Larry Higginbottom discusses the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, and his thoughts on what should be done after voting.
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I hope that you're feeling, but if you want it, I present Trump or VP Harris, I hope that you're feeling okay, you're not too stressed out. You don't have a lot of anxiety because we're going to be okay. We're going to be okay, we always have. So I want to just talk about this today, I want you to tell some things you think about. Now that you have voted, now what? You voted, now what? That's right, now what? And based on a lot of reaction I've seen on TikTok and Facebook and talking to people right, people are not terribly pleased with outcome, but also it goes to show you, you look at that map, you've probably seen those maps, it's all red. You really flipped a buck in all facets with the acts of vote count and also the Electoral College. It was never contest, she was never in the running, she was never in the running. And so what I want you to just think about, every four years we have this year, Gloom and Doom, life is going to change as we know it. If this person get in right, they're going to change things, it's going to be so drastically we won't know America. All they say, we are about to lose our democracy and our freedom. We're going to lose it to a tyrant, to not seeism, socialism, right, communism. And I want you to just think about this, it's thought here, if I'll come and I'm going to wear it. America, the seat of Britain in 1776 when they officially incorporated their name, America. From 1776 to 2024, it's 248 years, 248 years. What is it like the hood that the people who have been functioning under democracy and freedom is going to lock anyone to come and be a dictator to them? What's the likelihood of that? Do you have any question? What's the likelihood of the people who have been functioning under democracy and freedom for 2047 years, now 2048 year, 2048 years, 2048 years. From 1776 to 2024, I think it's 2048 years, 2048 years. What's the likelihood of the people who are going to allow our new social contract, new social construct of communism, socialism, fascism or Nazism to now replace democracy and freedom? What's the likelihood of that? I think it's very unlikely. So folks throughout these would be a phenomenon to feel among you, to make sure that they can demonize the other party, to make sure that you ain't focused on what the policies they are proposing. But you see that if you elect them, they're going to be more dangerous than keeping me. Some folks call it the less of two evils. And I'd say that we as Americans need to get away from the less of two anything. And I would say that as the Ados member who identified as Ados, America to send us slavery, not my limit, I'd say my community should not be beholding to no party, no party, no party. Our whole thing should be about this is what we need to benefit our group. Here's what we need. And I can go shopping at the mall, go shopping for food or for closing, right? We shop what we need to the Democrat or the public, period. Here's what we need. And if you're not going to give what we need, we're going to groom people from the bottom. We're going to groom our own people to be city council, state reps, state senators. But they go down and fight for us and stay on point and stay on task. And not go down and get so comfortable right where they end up forgetting why they went down in the first place. And one thing that I would say to anybody, America is a great country, it's going to be fine. It's going to be fine. And now's the time I believe for Ados community, black American, say to Trump, you know, some Trump, you just write, these low paying black jobs. What's your plan for black American to start to alter that reality? You said four years ago, what you got to lose by voting for me? You're right, Trump. What's your plan, thoughts? What's your plan for Ados? What's your plan? Now's the time for us or the so-called elite blacks who got the microphone, just looking at them. What's your plan? And that's why I kind of realize we need to be the groom on people from the grassroot up. So when they get in these office, be it seat the hall, stay in the house or the federal government, they don't forget why they're there. I contend that we need a grooming apparatus to groom, to homegrown our own people to be in our office. And we can make sure that we get them elected. And we can make sure that they're going to go down there and stay on, stay on point fighting for our needs, our needs, not everybody. Because the Ados community, right, is primarily an underclass community and all this illegal immigration is devastated and pushed us further and further on the bottom. So my question, but do you consider, you voted, now what? Even if Vice President Harris would have won, now what, now what? The reason that she was proposing was going to benefit the Ados community. And in fact, as a member of the Boomer, I've been voting since 1970, for the last five decades, I came to call no president who's done anything to uplift our community. Can you, I wait, I can't recall no House of Congress have done anything that better than the Black American community. Can you, I wait, I cannot recall the Senate in the 50 years doing anything, there's made anything better for our community. Can you, I wait. So, and the reason why they've done nothing, because we have not demanded anything from them and made it accountable by having law teach and no rule. Because, be it Republican or Democrat, there are wings on the same bird, there are wings on the same bird, white supremacy is a body and politics, those parties are the wings that make that system go. And I'm saying to you, as a member of the Ados community, we should have law teach the no party, we should not have no affiliation, even turn independent, should not be. We have no affiliation, no law than nobody. We only have agendas that we, that you can aid help us with. If you help us with our agenda, it's going to benefit our community only, only not people of color, not multiculturalism, but Ados only, then we will vote for you, you know, in a block, that's a block. I contend that in 2024, it's time for a whole different mindset for the Ados community. And one of those mindset has got to be, we are totally neutral. We're not full against any party. We own only four, what's going to benefit an uplifted Ados community period, and stay on point. And we got the groom people, right, from the bottom up, we're going to stay on on task when they get elected, be it to the city hall, state house, or the federal government. So you voted, now what, that's a question that happens to you. If you're listening, that's something to ask yourself, okay, we went out there, black women voted for vice president Harrison in '90s or '80s, black men's in the high 70s or whatever, right, okay, now what, what are you going to get, what are you going to get? And looking at the data, all right, of when they broke down by race, the group that put President Trump over the hump were all this other people of color, white women, Hispanic men, Asian, those group put this man over the hump. And matter of fact, if the Ados community, if the Ados community would have voted 100%, they wouldn't matter, she'd steal the laws, that map would have still been already, that map would have still been already. And so you might be distraught, you might be disgruntled, but the end of the day, your quality of life, how you are living, going to come down to your skill set only. But for better or for worse, our system of economic is capitalism, better or for worse. And no matter who's in the white house, stay in the house or see the home, your quality of life is going to be determined by your skill set. Do you possess essential high income skills, yes or no? And if you don't, as I did over three decades ago, I had to go back and upgrade my skills and so were you. So I can say without no reservation, I ain't trying to be up at the edge, I ain't trying to be smart, no matter who's in the office, I'm going to do well, because I had to go back and upgrade my skills. My closest friend, doing very well, but now think about why it's their skills, they possess essential high income skills. And from no skills, you now are left with what I call excess capital, you're going to buy stocks in the stock market, you can do real estate property, you can start your own company, you can do those things, because now you got a positive cash flow, because you're skilled the man top dollar. And I think it's time for Gen X, Gen Z, the millennial to get off that horse call, human rights, civil rights, and voting rights, and you need to give them a horse called economics, strictly economic. And by acquiring those essential high income skills, you can become a state provider, a city provider, a federal government provider, or a private provider, where they are outsourced and contract with private providers to do work, where you can hire yourself and your people, our people. So this day after the election, a lot of people just grown up, I see you on TikTok and Facebook, I don't know why. They act like, especially my group, eight of us, they act like they did so well on Obama for eight years. They act like we did so well under Clinton, or Bush, or Reagan, okay. We didn't, because none of these politicians, none of these presidents, none of the House of Congress, or the Senate, none of these three branches of government has ever had any policies that's going to uplift and benefit the eight of those community, none of them. But we always put the link into, we got to vote. We got to say, our democracy, our freedom. Our country. And as a member of the eight of the community, what is democracy or the Constitution, none of us? Really now. He ain't done enough of us, if we, as you be honest, nothing. So why are we of all the people here who came in shackles and, came in shackles and changed in 1619, been pushing back against whiteness for four and five years? That's a long been a four and four and five years. We've been fighting against whiteness because of the relationship was built on hate, contempt, and disdain. Why are we of all the people here, hoodling and bamboozed and things? We got to fight for democracy. If we don't save it, then we are not earning our ancestors. You may tell me, our ancestors only wanted us to vote and not be prosperous, not to drive. All we can say, we cast our vote. You may tell me, our ancestors did not want us to have any wealth. Come on now. It's garbage. So today, the day after the election, November 6, all's well, all's well. And the reason why I say that, those of you who voted November 5, who were in poverty, you woke up today in poverty. Those of you who voted November 5, who was struggling, you woke up a day struggling. Those of you who voted November 5, with no wealth, you woke up a day with no wealth, you get my point. Policies ain't going to change that. Nothing they would propose is going to change that. The only thing that's going to change that is, do you possess a central high income skill in this thing called a labor market, whereby you can extract top dollar for your services. Yes or no? The answer is no, you're struggling. You're going to struggle. And eventually, you're out of eight of those communities, a black American community, they're either a working class, working poor, or you're on the bottom. You've got a small, small middle class, you know? And most folks that have ever been fooled by seeing the salaries that our athletes are making. So you get the impression that the group as a whole is doing well. Not so, not so. The group as a whole is not doing well at all income-wise, wealth-wise. Because we've been carrying the legacy of Slavery and Jim Crow since we've been here. We've been lugging this thousand pound weight around our neck, we try to climb this mountain. And politics, in my own opinion, is not a solution. It's not going to work for us. We don't want to come to their conclusion, because politics is based on what democracy, democracy is based on what one person want to vote, one person want to vote. Give it a minute. But the relationship between adults and our community has always been one of what? Hate, contempt, and disdain, because why? We came in shackles and chains. The only time voting worked for us was doing reconstruction. When the White majority got what I held and voted in at 13, 14, and 15 in a minute, getting the numbers. In 1877, when they got sick of us, they threw us to the world, and we had been running for our lives ever since, since 1877. In our coming conclusion, politics was the wrong vehicle to address our legitimate agreements against our government for the vow treatment that we were subjected to from enslavement, sharecropping, honey of the lynching, all that vow treatment. And while America was growing, we was here, but we was locked out. And when we did build successful driving town, White Hate was so intense, they burned it down to the ground. And no one was ever held accountable for all that lost wealth. So I say in 2024, the only state in grades I can see for a member of the adults' community, you better be skilled out here. You need to have a sensual high income skill to do well and thrive out here, so you voted. Now what's my topic, what do you think about? You voted. Now what? What do you do now? Did I knock down the firm of action, gone? Did I just matter, D.D.I. gone, stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion, gone. So it's a justice, gone, social equity, gone, all those frivolous titles gone. What you going to do now, ados? What you going to do now? Did Black Boulet, what you going to do now? What you going to do now? Because we opted for inclusion instead of being self-sufficient by acquiring our own contracts, to our own people. We wanted to do assimilation and immigration, to go into the house, to be included. But the problem with that, that we don't own those platforms, we don't own those platforms, to begging the white community to include you and to be benevolent towards you. How unlikely is that, given the history of our relationship, what's built on, 24/7 years of chattel slavery, it's unlikely. So many of you might be upset today, but that map tells it all. You look at that map. It shows President Trump, the Stacey Kerry, compared to Vice President, Mr. Harris, VP Harris, the map said it all. America wholeheartedly rejected the abiding Harris agenda, which tells me, they objected to the old buyers, to the Biden Harris agenda. And even though Biden stepped down, it wouldn't matter if he ran. The American public, we soundly rejected the agenda. And when you look at it, she got her behind, she got her behind what? But he's included in that, for that, Mr. Aaron, America didn't own it. And Trump is already saying, right, he's going to shut down that border, he's going to deport people. Yes indeed, I got a problem with that, not me, I don't know. I'm all for being benevolent, but I say if you want to hit somebody, help them in their own country. Let's send the expert cheese and the money to help them where they are, where they can build and grow their own economy and thrive and prosper there, don't bring them here. So I'm not against immigrants, I am against immigration, I'm against asylum seekers, I'm against refugees, I'm against immigrants, no, no, we got enough people here. And for these employees, I was talking about, oh, we need, we need labor, we need labor. Start grooming our own kids. Start grooming our kids in middle school, we need chemists, engineers, plumbers, electricians. Let's groom our own people, let's stop robbing these other countries up there, you know, human capital. But these folks can stay home and grow their own country and see their own country thrive. So that's one thing he already said, he's going to do. He's going to pull them all. And based on that map, the country is all right with that. They're okay with that. That map is not lying. And other than a few states up north and a few states out west, I think, Colorado, he's up the country. That's a mandate. That's a mandate. And so I'm really going to do a momentum thing. And I also believe that the genocides going to continue in Palestine, brother Trump, I mean, brother, vice president, they have to be the one who wouldn't matter. You know, they're going to, they're going to stay on the same path of funding and supporting Israel. And I understand not why the arrows will yell or shout death to the Jews and death to America, because we are the one who are due to prison in this genocide. We have a less than five years, that's important. So I understand it now by reading for myself, I understand not why. Well, DP habits was not going to change that. She's not going to change that. She was going to stay on the same thing. So it's just interesting that my group is upset and mad because you catch your vote. Once you catch the vote, you have no power. You got no power because we have no apparatus to hold these folks accountable in the past. So, you know, once they got out of vote, they, they was, they was home free. And they could, and they could put somebody, a, a, those member, a, a black immigrant in high-profile position, position, the symbolism, because they got no Jews. They can't do them for us. So, in a way, we, we have a soccer home vote by always giving, giving, giving, but never ever saying, "No, that's what we want. If we, if we don't give, we won't, we're going to the Republican. We'll go to whomever. Whoever's running, we don't care. We have no Lord, there's nobody. There's what we need from you. And it got to be spelled out in those policies. The reason why I kind of believe that all the legislation for the civil rights failed to elevate Aylos, our group, because the language, it didn't specify who it was for and why. It didn't specify it was there because the slavery in Jim Crow, to benefit the Negro, you know, it didn't specify it about who. And the most important thing, we didn't write it. We did not write it. And looking in retrospect, everything that's been written in so-called helpers was always written through the lens in a worldview of what Caucasian, and keep in mind now, they have been indoctrinated, right, to hold us in contempt and all of this here, what, bottom tier. So it's never going to do anything or write anything if they're really going through the benefit of it. It just feels amazing. All the policies that they have made have never benefited us. And in a way, we've been better off, right, getting nothing, because why it makes things worse? It makes things worse. But for the young people who listen to the show, for the parents as well, you need to insist any policies that aim to aid us, you've got to be the architect. You must be the architect of that policy. You must write it because language and words matters. What you say matters. And the laws that cause King's life, the Civil Rights Act, the 64, the Voting Act, the front of action, all these laws were not written by us. That's why I believe they fail because why it's like everybody to come under the tent. And it was never meant for them. It was meant as a redress for slavery and Jim Crow apartheid. But our Black leaders, our Black leaders, then and now, did not insist that it should only be given or those who participate must be members of the Edel's community. They did not insist on that, so it ended up benefiting everybody but us. Just day after the election, my brother wants you to consider. You voted. Now what? Now what? Now what? Trump's in. Will you like it or not? He's in. And I would say we don't have the kind of Black politician who will go to him if they look here at the president, the things you said right on point about the Black community. What policies are you willing to fight for to see just as you not control both the Senate and the House? What policy are you now willing to put into play is going to benefit the Edel's community. But I so-called Black, blue-lay politician won't say that. All white people in this country indoctrinated in those lives to be racist. White supremacy is about race, it's about race, duh, it's about race. So calling the men a racist, to me, is fruit out. And racism implies group participation. Trump can never be a racist just by himself. He might be a bigot, he might be biased or prejudiced, but he cannot be a racist. Racism implies and needs group participation. That's why the term is race ism. One white person by himself cannot be a racist. Why? He can't prevent me and you from doing anything by himself. Anyway, as I come to the half an hour mark, I'm going to take a break. Again, I'm your host Larry Higginbottom, you're listening to WBCA 102.9 FM, WBCA 102.9 FM, in the program from the trenches, observation on trenches, and my thoughts for you to consider after your lesson, you voted, now what? Just a simple thought, you have voted, now what? What do you do now? So I'm going to take a break, I'm going to be back, and we shall keep the dialogue running. The revolution wasn't televised in the 60s, is it going to be televised in the 90s? Well, you know, the catchphrase, what that was all about, the revolution would not be televised, that was about the fact that the first change that takes place is in your mind. You have to change your mind before you change the way you live and when you move. 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Brought to you by Feeding America and the Ad Council. The revolution wasn't televised in the '60s, is it going to be televised in the '90s? Well, you know, the catchphrase, what that was all about, the revolution will not be televised. That was about the fact that the first change that takes places in your mind, you have to change your mind before you change the way you live and when you move. So when we said the revolution will not be televised, we were saying that the thing that's going to change people is something that no one will ever be able to capture on the film. 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 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 Mack, again, I'm your host Larry Larry, here at the bottom. You listen to WBCA-102 Penanifium, WBCA-102 Penanifium in Boston, in my program from Attrenches baby, op, severity from mistrenches, from mistrenches. I speak about things I see out here in the last quarter century in our home. We are a direct mental health clinic in Boston, so I get to see how folks are fairing. Today is November 6th, a day after the election that folks have been waiting for, and the climax was not good. She got a butt-wood. She got a butt-wood, it's called like it is. That map is redish-read, and matter of fact, it never was even a contest, a contest. And many of the Edo's women are totally, totally, totally undone. And what's really perplexed in me is this here. In 2019, when Edo's running, she got no traction from Edo's women or the AK's than nobody. Nobody. Matter of fact, she was the first one to drop out. Matter of fact, I don't know why she didn't even run it, period, be honest with you, because she just got to the Senate, but she chose to run, run, and no traction, none whatsoever. So President Biden, who's running, he was informed. He should pick a woman of color, a black woman, who I'm going to call her, like so he chose her, okay. So for the last three years, they have been running the country. And so Biden, because his health is failing, he decided to step down and let it run. So the last hundred years, I mean, last hundred days, where I should be done, he was already celebrities, you know, Jay Z, you know, Beyonce, Clinton, Hillary, your Obama's, you name it. Everybody been out there, you know, trying to pop up, pop it up. And so the enthusiasm have gave way to reality. In the end, that red map means that a reality sunk in. It overcame democracy, say it's not democracy, you know, it came, he's, he has 47 counts of this. You know, it came, he has these sex, sex, the thing, but it came all those things that mapped me that folks didn't care who was about that, they were concerned about, hey, the economy, inflation, you know, that immigration crisis, I spending money to all these foreign countries, Israel, as well as Ukraine, you know, you know, crime, et cetera. So that red map meant that people did not care about a so-called character. It gave way to just simple, down the earth, I'm focusing on what's bad for me. And so D.P. Harris left out there naked, for like a bit of a word. That map means that people gave President Trump a mandate. You say you're going to start to deport people from day one, guess what? That red map gave him a mandate to do that. You say you're going to handle a certain way, would you crane, right? That map shows that people give him a mandate to go and then take care of business. And what gets me with my community, especially the adults women, you know, you got to feel that you got to feel the hurt because why do you want to see history? Oh, the first, okay, black woman, okay, you want to call it black woman, you want to call that for a fire. The first black woman, first woman of color, okay, fire. They have to do with one quality of life, her being the first, like a little bomber. Black folks do not feel well on a bomb at all, they use, but you look good, you sound it good, we didn't do well. And so folks are not having it, folks are not going for the okay, they don't get no more. First, right now, whoa, and for gender, folks are the folks that did not give a, did not give a hoot about that, her gender, you know, or she, a black woman or a personal color, you know, okay, about that. It came down to strictly very important issue, that border, Trump said he's going to put the army down there, that red map says she tells you that America is okay with that. You say he's going to deploy the military down there, that red map shows you that America is okay when I'm putting out a military army, shut that sucker down. And I go so far as one who's not in favor of immigration art at all on no level, and investing all our own kids, prep our own kids, prepare our own kids, he put the military down there, I got no problem with it, I got no problem with it at all. I still say, when the most silly thing that whites ever did in the last 40 years, this thing called multiculturalism, you're going to bring folks from all over the world, right, all of them kind of cultures, lineage, language, the whole nine, y'all. And you're going to try to mess them together because they can recite, you know, the pledge of allegiance. Or take a pledge to America, how like is that going to work? Not like it all. Only thing it shows to me is that everybody in America needs these essential things to be okay here. We all need food, water, shelter, and income, but outside of that we ain't the same. Our lineage is not the same, our struggles are the same, our rituals, our customs, our routines, our language. And what buying America before the 1965 act of integration to allow everybody to get in, all those whites who came before, be the Eastman, German, Spaniards, Italians, Irish people, they would forego their ethnicity to be white. They would forego there to be white. So now you had a common language English, a common race, we all white. You were not Italian, you know, there's not Irish or German, you know, they all white. Well, somebody with a great idea is to know after six days arrived, we're going to expect all cultures, income is flawed, concept called multiculturalism. And what our illustrates did, just as Jackson, M-A-C-P, Urban League, and by church, it says, "Wait a minute, what do you mean some of my multiculturalism?" You're not respected, the Negroes, you're not respected black Americans or those. You have not made us whole yet with policies, you know, and initiative, which means bringing the other folks here, multiculturalism, no, no, no, no, you first got to make us whole. We didn't do that, we didn't do that. So income is flawed, folks from all the world, folks from every Catholic, but never came in, African, Caribbean, right, Haitian, you know, folks in the East India, all right, Asian. All these folks were not even allowed in the country, all of a sudden I fled the country, and they came under the banner now of minority. So the folks who was, who was, who was, who was intended for the Negroes got further and further diluted because why we didn't, I mean, insist that those audiences are only applying to the Negroes. America, all these folks, nothing, they're coming on their own, we don't owe them anything. The first dip should be to the Negroes because the hate is so intense and whiteness, and our folks are so frickle, they never did that. So everybody came in their tent call, minority, everybody benefited, but the group, that the law was intended to aid with ados. And so now here we find ourselves in 2024, totally displaced and totally a bottom cast group as a whole. It's not to say that some folks are not doing well, some folks are. But as a collective body, the group is not doing well. And folks are deceived by our entertainers and our athletes making hundreds of amazing dollars. That's not the group, but they don't own no platforms. As much money as Michael Jackson has made for himself, he could not tell him like he's not here. Why don't you put a factory there in Chicago to start hiring these people, or put a factory there in North Carolina to hire my people? You can say that. Michael Jackson can't pop before he parries. He couldn't tell so many, I want you to put a factory there in LA for my people, where they can be employed. So all we have in essence, what I call high-income platform, you just high-income people. High-piece of properties, where they are, high-piece of properties, where they are. They can't do anything for the group or our uplift, they say anything that doesn't sit well with the owner of their contract or their endorsement, they lose their money. So they are silent because they are bought in their own, but they're highly compensated, but they're still enslaved because why? They don't control the platform that they are deriving the income from, that's why. And so he would find himself in 2024, after the election, you don't vote it. Now what? What are you going to do now? Many are upset, many are distraught, many are just believed because the punter got it wrong. I'm not an estimated just how Trump supporters, we're going to stick with him. And those folks didn't want Trump, I'm sure a lot of the folks didn't want Trump, no more than they wanted Vice President Harry. But they felt more comfortable with Trump, dealing with the economy, he beat on that. He beat it on the border. He beat it on Democratic, would be no foreign powers. He beat it on crime. So when folks broke it all down, right, they decided despite this man's flaws in character, he had the better skill set to handle things that was important to them. And many of our eight old women and men are now in disbelief that you can elect a felon. Well, I don't know why, Dr. King in one of his, one of his interview said, he's been trying to get rifles to live up to what they wrote on paper the whole time of the line. He said, be true to what you wrote on paper, be true to what you wrote on paper. To know they are, it sounds good, no one is above the law, it sounds good, sounds good. And this theme of whiteness, they have always made an exception for themselves, always, always will. When you own and control, you can do that. That's why I say to the young people come behind my group, the boomers. Your focus needs to be, I think in the center, you got 76 years left, 76 years left. Your focus needs to be on a crime essential, high income skills, I do not mean, I do not mean going to college. There are many vocational technical skills, you will get those skills, you're going to do very well, and you can also start your own practice. And I would definitely encourage you to become city and state and federal contractors to ride. They've been banging it out every year without a side of contact. I'm a state provider, I'm a state contractor. I strongly encourage you to get those skills, form your company, and become a state provider. I strongly encourage you to do that. That way you can hire yourself and give your neighbor a source of revenue. There's over 40 people that we now implore those sirens because of those contracts. And it gives us a great deal of autonomy and freedom as well. So as I wind down this episode, after the election, it's November 6th, a question you should ask yourself, I voted, now what, how am I living? Am I living life on my turn? Am I living the part of town that I want to live in? Am I living in a home that I want to live in? Is my kid attending school or enrichment program of my choice? And if not, then you must go back and upgrade your skills. You must position yourself whereby you can, a, do better in the future, by acquiring those essential high income skills. Because otherwise, you're not going to do well down here with what's called "milliocal skills." Because now America's not inundated with cheap labor, and these folks, Trump said he's going to start to deport them. That's a lot of people, that's a lot of people, send back. We'll see what he does, but he says from day one, when he take office, he's going to start ICE to get them up and get them out of here. He said, and if they do come back, he's going to give him 10 years in prison. We'll see. But he says what he's going to do. And based on that map, America's okay with him doing that. They have no problem with him doing that. So can my community aid those community that I love and respect? The only saving grace I can see for you and for me, is do we possess essential high income skills? Because our system of economics, for a bit of a word, is capitalism, capitalism. Our throne incurs you to get out from under voting rights, human rights, civil rights and be about to acquire no skills, but you can extract top dollar out of this labor market and do whatever you and your family. And you can also do investment, dollar business, et cetera, this over, baby. We now are at square zero as a group, as a group. And so President Trump is here, the country's going to be good, the country's going to be okay. Let's fight all the gloom and doom, the country's going to be okay, we're going to be okay. You're going to be okay. Don't believe all of the hype about doom's there. I've been hearing that as a boomer for about 50 plus years. The end is near. You're going to put your back in shock on the chain. You know, we're going to lose our democracy, you know, communism, fascism, Nazism. I'm going to say, I've been hearing that for the last 50 years, we'll be okay. You'll be okay. At the end of the day, at the end of the day, how you are fairing will come down to your skill set. Do you possess essential high income skills? If you do, you do well. So again, you've been listening to WBCA 102.9 FM. I'm your host, Larry income item, name of the program from the churches, right? I'll have some churches from the churches. I'll be back next Wednesday with a different topic. And don't be too, don't be too stressed out. Just do what pass. Just do what pass. Bye. The preceding 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. Thank you. [BLANK_AUDIO]