Host Larry Higginbottom discusses reparations for ADOS, attending the ADOS Foundation conference in New Orleans, adosfoundation.org, the costs of reparations, & more.
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I just recently got back from a conference, they had done New Orleans on Thursday to Sunday, and what I want to let people know is that it's about more than just reparation, and for more information, if you go to the atosfoundation.com, you will actually hear, not only do they have a reparation platform, but they also have a black agenda that benefits all black people. The Edo's movement reparation is very specific, it's based on lineage. So, American-born blacks only, that's why they're fighting to get the term recognized on the census of Edo's, which would distinguish us from blackness. We are all a part of the black race, that's true, but ethnicity-wise, we're not Haitians, we're not caribbean, we're not Africans, our lineage is different. We brought them to America, it's not what brought you and I here. We have called that our own culture, we have called that our own way of living, our own way of doing, our own swag, which is envy around the world, and so, the Edo's movement is more than just about reparation. As a matter of fact, when you go to your website atosfoundation.com, you see that the black agenda applies to all blacks, they have agenda also about economics, housing, crime, health, all those entities, all those fights help all black people, not just atos. The reparation is a, is a Pacific justice claim for a, a Pacific group that the fellow government allowed harm to come to via through slavery, Jim Crow, apartheid, lynching, red lining, mass incarceration, et cetera, but the black agenda that Edo's movement is fighting for helps all of us. And I believe in the coming months and years that the black community is going to have a serious dialogue to come to that distinction, that reparation only pertains to Edo's based on lineage, it's not based on blackness. It's not saying if you have not been discriminated against, if you have not been discriminated against, or if not faced racism, no, we're not saying that. This is anchored in slavery, which can, which can tend to under sharecropping, Jim Crow, red lining, honey is the lynching. Well, to the other members of the other black community, Haitian, Caribbean, and Africa, they were not even in the country then, they were not even here then. It'd be like me as a member of Edo's movement as a Jamaica, or Nigeria, or Haiti, and just fighting reparation, and once you succeed, successful, I have no claim to that. Either I've been there one day, or for decades, there's no lineage, there's no lineage that ties me to that struggle. And so what the Edo's movement is saying the same thing, when it comes to reparation, that they are fighting for, it's for a deliberate harm that was caused by policies, okay and down by the United States government towards the Edo's community. It's going to do with blackness, but we're having a lot of discussions you can call in today and share your thoughts on this here, 6.7, 7.8, 3.2.11, 6.1.7, 7.8, 3.2.11. Today, I'm talking about the Edo's movement, it's more than just about reparation. They have a black agenda, and for more information about this year's agenda, you can go to the Edo'sfoundation.com and read for yourself, and it's very elaborate what they are advocating that we need. It's based on research and data at this conference, just past weekend in New Orleans, the keynote speaker was Cornell West and Nia Turner. You might recall she, you see on C-Span a lot, you know, CNN. And what I was impressed, you know, is when I looked around at the audience, these are not fanatics, these are not lunatics, you had members from all sectors of the age range, from baby boomers, Gen X, Gen Zs, millennials, even folks older than me. And the reason why I know that the Edo's movement is more than just about reparation. Everyone there had to pay their own way, and they came from as far as California, and from as near as Nova Scotia, and everything in between. You have folks there from Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Seattle, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Dallas, Houston, you know, all over. And these are not lunatics, and these are not bizarre people. The everyday Edo's member who kind of realized that we had been harm. We know what the harm is in the institutional slavery, continued by sharecropping, Jim Crow. And so there has to be a redress, because all the research that I've read, my community is not going to be able to make up for the massive wealth gap that has been derived off of 347 years of free labor. And I'm getting that number from, if you go from 1619, when the first Africans were dropped off here and shackled and chained, to 1885, it's 20, that's 20, 47 years of free labor. Free labor. It didn't stop there. For the next 100 years, sharecropping was just a continuation of slavery. I'm a big leasing, another form of enslavement. So again, you can't make up for that 300, 47 years of free labor. And also in 2024, if we be honest, America is now fully developed. It is a fully developed nation. So my group, Edo's, is not going to be able to be competitive in his society, founded capitalism, where ownership is important. That's right, ownership is important. Without wealth, you're like a boat without a brother, without a brother, or without sales. You're not going to do well. And it's clear that as a group, we're not going to do well. And don't be misled by the deception of wealth, be out entertainers. They got no juice. They're highly compensated in the vision that's true. They do well for themselves, but they can't hide nobody. They have no factory to put black Americans to work. For example, doing a heyday on Michael Jordan, hellified entertainer, right? Putting Nike on the map, not one factory was created in the hood to employ black Americans to also share in their good fortune, not one factory. But he did well, not begrudging him or his family, all right? Same with the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, right? Hellified entertainer, hellified, right? Thriller, the most hide, Thriller is the most hide grossing album ever produced. It did well for him and his family, right? Didn't I translate into anything for the collective community? So yes, do not be deceived by members of our community who are making outlandish salaries. They got no juice. Why? They don't make policy. They don't make policy. And the eighties community was hurt by laws. White codes are laws, you know, the slave runaway codes, those are laws that the white public, all right, was cultivated and socialized to help enforce those are laws. So, again, the eighties movement is more than just reparation. It's about black policies, for black people, it's going to be all black people because we are so far behind as a collective because the laws that was passed, the cause of the King is life, civil rights, from aggression, all those laws, even in the 1964 act of civil rights, all those laws benefited every lighted by the group that it was intended to help because of slavery and apartheid or Jim Crow. Think about that. So, I'm just having a conversation today. Again, let's go down to New Orleans this past weekend to attend the ADO's conference, very well attended, and for more information on about the ADO's movement, you should also go to the ADO's Foundation website and read the black agenda that they have for black people in America. That includes Haitians, carabiners, advocates, along with ADO's, but they are about a lot more than just reparation because to choose be told, a reparations passed today in the world will be passed. I won't tell you about that. I might not be allowed to see it, but it will be passed. You still will have to be able to navigate and get out there in the white economy, right, to build businesses, to hire your people. We still need to be about getting secure in city contracts, state contracts, private contracts, federal contracts, to be able to hire our people because in 2024, we have the same problem that Keene had in 1963, which is why I say Larry, pay attention, here it is. Today, and this city can also find out by just googling this simple fact, the percentage of our black owned businesses is 2.7%, 2.7%, only on business. That means that 97.3% of us are begging white folks to anybody to hire us. In 1963, it is the same phenomenon, right? The overwhelming majority of black Americans, right, were dependent on the white community and anybody to hire them. You're not going to do well depending on the group that's been indoctrinated and socialized the whole year in contempt and disdain because you came here, what, and shackles and chains. And so we've been fighting for our humanity, civil rights, voting rights, for 160 years of emancipation. That's why I say laws might change behavior to some degree, but laws will never change the heart of one's true conviction because what the spirit of whiteness only knows about black Americans or ADOs is what it sees on the 6 p.m. News, what their mom and dad has told them along with their grandparents about ADOs community. They don't know any of their mothers, only what they see on the news and what they see, what they've been talking at home. And so the image of us has been permanently tarnished to this day. So in a way, I can say, well, any reservation or any disdain, that segregation has some benefits. You have some benefits. What being segregated did for us, first and foremost, we knew we were not going to get any kind of benefit from white America, wasn't we, we wouldn't get nothing from that community. They did test both our physical presence and our money. They didn't want to do what our physical presence, no our money. So you had to be creative, you know, plumbing, you had to create your own plumbers, electrician, et cetera, you know, you wanted a restaurant, you had to develop it, a club, you had to develop it. So you had to create, so you always want to call it a create mode, being innovative, being innovative, because why you knew, right? Because of the relationship that is between adults and our community, you could not go to the community and get anything. And most, if you were working here, here to be at a town by 5 p.m. If you were, if you did have a job there at some menu job, you must be gone by 5 p.m. That's why I call it the sundown town. By sundown, you would have you behind out of the town. So this movement is timely because reparation is the only way that you're going to, okay, make whole a group that's been deliberately hurt by race, sanctioned by United States government. And if America had done what Germany did with the Jewish community, and for more information if you read, all right, the cast, the origin of our discontent by sister Wickelson, she said to see this is all fact now, it's all fact that the German government in the 1930s came to study, right, racism and discrimination from America, from America, they came to study from us. They came to learn how to be despicable and vile based on race from America. Think about that now, the Germans came to study from America about racial hate. But after World War II, they was defeated. One thing the German government has done the last 75 plus years since they lost, they have made every situation where there was a trustee committed against Jewish people a crime. They have taken ownership, not collective give, but collective ownership. Yes, generation was not born during the time, but the government has made sure that each generation know this is what we did. We are responsible for it. We are German. We take collective ownership for this year's trustee. If the American government had done that in 1865, it's 160 plus years. We wouldn't be here today. If the American government had done what the German had done, making sure that all departments anti-Semitism could not flourish, could not get started. They made sure all those situation, you know, those concentration camps, they made those into what crimes were by their people, right, had to know, here's what we did to these people. They turned atrocities right into what, living memorials, were by their people, know what they did, and to make sure that anti-Semitism cannot rise in Germany. If the American government had done the same thing here in America in 1865 to now, we would not have black hate. You would probably, you wouldn't have, you wouldn't probably have no hate, because the government would have made sure the white American all institution, big education, medicine, right, entertainment. All institution would have took ownership, and we were going to make sure, wherever black people were lynched, wherever black people were subjected to mass murder, or towns being destroyed, make those living monuments. We wouldn't have the problem we have today, but instead, the American government had been the biggest culprit of denial by making all these presidents who were around doing honey as a lynching, right, seem good human beings. When we had our elders being burnt alive at the stake for the amusement, for thousands of white people gathered to watch that, that's all fact. So, the AIDS movement is more than just about reparation. It's about educating our community to the trustees that our elders had, they had to be subjected to, what they had to overcome, and why you and I are here. So, let me tell you a minute, I'm going to dialogue about it. You want me to call in, because we are going live, I'm going to call and share your thoughts on it, 617 788-321-617, 788-321. I'm just talking about the AIDS movement, it's more than just about reparation, it's about a black agenda that benefits all blacks, but reparation is only for American born black because of lineage, lineage, and you must, in the coming years and decades, we must be able to have our own categories that distinguish us from blackness, because we're not the same, and that's not being divisive, that also is what I call a bait and switch term. It's not acknowledging the real distinction of culture that we both have, I have undergone. You come from the Caribbean, even if you're a born American, you're still being indoctrinated and socialized as a Caribbean Jamaican or a Nigerian, that's your culture, that's your ethnicity, although you are American citizen, but the essence of who you are, the essence of who you are, your ethnicity instead of Jamaican, Nigerian, South African, Asian, whatever, and so we must not be bamboozled or hoodwinked into this year, you're being the visit, no I'm not, we all part of the same race, that's true, but our ethnicity is different. And there's no shame in that reality, and the Adolf movement acknowledged it, and there's some things that we have in common, there's some things that's not benefit, and I believe having read for myself, you know, to make it not Hispanic, right, when black American, the remaking of black American, please read that, I'm not for immigration on no level, read asylum seekers, refugee or immigrants, legal or illegal, and the reason being, it does nothing for our group, having read for myself, now he's the key here, and read for myself, it does nothing for our group, so why should I support something that does nothing for my group, and when I hear many of the Caucasians on my, well, they say it's good for the economy, well, there I also got some pushback, if you need plumbers, electricians, whatever you need, if you start to cultivate and groom our American children, they can a take those positions, you don't end up robbing other countries of their talent, of their gifted individuals, and the reason why I mean they're supposed to run here, because of what, the pay, you can make more, doing whatever in America, if you can, back in Jamaica, Trinidad, Haiti or Nigeria, so you're robbing these countries of what their talent and their innovators, so I'm not from immigration on no level, I'm from being benevolent, yourself folks, you say women and kids need help, I'm all for chipping in to help them over there, I'm all for chipping in to make sure that they're helped in their own home land, I'm for that, but don't bring them here, yeah, you can visit, no doubt about it, I want you to be up, be on that jet going back home, that's what I'm for, having a rest of myself now, I got to have a whole different worldview on immigration, having a rest of myself and seeing the adverse, the adverse effect I have on ados community, and I think in the last 10 to 12 years, many folks have had a really bad taste when they come to immigration, what is the idea, but it's my belief, I haven't written myself, again, I am your host, Larry Obama, you listen to WBCA, 102.9 FM, again WBCA, 102.9 FM, in my program, observation matrenches, observation matrenches, but speak about things I see affecting my group, I'm not against any group, but my focus is inches on my group because why we now are deadlads or as a collective, and don't be fooled by the few entertainers I view who are living good doing well, that they do not reflect the group, that's not reflected in the group, and all the data from department of labor shows, the group has made very little progress since King was murdered, so my thoughts for the day, I'm just speaking about the ados movement is more than just about reparation, it's about a black agenda, and for more information if you go to the adosfoundation.com, you can read about that agenda, which benefits all blacks, reparation is only for ados, and it's based on lineage, not blackness, and if it would pass today a very comprehensible reparation package, you still will have to be able to get out into the large economy and thriving progress, you still need to build, you still need to build businesses to hire your people, you still need to build businesses to hire your people, and that's the dilemma I think that the king came to realize before he was murdered in 1968, why he said I think I let my people into a burning building, this thing or this thing or integration, because you're asking the people to let go are world views that they have been endowed with or entrenched with, entrenched with, since birth, anti-blackness, and we could have better put our time into being more creative than trying to persuade these people, why this should not be haters of blackness, because in society, there's thousands of capitalism, where capital and labor is very important, the thing that you have, like I have, is what your labor, and if you possess essential high income skills in 2024, you're going to do very well, if you don't, you're going to struggle, so although I will lobby and advocate for reparation, I want to be comfortable, I want you to be comfortable, and having essential high income skills allows you and me to be comfortable while we are fighting for it just cause, I'm not into struggling, I'm not as sure you be, king died poor, Malcolm died poor, fellow Lou Hamer, they all died poor, I'm not for that, and the world that's cutting the world, they're all coming to be able, I'm not for that, so no, I'm not for that, so anyway, I'm just having the conversation about the able movement, and it was very refreshing to hear these young people, I'm a boomer, I'm 71, I'm in the last chapter of my life, it's very refreshing to hear and see these Gen X, Gen Z, and millennials, that they in tune, it's a different spirit spreading across this country, where folks are not just tuning into the same vote blue no matter who, keep doing what you're doing no matter who, because Trump is so despicable and deplorable, you gotta vote for Mr. Harris, although you might not believe in her, there's not a spirit, they believe and exchange for one vote, what are you getting in exchange for your vote, if you ain't getting nothing, what's the right, you know, my father, my father, and I'm of the mindset, when Dr. King told Harry Bellafanti, I think I'll let my father into a burning building, the way I feel, believe now, is that Aedles remember, step out the building and let it burn, let it burn, we'll be okay, we'll be okay, we'll feel that we have resiliency, that we are very resilient people, we survived 24th of the year of shadow enslavement, the worst treatment any human being has done to another, we survived that in this country, we survived the continuation of slavery of what, sharecropping, Jim Crow, 100 years of lynching, it's like a sport, our people being lynched for the amusement of thousands of white people just sitting there, and we can survive all that, we will survive, we're sitting there in 2025, the so-called 2025 policy, we'll be okay, we'll be okay, but we're not getting anything, we're not getting anything for our vote, why are you rushing just to vote, to defeat Trump, because the truth of the matter, the democracy will survive, our freedom will still be here, don't believe that so-called propaganda, it'll be here, but how you living is the question, how you living, that's the question, when I'm gonna take a break and I'll be right back, again, you're listening to WBCA 102.9 FM, WBCA 102.9 FM, I'm your host Larry Higambardum, the name of the show, op, surveyor from the trenches, and my talk for the day is about the Ails movement, it is more than just about reparation, it's about a black agenda, there's a benefit, there's all blacks, but reparation is only for American black based on lineage, not blackness, so I shall return in a few, don't go nowhere and we shall continue. 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But I think that the black Americans have been the only real that hard Americans here, because we're the only ones who carried the process through the process, that everyone else has to sort of like skip stages, we're the ones who marched, we're the ones who carried the Bible, we're the ones who carried the flag, we're the ones who tried 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 in those processes. I'm back, Boston, again, you're listening to WBCA 102.9 FM, again, WBCA 102.9 FM, I'm your host, Larry Hagenbottom, names program, op, certification from the trenches, or speak about things that I see out here affecting my community, my life's the commission, and we do in-home it to help. Yes, we right there on the front line for the last quarter quarter century, and I've seen policies, how they affect folks in the trenches, how they can get to see how folks are living, the culture, how they are of exchange, interfacial with each other, and needless to say, many just getting by, just getting by, and most of them, like me, come out of homes where there was no wealth, which meant there was no inheritance. We now know why, because I feel like I may show that the adults community, our elders, our grandparents, our great-great-great-grand, that they could not participate in America when she's up and coming, raw, undeveloped, nope, nope, nope, nope, can participate. And if you did happen to participate, they burned it to the ground. So there's no inheritance to pass to the next generation, so we start from scratch. So the elders' movement was formed by the background now, and turning it more to address that. There need to be a redress for that deliberate role. And the Ada's movement is about reparation, but it's about more than it's about having the black agenda, because politics are important. I'm not against politics at all. What I'm against is the numbers don't work, but what you want to say about numbers don't work. Be of tension now. The only time the numbers work in politics is when doing reconstruction, when the white majority got without elders, and they voted in, right, the 13th, 14th, 15th amendment. It worked. Come on to numbers, because the one person won vote, democracy, right, based on just that. So whatever policy that you are proposing, if you can't get your colleagues in that chamber to cosign on that bill, it don't go anywhere. Case in point, Conyers, the Congressperson from Michigan, we'll try to bring you to the floor for the only Democratic side, a poll is just a study reparation, always shot down. Because the Democrats even amongst themselves could not even get a majority to put it to the floor for the whole U.S. Congress, U.S. Congress people to vote on. And I kind of realize and believe that politics with the wrong, with the wrong vehicle to hitch our legitimate grievance to be addressed, because it's based on one person, one vote. And after that, the incessant of black hate that's built into whiteness, oh, that's a tall feat, that's a tall feat to achieve, that's a high mountain to climb. And we chose to ride the horse after the accident to be seen as the nation of the nation. I think it would have been the better way to go, but we're here. And the reason why I like playing Brother Gilsk right here, you know, revolution might be televised, he said the revolution starts in your mind. He's right, it starts first in your mind that you know reparations needed here. You know that the symbolism of us doing well by our athletes entertainers is a farce. They ain't got no juice, they have no juice, they're highly well paid, true, they live in well, true. But none of them had not, had better not say anything that the owners of that contract were fine offense, or there goes their perks, there goes the endorsement, there goes their part. So they had no position to help us at all here on the bottom. Good for them, cool those, cool those for them. I don't want them to say anything, they would jeopardize their position because why? They were to get there, okay? But it should not be spokesman, spokesperson for us, because they're compromised. And so that's why one thing about the able movement, it's all grassroot, it's all grassroot. It's everyday people, at that conference that I met, people from all over the United States, all walks of life, professionals, educated, high school grad, you know, law enforcement, doctors, lawyers, air pilot, ain't no lunatics, well no lunatics. Those are people who come to a realization that as I have, that you're not going to overcome this 300, 400 years, head start, that we gave to our community with a job program or education program or food stamps or whatever, you know, you're going to need a comprehensible reparation package aimed at idols only, only, not towards the black race, but for the group who is based on lineage, who's been locked out of America, what are you going to need? And so at this conference this weekend, you know, we also did a presentation on the cost. No city has a revenue to accommodate this cost for the staggering. And they had figured in from economists all level, emotional, lost wages, okay, lost wealth, staggering price. And they used their modest interest rate, I think either four or five percent, might have been six percent, you know, so a city of Boston don't have the revenue, or any cities, to really orchestrate a reparation program based on the harm that was done to idols only, not to the black community or the black people, but to the idols community only, but what they can do is to show the harm done and why the federal government has to pick up this tab, the same way that you have a department for Native Americans, where they get in the budget every year, be billions of dollars, well, I think to be a department for idols only, right, to cover education, employment, health, contract, etc., everything that leads to a quarter of life, everything, there need to be a department that specializes in addressing idols only issues, I don't know why I really respect this group here, unlike the NAACP, Urban League, and even the black churches on the green, those institutions have failed, they're worthless because they cater to everybody but the group that they came into existence to serve, the Congress of Black Caucus came here I think existed in 1970-71 when I read the Nixon was present, it was a to make sure that the Negro would be heard, this is a fight on our behalf, now if you go to the Congress of Black Caucus website, they say we feel all minorities, all oppressed people, but if you go to the Spanish Caucus website, they say we're for Latinos only, go to the Asian, we're going for the Asian only, to the Jews only, you know, be grudging no group, every group's need seems to understand their primary purpose is to fight for themselves, and the reason why I hope and believe this is going to take our idols only there to fight for idols answers period, it will only right coalesce on issues that benefit us, not on issues that's going to hurt us, so they're only going to fight on our behalf, but we must fund these organizations, we must fund idols I believe, we're about your vet and all the other folks there on the inner circle who are doing the research I'm not beholding to white, you know, philanthropists, white donors for money, unlike the NAACP in urban league years, that's why I didn't change their focus from Negroes only to I'm for all oppressed people, because white donors, so and also the black church, it's also compromised because in the last 30, 40 years, all these influx of immigration, you got many immigrants sending that in the proof it, also making a donation they tied, so they can't stand on a all black agenda for idols only, because why they have many of them, many of them members now, Asians, carobans and Africans, and everybody else have been there, so the black church is useless to the cause, to our cause, they can't stand 10 toes down on issues that only pertains to ados for America more than blacks, and that's why this movement shows me that it is legitimate because why you're not supposed to come from all over the world, all over the country and at their only expense, stand at the Hilton at their only expense in New Orleans, the first one I went to was in Louisville, Kentucky, it let me know, is that St. Stephen's Church, the capacity was 50 hundred people, they met the capacity, and I met folks again, from all over America, at their own expense, so let me know that if you see a movement, it's legitimate, and they got chapters, it has been formed in many cities, I've known Boston we got a chapter in Boston, led by Brother Reggie, who's also at the conference, I met folks from the Connecticut chapter, New York chapter, Maryland chapter, Houston chapter, in LA, you know, out west, so wherever ados are, they're looking to form chapters, because not just the fight for reparation, but also to address local issues that are pertinent to you locally, and if that understands, a movement has to be built from the ground up for ordinary people, and make sure that it's taking care of the issues in that town, where politics is involved, make sure the folks are educated, so they can demand, but also you can cultivate and groom people to run for office, so they're in a very unique position, and the least I can do is lend my support and wisdom, you know, to these young people, because boomers, if we be honest, we opt it out for a convenient seat, comfort and safety, and we stop fighting for liberation, step determination, and we stop fighting to own and control our own entities to pass on to what the next generation is, so for those who are in the corporate America, you might have done well for yourself, but you can't pass it on to nobody, there's no inheritance, those who are for the state, city, state, you know how it gets you a good pension, you cannot pass it on to nobody, and one thing about being segregated, it forced us to develop and create, it forced us to be innovators, because we knew we could not go into the way community get anything, and in the last bit of years, we have forgotten how to create, and we told our young people, go to school, get a great education, and get you a good job, from who, the white community. The community has been indoctrinated and sort of lies to hold your contempt and disdain, how well was that going to work, not well alone, I think King came and realized that before he was murdered, as I said, I think I let my folks into the burning buildings bank or immigration, and so I've been talking a day about the ALOS movement, it's more than just liberation, it's about a black agenda, a black agenda that benefits all black people, the reparation is specific, it only specifically applies to ALOS based on lineage, and so as I wind down, I was keep saying, the best thing that Gen Z and my Leonard have, is you can critique us baby boomers and you know what not to do, it's like I can critique King and our elders in that movement and see the flaws in their thinking, they're not bad, wasn't bad, it was just flawed thinking, given the relationship is based on, the foundation is based on us coming here and shackles and chains, we've been trying to prove and fight for our humanity for a hundred cities years since the emancipation, so again they thought it was the right course of action, you can now choose a different path, and I think the path is ownership, you gotta be about being skilled, highly skilled, and getting contracts, but these cities, these states, federal government, private, but you know how your people have control over your platform that you derive the income from, otherwise you're doing what King was doing in name 63, you're begging wife for a job, it's not a good place to be, even 2024, it's not a good place to be, you need to be self-sufficient, you need to have your own contract for the city, for the state, wherever, about you can hire your own people, grow wealth, and create your own projects, that's my belief, well as I wind down these after a minute, you know, hope you enjoy my conversation, something to think about, I'm here to defend nobody, you know, I'm not against anybody, I'm just in my group, I'm just four ADOs, and I will collaborate with all the other blacks, when it's in our best interest, and there's some things just not in our interest, and immigration is not in ADO's best interest, it is not, it just more harm to us than anything, and because of why it's been in the whites, it's been in the stem, because why, there's no grievance with you, there's no grievance with a folks from Haiti, the Caribbean, or Africa, there's no grievance, America doesn't owe you anything, there's no debt there, there's a debt over here, that debt has to be paid, and it will be, because it's righteous, it's founded on righteousness, and justice, and justice has to be done, but we got to fight for it, young people, Gen X, Gen Z, millennials, as boomers get out your way, remember you had to fight for it, that's why I was so impressed at the conference here in New Orleans this past weekend, see all those young folks from different groups, Gen X, Gen Z, and millennials there, and tuned, and informed, and ready to put in a word for the collective, it's a real, real, real refreshing to see that, well until next Wednesday, I'll be back, again, you've been listening to WBCA 102.9 FM, I'm the host library you can buy them, name my program "OP," so basically my trenches, when I think about things I'll see out here in the community that needs to change, and some things I think you know, it's not gonna work, but the ADO's movement is more on just reparation, atosfoundation.com Read about them, they have a back agenda, that is everybody, till next time, we'll bless you and take care. 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