Was MLK right? Host Larry Higginbottom expresses his views on integration, how ADOS have built this country and have gotten nothing back for it, the Kerner Report of 1968 and 2018, how MLK's incentive for collective uplift achieved the opposite, & more.
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The following commentary does not necessarily reflect the views of the staff and management of WBCA or the Boston Neighborhood Network. If you would like to express another opinion, you can address your comments to Boston Neighborhood Network, 302-5 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02119. To arrange a time for your own commentary, you can call WBCA at 617-708-3215 or email radio at BNNMedia.org. Well, Boston, I'm here. And what a glorious day we're going live. We are going live. You can call in 617-708-3211, 617-308-3211. We're going live. I'm your own neighbor. What a glorious day. Anyway, I'm your host Larry Higemardin and the name of the program is observation matrances. You listen to WBCA, 102.9 FM. I can WBCA, 102.9 FM. The name of the field, I will chat is observation matrances. But speak about things that are affecting my tribe, ADOS as I identify as American descendants of slavery. It's got no problem with that. No problem because why? They survive and endure it. Some might refer to themselves as foundation of black American, kind of problem with that. Or original black American got no problem with that. Hope someday in the future that the young folks will settle on a name to distinguish us from black because we have our own lineage, our own culture where we create something out of nothing since being landed here in 1619. So hopefully Monday is sometimes the future with the young folks. We'll decide on a designation that distinguishes us from other blacks. But until then, I want to talk about something that's been on my spirit lately. I saw an interview with the late Harry Bellafunty. He said five days before Dr. King was assassinated. They had a meeting proud to him given his speech there in Memphis for the striking sanitation workers. He said Dr. King revealed to the group that he felt that he was leading his people into a burning building. So what I want to put out in atmosphere for you to think about is this here. Integration was MLK right. He led his people into a burning building. Integration was MLK, MLK premonition right that he was leading his people into a burning building. And Harry Bellafunty said he wanted to say, he said because the reason why he felt that he was leading his people into a burning building because America had lost his moral compass. And that it's no way that it's going to rectify the harm that he was doing to citizens because of the entrenched anti-blackness. So I want to just put it out there. You can feel free to call it and give me your thoughts. 6.7, 708, 32.11, 6.7, 708, 32.11. You want to call and share your thoughts? Always just keep it clean, keep it clean, keep it clean, you know, and all viewpoints are welcome here. She and I, you might agree, you might not, but it's okay. And let me start off by saying this to you. Give you some context. In 1968, when our community, eight of us, became very fed up, there was 100 riots throughout America. LBJ was baffled. Why are the colors of the Negro's rioters? Why do they bring things down? So he initiated a report to find out why. It's called the Curranary Report. Curranary Report. Curranary Report. Curranary Report. In 1968. And they brought back the findings as to why our community had had enough. Totally fed up. Okay. Needless to say, LBJ did not abide by its finding because it found white America as fault. It found that white America was the reason why our community was up and on because of the treatment that had continued by my being emancipated. It still was enslavement, and it was holding the white community responsible. Well, 50 years later, that same commission had a report called the Curranary Report 50 years later, came out in 2018. And that report found, and for more information, you can go with that and read it yourself, it found that besides there being a few more of us would call college degrees, all the conditions that they saw in 1968 were present in 2018. Okay. The same condition that led to 100 cities going up and flying in the '68 were the same condition they found in 2018. A several yet few more folks who've dedicated. Recently, Tavis Smiley, you might know him. He's also noted our columnists. He wrote a book 20 years ago called State of Black America. State of Black America was the number one seller. He, too, just did a revisit 20 years later. The State of Black America, 20 years later. And like the Curranary Report, his finding is just as dismal. And you can also, for more information, you can read that. Tavis Smiley, State of Black America, 20 years later. And so, when you look at integration, the path to been over the last 30, 40 years, you have to ask. Besides a few benefiting, what has it done for the collective? How well has the collective done on its path of integration and the simulation we're going to call it? How well have we done as a group? I can tend not very well. One of the biggest pluses has been the elimination of just its arbitrary violence because before the Black power movement, we had no due process or protection under the law in America. We could be attacked at will, and we're in it now. The number one group, according to the FBI database, that deal with hate crimes, ados, America born blacks. So when you look at what we have done since we embarked upon integration, you have to just give some thought to King's assessment than at six feet. Integration was MLK right. He led his people into a burning building that's not really been very productive for the group. I would contend, having done a lot of reading about this, this is brother. If you read really from '65 to '68, those last three years of King's life, this man did a complete about faith compared to his first, his earlier hopes and dreams and ambition for America. He was saying things like when we marched on Washington, we're coming to get out check. He wasn't saying that prior. He was saying things like, "We need a redistribution of wealth." He wasn't saying that prior to '65. So this young man, and keep in mind, King was a young man. Like a lot of those guys out there, Malcolm, those guys in the '20s, taking a long white supremacy. He dumped him past, and there was no blueprint for that. So you have to sit and critique, right? What has transpired in the 50 years since we embarked upon this integration track? How was it done for the group? So my question to anyone, you want to chime in, feel free? Integration. What's MLK right? He led his people into a burning building. And you can show your thoughts by calling in 617, 708, 3211, 617, 708, 3211. You want to show your thoughts on this topic for the day? And just put it out there. You know, I mean, your thoughts might differ from mine. You might have some ideas that might be different from mine, but it's okay, but everyone brings it out there. Because as I look at what we are now with all the laws that came out of civil rights movement have been totally nullified, neutralized, really. From every action, all those things now gut it, you know? And we are, as a community, we had squared zero. We started over. And that's when we started over. The young people are. As boomers like me, you know, our time is, you know, winding down. But for the most part, the next year is easier for you starting from scratch. So the benefit that we had for a brief shining moment that caused King's life has been totally squandered and wasted, in my mind's opinion, for the collective uplift of the group. And you must always remember that King was for collective uplift. Not a few of us doing okay. Not a few being the first here on the ESMP, ESMP, ESMP, you know, or being an anchor here, or being a sportcaster there, he was for collective uplift. And I think that we can safely say that where our is not really benefited the collective because of the entrenched anti-blackness and the psychic whiteness for four and five years. We've been there, but four and five years, I think, since 16, 19. So I'm just putting down the atmosphere. What are your thoughts? My topic today is integration. Was MLK right? He led people into a burning building. I'm going to show you a thoughts 617, 708, 3211, 617, 708, 3211. I'm going to show you a thoughts. So we're talking about today. And also, you know, what Tavis said and what the 2018 report from the current report for the years later revealed, a few doing okay. And I think many of us are deceived by our celebrities on ESPN, you know, you got athletes making these humongous salaries good for them, you know. So a lot of our celebrities, a lot of ados, celebrities are doing well. That's true. But the collective, for the most part, the medium salary here to see the Boston, I read a few years ago, in Roxbury, like $32,000. Well, you know, you ain't doing too good. And 2024 making my 30 grand year. So I think that many have been deceived by seeing members of our community out in his high profile position. And many think that either group as a whole is doing well. When in fact, that's not so. That's not so all the data shows that the group, for the most part, is dead left in earnings and in wealth. So you have to ask yourself, you know, was MLK permission right? That he was leading his people into a burning building. Because when you read his writings from 65 on, he was fighting for us to be treated as full-fledged citizen with all the person in benefit of whiteness, then including not only just the right to vote, which folks seem to be stuck on that, but the right to have due process under the law, the right to acquire these contracts, city, state, and federal government, the right to live where you want to live, have your kids in the best of schools. You know, he was fighting for us to be treated as a full-fledged citizen of America. And lately, in the last 20, 30 years, Democrats and media politicians have totally undermined it and gutted what it means to be a citizen, system by allowing all these illegal in this country and making provisions for them. In these urban cities, you see blacks are irate and totally indignant about these illegals getting all these provisions. And those who've been in since 1619 have always been told, you're lazy. You don't want nothing. You don't want to work. There's your follow. And also now you're taking care of millions and millions and millions of people who are not even a citizen. It begs you to wonder, is the anti-blackness debt intrinsic that you will give favor to a foreigner compared to somebody who's fought in every war you ever had? Every war you've had, black blood was shed. Make sure you wonder. So when it's happening out there today, you can call in, share your thoughts, 617, 708, 3211. We're going live. We're going live. And my topic today, food for thought integration, was MLK right. He led his people into a burning building. And this is a conversation cited by the late Harry Belafonte, five, eight before he was assassinated. They would have a meeting one meeting. Then the king said, you know, I think I'm leaving my folks into a burning building this thing called integration. Because America has lost its moral compass to do right by us. And was he seen that he was on the wrong track? That in America, because the system is based in capitalism. And you have to be able to secure your income. And if you think about the relationship which builds on contemporary hate and disdain towards black people, especially black Americans, should we have chosen not so much of civil rights and voting rights? But no, we should have been fighting right for means to take care of ourselves. Contract from the federal government, you know, whether we can make sure that black men were implorable, that you can make, you know, accumulate wealth to develop your own projects, the own system. Did we choose the wrong fight to fight in the name of civil rights? Because we've been on that track for quite some time. And at the end of the day, you still can't put yourself or other black men and women to work because you don't have factories, or you don't control the means of production to put a dollar in your neighbor's pocket to keep him comfortable and at ease. Because you've been spent all your time fighting for civil rights, voting rights, human rights, that right, noble causes. When you superimpose the relationship that's built on us being brought in shackles and chains, and then trends hate, they had to manifest to keep this here construct in place. Was it wise to spend all the time on civil rights and human rights, instead of fighting for economics, liberation, through contracts, ownership of land, etc. Because right now, in 2024, we've got the same problem that King had or faced in 1963 on the march on Washington. The eighties community, American blacks, cannot hide themselves. And in fact, I saw a stat that said that the number of black American black American, who are seven plot was 2.7 percent, 2.7 percent, 2.7 percent were seven plot. That means 97.3 percent of us are begging white folks to anybody for a job in 2025. I think about that. In 2024, 2.7 percent of us are seven plot. And most of those are solo entrepreneurs with average income under $25,000. So the other 97.3 percent need white or anybody to implore them. Well, that's almost the same situation we found ourselves in 1993. We could not implore ourselves. And in the system in capitalism, where the means of revenue income is so important, did we squander our time fighting and pursuing civil rights, instead of pursuing economic liberation independent farm whites? Because you begging these same people who have been indoctrinated and socialized, the whole year would be contempt in this day. How are you? How likely is that? How likely is that? Not very likely. And so I think that this young man, Dr. King, was coming to really question some of his assumption the last three years of his life. When you listen to him, you see, they hit a different spin on life in America. He understood that morality, right? The spirit of whiteness did not embrace that, did not hold that deer. Because you can't say that you will follow Jesus Christ and do so many things that have been done to us. In the name of Jesus, I don't believe. So I think he was coming to rethink his position in this country. That's why I believe he had that revelation that he revealed to Harry Belafonte in the group that night, finally, before he was murdered, that I think I led my people into a burning, building, staying, or immigration. But I'm just putting it out there. What's your thoughts on it? What are your thoughts? Do you think? Integration? What's the MLK right? He led his people into a burning building. What's your thoughts on it? That's what's happened. I have a dialogue. 6.1. 7. 7. 7. 8. 32. 11. 6. 1. 7. 7. 7. 8. 32. 11. You want to call her and say your thoughts. Just keep it clean. Keep it clean. Keep it clean. Because I can tell you one thing, as the commission has been out in the church of the last quote of a century in homes, seeing firsthand how people are firing. He ain't working. He ain't working. Nope, nope, nope, nope. I can say, I believe in the wrong way. And if I was going to construct a strategy, it would have been strictly on, we need to get the means of production to control our income. We must have control over the platform of our income. You must be able to employ your people. You must be able to put men to work. But why they can provide for their women and children. I would not have put all my time just in the civil rights and voting. Because the day you're still begging this community to employ you. So what's the likelihood of that? Not great, I don't think. Because they have been also socialized and indoctrinated to hold you in contempt and disdain. Understand the relationship is based on 45 years of shackles and chains. You came here in shackles and chains. I must not forget that. So for 20, 47 years of our existence here, we were in shackles and chains. We created wealth but got no wealth. And to justify that, they had to do a number on the own psychology to justify that vile, despicable treatment that we were administered. So one has to wonder what's pursuing the civil rights. The most ideal thing to pursue given the relationship was based on. Because you actually don't want to be fair and just with you, who treated you horribly. How likely is that? Are they going to be in a sharing, giving mood? Not likely, I don't believe. So that's why I believe this young man was coming to wrestle with some of his belief, coming to see whiteness of what it was. It's a very vile spirit that morality has no place there. Because you don't treat people as hobbyly as we would be treated any now. And call yourself a follower of Jesus Christ, just not believe. You might have a different point of view. But I think this young man has started to really see America in a different light while he other that statement to Harriet Baba Fatih in the in the in the in the guest that night. But when he was you thinking, what are you thinking? We're going live now. We are going live 617 708 3211 617 708 3211. My thought for you to consider is real simple. Integration was MLK right. He led us people into a burning building. But for today, integration was MLK right. He led us people into a burning building. And if you look at results, it's so for a few who are doing well, you know, as the collective group, who been doing that well? Not doing that well. Because I contend that we pursued a strategy that had no good returns on it to free us from economic oppression. And so we have been begging for the last 50 years for things like, you know, multiculturalism, diversity, equity, and inclusion. But again, you don't own those platforms. You don't own those platforms that you're begging to have diversity, equity, and inclusion in. You don't own those. So instead of putting your time into developing and creating entities that you own and control that you could hire your people and control your, you know, economic flow, you're begging people to share with you out of the goodness of their heart. Be, but be benevolent. But again, this relationship is based on shackles and chains. It's always been the foundation of the relationship. There's always been tension between black Americans and the community and white community because of that relationship. Then and now it's been that wave since we got here with the only group that's been in constant tension with whiteness. Other groups, when they come here, be there Caribbean, be there Haitians, be there Africans. Well, due to independence and those lands where they hail from, they have not had to deal with whiteness for seven or eight decades because of independence. So they, their psychology has to reconstruct their whiteness. It doesn't mean the same to them that it means us. Racism does not mean to them what it means to us. There's no black, white binary system in their land in Haiti or Trinidad or Jamaica, you know, or Migo or Nigeria, you know, that binary system of black, white does not exist in those parts of the world because of independence, you just three, three, three, three years of Jamaica, I'm a Nigerian. What trial you belong to, what language you belong to, you know, and South of the border Spain left there in 1800s. So they have not had to deal with whiteness. When they come across the border, Mexican Mexican ones want to be treated white because why are the benefits? The benefits, they saw that being classified white, you get benefits. But overall, whiteness does not mean to these group what it means to us. So this black, white paradigm binary system only really exists, exists, exists, exists here in America. When you travel as I have, right, you don't see that, that binary system of black, white, been an advocate, had a great time, we'll go back. Mr. Caribbean Island had a great time, we'll go back best out of the border, been to Cuba, you know, been to Haiti. So when they come to America, their psychology is not affected by whiteness the way ours are. We've been constantly under the domination and control of whiteness for four and five years. And although we have pushed back and got some breathing room, but they still dominate and control all institutions, it's a white man's country. And I don't say it to be, you know, the seizures or smart alec or whatever, it's true, they own all the wealth control all institutions, the institution that we operate in, that's true. These are their rags and bylaws that we operate in, that's true. And they got all the guns, they own all the guns. That's true. It's their country. The folks that, you know, how can a man run for president, he got 49 charges, it's a white man's country. This is the simple. It's just the simple. And what really amazes me that us boomers who've been around for a while, we seem shocked and perplexed that statement that everybody must come under the law does not apply when it comes to white people, in a lot of cases. I understand that Diddy offered a bail for 50 million, they declined, they locked them up anyway. To show him that there's a white man's country, 50 million, it's right. He had the money to 50 million bail, but he's still in the jail sale. And I contend, one of the biggest problems in the last 50 years is this thing on integration, that boomers stopped teaching their kids about whiteness. My mother's born in 1930, my father was two. I was blessed to also be raised by my mother's mother's boy in 1903 and my father lemme hear them, I was born in 1897. They taught me about white people. They taught me how to survive in my country, about white people. And I think with the so-called, you know, multiculturalism movement, diversity movement, that we stopped teaching our children about whiteness, because they passed some law, took the sign down, stopped calling you inward. You could go to the lunch counter, eat at the hotel, you could spend your money in the establishment. And we did not teach our children laws might change some behavior, but laws don't change the heart and wants true conviction. Laws might change some behavior, but laws don't change ones heart and ones true conviction. So anti-blackness just is rampant and just as entrenched as it was in 1965. Anyway, I'm your host Larry Hickenbottom. You listen to WBCA 102.9 FM, name of the program, I'll ask the people in the churches. And just speaking, putting the thought out there today, integration was MLK right. He led his people into a burning building. 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It'll just be something that you see and all of a sudden you realize, I'm on the wrong page or I'm on the right page but I'm on the wrong note and I've got to get in sync with everyone else to understand what's happening in this country. But I think that the black Americans have been the only real that hard Americans here because we're the only ones who who carry the process through the process, that everyone else has to sort of like skip stages. We're the ones who march, we're the ones who carry the Bible, we're the ones who carry the flag, we're the ones who try to go through the courts and being born American didn't seem to matter because we were born Americans but we still had to fight for what we were looking for and we still had to go through those channels and those processes. I'm back. Again, you're listening to WBCA 102.9 FM, again WBCA 102.9 FM. I'm your host Larry about him in my program call from the trenches baby. After being the trenches, from the trenches. Today I'm just putting a thought out in the atmosphere and by the way we're going live now, we are live. You can always call in to your thoughts at 617-708-3211 at 617-708-3211 because we are live. My thought for you to consider is this here, immigration. Was MLK right? He led his people into a burning building. Again, integration. Was MLK right? He led his people into a burning building. This is a conversation we called the late Harry Belafonte. He had five days before Dr. King was murdered ever gathering. He said as Dr. King said, you know Harry, guess I think I would let my people into a burning building to stay in car integration because America is beyond redemption. As far as it's morals, it's loss of moral competence. Well, what do you think? Integration. Was it a big payoff? Fuzz. For Ados. I'm Megan Black. Did it make the group life better? Have we prospered? What do you think? Call in and show your thoughts on it. 617-708-3211, 617-708-3211. We'll show you thoughts on my topic for today's integration. Was MLK right? He led his people into a burning building. I would contend that a given the despicable relationship that not being able to have the means to take care of yourself should have been the top priority. For example, if I go to a country, the first thing I got to resolve is how am I going to take care of myself? How am I going to be able to earn income in that country to secure some kind of comfort level? First thing, you got to have some source of revenue to be comfortable. I would contend that, again, hindsight is 2020, we can always say that, but I think 2020 is so big for itself, that the biggest challenge facing our community has always been economics. Given the relationship, we've always been begging the white community to hire us or share the wealth with us. We need a job. Well, what's the likelihood of this community sharing or hiring you, given they've also been indoctrinating socialized to hold you in contempt and just dang? That you are not worthy or deserving of anything? How likely are those things both going to turn around and hire you? But if I have income or buy, you can take care of your wife in case on your term. What's the likelihood of that? So, I would contend, being out here in the trenches for the last quarter century, doing direct mental services, that I think and believe that we went the wrong way, civil rights, human rights, voting rights, all that stuff, because it does not put a chicken in your pot or allow you to live where you want to live, because you have no source of revenue. And in 2024, as I said earlier, that right now, only 2.7% of black Americans are 7-plored, 2.7% are 7-plored. And the vast majority have revenues under $25,000, according to the label about me. That means 97.3% of us out here begging white sports jobs or anybody's sports jobs, to hire us. We're begging anybody to hire us. That doesn't go well for people given the relationship was built on, being brought in shackles and chains. That don't really work well. So, I would say the integration was a terrible, terrible strategy to integrate into a house where you were totally despised with no value, no humanity was a bad move. It's like begging somebody to include you and to treat you fair, who has been also indoctrinated to hold you in this day. And if you think about it, I was born in 1953. So, I'm 71 now. In 70 years, the spirit of whiteness has gone from having total contempt for our physical presence and our money. They didn't want any of us in their presence, no, our money in 1953. During 2024, they would accept our presence and our money, but you don't own nothing. Anybody listening? So, when I was born in 20 in 1953, the spirit of whiteness had total contempt for adults. It did not want our physical presence, nor our money in its presence or its establishment. In 2024, that same spirit would now tolerate your presence and your money, but you don't own institutions to employ your people or create a bill welcome. And don't be deceived by these high-income pieces of properties. I recall black people who make up their money, is high-priced properties. They don't own this platform, whether they sing it, whether they run the ball, hitting the ball, kicking the ball, shooting the ball, whatever. They don't own those platforms. That's why they cannot speak sincerely about our condition, because they know that their contract, or they know that their little perks would come under scrutiny or would even be terminated. So, they don't want to lose their endorsement. So, they have the same thing like, "You know, I'm not going to free country. Why can't we all get alone?" So, we got to take a watered-down approach, because understand most of the vast majority of our people, especially the adults, members, they're coming from poverty. They're coming from this working class or in poverty's neighborhood. So, they're chosen. They chose sports as a way out of the hood, or wrapping or singing or whatever it is, out of the hood. So, again, there's no conscious about weed. There's no group conscious. They're just trying to get out of the hood. And if they're blessed to get out of the hood and they are successful, they have not read the data or the material on our condition to speak from a position of authority about America. And the cost is high. The price they would pay if they say anything that's not deemed fableable or okay. So, we really can't blame them, at least I don't, because they just chose entertainment as a way out of poverty, a way out of the hood. So, at the end of the day, you know, we're still back to what we were in 1963. We cannot hire ourselves. That's why I say, my belief, integration was not a good strategy. Integrating was not a good strategy. Because it did not allow you to own the assets to hire your people, to put a paycheck in a person's hand, to take care of himself or his wife or his children. You were still begging the white community to share with you and be benevolent with you, inclusive with you. How likely is that? Given that the relationship is based on shapos and chains, not likely. So, that's why I can tend having read a lot of Kings since '60, '63, '68. This young man did a three, I told him 360. I believe that he knew he was going the wrong way. But he was murdered before he got a chance to articulate that or express that they came down to economics. In 2024, it really comes down to economics. Do you possess the platform that you are deriving your income from, that you are deriving your income from? Do you control that? And if you don't, and obviously, if only 2.7% of us are 7-plot, that means that the other 97.3% are at the whim of white people, anybody who will hire them. And it should be clear that most groups who come here, right, their first priority is to them and their own group, rightfully so. Use house, use, white house, how white, Spanish and higher, Spanish, Caribbean, Africans, higher Africans, Indian, you know, higher Indians, everybody have their own, but us. Because we have been saddled with fighting for civil rights. And I contend in 2024, you've gotten all you're going to get out of civil rights and voting. I'll see you again. You've gotten all you're going to get out of civil rights and voting. No matter who occupies the White House in 2024, 2025. This much you can rest assured, ados. If you are broke on November 5th, you wake up November 6th, you're broke. If you got no wealth, November 5th, you make up November 6th, you have no wealth. Because all tied to your skills, to your skill base. And policies are not going to make your life better. When I look at members of our community that I know personally who are doing very, very well, when I analyze the reason why it's their skills, they possess essential high-income skills. And I don't mean to work for the fire or position those good job now. They're not doing that. Their skills are really in demand. And they're earning quite a nice salary. And quite a few of them are contractors. But is there skills that are in high demand? And in our system called capitalism, skills are still essential, no matter who's in office. So whether you vote or don't vote, your quality of life would not be undermined it. Because your skills are still going to derive top dollar for you. That's why I said, I kind of believe the integration was a terrible strategy. Given that the relationship is based on hate contempt and disdain of 20, 27 years of chalice slavery, followed by a continuation of Jim Crow, sharecropping, lynching the whole nine yards. So out of our four and five years in this country, we're throwing in 50 of those that been on the extreme arrest. So I don't believe that pursuing integration was a great strategy, giving the relationship and what it's built on. That's my belief. What's yours? Our game is going live. We're going live. You can call and show your thoughts. 617 788 3211. 617 788 3211. We're going live. We're going live. You can call and show your thoughts at the top of your day. Integration was MLK right. He led his people into a burning building. What's your thoughts on that? What's your thoughts? I think he came to recognize before he was murdered that he had to do it about faith because when a man cannot provide for his family and himself, he's at his severe disadvantage in trying to appeal somebody to someone's morality and morals and ethics when they had been indoctrinated, it says time immortals that you're nothing, that you're nothing. It's a hard sale. But then it changed their ways and I think he can't realize that. That's why I say I believe that you have to understand our country-Americans still can figure like a plantation. You still got three tears to it. Like during our enslavement, you have what? The slave owners to overseers and the slaves. Slave owners, overseers and the slaves. Today, you got what? The elite, the middle class in the working class. The elite middle class in the working class and people all say what? Come to the middle. Come to the middle. Get off their bottom. Because for the most part, they know there's not much you can do down there. But just survive and get by. In the last 30 years, 40 years, all these influx of illegal aliens, you don't have to have a chance down there. If you're a member of ADOs, well, they brought them in to replace you anyway. After the six-day rise, if you look after the six-day rise, a conscious decision was made, I believe, to replace the Negroes as the first line of labor. Because all of them jobs, you know, who was doing those, taking care of their own kids, our women, our day on the road, Negroes, up there doing law and grad Negroes. But after the six-day rise, there's a black power movement to say, man, we got to do something here. So I believe the conscious decision was made to let the floodgate open. What you have now is just an inundation of this farmer's model of the world. So now, the problem is they've also hurt white people. What do you do with them? And I will say no matter who wins, these folks are not going back now. They're not going back. So the only way to avoid, you know, dealing, that you have to upgrade your skills. The only solution I can see is capitalism, labor. Labor still is the same. It's the same. You still need labor. If you possess essential high-income skills, you're going to do well. You're going to do well. If you don't, unfortunately, a bit of our folks don't have those skills, you've got a problem. And the only other choice I can see, you've got to go back upgrade your skills. You must go back and upgrade your skills to do well. No matter who wins, my friends and I, we're going to do well. Cover by skills. Cover by skills. Cover by skills. Well, anyway, that's my show for today. Remember, we're going live. We're going live from here on the end. So in the future, please call in. Did they have been talking about integration? Was MLK right? He led his people into a burning building. Let me think about it. Well, as I wind down, you know, this is that persona. I'll be back next Wednesday with more thoughts. You always can feel free to call in because we are going live. We are going live. I'm really happy about that. I want to hear what you think. I want to hear your thoughts. As long as you keep, you know, everything, you know, clean, no profanity, no racist slurs, you know, you welcome the, you know, state your belief. They're working here. But again, integration, I believe, went the wrong way. We went the wrong way. And the only redress right now is your label. Do you possess essential high income skills? Yes or no? And if you do, you're going to do well. And you won't be down here on this bottom tier dealing all these excess labor, all these excess labor. You're not going to do what I mean. That's why they're always saying, come to the middle, middle class, middle class. They understand you got to get up that bottom. And 97.3% of us, not so implorable, don't look good for the team. You need to think about acquiring skills about you can get city contracts, state, federal or private contracts. But you can hire yourself, hire your people, and create wealth. That's the only option I see. So until next Wednesday, you know, be safe. Again, you listen to WBCA, 102.9 FM, again, WBCA, 102.9 FM, I'm your host Larry, come by them. You know, name the program. Off the day from the trenches. I speak about things I see out here and saying, hey, man, we're going the wrong way. And you're not going to make these things better doing what you're always done. You have to go back and upgrade the skills. There's no other way I see. If you don't do that, you're going to always be struggling. So until next Wednesday, God bless you, take care and I'll see you then. Bye-bye. The preceding commentary does not necessarily reflect the views of the staff and management of WBCA or the Boston Neighborhood Network. 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