Host Larry Higginbottom explains that mass deportation is not ADOS' fight, minority groups displacing ADOS, employment biases & the oppression of black wealth, & more.
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I don't begrudge any group, I'm not against any group, I have no actual ground, no group. But I speak to my group because my group really needs to, I believe, rethink our position and focus on ourselves. Focus on ourselves. So today I'm going to speak about this here. It's in the news a lot about deportation. So I'm going to speak to my group. AIDOS will stand for American descent and slavery, come out of the institution. I'm very positive to that because first and foremost, it says the first letter A, American. We are an American. We are American. We ain't going anywhere. And for those advocates and not juries and other black British people, y'all don't know why y'all don't know where you're from, well guess what? Guess who's not worried about being deported? AIDOS, American descent of slavery. So on my top of the day for you to consider, AIDOS, mad deportation is not our fight. Just deportation is not our fight and I'm quite perturbed when I hear and see folks I know and folks on TikTok and Facebook all of a sudden I'm being drawn into a situation that has done to do with us, done to do with us. And I am baffled because in the last 50 years since King was murdered, for some ungodly reason, someone told our leaders that we are captains save the people. Captains save everybody but ourselves. We must come to rescue the fight. Any and everybody's battle in America, if they've been aggrieved or insulted by members of the white community, we must come to rescue, come on now people, come on. So I wanted to share some thoughts on why mad deportation is not our fight. I'm talking to my group, AIDOS, and I'm not speaking to black immigrants, I'm not speaking to after a lot of funerals, or anybody, I'm speaking to my group, why we should mind our business. And in fact, that would go so far to say, for the remainder of this century, which is about 76 years, we should focus on ourselves and our group development, period. We have given a lot to others at our own expense. And this is one fight that we should not wage in two or comment on. Let those groups who will be impacted, let them fight for themselves and thin for themselves. And the reason why I say this here, just to walk back through history, I'm a baby boom out boy, in 1953, in 1968, there was in America a hundred cities on fire rides because I'll group AIDOS ratcheously and justifiably was upset because of the terrible vow treatment that we were receiving and being totally locked out of participating and thriving in America. So if the King was murdered, those cities went up in flame. The high ups, the business class and the politician realized, right in mid now, in this thing called capitalism, which is our economic foundation based in capitalism, you cannot make money if people are upset, burning down, looting, rioting, etc. And the Negroes do have a legitimate grievance against us for keeping our knee on their neck ever since they were emancipated, 150 plus years. So to cool off this here, right, this anger, we're going to pass some laws to buy time, from reflection, right, civil rights, the signal phone, fair housing, all these laws was passed, right, from the civil rights struggle. But in the meantime, right, to this place and replace the Negro as cheap and entry into the labor, we must find a new source. Well, we got the ocean out there, so we know they can't come, they evoke, but right down the road, south of the border, they can walk, they can get in. So from 1968 to now, it's 56 years. You cannot tell me, and you can check for yourself for more information, if you Google the 1960 census, you see at that time, the people in America was 99.1% whites in Negroes. There's virtually no Spanish, no Caribbean, no African, no East Indians, no Asian, nobody. Negroes were the second largest publisher here. How can you go from zero Spanish-speaking in 1960, at the 2018 census? You go to about 25% or 68 million people. Those are all illegal aliens. Whether they were one year old, five or 50 years old, they're all illegal. So the plan was to replace the then-current cheap labor that Negroes were the new source, would be more, say, appealing, less hostile, less confrontational, against the white community for the vile treatment that they had experienced. So with these new folks, there was nothing, there was no grievance there. And to justify, we'll say, these people in Negroes are lazy, don't want to work, all they want to do is make babies and be criminals. Okay. So now, in 2025, because this mass immigration, right, when taking place, it was okay as long as it was just placing and replacing, right, the black people in Negroes, it's okay, it's fine. In the last five or ten years, it started to directly impact and hurt white community. So now, over this same 56 year period, all of the Spanish, all these groups of came in, had no problem with being used to just place the Negroes. So when folks say this here, false analysis, well, they do work that y'all don't want to do. Wait a minute, back up now, and for more information, I want you to read back of the hiring line, back of the hiring line by Roy Beck, a 200 year history of immigration surges and poor biases and impression of black wealth, I say it again, a 200 year history of immigration surges and poor biases and impression of black wealth. So these group willingly was used to just place and replace us. And no one gave a hoot that the Negroes who once did those job taking care of his aunt's children, slaughtered in the pigs and the cows, et cetera, okay, picking the fruit, all right. They had no problem with this place and replacing us doing this year for the 56 years of the surge. So when folks say, well, they do work y'all don't want to do, well, who did they replace? I'll wait. Who did they replace? You got it. They replace our elders because as a boomer born in 1953, I remember seeing us picking the fruit. I remember us in the slaughterhouses. I remember us doing the work that whites did not want to do. I remember those things. But nobody pushed back and said, wait a minute. These folks ain't not so innocent, they deliberately and intentionally did mine replacing us, just placing us. And did not mine other than the same propaganda that the whites did, they laser don't want nothing, don't want to work. Well now, the shoes on the other foot, President Trump got reelected two weeks ago, November 12, that map was written in a red tomato. America was saying, based on what he was uttering, I'm going to do mass deportation the first day in office. And that map affirmed that folks were okay with it. And it just perturbed me now to hear my group, eight of those politicians who all showed some, who should be have a kind of a politician, because this here massive immigration occurred for the last 50 plus years, right, the congressional black caucus, who was supposed to be in DC fighting for us, right, that's why they came in existing, right, co-sign this here invasion. That's right, invasion, they co-signed it. And then they had installed the entry, and the last word, five or ten years, he'd come to his non-set car, what, sanctuary city. Came co-signed by supposedly Adolf's politician, black politician, et cetera, at our own expense. No one ever asked the question, hey, who's being hurt by this here? Who's being displaced by this here? And then they had installed the entry, also now they find not million, but being the dollars the house, feet, educate, close, these individuals who are illegal aliens, and the disguise they use is, we are a humane society, we're as your humanity, wait a minute, where is that saying empathy when it came to the eighties community? And we, unlike all these other illegals, have fought in every war in our country, the war of independence, bloodshed, we shall have blood, stir, re-inslade, age to 65, we should have blood to be only re-inslade. World War II, World War II, World War III, you know, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Iran, I saw we have shed our blood, we have been the most loyal subject to our country despite being treated with total and utter disrespect. And now, since Trump has said, probably campaign, I'm going to do the math, I'm doing the biggest math, deportation, that we have seen, also now, Adolf's politician, got something to say? You are defending, right, what has hurt us, all the resources, and that it shows that immigration has always hurt the eighties community. In the last 36 years, these people willingly, deliberately, was okay, replacing and displacing the eighties community. And now, we got our own black politics trying to come to the rescue, to stop this here, so-called deportation, every one of you should vote them out, every one of you should feel totally betrayed, every one of you should feel totally let down, every one of you. The mayor, him boss, said, "Okay, she's going to defy this mad deportation order." I wrote out, I wrote out, I wrote out, because she has shown she got more love for them than she is to do it for the most loyal voting bloc in America, eighties, I wrote out. The mayor, the governor, also, I said, "We ain't going to concur with the federal mandate, I wrote out." Because what you're saying to me, you have no love for the eighties community. You got no love for us, that's been the problem. We've allowed everybody to come up under our tent and benefit all those laws, just part of civil rights. They were there because the slavery and Jim Crow, those groups should have never been allowed to participate, never been allowed to benefit. But graciously, humanely, we said, "Come on in, you can pick them, yep, yep, yep, you can pick them at our own expense." And now all those laws have been totally nullified, right, and make useless. Because we did not take a hard stance, right, and said, "No, no, these laws came into existence to address slavery and Jim Crow because of the Negroes, not because of Spanish or caribbeans or Africans or Asians or Jews except for the Negroes." But foolishly, we allowed all these groups under the tent, and now here we find ourselves on the outside looking in, and who's the blame responsible on leaders, on leaders. So I would recommend today's community, if you listen to me, to be glad you know about it and just know about it. I have no experience in the Spanish community, right, caribbean, African, Asian, nobody. I would strongly recommend that for the next, let's say, for the remainder of this century, what you're thinking about 76 years, focus on your own individual development and your group development. Focus on acquinal the central high-income skills, getting those contractors to city, state, and federal level, also private, about how you can hire yourself, hire your people, right. And do what should have been done from day one. Given the relationships built on, 24 years of legislating from 1619 to 85 is 24 years of the worst treatment any man has done to man. We should have never ever expected the white community to hire us and share the wealth with us, because why? We didn't come here under normal circumstances. We came here in a very traumatic, violent, degrading position, and we've been fighting for our humanity ever since. And one of the things that we should have insisted on from day one, you've got to have a way to provide for yourself and protect yourself from very vile, demonic white spirits out here. We didn't do that. We chose to see if we could be integrated into America as citizens. And the best thing that you got going, Gen X, Gen Z, and millennial, you can critique as I can now, things that our elders did not be greater than anybody, not even against anybody. Because there's no blueprint on how you fight or supremacy and how you push back against the vile spirit of whiteness. There's no blueprint. There's no blueprint. So if folks did what they thought was the best, but the best thing that you got going after 160 years since the presentation, you now know what doesn't work. You now know what you should do and at the top of the agenda should be, I got to be able to implore myself. I got to be able to control the platform that I have derived my income myself. I cannot be dependent on holding on the right community or community to implore me or my people. And one of the best sources of revenue is becoming providers and contractors for the city, state, federal government, and private companies. City of Boston has been $2 billion a year, $2 billion a year, but outside contractors. They've managed to spend over $4 billion a year, but outside contractors. We're not there. And no meaningful number, no meaningful number, we are there. We're not there. Because while we've been fighting for human rights, civil rights, and voting rights, we had to, we had to, all right. But here's the drawback. It does not build industries. It does not build corporations. It does not build companies where you can hire your people and put your folks to work. It doesn't do that. So all people benefited from that, it all expands. So we've always been kept and saved the people, kept into the rescue. When I say, take off your cloak and focus on yourself, because we have no business, no business entertaining or trying to deflect mass deportation. If and when it does happen, have them do it else. Because one thing we can say to all the Africans, the Caribbean, the Asians, the Indians, we're not going anywhere. Because we are the ultimate American. So when folks say, you know, we are the nation of immigrant, no, you're not. There's 40 plus million of us who are not immigrants. The only country we know is America. We created a culture after being stripped of everything. So we are not immigrants. It really betures me when our so-called Boulay leaders do not push back when they hit that nonsense. We are not immigrants people. We are American through and through. And stop bringing in Native American. It doesn't do it else. They are in the federal budget. They have a director of Indian Affairs. We don't have nobody for eight o'ers affairs, the director for the eight o'ers community. They get billion dollars every year in the federal government. Whether it benefit them or not, irrelevant, but in the budget, we're not in the budget. But the contempt and disdain for us is so intrinsic and so thoroughly it messes in the psychology of whiteness, right? Anything that might remotely benefit us, it's always what we push back contempt and disdain. So I ask you, one or two weeks after Prime Minister Trump won, are you now being sucked into fighting or opposing deportation? Let me do what you. When those individuals came, and like old left for the year, were they been there one day, up into the old five years of 20 years, right? When they came across their border, right, where they came along with their children, they knew they were illegal. They knew that. They knew that they were all rolling the dice. But here's the catch though, because it benefit whites, right? Because they's okay with it. Why is it mine? Because why? Who hired them? Why people? Let's be honest, they did. We couldn't hire them because why? We could not hire ourselves. They was taking position that we once occupied because why? After six or eight rides, right, there was a conscious decision made we must we and ourselves off of this black labor because there's legitimate grievance there and tension there and the tension there. We need somebody where there's no tension, no grievance of wine. We ain't done nothing to them. Who's better than the Hispanics, the Spanish-speaking? And they graciously and willily, right, played that role. Well now that the jigs up, well, if your ticket's punched, it's punched. You gotta go. Well, they've been in for 20, 30 years. You know, the pillow community, well, you roll the dice coming. You roll the dice coming in here. And so if you gotta go, sell your house, take your ticket wealth, because why? They send back every year, being the dollars to the South, to America, to Haiti, Caribbean, Africa, Asia, sends back, being the dollars every year, that's why they're first and foremost the immigrant. There's not us, there's not us. America's all we know, it's all we know, it's all we know, it's all. This country is so, without blood, sweat, and tears in it. So why in God's name are members of the Edel's community, so-called educated black bootleg, up in arms about mass deportation? If they had been doing their job all along these last five decades, they wouldn't be in such large numbers, because they are just as guilty as their white counterpart. Why? Because they're comfortable. They're comfortable in those positions with no power. And in fact, if you were to strip them of their melanin, they sounded at just like their white counterpart. They sounded at just like their white counterpart. That's why I say y'all, y'all, baby, we are on our own, and they're only saving grace for you and for me that I can see in this great country of ours, and she's a great country now. Without system of economic, it's based in capitalism, labor is sealed supreme. If you possess essential high-income skills, you're going to do well in 2024. You're going to do very well, and I don't mean to go undercover. If you, for more information, just go to any search engine and type in, without a 10 or 20, most probable technical skills, it'll show you. One out of the 10 or 20 most technical, you know, vocational skills, it'll show you. These are skills that pays extremely well, and you can also start your own practice. Case in point, young man, I know, we're the ITT tech, ITT tech, but IT, got its own practice. Got multiple contracts doing that, doing extremely well. Again, you've got to have control of the platform that you derive, your income, you need to be in control of that, and the only way that you can do that is have essential high-income skills that need it, because you have been thoroughly replaced in the last 56 years since the 1968 rise with all this cheap, cheap labor on top of the border. And now, I understand the last four or five years to say, they have apprehended folks down there from over 100-plus countries that have been released into the interior. And all these sanctuary cities, where these folks end up camping, right, I'm feeding, closing housing them at your and my expense. What do these folks say? Who would you and me? They're in the inner city with you and me. They're not there. They're not there. Western, Wesley, Nate, Newton, Cambridge, Kenton, Sharon. They're not there. No, no, no. They're not there. No, no, no. They're not there. George Barry's, the daughter's the man of Pam, the Lord of Chester, Chelsea, then the hood with you, because I'm so-called educated black-bullet politician, right, have cosigned to see a nonsense. So I say to you, "Aedos, mass deportation is not our fight, it's not our fight." And for more information, I strongly encourage you. If you read Back of the Fire line by Roy Beck, a 20-year history of immigration surgeons and poor biases in the personal black wealth, the data speak for itself. For 20 years, he looked at immigration, starting when, and 18, I think, 18, 20, something like that. He looked at our freedmen every time they brought in large numbers, right, of immigrants. They always got hurt in this place. That's been going on since this country was founded. And so why would you want to embrace a phenomenon that does deadly harm to our group? But that's exactly what happened after the 1968 riots. A conscious decision was made by the business class and a firm by a politician to bring all these folks in here to totally remove in this place to us. But the funny thing happening with the farm is devastated by America. It also hurt them. That's why red, that flag, I mean, that map on November 5th was bright red, because why mass immigration has devastated them as well. And so now, Trump ran on, I'm going to pour them all, all of them. And that red map affirms that. So why, in God's name, are the group who's been the place to do all of them, as Trump say, those low-paying black jobs. He ain't lying about that. He ain't lying about that. That's real. Well, the sudden, some of our ados politicians are opposing or talking about, "Oh, see there? See, you get what you get what you're voting for, yeah, both voted for him, then what? Get him out of here." For better or worse, they knew that. So why our mind group, ados, who would a group who's to do those jobs, nobody wanted? Why are we standing in the way, all of a sudden, I can blame him? That's my question. Why are we not all, but some of us, in high-profile positions, got something to say. You were a part of the reason they got here, by cosigns nonsense. You should be gone. And I was thrown in courage, you, ados community, when you come to voting, to vote out all these mayors who cosigns, thank you for your city, because they're saying you don't count. They're saying that you're not worth much, and they show you by spending all this billion dollars on these illegal immigrants, the last four or five years or whatever. I voted them out, I voted them out. They're sure, as I'm sitting there, I voted them out, because they're saying to you, you don't count. And if you show me that, you don't count, New York, Baltimore, Chicago, Boston, you don't count, you don't count. So again, if I take my break, ados, mad deportation is not our fight, it's not our fight, it is not our fight, it's time for us to focus on ourselves for the remainder of the century, 'cause no good, we got a lot of problems that we need to work on with ourself and our community and let each other, immigrants of color, let them fend for themselves, this is the one fight we should not participate in. So I'm gonna take a break, and remember, you're listening to WBCA 12.9 FM, again WBCA 12.9 FM, I'm a host, right here, come on, man, my show, from the trenches, baby, from the trenches, after they've been trenches. And the day I'm talking about mad deportation ados is not our fight, it's not our fight. We got no fighting in that, we got no fighting in that whole dilemma, stay out of it. I'll be back, don't go nowhere. 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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 the way you move. So when we said that 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 American, but we still had to fight for what we were looking for, and we still had to go through those channels and those processes. Okay, now I'm back. I am your host, Larry Kimbottom, you listen to WBCA 102.9 FM, again WBCA 102.9 FM, in my programs call from the churches, I'm living from the churches, well I speak about things I see, being in a condition out here in the church of the last 25 plus years, working with families. I speak focused on the experience and situation of my group, ADO, American that's in the slavery. And today I'm talking about mass deportation is not a fight. Since President Trump won two weeks ago, he ran on a platform that if he was elected, he was going to create the largest mass deportation in the American history. Okay? Well, despite everybody saying that he wasn't going to win and no chance, what do you want? And what really perturbed me, families and friends, and all of a sudden, folks don't take talk, Facebook, you know, while all of a sudden, our American blacks, ADOs, concerned about this year initiative, if he pulls it off, about a group of people, be the Spanish, be the Haitian, be the whoever who came in deliberately and intensely was used to this place. And they knew it. They knew it. They knew this taking black jobs, those poor black jobs, they knew that. With no regards for our ability to take care of our families, think care about that. But also now, this thing, group wants you to show some compassion and your man is towards them that they might be sit packing. I say, why, why, why, and not only did they let me know that they deliberately participate and are being removed from certain industries, come on, folks say, well, they got to show off, they don't want to do, no, that's a lie, that's a lie. Those job was once occupied by who? ADOs, that's right, because why, they were not even in the country. They came in after six day rides and for more information, if you read this here report called the Kerner Report, Kerner Report, 1968, Kerner, K-E-R-N-R, Kerner Report. And it says, right, that in '68, there were a hundred cities ablaze in Raj and LBJ initiated this so-called commission to understand why. And it came back to scathing indictment of whiteness, a key paragraph that the report writers found with this here. Well, white Americans have never fully understood, but what the Negro can never forget is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institution, white institution created it, white institution maintains it, and white society condones it. Is anybody listening? Is anybody listening? This was a deliberate displacement, this curve, the last 56 years in America. Because there was hostility and tension, right? And my group ate those towards the white community, that's why, of 24th in years of child slavery, 100 years of what, continuous slavery and Jim Crow, apartheid, et cetera. So when the riots erupted, we had to find a more docile tranquil, what labor force, who had no realist against us, who had no realist against the white community. It's not for the border, here they come. So these folks have been coming to the country since 1968, aided by our politicians. Because they benefited, what, the white community? Nothing happened that does not benefit a segment of this population. And those so-called educated black politicians also aided this process by not demanding an exponent for what it was, they co-signed, just here, displacement. That's why I say in all these things called sanctuary, you need to vote these people out, ASAP. ASAP. Because they're showing you point blank, they have no respect, or regard for you. When they came to finding anything for those, always remember what opposition, oh no, you did bigger, you won't vote for nothing, you don't want to work. But they found $300 in the last five or six years, ten years, for these illegal aliens. You need to send a message to all these city mayors and governors who co-signed. Just nonsense. Thank you, wait, sit it. Your time's up, dude. Your time's up. Let those who might be subjected to it, be Spanish, be the Caribbean's advocate, Europeans, whomever, right, you got to go, you got to go, you got to go, you got to go. This is not our fight, eight-offs, mad deportation, not our fight. We got no business sticking out of our nose and something that does not concern us, because we're American, baby. If this does not prove to you, that you 100% American, I don't know, I don't know what it is. And also, the 14th Amendment should be rewritten. I want all of you, all right? For more information, read the 14th Amendment, and you'll see there's three components in there. One of those about citizenship, that came about because the Southern Democrats are saying that our elders, the newly freed slaves were not citizens, when in fact, it was the only country they knew, only country. That order's needed to be rewritten to say that if you are an immigrant, you have children, you got to wait 10, 15, 20 years. If you are an immigrant, mad to a American citizen, you got to wait another 10, 15, 20 years. It should not be automatically, right? There's something that was meant to give our elders citizenship, not apply to everybody. You know, down where, when they wrote that, it never was intended for all these folks here. It wasn't intended for the Spanish, Caribbean, African, anybody, you know, Haitians, but these white folks, were not intended for them, because why? Most white folks, they thought it was not worth either. If you are not a wasp, Anglo-Saxon white person, they thought you were not worthy. So when this year law came into existence, right, the 14th amendment, it came in because of our elders, who was newly freed. That's why it came into existence, and now it's applied to everybody, right? Birthright citizenship needs to be redone, yes or does. Because an ordinance that came in, because of us, is now has been used to usurp us, to remove us, just place us, is why it's been the white folks. They wanted a workforce that was not hostile or had a history of contempt and push back towards them, because of the vile treatment occurring from our enslavement and continued through Jim Crow and the black cult. And these individuals, these groups, big Spanish, Africans, Caribbean, all these groups, will and need, were okay, just placing us in, it was okay with it. So why should you aid us, now try to be captain, save the group, stay in our lane, mind our business, because we are a permanent underclass in many cases. If I spoke to just getting by, and in fact, if a lot of these so-called poverty programs that were poor, both children and these payments will be homeless, because while we got no wealth. And although I can say, from being out there in the trenches with these families, virtually everybody is working, but their skill base does not demand top dollar, where they can live comfortably on their own. So they're stuck on this poverty program that keep them in power, along with their children. And so when folks, like Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders, I'm like, "Oh, they're there for me and there's them being there." This is why I say now, maybe we should ask, "How did he become a beginner, a millionaire? What did he or she create? What did they develop? What did they improve? What did they do? They allowed him, the tribe, and his thing called capitalism. So demonize these people, we need to ask, "Hey, capitalism, it's about creating, it's about developing, it's about innovation." Maybe we need some of that, because it's not about, "Well, you know, it's for the rich. You know, for the billionaires and millionaires." We don't need no more poor messaging. We don't need no more poor image for our community. We don't need the number. We don't need the number. We do not need that. We need to know, "Well, gee, how did he become a millionaire, or a millionaire? What skills did he acquire? What did he have to do to do that? Get there." That's what we need to hear, not, "Oh, he's from millionaires and billionaires." Okay, Anne, we should say, "How do we begin to join that club?" Because the system is capitalism for better words, it's capitalism for better words, okay? How do we start to do better for ourselves? Well, you better be skilled out here. You need to be skilled out here in America because why the system is capitalism for better words. The better for words is capitalism. And those who are highly skilled with essential skills in 2024 are going to do very, very well. Unlike when I was born in 1953, when you were smart, bright, intelligent, had an idea, white folks would not let you in. You would not get in there, period. And boom, it's a white line. You wouldn't get in there because your elders of mine got with King, got out here and fought the spirit of whiteness, and 2024, you can get in. There's no lit market patience. If you go get their skills, right, you can get in and be highly compensated. If you don't, right, you're going to live on what I call "subpar skills" when you bring in what's substantial or very low revenue. So, in 2024, you don't have to be, you know, shucking and jiving, hitting the ball, kicking the ball, rapping, singing, dancing, to do very well for yourself, not in 2024. Because, why, your elders of mine, God, we King, took on whiteness, watch the community, and civilized this period would buy a, now they would tolerate us in these spaces, where I was born in '53, we was not being tolerated. Low was our money accepted. In 2024, we did not tolerate it and they take our money, but we don't own nothing. We don't own the industries or factories to put out people to work. And that's why it has to change. For more information, they said that 2.7% of the black folks are 7% slower, 2.7%. That means the 9.7.3% and 9.7.3% of us are begging white folks to anybody for a job. The same step is around when King marched on D.C. in 1963. We have made no progress, because why? We have put all the energy from our leaders right into what? Human rights, voting rights, and civil rights. And one thing that you should be to take from this past election, November 5th, that ever was wrong, just life was definitely narrative, that voting, and all calls you got to vote, vote, vote, vote. Well, you saw, though, whether you voted for VP Harris, down ballot, as I did, a third party candidate or didn't vote, your vote didn't count, before he didn't win. So narrative that I was fed and as you've been told, the importance of voting, the numbers don't work. So all those who voted for Vice President Harris, doesn't matter, you lost. That's why folks are so teed off, because they just swore, despite all this man baggage, that he was a dung duck, well, guess what? That map shows otherwise I've done it. So the narrative that I was fed as a young man, as you've been fed, that voting, voting, voting, voting, voting, voting. You saw firsthand November 5th, it's not so. Voting is important, I'm not against voting, but if the numbers ain't there, it doesn't work. You're going to lose, so you lost, you lost. And your quality of life, how you live, how you fare, comes back to your skill base, not who's in office, not with policy, but your skill. So those of you who went to vote on November 5th, who was broke, you woke up November 6th broke. Those of you who went to vote on November 5th, with no wealth, you woke up, November 6th with no wealth. Because why? At the end of the day, the life that you have come back to your skill base. And 2020, the blessing right now, all you'll have, eight of those young people, Jim C. Miller, that any occupation that you can get in, there's no lead on occupation. You don't have to be out there singing and dancing, rapping, twerking, jerking. If you have the skills, you can get in, and enjoy this great country of ours. It's a great country, but our skills are always rendered on the bottom. Now at the time, they go back and upgrade your skills, get a new set of skills that's going to be high income generating. And now at the time, no matter who wins or who loses, it does not affect your quality of life. So I've got to say now, at the end of the day, the life that you have would depend on the skill set that you have. You got sub-pods, give them a little pair of black jobs. Guess what? You're in the bottom, baby. You're in the bottom. But then closing, eight of them. Math, deportation, not our fight. I said again, mad, deportation, not our fight. They came here knowing that they had rolled a dice. You got to go. You got to go. And if you get in, and if you got to go, guess what? You're going back. You're going back with skills. You can use those skills in your own country for your own people. But if you got to go, you got to go. We should not be out there protesting about deportation. It's not our fight because they did not mind replacing us for the last 50 years, they did not mind replacing us, but one thing for sure, we ain't going nowhere because we are American. We ain't going to worry about that. We are going nowhere. So as I wrap up, hope you found something to think about and remember, right, for more information, "Back of the High Line," by Roy Beck, a 20-year history of immigration surgeon, employer and employer biases, and depression of black wealth, it's all documented. But I would not shed no tear for those who might be deported. I want you to tell for them because we are more than given at the office by sharing those laws for us, for perfection, we shared that with everybody and didn't demand it be only for those who ate those. So I would not shed a tear, not me. So as I wind down, remember you've been listening to WBCA, one of 2.9 FM. I'm your host Larry Higginman, name and program from the trenches. I come your way, Avery Windsor, 6 p.m. to share my thoughts. You might agree, you might not. It's okay. But who for thought? One thing I do know, you won't kiss me while I'm in crime behind deportation. Not me. Not that. I'm not begrudging anybody who got to go. I'm not getting anybody who got to stay. I'm going to focus on me and my group. For the next 76 years in the century, the remainder of the century, focus on our group. Worry about our group. Worry about ourself, because our group is a permanent class. And don't be deceived by our entertainers. They don't represent the group. The group got no wealth. And the only way you're going to change that is the skill base. And this thing on capitalism, the only way you're going to change it is your skill. If you don't have no skills, you ain't going to do well. But I would not stick my nose in this thing called deportation. They came in knowing they were illegal, they rode the dice, if their ticket is punched, it's punched. So until next Wednesday, God bless you and be well. 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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