might be in violation

19:22

as well. You know, at some point, depending

19:24

on it, you go to school like that. But the moment

19:26

you say, okay, I want to wear it a different

19:28

way, or if you even braid it down and it

19:31

passes the length that's appropriate, you

19:33

know that role would hit you too,

19:35

mostly mainly because of the color of your skin.

19:38

Yeah, yeah, okay, and I'd go with that. But here's

19:40

the thing. His with

19:43

Georgia, and I mentioned this, but he wore

19:45

his hair was locked, but he wore

19:47

it up. It did not fall below his

19:49

ears, right, And you

19:51

know, I wear my hair up. This is the way

19:53

my hair is meant to be worn. If

19:56

I get out of the shower, it's a lot longer than this, but when

19:58

it dries it looks like this. Right. So in

20:01

order for me to have an afro, which

20:03

is indeed a protected hairstyle, a

20:06

natural afro that grows out of my head,

20:09

right. Locks are protected too, but in order for me

20:11

to have them, they cannot exceed

20:14

the bottom of my ears per the school's policy.

20:17

And he was wearing his hair up and

20:20

I'm wearing my hair up, I guess,

20:23

or not wearing it down, depending

20:25

on which technicality you want to go

20:27

with. But this is the style. And indeed

20:29

he had the style and it occupied more or

20:31

less the same space my

20:33

hair occupies right now. However,

20:37

my hair is protected and his is it, because

20:40

they'd have a tougher time making

20:42

a case against me, even

20:44

though if I wore my hair down it

20:46

would technically and be in violation

20:49

the same as his. But he wasn't wearing his hair down,

20:51

and I think that that matters, and

20:53

that I think that's the part where I

20:55

was like, I need to give you this because there's

20:58

the technicality that they do so right

21:00

right the Black Information

21:03

Network, I think it's caused us really to focus

21:05

on the equity and inclusion piece and not

21:07

just the diversity piece celebrating black

21:09

history. Then the die is classed

21:12

as I said, we're not asking, we're saying this is the way it's

21:14

going to.

21:14

Be, and now making sure that Yeah,

21:17

that was a first, but it won't be the only

21:19

time that that's happened. We want to make sure that we can continue

21:21

to do new.

21:22

Things because our story continues.

21:34

B I N News brand anchor

21:36

Mimi Brown is here with us discussing the weekends

21:39

major stories. All

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right, this comes from essence and just

21:46

like that, it's over for Porsche Williams

21:49

and Simon Wibadia. And

21:51

an exclusive obtained by People, the reality

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from the businessman after a little

21:58

over one year of marriage. Came

22:00

after they obtained court documents filed by the

22:02

Star. It also comes as there have

22:04

been stories spreading online about Guibadia's

22:06

past with bank and credit card fraud connected

22:09

to his early years in the country in the late eighties

22:11

and early nineties. Gibbadiah

22:14

seemingly responded to the resurfaced

22:16

information with a photo of himself smiling

22:19

alongside the caption I des

22:21

camp no shaky in

22:23

Nigerian pigeon that basically

22:26

means one is fine and nothing can shake

22:28

them. That said. A source told the

22:30

publication that the split is quote unrelated

22:32

to recent allegations involving Simon's past

22:35

and is an ongoing matter. Unquote.

22:38

The couple who recently looked head over heels in

22:40

love as they celebrated their one year anniversary last

22:42

November wed in twenty twenty two,

22:44

with both an elaborate native ceremony

22:46

and an even bigger traditional white wedding.

22:49

This breakup seems abrupt, but one

22:51

never knows what people are really dealing with

22:53

behind the scenes. Now, I'll be honest, I'm

22:56

not familiar with either of these people. So

22:59

we're just gonna, you know, we're going to go

23:01

with what you know this time, all right, sure,

23:03

sure, Yeah.

23:06

Basically, after fifteen months of marriage,

23:08

they are filing for divorce.

23:10

They had three wedding ceremonies,

23:12

I mean, very lavish, living their life

23:15

via social media, so they kind of just let us all

23:17

in all the time. I

23:19

want to say, last week they were on jet

23:21

skis somewhere, you know, and then a

23:24

week later you hear that they're filing for divorce.

23:26

Now, I don't know what to believe, to

23:29

be honest with you. You

23:31

know, a lot of news broke last week, as

23:33

you mentioned about his past

23:35

and bang fraud, identity fraud,

23:38

not being able to gain citizenship, using

23:41

fake names to stay

23:43

in the country. You know,

23:45

all of those things which you know, I would assume

23:48

that portion knows. But

23:50

then as we continue

23:52

to dig a little deeper, there were articles that came

23:54

out even over the weekend about him not being able

23:56

to pay his portion

23:59

for a private jet owing close

24:01

to a million dollars.

24:02

So there seems to be money problems

24:04

now.

24:05

Now that is where I

24:07

would say, she

24:09

may have thought something was more

24:12

stable, and maybe it wasn't, and now

24:15

she's getting out because you know, maybe

24:18

he lied in regards to the finances.

24:19

I have no idea, but this is really

24:22

abrupt.

24:23

You you know, what they put on for

24:25

social media, you would think that they are

24:28

so in love and life is beautiful. But

24:31

also Portia has just signed back

24:33

up for another season of Real Housewives

24:36

of Atlanta she did not do last season, so

24:38

this could very well be a storyline.

24:40

I just don't think we know, you know, It's

24:43

just I think it's one of those things where it's just kind

24:45

of too too early to tell, too

24:48

early to call I am.

24:50

You know, they had me fooled, So it

24:52

seems like they had a lot of people full this took this.

24:55

This was like breaking the Internet when it

24:57

hit, because you know, as two

24:59

people share their lives on the Internet and

25:02

millions of followers and people who look,

25:05

you know, at their lives and they

25:07

share it via Bravo and

25:10

Peacock and all their their series.

25:13

You know, you kind of feel like, oh, wow, okay, we know

25:15

them, and then we didn't see this coming, so we'll

25:18

see that's that's that's that's it. Like

25:20

you know, I think this is going to play out on the

25:22

next season. It's gonna hook and sink

25:24

and have us watching to see what goes

25:27

down.

25:28

All right, Well, now I know why

25:32

I am not entirely familiar

25:34

with these folks because I have never seen

25:36

the Real Housewives of Atlanta or indeed

25:39

the Real Housewives of anything. I'm

25:41

not a big reality I'm

25:43

not even a big TV person. Be honestly, I watched the

25:45

news and that's really it. So I blind

25:47

spot for me. But Chris Thompson wanted us to talk

25:49

about it. I'm sure our listeners appreciate

25:52

knowing about Portia Williams and hang

25:54

on, Simon

25:58

Willbadia. So yeah,

26:00

but forgive my ignorance, and

26:02

I appreciate, of course you being here too

26:05

and bridge that gap for me. But yeah, I

26:07

wish them both. Well, we'll see

26:09

what happens moving on our final story.

26:12

This comes from the Black Information Network. A Fox News

26:14

host is facing backlash for suggesting

26:16

that former President Donald Trump went over Black

26:19

America with his new sneakers ahead

26:21

of the twenty twenty four election. According

26:23

to TMZ, Fox News is Raymond Arroyo

26:26

said Trump's limited edition sneakers

26:28

will garner him more favor with black people

26:30

because quote, they love sneakers.

26:35

This is connecting with Black America because

26:37

they love sneakers. This is a big deal, certainly

26:39

in the inner city. So when you have Trump

26:41

roll out his sneaker line, they're like, wait

26:44

a minute, this is cool. He's reaching out

26:46

to them on a level that defies

26:48

and is above politics. Unquote.

26:51

This is what Arroyo said on air. A

26:53

thousand pairs of Trump's Never Surrender

26:55

sneakers, which cost roughly four hundred dollars

26:57

each, recently dropped and quickly sold

26:59

out.

27:00

Out.

27:00

Detroit rapper Pas appeared

27:02

to agree with o'royo's comments, saying on

27:04

social media that he endorses Trump

27:07

and that he's looking for a size thirteen

27:09

in the sold out sneakers. Exploative

27:12

deleted Joe Biden, I'm

27:15

rocking with Trump, Piz

27:17

said, adding exploitative,

27:19

deleted Kamala Harris,

27:23

and then he goes on to say, free Trump. All

27:25

right, So did

27:27

you think these shoes were as ugly as I did?

27:30

Ugly? I

27:32

mean, are you kidding me?

27:34

Like the Emperor's new clothes. I'm like, do you not see

27:37

this? Tiger came out with some gold shoes,

27:39

and I mean I could rock with those, but theseus.

27:41

Oo so bad, so

27:44

bad?

27:45

Yeah, anyway, go ahead, No,

27:47

I just I just.

27:50

We have real issues going on in the world,

27:53

and I think that if

27:55

we don't wake up and take our issue

27:57

seriously, this is not an issue.

27:59

You know, this is not.

28:02

You know, I would

28:04

like to give and I do give Black America

28:07

more credit just being lured

28:09

by shiny things, in

28:11

this case sneakers, especially Trump

28:13

sneakers.

28:15

Now, I don't know who what did you call them? Little

28:17

peasy? I

28:20

don't even know who that is? Okay, but

28:22

you know, we we we have.

28:25

We live in a place where things are sensationalized

28:27

that one statement

28:30

will go viral and it will perhaps

28:32

speak on the behalf of in

28:35

their minds so many people. But no

28:37

one I know has or

28:39

have ever met things that these sneakers are

28:42

the thing to do. You know, it's

28:45

it's but but this

28:47

is how some think of us.

28:49

This is how some think, how we think

28:51

this is. This should be a wake up call.

28:54

You should do the absolute opposite of this.

28:56

This should this.

28:57

Should trigger you to go out and vote and to make

28:59

your voice heard and not. You know, when people

29:01

think that, oh, I can just lure

29:03

the black community, especially the inner community,

29:06

uh bye, by

29:08

giving them a new pair of shiny four

29:11

hundred dollars sneakers, you know you

29:13

need to go out and say no, we

29:16

you know, we have families, we there are there

29:18

are things that we that we need

29:20

that we are voting on that matter to

29:22

us. And you know, I think

29:24

Michael Steele said it, said it, said it

29:27

very well. He said, it's almost as if they're

29:29

saying the quiet part out loud, you

29:31

know, and that's exactly

29:34

that's how they think.

29:34

But they said it out loud.

29:35

And the fact that they said it out loud, you know, let

29:38

this be a rallying cry for us, like,

29:40

no, this.

29:41

Is not this is not all it takes. And that's

29:43

and I think that's why we don't have.

29:45

The the voting how

29:47

like we're we're fighting to be have you

29:49

know what, we want to be heard because they

29:52

don't take us seriously. This is this is what they

29:54

think. So let's use this, use this

29:56

as fuel to be like.

29:57

No, you know, so that's what

29:59

I thought.

30:00

I'll leave it right there.

30:02

Can I just add one small detail?

30:05

You know, when I think of these shoes, you know who

30:07

I think the people that would have them on.

30:09

Do you remember diamond and silk for Trump?

30:11

Like those? Oh yeah, the two.

30:14

Two black folks that would wear the shoes would.

30:16

Wear if this is if that's what you're

30:18

you know who you're talking about, maybe because

30:21

you know there's yeah

30:24

exactly, but but but the rest

30:26

of us conscious black fathers, Yeah, yeah

30:30

exactly.

30:31

And even that just the more. I wouldn't

30:33

stay at a Trump hotel. I wouldn't you know, I would just say

30:35

none of that. The man he's not a good person. I'm

30:38

not a big Joe Biden fan, of course, but

30:40

you know, I know I know bad

30:42

men when I see them, and I do my best not to support

30:45

and so that party. We'll leave that there.

30:48

These are more stories, of course, can be found a bi in news

30:50

dot com. I'd like to thank you as always

30:52

for coming on and sharing your insight your thoughts.

30:54

Once again, Today's guest is b i N News

30:56

anchor Me Me Brown. This

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