🎙Newz and Trendz with Dave and Len: Black News Episode 107

[00:00:00] All right, so get ready for another edition of Newz and Trendz with your host Dave and Len.

[00:00:31] Welcome, welcome, welcome, the news and trends with Dave and Len. I am one of your host Mr. David Coker, proprietor of Dave Mark Inc., promoter, event planner, birthday boy this week and all around good guy.

[00:00:46] I'm hanging out with my partner, Mr. coming to America back to America, Mr. Len, you know, Dave, everything's good Dave. You forgot your other title that you always say what's that man about

[00:01:01] about town. There you go. Yeah, because they, you know, there's someone who wouldn't recognize who you were if you didn't say that.

[00:01:13] But as he says, you come coming back to America, my name is Leonard Young, CEO of National Black Guy, Delaware Black dot com, black media specialist and all around good guy, you know, the man

[00:01:29] next to the man around town. Right, right. And you forgot one other title, African royalty now.

[00:01:40] And I accept that. I accept that. Yeah, there you go.

[00:01:46] Yeah, Mr. Young has got back from Africa, you know, so, you know, he truly is, you know, he didn't go to the moon, but he brought back some vibranium from Wakanda.

[00:02:02] Oh, yeah. I was looking back. We're doing the one thing I can say and I'm really glad Africa was on my bucket list. And we had a trip that was sufficient enough that I feel and we went to Ghana, a cry, which I was always calling

[00:02:20] Africa, but it's a cry. And I mean, we had a great time. So I mean, I definitely could see going back visiting some other countries or even back to Ghana again to see more.

[00:02:30] So it was very eye opening the English for England influence is very great.

[00:02:38] Everything there's in English, they like you wherever you go there, you know, signs, posters, menus, whatever, you know, everything is in English.

[00:02:48] That's good. Yeah, so you know, it definitely easy for Americans to go over there.

[00:02:54] Okay. I mean, you went over there, you did your thing and came back and now, well, you're back in America, you know, no, you know, you know, you got hang out with people like me now, you know, you know, you know, we're kings and queens, you know.

[00:03:13] So, but it's okay. It's okay. You know, I understand. Understand so you always maybe feel anyway. So here we go.

[00:03:22] But thank you. Thank you for making it back safely because I thought I was going to have to replace my podcast partner.

[00:03:32] So, but here we are. We are gosh.

[00:03:40] Yeah. Well, halfway almost through black history, mom.

[00:03:44] Yeah. Let me get it up black history. Mom now is almost over. Man, we're going to March.

[00:03:50] Yeah. We have one more week to say black history month.

[00:03:56] Oh gosh. It's just going to buy so fast man.

[00:04:00] So, but hope everybody has enjoyed their months so far and that, you know, that, you know, you're making some history yourselves, you know, and making your mark because that's what this is all about.

[00:04:14] Everybody needs to try to make a marker add to their legacy doing this particular time of the year. So, yeah,

[00:04:22] I'm fine. All right. Well, we got a few stories that we want to talk to you about.

[00:04:27] Well, hold on a day before you get started. I know you have a little announcement to make up something.

[00:04:33] I'm going to take it at the end of the show, but I'll go in with now. This is, you know, every year, you know, around this time, you know, I'm always doing birthday party, you know,

[00:04:43] mainly to help celebrate the Pisces, you know, it is.

[00:04:48] So, you know, the best sign in the zodiac as far as I'm concerned. But anyway, so this Friday for those who are listening and nearby, we're doing a party at the Belvedere Fire Hall with the ladies auxiliary of the Belvedere Fire Hall featuring DJ Tim Dog.

[00:05:11] And the birthday boy himself will be there and we'll have food and drinks and everything. So, come on through if you're not doing anything, it's from eight to 12.

[00:05:23] There is a fee is $25. There is a fee but, you know, but for anybody that's Pisces, come on through and celebrate your birthdays with us.

[00:05:35] It is Pisces season. If you're not Pisces, come on through and hang out with the birthday boy. Okay.

[00:05:42] And that's at the Belvedere Fire Hall in Newport.

[00:05:46] Delaware if you have any questions or whatever reach out to me on Facebook or Instagram or ticked our wherever you can find me. Okay, I'm out there.

[00:05:56] So, all right.

[00:05:58] All right.

[00:05:59] Okay. All right. So, we're going to go here to get into the show. We got a few things to talk about and I'm going to go with this first story.

[00:06:10] I thought this was pretty interesting.

[00:06:14] I heard somebody talking about this and I went and found it so I wanted to

[00:06:22] go to the show because it relates to where we are now, especially with you with young children. So I figured this would be something you would appreciate as well.

[00:06:33] Teachers list of bands slang sparks debate. Actually, I heard Demille Hill talking about this story and that's what baby check into it.

[00:06:43] It says here, I'm going to read a little bit about what it's talking about. It says in the 1980s and 1990s words like fresh death and out of pocket get crunk and ill rolled off the tongues of youth.

[00:06:57] Whether those were spitting whether they were spitting lyrics of songs.

[00:07:03] Talking about their latest kicks or simply sharing how.

[00:07:10] Give me how they felt we're feeling at the moment. Most people know exactly what message these young people were trying to get across at that moment.

[00:07:19] The same rings true today, whether it's considered African American vernacular English, a colloquial phrase or slang students may use words like those which derive from cultural errors music artists or straight out of the neighborhoods they live in.

[00:07:38] But some teachers are fed up we're hearing students say ski or that they stand on their business. Stand on business, I should say.

[00:07:52] Yeah, yeah, I've heard a couple of young people say that too.

[00:07:56] Is that they standing on them? Yeah, I know that's the problem. Yeah indeed one teachers list of words prohibited her prohibited in her classroom and banned from being used in assignments has gone viral on social media.

[00:08:13] It is unclear whether this originated from but the tens of millions of views at its bar plenty of debate on whether it supports student learning or is just another form of shame in black students and culture and playing respectability politics.

[00:08:31] Aside from the much needed conversation about getting students academically on grade level while ensuring culturally.

[00:08:41] Relevant teaching is happening in the classroom. It is it begs the question is the teacher right or wrong for the list of language rules if they're a part of these students lives.

[00:08:58] Please know using slang in academic setting can diminish your capability to become a successful writer to teach wrote as the editor for the list more often than not the way you speak is the way you write.

[00:09:12] This is an educational institution and you will care yourself as scholars in my classroom so that's what he said these are the words.

[00:09:24] I'm laughing at this. Look at this list of these are words that they were using about he had banned from the class very first one is a word brought it's it.

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[00:10:15] saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying but what type of

[00:10:18] sows of had absorbed it needs to be good

[00:10:21] I'm not saying that tows out fifty thousand percent, and I'm being to be good

[00:10:28] And I'm saying that this was the sided word.

[00:10:31] After a great decision around sexual love is what I'm saying that this was therrer

[00:10:35] after after after after some great decision about alight

[00:10:39] kids and see if they know whatever. Oh my God miss Tee I think I know what that makes a reference to

[00:10:50] oh God oh my mama no on on God. Come here on my mama yeah on my mama on my dead mom

[00:10:59] my dad. I'm a family any family friend or associate that you can plug in there.

[00:11:08] Riz. No no Dave I do know what Riz mean because I heard one of the kids say it I had to ask

[00:11:14] some of what it means basically like Riz is almost like you got swag but it's almost like where

[00:11:20] you can pick someone up like almost like I was asking a girl like oh do you think you can

[00:11:27] Riz her or I mean yes do like so I mean it's something of that nature but it probably

[00:11:33] has multiple uses but yeah because that's what they call Ralph Smith and what you call him

[00:11:41] wasn't to do with this in Riz yeah they call that's his nickname yeah okay so I guess he

[00:11:46] was a lady's man that yeah yeah I think that's what that was referring to his swag and being

[00:11:52] a lady's man now this one okay I'm not sure about is it what's up G way is that referring to his

[00:12:01] daughter I don't know what's what's her name isn't her name Deanna or something no that's Koby

[00:12:10] Brian's daughter what's what's G way daughter the one that I mean yeah what does that mean

[00:12:19] I'm curious we're taking we're taking folks I know oh we get the schoolers themselves on this

[00:12:33] urban dictionary and everything could I never heard that one before have you no I have not

[00:12:42] all right so I couldn't find it in urban dictionary here wait a day I'm gonna have to ask

[00:12:49] ask you at the ass who a kid yeah okay I don't know that one okay in the cup with my twin

[00:13:00] okay just by do you know that I don't know what that one is I'm gonna that one shouldn't be as hard

[00:13:13] as I'm really feeling old with some of this stuff okay okay so this one is short for a guy damn

[00:13:30] okay I get it now okay okay day we we we we learn something new every day yeah they come up

[00:13:42] they come along with all kinds of stuff man okay on bro on hood so on you know the on thing is

[00:13:51] a big thing now days so gang gang I know that is day day I actually say that myself every once

[00:14:03] the you know and dad's GGA yeah we know I say that I'll say that too yeah yeah on me

[00:14:12] on the set you know freak you mean yeah I'm gonna solve if I'm a song okay

[00:14:22] yeah so I mean have you heard that song by Gunna

[00:14:30] uh probably but is that is that didn't that song yeah well well that that's the radio version the

[00:14:37] other version FUCK you mean uh okay of course of course right 25 period of course that's

[00:14:47] old too uh money and my own business or something else I'm gonna look that up the I don't know

[00:14:55] the money let's MUN death why you and folks mine now of course I remember the old school when

[00:15:03] with NUNION with this money this this definition ain't really making sense so I don't I don't know

[00:15:12] about this we don't know about that one okay uh big dog of course we know motion and or big motion

[00:15:23] just vibe twin that was basically yeah before what's up twin

[00:15:29] nine and i e so here's that MUNION is slang for money oh okay and then N i e let me see what that is

[00:15:44] it maybe slang for money let me I mean I'm sorry for uh never let me see oh yeah and i

[00:16:05] e like nine oh no i said the short inversion of now now that's what it says wow how can you make a

[00:16:15] short a version of now three letters right okay uh the last one here it's given yep okay I

[00:16:26] I heard that one then it has a disclaimer at the bottom of the list this list is subject to turn right

[00:16:34] yeah but you know some of these you know we do know but a lot of more new phrases and of course i

[00:16:41] know this is gonna be ever-changing you know kids have a way of communicating with them

[00:16:46] they're with each other so that we don't necessarily know everything they're talking about

[00:16:52] mm-hmm some people call it talking in code some people just you know whatever but

[00:16:58] you know some of these words are very popular a lot of this stuff you hear in songs um

[00:17:03] you know and that's what makes it that's what makes it uh popular you know part of popular culture

[00:17:10] these days but I just thought it was interesting because when i heard Jamil Hill talking about it she

[00:17:15] was up there saying her whole thing was like um of course the whole thing comes down to whether or

[00:17:21] not the teacher should be you know um holding the kids accountable for the waiting talk

[00:17:30] because that's the way they talk now I mean yeah so um but for those of you that have kids

[00:17:39] run that list you know um you can find that list online if you have instagram it's on

[00:17:46] Jamil Hill's page and or you could just um um David I'll guess they think they also have to

[00:17:56] um there's an article about it on the New York Post too okay on the New York Post okay

[00:18:00] all right so so this they said this list has been viewed tens of million a million times so

[00:18:06] you know so apparently it has been making this way around and of course you know it affects a lot of

[00:18:12] you know people well especially our people but then you know it's a cultural thing for those who

[00:18:19] you know all young people like they have their own way of speaking to each other so

[00:18:23] you know so but I just thought i'd bring it out just to see how much of this that we knew

[00:18:29] you know you know which we would fail this test anyway oh yeah definitely so

[00:18:37] on but anyway Dave on God we failed this test yeah but check with your kids hey look if you find a

[00:18:44] list this uh just just read it off to your kids to see how many how many words they know on there

[00:18:49] you know how many you praise it's uh it's playing terms that they know on there okay see if they

[00:18:55] know more than you let's put it that way all right moving on to our next story um pretty unfortunate

[00:19:06] story it says devils black women say Mississippi prison purposely denied her breast cancer treatment

[00:19:12] for years until she got stage four cancer um you and I talked about many times about how

[00:19:21] black women have been treated especially in the south when it comes to medical um and their health

[00:19:29] you know and this is even a more extreme situation because this person was in prison

[00:19:36] and she is now talking about what happened with her story goes we already know based on numerous

[00:19:44] stories that we reported in the past that modern prisons are essentially death camps where it guards

[00:19:54] it um if guards aren't physically assaulting inmates then they are simply leave them to rot and die

[00:20:04] in their disease-ridden cells that's that this story uh takes the level of evil to hold another level

[00:20:17] 62 year old who's in balfour was an inmate at the central Mississippi correctional facility

[00:20:24] until December 2021 according to the report in the guardian in November that year the

[00:20:32] Mississippi department of corrections finally allowed her to have a biopsy despite being fully aware

[00:20:38] of her cancer since May of 2018 they let her sit with untreated unsupervised unrelenting cancer

[00:20:48] for more than three years by the time she was able to see a doctor in January 2022

[00:20:55] she was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer that is spread to her lymph nodes

[00:21:01] thoratic spine bones and liver balford has filed a lawsuit against MDOC and her lawyer said that her

[00:21:10] case is far from being an abnormality they claim they know at least 15 other women at the CMCF

[00:21:23] who also have cancer and not being treated i want to hold them accountable accountable for what they

[00:21:30] done to me balford said in an interview last week from her home in Memphis being alone in there

[00:21:37] i fear i was going to die because i've seen so many others dying from not being able to get the

[00:21:43] proper care they needed mr balford's story lies at the intersection of both black women issues with

[00:21:50] medical systems in america and the conditions under which inmates are held in society where private

[00:21:56] prisons are money making business ventures i'm gonna stop right there um

[00:22:07] we talked about over the last few years about the way the black women are treated when it comes to

[00:22:13] health issues and um and as you can see you know don't let you don't let it be in a situation where

[00:22:22] you're in jail because we if you're not getting the proper health health treatment and you're not in

[00:22:31] jail just imagine what goes on in it yeah right um

[00:22:36] um i feel for her in in the situation that she was in i mean because even though she's you know in

[00:22:46] prison it doesn't mean that she should not be treated for whatever was going along with her at

[00:22:53] that particular time and apparently they felt that you know according to what she's saying

[00:23:02] whatever was going on you know they knew she had i mean gosh they knew she had cancer back in 2018

[00:23:08] not to give her the proper health um health benefits as she needed or help um as she needed

[00:23:16] and then it turns into stage four that's on them you know and they're gonna have to pay for

[00:23:23] it apparently i mean now she's as a lawyer involved or whatever they of course anytime you hear

[00:23:28] something like that it sounds like it's a good case yeah yeah what's your views on i mean

[00:23:35] you know and like i said we talked about the the health care for black women um i mean doesn't seem

[00:23:42] like it's getting any better yeah no i mean i definitely agree and you know and we even talked about

[00:23:48] the prisons many times too and i think it's just one of those things where the prisons will try to

[00:23:55] wait people out so you know kind of like how you know even though it's unfortunate she'd already

[00:24:02] kind of developed stage four breast cancer but they think about how how many other cases they know

[00:24:09] about speculate about that they are just sweeping them to the rug and maybe these people aren't lucky

[00:24:17] enough to have a lawyer um maybe even lucky enough to like get the word out just so you know

[00:24:23] publicly so that they can get that treatment you know right right right right i mean yes i mean

[00:24:30] i i think this is just like the tip of the iceberg but unfortunately you know

[00:24:38] and you know a lot of these prisoners i'm sure their concerns aren't heard um

[00:24:44] at so when i went to gana there was this lady who was a former correction officer right

[00:24:50] and she was telling us i mean she said she loved her job because she you know she's a people person

[00:24:55] but she was like you know you treat them with respect and it you know everything goes easy

[00:24:59] but she was saying that of course you know since she's here's a lot she's heard a lot of the

[00:25:05] prisons down south Mississippi Alabama Georgia they are very outdated you know dirty water

[00:25:15] mold you know all this stuff and and you know just recently we've been hearing

[00:25:21] you know that these things are accurate but you know for years and years and years you know they

[00:25:26] they had no one to like i guess no one who cared yeah that's an anastomating thing is whether

[00:25:33] there you have people they care or not um and of course when it looked at you know after all especially

[00:25:40] down south i mean we're still we're still black you know we're still we're still people of color

[00:25:46] and for you know like i said i've heard stories i've even known people who have had issues with

[00:25:52] getting good health care in the south and um then you put then you put in you put in the play that

[00:26:01] you know especially if you're somebody that's in prison and you need to get that health care

[00:26:07] here this woman sat in jail like i said in 2018 she developed cancer and they knew she had cancer

[00:26:13] and she never did really get the treatment she needed for cancer until it went to stage four

[00:26:20] and of course you know they could have prevented that yeah you know it's really a shame and um

[00:26:28] hopefully you know now now they got to go to a big court case because she's suing and you know

[00:26:36] it would have been treated i mean keep it a traitor you know what i'm saying you know so

[00:26:44] hopefully Ms. Balfour does get the uh just do that she deserves um because she was in prison

[00:26:52] didn't mean that she shouldn't have got the treatment that she should have got that she deserved

[00:26:56] to get so we hope that we hope that um things work out for her work out for the best for her

[00:27:04] and hopefully other women that are going through those type of situations that

[00:27:09] it is start to open the eyes up of the people that need to see it in order to try to get better

[00:27:15] treatment for them. Definitely agree okay all right okay well hopefully i'm sure we'll see more

[00:27:25] about that story as uh that court case comes up so we'll be looking for that. Okay uh moving on

[00:27:33] to our next story. All right so Dave our next story is a story that i saw uh

[00:27:37] circulating the internet recently i'm not sure what you're seeing it but they basically said

[00:27:42] meet NASCAR's youngest black driver and Dave guess what? What? He's currently an HBCU student.

[00:27:55] Okay what school? Yep so um this is uh his name is Roger Farouk. He is a student who is

[00:28:03] currently enrolled at Winston Salem State University in North Carolina. He's currently 21 years old

[00:28:10] and he's balancing his professional racing career with being a full-time student.

[00:28:18] So the article states that kind of in 2014 was when he attended his first race a dream that he had

[00:28:28] ever since watching the cars movie at the age of four so the cars movie was his inspiration

[00:28:35] and basically ever since then he started honing his skills on video simulators um you know kind

[00:28:41] of doing obstacles and you know just being very connected to racing via uh east like esports

[00:28:51] kind of virtual you know virtual racing games and stuff like that. And then his breakthrough came

[00:28:59] when he caught the attention of NASCAR's drive for diversity program where he got the chance to really

[00:29:07] you know practice his real world uh racing and through that they kind of put him through some

[00:29:15] programs where he got the opportunity to have real races and in his rookie year they said yeah

[00:29:21] two top ten placements um you know one thing i want to say real quick and you know i know

[00:29:26] unfortunately they kind of extroverted action out of a lot of places but there are a lot of

[00:29:32] programs sports included that have diversity program for you know places where African-Americans

[00:29:39] or other minorities are underrepresented and you know a lot of people really excel at these

[00:29:45] programs so like i'm not surprised that and and they we we always talk about too you know a lot of

[00:29:52] you know black people can excel at just about anything but a lot of time we just don't have the

[00:29:55] access to it and he was provided the access and you know he kind of kind of took it and ran with it

[00:30:04] yeah see that he was um sponsored by the windowscot foundation that you're familiar with windowscot

[00:30:12] you know yeah yeah yeah cuz you know we actually talked about he was out of uh yeah

[00:30:16] like he wanted some of one of the ones in jacksville yeah right yes yeah yeah um it's funny i'm

[00:30:24] sitting here thinking uh he has a pretty famous last name um it was a football player that played

[00:30:33] it actually for Carolina for the Carolina on places yeah you know i'm talking about right yeah

[00:30:40] yeah i wonder is he related did it say anything that whether he was related to the article doesn't

[00:30:46] say anything but you know i mean it doesn't mean anything either yeah yeah cuz i know that's where

[00:30:53] his family was from too uh yeah in that way in North Carolina so he could be related to them um

[00:31:00] but that's uh that's great i mean because you know there's been a lot of blacks that have been

[00:31:06] over the years very interested in NASCAR and racing and so forth and of course you know we've had a

[00:31:12] few over the years to to get involved and do very well uh you know we had a former NBA player

[00:31:21] to leave the NBA and um end up being um invest in in NASCAR and started his own racing team

[00:31:32] and then Michael Jordan followed behind them you know and right and ironically both on play that

[00:31:38] do you versus in North Carolina so um you know um you know so it is a thing that people of color really

[00:31:48] like to get involved with them unfortunately you know for a long time the old boy network he kind

[00:31:55] of shut us out you know right you know they let they let one or two in but they wasn't gonna let all

[00:32:00] of us in but now we're starting to get now we're starting to get more involved with the sport so

[00:32:05] that's great yeah and and um there was an article i put on our Delaware Instagram the um the

[00:32:15] the first black female NASCAR pit crew member got her first opportunity at Deliver Dam so like

[00:32:26] when she was did her first pit crew you know changing the time and all that stuff right that happened

[00:32:32] at Deliver Dam's here in Delaware so well nice little bit of history there as well so doing doing

[00:32:40] doing races season that dover down so yeah okay all right wow um well that's that's great uh

[00:32:48] hope he he does well i have to keep an eye out for yeah you know um because you know it's always good when

[00:32:56] we make our marks and in sports that we're not known to make our marks and you know of course they

[00:33:01] always worry that we're going to take it over you know so but um you know but that's good i'm glad

[00:33:08] i'm glad to i'm glad to see that so okay all right um going okay going to our next story

[00:33:23] i'm gonna read i want it i want it to bring up a few of these well i'm gonna read them all but uh

[00:33:29] just kind of touching on a few of them it's called A Facts About Black American and the news

[00:33:36] uh it says black Americans have long had a complex relationship with news media in 1967

[00:33:46] Turner the Turner Commission and panel established by um president Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate

[00:33:56] the causes of more than 150 urban riots in the United States sharply criticized the media's

[00:34:03] treatment of black Americans more than 50 years later there's an ongoing discussion of many of

[00:34:09] of the themes raised in the commission reports and then these discussions here are some key facts

[00:34:15] about black American experiences whipped and uh with an attitude towards the news based on um

[00:34:24] the research center surveys so it says number one black Americans are more

[00:34:32] likely than other racial and ethnic groups in the US to get their news on tv

[00:34:42] and it just kind of says about three quarters of black adults 76% say that at least sometimes

[00:34:49] get news on tv compared with 62% of both white and Hispanic adults and 52% of Asian adults um

[00:34:58] so they're basically saying that you know we tend to always end up on the news more than the

[00:35:08] other folks do even though the other folks might be doing some of the same stuff that we're doing

[00:35:12] you feel me yeah yeah and especially if it's something negative I mean you know right now

[00:35:17] the big case is going on you know with the the couples that help you know as far as the Trump

[00:35:24] election yeah yeah that's big thing right going on right now and of course you know it doesn't

[00:35:31] look good and a lot of craziness is coming out of it you know but that's how we get on tv

[00:35:37] that's exactly how we get on tv right uh unfortunately yeah unfortunately

[00:35:42] number two says black Americans are more likely than white Americans to get news from certain

[00:35:47] social media sites uh the share of black agree with that yeah well yeah we're especially right now

[00:35:53] because that's where you get i mean hey we're guilty of that ourselves so uh the share of black adults

[00:35:59] to say they regularly get news on youtube facebook but new to youtube is number one actually 41%

[00:36:09] Facebook has been at 36% and then um Instagram 27% and then TikTok so you know and that sounds

[00:36:19] about right youtube man has a lot going on on youtube with a lot of them they do yeah so number three

[00:36:27] black Americans see issues with the way black people are covered in the news now we all have said

[00:36:33] that for years um it's the way we look um it says for example 63% of black adults say the news

[00:36:44] they see or hear about black people is often more negative than the news about other racial and ethnic groups

[00:36:52] and that tends to be that way and of course we always we laugh about it but we always talk about how

[00:36:58] when you there's a man on the street interview and they they they laugh on spark yeah they do

[00:37:05] they like spark looking people go by yeah and then they go and grab uncle Willie from the corner

[00:37:11] you know yeah it talks uncle Willie you know and uncle Willie of course to tour up and you know

[00:37:16] learn and all that stuff exactly i'll be like and it kills me every time say why are they talking

[00:37:21] to that guy why you know so it's crazy anyway number four black Americans see a number of steps

[00:37:31] that could improve news coverage of black people it says for example most black adults say it's

[00:37:38] extremely are very important um that journalist and reporters cover all sides of the issues

[00:37:47] and understands the history of the issues when covering black people and a lot of times we are

[00:37:54] it is cute um they only look at one side um if somebody got if there's a shooting

[00:38:01] we're always guilty you know until you know somebody says oh you know till proven in court that we

[00:38:09] didn't do it but a lot of times that there's a student and of course if there's a shooting so

[00:38:14] black person walking down the street and white person walking down the street we know who's

[00:38:17] going to get stopped right yeah so yeah so and i'm not gonna say that happens all the time but

[00:38:25] the majority of the time that's what's going to happen so um number five black Americans tend to

[00:38:34] be underrepresented in us newsrooms oh yeah we we know yeah yeah that's true just six percent

[00:38:43] of reporting journalists are black according to you know i can 2022 yeah go ahead i will say you

[00:38:49] know watching a lot of the local news networks the the TV ones at least maybe not the news paper ones

[00:38:56] but you know we we do have a lot of black black anchors and you know hostess who's gonna do it.

[00:39:02] Philadelphia has done very well with that um there's like channel 10 channel three

[00:39:08] um you know all those you know the NBC uh CBS and and um you know ABC they've done very well

[00:39:17] with representation especially in the Philadelphia Tri-State area with with having black journalists and

[00:39:23] so forth but when you look at it on a whole like you go to CNN and those type of channels yeah

[00:39:30] you know we're not out there like that so um let's see

[00:39:36] let me just say it that was number five

[00:39:43] number six many black Americans say it's important to get news about race and racial

[00:39:51] in inequality from black journalists but fewer feel this way when it comes to news in general

[00:40:00] um yeah we want to hear from our people when it comes to issues you know

[00:40:06] and and um you know race and and um unfairness and you know inequality and stuff like that

[00:40:16] that's what we feed on that's what we want to hear we want to hear the breakdown coming we don't

[00:40:21] want to hear the other races talking about us because they don't tend to give us

[00:40:28] the coverage they don't tend to give us the solutions they don't tend to give us the respect

[00:40:33] that we should have when it comes to those type of issues what's your thoughts on that?

[00:40:40] No I mean I definitely understand um you know I think it goes back to nobody can tell our story

[00:40:49] like we tell it right and and I did see and I um I wasn't sure if you have this on the list too but

[00:40:56] I there was a stat that I saw going around a couple years ago and I believe it as well

[00:41:00] well they say black people trust black media more than they trust white media yeah yeah

[00:41:08] but that's great that's great but you know black people don't don't support black media yeah I mean

[00:41:17] you know they trust it when they see it but unfortunately you know you wake up in the morning

[00:41:23] well I mean I guess I guess maybe it's harder to support black because I'm just trying to think

[00:41:28] you wake up in the morning and it's not like you know there are a lot of black on media outlets

[00:41:34] now what I do listen to and I will listen to them frequently and I think they do a great job

[00:41:40] I'm not sure if you ever listen to them um I think it's BIN black information network they come on

[00:41:47] I'm the familiar with the black information network yeah so of course in our area they come on AM

[00:41:53] channel but I mean you know they they have a lot of good information that you know they like I

[00:41:59] almost compared to news and trends how you know we'll talk a lot about a stuff that you know

[00:42:04] is a little known but not a lot known black information network is the same thing like they do

[00:42:10] they do they do they do that yeah that's exactly how they do things I agree because I have

[00:42:15] listened to them I know I know exactly what you mean by that unfortunately with us when it comes

[00:42:21] through hearing things from other black and and black news reporting is has to do with the sensational

[00:42:31] eye stuff you know you know you know you know gossip and and that type of thing I mean you know

[00:42:37] right now the top people in our news media is Tossi K and people like that you know

[00:42:43] I know yeah yeah um and chase yet club chase it and stuff like that that's what what's hot right now

[00:42:50] you know and that's what everybody wants to hear you know um you go you go to YouTube you know

[00:42:55] there's so many black people in there talking about different things it's you know but that's

[00:43:00] where people are getting their information from or the information that they want to talk about

[00:43:04] or want to hear that's what it that way yeah so let me go to the number seven number seven about

[00:43:10] a quarter of black Americans which they said it's 24% says that extremely they are extremely

[00:43:17] or fairly often get they've extremely or fairly often get news from black news outlets so

[00:43:25] you know they go to the popular black sites and they get their news from those sites okay and

[00:43:30] that's what mainly we do um and a lot of it has to do with you know the celebrities and uh people

[00:43:38] that we want to hear about you know those type of things and the last one the last one is black

[00:43:48] Americans are more likely than other racial and ethnic groups to feel that the news media

[00:43:55] the news media misunderstands them uh because of their race or some other demographic trait

[00:44:03] yeah yeah yeah um and that's why you know it says roughly similar portions of Americans or white

[00:44:12] because of their race or some other demographic trait yeah definitely yeah um

[00:44:24] definitely yeah um and that's why you know it says roughly similar portions of Americans

[00:44:32] or white they said about 61% but black uh which is 58% and it's spanning 55% say

[00:44:43] that news media misunderstands them but they cite markedly different reasons for this misunderstanding

[00:44:51] so you know they come up with some type of reason for you know not i'm saying i guess they must be

[00:44:57] looking at that list that we just went over yeah black sign that's what that is but i i just thought

[00:45:06] it was interesting and and you know i mean i'm a news person myself a lot of times before i go to

[00:45:11] bed i'll look at the news sometimes and uh a lot of times i'll do it and just to see what they're

[00:45:16] talking about but we have been fortunate like you and i just said we've been fortunate because the

[00:45:22] news in this area we have representation in our area you know uh blacks you know um so that's

[00:45:30] been that makes it a little easier to look at the news for us now i'm not like doing the daytime

[00:45:36] when good morning America those type of shows i'm not interested in those shows unless they have

[00:45:41] some eye black on you know i know you know so but i just thought that was very interesting um to read

[00:45:49] about for those and especially those who are news people would like to listen to the news i just

[00:45:54] thought i'd put that out there so people can understand what people are looking at when it comes

[00:45:59] to the news and how would they feel that we're being depicted as far as that's concerned okay um

[00:46:06] if you have any comments or anything about that feel free to reach out to us and let us know

[00:46:10] because i'd like to know or we'd like to know how you look at that as well so okay all right moving on

[00:46:19] since this is black history month i wanted to make mention of a couple or black history um

[00:46:28] um icons and people that we um should know because i know what we at the beginning of the month we

[00:46:38] wanted to kind of shine the spotlight on people you know of course everybody knows the big names

[00:46:44] like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X of those type of people but we wanted to kind of bring

[00:46:49] attention to some of the people some people that people may know their names but not know a lot about

[00:46:55] you know what i mean so i picked out two for this for tonight's show the first one and they

[00:47:02] actually uh have a movie career come out about her um Regina king is playing her i think that's

[00:47:08] gonna be great uh it looks like it's going to be a great movie surely tism surely tism

[00:47:15] um was born November 30th 1924 she died January 1st 6 out of 5 was an american politician with

[00:47:26] who in 1968 became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress

[00:47:33] tism represented New York's 12 congressional district a district centered on best

[00:47:39] uh beffers um siverson for seven turns from 1969 to 1983 wow that's that's pretty impressive in

[00:47:51] itself right there um in 1972 she became the first black candidate for a majority party nomination

[00:47:58] for the president of the United States and the first woman to run for the democratic party's

[00:48:04] presidential nomination who out her career she was known for taking a resolute um staying against

[00:48:12] economic social and political injustices as well as being a strong supporter of black civil rights

[00:48:19] and women's rights she was uh definitely a great woman and i remember that run for the president

[00:48:28] uh you know that was a big thing back then and she held her own she she was not backing down from

[00:48:33] them people man she really wasn't she was she was definitely way before time i will say that

[00:48:40] yeah i like to see her run a run run right now because she would definitely get them hell man

[00:48:46] oh was she yes he was she was she was no joke man so like what were you kind of compared to like

[00:48:53] who the maxine waters yeah she more maxine's a little more in your face though okay but but

[00:49:02] sharelicism she was you know she kind of gave me that impression she was quiet in demure but you

[00:49:08] been not mess with it though right because you definitely she would cut you with the words

[00:49:12] even you know and um now i mean considering that she got that nomination and no other black i mean

[00:49:21] think about the day and time 1972 that was not now you know what i'm saying so for her to get

[00:49:26] that nomination that was that was really something so i'm gonna talk about another one of her

[00:49:34] iconic women Miss Alcia Gibson born August 25th 1927 she died September 28 2003

[00:49:46] was an american tennis player and professional golfer at one of the first and one of the first black

[00:49:53] athletes to cross the color line of international tennis in 1956 she became the first African

[00:50:01] american to win a grand slam event the French championships the following years she won both

[00:50:08] Wilmington and US nationals precursor to the US open then won one both again in 1958 and was

[00:50:17] voted female athlete of the year by the associated press in both years and all she won 11 grand slam

[00:50:24] tournaments five single titles five double titles and one mixed doubles title she is one of the

[00:50:30] greatest players to ever live said both right uh bob rolin a tennis contemporary and former coach

[00:50:39] of venus and serena whims martina navar to lobert couldn't touch her i think he beat the

[00:50:47] i think he would have beat the whims this is too Gibson was inducted into the international tennis

[00:50:56] hall of fame and international women's hall of fame in the early 1960s he also became the first

[00:51:02] black player to compete on the women's professional golf tour at all to both of these women

[00:51:11] both you you you forgot one of the facts regarding alfia Gibson why don't you tell me sir

[00:51:18] yes she is a fam you graduate so i attended for the anum university

[00:51:25] did they have a lot of uh stuff in the hallways and stuff about her or did they have anything dedicated

[00:51:32] to her there um yeah so there there wasn't a building there like Gibbs uh i'm not sure so it was

[00:51:40] something around like the very athletic department but there was a building named for her

[00:51:46] and in that building which i think at the time house are basketball gym you know how they

[00:51:55] they had a trophy case that had some pictures over okay all right okay all right cool

[00:52:04] cool um and case you guys are wondering i mean of course you know learners talking about this

[00:52:11] because he's a fam you you know uh for her right there so you know so so okay all right well

[00:52:20] two great women to to treasured people from our history folks if you don't know

[00:52:28] uh enough about them you need to go out and read about them um because like i said you know we

[00:52:33] wanted to bring up you know people that you might have heard of but you didn't know a lot about

[00:52:38] and um matter of fact i'll say a Gibson is one of the reasons that Venus and Serena both got into

[00:52:44] tennis because they used to watch her and and they you know they got to they got to meet her in

[00:52:49] everything and see and matter of fact they said Venus gained with a lot like hers you know so

[00:52:56] because she was tall and angly and so forth like yourself okay all right you guys are listening

[00:53:04] to news and trends with david lent thank you for taking the time to listen to us tonight we're

[00:53:09] going to go into our Dave's corner which is Leonard's favorite part of the show um you know and

[00:53:16] tonight's Dave's corner keeping in mind and keeping on track of the black um history month

[00:53:25] Leonard i want you to think of two famous black figures from history

[00:53:31] if you had to chance to spend a day with them who would those individuals be and why

[00:53:43] this right here is a tough question because you know i usually go with uh minister Farah Khan's

[00:53:50] but you know Dave after going on you were picked you were picked the day that he was up there

[00:53:55] speaking and you know that by this last day on earth you know so knowing you if that's probably

[00:54:01] been the day you picked so yeah but you know um after going to ask okay you know i have a lot

[00:54:08] of a lot of questions um okay but i just don't know all the names that i need to be

[00:54:16] you know asking about but um are you talking about two two and people like that or

[00:54:24] yeah i mean yes but i mean five more people from like west that

[00:54:28] fry some names that we've heard okay so i'll say one would be uh w e b the boys the boy

[00:54:39] and i say that because in gana he has a memorial he actually moved from the us to gana

[00:54:48] and that's where he basically lived the rest of his life i i think he died while visiting

[00:54:53] china but his body was taken back to gana so i would definitely be curious what his early experiences

[00:55:03] were there because you know nail gana is a developing nation but when he went there you know i'm

[00:55:12] sure it was very um and i won't say undeveloped but you know it was very innocence so you know i'd be

[00:55:22] curious you know his challenges and you know his motivation for being there

[00:55:30] and then my second person

[00:55:37] this one right here may be tough days

[00:55:52] you're i'm you're i'm you're i'm you're in play the japan music on yeah i know there's so many people

[00:56:00] to choose from yeah it is and you know i think it changed with what's happening in the world too

[00:56:06] because it's like i'm happy if you like but i mean other than that it may be

[00:56:13] and i mean i hate to say obama but i mean you know i am curious about some of this government stuff

[00:56:21] we don't be knowing about stuff happening behind closed doors and in a court day we already

[00:56:26] talked about area 51 like you know we we need to know what's going on over here we uh we need

[00:56:33] we really need to know what's going on in area 51 you know definitely definitely because we know

[00:56:38] there's something going on in area 51 so that's that's that's that's cool okay all right all right

[00:56:46] well so you know obama obama was just like one okay yeah day what what about you if you could think of

[00:56:52] two famous black figures from the past from history and you had the chance to spend a day with them

[00:57:01] who would they be and why well the first person i thought about was Jesse Owens

[00:57:08] mm okay only because only because Jesse Owens you know was in a situation which was like a no-win

[00:57:19] situation for him when he went especially when he went over to the Olympics uh Germany to perform

[00:57:25] in the Olympic's over there and you know he they didn't want us over there you know and especially

[00:57:32] a black man over there and then he goes over there and just like crazy and remember Hitler wouldn't

[00:57:38] wouldn't shake his hand or would stand up for him you know and i would have just loved to

[00:57:47] been hanging out with him just to hear how he handled everything and just seeing how you know

[00:57:54] stoic he was doing that particular period of time that would have been very interesting to me

[00:57:59] and it's track and feel because you know i like track and feel so you know i would have i would have

[00:58:04] loved that you know um so that's one person um the other person

[00:58:15] i was kind of torn between two people um

[00:58:23] but i'm gonna say the other person is sitting right behind you

[00:58:26] okay Muhammad Ali yeah i'm surprised you didn't say him um

[00:58:35] i would have loved just to be around him now keep in mind i wasn't always a fan of his

[00:58:43] matter fact when he first fought when he first fought Joe Frazier i was a kid at the time right

[00:58:49] i was rooting for Joe Frazier and Joe Frazier actually won that fight you know

[00:58:54] and uh the only time he beat him but i was so happy to Joe Frazier won the fight because i just saw

[00:59:00] Muhammad Ali as this braggadooshist type person you know and so forth and so forth

[00:59:06] but as the years went on you started to really appreciate a lot about him

[00:59:12] and and and everything that he went through so i would have loved just to hang around him

[00:59:18] just to see him for real not the showman right but the learn about the man

[00:59:29] you know and um so those will be the two people that i think i was like in jewelry spending time

[00:59:37] and and folks keep in mind we were trying to name people that wouldn't be the obvious people

[00:59:42] you know um i'm sure that's what i was doing i'm sure that's what Leonard was doing good

[00:59:47] it would have been easy to say it would have been easy to say like Leonard started saying

[00:59:51] mouthful or martin or somebody like that but no but we wanted you know but even though our people

[00:59:58] are popular people i mean no no doubt about that uh it still would have been interesting to hang

[01:00:06] around with those particular people so um if you guys have answered that question and want to share

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