🎙Newz and Trendz with Dave and Len: Black News Episode 105

Newz and Trendz with Dave and Len: Talking all things Black News: Culture, Sports, Entertainment and Current Events ✊🏾

Dave and Len speaking about:

* Black Maternal Mortality: Family Files $42M Lawsuit Against Brooklyn Hospital After Mother Dies in Childbirth, Doctors Demanded C-Section

* California Mayor Says Giving Handouts Doesn't Work and Reparations for Black Americans Will Lead to Racial Tensions, Jealously and Violence

* Homeless Family of 18 Gets Help with Housing in LA

* Jemele Hill and Husband Football Bet

* Today in Black History: William Wells Brown published first Black drama, "Leap to Freedom" 1858

* Daves's Corner: If you had the money to build your Dream House; Where would it be, and what would be in the various feature of the house?

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[00:00.000 --> 00:30.000] ⭐🎙Newz and Trendz with Dave and Len. [00:30.000 --> 00:50.160] I am one of your hosts, Mr. David Koker, a priority of Dave Mark Ink, a motor, event planner, all-around-good-guy, and man about town. I'm hanging out with my partner, Mr. Learning Young. What's going on, sir? [00:50.160 --> 00:58.800] Hey, Dave, everything is good. This is Leonard Young, CEO of NationalBlackGuy, DelawareBlack.com. All-around-good-guy. [01:00.000 --> 01:07.280] Everything is good, Dave. No complaints. Yeah, well, that's good. I'm glad to hear that. [01:08.400 --> 01:16.480] We have a snow-free week so far, so that's good. You know, well, I don't know if it's good. I mean, [01:16.480 --> 01:19.840] if it's snow's going to week, I don't have a big problem as long as it's enough to keep us from going [01:19.840 --> 01:29.760] to work. Yeah, I agree with that. Yeah, but I can't lie, I'm ready for one of them snows to [01:29.760 --> 01:33.280] shut down the state. You know, it's just four or five days. That's it. [01:35.200 --> 01:38.880] When's the last time we really had something like that, though? I don't know. [01:40.880 --> 01:47.600] It's been a long time. It really has. I mean, last week's snow was the closest that we've been in a [01:47.600 --> 01:55.920] long time to stuff shut down, you know what I mean? But we haven't had a good 10 footer [01:55.920 --> 02:03.840] at a long time, not a 10 footer in a long time. So, and that's interesting because I don't know [02:03.840 --> 02:11.120] what that means. I mean, you ever thought about how, why that hasn't happened or is the global, [02:11.120 --> 02:17.280] I mean, global warming, they've been talking about it for a long time. Do you believe in global warming? [02:17.920 --> 02:22.560] Yeah, I mean, to be honest, I feel like global warming is the fact, the science. [02:23.440 --> 02:30.320] Mm hmm. And that's probably the reason for why we haven't had the weather. Even in the places [02:30.320 --> 02:39.280] where snow is common, they're not getting snow the way they used to. You know, so it's very [02:39.280 --> 02:47.520] interesting. And but, you know, it'll pull around where we're going to February, Black History [02:47.600 --> 02:55.280] months, and another day or two, another two days, I should say. And next thing you know, [02:55.280 --> 03:03.680] we'll be talking about spring again. Yeah, I mean, the seasons, the seasons go by so fast, [03:03.680 --> 03:09.920] you can already see it staying light longer now. And, you know, it's just interesting. I mean, [03:09.920 --> 03:17.360] it seemed like the world is just accelerated right now. Really crazy, really crazy. [03:18.000 --> 03:23.680] So, but anyway, we want to welcome you guys to tune in the news and trends with this [03:26.160 --> 03:34.320] podcast to listen to. You know, so we thank you for taking the time to listen to us tonight. [03:35.040 --> 03:38.000] So we're going to go ahead and get right into our stories. [03:38.880 --> 03:44.960] Um, let's see, I guess I bring up the first story. [03:46.240 --> 03:49.680] What? Oh, and I, you know, I had a conversation. I meant to tell you this [03:49.680 --> 03:50.960] later. I had a conversation. Okay. [03:58.400 --> 04:00.400] The one of the things that makes our [04:01.680 --> 04:07.120] step of everybody else is really talking about, you know, because everybody wants to talk about [04:07.120 --> 04:12.960] the big stories, you know, and the obvious stories that are out there and people get tired [04:14.080 --> 04:28.480] of hearing that. And I think what happens is, with that, you hear that because of that, [04:28.480 --> 04:36.960] we have, we try to make sure that we give the stories that work best for us and to give [04:36.960 --> 04:41.120] you a little more insight on the things that you may not hear about. So we got a couple of [04:41.120 --> 04:51.200] those stories today. All right. Um, let me just say that they're good. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good day. [04:53.280 --> 05:01.840] So I want to talk a little bit about this first word. It's titled Black maternal mortality. [05:02.800 --> 05:08.960] Family falls $42 million lawsuit against Brooklyn Hospital after mother dies in childbirth. [05:09.680 --> 05:16.560] Doctors demanded a c-section. So let me give you a little background. 30 year old Christine [05:16.560 --> 05:22.400] Fields barely got to spend time with her child when she delivered into, which she delivered [05:22.400 --> 05:31.520] into the world. She gave birth at Wood Hall Hospital in November of 2023, where she died [05:31.520 --> 05:38.800] hours after giving birth via c-section. According to New York Times article, [05:39.680 --> 05:47.040] investigators from the New York Department of Health have determined that heirs made by [05:47.040 --> 05:53.200] hospital employees during the birthing procedure are directly responsible for [05:53.600 --> 06:03.280] um, Fields death. Fields was in labor when the staff noticed that the baby's heart rate had dropped [06:03.280 --> 06:10.560] significantly and believed that the c-section was the best course of action to save the child's life. [06:11.360 --> 06:19.120] The surgical staff are said to have failed to inform others of complications described as [06:19.760 --> 06:29.360] uterine arterial injury, which led to bleeding, pulling in um, in field [06:29.360 --> 06:36.240] extremities instead of pumping to our heart. The family's lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein [06:37.120 --> 06:43.840] or Ruben Stein, noted that this child was from, was the third for forensics fields. [06:43.840 --> 06:50.160] Three children ages three, five, and a newborn infant will now be raised without a mother. [06:50.800 --> 06:57.040] The name with a spoon Christine's mother expressed a similar sentiment. My daughter was healthy, [06:57.600 --> 07:03.040] she was my heart, and now I have to help raise these kids that don't have a mother. [07:04.400 --> 07:10.480] She was the second woman to die at the hands of this in Ept Wood Hall Hospital staff. [07:11.280 --> 07:22.000] Back in July 2020, a 26-year-old woman named Shaw Asia, simple, died as a result of reckless [07:22.000 --> 07:29.120] epidural that would penetrate it too deeply in her back and subsequently administered a full dose [07:29.120 --> 07:37.360] of anesthesia in addition to having an oxygen to place incorrectly. We hope this family gets [07:37.440 --> 07:44.240] enough money to shut the place down for good. The black maternal health crisis in America is real [07:44.240 --> 07:50.480] and people need to be louder about the lack of care that our women are receiving from medical [07:50.480 --> 07:55.520] professionals. I wanted to read all of that because you and I have talked about this in the past about [07:56.880 --> 08:01.840] you know where I'm going with this, the healthcare that is given to black women, [08:02.080 --> 08:10.480] especially by medical professionals in these hospitals and their private practices. You just [08:10.480 --> 08:18.720] heard me read that story about this young lady dying because of poor practices and she's the second [08:18.720 --> 08:27.840] one to die in a couple years. You know and this hospital is still open. They're still doing these [08:27.920 --> 08:36.000] procedures. I'm surprised people still go there with your thoughts about what I just read about. [08:36.800 --> 08:43.600] Yeah you know I think it's hard because and I know it's funny I just compared to social media. [08:44.160 --> 08:49.040] As much as we think people know about certain situations or certain places to avoid, [08:49.920 --> 08:55.600] there's always a group of people who just don't know. So I mean even those stuff happen there in the [08:55.600 --> 09:04.240] past. I mean it's and you know like I just compared to this and David you always joke with [09:04.240 --> 09:08.960] me but you'd be like oh yeah it was on Facebook but you know if I take a week off of Facebook [09:09.600 --> 09:14.160] you know even though everyone's kind of solid and you know if you're on Facebook it's a [09:15.280 --> 09:21.200] normalcy you know like you know if you just took a break you know you missed it so [09:21.920 --> 09:27.200] and you know I think a lot of time we don't pay attention to stuff until it happens in [09:27.200 --> 09:36.640] the song you know. True. True. Yeah. Because I mean nothing against our local hospital but [09:36.640 --> 09:40.800] I'm sure stuff happens in our local hospital that we you know we don't always hear about unless we [09:40.800 --> 09:46.080] connect it to it. Well that's true. That's true. I mean you know you figured that at some point [09:46.720 --> 09:53.600] there had been mistakes that had happened. I mean you know we're in the you know for those [09:53.600 --> 10:01.680] outside of Delaware that listen to the show you know we have a hospital here that kind of runs [10:01.680 --> 10:08.560] our state and you know but there's different parts to that hospital and different locations [10:08.560 --> 10:14.880] and different clinics and so forth and you know of course we don't know everything that's going on [10:14.960 --> 10:21.840] with all of these hospitals but you know I'm sure I mean I was in the medical field for 10 years [10:21.840 --> 10:32.240] and I used to teach a class on on different things that lead to lawsuits and malpractice suits and [10:33.440 --> 10:39.680] you'd be surprised some of the stories that I used to tell some of my students in reference to [10:39.680 --> 10:45.680] things that were happening in hospitals and doctors offices and stuff like that that led to [10:45.680 --> 10:55.280] malpractice and you know you're you know you're the term like malfeasance and stuff like that is [10:55.280 --> 11:00.720] you know you'd be surprised man some of this stuff man I used to sit there and I used to tell these [11:00.720 --> 11:06.400] stories about stuff that was going on with these hospitals and everything and people and [11:06.400 --> 11:12.240] mouths would be open wide it's like wow right leaving stuff in people and I mean it was just [11:12.240 --> 11:21.040] the craziest stuff man you know so so I really feel for this family and I'm all right you know 42 [11:21.040 --> 11:27.440] million is a lot of money but it's still not a lot of money you know what I mean you know considering [11:28.000 --> 11:36.960] you lost a life these family has to raise these you know the grandmother and the father has to [11:36.960 --> 11:48.960] raise these children without their mother and you know 42 million right now you can you probably [11:48.960 --> 11:55.600] can live off of that for the rest of your life but then 20 years from now that 42 million may not [11:55.680 --> 12:00.560] be anything you know what I mean right and on top of that that 42 million do they take taxes off that [12:00.560 --> 12:07.520] money like do you have to pay tax on that money I think it you know I thought I read one time when [12:07.520 --> 12:16.240] it's awarded to you that way that you do not have to do that but then I could be wrong but of course [12:16.240 --> 12:21.360] you know they're not going to get the whole 42 million because you know you got lawyer fees and [12:21.840 --> 12:28.720] right right so it might as well be taxed if it's not taxed you know what I mean so but but whatever [12:28.720 --> 12:36.640] amount they get will be a nice piece of change I'm sure but it still won't erase the fact that [12:36.640 --> 12:45.120] that you know mother lost her daughter children lost their mother a man lost his wife that type [12:45.120 --> 12:53.280] of thing yeah definitely yeah so but I wanted to bring attention to that hopefully [12:54.640 --> 13:02.080] with enough comments and enough exposure they'll get that hospital shut down and find out who's [13:02.080 --> 13:08.320] responsible you know make sure that those people I mean I hate to say it but their license and [13:08.400 --> 13:16.240] their certifications should be revoked yeah or at the very minimum should be reviewed [13:17.040 --> 13:22.800] and you know whatever corrective actions or disciplinary actions or removal [13:24.720 --> 13:29.040] well a lot of times it's either suspension or they just revoked the [13:30.240 --> 13:38.240] the certifications or they they won't allow them to practice anymore it's crazy you know but [13:38.800 --> 13:43.040] something needs to be done especially since it seems to be happening a lot to black women [13:44.960 --> 13:52.640] so but we'll keep an eye on this story and hopefully we'll hear something real soon about [13:53.520 --> 13:57.440] how they're going to handle this okay yeah definitely [13:59.440 --> 14:04.400] all right we'll go on the next story yep so so my my next story is an interesting one and [14:05.360 --> 14:10.800] so just to give quick background and Dave you know we talked about this a hundred times and I'll [14:10.800 --> 14:16.880] ask you again just to see if your answer has changed are you looking for reparations are you [14:16.880 --> 14:21.760] looking for your 40 acres and a mule I'll take the 40 acres I don't need the mule [14:24.160 --> 14:30.160] well Dave how you guys growing on crop without the mule if I get 40 acres I'll deal with it [14:30.560 --> 14:39.120] I'll make it happen all right so I'm about to play this clip this is in reference to this is a mayor [14:39.120 --> 14:45.600] of a well it's not a large town in California I've never heard of it but it's probably a middle [14:45.600 --> 14:51.280] size to small town so I just want to kind of play what he had to say and then we can kind of [14:51.280 --> 14:56.640] talk about it hmm nobody knows who's going to pay for it they don't know final numbers they don't [14:56.960 --> 15:02.720] know very much about these these reparations and yet these panels in San Francisco and statewide [15:02.720 --> 15:06.640] keep coming forward saying we need all this money to go to these people and we need it now [15:07.200 --> 15:11.680] yeah it's a big problem you know first off psychologically we know the giving people [15:11.680 --> 15:15.360] massive amounts of money generally doesn't work out very well for the people that are getting [15:15.360 --> 15:21.920] the money but in this case it's going to stoke racial tensions it's going to stroke racial jealousy [15:22.000 --> 15:27.200] one group being pitted against another group I imagine that's going to increase violence [15:27.200 --> 15:32.560] it's going to take care that it's going to hurt the the free market you know the housing costs [15:32.560 --> 15:37.120] everything is going to be turned upside down by this I mean that's assuming that the state can [15:37.120 --> 15:42.880] really make good on its promise and actually pay out this amount of money considering we're [15:42.880 --> 15:47.760] 24 million 24 billion dollars in the whole already could be 30 billion and that's a risk as [15:47.760 --> 15:53.920] well because if you don't if you if you come forward so they I'll just stop it there for anyone [15:53.920 --> 15:59.920] who you know sometimes it's always easier to see the video and hear it but this mayor of a [15:59.920 --> 16:07.680] smaller town in California basically says giving handouts doesn't work and reparations for black [16:07.680 --> 16:17.200] Americans will lead to racial tensions jealousy and increased violence what do you think about that [16:18.400 --> 16:28.720] you know I was sitting there listening to him as he was talking and I think I have an ideal where [16:28.720 --> 16:37.120] he was trying what he was trying to say force it you know with him being the person saying it's [16:37.120 --> 16:42.320] never going to come out right you know what I'm saying if you feel where I'm going with this because [16:42.400 --> 16:48.800] I think he made some valid points but is he's a person that should be making this point these [16:48.800 --> 16:58.320] points you know what I'm saying so yes it could cause some problems you know all we you know reparations [16:58.320 --> 17:04.880] is a word that's been going around for years in reference to people of color because of all this [17:04.880 --> 17:10.080] that's happened to us over the years and all the things that have been taken from us and I should [17:10.080 --> 17:17.920] include our American Indian as well because of course a lot has been taken from them as well [17:19.840 --> 17:23.280] but when it comes to reparations [17:26.320 --> 17:33.120] you and I talked about this before the people who will be getting the money are really are we [17:33.120 --> 17:40.720] really the people that deserve the money hell yeah which means no but I mean but it was our forefathers [17:40.720 --> 17:50.320] and our ancestors are really you know buried the storm and whether the storm and took the brunt [17:50.320 --> 17:58.000] of everything that went on that and they lost so much of it because of it now of course you know as [17:58.000 --> 18:06.800] ancestors and people who are related you know to these people yeah of course it's a big boom [18:06.800 --> 18:11.600] I mean none of us are going to turn it down if it's handed to us no of course you know especially [18:11.600 --> 18:15.680] you know in a big state like California even though they say they're 30 billion in the whole [18:16.400 --> 18:21.680] already we know they can come up with the money all that money is going around in California so [18:23.040 --> 18:24.000] I just state that [18:28.480 --> 18:35.200] it it would be good to be able to get your hands on that kind of money but also feel that some of [18:35.200 --> 18:43.040] the things that you said is right there could be some issues well let me ask this Dave and and [18:43.040 --> 18:53.280] I don't doubt that is it our fault so here let me give you an example well I'm sorry not an example [18:53.280 --> 19:03.200] but this is something I was thinking if you have okay let's say your car right you wake up tomorrow [19:03.200 --> 19:12.240] morning somebody stole your car right thank you okay good not not gonna work yeah somebody somebody [19:12.240 --> 19:21.600] stole your car the police come to you a couple of days later and said hey we found your car [19:21.760 --> 19:35.920] and the thief who sold who stole your car sold it to this old lady for five thousand dollars so this [19:35.920 --> 19:40.800] old lady has your car that she bought not knowing it was stolen for five thousand dollars [19:43.120 --> 19:49.680] yes it's not fair for them to take the car from her but they're going to give you back your car [19:49.680 --> 19:56.880] because you are the rightful owner of the car and unfortunately she's just asked out right [19:59.360 --> 20:05.280] so my point with these reparations is okay I understand it may ruin the economy [20:06.640 --> 20:12.560] you know it may deflate the dollar you know all that stuff what about the violence what about [20:12.560 --> 20:18.480] the violence though that could happen well hell let me go to the racial tension in the jealousy [20:19.680 --> 20:25.040] the racial tension in the jealousy ain't going to come from black people no that racial tension [20:25.040 --> 20:30.400] that racial tension in that jealousy we know where it's coming from right anyway it's going to come [20:30.400 --> 20:36.640] from other people now the violence they I don't know when was the last time you got a lot of money [20:36.640 --> 20:48.160] and you were mad that I was mad I can't think of a lot but I know I know there was times I got [20:48.160 --> 20:59.120] buddy and other people were mad yeah so um but that you know it's kind of a cast 22 I mean [20:59.760 --> 21:04.720] because it's just like what people had to offer in fact they before you finish that statement let [21:04.720 --> 21:12.640] me go to my next slide real quick this is the list of all the reparations payments in the US history [21:12.720 --> 21:24.400] and I'll just start with the USA. 1971 to the native to the Alaska natives 1980 to the Indians 1985 [21:24.400 --> 21:31.680] to a different set of Indians native Indians 1985 two times two different types of Indians [21:32.320 --> 21:41.440] 1986 another type of Indians and 1990 to the Japanese American these are all reparation payments [21:41.440 --> 21:48.960] that were paid out okay what did they all have in common they were all black [21:50.720 --> 21:56.880] right all right okay next question and and this is the next slide I have this just your guess [21:57.760 --> 22:06.080] from the beginning of the Ukraine war up until the end of October last year how much aid do you [22:06.080 --> 22:15.200] think America gave to the Ukraine oh billions I mean you want to put a number on it oh I'll say [22:16.720 --> 22:27.920] I'll say easily 20 billion 75 billion oh say oh yeah or did I thought yeah right I knew it was in [22:27.920 --> 22:31.680] a billion though yeah yeah I knew it was in a billion but but you know it's funny so that's why I went [22:31.760 --> 22:37.200] I hear like America doesn't have it how will we give this money was or where are we going to find [22:37.200 --> 22:42.400] the money they this was right after the pandemic where where did we find this money [22:43.840 --> 22:51.440] well I think but think about it I mean like I said they they find the money for the people they want [22:51.440 --> 22:56.640] the money to go to if you go back to your last slide I want to I want to I want to point out [22:56.640 --> 23:12.880] something to to people 1952 no yeah 1952 Germany gave 822 million dollar to [23:14.720 --> 23:24.560] Holocaust survivors right now that's 1952 millions okay but then in 71 now we wasn't even throwing the [23:24.560 --> 23:30.480] word I'm telling you I was I was living I was a teenager back then we wasn't throwing the word [23:30.480 --> 23:44.800] billion around in 1971 okay but yet in 1971 the USA gave a billion plus 44 million acres of land [23:44.880 --> 23:54.480] gave one billion dollars plus 44 a million acres of land to Alaska Natives 1971 right [23:56.720 --> 24:02.960] like I said we wasn't even using that word billions like that so so the money's been around [24:02.960 --> 24:13.440] it's always around and they always seem to come up with it even in 1990 they came up with 1.6 billion [24:14.800 --> 24:22.240] or $20,000 each oh now that's interesting $20,000 each yes [24:23.840 --> 24:26.560] think about that the Japanese American [24:29.120 --> 24:36.960] $20,000 I got to say that one word all right $20,000 each so it's basically are you Japanese American [24:36.960 --> 24:45.280] oh I got something for you here right $20,000 that's amazing that's amazing to me right there [24:50.000 --> 24:54.320] that makes that the reparations they yeah when they want to find the money [24:54.320 --> 25:00.560] they can find it but they gave out all this money to non-black people all right [25:01.440 --> 25:10.080] Japanese American Indians I mean but none has been paid out since 1990 now I find that really [25:10.080 --> 25:15.120] interesting so we know they've been stopped following money I know things that you know of course the [25:15.120 --> 25:20.320] economy and everything's going up since then but there's money out there and [25:22.480 --> 25:27.040] and if you think about it all this money has been given out prior to 1990 [25:27.840 --> 25:39.840] nobody killed each other over it right right they got handed that $20,000 in 1990 nobody said anything about it right [25:39.840 --> 25:44.560] right right and you know they're talking about ruining the economy Dave you already know [25:45.760 --> 25:51.280] they if they give us $30,000 each there gonna be a large percentage of us that are gonna give that [25:51.280 --> 25:57.920] money right on back to the car oh yeah yeah because we already know we want to spend it we're going [25:57.920 --> 26:04.640] trips we do it all kinds of stuff we do it a lot to be so you know you're buying houses [26:04.640 --> 26:12.400] you don't even bought a jet or something no I'm really y'all you know so but yeah it's it's crazy [26:12.400 --> 26:17.760] I mean you know if the reparations ever happen I mean California is the perfect place to [26:17.840 --> 26:22.800] launch something like that I mean they've been talking about San Francisco was it was San Francisco [26:22.800 --> 26:30.240] right yeah that they've been talking about I think for San Diego San Francisco I think it was San Fran [26:30.240 --> 26:34.800] I think it was San Fran that they've been talking about for a while they're supposedly supposed to be [26:34.800 --> 26:41.440] the first to do this but they haven't done it yet but then I think that was two years ago we initially [26:41.440 --> 26:46.880] talked about it right I mean I don't know we thought I talked about every couple weeks but yeah [26:49.120 --> 26:53.440] we need we need them to test it in Delaware let's see what happens is they tested in Delaware [26:53.920 --> 26:58.480] you know they can give us they can give us at least 20 or 30 thousand dollars a piece in Delaware you [26:58.480 --> 27:07.520] know yeah well pay up pay up yeah yeah on a step so Dave they give you 30k what you got to do or what [27:07.520 --> 27:18.240] what would your plan be uh try to turn it into more money somehow um try to try to try to try [27:18.240 --> 27:27.360] to make it grow um even if I invested in something small or or you know um there's a guy that was [27:27.360 --> 27:33.520] reading about the other day he took 40 thousand dollars and he bought three tiny houses right uh [27:33.520 --> 27:41.200] that's a good deal yeah he bought three tiny houses um he he fixed them up um he got them [27:41.200 --> 27:49.680] they basically stripped I think he said he paid 10 for one um five for another I mean he did all [27:49.680 --> 27:56.320] the renovations and everything and he's getting he's getting like and he paid cash you know he [27:56.320 --> 28:03.040] basically bought him what outright so and he's getting like anywhere from 15 to 2000 dollars [28:03.040 --> 28:10.480] a month in rent from each one of them oh wow yeah that's him that's a nice investment he said he said [28:10.480 --> 28:15.760] man so many people called him trying to rent those places because of the housing market right now [28:15.760 --> 28:22.480] yeah you know definitely so so but that's probably something I would do is you know I mean you can't [28:23.360 --> 28:28.240] you can't do a lot with it but you could do some stuff with it you know I mean yeah so [28:29.440 --> 28:33.440] all right well let's see what happens when they start giving the money out [28:36.480 --> 28:40.080] it'd be like that see did you ever see a head of the state with Chris Rock the [28:40.080 --> 28:45.600] Boop ever with Chris Rock at Birnbeck never when they said they told California to get out of Boop [28:45.600 --> 28:51.680] because um Chris Rock wasn't going to become president and everybody ran out of their houses [28:51.680 --> 28:57.200] it was we even try to get to the polls that's what that's what we're going to look like [28:57.200 --> 29:05.360] and they started giving money out of there so but yeah Boop we'll keep you posted if you [29:06.240 --> 29:10.800] I think you had to be you had to be a resident of California for what was it five years or something [29:10.800 --> 29:16.240] like that yeah they in fact we we better hurry up and change our residency I know let's get a [29:16.720 --> 29:20.080] just in time yeah let's get an address in California just in case [29:23.600 --> 29:30.320] anyway all right moving on to our next story speaking of homes and addresses and so forth [29:30.320 --> 29:34.320] I came across this story I thought this was a fascinating story [29:35.840 --> 29:42.320] it says homeless family of 18 gets help with housing in Los Angeles here we are we're still [29:42.400 --> 29:49.840] in the state of California a homeless family of 18 living on the streets of Westlake for four months [29:50.800 --> 29:56.240] now has shelter thanks to help from a local nonprofit that works to finding houses solutions [29:57.360 --> 30:02.800] housing solutions for most vulnerable the family is from the Honduras [30:03.920 --> 30:12.240] and includes five adults and 13 children and toddlers they had been living in small [30:12.320 --> 30:20.080] tents on Alvarado Street near MacArthur Park this September to use the restroom if we didn't [30:20.080 --> 30:27.360] have money we couldn't use it we had to beg people to let us use it said anima dread it's very [30:27.360 --> 30:34.720] sad situation the family flew fled from Honduras five years ago due to the violence according [30:34.800 --> 30:42.160] to ABC Center they ended up in Austin Texas but lost their home due to issues with work permits [30:42.800 --> 30:48.080] once family members came to Los Angeles they attempted to work with the Los Angeles homeless [30:48.080 --> 30:54.320] services authorities but it had difficulty finding residency due to the size of the family [30:54.960 --> 31:01.120] they used the restroom if we didn't have money we couldn't use it and we had the big people they [31:01.120 --> 31:07.440] said again on Thursday the Dream Center notified the family that it would be that they would be able [31:07.440 --> 31:16.800] to place them in in a shelter 100 times better here to be honest said family patriarch Jose [31:16.800 --> 31:24.000] Louis Garcia here we had the opportunity to be better and get a permit to work according to ABC [31:24.000 --> 31:29.920] the family was relocated as a Friday the Dream Center has always tried to react swiftly to provide [31:29.920 --> 31:38.560] solutions in every situational way where children live on the streets the organizations that we [31:38.560 --> 31:43.760] don't want till they're living on the streets it's always a joyful moment when you can provide a safe [31:43.760 --> 31:50.720] place for families to take a deep breath from life struggles and to help them rebuild so you know [31:50.880 --> 32:04.080] I I can only imagine coming from another country and we of course over the last what five years [32:04.080 --> 32:10.160] especially since prior to the pandemic we've had a lot of people to end up here refugees and so [32:10.160 --> 32:18.880] forth to end up here in in the United States you know I know they see so much on TV and on social media [32:18.880 --> 32:28.320] and so forth about this is the place to be USA can you imagine coming here thinking that everything's [32:28.320 --> 32:40.160] automatically going to be better for you and it's not so living here yes I can see a lot of people [32:40.160 --> 32:48.640] coming here and think it's gonna be different but um I mean I do believe [32:51.200 --> 32:54.000] you know this is one of the best places if you're trying to make it [32:57.360 --> 33:01.280] yeah but when you got a situation like this situation with 18 people [33:03.680 --> 33:08.960] living in one state trying to find some place for them to all live at the same time [33:09.600 --> 33:18.000] I mean 18 you what kind of place would that be you know that's basically a house that you have [33:18.000 --> 33:25.200] to have at least five six bedrooms okay where or less it's going to be a space is a [33:25.200 --> 33:30.080] no place where everybody can you know lay out on you know put mattresses and stuff on the floor [33:30.080 --> 33:37.120] or whatever they need to do but that's that's a that's a tall test I mean they basically must have [33:37.200 --> 33:45.520] brought everyone and their family you know media family with them you know because you know of course [33:45.520 --> 33:50.560] they make America seem like it's such a great place to all these people that are coming here [33:51.680 --> 33:58.000] and we got issues here we know we can't we can't we can't provide shelter for the people who are [33:58.000 --> 34:04.320] from America right you know my job every day there's people coming in every day saying that [34:04.320 --> 34:11.280] they're homeless and they need a place to stay and those type of things you know of course [34:12.400 --> 34:21.520] a lot of it is based on how you handle your situations but when you got people coming from [34:21.520 --> 34:27.600] places like Honduras and and Mexico and all these other places that they're coming from to the United [34:27.600 --> 34:36.720] States and they're looking for shelter now now if you come as a refugee refugees believe it or not [34:36.720 --> 34:43.040] they get a lot of benefits that can set them up right away they get a lot of help if they come in [34:43.040 --> 34:51.200] as refugees like from places like the Jewish Community Center and some of the other social services [34:51.200 --> 34:55.520] places and whatever and they get hooked up pretty well because they can come here they can get [34:55.520 --> 35:00.560] cast they can get shelter right away they can be put the work they can get work and they don't [35:00.560 --> 35:07.680] even have to have any type of IDs or anything when they come here you know I mean as far as green [35:07.680 --> 35:13.120] cards or anything to be able to go to work right away it's really interesting but then you have [35:13.120 --> 35:20.080] some people that aren't and have that refugee status that has to crawl and and scramble for [35:20.080 --> 35:26.240] everything that they get um it's really well but they they you know I think it's funny to [35:26.240 --> 35:34.160] I mean so there's a quote that says darker skin people suffer everywhere yeah and I feel like [35:34.160 --> 35:38.880] the refugees the ones who are lighter skin they you know they kind of get a little more [35:39.840 --> 35:45.120] um you know benefits than the darker skin ones are the ones they try to keep out [35:46.080 --> 35:50.480] yeah as as a social worker myself I see it all the time like I'd be like [35:51.280 --> 35:58.880] um there's a there's a young couple I was doing some I was doing their renewal the other day and [35:58.880 --> 36:08.160] these people came here from um from another country they came in as refugees they're they're [36:08.160 --> 36:14.720] going to school the school is being paid for they're getting cash from the state they got a place [36:14.800 --> 36:20.960] that's being paid for by state and I was like and these people like 26 27 years old and they got [36:20.960 --> 36:27.600] two kids and they ain't paying everything's being handed to us and I was but then [36:31.520 --> 36:37.280] trying to figure the best way to say this there was another couple who was darker skin [36:37.280 --> 36:41.360] and you're right about this that didn't get half of the stuff that they got [36:42.240 --> 36:46.640] and I was like it's the same situation though [36:48.960 --> 36:54.160] and they came here they paid for their school is being paid for but they had to but they didn't [36:54.160 --> 36:59.200] get the cash and everything else that the other people got and this situation is very similar [36:59.200 --> 37:08.320] because I looked so I don't know it's weird but um we have to we have to do we have to um [37:08.400 --> 37:14.480] just pay attention to all of this and and I'm glad that the family was able to get the help [37:15.600 --> 37:21.520] look like California turned out to be the best place for them to be and some places in these [37:21.520 --> 37:26.720] largest states they have really good social services and human services divisions that can [37:26.720 --> 37:31.120] help people out in the nonprofits and so forth so hopefully they'll be able to [37:31.920 --> 37:39.920] succeed and be able to to do the things that they need to do to be able to make it here in the United States [37:40.960 --> 37:46.960] so I just wanted to bring that story up but I thought it was a good ending you know that [37:46.960 --> 37:51.360] they were able to find someplace because you know having all those kids out there on the street [37:51.360 --> 37:59.120] like that that's not good you know so all right moving on to our next story [38:01.840 --> 38:07.280] I thought this was kind of humorous and I wanted to I wanted to I might have Leonard played his [38:08.320 --> 38:16.720] this video um that Jamel Hill for those who are familiar with Jamel Hill she used to be on ESPN [38:16.720 --> 38:25.360] she's an author she she has she's a podcaster um you know she um has a couple different shows one [38:25.360 --> 38:33.840] of my favorite um podcasts it's uh once she calls she does call unbothered um and she is [38:35.360 --> 38:41.600] giving her husband the business you know this uh we're in our football in the last couple [38:41.600 --> 38:51.840] weeks of football the championship series was last week you have the 49ers who beat Detroit and we [38:51.840 --> 38:58.720] had Baltimore that lost to Kansas City so these two obviously had a little bet with each other [38:59.440 --> 39:07.760] because uh she's a San Francisco 49er fan he's a Detroit Lions fan and just take a listen to this [39:07.760 --> 39:16.640] video about what happened. So gentlemen we're joined here at this press conference by Ian Wallace who [39:17.280 --> 39:26.000] has a word by Wood Wallace who has a statement that he would like to read in the wake of the [39:26.000 --> 39:31.840] excellent comeback by the San Francisco 49ers who beat the Detroit Lions. [39:38.560 --> 39:45.840] Hello everybody I come before you a humble man because my team the Detroit Lions lost my wife's [39:45.840 --> 39:54.880] team the excellent and resilient San Francisco 49ers if you're wondering how I got here let me explain [39:59.280 --> 40:02.880] from the time it was decided that the 49ers and the Lions were going to play each other [40:02.880 --> 40:08.720] for the NFC championship I've been terrorizing my lovely wife with childish antics I taught to her [40:08.720 --> 40:17.760] team and disrespect to her 49ers merchandise. I what's his word? Apologize. Apologize [40:17.760 --> 40:25.360] to the 49ers faithful for my individual behavior. I disrespected one of the great [40:25.360 --> 40:32.240] franchises in NFL history I apologize to Brock Purdy for calling him Jimmy what's that how you [40:32.240 --> 40:38.160] say that? Garoppolo. Garoppolo's 20 year that was insulting and says the Lions are quarterback [40:39.360 --> 40:46.240] come on now about a Dollar General Ryan Gosling I should have not clown such an excellent quarterback [40:46.240 --> 40:51.600] in closing I would like to add that my wife is much wiser than me I will one day learn to be [40:51.600 --> 40:57.200] a gracious to be as gracious as my wife so that I may avoid this kind of public humiliation going [40:57.200 --> 41:04.880] forward I will not ridicule her anymore for me in the lifelong 49er fan what Lions are at home eating [41:05.760 --> 41:19.040] a wish sandwich if what if appetizers and what if appetizers I'll be rooting for 49ers in the Super Bowl [41:19.040 --> 41:29.680] go Niners. Wood Wallace will not be accepting questions at this time please allow him to have [41:29.680 --> 41:35.040] his privacy as he tries to get through this difficult moment. Thank you. This is a metabolism. [41:38.800 --> 41:43.680] So what they did is they they kind of made it like a mock press conference and so [41:45.280 --> 41:50.240] so she was given on the business she wrote and she wrote everything that he said by the way so [41:50.240 --> 41:55.920] he had to read exactly verbatim which he wrote and you can tell he wasn't feeling it and [41:56.880 --> 42:02.480] the fact that he was really letting them have it you know Jamil Hill goes hard I don't know [42:03.440 --> 42:09.440] have you listened any of her stuff or whatever Jamil Hill yes he goes harder and when she [42:09.440 --> 42:14.240] when she's on something she does not play with it you know so she had been given her husband [42:14.240 --> 42:20.640] the business about San Francisco all this time and of course San Fran won they shouldn't have won [42:21.360 --> 42:28.560] because Detroit was winning that whole game until late but you know I'm still trying to figure out [42:28.560 --> 42:33.440] though she got her husband sitting up there with a jacket and no shirt or I'm like okay what's that [42:33.440 --> 42:40.080] what's that on you know so I didn't get that all that the whole thing but the the fact that he went [42:40.080 --> 42:47.600] on and played played it up it's you guys get a chance go to Twitter and take a look at all the [42:47.680 --> 42:52.480] comments it's pretty cool some of the stuff that people were saying you know but that's [42:52.480 --> 42:56.080] the football season people and a lot of people are into this I mean [43:00.960 --> 43:08.720] it sucks that the Eagles are not there you know because they should be but you know everybody's [43:08.720 --> 43:13.120] you know we got we got a big Super Bowl getaway come up in a couple weeks and Usher's gonna be [43:13.760 --> 43:19.040] the halftime entertainment they said he's got a lot of people's gonna be hanging out with him [43:19.040 --> 43:29.040] doing that you know doing the show of course I heard something today they wrote that saying [43:29.040 --> 43:36.320] will Travis Kelsey possibly if they win the Super Bowl proposed to Taylor Swift I was like oh my god [43:37.200 --> 43:43.200] can you imagine that oh my god that would be something you know so there's you know this is [43:43.200 --> 43:49.520] going to be pretty big did you get a chance to watch any of the games over the weekend no I did not [43:50.400 --> 43:55.120] yeah folks I already knew the answer to that by the way I just thought I put it out well what it [43:55.120 --> 44:01.360] was Dave so Sunday I was at a swim meet all day and Saturday mean the kids we were out [44:02.080 --> 44:07.840] we were out in the field work that's what rich people do by the way people [44:07.840 --> 44:12.240] work people they they work they work on the weekend they're out in the no you're out in the [44:12.240 --> 44:24.400] fields I got a yard I got a yard but yeah it's always pretty it was pretty it was pretty [44:24.400 --> 44:30.000] interesting this weekend to watch the games or whatever but it still just felt like kind of empty [44:30.000 --> 44:34.320] because we know the Eagles are supposed to be there and the Eagles are simply this year so [44:35.600 --> 44:42.080] but as long as the Cowboys is not there I'm good so I'm happy so we'll see what happens but [44:42.720 --> 44:47.520] I just wanted to play that for you because I thought it was cute and you know there's a lot of [44:48.480 --> 44:53.520] husbands and wives and girlfriend and boyfriends that have opposite favorites you know so I thought [44:53.520 --> 44:59.360] that was cute the way they handled that you know even though Jamil Jamil you know he [44:59.920 --> 45:04.320] he's one of these people that will just get in your face with that kind of stuff so he wanted [45:04.320 --> 45:10.480] to make sure I've just felt it so but anyway so I just thought that was cute and just wanted [45:10.480 --> 45:14.800] to play that for you guys but check it out on Twitter go check the comments out the comments are [45:14.800 --> 45:22.640] pretty cool so all right all right and moving on to our next story yep so Dave the next one now [45:22.640 --> 45:27.520] really a story I just wanted to kind of bring it up but of course we are about to hit black [45:27.520 --> 45:34.160] history month in a day or two but you know I was like you know what what happened today in black [45:34.160 --> 45:44.480] history so I just googled today in black history and what I came found was today in 1958 William [45:44.480 --> 45:52.560] Wells Brown published the first black drama which was called Leap to Freedom now if you're not [45:52.560 --> 45:56.640] familiar with William Wells Brown and I was not I'd never heard of him a day in my life [45:57.360 --> 46:06.240] he was a black anti-slavery lecturer a groundbreaking novelist a playwright and a historian he was born [46:06.240 --> 46:13.280] on a plantation outside of Lexington Kentucky to George Higgins a white plantation owner and [46:13.280 --> 46:21.920] relative of the owner of the plantation where Brown was born and his mother was an African slave so [46:22.560 --> 46:26.400] you know I just thought that little tidbit of information was something that [46:26.400 --> 46:32.160] uh you know we we can kind of start ramping up our black history knowledge [46:33.600 --> 46:39.120] yeah um yeah we got started early because we know how quick it ends you know so [46:39.680 --> 46:45.520] um black history month well we do get extra data this year because i'll do it because of Leap Year [46:45.520 --> 46:52.240] yeah to Leap Year this year so so we do get an extra day so um so matter of fact little black [46:52.240 --> 46:59.280] history I was supposed to be born on February 29th and uh yeah that was the day that they gave my [46:59.280 --> 47:06.080] doctor my mother my mother's uh doctor um as to the day that I was going to be born on it my mother [47:06.080 --> 47:13.760] was so worried about it because you know every four years he got to wait for the 29th so but I [47:13.840 --> 47:21.840] came early so I you know made it on the 24th you know but it was the Leap Year so um but um [47:22.960 --> 47:28.560] that's that's that's good information um you know there's so many [47:30.640 --> 47:35.440] people that we don't talk about you know what I'm saying that hadn't made their marks over the [47:35.440 --> 47:40.640] years I mean you know we talk about the same ones every year and of course they're all great [47:41.200 --> 47:50.000] um as years go by we lose more and more um our great lesbians and actors and celebrities and [47:50.000 --> 47:57.280] athletes I mean we lose a lot of people but there's so many people that it made marks over the years [47:57.280 --> 48:03.920] that we don't get to talk about and I want to make an effort you know um as we go through black history [48:03.920 --> 48:11.280] month to pick out some of those jewels of those people that we don't talk about a lot you know I [48:11.280 --> 48:17.040] mean yeah so let's let's try to let's try to at least put a spotlight on a couple of them [48:17.040 --> 48:26.160] and see the shelf yeah so all right um okay so that brings us to your favorite part of the show [48:27.040 --> 48:36.320] uh which is day's corner and um in keeping in mind black history month since uh [48:37.760 --> 48:46.960] we're going to go into it I wanted to ask this to my partner here we are in the year 2024 now [48:48.080 --> 48:55.040] does any of our black history prior to the 1980s matter to the Gen Xers [48:55.680 --> 49:02.080] or Gen Xers as far as the way they move about their lives now no [49:02.080 --> 49:09.920] what's your problem on that okay he came right out he came right out oh okay go to the explain [49:11.120 --> 49:15.760] so I mean I guess my biggest question would be why should it [49:18.080 --> 49:23.840] why should okay yep and you know the reason why I say it is because and Dave you can probably agree [49:25.120 --> 49:37.920] these Gen Xers and um Gen Zs are very different breed and I mean I it almost makes me sound old [49:37.920 --> 49:43.840] when I say it but you know they they didn't grow up like us they're growing up in the age of technology [49:45.360 --> 49:54.400] and I just feel like you know and you know unfortunately kind of like you just said besides [49:55.040 --> 50:02.960] Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, maybe Marcus Garvey [50:04.400 --> 50:07.360] um maybe Rosa Parks Rosa Parks [50:09.280 --> 50:16.320] um you know maybe you know Benjamin Banneker and William E the boy but I mean [50:17.200 --> 50:24.880] besides those or do why however you say um you know besides those nothing really matters to them [50:25.040 --> 50:30.160] and I don't even believe those people matter though now if we talk about Barack Obama [50:31.040 --> 50:38.000] okay I see that what end of course that's after um 1980 but yeah but you know I just feel like [50:38.000 --> 50:41.360] those people don't matter to them because they could never relate to them [50:44.160 --> 50:52.080] yeah I guess I can concur with what you're saying um I think a lot of the issue with Gen Zers [50:52.080 --> 51:01.680] and Gen Xers and um and if if you guys um have any that are listening to us or or or you want to [51:02.720 --> 51:08.400] check with your own Gen Zers and Gen Xers and ask that question we love to hear the feedback from [51:08.400 --> 51:16.240] them um by the way um but a lot of them don't think there's a problem uh struggle if you if you [51:16.240 --> 51:20.400] think about it because they've been able to get everything that they wanted you know what I mean [51:20.400 --> 51:27.040] they had the technology they they get they're making more money now than ever than than we ever [51:27.040 --> 51:33.680] did at at at the ages that they are you know I was talking to a young lady today and [51:34.960 --> 51:42.320] you know I go to check when she was making you know and she's 25 years old and she was up there [51:42.320 --> 51:48.560] talking about she's barely making it this girl making like $2,000 a week later yeah I believe it [51:49.120 --> 51:56.080] you know and I'm like huh you know you're 25 years old you make it $2,000 a week and you can't make it [51:57.680 --> 52:05.120] but this is you know this they don't feel that I mean are they really struggling I mean I mean do [52:05.120 --> 52:16.160] they need to know what the struggle was all about um when you look at the commercials and everything [52:16.160 --> 52:22.880] on TV they're not showing black couples right you know they're showing the Universal couples [52:24.320 --> 52:31.520] okay um you know and and and they're showing other things that you know that [52:35.200 --> 52:40.720] they don't see that there was a they don't see what the fight was all about they really don't they [52:40.720 --> 52:45.360] don't know what their struggle was all about so a lot of the people I mean Martin Luther King is [52:45.360 --> 52:49.600] probably and Michael Mex are probably two of the people that will always be in people's minds [52:49.600 --> 52:56.080] because they're always talked about them right but outside of that [52:58.720 --> 53:01.920] do they really care and like you said the answer is no [53:04.560 --> 53:12.080] you have something to do depending on whether in school you know there has been a boom in the HBCU [53:13.040 --> 53:20.720] enrollment and so forth so they are learning some things in some of these schools but not all of them [53:23.040 --> 53:28.080] um in high school we talked we've done stories about in certain areas where they've taken [53:28.080 --> 53:34.640] black history out of schools oh yeah or changed it up where you know [53:36.080 --> 53:39.680] people don't get the full gist of what happened yeah I mean [53:42.960 --> 53:49.440] it's it's it's really a shame and and it would maybe would maybe even think of that that whole [53:50.560 --> 53:56.000] um day's corner thing was because of something I heard on the radio the other day about um [53:57.760 --> 54:05.120] you know a mother was talking to her 16 year old kid and said black history mouth is coming up [54:05.840 --> 54:12.240] what do you think about when you know when black history month comes up with you know [54:13.680 --> 54:19.520] do you do any research or on any people whatever the kid just flat out said no what's black history [54:19.520 --> 54:29.520] monk got to do with me right and really that's the way a lot of them feel so um [54:30.400 --> 54:35.520] what's there what we'd like to get you guys started on on that and if you talk to your [54:36.160 --> 54:42.480] children um in reference to black history and black history month and whether they feel [54:43.760 --> 54:48.480] like it affects them you know the past affects them in any kind of way [54:49.360 --> 54:54.880] um we hear what some people say when you know in black history month they'll talk about certain [54:54.960 --> 55:01.200] people like I said you know the Martins and Malcolm X's and so forth um but they're only going to [55:01.200 --> 55:11.200] talk about the ones that are most widely known but you asked them you know uh about a child's [55:11.200 --> 55:18.320] drew or somebody like that they may not know about yeah you know so or um [55:18.880 --> 55:28.800] um so many different people um or you go to acting or something like a Sydney Portia I mean [55:28.800 --> 55:34.400] how many Gen Z or the Gen X's would know who Sydney Portia is right now they're probably not many [55:34.400 --> 55:42.640] see there you go so but but just test your just test your young people see what they had to say [55:43.200 --> 55:48.240] and see what you know if you if you can ask that question and send us some feedback I'm [55:48.320 --> 55:54.560] really curious going in the black history month just exactly how many people how many young people [55:54.560 --> 56:02.160] would definitely say say how um how interested they are you know what their interest whether [56:02.160 --> 56:08.320] their interest level is high when it comes to black history I like to know that so please [56:08.320 --> 56:14.640] definitely if you have any feedback please feel free to share the feedback with us all right [56:15.040 --> 56:22.640] well I think that's everything um so we definitely want to take the time to thank you guys for tuning [56:22.640 --> 56:27.760] in and listening to the show then you got anything you want to add before we sign off [56:27.760 --> 56:33.680] now I just hope everyone has a good week and uh you know I'm looking forward to the start of black [56:33.680 --> 56:39.040] history month because we always see a lot of good information you know I feel like every year is [56:40.000 --> 56:47.280] something new there you go yep I agree I agree and it should be something new because we should [56:47.280 --> 56:57.280] be creating new history 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