Host Larry Higginbottom voices his issues with the Democratic Party, contending that it has mistreated the ADOS (American Descendants of Slavery) community in spite of their significant support for the party. He shares his views on immigration, and his disapproval of sanctuary cities. Larry encourages listeners to vote.
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But what you see here in the last five or ten years is that these mayors, these Democratic mayors, they have went hard after putting illegal immigrants. And what you saw since November 5th after election, these same Democratic politicians are showing just how much they don't give a hoot about you. They are now threatening or promising to you into two to five federal law by system with the extraction of illegal. They are also threatening, right, to be the fourth and meet it off from the federal government. The government that would benefit all people of those citizens, cities and states. How dare them? But what really ticks me off, ADOs, if this same devotion and commitment to so-called, you know, being humane, being, you know, a good steward of the people, if this same care and devotion has been had been shown to the ADOs community for the last 10 to 15, 20 years, what do you think we might be as a group? You think you might be a bottom cast that we are today? If these same Democratic politicians who we have been shown a 90% rate of backing in, regardless, blue no matter who, if they show the same kind of consideration, commitment and devotion to the ADOs community, what do you think we might be? I wait, what do you think we might be? All we've gotten right is what false promises or, you know, symbolism or tokenism. They have shown you, ADOs, how they really feel about you as they blow them as a voting bloc. If these last four or five years have not shown you since this day in call, since you were a city has came to the fore, there is no respect or there's no respect, nor do they appreciate your commitment to the Democratic Party. Here in Boston, mail will, it's promising, it's promising to defy further law. So is Governor Healy. Back here, some months ago, they defied the people's will by bringing these illegals into the community and spaces that was normally used by the community, despite the community objective. And the city councilors, state rep and services, right, cosign is here. I'm talking about the so-called ADOs members, the black immigrant members, all cosign is here. And the one thing I think, although I did not vote in this here past election, I voted it down ballot as I did in 2020. But I think neither one of them are deserving of our vote. Neither party is deserving of our vote. To me, they are a bird of the same color. They're texting might be different how to go about getting power, but it's all about power. And about us. And about serving up. And although I'm not a Donald Trump fan, one thing I do agree with Donald Trump is on immigration. No one ever acts in the last 30-40 years, but all this massive immigration here, illegal immigration. Who is being hurt by these folks coming here? Who's being undermined? Who's being inconvenient by these folks being here? And I'm talking about so-called educated black, ballet politician. None of them had any, you know, pushback. Just this massive invasion. None of them. None of the city council, the state rep, state center, say anything, say, "Wait a minute, hold down here. Who's being hurt here? The sanctuary of the city." Why are we giving these folks cot blunts? And in fact, whose bright idea was it to make Massachusetts, you know, a bill? Let's see the Boston accentuate city. Whose idea was that? Whoever it was, she'd be taken to the backyard and horse-whip. You're gonna put illegal individual over the citizen of the city? You're gonna forgive them for top priority over the citizen of the city? Are you kidding me? It is the ultimate disrespect. It's been shown to adults to last 30, 40 years by the Democrat body. And this issue of immigration crystallizing, there's no respect towards us as a group. Because they feel if we put some so-called diversity out there, we're gonna diversify staff. That'll make you happy. We're gonna put a few Negroes out front. That'll make you happy. Nothing tangible to help the group now. Nothing to uplift the collective, but we got some symbolism. The first person here, first person net. And we have set up for crumbs. When you're voting, not gonna send it better for all Democratic candidates, you give nothing. And the ultimate insult has been this whole issue around immigration. And when you hear these city mayors and governors of the so-called central city are ten toes down to defend illegal individuals. It's your express now. Because these people cried in what you live in at. They're in your school, your playground. You're meant to help. Your housing projects. In Boston, anywhere in Roxbury, Dorchester, they're everywhere. Everywhere. And so as I sit here, being in the trenches, I'm in the city, I can see firsthand. There's no respect here. There's no reciprocity here. Because we know the governor is speaking up on your behalf. But the killing party is neither are your so-called elected black, educated, belay, politician, city councilors, state reps, state citizens, and none of them is fighting back the way. Hold on here. You mean you're gonna go ten toes down? You're gonna defy federal law, which by the way, they're gonna lose. Collaborate the law. And you're gonna deny us receiving me in the battle, beating it off from the federal government, for everybody? For these illegal immigrants? Yeah. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? And so here we are. So much for your loyalty, Ados. So much for a vote blue, no matter who, Ados. What have you gotten in return? In the last 50 years, I'm a boomer. I'm 71 right now. I got off the democratic plantation when I voted for Hillary. And the reason why I thought she'd be better than Trump? Because she was committed to actually take on my police brutality and prison reform. Well, we voted 2016. Blue, black American voted in the high 90s for her. She lost. Okay. We've always, always voted for a Democrat in the high 80s and 90s. That's a block. Both black women and black men, period. What have you gotten to show for it? In the last 50 years, for my life, as I just took, as I just stepped back and critiqued, what have you gotten for that? For this undying loyalty, what else have you gotten? Even getting the so-called first black president, what did it do to uplift the collective? I'll wait. The first black attorney general, Holman, what did he do for us? I'll wait. And if we be honest, if you remove their melanin, they act in sounds just like they white counterpart. Hello? Anybody listening? All these so-called high profile ranking, black facing high place. And when you really sit back and analyze as I have, what has it done for the collective? Nothing. It's another form of symbolism to give you the impression and meet impression that America's making progress when we ask your standards deal. And in fact, the data says that we have not made any progress as a collective group. Don't be fooled by a few. The majority are just as stuck on the bottom as we were in 1963 when King went to Washington for that great speech. For example, today, only 2% percent of black folks are 7-floor. 2% percent, 2% percent. That means 97.3 of us are begging white folks that anybody for a job. Those are the same situation in 1963. So you're begging the same people who have been indoctrinated and socialized the whole year contempt and disdain. How likely is that going to work? Not likely, because we have been bamboozled in food that voting, that fighting for human rights, to be right and voting rights was the answer. It's not. And so it's time for us to critique as a group, as a people, things we've done in the past by so-called educated black boo-lay leaders. It's failed to do anything for the group. And there's nothing more insulting right now than to see democratic party leaders in these so-called sanctuary city have shown their backside to the most loyal voting bloc. Ados. They standing temptos down to illegal. Illegal. But they would tell you, no money in the house, no, no. We can't afford reparation. We can't afford never you. But you're finding food, clothes and shelter. You're even undermining the essence of being a citizen by allowing these folks here by now rationalize why it's okay to break your law. Well, you know, in their land, you know, they're famine, you know, in their land, you know, they got gangs, in their land, you know, they got violence. That's not our problem. We're a citizen. That's not our problem. Your first duty is to what your citizen. That's not our problem. So these democratic politicians and see the Boston and the governor, Boston, will rationalize breaking laws that hurt the citizen for illegal. Make that make sense to me. And we as a group, as a collective, I'll watch something to anybody here. They may find no money for food for us, shut the bus, license, nothing. They found nothing for us. Make that make sense. That makes zero sense here. And so when I hear the guy knew, um, boy does our time, you know, he make very clear. He even quoted the chapter of the law that a with federal law take president overseers face statue. But then, you know, standing bowls, 10 toes down, we're gonna stand with the immigrants. I said, it's time to vote them out. It's time to vote them out. It's time for them to go. And that also insists you should think about voting out your city councilors, who've also, who I deal with the brightness nonsense called singular city to Boston anyway. Who I deal with that. Whoever I deal with, she'll be taken to the backyard and horse whooped. That don't benefit us citizens. That does not benefit a citizen. In all the literature I've read on immigration, mass immigration has never worked for black Americans or ADOs. It's never been a plus for us. So why should you, right, cosign something that does not benefit you whatsoever? And it, and it subtracts from you. It takes from you. You got the black preachers, politicians, although, you know, you know, God loves everybody. We all got children. No, you start with us first. I'm out in the church. I can see firsthand how folks are fairing. How they doing? The group ain't doing what they never did. So we need to have a conversation. You don't have a chance to make your voices heard when it comes time to vote for the mayor and for the governor. And they have shown you what they think about you, ADOs. The Democratic Party has shown you, they have betrayed you, they have betrayed you. That's why my colleagues, my doubt, my dollar today is real simple. The Democratic Party has betrayed the ADOs community. It's what you call yourself, foundation of black American, original black American, black Hebrew, whatever you call yourself. We have been betrayed. It's undying loyalty and devotion to a group that won't do who for you, except for symbolism, but they give folks who aren't even part of the country. Tangibles, tangible substance. All you get, well, no, no, they're thinking, no, no, no, no, no, they're in the budget. They're too much. They're going to break the house. You can do that. And what you've been seeing in the last five or six years, how they have found treated dollars, treated dollars for this massive invasion in all these city states. These people here are being fed and housed in clothes, giving, finding jobs, whatever. The mayor of the governor of New York said she had a 100,000 job, he had a 100,000 job for immigrants. We'll wait a minute. You get out of here, folks, they're in New York City. That you have not educated, no skills. You couldn't have hired your own people. We did not behoove you to hire your own people, put them to work, but it shows you the NDB, intense and grain hatred for blackness. It really shows me. It really shows me. And having these pawns called black politicians are just that pawns off the show. So in this pre Thanksgiving Eve conversation, my topic is real simple. The Democratic Party has betrayed. It's very betrayed. It's more loyal, devoted, voting bloc, ados, instead of Boston. It's betrayed. They can find nothing for you and to now threaten to lose million dollars in government fund for the city and state. Everybody should be totally, totally ticked off. How dare you put our welfare to the on the backburners for immigrants illegal. Come on now, it makes zero sense. Zero sense. And that's why this country, the ados community needs to send a clear message to those city mayors and governors, right? Your time's up, buddy. You got to go. It's like the country shows you with Trump beating VP Harris is now trying to show this Democratic Party, your time's up, buddy. You got to go because you don't show, you got no loyalty and devotion to your most loyal voting bloc. Ados, you got no loyalty does. You can't do nothing for us. You can't do nothing for us, Kawhi. You're always crime, crime broke. But you have went into debt, severe debt, beating, closing, housing, providing for illegal immigrants. Right now, there's thousands of them only way to the border. They even showed on the news where they're stopping adolescent kids with notes pinned to their lapel with a phone number and names of people to call once they have apprehended by those patrolling the border. Come on now. And one thing that I hope Trump does, I know I know I know I know what I do. I know I hope he does. Since you now have the White House, the Congress and the Senate, I would really, really change the 14th Amendment. For more information, the 14th Amendment came into existence for natural citizenship because the Democrats in 1865 tried to say that our elders, the newly freed elders, were not citizens. So they enacted the 14th Amendment, it included a clause for citizenship. That clause was to say that our elders, right, the formerly enslaved were in fact citizens on the country we know. That clause was never meant to be used by all these people here. Be they white, be the Asian, be they black. This year was to say that the Negroes were in fact citizens. This year, the 14th Amendment has been usurped in the last 40, 50 years. Anybody coming here, the baby, it's innocent. You can't go over to the most country. Have a baby. You're not automatically citizen. So I hope Trump, since you got the Congress and the Senate, we have a law that says if you illegal come to America, have a kid, it's going to take that kid 10 to 15 years to become a citizen. And they're going to take you sometime to become a citizen. If you come to America, you illegal, give the legal, legal spouse, right, have a baby, that baby, don't you, again, going to take some time to become a citizen. It's not going to be so automatic. That law, you don't know, the 14th Amendment was written for our formerly enslaved elders, our ancestors. It was not meant for the people here, you know, don't wear them. White folks didn't never intend for these supposed to be in the country. It's the color it is. These folks are here because of the 1965 act of immigration, which came about because of the civil rights struggle. It's why they changed that law that folks here who was never allowed into the country. It was a white man's country period. It's pointing out folks piggyback off hours off off our struggle, but they don't want to deal with what I call the consequences. Our folks got out there and got beat down, punched down, castrated, lynched, taught in feather, the civilized, the civilized, the spirit of whiteness. Our folks did that. So, as all adults bled sweat, bled sweat and tears out there. And now the Democratic Party is showing you exactly what and how they feel about you. So now you have a chance to come election day to send a clear message to our this country, to all these democrats and governors, to the counselors, they webbed. No, your time's up, buddy. You ain't fighting for us. And in fact, most of the slides that you see with the Congressional Black Caucus, those slides came about after six-day rides because part of the report came back saying, "Well, the Negroes need some representation. They're going to call our spaces whereby we can have some Congress people or whatever." But they're fighting for everybody about us. In those slides that came into existence through the Negroes will have some kind of representation. A lot of good is done. They're fighting for everybody about us. All other groups stay on code. They let you know, "No, I'm fighting for Latinos." "I'm fighting for Asians. I'm fighting for Jews, whomever." You go to any of these groups website and read their Mrs. statement. They tell you point blank who they are fighting and advocating for. You go to the Congressional Black Caucus, right? "Oh, yeah, we're fighting for Black folks and all oppressed people, all marginalized people." That's not your mandate. It's not your mandate. It's not why you came into existence. So we have been sold out by our elected Black politician, Boule. We have been sold out by the so-called preacher in the church. The church also can't help but come down since since the 1960s with influence on all these Black immigrants. In the church, you got what? These immigrants now are what? Deacon board, on the trustee board, right? Ushers, preachers, and they're all pan-tied. So the preacher can't say nothing because why he feels he might lose their support. So he can't distinguish between, "Hey, you see, it's an American issue." Compared to illegal immigration, it's hurting us. He can't say nothing because in the last 20-30 years with the influence of all these Black immigrants, these Black churches, right? The Black church has been totally nullified. Even the Black church cannot speak for us. You know, God loves all people. We all God's children. But the Bible says we all God's children. We are not our own people. We are on our own. When I tell you the only thing, the only saving grace I can see, if you're a member of ADO's community, is that our country, economic system is found in capitalism for better or for worse. That's our system. And if you don't have essential high-income skills to be compensated very well, you're not going to do it out here. You are not going to do it out here because you are not needing any longer for cheap labor, but insular labor, they don't need you anymore. Don't need you. And I'm so-called elected Boule Black politician, he is sure he ain't with a hoot. Ain't with no thing with things. They ain't with the salt corn they bring in. So on this year, pre-Thanksgiving celebration, we've been sold out. We've been sold out. I'm just just, just, just, just, just, just, I'm done. You got the mayor and the governor, right, prepared to forfeit millions of dollars in federal funds because they're going to stand 10 toes down with immigrants illegal. In the last 40, 50 years, all those folks who came here, let's be honest now, when they came across their border, like those are coming right now. Conditions aside, they know they was coming here illegally. They know their kids were illegal. All of them. All of them, they knew that. So you roll the dice by walking that trail. You get in, you might get situated, be working, get out of whatever. You have Tom, the new Zaw, punch your tickets, time to go. You got to go. You got to go. I ain't got a problem with that. I'm not pro north corn because I've seen the effect of being out in the trenches, what it's done to just place and replace my group, etos. These folks had no conscience about replacing us in employment. Now, I don't want them jobs back. Now, folks with jobs, we won't do. Well, who do you think was doing this job before they got here? Who do you think was taking care of Miss Ann's children? Who do you think was taking care of Mr. Charlie's yard, or in the CDC, so-called slaughterhouses? Doing the roofing, laboring. Who do you think was doing that before, in the 1960s, right? Who do you think was doing that? You guess that we were. So these same immigrants that you now have been made to have compassion for felt no compassion in replacing us. And in fact, one more information, you know, if you read our Roy Beck, Roy Beck's book, he did 20 years of immigration research. He even quotes statistics and also testimony where they would go to Congress and say, hey, wait a minute, employers are deliberately firing their black employers, employees, and replace them with Spanish employees. They went to the Congress, let them know that. When Obama was president, did nothing. That's that fact. So these same folks that you and I, for what they have compassion for, you know, an empathy for showed none when it was displaced in us. And then I so-called democratic leaders got more loyalty to them. They do that. Make that make sense. Make that make sense. So when folks say, well, you know, we need these folks. Well, I'll tell you one thing, if you pay American, what they what they know is worth, they'll do those jobs, they'll do those jobs. And as far as, you know, bringing folks from India to do IT, start investing in your own people, that whether bringing folks from India to IT, then the higher our folks from these black colleges who have major in computer science, when they want to pay them, they don't want to pay them. So I hope that is all clamped down to all this stuff here. H1BV is all this one. All of them visa stuff. Now we don't need that. And these folks been but sitting back home in the billion dollars back home. 40, 50, 40, 50, 40, 50, 40, 50, 50, 40, 50, 50, 50, 40, 50, 50, 50, 40, 50, 50, 50, an hour a year. 40, 50, 50, 50, I'm going to hear this sitting back home. Well, if you had your own American people, that money stays in the house. It stays in the house. So for what I'm sitting, it is you should be very perturbed with the Democratic Party. And he says that he sits in the state. Because that's showing you they got no love for you. No concern for your plight. And when it comes time to vote, man, we've got to go. You've got to go. Same with what they make with the government healing. I'm sorry. They're probably nice people. No, no, no, no. You don't show me. You don't have you have no concern for me. No, no, no. I come first. I'm a citizen. You're the any country, any country. If it comes down between you and one of those citizens, they're going to always choose their citizens, rightfully so. They ain't choosing you, rightfully so. You can't be on your own. So you get what's left. If anything, you get what's left. But here, I suppose got to twist it because they don't value, right? And appreciate the black vote or black people. No, no, no, no. It's time. It's time to see the new message. We ain't having that nonsense. Not having that nonsense. Anyway, I am your host Larry Obama. Do you listen to WBCA 102.9 FM name, my program from the trenches. I speak about things I see out here. Could I be in the church for the last quarter century doing direct mid health services? I got to see how folks are there and many of you know, the group ain't doing well. And when your politicians would put others ahead of you, who's not even a citizen, you're going to find resources for them. You're going to find for us. Oh, no, no, no, no. We can't have that. And so my top of the day is real simple. The Democratic party has betrayed, not fail. They have betrayed eight o's. They have betrayed us. You're going to stand 10 toes down. 10 toes down for your legal. Find them all kind of things, housing, food, children, education, transportation. But you can't find nothing when it came to the most law devoted block you have, eight o's. If I'm on that, I should be right back. Don't go nowhere. And we're going to keep it moving again. Here's that song again for the hundredth time today. Here's that song again. It's going to be stuck in your head all day. Here's that song again. 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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 carry the process through the process. That everyone else has to sort of like skip stages. We're the ones who march, we're the ones who carry the Bible, we're the ones who carry the flag, we're the ones who try to go through the courts. And being born American didn't seem to matter because we were born Americans but we still had to fight for what we were looking for. And we still had to go through those channels and those processes. I'm back, Boston. Again, I'm your host, Larry Higginbottom. You're listening to WBCA 102.9 FM, again, WBCA 102.9 FM, in the program, in the trenches, baby, ops, the basement trenches. My title today is real simple. Hey, it goes. The Democratic Party has betrayed us. They betrayed the most loyal voting bloc they have. They have made a vow to stand 10 toes down to defend all these illegal immigrants. And defy federal orders to remove them. Even these mayors of these cities, City of Boston, et cetera, are even willing to risk their career by maybe being voted out. And also willing to forfeit million dollars from federal government for all of us, all behind illegal immigrants by the Central American City. And so as I sit here, I think I kind of, you know, somebody, I'm missing something. Just make no sense. Just make zero sense. That you're willing to vow life, federal law, and federal law does Trump, city, state. And one point, you're willing to forfeit million dollars for citizens of these cities and state, all behind illegal immigrants. Make that make sense. And ever since the Central American City nonsense came into four, eight of those community has been a third cleft citizen in their own country. The reason why I like playing Brother Gil Schreherin, if you listen to him, and I encourage you to, he says some in that little interview in 2000 that's still on point today, he said, "Everything we have gotten we have to fight for, now keep in mind, we're citizens now. We are citizens because of the entrenched anti-blackness. Everything we have gotten with the fight for." And he said, "Being born an American didn't seem to matter." I'll say it again, being born an American didn't seem to matter. These folks not American, these folks not to say American, and look at all the provisions that have been found but non-citizen. You can't go nowhere in the world, eight of those, and expect reciprocity. Nowhere where they put you ahead of their own citizen. Nowhere where they have like a fixed official do what these these democratic city governors and mayors are doing. Nowhere in the world, I've been, even to the homeland these folks are running from. And it's not our problem that your homeland is in disarray. You must remember eight of them, your elders in mind did not run. As Brother Gill said, "We have to fight for everything we have gotten here, everything." So when they were so called free in 1885, they didn't have to sign for the border or to the Canada or to Liberia, they stayed here, faced the spirit of white hate, dealt with it, mainly lost their lives constantly being degraded, humiliated, castrated, you name it, to civilize the spirit and to civilize these white people. What they did, so now these folks right, want to come to our car, a finished product, it's not up to us right to clear it be a mess in their country. That's not our job. If you want to help them, for those who want to help them, help them over there. Don't bring them over here. Don't displace us, which is, that's what that has occurred last 40 years, have we been displaced many? How's that happen to us? So you got your politicians standing ten toes down for folks who are not even a citizen, because they have a hard time in their country. We had to clean this mess up around here. That's why they came into what I call the finished product, be the African caribines or folks inside of the border. Somebody had to do the dirty work, guess who it was, ate those. We cleaned up the spirit of whiteness. It was vile, despicable, and deplorable when these folks were treating us, and we had no due process or protection under the law. Now they want to come right, how's all cleaned up? And because the anti-blackness so entrenched, our democratic leaders were allowed in, right, to move out the way. Well, you know, we are all God's children. We got to think about the children and the women. No, we think about our own people first. They shouldn't be here. And in fact, at the deaf countries in disarray, they got to clean it up. Like we understand, we, like our folks are to stay and fight and clean up. They got to stand in, fight and clean it up. Got all them able-bodied men and women marching up here. And folks, you know, somebody in my thousand miles have come to matter. That's not my problem. That's not my problem. The same energy it takes for you to get from there to here, take it and deal with people over there who got things all messed up, jacked up. But you come out here, right, and just place us. We place us and take needed money that could be invested in us and them. And then they turn around, send back what, be it that I was back home. We wouldn't do that. We was spending, that's not money right here in our country. So it's clear to me, it's clear to me. There's a time for reckoning. And I'm saying, it's time for me to move to go. Uh-uh. It's time for me to heal it, heal it, to go. They got to go. And all those so-called city counselors who voted for that nonsense call sent away city got to go. State rep, they said, got to go. You got to go. No, you got to go. That's not benefiting us. That's not benefiting us. If you want to show your humanity, help them in their country. Don't bring them here. And then tell me to move over. You know, anybody got in there? Uh, space didn't want to rent out to the illegals? That's nonsense. This shouldn't be here. This shouldn't be here. Try that. This shouldn't be here. And so now, I'm mayor and governor is saying he's going to stand ten toes down and defend the illegals. We're by forfeiting me as a dollar from the federal government that would benefit us. Does that make sense? Does that make sense? Does that make sense to you? It makes none to me. So I say to you, when you come time for the election, you should make sure that everybody hears your voice, loud and clear. Didn't know, this year so called, thank you for the city, I would rescind that. Yes, I would. That mess going. All these cities, that mess, that mess coming down. Whoever brought that deal was, whoever brought that deal was to be taken to the back of the house and horse whooped it. Because nowhere in that law, this is benefiting us. Nowhere. If you so helped being able to help him, illegal, I'm off of being benevolent. I would contribute to an effort going down to the country to help him. I can give a few dollars for that, clothes, food, medicine. I'm off of that. Help him over there. If you're so concerned about their welfare, help them get their country up the pond. Don't bring him here. Don't bring him here. We got enough poor people as it is. We don't need no more. We don't need no more poor people. No, we don't. No, we don't. Because all they end up doing is competing with those who are already on the bottom. And I see again to my group, Edo's, the only saving grace I can see for my group, because politics is not a solution. There's no policy they're going to make. It's going to allow you to live where you're going to live, the town of your choice, or send your kids to the school of your choice, or if your kids attend after school program that you deem worthy. There's no policy that politics is going to do for that. Your quality of life, how you're living, is going to come down to your skill based only, your skill. And the problem with most of our people is not they're not working. Their skill is on the low end of the totem pole, which means you have to go back and get retooled. You got to go back and upgrade your skill. And there are many occupation, not just formalized education, they will play you very handsomely. There are many technical and both technical and vocational skills that take, you know, maybe one or two years here and there, you know, junior college, ITT Tech, where with those skills, you can now do very well with yourself, but also you can get contract with the city, state, federal government, federal, you know, these entities like being the dollars every year, outside contractors, doing all kind of stuff, but you got to have the skills that puts you in the running. And the problem I'm seeing, all people don't have the skills to apply to pursue those higher paying position. You got no choice. Because, remember when Bernie Frank said, "Well, yes, we know $15, you know, a living wage." I said, "What are you doing? What are you supposed to rank in?" And most of my so-called educated black hool-aid, "Yeah, you're right, Barney. $15. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? You're not going to do nothing about there. I wouldn't even call surviving. You just scraping by. You have no choice but to go and get retool. You have no choice but to go back upgrade the skills. Why you are working them low paying black jobs? That's what I did. I mean, I had two of them low paying black jobs. One, when I was back to get my skills upgraded, but I wouldn't stay in there. I'm grateful for those low paying black jobs. It kept me legal, kept money in my house in the family. Okay, so why are you still going to pay your bills as you pursuing those skills set? Once you acquire those skills, now all different avenues open up for you. There's all kind of opportunities that you can now pursue, but you can't pursue if you own them low paying grid. Come on now. And that ends up the injury. Our politicians have found all kind of resources for illegal people to get jobs, get skill training, whatever. That makes zero sense to me. Like Brother Gill said, right? Everything we've gotten in this country to fight for, everything. So why do you keep electing Democratic politicians who won't fight for you? Why do you keep doing that? Why do we as a collective in all these cities, wherever Republican races, they all races. Why is the premise about race? Why is the premise about race? Race is about what power and privilege. Come on now. Come on. And the only way to circumvent that, right, is to try as best you can to control the platform that you derive your income from. Racism is not going anywhere. And you cannot, I'll say again, now, you cannot legislate a person's heart. You cannot legislate how a person feel about you. Laws might change some behavior, but laws will never change how a person believed in a true conviction about you. It don't change the heart. Don't change the heart. We've been out here for 100 years fighting anti-Blackness, fighting the steel prevail, that anti-Black spirit steel there. And I say to you, I would not spend none of my time trying to fight racism when confronted with the idea with it, if confronted with the idea with it. I would put my time in to quiet no skills and give me contract with the city, state, federal government, private, except we're going to hire myself, hire my people and get out that bottom. And I would stop being a slave on the Democratic plantation. Politics is about to change. If you're not getting anything, it will change your currency with your vote. Why do you keep giving away? And these folks don't show us point blank, they have no respect or love for us as a 90% voting bloc. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? It makes no sense that they're willing to throw away the whole bank behind illegal immigrants. I say it's time to send a package. That's my advice. It's time to hear me boo. Thanks, but no thanks. We're going to pass on you. Governor Hiller, thanks, but no thanks, we're going to pass on you. All those city councils who voted with this nonsense called the call. Thank you. We're going to see it. Got to go. State services got to go. They've ever been you, they got to go. They got to go. They got to go. But as long as you keep giving your vote, right blindly, you're going to keep being showed their backside. And they really showed you the last five years when they think about you. Because all these illegal have been worked crowded in here with you. You can't go nowhere. Let's you see them. Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere. Whether I wind down, you know, it's food for thought. Remember, no one's coming to save you now. No one's coming to make it better for you. Nobody's coming to make it better for you. The only option I see that you and I have is to quiet those essential skills that we can demand top dollar out of the labor market. We can live and also invest a quiet wealth. And also make sure we leave a inheritance to the next generation. I don't see, I see no other way. Because politicians are not solution now. And one thing November 5th show that a lot of elders, you know, had it wrong when they're saying this narrative that voting is like a life of death. Whether you voted for VP Harris, voted for third party, voted down ballot ballots that I did, or didn't vote, your vote didn't count because why you lost. When it take hold, numbers don't work. Numbers don't work. So you voted. But you lost. Because what about the numbers? The market is about numbers. The numbers ain't there. It doesn't matter. So for those who voted but got high income skills, they might not like the outcome, but they still going to be comfortable no matter who is in office. That's what you want to be. What you want to be. But you have a position yourself there by getting those skills. But stop being tied to the democratic plantation. I'll let that stuck in 2016. No, no, no, no, no. Did you see a left or two evil? No. No, I don't drink that cup no more. If you're not bringing them tangible to my group, hey, I will vote down ballot no matter who's in office. Based on my skill set, I'm going to be okay. I'm going to do well. I'm going to do well. Well, as I close out, remember now about being a passive and stop giving your vote to a party who showed you no love and no loyalty where it come down to. They're showing no love and no loyalty. Because now they are bankrolling and then the whole bank on illegal. Time for them to go. That's my very time for them to go. Anyway, you've been listening to WBCA 102.9 FM. WBCA 102.9 FM. I'm your host, Larry Hickenbottom. Name my program from the trenches. Off the pavement trenches. Off the pavement trenches. My dialogue today is real simple. Democratic party has betrayed. We've been betrayed. So, until next Wednesday, I hope you have a very peaceful and enjoyable Thanksgiving with your family and friends, you know. Don't eat too much. Go out. Friday, back at work. So until we meet again, next Wednesday, God bless you. Enjoy yourself. And remember, time for them to go. Bye-bye. The following commentary does not necessarily reflect the views of the staff and management of WBCA or the Boston Neighborhood Network. If you would like to express another opinion, you can address your comments to Boston Neighborhood Network, 3025 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. (upbeat music)